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Thank you, President Pro Tem Dempsey, Speaker Jones, judges of the Missouri Supreme Court, Lieutenant Governor Kinder, state officials, members of the legislature, members of my cabinet, and my fellow Missourians.
This evening it is my pleasure to be joined by Missouri's outstanding First Lady, Georganne Nixon, and our son Jeremiah.
Before I begin to lay out our state's agenda for the year, I would like to thank the people of Missouri for the privilege of serving a second term as Governor. I am grateful for your continued trust and support, and the opportunity to lead our great state forward.
Looking around this chamber tonight, I see folks with different backgrounds, different ideologies, and different interests.
But whatever our small differences may be, we are united in a common purpose: to serve all the people of Missouri... to make their lives better… and to make life better for our children and grandchildren.
These past four years, Missouri has weathered historic challenges – from nearly double-digit unemployment to the tornado in Joplin.
But together, we met each challenge with courage and conviction, and moved our state forward.
That makes me proud to be a Missourian.
That makes me more optimistic than ever about our future.
Because the people of the Show-Me State know how to work together. And once our minds are made up, nothing can stop us.
That's who we are. That's what we do.
Some who answer the call of service put their lives at risk to protect the lives of others.
They serve here at home whenever danger and disaster threaten. They serve in perilous outposts in every corner of the globe, to defend our freedom and liberty.
We call them heroes. They make us proud.
Last December, I again had the opportunity to visit our troops in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
One of them is with us tonight.
Sergeant Joseph Schicker served with the Guard's Agribusiness Development Team in Afghanistan. Just hours after his team arrived at their base, Taliban insurgents attacked.
In successfully repelling the attack, several Missouri Guardsmen, including Sergeant Schicker, were wounded. For his part in the battle, Sergeant Schicker received the Combat Infantry Badge and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor.
I personally had the honor of pinning Sergeant Schicker with the Purple Heart during the ADT's welcome home ceremony in September.
Sergeant Schicker, you represent every man and every woman who has ever fought to defend our great nation, in every era and on every field of battle.
Will you please stand, with all the members of our military past and present, and accept the heartfelt gratitude of your state?
In the last four years, we've overcome our share of challenges.
Missouri was hit by unprecedented natural disasters.
We came together to help our neighbors hit hard by twisters and ice storms, floods and drought.
In the grip of an historic recession, we did what every family in Missouri did: we tightened our belts and cut spending.
Together, we balanced the budget while holding the line on taxes.
We dramatically reduced the size of state government, while making it more efficient.
We protected our spotless Triple-A credit rating. And unlike most states, we did it without reaching into taxpayers' wallets, or putting it on the credit card.
And you know what? It worked.
And as a result, our economy is moving forward.
Last year, Missouri employers added more than 40,000 new jobs.
We're exporting more goods than ever before…training more workers than ever before…
and bringing Missouri's auto industry back to life.
Two weeks ago – on the day after my inauguration – I went back to Detroit to meet with auto suppliers and manufacturers.
We got our first good look at the Ford Transit, one of the fantastic new vehicles we're going to build right here in the Show-Me State.
A top Ford exec said that if we hadn't come together during that special session two years ago, the Claycomo plant would have closed. That would have put those 4,000 workers out of a job, and pushed Missouri's auto industry to the brink.
Automakers are investing more than $1.5 billion in Missouri, creating thousands of jobs at the Ford plant in Claycomo, the GM plant in Wentzville, and suppliers in every corner of our state. By coming together in that special session, we saved Missouri's auto industry.
So when the skeptics say that nothing gets done in this building, or when the press writes that the two parties can't come together, think of those workers and their families. And remember that what we do here really matters.
And that same spirit is needed now more than ever, to keep Missouri moving forward.
Together, we've kept our fiscal discipline, and our economy is gaining ground.
We now have a unique opportunity to build a better future for our children. We must seize it.
And nothing will have a greater impact on our children's future than the commitment we make now to their education.
So in my budget, we increase funding for education. And we increase it by $150 million.
Our children are our first priority. They are Missouri's future.
Of course, with increased funding, come higher expectations. We expect better test scores, better graduation rates, more college degrees and more Missourians ready to compete for the best jobs in a global economy.
We've all got to do better, and that means everybody: students and teachers; parents and principals; coaches and college presidents. Increased funding means increased accountability.
We know the early years of a child's life are critical. Over the past few weeks I've visited preschool classrooms in Greenville, Nixa, Parkway and St. Joseph – local communities committed to giving their kids a strong foundation for lifelong learning.
And the first official business of my second term was to meet with leaders in preschool education. We discussed ways to ensure that every young child comes to school ready to learn, and ready to succeed.
The clear consensus: early childhood education is a smart investment, with a big return.
We want every child, in every Missouri community – no matter their family's circumstances – to get the best possible start.
That is why, with an increase of $17 million, we'll more than double funding for our Missouri Preschool Program, and put more money into programs like Early Head Start.
Tonight, we are fortunate to be joined by the St. Louis Pre-School Teacher of the Year, Linda Smith, of Dewey International School. Joining her is St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Kelvin Adams.
Under Dr. Adams' strong leadership, the St. Louis schools have made steady progress over the past five years, as they work to earn full accreditation. That kind of progress is only possible when everyone pulls together toward a shared goal.
Mrs. Smith and Dr. Adams, please stand. Thank you for the lifelong commitment you've made to our children.
In the past four years, our schools have made steady gains.
Math scores are up. Reading scores are up.
And I'm proud to report that Missouri's high school graduation rate is now the seventh-highest in the nation.
But we must commit to even higher goals.
That's why my budget includes $100 million in new funding for our K-12 classrooms.
We'll use it to train more teachers, modernize equipment, and lengthen the school year.
Right now, Missouri has the fourth-shortest school year in the nation. Adding six more days to the next school year will give teachers more time to work with their students, and give kids more time to learn.
But we won't stop at K-12. This year, we'll help even more Missouri families afford college. That's been a top priority of mine since Day One.
On my watch, we led the nation in holding down the cost of tuition. But the cost of college is still out of reach for too many Missouri families. And too many students who do attend college graduate with crushing debt.
That's why my budget includes more than $75 million for our Access and Bright Flight scholarships. And it increases funding for our A+ scholarships, which cover tuition and fees at all our public community colleges.
To qualify for an A+ scholarship, high school students must keep their grades up, have excellent attendance, and stay out of trouble.
Since I've been Governor, we've expanded the A+ program to 150 more schools. But there are still schools that aren't part of the A+ program, so their students can't even apply for A+ scholarships.
That's unfair to these kids, and we're going to fix it. This is the year we will expand our A+ scholarship program to every public high school in the state, so that every qualified student in this state has the opportunity to go to community college – tuition free.
The dream of a college education should be within reach for all Missouri families. Because education is the best economic development tool there is.
While our colleges and universities are doing a great job, and graduating more students than ever before, we're also holding these schools to higher standards than ever before.
Two years ago, I convened a summit to lay out my agenda for higher education. I challenged the leaders of all our public two- and four-year institutions to develop a new funding model – based on performance. And that's what we did.
My budget includes an increase of $34 million for higher education. But instead of funding schools based merely on what they've received in the past, we'll tie new funding to specific performance goals – like increased student retention, higher graduation rates and improved learning.
We will achieve higher academic goals – with greater accountability.
Now, we've made it our mission to help more high school students graduate, go to college, complete their degrees and enter the workforce.
That's the traditional path. And I'm glad more students are taking it. But there are nearly 750,000 Missourians who started college but never completed their degrees. They left school, got jobs, started families, moved on with their lives.
At this point, some of these folks may feel that going back to college is too expensive, or too hard to juggle with work and raising kids.
I want to change that and help these adult students finish the degrees they started years ago, so they can get better jobs and meet their full earning potential.
This year, we'll do more to help these adult students finish their degrees online, from an accredited university that's putting down new roots in Missouri. Let me tell you about its history.
In 1995, 19 governors came together to provide a realistic option to help adult students complete their degrees at an affordable price. They founded Western Governors University, a nonprofit institution that offers bachelors and masters degrees in four areas Missouri's employers are looking for: business, health care, teacher preparation and information technology.
It's designed to meet the needs of real people with real lives. You can take your tests after work, on weekends or at night, after the kids are asleep. Instead of paying tuition by the credit hour, students can take as much coursework as they want for a flat rate. And how quickly you earn your degree depends on how quickly you master the subject matter: you advance at your own pace.
The point is that with today's technology, we can make it easier than ever for folks to finish their degrees without disrupting their lives, and help them move up the economic ladder.
In the past three years, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, and the states of Texas and Washington have established WGU in their states. And starting this year, we will begin enrolling students at WGU-Missouri.
We'll be helping Missourians who never finished college, who are underemployed and who need degrees to move up, reach their full potential. Now that's a mission we can all get behind.
Throughout state government, we've applied business principles to make the most efficient use of taxpayer dollars. Cutting waste. Doing more with less. Making better use of technology.
And as a result, the state workforce is now the smallest it has been in 19 years. From the time I became Governor to the end of Fiscal Year 2014, we will have reduced the size of state government by 4,500 positions, and cut $1.8 billion in state spending.
We've sharply cut energy use, sold off surplus property and reduced leased space.
We've put more state services online – from license plates to child support.
And in addition to applying business principles to make state government more efficient, we must use those same principles to make government more business friendly.
Now, Missouri's already rated one of the Top-Ten best states to do business, because of things like our low tax rates, low workers comp rates, low energy costs and strong workforce. But talk to small business owners and they'll tell you: there's still too much red tape. Too many bureaucratic hurdles. We hear those concerns, and we're doing something about it.
First, we need to streamline Missouri's economic incentive programs – and there are a lot of them – so that they're easier to use and understand.
Second, we need to simplify our convoluted environmental permitting process. Currently, business owners have to go to as many as six commissions at the Department of Natural Resources to get permits. And that's before they turn the first shovel of dirt. We need to consolidate those commissions into one, to help businesses grow and create jobs.
And while we're at it, I propose that we eliminate another ten commissions at DNR that are redundant and unnecessary. We can take common-sense steps to cut red tape for businesses – without backing off our commitment to protecting our air, land and water.
We also must address the Second Injury Fund.
This year, let's work together and solve this issue for the benefit of Missouri workers and employers.
In a highly competitive global economy, employers need access to a highly skilled, well-trained workforce. That's why I've made it a top priority to give Missouri workers the skills they need to compete for the jobs of tomorrow.
Since I've been in office, we've dramatically increased our investment in worker training, helping 150,000 Missouri workers sharpen their skills and get better jobs in their field. So once again, my budget increases funding for workforce training that's custom-tailored to the needs of Missouri employers.
Investing in Missouri workers' skills – that's real economic development. But job training doesn't just happen in the classroom or on the work site. Some of Missouri's best workers got their training serving us in the armed forces.
Helping our veterans get work when they come home is not only honorable and patriotic, it's good for Missouri businesses. If you're looking for an employee who shows up early, stays late, works hard all day and knows how to overcome adversity – hire a veteran.
In 2010, we launched Show-Me Heroes. We've asked every employer in the state to reach out, recruit and interview veterans first for new job openings.
I'd like to thank all the legislators in this room who helped us strengthen this program by adding job training, so our veterans can re-enter the civilian workforce quickly and be even more successful on the job.
More than 2,700 employers have signed the Show-Me Heroes pledge, putting more than 4,000 of our proud Missouri veterans to work.
And tonight, again, I call on every Missouri business to go to our website – MO.gov – and take the Show-Me Heroes pledge.
Because it's not enough to honor and support our service members abroad. We must honor and support them at home, with jobs that are worthy of their skills and work ethic.
For the third straight year, I am proud to report that we are shipping more Missouri goods around the world than ever before.
Missouri exports hit record levels in 2010, and topped the $14 billion mark with double-digit growth in 2011. And we're on track to break records again. That's because we're taking a pro-active approach.
In October of 2011, I led a group of Missouri business leaders on a highly successful trade mission to China. We secured agreements to sell $4.6 billion in Missouri goods.
In April of 2012, we went to Brazil, and signed our first-ever trade agreement with the state of Sao Paulo, the financial capital of one of the world's fastest-growing economies. And this coming March, I will lead a trade mission to South Korea and Taiwan.
We're making this a priority because it's critical for every business in the state – no matter how small – to think globally. Because companies that once only did business with customers around the corner are finding new customers around the world. And when we sell more Missouri products overseas, we're creating more jobs here at home.
That's why my budget includes $2.3 million to enter new markets, expand foreign trade, and help Missouri businesses develop a world-wide customer base.
One of our export superstars comes from one of Missouri's oldest family-owned businesses, Volpi Foods in St. Louis. Next time you are in St. Louis, stop by their shop on The Hill.
Volpi is a prime example of a traditional business that with visionary new leadership has broken the mold. With the help of our departments of Agriculture and Economic Development, Volpi has doubled its exports in growing markets like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Costa Rica.
Please welcome the CEO of Volpi Foods, Lorenza Pasetti.
There's no doubt that Missouri is ready to meet the challenges of a global economy.
But quite frankly, the biggest economic decision facing our state right now is how to move forward on health care.
This isn't the time to re-open the debate or reargue the merits of the President's health care plan. I had some problems with it, and I know many of you did as well. But Congress passed it – the President signed it – and the Supreme Court upheld it.
It's the law of the land. And it's not within our power to rewrite federal laws, even if we wanted to.
It is within our power – it's our responsibility – to now do what's right for Missouri.
And the question before us is a narrow one. Will we bring the tax-dollars that Missourians send to Washington back home to strengthen our Medicaid system here in Missouri?
Or will we let the tax dollars that Missourians send to Washington be spent in other states instead? Other states would get the benefits, and we'd get the bill.
The answer is clear: the people of Missouri deserve to see their tax-dollars come back to their communities.
Friends, let's put the politics of health care aside for just a moment and look at this as a business decision for the state of Missouri.
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce supports the Medicaid expansion – not because they're big supporters of this President and his agenda – but because it's the smart thing to do. They know that bringing billions of dollars back to Missouri is good for our state's economy.
The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the Medicaid expansion. So have the chambers in Independence, Springfield, Lee's Summit and St. Louis. So have the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, Kirksville REDI, and our friends at the Associated Industries of Missouri.
Would the leaders from these business organizations who have joined us tonight because of the importance of this issue please stand? Thank you for your leadership on this critical issue.
For these business leaders, this is not a political decision. It's an economic one. And we shouldn't let last year's politics get in the way of next year's economic growth.
Moving forward with this plan will bring a total of $5.7 billion to Missouri for the first three calendar years – at no additional cost to the state.
The University of Missouri estimates this will generate an additional 24,000 jobs – and that's just in 2014. We're talking about good jobs – for nurses, doctors, pharmacists, therapists and medical technicians.
Strengthening Medicaid will strengthen our economy. Without question, it's the smart thing to do.
Now I know there are some who have voiced concern that Washington will not live up to its commitment. Let me address that directly: I support including a provision that rolls back the Medicaid expansion if Washington doesn't honor its financial commitment.
If Washington drops the ball, we'll do what's right for Missouri. We'll always do what's right for Missouri.
And there's a human element to this that can't be ignored.
A stronger Medicaid system will make health care available to 300,000 of our friends and neighbors.
Let's be clear about who these people are. They're working Missourians – folks who work day and night, but simply can't afford health coverage.
These are not people who aren't trying, or hoping to game the system. They're folks we see every day – some holding down two jobs just to make ends meet.
We're talking about a family of four, with a household income of roughly $32,000 a year. They wait tables and clean office buildings. They cut hair and trim trees. They work in factories, and repair cars and trucks.
Making it easier for these hardworking Missourians to get basic health insurance is the right thing to do. And because these folks can't afford doctors' bills or insurance, they often end up in our hospital emergency rooms, because it's the only option for their family. In their shoes, you'd probably do the same thing.
It's a terrible way to deliver health care. It drives up premiums for people who do have health insurance. That must change.
I'm well aware this is a tough issue politically. But across the country, we're seeing Governors and state legislators put politics aside to do what's undeniably best for their states.
Republican Governors in places like Arizona, North Dakota, New Mexico and Nevada are using federal funds to strengthen their Medicaid systems. Not because it's the easy thing for them to do politically, but because it's the right thing to do.
Here in Missouri, we must make the smart business decision. The right human decision. And bring the tax dollars we send to Washington back to work here in Missouri.
On another health care front, in recent years we have seen the tragic consequences when people with serious mental illness don't get the help they need.
Right now, many people with severe mental illness only get treatment when they reach a crisis point. That's too late.
My budget includes $10 million to help those with mental illness get timely, effective treatment in their own communities. That money will be used to:
We must do everything in our power to get folks the treatment they need, before it's too late.
Each day in our state and across the country, tragedies occur that don't make headlines, and often
don't get reported at all. I am talking about domestic violence.
Last year, our network of shelters for victims of domestic violence provided safe haven for thousands of women and children. But thousands of others were turned away because the shelters were full.
We know that battered women are at greatest risk when they make the courageous decision to leave an abusive partner. Finding shelter can literally make the difference between life and death for these women and for their children.
That is why my budget includes a 29 percent increase in funds to provide more beds, more treatment, more safety at domestic violence shelters throughout our state. No child – no mother – who has been the victim of domestic violence should ever be turned away and left to fend for themselves during these moments of crisis.
These past four years, we have opened new doors for thousands of Missourians with disabilities.
I'm passionate about this work, as I know many of you in this room are as well. Together, we passed landmark legislation in 2010 to ensure that children with autism get the medical care they need.
Issues like this transcend politics. And now thousands of youngsters are getting the therapy that, just a couple years ago, their families couldn't afford. We will keep moving forward by funding training for more therapists to help even more children with autism lead happier, healthier lives.
In October of 2010, we started the Partnership for Hope. And it's already helped thousands of people with developmental disabilities live fuller lives. My budget includes funds to expand this vital program to 1,000 more Missourians, some of whom have spent years waiting for services.
By the end of 2014, we'll be serving more than 3,500 people with developmental disabilities.
Missourians like Vishal Patel. Vishal is 23. He has a rare form of cerebral palsy, and gets around in a motorized wheelchair.
For years Vishal had to crawl, or have his parents carry him upstairs in their home, to take a shower. The Partnership for Hope provided Vishal with a stair lift, a roll-in shower, a permanent ramp and the physical therapy he needs.
But as he told me in a letter, his real dream was to get a real job – with a real paycheck.
The Partnership arranged for him to volunteer every Friday at a movie theater in St. Peters. And Vishal did so well, that just before Christmas they offered him that real job, with a real paycheck. His first day was January 4th.
Vishal represents the many Missourians with disabilities who are now entering the workforce, thanks to the Partnership for Hope and the enlightened business owners who recognize the value of these outstanding workers.
Vishal is here tonight with his job coach, Pam Westhoff, and Peg Capo, who runs the program in St. Charles County. Please welcome the newest member of Missouri's workforce, Vishal Patel.
At the start of my speech, I spoke about unique opportunities, and the importance of seizing them.
With our perfect Triple-A credit rating intact and interest rates at all-time lows, we now have a unique opportunity to move forward with a bond issuance.
It would allow us to modernize our K-12 classrooms and college research labs, mental hospitals and state parks. Some of our state's most important buildings need long-overdue improvements, including this one.
Interest rates today are about half of what they were in 1995 when Governor Carnahan issued bonds, and about a third of what they were when Governor Bond did the same in 1983, when interest rates were more than 8 percent.
But the bond issue must be focused on our state's most pressing needs. And we must have a way to pay for it.
When we talk about our state's long-term needs, nothing is more important than our schools.
A bond issuance will allow the state to establish a permanent, low-interest loan fund dedicated to improving our local schools.
Which is why I am proposing the creation of the BOOST Fund. BOOST stands for Building Opportunities in Our Schools Today.
Because, folks, let's not kid ourselves. If we want our children to get a first-rate education and compete in a 21st Century global economy, they'll need first-rate, 21st Century facilities: state-of- the art computers and science labs, libraries and wired classrooms. The BOOST Fund will go to work in your communities, in schools in every corner of Missouri.
In addition, a targeted bond issuance will provide funds for cutting-edge university research facilities in areas critical to our competitiveness, such as engineering, math, and science.
Bond proceeds will also allow us to build a new and improved Fulton State Mental Hospital. We have a moral responsibility to these patients and their caregivers to provide the best possible environment: one that is safe, secure and conducive to healing.
Bonds will also pay to upgrade accommodations in our state parks. It's an investment that will have a big impact on tourism.
And tourism is big business in Missouri. Last year, Missouri welcomed 36 million visitors, pumping nearly $11 billion into our state's economy. But we can do even better.
Updating our cabins and lodges, and building brand-new, top-of-the-line facilities at our most popular parks will create jobs, help our economy, and make our parks an even bigger draw. Our 87 state parks and historic sites are a priceless legacy that belongs to all of us. Hunting, fishing, hiking and camping are part of our Missouri way of life.
Investing in Missouri's state parks today will help preserve our outdoor heritage for our grandchildren, and their grandchildren.
As I said before, we can only move forward with a bond issuance if we have a way to pay for it.
Saying "we'll figure it out later" won't work. That's not how we became a Triple-A state.
The way to pay for the bond issuance is to finally get our tax credit system under control.
We've worked on reining in tax credits for years. In 2010, I appointed a statewide, bipartisan, tax credit commission to study the issue.
That commission tapped the expertise of Missouri leaders in business, education, labor and government. They recommended a series of pragmatic, fiscally responsible reforms to rein in tax credit expenditures and ensure these programs provide a strong return on taxpayers' investment.
But two years later, these reforms have yet to pass, and the costs of inaction continue to grow.
Last year tax credit redemptions grew to a staggering $629 million – one-twelfth of our entire general revenue budget. That's not fiscally responsible.
This is the year to get comprehensive, fiscally responsible tax credit reform legislation to my desk, and get smart, strategic investments in our state moving forward.
But all of the ideas and proposals I outlined tonight mean very little if the people of Missouri lose faith in the system.
Missouri's ethics laws are among the weakest in the nation. Every year as Governor, I've put forward my agenda for ethics reform, and I know many of you have made genuine efforts to pass legislation.
The list of reforms we must implement is long. Everything from curbing committee-to-committee transfers to banning office holders from doubling as paid political consultants to finally closing the revolving door between the legislature and lobbyists. All things we must do.
But above all, the single most destructive force to our system is the unlimited sums of money pouring into the campaign accounts of candidates seeking public office.
We must institute – we must re-institute – strict campaign contribution limits.
Each time a wealthy individual or business or special interest sends a check for $20,000 or $50,000 or $100,000 to a candidate, the public's trust erodes a little bit more. And eventually, if we continue on this path, there will be no trust left at all.
I've led the fight for campaign contribution limits for many years. As Attorney General, I stood before the U.S. Supreme Court and successfully argued in support of Missouri's contribution limits. And as Governor, I stood before you every year and made the case for them.
This year, if the Legislature does not send a campaign contribution limit bill to my desk, I will do everything in my power to get it on the ballot and make sure it passes.
The people of Missouri have voiced their opinion on this matter already at the ballot box and their support for contribution limits was overwhelming. We all know it would pass once again.
Let's work together and get it done this session. The era of unlimited contributions to candidates must end.
These past four years, we've been faced with some historic challenges.
And by working together, we've tackled them head-on …and made great strides in the Show-Me State.
We've kept our fiscal discipline, balanced the budget and put strict cost controls in place throughout state government. And as a result, our economy is making solid, steady progress.
The signs are everywhere. Businesses large and small are hiring again.
Missouri's unemployment rate has been lower than the national average for 40 consecutive months.
New building permits are up. Personal income is up, and wages are up.
And now we are in a position to make smart, long-term investments that will boost our children's academic achievement, protect Missourians' health, strengthen our workforce, improve our quality of life and create prosperity for generations to come.
We have unique opportunities before us. Now is the time to seize them.
Just two weeks ago, I stood at the steps of this Capitol, and spoke of my vision for the future of our beloved state:
A future where all our children get an education that prepares them to compete for the best jobs in the global economy;
Where the brightest minds in science and technology advance the frontiers of human knowledge;
Where business and the arts flourish;
Where the bounty of Missouri's farms and fields will feed, clothe and power the planet;
And where the natural beauty of our state is preserved and cherished for all time.
That future is ours to build. And we can only do it by working together.
When I first came to the Capitol in 1987, I was the youngest person in the Senate. I had a lot to learn. And I was fortunate to serve with many dedicated and capable legislators on both sides of the aisle. They showed me what public service is and what it requires of each of us.
Republicans and Democrats didn't agree on everything back then, just like they don't now.
We had a divided state government, with a Governor of one party, and the other party holding a large majority in the legislature – just like we do now.
But we worked together to get things done for the good of the people.
I've been in public service for a long time. More than a quarter of a century.
And in those many years, my faith in the people of Missouri has never faltered. My faith in our bedrock values has never wavered.
And I have always been mindful of, and inspired by, the words inscribed on the Great Seal of Missouri, on our flag and in these marble halls:
"Let the Good of the People Be the Supreme Law.''
This is our call to action, our common oath and rallying cry. This is our sworn duty.
Ours is a sacred calling. Our time is short.
Let every action we take in these halls and in the offices of government be guided by that supreme law: the good of the people.
Now let us seek God's everlasting grace and protection to finish the good works He has entrusted to our care.
God bless Missouri.
And God bless the United States of America.
Thank you.


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I mixed the dough by hand, but it could also be made in a food processor. Rye flour, all-purpose flour, a little sugar, and salt were sifted together in a bowl. Cold butter was worked into the flour mixture, and then apple cider vinegar and ice water were added. At that point, the dough was wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled for an hour. Next, the dough was rolled into a rectangle and folded into thirds. For the first fold, the dough was a little crumbly, but it came together during the next turns and folds. The seam of the folded dough was turned 90 degrees, and it was rolled into a rectangle and folded again. This was repeated one more time before wrapping the dough in plastic and chilling it again. While the dough chilled, the blackberries were combined with some berry jam. Since I was making little tartlets, I worked with half the dough at a time, rolled it out, and cut it into five-inch circles. The blackberry and jam mixture was spooned into the center of each dough circle, and the dough was gathered around the fruit. The tartlets were placed on a baking sheet which went into the freezer before being baked. Just before going into the oven, the tartlet edges were brushed with egg wash, a mix of turbinado sugar and cinnamon was sprinkled on the egg wash, and I added a few thyme leaves.
For serving, I topped the tartlets with fresh thyme sprigs from my herb garden for a pop of green on the sticky, dark, blackberry filling. I'll still have blueberries for a bit when the local blackberries are gone. And, when all of this year's berries are gone and I can no longer get my fix, at least there will still be peaches.

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None of this was designed to please a finicky, bookish child who was deeply attached to his blow dryer. To make matters worse, first-year campers were sequestered in a separate program which kept us from anything that might have been remotely interesting. On the archery range, for example, we were not allowed to shoot arrows at proper round targets. Instead, we shot blunt sticks at a line of empty plastic milk jugs suspended from a length of clothesline. We were not permitted to row on the lake, to build fires or cook over them, to go on overnight hikes, or whittle with our pocket knives. Compared to Camp Birch, sitting in my backyard reading Vogue was an Outward Bound experience.
Most of the other boys, I might add, were not the squeaky-clean Boy Scouts of popular imagination. I smuggled Judy Blume novels in my backpack, whereas most of them had smuggled alcohol, cigarettes, dope, and Playboy. My priggish nature recoiled at this and it made socializing awkward.
There were certain perks, I will grant you, like getting my first boy-on-boy kiss from another Scout. (Hi, Brandon–wherever you are.) But on the whole, when I pondered the prospect of the second year of this, I responded by leaving the Boy Scouts altogether.
There were no summer camps before that, or since. Until now. I'm going to camp. Knitting camp. Meg Swansen's Knitting Camp, in Wisconsin.
Judging from the descriptions in my acceptance materials, Knitting Camp differs in several key respects from Boy Scout Camp. For example:
- I will not be expected to sleep in a padded bag on rocky ground that smells of skunk urine.
- My breakfast will not consist of a granola bar, an apple, and a piece of burnt Wonder bread.
- I'll be allowed to shower daily, and by myself.
- The toilets will flush.
- Upon hearing the schedule for the day, I will not feel inclined to drown myself in the nearest body of water.
- Meg Swansen will probably not call me a "stupid pussy" when I screw up my project.
My next step is to figure out exactly how I'm getting up there. If you're reading this and you're passing by or through Chicago on your way to Camp 2, give me a shout, won't you please? I'm small and polite and clean and I have gas money. I should probably also mention that Dolores will be staying home.
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Journal entry: January 23, 1987 (age 17)
Earlier tonight, the talent show at Seton Catholic Central High School was filled with singing, dancing, and, in the case of the act my friends and I put together, high drama. Near the end of the evening, Pat McCormack, Jim Root, and I ascended the stage with an air of grim gravitas. Unlike the rest of the acts, we chose not to relax the dress code we had been required to wear during the school day. If anything, our button-up shirts, ties, dress pants, and shoes were crisper and sharper than usual. To heighten the effect, we added dinner jackets.
As Pat and I walked toward a hulking, wooden podium downstage, Jim split off behind us, where, from the huge black case he was carrying, he produced an electronic keyboard and a stand to place it on. Then he pulled a pair of dark sunglasses from his breast pocket, put them on, and stood motionless behind the synthesizer. With his head down and his hands clasped in front of him, he looked like a new breed of ecclesiastical beatnik. At the podium, Pat opened a slim, red-orange volume that had been placed there, and glared at the audience just long enough to slide across the line between dramatic pause and awkward silence. He cleared his throat, exchanged a blinking nod with me, and began to speak.
Pat's eyes scanned the audience for a full 10 seconds before he stepped away from the podium. I stepped in to replace him – my face a study in stoicism – and addressed the crowd with the same words. "I am Sam." Then Pat joined me at the microphone, and together we intoned, "Sam I am."
Our dramatic reading of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham continued to the end of the book, with Pat and me trading passages in iambic tetrameter. Occasionally, one of us stopped in mid-sentence, visibly overcome with the raw power of our Seussian muse. The other quickly picked up the narrative thread, expressing contempt for eating the titular items in a box or a house, with or without a fox or a mouse.
Throughout the proceedings, Jim played incidental music on the keyboard. Periodically, his freeform, baroque noodlings overpowered the text. At those points, either Pat would stop reading and glare at Jim, or I would leave the podium to take Jim aside for a whispered conference. When neither tack worked, Pat and I double-teamed Jim in a stage-pummeling of epic proportions. We had agreed ahead of time that this display of violence would nicely juxtapose the book's "happy" ending, in which the narrator comes around to the mob-approved niceness of green eggs and ham.
Unexpectedly, the audience liked us. I would like to say that we gained the attention of nubile groupies, but we had to settle for two chuckling nuns, who approached afterwards to ask us to reprise our act at their grammar schools.
Journal Addendum: September 29, 1991
The Reverend Jesse Jackson just appeared on Saturday Night Live, where he performed…a dramatic reading of Green Eggs and Ham. There was no mention of three innovative high-schoolers from Binghamton, despite the fact that Sam we were first.
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Ancient DNA from cell nuclei and maternally inherited mitochondria indicates that this individual belonged to a population that eventually gave rise to many present-day Asians and Native Americans, says a team led by Qiaomei Fu and Svante Paabo, evolutionary geneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The partial skeleton, unearthed in Tianyuan Cave near Beijing in 2003, carries roughly the same small proportions of Neandertal and Denisovan genes as living Asians do (SN: 8/25/12, p. 22), the scientists report online January 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The Max Planck press release adds some information:
The genetic profile reveals that this early modern human was related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians and Native Americans but had already diverged genetically from the ancestors of present-day Europeans.This is an important finding because some published demographic models had Europeans and East Eurasians diverging as recently as ~20 thousand years ago. It now appears that they did so already at around the time of the Upper Paleolithic revolution, when unambiguous evidence of modern humans across Eurasia exists.
UPDATE I: While we wait for this paper to appear on the PNAS website, it might be useful to wonder whether the Tianyuan sample might fall on the East Asian/Amerindian group or the more general "Ancestral South Indian" (ASI)/East Eurasian group.
According to current dating, haplogroup M itself is ~50 thousand years old, and most of the subclades therein coalesce to younger than 40ky times. It's possible that the Tianyuan sample dates from a period where ASI/East Asian differentiation had only just begun or was just about to begin.
The press release makes clear that Tianyuan was already "Asian" rather than generalized Eurasian, proving that East/West Eurasian differentiation had begun by ~40kya. It will be interesting to see whether it can be placed on a more specific "East Eurasian" group rather than a generalized "Asian" one.
UPDATE II: The paper is now online.
UPDATE III: From the paper:
Thus, it is related to the mtDNA that was ancestral to present-day haplogroup B (Fig. 1), which has been estimated to be around 50,000 y old (18) (50. 7 ka BP; 95% CI: 38.1–68.3 ka BP). We note that the age of the Tianyuan individual is compatible with this date.So, it appears to be within macro-haplogroup N, with haplogroup B being, I think, a fairly unambiguously East Asian/Native American clade of the phylogeny. It will certainly be interesting to see how the much more successful -and younger- M subclades ended up dominating East Eurasia.
UPDATE IV: The TreeMix analysis clearly places Tianyuan within the Asian group, but does not resolve whether Papuans are an outgroup to East Asians/Tianyuan:
I guess that is expected (see my UPDATE I), since Tianyuan dates from a period where within-Asia differentiation had only just begun or was about to begin.
UPDATE V: With respect to sharing of alleles with archaic Eurasian hominins, the Tianyuan sample is within the modern range of variation.
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1221359110
DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China
Qiaomei Fu et al.
Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. The genetic relationships between these early modern humans and present-day human populations have not been established. We have extracted DNA from a 40,000-y-old anatomically modern human from Tianyuan Cave outside Beijing, China. Using a highly scalable hybridization enrichment strategy, we determined the DNA sequences of the mitochondrial genome, the entire nonrepetitive portion of chromosome 21 (~30 Mbp), and over 3,000 polymorphic sites across the nuclear genome of this individual. The nuclear DNA sequences determined from this early modern human reveal that the Tianyuan individual derived from a population that was ancestral to many present-day Asians and Native Americans but postdated the divergence of Asians from Europeans. They also show that this individual carried proportions of DNA variants derived from archaic humans similar to present-day people in mainland Asia.


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The Pompidou Centre stages a new exhibition detailing the place of dance in art history and its influence on the visual arts.
The early 20th century was a vibrant time for dance: pioneering dancers such as Isadora Duncan (1877 – 1927) and Vaslav Nijinsky (1889 – 1950) were tearing apart tradition and laying the foundations for modern dance. Duncan declared in 1927 that her art was an attempt to visibly manifest the truth of her life through movement: "From the start, I have done nothing but dance my life." This ideal of art as representative of life, articulated by Duncan, also finds expression in the visual art of the 20th century and the revolution in dance engendered a similar development in art, together lighting the fire of modernity.
It is this relationship between art and dance that the Pompidou Centre explores in their latest show, Danser Sa Vie (Dancing our Lives). Chief curator, Christine Macel, explains the motive behind the exhibition: "Our aim is to put modern dance at the centre of the avant-garde revolution and to show how this transient art has developed a major dialogue with visual art." Through this tightly co-ordinated exhibition, Macel hopes to illuminate the dialogue between art and dance from 1900 to the present. Dance is a popular subject and exhibitions such as Dance With Camera at the ICA, Philadelphia (September 2009 – March 2010) and Move at London's Hayward Gallery (October 2010 – January 2011) have focused on the associations between art and dance but they have predominantly concentrated their attentions on the post-1960s. Other shows look at the ballet and the elaborate costumes and set that partner the form. The exhibition at the Pompidou promises to delve beyond this and into the very fabric of the relationship; unveiling dance's contribution to the avant-garde and laying bare the roots of contemporary art's enthusiasm for dance.
It is an epic undertaking and the show features over 100 artists, with even this number being fewer than they had hoped to include. In addition to a vast selection of contemporary art, video works, sculptures and installations, Danser Sa Vie will also present records produced by dancers and choreographers who sought to retain a collective memory of an art form that does not aim to preserve. Dancers and artists sit hand in hand in this exhibition, however Macel clarifies: "It is not a show on dance: the dancers have been chosen because of their dialogue with the art." Luckily though, dialogue between dancers and art is abundant – as this collection proves – and Macel was not hard-pressed to find dancers to include. One great example is German dancer Mary Wigman (1886 – 1973), who was in the vanguard for expressionist dance, or Ausdruckstanz. Her connection with art is followed through her life, moving from her influence on the great German Expressionist painters, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 – 1938) and Emil Nolde (1867 – 1956) through to contemporary American artist, Kelly Nipper (b. 1971).
Wigman was among those dancers that actively sought a dialogue with art. A member of Rudolf von Laban's community at Monte Verità in 1913, the group engaged with new forms of artistic expression and experienced certain freedoms. Laban (1879 – 1958) himself had initially studied sculpture at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before becoming interested in the relationship between the human form, movement and space and relocating to Munich to pursue dance. Both Laban and Wigman are assimilated into the exhibition under the theme of subjectivity. Danser Sa Vie is structured into three component parts: dance as self-expression; dance and abstraction and dance as performance.
From the subjectivity embodied in dances created by the greats of modern dance and their unprecedented exchange with artists, the exhibition moves to focus on the abstraction of the body. Developments in dance towards the abstract, in response to the increasing industrialisation of the 20th century, were mirrored with similar movements in the art world. Interest in the simplification of movement and the geometric styling of the body had a direct influence on artists of the avant-garde, but also fed back into the dialogues of the dancer. The geometry of dance was of particular concern to Rudolf Laban, who developed a form of dance notation based around the icosahedron, a geometric shape with 20 identical equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices.
This tradition of geometric association finds responses in the work of contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), who has created a new work for the exhibition at the Pompidou Centre. Whilst Laban, as a dancer, cultivated a relationship with art and approached his work from an artistic understanding and background, likewise many of the artists in the exhibition demonstrate direct interactions with dance. Some, such as Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944), simply pay tribute to dancers such as Gret Palucca (1902 – 1993) but others have a closer relationship with the form. Olafur Eliasson is one such artist: Eliasson was a Scandinavian break-dancing champion in his youth and the influence of this involvement in dance can be seen in much of his work. He also considers his break-dancing to be his first artwork. The style of break-dancing is such that it incorporates angular and geometric movements of the body and Christine Macel points to the use of these notions in his artistic work and their subsequent correlation to the work of Rudolf von Laban.
Eliasson's new work, created especially for Danser Sa Vie, is a video piece: Movement Microscope (2011), Macel explains, "deals with the movement of everyday life in the studio of the artist. It is like dancing whilst making art." This concept of dancing and making art being as one is further explored in the final section of the exhibition: dance as performance art. This part of the show moves from the Dada implications of dance through to the partnership between John Cage (1912 – 1992) and Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) in the late 1940s and on to the growth of club culture with Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987).
This long period of creativity represents a movement from modern dance towards an understanding of everyday movement as dance, a post-modern viewpoint embodied by the dancer Anna Halprin (b. 1920). Halprin's experiments with creating movement solidified the relationship between art and life, and in place of Duncan's dance of her life, life was instead considered as an inherent dance. Life is a central preoccupation of the artists and dancers in the exhibition and with the development of post-modern dance and performance art, the lines between artists and dancers become ever more faintly drawn. In 1959, Halprin and John Cage together with a series of other dancers and artists formed San Francisco Dancer's Workshop to further develop dance practice, whilst Cage's student Robert Dunn (1928 – 1996) laid the foundations for the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. This involvement of artists and musicians in the progression of dance and formation of fundamental institutions dedicated to this goal demonstrates the extent of assimilation between the two forms.
Danser Sa Vie offers a comprehensive study into the mutual growth of dance and art, inviting viewers to witness the influences of dance upon art and art upon dance. The gradual assimilation of the two to a point where dance is indiscernible from art in performance is supported by a programme of live events. The major staging of the work of both artists and dancers side by side in an esteemed artistic institution such as the Pompidou Centre is a significant step in the consideration of dance as a major art form in context with contemporary art. Installations of work including Tino Sehgal's Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things (2000) complements physical performances by artists such as Davide Balula (b. 1978), who employs 60 dancers for his Mechanical Clock for 60 dancers and by dancers including Trisha Brown (b. 1936). In addition to contributing to the Centre's tradition for multi-disciplinary shows, this combination of the artist, dancer and performer in situ with installation pieces, video works, paintings and drawings promises to re-write the understanding of dance and the dancer from a visual arts perspective.
Danser Sa Vie ran at the Pompidou Centre, Paris until 2 April 2012.
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Coming This Fall, "The Exodus Conspiracy" -- Dr. Lennart Moller resurrects Ron Wyatt's photograph of a gilded chariot wheel
Ron Wyatt's photo of a "gilded chariot wheel" allegedly from the Egyptian army that chased the Hebrews as they fled during the Exodus.
An email has begun proliferating this year titled, "The Red Sea Crossing," or, "Parting of the Red Sea," or, "Chariot Wheels Found in Red Sea," and it is being passed around so much with so little investigation that Snopes.com has begun a page on the email and its claims. I suspect that the email is part of an advertising campaign for a film due out in Fall 2008, starring a creationist named Dr. Lennart Moller (not an archeologist, but a biologist) and titled, "The Exodus Conspiracy"
A previous film made for TV by the same company has already popularized the alleged "golden/gilded chariot wheel" that the late Ron Wyatt (another non-archeologist) "discovered in the Red Sea," where "Pharaoh's" chariots were allegedly swallowed up when two huge walls of water slammed together on either sides of them. (See the Bible's Exodus tale.)
The made for TV film also featured Dr. Lennart Moller and was titled, "The Exodus Revealed" and one portion of it featured not the actual "gilded wheel" photographed by Wyatt but a digital "recreation" of it
Announcer: "While most of the possible artifacts found off the coast of Nuweiba are covered with coral, one significant discovery was not."
Dr. Lennart Moller: "There is one find at the Nuweiba location that is of great interest, and that is the gilded wheel. [digital 'recreation' appears on screen, based on photo taken by Ron Wyatt] It is a wooden basic structure of the wheel and it is covered with gold or electrum, a mixture of silver and gold, and corals have not been able to grow on it. [really? why not? see questions below] It's been very well preserved, although it's very fragile. It seems like the wooden content has been dissolved. So I mean you could break it if you tried to remove it."
Announcer: "After its discovery the fragile wheel-shaped veneer was photographed, then left in place on the sea floor. Later analysis revealed that its dimensions and design resembled four-spoked chariot wheels painted on an 18th Dynasty tomb wall near the biblical date of the Exodus."
Note that Moller does not say he discovered this "gilded wheel," nor that he saw it, photographed it, nor touched it. There is no undersea footage of the "gilded wheel" in the film but merely a digital "reconstruction" of a photograph taken by Wyatt in the 1970s. But note that although almost no coral is shown touching this bright shiny wheel, based on Wyatt's photo, still there are plenty of thick corals growing on one another and seen all over the actual seabed of the Red Sea as shown in the film. Neither does Wyatt's original photo provide clear evidence as to whether the small piece of coral seen on the wheel simply was placed there or not, it doesn't seem particularly well attached, not compared with the vast conglomerations of corals in the general area. And contra a statement made by Dr. Moller in the film, there does not appear to be any reason why coral should not be able to grow on an object made of gold, silver or a mixture of both, as any archeologist can demonstrate who has dug up objects made of all sorts of ancient precious metals from the sea with coral growing on them.
Even a Christian on the web has pointed out:
"Can coral grow on gold? Yes. Coral is not a plant, it is an animal, and it does not get its nutrients from the soil or rock it grows on. Instead, it eats zooplankton and other small marine bugs, and it gets its calcium, amino acids, etc. from the surrounding sea water. To structurally support themselves, corals grow next to each other and harden together, forming reefs. Thus they could grow on anything!! It doesn't matter. Coral also uses photosynthesis to make sugars out of sunlight. The only way they wouldn't grow on gold is if it were toxic to coral. I do not think this is the case, since gold has little or no affinity for binding oxygen, carbon, or nitrogen. The only thing it really has an affinity for is sulfur. So if sulfur is necessary for coral to live, then perhaps.... The only thing that my pharmacology book says gold inhibits is mycobacterium tuberculosis, nothing else. Besides the point, however, I'm all for historical evidence of the Bible, but this guy's argument is so ridiculously flawed that it's an embarrassment to believers."
Also, after 3,500 years of water flowing into the Red Sea and carrying sand and silt along with it, that's the deepest that such a wheel has become buried? It looks like it's barely beneath the sand. Why is this "gilded wheel" not covered by several feet of silt and sand after 3,500 years?
Neither do Wyatt's and Moller's separate tales add up concerning such a gilded wheel. On the one hand Wyatt claimed in the 1970s to have photographed such a wheel and then "presented it" to Nassif Mohammed Hassan who worked at the Cairo museum whom Wyatt has on tape saying that it "resembled an ancient Egyptian chariot wheel." (However what studies did Hassan made of the wheel if any? Did he actually handle it? What evidence is there that Hassan was "presented with" anything more than just a photograph of the wheel?) Then Hassan died a few years later. So he's no longer available for questioning. Now compare Moller's story in his video which speaks about the "gilded chariot wheel" as if it were extremely fragile, made of 3,500 year old "wood covered with gold or electrum, a mixture of silver and gold. And it's very fragile. It seems like the wooden content has been dissolved. So you could break it if you tried to remove it," and the announcer described it as nothing more than a "fragile wheel-shaped veneer." So if Moller is right, how did Wyatt "remove" such a "fragile wheel-shaped veneer" and "present" it to the person at the museum without breaking it?*
*Maybe Moller interprets Wyatt's story as merely the story of a photograph "presented" to Hassan, not "the wheel" itself?
Even the few photographs taken by Wyatt are not explicitly stated to be of just one wheel or of two different gilded chariot wheels. But even if there was one 3,500 year old gilded wheel solid enough to be lifted out of the sea and presented to Hassan, and a second gilded wheel in the Red Sea yet undiscovered and too fragile to excavate -- then in either case God's providence or chance seems to have made it impossible to investigate either "wheel" story via direct investigation of the alleged "wheels," nor via interviewing Wyatt or Hassan.
In fact there is no evidence other than Wyatt's photograph of how large the alleged "gilded wheel" was, and so it could have been smaller than a chariot wheel because it is difficult to judge an objects size in a photograph unless you place something right next to the object like a yardstick, coin, or other object of known size. Also how do we know for sure that the object was made of gold? It might have been made merely of shiny brass and be a far younger object that recently was tossed into the water, so young that it lay near the surface, was still shiny enough to catch Wyatt's eye, and also young enough such that coral had not had time to cement itself on it. (See the other modern day wheel shaped objects pictured further below.)
Below are links to another portion of the made-for-TV-film that features footage of coral formations and focuses only on those that one might imagine might have been formed around decaying chariot wheels:
Mt. Sinai, Moses & the Exodus - Part 8 of 10
Even in a conservative Christian news source like Worldnetdaily.com, Wyatt's own wife is reported as urging "caution" before jumping to conclusions, and admits a lot of coral looks like "wheels" or other alleged chariot parts. The article, titled, "Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea?" also admits that the one "golden chariot wheel" that Wyatt allegedly discovered cannot be found anywhere.
SEVEN Criticisms of Wyatt's Claim that he discovered and photographed a 3,500 year old "Egyptian Chariot Wheel"
1) While the image could be better, the above photo doesn't show any of the type of segmenting that the chariot in the earlier museum photo exhibits. Nor does it seem to have the types of joins shown in drawings of Eqyptian chariot wheels. Someone else has already mentioned that the hub of the ocean "wheel" is greatly different then the one in the museum. The style seems more modern and looks as if the edges are milled to be beveled.
2) As to the coral formations. I don't think anyone has brought up that coral often is spherical and or radial. I haven't seen any convincing arguments that the formations aren't natural. Keep in mind that different types of coral grow on top of each other. So given enough coral, time, and space all sorts of shapes are possible.
3) Cnidarians are simple, radially symmetrical, animals. Radial symmetry means that the body is a hub, like a bicycle wheel, and tentacles are spokes coming out of it.
4) I'm at a loss as to how a Saudi Law prevents anyone on the Egypt side of the sea from bringing up objects [am I missing something here?]. If they do not bring up items out of respect/fear for Saudi Law, then how did they bring up the bone?
5) Even if it turns out that the formations aren't natural it doesn't mean they're chariot wheels. There is certainly more than one ship that has been lost in the Red Sea. Google: shipwreck "red sea" 5,790 matches.
6) The film features an examination of the "spokes" of various wheel-shaped coral formations and the discovery of positive metal detector readings and rust being associated with the coral. But 1446 BC is too early for extensive use of iron and Egyptian chariots didn't use much metal. The spokes were wooden. Small amounts of iron had been available to the Egyptians for a long time but we should not be seeing much, if any, at an 18th Dynasty site. We really do need better evidence for the Exodus than counting the number of spokes a coral formation appears to have. Iron Age I starts at 1200 BCE See also this and this about thehistory of metal usage. "Iron was first employed as a technology of war about 1300 B.C. by the Hittites. Within a hundred years the secret of iron making and cold forging had spread at least to Palestine and Egypt and, perhaps, to Mesopotamia as well."
7) Comparison of Wyatt's golden chariot wheel...
...with some modern day objects found on ships and other machines.
REVIEW OF DR. MOLLER'S BOOK, THE EXODUS CASE, which was published in 2002 and inspired the made-for-TV-film, and the move to be released Fall 2008:
Lennart Moller specializes in the earth hazards of air pollutants and the damage to DNA that they cause. Since 2001, he has been a professor of environmental medicine in the department of bioscience at Karolinska Institutet, one of Europe's largest medical universities and Sweden's main center for medical training and research. Beside his academic duties, Moller is an active member of Evangeliska Fosterlands-Stiftelsen, founded in 1856, a missionary organization within the Church of Sweden. He has edited and authored books on ethics and Gospel exegesis and recently a volume on biblical archaeology, The Exodus Case.
This book is the fruit of extensive travels in the Near East and Egypt. Its stated main purpose is to test a hypothesis: that the biblical texts of Genesis 11:27 through Exodus 40:38 are historically correct. A secondary purpose is to evaluate and expand upon the works of the late Ron Wyatt (1933-1999)... There are disturbing signs already in the hook's introduction. First, it is naive to judge these long texts, preserved through thousands of years of oral and written traditions, as either true or false in their entirety. Academic historians evaluate discrete factual statements, not entire books at one go. But Moller emphasizes that he is neither a theologian, a historian, nor an archaeologist. In fact, he underlines that he does not know what these disciplines believe regarding the questions he takes on. Moller feels that he can thereby offer a fresh perspective.
Then there are the references to Ron Wyatt. If ever there was a true native of Daniken Laird, it was Wyatt. His writings on biblical archaeology are such extreme flights of fancy that even many creationist debaters dismiss them as wild imaginings.
While ostensibly scientific, Moller's perspective is at the same time explicitly antirational (p. 15). We should not be too sure of ourselves and our powers of reasoning. Only God is perfect, says Moller, and humankind is frail and weak...
Moller sets out on his biblical trek through time and space from Abraham in Ur to Moses on Mount Sinai.. He searches intensively for anything that fits with it. The idea that the selected texts are historically true is not a hypothesis for Moller, it is the basic axiom of his investigation. To the extent that he takes his pseudo-Popperian philosophy of science seriously at all, Moller appears to feel that the task of disproving the hypothesis is the reader's job, not his.
Moller stomps in brandishing revealed truth... The book interfoliates a Bible summary with absolutely vertiginous speculations in archaeology, history, geology, and onomastics (the study of the origins and forms of words). Gomorrah was located on the plain between the hilltop stronghold of Masada and the Dead Sea. The reason that there is now only a gypsum formation to be seen there is that the wicked city was built of limestone and destroyed in a rain of burning sulphur: limestone + sulphur = gypsum! Joseph, son of Jacob, is identical with Imhotep, the architect of the Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara. This identification moves the Third Dynasty a thousand years forward in time from its accepted date. This does not appear to trouble Moller, as he feels that the dynastic chronology of Egypt contains serious uncertainties. Moses is identical with Pharaoh Tutmosis II, as indicated by, among other things, the fact that the Pharaoh is depicted with a hooked nose, suggesting a Hebrew heritage! And so on. Wherever Moller goes, what he sees turns out to be relevant to his search. He finally finds Mount Sinai...
AUTHOR OF THE ABOVE REVIEW: Martin Rundkvist, review, is an archaeologist specializing in the pre- and protohistory of Scandinavia. He is a member of the board of the Swedish skeptic organization, Vetenskap och Folkbildning, and co-editor of the association's quarterly, Folkvett. He lives in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, 400 meters from a Viking-period cemetery.
Wyatt Archaeological Research – Fraud Documentation
Ron Wyatt's archeological claims
Ron Wyatts supernatural claims
Who's Who in the World of Ron Wyatt?
A Review of The Exodus Revealed
Summary: The Exodus Revealed video, directed by Lad Allen and funded by Discovery (Institute?) Media Productions, is based on The Exodus Case book by Lennart Moller, which is based on the "discoveries" of Ron Wyatt. Both the video and the book include photos of a gold wheel supposedly found in the Gulf of Aqaba, presented as proof that the Bible's Red Sea crossing story is true. But a TV producer's wife "was told by one of Ron Wyatt's sons that the chariot wheels that Ron supposedly discovered in the Gulf of Aqaba were planted there by Ron." Also, John Baumgardner, who is a Christian and initially believed Wyatt and inspected Wyatt's Noah's ark "discovery", later wrote that "I am almost 100% certain that Ron 'planted' them [rivets on the Ark]." Despite this and much more evidence that Ron Wyatt was a crazy liar, both Lennart Moller and Lad Allen were insidiously dishonest in promoting Wyatt's "findings" without disclosing Wyatt's history of fraud. [See the link below for more on Wyatt, much more.]
(I know the fellow who wrote the investigative review above, and even met some of relatives who live in Greenville, S.C. The family was home-schooled and taught young-earth creationist arguments. Two or three of the sisters attended Bob Jones University. Today half of the author's siblings have left the fold.)
Letter from Joe Zias on the "discoveries of Ron Wyatt," including mention of the alleged chariot wheel (Zias is Curator of Anthropology/Archaeology, Israel Antiquities Authority, POB 586, Jerusalem, Tel. 972-2-292624)
Lastly, I exchanged a few emails with Pinkowski who runs the Wyatt museum, and who informed me that, "In the 22 years that Ron Wyatt performed this wonderful work for the Lord, he always maintained a very humble personality. It would have been very easy for him to become proud or boastful, but Ron did not do that. Both Moses and Ron Wyatt were extremely humble men. When asked "why" he was chosen to do this work, Ron replied: 'If 10 different people found 10 different major archaeological finds, people could say, 'Well, they were lucky, or smart, etc.,' but for one person to find all of these things is not humanly possible. Not even the most brilliant and celebrated. But God uses 'The simple things to confound the wise.' In choosing a simple, average person, He leaves no room for doubt as to 'who' is actually doing these things. Perhaps He chose me because I was willing -- I really don't know. But I can say that there is no one on earth who could be more grateful than I to be allowed to work with these things.'"
What faith Pinkowski has in the alleged authenticity of every one of Wyatt's alleged "discoveries," none of which have ever been verified by legitimate archeologists. Wyatt always seemed to get a glimpse of something and then it promptly vanishes, like the gilded wheel, or the Phoenician style column found on the Saudi coastline and which contained in Phoenician letters (Archaic Hebrew) the words: Mizraim (Egypt ); Solomon; Edom; death; Pharaoh; Moses; and Yahweh; or "the Blood of Christ" on the "Judgment Seat" beneath the Temple site in Jerusalem which only Wyatt saw. Other evidence/claims of Wyatt likewise vanish after closer examination. Even those who at first supported his claims to have found Noah's ark no longer believed him after examining the evidence at the site further, including young-earth creationists belonging to major young-earth organizations.


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- The symbol employed in textual criticism for a MS of the New Testament in Greek written on parchment in Egypt (Alexandria? Hence known as the Codex Alexandrinus) in the 5th cent. A few leaves containing verses of Matthew, John, and 2 Cor. are missing, but the two epistles of Clement are added at the end. There are 820 leaves. The MS was presented by the patriarch of Constantinople to the king of England in 1627 and is in the British Library in London.
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Section 27
Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, August 1830. In preparation for a religious service at which the sacrament of bread and wine was to be administered, Joseph set out to procure wine. He was met by a heavenly messenger and received this revelation, a portion of which was written at the time and the remainder in the September following. Water is now used instead of wine in the sacramental services of the Church.
1–4, The emblems to be used in partaking of the sacrament are set forth; 5–14, Christ and His servants from all dispensations are to partake of the sacrament; 15–18, Put on the whole armor of God.
1 Listen to the avoice of Jesus Christ, your Lord, your God, and your Redeemer, whose word is bquick and powerful.
2 For, behold, I say unto you, that it mattereth not what ye shall aeat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my bglory—cremembering unto the Father my dbody which was laid down for you, and my eblood which was shed for the fremission of your sins.
3 Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, that you shall not purchase awine neither strong drink of your enemies;
4 Wherefore, you shall partake of none except it is made anew among you; yea, in this my Father's kingdom which shall be built up on the earth.
5 Behold, this is wisdom in me; wherefore, marvel not, for the hour cometh that I will adrink of the fruit of the bvine with you on the earth, and with cMoroni, whom I have sent unto you to reveal the Book of Mormon, containing the fulness of my everlasting gospel, to whom I have committed the keys of the drecord of the estick of fEphraim;
6 And also with aElias, to whom I have committed the keys of bringing to pass the restoration of all things spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began, concerning the last days;
7 And also John the son of Zacharias, which Zacharias he a(Elias) visited and gave promise that he should have a son, and his name should be bJohn, and he should be filled with the spirit of Elias;
8 Which John I have sent unto you, my servants, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery, to ordain you unto the first apriesthood which you have received, that you might be called and bordained even as cAaron;
9 And also aElijah, unto whom I have committed the keys of the power of turning the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the bfathers, that the whole earth may not be smitten with a ccurse;
10 And also with Joseph and aJacob, and bIsaac, and Abraham, your cfathers, by whom the dpromises remain;
11 And also with Michael, or aAdam, the father of all, the prince of all, the bancient of days;
12 And also with Peter, and James, and John, whom I have sent unto you, by whom I have aordained you and confirmed you to be bapostles, and especial cwitnesses of my dname, and bear the keys of your ministry and of the same things which I revealed unto them;
13 Unto whom I have acommitted the bkeys of my kingdom, and a cdispensation of the dgospel for the elast times; and for the ffulness of times, in the which I will gather together in gone all things, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth;
14 And also with all those whom my Father hath agiven me out of the world.
15 Wherefore, alift up your hearts and brejoice, and cgird up your loins, and take upon you my whole darmor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day, having done all, that ye may be able to estand.
16 Stand, therefore, having your loins agirt about with btruth, having on the cbreastplate of drighteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the egospel of fpeace, which I have sent mine gangels to commit unto you;
17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the afiery darts of the wicked;
18 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of my aSpirit, which I will pour out upon you, and my word which I reveal unto you, and be agreed as touching all things whatsoever ye ask of me, and be faithful until I come, and ye shall be bcaught up, that where I am ye shall be calso. Amen.


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The one foundation garment I've really been able to get behind is the longline bra. You know how a lot of 50s style dresses have that smooth, willowy torso look? I'm convinced that the longline bra is the key to this. It lengthens the torso and also shapes it quite a bit: mine reduces my waist measurement by 1-1/2 inches. Worn with undies with a bit of shaping to them (a girdle panty, I suppose you would call it), I can get a serious hourglass thing going on. Which I like. (See above. On me, not Henry.) The problem, however, is a grave one: Readers, I think my foundation garments are cutting off blood flow to my brain.
The thing is, I feel a bit . . . spacey . . . when I wear this undergarment get-up. I'm overly focused on my abdomen, and I feel vaguely headachey and fuzzy-minded, like my thoughts can't push their way up to the surface. I found myself searching just a little too hard for the right words when I was presenting a project in a meeting. Not good, folks. Not good.
Now, I can guess that the first thing you might suggest is that I'm wearing the wrong size. But I really don't think that I am. I have tried wearing the size up in various undergarments, they feel loose and I don't get any shaping whatsoever. (Yes, I've actually compared before and after measurements. Don't look at me like that.) In which case, why bother wearing them?
More thoughts: perhaps I'm not breathing deeply enough? Maybe I'm not used to the restraint around my midsection and it's making me woozy. (Fetch me my smelling salts, please!) Perhaps I just need time to adjust? I remember reading an interview with the costume designer of Mad Men that the actresses on that show hated the underpinnings they had to wear at first, but in time, came to love them. Hmm. I do know that I've probably thought about underwear for way longer than is necessary for one day.
P.S. Recognize the dress I'm wearing above? It's the Simplicity Slenderette!


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