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As reported by Yahoo! Sports, boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao's next fight will take place on November 24; however, for the first time since 2006, the fight will take place outside of the U.S. The official destination of this multimillion dollar sporting event is The Venetian in Macau, China.
As ATR reported in February, the possibility of Pacquiao's next fight not taking place on U.S. soil due to a punitive federal income tax rate of 39.6 percent was greater than most would suspect.
As boxing promoter Bob Arum told Yahoo! Sports in February, "Manny can go back to Las Vegas and make $25 million, but how much of it will he end up with – $15 million?"
If Pacquiao were to earn a hypothetical $20 million for this upcoming fight in Macau, his after tax earnings would be $17.6 million – as opposed to the $12.1 million he would earn for the same proposed scenario in the U.S.
How sad is it that China has a lower income tax rate than the US?
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Floyd is still the best fighter in the world. Manny was never close. I wish they had fought too though so that Floyd would have shut everyone up after he destroyed Manny. Manny wouldn't even lay a glove on Floyd.
You're right. The trillions of dollars in taxes that are taken every year in this country are *just* enough to keep the lights on. Some expensive fricking lightbulbs
Or he could fight Mayweather and make eighty-hundred-kagillion dollars. I don't care where they fight.
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Danielle Wright finds a holiday park with 'complete silence' and an award for 100 per cent cleanliness the perfect antidote to Waimarino's Adventure Park thrill-rides.
As we drive into Omokoroa, we pass half-a-dozen honesty boxes, a few retirement villages and a golf course, before turning into the Omokoroa Thermal Holiday Park with the sign: "Caution, walking pace only".
After unpacking, we read the park rules, which insist on "complete silence" between evening and early morning, with restrictions on kids playing on the playground. It makes a difference from our usual holiday park experience marred by teenagers in overcrowded tents celebrating birthdays all night.
We walk through the early-evening silence on soft grass, past beautiful flower gardens, to the thermal hot pools.
There are three pools, in one an elderly couple talk in hushed tones, in another are a young couple doting on their baby. We sit in the middle pool, glad to be out of the baby phase with our two children, but not quite in the old person's section yet.
The next morning, we head to the beach with its views across to Matakana Island and Mt Maunganui poking its head above it. There's a kid's playground with a red tractor to climb on, pointing to the region's agricultural history, which is written up on large signs, covered in part by a notice asking for sightings of a lost chicken.
After watching the vintage barge leave the wharf, we head to Waimarino Adventure Park, queuing with a group of Girl Guides to get into the park.
It's more suited to older children but our first activity, the low ropes course, is a huge hit with ours, aged 4 and 7. Next, we take Italian pedalos out for a paddle on the Wairoa River.
"I always get sick of pedalos," says my husband, Gavin, shortly after we leave the platform - fair enough, he's the only one pedalling.
He takes a rest in the middle of the river as the kids try out the pedalo slide, faces in shock as they hit the cold water, much faster-moving than we expected.
Back on dry land, we head for The Blob - an air-filled mattress floating on the water. You jump from a high platform on to the mattress, then wiggle your way to the front edge, waiting until someone else jumps on, sending you flying into the river.
There's no warning before you're shot into the air and I land flat on my side, instead of feet first, as instructed. It hurts, but not as much as when the girl near the slip 'n' slide runs past and elbows me in the face. It's that kind of place - at some point, accidents are going to happen, on or off the rides.
Next up is the hydroslide - we choose the yellow mat, but you can also take a kayak down the slide, which is so fast and steep that I'm too shocked to scream at the end, landing face-first.
As I swim to the platform, I notice a couple of onlookers laughing. A few minutes later, though, I see them flying down into the water too.
"Daddy laughed, but it's not funny," says my daughter, Georgie, kindly. Never mind, I get my revenge on the gladiator pole - It's a Knockout taught me a few things after all and Gavin falls off first: one point for the girls in the family.
As we leave, I look around at the adventure park: overloaded pedalos nearly missing kayakers, people jumping from ropes or flying down slides in kayaks, kids running around with nerf guns, or spraying shaken-up Coke cans at each other: it's a wonderful mess of summer holiday fun.
Feeling strangely seasick, we're glad to get back to the grandparent-strict holiday camp and its perfectly manicured gardens.
Before "complete silence" descends, we put our feet up and watch the kids in the playground, noisily bonding with other camp kids.
If you like a quiet, safe place to base yourself, the kind of holiday where togs never quite dry in between swims and watching your children make friends while you're nearby but not hovering over them, then this holiday park ticks all the boxes - with the thrill of the "complete mayhem" of the adventure park to wake you up, just a short drive away.
Soak up the Omokoroa lifestyle
* Omokoroa Thermal Holiday Park, 156 Omokoroa Rd, RD2, Tauranga. Ph (07) 548 0857. Take cash for the many honesty boxes on Omokoroa Rd on the way.
* Waimarino Adventure Park, 36 Taniwha Pl, Bethlehem. Ph (07) 576 4233, . A supreme park pass is $149 for a family. Visit the Bethlehem Hotbake (ph (07) 576 9368). For indulgent pies and hedgehogs filled with real cream for a picnic after the thrill-rides.
* The oddly named Fork N View Bistro on Omokoroa Wharf does gourmet pizzas and great coffee with the best view and a nice sea breeze on a hot summer's day.
Danielle Wright travelled with the assistance of Tourism Bay of Plenty.

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Thai Fight aesthetically has it all, the lights, the promo screen, the manufactured sense of honor and history, the audience, the feel of watching a major production for a fight event. Despite every quality that it brings before the bell ring, there is a major problem once the bell does. The matches are one sided and uneventful. Fight fans have known this for a while, but it seems that now, the shift of the fighting public is moving towards not watching the product at all.
It started so well. August 29, 2010 the Isuzu Thai Fight Extreme had a 16-man tournament. It had solid international competition. The likes of Spain's Rafi Zouheir, England's Liam Harrison, Thailand's Petchmonkong Petchfocus, runner up Youssef Boughanem, and eventual champion Frenchmen Fabio Pinca. The tournament was like nothing we were use to from Thai shows. Pyro, rock music during entrances, large screens, and sporting event fan material like big hands, clappers, and streamers. It was as if K-1 Max was being reborn in Thailand. Adding to that was the fight product, which produced awesome KOs, smooth technique, and competitive match ups. Nasser Kacem product and champion Fabio Pinca was made an international star after that victory. Sure he had wins over Thai fighters Sigmanee, Sudsukorn, and Bovy before the Thai Fight championship, but all eyes were on the tournament and thus all eyes were on him. His peformance against Youssef in the final was brilliant, producing one of the most proficient body attacks in the first round and then dropping Boughanem with a hook in the second. A star was made.
Thai Fight then moved into a strange season of what could only be compared to the Harlem Globetrotters. They began to tour the world with a cast of popular internationally known Thai Fighters and the tournament winner Fabio Pinca. looking to best international kickboxers in they're backyard. To name a few, this group consisted of Fight Code's Sudsakorn Sor Klinmee, The Contender Asia champion Yodsenklai Fairtex, and what can only be described as the crowning jewel, K-1 Max superstar kickboxer Buakaw, who jumped the sinking ship of K-1 Max early. With the exception of an elbow cut loss to Pinca, which he avenged later in the year, and a Yodsenklai upset, it was a series of dominate performances by the Thai Fight team.
The performances led to another tournament field, this time doing both a 67kg field and a 70kg. They were solid fields. 67kg saw the likes of returning champion Fabio Pinca, Dutch-Morrocan fighter Mosab Amrani, Frenchmen Houcine Bennoui, and Thailand's Khem Sitsongpeenong, ex 130lbs Lumpinee Champion and King's Cup tournament winner. The 70kg field brought rising star Abraham Roqueni from Spain, Australia's Frank Giorgi, and Frenchmen Mickael Piscitello where in a field with the mighty Buakaw. We got upsets, competitive match ups, and memorable stoppages. Plus, to Thai Fight's delight, the guys they wanted to win did, crowning Khem and Buakaw their 2011 Champions.
Then came the year that changed it all. In 2012, for whatever reason, they figured they would lessen the talent of the competition and thus present the stars of the promotion as invincible and far superior to the rest of the world. Sure there was Gilma China, Tomoaki Makino, and others of that level getting one sided beat down treatment before 2012. But they weren't in the tournament field. Thai Fight decided to allow Buakaw and others to dress in ancient warriors gear, lights flashing, booming entrance, then murder job fights against guys like Mauro Serra. Liverkick writer Rian "Riankapedia" AKA "Stream Master" Scalia once said on my podcast show that the Thai Fight version of Buakaw seems to neglect his defense. In summery of that thought, he feels zero threat of being hurt by his foes and thus walks them down and finishes them. Buakaw is no longer part of the organization, but the legacy holds true. No one sits down to watch Thai Fight expecting high level competition. They watch it to see blowouts and now they aren't even wanting to do that anymore.
There are three things that makes the Thai Fight promotional tactic a problem. First and foremost is timing. I truly believe that if Thai Fight had started in 2005 people would not be in such an uproar. With K-1 still running consistent shows, there would not be as much of an eye on what would be considered circus Muay Thai. People would always rest in the idea of a dominate product of kickfighting and thus have fun with the Thai Fight promotional antics. Yet with K1 going away and Glory slowly moving forward, we are still very much in a time of uncertainty. If there is a major fight production, we want them to have major fighters. People don't look at the Thai Fight product for what it is, they look at it for what it should be, another decent paying, exposure promoting opportunity for the best Muay Thai fighters in the world, and its not that.
The second crime is Thai Fight is tricking the public. Rob Cox (Muay Thai writer, photographer, and sport ambassador) once said on my podcast show that the Thai people where starting to catch on to the match making and skill level at the events. Yet kickfighting fans know and promote each kickboxing event of notoriety and people head to youtube in hopes of finding the bouts. So instead of them seeing wonder kid Yodwicha tear up the major stadium circuit at the age of 17, they are shown Sudsukorn landing some crazy spinning elbow against a guy who he is superior too. Thai Fight has the potential to give stadium guys an international forum, which will only happen if the worlds best are brought in for the likes of the best 130 pound Stadium guys to prove themselves against. That is not happening at all in Thai Fight. The stadiums still produce the highest level of elite vs elite competitors in the world. However, they have so many shows that people seem to miss when a major event happens. Thai Fight could be an opportunity for them, but it chooses to be David vs Goliath with a house full of Goliath fans.
Finally the kickfighting public has a problem with Thai Fight not taking responsibility for growing the sport. Say what you want about the UFC, but if you look at the efforts they are putting in to get MMA sanctioned in various states and countries all over the world, it is clear that they are taking responsibility for the growth of the sport. Thai Fight is aimed at a Thai audience and their tactics are to continue having ratings success in that market. However, the fight world doesn't care. If you are putting on an awesome promotion, we want to see awesome fights. If Thai Fight did what Glory is doing now, they would have an avenue for international eyes. Whether through online streams or delayed runs in various countries, they have put no effort in growing the product. In truth, no one would care as long as they put on a competitive product for us to watch on youtube delay. The problem is the product is far from competitive.
In conclusion it appears that Thai Fight isn't going anywhere. As Rob Cox told me on twitter one time, "Its a badge of honor just going the distance for these international guys." I could never blame a fighter who isn't close to being on the level of his opposition, but jumping at the opportunity to perform on what would be for him, the biggest stage of his life. However, the fight community is just in their critique of the product and its only right for them to stop getting excited when they hear a Thai Fight card is coming.
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I have looked at the source code some programs written in C++ before such as tic tac toe game and a keylogger and I just think "how will I ever learn what this crap means" lol.
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I would like to know from you professionals did you literally learn by doing these small tutorials and then thinking "Let me see if I can do this or change that and see what happens"
Downloading open source programs, reading them, changing them and getting them to do slightly different things?
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In principle, yes. In practice, the effect might be slight. You could
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for ideas on transformations that tackle this issue. My guess is that
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not 20.
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> I have a dependent variable that is continuous
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> observation. The data is across section only.
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> interpretting the coefficients from a general OLS fit will be
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In the Summer Edition of The Speedy Bee it is reported during the 2009/2010 winter that "Responding beekeepers attributed their losses to starvation(32%), weather (29%), weak colonies in the fall (14%), Mites (12%), and poor queens (10%). Only 5% of beekeepers attributed CCD as the major cause for their losses."
It seems to me that starvation is a relatively easy problem to solve. Unless I'm missing something.
I don't know what to do about the weather. What was it about the weather that caused colonies to die? Derth and drought?
What do you do w/ weak colonies in the fall? Knock them in the head and call that winterloss? Nurse them along until spring or until they die? I don't know. To each their own, I say.
Mites? Are treatments, on a commercial level, becoming less and less effective? Not being applied at the right time? Can't get the honey off soon enuf? Timing of honey removal and treatment? All of the above?
Poor queens? I like the Palmer Solution, though I don't follow it myself as I should. Raise your own from your best colonies.
An alternative is keeping young queens in your colonies. Which, if you can't buy cells, requires raising them yourself.
In the last paragraph of the article it refers to ""summer" losses" as also being significant. and it concludes w/ the sentence that "All told, the rate of loss experienced by the industry is unsustainable."
I guess any commercial beekeeper who has experienced what most of us have over the last 4 or 5 years came to that conclusion a while ago. But, what else are we to do? Look for work w/ the TSA?
Are we commercial beekeepers fooling ourselves in thinking that if we just hold on another year things will turn around? We are ever the optomists, aren't we? Truely farmers, who's credo is "It'll be better next year. Next year will be the big one. Just you wait and see."
What else are we to do? I like what I do. Even if I don't do it as well as others and spend too much time here on the computer. I enjoy beekeeping and selling honey. Hopefully, unsustainable or not, I will be able to continue doing what I do for a long time.
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The Speedy Bee article is titled "AIA, USDA Beltsville Survey of Honey Bee Colonies Report Loss of 33.8%" By Dennis vanEnglesdorp, Jerry Hayes, Dewey Caron, & Jeff Pettis. Quite a line up.
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I still use Windows Firewall because I've been lazy about finding a replacement, and I prefer to use OpenOffice at home as well.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Hostile, Nov 7, 2004.
Anybody know who they are besides JJ and Ward?
Nice play b New,finally turns around properly.
great play by newman love to see him playing the ball
Good coverage Newman.........We need a stop
well, our defense is starting good..... lets hope for a field goal block
I'll take 3 there. Good stop by the D.
I'll bet ya a nickel that running Eddie George puts us in more passing situations than not...it's already happened twice...
Heinz Ward doing the "dirty bird" again!
Pittsburg & Phillie update......14 - 0.
Steelers score again! Ward again, TO just looking at him as he mocks him.
Hey, he's consistent and that's what really matters
Heinz Ward is clearly mocking TO now.
Foot on the ball.....flapping the arms....it's great.
Buff leading Jets 7 zip and looking stout
That screen was UGLY
Houshadehaosambinfootball swerves through the punt coverage for a nice gain. Where's Brady James?
Why is it that I'm already getting PO'd? This is the freakin' BENGALS dangit! Sheesh.
The offensive play calling is abysmal today.
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Church Started for Freed Slaves Still Packing the Pews
WINCHESTER, VA- Every Sunday morning you can find a vibrant and spirited atmosphere at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church. Whether it's the music, the message or both, this church has sustained a loyal congregation.
"I love this church because when I came they accepted me for who I was, seeing something in me that I couldn't see in myself," says Jenna Warren an usher and trustee at St. Paul A.M.E.
St. Paul A.M.E. was organized in 1867 in downtown Winchester. It was one of the only churches for newly freed African slaves after the Civil War.
"They started this church, a group of people meeting in homes, sharing, worshiping in their homes together," says Reverend Kevin Wilson, the pastor at St. Paul.
Originally established as the Free African Society, in 1787, the A.M.E. Church came to be in 1794. Richard Allen, a former slave from Delaware, led the cause after years of discrimination in his own church.
"They were not permitted to worship as they wanted to," Wilson says. "The worship experience was pretty controlled for the Africans, the African Americans. They were forced to actually sit in the balcony. They could not come to sit down with the Caucasian congregants. They were also not allowed to express themselves as they desired to," Wilson adds.
The newly formed A.M.E. Church gave the worship seekers an outlet to no longer be shunned, and an opportunity to become leaders in their own church setting. St. Paul in Winchester had similar humble beginnings.
"They met in homes for about 10 to 20 years," Wilson says of St. Paul's founders. "After about 20 years, they built the basement. The basement was actually the first place of worship for the persons that were in this church. And of course from that point they began to add other parts to the church," he adds.
Now, 145 years later, the members at St. Paul take pride in their history.
"We're still strong and we're still following the principles and doctrines that were indoctrinated 145 years ago," says Warren.
The church also continues its mission through community service. "One of the main reasons I love St. Paul is it allows me to give back," says Trustee Board Member, Paul Crowe. "I'm actually a facilitator in a 'Free For Life' ministry. It's a drug rehabilitation ministry," he adds.
Kevin Wilson has been the pastor for more than 20 years, welcoming anyone who comes.
"The reason that we are still here is because of the prayers of the saints of old," Wilson says. "Those who prayed not only for themselves, but prayed for their legacy and for the church of the future. I believe we're still standing on the shoulders of those who came before us."
Membership in the church is a responsibility and a blessing, carrying on a piece of Winchester and American history.


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"Down a country road" is a phrase often used to describe the Wisconsin landscape and we can't think of a more apt description. Within moments of leaving most any major highway in the state you find yourself traveling silver ribbons of roadways that wind through picturesque farm country with sprawling fields of corn or soybeans. Dairy cattle graze in lush green pastures and aging barns and farmhouses nestle among the hills and valleys while towering silos pierce the sky. It's not unusual to encounter a heavy piece of farm equipment lumbering down the road or an Amish buggy pulled by a single prancing horse. Little towns with buildings made of brick resemble Norman Rockwell paintings while roadsides are clean and free of trash; the local people warm and welcoming
Approaching from the east, near Milwaukee, farm country lined the freewayand intriguing exits begged exploration of tiny towns with names that paid tribute to the state's Native American heritage or to the French Canadian Fur trappers who opened this part of the country to the white man. It was August and the weather perfect.
Driving west on I-94 in the early morning hours, we found traffic light but wanting to avoid the congestion of the Madison area, about 50 miles west of Milwaukee we detoured north onto Highway 73, and on up to the historic lumber town of Columbus. There we'd planned to simply drive through and turn west on Highway 60 to rejoin I-94 north of Madison, but once we reached Columbus we found one of those wonderful surprises that makes RV travel so enjoyable
Delicious aromas from the Rod Bod Bistro drew us in for lunch and then cameras in hand we walked the streets trying to capture the essence of what we were seeing. Friendly merchants invited us in to photograph their establishments and to share their stories about restoration efforts for Columbus. One such business was the Colonial Carriage Works, a facility that buys, restores and sells all kinds of horse drawn vehicles
We quickly set up camp and then everyone gathered for dinner at the nearby Thunder Valley Inn where those without RV's were staying. Most of my brothers, sisters and cousins are grandparents now and I hadn't seen many of them since grade school. The bonding was instantaneous and I wonder if that is one of the things genetic memory does for you? Dinner was a good old-fashioned pot roast accompanied by fruits and vegetables fresh from the Inn's garden and homemade bread with raspberry compote. Plates are refilled as often as you liked. Nordic music and hilarious Ole and Lena jokes kept us laughing through dinner.
After burning midnight hours reminiscing and becoming better acquainted morning seemed to come awfully early but even aunts and uncles in their 80's and 90's were up and ready for a day filled with fun
Wisconsin Dells is a huge tourist area, billing itself as the waterpark capital of the world, and has a vast choice of family oriented activities. The younger folks in our group packed bathing suits and headed for one of the many water parks while the rest of us booked a tour, through Dells Boat Tours, of the beautiful Wisconsin River. As we wound through narrow canyons and dramatic sandstone cliffs that formed more than 500 million years ago, a tour guide recited historical tales of Native American life, fur trappers and lumberjacks. At Witches Gulch we disembarked and wandered along a boardwalk through a misty green canyon while turbulent river water churned beneath our feet. I marveled as our sprightly elders kept up with the rest of us along this trail. There's a lot to be said for the hard working farm lives they'd led. For dinner that evening we chose the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack in Wisconsin Dells where the fried chicken and barbequed ribs with fresh corn on the cob was great. If Mexican food appeals try the Mexicali Rose, just up the street, for the best coconut shrimp and fresh pineapple sauce you've ever had.
Wisconsin is known as the Dairy State because of its milk, butter and cheese production and so, of course, we wanted to tour a cheese factory
Another day, another adventure. A group of us traveled out to the scenic Wollersheim Winery located in Prairie du Sac a few miles south of Wisconsin Dells. A national Historic site, its present buildings were constructed during the Civil War period. Hungarian Count Agoston Haraszthy, the original owner, is said to have journeyed west to California during the gold rush and eventually became known as the founder of the California wine industry. After touring the grounds we sampled the wines, most of which were very good and purchased a few bottles for the coming evening gabfest. Returning to Wisconsin Dells we traveled down more of the lovely county roads to the old town of Baraboo, known as the birthplace of the Ringling Brothers Circus. Along the village square farmers, some of them Amish, offered a wide variety of fruits and vegetables for sale; everything vine or tree ripened and absolutely delicious. Across the square stands the ornate Al Ringling Theater built in a French Renaissance style
Then down along the Baraboo River you enter the magical lands of the Circus World Museum. Located on the original circus winter campgrounds, this is a major draw for "Big Top" buffs with an amazing collection of antique circus wagons and other memorabilia. Summertime brings live performances and if you have children with you they are sure to delight in an elephant or camel ride.
Our week passed much too quickly and we said goodbye to those who had to leave while the rest of us caravanned north on I-94 to Osseo, just south of Eau Claire where our Dutch ancestors first settled during the mid 1800's. Though we camped on the old family farm just outside of Osseo you will find good camping at the Stoney Creek RV Resort in Osseo. Aunt Mary still lives on the farm and at 80 years of age does a good job of keeping up the yard, mowing it from atop her tractor-sized lawnmower. Her fields are leased to other farmers. There is something very comforting about having the old farm still in the family but that won't last much longer as, sadly, there are no members of the younger generation interested in taking it on when she is no longer able to live there
This is very much Amish country now and, being curious about their way of life, we arranged an Amish farm tour through The Woodshed; a store in the nearby farming town of Augusta where the Amish sell much of their exquisite hand made furniture, quilts and crafts. Our tour guide was a young man, "Englisher" as the Amish call non-members, who grew up with many of the local Amish families and knows them well. As we wound our way through the country roads passing one Amish farm after another he pointed out one quick way to identify an Amish farm from that of an Englisher. "See" he said, "There are no electric wires running to the Amish farms." We passed groups of bearded men cutting wood and women in bonnets hanging out the wash or working in their gardens. Our guide answered questions and talked about family life and farming practices, medical care, courtship and many other topics regarding their culture. "Please respect their privacy," he asked "and don't take any photographs." The Amish are particularly sensitive about having their faces photographed. Even Amish dolls are made without faces. We weren't able to visit an occupied home but an unoccupied farmhouse furnished just as an actual Amish home is included on the tour and photos are allowed there. Then we went on to an Amish farm where the ladies had just finished baking and were selling their goods
Smelling those wonderful baked goods got several of the guys to talking about blueberry pie and the following Saturday Aunt Mary had us driving over to the little town of Hixton, just off I-94, to Cain's Orchard where the blueberries were ripe and available for us to pick ourselves. Owner Diane Cain greeted us warmly and gave us a tour of her orchard set among softly rolling fields of grain. Showing us where the best blueberries were ripening she left us to fill our buckets and our mouths as well. Her gift shop with a wide selection of attractively packaged jams, jellies and syrup made from the fruit she grows, offers perfect gifts for the folks back home.
Dells mill, 3 miles north of Augusta, was a highlight of our trip, other than visiting relatives, of course. Built in 1864, early farmers used the mill for milling their grain into flour and like most mills of that era became a social gathering place. Today it is a marvelous museum maintained and presided over by owner, Gus Clark, who will greet you in his authentic Civil War uniform and take you through the building made of hand hewed timbers
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Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau701 Superior St.
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965-0390
Holiday Shores Campground & Resort
3901 River Rd.Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
Thunder Valley Inn W15344 Waubeek Rd
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
(608) 254-4145
Baraboo Area Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 442
600 W Chestnut St
Baraboo WI 53913
800- 227-2266
The Wood Shed
Hwy. 12 East
Augusta, WI 54722
Dells Mill
E18855 County Road V
Augusta, WI 54722
Chippewa Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau
3625 Gateway Dr.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Columbus Visitor Center
116 W. James Street
Columbus, WI 53925


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While the charms of Kim's are ineffable, we can explain why the occupied Vietnamese invented such a delicious sandwich. System justification theory argues that expectations of conflict between social groups are misguided. Most people, most of the time, are interested in maintaining the status quo in the most palatable way possible. Subordinate groups in particular, having cobbled together survival strategies under difficult circumstances, rarely expect changes to the status quo to work out in their favor. If someone has the means to crush you, you try to keep them happy.
This explains why, before he stumbled upon the amalgam of charisma, determination, and political genius that helped drive out his country's occupiers, Ho Chi Minh spent his youth mastering the art of French baking. It also explains the charms of the bánh mì — a sandwich whose eagerness to please French palates borders on the satirical. It is as if someone had taken a comic-book version of French tastes — crusty baguettes, crisp crudité with mayonnaise, sweet butter, roast pork, creamy paté — and stuck them together in a desperate attempt to ingratiate.
The attempt succeeds. A Kim's sandwich comes on the sort of simple French baguette with a sweet, yeasty, chewy charm that is almost lost in this era of seedy whole grains and wraps. Kim's lightly toasts the outside, so that the soft inner surface is left ready to soak up the buttery mayonnaise and thin scallion sauce. While some shops dice their vegetables small, Kim uses big crunchy spears of fresh cucumber and carrot, along with shreds of pickled radish, big sprigs of cilantro, and a few thin slices of jalapeno.
Unless your bite hits a pepper — which imparts a sharp verdant heat — the dominant flavor of Kim's bánh mì is sweet. They don't overdo the meat, which keeps the sandwich from feeling heavy and lets the other ingredients sing. Semi-thick slices of roasted pork are mild so they don't overwhelm the vegetables, and add as much to the texture of the sandwich as the flavor. The smear of paté that comes on some sandwiches is more sweet than liver-sharp. The combination sandwich offers that paté with a few different thinly sliced cured porks — a bit like an Italian sandwich with less spicy meat. The shredded chicken is moist and tender, having soaked in a mild vinegary sauce. The barbecue beef was saltier and chewier than the other sandwiches. The vegetarian, which features soft rice noodles and tofu, takes the sandwich in a softer and even sweeter direction.
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Ok i have just added rite cell foundation over a brood box with reguar wax foundations. is this going to be a problem mixing foundations like that. will the bees ignore it since they have regular foundation below them..also all of my honey supers are regular wax fondations so is this mixing going to be a prob...
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Foundation 9 Entertainment Introduces Pinewood Derby® Videogame
Foundation 9 Entertainment is bringing to life one of America's favorite pastimes on your own PC with an officially licensed Pinewood Derby® videogame. Create your very own Pinewood Derby® car and race against computer opponents! Fully customize your racer by sanding, painting and polishing, adding decals and choosing high-performance options! Your best design and engineering skills will be put to the test. Do you have what it takes to become the Pinewood Derby® Champion? Now available at Best Buy retailers or downloadable online at pinewoodderbygame.com.Create and customize a 3D Pinewood Derby® racing car Trade your customized cars with your friends Go head-to-head with 25 computer opponents Design it yourself by sanding, painting, polishing, adding weight, lube, decals and custom components Experiment with unusual gravity and friction variables Visit the photo and movie gallery to relive all of your best races Follows the same rules and guidelines of Cub Scouting™ Pinewood Derby®System Requirements:Windows Vista, XP, Pentium III, 800MHz or faster processor, 512 MB RAM175 MB available hard drive, 32 MB (64 MB Video RAM in Vista), DirectX 8.0 or later, DirectX-compliant Sound Card
Trendsetter Robert Kaufman Fabrics Launches Exciting New Line
Robert Kaufman Fabrics introduces an exciting line of cotton quilting fabrics with creative designs including proud motifs of trefoils, merit badges, the BSA emblem and even the very popular word print design, listing the Boy Scout virtues.Colored to offer something for the Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Eagle Scout, the designs and colorations are intended for use in quilts and fun accessory projects, such as camping gear, pajamas, and packs.Current distribution includes 3000 independent retailers, plus larger specialty chains (including JoAnn's, Hancock's, Hobby Lobby), domestically, as well as worldwide presence through a network of international distributors. Online retailers include eQuilter and Fabric Depot.For more information and to view the Boy Scouts of America Fabric Collection, please visit: robertkaufman.com.
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The Discraft Elite X Putt'r is an excellent turnover approach putter with stability of 0.0, stable. It goes super straight, and feels great in your hand. It holds anhyzers particularly well. Great in all conditions. The Putt'r has been referred to by some as the best disc golf putter ever! Beginner friendly disc golf disc.
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This is nonsense, he bacame a household name because of the salsa and winning the SB. If he "salsa danced" his way to the SB with another team, he would be just as famous and have just as many commercials. I hope he stays but it would be foolish to take less money now, to stay here, in hopes of the "unknown" possibility to earn whatever later. The Strahan thing is a silly comparison. How many football players have ever gotten a job like that. It one in a million.
This "media market" thing is just a way for fans to convince themselves that Cruz should stay here for less money. It ain't gonna happen.


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Is it possible to eat healthy in college, while sticking to your budget? Campus experts say, of course.
A typical student's go-to's usually consist of ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese, but as Niomi Williams, financial literacy educator with CU Money Sense, points out, these food options "aren't doing any favors for your future self."
The main food groups often missing from student diets typically include fruits and veggies, fresh veggies, fiber, milk and protein. And the reasons why vary from assuming a tight budget won't buy the right items, too much time is required for grocery shopping, or even the fact that healthy food just isn't too tasty.
These assumptions can all be proven false with a little strategic planning, and because college-aged student bodies are developing bone density and maximum brain capacity, putting some thought towards food might go a long way.
According to nutritionists at CU-Boulder's Wardenberg Health Center, the most important food groups for college students are calcium, iron and protein. So whether you're on campus or at a grocery store, items like milk, hard boiled eggs, grilled meat and spinach are great places to start. And if meat isn't your thing, almonds, broccoli, beans or quinoa can just as easily fulfill these needs.
Lauren Heising, CU's Housing and Dining Services certified dietician and coordinator for sustainable dining points out that healthy food options are available all over campus, with salad bar options in every dining hall, whichever type of protein fits your fancy, and meals prepared with specific diets in mind, like a gluten intolerance or kosher meal preferences.
"There are healthy food options in almost every location, venue or station on every line," said Heising. She recommends making quick adjustments when choosing items to complete your food plate, like choosing baked over fried foods, or selecting items as fresh as possible.
However, many CU-Boulder students live off-campus, and must decide whether or not they want to purchase campus meal plans. One benefit to eating on campus is it saves time, and Heisinger points out that many students who buy a meal plan will eat their largest meal of the day on campus.
Another option is home preparation, which Williams said can "cost cents per day per meal." Eating at home allows for more cost savings on food, and there are a few ways to stretch your budget.
"A good process to go through when setting up a budget is know your income – what it is, where it comes from, and how it compares to your expenses," Williams said. Variable expenses, she said, include things like housing, transportation and bills. Everything after that can be considered additional, or money that goes toward groceries, entertainment and maybe going out to eat.
"There's a couple different ways of setting up a budget," explained Williams. "You can do the old pen and paper version, or use a Google Doc, Excel spreadsheet, and there are also websites like mint.com that have apps that put your budget into a digital form."
Williams added that a reasonable food allowance for students will vary, since not everyone's needs are the same.
"I like to go by a per month basis because sometimes if there's a really good sale, I want to stock up on those items," Williams said. She believes that the best items to start with on a tight budget are things that can be bought in bulk, high in protein and healthy, like beans, rice and pasta.
Digital coupons for stores like King Soopers and Safeway are also great tools available to conveniently cut down costs, Williams said. With a King Soopers or Safeway shopper's card, coupons can digitally be added to a card online before getting to the grocery store. This kind of process may also help in planning a grocery list ahead of time.
Above all, knowing your income, bills and what's in the food you eat are the best ways to plan healthy food budget.
"Really try to increase fruits and vegetables," Heising said. "Watch fried food, watch alcohol consumption, and also look at snack items…Are they potato chips or a handful of peanuts?"
Story by Nika Durham, CU-Boulder graduate student, journalism and mass communication. Video produced by Jamie Henderson, CU-Boulder junior, broadcast production.


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Great simple clean and affordable in the heart of the Barcelona´s Las Ramblas.
More about the area:-
La Rambla can be considered a series of shorter streets, each differently named, hence the plural form Les Rambles (Spanish: Las Ramblas). From the Plaça de Catalunya toward the harbour, the street is successively the Rambla de Canaletes, the Rambla dels Estudis, the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica. Construction of the Maremàgnum in the early 1990s resulted in a continuation of La Rambla on a wooden walkway into the harbour: the Rambla de Mar.
Spanish poet Federico García Lorca once said that La Rambla was 'the only street in the world which I wish would never end'.
The name rambla refers to an intermittent water flow in both Catalan and Spanish, and is derived from the Arabic 'ramla' which means 'sandy riverbed'. The name of the city of Ramla, now in Israel, shares the same origin.
Also within a short distance distance:-
Plaça de Espanya
One of the city's biggest squares, it is the junction of several major thoroughfares: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Avinguda del Paral·lel, Carrer de la Creu Coberta and Carrer de Tarragona, and leads to the Palau Nacional through Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, which houses one of Catalonia's finest museums, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC). It was designed by Josep Amargós. The fountain at the centre of the square was designed by Josep Maria Jujol, a collaborator of Antoni Gaudí, while Miquel Blay designed the statues. The buildings were designed by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí.
Venetian Towers - they are 47 m (154 ft) tall and lead the way to the MNAC via Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, an avenue commonly used to host trade fairs.
Fira de Barcelona
Parc de Joan Miró - previously known as Parc de l'Escorxador (Abbatoir Park), it is nowadays named after the Catalan painter Joan Miró, whose 22-metre-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird) can be seen in one of its corners.
Arenas de Barcelona, a bullring - It was built in 1900 in the Moorish Revival style and has been converted into a shopping center.
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Reviews of this property
the room is really small and very loud at night. but absolutely clean! there are towels, sheets, a (very small) fridge, hairdryer, water heater and ventilator. and the location is perfekt, some minutes to las ramblas, barri gotic, and a 20-30 min.-walk to the beach! and it was very nice and uncomplicated to organize everything with helena, thank you :)
Helenas room was very small, but very comfy, clean and well located. Unfortunately we were not able to meet her, but her boyfriend welcomed us very friendly. They were straightforward and we really enjoyed staying in their apartment. It is very close to La Rambla and the next metro station. There are many tapas bars and even the beach is not that far: We walked there every day.
In conclusion: We had an awesome trip, thank you again Helena :)
Great position!! The room was clean and nice but very small. Considering the amazing position I can advise it to everyone for short holiday.
Small, but clean and cozy room near La Rambla and metro station. Clean and functional bathroom. We had a very pleasant stay in Barcelona, living in this place.
Thank you Helena.
Very kind hosts, very easy to reach the room, clean bathroom, small and comfortable room with wifi..(no kitchen)
Barcelona arrived very late and we waited very friendly Jordi gave us references location and directions. The room is very neat and clean, the bathroom is next door, and both isolated from the rest of the apartment. While the room is small, it's comfortable and has everything needed for a short stay. We spent very cute, would repeat and recommend the experience.
Llegamos muy tarde a Barcelona y Jordi nos esperó muy amable nos dio referencias del lugar e indicaciones. La habitación es muy prolija y limpia, el baño está al lado, y ambos aislados del resto del apartamento. Si bien la habitación es pequeña, es cómoda y tiene todo lo necesario para una corta estadía. Pasamos muy lindo, Repetiríamos y recomendamos la experiencia.
Great stay, the floor this is a very cool site and the owners are majísimios.
Genial la estancia, el piso esta es un sitio muy chulo y los dueños son majísimios.
Very attentive. Great amfitriones. We were advised to go for dinner, how to move, ... Small room, but to my unimportant. Importantly, all very clean and correct.
Muy atentos. Grandes amfitriones. NoS asesoraron donde ir a cenar, como movernos,...Habitación pequeña, pero, para mi poco importante. Lo importante, todo muy limpio y correcto.
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Can stone-tool marks on fossils be distinguished from tooth marks?
Pat Shipman
So, how can there be cut marks prior to the existence of stone tools for cutting? There are a few possibilities, some more likely than others.
First, maybe there are stone tools going back to 3.4 million years ago, but they have been missed. This is incredibly unlikely. This explanation would mean that all of the researchers on all of the expeditions that have combed the badlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania for the past 40 years looking for fossils and early stone tools have been too incompetent to recognize stone tools in layers older than 2.6 million years. The timing of the invention of stone tools is a critical issue in paleoanthropology, and the oldest-known type of tools has been extensively studied. Furthermore, stone tools are sturdy objects not easily destroyed by most natural processes (unlike bones), so they don't just vanish. It is completely unbelievable that Oldowan tools are scattered over the 3.4-million-year-old landscape and have been overlooked.
Second, the tools might be present but unrecognized because they are not deliberately flaked like the Oldowan tools, but naturally broken sharp stone fragments, or "expediency tools." Marean favors this hypothesis.
"These will not look like Oldowan stone tools," he says, "so the search image brought to the field will be inappropriate for finding this material."
Alemseged also leans toward this possibility, but he cautions that if naturally occurring sharp objects were used as tools, without further modification, they will be very nearly invisible archaeologically. The only hope of identifying such an expediency tool would be if it had been excavated from fine-grained sediments and if it was of a rock type that does not naturally occur in that area (a so-called manuport). Manuports have not yet been recorded in any of the fossil sites older than 2.6 million years.
Third, the marks might be misidentified. This is the view of Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley—the leader of another team that works in an adjacent area of Ethiopia in this time period—who says that too much is being made of too little. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," he observes. "This is not perfectly good evidence that is being dismissed because its implications are startling. It is perfectly ambiguous evidence. This claim is based on about a dozen gouges and scratches on two small bone fragments with no associated context, from the surface of a site that is loaded with crocodiles."
Because crocodiles chomp on their prey, leaving lots of marks with varied characteristics on the animals' bones, White thinks crocodiles are probably responsible for the marked Dikika bones. The marks from Dikika are described as being unusually heavy and deep compared to most butchery marks, indicaing that whatever made them used a lot of force, as crocodiles do.
Jackson Njau, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, did the most extensive study of crocodile marks on bones as part of his Ph.D. thesis. He is not only a lab analyst but is also the coleader of the Tanzanian International Paleoanthropological Research Project. Njau hasn't yet seen the original Dikika specimens. But judging from the published photographs of the marked bones, he says:
The random patterning of the marks on those two specimens match those produced by crocodile action (under experimental conditions) or other unknown processes. Crocodile feeding techniques include twirling, twisting and hitting bones on the ground or rocks. Combined with the animal's dental morphology, these techniques inflict marks of many different types, shapes and varying intensities, some of which look like cut or percussion marks, or like scoring marks that are curved similarly to ones documented on one of the Dikika specimens. One of these curved scoring marks is labeled J {see image at right}, which the authors consider to have been made by an unidentifiable carnivore.
In response to these challenges, Marean stands firm. He has examined the crocodile toothmarks from Njau's controlled experiments as well as many other types of marks, and is still confident that his identification is correct.
"Most of the marks have features that indicate without doubt that they were inflicted by stone tools," Marean asserts. "The range of actions that created the marks includes cutting and scraping for the removal of flesh, and percussion on the femur for breaking it to access marrow." Crocodiles are not the only explanation for deep and heavy marks; hominins clumsily wielding heavy stone tools might also produce such damage.
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