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(Reuters) - Navistar International Corp
Navistar said Treasurer James Moran will take over until the company appoints a permanent replacement for Cederoth.
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— I wonder what would inspire someone to be part of a crowd of almost 20,000 naked people. Is it the desire to be part of something bigger than themselves? Or is it simply the desire to see lots of other people naked? Would you do this?
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Teri Kent runs Charlottesville's Better World Betty, a non-profit organization and online resource for locals looking to shrink their impact on the environment. Every month, Betty—Kent's '50s-housewife-meets-earth-goddess alter ego—answers the most burning eco-questions from our readers about
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FELTON, Del.– Delaware State Police have arrested three suspects accused of holding up the Canterbury Shore Stop convenience store in Felton early Monday.
Police said that shortly before 3 a.m. a trooper was in the area of the Shore Stop, located at 8953 South DuPont Highway, when he observed two men acting suspiciously near the store. Police said as the trooper continued to observe the store, the two men appeared from the south side of the store and entered wearing masks.
Authorities said that as the trooper began to approach the store from the west side, he informed Kent County Emergency Operations Center of what he had observed and to have additional troopers respond to that location. Police said as the trooper drove into the parking lot of the store, the two suspects had already exited the store and ran toward Irish Hill Road where a waiting car was parked.
Police said the trooper, along with additional responding units, activated their emergency equipment in an attempt to perform a traffic stop, but the vehicle failed to stop and sped off toward Canterbury Road. Investigators said the getaway car turned southbound on Canterbury Road and accelerated at a high rate of speed in an attempt to elude the pursuing officers, but the driver lost control near the intersection of Midstate Road. The vehicle overturned with the three occupants still inside and they were all taken into custody without further incident, police said.
Troopers said an investigation were able to determine that 39-year-old Dean Smith and 26-year-old James B. Hill, both of Dover, were dropped off by a 17-year-old Dover male on the north side of the Shore Stop. Police said Smith and Hill then walked by the entrance to the south side before returning and entering the store with masks on their faces. Troopers said that armed with handguns, the two demanded cash from a 20-year-old female employee who complied and turned over an undisclosed amount of money before they fled from Shore Stop and into the waiting car being driven by the 17-year-old. The female employee was not injured in the incident, police said.
Smith and Hill were transported to Troop 3 where they were both charged with first-degree robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, wearing a disguise during the commission of a felony and second-degree conspiracy. Both were arraigned at the Justice of the Peace Court 2 and committed to James T. Vaughn Correctional Center on $45,000 secured bond.
The 17-year-old was transported to a local hospital and admitted with non-life-threatening injuries he sustained in the crash. He was subsequently charged with first-degree robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, wearing a disguise during the commission of a felony, second-degree conspiracy, disregard of a police officer's signal, reckless driving, driving without a valid license and other traffic related offenses. He was arraigned on the charges through Family Court and placed in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families on $100,000 cash bond until he can be released to a juvenile detention facility.
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Aiaaira (Аиааира, Abkhaz for 'victory') is the national anthem of Abkhazia. It was adopted in 1992. The lyrics were written by Gennady Alamia, and the music was written by Valera Çkaduwa.[1]
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Шәнеибац, шәнеибац,
Šwneibac, šwneibac,
March on, march on,
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- ^ "National Anthem Downloads, Lyrics, & Information: NationalAnthems.us - Republic of Abkhazia". NationalAnthems.us. 2009-03-19. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
External links[edit]
- State Symbols of Abkhazia - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia has a page on state symbols that includes instrumental versions of the anthem.
- Abhazya Milli Marsi - The Turkish language website "Abhazya Ahakuytra" features a page on the anthem, including a vocal video that shows the lyrics in Abkhazian, and lyrics in Turkish.
- National Anthem of Abkhazia - The website "Abkhazia, Land of the Seven Stars" has a page on the anthem that features both a vocal and an instrumental version.
- Anthem in MIDI format
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A few thoughts while we wait for baseball's offseason game of musical chairs to begin in earnest after the announcements later today/tonight regarding which free agents were offered arbitration by their current teams.
For the Braves, it's a given that Mike Gonzalez will be offered arbitration, since teams are expected to be lined up with multi-year offers for the lefty reliever and strikeout matchine, and the Braves wouldn't mind paying him a projected $5-6 mill-or-more arbitration salary if he did accept their offer (which he won't, not with Scott Boras as his agent and with the potential security of multi-year offers).
What about fellow closer Rafael Soriano and Adam LaRoche? It also seems almost certain the Braves will offer to LaRoche, again because it's not risky – he seems likely to get at least one or two multi-year offers, and if Braves ended up paying him an $8-9 mill arb salary, that really wouldn't be a bad thing.
As for Soriano, I've gone from thinking it's perhaps a 50-50 proposition to thinking it's likely the Braves will offer him arbitration, too, given what I've heard from agents and seeing where Soriano is generally ranked among available relievers (he and Gonzo are in most top three's, along with Billy Wagner).
As you know, Soriano and Gonzalez are Type A free agents, meaning the Braves would get a first-round pick and supplemental-round pick if they offer arb and they sign elsewhere (provided the team that signs them isn't picking in the top 15 of the draft, in which case it'd be a second-round pick instead of a first).
LaRoche is a Type B, so it'll be only a supplemental-round pick as compensation if they offer him arb and he signs elsewhere. Garret Anderson is the Braves' other ranked free agent (a Type B), and he won't be offered arbitration for obvious reasons (the Braves want to upgrade at that position and aren't going to risk being stuck with Anderson and paying him more than they paid him in 2009).
So we'll wait for the official announcement, which hopefully will come near the close of Braves office hours instead of late tonight (midnight is the deadline).
(Addendum: Braves made the announcements earlier than expected, and there was one mild surprise: LaRoche not offered arbitration. Gonzalez and Soriano were offered arb.)
And then, after teams find out who's been offered arbitration and who was declined offers, the free-agent derby gets underway. If there was any chance at all that a player was not going to be offered arbitration, then it made no sense for teams to sign another team's free agent before today's deadline.
But after those questions are answered, then it's on. Things figure to pick up speed the rest of this week leading into next week's Winter Meetings, which run Monday through Thursday in lovely Indianapolis.
It's during those meetings when the ol' hot stove gets stoked and baseball's unique form of offseason wheeling and dealing really starts cooking, with rampant rumors and a few actual deals taking place before everyone heads back home to continue burning up the cellphone batteries and Ethernet lines.
You might have heard: The Braves have a pitching surplus and would like to move one of their starting pitchers, preferably Derek Lowe and the three years and $45 million remaining on his contract. And they want to add a proven hitter with some power, preferably right-handed. And Mike Cameron would like to play in Atlanta, and the Braves have some interest in the veteran center fielder.
No, you haven't heard any of that? Well, in that case, welcome back from your long seclusion in that mountain hideaway. And get ready, because baseball's silly season is about to get cranked up.
(By the way, think for a moment about an outfield of Cameron, Nate McLouth and Jason Heyward after Heyward arrives next season. In one year, the Braves would have gone from one of the least-athletic outfields in the NL to one of the most athletic.)
♣ Andruw on move (again): There was a time, not too long ago, when it seemed Andruw Jones might play his entire career for the Braves, and win 15 or more Gold Gloves before he was through. Now he's changing teams for the third time in four seasons, the Gold Gloves are a thing of the past, but there are still plenty of Braves fans wish he was coming back to Atlanta to play instead of Chicago's South Side.
I respectfully disagree. Despite the fact that Andruw was the best center fielder I've seen in my 16 years covering baseball, and perhaps the most purely talented player I've had the chance to be around, the Braves were right not to bring him back. Because he got old before his time, and he's more like a former great player approaching 40 now than anything else.
We don't know if it from playing so hard and beating up those shoulders and that back making all those diving catches, or relying too much on his natural skills and developing bad habits that betrayed him once those skills started to decline a bit, or a combination of those and other factors. But he's a shell of the tremendous player he once was — even though he's still only 32, in an era when players are excelling well into their mid-30s and some even longer.
Yes, he hit eight of his 17 homers last season with the Rangers away from hitter-friendly Arlington. But Jones hit just .214 with a .782 OPS overall, including .199 with a .705 OPS on the road.
He hit .200 with four homers and a .303 OBP in 65 at-bats as an outfielder. That's all the Rangers used him in the outfield, this former perennial Gold Glove winner who is four years younger than the aforementioned Cameron. Ask a scout to compare the two of them over the past couple of seasons, and he'd probably start by laughing. Or cringing.
Andruw had 192 at-bats as a DH, 16 as a first baseman, and went 1-for-8 as a pinch-hitter. He's a career 9-for-47 with two homers as a PH.
Since July 20, 2007, Andruw has hit .201with a .666 OPS in 217 games and 712 at-bats. Since Aug. 31 of that season, he's hit .191 with 22 homers and a .291 OBP in 181 games and 575 at-bats.
And after July 8 last season, he hit .165 (20-for-121) with three homers and nine RBI. That's all he played the rest of the way.
He was a terrific player, but the Braves made the right move in not ever seriously considering trying to recapture that glory.
If Frank Wren has shown two things during his tenure as GM, it's that he can acquire pitchers as well as anyone in baseball who doesn't have blank checks to sign free agents, and he doesn't let nostalgia get in the way of personnel decisions.
Could the John Smoltz and Tom Glavine situations have been handled a little differently, with a little more sensitivity? Yes, I think so. But ultimately, Wren's decisions were the right ones in both cases, I think most of us would agree.
♣ Crime Dog for Hall? There are very good arguments for and against voting Dale Murphy into the Hall of Fame. And for those outside Braves Nation, those who don't understand what a special person Murph was/is and how he played with dignity and excellence – not to mention without chemical enhancement — on mostly awful Atlanta teams, the statistical argument against his selection to the Hall is pretty strong. Which is why he hasn't really come close to getting in.
But that's not the case with another former Braves slugger, Fred McGriff. The statistical argument for his election is strong, and I do think he'll get in, although it might take a few years on the ballot — McGriff is eligible for the first time this year.
It might not be nearly as satisfying for fans of the 1980s-1990s Braves, since Murph played almost his entire career with the Braves and McGriff only played about one-fifth of his with the tomahawk on his chest.
But still, Crime Dog was a crucial piece of the Braves during a special period, and his election to the Hall would be as meaningful here as anywhere he played. He arrived in a midseason trade in 1993 and played in Atlanta through 1997, and in 1994 McGriff hit .318 with 34 homers and a career-high 1.012 OPS, finishing eighth in the MVP voting.
McGriff never finished higher than fourth in MVP voting (Murphy won back-to-back MVP awards in 1982-83), but he had sustained excellence over a long period, the kind of thing that Hall-of-Fame voters tend to reward. Murphy was dominant for about a decade, or less.
McGriff hit .282 with 34 homers and a .928 OPS for Toronto in 1988, when he was 24, and had consecutive 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in 2001-2002 with Tampa Bay and the Cubs. He was 38 in 2002.
McGriff retired with a .284 average, .377 OBP, .886 OPS and 493 homers and 1,550 RBI in parts of 19 seasons. He finished in the MVP top 10 six times.
Murphy hit .265 with a .346 OBP, .815 OPS and 398 homers and 1,266 RBI in parts of 18 seasons. He finished in the MVP top 10 four times, and also won five Gold Gloves.
The stats will probably keep Murphy out of the Hall of Fame, unless he gets in on the veterans committee ballot down the line. But McGriff? Tough to argue against him, especially since he's another player, like Murphy, who was never connected to performance-enhancing drugs of any kind.
Jayson Stark at ESPN.com made interesting observations about McGriff in a column in which he explained why he's leaning toward voting for McGriff. Stark wrote:
I haven't even gotten my Hall of Fame ballot in the mail yet. But how come I already have the impression Fred McGriff's candidacy is going to get trampled in the Roberto Alomar/Barry Larkin/Edgar Martinez debate?
I haven't decided yet whether I'm absolutely, positively voting for McGriff. But I think the people who have concluded — way too quickly — that he's not a Hall of Famer just because his 493 home-run trots don't mean what 493 home-run trots used to mean are missing something:
Fred McGriff's greatest years came BEFORE the numbers exploded on us in 1993.
This man was a difference-maker before the world went haywire on us. So how come so many people are lumping him in there with the rest of the PED generation?
I understand that those 12 seasons from 1993-2004 comprise two-thirds of McGriff's career. But let's look at the numbers he put up early in his career, when 30-homer seasons were a feat for real, live middle-of-the-order mashers, not No. 6 hitters:
From 1988-92, McGriff had four seasons with an adjusted OPS-plus of 153 or better, more than anyone else in either league.
Both of his two home run titles came in that span (1989 and '92).
He finished in the top four in his league in home runs, OPS and home run ratio in all five of those years. And how many other players could say that? How about zero.
And if we expand his period of greatness through 1994, consider this: McGriff ripped off seven straight 30-homer seasons from 1988-94. OK, that may not seem like much of a streak now, considering there have been 11 streaks that long since then. But at the time, the only players in history who had hit 30-plus at least seven years in a row were Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Eddie Mathews, Mike Schmidt, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron and Ralph Kiner. For more info on those men, go to Google and type in the word, "Cooperstown."
… Now does that make him a lock Hall of Famer? Absotively not. The point here is that Fred McGriff isn't a guy whose credentials should be hurt by the PED era. If anything, he ought to be helped by it — because he was pretty close to the same player from 1993 on that he was before 1993. Take a look:
• 1988-92: .283 average, .393 OBP, .531 slugging.
• 1993-2002: .290 average, .373 OBP, .506 slugging.
As the steroid age raged around him, he kept on doing pretty much exactly what he'd always done. Except that if you were a 31-homer, 102-RBI kind of guy in 1991, you had a chance to lead the league. If you were the same kind of guy in 2001, there were about 36 other men doing the same thing.
Well said by Jayson, as usual.
♣ Lefty prospect impresses: When he was included in the group of prospects added to the Braves' 40-man roster recently, most of you probably saw Jose Ortegano's name and thought, "Who?"
I know I did.
But the slender lefty is one to keep an eye on for the future, folks. Ortegano, who is listed as 6-1 and only 145 pounds (I doubt he's still that skinny, but he's obviously quite thin), really started to take off this past season at high-A Myrtle Beach and especially after a promotion to Double-A Mississippi.
After going 4-5 with a 3.49 ERA and 1.08 WHIP in 21 games (12 starts) at Myrtle, he went 5-2 with a 2.83 ERA in eight starts at Mississippi, where he had 42 strikeouts with 15 walks in 47-2/3 innings, with 46 hits and only two homers allowed.
Ortegano has continued his progress in the Venezuelan Winter League, where he's one of the youngest pitchers (22). He's posted a 1.16 WHIP in 32 innings of 10 games for Caracas, which was tied for first place in the league before Tuesday.
"Jose made a very nice step forward about one third of the way through this past season," Braves farm director Kurt Kemp told me this week. "Not sure I can answer why it was but his stuff got a little better, his confidence grew, and he pitched very, very well through the latter stages of the year. He has continued to pitch well in Caracas."
He's doing well in a league where a lot of hitters, including plenty with major league experience, put up big numbers.
By the way, guess who else is doing his usual thing in winter ball? Gregor Blanco.
Yes, the stalwart of winter ball and WBC play is hitting .318 with a .465 OBP for La Guaira. He had the second-highest OBP in the league, though only a .318 slugging percentage with five extra-base hits (no homers) in 110 at-bats. And he'd been caught in five of 11 stolen-base attempts.
♣ Diversions: It's going to be a busy week, but we're going to find time to watch tonight's highly anticipated season finale of Sons of Anarchy, plus try to go see the legendary Billy Joe Shaver perform tomorrow night at Eddie's Attic in Atlanta. And I want to see The Road, though one of our regulars said it wasn't as good as the terrific book by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men, which was into a great movie.
I'm also putting together the rough draft of my annual year-end best-CDs list to get that out before Christmas. And we're thinking of tackling a best-of-the-decade, though that would have to wait until January some time.
OK, we'll keep talking heading up to the arb announcements and so much more to come.
"RAMBLIN' MAN" by Hank Williams
I can settle down and be doin' just fine
Til I hear an old train rollin' down the line
Then I hurry straight home and pack
And if I didn' go, I believe I'd blow my stack
I love you baby, but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me
He made a ramblin' man.
Some folks might say that I'm no good
That I wouldn't settle down if I could
But when that open road starts to callin' me
There' somethin' o'r the hill that I gotta see
Sometimes it's hard but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me, he made a ramblin' man.
I love to see the towns a-passin' by
And to ride these rails 'neath God's blue sky
Let me travel this land from the mountains to the sea
'Cause that's the life I believe He meant for me
And when I'm gone and at my grave you stand
Just say God called home your ramblin' man
December 1st, 2009
2:30 pm
first on the this good ole blog
December 1st, 2009
2:40 pm
eighth or nineth on that the this there them ole blog…..
(couldn't resist Chris!)
December 1st, 2009
2:41 pm
So do I need to sign up for Twitter to find out who gets arb offers?
December 1st, 2009
2:44 pm
Thanks for the new blog, DOB.
Much appreciated.
December 1st, 2009
2:45 pm
What are your projections for next season's Braves? Forecast away:
December 1st, 2009
2:45 pm
DOB…this is the second post in which you have made fun of Indy…please stop bashing it until you spend more than two or three days in this city…after all maybe the Braves brass could take a little lesson on how to win again from the Colts management team. Cant be that bad of a place if we are awarded the Super Bowl in 2012 now can it?
December 1st, 2009
2:47 pm
Thanks for the new blog, DOB! Lets get cranking
December 1st, 2009
2:47 pm
hey DOB. If the Braves were able to move Lowe just as a salary dump and not get anything back could you see them making a play for Cabrera from the Tigers? Of course the tigers would have to pitch in prob around 5 mil a year for that contract.
December 1st, 2009
2:49 pm
This blog didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I think someone without sources could have written this.
December 1st, 2009
2:49 pm
Johnny Damon in left? Wow. Even Razor Shines couldn't get anyone thrown out at the plate green lighting them on balls hit directly at old chicken wing out there in left.
Look elswhere Braves faithful. Don't be fooled by Damon's numbers on that ridiculously loaded team playing in a ban box. Damon would be hard pressed to play 110 games in the Braves outfield imo. The TED would kill him both in the field and at the plate.
Perhaps you'd like to give Daniel Murphy a spin in left? {:
December 1st, 2009
2:53 pm
Hopefully we are able to offer all 3 of them arbitration. They will probably all get picked up and if we were able to get those picks we could nicely stockpile our minor league teams.
December 1st, 2009
2:55 pm
Cant be that bad of a place if we are awarded the Super Bowl in 2012 now can it? (Indybravesfan)
You realize they've played the Super Bowl in Detroit too -right? Not sure I would leave that in your closing argument counselor.
December 1st, 2009
2:57 pm
Cant be that bad of a place if we are awarded the Super Bowl in 2012 now can it?
Yeah, but Jacksonville had the Super Bowl in 2005, and it's a poor man's Cleveland
December 1st, 2009
3:00 pm
If you had to guess…..out of laroche soriano and gonzo, who's coming back?
December 1st, 2009
3:00 pm
i also live in Indy and it is a very nice place to live 9 months of the year, the other 3 I can do without. the sun is actually out today which is a shock this time of year.
why are they having the winter meetings in Indy when they do not even have a team??
December 1st, 2009
3:00 pm
DOB: Do you expect Kimbrel to be in the pen out of Spring Training? The OF and 1B have been talked about ad nauseum but other than the Billy Wagner rumor there hasn't been much on the pen.
If Roger McDowell thinks he can contribute early that could potentially fill a big need for us.
December 1st, 2009
3:02 pm
Bout damn time you devoted the pictorial selection of your blog to me.
Gonzo, Wren, Andruw and closing it out with a Hank song. I haven't even read this one yet and I already like it.
December 1st, 2009
3:02 pm
Out of LaRoche, Soriano and Gonzalez, I only see Adam as the lone probable come back. I think Soriano and Gonzalez will get more money and years elsewhere. While I think Adam may stay just to play one more year with Bobby and Chipper, his good friend.
December 1st, 2009
3:02 pm
Will LaRoche take the arbitration offer?
December 1st, 2009
3:03 pm
Poor Tiger Woods getting charges pressed against him – DOB steals his Dad's BBQ and gets away with it. Is there no justice?
December 1st, 2009
3:06 pm
O.J. I agree that Adam seems the most likely to return but your reasoning is flawed. I don't think he would pass up a multi year offer just because he is friends with Chipper and he likes Bobby Cox as his manager. We are talking about millions of dollars. He will take the deal. The question is will he have the opportunity?
December 1st, 2009
3:06 pm
Hey DOB, if the Crime Dog were to get into the HOF, would it likely be as a Brave? Seems like it would be…the 1993 pennant race, the 1995 title, and the counting stats of his prime or near-prime (spent as a Brave) would seem to trump the productive seasons he had late in Tampa and early elsewhere.
December 1st, 2009
3:07 pm
Here's my top 50 of the decade, DOB. Tell me what ya think. Also, its only rock/alt-country. Have too hard of a time comparing other stuff.
A.A. Bondy – American Hearts
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead – Source Tags & Codes
Arcade Fire – Funeral
The Avett Brothers – Emotionalism
Beck – Sea Change
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Dead Confederate – Wrecking Ball
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day
Dr. Dog – We All Belong
The Edison Project – Do You Remember Rock and Roll?
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Gomez – Liquid Skin
Gomez – Split the Difference
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House – Menace
The Jayhawks – Rainy Day Music
Jet – Get Born
Joe Purdy – Paris In the Morning
Kasabian – Kasabian
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves
Oasis – Heathen Chemistry
Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
Ocean Colour Scene – North Atlantic Drift
Of Montreal – Satanic Panic In The Attic
Okkervil River – The Stage Names
Old 97's – Satellite Rides
People In Planes – As Far As the Eye Can See
Pure Reason Revolution – The Dark Third
Radiohead – Kid A
Ray LaMontagne – Trouble
Rooney – Rooney
Ryan Adams – Hearbreaker
The Shaun Piazza Band – The Shaun Piazza Band
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Behind the Music
The Strokes – Is This It?
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Travis – The Man Who
The Waxwings – Low To the Ground
The Whigs – Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip
The White Stripes – Elephant
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Wolfmother – Wolfmother
December 1st, 2009
3:07 pm
Phillies are now interested in Smoltz. Based on the teams he's played for/been tied to since leaving the Braves, maybe he liked those Sunday red jerseys more than any of us realized (Red Sox, Cardinals, Phillies).
December 1st, 2009
3:12 pm
Let the Phils have Smoltzie…him , Pedro and Moyer can make a "golden guys" pitching staff that we will smash like Thanksgiving Potatoes!
December 1st, 2009
3:14 pm
Thanks for the blog, DOB. Great read as usual. Looking forward to seeing how this offseason turns out. I would love the athletic outfield of McLouth, Cameron, and Heyward.
Isn't Hart, based on his last two years, just another Frenchy? Seems to me that when we got rid of Frenchy's bat killing the lineup along with adding LaRoche we took off. I'm a huge fan of the salary dump but am hoping Cox won't put Hart out there over and over with crap numbers.
December 1st, 2009
3:14 pm
But I think the people who have concluded — way too quickly — that he's not a Hall of Famer just because his 493 home-run trots don't mean what 493 home-run trots used to mean are missing something
Make that 492 home-run trots and 1 sprint. McGriff hit an inside-the-park home-run in Colorado not long after he came to Atlanta. He actually hit it one night after Deion Sanders hit an inside-the-park homer for the Braves in the same ballpark. Don't know why I remember that, but I do.
December 1st, 2009
3:14 pm
Jose made a very nice step forward about one third of the way through this past season
Proving once again a cardinal rule of evaluating prospects: don't get married to an opinion. OK, and one other one, too: career minor league stats may or may not be indicative.
Kids develop at all kinds of different rates, and you just never know when the light will go on for them. You see a kid in May, he looks absolutely bewildered, and you come away thinking not-much-there. In August, the kid gets a tip, a tweak, or a full-blown revelation even, and breaks through. He's not even the same player, anymore, but all you remember is what you saw. Which, by the way, no longer has context.
But, sure enough, someone will look at the kid's stats prior to his enlightenment and still think not-much-there. And then come here to this forum and explain to us all why the kid needs to be included in a trade for 5.50 ERA reliever, LOL.
December 1st, 2009
3:15 pm
"Phillies are now intersted in John Smoltz" RC
HA, of course they are! You know, it's gratifying to know that other teams admire what I've done for the game of baseball and what all I've accomplished over my illustrious career. My agents phone will continue to be burned up with calls about my services for the 2010 campaign and beyond because they realize the importance of having a future Hall of Fame inductee on their squad. I;m not only a terrific pitcher, but a mentor to the younger kids coming up. I'm the total package.
December 1st, 2009
3:17 pm
Here is my top40
Week of November 30th, 2009
1 1 Lady Gaga
2 4 Jason Derulo
Whatcha Say
3 2 Miley Cyrus
Party in the USA
4 5 Beyonce
Sweet Dreams
5 6 Kelly Clarkson
Already Gone
6 7 Britney Spears
7 3 Jay Sean
8 10 Owl City
9 11 Black Eyed Peas
Meet Me Halfway
10 8 Kings of Leon
Use Somebody
11 9 Taylor Swift
You Belong With Me
12 13 Iyaz
13 12 Jay-Z
Run This Town
14 14 Boys Like Girls
Love Drunk
15 15 Justin Bieber
One Time
16 18 David Guetta
Sexy Chick
17 17 Colbie Caillat
Fallin' For You
18 22 Rihanna
Russian Roulette
19 19 Cascada
Evacuate The Dancefloor
20 16 Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
21 20 Cobra Starship
Good Girls Go Bad
22 23 Pink
23 25 Jesse McCartney
Body Language
24 28 Lady Gaga
Bad Romance
25 21 Mariah Carey
26 24 Keri Hilson
Knock You Down
27 32 Ke$ha
Tik Tok
28 36 Jay-Z
Empire State Of Mind ft. Alicia Keys
29 26 Jordin Sparks
30 27 Katy Perry
Waking Up in Vegas
31 29 The Fray
Never Say Never
32 30 Black Eyed Peas
Boom Boom Pow
33 34 Shinedown
If You Only Knew
34 31 Daughtry
No Surprise
35 33 Pitbull
I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
36 40 Boys Like Girls
Two Is Better Than One
37 35 Pitbull
Hotel Room Service
38 – Shakira
Give It Up To Me (featuring Lil Wayne)
39 – Jordin Sparks
S.O.S. (Let The Music Play)
40 39 Leona Lewis
December 1st, 2009
3:20 pm
Is there any chance the Braves will acquire either SD's Gonzalez or Det's Cabrera? The trade bait I come up with are Freeman & Medlen.
December 1st, 2009
3:22 pm
My guess is Indy is central in geography and inexpensive compared to larger cities. I went to a few Colts games at the Dome when I lived in Cincy and thought the city was nice and clean and the people were very friendly..my buddies used to call it India-no-place saying it was in the middle of nowhere
December 1st, 2009
3:22 pm
To the fella pretending to be John Smoltz,
The "Total Package" was Lex Luger.
December 1st, 2009
3:22 pm
Winter meeting should be in Nashville. Now that's a cool town.
December 1st, 2009
3:24 pm
Nashville is a cool town. im surprised they dont have a baseball team
December 1st, 2009
3:24 pm
Bob, the cabrera hunt is not going to happen. but i could see the braves going after gonzalez if they really wanted to.
December 1st, 2009
3:25 pm
BTW, I seriously doubt John Smoltz signs with Philly…
December 1st, 2009
3:25 pm
Nashville Cats
Play clean as country water
Nashville Cats
Play wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats
Been playin' since they's baby's
Nashville Cats
Get work before they're two
December 1st, 2009
3:26 pm
Is there any chance the Braves will acquire either SD's Gonzalez or Det's Cabrera? The trade bait I come up with are Freeman & Medlen.
December 1st, 2009
3:26 pm
Kevin you are not kidding. 54 degrees currently and 39 tonight. That is a cool town.
December 1st, 2009
3:27 pm
speaking of music, DOB can I recommend to you (if you haven't got it already) The Temper Trap – Conditions. Saw them twice in Glasgow last year and they were easily the best band in 2009 for me. I know their album is out in the US now so check it out (as previous, if you haven't already)
December 1st, 2009
3:28 pm
you list is pretty solid. granted, i feel there are some obvious great albums that dont appear on your list… but that's fine. (Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest, for example)
my only real criticism is Dead Confederate. Really? You like them that much? I think it's cool that a few Augusta boys are kind of making a name for themselves, but yeah… Wrecking Ball didn't impress me…In fact haven't impressed me since they changed their band name from Redbelly.
Just my take, is all.
December 1st, 2009
3:29 pm
Make that 492 home-run trots and 1 sprint. McGriff hit an inside-the-park home-run in Colorado not long after he came to Atlanta.
thats got to help his HOF bid, right?
December 1st, 2009
3:29 pm
What a horrible list that is. Did you get those songs from the MTV site?
December 1st, 2009
3:30 pm
Minaya signed Cora and Coste yesterday. I understand he's working on the letter "D" today.
Only four more days until the letter "H"!!!
December 1st, 2009
3:30 pm
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December 1st, 2009
3:30 pm
Do you see Jo Jo Reyes being given a real shot at making the bullpen as the second LH. In my opinion, Boone Logan walks to many batters. If not Reyes, will Lee Hyde or Jose Ortegano be given a chance to make the team as relievers. Kind of hard to crack the rotation in this system at the moment
December 1st, 2009
3:32 pm
If any of you like The White Stripes, check out their version of Tegan and Sara's "Walking With a Ghost". It's a tasty mid day snack
December 1st, 2009
3:33 pm
DOB – in regards to Garrett, exactly how strong would be the likelihood he'd accept arbitration? I thought he wanted to return to AL anyway (so he could DH) and, at $2.5MM, he's not looking at some huge payday via arb (not that he's getting a payday via FA either).
Also, since arb awards are not guaranteed (at least to my understanding) he's also risking the team cuts him early in ST and is only forced to pay him 1/6 of his salary – and then try and catch on with another team.
I guess, in summation, I do not understand the big risk to offering him arb. As a Type B, it doesn't affect other teams draft picks so it doesn't change his marketability, he wants to return to AL anyway and, worst case, they end up paying him 1/6 of what would be a small arb award (and his risk is that is all he gets if released early in ST and can't catch on with another team).
December 1st, 2009
3:34 pm
318 AVG, and a 318 SLG% and he has 5 extra base hits. Something just doesn't fit.
December 1st, 2009
3:34 pm
Thanks for the Blog update, Dave O. Predict that the Braves will offer arb to all three and all three will sign elsewhere. Would love to have LaRoche for a year and a helf, but he is surely worthy of a three year deal at more money for another team.
It will be interesting to see what curveball Mr. Wren has up his sleeve in order to add the missing pieces to the team. I have a lot of faith in him after the last two seasons. This is my favorite time of the off season next to spring training.
December 1st, 2009
3:35 pm
Duke, just a hunch but I think most of America will agree that my top 40 is pretty awesome! Matter of fact I would bet if you took the most requested songs on the radio today they might be very similar to my picks
December 1st, 2009
3:35 pm
Nice blog DOB. I predict Gonzo and LaRoche to be offered arbitration later this evening. Sign Wagner!
December 1st, 2009
3:36 pm
Braves should trade Medlen, Schafer, Freeman and a couple others to Padres for 1st baseman and closer. Make it a blockbuster!! 3/4 of Wrens work for the winter would be done.
December 1st, 2009
3:36 pm
Minaya signed Cora and Coste yesterday. I understand he's working on the letter "D" today.
Only four more days until the letter "H"!!! – Anders
Does that mean that Bay is no longer an option for NY?
December 1st, 2009
3:36 pm
Nashville is home to the Nashville Sounds, the Brewers AAA affiliate.
December 1st, 2009
3:38 pm
RC- Bay is not on the Mets list imo. Honestly I don't think the H's are either. I was just having some fun.
December 1st, 2009
3:39 pm
I wanted to ask you if the Braves were still high on JOJO Reyes and if he fits into our future plans in the rotation. I have not heard much out of him in a while. Also, wanted to know if Kris Medlan still projects as a starter for the Braves, or the bullpen. Thanks for the new blog.
December 1st, 2009
3:39 pm
DOB if the braves trade lowe and dont have yo pay any salary do you yhink then they may make a push for matt holliday
December 1st, 2009
3:40 pm
We would probably need to insert Julio Tehern in that deal as well. I still think highly of Schafer (I would not trade him) but his stock took a big hit the last two years. Plus, SD would need a legit young proven player in that deal as well. too much for us to give up
I am I the only one who doesn't want Gonzalez
December 1st, 2009
3:41 pm
Rob – I think anybody on the 40 man roster has a chance at making the opening day roster. I assume they all have spring training roles with the big league club and play themselves into or out of the last couple of slots in the pen/bench. With injuries and all, many of them will contribute to the team at some point in 2010.
December 1st, 2009
3:41 pm
Hey anders
That is one scary looking Mets bench
Chris Coste and Alex Cora.
December 1st, 2009
3:41 pm
I'm ready & willing! Make me an offer!
December 1st, 2009
3:42 pm
Reyes was never given a chance to come out of the bullpen in spring training. I believe he is out of options so he needs to make the team or be DFA/traded
December 1st, 2009
3:43 pm
December 1st, 2009
3:41 pm
I'm ready & willing! Make me an offer!
RETIRE or sign with the Mets
December 1st, 2009
3:43 pm
What do you think about a Lowe for Mike Lowell trade. Gives us a first baseman for a year for 12 mil and I know that is high….but you get Lowe off the books and is a good stop gap until Freeman is ready.
December 1st, 2009
3:43 pm
I'm sorry but I don't agree with some of the music taste on this blog. I was never into the alt-underground scene but that's why there is so much different music. I can't stand when some people call out music because it's all in what you like as a person, and a matter of one's own opinion. But seeing as many are probably from Atlanta one of the most under-rated hard rock bands are from there. SEVENDUST is a great rock band, just ask Peter Moylan.
December 1st, 2009
3:45 pm
Concerning Indianapolis:
Very nice downtown. Rough outerlimits. Nice suburbs.
December 1st, 2009
3:45 pm
Concerning Indianapolis:
Very nice downtown. Rough outerlimits. Nice suburbs.
December 1st, 2009
3:47 pm
Player BA R HR RBI
Keith Hernandez (1976-88) .301 79.0 11.3 75.0
Brooks Robinson (1958-75) .270 58.5 12.8 65.0
These are the per 500 game comparable offensive stats for BA,Runs,HR's and RBI. How does Brooks Robinson get in the HOF and Hernandez doesn't even get a sniff? Both were incredible defensive players who also won some individual hardware and were on winning teams that they were integral parts of.
These numbers were published by Marty Noble who feels Hernandez should be in. I tend to agree if Brooks Robinson is in.
As none other than Don Sutton said:
- a player should have been the best or among the elite in his particular area of expertise for an extended period.
Certainly Hernandez passes that litmus test. OK off the soap box I go.
December 1st, 2009
3:48 pm
What do you think about Medlen, Schafer, Freeman and a couple others to Padres for Gonzo and Bell. Maybe the best 1b powerhitter in the big's. Bell pretty good closer.
December 1st, 2009
3:49 pm
Rob in pain – I pine for the days when I can worry about my bench strength again! Bigger fish to fry – know what I mean?
December 1st, 2009
3:51 pm
All kidding aside, Cora is a solid guy to have on the bench. Versatile infielder and he's like having another coach on the club. It's pretty widely felt he'll be a manager some day if he chooses to pursue that route – which seems likely.
December 1st, 2009
3:51 pm
Is A. Gonzalez even still being considered or is he still more of a wish?
December 1st, 2009
3:53 pm
That doesn't mean they are good music. Just because American teenagers vote for them should not classify them as good music and half of those shouldn't be classified as music at all.
December 1st, 2009
3:53 pm
dp: No, I don't think Braves would get in the Holliday bidding war.
Well, geez, how much can he ask for, LOL? From what I read, he isn't going to get Teixeira years and dollars. I mean, the Braves were willing to spend $15MM on a starting pitcher last year, so how does $18-20MM for an everyday player break the bank?
Not that I'm sold on Holliday as savior, but, bloggers here sometimes sound as if the Braves can't afford to wash the unis twice a week, LOL.
December 1st, 2009
3:54 pm
I hate to see Gonzo leave. He had one of the best attitudes on the team. He seemed to really enjoy the push towards the playoffs and gave us his all every night. I will miss him more than Sori, Loaf, Church, KJ,and even Roachie
December 1st, 2009
3:54 pm
I'd love to see the Braves go after M-Cab or Adrian Gonzalez, but alas I just don't feel it's in the cards.
December 1st, 2009
3:54 pm
The Whigs are playing Friday night at the Variety Playhouse fwiw FJR. Should be a fun show
December 1st, 2009
3:55 pm
Hillbilly: Good note about McGriff. But I wonder, was that his only inside-the-park homer?
DOB, yes it was…according to his home-run log at baseball-reference.
December 1st, 2009
3:55 pm
I would come close to breaking the bank for A. Gonzalez. If it doesn't work out this year you could get quite a bit for him next year if you must trade him!
December 1st, 2009
3:56 pm
During the season I thought Soriano would probably be the harder of the two relievers to keep but the way things look this offseason it might be Gonzo. I assumed he would be the hardest to keep just because he was flat out dominate for most of the season although he did have his struggles in part of the second half. I would be happy with keeping either one. It's pretty much a no brainer that both aren't coming back. Only thing with losing Gonzo though is I viewed him as our best lefty in the pen. EOF had a good year but i'm not sure I want him to be the go to guy when we have to face some of the best lefty hitters in the game like Howard. Haven't really payed that much attention to which relievers are available outside of the closers. I wouldn't mind us getting Wagner if we lose both.
December 1st, 2009
3:56 pm
I sure hope the Braves aren't pursuing A Gonzalez. It would take a lot of talent to get him and it would be a repeat of the Texiera situation. Then after A. Gonzalez leaves when his contract is up and all the talent the Braves traded to get him are flourishing in the league, we'll hear everyone whine and complain and saying, "What was Wren thinking!?!?!"
December 1st, 2009
3:57 pm
I don't know if I would say that Hernandez was among the best all-around at 1b for more than a handful of years. Robinson won 16 straight gold gloves at a more important position and is generally considered the greatest defensive 3b in the history of the game. Now the one that I don't get is Ron Santo…A better hitter than Robinson by far and still managed to win 5 GG's while competing against the likes of Ken and Clete Boyer…Santo should be in…Hernandez was an outstanding player and was great in that Seinfeld episode, not so much in the hair coloring commercial…But I think there is a long list of 1B that I would consider before him…
December 1st, 2009
3:58 pm
Thanks for the new Blog, Chief!
But the slender lefty is one to keep an eye on for the future, folks.
He is kinda cute…
BTW–Happy Anniversary to everyone's favorite catcher and his wife!
December 1st, 2009
3:58 pm
why are they having the winter meetings in Indy when they do not even have a team??
That's probably why they're having it in Indy. I hate it when my annual conference is in the same city in which I live – I miss out on the free quasi-vacation.
But we do have some other stuff that'll make Twitter worthwhile…
I just figured out how to subscribe to your feed using Google Reader (which is how I follow this blog). It looks like it's not that bad after all
December 1st, 2009
3:59 pm
I can't stand when some people call out music because it's all in what you like as a person, and a matter of one's own opinion.
Yup, agreed.
December 1st, 2009
4:00 pm
If an extension can't be made with A. Gonzalez before acquiring him then its not worth breaking the bank.
December 1st, 2009
4:01 pm
[...] Stark says McGriff belongs in Cooperstown.. "Fred McGriff's greatest years came BEFORE the numbers exploded on us in 1993. This man [...]
December 1st, 2009
4:01 pm
Boom Boom Pow!
December 1st, 2009
4:03 pm
ND Brave, as cool as getting Adrian Gonzalez would be I'm kind of hoping they go easy with just some signings like Cameron & possibly a trade for Coner Jackson who could play 1st for a year. Gonzalez would be awesome, no doubt, but I don't trust that he would sign an extension & the fact that they'd want a boat load of our talent for what could be two years of him wouldn't be worth it in the long run.


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Art of the Upper Paleolithic
The art of the Upper Paleolithic is amongst the oldest art known (sometimes called prehistoric art). Older possible examples include the incised ochre from Blombos Cave. Upper Paleolithic art originated in the Aurignacian of Europe and the Levant some 40,000 years ago, and continued to the Mesolithic (at the beginnings of the Holocene) about 12,000 years ago. As this corresponds to the final phase of the last glacial period, Upper Paleolithic art is also known as "Ice Age art".
As a notable aspect of what some call the "Upper Paleolithic Revolution",[1][2] and evidence for behavioral modernity, the appearance of art in part helps us define the Upper Paleolithic itself. Indeed, art helps define what makes us human - it is part of what we are or can be (e.g. Steven Mithen, and The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-Williams). Paleolithic art includes cave painting, jewelry,[3] drawing, carving, engraving and sculpture in: clay, bone, antler, stone and ivory, such as the so-called Venus figurines, and musical instruments such as flutes.
Decoration can also occur on functional tools, such as spear throwers, perforated batons and lamps.
Common subject matters include the animals that were hunted (e.g. reindeer, horses, bison, birds and mammoth) and animals that were not (e.g. lions, other big cats, bears and the woolly rhinoceros); the human form was often expressed - especially female shapes (they often look either: young, old, or pregnant). Men are also depicted, such as the so-called 'Pin Hole man'.
Europe and the Levant (Ice Age Art)[edit]
The vast majority of Ice Age art will not have survived; apart from work in wood, leather and other very perishable materials, the antler and bone which are very commonly used would normally decay if not buried in dry caves and shelters. There is evidence for some craft specialization, and the transport over considerable distances of materials such as stone and, above all marine shells, much used for jewellery and probably decorating clothes, which have been found from Mediterranean species at Gönnersdorf, over 1,000 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast. The higher sea levels today mean that the level and nature of coastal settlements in the Upper Paleolithic remain largely mysterious.[4]
Engravings on flat pieces of stones are found in considerable numbers (up to 5,000 at one Spanish site) at sites with the appropriate geology, with the marks sometimes so shallow and faint that the technique involved is closer to drawing – many of these were not spotted by the earliest excavators, and found by later teams in spoil heaps. Painted plaques are less common. It is possible that they were used in rituals, or alternatively heated on a fire and wrapped as personal warmers. Either type of use may account for the many broken examples, often with the fragments dispersed over some distance (up to 30 metres apart at Gönnersdorf). Many sites have large quantities of flat stones apparently used as flooring, with only a minority decorated.[5]
Ice Age art can be naturalistic and figurative - it can also be geometric and non-representational. Some of the oldest works of art were found in the Schwäbische Alb, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The so-called Venus figurine known as the Venus of Hohle Fels, dates to some 40,000 years ago.[6] Other fine examples of art from the Upper Palaeolithic (broadly 40,000 to 10,000 years ago) includes: cave painting (such as at Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira, Cosquer, and Pech Merle), incised / engraved cave art such as at Creswell Crags,[7] portable art (such as animal carvings and sculptures like the Venus of Willendorf), and open air art (such as Côa Valley and Mazouco in Portugal, Domingo García and Siega Verde, in Spain, and Fornols-Haut in France). There are a large number of carved or engraved pieces of bone and ivory, such as the Swimming Reindeer found in France from the Magdalenian period. These include spear throwers, including one shaped like a mammoth, and many of the type of objects called a bâton de commandement. One of the most famous pieces of portable art from Britain is the Robin Hood Cave Horse from Derbyshire. Other examples include the Kendrick's Cave Decorated Horse Jaw.
Many of the finest examples were featured in the Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind exhibition at the British Museum in 2013 (7 February - 26 May 2013).
East Asia[edit]
A cave at Turobong in South Korea containing human remains has been found to contain carved deer bones and depictions of deer that may be as much as 40,000 years old.[8] Petroglyphs of deer or reindeer found at Sokchang-ri may also date to the Upper Paleolithic. Potsherds in a style reminiscent of early Japanese work have been found at Kosan-ri on Jeju island, which, due to lower sea levels at the time, would have been accessible from Japan.[9]
The oldest African petroglyphs are dated to approximately the Mesolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Zimbabwe's oldest art finds date to at least 10,000 years (dated to sediment layers containing painted rock fragments).[10]
The earliest undisputed African rock art dates back about 10,000 years, apparently originating in the Nile River valley and spread as far west as Mali.
From the Apollo 11 Cave complex in Namibia, seven stone plaquettes painted with figures of animals painted have been recovered from a horizon dated to between 22,500 and 27,500 years ago.[10][11]
The Blombos cave in South Africa yielded hatched patterns incised on pieces of ochre dated to as early as 70,000 years ago, which has been classified as "art" in some publications.[12]
The Bradshaws are a unique form of rock art found in Western Australia. They are predominantly human figures drawn in fine detail with accurate anatomical proportioning. They have been dated at over 17,000 years old.[citation needed]
Peru, including an area of the central Andes stretching from Ecuador to northern Chile, shows evidence of human habitation dating to roughly 10,000 BCE.[13] Early art from the area includes rock paintings that date as far back as 9500 BCE in the Toquepala Caves.[14] Burial sites in Peru like one at Telarmachay as old as 8600-7200 BCE contained evidence of ritual burial, with red ocher and bead necklaces.[15]
See also[edit]
- ^ http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085416
- ^ "Mind: What archaeology can tell us about the origins of human cognition". Vub.ac.be. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Marian Vanhaeren, Francesco d'Errico, Grave goods from the Saint-Germain-la-Rivière burial: Evidence for social inequality in the Upper Palaeolithic, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 24, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 117-134,http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416505000103 .
- ^ Bahn and Vertut, 88
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- ^ Portal, p. 25
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- ^ "Apollo 11 Cave" in: Cave"] in: I. Shaw, R. Jameson (eds.), A dictionary of archaeology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, ISBN 978-0-631-23583-5.
- ^ "'Oldest' prehistoric art unearthed". BBC News. 10 January 2002. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
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- Bahn, Paul G. and Vertut, Jean, Journey Through the Ice Age, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 0520213068, 9780520213067, google books
- Chase, Philip G (2005). The Emergence of Culture: The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life. Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-0-387-30512-7.
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Further reading[edit]
- Cook, Jill (2013). Ice Age art: the arrival of the modern mind. The British Museum Press. ISBN 978 0 7141 2333 2.


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Members of the Ballardsville Fire Department are planning routine fire hydrant maintenance throughout the district beginning next month.
Anyone who has questions or concerns is asked to call BFD between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 222-1953.
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Nathan Stumler, a South Oldham High School graduate, was named to the St. Catharine College dean's list for the spring semester.
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A local writer and historian who has worked with the Oldham County History Center will be featured on an upcoming TV program.
At 5:30 a.m. Monday and 2 p.m. June 25, Dr. E. Bruce Heilman, chancellor of the University of Richmond, member of the Campbellsville University Board of Trustees and CU alumnus will appear on a show on the Kentucky Educational Television channel – the university's "Dialogue on Public Issues" TV show, hosted by John Chowning.
Baptist Hospital Northeast hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its Baptist Crestwood facility on June 10.
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