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Tri-Level Pool/Spa Home only 5 minutes from the Strip in Las Vegas
- bedrooms 4
- baths 3
- sleeps 12
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed yes
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$ 1,699 - $ 1,999 / week
$ 4,950 - $ 7,500 / month
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One week Sale on all remaining nights in September/October
Book any 2 remaining nights Monday through Thursday or any 3 nts attached to the weekend(Thurs to Sun , Fri to Mon or Sat to Tue) and get 50% . Pay only $164.50 per nt. All other remaining dates get 25% off
- $329 $164/night (50% off)
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Welcome to the Las Vegas Gem 1,
This 2500 sq ft 4 bedroom, 3 bath home with 2 Lounges,2 Car Garage and Beautiful Pool and Spa is located only Minutes from the Heart of the Action, just off of Flamingo on the Westside of the Las Vegas Strip...Need a little exercise???We are walkng distance from the Palms Hotel and the Rio Hotel and Casino...
This Beautiful Home has recently been remodeled with New Tile and Wood Flooring,Granite Counter Tops in the Kitchen and bathrooms, Paint thru-out, Furnishings and Flat Screen in the lounge...There is a backyard Patio Cover with Grill and Refeshing Pool and Spa..There is also a courtyard with Patio Set ....
The Master Bedroom has a King size bed and it own private bathroom...All other bedrooms have Queen size beds(2 queen Size Air mattresses supplied to handle up to 12 guests)...Washer and Dryer.. All linens and dishware supplied...This is Truly a Home Away from Home...Free Wi-fi and Directv with all the Movie channels and NBA League Pass
Normal Nightly Rate-$329(3nt Min weekends and Hoildays)
Cleaning fee-$200
Pet Fee-$125
Insurance fee-$49
Pool/Spa heating Fees-
Pre-heat for Pool-$100(Must be turned on 24 hours prior to arrival)
Daily Pool/Spa heating-$75 per day
Spa Only- $25 per day
Payment in full required at time of booking if occupancy date is 60 days or less
Advanced bookings excepted longer than 60 days prior to occupancy with $100 down and balance paid in Full 60 days prior to occupancy
We accept Visa, MC, Cashiers Checks and Wire Transfers...Cashiers checks must be drawn on a U.S Bank and we must have a minimum of 30 days to clear before occupancy..
Absoulutely no smoking allowed in Home($250 penalty for non-compliance)...Please discard Cig Butts in Ash Starys provided in Backyard and Courtyard..
Holidays may be higher, Rates Subject to change without Notice
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David poulsen 702-285-6458
house rental amenities
Directv with all the Movie Channels including NBA League Pass, Wi-Fi, Pool, Spa, 2 Outdoor Grills
activities and attractions in Las Vegas Nevada
All That the entertainment Capital of the World has to offer !!!
vacation rental rates
Nightly rate- $329 per nt
Cleaning fee- $175
Insurance fee(No security deposit required)
2 to 6 nts-$49
7 or more nts-$59
Pet fee-$100
Pool/Spa Combo heating fee-
Pre-heating for Pool only-$100(Need 48 hours advance notice if Warm Pool wanted at Check-in)
Daily Charge for Combo-$75
Daily Charge for Spa only-$25
David poulsen 702-285-6458
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County Civic Center. Jordan Caron,
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for Providence. Michael Hutchinson
picked up his first victory of the season.
Providence opened their first period right where they left off Friday night. Only 5:35 into the first, Caron scored his fifth goal of the season. The goal was set up by a pair of defenseman, Matt Bartkowski and the newest member of the P-Bruins Tommy Cross. For Cross it was his second assist in as many games. Off the next faceoff Bobby Robins started to mix it up dropping the gloves with Joel Rechlicz, both players leading their respective clubs in penalty minutes. Portland tied the game at one at the 15:15 mark, while on their first power play of the game. David Rundblad tallied his fourth goal of the season, while Andy Miele and Oliver Ekman-Larsson picked up the assists. The Pirates took their first lead of the game at the 16:45 mark. Hutchinson stepped out of the net to play the puck when it took a funny bounce off the boards and into the crease, where it was tapped into an empty net by Ethan Werek for his third goal of the season. Brendan Shinnimin and Rob Klinkhammer recorded the assists as the Pirates took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.
During the second period the P-Bruins went on their first power play of the game when Klinkhammer received a two minute penalty for boarding. Providence took advantage of the power play as Tardif picked up a loose puck in front of the net and scored his seventh goal of the season. Torey Krug and Chris Bourque set up the power play goal. With the assist, Bourque continues to lead Providence in scoring with 14 points. Late in the period the Pirates had a great scoring chance getting the puck to the goal line where it was brushed aside before the entire puck went over the goal line. The play was reviewed and ruled no goal. The period ended in a 2-2 tie.
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The stakes on Saturday will be huge for UAB. The loss to Memphis has UAB playing for their tourney lives. Excerpt: UAB (23-6; 11-4 C-USA; RPI: 35; non-conf. RPI: 18): The Blazers are in serious trouble now that Memphis swept them. They remain here because others (UConn, Mississippi State) lost Wednesday. However, they won't be able to rely on their early season home wins over lock Butler and fellow bubble team Cincinnati for much longer. UAB possesses a 11-3 road/neutral record, but that's a bit deceptive, as the losses came against three of their best four road opponents — Kent State, Memphis and Virginia — none of whom are close to the field. The Blazers really need to grab a win at UTEP Saturday. Otherwise, they may need to claim the auto bid next week in Tulsa.
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Dorothy Gale--the girl who went to
Oz--has been called the first true feminist hero in American children's
literature. Indeed, she was condemned by many readers, including children's
librarians, for daring to have opinions and act on them.
My grandmother introduced me to the Oz books as a child, and I have always seen her as a real-life Dorothy of sorts. Born in 1908, she loved travel and speaking her mind and--gasp--she preferred to read and write poetry than do dishes and cook. As a young woman, she did not take like a duck to the water of motherhood, and indeed seemed not to have liked it at all. To this day, she is referred to by the wider family as "abandoning" her two sons in favor of books and travel, though in fact her only abandonment was that of the traditional domestic role.
My grandmother was, in some ways, the "anti-mother" or "wicked witch" detailed so brilliantly in Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England. That book, written by California State University at San Marcos' associate professor of literature and writing Heidi Breuer, explores how magical, positive female figures such as Morgan le Fey morphed into the Wicked Witches that now dominate depictions of magical, powerful women--including those in the current film Oz the Great and Powerful.
The new Oz film does not include the brave and self-reliant Dorothy, nor any other character that I would identify as having my grandmother's feminist spirit. The film speaks neither to the many strong female characters that populated L. Frank Baum's books nor to the feminist, progressive leanings of its author. Instead, it trades in the notion that women are indeed wicked--especially those women not "tamed" by a male love interest or father figure, as well as (horror of horrors!) those women who lack nurturing, motherly characteristics.
In the film, Oscar Diggs is the one who journeys to Oz, not Dorothy, and this provides the basis for a much more traditional, or should I say regressive, story. Rather than, as in the original Oz book, having a female save many men and prove the male leader to be an ineffectual fraud, this time around we have an oafish male functioning as the love interest for various characters, transforming from ineffectual Oscar to the great and powerful Wizard and leader of Oz.
At the outset of the film, Oscar is a circus con-man/magician, readily admitting he is not a good man. Though he is framed as an unscrupulous, womanizing cad, he is also depicted as truly sweet and likeable underneath--a sort of prince disguised as a beast. When Annie (Michelle Williams) tells him she is going to marry another man, the audience is meant to feel for poor Oscar--because Annie is framed as his "real love." But by the close of the movie they are happily reunited, not as Oscar and Annie but as Oz the Wizard and Glinda the Good Witch. (This ending, by the way, and the romance threaded throughout the film, breaks a sacred belief of Baum's that romance should not be featured in children's tales.)
Baum's continued insistence, both in his real life and his writing, that females are strong, capable, courageous and intelligent--and that tolerance, understanding and courage should guide one along life's journey--are scuttled in favor of a movie heavy on special effects and light on character development, let alone any feminist or progressive message.
In contrast, the Oz books are full of intelligent, enterprising, courageous and self-reliant females. There are benevolent female rulers, such as Ozma and Lurline, as well as both good and bad witches. As noted at Bitch Flicks,
Dorothy, Ozma and Glinda serve significant leadership positions in Oz. Princess Ozma is the true hereditary ruler of Oz--her position having been usurped by The Wizard. Glinda is by far the most powerful sorceress in Oz, and both Dorothy and Ozma often defer to her wisdom. Dorothy, of course, is the plucky orphan outsider who combines resourcefulness and bravery.
Indeed, the books would pass the Bechdel test with flying colors. Strong friendships between women, as well as women helping other women (and various and sundry other creatures, men included), run through the 14 original books. (Some current readings posit these relationships as more than friendship, as with the queer readings of the Dorothy/Ozma relationship, but that's another story.) There are wicked women, but they are not wicked to the extent they are in the film iterations, the current one included, nor are the wicked/bad characters very powerful. In fact, the Wicked Witch of the first Oz book fears the Cowardly Lion and the dark, and is destroyed by an angry Dorothy with a bucket of water. Before dying she concedes, "I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds." The Wicked Witch in Baum's book did not have green skin or wear an imposing outfit; instead she is a rather funny-looking figure with one eye, three braids and a raincoat.
In Baum's version of Oz, females were allowed to have power and show anger without being castigated--something rare in books from Baum's era. Also rare were female protagonists in children's books, which is why, according to one scholar, "The Wizard of Oz is now almost universally acknowledged to be the earliest truly feminist American children's book, because of spunky and tenacious Dorothy." Baum's work even hinted at the instability of gender--as when Ozma is first introduced as a boy named Tip. Traditionally masculine in many respects after her turn to female, Ozma's gender is thus represented as not only about physical characteristics or appearance, but as far more complicated. Quite postmodern and queer for a children's book from the early 1900s!
In addition to these feminist characters and depictions of gender, the books also consistently celebrate tolerance and diversity and maintain what Alison Lurie calls an "anti-colonial attitude." This is no coincidence; rather, as documented in the BBC's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The True Story, "When L Frank Baum wrote the Wonderful Wizard of Oz book, his choice of heroine was heavily influenced by the battle for women's rights." He was married to Maud Gage, the daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the pioneering feminist and co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
While some still question feminism's influence on Baum (as here), and it is often wrongly claimed that he and his feminist mother-in-law did not get along (as in The Dreamer of Oz), Baum's faith in feminism never wavered. He supported feminism both within his own home (Maud ran the finances and his mother-in-law stayed with them six months out of every year) and in his writings (not only in the Oz books but in his journalistic work). Moreover, Baum thought men who did not support feminist aspirations were "selfish, opinionated, conceited or unjust--and perhaps all four combined," and he argued that, "The tender husband, the considerate father, the loving brother, will be found invariably championing the cause of women." (One wonders what he would make of director Sam Raimi and his decidedly un-feminist new depiction of Oz!)
Baum's feminist biography aside, many aspects of the books stand on their own as fictional feminist tracts. For example, the second book of the series, The Marvelous Land of Oz, features a fictional suffrage movement led by Jinjur, the female general of an all-girl army (their key weapon is knitting needles). At one point, Jinjur offers the rallying cry, "Friends, fellow-citizens and girls … we are about to begin our great Revolt against the men of Oz!" As a New York Times' reviewer quipped, it is too bad this female army "didn't storm Disney next."
In contrast to the consistently anti-feminist Disney, Baum's books can be viewed as children's stories with distinctly feminist and progressive messages. Given that they were akin to the Harry Potter books of their day in terms of popularity and sales, this is hugely significant. Today, however, the books' undercurrents of feminism and progressive politics have been overshadowed by the less-feminist 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, and the many subsequent de-politicized adaptations.
Korky Day | March 22, 2013 7:00 PM
It was directed by Sam Raimi. Screenplay by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire. Books by L. Frank Baum. All men.
Bes | March 21, 2013 12:39 AM
Feminism is in pretty bad shape. Democrats who are supposed to be the party for women used blatant sexism against Hillary their own woman candidate in 2008 and called the woman vice president of the other party a cunt and hung her in effigy. Women in Hollywood have absolutely no power and are usually only in movies to provide a sexual outlet for male characters or tit and ass interest for male audience or a victim for a male character to rescue. The Academy Awards openly mocks actresses and then tells them they were too stupid to understand the brilliant joke. At least OZ has good costumes and the women don't prance around in stilettos and their underwear to supposedly show their empowerfulatedness. I still need to make time to see this while it's on the big screen.
immature | March 20, 2013 6:58 PM
If the next film introduces Ozma (though at first I guess she'd be disguised as a boy), that might be an improvement.
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The so-called purple route runs through Holly Springs, particularly along the Talicud Trail on the Apex-Holly Springs line. If built, more than a dozen homes along the route would be taken out, and many more adjacent neighbors would have a highway running very close to them.
Neighbors are outraged because they were previously told the route was off the table.
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Michael Boxleiter and Greg Wohlwend are the two men behind Mikengreg, an Iowa-based studio that spent two years working on the iPad title Gasketball. Their inspired take on H.O.R.S.E. features a system that allows you to set up trick shots and share them with your friends, and the asynchronous multiplayer has already helped to make the game a hit: It has been downloaded around 200,000 times, and for a time enjoyed a choice spot near the top of the iTunes games charts. This may seem like one of the happy success stories on the iOS platform, but the reality of the situation is more grim than it may at first appear. Gasketball was released for free, with a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks the rest of the game offered for $2.99. The conversion rate to the paid version of the game sits at 0.67%.
Death by success
Wohlwend defended the idea of the in-app purchase when I asked about simply selling the game for a set price. "Something like 20 of the top 25 grossing games on iOS are free with IAPs. And for the most part, those IAPs are all pretty gross in a kind of predatory way," he said. "The #1 grossing app right now is called DragonVale. I just downloaded it last night. It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion." This is the situation they wanted to avoid, a grind where you had to pay to continue to play. "In [Dragonvale], you simply buy things, build them, and then buy more things that buy more things to build more things that then need more things bought in order to build more. Yep. Zero gameplay. I shouldn't be surprised, this kind of thing has been around for awhile, but I actually think it's more disgusting that any cigarette manufacturer. Maybe at some point we'll find out that this kind of game causes depression and they'll have to put warnings on the game everywhere."So they knew two things from looking at the successes on the iOS market: Releasing a free game with in-app purchases can lead to monetary success, but they wanted to do it the right way, with much content unlocked from the beginning and a single purchase unlocking the entire game. "We wanted the game to be free but also we want to make a living off of it since we've spent 2 years on it. So we felt being honest and up front that this game has content, you unlock it once and you have it all forever was The Right Thing To Do. So far, humanity is proving to us that we can't have it both ways." Boxleiter was likewise pessimistic about the early sales of the game. "At the moment it's pretty bad, we're trying to go with 'good' IAP that you just buy once and unlock, but conversion rate is currently at 0.67% and we're not even in the top 200 grossing chart. Which is kind of a nightmare for the launch week," he said. "We've got an update in the pipe that we hope will help out the conversions and simplify the IAP to just one unlock option, but we're worried we'll fall out of our chart position before that makes much difference."
Thinking like businessmen
The financials of indie development are complicated, since working on a game full-time means there is little energy left for contract work. Developers who work for a major studio may have projects canceled, but they're paid their salary for the time spent working on the game. When you're developing and ultimately releasing your own product, you're making little to nothing during the development cycle, with the hopes of a big payday upon release to make the time worthwhile. Boxleiter and Wohlwend lived off the profits from their first game, Solipskier, during the development of Gasketball. "We didn't get anywhere close to rich from it, but we did make enough to live on in Iowa, about $20-25,000 a year each for two years," Boxleiter explained. "Greg has had a little more income than me by finding other developers to collaborate with, like Asher Vollmer on Puzzlejuice. He's shared his earnings with me so we wouldn't have to stop development and take contract work, which always kills momentum." That money has since dried up, and Boxleiter was forced to take out a loan from his parents due to the lack of revenue coming from the success of Gasketball. Both men are now homeless, floating around and sleeping on the couches of friends until their financial situations improve. You can have a wonderful game with a large number of satisfied players and still lose money, and that's a hard lesson to learn in indie game development when it's your own capital and time invested in the game. A few design decisions and faulty assumptions may have led to the lack of paying customers, and that's something the two men are trying to fix. Quickly. "A common complaint on the release build of Gasketball was that even our friends couldn't find out how to buy the game. Obviously that's a huge problem and we've remedied that in this patch update that we just released," Wohlwend said. "Furthermore, we might need to add advertisements to supplement income, or dream up something completely different. We really want to stick to the 'free and pay 2.99 to unlock' model, but if only .5% of users buy our game, we're going to have to figure something else out. It's very malleable at this point. Perhaps we're giving too much away for free, it's really hard to say until we see more data." This was fascinating to me. I had downloaded the game based on the positive word of mouth, and had already enjoyed what felt like a wide amount of content without paying anything. I wasn't even aware there was anything to pay for to unlock, and when I learned I could buy the game to support the developer I went looking for that option in the game's menus. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to pay for the game, and I was specifically looking for the menu. There's nothing shocking about the low amount of paid sales; the value proposition is never made explicit. There was an update available for the game, and after applying it, an "unlock the full game" message was added under the main logo. The game continues to benefit from the strong word of mouth and viral success, and it's surprising to hear how few people need to pay for the unlock to make the game a success. "As of this now we have 200K downloads, probably more," Wohlwend said. "I have no idea how many downloads we'll get but if we get 5 million over the game's lifetime, which might be conservative, then we'd want to see at least 2% of people buying our game in order to continue with Mikengreg as planned." This is part of the independent game experience that's rarely talked about. You can work, create a good game, and a few issues with your monetization strategy can hinder your ability to make money from your hit game. "Indies give up a lot to do what they do. At the height of my career/affluence with Solipskier being the hit that it was, I made around $4.50 per hour," Wohlwend said. "That's 100 hours a week at a 24K per year salary without vacation or weekends. That takes a hit. It's easy to get severely depressed pouring everything into it." For now, the challenge is looking at the data, adjusting the app, and finding a way to get to that mythical 2% conversion rate to begin earning revenue for the years of work the duo have invested. "Sounds crazy right?" Wohlwend said. "98% of people won't buy our game, and we'd be able to continue."


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Recently, several couples in our community started a frozen-meal exchange. It's a really simple idea.
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It's a very clever idea for several reasons.
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This turn of events is one of the anecdotes in an excellent Wall Street Journal story about why some lawmakers think alimony laws are sorely in need of an update. (It appears that the economy is prompting more people to seek support from spouses they divorced years ago. We should also note that a large majority of alimony payers are men.)
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Overcooked the pasta or charred the steak? It's not the end of the world.
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We've all likely burned a pot of something in our lifetime, but sometimes a ruined dinner may not be so ruined after all. Learn a few tricks of the trade and save yourself some time and money.
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As more and more families go back to basics and choose to stay home to eat, there is big interest in the recipe industry and cooking shows. Catching a few episodes of those shows or investing in a new cookbook can certainly help to keep meals at home fresh and interesting. If you make a mistake during your experimentation, don't throw out the food. Use these five quick fixes to salvage a good meal.
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As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee Inc. is warning consumers about the "12 Scams of Christmas" -- the 12 most dangerous online scams that computer users should be cautious of.
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To do so, he must rescue Princess Fiona, who is waiting for her one true love. This parody of familiar kid tales, and love story, was the first Oscar winner for best animated feature film in 2002. Source: Dreamworks 1 / 10 WALL-E What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Who knew a tale about a robot could be so endearing? WALL-E is programmed to clean up a dirty Earth in the future but falls in love with another robot named EVE. He follows her on a journey to outer space that changes the world as we know it. The film won the best animated feature film award in 2009 and was nominated for five other Oscars, including best original screenplay. Source: Pixar 2 / 10 Up What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 This heartwarming tale follows Carl, a widower, and a young wilderness explorer named Russell, as Carl ties thousands of balloons to his house so he can see South America and fulfill a promise to a longtime love. 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Explore Canada's eastern side with Tour Escorts Barbara and Nelson Lacey, taking in Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara Falls and exploring the best of Ontario.
Day 1
Fly from the UK to Toronto where you will be met on arrival by your Tour Escorts and taken to a Toronto city centre hotel. Enjoy a welcome dinner with your fellow tourers.
Overnight Toronto hotel.
Day 2
Breakfast then transfer to the motorhome depot to pick up vehicles. After stocking up on supplies drive the short distance (52 miles) to Awenda Provincial Park, located on Georgian Bay, 20 minutes northwest of Penetanguishene.
Overnight Awenda campsite.
Day 3
Free day to explore Awenda Provincial Park and the surrounding area. At nearby Penetanguishene experience the lives of early naval personnel at Discovery Harbour, a reconstructed 19th century British Military base or learn about the Jesuit missionaries who lived, worked and died here over 350 years ago at Martyrs' Shrine.
Overnight in Awenda campground
Day 4
Leisurely drive along Georgian Bay to Owen Sound (80 miles) passing Wasaga Beach, North America's largest freshwater beach. Be sure to visit Inglis Falls – 18 metres high, with access to the Bruce Trail with more than 20 species of fern and plenty of bird watching opportunities.
Overnight in Owen Sound campground
Day 5
Travel up the Bruce Peninsula to Tobermory (109 miles) taking time to visit the Bruce Peninsula National Park. Located in the heart of a World Biosphere Reserve, the massive cliffs of the Park are dotted with 1000-year old cedar trees, overlooking the crystal clear waters of Georgian Bay.
Overnight in Tobermory campground
Day 6
Today you are booked on the Ontario Ferry crossing to South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island - crossing time two hours (70 miles). Manitoulin is the largest freshwater island in the world, where you will really experience the native Canadian lifestyle. Nature life, legend and European history sit side by side here to create a relaxed, mellow environment, one of the most beautiful and serene regions in Canada.
Overnight in Manitoulin Island campground
Day 7
As guests of the Great Spirit Circle Trail, you will enjoy a traditional Drum experience where you will learn about drum making, and see how it is used in the traditional songs and dances of the area. You will make and keep your own hand drum – a unique memento of the tour.
Overnight in Manitoulin Island campground
Day 8
Drive to Killarney Provincial Park (156 miles). Killarney is a haven for artists and is a great location to try your hand at canoeing. The fish restaurants in the town of Killarney come highly recommended.
Overnight in Killarney Provincial Park campground
Day 9
Day to explore Killarney Provincial Park – try one of the many hiking trails available in the area. Killarney is a 645 square metre wilderness with pink granite, white quartzite ridges an over 50 lakes.
Overnight in Killarney Provincial Park campground
Day 10
Drive to Parry Sound (106 miles). You may want to arrive in time to take a 30,000 Islands tour departing from Parry Sound. For a more leisurely drive take time to visit French River Provincial Park or Grundy Lake on your way down.
Overnight in Parry Sound Provincial Park campground
Day 11
Travel east into the picturesque Algonquin Provincial Park (65 miles) taking time to explore Huntsville on your way through.
There are many self-guided interpretive trails which range from easy to difficult, from 1 km to nearly 11 km, and through a variety of landscapes with beautiful lookouts, lakes, and forests. The lakes of Algonquin offer a variety of recreational opportunities including canoeing, kayaking, swimming, fishing and boating.
Overnight in Algonquin campsite
Day 12
Free day to explore Algonquin with over 2,400 lakes, 7,500 miles of streams and lively flowing rivers.
Overnight in Algonquin campsite
Day 13
Take the Trans Canada Highway to Ottawa (207 miles) along the original fur trading route through pretty towns like Arnprior, Pembroke and Petawawa.
Overnight in Ottawa campground
Day 14
Today we will have a full day excursion to the remarkably pretty capital city of Ottawa.
While you explore Ottawa you'll quickly notice that there are many prominent buildings that serve not only as directional landmarks for you, but also as important markers of history. Parliament of Canada, for example, acts as the centrepiece of Ottawa while representing the heart of the country's democratic government. Likewise, the Rideau Canal is a brilliant waterway that cuts through Ottawa's downtown, and has nearly two centuries of stories to share.
Overnight in Ottawa campground
Day 15
Head down to the St Lawrence Seaway and Lake Ontario. Drive to Kingston (118 miles). Be careful not to take the wrong left turn or you could end up in America.
Overnight in Kingston campground
Day 16
Today you will be taken by coach to the centre of Kingston where you will have the morning to discover this charming little town on the shores of Lake Ontario. Included is a 3-hour Thousand Islands Lunch Cruise, where you will be entertained by the on-board band whilst admiring the views across the many islands in the area.
Overnight in Kingston campground
Day 17
Take your own vehicles to enjoy a guided tour of Fort Henry in Kingston and learn about the history of the British in Canada. Fort Henry was built from 1832 to 1837 to replace an existing fortification from the War of 1812 era. Situated atop Point Henry, the Fort protected the naval dockyard at Point Frederick, the entrance of the Rideau Canal and the town of Kingston, which was the major trans-shipment point along the supply route between Montreal or Ottawa and all points west.
The British Army garrisoned Fort Henry until 1870 when Queen Victoria's troops were pulled out of Canada. Soon after, "A" Battery, School of Gunnery, followed by "B" Battery, took up residence in the Fort and remained there until 1891.
Following the tour drive to Picton (50 miles) on Prince Edward Island taking the short (free) ferry across the water.
Overnight in Picton campground
Day 18
Return to Toronto (145 miles).
Overnight in Toronto campground
Day 19
Depart on a full day coach excursion to Niagara Falls. As well as the breath-taking Falls, today includes a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake, often called the loveliest town in Ontario. The Old Town is made for walking and the countryside spreads out below the escarpment and is dotted with vineyards. Other highlights include the Floral Clock and the Whirlpool Rapids. Included is the iconic boat trip to the very edge of the Falls and an evening Farewell Meal in the Skylon Tower overlooking the Falls.
Overnight in Toronto campground
Day 20
Drive to Toronto motorhome depot (55 miles)
Return motorhomes to Toronto depot.
Transfer to Toronto airport.
Return flight or onward arrangements (as detailed on your confirmation).
Day 21
Arrive UK, or other onward arrangements
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See this why you don't live with white people
[If you can afford an iPhone or an iPad, then you shouldn't be on welfare.
This shouldn't even be a controversial statement.]
Or a playstation or a flat screen TV or a newer car, etc and etc. I know people that work under the table for half their pay and get paid on the books for the rest and collect welfare. I know of drug dealers that collect for tax purposes even though they pull in thousands of untaxed money each month dealing. Tell me how I am not supposed to be upset with these people like I am with greedy corporate cronies? I'm not heartless. These people are selfish and unethical.
Except not everyone who has nice things is automatically cheating the system. People are given things as gifts. People buy things and THEN qualify for assistance. People save up for nice things.
You can't assume what someone's situation is just by what they own.
We were eating only donated Panera bread, rice, and turnips. My father was sneaking to the various blood banks in town to sell his plasma at twice the rate they allow. My mother was dying due to not having her medicine, which cost well over $1,200 a month after insurance.
My autistic baby brother wanted to do something nice for me.
He worked for months making custom art pieces to sell. He worked up courage despite crippling social anxiety and speech problems to ask the neighbors if he could do chores for them to earn more money - raking the yard, helping clean their house, walking their dogs.
For nine months he carefully hoarded his money in a jar in his bedroom. He counted it every single night and compared it to the cost of what he wanted to get for me for Christmas.
Finally he had enough. He bought me a DS Lite and a pokemon game.
He was so happy.
Until one of our neighbors, a highly conservative jackass, saw me with it outside a couple weeks later. My brother was with me.
The neighbor stormed up and became screaming at us, a pair of teenagers, over how we could be so selfish to spend money on "electronic shit" when we were a family on food stamps. Spittle flying from his lips, cuss words every other second, rage radiating off of him so violently that our father came running out of the house - at a limp, since his spine is broken, which causes him horrific daily pain beyond what I can imagine - to protect us.
My brother was never the same again. There is no happy ending here. That episode in his life changed him permanently and for the past seven years he has almost never left his room and never gone to a friend's house. He is terrified of the neighbors and believes he is a bad person.
Because of fucking people like you OP.
Because of fuckers who believe that they know what life is like for everyone and have a right to judge.
So fuck you OP. If you know drug dealers, report them, go on and put your ass on the line then. But for fuck's sake don't you dare thing you understand what goes on in the life of the people who live in never-ending, grinding poverty. Because you have *no fucking clue* what goes on in the detailed lives of others.
You want to talk selfish? Look in the fucking mirror.
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that time Bill O Reily was shocked and appalled that poor people could afford *gasp* A TV AND A FRIDGE IN THEIR APT?
and went on a rant saying these ppl shouldn't be on welfare because they have a plasma tv and fridge because obviously poor people need to not have tvs and fridge because poor ppl should be storing their food underground in holes and draw on walls with stones and sticks for entertainment.
When I was a child on welfare, eating rotten lunch meat, walking in shoes with cardboard in the bottoms to cover the holes, I had an extensive collection of My Little Ponies. Not "one or two horses"; over three hundred, all told, and almost all the major playsets. Maybe, oh, 10% of the total came from my mother, over the course of the eight years I spent collecting and living with her. The rest were gifts from family members who didn't know about our situation, but knew from Gramma's chatty "everything is fine" letters that I loved My Little Pony. They were from the charity groups that let you sign up and specify what your children wanted for Christmas. They were from me saving every penny I found on the street. They were from favorite teachers who knew how poor we were, who wanted me to have birthday happiness. We're talking thousands of dollars of plastic horses, almost none of which took a dime from Mom's budget. And the ones that did? She was a mother trying not to break her daughter's heart.
Every time someone yelled at us because poor people shouldn't have nice things, we all died a little inside, and I clutched my horses even harder. I needed something bright and beautiful in the world, to make up for the roaches in the walls and the mold growing on the butter.
Unless you're someone's accountant, you don't know where they're putting their money, and it's not your place to judge.
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A new report released shows that out of the 25 top overtime earners, 18 of them are heavy equipment mechanics.
The mechanics were paid over $871,000 in overtime compensation. The top overtime earner had an annual salary of $57,740 in 2012. In addition to his salary, he earned overtime compensation of $97,852.
Fire administrators say the overtime was needed to make critical repairs to fire engines and ambulances. Chief Kenneth Ellerbe says new vehicles have been purchased, but he will still need to pay out overtime to his mechanics in order to keep the fleet up and running.
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A Wal-Mart Supercenter is opening this week in Orange County, miles from a site near a Civil War battlefield where the retail giant first proposed building.
The Locust Grove Wal-Mart opens Wednesday on a rural section of Route 3, far from the Wilderness Battlefield.
Walmart had initially settled on a site within a cannonball's shot of the Wilderness, one of the most hallowed battlefields in the Civil War. It was where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met on the field of battle.
The first location sparked an outcry among historians and battlefield preservationists. Walmart finally relented, deciding to move the store's location farther away from the Wilderness. The store is now located near the Culpeper County line.
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Pearson Education accounts for 75% of its parent company's total revenues. It is ogranized into three segments: North American Education, International Education, and Professional. The North American Education segment includes notable businesses such as LearningStudio (formerly called eCollege), a provider of course management, assessment, and e-learning software. Its Longman imprint dates back to 1725 when Thomas Longman published the first book typeset by Benjamin Franklin.
Part of its Professional division, Pearson VUE contains the company's electronic testing business for regulatory and certification boards. Its International segment houses Edexcel, which provides academic and vocational qualifications and testing to schools, colleges, employers, and other places of learning in the UK and internationally.
Pearson International Education company is active in more than 70 countries. International areas of focus include developing markets such as Brazil, China, India, and the Middle East.
The company grew sales by 4% in 2011 compared to 2010. The International and Professional businesses both contributed to the increase, helped by acquisitions made in 2010 and 2011. However, North American business saw a decline by 2% due to the weakness of the US dollar and the negative impact of the currency exchange rate. The North American division was also affected by price of text books in the US, less people enrolling in college, and a drop in State education budgets.
Pearson has adopted the goal of becoming a leading education technology company. The company is investing in its education holdings by making acquisitions in order to expand its content, build up its technology and services offerings, and grow in international markets. Pearson is doing so through funds it acquired when it sold its stake in Interactive Data Corporation for some $2 billion in 2010.
As part of these efforts, Pearson in 2012 announced plans to acquire GlobalEnglish Corporation, a provider of business English learning, assessment, and performance support software, for $90 million. Pearson is making the purchase to complement its adult English language training business, Wall Street English.
The previous year Pearson acquired US education technology company SchoolNet, a provider of Web-based instructional management software, for $230 million in cash. The deal was designed to significantly boost its digital content. Also in 2011 the company acquired Global Education, a provider of test preparation services for English language and other professional qualifications in China, for $155 million.
Pearson also made several key acquisitions in 2010 to diversify within the education market. In the services arena, it acquired school improvement services provider America's Choice for about $80 million. It purchased Wall Street Institute (WSI), which provides spoken English training for adults in some 25 global territories, for $92 million. It made that deal to expand in the English language market.
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UNDATED (WLOX) - The St. Patrick Fighting Irish exploded with offense in the first half against the Forest Bearcats at Clinton High School en route to a 6-0 win Sat., Feb. 8, to claim the 1A/2A/3A boys soccer state championship.
"It was a roller coaster ride," St. Patrick head coach Mario Camps said. "Injuries, the ice age, you name it but we made it through and that is fantastic."
St. Patrick entered the game with seven consecutive victories, outscoring those opponents by a combined score of 22-0.
Forest also had seven straight wins entering the 1A/2A/3A state championship, sporting three shutouts during that stretch and having allowed no more than one goal in each of the prior four games.
But St. Patrick, which received two goals from Michael Escobar, scored all six goals in the first half.
"I was a little bit surprised because we usually play a lot of defense and this game was mostly for the offense," senior Charles Gill said. "We've all worked hard since I was in seventh grade. It's nice to give coach Camps a title my senior year."
"We've worked so hard this season to accomplish that goal," senior Philip Rizk said. "It feels good knowing that everyone could get that job done today. We were expecting a fight. It was a fight but we just came to play and we were prepared."
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RALEIGH — Armed with new appraisals and environmental studies, Raleigh and state officials are restarting negotiations this week on an agreement to turn the 325-acre Dorothea Dix property into a park.
The goal is to craft a new deal to sell or lease the former psychiatric hospital campus to Raleigh, after Republican state legislators tried last year to revoke the lease signed by then-Gov. Bev Perdue in 2012. Gov. Pat McCrory brokered a standstill agreement that gave the city and state a year to come up with a new arrangement to replace the lease.
The latest round of negotiations couldnt start until studies of the propertys value and possible environmental contamination were complete. The environmental assessment arrived this month, and the first meeting with state officials took place Monday.
Im just happy were moving forward with the process, Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane said. Weve got all the numbers in that we need, and now its just a matter of sitting down and talking through it.
Bill Peaslee, an attorney for the state Department of Administration, said both sides are still reviewing the new information; the environmental study contains 1,000 pages of data. Everybodys kind of digesting the documents that we have, he said. We know were going to meet again.
The states new appraisal could be good news for the city. Appraisers working for the state pegged the value at $66 million considerably less than the 2011 state appraisal of $84 million that Republicans had pointed to as the lands fair market value.
Using the $84 million appraisal, a legislative analysis concluded that a fair market value lease would have Raleigh paying $1.6 million a year for Dix more than three times the $500,000 annual payments in Perdues lease agreement.
Peaslee downplayed the discrepancy between the two state appraisals. The previous appraisal was a different time, he said. It also appraised more property. I dont know that theyre really that comparable.
Raleigh ordered its own appraisal, and it found a considerably lower value: $37.45 million. That number is similar to the citys appraisal from 2012, which estimated $36.45 million.
The final sale or lease price will depend on how much of the property Raleigh gets for its park. Peaslee said the McCrory administration is interested in keeping about 60 acres at the site to house offices for the Department of Health and Human Services, but Raleigh wants the full 325 acres provided in the original lease.
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In addition to the appraisal, both sides wanted an extensive environmental study to identify any contamination from earlier activities at Dix, which include a coal power plant, underground fuel storage and a paint shop.
The study identified petroleum contamination in groundwater near the hospitals former garage, as well as contaminants that seeped underground from sites that once housed piles of coal. Tests also revealed high levels of mercury vapor in several parts of the McBryde building, the main building of the former hospital.
Toxicologists from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources will now review whether the test results require any action, Peaslee said.
McFarlane said the findings likely wont affect the negotiations or park plans. Given the past uses of the Dix property, there wasnt anything terribly surprising, she said.
Progress on the Dix negotiations comes after McFarlane complained in November of a pattern of delay from state agencies that had slowed the studies and appraisals. The environmental study released this week was originally due Dec. 1 under the terms of the standstill agreement.
Environmental tests got underway in January after the mayor wrote to McCrory asking him to take a more direct role in the process. There was a lot of posturing in the fall, but I think were beyond that, Peaslee said.
The two sides have until June 1 to make a deal before the standstill agreement expires, though city attorney Tom McCormick said the expiration date could be extended.
As city and state officials head to the negotiating table, others want a say in what happens on the Dorothea Dix campus.
Conservative activist Joey Stansbury said the park property will likely cost millions and should go before voters for approval. He called on McFarlane to release more information about the potential agreement. We have no knowledge into what is being negotiated and the cost that Raleigh taxpayers will have to bear, he said.
And next week, members of the National Alliance on Mental Illness will speak to the Raleigh City Council.
Mental health advocates
NAMI Wake County President Gerry Akland said mental health should be included in the plans given the sites history.
Lost in this whole discussion is the people the facilities provided support for, he said. Thats a big plot of land, and some acreage there could be devoted to the treatment of mental illness.
The Dorothea Dix hospital closed in 2012 when its last patients were transferred to the new Central Regional Hospital in Butner. State officials say the aging buildings are no longer fit to treat mental illness. State leaders promised last year that revenue from the Dix property would be directed to mental health services.
Akland said he fears that the monied people of Raleigh are making the decisions on the Dix propertys future, pointing to a recent TV commercial from Dix Visionaries that features McFarlane touting the parks benefits.
Dix Visionaries, led by Raleigh businessman Greg Poole, has set a goal of raising $3 million for the park. McFarlane said the group is not involved in negotiations about the property.
Poole could not be reached Tuesday, but a spokeswoman for the Visionaries group released a statement saying that we are pleased to be one step closer to transforming the Dorothea Dix campus into North Carolinas Central Park for everyone to enjoy.
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Providence Christian's senior baseball players knew last week that their graduation present would be a trip to Charlton County, just east of the Okefenokee Swamp in the southeast corner of Georgia.
They just didn't know when that trip would happen. As it turns out, their wait has been longer than anyone expected.
The scheduled Class A state championship matchup was scheduled for last Saturday --the Parkview-Brookwood AAAAA series finished that day -- but it was moved originally from Saturday to Monday to accommodate the Stars' graduation.
Rain and Tropical Storm Beryl then took over.
Each day the Providence players, coaches and fans went through a waiting game, as rain pushed the series to Tuesday, Wednesday and eventually today. They didn't want to make the long trip --500-plus miles, five-plus hours --and then sit around for days in Folkston, so they stayed home until Wednesday afternoon.
After all that waiting, Providence finally gets to play ball today, nine days after their Game 3 semifinal win over Savannah Christian.
The delay presents a unique challenge for the Stars, who had to stay as sharp as possible with the long delay. But Charlton, coached by Meadowcreek grad Thad Marchman, had to endure the same break. It will be interesting to see which team handles that issue better, though Providence at least shouldn't be as in awe of the big stage after finishing as state runner-up to Hebron Christian last year.
We've joked around the office that these seniors are going to be college freshmen by the time the state finals are played, but all kidding aside, this situation puts a brighter spotlight on a problem I've always had with high school baseball. Not the sport itself, but its calendar that is approved by the Georgia High School Association.
Take rain out of the equation, and every year these high school baseball teams are playing well beyond the end of the school year. Sometimes it's less than a week after their classmates finish, sometimes it's more.
Why not bump the start of baseball up a week?
I know it's cold at the beginning of baseball season, but that hasn't stopped the calendar of other spring sports from shifting to an earlier start. Tennis braved the elements this year, starting practice on Jan. 16 and playing matches Feb. 6. Both of those start dates were a full two weeks before baseball, so surely we can find a way to start baseball sooner.
Then maybe baseball players can take post-graduation trips, like their fellow classmates, instead of playing the waiting game.
Will Hammock can be reached via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. His column appears on Thursdays. For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/willhammock. For Hammock's blog, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/willsworld.
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Psychologist Dr. Jeff Gardere weighs in on mental health crisis affecting the country and its relation to the deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.
"We do have a crisis. But the problem is getting them (those with mental health problems) the help they need. At 18-19-20 years old, the onset of schizophrenia, the drugs have side effects. It's a major problem. It has to be addressed," said Dr. Gardere.


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There are many questions about Mississippi's new Open Carry Law, which goes into effect July 1. Attorney General Jim Hood answered some of those questions in an opinion issued Thursday afternoon.
"This new bill that was written, was poorly written. It created a lot of confusion," said Hood. "Y'all should try and go read that bill and try and understand what our legislature wrote."
Hood says there are some areas within the bill he believes are not clear.
"Where the gray begins to be and where it's just going to take time to develop is where municipalities for example, city halls, things like that, whether they are able to or not to adopt ordinances to prohibit or declare these places to be sensitive," said Hood.
Sensitive places meaning, you will not be able to openly carry a firearm inside. With that said, Hood points out there are parts of the bill that are very specific.
"You can't carry it on school property," said Hood. "You can't carry it in a private business, if that business owner posts a sign visible at least 10 feet away or they come up and orally tell you, get out of here with that gun. Then you could be charged with trespassing after being warned."
You will not be able to openly carry a firearm inside government buildings and in some cases public buildings such as a county courthouse. That will ultimately be determined by the sheriff in that county.
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The Jokelabet (softcover)
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If the alphabet could talk, what would the letters say to each other. That's what The Jokelabet playfully imagines, encouraging kids to have creative fun learning the ABCs. Luckily for parents, it's more contagious than a child's giggle.
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