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Tuesday, 06 December 2005
This release is just a small bugfix release. Keyword threshold wasn't working, in fact when you put in a value greater than 0, keywords were disabled completely. Download it here.
Monday, 05 December 2005
This new version of SEFU works with both Zen-Cart 1.2.5d and Zen-Cart 1.2.6d and features a new cool keyword threshold functionality that prevents words with less than n characters to be included in the URL. Download it here.
The following changes have been done.
http://yoursite.com/ and
Wednesday, 01 June 2005 SEFU 0.3-beta1 for Zen-Cart 1.2.5d has been backported to be used with Zen-Cart 1.2.4. It has not been tested. You can find the modified version here.
Saturday, 21 May 2005 A new version of Image Handler has been released. This one works with Zen-Cart v1.2.5d and has been tested only with Zen-Cart v1.2.5d. It supports batch resizing of your old, big, single images and you can download it here. Since this is the first release for Zen-Cart v1.2.5d, be sure to backup your files (including images) and database before installing this contribution.
The following changes have been done.
.jpeg extension in addition to
includes/functions/extra_functions/functions_images.php. Default filemask is taken from the images folder.
Saturday, 21 May 2005 A new version of SEFU has been released to fix some problems people have been encountering and port SEFU to Zen-Cart 1.2.5d. Download it here.
The following changes have been done.
key1-value1-key2-value2 to
key1-value1/key2-value2 to address possible occurences of "-" in parameters' values. (backwards compatible so already indexed urls are still accessible)
Saturday, 09 April 2005 A wiki system for breakmyzencart is to be announced! It is meant to serve as an information source to everyone using Zen-Cart or Zen-Cart contributions especially those provided by breakmyzencart.com. It is still in an early stages and there is not much information available yet but it will start to grow as time permits. You can have a look at (and of course contribute to) it by directing your browser to http://wiki.breakmyzencart.com/ or by clicking on the Public wiki in the Main Menu.
Monday, 04 April 2005 This is just a minor bugfix release that addresses large additional images not displaying if their name contains hyphens.
Download it here!
Monday, 04 April 2005 A few bugs have been fixed and the new switchable Show uploaded images in cart feature has been added. Now you can configure your cart to show customer uploaded images next to the product's image when you have set up your products with attributes to allow uploading.
Get the new release here!
Changes from 0.8e to 0.9a
products_image_manager.php (renaming uploaded file)
README.txt into
TECH.txt and
README.txt to make it more user friendly. In depth technical information can be found in
TECH.txt whereas the User guide can be found in
Tuesday, 29 March 2005 Since there can be problems when the ssl server shares the same
.htaccess file with the normal webserver (symlinking), Search-Engine Friendly URLs for secure sites is now switchable. If you can't visit your secure pages anymore with SEFU enabled, download and install this release and turn off SEFUs for SSL.
Sunday, 27 March 2005 This is just a refinement release where the following changes have been performed:
Download it here.
Sunday, 27 March 2005 Some improvements have been made to this brand new breakmyzencart contribution:
Get this fine release here!
Saturday, 26 March 2005 This contribution renders Search Engine Friendly URLs for Zen-Cart eCommerce.
The contribution provides the following features:
category-1/Manufacturer-My_Great_Product.html instead of
You can download it here.
Friday, 25 March 2005 Nothing special here, just made some bugfixes and improved the overrides for third party contributions.
You can download the new release here.
Tuesday, 22 March 2005 The third bugfix release deals with some recently reported errors including conflicting third-part contributions. If you use one of the following contributions, please refer to
INSTALL.txt or
README.txt how to fix that. You just have to overwrite some file(s).
Get the new version! On a sidenote I'd like to thank all those who donated, the server is payed for the next 4 months now.
Read on to learn more about the changes in this release.
Saturday, 19 March 2005 Some bug-hunting and code-cleanup has been done. It has come to my attention that this contribution can break banner display of the affiliates contribution. If you want to use both contributions, please contact me and I'll gladly help. This is also the first release for which you can donate to support ongoing development. Download it here. The following changes have been performed:
Thursday, 17 March 2005 This release is a pure bugfix release. Get it here! The following things have been changed:
Tuesday, 15 March 2005 Some features have been added, as the last release dealt with bugs mostly. Samuel Lown's famous Image Manager has been added to this contribution so it works now with watermarking and different image types for different image sizes. Since Sam's contribution did hell of a job before it was integrated, it can just get better, right? Download it here! The following changes have been done:
Tuesday, 15 March 2005 This is almost completely a bugfix-release to address a few issues that had come to notice. No new features have been added, so if you did not encounter any problems, You don't have to upgrade. You can download it here. The following things have been done:
_LRG.jpg although not of specified image-type (e.g.
Monday, 14 March 2005 Some cool features have been added and some bugs have been fixed, too. This release removes some of the shortcomings of the previous releases which were for example:
All this is gone now and there is more. Change are as follows:
small image height: 80! Canvas is then forced to match the exact dimensions specified. Original resized image is centered on canvas.


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Broken Record Alert: High-Frequency Traders Buying Data Ahead of You
Traders wanting to place bets on the U.S. Consumer Demand Index — a monthly reading of household spending sentiment — can now pay to get the data before anyone else.
On Tuesday, exchange operator Nasdaq OMX signed an agreement to provide a streamlined version of the data to paying clients first. By having the data first, and distributed through a so-called algorithmic trading feed, high-frequency and other firms will be able to tailor computer-driven trading programs to the data, which could affect pricing in everything from equities to currencies.
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CHICO — Law enforcement isn't generally a school problem and education isn't routinely a law enforcement concern, but starting Wednesday, a coalition of educators is stepping over the lines to help Chico kids and their parents avoid the pitfalls of the gang world.
Parents of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders are being asked to participate in a six-week program covering issues including clues that a youngster might be sliding toward gang activity.
The kickoff beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Center for the Arts on the Pleasant Valley High School campus will feature a presentation by Richard Ramos, founder of "Parents on a Mission."
In promotional material about his presentation, Ramos claims to teach parents and school officials to understand why gangs exist, why youngsters join gangs, how to prevent kids from joining gangs, and how to approach and recover people already in gangs.
Grants are paying for his local appearance, not money from the district's general fund, according to Maureen Fitzgerald, assistant district superintendent for business.
David McKay, principal of Fair View High School and one of the driving forces behind the anti-gang campaign, said the district wants to take the lead because the schools have access to the children.
"The gang is unique. Gangs are an epidemic, a plague," he said.
McKay said unlike a medical problem, nobody can really take "ownership" of the gang plague.
He described gangs as a "community problem," but the school district can take the lead.
"We want to engage people in the entire community," McKay said.
John Bohannon, the CUSD director of alternative education and another leader in the anti-gang push, agreed the district is "kind of taking the lead, but we know we can't do it ourselves."
He said one of the best anti-gang tools is to provide students who might be attracted to gangs with positive activities to fill up their time.
Chico Junior High Principal Pedro Caldera said one of the best ways to fill that time is with sports, but parents often don't know what is available in terms of sports, and in some cases don't have the money to keep kids in out-of-school sports.
The district officials said the students in the sixth through eighth grades are being targeted because this is the age group that begins to gravitate toward gangs.
Bohannon said kids cannot be excluded from school sports for financial reasons.
McKay said, "Filling up 'gang time' sounds simple, but it can be really hard."
Caldera said while the most active gangs in Butte County are Hispanic, and to a lesser degree Asian, the real common denominator among gang members is low socio-economic status, and not race or ethnicity.
Bohannon said the reason the training sessions are aimed at the parents is because they can do the most for their own children.
Wednesday's event is open to anybody in the community who would like to get involved.


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O & C – Antelias
Good fish at reasonable price
Review by Jean
Innovative restaurant with three floors: a fresh products supermarket on the first floor, the restaurant on second floor and fish display on the third floor.
We heard about it from a friend who loves eating fish there, so we gave it a try. The place is big and quite noisy. The restaurant offers two menus: a Japanese menu and a Lebanese menu. We ordered salad, sushis and fresh fish. To select our fish, we were invited upstairs to chose from the display, which presents a large choice of seemly really fresh fish.
The salad was good and the fish was excellent, however the sushis weren't exceptional (not bad though). Also to notice, their prices are attractive compared to other fish restaurants. However, the service is way too slow.
In conclusion, if you like fresh fish, O&C is a good place to eat occasionally with friends or family.Write a Review
Fish, Sushis and Lebanese mezze.
Serves alcohol.
Antelias Highway, direction Jounieh.
7 Reviews
Jul 8, 2012 at 13:22O&C, you are the best. And as I tried to understand all what was writen down below and I saw in my own eyes that in a rush hour like sunday at 1.00pm "LUNCH TIME" I get my order in 20 min and it was fish and "meza" and it was so great and sure it was hot and and and and... And I've never hear about a bad "iche3a" about u O&C. Keep walking
Sep 13, 2013 at 13:40Clean, good presentation and fair prices, but what is not permitted - not having a price list for alcohol... The waiter says Sorry! But on what basis do we order. The waiter says you just ask me. It is a shame. We should complain to Tourism Office and order only water.
Jan 23, 2016 at 17:18This restaurant has the worst service. I was sitting with my friends and the water was rude and got our order wrong food was late and even the bill came wrong. We didn't tip that's hoe much we disliked the service. When we asked for ketchup the waiters said that they don't have wtf then we see him carrying one.
Jan 16, 2011 at 14:59The service is the worst I have ever experienced. The food came 1h15 minutes late. We weren't hungry anymore! They barely apologized and didn't even did a discount on the bill. We should have left without paying. The market below is good. The restaurant never go there. The food isn't worth to be treated like this!
Mar 22, 2014 at 08:57Great seafood, salmon and fish and good prices. Other food: very greasy.
Apr 25, 2012 at 19:47One of the worst fish restaurants I've visited all my life. Variety and choice of fish is good, but cooking the fish is what exploded the bomb! The fried fish came still soft, cold and dripping with oil, could not be eaten at all. I agree with the Pascalew that there was much delay on offering the food but raising my voice up made things a little faster. The atmosphere isn't that of a "fish restaurant", the extreme white lightning makes you think you're dinning in a hospital. Sure there are much better places for a nice "aklet samak!". Sorry O&C. thumbs down.
Mar 8, 2011 at 18:03Nothing to say about O&C, by reading the comment by "Pascalew", I realize that I experienced the same bad dinner! I thought that maybe it was a bad day for O&C, but it seems to be an habit there to treat customers like that...
Call them
Phone Number: 04 416 516
Website: http://ocfreshmarket.com/
Get there
Antelias Highway, direction Jounieh.
See Also
Le Yen - Antelias(28 votes)
Japanese and Sushi cuisine in this typical Japanese restaurant.
Wadi el Samar - Broumana(1 votes)
Great View 13 km Away from Beirut
Tokyo Middle East(6 votes)
Japanese Restaurant in Jounieh
Sushi Star - Zalka(8 votes)
Restaurant, Catering, Take-away and Delivery
Monks - Ashrafieh(12 votes)
Thai and Japanese Cuisine, Warm Atmosphere
Sushi Bento - Ashrafieh(13 votes)
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Keywords: mayotte | mahore | mayota | africa | france | comoros | crescent (white) | flowers: 2 (yellow) | sea horses: 2 | stars: 4 (white) | front democratique des iles comores |
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French national flag - Image by Željko Heimer, 22 September 2001
Mayotte (186,452 inhabitants in 2007; 376 sq. km) is made of two islands (Grande Terre, 362.3 sq. km, 80,758 inhabitants, and Petite Terre, 11 sq. km, 13,627 inhabitants) located in the Comoros archipelago, north-east of Madagascar.
On 31 March 2011, Mayotte officially became the 101st French
Department and the 5th French Overseas Department. Mayotte is also a Region, but with a single Executive and a single Assembly (General Council).
The official results of the referendum organized in 2009 to change the status of Mayotte from a Collectivity to a Department are:
Registered voters: 71,420
Actual voters: 43,331
Valid ballots: 43,215
Voter turnout: 61,37%
Yes: 41,160 (95,24%)
No: 2,055 (2,88%).
The new status is prescribed by two laws (Organic Law No. 1486 and Law No. 1487) adopted on 23 November 2010 by the National Assembly, promulgated on 7 December 2010 and published on 8 December 2010 in the French official gazette (text).
Ivan Sache, 3 April 2011
The Sultanate of Mayotte was sold by Sultan Adriansouli on 25 April 1841 to Commandant Passot, who was looking for a port for the French Navy. In spite of the opposition of the United Kingdom and of the other local sultans, the purchase was ratified by King Louis-Philippe on 10 February 1843; Mayotte was formally annexed by France on 13 June 1843, a fact recognized by Anjouan in September 1843.
On 29 August 1843, Mayotte was incorporated into the Settlements of Nossi-Bé and Dependencies, administrated from Bourbon Island (today Reunion). Made a distinct settlement on 1 January 1846, Mayotte was incorporated from 1896 to 1968 into the Comoros.
By referendum, Mayotte decided twice (December 1974 and February 1976) to remain French and not to join the Republic of Comoros, which has maintained territorial claims on Mayotte since then (highlighted by the fourth star on the national flag).
By the Law #2001-616 of 11 July 2001, Mayotte became a collectivité départementale d'outre-mer.
Ivan Sache, Pascal Vagnat & Željko Heimer, 16 May 2009
The only official flag in Mayotte is the French Tricolore.Ivan Sache, 3 July 2000
Local flag of Mayotte - Image by Pascal Vagnat, 16 April 2004
The local flag of Mayotte, hoisted in front of the General Council, along with the French national flags and other non-identified flags (photo, L'Express, 12 April 2004), is white with the coat of arms of Mayotte surmounted by "MAYOTTE" in red letters.
Pascal Vagnat, 16 April 2004
In Le Monde des Philatélistes, No. 513, December 1996, J.F. Hory describes the arms of Mayotte as follows:
Coupé d'azur au croissant d'argent et de gueules à deux fleurs d'ylang-ylang d'or, à la bordure engrelée d'argent ("Per fess, 1. Azure a crescent argent, 2. Gules two ylang-ylang flowers or, a bordure engrailed argent").
The shield is supported by two sea horses argent; below the shield, a scroll argent bears the motto of Mayotte, "RA HACHIRI" in letters sable.
The arms of Mayotte, created by Michel Chabin, former Director of the Archives of Reunion, and designed by the local artist Pascal Santerre, were adopted on 23 July 1982 by the General Council of Mayotte. Therefore, while the flag is unofficial, the coat of arms is, actually, official.
The colors of the arms are those of the French flag.
The crescent recalls that 97% of the islanders are (Sunni) Muslims. The ylang-ylang flower is produced by the cananga tree (Cananga odorata [Lam.] Hook & Thomson), native from South-East Asia and grown on 9% of the arable land of Mayotte. The essential oil extracted from the flower represents 25% of the exports of Mayotte (20 t per year) and even 50% when reexports are excluded; Mayotte is nicknamed "Perfume Island".
The engrailed border represents the coral barrier that surrounds the lagoon of Mayotte, which is the largest enclosed lagoon in the world.
The sea horses allude to the shape of the biggest island (Grande Terre).
The motto Ra Hachiri means "We are vigilant".
Postage stamp with the arms of Mayotte - Scan by Ivan Sache, 10 February 2005
The coat of arms is shown on a postage stamp released by the French postal administration in 1997.
Ivan Sache, 23 May 2009
Flag proposal for Mayotte - Image by Pascal Vagnat, 2 April 2003
I designed a flag proposal for Mayotte long time ago, made of a banner of the arms of Mayotte. It appears that the design of this non-existent flag was released in the vexillological world, copied and further spread. However, I doubt very much that this flag ever existed in the real world.
Pascal Vagnat, 2 April 2003
Flag of FD - Image by Ivan Sache, 12 September 1999
FD, a left-wing political party based in Moroni, Republic of Comoros, have a branch in Mayotte and it is perfectly natural that they would be in favor of national unity. I have never heard of them having a flag, though, and I know the leader of the FD fairly well (he was my neighbour for two years). And yes, there are people on Mayotte who are pro-Comoros (admittedly not many...)
Iain Walker, 14 February 2000
The flag of FD is shown on the Flags of Aspirant
Peoples chart [eba94], No. 33, with
the following caption:
MAYOTTE (Comoro Islands Democratic Front)
East Africa;
based on written description.
The flag is green with a white crescent and four white stars placed vertically, therefore nearly identical to the 1996-2001 national flag of the Comoros (without inscriptions).
Ivan Sache, 12 September 1999


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 1 Issue 23
Congress will vote this week on legislation to criminalize whistle-blowing by government employees. If approved, this legislation would severely curtail the public's access to information which is embarrassing to government officials and important for Americans to know.
Already, U.S. law prohibits government employees from leaking information that would compromise national security, reveal covert agents, aid foreign governments or disclose cryptographic information. If Congress passes a provision included in the Senate Intelligence Authorization Act of 2001, government officials could face three years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000 for leaking classified information. Since the government marks even the most arcane materials classified, this legislation would give government broad ability to prevent all kinds of information from reaching the public. Government employees would clearly be less inclined to leak classified documents to reporters if threatened with jail time. The legislation further infringes on the First Amendment right to free expression.
The Senate recently passed the legislation and the Justice Department has endorsed it. The House hasn't yet voted on the legislation passed in the Senate and will be reviewing it this week in the House-Senate conference.
At the conference, lawmakers would be wise to remember the overall benefit of unauthorized disclosures. The leaking of the Pentagon Papers in the early 1970s, for example, gave Americans a much greater understanding of how their country became embroiled in the Vietnam War. And reporter Bill Gertz of The Washington Times, whose defense and intelligence sources are the envy of investigative reporters all over town, has been instrumental in informing Americans about weapons proliferation and the threat posed by rogue nations. The Far Eastern Economic Review reported in its Oct. 12 issue, "Almost every embarrassing story about China from its suspected military cooperation with North Korea and Pakistan to alleged spying activities at U.S. nuclear laboratories first reaches the public through a Gertz story. He is the journalist to whom frustrated intelligence officers and congressional aides turn when they have damaging information about China to leak." The article said that "government officials are incensed that many of Gertz's scoops are based on top-secret intelligence reports."
But rather than criminalize unauthorized disclosures to journalists, government officials should instead do a better job of protecting strategic defense technology. The purpose of this legislation is to shield government from embarrassment, rather than protect vital state secrets. The House should reject it out of hand, and the Senate should be ashamed of approving it.


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I was recently involved in an online discussion about how to calculate the benefits realized by software development teams. As with most online discussions it quickly devolved into camps and the conversation didn't progress much after that. In this case there was what I would characterize as a traditional project camp and a much smaller agile/lean product camp. Although each camp had interesting points, the important thing for me in the conversation was the wide cultural and experience gap between the people involved in the conversation.
The following diagram summarizes the main viewpoints and the differences between them. The traditional project camp promoted a strategy where the potential return on investment (ROI) for a project would be calculated, a decision would be made to finance the project based (partly) on that ROI, the project would run, the solution delivered into production, and then at some point in the future the actual ROI would be calculated. Everyone was a bit vague on how the actual ROI would be calculated, but they agreed that it could be done although would be driven by the context of the situation. Of course several people pointed out that it rarely works that way. Even if the potential ROI was initially calculated it would likely be based on wishful thinking and it would be incredibly unlikely that the actual ROI would be calculated once the solution was in production. This is because few organizations are actually interested in investing the time to do so and some would even be afraid to do so. Hence the planned and actual versions of the traditional strategy in the diagram.
The agile/lean camp had a very different vision. Instead of investing in upfront ROI calculation, which would have required a fair bit of upfront requirements modelling and architectural modelling to get the information, the idea was that we should instead focus on a single feature or small change. If this change made sense to the stakeholders then it would be implemented, typically on the order of days or weeks instead of months, and put quickly into production. If your application is properly instrumented, which is becoming more and more common given the growing adoption of DevOps strategies, you can easily determine whether the addition of the new feature/change adds real value.
Cultural differences get in your way
The traditional project camp certainly believed in their process. In theory it sounded good, and I'm sure you could make it work, but in practice it was very fragile. The long feedback cycle, potentially months if not years, pretty much doomed the traditional approach to measuring benefits of software development to failure. The initial ROI guesstimate was often a work of fiction and rarely would it be compared to actuals. The cultural belief in bureaucracy motivated the traditional project camp to ignore the obvious challenges with their chosen approach.
The agile/lean camp also believed in their strategy. In theory it works very well, and more and more organizations are clearly pulling this off in practice, but it does require great discipline and investment in your environment. In particular, you need investment in modern development practices such as continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), and instrumented solutions (all important aspects of a disciplined agile DevOps strategy). These are very good things to do anyway, it just so happens that they have an interesting side effect of making it easy (and inexpensive) to measure the actual benefits of changes to your software-based solutions. The cultural belief in short feedback cycles, in taking a series of smaller steps instead of one large one, and in their ability to automate some potentially complex processes motivated the agile/lean camp to see the traditional camp as hopeless and part of the problem.
Several people in the traditional project camp struggled to understand the agile/lean approach, which is certainly understandable given how different that vision is compared with traditional software development environments. Sadly a few of the traditionalists chose to malign the agile/lean strategy instead of respectfully considering it. They missed an excellent opportunity to learn and potentially improve their game. Similarly the agilists started to tune out, dropping out of the conversation and forgoing the opportunity to help others see their point of view. In short, each camp suffered from cultural challenges that prevented them from coherently discussing how to measure the benefits of software development efforts.
How Should You Measure the Effectiveness of Software Development?
Your measurement strategy should meet the following criteria:
- Measurements should be actioned. Both the traditional and agile/lean strategies described above meet this criteria in theory. However, because few organizations appear willing to calculate ROI after deployment as the traditional approach recommends, in practice the traditional strategy rarely meets this criteria. It is important to note that I used the word actioned, not actionable. Key difference.
- There must be positive value. The total cost of taking a measure must be less than the total value of the improvement in decision making you gain. I think that the traditional strategy falls down dramatically here, which is likely why most organizations don't actually follow it in practice. The agile/lean strategy can also fall down WRT this criterion but is much less likely to because the feedback cycle between creating the feature and measuring it is so short (and thus it is easier to identify the change in results to the actual change itself).
- The measures must reflect the situation you face. There are many things you can measure that can give you insight into the ROI of your software development efforts. Changes in sales levels, how often given screen or function is invoked, savings incurred from a new way of working, improved timeliness of information (and thereby potentially better decision making), customer retention, customer return rate, and many others. What questions are important to you right now? What measures can help provide insight into those questions? It depends on the situation that you face, there are no hard and fast rules. For a better understanding of complexity factors faced by teams, see The Software Development Context Framework.
- The measures should be difficult to game. Once again, traditional falls down here. ROI estimates are notoriously flakey because they require people to make guesses about costs, revenues, time frames, and other issues. The measurements coming out of your instrumented applications are very difficult to game because they're being generated as the result of doing your day-to-day business.
- The strategy must be compatible with your organization. Once again, this is a "it depends" type of situation. Can you imagine trying to convince an agile team to adopt the traditional strategy, or vice versa? Yes, you can choose to improve over time.
Not surprisingly, I put a lot more faith in the agile/lean approach to measuring value. Having said that, I do respect the traditional strategy as there are some situations where it may in fact work. Just not as many as traditional protagonists may believe.


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( Cartman )The city isn'twhat it used to be.
It all happenedso fast.
Everything went to crap.
It's like...
everyone's sense of moralsjust disappeared.
The bad economymade things worse.
The jobs started drying up.
Then the storeshad to shut down.
Then the black man waselected President.
He was supposedto change things.
He didn't.
As more and more peopleturn to crime and violence,
the town becomesgripped in fear.
Dark times.
This cityneeds protection.
There is an animalthat lives by night,
searches through trash cans
and cleans outthe garbage.
To cleanthe trash can of society
I've chosen to becomemore than a man.
I am the herothis town needs.
I am...
The Coon.
As the world plummetsinto despair,
The Coon fightsto keep order intact.
Lisa, I had a reallygreat time tonight.
I did too, Josh.
Would you mind very muchif I kissed you ?
Not at all.
A woman being raped.
This is what ourcity has been reduced to.
When the money goes,the raping starts.
Women are helplesswithout the Coon.
Oh, yes, Josh, yes !
Let her go !
Excuse me ?
You aren't rapinganyone tonight !
Oh, it's a talkingsquirrel.
Raghghgh !
Ahggh !Wahgghghh !
Get out of here,get to safety !
Aghgh !
Lisa, call me !
Ahghggh, ow !
Another womansaved from rape.
But how many more rapistsare out there ?
Aww, that really stings.
All right, things arepretty quiet out there, boys.
Let's try to get caught upon some paperwork.
Murphey, I want you to...
Don't let thecity's peacefulness
fool you, Commissioner.
It's too quiet.
Oh, not this kid again.
Hey, you getoutta here-- out.
There was another rapistin the park tonight.
It's no coincidence.
It must be a rapist plotand it stinks to the top.
What ?
I think the Mayormight be involved.
It's my theory she hasa lesbian lover
who's holding her leash.
Jesus Christ, can we geta lock on that window ?
Look, kid,you need to stop...
He's gone.
No, I'm justover here now.
What do we know about theMayor's sexual preferences ?
All right, listen, you havefive seconds to leave
or I'm gonna put you inthe jail and call your parents.
Jail's full, sir.
Whatever, then we'lljust put you in...
Now I'm back over here.
Just get out of herebefore we...
I'm right here now.
All right, stop it !
Yes, I have to go now.
But in the meantimeI have something
that might interest you.
Make sure all your men geta look at these, Detective.
What's in here ?
Hey, guys,good morning.
You guys hear thatanother rape victim
got saved by a superherolast night ?
They say itwas The Coon.
Who's The Coon ?
I know, right ?Who is The Coon ?
It's what everyone mustbe asking themselves.
Somebody isdressing up at night
and taking the lawinto their own hands.
As for me, I certainlydon't agree with
The Coon's reckless ways.
If you ask me, there'sno room in this world
for vigilantes.
I believe The Coonis a menace.
Yeah, and dressing upand running around at night
is faggy anyway.
You're a fag, Kyle !
Fuck you !
Dude, what ?
He's not a fag !
Why do you care ?
Oh, I, uh...
Well, I'm just mad'cause you shouldn't ever
use the term "fag,"Kyle.
That's a hate word
and it's insensitiveto butt pirates.
Anyway, what doyou think about
The Coon,Stan and Kenny ?
Do you think he's the saviorthis town needs
or do you think he'sa dangerous vigilante ?
Kenny ?
( Cartman )And, of course, the most commonquestion asked is,
"Just who is he ?"
Is he a heroor a menace ?
While we can all admitthat The Coon
is obviously really cool,
we should also beasking each other,
"Why does he care so much forthe people of this town ?
"Why does hesacrifice himself every night
"to rid our streetsof crime ?
And does hereally have the right ?"
What we all need now--
Clyde, Clyde,could you wake up please ?
This is important.
What we all need now is proofthat The Coon exists.
I believe that tonight,from approximately 5:00 to 5:45
The Coon is going to be onthe roof of Walgreens.
I know I'll bethere will my camera.
I'm sure many of youwill too.
the more criminalsI try to stop
the more justcome out of the back alleys
and dilapidated bars.
The city isa dying whore.
She calls out to meto save her
and I don'tknow if I can.
But she is still my city
and I cannot justsit and watch
as innocentpeople are...
Who the hell is that ?
Who the hell are you ?
I am an angel keepingwatch over the city at night.
As violence and darknesstake over the streets,
I work to ridthe streets of crime.
I am the symbolthis town needs.
Oh, no,no, no, no, no.
I am the symbolthis town needs.
Dude, seriously,you can't do that.
Go home, I was doingthis first.
Yeah-huh !
You heard ofThe Coon
and now you'rebeing a copycat !
Is that yourname, Copycat ?
I am Mysterion.Mysterion ?
That's fucking retarded.
You just gave yourselfaway, Craig.
Only you would thinkof a name that dumb.
I might be Craig,
and then againI might not be.
My identity mustremain a secret.
You cannot know.
Yeah, well, you can't knowmy true identity either !
I assume you must be Cartman,because you're fat.
Well, you're wrong !
I'm not Eric Cartmanand he's not fat !
Care to guess again ?
I really don't carewho you are.
Oh, all right, Kyle.
Yeah, took me real longto figure it out.
Only you, Kyle,would be a buzzkill
and try to stealmy thunder.
You don't care aboutstopping crime.
You're just doing this'cause you hate me, Kyle !
Kyle hates Eric Cartman.
Are you sayingyou're Eric Cartman ?
NO, I'm--I'm saying that--
Goddamn it, Stan,is that you ?!
It is you, isn't ?
Clyde ?!
Clyde, you're nota superhero, I am !
I cannot stand here and makeidle conversation any longer.
The city needs my help.
There are innocentsto protect.
No !
Dude, I'm seriously,you're being a copycat !
I'll sue you !
Motherfucker !
Which one of themis it ?
Somebody is dressing up
and pretending to bea superhero, but who ?
Has to be one of theguys in my class
'cause onlythey knew The Coon
would be on the rooftopof Walgreens.
No, stop.
Can't think about thatright now.
I have to focus.
Tomorrow is the most importantday in The Coon's life.
Everything The Coonhas lived and fought for
comes down to tomorrow.
How is it that nobodycame to Coonicon '09 ?
This is just...this is fucking ridiculous !
Got everythingyou need here, sir ?
Okay on beverages,buffet items ?
Yes, it's fine.
Great-- hey, I just want tosay that the Airport Hilton
really appreciates yourcontinued business.
What do you mean,"continued" ?
You don'tknow who I am.
Aren't you that little boywho had his Ginger Pride Rally
and his AIDS benefithere before ?
No, I'm not that kid !
Oh, oh really ?My bad.
I'm actually relieved.
That kid was kind ofa douche bag.
You're a fuckingdouche bag !
Get out of here !
Ehh !
Heh !
Oh, hello, sweetie,what did you do today ?
I got boned, that's whatI did, Mom !
I try to do good stuffand nobody even notices !
Oh, what happened, hon ?
I can't tell youwhat happened
'cause it's about mysuper-secret double life !
( man on television ) Tonight, an incredible story
of an unknown childin South Park
who has taken to the streetsin an effort to fight crime.
Wha-what ?!
But who exactly is...Mysterion ?
What ?!
Curious crowds in thetown of South Park, Colorado.
They've brought binocularsand camera phones,
trying to get a shot ofa mysterious superhero.
He was dressed mostly in blackwith a kind of cloak.
He jumped down fromthe fire-escape stairs
and then he just ran off.
We barely gota look at him !
To me it looked likeMysterion to me.
Everyone who seenMysterion say, "Yeah."
Yeah !Yeah !Yeah !Yeah !
Well, I think he'skind of a symbol
for the town, y'know ?
A symbol that everyonewho's sick of crime
can rally behind.
Fucking butthole.
Well, if you ask me,he's a menace.
There's no room forvigilantism in today's world.
( reporter )This artist renditionof Mysterion
has alreadygenerated thousands of copies.
You've gotta bekidding me !
As hundreds of people gatherto try and get a glimpse
of the superhero,one question remains:
who is Mysterion ?
Who is Mysterion ?Who is he ?It could bemy child or yours !
If you have any idea aboutthe true identity of Mysterion,
please call the9 news hotline.
( Mysterion )I could no longersit by and watch
as my city becamea cesspool of crime.
I have lived in South Parkall my life.
I decided it was up tome to keep this town safe.
Nobody at school knowsmy double life.
To them, I'm justanother 4th grader.
But tonightI am Mysterion.
Ah, Mysterion,thank God you've come.
What news do you have ?
There's somegraffiti on the bridge again.
I think those 6th-grade kidsare doing it.
And the guy atthe movie theater
is harassing Mexicans again.
We'll get right on it,Mysterion.
Thank you.
Thank you forall your help.
God speed, Mysterion !
( Detective )You are a beacon of hope
in an otherwise bleakand dreary world !
Dude, seriously,
I'm gonna kick the shit outof you if you don't stop.
The city needs my help.
It cries for protectionand I will
answer the callto save her.Answer the callto save her !
That's whatI'm supposed to say !
I know it's you, Kyle,just stop.
I don't havetime for this.
Fireworks are illegal inColorado, you asshole !
Hey, he's got fireworks !
( school bell ringing )
So, guys...
any of you do anythinginteresting last night ?
Not really.Really ?
Nobody was playing withany fireworks ?!
( sniffing )
Dude, what the hell ?
A-ha, Kenny !
I should have know !
Why do you have a pictureof Mysterion
in your locker, Kenny ?
Unless you areMysterion !
Dude, I have a picture ofMysterion in my locker too.
Yeah, so do I.
What, why ?!
I don't know,it's just a cool costume.
It's not a cool costume !
He just wears his underwearover his butt-fucking pants !
Now come on, which one ofyou guys is it ?!
How are you so sureMysterion is a boy ?
( gasping )Fucking bitch.
( Cartman )I had no choice.
I was at theend of my rope.
Sometimes whena superhero needs answers,
he has to turn to the wretchedunderbelly of society.
( Butters )Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha...
Look what the catdragged in.
Come out whereI can see you.
What's the matter, Coon ?
Nervous ?
I didn't want toresort to this,
but he could havethe answers I need.
How utterly delightful.
The heroicand mighty Coon...
come to put a stopto me again.
Chaos-- I need tokeep on my toes.
I'm not here to stop youthis time, Chaos.
I need information.
Oh, I'm sure you do.
But you seeI-- wugh...
but you see I also knowyou like to beat me up.
I didn't call youto fight, Chaos.
I came to see if youknow Mysterion's identity.
Oh, I'm close !
And I'll putan end to him
and all of youGoodie Two-Shoe heroes.
I'm not on his side.
Do you thinkI'm a fool ?
All those times you've stoppedme from my acts of evil,
all those times youtricked me into meeting you
and then gave-- yougave me titty-twisters.
Not this time, Coon.
I finallylearned my lesson.
Now, General Disarray !
Ahggh !
Yeah !
( grunting )
Oh-oh, careful,General Disarray.
Ahh, stop it,you little butthole !
Knock it off !
Yeah !
We beat him,General Disarray !
Listen to me !
I want to help youget rid of Mysterion !
Let him go,General Disarray !
( panting )
Why would you help us ?
Because Mysterionis trying to--
Ugh !
Little fucker,that fucking hurt !
Because Mysterionis trying to say
he's the herothis town needs.
But that's my job.
But you both fightfor justice and good.
Yeah, but he'sa fucking dick.
I want him gone justas much as you do.
Very well.
I will show you what we knowabout Mysterion's identity.
But if this issome kind of setup--
Look, I'm the good guy,Chaos.
I don't betray people.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't like having towork with this scumbag,
but I knew Mysterionwas out there,
plotting his next move.
Hello, Kyle.
Whoa, what the...
Do not be afraid.
I mean youno harm.
Hey, hey, you're thatMysterion kid !
Yes, but now I believesomeone is trying
to learn my true identity.
Dude, everyone's trying tofigure out who you are !
I cannot be unmasked for thenI would stop being a symbol.
I need help.
Somebody who can dobackground checks for me,
do some investigating.
Who, me ?Why ?
Because I think you arethe smartest kid in class.
This way !
We will now show you oursecret Headquarters of Doom !
You guys have your ownstorage facility ?
Actually it belongs toGeneral Disarray's Grandma,
but she lets us use it.
This is where we come upwith all our evil plans !
Here's our computer relays.
And this is likea a Cube of Chaos
that can destroy the worldin one second !
And here's someof our evil minions !
We have everythingwe need here !
Can I offer you a Cokeor a Sprite or something ?
I'll take a Sprite.
Get The Coon a Sprite,General Disarray.
As you can see,we too have been working hard
on Mysterion's identity.
You have an entire walldedicated to Mysterion ?
What about...
Do you still have that
"Who is the Coon" T-shirtI gave you ?
Oh, yeah, I think it'saround here somewhere.
Using our photos, we aretrying to pinpoint
Mysterion's identity.
Why is Cartmancrossed out ?
He could be Mysterion.
No, he's too fat.
Based on his body type,it's gotta be someone like
Stan or Kyle.
Grrrr !
All right, all right,all right, look, Chaos.
Just set up a video camera.
I know how we can putan end to Mysterion
once and for all.
The clock is tickingand the citizens of South Park
are gripped in fear.
Two days ago,an evil unknown terrorist
threatened major consequences
if Mysterion does notreveal his identity.
"Mark my words, South Park,
"your precious herois now your undoing !
"If Mysterion does not unmaskhimself publicly
"by Wednesday night,
"I am going to blow upa hospital."
Blow up a hospital ?!
I'm not gonna blow upany hospital !
Are you nuts ?!
What ?
"Uh, the choice is yours,Mysterion.
"Unmask yourselfor hundreds will die.
Jesus Christ !
Since the threat was issued
there has beenno sign of Mysterion.
Where is Mysterion ?!
Where is Mysterion ?!
blow up anything, are we ?
If you don't make goodon your threats, Chaos,
then what good areyour threats ?
But you really wannablow up a hospital ?
I mean, aren't youa good guy ?
Sometimes blowing uphospitals is for
the greater good, Chaos.
You know,I've been thinking.
If we're reallyevil villains,
then we should betray him
and blow him up withthe hospital.
Y'know, you're a littlescrotum licker, dude.
Why don't youshut the fuck up ?
All right, Chaos,I'm gonna get the triggers
for these thingsat Ace Hardware.
Keep an eye on this stuff.
Oh, jeez, General Disarray.
This is a lot more thanI ever really intended.
I mean, I hate the world
and all its punyinhabitants and all that,
but blowing up a hospitaljust seems mean.
( gasping )Oh !
Oh, hamburgers !
Ahghgh !
Hagh, Mysterion-- Ibudduh,I buddush-hebba-hebba...
Why are you doing this ?
This isn't yourusual M-O, Chaos.
Well, I-bubba--I was just...
and then The Coon showed up
and he was-a is-aabuduh abdudh...
( Butters )Ahghghggh !
What is that ?
( grunting )
Look, Mysterion andProfessor Chaos are fighting !
Give him hell,Mysterion !
( cheering )
Look out, Mysterion,General Disarray is behind you !
Ehh-- ow !
Jesus Christ, we needback up out here !
I think I can geta shot at Chaos, sir !
You think your bulletscan hurt him ?
( all gasping )
Yeah, we did it !
He's dead.
Mysterion is dead.
( whimpering )
The impossiblehas happened.
Mysterion... belovedprotector of the city...
is dead.
Who will save us now ?
Wait, look !
He's all right !
( cheering )
( grunting )
( Cartman )Oh, my God,look, everyone !
It's The Coon !
Fear not, everyone !
The Coon is hereto save the day !
Isn't that Bruce Vilanch ?!
Be careful,Bruce Vilanch !
There's superhumansfighting right over there.
Okay, sorry, sorry !
Sorry, I give up !Please, I give up !
Don't worry, Mysterion,The Coon will now help you !
Whoa, wait, I thought wewere working together--
Ahghg !!
Oh, jeez, I thinkI broke a tooth !
( mumbling )
( cheering )
That was greatteamwork, Mysterion.
South Park is safe...until next time.
What next time ?
Well, people areobviously so desperate
to learn your identity thatthey'll do anything.
Won't be long beforethe next villain comes along
and threatens violence unlessyou take off your mask.
but to unmask myself.
Don't do it, Mysterion !
If you show youridentity,
we'll be forced to arrestyou for being a vigilante.
Don't you thinkhe knows that ?
But superheroesknow that sometimes
you have to sacrifice yourselffor the greater good !
Don't show yourface, Mysterion !
You have to be a symbol !
So that the next terroristcan threaten South Park
if he doesn'tunmask himself ?
No, it's true.
As long as my identityis a mystery,
this will justhappen again and again.
It has to end.
I willshow my face.
Well, I'll be.
I knew it was you !
Remember, I evensaid it before !
Wow, a kid from my classwas Mysterion.
Well, I'm sorrybut you're under arrest.
Take the kid to jail.
( Cartman )My entire planworked to perfection.
My work here is done.
With Mysterionout of the way,
The Coon can finally go backto keeping the city safe.
Once again,I alone am the symbol
this town canstand behind.
Every townneeds a hero.
Every town needs...
a Coon.
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By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Last updated: 4:09 pm
The Steelers have raised ticket prices for the 2012 season.
In a letter mailed to season-ticket holders, the team said the price increase was in order to "meet the challenges of remaining competitive in the National Football League."
The Steelers did not make prices available, but it is known that tickets which cost $92 in 2011 will cost $100 next season.
The Steelers did not raise prices for the 2011 season, which was threatened by the NFL lockout.
It is the fifth ticket increase in the past eight years. The Steelers did not raise ticket prices following their Super Bowl appearances in the 2005, 2008 and 2010 seasons.


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Tour holiday homes and luncheon Dec. 12
Lowcountry Christian Women's Connection's "Tour of Festive Holiday Homes and Luncheon" is at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 12 at Hampton Hall Clubhouse, 170 Hampton Hall Blvd.
The lunch and inspirational message will be followed by a tour of homes decorated for the holidays in Hampton Hall.
Cost for the lunch and tour is $39 or lunch-only is $24. Fee is due by Dec. 5. Make checks payable to "CWC Bluffton" and mail to Judy Murphy at 52 hampton Circle, Bluffton. For more information, call Judy Murphy at 705-7950.
Local chapter of the AARP meets Dec. 6
The local chapter of the AARP will have its holiday meeting at 1 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Community Room of the Okatie/Bluffton Outpatient facility.
All are welcome to enjoy some holiday treats and plan for 2013. Dues for the 2012/2013 are due. For more information, call Chris Olsen at 705-5798.
Caring Neighbors to meets Dec. 5
Caring Neighbors, Inc will meet at 2 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Bluffton Library. CNI is a nonprofit organization that began in the Rose Hill community in 2010. Volunteers provide services that support and enhance independent living and wellness for all residents in Rose Hill. CNI hopes to expand into other Bluffton communities.
This information meeting is being held to explain why CNI was formed, how it operates and what others can do to help get their community involved in this "Aging in Place" concept.
2013 budget, projects and assessment announced
The 2013 budget was passed by the Board of Directors during a special meeting held after the adjournment of the annual meeting on Nov. 14.
More information can be found on the annual meeting PowerPoint presentation, which has been posted on www.suncityhiltonhead.org. A direct link to the presentation is listed under the "News" section on the Resident Central homepage after you login.
The meeting will also be rebroadcast on Sun City TV. Check www.suncityhiltonhead.org for times. More information will be included in the 2013 Fee Schedule, which will be delivered with the December issue of SunSations at the end of this month.
Indoor pool closed for maintenance
The Purrysburg indoor pool is closed through Nov. 28 for scheduled cleaning. The Lakehouse Indoor Pool will be open during its regularly scheduled times: 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.
Children's indoor pool hours will take place at the Lakehouse Indoor Pool from 4-6 p.m. daily. Aquatic aerobic classes will not be held while the Purrysburg indoor pool is closed.
Board town hall meeting
The Sun City Hilton Head Board of Directors will host an open Town Hall meeting from 1-3 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Lakehouse Ballroom. There is not an agenda; residents are welcome to come and ask questions and interact with board members.
Kick off December with Holiday Cabaret
Tickets are going fast for the Holiday Music Cabaret at 1 p.m. Dec. 1 at Magnolia Hall.
Kick off December with an all-star group of musicians playing our holiday season favorites. Tickets are $10 and great seating choices are available. Pick up tickets at lifestyle services in Pinckney Hall.
2012 fitness class pass expiration date extended
The Health & Wellness Department is extending the expiration date of fitness class passes purchased in 2012 through Jan. 31, 2013.
The extension is due to a restricted fitness class schedule mid-year while the Purrysburg fitness center was renovated and anticipated Aerobic Room preventive maintenance during the year-end holiday season.
Residents don't need to take any additional action to redeem their unused 2012 class passes during January. 2013 fitness class passes (available for use Jan. 2, 2013) may be purchased at the Purrysburg and Lakehouse fitness centers beginning Dec. 3.
Fitness for food
Help to replenish the local food bank by donating a canned or boxed goods at the Lakehouse or Purrysburg fitness centers on Monday through Nov. 28. In exchange, your aerobic class at the time of your donation is free.
New City Beat
An new City Beat is on the air.
Susan Safranek and Ray Tapio take a look at the Beaufort-Jasper Active Adult Challenge, Howl-O-Ween and see what residents think of the Recycle Rewards Challenge. The duo also pays a visit to the Palmetto Animal League.
City Beat airs at noon and other times throughout the day on Sun City TV, Hargray channel 238, Time Warner channel 5 or www.suncityhiltonhead.org. Check Sun City TV listings for additional broadcast times.


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the Strand Theatre and the grand opening of the exhibition "The Making of…Guardians" at artspace.
The event begins at 6:30 pm with an introduction of the film by the Executive Producer, William Joyce and the Production Designer, Patrick Hanenberger. Immediately following the premiere, audience members will follow Nicholas St. North in a parade down Louisiana Avenue, under a cascade of confetti to artspace for a first look at the exhibition. Patrons will celebrate at a street party complete with live music by Brady Blade and Friends.
For tickets and more information, call the Strand Theatre box office at (318) 226-1481. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit artspace, Robinson Film Center and The Strand Theatre.
Rise of the Guardians is an epic and magical adventure that tells the story of Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost – legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children everywhere. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Peter Ramsey, the film will be released on November 21, 2012 in theatres nationwide. William Joyce and Guillermo del Toro executive produced the animated, feature-length film. For more information about the film, visit http://riseoftheguardians.com
William Joyce's New York Times-bestselling GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD book series is set 200 years before the adventures from Rise of the Guardians. The 13 book series published by Simon & Schuster sets up the mythology of these legends through vividly illustrated picture books and chapter books for young adults. "There's a lot of stuff in the film that's fed the book series in ways I didn't expect and made it all together stronger and more interesting. It was a delight to work on both the books and the film," says William Joyce. For more information about the book series, visit http://theguardiansofchildhoodbooks.com.


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Dear Lena,
I guess we are getting the best of the bargain, as far as temperature is conserned at that. It has been nice and cool here all day today. But say Lena, the sun sure does bake every thing it hits. As long as you can get in the shade here life is sweet, but out drilling in the sun it is awful. Right now as I write this letter, I am sitting in my tent and there is a steady breeze blowing across my cot. But if I should just step out side, Id swear there wasnt a breath of air at all. As I said in my post card it was cool this morning, and I bet we will need our blankets tonight alright.
I hope you enjoyed the exhibition at the big park. I am sorry that your plans for going to N.Y. has been upset on account of Preparedness, but winter isnt a bad time to visit a big city. Of coarse I hope I will not be here as long as that but you never can tell. I don't know what difference it makes what regiment a fellow belongs to, but I will say right here that the 8th is the best. I can bet you stopped them all right when you got started. More speed to you. One Regiment is doing as much as the other and if they wasn't you would hear from it I tell you.
I am glad to hear that Henry pays you a visit once in a while. Tell him he is lucky that he can. I wish I could. We are to be inspected for our field or battle work tomorrow, and our equipment Wednisday. Before this reaches you you will have read what the 5-8-9th are rated as.
It hasn't rained now for two days and we are doing fine. I hope that it will get cooler soon, and do take it easy, and dont get any of those head aches that you are so subject to. You bet Mary and I will be good pals and tell her I am just waiting for the time that I can get her in my arms and pay pack some of those XXXXX she sent me and all the soldiers down here. She may think that I am a coon when she sees me, but I will find a way to over come this I guess.
It is said that we are to go on a seven day hike very soon after this inspection and that will test the regiments better than any thing else unless it is the real stuff. And no danger of any thing like that. Well I am going to answer Ems letter and then I am going to take in my wash.
Dear Em
Im afraid Im not going to have much time to write to you so excuse me if I make use of this excuse to fill up this paper as soon as I can. I am very sorry that you don't get any releif from the heat. I hope you all enjoyed the show. I suppose Pa gets all the bacon an eggs in the morning that he wants.
Talking of chicken soup that is what we had this noon. It is just what you say in regards to my return. You never can tell what tomorrow brings until it is yesterday. All the boys are shooting crap in this tent and talk about the Sunday mornings when we lived on High St. nothing to it. I will have to cut this letter until after Retreat, for it is almost 5 now and I got quite a wash out between the tents. If I don't get them in pretty soon they wont be there thats all.
Well the clothes are in, Ive stood Retreat and here I am at it again. The next call will be mess. I fell pretty hungry so I hope they have some thing good. Please excuse this writing but I am in a hurry and Id like to get this letter off before grabbing my eats. Gee but its nice and cool here today. I can hardly realize that I am away down here on the Rio Grande. Probably it is because I am feeling so good.
We are in for a hard days work tomorrow and I am going to get a good nights sleep tonight. That is one good thing down here. There hasn't been one night that it wasn't comfortable to sleep, not one. Tonight it is going to be cold I think.
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In the race for Norwich mayor, the money trail has taken some revealing turns.
All three candidates — Republican Peter Nystrom, Democrat Deb Hinchey and Libertarian William Russell — have pulled contributions from vastly different bases and spent their money in equally contrasting ways, campaign finance reports show.
Oct. 10 was the most recent filing deadline.
Since entering the race in December, Hinchey has raised a total of $29,665. She has $11,924 in cash on hand and has received $5,920 in contributions since the primary.
For those familiar with city politics, Hinchey's list of contributors is full of recognizable names: Current Alderman Tucker Braddock Jr., Board of Education Chairwoman Yvette Jacaruso, former state Rep. Tom Reynolds and Norwich Public Utilities Commission Chairman James Sullivan all gave between $50 and $100.
Since March 15, Hinchey has made 13 payments of at least $1,000 to The Vinci Group, a Manchester-based political consulting firm co-owned by state Rep. Geoff Luxenberg, D-Manchester, and Michael Farina, a senior lector of Italian at Yale University. She's spent more than $24,465 for their services over that time.
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Stonington resident and former Congressman Robert Simmons, a Republican, contributed $100 to Nystrom because he believes the mayor is steering the city toward economic success.
"He's a regular guy who works for UPS and understands the hopes and needs of regular, middle-class families, and I think he's done an outstanding job working in a bipartisan fashion to bring dollars and development to Norwich," said Simmons, who served in Congress from 2001 through 2007 and kept an office in Norwich. His daughter is also a Norwich Free Academy graduate.
Russell, who has embraced his status as an outsider to the Norwich political scene, has seen much of his money come from donors well outside the city. That includes $250 from Support Athiest Candidates, a Fairfax, Va.-based political action committee headed up by Ellen Johnson, who served a president of American Athiests from 1995 through 2008.
Vincent Arguimbeau III, of Darien, gave $100 to Russell. He's a partner at Greenwich-based Arguimbeau and Co., a marketing firm.
Arguimbeau, who is a Libertarian, said he was contacted by Russell's campaign and was happy to support Russel's bid for mayor.
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Michael Saunders shifted to center field, with Michael Morse in right and Ibanez in left. Wedge said the purpose was two-fold, as it gets Ibanez early playing time coming off a good spring and allows Gutierrez to ease into the season after dealing with some leg soreness in camp.
"We're going to continue to get everybody in there," Wedge said. "Guys did a nice job this spring and we want to make sure we don't give them too much time off. So we'll work to get all these guys in there and Raul is in there today."
Wedge said Gutierrez was fine after playing Monday's opener, but will be given regular days off initially to keep him healthy.
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While its primacy as the national pastime has occasionally been challenged over the years — by football, by basketball and, increasingly, by NASCAR — every spring, the arrival of baseball somehow manages to stir the hearts of men and women who have convinced themselves that they've long outgrown the sport's singular charms. Grownups, in other words, often greet the season with a welter of complicated emotions; but for boys and girls fortunate enough to have fallen in love with baseball early in life — and who have been waiting all winter just to get out on the diamond — the defining urge in the early days of spring can be summed up in two words: play ball!
It's somehow fitting, then, that one of the greatest baseball photos ever published in LIFE was, and remains, a picture not of Hall of Fame legends like Mays or Mantle or Berra or Musial, and that it doesn't capture big-league action on the field at Yankee Stadium or Wrigley or Fenway, but instead focuses on Little Leaguers. In fact, for some fans, Yale Joel's marvelous 1954 portrait of young players in a kindergarten classroom Manchester, N.H., trying on uniforms and (as LIFE noted in the original caption) anxiously awaiting the arrival of "missing parts of outfits" remains one of the best pure baseball picture any LIFE photographer ever made.
The engaging, charismatic hub of the photograph, of course, is the kid standing in the center of the frame. Pantless and formidable — no small feat! — young Dick Williams appears ready to rip into the coach, the equipment manager, someone, for keeping him and his teammates waiting for the rest of their uniforms to arrive. The other players on the Manchester Boys Club team look bored, or anxious, or perhaps just a little bit unsure of themselves. Williams, on the other hand, looks like he'd gladly go out and play in his socks and his underpants — and, by sheer force of will, would probably get his teammates to follow him on to the field, with or without the other halves of their uniforms.
But beyond the deep appeal of Joel's now-classic picture — and of so many of his other photos that ran in the June 28, 1954, issue of LIFE — the article that his photos accompanied is noteworthy for its own quite surprising focus: namely, exploring how the competitive nature of organized sports affects the children who play them.
"Youngsters getting into the Little League," LIFE noted to its readers, "run head on into the world of competition.
Each step — matching skills with other kids to make a squad, vying to make the starting lineup, playing against other teams — brought aches to the losers and joy to the winners. Little League critics have charged that the small-fry athletes are not mature enough emotionally to stand the excitement of these tense situations. But in Manchester the program has shown that intelligent adult supervision of all phases of the competition eliminates the problem. The coaches and parents alike avoid overemphasis. As result, despite all the tension and disappointments, the youngsters showed no tendency to crack under any strain. Instead they seemed to thrive on competition, growing more poised, more relaxed and more confident as they went along.
Here, as baseball season gets into full swing around the country — and in countries around the globe — LIFE.com celebrates Yale Joel's classic photo and the players, coaches, moms and dads who make the entire Little league phenomenon so reliably, sweetly thrilling each and every year.
Play ball!
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.