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Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts at Meijer Gardens
Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts at Meijer Gardens
June 1 – September 1, 2015
The annual Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts at Meijer Gardens continues to bring the finest national and international musicians to West Michigan, thrilling music lovers across all genres and all generations. The Summer Concert Series runs from June through September and features beautiful terraced lawn seating and food, beverage and merchandise concessions—surrounded by spectacular views of gardens and sculpture. Major artists such as Harry Connick Jr., Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett and many others enjoy playing in this intimate summer venue. Dates and lineup for the 2015 Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts will be announced in mid-April, 2015. Stay tuned!
2015 Schedule
|Mon, Aug 3
|An Evening With Diana Krall
|Fri, Jul 31
|The Beach Boys & The Temptations
|Sun, Jun 21
|Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
An Evening With Diana Krall
- Monday, August 3, 2015
- 7:30 pm (6:30 pm gates open)
- Presale: $
- Public: $
The members-only presale begins on April 25 at 9 am.
The public sale begins May 9 at 9 am.
By any standard this five-time Grammy winning jazz pianist and vocalist is one of the most accomplished and distinctive musicians in the world today.
The Beach Boys & The Temptations
- Friday, July 31, 2015
- 6:30 pm (5:30 pm gates open)
- Presale: $
- Public: $
The members-only presale begins on April 25 at 9 am.
The public sale begins May 9 at 9 am.
Debuting more than 50 years ago, The Beach Boys are one of the most iconic American rock 'n roll bands of all time. The Temptations have propelled popular music with a series of smash hits and sold-out performances throughout the world.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Sunday, June 21, 2015
- 7:00 pm (6:00 pm gates open)
- Presale: $
- Public: $
The members-only presale begins on April 25 at 9 am.
The public sale begins May 9 at 9 am.
New Orleans native Trombone Shorty began his career as a bandleader at the young age of six, toured internationally at age 12, and spent his teens playing with various brass bands throughout New Orleans and touring worldwide with Lenny Kravitz.
Dates and lineup for the 2015 Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts will be announced in mid-April, 2015.
Member Presale
The Member Presale will begin on Saturday, April 25, 2015 and close Friday, May 8, 2015 at midnight - sales will resume for members and the public at 9 am on May 9, 2015. The easiest and quickest method to purchase tickets is online at StarTickets.com.
Currently, we allow all membership levels to purchase tickets to multiple shows without a set limit, but please note, we do monitor for signs of resale if large quantities of tickets are purchased per show.
Ticket sales begin May 9, 2015 at 9 am.
Where to Purchase Tickets
- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park - Purchase tickets on-site at Meijer Gardens during hours of operation. No service fees apply.
- Star Tickets - Purchase tickets at any Star Tickets outlet, by phone (1-800-585-3737) or StarTickets.com. Per-ticket and per-order fees apply.
Children two and younger are admitted to concerts free. See concert schedule above for ticket pricing.
Visit Meijer Gardens' venue page on Star Tickets for the most up-to-date information on concert sell-outs.
Insider's Guide to Buying Tickets
To help members and guests prepare for buying tickets and getting the best entertainment value possible, we have created an Insider's Guide to help make every concert experience easy and hassle-free.
- 1. May I bring in my own food and/or will food be available for purchase?
- 2. What kind of beverages can I bring into the Amphitheater?
- 3. May I bring in my own alcohol?
- 4. Can coolers be brought into the Amphitheater?
- 5. Are seats reserved? How do I find a seat?
- 6. What is the chair height policy?
- 7. What if I can't sit in a low-back chair—are there chair rentals available?
- 8. What is the Sponsored Seating area?
- 9. What happens if it rains or a threat of severe weather?
- 10. Are cameras allowed?
- 11. Is the Amphitheater accessible? Where is the barrier-free section?
- 12. What time can I start lining up at the gates?
- 13. What time do gates open?
- 14. Can you tell me about the Tuesday Evening Music Club concerts?
- 15. I have a specific question you haven't answered. Who can I talk to?
Feel free to bring in a picnic basket with food from home to enjoy during a concert – anything from cheese and crackers to fast food is allowed. Keep in mind that glass containers are prohibited inside the Amphitheater (example: salsa in a glass container or Pyrex Tupperware).
We have a variety of affordable and delicious food options at our Concession Stand to the right of the gates. From hotdogs to deli sandwiches and popsicles, there's something to satisfy any appetite during the show.
Picnic baskets, bags and purses may be subject to security searches.
Guests may bring in factory-sealed, non-glass beverages during concerts. Examples include soda cans, unopened water bottles and other unopened beverage containers.
Reuseable waterbottles or opened beverages will be poured out before entering the Amphitheater. Wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages are available at our Concessions.
Alcohol may not be brought on the premises. Our liquor license permits the sale of beer and wine at concerts, but does not allow any outside alcohol to be brought onto the property. All alcoholic beverages will be confiscated if found on site.
Alcohol may not be brought on the premises. Our liquor license permits the sale of beer and wine at concerts, but does not allow any alcohol to be brought onto the property. All alcoholic beverages will be confiscated if found on site.
One additional beverage station will be located behind the West Terrace, across from the merchandise tent. This station will serve a limited selection of beer and wine, as well as bottled water. Please note: the station accepts cash only.
Coolers are allowed inside the Amphitheater, but we ask that they are not "large beach coolers" as courtesy to other concert-goers since they take up valuable seating space and cannot be used as chairs.
Coolers are subject to security searches.
All seating is general admission, first-come, first-serve lawn seating. Low-back chairs and blankets are welcomed. We suggest lining up earlier than the gate time for better seating opportunities.
We have a chair height policy in order for all guests to enjoy views from every spot on the Amphitheater hill. The policy is any low-back chair measuring 12" or less from the ground to the front of the seat bottom and 32" to the top of the chair back in its highest position will be allowed.
Blankets can be used for seating, but please be courteous of other guests by not saving larger-than-needed amounts of grass.
A chair height policy is enforced to aid in the enjoyment of guests viewing the concerts in all areas.
The policy is any low-back chair measuring 12" or less from the ground to the front of the seat bottom and 32" to the top of the chair back in its highest position will be allowed. Volunteers will be measuring chair heights at the main gate before entry.
Blankets can be used for seating, but please be courteous of other guests by not saving larger-than-needed amounts of grass.
If you're in need of a chair, consider:
- Purchasing a low-rise chair at the Meijer Gardens' gift shop or amphitheater. We offer a high-quality "GCI Wilderness Recliner" with our logo.
- Renting a standard-height plastic venue chair for $5 (quantities limited). Pay at the box office, then bring this chair to one of the rented chairs' designated seating areas. Designated seating areas are located HERE.
Chair rentals are available for standard-sized white plastic chairs. Rentals are $5 each and available in a first come, first serve basis.
To rent a chair, pay at the Box Office before lining up for the show and pick up chairs at the Box Office or inside the gates near the merchandise booth.
Rental chairs are to be placed in designated seating areas near the left and right top and middle of the Amphitheater hill. Please be aware these areas are also first-come, first-serve seating.
The Sponsored Seating section is a special area at the top of the Amphitheater—the East and West Terraces. Season tickets include two reserved seats to every concert, beverages, snacks and a great view of the Amphitheater. Interested in a season ticket sponsorship? Contact our development department at 616-975-3177 or email@example.com for more information.
Rain or shine! Bring your ponchos and/or smaller umbrellas if there's a high probability of rain. Please be courteous to your neighbors by not blocking their views with large or golf umbrellas.
Our weather policy states if there is inclement weather in our area, the concert will be delayed until the threat has passed. The decision to continue a concert after adverse weather passes will be determined on a case-by-case basis, based on consultation with appropriate weather experts. If a storm or tornado situation arises and the concert needs to end, there will be no refunds. Stay tuned to our social media outlets for the most up to date information.
Concerts are rain or shine unless there is severe weather as previously stated.
Each artist has their own photography policy, which pertains to guests and media alike. Meijer Gardens helps enforce these policies by prohibiting all SLR cameras and video-recording devices (this includes mobile phones with video capability). Point-and-shoot cameras are allowed to most shows unless stated by an artist, but please no flash photography, as it can distract guests and performers.
Meijer Gardens is an accessible facility and proudly complies with ADA regulations. Guests with medical or mobility issues may request special consideration for seating by visiting the Box Office window.
If seating in low chairs will be a mobility issue, we have a limited quantity of standard-height white plastic chairs, available for rent ($5). To rent a chair, make your payment at the Box Office, pick up your chair nearby and take it to one of the designated seating areas.
Barrier-free areas are marked in blue at the left and right top sections of the Amphitheater hill. View a map of the barrier-free seating locations HERE.
Guests may line up outside the gates as early as they please. For more popular shows, many guests arrive an hour or more before gates open (even two hours before the show). Placing of an empty chair or "place holder" will not be allowed—guests must be physically present to reserve their spots in line.
Refer to your ticket for information about when gates open—times vary— or on the concert schedule page.
Refer to your ticket for information about when gates open—times vary—or on the concert schedule page.
The Tuesday Evening Music Club is a special concert series featuring local and regional performers on Tuesday evenings throughout July and August. For more information, including scheduled lineup and dates, please visit the Tuesday Evening Music Club page.
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Inside the Greed Zone
Lt. Col. Gutierrez was a whistleblower. Was he also tainted by corruption around him?
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
Marshall Gutierrez was classic military material, a working-class kid whose father and both grandfathers served in the armed forces.
He joined the Army and marched steadily up the hierarchy, ultimately becoming a lieutenant colonel and chief logistics officer at this sprawling base in Kuwait. His Army record was spotless, and he developed a reputation as a bit of a straight arrow.
So it isn't surprising how Lt. Col. Gutierrez reacted in 2005 when he discovered signs of rampant overcharging by the Army's main food supplier for the Iraq war. Bags of Coca-Cola syrup available in the U.S. for about $10, for example, were going for $90. He blew the whistle. That triggered a massive criminal probe of Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Co. that is now raising questions for such major American food companies as Perdue Farms Inc. and Sara Lee Corp., and is shaping up as one of the biggest fraud probes of the Iraq War.
Then the tables turned. The Kuwaiti contractor accused Col. Gutierrez of seeking bribes, setting in motion a bizarre chain of events that left his military career and his 22-year marriage in ruins. On Sept. 4, 2006, he was found dead in his quarters at the age of 41. Next to his body were an empty container of prescription sleeping pills and a plastic bottle of antifreeze.
The story of Col. Gutierrez, who Army investigators allege wound up tainted by the very corruption he complained about, is one thread in the expansive fraud and corruption investigation into firms supplying food to troops in Iraq. The Justice and Defense Departments are investigating overcharging and possible favoritism in awarding of contracts. Col. Gutierrez's role in the inquiry emerges from interviews with military officials, contractors and others involved, as well as emails, letters, court filings and other written material.
Marshall Gutierrez grew up in the little town of Las Vegas in the foothills of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a descendant of the original farmers who received Spanish land grants to settle the area. He was a driven and intensely proud man, both of his achievements as a soldier and his Hispanic heritage, says his widow Brenda, also a Las Vegas native.
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The two met a quarter-century ago at a church event. He was 15, she was 13. At the age of 16, Brenda discovered she was pregnant -- a harsh predicament for two teenagers in a small, conservative Catholic community. "His mother offered to send him away to another school elsewhere in the state, and he didn't. He married me," Ms. Gutierrez recalled. "This was not a guy that ran away from trouble or from any type of a difficult situation."
They married two years later, and he started serving in the Army National Guard the very next weekend. After high school, he worked his way through college on a scholarship from the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps and became a commissioned officer in 1987. The couple commenced the itinerant life of a military family, bouncing from Newport News, Va., to Colorado Springs, Colo., to Saudi Arabia after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. In Panama, Capt. Gutierrez led the 1097th Transportation (Medium Boat) Company, which moved thousands of tons of materiel and in 1994 won a prestigious Army award.
"He was a hard charger. He did not accept any sort of failure. His way or the highway was how he was," recalls Sgt. Sean Kelly, who served under him in Panama. "But he also was able to motivate the people who worked under him to literally accomplish the impossible."
Eventually Mr. Gutierrez rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and in 2005, he shipped out to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, a large logistics and staging facility with fast-food restaurants and Internet cafés.
CAMP ARIFJAN is now at the center of the U.S. inquiries into contracting corruption. One Saudi catering company, Tamimi Global, allegedly had a "party house" frequented by contractors and at least five military contract officers, according to a sworn statement in July 2006 by a former Army officer, contained in U.S. court records. The officer admitted taking $8,000 in bribes and gifts from a Tamimi executive and another $50,000 from another catering firm. He claimed he had witnessed at least five other Army officers taking bribes in the course of roughly a dozen parties at the Tamimi house.
Camp Arifjan sends numerous truck convoys to Iraq every day. Most of the freight is handled by Public Warehousing, which began as a modest Kuwaiti government spinoff. Now publicly traded, it is one of the largest transport companies in the world. Under a series of contracts worth more than $6 billion, Public Warehousing is designated a "Prime Vendor" for virtually all food served to U.S. forces in Iraq and Kuwait -- some 150,000 stomachs.
Within months of arriving in Kuwait, Col. Gutierrez clashed with Public Warehousing over its prices for various items, according to emails he sent that are now part of the Army record of the case. He questioned why Public Warehousing was charging the Army about $90 for five-gallon bags of Coca-Cola syrup when they could be found for around $40 from Kuwait City merchants, the emails indicate.
Col. Gutierrez began supplying information via email to Gary Shifton, a top official at the Pentagon's Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia. In November 2005, Pentagon officials launched an investigation. The inquiry focused on Public Warehousing's pricing agreements with its own suppliers.
Investigators suspect the military wound up paying inflated prices for everything from preserved milk to lobster tails, according people involved in the investigation and courts records from U.S. civil litigation between Public Warehousing and the Defense Department. The investigators are looking into whether Public Warehousing passed along high prices from its suppliers to the military, then was improperly compensated by those suppliers through large rebates and discounts, the court records and the people involved say. One focus is Sultan Center, a supplier with close ownership and managerial ties to Public Warehousing, which refunded to Public Warehousing some 10% of the military sales it received.
Food wholesalers often give customers such as Public Warehousing "prompt payment" discounts of a few percentage points. The Pentagon agreed that Public Warehousing could keep such discounts, according to emails cited in the U.S. civil litigation. What's in dispute is whether those discounts were so excessive they amounted to kickbacks, or whether they were improperly used to pump up prices.
Public Warehousing says in a statement that its prices include "not only the cost of the food it supplies, but also the costs associated with storing, handling and delivering it at multiple locations in a war zone." More than 30 of its employees, it adds, have been killed on the job.
Col. Gutierrez and his aides began systematically analyzing Public Warehousing's prices. He found some troubling numbers, including that the Army was paying $8 a pound for green beans, his emails indicate. Public Warehousing says the military required a hard-to-find style of green beans. Prices were high on some other items that were perishable or hard to find from qualified suppliers, it says.
Col. Gutierrez and his team were getting help from Public Warehousing's chief competitor, Tamimi Global. In January 2006, Tamimi's director of operations in Iraq and Kuwait, Shabbir Khan, provided Col. Gutierrez and other officials with a spreadsheet comparing Public Warehousing's prices to the local market.
AT THE TIME, Mr. Khan was already the subject of a major investigation involving fraud and bribery at Camp Arifjan. He was subsequently convicted. A spokesman for Tamimi says Mr. Khan's illegal conduct occurred "without the company's knowledge." Army officials say the investigation into Tamimi is continuing, and investigators are looking into Mr. Khan's contact with Col. Gutierrez. Tamimi is cooperating, its spokesman says.
A week after he received the spreadsheet from Mr. Khan, Col. Gutierrez submitted his own analysis to his superiors at Camp Arifjan. "I have started looking at the items we are purchasing from Public Warehousing," he wrote to the camp's commander. "We are being charged way too much for food."
Two days later, on Feb. 8, 2006, Mr. Shifton of the Pentagon's contracting office in Philadelphia sent an email to Public Warehousing declaring that "the urgent concern is that we are paying too much" for local items from Sultan Center. "This matter is urgent."
That triggered alarm at an outside consulting firm used by Public Warehousing to help it deal with the Pentagon. A few hours after Mr. Shifton sent his email to Public Warehousing, an executive at the consulting firm, Professional Contract Administrators of Albuquerque, N.M., sent an email marked "URGENT" to Public Warehousing. It advised Public Warehousing's chief executive, retired Navy officer Charles "Toby" Switzer, to "fire somebody, blame it on them and cover up" by revising the local-market prices. "ASAP -- THIS IS VERY SERIOUS." Mr. Switzer forwarded the messages to subordinates, adding that he agreed, "except the firing part."
Public Warehousing officials say the tone of the emails is misleading. The company, they say, was merely seeking to be attentive to customer complaints. On Feb. 12, Mr. Switzer met with Col. Gutierrez and other contracting officials and promised a thorough price review.
But soon Col. Gutierrez was making decisions that weren't good for either Public Warehousing or Sultan Center. In early May, for example, he requested that some $21 million in purchases of vegetables, dairy and baked goods be shifted from Public Warehousing to Tamimi.
In July 2006, the investigation took a strange turn. Col. Gutierrez had a meeting at Camp Arifjan with a Public Warehousing sales executive, Mike Abdul Rahman. He passed Mr. Rahman a piece of paper which read: "I need 1,000 KD, can you help?" according to a subsequent affidavit from an Army investigator who interviewed Mr. Rahman. KD is the abbreviation for Kuwaiti dinars. A thousand dinars is worth around $3,500.
Mr. Rahman told other officials at Public Warehousing, the company said. While top executives at the company debated what to do, the two men met again on Aug. 6. On Aug. 9, case documents state, Public Warehousing's chief, Mr. Switzer, approached one of the most senior officers at Camp Arifjan, Brig. Gen. Raymond Mason, and revealed the alleged bribe solicitation. The general referred the matter to criminal investigators at Camp Arifjan.
On Aug. 13, Col. Gutierrez and Mr. Rahman met once again, this time at the officer's home. They allegedly discussed a $3,500 payoff in exchange for inside information on bulk fuel and laundry services contracts, the Army case record states. But again no money changed hands. The officer claimed to need cash because he had taken a young Kuwaiti woman as a girlfriend, according to an investigator's affidavit.
At the time, Col. Gutierrez's American wife, who had been living with him in Kuwait, had returned to the U.S. to attend to a sick relative. Days later, she received the news that he had purportedly married the Kuwaiti girlfriend in a phone call from her husband's former housekeeper in Kuwait, who was angry about being fired.
On Aug. 18, Mr. Rahman met Col. Gutierrez a little before midnight at an upstairs corner table at Diva's, a restaurant with English sports playing on the television and pictures of American movies stars such as Marilyn Monroe and John Travolta stripped across the marquee. The two men smoked tobacco through a shisha, a traditional Arab water pipe. Mr. Rahman was wearing a hidden microphone. Both Kuwaiti and Army criminal investigators were monitoring from nearby, case records indicate.
The two men left in Col. Gutierrez's car for Mr. Rahman's home, the case record says. As they drove, Mr. Rahman offered the officer a bundle containing the 1,000 dinars, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation. Col. Gutierrez told him to put it in the car's center console, they say. Agents then surrounded the car and arrested Col. Gutierrez.
The colonel protested that he was being set up. His widow and a lawyer hired by his family now say they suspect he was framed by Public Warehousing because the company knew he had blown the whistle on it. A spokesman for Public Warehousing say the company had merely "notified the government of a suspected corruption ring within the U.S. military in Kuwait" and "played a pivotal role in a successful sting operation that stemmed from the investigation."
FOLLOWING THE ARREST, Army investigators searched Col. Gutierrez's home off the base and found alcohol and a magazine it termed pornography. Both are illegal in Kuwait. They also found some $27,000 in U.S. and Kuwaiti currency and a two-week-old Kuwaiti marriage certificate, which described Col. Gutierrez as the husband of an 18-year old Kuwait resident named Fatima Al-Rahdi under the religion of Islam. Ms. Al-Rahdi, also known as Yasmine, couldn't be located for comment.
Col. Gutierrez was charged with bribery, mishandling secret information, accepting illegal gifts and illegal possession of weapons, alcohol and pornography, and bigamy.
Col. Gutierrez was locked in an 8-by-8-foot steel cage next to some soldiers accused of murdering Iraqi detainees. During his first hours of detention, his lawyer wrote in a later legal filing, he "momentarily succumbed to the weight of his circumstances" and underwent "a brief bout with momentary anxiety over his current predicament." Military officials describe it as a suicidal episode, but decline to elaborate. Later, Col. Gutierrez was caught with a makeshift knife fashioned from a plastic spoon, and charged with illegal possession of a weapon. Two days later, he was caught allegedly attempting to make a weapon from a safety razor.
FIVE DAYS AFTER his arrest, his military lawyer, Capt. Stephen McGaha, motioned to release him from preventive detention. "The government has chosen to materially misrepresent the strength of their case by charging one alleged instance of bribery 5 separate ways," he complained. About a week later, Col. Gutierrez was released from detention and transferred to nearby Camp Victory to await court-martial proceedings.
On Sept. 4, shortly after 9 a.m., Col. Gutierrez went to a restaurant at the camp, the Green Beans Café, and bought $1.50 worth of muffins. Later that day, his body was found in his camp quarters. There was no note. Two autopsies concluded that he had died of poisoning from ingesting ethyl glycol, the active ingredient of antifreeze. The Army ruled his death a suicide.
In an interview, his widow Brenda expresses bewilderment about his death, which she is reluctant to characterize as a suicide. "The last time I spoke to him, he said, 'We're going to fight this.' The lawyer said it looks good. So there's no way."
Many questions about the case remain. How did he meet his second wife and why did they decide to marry? What was the nature of the Col. Gutierrez's relationship with the Tamimi executive later convicted of bribery?
And more broadly, how pervasive is fraud and corruption in the Army's food-procurement system? The amount in dispute in the Public Warehousing investigation is, at a minimum, $100 million, according to people involved in the probe.
Col. Gutierrez probably violated military law in his relationship with the Kuwaiti woman. Official records show the marriage was legally registered with Kuwait's Ministry of Justice on July 29. The document states that Ms. Al-Rahdi was his second wife (taking a second wife is legal in most Islamic countries), and lists his religion as Muslim. He agreed to pay her a $20,000 penalty in the event they divorced.
James Culp, a lawyer who represents the Gutierrez family, argues that the evidence of corruption by the colonel is far from clear. The audiotape of the sting operation, he says, is of poor quality and hard to understand, and the other evidence is "weak at best, if it even existed." The Army says it cannot talk about the Public Warehousing probe because it is still open.
NO EVIDENCE has been found indicating that Col. Gutierrez had any substantial hidden assets. The evidence inventory in the case listed a silver-and-gold Rolex watch, but it was recently returned to his family after Mrs. Gutierrez produced a receipt showing her husband bought it before his deployment to Kuwait. Several receipts seized by the agents showed that the liquor found in his home consisted of $400 in purchases from the U.S. Embassy's American Employees Welfare Association. Liquor sales are legal at the embassy, but Kuwaiti law bars the possession of liquor outside foreign embassies.
The government claims in a civil-forfeiture action that the $27,000 in cash is the proceeds of bribery. Mrs. Gutierrez says she insisted that her husband have a large sum of cash on hand "to make sure we could get [the family] out of Kuwait fairly easy should something happen."
Mrs. Gutierrez says she doesn't know what to think about her late husband's purported second marriage. But she refuses to believe that he was corrupt. "None of this stuff fits in his character at all," she says. "He had never been involved in anything like this, and he has been in several other positions like this where he had access to lots of money, millions and billions."
"I'm very upset that he was put in that situation in the first place," she continues, referring to his assignment to a base allegedly riddled with corruption. "Either way, whether he did commit suicide or not, the military has blood on their hands, in my opinion."
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The City of North Charleston Business License office provides the Taxicab Driver Permit application that all taxicab drivers must complete and submit with a $25 non-refundable fee. Appointments are required for issuance of a taxi license. Once submitted, photo identification and fingerprinting are provided at the North Charleston City Hall at 2500 City Hall Lane, North Charleston, SC 29406. The $25 fee covers the two year North Charleston Taxicab Driver Permit, photo identification, and fingerprinting. Drivers MUST supply a record check, which is not included in the fee.
Taxicab Driver Permits may be denied or suspended for reasons including, but not exclusive, to the following:
Before a Taxicab Driver Permit is issued to any taxicab owner, the owner of the taxicab, for which such permit is requested, at the cost of $25, shall deliver such taxicab to a place designated by the inspector for annual inspection. The inspector shall designate agents to inspect such taxicab and its equipment to ascertain whether such taxicab complies with the Taxicab Ordinance.
Owners must schedule their vehicle inspections with the City of North Charleston Taxi Regulatory Officer. You may schedule an appointment by calling (843) 740-5824 or by visiting North Charleston City Hall, Mayor's Office, between the hours of 10:00am – 11:00am, Monday – Wednesday.
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I have a not very valuable chest of drawers that had several damage spots. I sanded them and thought I could just stain them and they would disappear. Wrong!! They don't take the stain very well and it's been impossible to match the stain.
I've read about Formby furniture refinisher . Could I use this in just the area of the sanded spots to soften and pull in existing finish over those spots?
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I also bought some wood conditioner so hopefully that will help it take the stain better once it is stripped.
I've stripped it. the wood seems to be an oak veneer.
Thanks for the tip on the wood conditioner.
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Another AGW myth … gone with the wind
We've seen it any number of times. Whenever there is a weather event, well, the true believers come out of the woodwork to declare it to be the "worst" in umpteen thousand years and, of course, caused by man. The "Chicken Little" contingent never looks for a more reasonable or scientific explanation, they've got their models and their junk science and that's all they need. So when California went into a state of extreme drought, what was the claim? Yup, it was caused by man and his emissions.
One problem with the claim – it's just not true:
Natural weather patterns, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought parching California, says a study out Monday from federal scientists.
"It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state," said Richard Seager, the report's lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.
"In fact, multiyear droughts appear regularly in the state's climate record, and it's a safe bet that a similar event will happen again," he said.
History! Go figure. "Not uncommon".
Not only that, but this important point:
The persistent weather pattern over the past several years has featured a warm, dry ridge of high pressure over the eastern north Pacific Ocean and western North America. Such high-pressure ridges prevent clouds from forming and precipitation from falling.
The study notes that this ridge — which has resulted in decreased rain and snowfall since 2011 — is almost opposite to what computer models predict would result from human-caused climate change.
"Almost the opposite of what the computer models predict." There's a surprise.
And the dissenters?
"The authors of the new report would really have us believe that is merely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the impact of human-caused climate change?" Penn State meteorologist Michael Mann wrote Monday in The Huffington Post. "Frankly, I don't find that even remotely plausible."
This, coming from the discredited author of the hockey stick effect and a false claim of a Nobel prize is something we should even consider? His dissent is more "plausible" than the findings of the study? Yeah, not really. Weather is weather. Someone should clue Mann into how it works.
While the NOAA study easily refutes the alarmist claim, NOAA, being a government agency, isn't immune to pushing the AGW myth itself, at least a little:
The NOAA report says midwinter precipitation is projected to increase because of human-caused climate change over most of the state. Seager said a low-pressure system, not a high-pressure system, would probably form off the California coast because of climate change.
Low pressure creates clouds and precipitation.
Yes, you see, "human-caused climate change" is now regional … er, global. Tell me again how that high pressure ridge came to be there? Oh, nevermind. And note, even if you want to believe in AGW, in this case, it would actually be a "good thing". Oh, bother.
It's not about "climate change", it's about power and control
Concerning "climate change" and Obama's "deal" with China, Roger L. Simon nails it:
1. Most Americans don't think Obama tells the truth about anything, let alone something as controversial as climate. They just made that clear by voting him down in about 237 elections, if you believe Obama's own assertion that his own policies were on trial.
2. No one really knows if "climate change" exists or, if it does, whether its danger is remotely worth the money to correct it, although we do know that "global warming" has not occurred for eighteen years and counting and there is, if anything, global cooling with record lows being set everywhere, the Antarctic ice cap also at record levels, etc. (Yes, yes, climate is not weather, blablabla. Climate is… anything you want to say it is.)
3. Anyone who still believes in "climate change" is likely to be: a. a profiteer (like the financial wizards who put together those "carbon exchanges" a few years back, making off with billions before they went belly up), b. a scientist looking for a handout, c. a bureaucrat or official of a Third World country looking for a handout, d. an official of the UN (virtually the same as c), e. a moral narcissist, preferably rich, who thinks he knows better than us idiots, scientific training not required (cf. Tom Steyer, this year's George Soros wannabe), f. a true-believing liberal camp follower of the sort that doesn't care when Nancy Pelosi says you have to pass Obamacare in order to know what's in it (this is the largest group), or g. a journalist blinded by panic about losing their job if they dare to tell even part of the truth or wander off the reservation.
However it is the opponents of this scam who are reviled and called "deniers".
The fact is, there is no proof that what the alarmists fear exists or will exist. Science doesn't support their hypothesis and reality doesn't support the conclusions of their modeling. But the man who said that "science" would take precedence in his administration has yet to demonstrate that. This is about control. Power. This is the crew that would tell you every step of the way how you should live your life. They've now gotten their claws into your healthcare. And this helps them control what energy you use and, by the way, literally creates a revenue stream out of thin air. Revenue streams are important, because that's one way they exert their control.
As for China – they too know this man as Simon points out:
How do the Chinese figure in all this? Since they break into practically every computer we own, we can assume they also read our newspapers and watch Fox News (maybe even MSNBC, Heaven help them). Besides Obama's being a lame duck who was clobbered in the last election, they are fully aware of his myriad lies and prevarications from "If like your plan…" to red lines in Syria. No one trusts him, even members of his own party.
The Chinese therefore know any deal with Obama is just for show, meaningless. But to make doubly sure, they arranged for the language in the agreement to say "intend" to reduce their emissions by such-and-such by 2020 — "intend," the mother of all wiggle words. (I "intend" to win the Oscar in 2016, even though I have not written the script yet.) Actually, the Chinese, as usual, did a brilliant job of using Obama for their own propaganda, knowing full well that he was desperate to be back in the news for something positive, preferably as far from D.C. as possible.
January, 2017 can't come soon enough.
Climate change "deal" with China just an excuse for executive action
Given this "deal", Obama seems to be a used car salesman's dream, but I've come to believe there is a method to this madness. And it is madness:
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the U.S. has set a new goal to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by between 26 percent and 28 percent over the next 11 years as part of a climate change agreement with China.
The new target is a drastic increase from earlier in Obama's presidency, when he pledged to cut emissions by 17 percent by 2020. By contrast, Obama's counterpart, Xi Jinping, did not pledge any reductions by a specific date, but rather set a target for China's emissions to peak by 2030, or earlier if possible. Xi also pledged to increase the share of energy that China will derive from sources other than fossil fuels. China's emissions have grown in recent years due to the building of new coal plants.
"This is a major milestone in the U.S.-China relationship," Obama told a news conference in Beijing, with Xi at his side. "It shows what's possible when we work together on an urgent global challenge."
No. No it's not anywhere near a "milestone" at all. If that's the "deal", he was owned by the Chinese premier. Instead it is another bad deal used to push an ideological desire. This certainly won't be ratified as a treaty with a GOP Congress (if it is even submitted as a treaty). And anyone who thinks China won't ignore, or unilaterally extend its 2030 peak use simply knows nothing about how China works.
So the "King" will, apparently, do further damage to the economy by using this bit of nonsense as his catalyst for umpteen executive orders because, you know he has a pen, a phone and an ideology.
Thank goodness that only lasts for 2 more years with a GOP Congress (assuming the GOP Congress has any fiscal balls when it comes to defunding the stupidity he commits to his "executive actions"). If you loved ObamaCare you're going to rave about this bit of economic stupidity.
In the meantime, grab your wallets and bend over, here it comes again.
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The science is not settled
Dr. Steven Koonin is the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. Formerly, he was undersecretary for science in the Energy Department during President Barack Obama's first term. So, not a guy you'd think would be a Koch-funded climate denier. Yet, he writes in the Wall Street Journal that the current state of climate science is not settled, despite what others may say.
After spending several paragraphs highlighting both our lack of scientific understanding of basic climate processes, and the unreliability of the different computer models and their predictions, he concludes:
These and many other open questions are in fact described in the IPCC research reports, although a detailed and knowledgeable reading is sometimes required to discern them. They are not "minor" issues to be "cleaned up" by further research. Rather, they are deficiencies that erode confidence in the computer projections. Work to resolve these shortcomings in climate models should be among the top priorities for climate research.
Yet a public official reading only the IPCC's "Summary for Policy Makers" would gain little sense of the extent or implications of these deficiencies. These are fundamental challenges to our understanding of human impacts on the climate, and they should not be dismissed with the mantra that "climate science is settled."
While the past two decades have seen progress in climate science, the field is not yet mature enough to usefully answer the difficult and important questions being asked of it. This decidedly unsettled state highlights what should be obvious: Understanding climate, at the level of detail relevant to human influences, is a very, very difficult problem.
This is not coming from some right-wing whack job. It is the sober assessment of the science from a former Obama Administration official. Claims that the "science is settled" are just that: claims. They are claims made to further a specific political agenda, not a realistic summation of what we actually know.
Yet we are told that massive government action is required—usually leavened with a generous dollop of socialism—to prevent disaster. A disaster, by the way, than cannot be confidently predicted. If that is so, the predictions of success for ameliorative actions cannot be confidently predicted either. Indeed, we cannot truly say that massive ameliorative actions are even needed.
"The science is settled," therefore, is not a factual, scientific statement. It is a political one. It deserves no more respect than any other political assertion.
The march of the mimes
Walter Russell Meade does a great job of summing up the impact of yesterday's "March of the Usual Lefty Organizations" in the name of taxing us into poverty with a carbon tax:
Street marches today are to real politics what street mime is to Shakespeare. This was an ersatz event: no laws will change, no political balance will tip, no UN delegate will have a change of heart. The world will roll on as if this march had never happened. And the marchers would have emitted less carbon and done more good for the world if they had all stayed home and studied books on economics, politics, science, religion and law. Marches like this create an illusion of politics and an illusion of meaningful activity to fill the void of postmodern life; the tribal ritual matters more than the political result.
And he's precisely right. Besides being the usual collection of leftist professional protesters sprinkled with clueless pols and celebrities, nothing of note is going to change at the UN Climate Summit. Nothing. The outcome of that is, as they say, "already written in the books".
The world's largest emitters are declining to show up, even for appearances. The Chinese economy has been the No. 1 global producer of carbon dioxide since 2008, but President Xi Jinping won't be gracing the U.N. with his presence. India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi (No. 3) will be in New York but is skipping the climate parley. Russian President Vladimir Putin (No. 4) has other priorities, while Japan (No. 5) is uncooperative after the Fukushima disaster that has damaged support for nuclear power. Saudi Arabia is dispatching its petroleum minister.
China, however, has found a wonderful new way to forever avoid any responsibility for reducing its output. It has become the "champion" for the poor and underdeveloped countries of the world and is helping put forward their demands:
China led calls by emerging economies on Friday for the rich to raise financial aid to the poor as a precondition for a United Nations deal to combat global warming. "When the financing is resolved, this will set a very good foundation to negotiate a good agreement," China's chief negotiator Xie Zhenhua told delegates from about 170 nations. Xie said developed nations, which have promised to raise aid to $100 billion a year by 2020, should have legally binding obligations to provide finance and technology to emerging economies, along with legally binding cuts in emissions.
Well of course the "rich nations" should … because that would have them pay China and India – two of the biggest carbon producers around. So China has, in effect, made an offer they must refuse, because leaving out the two largest carbon producers is sort of self-defeating, isn't it? And anyway, we should pay for our "rich nation privilege", shouldn't we?
Meanwhile, Dr. Steven Koonin makes the point of saying what is clearly the truth in an op-ed in the WSJ – the science of climate change is not settled science. In fact, it's not even close. Dr. Koonin, by the way, was the undersecretary for science in the Energy Department during Obama's first term. So this isn't some right-wing ideologue spouting off, but a serious scientist. Interestingly, he makes hash of the reliability of the climate models:
The models differ in their descriptions of the past century's global average surface temperature by more than three times the entire warming recorded during that time. Such mismatches are also present in many other basic climate factors, including rainfall, which is fundamental to the atmosphere's energy balance. As a result, the models give widely varying descriptions of the climate's inner workings. Since they disagree so markedly, no more than one of them can be right.
And we're still looking for that one model that is right … but remember, it is on the basis of those models that this entire "scare" or alarmism finds its roots. Make it a point to read the entire Koonin piece.
But never fear as our fearless leader will be in NY to address the UN summit (most likely a rushed speech between fund raisers and golf). Not that it will have any effect or make any difference. But in his mind, it will be "action". In reality, it'll be another example of him again being outplayed on the world stage.
Another day in the life of a science denier
In reference to "climate change", Paul Krugman leads with:
This just in: Saving the planet would be cheap; it might even be free. But will anyone believe the good news?
Two points – it is entirely debatable as to whether the planet needs saving. Science and the data produced certainly doesn't support the supposition. I'm talking about real science. Not the pseudo-science of the alarmist side – the science denier side. Given that, why should anyone care about whatever "good news" Krugman is shilling today.
Second point – is government involved in the solution (he studiously tries to disguise that in his article)? Of course it is. Then it will be neither cheap nor free. And most likely it will be terrible to boot, hurt the economy, make government larger and more intrusive, etc., etc., etc.
So no, Mr. Krugman, anyone with two brain cells to rub together – and that likely excludes you – won't believe much of anything that comes out of the pseudo-science, and now pseudo-economics of the left.
Climate models are NOT "settled science"
At best they're educated guesses. And, as the actual climate continues to demonstrate when compared to the outcomes the models predict (and that's all they do is come up with a prediction based on how the huge numbers of variables have been set up in the algorithm they use), they're woefully wrong about climate change. This comes under the category of "a picture is worth a thousand words" or in this case, a graph:
Not even close.
Now, who is the "denier"?
What if the UN gave a climate summit and no one came?
President Barack Obama will attend a United Nations summit on climate change in September.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited heads of state and other leaders to the Sept. 23 summit in New York. The U.N. says the goal is to spur governments, industry and civil groups to make new commitments to addressing climate change.The summit comes one year before world leaders will gather in Paris for global climate talks aimed at securing a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Obama has set a goal to cut U.S. emissions 17 percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels.
The Obama administration will seek a non-binding international accord – rather than a treaty – at a United Nations climate summit in Paris next year on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
It was a widely anticipated move, as President Barack Obama has repeatedly said he would act alone, bypassing Congress, if lawmakers declined to support his proposal.
So one would assume that the UN meeting would lay the groundwork for the Paris talks, no? Since it all under the auspices of the UN? And this apparently is very important to our president, no? He's going to attend, he's got a plan (one of the few plans his administration has ever managed to push out there) to make a commitment for the US while bypassing Congress. What could go wrong with this issue that is so important to Obama? And he's certainly consulted with other world leaders to ensure their cooperation and backing, right?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the world's third-largest greenhouse gas-emitting nation, won't join his U.S. and Chinese counterparts at a United Nations climate summit next month in New York. Modi's absence is a bit of a blow to the summit.
Chinese counterparts? The Chinese are blowing it off too:
Chinese president Xi Jinping has decided to skip a meeting of world leaders on climate change in New York, according to climate insiders, casting doubt on the summit's potential to make progress ahead of next year's major UN climate summit in Paris.
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German daily TAZ reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn't going to bother attending the Ban Ki-Moon initiated climate conference in New York this coming September. The TAZ adds this has been "confirmed by a government spokesman". Merkel's decision to snub the event is likely another sign that efforts to forge a climate agreement are already dead in water. The TAZ writes: "Ultimately only Europe and very few other countries remain on board. Canada for example has opted out. Japan and Russia are also no longer taking part."
Always the last to know. Kind of like his foreign policy, isn't it? No India. No China. No Russia. No Canada, Germany or Japan.
So, if all of these major players in the world don't see a reason to show up for Obama and Moon's little show, how are those two going to sell this to world as an emergency situation that needs drastic action?
I know — call in John Kerry!
And the clown car continues to careen down the path to nowhere.
Hypocrisy endemic in leftist enviro position on solar and wind power
How many times have we been treated to hissy fits by the environmental left when it comes to species other than humans and their endangerment? What group has constantly pushed for laws that protect animals from humans? And where have the enviros been mostly silent as a particular group of animals is wantonly slaughtered daily in the name of green, renewable energy?
California's massive Ivanpah solar power plant can produce enough electricity for 140,000 households — but the environmental cost is nothing less than an avian slaughter.
The plant's 350,000 mirrors bounce sizzling sunlight to the tops of three 40-story boiler towers, heating steam for turbine electricity generators. Temperatures near the towers can reach up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, heat certainly sufficient to fry a fowl.
"Workers at the state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — 'streamers,' for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair," the Associated Press reports this week.
That's a common occurrence, the AP continues; federal investigators saw a bird burn roughly every two minutes. Ivanpah owner BrightSource estimates that "about a thousand" die each year, and one environmental group says the plant kills up to 28,000 birds each year.
Of course, if you do the math (and account for 12 hours of darkness each day) it comes out to about 130,000 a year – assuming the observation that one bird "burns" every two minutes. And the outcry? Yeah, not so much.
And some of the birds it is killing are, among others, endangered:
As the plant prepared to begin operations, workers found the winged corpses of "a peregrine falcon, a grebe, two hawks, four nighthawks, and a variety of warblers and sparrows," the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.
You want a "silent spring"? Keep building these sorts of installations.
What about wind turbines? Well, Ivanpah comes up a piker in comparison:
Ivanpah isn't the only green darling with a lot of bird blood on its hands, either. The American Bird Conservancy estimates wind turbines slay 440,000 birds each year, and the an analyst writing in the Wildlife Society Bulletin says it's closer to 573,000 — in addition to 888,000 bats.
And, as usual, our federal government makes exceptions to the law for favored industries:
Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
You accidentally do it and watch how much of an exception they make for you.
In the meantime, with all this data showing massive bird kills among solar and wind turbine installations?
Crickets – unless they find some other sort of "green energy" source that happens to wipe them out too.
Climate change treaty: "Constitution? Obama don't need no stinkin' Constitution!"
Well, if reports are true it appears our self-crowned king has decided he's found a way to obligate us to a treaty without following the Constitution's proviso for doing so.
In seeking to go around Congress to push his international climate change agenda, Mr. Obama is echoing his domestic climate strategy. In June, he bypassed Congress and used his executive authority to order a far-reaching regulation forcing American coal-fired power plants to curb their carbon emissions….
American negotiators are instead homing in on a hybrid agreement — a proposal to blend legally binding conditions from an existing 1992 treaty with new voluntary pledges. The mix would create a deal that would update the treaty, and thus, negotiators say, not require a new vote of ratification.
Countries would be legally required to enact domestic climate change policies — but would voluntarily pledge to specific levels of emissions cuts and to channel money to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change. Countries might then be legally obligated to report their progress toward meeting those pledges at meetings held to identify those nations that did not meet their cuts.
"There's some legal and political magic to this," said Jake Schmidt, an expert in global climate negotiations with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group. "They're trying to move this as far as possible without having to reach the 67-vote threshold" in the Senate.
"Political magic"? Is that the state of our nation now – we resort to "political magic" when we can't get our way as the Constitution requires? Well, yes.
President Obama seems to be following a script laid out in May, 2014 by former Undersecretary for Global Affairs Timothy Wirth, who was the Clinton Administration's lead negotiator for the Kyoto Protocol, and former South Dakota Senator Thomas Daschle who astutely asserted that "the international community should stop chasing the chimera of a binding treaty to limit CO2 emissions." They further noted that more than two decades of U.N. climate negotiations have failed because "nations could not agree on who is to blame, on how to allocate emissions, or on projections for the future."
Wirth and Daschle are advocating that the climate negotiators adopt a system of "pledge and review" at the 2015 Paris conference of the parties to the UNFCCC. In such a scheme nations would make specific pledges to cut their carbon emissions, to adopt clean energy technologies, and to wring more GDP out of each ton of carbon emitted. The parties would review their progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions every three years and make further pledges as necessary to achieve the goal of keeping the increase in average global temperature under 2°C. Since there would be no legally binding targets, there would be no treaty that would require politically difficult ratification. If insufficient progress is being made by 2020 they argue that countries should consider adopting globally coordinated price on carbon.
Now this isn't to say that this is going to work or even have an effect, but it is a blatant attempt to have one's way (via "political magic") while avoiding the unpleasantness of a failure to get a ratification by tw0-thirds of the Senate (its all about getting the leverage to pass a carbon tax).
And, as usual, Mr. Obama doesn't care one whit about much more than getting his way – just ask Senate Democrats:
President Obama's election-year plan to win a new international climate change accord is making vulnerable Democrats nervous.
The administration is in talks at the United Nations about a deal that would seek to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by "naming and shaming" governments that fail to take significant action.
The State Department on Wednesday denied a report in The New York Times that the plan is to come up with a treaty that would not require Senate confirmation, but that appeared to provide cold comfort to Democrats worried the issue will revive GOP cries about an imperial Obama presidency.
One Democratic strategist said the proposal would put swing-state candidates who are critical to the party keeping its Senate majority "in front of the firing squad."
"You're … making it more difficult for them to win and certainty putting them in a position to lose," the strategist said.
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Although it'll be another six hours or so until the Yankees know their American League Championship Series opponents, Major League Baseball has officially unveiled the TV schedule for the upcoming playoff series. While rumors of day games emerged earlier today, thanks to Stephen R. on Twitter, we can now confirm that the Yankees will play at least one and possibly two day games during the ALCS. All games are on TBS with Ernie Johnson, John Smoltz and Ron Darling in the booth, and all times are Eastern. The best-of-seven slate looks a little something like this:
Game 1: Friday, October 15 at 8:07 p.m. at TEX/TB
Game 2: Saturday, October 16 at 4:07 p.m. at TEX/TB
Game 3: Monday, October 18 at 8:07 p.m. at Yankee Stadium
Game 4: Tuesday, October 19 at 8:07 p.m. at Yankee Stadium
Game 5: Wednesday, October 20 at 4:07 p.m. at Yankee Stadium*
Game 6: Friday, October 22 at 8:07 p.m. at TEX/TB*
Game 7: Saturday, October 23 at 8:07 p.m. at TEX/TB*
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Some Yankee fans stuck at work next Wednesday are bound to bemoan the early start time, but this isn't the first time the Yanks have played an afternoon ALCS game. In fact, Game 5 of the 2003 ALCS against Boston started at 3:05 p.m. on a Tuesday. Although we'd prefer night games for the Yanks, because of the overlapping NLCS schedule, Major League Baseball has scheduled some AL day games to accomodate fans of the San Francisco Giants. I can respect that.
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James Court is a modern full service apartment community in Boston's South End, offering studio, one bedroom and two bedroom apartment homes for rent.
James Court features stunning modern architecture, traditional apartment layouts and a central landscaped courtyard for residents. We are pet friendly*. There is also onsite garage parking available for rent, a fitness center, laundry facilities and 24 hour concierge. Our kitchens are open to the living area and offer sleek contemporary design with stainless steel appliances in select units and a breakfast bar. All of these homes offer spacious layout, ample closet space and high-speed internet wiring. Some provide stunning views of the downtown or Back Bay skylines, or the adjacent Blackstone Park. Close to many colleges and universities in Boston.
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