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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Feast of Our Lady set for Sept. 21
The Bicol Association of Charleston will celebrate its annual Feast of Our Lady of Penafrancia on Sept. 21 with a banquet and Catholic Mass at the Navy's Short Stay Outdoors Recreational Facilities in Moncks Corner.
This annual celebration in honor of the Virgin Mary, the miraculous patroness of the Bicol Region in the Philippines, is the 32nd year for the Filipino Commmunity in the Lowcountry.
Activities will start with an 8:30 a.m. Catholic Mass at Immaculate Conception Church in Goose Creek in honor of "Our Lady of Penafrancia." After the mass services, participants will convoy to Short Stay for luncheon and a day of activities. A luncheon will be at the Short Stay convention Center at 11 a.m.
A traditional fluvial procession on Lake Moultrie will follow. After the procession, a traditional mass in Filipino, incorporating Filipino songs, will follow at the Short Stay Ashley Pavilion.
For more information, call Bicol Association President Nancy Samson at (843) 572 0699; Vice President Nilda Chapman at 552- 0330; or Secretary Jerome Bien at 553-0334.
Alzheimer's support groups continue
The local Alzheimer's Association has three caregiver support groups in the area held at different locations on the second Monday of each month.
Locations are Metro North Church (5:30-6:30 p.m.) at 109 Central Avenue in Goose Creek; Moncks Corner Medical Center (11 a.m – noon) on N. Live Oak Drive, and the Otranto Road library (1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.) in North Charleston.
For more information, please contact Cawana Tisdale at (843) 571-2641.
Pancake Breakfast to Benefit The ARK
The public is invited to a Flapjack Fundraiser on Sept. 21 to benefit The ARK, Alzheimer's Family Support Services.
The event is hosted by the Charleston Southern University Psych Club. It will be held 8 -10 a.m. at Applebee's, 1310 North Main Street in Summerville. The $5 ticket includes pancakes, sausage and a drink.
Tickets may be purchased from any member of the CSU Psych Club, or by calling Prof. Christine Sinisi at 843-863-7150 or The ARK at 843-832-2357. Tickets may also be purchased online at http://TheARKofSC.org.
For more information on The ARK's programs, call 843-832-2357 or email email@example.com, or visit, http://TheARKofSC.org.
Ladies Auxiliary steak night first and third Saturday
The Ladies Auxiliary VFW holds steak night the first and third Saturday of every month. The cost is $10.
The Auxiliary's regular monthly meeting is the second Monday of every month at 7 p.m.; trivia nights are held on the first and fourth Mondays of the month.
DayLily Club meets Sept. 22
The LowCountry DayLily Club will hold its Sept. 22 meeting at Berkeley Electric Co-operative (551 Rembert Dennis Blvd. in Moncks Corner) at 2:30 p.m.
The guest speaker this month is Harvey Gibson, Charleston County Environmental Management Compost Superintendent.
Visitors are welcome to attend the meeting. Refreshments are served.
For additional information, please contact Perry Gaskins at (843) 336-3433 or Brenda Davis at (843) 761-8062.
Shrine Club announces Friday dinners
The public is invited every Friday night to the Berkeley Shrine Club: a spaghetti dinner is set for every first Friday; a potluck dinner is every second Friday; a fish fry is every third Friday; and a steak dinner is every fourth Friday. The cost of each dinner varies.
Call 761-8515 or 761-3639 for more information.
Fleet Reserve meets monthly
The Fleet Reserve Association Lowcountry Branch 269 holds its monthly General Assembly meeting on the third Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at 99 Wisteria Road in Goose Creek.
For more information, please contact the home at (843) 569-2692 or visit www.fra.org.
Mental illness support group meets weekly
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) Berkeley is a weekly support group for those who suffer from a mental illness and for those whose friend or loved one does.
The support group meets every Wednesday at Immaculate Conception Church (510 St. James Avenue) in the All Ministers Center (behind the church) in Room 5 from 7-8 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to visit and support those with mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder.
If you have any questions, you may contact Pat Merriam at email@example.com or (843) 569-7563.
Kiwanis Club meets first and third Tuesday
The Moncks Corner Kiwanis Club meets at 8 a.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month in the conference room of the Holiday Inn Express (505 R.C. Dennis Blvd. in Moncks Corner).
Everyone with a concern for children is welcome. Visit www.MoncksCornerKiwanis.org for more details.
Church fundraiser Friday
A Ham Bog for Missions will be held at Bonneau PH Church (116 Black Oak Road in Bonneau) on Friday, Sept. 20 from 5-8 p.m.
Dine in or carryout. Donations will help the church meet its global outreach goal. Bring your family and invite a friend!
Call (843) 825-3687.
NAACP meets monthly
The Moncks Corner NAACP monthly meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of each month. The next meeting is on Aug. 19 at the Masonic Lodge on new Hwy. 52 in Moncks Corner.
Ronald McDonald benefit Oct. 27 in Cross
Sportsman's Bar and Grill will host a benefit for the Ronald McDonald House on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 1 p.m. until midnight.
Eight great bands will perform headlined by the legendary Momma and The Redemption. Momma's very special guest include The Port City Prophets, Dick's Hat Band, The Howlin ' Pack, Starling, Susie Summers, Billy Bluevane and the Throbbers, and Cade Style.
There will also be vendors, great food, contests and more. A full day admission is $10.
Free Computer Classes
The Public Computer Center at Trident Technical College's Berkeley Campus is offering the following computer courses to the public, free of charge.
• Thursday, Sept. 19: Microsoft PowerPoint Part 1, 3 p.m.
• Saturday, Sept. 21: Working with Digital Cameras, 11 a.m.
• Tuesday, Sept. 24: Microsoft PowerPoint Part 2, 3 p.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 26: Questions and Answers, 3 p.m.
• Saturday, Sept. 28: Working with Hyperlinks, 11 a.m.
All course participants will need to bring a USB flash drive to save their work.
Berkeley Campus is located at 1001 S. Live Oak Dr. (Hwy 17-A), Moncks Corner. The Public Computer Center is located in the Learning Resources Center (Library), Room 106C. Please call 899-8029 to register or for more information.
The Public Computer Center was funded by a U.S. Department of Commerce grant to increase broadband education, awareness, and training and access.
Red Cross seeks volunteers
The American Red Cross is always in need of disaster-trained volunteers who respond to the needs of those individuals devastated by disasters, such as home fires and floods.
The Red Cross is also in need of volunteers trained to help in our community in the event of a large-scale disaster such as a hurricane.
Anyone interested in becoming a Red Cross volunteer should visit www.redcross.org/carolinalowcountry and click on volunteer to register for one of our upcoming classes. All classes are free and open to the public.
Classes will be held on Sept. 21 from 9 a.m. to Noon; Oct. 8 from 6-9 p.m.; and Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to Noon.
All classes will be held at the American Red Cross Carolina Lowcountry Chapter at 8085 Rivers Avenue in North Charleston.
Festival vendors sought
Goose Creek is seeking arts/craft vendors, food vendors and sponsors for its "2013 Fall Festival" on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Marguerite H. Brown Municipal Center.
For more information about the festival, call the Goose Creek Community Center at 569-4242. Businesses or community organizations interested in sponsorship should email Cheryl Heiselman at email@example.com. Arts/craft vendors can email Sylvia Reid at email@example.com for more information.
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What do North Korea, North Carolina, North Dakota and North Charleston have in common?
Besides "North," that is.
All four have recently been disparaged in answers to poll questions.
North Korea, for the first time since 2004, drew Americans' most unfavored-nation rating in a Gallup poll that's updated annually, slipping past Iran into the top - or is that the bottom? - spot.
Inspired by that sweeping-condemnation concept, this column followed up Thursday and Friday with an exhaustive (and exhausting) survey of its own. A diverse cross-section of local residents responded to one, two or all three of ...
1) Name the U.S. state that draws your most negative opinion, 2) Name the town or city in the U.S., but outside of S.C., that draws your most negative opinion, 3) Name the S.C. town or city that draws your most negative opinion.
The state winners, er, losers:
Mississippi (8), New Jersey (6), Florida (4), New York (3), Arkansas (2), Michigan (2), North Carolina (2), North Dakota (2), Ohio (2), South Carolina (2), Texas (2), Alabama (1), California (1), Colorado (1), Delaware (1), Georgia (1), Idaho (1), Illinois (1), Kansas (1), Massachusetts (1), Minnesota (1), West Virginia (1).
One of those hypercritical anti-S.C. voters cited our "backwardness."
However, that person's name must not be revealed. All survey takers were assured of inviolable confidential-source status lest their candor put them in peril of reprisals.
Still, some folks seemed wary about answering. A few didn't want to say anything bad about any place.
Make that very few. Lots of people evidently enjoy ripping states and cities.
Unifying scorn
OK, so this "most negative" approach leads the witness toward such hard feelings.
But if you have a favorite place, don't you also need a least favorite place for contrast?
And if we can't fire up group contempt for especially loathsome places, the powers that be would have a much harder time talking us into going to war. After all, it's a short trip from hating a place to hating its people.
For instance, one century ago, this was a popular saying in Vienna: "Alle Serben müssen sterben" (German for "All Serbians must die").
That phrase, set to music in a jingle and emblazoned on billboards, helped spark what was initially known as "The Great War." Later re-branded as World War I, it produced more than 16 million fatalities - and killed the Hapsburg royal family's Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Fortunately, though, 21st century Americans' animus toward some U.S. states and cities doesn't portend armed conflict. We got that bloody Civil War mess out of our system in the 19th century.
Well, sort of.
Back to what the survey says: The numbers on the "most negative opinion" of U.S. municipalities not in S.C.: Detroit (9); New York City (6); Los Angeles (5); Newark, N.J. (4); Atlanta (3); Washington, D.C. (3); Camden, N.J. (2); San Francisco (2); Peoria, Ill. (1); Orlando (1); Tallahassee (1); Amherst, Mass. (1); Cairo, Ill. (1); Dallas (1), East St. Louis, Ill. (1); Gary, Ind. (1); Lake City, Fla. (1); Las Vegas (1); Seattle (1); Pittsburgh (1); State College, Pa. (1).
It's reasonable to suspect that one of those answerers roots against the Penn State Nittany Lions. And such bitter sports-related antagonisms drive many Clemson fans to pull for whoever's playing South Carolina, just as lots of Gamecock fans pull for whoever's playing the Tigers.
Extend that "enemy of my enemy is my friend" mentality to geopolitics, and it's easier to see why the U.S. has aligned itself with such unsavory sorts as Josef Stalin, Augusto Pinochet and Saddam Hussein.
The obvious choice
Back to the home front for results on the "most negative opinion of" S.C. municipalities: Columbia (15), Myrtle Beach (5), Florence (4), Allendale (3), Mount Pleasant (3), Orangeburg (3), North Charleston (2), Barnwell (1), Easley (1), Folly Beach (1), Georgetown (1); Goose Creek (1), Greenville (1), Hilton Head (1), Kingstree (1), Manning (1), Pelion (1), Pelzer (1), St. George (1), St. Stephen (1).
Hey, stop picking on Mount Pleasant.
Yet at least those three hurtful votes offer some consolation to defenders of North Charleston, which only suffered two.
And at least Columbia correctly won - or is that lost? - by a "most negative opinion" landslide.
Yes, Columbia has a swell zoo.
But it stole Charleston's rightful status as our state's capital city, with the Legislature first meeting there in 1790.
Then again, our Legislature still meets in Columbia.
So maybe we came out ahead on that deal.
Frank Wooten is assistant editor of The Post and Courier. His email is email@example.com.

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1 21 Hampton. 2104 Hampton Road. On the corner of West 21st Street and Hampton Road. 459-1900.
2 Bobby's Place. 1202 W. 18th St. At Fifth and Vermouth. (Not really; it's West 18th at Cranberry streets.) 455-9840.
3 Lombardo's Tavern. 915 W. 21st St. On the tightest turn in town: West 21st Street and Brown Avenue. 455-7821.
4 Odis 12. 664 West 26th St. At the corner of Walnut 'n' Wing. (Actually, Walnut and West 26th streets.) 452-6347.
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Godolphin's Dancing House put away not one but two favorites at separate points to win her first stakes in the $200,000 Barbara Fritchie Handicap (gr. II) Feb. 13 at Laurel Park.
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Two-year-old fillies will attempt to get a mile and valuable black type in the grade III Tempted Stakes, with the field being led by grade II winner Paulassilverlining and stakes winner Harlan's Honor.
Mark DeDomenico and North American Thoroughbred Horse Co.'s Majestic Presence galloped on the main track at Santa Anita Park Oct. 28, and her connections believe she is primed for a big effort.
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text: Johannesburg - The controversial R9.1bn empowerment deal between ArcelorMittal SA [JSE:ACL] and a firm that includes a son of President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family has fallen through. "Shareholders are advised that the parties involved in the BEE (black economic empowerment) transaction have not agreed on an extension for the satisfaction of the conditions precedent and that the subscription and shareholders' agreement has therefore lapsed," Amsa said on Monday. The BEE transaction was unveiled in August last year and aimed to transfer 26% of Amsa's shares to black investors and staff. Structured so that all the assets of Amsa would have been transferred into a new company, the deal would have seen 21% of the company held by a special purpose vehicle controlled by the Ayigobi Consortium led by Sandile Zungu and 5% held by an employee share ownership scheme that will benefit about 8 500 Amsa staff members. Shareholding of the Ayigobi Consortium is in turn held 75% by strategic partners including several of Imperial Crown Trading's (ICT) shareholders as well as Mabengela Investments, which is led by President Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane Zuma. The deal was highly criticised for targeting those who were politically connected. At the time Amsa said it planned to acquire ICT for R800m in cash. ICT's only asset is a 21.4% prospecting right in Kumba Iron Ore's [JSE:KIO] Sishen mine and the awarding of that right is currently being questioned in court. Amsa did not clarify whether this deal had also been scrapped.


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To the Editor:
Gov. Chris Christie is on the right track in replacing the current New Jersey Supreme Court members. This activist court has been the source of most of our problems in the state, particularly our high costs.
The New Jersey Constitution's debt limitation clause prohibits one Legislature from incurring debts that subsequent legislatures would be obliged to pay without first obtaining approval by public referendum. The "Supremes" circumvented this taxpayer protection by saying it did not apply to bonds which, at the time, were needed for school construction.
The court's opinion favored the schools rather than the state constitution. This paved the way for a flood of voter-unauthorized governmental spending. In their book about New Jersey, "The Soprano State," Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure found that there are more than 300 state and local authorities and independent bodies using this subterfuge to float bonds and inflate salaries without outside control.
Supreme Court justices should be neither centrist nor liberal, but should interpret the law as the law was meant to be. If the law is not fair or is not in line with today's conditions, the matter should be referred to the legislative branch to make corrections, not a group of unelected, political appointees who are bent on inflicting their agenda on the citizens of New Jersey.
Apparently, the New Jersey Democrat Party still disregards the state constitution, since Senate President Stephen Sweeney will not schedule a confirmation hearing or vote for the governor's first selection (Anne Patterson, to replace Justice John Wallace) for the Supreme Court.
I once had hopes that the New Jersey Democrats would be honest enough to cooperate in correcting the problems they incurred. Unfortunately, they insist on having the problems continue and are no better, and maybe worse, than the national Democrats.
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November Random Thoughts
Post away!
I can't imagine having to make my own Thanksgiving dinner for my little family. I just saw the big advertisement from Shop-Rite where the turkey or ham with all the trimmings that serves 4. I have NEVER been to a Thanksgiving meal with fewer than 12 people!
Wonder what I'll be contributing this year...?
Still have boxes to unpack. Luckily they are hidden in the basement so I don't have to see them..lol. Out of sight, out of mind? :)
Quoting Barabell:
Woohoo! I'm happy to have CM back!!
Ugh... I need to drink more water, but I can't bring myself to do it!
I don't drink sparkling/seltzer water any more (it was my pregnancy craving), but regular water is still so blah.


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|Van Duzen River will make many campers happy
Sportsmens Report
Four days of mild sunshine, swimming in the Van Duzen River, hunting fossils and other lapidary treasures in the gravel bars of the famous river yielded three tired, sunbaked but happy campers.
Petaluma resident Albert Smith and his lanky 9-year-old daughter, Gena, had way too much fun while Sonoma County sizzled in the relentless summer sun. Thirty miles from the Humboldt coast made for temperate weather at our camp site. The Van Duzen is a vacation destination for fossil collectors and those in search of choice stones shaped and contoured by the river.
There are annual trips from Japan concentrating on the Van Duzen, the Mad and Trinity rivers. For many rock hounds, it is a dream destination for summer. A few hours north are the famed Mount Etna, Marble Mountain Wilderness, the Klamath and the dramatic Trinity. The rivers yield some of the finest California jade north of Monterey.
There is a campground that is a favorite of locals, Van Duzen – Swimmers Delight County Park, it is on Highway 36, 20 minutes from Highway 101. Just up river is the state campground, Grizzly Creek. It is right off the highway, so you camp with motorists checking out your campsite and making car noises all night. The county park is also right on the river but a half-mile from the highway.
The campground is one of the finest in the state. You sleep among the giant redwoods, with very old second growth redwoods providing shade, church-like quiet and a bed of soft fronds underfoot. Like the state campground, fresh water, hot showers and excellent maintenance makes your stay enjoyable.
The Swimmers Delight part is a public beach across from a high cliff. The river slows down there for a deep hole and a nice, safe beach. The county park offers camping on a first come first served basis at $20 a night. The state park charges $35 for a site with lots of traffic noise and campsites without much separation. However you can reserve in advance. Our stay began on a Wednesday afternoon, and our choice of camp sites was nearly unlimited. By Friday noon there were no campsites available. The locals are right, the county park is the first choice and the new campsite at the top of my list.
Once set up and with a supply of fire wood at hand, you and your family can explore the river just outside your tent. The rocky beaches are full of fossils that have eroded from the ancient sea beds. Just across from the camp, on the clay hillside, you can count the layers of beach gravel from the ancient sea shore, then three or four feet of sedimentary clay and another layer of sea shore. In one spot you can count six separate zones where the Pacific (it may have gone by another name then) reached into the rugged cliffs. Working the rocky river bars will yield excellent fossils even an amateur collector can identify. A geologist estimates the bottom sea bed at three to five million years. He said the spaces between the sea floor represent maybe 20,000 years of sediment before the sea floor crept back inland. That is a lot of years.
This is a well kept secret spot for campers. Now you are entrusted with keeping the Van Duzen Swimmers Delight close to your heart. One more thing, rock collector or not, you must visit the famous Chapman's Rock and Mineral Shop. The visit is free and the inventory is vast.
There is also an incredible museum wing, so be sure to go through the dark curtains and turn on the light for a minute or so. Once the light is switched off, the black light shines on the glowing stones…it's an exceptional experience.
Travel time to the Van Duzen Camp is four hours from Rohnert Park with a brief stop for gas and a doughnut in Willits. For specifics go to http://redwoods.info/showrecord.asp?id=1623 or Google the name for more comparisons.
Bill Hanson is a Sonoma County native and a lifelong sportsman. He is the former president of the Sonoma County Mycological Association. Look for his column in The Community Voice each week.


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A lot of people experience a Facebook log out problem for one reason or another. Now in most cases this is a user error where something has not been entered in correctly or the wrong Facebook logout button has been clicked. There is not really a specific Facebook logout page nor a Facebook logout link and there is no generic Facebook logout url that is the same for everyone because each individual account is differnt.
The best way to explain things here is how to logout of Facebook but not as you may first think. You see the simplest way to perform a Facebook log out is to go to your account button inside your Facebook account and click it which will then give you the option to log out of Facebook. So the question of how to logout of Facebook is answered here but what happens when you get problems?
When you look at your Facebook profile layout you will see that sometimes it changes and this can happen for several reasons. Firstly Facebook change the way their pages operate every now and then and so after one of these changes you may find things in different places than they were before. This shouldn't be a major problem but will mean you'll have to hunt a little harder at first to figure out how to peform the Facebook log out with the new setup.
The question the raises, is a Facebook log off the same as a Facebook log out so does that mean when you log off Facebook you also log out of Facebook? Well the answer is quite simple, yes you do. These two things are one of the same and so you shouldn't worry about this moving forwards.
The main thing to note about www.Facebook.com is that all in all it is very easy to perform a Facebook log out and so you shouldn't really encounter any problems but if you do then you might want to look at the following options to see if any of these will help you out.
Try clicking the Facebook logout button on your profile. If this doesn't work then you can try to perform a remote Facebook logout or even a Facebook logout iphone or any mobile device.
Whichever one you choose you should have no real problems performing a Facebook log out but if you do after all this then I would suggest you contact www.Facebook.com directly to get the best answers.


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1850-1992 Baseball Sheet Music Collection (215)
Starting Bid - $5,000.00, Sold For - $8,700.00
Extraordinary collection of baseball sheet music spanning the years 1850 to 1992. Music has always played an integral part in baseball history. From the earliest days of the game, songs have been written in celebration of the game, its most popular teams, and players. This grouping of 215 sheets represents one of the most comprehensive collections of baseball sheet music ever assembled, let alone offered as a single collection. Included are dozens of significant rarities. Fifteen sheet musics are from the nineteenth century, and 177 were published before 1950. Only thirty-eight titles are post-1950. Painstakingly assembled by our consignor one at a time over a period of twenty years, this offering is perhaps rivaled only by the famed Halper collection of baseball sheet music sold in 1999, which numbered 257 pieces. Every sheet music in the collection pertains to baseball in some way, either overtly (picturing a baseball scene on the cover or mentioning baseball in the title) or in some cases subtly (a song written by a player or a player's name mentioned in the lyrics). Twenty of the sheets represent publishing variations for thirteen different titles, thus there are 195 different song titles in total. Also included is a handwritten sheet composed by Henry Chadwick (accompanied by an LOA from his grandson) as well as two other interesting handwritten baseball song lyrics. Many specific ballplayers and teams are pictured or referenced in the collection, from the 1869 Cincinnati Reds (with portraits pictured on the cover of the classic Red Stockings sheet music) to Ty Cobb (on the cover of the 1912 King of Clubs ) to Mickey Mantle (1956 I love Mickey featuring Mantle with singer Theresa Brewer). Included are many other highlights, such as sheet musics picturing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, various teams, and, of course, many extraordinary generic titles with striking artwork and amusing titles. A selection of the many titles included follows: 1850 Victoria Polka , written by Henry Chadwick; 1863 Capitoline Polka (the Capitoline Grounds was home to the Brooklyn Atlantics); 1867 Base Ball Waltz (dedicated to the Kent Base Ball Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan); 1867 Home Run Galop (cover only); 1867 Monthly Amusements (one of the twelve vignettes on the cover pictures a baseball game); 1869 Red Stockings (cover only) dating from the Cincinnati Reds Stockings' inaugural season and featuring engraved portrait images of each team member including Harry Wright, George Wright, Asa Brainard and Charlie Gould (with professional restoration to an approximate 3.5 x 1 inch area of paper loss in upper right border, not affecting portraits or type, otherwise in Very Good to Excellent condition, framed to total dimensions of 16.5 x 20 inches); Circa 1885 Over The Fence Is Out , Yes Waltz ; 1886 Base Ball - American Association Vs. League Comic Song ; 1889 On The Diamond ; 1890 Finnegan The Umpire ; 1890 The Pennant Yorke (dedicated to the New-York and Brooklyn B.B. Teams); 1894 The National League March ; 1895 Games We Used To Play ; 1896 Win. Mercer Two-Step (dedicated to Mr. Win. Mercer and the Washington Base Ball Club); 1897 The Warmest Baby In The Bunch ; 1897 M.A.C. March and Two-Step ; 1899 A Dream Of Heaven Waltz (pictures John Philip Sousa's ball team on back cover); 1900 The Pennant Winner; 1904 Husky Hans (Honus Wagner on cover, poor condition); 1905 American League Two-Step ; 1907 Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain ; 1907 Cubs On Parade (dedicated to Mr. Frank Chance); 1907 The White Sox March (dedicated to Charles A. Comiskey and featuring portrait photos of all of the team members); 1908 Between You And Me (written by Johnny Evers and Joe Tinker, and featuring photos of each player in uniform); 1908 The Millionaires March Two-Step (pictures a ball club on cover); 1908 Take Me Out To The Ball Game (two 1908 variations); 1909 Hurray For Our Base Ball Team (pictures portrait images of each Major League manager as well as League presidents Ban Johnson and Harry Pulliam); 1909 Let's Get The Umpire's Goat ; 1909 My Old Man Is Base Ball Mad ; 1910 I Can't Miss That Ball Game ; 1910 Little Puff Of Smoke Good Night (words by Ring Lardner, lyrics by White Sox pitcher Doc White, photo of Doc White on cover, two variations); 1911 The Base Ball Glide ; 1911 Come On To The Base-Ball Game (two variations); 1912 King of Clubs (full-length photo of Cobb at bat on cover, minor edge wear, overall Excellent appearance, matted and framed to total dimensions of 15.25 x 18.75 inches); 1912 The Marquard Glide (photo of Rube Marquard on cover); 1912 Remember Me To My Old Gal (two variations, one pictures Doc White and George Moriarity on cover, the other Chief Bender, Jack Coombs and Cy Morgan); 1912 Those Ragtime Melodies (two variations, each with a photo of Rube Marquard on cover); 1912 Three Cheers Base-Ball Is A Grand Old Game (illustrations of Chief Bender, Jack Coombs and Cy Morgan on cover); 1912 Baseball's The Game For Me (photo of Rube Marquard on cover); 1920 Oh! You Babe Ruth (photo of Ruth on cover); 1923 Babe Ruth He Is A Home Run Guy ; 1925 Bucky Boy (photo of Bucky Harris on cover); 1928 Babe Ruth! Babe Ruth! - We Know What He Can Do ; 1928 Where The Shy Little Violets Grow (photo of Waite Hoyt on cover); 1929 The Galloping A's ; 1929 Here Comes My Ball And Chain (photo of Waite Hoyt on cover); 1931 It's A Grand Old Game (two variations); 1933 Come On, Let's Root For The Red Birds (photos of Columbus Red Birds on cover including Paul Dean); 1934 The Tiger Team Song (Tigers team photo on cover); 1938 When A Cowboy Goes To Town (from the movie Rawhide , photo of Lou Gehrig on cover); 1941 Joltin' Joe DiMaggio (photo of DiMaggio on cover); 1947 Babe (photo of Ruth on cover); 1948 Our Bambino (photo of Ruth on cover); 1948 Safe At Home (illustration of Ruth on cover); 1950 Grand Old Man Of Baseball (photo of Connie Mack on cover); 1956 I Love Mickey (photo of Mickey Mantle on cover); 1973 Move Over, Babe - Here Comes Henry (Aaron on cover). The approximate condition breakdown is as follows: 34% Excellent or better condition, 50% Very Good condition, 15% Good Condition, 1% lesser. Approximately 10% of the sheets have pencil or ink notations written on the cover (mostly the names of former owners). Most measure approximately 10 x 14 inches. Total 215 sheets plus three miscellaneous handwritten song lyrics for a total of 218 items. Reserve $5,000. Estimate (Open).
Additional images are available at http://photos.yahoo.com/reaphotos. SOLD FOR $8,700.00
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Today in History for Jan. 23
Highlight in History:
On Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to endorse it.
On this date:
- 1789, Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C.
- 1845, Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
- 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called "Lame Duck Amendment," was ratified as Missouri approved it.
- 1937, 17 people went on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge." All were convicted of conspiracy; 13 were executed.
- 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Figueres, Spain, at age 84.


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Dining al Fresco: Aman Tokyo
September 12, 2015
By: Five Star Alliance
The Cafe by Aman at Aman Tokyo is a peaceful oasis on the ground floor of The Otemachi Tower. Nestled amid the Otemachi Forest, a 3,600-square-metre manmade woodlands incorporating fauna from across Japan, The Cafe is flooded with natural light through its floor-to-ceiling windows, and seating is available both indoors and outdoors for lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. The Café is open from 11am to 10pm on weekdays. 11am to 9pm on weekends and holidays.
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Best Bathrooms: Mandarin Oriental Tokyo
April 6, 2015
By: Five Star Alliance
The Presidential Suite at Mandarin Oriental Tokyo has marbled bathroom features, a Jacuzzi bathtub,
walk-in shower, black marble sinks, and a television. There are heated floors and towel racks, and plush
terry bathrobes. The view from the tub includes a glimpse at Mount Fuji.
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New to Five Star Alliance: Aman Tokyo
January 27, 2015
By: Five Star Alliance
Occupying the top six floors of the recently-built Otemachi Tower, Aman Tokyo is an urban sanctuary high above the atmospheric whirl of tradition and modernity that epitomises Tokyo. A warm and exclusive sanctuary, Aman Tokyo draws its design inspiration from traditional Japanese residential structures. Classic Japanese materials such as timber, Washi paper and stone are blended to great effect with modern technology and luxurious fabrics. Filtered light contrasts with solid elements, creating a subtle interplay of shadow and light fundamental to the design and ambiance of the hotel.
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Cool Pools: Park Hyatt Tokyo
May 21, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Park Hyatt Tokyo features a 26x65 foot (8x20 metre) Sky Pool. Stunning panoramic views of Tokyo and a snow-peaked Mount Fuji can be seen through the floor-to-ceiling glass walls from the surrounding deck chairs. Club On The Park offers classes in aqua exercise and aqua walking which rotate every six months. After a swim, guests may enjoy soothing drinks and light refreshments from the poolside menu.
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Your Questions Answered: What Luxury Tokyo Hotel Will Accommodate a Family of Five?
July 30, 2013
By: Betsy LeTourneau
We at Five Star Alliance work tirelessly to ensure we bring you the best luxury hotels selection and information regarding amenities, location, and highlights so you are confident that the hotel you choose will exceed your expectations and serve your needs. Sometimes, however, you are left with a few questions that go unanswered, and that's why we're here. Be sure to explore our new blog series 'Your Questions Answered' to find answers to real questions submitted to us by our clients regarding traveling with kids, pets, the best beach hotels, and much more.
QUESTION: We are a family of 5 and looking to stay in Tokyo . What resort offers the best accommodations for our family?
ANSWER: Hotel Nikko Tokyo offers a truly unique view of the exciting Tokyo's urban waterfront from all of the spacious and luxurious guestrooms, which are equipped with spacious balconies and state of the art facilities. For your family, we recommend Ocean View -Connecting Rooms For 4 -6 People. There are also Superior Category rooms offering Partial Ocean View. These rooms offer twin beds or a double bed. Rooms are 40 sqM in size.
At this amazing location, guests enjoy top-class lodging, quality dining, a spa with wide range of programs, full blown convention facility, wedding services, and refined and sincere hospitality. Enjoy the sunset with selected champagne. Feast your palate while you feast your eyes with the spectacular landscape, be it at a traditional Japanese Sushi bar or a cheerful terrace restaurant. Wrap up your day at a quiet bar. All is possible on-site at Hotel Nikko Tokyo. Top quality dining is offered at 10 restaurants and bars in the premises, presenting various styles of cuisines, prepared with fresh and carefully sort-after ingredients, that are guaranteed to make your Tokyo stay memorable.
Indulge yourself in the Spa and fitness facility Zen before and after a busy day of sightseeing with personalized and original spa programs ranging from Shiatsu with the locally-famous Namikoshi methods, to various Thalasso and originally developed Aroma therapy programs which will soothe and revitalize you after sight-seeing or shopping duties.
All rates are based on double occupancy and extra person charges may apply. Please be advised that the rates, availability, as well as any extra person charges are subject to change depending on the hotel's policies.
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Experience Japan the Local Way at The Peninsula Tokyo
July 25, 2013
By: Elaine Lee
The Peninsula Tokyo has rolled out an exciting new array of experiential courses for guests wanting to learn first-hand about Japanese culture. The experiential learning is done through personalized classes, tours, and activities. These new programs have been designed from a local Japanese perspective and highlight key aspects that speak to the Japanese culture, heritage, lifestyle, cuisine, arts, and more. "The Art of the Kimono program is one of the many new classes that the hotel has created. Guests of the hotel get introduced to the Japanese culture and lifestyle by learning about the complexities of putting on the formal kimono During the program guests are professionally fitted and dressed in the traditional Japanese garment. Guests can select the kimono of their choice to try on from the available selection provided by the famous Japanese kimono designer Hatsuko Endo. Guests also have the option to don a traditional Japanese hairstyle and makeup with the opportunity to commemorate the experience with professional photographs at additional cost.
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Luxury Travel Advisor Tours The Brand New Palace Hotel Tokyo
June 15, 2012
By: Five Star Alliance
Five Star Alliance's sister publication, Luxury Travel Advisor recently had the pleasure of touring the brand new Palace Hotel Tokyo. Travel Guru Joe Pike (you can read more from Joe here: http://www.thejoepikeblog.com/) offers the following details about his recent stay:
Demolishing an iconic hotel isn't always a smart decision for a tourism-entrenched city to make, but when you replace it with a new, luxurious, $1.2 billion, modern chic hotel bearing the same name, it quickly turns into one of the best business decisions a destination can make.
Luxury Travel Advisor toured Wednesday the new Palace Hotel Tokyo, which officially reopened on May 17. It replaced the previous Palace Hotel Tokyo, which opened in 1961, was located at the same site and knocked down in 2009.
Here's what you need to know to pitch one of Japan's hottest new hotels.
The Rooms
All of the rooms face one direction, meaning every VIP, no matter what category they are staying in, gets view of the city.
Luxury Travel Advisor stayed in room no. 2207, a Club Deluxe Room W/ Balcony. Note: not all of these rooms have balconies, so be sure to request a balcony. Without a balcony, the room simply lacks one of our favorite features. There is nothing like seeing the city lit up at night, while enjoying a beverage on the terrace.
The best room here is the Palace Suite, which is the hotel's version of a Presidential Suite. The room is roughly 2,200 square feet. It comes with one bedroom with double beds, but can also connect. There are a lot of powerful colors in this room, including a lot of black and gold throughout the bedroom. Note: This room is a traditional Japanese style room and it's typical for Japanese couples to sleep in separate beds. There is also a very large balcony, 60-inch televisions in both the bedroom and the living and a separate kitchen and dining area. Tip: The dining area can be used for private dinners, including wine and sake pairings.
Restaurants and Bars
All of the restaurants are open to locals, which is why it is very important for advisors to book reservations for VIPs at least two weeks in advance since there is a huge local contingent of businessmen who frequent the hotel's restaurants.
The Grand Kitchen is located on the first level and where breakfast, lunch and dinner are served. Nice Touch: There is a small garden area outside that seats roughly 25 guests while another outdoor terrace area can seat up to 40 guests. Tip: Both outdoor areas can be rented out for small groups. The Grand Kitchen serves a number of cuisines from pasta to pizza to paelle. We ordered the "Hirata Farm" Pork Loin with mash potatoes, mushrooms and sage.
The Palace Lounge is a great place to have a cocktail. It has a very living room type feel and feels very homey. The lounge also has a piano with live performances nighty. Afternoon tea is served here from 2 - 4p.m. with more than 45 different teas offered.
The Royal Bar, located on the first floor is a very sophisticated bar with an impressive piece of abstract art occupying an entire wall. Fun Fact: The piece of an abstract dragon is meant to be an ode to the year the hotel reopened.
Wadakura is the hotel's signature restaurant, serving such Japanese favorites as sushi and tempora. It seats up to 118 people but is so scattered that it doesn't feel so large. In fact, there is a separate Tempora bar, called Tatsumi, located within Wadakura. Nice Touch: The restaurant offers nine private rooms, serving anywhere from four to 10 people. Note: We were told these are usually the first rooms to be reserved so be sure to book this at least two weeks in advance as well. Also, located within Wasakura is a separately managed sushi bar as well as Go, an area dedicated to teppanyaki.
The Crown restaurant is the hotel's French dining option. This restaurant has a strong art deco feel with floor-to-ceiling windows, offering an incredible view of the city.
Prive is another impressive lounge. It's very similar to the Palace Lounge except its a bit sexier, a bit more modern chic. Like the Palace Lounge, it also offers tea, but with a more French inspiration. The ambience of this lounge is designed to give VIPs a forest-like feel. Its basically a really chill, relaxed environment. Nice Touch: There is also a small outdoor lounge area with black leather seats and couches.
Amber Palace is the hotel's Chinese restaurant. There are a lot of amber hues throughout the restaurants, hence the name.
The Spa
The hotel is home to the Evian Spa, which takes the name of the famous brand of bottled of water. In fact, Evian water is handed to VIPs along with a fresh towel as they workout in the fitness center, which is open 24 hours a day and offers city views from all of its treadmills. The spa is made up of just five treatment rooms and one spa suite. VIPs who pay for a treatment can use all of the spa's facilities. There is a modest fee to use the pool, however, if VIPs don't have a spa treatment. The fitness center is free for everyone. Note: Club Members, those staying on floors 18-23 and also in some select rooms on the 16th and 17th floors, have free access to the pool regardless of whether they have a spa treatment or not.
The hotel is home to a Western-style chapel, which can have up to 12 weddings a day. There is also a Japanese shrine for more traditional weddings, but we were told roughly 80-90 percent of the guests use the Western-style chapel.
Who to Book For
Roughy 60 percent of the VIPs here are business travelers while the remaining 40 percent are leisure travelers. There are roughly 15-20 percent Americans here. We would suggest the hotel for business travelers or couples and families looking for a hotel just 20 minutes away from the famous Ginza shopping district.
New Luxury Hotels Opening in 2012: Palace Hotel Tokyo
April 12, 2012
By: Oksana Balytsky
We at Five Star Alliance are all about the best and most luxurious hotels. We certainly keep up with the happenings in the luxury travel world and take pride in bringing our clients the latest luxury travel news. Keep up with our blog series where we'll be featuring luxury hotels opening in 2012 to stay on top of the trends and make your reservations at the newest hotspots.
The Palace Hotel Tokyo is set to have its grand opening next month on May 17th, 2012! This luxury hotel is located in the heart of Tokyo and it aims to provide the absolute best of Japan. Its history dates back to the 1947 opening of Hotel Teito, which then became the Palace Hotel in 1961. The Palace Hotel ceased operations in 2009 in preparation for its restoration as the contemporary Palace Hotel Tokyo, and it is now a beautifully renovated luxury hotel equipped with the most modern facilities and amenities. There are 290 guest rooms and suites, each at least 45 square meters in size and all beautifully decorated with comfort and luxury in mind. Guests staying in the Club rooms or suites have access to the private club lounge, and the hotel has a new renowned spa facility, fine dining options on site, and a phenomenal event space that can accommodate up to 1,500 people. Be one of the first to experience this newly redesigned luxury hotel in Tokyo and make your reservations for any time after May 17th, 2012!
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It's Business Time: Park Hyatt Best Business Hotel Tokyo
March 6, 2012
By: Christopher Roney
There's a very interesting split in the travel industry between business and leisure travelers. And if you're one of the business types, you know well that you're on the road constantly and the things that matter to you, travel convenience, efficiency, and connectivity, are almost the opposite of what a leisure traveler might want. If the word 'secluded' ever appeared in a hotel description, you'd cross it off the list immediately. So I'm here to use some adjectives you might appreciate hearing in describing some of the world's best business hotels. Today? Tokyo.
Guests may be familiar with the criticallly-acclaimed Park Hyatt Tokyo from its estranged cinematic guests from the film Lost in Translation. Designed as a modern private residence, the 178 rooms and suites are the most spacious in the city. Its 24-hour business center gives you unparalleled access to everything you might need, and it is located next to the city's major transportation hub. The Shinjuku station provides rail and subway access to anywhere in the city. Extensive meeting and business facilities provide spacious room for anything from business meetings to conferences. And you can wine and dine your clients at the New York Grill, number one for the past five years in Tokyo's Zagat Survey. The Park Hyatt Tokyo is everything a business traveler looks for, packaged up nicely in one convenient location. And who knows? You might even have an incredibly dysfunctional but endearing relationship with an American transplant while you're there.
What's Hot in Tokyo: An Organic Market at the Park Hyatt for the Holidays
November 30, 2011
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
When you travel to Tokyo, you're not hurting for fantastic cuisine. The Japanese capital is actually home to the most Michelin three-starred restaurants in the world! To spoil guests with this bounty of locally grown, organic vegetables, the Park Hyatt Tokyo has teamed up with the Japanese Organic Association to host an organic holiday market on December 17-18, 2011. Vendors will be selling locally grown fruits and vegetables as well as organic cosmetic and handcrafted artisanal products in the hotel. You'll also find lots of environmentally friendly gifts for Christmas. Don't miss a cocktail in the hotel's famous bar/lounge; after all, the Park Hyatt Tokyo was the setting for Sofia Coppola's smash hit film, "Lost in Translation." And if you're lucky enough to spend the night, hit up the 20-meter, glass-enclosed indoor pool-- floating above the city on the 47th floor. Needless to say, the views to Mount Fuji are stupendous.


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Hilarious. Thank you!
I only became aware of this comic the day before yesterday, and every one I read makes me feel more unfunny and dull by comparison. It's like the cleverest sitcom in the world has been running for decades, and I've never heard of it.
"Being given one by the team" - I can't believe I lived so long without that phrase.
"Think of it as being given one by the team" - priceless! Well done, sir, well done!
Pure genius. Score one for Scott! (Pun intended)
First? Panel 3 made me laugh out loud, but it's panel 4 FTW.
There may not be an "I" in "TEAM," but there is an "M" and an "E." And when you take them away, all that's left is "T" and "A."
There is no "I" in team, but there is a "me," if you're not too fussy about proxemics.
And "meat."
There is no "us" in team.
There is no "you" in team.
There is no "success" in team.
However, there IS "MEAT" in team, but you have to re-arrange the letters to get anything useful.
Is saying "I want you to write corporate" a US English thing? I can't imagine that phrase without a "to" in it in the UK.
There's no 'I' in 'team', but there are four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'.
Whoa! I do believe you just one-upped Scott Adams, today! Well done, well done ...
Does 'being given one' have the same connotation in the US as it does in the UK?
Another clever punchline. (-:
It should surprise noone that this reminds me WAY too much of my wife's office in the [state] Department of [thing]. Her manager is due to retire, and so refuses to any of [his/her/its] work, resulting in cascades of losses and missed deadlines.
Guess who's the only one in her office that can't suffer any consequences for this...
There's no "I" in TEAM. But there's a "U" in SUCK.
Killer punchline, Scott - thank you. =) I almost snorted my coffee.
I saw a great image the other day. It was the word TEAM with the white parts of the 'A' highlighted. It said:
"We found the "i" in "TEAM". It was hidden in the a-hole."
There is and i in team:
@xiox Yes, in the US we do say things like "I want you to write corporate". The second "to" is implied by the context.
@Ancient Brit Yes, "being given one" means what you think it means in this context.
Context is everything.
Bahaha! Mullet boss gets his way, just not how he expected.
@Ancient.Brit - I believe Scott meant this as an inverse of the platitude "take one for the team", which connotes making a personal sacrifice for the greater good (though I suppose that could include a sacrifice of a 'sexual' nature...)
I always hated that saying. There's no "I" in "Team" - but there is in "Win", damn it!
Xiox, you're quite right.
Office English is mangled, ugly, and comprehensible only to those who've been oxygen deprived for at least eight months.
It's spreading, too; all over our broadcast media, people say "Period of time" as if to destinguish it from a period of distance or something else, and "speaks to" when they mean "speaks of" .
"Given one by the team."
That is hilarious and brilliant! This web comic makes me LOL, literrally. My co-workers think I am insane. Oh, please keep em coming!!
All right, everyone else is anagramming 'team' so here's mine: you can change 'team' to 'mate'...What might Mullet boss actually, secretly, want from his employees...? ;)
There's no I in team, but there's an M and an E, and that's good enough for ME!
Hmm... When Mullet Boss said "write corporate" I thought that's an oddly British turn of phrase for him. But the British don't say that?
Hilarious punchline!
Definitely not. 'Write corporate' would be an instruction to write the adjective 'corporate' on a piece of paper...
"There's no I in team."
"Yeah? Well there's no U either. So if you're not on the team and I'm not on the team, nobody's on the goddamn team! The team sucks!"
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Hostess Brands says it is going out of business, closing plants that make Twinkies and Wonder Bread and laying off all of its 18,500 workers. The Irving, Texas, company says a nationwide worker strike crippled its ability to make and deliver its products at several locations. Hostess had warned employees that it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to unwind its business and sell assets if plant operations didn't return to normal levels by Thursday evening. The privately held company filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade.
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The playmaker masterminded
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The Kangaroos claim a 10th world crown with a complete and utter decimation of their southern hemisphere rivals
The Australia full back – twice winner
of the Golden Boot award as the world's best player – limped off with a
knee injury early in the second half after a crushing tackle from Roman
The Australian international was detained by police in the early hours of Monday morning after incident in Manchester
CCTV showed the 30-year-old was acting in self-defence when he threw a punch back at a 40-year-old man
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Two-try Ryan Hall wants another crack at the Aussies and believes England can get the job done next time.
ENGLAND boss Steve McNamara hit out at Kiwi referee Henry Perenara after the latest Aussie heartbreak.
England new boy Chris Heighington has been practising God Save The Queen – because he is more used to bellowing out the Australian national anthem.
Leeds Rhinos boss Brian McDermott is the only Englishman chasing a major honour at tonight's RL International Federation awards at the Tower of London.
SIZZLING Sam Tomkins threw down the gauntlet to Billy Slater and Australia with a try-mendous display against Wales.
Melbourne-BASED Pom Gareth Widdop could not hide his disappointment at missing his first ever crack at the Aussies.
England's Four Nations flops have one more game to play but might as well pack their bags for the flight home now.
WIGAN wonder Sam Tomkins has revealed he has studied Aussie star Billy Slater following his switch to fullback.
SAM TOMKINS and Gareth Widdop provided glimpses of the future in a patchy England display against gutsy France.
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"Western countries should not support them [Israel] so much," Ahmadinejad said in a live interview Wednesday night, which was translated into Turkish and broadcast on CNN's Turk channels and Turkey's NTV. "The life of this regime has come to an end," he said.
Ahmadinejad arrived in Turkey Thursday for a two-day visit -- his first since assuming office in 2005.
The two countries are slated to sign a new gas pipeline deal; Iran is Turkey's third biggest supplier of natural gas.
The US opposes any new energy deals, including Turkey's plans to invest in Iran's South Pars gas fields.
A US-backed pipeline in Turkey transports Iranian gas to European markets.
Israel also expressed its opposition to Ahmadinejad's visit.
"We don't think it is a good idea to give legitimacy to someone who calls for the destruction of Israel," a senior Israeli diplomat said last week.
While Turkey is a NATO ally, its current government, elected in 2002, has deep-rooted Islamic ties, which have improved its ties with the Islamic Republic.
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Nine Mile Rerun
In Pittsburgh, activists bring a biologically dead stream
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By Peter Harnik
If Pittsburgh was "Hell with the lid off," as it was
famously called during the worst of its industrial heyday, then its River Styx
was surely Nine Mile Run. Polluted into lifelessness, buried in culverts,
insulted with trash, gouged by flash floods, and stripped of its floodplain by
vast piles of slag, Nine Mile Run was as close to biological death as a stream
could get. Today it is the site of the largest urban stream revitalization
project ever undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
It is fitting that Nine Mile Run would be the site of such a
grand experiment. For, as Jane Jacobs pointed out in her book The Economy of Cities, it is large urban
areas that are always the first to confront mankind's newest problems, and they
are also always the first to be forced to solve them. The very industrial
processes that led to Pittsburgh's once-immense wealth also caused
unprecedented problems for Nine Mile Run. Today the city is using some of that
old wealth along with the creative energy of its politicians and some of its
newest residents to devise solutions. But fixing the environment is harder than
damaging it in the first place.
Nine Mile Run was named for the distance from its mouth on
the Monongahela River to Pittsburgh's Point, where the "Mon" meets the
Allegheny to form the Ohio River. (Actually, they counted wrong; it should be
Seven and a Half Mile Run.) Over the decades Nine Mile Run has been severely
modified. The entire lattice of its five-mile-long upper watershed is buried
under the streets, yards, and buildings of the eastern edge and suburbs of
Pittsburgh. Eventually the westward-flowing waters reach the lush forest of
Frick Park and emerge for the first time into the open, 2.2 miles upstream from
the Monongahela. Soon after, the run merges with its main tributary, Fern
Hollow, coming in from the north through the center of Frick Park. Joined
together, the larger stream flows southwest under the massive superstructure of
I-376, the Penn Lincoln Highway. The final race to the Monongahela takes it
through a narrow channel between two astoundingly steep and high banks of slag
that had been dumped for half a century on the former wetlands and wide
floodplain of the stream.
In 1998, the last year of its almost two centuries of
deterioration, Nine Mile Run was what is called a "flashy"—as in "flash
flooding." It's a characteristic of most urban streams. Five million dollars of
reconstruction later, it is still flashy, but a bit less so. And every
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Huntsville may soon be filled with blooming state flowers, as people began to line up two hours early for a flower giveaway on Friday at City Hall.
The city's Operation Green Team, a Keep America Beautiful affiliate, was to give away 4,000 oakleaf hydrangeas from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday as part of National Planting Day.
But the free flowers went quickly, and those who arrived after noon enjoyed music, hot dogs and popcorn instead.
"As long as people take them home and plant them, I think it shows that are interested in being green," said Joy Parker, president of the Huntsville Beautification Board.
The Huntsville Beautification Board and Federated Garden Clubs of Huntsville and Madison County contributed in coordinating the event.
The 4,000 oakleaf hydrangeas, Alabama's state flower, were grown at Wallace State University before being donated to Operation Green Team by The Boeing Company.
"The purpose was for people all over the nation to be planting the same thing," Joy McKee, Director of the city of Huntsville Operation Green Team said. "It's about how you want to get your community together. We wanted to get people outside and excited about planting."
McKee said Operation Green Team will distribute another 1,000 native hydrangeas, as well as dogwoods, this fall. The team will also continue its tree giveaway tradition on Arbor Day in March, she said.
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Investors who plan to life off their investments in retirement need reliability and consistency of investment returns. Investors which subscribed to the traditional expectations of ten percent annual total returns learned the hard way that volatility in investment results is something that they have to accept. Total return is comprised of price gains and dividend income. What few advisers tell their clients these days is that there is one component of investment returns which is stable, reliable and consistent. This dividend portion of total returns is typically is not as volatile as equity prices, which makes it an ideal fit for a successful retirement strategy.
Just because a company pays dividends however, that doesn't automatically make it a good investment. A company has to have some competitive advantages, which allow it to grow earnings, which translates into higher dividends down the road. Few companies can afford to grow dividends for more than several consecutive years. Companies that can do this should be regularly monitored and screened against an objective set of criteria in order to weed out the weakest links. As a result I regularly highlight stocks which have announced dividend increases over the preceding week. The companies which approved dividend hikes include:
Sysco Corporation (SYY), through its subsidiaries, markets and distributes a range of food and related products primarily to the foodservice industry in the United States. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 4% to 26 cents/share. This was the forty-first consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend champion. Yield: 3.60% (analysis)
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) provides technology-based outsourcing solutions to employers, and vehicle retailers and manufacturers. It operates in three segments: Employer Services, Professional Employer Organization Services, and Dealer Services. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 6% to 36 cents/share. This was the 36th consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend aristocrat. Yield: 3.20% (analysis)
MDU Resources Group Inc. (MDU) operates as a natural resource company in the United States. The company provides electric retail, natural gas distribution, and natural gas transportation services. The company raised dividends by 3.20% to 16.25 cents/share. This dividend achiever has consistently raised distributions for 20 years in a row. Yield: 3.20%
Tennant Company (TNC) engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing cleaning solutions worldwide. The company boosted its quarterly dividend by 21% from 14 cents to 17 cents/share. This marks the thirty-ninth consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend champion. Yield: 2%
Intel Corporation (INTC) designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. The company raised its dividends by 15% to 18 cents/share. The world's largest chip manufacturer has raised distributions for 8 years in a row. The stock yields 3.30%
AmerisourceBergen Corporation (ABC), a pharmaceutical services company, provides drug distribution and related services to healthcare providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company raised its quarterly distribution by 25% to 10 cents/share. Amerisource Bergen has raised distributions for six years in a row and currently yields 1.30%
Of the six dividend raisers listed above, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), MDU Resources (MDU) and Sysco (SYY) seem attractively priced at the moment. I would also start researching Intel (INTC) in order to evaluate whether it would be a good fit for my dividend portfolio.
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Ryane Snow will be presenting his From Forest to Table Seminar for the second time this season due to overwhelming demand. A Winter Mushroom and Gastronomical Experience will be held on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 from Noon until 5:00 PM and includes a two hour foraging adventure, a tutorial on mushroom identification and their place in the forest eco-system. The seminar will include explorations of mushroom's medicinal and culinary uses.
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The sophomore star's surgically-repaired left knee buckled as he went up for a second-half dunk attempt during Michigan State's 66-56 win against Nebraska on Sunday, silencing the Breslin Center after he crumpled to the crowd clutching the twisted knee.
Dawson said he flashed back to 10 months ago when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament on the same floor. The Michigan State forward told himself, "Not again. Please, please not let it be serious."
It wasn't, and Dawson proved it with an emotional run back onto the court inform Izzo of the good news before heading to the scorer's table to check back into the game with less than three minutes in the action having gone by.
"It felt great because Q (team trainer Quinton Sawyer) said, 'This is what we've been waiting for. We've been putting in the hard work. Next dead ball, I want you to sprint out,'" Dawson said. "I did that, and the crowd went crazy."
Dawson scored 12 points on 6-for-7 shooting and added six rebounds in a win that put a scare into the Spartans and had them fearing the worst.
Nebraska's Ray Gallegos was whistled for a foul on the play with 14:01 left, with Izzo indicating Dawson tweaked his knee before he was touched.
"I was crushed. I was hopefully 80 percent crushed for him, 20 percent me and my team. I just kept asking, 'Is it the same injury? Does it feel the same?' He sat on the bench and said no, it didn't feel quite the same as the other one."
Dawson knew that once he was able to limp off the court on his own power that the knee wasn't seriously injured. He had his ACL examined away from the court by Dr. Michael Shingles and tested the knee with some jogging and defensive slides before returning to the game.
Dawson immediately called for a lob and later completed an alley-oop dunk from Keith Appling with one second left in the win that Izzo said he hated to see because it was unnecessary to do against a beaten Nebraska team.
But Dawson's sprint back onto the court is something Izzo will remember.
"All of a sudden he came running out like Superman," Izzo said.
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