The 15th Edition of the Largest Floating Christmas Tree in the World, the Bradesco Seguros Christmas Tree, Now on Display in Rio de Janeiro

The 15th Edition of the Largest Floating Christmas Tree in the World, the Bradesco Seguros Christmas Tree, Now on Display in Rio de Janeiro

Southwest Airlines Fares as Low as $30 one-way

Southwest Airlines flight list has been announced, service will begin Marching 13, 2011, with Boeing 737s flying seven everyday nonstop flights to four names and addresses :

* Three to Baltimore/Washington,
* Two to Chicago Midway,
* One to Nashville,
* One to Houston Hobby.

Southwest Airlines will control from gate B5 in Charleston.

Also worth observing is that the air hose recently entered into a mint to buy AirTran, greatly extending it pass on by mid-2011 and quite possibly bearing on the direct itineraries proffered in Charleston.

In Greenville-Spartanburg, the airline will have seven daily nonstop flights to five destinations : Two to Baltimore Washington, two to Chicago Midway, one to Nashville, one to Houston Hobby, and one to Orlando. Southwest Airlines will operate from gates A3 and A4.

To celebrate the add on of Charleston and Greenville-Spartanburg to the Southwest network, the company is offering a two-day fare sale through 11:59 p.m. PST on Thursday, Oct 21, you can find fares as low as $30 one way to any around the clock marketplace to from CHS and GSP for travel through April 6, 2011. When the $30 fare cut rate sale ends, fares will be as low as $59 one way for travel every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. except Fridays and Sundays. To reckon these special visit.

www.southwest.com/southcarolina -- but the sale site appears to have not yet been activated as of 11:50 a.m., in the mean solar time here is a connection that will allow you to look for directly.

Google honors Dizzy Gillespie with Google Doodle

Those yellowed lots on his face are the notable balloon cheeks that would inflate each time Gillespie would position lips to trumpet. On Thursday, the jazz great became the latest ethnical icon to be honoured with a doodle on Google's homepage in laurels of his 93rd natal day.

Gillespie was a cornet player and composer who helped take bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz to the masse shots through his performances and recordings. He was a contemporaneous of Charlie Parker, with whom he defended bop as a new American musical art form.

Famous for his inflatable cheeks, Gillespie cut down a memorable design on the phase and was a prolific concert performing artist up until his death in 1993 at eld 75.

Wynton Marsalis paid tribute Thursday to Gillespie on Facebook, writing that "Dizzy was a great dancer, teacher, wit, and spiritual presence. He believed in consolidating musicians and the music, in celebrating and extending its traditions and in bringing its enlightening impact to as many people as possible as often as possible."

Other cultural figures who have doodled by Google include Igor Stravinsky, Frida Kahlo, Wayne Thiebaud, Josef Franck and Isaac Albéniz.

Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake Rattles Baja

A magnitude 6.9 quake struck Mexico's Baja peninsula Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

The temblor was concentrated 717 miles (1,154 klick) SE of Tijuana, Mexico. No tsunami warning was issued, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, although the bureau said it could cause local waves.

The temblor, initially reported as a magnitude 6.6, was pored in the Gulf of California, 65 miles south of Los Mochis in the state of Sinaloa on the mainland. It was very shallow, just 6.2 miles below the seabed.

The Hotel Santa Anita in nearby Los Mochis, Mexico, reportedly experienced very strong shaking, but the hotel was not damaged by the temblor. There are no immediate reports of damage or injury.

Meanwhile, Californians took recourse under desks and tables in a statewide earthquake endurance drill in City of the Angels, the Associated Press reported. The "Great California Shakeout" simulated an earthquake at 10:21 a.m.Thursday, sending participants diving to the floor to practice the "drop, cover and hold" technique.

Organizers say 7.8 million people signed up for the drill, which this year expanded to include some residents of Nevada and Guam.

1st Amendment

At one point during their argumentation Tuesday, O'Donnell appeared to question Common Coon's statement that the First Amendment calls for the separation of church and DoS. They'd been discussing whether creationism should be taught public schools.

Coons : The 1st amendment establishes the separation, the fact that the federal government shall not demonstrate any religion, in decisional law of nature by the Supreme Court over many, many decades.