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Fiery Levin on Obama's Reaction to Trump's Win: America 'Was Never Ready' for 'Fundamental Transformation'
Life, Liberty & Levin host Mark Levin ripped former President Obama after the 44th president's former top aide claimed the country was not ready for his presidency.
In newly-released excerpts from his new book, former top Obama adviser Ben Rhodes revealed Obama's reactions after Trump's surprising victory over Hillary Clinton.
"What if we were wrong?" Obama is said to have asked, wondering whether he was "10 or 20 years too early" and whether "people just want to fall back into their tribe."
Reacting Friday on "Fox & Friends," Levin said the country was "never been ready for Obama"
He pointed out that Obama once said in 2008 that he wanted to "fundamentally transform America."
.@marklevinshow on @POTUS: "He does what he believes in and he's doing the right thing." @foxandfriends pic.twitter.com/iPiXzNnm1v
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"It means you don't love your country," Levin said. "When you love your wife, you don't say 'I want to fundamentally transform you'."
Dinesh D'Souza on Pardon by Pres. Trump: He Told Me 'You Got Screwed'
Judge Jeanine on Samantha Bee's Rant: 'I've Never Seen Such Intolerant Haters!'
Levin also blasted Obama for calling Trump a cartoon: "I'll take a cartoon over a leftist any day of the week."
The Cheltenham, Pa. native praised Trump for pardoning filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza, who served time in a halfway house for illegally bundling campaign contributions to former New York Senate candidate Wendy Long (R-New York City).
He ripped then-U.S. Attorney for Southern New York Preet Bharara as a "radical left-wing Democrat" and "Comey buddy" who sought a vendetta against ideological opponents like D'Souza.
Levin said campaign finance violations do not warrant time in prison, and D'Souza has claimed he is the first to face more than a fine for similar actions.
D'Souza took to Twitter declaring "Karma Is A B***h" after being pardoned by Trump, ripping Bharara for trying to advance his career by putting D'Souza behind bars.
KARMA IS A BITCH DEPT: @PreetBharara wanted to destroy a fellow Indian American to advance his career. Then he got fired & I got pardoned
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 31, 2018
"Then he got fired and I got pardoned," D'Souza, producer of "2012: Obama's America," wrote. Watch D'Souza's appearance on "Fox & Friends."
Watch former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy and attorney David Limbaugh on "Life, Liberty & Levin," Sunday at 10:00pm ET on Fox News Channel.
Patti Blagojevich Praises Trump: Mueller, Comey 'Perverted the Law Against My Family' Too
Huckabee on Criticism of His Daughter: Sarah Knows Her 'Ultimate Judge' Will Be God, Not a Comedian


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Car hire can be a real pain to sort out prior to your holiday. There are just so many options out there, so we've pulled together a quick and easy guide to help you get the best value car hire for your next holiday.
Below you'll find the three steps which will help you save money off your next holiday. It's often costs like car hire which are not accounted for when originally planning your holiday and whilst small for a weekend away, for a 14night summer holiday saving that little bit extra will go a long way!
Step 1 - Compare
Use a comparison website to compare many different car hire providers at once. Just plug in your dates, arrival time and destination and you'll be able to find available options for your holiday. There are many different aggregators out there, but one of our favourites is TravelSupermarket.
Step 2 - Car Hire Excess Cover
Excess waiver insurance. This is probably one of the most important points today and also where car hire companies can charge a fortune upon vehicle collection. If you book a car rental for say £90 and then arrive to collect your car, they'll attempt to sell you their excess waiver insurance. Whilst the cars are fully insured, you'll be liable to pay up to £1000 of the excess if you have an accident or the vehicle is damaged. There's nothing wrong with the excess cover they'll offer you, just it can over inflate the cost of your car hire to over double in some instances.
Instead, book with a third party provider before you go. You can get a similar level of cover but pay a fraction of the "at the desk price". If an accident should happen then you'll have to pay the excess but your excess cover will be able to reimburse you. Again, we love the ability to compare a bunch of different providers at once, so head over to TravelSupermarket to find your cover options.
Step 3 - Flexible pick up
Be flexible on pickup location. Airports will always be the most expensive due to taxes etc. If you can collect from a city centre location such as a train station you can often save. This will vary by country, but do always compare these. For example a rental in Malaga was 50% cheaper if you collected the car in the city centre in comparison to the airport.

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Tantalizing Thursday
Buried Truths
Author: Viola Russell
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Drawing a deep breath, Dr. Wesley Chou pulled open the door of the coffee shop, searching for the face that had bewitched him twenty-four years ago. When he saw her sitting in the corner sipping coffee, his heart raced.
She rose when he entered and moved toward him.
The silky hair, the tight jeans, the fisherman's cross earrings, the smooth skin. Her beauty still made him gasp. He'd seen pictures of her in the newspapers and on television representing the Archdiocese, but those images hadn't represented her stunning beauty. She'd been a lovely girl, but she'd developed into an elegant and poised woman.
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Economic significance of Triassic deposits
Few mineral deposits of major economic importance were formed during the Triassic. Workable coal deposits are known from Arctic Canada, Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, Australia, and Antarctica. Oil and gas occurrences are not common, but potentially important gas reserves have been discovered in Triassic rocks of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Halite (rock salt) is mined from Triassic evaporites in England, France, Germany, and Austria. Low-grade uranium ores such as carnotite occur in continental deposits of Triassic age in the western United States.
Major subdivisions of the Triassic System
The Triassic Period is divided into three epochs: the Early Triassic (252 million to 247 million years ago), the Middle Triassic (about 247 million to 235 million years ago), and the Late Triassic (about 235 million to 201 million years ago; see the Geologic Time Scale). The rocks (mostly of sedimentary origin) that define these time intervals make up the Triassic System, which is broken down into three series: Lower, Middle, and Upper. Each of these series is further subdivided into stages, substages, and biozones, mainly on the basis of vertical ranges of rapidly evolving biota, radiometric dates, and magnetic reversals on the seafloor and in the sedimentary rocks, where available. Subdividing time and rock units in this way allows more precise dating of geologic events and correlation of rocks between areas. However, because there are relatively few igneous rocks to provide reliable radiometric dates, the time spans and absolute ages cited by different investigators for the Triassic Period tend to vary. Such dates are subject to revision as new and more accurate age determinations are made.
Early subdivision of the Triassic was based primarily on the extensive and highly fossiliferous Alpine (western Tethyan) sequence of marine strata exposed in Austria, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. It was there that the type sections, or stratotypes, for the Middle Triassic stages Anisian and Ladinian and the Upper Triassic stages Carnian, Norian, and Rhaetian were first established. The two stages of the Lower Triassic, the Induan and Olenekian, are based on stratotypes in the Salt Range of Pakistan and in Siberia, respectively. While these stage names are now generally accepted internationally, alternative names for part or all of the Triassic are used in Japan and New Zealand.
Occurrence and distribution of Triassic deposits
Marine deposits
Major linear depositional troughs developed around Panthalassa, the ancestor of the Pacific Ocean, during the Early and Middle Triassic. Great quantities of marine sediments collected in these troughs, as indicated by deposits—now mainly sandstones, shales, and graywackes—located in the western Pacific basinal belt (New Zealand and Japan) and the eastern basinal belt (Alaska, Arctic Canada, British Columbia, western United States, and the west coast of South America). For example, more than 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) of Triassic sediments accumulated in the Sverdrup Basin of Arctic Canada. The Tethys Sea, a deep, narrow arm of Panthalassa stretching along an east-west belt separating what is now Africa from southern Europe, also received basinal deposits.
In the northern Tethyan trough, marine deposits now occur in the Alps, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and the Himalayas mainly as limestones, with deep-sea sediments such as those in radiolarian cherts, which formed in troughs in the deeper parts of the Tethys Sea. To the south was the southern Tethyan trough, bordering Gondwana and stretching from northern India through the Middle East to northern Africa. Shallow shelf-sea embayments of limited distribution occurred landward of these troughs and are represented mainly by limestones in low latitudes, as around the margins of the Tethys Sea. Such tropical and subtropical shelf seas were warm and often supported small reefs, the forerunners of the more extensive coral reefs of today. Although the Permian-Triassic extinction of rugose and tabulate corals resulted in an absence of Lower Triassic corals, small reeflike mounds of early Middle Triassic age were succeeded later in Middle Triassic times by more extensive reef complexes that retained some Permian biotic elements. Such reefs have been described from the Tirolian Alps of Austria and the Dolomites of Italy. Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) reef complexes, more modern in aspect and dominated for the first time by scleractinian (stony) corals and calcareous pharetronid sponges, occur as thick sequences in the Dachstein and Steinplatte regions of Austria and Germany, as well as in Iran and the Himalayas.
In the circum-Pacific region some shelf-sea deposits, generally clastic in nature (sandstones and shales), occur in Western Australia, Siberia, and the circum-Arctic region, including Arctic Canada, Alaska, eastern Greenland, and Spitsbergen.
Continental deposits
Continental sediments dominated by red beds (that is, sandstones and shales of red colour) and evaporites accumulated on land throughout the Triassic Period. The Bunter and the Keuper Marl of Germany and the New Red Sandstone of Britain are examples of such red beds north of Tethys, while to the south are similar deposits in India, Australia, South Africa, and Antarctica. Although deposits of this kind usually indicate accumulation in arid regions such as inland desert basins, the red beds may also represent sediments of fluvial or lacustrine origin suggestive of seasonal precipitation. Large basins containing Triassic continental sediments occur in South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina) and in western North America (particularly in Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, and Colorado). In eastern North America great thicknesses of sedimentary rocks of continental origin were deposited during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic in a series of fault-bounded basins, of which the Newark Basin is probably the best-known. There rocks comprising the Newark Supergroup consist of sequences of continental red clastics with dinosaur tracks and mudcracks, along with black shales containing fossils of freshwater crustaceans and fish. These deposits indicate a depositional environment of rivers draining into freshwater lakes in a generally arid or semiarid region, which from paleomagnetic evidence appears to have been located about 20° north of the paleoequator.
Igneous rocks
Triassic igneous rocks are not common, and reliable radiometric dates are available only from Upper Triassic rocks. Examples of extrusive basalt flows are known from Australia, South America, and eastern North America. The well-known Palisades Sill of the Newark Supergroup was formerly regarded as Triassic in age, but this diabase intrusion, which is 300 metres (1,000 feet) thick, has yielded a potassium-argon age of 193 million years, indicating an Early Jurassic origin.
Correlation of Triassic strata
Correlation is the technique of piecing together information from widely separated rock outcrops in order to create an accurate chronological profile of an entire geologic time period. In order to accomplish this, geologists attempt to measure the absolute ages of rock strata using techniques such as radioisotope dating, or they attempt to establish relative ages of strata by comparing their mineralogy, fossil content, and other attributes. The Triassic System is dominated by sedimentary rocks, which, unlike igneous rocks, generally do not yield reliable radiometric data, which are used to establish absolute age. Therefore, the relative ages of Triassic sedimentary rocks—derived from the techniques of superposition, lithology, and biochronology—must be used for correlation. Of these three tools, biochronology, the dating of rock strata according to the known succession of fossilized life-forms found within them, has traditionally been regarded as the most accurate and reliable, although more modern methods of sequence stratigraphy are improving the accuracy of interregional correlation.
Alpine strata
While conodonts, palynomorphs (spores and pollen of plants), radiolarians, and tetrapods are now proving to be useful for correlation of marine and nonmarine strata from the Triassic, the most widely used fossils in biochronology are still those of the ammonoids. This is because these pelagic swimming or floating cephalopods fulfill the basic requirements for ideal zone fossils: they were widespread geographically, evolved rapidly, and were not dependent on any type of substrate. Ammonoids thrived in Triassic seas in offshore environments along with pelagic bivalves such as Claraia and Halobia. While ammonoids have been used successfully to erect a series of biozones, each one probably representing no more than one million years, the problem has been to find complete sequences of undisturbed marine strata that represent all stages of Triassic time in any one general region. Because the Germanic facies (the rock series originally proposed in the 19th century as representing the Triassic Period) are mostly of continental, not marine, origin, the marine Triassic of the Alps has traditionally been used as a standard for the period, with the two most important localities being Salzkammergut in the northern Austrian Alps and St. Cassian (now San Cassiano) in the Dolomites to the south. Unfortunately, there are very few ammonoids common to both these sections. Indeed, the Alpine succession in general is not without its drawbacks when an attempt is made to determine sequential faunal relationships. In the red Hallstatt limestone facies in the Alps and throughout the Tethyan region, ammonoids often occur in lenses (that is, deposits bounded by converging surfaces that are thick in the middle and thin toward the edges) in areas of tectonic complexity. Furthermore, faunas are often condensed through possible postdepositional submarine solution, which results in "cemeteries" of ammonoids of different ages in close association. Also, fracturing and solution occurring at nearly the same time during the Triassic apparently caused local mixing and inversion of zones as younger beds collapsed into solutional voids in older strata. Such condensed and mixed assemblages have led to difficulties for paleontologists attempting to use the Alpine zonal scheme as a standard for correlating marine Triassic sequences in other regions. Nevertheless, the importance of the Alpine Triassic should not be underestimated in the history of Triassic studies, because by the end of the 19th century its fossils permitted initial correlations to be made with the Germanic Muschelkalk and with marine sequences in the Arctic, Pacific, Himalayas, and Pakistan.
North American strata
Isolated occurrences of marine Triassic rocks in western North America were known by 1890, but discoveries of several hundred new localities from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and the Sverdrup Basin of Arctic Canada between about 1955 and 1980 added much information to the biochronology of the region. It also was recognized that more than half the world's known genera of ammonoids occurred in North America, testifying to the cosmopolitan nature of the group. Dissatisfaction with the problems of using the Alpine succession as a standard for Triassic time led to the proposal of a new zonal scheme based on relatively complete and in-place sequences in Arctic Canada, northeastern British Columbia, and the western United States. This proposal was primarily the work of the Canadian paleontologist E. Timothy Tozer, who, with the American paleontologist Norman J. Silberling, provided precisely defined stratotypes for all the recognized North American biozones. The North American zonal scheme is now accepted by most authorities as the standard for Triassic global biostratigraphy and allows Alpine (western Tethyan) and Boreal (Siberian) zones to be placed in their proper chronological sequence.
Paleomagnetic techniques
It should be borne in mind that, because of the endemism (restriction in the geographic distribution) of most ammonoid species, it is often difficult to correlate faunal assemblages between widely separated regions. Because ammonoids and conodonts are found together, a conodont biochronology can often be accurately intercalibrated with the ammonoid zonation, as established for North America by Michael J. Orchard. Additional tools for correlation include the development of a Triassic sea-level curve for the Sverdrup Basin of Arctic Canada and a Triassic magnetic polarity timescale derived from paleomagnetic studies of mainly sedimentary sequences. Correlating rocks by means of polarity time units imprinted on rocks at the time they form is known as magnetochronostratigraphy and is likely to become more important in the future.
Establishing Triassic boundaries
The Permian-Triassic boundary
The exact position of both the Permian-Triassic and Triassic-Jurassic boundaries has been the subject of great controversy for many years. The transition from latest Permian to earliest Triassic is nowhere represented by a continuous (conformable) succession of marine strata containing fossils that are not open to ambiguous age interpretation. The Germanic facies is of little value in the dispute, for there the continental Bunter Formation rests unconformably on Upper Permian strata of the Zechstein basin. The marine equivalent of the Bunter in the Alps is the Werfen Limestone; there the distinctive Lower Triassic bivalve genus Claraia is found in apparently conformable contact with the underlying Bellerophon Limestone, in which undisputed Permian faunas are found. However, recent studies suggest that the lowermost Werfen may contain Permian fossils. In the Himalayas Claraia occurs with the ammonoid Otoceras in the so-called Otoceras beds, but are these beds Permian or Triassic? A Triassic age is suggested by the presence of Claraia, but otoceratids also occur in undisputed Permian strata in the Dzhulfa (Julfa) region in Armenia near the Iranian border. It was agreed as long ago as the early 1900s that the Armenian otoceratids were not in the strictest sense identical with Otoceras and that the Himalayan Otoceras beds should define the base of the Triassic System. This issue, however, has been raised again by those who regard the Otoceras beds as Permian rather than Triassic.
At key localities where apparently conformable sequences occur, as in Armenia, Pakistan, Kashmir, Arctic Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, Tibet, China, Siberia, and northern Alaska, the boundary beds—often of limited thickness—usually contain mixtures of Permian-type and Triassic-type faunas or show evidence of an unconformity or paraconformity (that is, an unconformity in parallel strata that is virtually indistinguishable from a simple bedding plane because no effects of erosion are discernible). It is these transitional beds that are the crux of the boundary problem. In the Salt Range of Pakistan, for instance, Permian brachiopods are found in close association with undisputed Triassic fossils, which suggests the possibility of Permian relics living in earliest Triassic time. Yet recent studies suggest that both latest Permian and earliest Triassic strata are missing in this section. In East Greenland mixed faunas occur at the boundary, with Triassic ammonoids in association with Permian productacean brachiopods, but the latter appear to be derived, having been incorporated into Triassic sediments by reworking. A similar situation may prevail at the famous Guryul Ravine section in Kashmir. Studies on new sections in Tibet (Selong-Xishan) and China (Shangsi, Meishan) have not yet led to agreement on whether there is continuous sedimentation between the Permian and Triassic or a well-disguised unconformity. Tozer supports the latter view and, furthermore, believes that there is evidence of a worldwide unconformity (often difficult to recognize) at the base of the Otoceras zone. He advocates that this level should once again define the Permian-Triassic boundary, since it clearly records a universal geologic event of great significance to marine biotas. Accordingly, he has proposed a stratotype for the boundary at the base of the Blind Fjord Formation of northwestern Axel Heiberg Island in Arctic Canada, where the O. concavum zone (equivalent to the O. woodwardi zone of the Himalayas) rests unconformably on Permian strata. However, recent opinion indicates that a more suitable place for the global stratotype section and point (GSSP) for the Permian-Triassic boundary might be at Meishan, where it is taken to be the base of the Hindeodus parvus (the same as Orchard's Isarcicella parva) conodont zone. This proposal awaits formal ratification by the Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy.
The Triassic-Jurassic boundary
The exact position of the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic has been less contentious but not without its problems. Traditionally, marine rocks stratigraphically above the Keuper Marl in Germany and the New Red Sandstone in Britain have been regarded as either uppermost Triassic or lowermost Jurassic. These rocks contain the distinctive bivalve species Rhaetavicula contorta but no ammonoids. Rocks of this R. contorta zone in northwestern Europe have been correlated with the stratotype of the Rhaetian Stage, the marine Kössen beds in the Rhaetian Alps, mainly on the basis of the common occurrence of R. contorta. The Alpine Rhaetian contains a few ammonoids that are regarded as Late Triassic in affinity but not exclusively Rhaetian. The correlation of the Rhaetian of northwestern Europe with that of the Alps has been questioned, however, and it has been suggested that the former may actually be lowermost Jurassic in age. While most biostratigraphers would include at least the Alpine Rhaetian Stage in the Triassic, Tozer and others have advocated abandoning the term Rhaetian as a formal stage name and assigning Alpine Rhaetian rocks and their correlatives in North America and elsewhere to the uppermost Norian Stage. However, the Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy has recommended retaining its usage as a Triassic stage, and their recommendation has been followed in this article.
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Germany: Southern Germany…consists of scarplands, mainly of Triassic age (about 250 to 200 million years old). The work of erosion on eastward-dipping strata has left the sandstones standing out as west- or northwest-facing scarps, overlooking valleys or low plateaus of clays or Muschelkalk (Triassic limestone formed from shells). The sequence of Triassic…
Australia: The Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras…the early part of the Triassic Period (about 252 to 247 million years ago). By 230 million years ago the foreland basin of eastern Australia had been overthrusted by the mountain belt, and a second epoch of black-coal formation opened in eastern Australia (southeastern Queensland and Tasmania) and in South…
Africa: Marine formationsDuring the Triassic Period (about 252 to 201 million years ago), ancient seas left deposits of marine formations in North Africa, the southern Sahara, Egypt, Arabia, and parts of Tanzania and northern Madagascar. Deposits from the Jurassic Period (about 201 to 145 million years ago) extend to…
South America: Events in the Mesozoic…sandstones, mudstones, and tuffs of Triassic age (i.e., about 201 to 252 million years old) have preserved fossils of a rich fauna of dinosaurs and mammallike reptiles, as in the Ischigualasto basin of Argentina.…
bird: The origin of birds…million years ago (during the Triassic Period) or from a later lineage, the carnivorous theropod dinosaurs. This debate has been long-standing and divisive. At the beginning of the 21st century, the pendulum has swung decisively toward the theropod ancestor hypothesis—that today's birds are feathered dinosaurs. This hypothesis is supported by…
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I live in the town of Harrisville, New Hampshire, a little brick mill village that is not on the way to anywhere so its anonymity has been easier to maintain as the great sweep of time has moved from the 18th to the 21st century. The story of this village is somewhat epic. We�ll skip all the drama and go to 1857 when Harrisville seceded from the town of Dublin and became its own entity. During the Civil War, the big woolen mills were booming, belting out material used to make soldiers� uniforms as well. The bounty of war was not only in munitions. Woolen fortunes rose and fell but in the 1960s, polyester pretty much replaced wool and the beat of the looms fell silent. Perhaps for good. The mills were shuttered. In 1971, instead of a �House for Sale,� Yankee�s column was retitled, �Town for Sale,� and the whole town was listed, the bankrupt mill and the buildings and houses that belonged to the mill, in essence, the whole entire village.
A man from New Jersey bought the town in order to relocate his business up here, which he did but he quickly resold (for one dollar) the houses and all extraneous buildings back to the family that had owned the mills for generations to avoid paying a fearsome tax bill. A lot of the buildings were boarded up and in disrepair, however, the fact that they were mostly brick perhaps saved them. Benign neglect. The family started something called Historic Harrisville. Under that umbrella, they gathered the town�s history, creating documentation of the remarkably intact industrialized village which in turn gave the village foundation to become, over time, a National Historic Landmark.
About that time, my aunt, who lived then in Amesbury, Massachusetts, took my grandmother, who was in her nineties at that time, for a drive. They liked to do that, exploring the back roads of New England. Returning from one of these rambles, my Victorian grandmother was heard to say that they had been to paradise, where they saw a �fairy tale village.� We all wanted to know where they had been so we could go there too. My grandmother described this place, in an almost operatic aria, as all brick buildings, a lake above and a canal that ran through and under them, falls tumbling like a ladder, down and down, through the center of town. But they could not say where it was or how they got there � just that they �happened� upon it. And so a quest began. Instead of the random drives they used to take, Nanny and Aunt Peg would set out to find again this fairy tale village. They drove and drove, this way and that and probably had some wonderful crawls past Norman Rockwell scenes but my grandmother died at the age of 98 in 1978, never gaining paradise again.
In 1982, I bought a little rundown house in the woods in Chesham, a small section of Harrisville. I had never heard of either town but it was near where I worked and I liked the promise the house held. I had big plans. I gave Aunt Peg directions to come see what I had bought. When she arrived, she was so excited, she scarcely glanced at my (humble) purchase. �I found it!� she cried out as she entered. On her way she had passed through Harrisville. �I found the fairy tale village again!� We stood in silence, mouths agape. How could it be? I had managed not only to find that storied village but, unaware that this was the place for which Nanny and Aunt Peg had searched so long, I made it my home. It�s only gotten better since.
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Feb 14, 2017
Anglo-Welsh Semi Final Tickets Now On Sale
Saracens are pleased to announce that tickets for the Anglo-Welsh semi final against Leicester Tigers on Saturday 11th March, kick off 18H00, are now on sale.
The business end of the season is approaching and, with Saracens still going strong in all three competition, there are some big games coming up on the horizon.
The Sarries support has been in full voice this season, spurring on the team to some memorable moments here at Allianz Park and playing a huge role in Saracens unbeaten home record.
Today we're pleased to let you know tickets are now available to purchase for the Anglo-Welsh Cup semi final against Leicester Tigers on Saturday 11th March and to thank you all for your raucous, match winning support this season we've priced all tickets for the month of February at £15 for adults and £10 for juniors.
Season ticket holders will also receive a discount on these prices for their seasonal seats which will be priced at £11 for adults and £7.50 for juniors. It's going to be a bumper day of rugby at Allianz Park so grab your friends and family and book now to support your Sarries in the semis!
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GRAMBLING, La. -- Grambling State fired coach Doug Williams on Wednesday after the Tigers (who were 1-10 last season) lost their first two games by a combined score of 71-19.
The university said it bought out the remainder of the former NFL quarterback's contract.
"We recognize Doug Williams' many contributions to our football legacy, and we express our deep appreciation for his service to Grambling State University, and we wish him well in the future," Grambling president Frank Pogue said in a statement.
Running backs coach George Ragsdale takes over as interim coach.
Williams told The (Monroe, La.) News-Star that Pogue informed him of his firing during a meeting in the president's office Wednesday morning.
"There wasn't a lot of conversation. I told him, 'OK,' and I was gone," said Williams, 58, who was the MVP of Super Bowl XXII.
Grambling was 0-9 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference last season. The Tigers lost their 2013 opener to Alabama A&M 23-9 and were dominated by Louisiana-Monroe 48-10 last weekend.
Williams, who led the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl win over John Elway and the Denver Broncos in 1988, first became Grambling's coach in 1998. In 2004, he moved into a front-office job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He returned to Grambling as coach in 2011, when he led the Tigers to a SWAC championship.
The university said in its statement that it decided to "move in another direction" in ending Williams' contract, which ran through next season.
Williams' son, junior D.J. Williams, is a quarterback on the team.
"I know D.J. is emotional, but I told him he has to be strong, and he told me he will," Doug Williams told The News-Star. "That's all I need for him to be strong. If he's strong, his daddy is going to be all right."
Williams played at Grambling State and was a first-round draft pick of the Buccaneers in 1978. He played for Tampa Bay until 1982, when he went to the fledgling United States Football League.
He joined the Redskins in 1986.
Ragsdale also played in the NFL for the Redskins and Buccaneers.


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Amongst Robert Blakey's many acquaintances was John Mitford, 1782-1831, naval officer, author and alcoholic.
In his Memoirs, published in 1879, he says: "I met with John Mitford, commonly called 'Jack Mitford', at the office of the Scourge, to which he was in the habit of contributing many pungent articles. I made his acquaintance by accident. He recognised me, he said, by my Northumberland burr.
"When I told him I knew his relations, Captain Mitford, of Mitford Castle, and his cousin, Bertram, with whom I had often angled in the North River, he seemed delighted; but said, with an air of sadness, that they did nothing now for him.
"I told him I had read, with many thousands in all parts of the world, with great pleasure, his Johnny Newcome in the Navy; when he said it was the best paid job he ever had, with the exception of a few articles he wrote for Catnach, of the Seven Dials.
"He had a broken-down appearance, and was one of the outcasts of social life.
"Some time after, I met him one summer's day between Notting Hill Gate and Shepherd's Bush, when he told me he had slept the previous night in a field of barley, then uncut. He died not long after this in St Giles's Workhouse.
"He was unquestionably a man of genius and of great versatility of mind. He was one of the branches of the Mitford family, who pride themselves with having come in at the Norman Conquest.
"Though several members of the house occupy a distinguished position in literary history, I question whether any one of them will obtain more lasting fame than their thoughtless and improvident kinsman, 'Jack Mitford'.
"No amount of personal folly and waywardness can shut out the claims of the mind in the estimation of the world at large."
As with some of his other contemporaries, the interest lies not in the connection between Mitford and Blakey, for there hardly was one, but in the incidentals.
We learn, for instance, that Blakey had the Northumbrian burr, the guttural sound of the 'R' when produced far back on the tongue, also about his taste in reading.
Johnny Newcome, which he regarded as a work of genius, is a long narrative poem written in a breezy style, but it hardly merits his encomium that: "No amount of personal folly and waywardness can shut out the claims of the mind in the estimation of the world at large."
We also learn of his acquaintance with Mitford's rich relations, members of the local gentry of Morpeth, who, under any other circumstance than a sporting encounter, were not people one would expect a radical young tradesman to mix with.
There is something odd about the timing of their first meeting. According to the Cambridge Bibliography, the Scourge, at whose office they first met, ran from 1811 to 1815. But Johnny Newcome was only published in 1818. So they could not have discussed Johnny Newcome at the offices of the Scourge, although it reads as if they did.
It also means that if Blakey was remembering correctly, he must have been only 20 or younger when they first met in London.
Mitford was born in 1781 or 1782. He was baptised in Mitford church: "1782: January ye 22d ~ John son of John & Dorothy Mitford ~ Newton Red House."
Newton Red House was a large farmstead two miles west of the village, suitable to a well-to-do farmer or a minor member of the gentry. Mitford belonged to the ancient family, but being a younger son of a younger son was comparatively poor.
He was distantly related to Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister, and to the first Lord Redesdale, who assisted him to become a midshipman in the Royal Navy.
He rose through the ranks, commanded three small vessels, and was on active service until 1811. He was discharged in 1814, following a bout of insanity and a political scandal.
His Northumberland cousins disowned him because of his drinking, but Lord Redesdale continued to support his wife and family.
Poor Mitford was the victim of a cruel deception. Different versions of it differ in the detail, but in brief, Lady Perceval, the wife of another distant relative and friend of Caroline, Princess of Wales, used him as a go-between to feed newspapers with information on the Princess's behalf, promising him a position in the civil service.
In March-April 1813, after his first attack of insanity, she asked him to take copies of three letters to T.A. Phipps, the owner of The News, for £2,000, a huge sum for a poor man.
Two were from Government ministers and one from one of the Princess's ladies-in-waiting. In fact, Lady Perceval had written them all, her idea being to create a stir, then deny responsibility and blame Mitford.
Mitford and Phipps were both taken in. She had Mitford locked up in a private asylum, but he escaped, told Phipps the whole story, and swore an affidavit accusing her of forgery.
She prosecuted him for perjury, but in February 1814, before Lord Ellenborough, the jury found him not guilty, even before the judge had finished summing up.
Mitford wrote for various publishers, mainly at the rougher end of the magazine and book trade.
He wrote at least two articles for respectable magazines, but both made embarrassment for the publishers.
One was a story called The Vampyre for the New Monthly Magazine. He claimed that it was co-written by Lord Byron, but Byron denied this.
He also wrote a life of William Mitford, an historian and a distant relative, for the Literary Gazette. The Mitford family refuted it, and the editor apologised, explaining that he had been imposed upon by Mitford.
The man he wrote Johnny Newcome for, realising that he was a hopeless alcoholic, kept him on a steady path of work by giving him a shilling a day, plus paper and ink.
The weather was fine, and for six weeks Mitford lived in the open in a gravel pit in Battersea Fields. Every day, he bought two-pennyworth of bread and cheese and an onion, and spent the rest on gin.
The story, which gives a vivid account of life in the Navy, is about a boy under much the same circumstances as himself. His first captain, Captain Dale, is kind, but Johnny suffers much at the hands of his fellow midshipmen. His second captain, Captain Teak, is a brutal bully and Newcome resigns from the Navy.
"At length he plainly told his Father.
That tho' he lov'd his KING, he'd rather
(For reasons which he would not say)
Serve him in any other way—
His Father kindly acquiesced,
So there we let our Hero rest."
Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and A Aspinall, Politics and the Press, 1780-1850, 1949. You can read The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy on the Open Library website.


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Sometimes Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk means what he tweets — in this case, taking the company private at $420 a share.
Earlier today, Musk hopped on twitter telling his millions of followers, "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420 a share. Funding secured."
That set off two flurries. One a thread of tweets about everything from what a great idea it is to how followers love marijuana references to how the Securities and Exchange Commission frown on these sorts of pronouncements.
The other flurry was the run up in the company's share price that crossed the $375 a share threshold and began approaching its former record high near $400 a share. Trading on the stock was halted before it got there, but no explanation was offered.
(Tesla's looking to hire video game designers. Click Here for the story.)
However, Musk may have taken care of that himself when he emailed the company's employees telling them he was very serious about taking the company private. In the missive, he outlined why he thought it would work, the benefits to the company and employees as well as when the company might return to the public market.
He assured employees that no decision has been made, but the volatility of the stock market and the motivations of Tesla shareholders can create difficult situations for the company, encouraging wild swings in the price of the stock.
"Being public also subjects us to the quarterly earnings cycle that puts enormous pressure on Tesla to make decisions that may be right for a given quarter, but not necessarily right for the long-term," he wrote. "Finally, as the most shorted stock in the history of the stock market, being public means that there are large numbers of people who have the incentive to attack the company."
Musk pointed to another company he runs, SpaceX, as the model for Tesla to follow, although he was careful to make sure readers knew that there aren't plans to merge the two companies — they will remain separate.
Once Tesla entered a period of slower sustained growth, then the company could return to the public market, largely immune to the volatile forces at play on the EV maker these days.
"I fundamentally believe that we are at our best when everyone is focused on executing, when we can remain focused on our long-term mission, and when there are not perverse incentives for people to try to harm what we're all trying to achieve," he wrote.
(Click Here for details about Musk's plans to take the company private.)
The plan to take it private is pretty straightforward, current shareholders would have a choice: they can stay in or cash out at $420 a share, which Musk says is a 20% premium over the share price on the day it announced its second-quarter earnings. "My hope is for all shareholders to remain, but if they prefer to be bought out, then this would enable that to happen at a nice premium," he wrote.
Employees would still be able to periodically sell their shares and exercise their options. Every six months there would be an opportunity to buy or sell shares, he noted. He was also quick to dispel rumors about Musk looking to gain greater control of the company.
"I own about 20% of the company now, and I don't envision that being substantially different after any deal is completed," he said. "Basically, I'm trying to accomplish an outcome where Tesla can operate at its best, free from as much distraction and short-term thinking as possible, and where there is as little change for all of our investors, including all of our employees, as possible."
There are a few hurdles to clear to get the deal done. First, the deal has to be approved by the shareholders, which he believes will happen. Second the funding actually has to be in place.
"I don't know where he'd get the financing," said Joe Phillippi, a long-time Wall Street analyst who now runs AutoTrends Consulting, noting that at the current stock price the company has a market valuation of more than $62 billion, or nearly 20% more than General Motors. At $420 a share it would jump to nearly $70 billion.
(Tesla Q2 losses double, but profits promised in Q3. Click Here for the story.)
Musk didn't set a timetable for making a final decision about taking the company private, although sooner rather than later would likely be the plan. Also it's unclear at this point what regulatory issues, if any, will need to be resolved and how long that would take.
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What is Time...When is
The Time?
In a moment of time, too short for us to measure, the old year (2009) was gone and the new
year (2010) was here. Time consists of three components. There is the past and the
present; sandwiched between is the present or "now." We cannot measure the past nor the
future. The past has always been and the future will always be. Combined with the present
they comprise forever. The past and the future are too long to be measured and the present
is too brief to be measured, the past and the future are infinite, whereas the present is
infinitesimal or incalculably minute. The very wise Solomon tells us, "
To everything there is
a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
." In the next seven verses he lists
28 things for which there is a time. What he did not mention is the time for salvation (when
one accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior). To find the time for this we go to 2nd
Corinthians 6:2, "...
behold, now is-the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation
Since "now" is incalculably minute (before you can say the word it becomes the past and
you can only be thankful if God has granted you another "now"), we should be impressed by
the urgency of committing ourselves to Christ. For further emphasis we only need to
consider Proverbs 27:1, "
Boast not thyself of tomorrow
..." and James 4:13-15, "
Go to now,
ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and
buy and sell and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what
time is your life? It is even as a vapor.that appearethfor a little while, and then vanisheth
away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that
(Emphasis on time added.)
When you move from the present you will be forever in the future. What you do now
regarding your relationship to Christ will determine where and how you spend the future. In
conclusion, if we only plan to commit our lives to Jesus Christ sometime later God says we
are fools (see Luke 12:13-14).
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Running with Scissors is the type of book that will have you cringing, laughing and crying at the same time. It is the story of a young boy who is left with his mother's psychiatrist in the 1960's. His mother is a turbulant person and relies on a very unusual psychiatrist. She has a drinking problem and other unresolved desires that affect her relationships with other people. When reading this story, it is simply mind-blowing to concieve that someone actually lived these experiences and that this is not the work of a very strong fiction writer. It is a tragic story written by a very powerful writer who brings you into the world in such a way that you are engaged in how he must have felt as a young boy surrounded by all of these unbalanced people. It is quite simply, an amazing book.


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ANSI/ESD S20.20 Electrostatic Discharge Certification
About S20.20
As of January 1, 2016, ANSI/ESD S20.20-2014 becomes effective and ANSI/ESD S20.20-2007 is no longer applicable.
ANSI/ESD S20.20-2014 Protection of Electrical and Electronic Parts, Assemblies and Equipment (Excluding Electrically Initiated Explosive Devices) - This standard provides administrative and technical requirements for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an ESD Control Program to protect electrical or electronic parts, assemblies, and equipment susceptible to ESD damage from Human Body Model (HBM) discharges greater than or equal to 100 volts.
Damage of electrical and electronic systems and components from electrostatic discharge (ESD) represents a significant source of waste for the electronics industry, and can compromise the quality and usefulness of electrical and electronic products. A formal ESD facility control program can help reduce the incidence of component damage resulting from ESD, increase production throughput rates and minimize the likelihood of defect products reaching the market. Certification to ANSI/ESD S20.20 serves as an independent verification of the quality and effectiveness of an ESD control program.
First published in 1999, ANSI/ ESD S20.20 was created to help organizations design, develop, implement and maintain an ESD control program to protect ESD-sensitive electrical or electronic parts, assemblies and equipment from being damaged by electrostatic discharges greater than or equal to 100 volts (human body model, or HBM) or 200 volts (charged device model, or CDM).
The ESD control program described in ANSI/ESD S20.20 can be applied in any activity involving the manufacture, processing, assembly, installation, packaging, labeling, servicing, testing, inspection, transportation or other handling of electrical or electronic parts, assemblies and equipment that may be susceptible to damage from electrostatic discharges above these limits.
The particular requirements presented in ANSI/ESD S20.20 are based on the following fundamental static control principles:
- All conductors in a given facility must be bonded or electrically connected and attached to a known ground or contrived ground;
- All necessary non-conductors in a facility cannot be allowed to lose their electrostatic charge by attachment to or connection with ground; and
- Moving or transporting ESD-sensitive items outside of an ESD protected area requires the use of static protective materials.
Although the specific application of these principles may vary from facility to facility, they represent the essential requirements of the standard as it applies to the development of an appropriate ESD facility control plan.
The ANSI/ESD S20.20 Electrostatic Discharge Control Program Standard consists of the following sections:
Administrative Requirements
- ESD Control Program Plan
- Training Plan Requirement
- Compliance Verification Plan
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- Grounding / Bonding Systems
- Personnel Grounding
- Protected Areas
- Packaging
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- Equipment
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Implementation guidelines are also provided after each requirement. TÜV SÜD America, a leading ISO 9001 Certification Body in North America, is one of just six Certification Bodies accredited to issue ESD S20.20 certificates.


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Chelsea striker Fernando Torres says that he is full of confidence and happy with the club's current system.
The much-maligned Spaniard has endured a woeful time in London since his £50m move from Liverpool in 2011.
Despite plying for one of the Premier League's top club sides, the front-man has consistently struggled in front of goal, and come nowhere near to justifying the Blues' massive investment in his services.
However, under new boss Jose Mourinho Torres has looked rejuvenated of late, and has shown glimpses of the form that convinced Roman Abramovich to lure him away from the Merseyside rivals.
The 29-year-old netted a fortuitous late winner during Sunday's clash with Manchester City, which many are tipping to prove to be one of the season's defining goals.
Torres was thrilled to have been able to provide the decisive striker, and says that he is getting more and more confident.
"I used to have a team-mate who told me every ball can be the most important ball of the game, and this is a clear example, a long ball and a misunderstanding and you have the ball to pass into the net. I was lucky," Torres told the club's official website.
"I am feeling good and with high confidence, and feeling better in the system we are playing with more space.
"Hopefully we can keep improving as a team as it is just the beginning of the season and important games are coming."
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The official website for 'Scar' has opened. Directed by Jed Weintrob from a script by Zack Ford, 'Scar' stars Angela Bettis as Joan, a young woman who returns to the small Colorado town where, as a teenager, she was kidnapped and tortured by a serial murderer before killing him. Once she arrives, friends of her teen niece start disappearing, and Joan has to uncover the culprit when she herself falls under suspicion.
The site includes stills and behind-the-scenes pictures, info on the filmmakers, cast and more. The trailer and additional features will be online shortly.
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Two Brothers Charged With Westport Church Break-In
Westport police have charged two brothers in connection with the March 2 break into St. John the Baptist Church on Main Road.
Police say religious artifacts were damaged in the break...others were stolen.
Thanks to a tip, Police arrested 29 year old Martin Cutler of Taunton. Also, an arrest warrent has been issued for his 27 year old brother, Jesse.
Detective Sgt. Antonio Cestodio tells WBSM News, Martin Cutler is facing a host of charges, including a hate crime: desecration of a place of worship....
Police say most of the religious items were recovered, but many are broken or destroyed.
Sgt. Cestodio says some of the items were found in the New Nedford home of Martin Cutler's mother on Longwood Avenue. Others were kept in an apartment in Bourne.
Cestodio says at least six more people will likely face criminal charges.


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A Directory for CDI Plugins
A Directory for CDI Plugins
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One of the key goals of CDI was to significantly improve Java EE platform extensibility at the core component level. Generic dependency injection alone goes a long way in making it fairly easy to integrate third-party components and libraries. CDI goes much farther by offering an entire portable extension API geared specifically towards writing CDI plugins. The most obvious manifestation of a resulting CDI ecosystem is plug-in collection projects like Seam 3 and it's successor DeltaSpike. However, there is actually a lot more to the CDI ecosystem, most notably tools (think IDEs) and larger projects that offer CDI pluggability.
So far there has not been a concerted effort to create a directory of sorts for the CDI ecosystem. While such a directory will (hopefully) never be completely all-encompassing it is helpful to have one place you could go to in order to find out all the plugins available for CDI. Most recently the CDI specification site added an ecosystem section to try and address this need. The page is looking pretty good already including listings like DeltaSpike, VRaptor, Vaadin, Camel, Forge and Arquillian - you should check it out. I can already see a few missing though like MyBatis/CDI,Agorava, Struts 2/CDI, Wicket/CDI, ZK/CDI and a few more (I'll reach out to the CDI folks to see why these might be missing). If you similarly see any CDI plugins that should be listed, you should try and reach out (the top of the CDI ecosystem page says how you can do so).
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Horny and naughty brunette babe having fun beside the pool and striping off her tight two piece bikini and getting all oiled up and masturbating, finger fucking herself right in front of the camera. This lady have dusky straight hair, with her deep alluring eyes covered with thick black eyeliners, and have her lips with shinny red lipstick. She also have her well manicured long finger-nails covered with white french-tip nail polish. She is at the pool and then strips off her bikini and fully exposing her monstrous set of tits and getting oiled, as she sits down she spreads her legs and finger fucks herself.


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Girl Genius.
Based on the Character designed by Phil Foglio and Co. for the Comic by the same name. Stands about nine inches tall and not was meant for production. This is probably the only place you will see it.
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Miami-Dade County
No compromise between Miami and Key Biscayne in Boat Show spat
Key Biscayne and Miami officials will enter into mediation after failing Tuesday to quash a lawsuit challenging plans to host the Miami International Boat Show on Virginia Key.
Administrators, attorneys and elected officials from both cities gathered at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus during a rare joint meeting, in search of a middle ground after Key Biscayne sued the city in February. The three-hour session, held in front of a large audience, with many in it wearing Boat Show T-shirts, was part of a conflict-resolution process required by state law when one municipality sues another.
But the gathering felt mostly perfunctory, with the two sides remaining far apart. At one point, Key Biscayne Councilman Luis de la Cruz said he hoped the meeting would end with the village's lawsuit moving into litigation, if only to allow the elected bodies to meet privately, outside the umbrella of Florida's sunshine law, to discuss their next steps.
"Are we going to do this just for the photo op?" said Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado. "That's not my understanding of why we're here."
Key Biscayne officials filed their lawsuit after Miami commissioners voted to spend $16 million to create an event and park space outside Miami Marine Stadium. They're creating the venue in order to host the Boat Show next year, ostensibly as part of an attempt to raise money for a renovation of the shuttered venue, where boat races and concerts were once held.
Concerned that the city will overload the Rickenbacker Causeway with money-making special events and traffic, village officials filed a lawsuit alleging that Miami's plans violated a 1960s deed restriction limiting the use of the Marine Stadium grounds to activities supporting the stadium. They have demanded that the Boat Show scale back its Presidents' Day weekend event, which draws about 100,000 total visitors.
City officials remained noncommittal Tuesday, though they've said they want the event space to serve as a park most of the year for Miami and Key Biscayne residents. Meanwhile, Boat Show executives say the size of the show isn't as vast as a permit application suggested, but remains non-negotiable.
They deny that the event will endanger a nearby wildlife preserve and say an elaborate traffic plan with water taxis and prepaid parking spots will prevent a logjam on the one way in and out of the tony island paradise. Key Biscayne officials, however, aren't sold.
"Unfortunately, we're not trusting," said Vice Mayor Frank Caplan.
The lone hope for compromise may rest in whether village officials are willing to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to help the city build the event space, referred to as a flex park. With city officials grumbling about Key Biscayne placing demands on land it doesn't own, Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff suggested that the village could foot half the bill in order to purchase greater influence by becoming equal partners.
"You put in $8 million. We put in $8 million. And we'll call it a joint venture," said Sarnoff.
Key Biscayne Mayor Mayra Peña Lindsay said she thought the suggestion was worth discussing, which might be important now that state law requires the neighboring municipalities to enter into mediation. If that mediation isn't successful, Key Biscayne's request for a temporary injunction against the city will move into litigation, further escalating a flap that could ultimately threaten the future of one of South Florida's most important tourism events.
In the meantime, a separate public records lawsuit filed by village officials against the National Marine Manufacturers Association, the Boat Show's parent company, continues to move forward, as do the city's plans to renovate the Marine Stadium grounds to create its event space and park.


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There has been talk for months and years that the demographics of America favor the Democratic Party because of the growing Hispanic population. Most of this conjecture is based on the assumption that most Hispanics will vote Democratic, especially with the Republican Party taking such a strong position against illegal immigrants. Although many moderates in the Republican Party accept this worrisome prognosis, there are others who claim that most Hispanics have conservative values (social and fiscal) and this ultimately will dictate their political destination. I think both viewpoints contain some truth.
An analogous situation involves union workers. These people have conservative values, but are attracted to the political party that wants to treat them as a special interest. The result is that union organizations have absolute fealty to the Democratic Party and a significant number of union voters vote Democratic. But the Republicans have been earning a significant percentage of union voters ever since McGovern scared them toward Nixon.
I think the same thing will be true of Hispanic voters in the future. Hispanic organizations will kowtow to the Democratic Party and Hispanic voters will vote Democratic more often than justified by a concordance of values. But because of a concordance of values, Republican candidates will also amass large numbers of Hispanic voters even as the illegal-immigration mess percolates, and those numbers will grow significantly after the mess is resolved.
Incidentally, with all this talk of the ascendancy of the Democratic Party, I have noticed that actual facts seem to be going in the other direction, at least in Texas. A few months ago, an Hispanic Democratic state legislator from the Valley, Aaron Pena, switched to the Republican Party. Then last week, the Texas Tribune announced another switch from South Texas – J.M. Lozano. Could it be that these legislators know more about what is happening than do the pundits? That wouldn't be the first time?


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Charlie Whitmore, the founder of the Montauk Rugby Club, had played football at East Hampton High School, but had never played rugby, he said during a conversation the other day, until, at the age of 20 or 21 he saw a flier at the Edwards sporting goods store in Riverhead, put there by the Pleiades Rugby Football Club seeking a few good men.
Or bad ones, as the case might be. Whitmore seems to remember the flier as having said criminal backgrounds would not be viewed prejudicially.
"It was in the spring of 1973, I think. They practiced in Riverhead, at the high school. I went to a practice and before I knew it I was in a game!"
"At what position . . .? I forget. I didn't know the positions. I was young and eager. The first game I played in was with Drew University. I think we played their C side! And we won! I scored a try. I got tackled in their end zone and, in falling, the ball touched the ground [the ball must be touched down in the try zone in order for a try, rugby's equivalent of a touchdown, to be validated]."
"I was hooked from then on. It's such a great sport . . . Everyone gets to run with the ball and to tackle — it's great fun. Rugby's a contact sport, not a collision sport. And the camaraderie among the players, no matter whose side they're on, is great. In football, you wouldn't socialize with the other team after a game. Football's not like that. Nor does football have the international tradition that rugby has. We've had many players from here, Chris Carney, Frank Bistrian, Robbie Balnis, and Mike Bunce among them, who've played on the West Coast and for clubs all over the world. . . ."
Conversely, a number of experienced foreign-born players, from such countries as South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, and Australia, a number of whom later became American citizens, have in recent years helped young ruggers here learn the game's fine points. Though, in the beginning, after the Pleiades club's quick fade following the spring of '73, there was just Charlie Whitmore.
"I was desperate to keep playing — I was so passionate about the sport. I tried to get friends of mine out here interested, and I also went out to the bars at the Montauk docks and got a lot of fishermen to play. That's how we came to be called the Montauk Rugby Club."
Asked to name some of those early players, Whitmore said, "Well, there was Tommy Keller, Scotty Spratford, who had been a pro football player for a couple of years, Greg Walsh, Jerry Knowlan, Chucky Morton. . . . Almost none of them had ever played. . . . We'd be giving instructions right up to game time! Most of these guys had been football players, so they were used to blocking. But you can't do that in rugby. That was probably the biggest problem in them making the transition."
Though the club joined the Met Rugby Union early on, most of its games, said Whitmore, were " 'friendlies.' We had the guys from Montauk, and some players from up west on the Island started coming out. We'd go to games with 12 or 13 guys, say, and borrow a couple of players from the other side. Mostly we lost in those early years — there were no expectations. Just being able to play was great, whether it was at the Montauk School, Southampton College, Herrick Park, which soon became our home field, or at Randalls Island in the city."
"There were those Division 1 teams in the city — Old Blue, the New York Athletic Club, the New York Rugby Club, the Manhattan Rugby Club — but I'm not even sure there were leagues then. . . . Anyway, we struggled through the '70s. It wasn't until the '80s that we began to get strong, with that first group of young guys — John Kalbacher, Bob Kelsey, and Michael Bromley. . . . It was somewhat like it is now with experienced players, guys like Dan Voorhees, Dan Vasti, and myself, coaching the younger ones. That team in '80 or '81 went 14-1-1."
At the club's recent holiday dinner, Whitmore, whose last game was in "the early '90s, at the age of 38," said — and he meant it as a compliment — that when he came to the games at Herrick this fall he didn't recognize any of the players.
"Things have always gone in cycles . . . up and down, up and down. Now, we're on the upswing [as evidenced by Montauk's undefeated run this fall in Met Union Division II play]. Four or five of these guys — Connor Miller, Matt and Erik Brierley, Mike Bunce — are second generation. It's great to see these young guys. Who wants to see the same old faces? It's great to see people coming out to see the games again. For the next two or three years it should be a lot fun."
"We were perennnial Northeast champions in the '90s, and we've had some great 7's [rugby's quicker, pared-down version] teams, too."
When this writer said he thought this season had been the fourth in which the side had gone undefeated in Met Union play, Whitmore said, "At the least."
It had been his dream, he said, to "come out to Herrick Park and see those wonderful goal posts and a wonderful match."
"Though I never thought," he added, with a laugh, "that I'd be this old!"
Cutting Room Floor
There was a snippet missing from the end of last week's story on the Montauk Rugby Club and Old Montauk Athletic Club's holiday dinners. In speaking of the rugby side's front row, Rich Brierley, Montauk's coach, said, "The front row is our offensive line, our engine room. We go as they go."


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This week I've been knitting two things; my mother's noro cardigan is going quite well. The sleeve is looking quite sleeve like and I love the ways the colours are going. My cowl is also going quite nicely, except for the leeeetle error that I wrote about yesterday but i'm okay with owning the mistake, and I think it looks quite nice either way.
I'm reading Busting Vegas, which bills itself as "A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds" which is quite melodramatic. The book isn't really that dramatic and reminds me a little of the move 21.
I'm just about finished listening to Moving Pictures. It didn't grow on me, I generally found the characters cardboard and not particularly memorable, but it was worth listening to just for the talking dogs.


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My longbow story began 12 years ago, and every year has been a memorable one. I've always loved the flight of a well-shot arrow, especially when wild game is on the other end. There isn't anything quite like being in the woods with a primitive weapon, especially when animals are close by. I'm also an avid bowfisherman and go whenever I can. Its a unique sport and I enjoy everything about it (with the exception of the bugs anyway).
My Michigan Longbow Association origins are simple. I've been nosing around the MLA for years, but only recently thought of joining the Council. Mainly because it was always full of dedicated folks I knew, and I didn't feel it was my time to step up. As luck would have it, a seat opened this Spring, and I figured it was time to throw in my hat. I'd always wanted to contribute more to the MLA and this was my opportunity. Plus, I was pretty sure I would be great at it. Everything has been fantastic thus far!
I love to help people out and always make myself available to do so. I also love to work with kids. Shortly before taking my seat, I was asked to be a part of an outreach event the MLA held at West Kellogsville Elementary. We introduced the longbow to 240 eager 2nd and 3rd graders and had them all shooting before the day was through. That was something special and left quite an impression on me. I hope to do so again in the near future and will do my part to make sure it is in the cards.
When I'm not at an event, on the lake, or in the woods, I love spending time with my beautiful wife Donna. We've been married 6 years and she lets me get away with far too much. I think the key to being successful as a bowhunter or archer is to have an understanding spouse who is willing to participate. I'm fortunate to have one that is, and I do not take her for granted. We've hunted together often, and I enjoy every minute of it. I'm sure you'll see us both in the near future! When you do, please give me a shout! I'm as approachable as they come and love to bow and arrow.
I'm also the unofficial merchandise coordinator of the MLA, meaning I handle the t-shirt, hat, mug, decal, etc orders for sale at our events. Should you have ideas or would like to see the MLA carry a particular item, please let me know!
Until next time!


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Religious Education is a central part of the curriculum at Blessed Trinity which seeks to underpin and develop the educational activity of the whole school. Religious Education is part of and supports the ministry of the word with a particular focus on liturgical celebration. All pupils at KS3 will be prepared for and celebrate class Mass within RE lessons which complement the Year group masses that are celebrated at various times throughout our liturgical calendar. All pupils are taught RE throughout KS3 and KS4 and a minimum of 10% of the teaching timetable is dedicated to this subject. A central part of the curriculum is to raise awareness of those who are vulnerable in both our local and global communities and this awareness is complemented and enhanced by a thriving cycle of charitable fundraising events.
At Key Stage 3, pupils follow a scheme of work based on Salford Diocesan Guidelines and incorporating the newly revised Catholic Curriculum Directory. This Scheme of Work seeks to develop not only a solid knowledge and understanding of issues relating to our role as Roman Catholic Christians in the world (AO1) but also allows the pupils to analyse and evaluate the impact of beliefs and values on our behaviour and actions (AO2).
Throughout the course, pupils are given opportunities to explore and consider their own beliefs and faith as well as the faith of those belonging to other world religions. Both Classwork and Homework activities seek to address a range of different skills, including research, ICT, group work, oral presentation, research and analysis.
RE is also a respected humanities GCSE subject and therefore of interest and value to employers.
At Key Stage 4, we seek to further embed and develop the skills and knowledge our pupils acquire throughout Key Stage 3. All pupils will study for an RE single award GCSE. All pupils will sit two exams in Year 11, Edexcel Unit 8 and Edexcel Unit 3, each exam is worth 50% of the total grade. There is no coursework.
Year 10
Unit 3: Religion and Life based on a study of Roman Catholic Christianity
3.1 Believing in God
3.2 Matters of Life and Death
3.3 Marriage and the Family
3.4 Religion and Community Cohesion
Year 11
Unit 8: Religion and Society based on a study of Christianity and Islam
8.1 Rights and Responsibilities
8.2 Environmental and Medical issues
8.3 Peace and Conflict
8.4 Crime and Punishment
The Religious Education Team
Mrs R Keighley – Curriculum Leader
Mrs T Burtles – Assistant Curriculum Leader
Mrs D Williams – Assistant Head Teacher with responsibility for Learning and Teaching
Mr S Preston
Miss J Clegg
Ms L Murray
Miss R Wilkinson
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Aug 19, 2013
Abscessed right ear lanced. Terrapin went home on the same day, to live apart from the other 3 and to give medication.
I phoned today, 6 days post surgery.
"Swelling gone down a bit," the owner said. "He is eating a bit. I am usually out working and so I don't know."
"Is swelling down by 50%?" I asked.
"You must give the medication," I said.
"It is difficult to feed medicine," he said. "He won't open his mouth. Sometimes I managed to do it."
"How about closing his nostrils so that he will open his mouth?"
"I do it but he does not open his mouth."
There seems to be some return of appetite. The owner will come for medicine. Follow up is important for the pet as most owners don't provide feedback.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
1091. Follow up on terrapin with right ear abscess
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Palm Springs
By JOAN TAPPER
A mid-century modern vibe suffuses the Parker Palm Springs—set on 13 garden acres of Gene Autry's former Melody Ranch—where designer Jonathan Adler's playful decor fills the 144 rooms and private villas. The same tongue-in-chic but pampering attitude is evident in the Palm Springs Yacht Club spa—whose manifesto touts the country club experience of mixed doubles, a long steam, and a stiff drink. With three pools, this is a place for serious lolling around, though athletic interludes could take you from the red-clay tennis courts to the petanque courts to the croquet lawn, where, they say, a Pimms cup is the drink de rigueur. Norma's upscale indoor/outdoor diner promises breakfast all day; after dark, though, the scene naturally shifts to Mister Parker's, where the sexy dark wood and leather ambience fits the French bistro-style cuisine.
PARKER PALM SPRINGS 4200 E. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, 760-770-5000, theparkerpalmsprings.com.
Morocco comes to the California desert at Korakia Pensione, where two artistically restored villas from the 1920s and '30s—owned by an artist and a movie actor—form the basis of a one-of-a-kind Palm Springs oasis. Inside the carved Moorish wooden double doors of the keyhole-shaped entrance, you'll find serene courtyards with tiled fountains and lush plantings of citrus, oleander, date palms, and olives. The 28 varied guest rooms, suites, and bungalows are each individually decorated with antiques and handcrafted furnishings that evoke exotic getaways from Tangier to the Greek islands. The Moroccan courtyard is the setting for breakfast and afternoon tea; a bocce court and yoga platform suggest other ways to pass the time, while the two swimming pools are illuminated by lanterns and fire pits in the evenings, when vintage movies are shown outdoors.
KORAKIA PENSIONE 257 S. Patencio Rd., Palm Springs, 760-864-6411, korakia.com.
There's a stylish poolside scene at the Colony Palms Hotel, where the Purple Palm Restaurant—with chef Jeffrey Armstrong newly in charge—pays homage to the hotel's colorful past. The place was built in 1936 and run by notorious Purple Gang mobster Al Wertheimer, who installed a speakeasy and house of ill repute at the bottom of a secret staircase behind a pantry cupboard. After World War II, new management turned it into a gathering spot for the likes of Frank Sinatra, boxer Jack Dempsey, and Ronald Reagan. Today, the 56 rooms, casitas, and suites balance the hotel's historic Spanish architecture with exotic touches like Uzbekistani suzanis and dramatic tile, while vintage-style black-and-white photography by Deborah Anderson keeps up the Hollywood glam quotient. Moroccan touches add to the oasis, which is underscored by the dramatic panoramas of the California desert all around.
COLONY PALMS HOTEL 572 N. Indian Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, 800-557-2187, colonypalmshotel.com.
Ace hostelries got their start in the Pacific Northwest, and there's still a bit of Portland hipster in the Ace Hotel and Swim Club, which opened in 2009. Comfort, sustainability, and cultural context are the watchwords here, which means that a cool mix of vintage furniture, natural materials—think canvas, butternut wood, denim, and hemp—and up-to-the-minute amenities fill the 180 rooms that occupy the foundation of a 1965 motel. Recreating the aesthetic of that era is the King's Highway restaurant, with its upscale diner fare, and the Amigo Room, which reinterprets the property's original ranch hand bar. More surprising, perhaps, are the Mongolian yurts (for outdoor massages from the Feel Good Spa) and the sno-cone bar, which rolls up in an old-style caravan. Oh, yes, there are two pools, including a rare deep plunge, lined by hammocks and accounting for the aquatic aspect of the hotel's name.
ACE HOTEL AND SWIM CLUB 701 E. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, 760-325-9900, acehotel.com/palmsprings.
Yes, this is the desert, but at Rancho Las Palmas the surprise element is water—lots of it—at the family-oriented Splashtopia. The water park includes two 100-foot water slides, a lazy river, swimming pool, and small sandy beach. But the entire verdant 240-acre property is, in fact, a sort of playground for children of all ages—with a 27-hole Ted Robinson golf course and 25 tennis courts. The sense of fun extends to the menu that incoming chef Billy Deaver has installed at the retro R Bar—offering a Burger Bar of mix-and-match sliders with global flavors. Meanwhile, the just-completed $5 million renovation has revitalized the 20,000-square-foot spa and fitness center, and redesigned the 400-plus guestrooms and suites in a restful desert-toned palette. There may actually be moments when you want to do nothing at all.
RANCHO LAS PALMAS 41-000 Bob Hope Dr., Rancho Mirage, 866-423-1195, rancholaspalmas.com.
It's old-style Hollywood regency glamour—in glorious tones of black, white, and lemon—at the Viceroy Palm Springs, which began as a bungalow hotel for glitterati in the 1930s and carries on as a luxe near-downtown getaway with 67 rooms, suites, and villas set around landscaped courtyards. Designer Kelly Wearstler has added theatrical touches like formal drapery, bold black-and white wallpaper, and coachman's lamps to the decor, which extends to the cabanas and pavilions around the three outdoor pools. At the brilliantly hued Citron restaurant, the menu is California eclectic, but for cocktail drama, there's the signature Citron Blue martini—made with Hpnotiq liqueur and Ketel One Citron. The private outdoor treatment cabanas at the boutique Estrella Spa are just the place for a revitalizing massage, while the Head to Toe Indulgence adds foot reflexology to a facial that will leave you ready for your close-up.
VICEROY PALM SPRINGS 415 S. Belardo Rd., Palm Springs, 800-237-3687, viceroyhotelsandresorts.com/palmsprings.
There's a little bit of Vegas in the air at the Riviera Palm Springs, so why not slip past the tangerine-lit lattice walls of the Starlite Lounge and order an old-school cocktail—a Pink Panther, for instance. Or join the after-dark scene around the outdoor pool, with its chaises and lavish private cabanas. The 406 rooms and suites in the midcentury-modern pavilions have a contemporary take on '60s decor in tones of chocolate and pink with geometric accents, and the Circa 59 restaurant elaborates on the theme with oversize crystal chandeliers and red leather upholstery. The venue where the Rat Pack entertained, however, is gone; guests can now luxuriate in the 18 treatment rooms at SpaTerre, where the sounds of water flowing into the watsu pool are the only musical accompaniment.
RIVIERA PALM SPRINGS 1600 N. Indian Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, 866-588-8311, psriviera.com.
The Definitive Desert
MICHAEL ERICKSON has the best of both worlds. With his partner, Dream Foundation president Tom Rollerson, he has a residence on the Santa Barbara Riviera and a home on the 17th fairway of a Palm Springs-area golf course, near the offices of luxury KSL Resorts group, where he is vice president of sales. Here are his tips for getting the most out of a Coachella Valley stay.
Great design meets great food at the new Workshop Kitchen + Bar, 760-459-3451, workshoppalmsprings.com, in a Spanish-style building in Palm Springs's Uptown Design District. After your meal, you can stroll Palm Canyon Boulevard and check out the eclectic furnishings at Raymond | Lawrence, 760-322-3344, raymond-lawrence.com, or Boulevard, 760-832-9011, boulevardps.com, or just concentrate on furnishing your wardrobe at great California chic boutiques like Trina Turk, 760-416-2856, trinaturk.com, or the new adjacent Mr. Turk. If you need to freshen your look first, head for Turquoise salon, 760-325-7444, turquoisesalon.net, owned and run by ex-Santa Barbaran Jack Reed. The new 26-foot Marilyn Monroe statue in the center of town is the place for a photo with the icon. Get there soon because she's only there till June. Sunday brunch outdoors at Cheeky's, 760-325-7445, cheekysps.com, or Birba, 760-327-5678, birbaps.com is always great for people watching. You can even rent pink or blue Townie bicycles across the street to cruise the community in search of Frank's house, Elvis's honeymoon pad, or Liberace's hideaway. Need refreshment after your ride? The best margaritas just may be at El Mirasol, 760-323-0721, elmirasolrestaurants.com. And don't forget the stunning mountain and cactus surroundings; when you're ready to explore, hop onto a Desert Adventures jeep tour, 760-324-5337, red-jeep.com, and see it all up close.
[Getaways, Best of 2013]


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Wow! 4 posts in one day. I am on a roll lol! This will be the last one for today. Have had a very full on week with stamp clubs, the fundraiser and then yesterday we had our annual Regional Training day for Stampin' Up! or Regionals as we call it. I had to get up at 6am!!!! I never get up at 6am! It was held at the Crown Promenade hotel which is one of the places in the city that I actually do know how to get to! Registration started at 8am with the session starting at 9am and everyone knows you have to get their early to get a good table lol! This year it was just as well as there were so many demonstrators there, it was a great turn out. I still remember the very first one we had in October 2006 when there were about 20 of us! It's always nice to see "the originals" again each year too. This year I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to make any swaps but I ended up making 21 and then another 15 for the girls in my team. I used the set Sip by Sip and the ones for my team had a chocolate on them. I forgot to photograph them but will make a couple more as I owe a few people one and I also like to have copies for my own samples. Can you guess what was the predominant colour??? That's right, Chocolate Chip! I even pulled myself right out of my comfort zone and used Designer Series Paper on them as well. I swapped my cards very quickly and received some beautiful ones in return.
You can actually see mine here on the display board, the one with the cups on it - I made one for SU to keep.
We received a new stamp set and matching wheel (including the handle and ink cartridge) that have not been released yet - they will be in our next mini catalogue and made 4 projects using that set. I am always amazed at the ideas SU come up with, I probably would have overlooked the set but now love it! We have also got some exciting new business tools that will be implemented - can't wait for those! I was overjoyed to see Bonnie Thurber again who had travelled out from the home office in Utah. Unfortunately Bonnie's luggage got delayed :-( Due to this, she was not able to demonstrate her planned projects but did an amazing job of improvising with items she had found in her hotel room - yes, you heard me right! She is such a warm and funny person - her business talks are the best with really useful and sound advice. As well as working for Stampin' Up! she is also a demonstrator herself so has "been there" so to speak and knows the challenges we sometimes face. I met Bonnie at the very first opportunity day in Melbourne on 8th April 2006 (of course I remember the date!) when Stampin' Up! first came to Australia. It was quite surreal as there weren't very many of us there and Shelli Gardner and her husband Sterling were there along with the late Dave Abbott our 1st General Manager, Bonnie and 1 other presenter - I can't really remember who as I was too starstruck at Shelli being there lol! I chatted quite a bit with Bonnie on the day (they were all so open!) and her and Dave sat at our table to do the make and takes. Bonnie also attended the first convention we had in Sydney a year later and after one of her business classes I stayed behind to ask a few questions with some concerns that I had and she gave me some wonderful advice that helped me so much and I definately would not be where I am today with my wonderful growing team of Gail Force Stampers if it were not for her! Yesterday I was so happy to be able to tell her this in person :-)