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Alligator Alley, alternatively known as the Everglades Parkway, is one of Florida's most important east/west arteries. The name, however, was originally disdainful; the American Automobile Association (aaa.com) believed the state was building a road that would be useful only to alligators. Many bridges are built into the infrastructure, designed to minimize environment impact by allowing native wildlife to pass beneath the highway rather than across the traffic lanes. It was particularly important for the designers to mitigate the road's impact on the severely endangered Florida panther. There is a toll to use the road, $2.50 as of 2011.
The Big Cypress Resort (bigcypressrvresort.com) is located in the western prairie of the Everglades. It is a full-service RV and camping resort, meaning it provides -- on-site -- all services and amenities necessary for campers to enjoy their vacation. The RV and tent-camping areas are separate, and Big Cypress Resort also rents out cabins. Facilities include a basketball court, children's playground, clubhouse, exercise room, heated swimming pool, horseshoes court, hot tub, laundry facilities, miniature golf and shuffle board. From Alligator Alley take exit 49 and travel north on Government Road.
Club Naples RV Resort (morganrvresorts.com) is a 20-acre campsite with 309 sites offering both 30- and 50-amp hook-ups. Each site has cable TV, and Wi-Fi is available across the property. Many sites are pull-through, and some are waterfront. Club Naples is pet-friendly. There is a small pool and a clubhouse, but -- because the park is primarily resident-occupied -- the atmosphere can be a little remote. Sites for overnight stays are small. From Alligator Alley take exit 101, travel south a short distance south on County Road 951, then turn east on Beck Boulevard.
Endless Summer RV Estates (no website; 2 Tina Lane; Radio Road; Naples; 941-643-1511) has 120 RV sites -- none of which are paved or pull-through -- and also provides for tent camping. The RV sites have 20-, 30- and 50-amp hook-ups with modem-friendly telephone connections and cable TV. Although propane is not sold on site, a weekly delivery is available for long-term residents. There is a heated, screened pool, laundry facilities, public phones and washrooms. Endless Summer RV Estates are pet-friendly, with a 30-pound weight limit on animals. From Alligator Alley take exit 105, travel east on Golden Gate Parkway, turn right onto Santa Barbara Boulevard and right again onto Radio Road.
Cagney, John. "Campgrounds Near Alligator Alley, Florida." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/campgrounds-near-alligator-alley-florida-55250.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
BASEBALL is a game of second chances, and for the Mets, Friday night begins their second chance in three weeks to prove they deserve the respect they have spent so much money to acquire.
Forget about beating the Yankees. For all the dreaming about a real Subway Series, the Mets still have yet to show they’re good enough to beat the Atlanta Braves.
Worse, they have yet to show they are mature enough to compete on the same level at which they spend. It starts from the GM and works its way down to the dugout.
What the Mets don’t seem to understand is that respect can’t be bought or traded for, or claimed on waivers or even grown on the farm.
It must be earned, on the field and in the clubhouse.
Now that the foolishness concerning John Rocker appears to have blown over, Friday night’s game against the Braves at Turner Field, the first of a three-game series, is the Mets’ chance to begin earning respect between the foul lines.
But they still have a ways to go to earn it after the game is over.
Sweeping the Braves would go a long way toward demonstrating that perhaps this October, things will be different around Shea Stadium. Even winning two out of three would be a moral victory. Before last night’s 11-7 victory gave them the series against the Blue Jays, the Mets had not accomplished that feat against a team with a winning record in more than two months.
And yet, there is something about this team that still cries “Loser,” perhaps because of this unfortunate habit: When they lose, the Mets cry.
Not all of them, of course. Mike Piazza, the one Met with plenty of reason to whine, set the best example of all after he was beaned by Roger Clemens.
Piazza said what he felt. Then, he went out and resumed hitting the ball hard and far.
That showed real leadership, not the phony kind of climb up onto a stooland give the guys a peptalk leadership you see in the movies.
Too bad the same can’t be said for GM Steve Phillips, who reacted to Clemens’ beanball by throwing the Yankees out of the weight room at Shea, an infantile reaction that made a professional baseball organization look more like a nursery school.
Then, Phillips topped himself by “advising” Mets traveling to the All-Star Game not to fly on the same plane with any Yankees.
That made the Mets look like schoolyard sissies, the kind of kids who get roughed up by a bully and then have to have Mama drive them to school rather than venture back onto the school bus.
From there, it’s not such a stretch to hear a Mike Hampton carping about being ordered to walk Nomar Garciaparra before yielding a game-winning home run to Brian Daubach, or an Al Leiter complaining about the strike zone of rookie umpire Mike Fichter as an excuse for allowing Marty Cordova to beat him with a grand slam.
Hampton may have been speaking out of competitive fire – no doubt, he believed he could have gotten Garciaparra out – and Leiter certainly had a point, since Fichter was “replaced” a few days later.
But the point is, that kind of talk makes it appear the Mets are all too inclined to look for scapegoats everywhere but where they are, which is in the mirror.
Part of it, of course, is the rationale of every professional athlete. If Hampton doesn’t believe he can retire Garciaparra, his .400 average notwithstanding, he doesn’t belong in the big leagues.
And if Leiter doesn’t convince himself that the “amoeba-like” strike zone of Fichter caused him to groove one to Cordova, how can he truly pitch with confidence the next time?
And yet, such thoughts are best kept inside the heads of the men who are thinking them.
Letting them out in a way conveys frustration, uncertainty, even weakness.
That kind of thinking spreads throughout the clubhouse, from the Hamptons and Leiters down to the everyday players and the utility men. Baseball teams cannot win consistently with that kind of thinking in the room.
Certainly, the Mets can’t beat the Braves with it.
Sure, they have had problems this season, some of their own making, and some not.
Anyone not named Phillips could have seen that Rickey Henderson was going to be a problem this season. After all, he had been a problem last season.
But no one could have foreseen the injuries to Robin Ventura and Darryl Hamilton and Rick Reed and Rey Ordonez.
Still, good teams overcome things like that and still win. The Braves were held together with tape and string last year, and still made it to the World Series, without a lot of whining.
The Mets have to show they can do the same. Win, not whine. And if it so happens, lose and not whine.
Their destiny, after all, is in their own hands, not the umpires’ or the media’s or those of the opposing pitcher who lets one fly at Mike Piazza’s head.
Winners know this. Whiners don’t.
The Mets can be one or they can be the other.
And starting Friday night, they have the perfect opportunity to show us which one they are.
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Tens of thousands of US tourists are among those in the path of a monster hurricane bearing down on the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, officials said Friday.
Hurricane Patricia has grown to be the strongest storm on record in the Western Hemisphere and Mexico is braced for a catastrophic event as it makes landfall later Friday.
State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said US authorities were on stand-by to offer assistance if requested and urged Americans in the area to seek shelter.
"We are obviously closely monitoring the path of Hurricane Patricia and its potential impact on US citizens who are in the affected area," he said.
Toner noted that Puerto Vallarta is a popular destination for American tourists and warned that the city's airport has already been shut as a safety precaution.
Precise numbers of US citizens are hard to estimate, but officials said the figure was thought to be in the tens of thousands and one dubbed the storm an "epic event."
The US consulate in Ciudad Juarez has had set up an emergency hotline and US citizens have been advised to follow the instructions of Mexican officials.
John sits down with author and advice columnist Amy Dickinson, to talk about her new book “Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things” and why she turned down an opportunity on Bill O’Reilly’s show to promote it. Then Mark Kingwell, author of “Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters” stops by. Also, a visit from the Mincing Rascals and the weekly VibeScore segment!
Jan Jakub Chromiec is a researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Adam Traczyk is a co-founder and director of the Global.Lab think tank in Warsaw.
The weak spot of the Union is not just the right balance between more or less integration. Instead, its future will depend on public support for European values. To understand this claim, consider what would happen if Poland’s current political style became the gold standard across the Union.
At the very least, when member states dismantle judicial independence, limit media freedom and stifle non-governmental organisations, the Union loses credibility to conduct value-based foreign policy. A Union of member states dismantling democracy cannot credibly persuade neighbours to strengthen it.
Moreover, when countries stop respecting rulings of the European Court of Justice, as Poland recently did, common policies become worthless since they are no longer independently enforceable.
And when it comes to decision-making, imagine the outcome of European Councils where Kaczyńskiesque governments hold a majority. Incantations of “Germany first”, “France first” and other “firsts”, disregard for rule of law, and backtracking on commitments would wreck the European project.
In sum, when member states don’t respect European values – pluralistic democracy, rule of law, human rights – the Union as a rules-based system of peaceful conflict resolution among democracies risks breaking down. We can only speculate what kind of animal the EU would become instead, but we know from history that the alternative to rule of law is the rule of strength.
That’s why the Polish government should get an award.
On one hand, its conduct is a warning shot about the fragility of liberal-democratic institutions. These institutions are no more than pieces of paper converted into political power by public support. Take away this support and you will hold in your hands only pieces of paper.
On the other hand, identifying a weak spot means that solutions can be discussed. In this vein, we propose a two-fold approach of promoting European values: through a corrective and a preventive arm.
The corrective arm already exists, in the form of Article 7 of the EU Treaty which suspends the voting rights of a member breaching European values and a rule of law framework introducing dialogue before such a penalty is triggered. The flaw of these mechanisms is that they assume member states are persuadable by dialogue. When a country chooses confrontation over dialogue these mechanisms fail. Moreover, Article 7 is a ‘nuclear option’: once triggered, there are no further means of persuasion.
For this reason, some suggest punishing Poland by limiting its access to EU funds. This would be a double-edged sword. While it would probably reduce the government’s popularity, it would surely hurt the Polish people, for whom EU-friendly sentiment is fuelled in part by structural and agricultural funds from the EU budget.
Since correcting violations of European values is so difficult, the Union should invest more in preventing them from happening in the first place. Here is how this could be done.
In Poland, civil society in the form of watchdogs, campaign groups, independent media and think tanks is currently the most important promoter of European values. In July, non-governmental organisations carried out protests in roughly 250 cities, forcing the president to veto parts of a controversial judicial reform.
However, running such organisations is as hard as it gets. The government has slashed funding for critical NGOs, launched a National Centre for the Development of Civil Society in order to centralise public subsidies, and conducted anti-NGO campaigns in the media. At a time where civil society is needed the most, its ability to operate is limited.
The Union already supports value-promoting NGOs in its neighbourhood. A European Instrument for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights, for instance, foresees €1.3bn for this purpose. But since democratic institutions are endangered within the EU, we need an instrument directed at member states.
This instrument, let’s call it ‘Fund for European Values’, would support NGOs promoting the values enshrined in Article 2 of the EU Treaty: rule of law, human rights and democracy. Funding, at a level similar to the EU’s spending on promoting values in third countries, would be available to organisations in all member states, to underscore that fostering values is important across the Union.
Setting up this kind of preventive arm would have three advantages.
First, it would balance the harsh language of sanctions with a positive message from Brussels. Secondly, it would contribute to limiting divisions in the EU by signalling that value-promotion is a task for all member states. Finally, and most importantly, it would contribute to strengthening the immune system of European democracies. Ultimately, democracy can only be upheld by people striving and fighting for it. As Friedrich Ebert, the first democratically elected president of Germany put it, democracy needs democrats.
The alternative is the prospect that some years from now, the institutions currently securing our freedom and prosperity might be reduced to worthless pieces of paper.
And this is why we don’t like you.
Citizens elect governments not NGOs. “..liberal democratic institutions..” what a joke! Most are populated by leftwing activists, agitating to regulate mainstream society in accordance with their own barmy ideas but withowt the consent of that society. You hide behind the word ‘democracy’ but you do not represent it and your ‘European Values’ are simply your own. You do not speak for me.
How about Greece that will extradite to Turkey the Turkish pilots that have already asylum??? Why Euractiv is silent? Maybe because your political hierarchy does not allow?
City Harvest’s app finds the restaurants that give back for you.
You can search by cuisine, location, or name of restaurant, but every restaurant that the app shows you will be City Harvest partner, so you know wherever you go–at least as far as food waste is concerned–you’re voting with your stomach for a more ethical meal. “We did it to recognize the tremendous support we get from the restaurant community and to connect the people who want to dine out with the restaurants that support us,” explained Erin Hoover of City Harvest. It’s good old fashioned consumer pressure for more ethical business behavior.
The technical innovation might turn out to be the more important element though. Right before you are taken from the City Harvest restaurant search to the standard Open Table page for reservations or to-go orders, you will be given the chance to donate. Because Apple hasn’t facilitated in-app donations, the startup LetGive is taking on that task, and this is one of their first prototypes.
It’s a step forward toward a new kind of charitable ask says, Elizabeth Fastiggi, LetGive’s founder, because it is “engaging people in the moment.” Bring the charitable request to the potential donor and eliminate as many barriers as possible and you increase the chance of a gift.
Scientists examine the fossil of a horse in Yakutia, Russia, on Aug. 23, 2018.
Scientists from Russia’s Northeast Federal University who presented the discovery Thursday said the foal is estimated to be 30,000 to 40,000 years old. They believe it was about two months old when it died.
Semyon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in the regional capital of Yakutsk, was surprised to see the perfect state of the find. He noted it’s the best-preserved ancient foal found to date.
Celtic enjoyed their first win in four outings thanks to a Gary Hooper double at St Mirren Park.
The striker opened the scoring in Paisley in the sixth minute after being set up by strike partner Anthony Stokes.
Six minutes later a mistake by former Celtic player Paul McGowan allowed Hooper to slip a second past St Mirren goalkeeper Craig Samson.
The result moves Celtic to within a point of Rangers and Motherwell.
Manager Neil Lennon made two changes to the side who were knocked out of the Europa League on Thursday, with Stokes and midfielder James Forrest replacing Joe Ledley and Georgios Samaras, who dropped to the bench.
And Stokes appeared to have opened the scoring when he hit the back of the net in the early stages, but referee William Collum judged him to have fouled Saints defender Marc McAusland beforehand.
Celtic's breakthrough came just seconds later when Stokes and Hooper worked a one-two at the edge of the box to allow Hooper to drill the ball past Samson.
And things were to get worse for the St Mirren defence when a catalogue of mistakes in the 12th minute, culminating in McGowan passing straight to Hooper's feet, allowed the Englishman to run through and slip the ball into the St Mirren net.
But after a poor start, the Paisley side began to show flashes of the brand of football manager Danny Lennon has established in the early part of the season.
And McGowan had the chance to make amends soon after his error when Nigel Hasselbaink provided a fine pass, but his effort from 16 yards was saved by Forster.
Hasselbaink continued to cause problems for Celtic defender Daniel Majstorovic, with Dutchman Jeroen Tesselaar also threatening to create an opening for the home side as St Mirren increased the pressure towards the end of the first half.
After the restart, it was Stokes who again looked dangerous, going on a solo run and sending in a low drive to force a terrific save from Samson.
But there were chances for St Mirren too, Tesselaar whipping a free kick round Celtic's wall in the 55th minute; Forster forced to make a scrambling save by his near post.
The impressive Tesselaar also did his share at the other end of the park, denying Scott Brown a close-range chance seconds later.
Celtic's Kelvin Wilson looked more jittery in front of goal and endured a heart-stopping moment as he sent a defensive header just inches past his own goal in the 66th minute.