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From swooshing and swooping rides to interactive animal experiences and world-class attractions, SeaWorld San Diego truly makes a big, big splash. See—and learn about—the amazing under-sea worlds of animals from around the globe, including penguins, turtles, walruses, beluga whales and sea lions. Behind the scenes, SeaWorld is also home to marine animals that have been injured or orphaned on Southern Californian beaches and are being nursed or rehabilitated before they can be returned to the wild.
Located just off San Diego's Mission Bay, the park offers a variety of ways to learn about and celebrate marine life. Dive into a deep-sea adventure in the Ocean Explorer area, the family-friendly realm that opened in 2017. There, you'll find five children's rides and unique aquariums with giant Pacific octopuses, Japanese spider crabs and Californian moray eels. See (and touch) harmless rays and sharks, or just be inspired by the killer whales in one of the park's latest additions, Orca Encounter. Rather than a traditional show, the area with a Pacific Northwest-themed setting features the orcas breaching, spouting and generally acting naturally in the water, against the backdrop of an infinity screen showing a documentary-style presentation containing interesting facts about the majestic mammals. Or, take one of the park's exclusive tours and you can have up-close encounters with the resident dolphins, sea lions, penguins or gentle beluga whales, which are also known as the 'canaries of the sea'.
Climb aboard a host of rides, too, including the teacup-style Abby's SeaStar Spin, the flume ride Journey to Atlantis, or Manta, a high-tech, double-launch rollercoaster that has you twisting and diving like a ray. Stay late during the summer (until September) for the Electric Ocean, a light show that transforms the rides, shows and attractions into vibrantly coloured displays inspired by the phenomenon of ocean bioluminescence.
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Ride rollercoasters, get splashed and explore the Arctic
The aquatic animals are not the only ones who get wet at SeaWorld San Diego. Climb aboard water rides such as Journey to Atlantis to sploosh through flumes and kersplash at the bottom of a 60 foot plunge. On Shipwreck Rapids, board a glorified inner tube to follow a winding watercourse through peaceful islands and then hold on tight for the finish—over waterfalls and into a watery cave (this version of a shipwreck happily includes a café at the end). The 150-foot Electric Eel, which opened in 2018, is now the tallest and fastest rollercoaster in San Diego.
Other rides transport you in different ways: Bayside Skyride offers a scenic ride above the bay—and make sure you take the lift up the Skytower, with its panoramic view of Mission Bay, the Pacific Ocean, central San Diego and beyond. Or, climb aboard a simulated jet helicopter to zoom above icy landscapes on the Wild Arctic ride, which transports you to a realistic Arctic research station with the chance to take an up-close look at beluga whales, seals and walruses. For an immersive 'underwater' experience with killer whales, check out the virtual reality DeepSeeVR Orca 360, a mesmerising attraction that takes you on a virtual up-close expedition.
The Ocean Explorer area, which opened in 2017, includes the Submarine Quest ride, the swing-style Tentacle Twirl, and little-explorer-friendly rides Octarock, Aqua Scout and Sea Dragon Drop.
Gentle ride options abound at SeaWorld San Diego, especially for the smaller ones. On Riptide Rescue, kids climb into seats styled to look like yellow life rafts before setting off on a simulated sea turtle rescue mission. Little ones will love the rides in the Sesame Street Bay of Play, including Elmo's Flying Fish, the teacup-style Abby's Sea Star Spin and the not-too-rocking Oscar's Rockin' Eel.
Big kids, meanwhile, will love Manta. Shaped like a giant ray, this roller coaster uses advanced technology and computerised imagery to make you feel like you're swooshing, soaring, twisting and diving through the air, just like a ray. After the ride, see the elegance of these amazing underwater creatures in the giant aquarium and visit the grotto, where you can touch the harmless California bat rays as they glide by.
Insider tip: queues tend to be shorter during the most popular shows. For the speediest ride, get a Quick Queue Premier all-day pass for express entrance.
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See dolphins, seals and pot-bellied pigs do amazing stunts
Come and watch the acrobats of the ocean jump, flip, spin and exude their natural charm in both SeaWorld's classic shows and its all-natural marine life experiences.
Go to the lively yet intimate Dolphin Days show to see bottlenose dolphins and short-finned pilot whales take to the waters—a great chance to see how SeaWorld San Diego's professional trainers work closely with these marine mammals. It's also a lot of fun, and a chance to get soaked in the designated splash zones.
Sea Lions LIVE, meanwhile, offers SeaWorld's take on a comedy sketch show, starring the park's beloved pinnipeds Clyde and Seamore, and the fun-loving O.P. Otter; the trio are pretty pop-culture savvy, with their marine-life-based spoofs on TV shows (as evidenced in 'Dancing with the Pinnipeds' and 'SLSI: Sea Lion Scene Investigation'). For furry-animal entertainment, go to Pets Rule! and watch a talented cast of dogs, cats, birds and pot-bellied pigs (most adopted from shelters) doing entertaining stunts with their trainers—and watch out for cameos by emus and kangaroos.
During summer 2017, SeaWorld San Diego debuted an experience with the park's majestic resident killer whales: Orca Encounter features a Pacific-Northwest-themed backdrop and a three-storey-high video screen that shows a documentary-style presentation about how these mammals move, hunt and communicate in the wild. Taking centre stage, you can watch the resident orcas splash, breach and otherwise act naturally in the water.
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Immerse yourself in an ocean oasis at these marine-life encounters and exhibits
Even from your first few steps into the park, SeaWorld San Diego aims to transport you to the edges of the ocean and beyond. Start by entering Explorer's Reef, near the park's entrance: walk under a huge wave sculpture to discover the edge-of-the-sea world of the coral reef. Wrap-around touch pools let you stroke brown-banded and white-spotted bamboo sharks (don't worry, they're harmless), as well as California round rays and other creatures. For one of the world's weirder sensations, dangle your fingers and let some of the exhibit's 4,000 cleaner fish, each about the size of a child's pinky, harmlessly nibble on your skin.
Go a little further into the park for a wide range of aquariums and marine-life encounters, including the up-close Dolphin Point and Sea Lion Point. The 1-million-litre Shark Encounter takes you underwater—safely through a 57-foot acrylic tunnel—to get up close to a shark habitat that includes sand tiger, bonnet-head, black-tip and white-tip reef sharks. The nearby Turtle Reef is home to dozens of threatened loggerhead, hawksbill and green sea turtles, as well as thousands of tropical fish (play the touch-screen game, Turtlelink, to learn about sea turtle tracking and SeaWorld's turtle rescue efforts).
One of the cutest zones is Otter Outlook, which features a display of Californian sea otters, and is part of a partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium; check the schedule for daily presentations about this threatened species. And don't miss the Penguin Encounter, which has nearly 300 smartly dressed birds, representing six Antarctic and sub-Antarctic species (including the Gentoo, Macaroni and Emperor).
For the quirkiest creatures, visit the Ocean Explorer area—which opened in 2017—and see the quick-camouflaging giant Pacific octopus, eerie moray eel and the massive Japanese spider crabs (the biggest of their kind in the sea). Make sure you call in at The Rescue Plaza, near Orca Encounter, to learn about the SeaWorld Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Program, which has rescued more than 17,000 animals over the years—mostly sea lions, seals and marine birds—with the goal of nursing them back to health and then returning them to the wild. If you're a fan of Sea Rescue , ABC's Emmy-Award-winning series about these efforts—many of which are based in San Diego—you can watch episodes on the big screen at the park's Mission Bay Theater.
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It's one thing to see SeaWorld San Diego's remarkable collection of exotic animals performing in shows or in their enclosures. It's another (unforgettable) thing entirely to get up close to the creatures—and even touch them. Two of the most remarkable exclusive experiences involve you climbing into a SeaWorld San Diego wetsuit to get into the pool with the gentle, snow-white beluga whales, found in Arctic waters.
At Dolphin Encounter, you get to feed, touch and use special signals to communicate with bottlenose dolphins; the Dolphin Interaction Program lets you get right into the pool with the creatures and play with them. Go behind-the-scenes again with the Penguin Up-Close Tour to discover everything there is to know about these little black-and-white seabirds, including what they eat and how to help protect them in the wild. If your family still hasn't had its fill of wildlife, take them on the 45-minute Killer Whales Up-Close Tour, which offers an insider's look at how these awe-inspiring mammals are cared for.
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Tired of shouting, 'Don't touch'? Then SeaWorld San Diego is the place for you and your younger children. At this San Diego attraction, children are invited to get their sticky fingers on everything—including the sea life itself. At the Explorer's Reef and California rockpools, they can get touchy-feely with schools of cleaner-fish, crabs, sea stars and brown-banded bamboo sharks, before heading to the park's two-acre children's zone, the Sesame Street Bay of Play. In addition to the water-based fun and three Muppet-themed rides—Abby's Sea Star Spin, Elmo's Flying Fish and Oscar's Rockin' Eel—children will get a chance to have their photo taken with Elmo himself. Or perhaps they'll prefer the giggle-inducing Pets Rule! show, where rescue animals perform spectacular stunts.
You won't find much refuge from the SoCal sun here, so stay on top of the sun cream and take advantage of the indoor displays too. Toddlers can put their noses up against the enormous Turtle Reef window, or walk through the acrylic viewing tunnel at Shark Encounter (as sand tiger and bonnet-head sharks circle overhead).
To help ensure a stress-free day, hire a pushchair at Guest Services, just inside the park entrance. For more mobile children who might like to wander, pick up a wristband on which you can enter your mobile number just in case you and they get separated. And if your children love to sit in splash zones, don't forget to bring a change of clothes in your bag.
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Mission Bay and San Diego Bay trim the edge of the city like sparkling gems. Dozens of outfitters can get you out amidst the blue via every imaginable conveyance; kayak, stand-up paddleboard, motorized watercraft, sail boat, or kite board. For a more novel approach, board the Bahia Belle, a Mississippi riverboat, snuggle aboard a romantic Venetian gondola, or try jet-packing to skim across the water like James Bond.
Cruise in style too. Hornblower and Flagship Cruises let you get a millionaire's view of the bay on scenic tours, as well as dinner and brunch cruises.
You can have fun on land here, too. Mission Beach, the narrow strip of land between Mission Bay and the Pacific, is a chock-o-block assemblage of surf shops, t-shirt joints, and funky beach bars, and there's a 3-mile/4.8-km oceanfront boardwalk that rivals Venice Beach for people watching. At Belmont Park, classic amusement rides include the Big Dipper wooden roller coaster. Mission Bay also has 27 miles/43 kilometers of water's-edge pathways, perfect for strolling and biking.
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SeaWorld San Diego's calendar features evening light shows, trick-or-treating and Santa sightings
Depending on the time of year you visit, there are fun seasonal offerings at SeaWorld San Diego too. During the summer, the park has a new take on an evening light show: Electric Ocean takes its inspiration from the ocean phenomenon of bioluminescence, where the ocean glows in the moonlight. The nighttime show, which runs until Labour Day (first Monday in September), also features dance music, a DJ and costumed sea creatures taking to the dance floor.
Come autumn, SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular (weekends from late September until end of October) invites kids to dress in fancy dress, mingle with the characters strolling around and go trick-or-treating in the park. Don't miss the Halloween-themed sea lion and otter show, Clyde & Seamore's Big Halloween Bash.
When the Christmas season gets into full swing, the park takes on an ocean-meets-Santa's Workshop ambience. SeaWorld's Christmas Celebration (typically running from mid-November to around New Year) includes Santa's Christmas Village, Rudolph's Christmastown and seasonal shows, such as Dolphin Island Christmas and Clyde & Seamore's Christmas Special, starring the popular sea lion and otter.
During the holiday season, the O Wondrous Night show tells the Christmas story using 30 carols and a variety of live animals. Stay until sunset to catch the nightly lighting of the 40-foot-tall animated tree and to see how the park's main landmark, the 320-foot Skytower, looks with its Christmas lights atwinkling.
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'My Only Real Loyalty is to the Truth': An Interview with Patrick Radden Keefe
By Naben Ruthnum
The author of Say Nothing on the Troubles, the difference between narrative non-fiction and history, and reporting until you solve a murder.
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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The eight masked men and women who took Jean McConville from her West Belfast housing complex flat in December, 1972, had to contend with her ten children. Jean, panicked, asked the kids to help her—they clung to her, wouldn't let her go until they were reassured that Jean would return in a few hours, and that eldest son Archie could accompany her.
Before Jean was pushed into a Volkswagen van, Archie was told at gunpoint to "Fuck off." Having little choice, the 16-year-old did just that. Jean McConville was never seen alive again.
New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe found his way to this story through the obituary of Dolours Price, a former I.R.A. terrorist, who claimed that Jean McConville was an informer for the British army, and was executed by the Unknowns, a paramilitary unit of the I.R.A. Price claimed that the order came from Gerry Adams, who was later to become the leader of Sinn Fein, and a crucial force behind the Good Friday Agreement. Adams has not only avoided claiming responsibility for this crime, he's denied ever being an I.R.A. member.
In Say Nothing (Doubleday), Keefe has expanded his 2015 article exploring the McConville vanishing into a book that explores the Troubles without making a perhaps-inevitably doomed attempt at being definitive. Keefe's focus on the McConville crime, and on the journey of sisters Dolours and Marian Price through politics, terrorism, prison, hunger strikes, and decades of consequence, makes for a painful, character-centred story with a truly unexpected ending. Many of the survivors of the recent history that Say Nothing describes seem to want leave it unspoken and unremembered, but they dwell in its aftermath, every day.
Naben Ruthnum: The title—Say Nothing—suggests one of your themes: collective denial. How does this story, and the effects not just of the McConville vanishing, but the entire unresolved trauma of the Troubles—how does denial come into it?
Patrick Radden Keefe: Maybe as a journalist and a writer, I have a bias. My bias is for openness and for truth. I tend to think that you can ignore the past, but that's not going to make it go away.
That was something that kept coming home for me. This sense of really profound irresolution. In the absence of some process—not even for accountability or justice, but just some truth process. Not even necessarily reconciliation, but just a truth process. To talk about what happened. I do think that everyone ends up in this strange purgatory where they're unable to move on, and they're trapped in the past.
The image I always come back to is that moment where [Jean McConville's son] Michael McConville, as an adult, gets into a taxi and realizes that it's being driven by a guy who took his mother away. And he doesn't say anything. And the guy doesn't say anything. Neither of them say anything, and the guy drops him off.
There's a metaphor in there, and it's a metaphor of paralysis.
Addressing this paralysis—in a sense, just getting anyone to talk to you, especially in the wake of many people involved with this story having been compromised by supposedly locked, archival interviews they conducted with Boston College being given over to the authorities—just having people speak to you about the McConville case must have been difficult.
It was different [from the Boston tapes] in the sense that people knew that this was going to be public. Initially I was writing a magazine article, then the book. It was a slow process. Some people never did talk to me. Some people started talking and then changed their minds. And others, slowly, I persuaded them I was responsible and wanted to tell the story as truthfully as I could.
It's funny. I'd written this 15,000-word magazine article, and with some people, that hurt me, but with others, it helped. I had a calling card, I could say to people, "Look, this is my approach, the book is going to look something like this." Most people, when they read that, thought, "Okay, he's serious, he's thorough, he doesn't necessarily have a particular ax to grind."
But not everyone. Gerry Adams was not more likely to talk to me after reading that piece.
The people who did begin to speak to you and then took it back—how did you treat those interviews, ethically? And practically, if these people had given you information that you could act on?
If we're on the record, I'm very big on ground rules up front. Part of the reason I do that is to avoid any ambiguity on the other side. You and I are talking on the record right now. Tonight, I might suddenly have some crisis about something I said and call you up and try to take it back. But it's my view that it's totally your prerogative, whether or not you're going to do that. You don't owe that to me. We had a deal.
The tricky thing with a story like this, is that some of the people you're dealing with are pretty sophisticated about the press, and others are not. In my general career, there are people I deal with who have publicists and are old hands at this, and others who are real civilians who, in some instances, have never dealt with a reporter before. What I try to do is always be very clear with everyone about what I'm doing.
In some instances, there are people who start talking to you and then kind of dry up, or say they'd prefer not to be in the book. If the deal we had in the beginning is we're on the record, then I'm disinclined to make changes.
The way I think of it is my only real loyalty is to the truth. We can make a deal, a contract, and I have to honour that. But at the point where I start pulling punches, because I like you and think you're a nice guy? I'm really not doing my job.
You talk about that New Yorker article, "Where the Bodies are Buried," being an ambiguous calling card—how it worked in your favour with some people, with others, no. What about being Boston Irish, and having the name you do? I love the brief section in the book where you discuss coming up in '80s Boston but not having a particular stake in the Troubles.
Originally, I wasn't going to be in the book at all. Then I sort of had to be in it, because of the revelation in the last chapter. But the reason [that section you mentioned] is in there is because my English publisher said to me, "You have to talk about your name. People are going to wonder." What I wanted to do is to raise it up and then swat it aside.
I had thought that it would be more of a thing when I went over there. That unionists would hear my name and think that I came from a Catholic background, think that I had certain loyalties. That didn't happen at all.
I think there's a lot of Irish Americans, Irish Canadians too, who feel very connected to the old country. But then you go over there, and… I'm American. Inescapably. I think there was a sense that, when they saw me, I may have this Irish name, but I was clearly an outsider. I was very much an outsider, which actually ended up helping.
It neither counted for me nor against me that my name is Patrick Keefe. Weirdly enough, the fact that I immediately registered as American, not a partisan who fit into the grid there, that actually helped.
In your "Note On Sources" in the back of the book, you write about how so many of the books about the Troubles are partisan. But your interviewees would get a sense from you that partisanship wasn't part of your book.
Yes. People were more likely to just assume that I would tell the story as I found it.
The identity thing is a weird one. For The New Yorker, I go to Ecuador and write a story in Ecuador, I go to West Africa and write a story in Guinea, I go Amsterdam and write a story on Astrid Holleeder—and honestly, I thought of Northern Ireland the same way. It was no different in my mind. I was a foreign correspondent parachuting in to try to understand the place.
You're really definitive, in the book, that what you're writing and what we're reading is narrative non-fiction. It's not history. But then you immediately follow that statement by explaining that if you see somebody's thoughts in the narrative of Say Nothing, it's because that person told you that's what they were thinking. You're emphatic about the lack of speculation in the book.
What is the real crucial difference between narrative non-fiction and history, when you're writing narrative non-fiction about the past?
I don't really have any one answer. Part of what I was trying to do with that passage you're referring to was to defend the book against a certain kind of reading. It could be read as a history book, but: I was very adamant that I was telling the story that I want to tell. I've picked a handful of people, I'm going to follow them, tell you about their life experience. This is not a full-spectrum history of the Troubles. Don't foist expectations on this book that were not my ambitions in writing it.
If I sound defensive, it's because so much of what gets written, so much of the discourse about the Troubles is so vexed. There's a tendency, often, for people to really have the knives out when books come out.
So, part of it for me was that. Yes, I don't talk about Loyalists much in this book. If you want to read about Loyalists, there are plenty of good books for that. Please approach this on its own terms.
That was the genre question. But that flows right into these questions about narrative non-fiction. In some narrative non-fiction, there's an imperative to try to make everything as vivid as possible and to try to be as close as possible to your characters. And I think sometimes people get a little too conjectural for my tastes. In terms of talking about what people may have been thinking, this kind of thing. So, I wanted to be clear that, if the genre here is narrative non-fiction, I personally don't want anything on the page that you can't go to an endnote and see: "here's where he got that."
The book was fact-checked by the New Yorker fact-checker. If there were things (and there were a few places where I was a little out over my skis in terms of assuming certain things), he would say—is that really in the source? He would go back to the source note. And I dialed back a bunch of stuff, because it was important to me that everything be grounded in fact.
Were you approaching the true crime element of this as a way to unlock the Troubles, or was it the reverse—that you needed to explain the Troubles to make the crime story resonate?
There was never any intention—the book started and the magazine piece started with me wanting to write about this story. It wasn't that I wanted to write about the Troubles and then I found the story as a way in. It was always about the story, and if I could get some part of the Troubles—but it wasn't the primary impetus.
I like writing about crime. I've written a fair amount about crime, and it can be useful as a way of looking at communities, and families. It's almost like little seismic shocks. You have something like a murder, it affects a lot of people in different ways, and you can trace those effects. The idea for the book was: what if you looked at one murder, and you looked at both the victims and the perpetrators, saw the ripples of this one act, but tracked that in time, down the decades.
I'm a little bit uncomfortable with the moniker "true crime." But it's certainly the case that there are conventions of that genre that are here, and it's a story about a murder. A lot of the reviews of the book have said, "it's a whodunit, we find out who did it at the end!" But the truth is, if I hadn't figured out who did it, people wouldn't describe it as a whodunit.
That was something that was interesting to me—structurally, it works so perfectly that you did, improbably, find out who killed Jean McConville.
But it was an accident.
I was wondering, in the construction of the book, were you always going to centralize the characters that you did? Or did discovering the killer cause you to go back over the draft, to shift priorities?
This was the weirdest thing: it was never my intention to find out who the killer would be. My big north star writing this book was to approach it like a novel, where there's half a dozen characters, and if they saw or experienced something, we'd see it in the book. If they didn't, no. I didn't want to give you a history of the Troubles where you get obligatory asides.
My feeling was that [Jean McConville's] shooter was probably Anonymous IRA Gunman #3, and that my reader, by that point in the book, wouldn't care if I wrote, "And then there's this guy Joe, who we've heard nothing about in the last 300 pages, and it was him!!!"
The weirdest thing was discovering that it was somebody who was already a character. I had this moment where—now that I know that it's X—I should really go back and build in some foreshadowing. I started going back in the book, and the strangest thing is that all the foreshadowing was already there.
Not being immersed in the history of the Troubles, part of what struck me in reading this, particularly as you're assiduous about tracking the consequences of these acts, these times, to the current day, is the immense fallout in terms of trauma, of fractured mental health. To isolate just one thing, that the Price sisters emerged from their prison hunger strike with eating disorders.
On the eating disorders thing. Some of what I was trying to do—it wasn't the impetus for the project—but women have often been written out of the Troubles in a way. Part of what was appealing to me was that Say Nothing was the story of two women, Jean McConville and Dolours Price.
When we think of the hunger strikes, we think of Bobby Sands and these ten men and Long Kesh. The idea of looking at this earlier hunger strike that we've heard less about, and seeing the long-term physiological and psychological damage—it was a rich vein.
In terms of the toll? I think there's a huge amount of trauma. You still feel it there today. Substance abuse has been a big part of that. Alcohol, various types of prescription drug abuse, going right back to the '70s, when it was tranquilizers, minor tranquilizers that people were taking in crazy numbers.
There are studies that have been done about trauma passing down through generations. The weirdest thing is that even within these families—in part because of this say-nothing culture where stuff doesn't get aired out—you have kids who've grown up after the Troubles who have residual trauma because they're surrounded by all these people who are so traumatized.
Asking you that, I felt embarrassed about how little I knew about the Troubles, going into this book—I thought I knew quite a bit about the social context, the outlines of the conflict, but quickly learned I didn't. How did you balance telling the story you were interested in and affording readers the context they needed for it to coalesce?
That is one of the biggest things I wrestled with. I didn't want to write something that would read like an encyclopedia. There are a lot of those books out there. The trick of context was: how little context can I give you? That was a process. Some of it happened in editing, just sort of paring back and focusing on the story. Some of it was that thing I mentioned earlier—my rule was that if it didn't happen to these people, then you don't need to know about it at great length.
To take just one instance, Bloody Sunday, which is the seminal event of the Troubles, about which whole books are written, films have been made? It's a paragraph in my book. [The reader]'s not even really there, because Dolours Price was in Dundalk [Gaol] when she hears about it. She's hearing about this thing that's happening offscreen.
Fortunately, Northern Ireland is a small place, where everyone knows everyone. So, if you're just going to follow a few people and see history as they saw it, you can see a lot of history.
Naben Ruthnum's book Curry: Eating, Reading and Race was published by Coach House. As Nathan Ripley, he has written the thrillers Your Life is Mine and Find You in the Dark, published by Atria/Simon & Schuster.
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Антоний Вацлав Михал Эгидий Франтишек Стадницкий (; 28 сентября 1771, Опатув — 15 августа 1836, Тшциница) — польский помещик и историк.

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Представитель польского дворянского рода Стадницих герба «Шренява без креста». Один из двух сыновей старосты остшешувского Франтишека Стадницкого (1742—1810) и Терезы Венжик.

В 1791 году Антоний Стадницкий был членом комиссии по гражданско-военной Велюньской земли. В 1792 году он был избран от земского сеймика Калишской земли в качестве делегата к королю с благодарностью за Конституцию 3 мая. После Третьего раздела Речи Польский Антоний Стадницкий путешествовал, был, в частности, в Голландии. После возвращения на родину он вначале поселился Дукле, потом в имении Жмигруд, купленном в 1801 году. Был членом учрежденного в 1810 году в Варшаве аграрно-экономического общества. В 1812—1819 годах осуществлял надзор за участком Дукля венгерского почтового тракта. В 1815 году Антоний Стадницкий поручил составить каталог, собранной в Жмигруде библиотеки, книжный фонд которой насчитывал 1774 тома. С 1800 года он собирал книги, был владельцем части коллекции графа Эвариста Куропатницкого, вел переписку и обмен книгами с Юзефом Максимилианом Оссолинским. 15 ноября 1826 года он стал почетным членом вновь созданного Краковского научного общества. Проводил исследования по средневековью, истории евреев и истории Подкарпатской области. Был покровителем львовских научных журналов, Львовского дневника и польской пчелы. С 1827 года он был членом Галицийского станового сейма.

В 1801 году граф Антоний Вацлав Стадницкий женился на княжне Жозефе Яблоновской (1780—1861), младшей дочери старосты вишневского Станислава Яблоновского (1750—1806) и Анны Семеньской. У супругов было четверо сыновей:

 Казимир Стадницкий
 Александр Стадницкий
 Владислав Стадницкий
 Зигмунд Стадницкий, священник.

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Errors and Variations Checklist
The following is a list of 1981 Donruss errors and variations. Cards that were not corrected are not listed.
7 Duffy Dyer
- 1980 Avg. . 185
- 1980 Avg. 185
23 Dave Smith
- Incomplete box around stats.
- Complete box around stats.
26 John Ellis
- John Ellis pictured (with glove)
- Danny Walton pictured (with bat)
51 Tom Donohue
- correct spelling on front
- spelled "Donahue" on front
56 Steve Garvey
- "Surpassed 25 HR..."
71 Bobby Bonds
- Lifetime HR 986
72 Rennie Stennett
- "...breaking broke leg..."
- "...breaking leg..."
82 Joe Charboneau
- "For some reason, Phillies..."
- "Phillies..."
87 Larry Hisle
- "...Twins with 28 RBI"
- "...Twins with 28 HR"
97 Tom Burgmeier
- Throws: Right
- Throws: Left
131 Pete Rose
- "See card 251" on back
164 Del Unser
- 3B in stats
- no 3B in stats
240 Bob Lacey
- spelled "Lacy"
- spelled correctly - "Lacey"
261 Vern Ruhle
- error Ken Forsch photo (head shot)
- correct photo (waist shot)
306 Gary Matthews
- error "Mathews" on front
- correct "Matthews" on front
319 Duane Kuiper
- error "Dwane" on front
- correct "Duane" on front
326 Gorman Thomas
- "30-HR mark 4th..." on back
- "30 HR mark 3rd..." on back
330 Steve Rogers
- error "Rodgers" on front
- correct "Rogers" on front
342 Paul Splittorff
- error "Spittorff" on front
- correct "Splittorff" on front
357 Rob Picciolo
- error "Bob" on front
- correct "Rob" on front
379 Luis Pujols
- error "Pujois" on front
- correct "Pujols" on front
444 Buck Martinez
- reversed photo
- correct photo
457 John Tudor
- Lifetime W/L 9.7.
- Lifetime W/L 9-7.
483 Ivan DeJesus
- Lifetime hits 702.
490 Dave Roberts
- 1980 highlights: "Declared himself..."
- 1980 highlights: "Showed pop..."
516 Willie Norwood
- 1980 highlights: "Spent most..."
- 1980 highlights: "Traded to..."
524 Ray Burris
- 1980 highlights: "Went on..."
- 1980 highlights: "Drafted by..."
532 Jeff Zahn
- 1980 highlights: "Was 2nd in..."
- 1980 highlights: "Signed a 3-year..."
554 Mike Vail
- 1980 highlights: "After..."
- 1980 highlights: "Traded..."
555 Jerry Martin
- 1980 highlights: "Overcame..."
556 Jesus Figueroa
- 1980 highlights: "Had..."
563 Bob Owchinko
- 1980 highlights: "Involved..."
566 Glenn Adams
- error "Glen" on front
- correct "Glenn" on front
595 Dave Edwards
- 1980 highlights: "Sidelined..."
5 Underrated 1981 Donruss Baseball Cards
November 21, 2016 By Anson Whaley
In 1981, Donruss and Fleer gave Topps some much-needed competition. Having earned the right to produce baseball cards in a court case with Topps, the 1981 Donruss set became the company's first baseball offering. There were tons of errors, collation inside boxes was hit and miss (mostly miss) and the cards were printed on a cheap, thin stock that sometimes stuck together. While it left a lot to be desired in terms of production, it does have a certain nostalgia to it 35 years in the rear view mirror. Here are five underrated 1981 Donruss cards.
No. 131 (A and B) Pete Rose Variations
The 1981 Donruss set has more than its fair share of mistakes and variations. But the two Pete Rose No. 131 cards are worth a look. The card is one of several Rose cards in this set and Donruss did their best to point collectors to the others. There are actually two different versions of Card No. 131. One ends with directing collectors to Rose's No. 251 card while the other points to the Hit King's No. 371 card. Neither is an error since those are both legitimate Rose cards in the set. At only $1 or $2 for each example, both are affordable and relatively easy to find.
No. 538 Tim Raines Rookie Card
Each year, there is a strong push to get Raines into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While he has come close, he hasn't yet been able to get over the hump. Raines is one of the top base-stealers of all-time but his contributions to the game go beyond that. He was a seven-time All-Star, won a batting title, and twice led the league in runs. Raines will have a decent shot to earn election this year as he got onto nearly 70% of ballots (75% is needed) last year. At only about $1, his card is already a bargain. It will be an even bigger steal, however, if he finally gets the call to Cooperstown.
No. 119 Rickey Henderson
Henderson has only one truly recognized rookie card in the 1980 Topps set. But his 1981 Donruss card is significant since it's not only a second-year card, but his first Donruss edition. Henderson's card is among the more expensive in the set, but ungraded examples are easy to find in the $2-$3 range. His credentials hardly need recounted, but as a Hall of Famer and possibly the greatest leadoff hitter of all-time, at that price, his card is undervalued.
No. 569 Danny Ainge Rookie Card
Thirty-five years later, it remains one of the quirkiest 1980s baseball cards. Ainge's rookie cards were found in both the Fleer and Donruss sets in '81. Of course, Ainge would become famous; just not in baseball.
Despite only being taken in the 15th round of the 1977 MLB Draft by Toronto, Ainge shot up through the Blue Jays' system, needing less than two years to debut in the majors' in 1979 at the age of 20. His major-league career was hardly stellar and Ainge was out of baseball only two years later – ironically, the year his rookie card hit the streets. But his sports career was just getting started as he went on to star in the NBA. Ainge made it clear his decision to ditch baseball in favor of basketball was the right move. He made an All-Star team and w on two championships with the Boston Celtics. His card can be found for $1 or less on eBay.
No. 575 Mookie Wilson Rookie Card
Mookie Wilson will always be remembered for his hit in the 1986 World Series, which Bill Buckner botched, allowing the Mets to reach a Game 7 and ultimately defeat the Boston Red Sox. Wilson's career, however, was far more than that one moment. He enjoyed a 12-year career, stealing more than 300 bases and leading the league in double plays for a center fielder on three different occasions.
In '81, he was becoming a fan favorite on a Joe Torre-managed Mets team that needed a few. Two game-winning homers later in the season didn't hurt his popularity.
The baseball card landscape changed in 1981 when both Donruss and Fleer entered the marketplace and put an end to a Topps monopoly. While 1981 Donruss Baseball is far from a perfect set, it's place in hobby history is important.
On the surface, the 1981 Donruss Baseball checklist is large but simple. Factor in the many error variations and you've got something a little more challenging for completists. The main set has a total of 605 cards -- 600 player cards and five unnumbered checklists. That's significantly smaller than the 726 cards of 1981 Topps Baseball, but still on the big side.
Outside of Tim Raines, there aren't any major rookie cards in 1981 Donruss Baseball. From there, rookies drop off to players like Mookie Wilson and Jeff Reardon. One of the more intriguing cards in the set features a player who would go on to have a stellar basketball career instead, Danny Ainge.
The card design is fairly simple on the front. White around the outside, photos are framed in with a thick color frame with an inset black. The Donruss logo and year are in the top and the team name is on the bottom. Backs are more intricate. They're headlined by the notation, "First Edition Collector Series." The Donruss logo is flanked by bats, balls and ribbons that help frame in the timeline-style bio and stats.
1981 Donruss Baseball has more than 30 cards that have variations. Most of these are errors from the set's first run that were corrected. None command a huge premium like some of the errors that would dominate the hobby a few years later.
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Yankees 12, Rays 1: "That's for you, bitch"
September 27, 2018 by Mike
Stephen Tarpley has gone from September call-up to potential postseason LOOGY
Yankeemetrics: Smackdown at Tropicana Field (Sept. 24-27)
Mark this one down as one of the best games of the season. It wasn't a thrilling comeback or anything like that, but damn, that was satisfying. The Yankees blew the Rays out 12-1 in the four-game series finale Thursday afternoon and it got a little salty. At 98-61, the Yankees have their most wins since their 103-59 championship season in 2009.
Teammates Are More Important Than Half-A-Million Bucks
CC Sabathia cost himself $500,000 by sticking up for his teammate Thursday afternoon. Andrew Kittredge threw behind Austin Romine in the sixth inning (more on that in a bit), then, in the next half-inning, Sabathia drilled catcher Jesus Sucre with his first pitch in retaliation. Obviously intentional. Sabathia was immediately ejected and, on his walk to dugout, he pointed to Kittredge and the Rays dugout and said "That's for you, bitch." What a badass.
thats for you, bitch. pic.twitter.com/XC258lBlnE
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) September 27, 2018
Sabathia was in total control Thursday afternoon. Five scoreless innings on 54 pitches. He retired the first eleven batters he faced and allowed just a single against the shift and two hit-by-pitches, one of which was intentional. He went into this game needing seven innings to trigger a $500,000 bonus, and, given the score and his pitch count, Sabathia was well on his way to pocketing half-a-million bucks Thursday. Instead, he threw at the first batter possible to stick up for his teammate. He is the man. Imagine not wanting the Yankees to give this guy one-year contracts until he decides to hang 'em up.
On the mound, Sabathia looked as good as he's looked at any point this season. He had it all working. Inside cutters and backdoor sliders to righties, inside sinkers and sweepy sliders to lefties, and elevated heaters for swings and misses. His swing-and-miss pitch locations:
All elevated fastballs. Sabathia was masterful. Five strikeouts, eight swings and misses among his 55 pitches, and a 74.9 mph average exit velocity allowed. There have been over 4,000 individual player games this season in which a pitcher allowed at least ten balls in play. In this start, Sabathia had the 15th lowest average exit velocity among those 4,000+ games. Give him the $500,000 anyway, Yankees. You can afford it.
A Big Early Lead
After that disappointing loss Wednesday night, the Yankees came out in the best way possible Thursday afternoon. They put a hurtin' on opener Jaime Schultz* and took a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Brett Gardner opened the game with a double to right that came two pitches after it appeared he struck out. He reached out to foul off a curveball, and initially I thought Sucre caught the foul tip. Replays showed it hit the ground, so the at-bat continued, and Gardner doubled.
* Isn't the point of the opener strategy to use a *good* pitcher against the top of the lineup? Schultz went into this game with a 4.55 ERA (4.94 FIP) in 29.2 big league innings and a 5.75 ERA (3.83 FIP) in 36 Triple-A innings this year. I dunno. Doesn't seem like someone you want facing the top of the order.
Schultz walked Luke Voit and Giancarlo Stanton back-to-back with one out, then the Tampa battery gifted the Yankees a run. With Neil Walker down in the count 0-2, Schultz bounced a curveball, Sucre let it slip through his legs, and Gardner trotted home on the wild pitch. It also moved the runners up to second and third with one out. Walker struck out and couldn't get a run in, but Miguel Andujar picked him up. The three-run bomb:
? No idea how Andujar kept that ball fair. That's a backup slider that looked off the plate inside, yet Andujar was able to wrap it around the left field foul pole for a three-run home run and a 4-0 lead. He's up to 72 extra-base hits on the season (43 doubles, 27 homers, two triples). That is tied for 14th most in baseball with Nolan Arenado, Nick Castellanos, and Matt Chapman. It's the third most extra-base hits by a rookie in franchise history, behind Joe DiMaggio (88 in 1936) and Aaron Judge (79 in 2017).
The Yankees jumped out to a 4-0 lead and they added to it in the fourth inning. Gleyber Torres singled, moved up on a wild pitch, and Romine brought him in with a single. Adeiny Hechavarria reached on an infield single, Gardner moved the runners up with a ground ball, Judge brought Romine home with a sacrifice fly, and Voit doubled in-and-out of Mallex Smith's glove in center for another run and a 7-0 lead. Including the ninth inning Wednesday, the Yankees scored 13 runs in the span of five innings against the Rays.
Piling On
I suppose this is where I explain Sabathia's ejection. He grazed Jake Bauers with a fastball in the bottom of the fifth, and Kittredge, being the joke that he is, decided to throw a first pitch fastball behind Romine's head in the next half-inning. Romine was not happy, understandably, and Sabathia stormed out of the dugout before Aaron Boone cut him off. Garbage move by a garbage pitcher and a garbage organization.
The Rays are eliminated, Kittredge sucks, and the postseason is less than a week away. I didn't want the Yankees to start a brawl. The Yankees had nothing to gain and a lot to lose. Sabathia did what he had to do and that was that. But, before Sabathia could drill Sucre, the Yankees torched Kittredge for four runs in that sixth inning, after he threw behind Romine. The inning went strikeout, infield single, triple, sacrifice fly to the warning track, homer, homer, fly out. Voit and Stanton went back-to-back.
The four-run sixth inning gave the Yankees an 11-0 lead. Stanton added a solo shot in the ninth. The Yankees scored 32 runs in the four-game series. It's the most runs they've scored in a series in Tropicana Field since September 2005, when they scored 32 runs in a three-game set. Also, the Yankees secured their first series win in Tropicana Field since September 2016. (They beat the Rays in a road series last September, but that was the alternate site series at Citi Field.)
Unless the Yankees use him in relief this weekend (can't see it), Sabathia's regular season is over. He finishes with a 3.65 ERA (4.16 FIP) in 153 innings. Pretty awesome season for the big man. Also, he finishes the year with 2,986 career strikeouts. He'll have to wait until next April to become the 17th member of the 3,000 strikeout club. Only Randy Johnson (4,672) and Steve Carlton (4,136) have more strikeouts in history among southpaws.
Twelve runs on 13 hits and four walks for the Yankees. Gardner (double, triple), Voit (single, double, homer), Stanton (two homers), Andujar (single, homer), and Hechavarria (two infield singles) all had multiple hits. Stanton had two walks and Voit and Gardner had one each. Voit and Stanton, the 3-4 hitters, went a combined 5-for-6 with a double, three homers, three walks, five runs scored, and four runs driven in. That'll work, gentlemen.
Luis Cessa tossed three innings following Sabathia's ejection and allowed a garbage time solo home run to C.J. Cron. I couldn't possibly care less about that. Jonathan Loaisiga handled the ninth. The regular late-inning relievers all got the afternoon off after working pretty heavily the last week or so. Good game all around.
And finally, Stanton's two home runs gives the Yankees 24 individual multi-homer games this season, tying the record held by the 1961 Yankees and 1966 Braves. Also, the Yankees are up to 260 homers on the year. That is the second highest single-season home run total in baseball history. The list:
1997 Mariners: 264
2018 Yankees: 260 and counting
2005 Rangers: 260
2010 Blue Jays: 257
1996 Orioles: 257
The Yankees have three games to hit five home runs to break the record. Doable. Definitely doable. I hope they get it done this weekend. It'd be cool as hell.
Box Score, WPA Graph & Standings
For the box score and updated standings, go to ESPN. MLB has the video highlights. Here's our Bullpen Workload page and here's the win probability graph:
Source: FanGraphs
The final series of the 2018 regular season. The Yankees are going to Boston for a three-game weekend set. The Red Sox have already clinched everything they can clinch. The series is meaningless for them. The Yankees still need to clinch homefield advantage in the Wild Card Game. The magic number is one. Lefties J.A. Happ and Brian Johnson are the scheduled starting pitchers for Friday night's series opener.
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Day after Brooklyn 'riots', shop owners clean up amid call for dialogue in Kimani Gray's death
Posted: 7:29 PM, Mar 12, 2013
By: Rolando Pujol , Narmeen Choudhury
EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) — It was a day of cleanup for many shop owners on Church Avenue, the day after a peaceful vigil for a Brooklyn teen killed by cops erupted into violence and chaos unleashed by looters and rioters.
At the Church Farm Market, new registers and scales were installed in the aftermath of the damage. A crowd of mostly young men — wearing hoods on their heads — barged into the neighborhood grocery store, destroying and vandalizing anything they could get their hands on.
One man even threw something at the defenseless cashier. The store's owner said the clerk was OK, but shaken up. The store itself suffered between $3,000 and $4,000 in damage.
New equipment is installed at Church Farm Market in East Flatbush the day after rioters did $3,000 to $4,000 in damage.
"I see them break the store down over there. I locked the doors and stayed inside," said one local deli owner, Mike Nasser.
A store clerk at a Rite Aid on Church and Albany was punched and robbed of his cell phone.
The evening vigil was organized in memory of 16 year old, Kimani Gray, otherwise known in the neighborhood as Kiki.
A Brooklyn vigil for a teen shot by cops erupted into a wild scene after a group converged on a nearby police precinct and vandalized multiple stores, injuring one person.
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City Councilman Jumaane Williams urged Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to come out and talk to residents here and address a growing level of mistrust in the community toward police officers.


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import test
from mangrove import models
from mangrove import fields
from mangrove import connection

class DateTimeFieldTestCase(test.BaseTestCase):
    def test_datetime_field(self):
        class Car(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            creation_time = fields.DateTimeField()

        import datetime

        creation_time = datetime.datetime.now()
        car = Car(name="Foo", creation_time=creation_time)
        car.save()

        db_car = Car.select().get()

        self.assertEqual(creation_time, car.creation_time)
        self.assertEqual(creation_time, db_car.creation_time)

class ReferenceFieldTestCase(test.BaseTestCase):

    def test_reference_field(self):
        Model = models.Model
        StringField = fields.StringField
        ReferenceField = fields.ReferenceField

        class Shape(Model):
            name = StringField()

        class Point(Model):
            position = StringField()
            shape = ReferenceField(Shape)

        rect = Shape(name='rectangle')
        rect.save()

        p1 = Point(position='1', shape=rect)
        p1.save()

        p = Point.select().get()
        cache_name = 'cache_fk_shape'
        self.assertFalse(hasattr(p, cache_name))
        self.assertEqual(p.position, '1')
        self.assertEqual(p.shape.name, 'rectangle')
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(p, cache_name))

    def test_name_of_constraint(self):
        Model = models.Model
        StringField = fields.StringField
        ReferenceField = fields.ReferenceField

        class Parent(Model):
            name = StringField()

        class Child(Model):
            name = StringField()
            parent = ReferenceField(Parent)

        self.assertEqual(Child.parent.name, 'fk_parent')

        class Child(Model):
            name = StringField()
            parent = ReferenceField(Parent)

        self.assertEqual(Child.parent.name, 'fk_parent')

class ModelTestCase(test.BaseTestCase):

    def test_abstract_model(self):

        class Shape(models.Model):
            abstract = True
            name = fields.StringField()

        class Rectangle(Shape):
            abstract = False

        self.assertIs(connection.get_table(Shape), None)
        self.assertIsNot(connection.get_table(Rectangle), None)
        self.assertIn('name', Rectangle.get_columns())

    def test_delete(self):

        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            age = fields.IntegerField()

        p = Person(name='John Doe', age=32)
        p.save()

        self.assertEqual(len(list(Person.select())), 1)

        p.delete()

        self.assertEqual(len(list(Person.select())), 0)

    def test_save(self):

        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            age = fields.IntegerField()

        p = Person(name='Jon Doe', age=32)
        p.save()

        db_person = list(Person.select())
        self.assertEqual(len(db_person), 1)

        db_person = db_person[0]
        self.assertEqual(db_person.name, 'Jon Doe')
        self.assertEqual(db_person.age, 32)

        import sqlalchemy.exc
        p = Person(id=db_person.id)
        try:
            p.save()
        except sqlalchemy.exc.IntegrityError as e:
            # we cannot insert save already inserted record.
            # Use update
            pass

        # Insert record for which we already know the primary key
        class Country(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField(primary_key=True)
            population = fields.IntegerField()

        country = Country(name='Pakistan', population=200*10**6)
        country.save()

        self.assertEqual(len(list(Country.select())), 1)

        try:
            country.save()
        except sqlalchemy.exc.IntegrityError as e:
            pass

    def test_update(self):

        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            age = fields.IntegerField()

        p = Person(name='Jon Doe', age=32)
        p.save()

        p.name = 'Umair Khan'
        result = p.update()

        self.assertEqual(Person.select().get().name, 'Umair Khan')
        self.assertEqual(len(list(Person.select())), 1)
        self.assertEqual(result.rowcount, 1)

        result = Person(id=100, name='Jojen').update()
        self.assertEqual(len(list(Person.select())), 1)
        self.assertEqual(result.rowcount, 0)

        Person(name='Jon Doe', age=50).save()

        p.name = 'Some New Name'
        p.age = 100
        p.update()

        name = set([p.name for p in Person.select()])
        self.assertEqual(len(name), 2)

        class Parent(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()

        class Child(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            parent = fields.ReferenceField(Parent)

        p = Parent(name='Jon')
        p.save()

        c = Child(name='Doe', parent=p)
        c.save()

        Child(name='Boo', id=1).update()
        self.assertEqual(Child.select().get().parent, None)

        c.update()
        Child(name='Boo', id=1).update(exclude=['parent'])
        child = Child.select().get()
        self.assertEqual(child.name, 'Boo')
        self.assertEqual(child.fk_parent_id, 1)
        self.assertTrue(child.parent is not None)

    def test_update_or_save(self):
        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()

        result = Person(name='Jon Doe').update_or_save()
        self.assertEqual(result.rowcount, 1)
        self.assertEqual(len(list(Person.select())), 1)

        result = Person(id=1, name='Umair').update_or_save()
        self.assertEqual(result.rowcount, 1)
        self.assertEqual(len(list(Person.select())), 1)

    def test_get_by_key(self):
        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            age = fields.IntegerField()

        p = Person(name='John Doe', age=32)
        p.save()

        p2 = Person.get_by_key({Person.id: p.key[0]})
        self.assertEqual(p2.id, p.id)
        self.assertEqual(p2.name, p.name)
        self.assertEqual(p2.age, p.age)

    def test_count(self):
        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            age = fields.IntegerField()

        for i in range(10):
            Person(name='umair', age=i).save()

        Person(name='khan', age=11).save()

        self.assertEqual(Person.select().count(), 11)
        self.assertEqual(
            Person.select().where(Person.name == 'umair').count(), 10)
        self.assertEqual(Person.select().where(Person.age == 1).count(), 1)

    def test_ordering(self):
        class Person(models.Model):
            name = fields.StringField()
            age = fields.IntegerField()

        for i in range(10):
            Person(name='umair', age=i).save()

        self.assertEqual(Person.select().order_by('age').get().age, 0)
        self.assertEqual(Person.select().order_by('-age').get().age, 9)

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"(E)xperience a day of agricultural learning firsthand" at this free happening.
Goat cuteness and more: "(E)xperience a day of agricultural learning firsthand" on Saturday, Nov. 5.
PICK ORGANIC STRAWBERRIES... at Camarillo's McGrath Family Farm, or get to know all things avocado during a Calavo Growers visit (that's in Santa Paula). And Ojai Olive Oil will offer samples of cold-pressed olive oil for the tasting, mmm, while some beautiful beasties will be the star of the day at Alpacas at Windy Hill in Somis. Other highlights of the big day out include a peek at the soap showroom at Chivas Skin Care in Fillmore (indeed, goat milk is the famous ingredient) and the squeezing of citrus juice at Friends Ranch in Ojai. Learning is at the center of it all, but chances to pet something sweet and furry, or to sip or nosh on something grown on a property, will be woven throughout.
WHERE'S THE HQ... of all of the agri-awesomeness? Oxnard Farm Park, where games, historic tours, live tunes, and beer and wine will add to the convivial fall festivity.


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Late singer's retreat has 10,000 square feet of living space, 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and two private beaches
It is set on a peninsula on the island of Providenciales, famed for its turquoise waters, secluded bays and sunshine
When Prince purchased the sprawling estate in 2010 he had the driveway painted purple, his signature colour
By Chris Kitching for MailOnline
Published: 12:35 EST, 10 May 2016 | Updated: 13:24 EST, 10 May 2016
A stunning Caribbean hideaway belonging to the late singer Prince – complete with 10 bedrooms and a purple driveway – has gone on the market for $12million (£8.3million).
The idyllic retreat in the Turks and Caicos boasts 10,000 square feet of living space, jaw-dropping views of the Caribbean Sea, two beaches and amenities that would guarantee privacy and luxury when the star was away from his permanent home in suburban Minneapolis.
The Purple Rain singer's bolthole is set on a peninsula on the atoll of Providenciales – once named the world's best island – famed for its crystal clear waters, white sand beaches and exclusive properties.
This stunning Turks and Caicos hideaway belonging to the late singer Prince has gone on the market for $12million (£8.3million)
The Purple Rain singer's bolthole is set on a peninsula on the atoll of Providenciales – once named the world's best island
The idyllic retreat boasts 10,000 square feet of living space, jaw-dropping views of the Caribbean Sea and two private beaches
The estate guaranteed privacy and luxury when the star was away from his permanent home in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota
The gated mansion has a boat dock for quick access to the property, comprising a main residence, guest house and staff accommodation
When Prince bought the gated mansion in 2010 he had the driveway painted purple, his signature colour.
Ten bedrooms and 10 bathrooms are spread throughout the main villa, a two-storey guest house and a residence for staff, while amenities include a pool, tennis court, tropical gardens, walking trails and a boat dock, the Turks and Caicos Sun reported.
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The main residence features a master suite with his and hers walk-in closets, two en-suite bedrooms, a dining room and kitchen, covered terrace with a bar, gym/studio, home theatre and a grand foyer.
An attached guest wing has two bedrooms with a shared balcony, while a guest house has two additional bedrooms with Juliet balconies, a private terrace, a kitchen and dining and living area. There is also a three-bedroom house for staff.
Guests are greeted by a grand foyer when they enter the holiday home, located on one of the most exclusive islands in the world
Amenities on the plush property include a swimming pool, tennis court, tropical gardens, walking trails and a boat dock
Ten bedrooms and 10 bathrooms are spread throughout the main villa, a two-storey guest house and a residence for staff
When the owner isn't swimming at the sea at one of two private beaches, he or she can play a game of tennis with their guests
In this February 2007 file photo, Prince performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLI at Dolphin Stadium in Miami
PROVIDENCIALES: WHY THE RICH AND FAMOUS FLOCK TO THE WORLD'S 'BEST ISLAND'
Famed for its turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sunshine, the island of Providenciales is a slice of paradise on earth.
It is one of the 48 tropical islands in the Turks and Caicos, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea, northeast of Cuba and nearly 600 miles southeast of Miami.
Providenciales, once named the world's best island by TripAdvisor, is a magnet for the rich and famous when they seek peace and quiet and privacy at their own luxury villa or a five-star resort.
Stunning Grace Bay, on the island's northern coast, has been called the world's best beach.
Residents and visitors get plenty of use out of the 200 miles of white sand beachfront in the Turks and Caicos, where the sun shines more than 300 days per year and the average temperature is between 25C and 28C.
In addition to Prince, celebrities that reportedly own property include model Christie Brinkley, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and actor Bruce Willis.
Making the Turks and Caicos even more attractive to wealthy types is the fact that it is a tax haven with no property, capital gains, inheritance or income taxes, and anyone can own property.
Providenciales is one of the 48 tropical islands in the Turks and Caicos, northeast of Cuba and nearly 600 miles southeast of Miami
Making the Turks and Caicos even more attractive to wealthy types is the fact that it is a tax haven with no property, capital gains, inheritance or income taxes, and anyone can own property
Famed for its turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sunshine, the island of Providenciales is a slice of paradise on earth
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Robert Greenwood, a Regency-Christie's International Real Estate broker who specialises in luxury homes, called the property one of the most exquisite estates in the Caribbean.
He told the Turks and Caicos Sun: '[Prince] was often seen around town or at the Amanyara, especially during the New Year's celebration where live music was part of the entertainment and potential guest appearances by the legend himself.
'However, he always remained reserved and private, something that the Turks and Caicos offers those who are continually in the spotlight.'
Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, died at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, on April 21.
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the 57-year-old's unexpected death.
The main residence has an attached guest wing with two bedrooms, and there is a guest house with two additional bedrooms
The sprawling mansion offers plenty of space to unwind, including this bar and living area with sweeping views of the sea
Robert Greenwood, a broker who specialises in luxury homes, called the property one of the most exquisite estates in the Caribbean
Prince used his holiday home in the Turks and Caicos as a place where he could find privacy and comfort while escaping the spotlight
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