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Why this show has sizzle
The last audition episode, on February 10, drew 1.6 million viewers nationally, peaking at 2.2 million. To put it in perspective, last year's star-studded Australian Idol finale at the Sydney Opera House, with thousands of screaming fans and a surprise appearance by Lionel Ritchie, had 1.4 million viewers. Last year's Big Brother finale had 2.3 million, and Seven's Dancing with the Stars had a disappointing 1.6 million viewers for its 2007 finale, the lowest in its seven-season history. The first-performance episode of SYTYCDA, on Sunday, lured 1.5 million. "We loved the show and we had hoped that it would be very successful and once we started seeing some pictures coming back from the auditions we were quietly confident that it would be OK, but you can never tell," says Ten's head of programming, Beverley McGarvey.
Talking cents into voters: Muscatine County educators hope they can ...
MUSCATINE, Iowa — A penny lying on the sidewalk is a common sight, as if the single cent is no longer worth the effort it would take to pick it up. But educators and administrators throughout Muscatine County have learned how far a penny can go over the past eight years. A drive past any of the county’s four school districts provides examples of the way pennies have become million-dollar projects in Muscatine County. n West Liberty has a new high schooln Wilton High School students are performing in a new auditoriumn Muscatine students attend a vastly improved high schooln Students at Louisa-Muscatine Junior Senior High School have a new Iowa Com-munications Network room, a weight room, wrestling room and four air-conditioned classrooms.School districts throughout the county have also undergone a number of projects that make schools safer, more comfortable, energy efficient and attractive.And every one of these projects began with a penny.That’s because in 1999, the residents of Muscatine County voted to give an extra penny in tax for the purchases they and other shoppers would make in the county from 2000-2010.Local option sales tax is imposed on sales and services except for food, prescription drugs, motor fuel, automobiles, farm equipment and rentals subject to an existing hotel/motel tax.The tax is given to the county and divided among the area school districts in proportion to their student population to use for school district building needs and improvements.Time to start anewThe resident-approved tax, or School Infrastructure Local Option sales and service tax, also called SILO, is nearing the end of that 10-year period, and educators are hoping the public will vote to renew it.
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The last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is under construction in ...
Bush looks more like the base of a large building than the bottom of a sleek warship. It’s a sight not many people see — not even most of the thousands of workers who have labored on the ship during the past six years in advance of the Oct. 7 christening. Based on unprecedented access to the shipyard for the past six months, this special section takes the rest of us under, over, inside and out, to tell the story of the 10th and last Nimitz-class carrier — and some of the workers building it. .
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