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NEW HAVEN, Conn. —Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player— too good, it turns out. The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said. Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho’s team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered...

This weeks Sci-Fi Thread: Mon: 9/8 - New Amsterdam Tues: 10/9 - Jericho - CBS -- Series Finale ????? Thurs: 9/8 - Lost - ABC Fri: 10/9 - Battlestar Galactica: Revealed - SciFi Channel 10:30/9:30 - Battlestar Galactica: Phenomenon Sat: 9/8 - Torchwood -- BBC America

National upheaval caused by a nuclear assault? Easy. Nielsen ratings? Hard. Despite efforts from zealous fans to keep Jericho alive — including the now-famous peanut incident — Tuesday's episode will be its last. "The March 25 episode... will be the series finale," CBS entertainment boss Nina Tassler says in a statement. "Without question, there are passionate viewers watching this program; we simply wish there were more. We thank an engaged and spirited fan base for keeping the show alive this long, and an outstanding team of producers, cast and crew that went through creative hoops to deliver a compelling, high-quality...

The ratings for “Jericho,” the CBS drama imagining life after a series of nuclear attacks, appear to have stabilized. Unfortunately for the show’s fans, the viewership is stabilizing at a lower number than CBS would like. Tuesday’s episode drew an average of 5.87 million viewers, its lowest rating to date, but only slightly below last week’s 5.88 million. In the 25- to 54-year-old demographic prized by CBS, the program averaged a 1.9 rating, up slightly from a 1.8 rating last week. The numbers are significantly below the 9.5 million viewers whom “Jericho” attracted last season ­ and even those ratings...

CBS, 10 p.m. Eastern, Season 2, the nuttily anticipated season begins.

A quick note to our readers. With the anniversary of September 11 right around the corner, bin Laden releasing a video, and the CIA warning of attacks here in the U.S. I thought I should inform readers of the "American Hiroshima Project." This "project" is a nuclear attack planned for several major U.S. cities. The investigative journalist Paul Williams wrote a book called "The Day Of Islam" covering the subject. Do a search of the title and see what you get for results. It is not a pretty picture. I pray to The One True God, Jehova, that this plot...

As the Internet continues to make significant strides in gaining respectability among mainstream media, more and more attention has been focused on the true power of the World Wide Web. Some of that power was felt just a couple weeks ago when Web-savvy viewers of the CBS series "Jericho" convinced the network they were not paying enough attention to how the show was being distributed through non-traditional means -- you know, the Internet -- and in the end, had vastly miscalculated the audience for the show. On top of that, the campaign to organize the "Save Jericho" campaign came almost...

Recently, FBI Director Robert Mueller, in an interview with NewsMax, confirmed Williams' main claim. Mueller said al-Qaida's paramount goal is clear: to detonate a nuclear device that would kill hundreds of thousands of Americans. Mueller told NewsMax that at times, the threat feels so real he lies awake at night thinking about the prospect. Williams maintains that al-Qaida is not content on blowing up one nuclear device or even simply a "dirty" nuke — but wants to explode real nuclear devices in seven U.S. cities simultaneously.

LOS ANGELES — "Jericho" fans who slammed CBS with protests over the drama's cancellation have won the battle: It will return next season, the network said Wednesday. It was an unusual display of viewer might since networks usually put ratings ahead of even the most passionate, well-organized fan base. But CBS said the show deserved another chance, while cautioning that it must prove it has wider appeal. "Wow! Over the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably unprecedented display of passion in support of a prime time television series," CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said in...

'Jericho' fans assail CBS with 25 tons of peanuts CNNThis undated CBS photo shows cast members of "Jericho," the cancellation of which sparked a deluge of complaints and peanuts at the network's offices. POSTED: 10:18 a.m. EDT, June 6, 2007 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Fans trumpeting the cause of CBS' canceled drama "Jericho" have caught the network's ear. CBS, deluged with calls, messages and shipments of nuts signifying viewer displeasure, is reconsidering its decision, a source close to the production said Tuesday. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. A decision...

After being bombarded with hundreds of pounds of nuts, CBS is close to giving "Jericho" fans a second season of the apocalyptic drama. Sources close to the production said the network is near a deal with "Jericho's" producers to bring the show back for midseason. Passionate fans have mailed boxes of peanuts to CBS ever since it was announced that "Jericho" wouldn't be picked up for a second season. The nuts are a reference to the show's cliffhanger season finale, which included a reference to the Battle of Bastogne during World War II. During the battle, surrounded and outnumbered Allied...

"After presenting 'Jericho' fans with a cliffhanging season finale, CBS promptly cancelled the program. The shocked fans quickly banded together, many using CBS' own public "Jericho" discussion forum, and began brainstorming on ways to convince the network to bring back the show for a second season. A plot point in the final episode of "Jericho" involving the expletive "Nuts!" (in reference to an historic conversation between generals) was turned into a campaign to send large quantities of nuts to CBS' NY, LA, and affiliate offices. Fans have sent a total of $26,000 for a pooled campaign hosted at Nuts Online...

This weeks Sci-Fi thread: Mon: 8/7 Heros -- NBC Wed: 8/7 Jericho -- CBS Fri: 8/7 Stargate Sg1 -- SciFi 9/8 Stargate Atlantis -- SciFi 10/9 Painkiller Jane -- SciFi

Unrecognized: The World’s Oldest Monument 27/04/2007 By Osama al Eissa Jerusalem, Asharq Al-Awsat- Approximately two kilometers away from Jericho’s city center lies Tel es-Sultan (Sultan’s Hill), the oval-shaped mound that the oasis of Jericho, the oldest city in the world, is famous for. The world’s earliest settlement was located at Tel es-Sultan, which stands in the form of several layers of habitation that make up today’s mound. And yet despite its importance and its ability to attract the world’s greatest researchers, it is not included on the World Heritage List, which is precisely what the Palestinian Authority’s Department of Antiquities...

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/22/07) Mon: 8/7 Heroes --> NBC Wed: 8/7 Jericho --> CBS Fri: 8/7 Stargate Sg1 --> Sci-Fi 9/8 Stargate Atlantis --> Sci-Fi 10/9 Painkiller Jane --> Sci-Fi

Things are quiet and peaceful in small-town Jericho, Kansas, but when a baffling explosion occurs in the distance, Jericho's residents are plunged into social, psychological and physical chaos. No one knows what to think, and fear of the unknown takes over the town, especially because its isolation cuts it off from outside help. When nearly everything they know seems gone, will the residents of JERICHO band together to face their unfamiliar and mysterious new world?

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Okay...I know none of you would want to watch See-BS because of their traitorous, lying 'news' division. However, I was surfing around last night and found out about a show on their Fall lineup, "Jericho". The premise focuses around the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas. It's a typical small town in mid-America. The opening introduces us to some of the main characters, no biggie. Then , the big twist comes in: A nuclear mushroom cloud is sighted on the horizon in the direction of Denver. Power, lights, phone, TV, radio from the outside...all go dead. Later, it's found out that...

Israeli justice and security officials agreed at a meeting Thursday night that six Palestinians grabbed in an Israeli raid on a West Bank prison should be tried by a civilian court in Israel rather than by the military tribunals often used to prosecute alleged Palestinian militants. Israel has said five of the men seized in Tuesday's raid in the town of Jericho, including Ahmed Saadat, the head of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, were involved in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, The sixth is the suspected financier of an illegal weapons shipment...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006Jericho and Justice / Kidnapping and Chaos Let's put this widely reported story in context: On 17 October 2001 members of the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) gunned down Israeli Tourism Minister Rehevam Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel. Five Palestinian terrorists were eventually charged in the murder. In April, 2002 Israel was besieging the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his Muqata compound in Ramallah after still more terrorist attacks the previous month. The United States brokered an agreement between Arafat and the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to end the siege. The IDF...

Mofaz defends raid to capture minister's assassins Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that no responsible government would allow assassins of a government minister to go free. He said it should have been clear to the Palestinian Authority that the killers of Rahavam Zeevi would not evade the long arm of Israel. The Jericho jail was summer camp and not a real prison, Mofaz told Kol Israel. He denied any connection between the raid in Jericho and the upcoming elections nor, he said, was there coordination with the British or Americans regarding planning when their monitors were leaving the prison site....

Mar. 15, 2006 3:08 | Updated Mar. 15, 2006 18:01 Olmert: Israel will try 'Jericho Six' By HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that the six Palestinians arrested by the IDF in its Tuesday raid on a Jericho prison will be charged and tried by Israel. Five of the prisoners, including Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestinian head Ahmed Sa'adat, were found guilty in a Palestinian court of the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, and the sixth, Fuad Shubaki, was found guilty of smuggling weapons into the territories via the Karine...

'We call upon all American and British citizens to leave Palestinian territories immediately, otherwise they will be subject to kidnapping and other consequences," said Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the Aksa Martyrs Brigade. This laconic statement is an apt summary of the state of play in the global jihad against the West, four and a half years after 9/11. Following the recent "cartoon jihad," the latest excuse for Islamist violence and mayhem began yesterday, when the British government, on behalf of itself and the US, announced that monitors deployed by both nations in a Palestinian Authority prison to ensure that...

The Israel Police raised the public alert level to level three, one level before declaring a state of emergency following Tuesday's successful raid on the Jericho prison where top Palestinian terrorists were held. A tense 10-hour siege of the Palestinian Authority prison ended Tuesday night when Ahmed Saadat, the mastermind behind the 2001 assassination of tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, walked out and surrendered to troops who were poised to burst in and seize him. Security forces, led by the police's elite counterterror unit, also apprehended four others involved in Ze'evi's murder, along with Fuad Shubaki, the Karine A weapons ship...

This is an excellent book that is both a detailed military history and a historical apologetics book. The authors' foundational point is that the military campaigns of the OT are so detailed that they couldn't have been fabricated and are not fables like some skeptics and liberal scholars would like us to believe. The authors do an incredible job at drawing out details from the English and Hebrew texts. This coupled with their own knowledge and experience in warfare, they paint a detailed picture of the Israeli campaigns. They also make many comparisons to later battles, leaders and campaigns in...

Three weeks ago, Israeli police found a mosaic floor in an Arab car. The Antiquities Authority has confirmed that the floor be belongs to a previously undiscovered synagogue in the Ramallah area. Researchers from the Israeli Antiquities Authority believe that the mosaic formed part of an ancient synagogue floor because it contained depictions of Jewish symbols, such as the base of a menorah (a seven branched candelabrum), a lulav (palm branch), and dates. Another, no less interesting feature of the mosaic, are the words “Shalom (peace) on Israel” which are inscribed on it. At first, researchers thought the thieves had...

For the first time in four and a half years, a group of Jews was allowed to visit and pray in the ancient Shalom al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho Tuesday. In addition to three army jeeps of religious IDF soldiers and rabbis, three Israeli citizens were permitted to visit the synagogue: Jordan Valley Regional Chairman Dubi Tal, Jewish Jericho activist and Ofrah resident Orna Kobos, and Gershon Goldshlik, a resident of the community of Mevo’ot Yericho, a small community on the northern outskirts of Jericho. Goldshlik spoke with Arutz-7’s Ezra HaLevi about the visit. “We arrived at the synagogue at...

Israel handed over to the Palestinian Authority limited security control of Jericho but continued to control the northern and southern approaches into the West Bank oasis town. After weeks of stalemate, soldiers dismantled the Ein ad-Duyuk checkpoint on the main road west to Ramallah -- the seat of the PA -- allowing free movement between the two cities.

As the IDF considers withdrawing from Jericho, Jews from the region and former students of the Jericho yeshiva want Jewish religious rights at ancient sites in the Biblical city to be restored. “If they insist on giving away Jericho to the PA yet again and want to see some level of sincerity exhibited by them,” says says David HaLevi, who lives in Mevo’ot Yericho, on the outskirts of Jericho, "can’t they at least restore Jewish rights to access our holy sites?" The right to a Jewish presence at Jericho’s synagogues was enshrined since the Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue was discovered...

JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians were locked in a dispute Tuesday over a withdrawal from the West Bank town of Jericho, with the Israeli military balking at Palestinian demands that it remove all checkpoints in the area and also pull troops out of an adjacent village. The negotiations were shrouded in confusion after Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat initially said agreement had been reached. However, Erekat later said that while Israel has accepted the idea of withdrawing from areas, rather than just cities, it had not approved specific demands regarding Jericho. The eventual agreement on Jericho could set an...

Israel Defense Forces troops on jeeps and a tank raided the West Bank city of Jericho early Sunday for the first time in months, and surrounded a house suspected to hold several Fatah activists. An armed Fatah activist was seriously wounded in an exchange of fire with IDF troops. He tried to escape, but was caught and sent to an Israeli hospital, Israel Radio reported. Troops also forced residents to remain confined to their homes at the start of the four-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said troops had entered the town for...

"My own terrorists have defeated me." Such, apparently, is Yasser Arafat's wry feeling today, after his proposal to fall in line with Israel's position and gather 17 PA terrorists in Jericho was overruled - by the terrorists. Arafat was hoping, based on Israeli hints, that if he would take the wanted terrorists from their place of refuge in his Mukata compound in Ramallah and send them to be supervised in Jericho - in return, Israel would remove its siege from his compound and allow him freedom of movement. Arafat invited them to his office over the weekend where he told...

Israel will consider a Palestinian demand that fugitives in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin be allowed to move to Jericho in exchange for an Israeli guarantee that they will not be arrested if they adhere to the cease-fire, Israeli security officials said Thursday, following the Wednesday night meeting between Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and PA Minister of Security Muhammad Dahlan at Neveh Ilan. "The Palestinians have raised the demand in various meetings at different levels in the past, it was not rejected outright on Wednesday, it is being studied," an official said. According to media reports, two...

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada author Clive Douglas Campbell and Phoenix, Arizona, USA publisher Selah Publishing Group are pleased to announce the release of Messiah: 2030. Nobody knows the day and hour of the Second Coming, but the following years are on the front cover: Messiah: 2030 Cluny: 1030 Jesus: 30 David: 970 Abraham: 1970 Noah: 2970 Adam: 3970 Messiah: 2030 claims the Bible prophesies a sixth Arab-Israeli war will be over in 2003 and include the following: --the Palestinians will be deported to Jordan --Israel will go to war with Jordan, possess Jordanian land east of the Jordan River and King...