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Each summer, on some unassuming farmland not far from Brussels, Belgium, an epic battle occurs. Re-enactors stage The Battle of Waterloo. Thousands gather to act out, and watch, Napoleon's defeat at the hands of Wellington.
It's a big deal. But in 2015, the re-enactment will be an even bigger deal, as it will be the 200th anniversary of the real battle. And that means there's a lot of pressure to choose the right man to play Napoleon.
One of the top candidates for the job sits down with me for our Skype interview. Or, I should say, Napoleon Bonaparte himself sits down.
"Je suis Napoleon Bonaparte," Mark Schneider says, completely and utterly in character. He goes on to remind me that he's "the Emperor of France, the King of Italy, etc. etc."
It's remarkably believable. Schneider looks like Napoleon, complete with the hat, the medals and the 'I'm going to mop the battlefield with you' stare.
Then he breaks character with a smile, and says: "I don't really believe I'm Napoleon, I assure you."
Whew. Scratch the Napoleon Complex thing. But I have to say that if I were choosing Napoleon for Waterloo in 2015, Schneider would definitely get the nod.
"I jokingly say I've been preparing for this role my whole life," says Schneider. "My mother is French and my father is American, so I had a connection with France."
"When I was about 2-years-old, I received some toy soldiers from a French cousin who had come to the US for a visit. It was Napoleon and several of his imperial guardsmen. And as my mother says, 'The rest is history.'"
Growing up, Schneider didn't have Superman or Batman posters on his walls. He had a picture of Napoleon. He liked to dress up as a French soldier, and act out famous battles.
Schneider served in the US Army during the 1990s.
After he left the service, an Army buddy asked him to join a Napoleonic Era cavalry re-enactment group here in US.
A year later, Schneider says, the group needed someone to play Napoleon.
"Everybody said, "Oh, you look like Napoleon, you're the same height. You were born in 1969, and he was born in 1769.'">
Schneider started getting gigs playing Napoleon in documentaries for the History Channel.
Then, in 2005, the Waterloo Committee — the group that organizes the yearly re-enactment in Belgium — got in touch.
"They requested that I come to Europe to portray Napoleon for the Battle of Waterloo. I couldn't believe it. It was a dream come true," Schneider says. "I sent them a résumé, and some pictures, and they said, 'Okay, come on over.' And so my first European event as Napoleon was at Waterloo."
Other Europe-based Napoleon jobs quickly followed.
Take a quick spin through YouTube and you can watch Schneider ride through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to the delight of his "troops."
Here he is again, at a re-enactment of the Battle of Borodino outside Moscow, brandishing a sword amid the gunfire…
Schneider concedes that — despite his experience — some in Europe might balk at handing an American the reins for the 200th anniversary of Waterloo.
But then again, he says, remember Napoleon's own background.
"He's certainly a Frenchman, but he's from the island of Corsica. His first language was Italian." Schneider even puts on a Corsican accent when he plays the role.
But he's got serious competition.
An actual Frenchman, and a Belgian are vying for the Waterloo role in 2015.
Schneider won't trash-talk his rivals.
"Speaking for myself, I would love to do it," he says. "If I'm not selected, that's okay too. I've had a wonderful run as Napoleon. Not that I'm giving up. I certainly would like to be selected, but I'm sure we'll all be able to do a great job of bringing history to life."
I ask Schneider, who has a day job as an actor at Colonial Williamsburg, to give me his favorite Napoleon speech. With a Gallic sniff, he signs off with the one Napoleon rallied his troops with on the eve of the Battle of Austerlitz.
The last thing I hear is "Vive la France! Et vive la Grande Armée!"


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The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most social and distinctive canids. The short, wiry coat is coloured in blotches of yellow, grey, black and white (2) and gave rise to the African wild dog's scientific name of Lycaon pictus, meaning 'painted wolf-like animal' in Greek (3). The hair is short on the limbs and body and longer on the neck. Each African wild dog has a unique colouration pattern, and this is used by researchers to identify individuals (2). The body is thin and muscular, the tail is bushy with a white tip and the legs are long (2) (4). Males are slightly larger than females (2). Unlike the other canid species there are only four, rather than five, toes on the front feet (2) (4). The African wild dog has large, rounded ears, which probably help with heat loss as well as keeping track of pack members by picking up long distance vocal signals (2) (4).
African wild dogs are highly sociable and exhibit a very unusual social system; within their packs, dogs of the same sex are closely related to each other but not to individuals of the opposite sex, and only the dominant male and female will breed (4) (5) (6). Packs vary in size from 2 to 27 individuals and new packs are formed when subgroups of the same sex (usually siblings) disperse and join up with a subgroup of the opposite sex (5), leading to the unusual configuration of the pack. Only the dominant female will give birth to pups, and births may take place throughout the year, although they are more common between March and June (2). Litter size is the largest of any canid, averaging ten pups (2); these are born within dens where they remain for around three months (6). Initially the mother will stay with her pups and when members of the pack return from hunting they regurgitate food for her. As the pups get older however, all pack members help with feeding and 'baby sitting' of the young dogs (6). Juveniles are fully independent at 16 to 24 months (6) but remain with their pack, females are more likely to disperse, usually leaving in a sub-group with their sisters once they reach two years old (6).
Outside of the breeding season, African wild dogs are nomadic and wander over large distances in search of prey; home ranges can be as large as 5,000 square kilometres, but are often restricted to areas of less than 200 square kilometres (2). These dogs are carnivorous and hunt their prey by cooperating closely in a group (2). This strategy enables them to hunt prey comprising antelope and ungulates much larger than themselves, to include kudu bulls and wildebeest weighing up to 250 kilograms, as well as ensuring their hunting success is much higher than that of other large carnivorous species (2). Packs set out to hunt in the cool of dawn and dusk, avoiding other predators such as lions. The victim is pulled to the ground and the group descends to feed; pups in the pack are allowed to eat first (6).
The African wild dog was formerly present throughout sub-Saharan Africa, although it was never locally abundant (2) (4). This species is today restricted to fragmented populations mainly in southern and eastern Africa (2) (4). Potentially viable populations currently exist in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe (2) (4).
The African wild dog inhabits a range of habitats, including the plains, semi-desert, bushy savannah, woodlands and upland forest (2).
The African wild dog is classified as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List (1).
African wild dogs require large home ranges to support viable populations and recent habitat fragmentation has caused a population decline (4). African wild dogs traditionally have a reputation for attacking livestock, and despite this rarely occurring in practice, they are therefore often persecuted wherever they come into contact with humans (2) (4). In addition, road accidents and incidental snaring have recently become an important cause of mortality (2). These wild dogs are susceptible to disease; particularly those carried by domestic dogs such as canine distemper and rabies. A final threat that keeps African wild dog populations low is competition and predation with the other large carnivores of the African savanna, such as lions and spotted hyaenas (6).
The current population of African wild dogs is estimated to be less than 5,500 individuals (2). The majority of dogs are found in medium sized populations, which are extremely vulnerable to sudden environmental change. Due to their expansive home ranges, large areas of contiguous habitat are the key to the survival of this species and it is estimated that protected areas need to be greater than 10,000 square kilometres in order to prevent detrimental contact with local human settlements (2) (4). Consequently even most of the larger reserves cannot fully contain African wild dog packs, leading to clashes with humans (2). Preventing persecution through education is also a priority of the conservation action plan (2) (4), in an effort to preserve this most intriguing and unique canid.
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Top attractions in Barcelona
Sagrada Familia: Skip-the-Ticket-Line Guided Tour & Ticket
Barcelona: Aerobús Shuttle Between Airport and City Center
Barcelona: Catamaran Trip Along Port Vell
Barcelona: Park Güell Admission Ticket
Barcelona: Sagrada Familia Fast-Track Ticket
Barcelona Aquarium: Skip-the-Line Admission Ticket
Casa Milà-La Pedrera: Skip The Line Ticket & Audio Guide
Palau de la Música Guided Tour
Barcelona: 360º Boat Trip
Barcelona Card: 25+ Museums and Free Public Transportation
From Barcelona: Montserrat Tour with Guide
Top sights in Barcelona
10 things you need to see in Barcelona
Good football team, great beaches, delightful tapas, and dreamy architecture. There's just nothing bad about Barcelona, the Mediterranean seaside capital of Spain's Cataluyna region. Here are a few can't-miss attractions to put on your itinerary.
Sagrada Familia
Your Barcelona trip isn't complete without a visit to the Sagrada Familia (named a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010), dreamt up by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
Passeig de Gràcia
Heading north from Plaça Cataluyna, Passeig de Gracia is the richest street in the city. Look up as you walk -- you won't want to miss the architecture along this road.
Camp Nou
If you're a fútbol lover, you'll be heading to Camp Nou. Spain's biggest stadium, seating over 99,000 fans, has been home to the Fútbol Club Barcelona since 1957.
Casa Milà (La Pedrera)
Known as "the stone quarry," Gaudí's ambitious Casa Milà is one of the most famous buildings from the early 20th century Catalan Modernisme (Art Nouveau) period.
Casa Batlló
From 1902 to 1906, Gaudí remodelled a perfectly ordinary apartment building for Josep Batlló, a textile tycoon. Tour the inside of the Casa Batlló to get a glimpse of Gaudí's incredible detail work.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
The national Catalan museum of visual art is housed inside the very regal-looking Palau Nacional, which sits high atop Montjuïc. Go for the art. Stay for the park and the views.
Barri Gòtic (Gothic Quarter)
Barri Gòtic, located in the Ciutat Vella district, is the heart of Barcelona's old city. Explore its romantic, tiny alleys -- the perfect setting for lazy tapas and great photos.
Montserrat Mountain
Consider a daytrip to see the Catalan landscape. An hour's train journey from Barcelona, Montserrat is most well-known as the site of Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria de Montserrat.
Plaça del Rei
The "King's Square" is a 14th century square inside Barri Gòtic. The square and its Palau Reial Major, Cataluyna's royal palace, paint a picture of Barcelona's medieval history.
Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)
The City History Museum conserves Barcelona's historical heritage, dating all the way back to Roman ruins. The museum is located in Plaça del Rei.
Planning Your Barcelona Visit
How many days should you spend in Barcelona?
There are plenty of fun things to do in Barcelona -- especially if you're also planning on partaking in the infamous nightlife scene. In three full days, you could visit all the major Gaudí sights, as well as the Picasso and Miró museums. You could also stay for a week or more. As for what to do with your extra days? Well, you'll have plenty of time to spend at the beach, visit the nearby village of Sitges, or go shopping in the Gothic Quarter.
What's the best way to get around town?
Barcelona is a wonderful city to explore by foot. You can easily stroll from La Rambla to the beach and then back to the Gothic Quarter in one afternoon. The city is pretty flat, so biking is an excellent option. If you love transportation, we suggest taking a trip to Tibidabo, the 1890s amusement park that overlooks the whole city. You'll take the metro, a tram, and a funicular -- and a ferris wheel ride, if that counts!
Which tours are the most fun?
We're glad you asked! From hot air balloon rides to bike tours to all-access guided walks of Gaudí masterpieces, there are a dozen options to spice up your Barcelona tourism. A lot of the architecture-based sightseeing is enhanced by the history and descriptions that a guide can offer you.
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- Catalan and Spanish
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- Euro (€)
- Time Zone
- Country Code
- +34
- Best time to visit
- Barcelona is a beach city at heart, so it's most lively in the summer. If you want to experience Barcelona at its best, schedule your trip around the festival of Sant Joan, or the "night of fire." Each year on June 23, the city celebrates with bonfires and parties until dawn.
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Nice trip, but the sea was little rough and very little marine life.
Interesting trip. Best enjoyed by experienced kayakers. However there was very little marine life to see while snorkeling in a cove....just sea urchins and not much else. Water is pretty cool, so wetsuit is essential. Water clarity is ok, not great. Went out in early October, so weather may not be as great. Noon start time is probably better than the 8am tour. Great beach for windsurfing. Pickup location is at a bar with no signage for the kayak tour, which may confuse people looking
Great if you only want yto visit the montestory and avoid the crowd
Left shortly after 8am on 30 passenger bus. Guide was good. One of first tour bus to make it to the top...and we hurried into the basilica to beat the crowd. After only have just enough time to do just two of potential three things on your own: Did not visit the museum. Took the funicular train to top instead. Also did not have time to visit audio visual. Back to barcelona by 1pm. enough time to do many other things.
A lovely way to see the sites of Barcelona and learn about them.
Our guide was very helpful, he managed to get my bike changed for me while we were on the boat trip as the one I had was a little bit too big for me. He was very knowledgeable about the different places we went to and helped us put our bikes on the cablecar. He stopped regular so everyone could stay together there was no pressure to go fast and the bikes were so easy to ride even up hill.
Able to see so much in such a short time.
Perfect way of getting to see Barcelona. Commentary educational. A great way to see Barcelona in such a short time. So relaxing also. Staff were so helpful and kept us updated about the protests when required.
Wayfinding signage was very poor and we were lost
In the group of 8 people nobody was able to understand were is the main part of the attraction, were to enter and were to look. Staff was rude. But the parc seems very nice eventhough we didn't see much of it


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Georgia Drops Out of PARCC Test Consortium
Georgia has withdrawn from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, one of the two state groups designing tests for the common standards.
In an announcement today, Schools Superintendent John Barge and Gov. Nathan Deal said that Georgia will develop its own tests.
"Creating the tests in Georgia will ensure that the state maintains control over its academic standards and student testing, whereas a common assessment would have prevented [the state department of education] from being able to adjust and rewrite Georgia's standards when educators indicate revisions are needed to best serve students," the statement said.
The two leaders said Georgia will also "seek opportunities to collaborate with other states," but did not specify what that means.
They singled out the cost of PARCC tests as a factor in their decision. PARCC announced today that its summative math and English/language arts test will cost $29.50.
Georgia is one of the lower-spending states in the PARCC consortium. Figures issued in 2010, when the consortium applied for federal funding to design the tests, show that Georgia was spending $10.70 per student for the math and literacy tests ($5.35 for each test).
Districts' technological capacity to administer the online assessments was also a factor in the decision.
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Still So in Love with Crazy Rumors!
I wanted to quickly highlight the newest flavs in my mega beloved and ever-growing Crazy Rumors lip balm stash!
- Ginger Peach, $3.49 – It's a scrumdiddlyumptious blend of ginger and juicy peach.
- Orange Clove, $3.49 – Mmm, citrusy and spicy – the perfect, cozy fall scent.
- Red Velvet, $3.49 – GTFO, red velvet lip balm?! I've got MAD respect for the lovely peeps at Crazy Rumors… makin' all of Sunnybuns' wildest dreams come true with their dessert line! The rich chocolate and decadent sweet creamy scent suits my sugar fiendy personality to a tee (and it has zero calories, so it's muffin top-friendly… or would that be unfriendly – whateves, I'm in ♥)!
- My Stache, $3.99 – OK, this one is hella-hella fun! Can't you see how stache'ing a look rockin' one of these bad boys? It has moustachurizing shea butter and a sweet mint flavor to boot! It's available in 3 different stachetacular styles, and a portion of these sales are donated to the Mercury Phoenix Trust – a charity set up in memory of Queen's legendary front man Freddie Mercury, who obvi donned the stache-iest stache of them all!
- Pistachio, $3.49 – This flavor sounds so simple, but this nutty one is one of my absolute faves! It reminds me of pistachio ice cream (YUMMERS) that I used to shovel down my face as a lil' munchkin. Damn, I want ice cream NOW… beauty blogger problems.
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Awesome pic:D I LOVE the smell of Plum Apricot!!:D xx
I've got an actual stash of the red velvet ones… but I need to check out those my stache ones, too! I love me a minty lip balm <3


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2005 Reader's Choice Awards
is a great state known for its writers, sports teams, leaders,
rolling hills and clear-flowing streams. Less known
but equally worthy of the spotlight are the quirky eating
establishments, roadside attractions and courageous entrepreneurs
who believe, "if I build it, they will come."
celebrate this spirit, Rural Missouri launched its Best of
Rural Missouri Reader's Choice contest. Now in its
fourth year, the contest keeps getting bigger. It's
taken us most of 2005 to count the ballots.
But now the readers
have spoken, the ballots are tallied and the 2005 winners
are presented here. Many of them are repeats from last year.
In fact, we have some that have taken first place four years
in a row, like Lambert's, Johnny's
Smoke Stak and Schoolhouse Bed and Breakfast.
This year we added some new categories,
including Best Chili and Best Steak thanks to reader's
Congratulations to all the winners, and to Tammy
Abbott of Walnut Grove, a member of Ozark Electric Cooperative,
who was the winner of our "Made in Missouri" gift
We hope you will take the time to visit our winners
as you vacation in Missouri this summer. Keep this issue in your
glove box. Please send us suggestions that will help make the contest
better next year.
Dining Worth the Drive:
1st – Lamberts, Sikeston and Ozark
2nd – The Pear Tree, Bevier
3rd – Charlie's, Cole Camp
Lambert's, home of Throwed Rolls,
continues as our winner in this category but only two votes kept the elegant
and out-of-the-way Pear Tree in second where it finished last year. We
put Charlie's
on the map when it won third last year.
Editor's choice: Catch your trout and have them cook it for
you at the Bennett Spring dining lodge.
Best Barbecue:
1st – Johnny's Smoke Stack, Rolla
2nd – Buckingham's, Springfield
3rd – Hickory Log, Dexter
The only changes in this category are for second and third. Johnny's
has trounced the competition with its man-sized barbeque buffet.
Bucking-ham's, also in Columbia, has the best beans in the
state (new category?). Ozark Border Electric members, newcomers to
Rural Missouri, helped bring Hickory Log into the winners' ranks.
Many people say you'll find the state's best ribs here.
Editor's choice: Good
barbecue comes from college towns. We like Perry Foster's in
Warrensburg for their overwhelming portions, real wood fires and
plastic wrap for the inevitable leftovers.
Best Hamburger:
1st – 63 Diner, Columbia
2nd – Booches, Columbia
3rd – Wheel-Inn, Sedalia
After a year or two of swapping places 63 Diner has settled into
first over the legendary Booches, where the menu is beer and burgers.
Sedalia's Wheel-Inn features their trademark "Gooberburger," a
hamburger slathered with peanut butter. You can't say you've
done it all 'til you've had at least one.
Editor's choice: If you
can resist the tenderloin temptation, the Dinner Bell in Jefferson
City offers a full pound of hamburger that's bigger than the
Best Pie:
1st – Slice of Pie, Rolla
2nd – Blue Owl, Kimmswick
3rd – Ozark Café, West Plains
No change for the pie winner, but we recommend you get the whole
pie and not just a slice in Rolla. The Blue Owl will wow you with
their huge selection of huge desserts. Not for the calorie conscious.
The Ozark is one of those downtown legends every town used to have.
Editor's choice: Cookie's
in Golden City is pie to die for.
Best Catfish:
1st – Le Maire's, Sedalia
2nd – Moreland's, Vienna
3rd – Dowd's Catfish House, Lebanon
Just two votes separated first from second as these two fish fryers
trade places. Le Maire's Cajun Catfish cooks a ton of fish
every week and offers gator on the menu. Moreland's features
a bigger filet and music on Friday night. Rt. 66 cruisers love Dowd's.
Editor's choice: If Sedalia
is off your beaten path try Cajun Catfish in St. Martin, once owned
by Le Maire's.
Best Chili:
1st – Casper's, Springfield
2nd – Dixon's Chili, Kansas City
3rd – Floosie's Apple Barrel, Winona
In the first year for chili we found a real winner in Casper's,
a downtown Springfield establishment with limited seating and great
chili. We can't wait to test Dixon's and Floosie's.
Editor's choice: Fred
and Red's in Joplin offers chili
(and tamales) made from a spicy secret recipe.
Best Fried Chicken:
1st – Strouds, Kansas City
2nd – Cookin' From Scratch, Newburg
3rd – Big Boys, Wright City
Stroud's continues to impress us with the number of votes they
got for first. Come early and be prepared to wait in line for this
great chicken. We hear nothing but good comments about Cookin' From
Scratch. Big Boy's isn't the well-known chain but a 1920s
family style restaurant that's older than I-70.
Editor's choice: Before
they moved from Loose Creek to Lohman, Steve's Family Style
Restaurant was a winner. We think it still is.
Best Steak:
1st – The Pear Tree, Bevier
2nd – G & D Steakhouse, Columbia
3rd – Gordoz, Rolla
There's not much the Pear Tree doesn't do well and steak
is a specialty here. G&D's $6 ribeye lets college kids
get a decent meal. The Greek style Gordoz is first and foremost a
steak place.
Editor's choice: Great
steak, reasonable price, small town, feed mill ambiance — Harry J's
in Moscow Mills gets our vote.
Best Winery:
1st – Stone Hill, Hermann
2nd – St. James Winery
3rd – Les Bourgeois, Rocheport
Stone Hill is Missouri's most decorated winery for good reason.
But St. James and Les Bourgeois are gaining ground, the latter due
to its million-dollar view of the Missouri River.
Editor's choice: Often
overlooked in winery-rich Hermann, the Adam Puchta Winery is the
state's oldest family farm winery.
Best U-Pick Farms:
1st – Meyer Tree & Berry Farm, Dixon
2nd – Peter's Orchard, Waverly
3rd – Pumpkin Patch, West Plains
A new category this year thanks to the popularity of agritourism.
You can't go wrong when you pick your own on the farm.
Best State Park/Historic Site:
1st – Ha Ha Tonka, Camdenton
2nd – Meramec State Park, Sullivan
3rd – Bennett Spring, Lebanon
Always a favorite with our readers, we wonder if anyone has seen
all the wonders at this huge park. Meramec in Sullivan offers floats
and cave tours. Bennett is best known for its trout fishing.
Editor's choice: Big Oak Tree State Park near East Prairie
is an island of huge trees in a sea of agriculture.
Best Festival:
1st – Oktoberfest, Hermann
2nd – Jour de Fete, Ste. Genevieve
3rd – Silver Dollar City Fall Festival, Branson
Hermann's featured month of wine, sausage and song moves into
first ahead of Ste. Gen's French festival. You can step back
in time at Silver Dollar City's featured attraction.
Editor's choice: Houston, Mo., literally sends in the clowns
for its Emmett Kelly Clown Festival in May.
Best Old Store:
1st – Dick's 5 & 10, Branson
2nd – Crane's, Williamsburg
3rd – Weaver's, Versailles
Weaver's in Amish Country joins perennial winner's Dick's
and Crane's in our stores-the-way-they-used-to-be category.
Editor's choice: Captain
Jac bought the Farmer's Mercantile
in High Hill and gained a community.
Best Town to Live in:
1st – Columbia
2nd – West Plains
3rd – Rolla
College memories kept Columbia as the top pick while West Plains
entered the picture to move Rolla down to third. The south-central
Missouri town has rebuilt its downtown and is staying in touch with
its roots.
Editor's choice: Those
who followed Lewis & Clark last
year discovered Washington, a great place to visit and stay.
Best Bed & Breakfast:
1st – School House, Rocheport
2nd – Painted Lady, St. James
3rd – Southern Hotel, Ste. Genevieve
Guests of the Schoolhouse get to relax after a hard ride on the Katy
Trail. The Painted Lady needs to be seen at Christmas time to be
really appreciated — ask for the cabin out back. The Southern
in Ste. Gen is our favorite place to stay while in Missouri's
oldest city.
Editor's choice: Where else can you sleep in a tree house on
the North Fork River? River of Life Farm near Dora is one of a kind.
Best Main Street:
1st – St. Charles
2nd – Branson
3rd – (tie) Ste. Genevieve & Hannibal
Main Street in St. Charles has old-world charm and Missouri's
first Capitol. Too many people pass up old town Branson in favor
of the glitter and lights; it's good to see it get some recognition.
Hannibal and Ste. Gen deserve recognition as historic villages.
Editor's choice: America's
biggest and best main street is Route 66.
Best Getaway:
1st – Branson
2nd – Big Cedar Lodge, Ridgedale
3rd – Lake of the Ozarks
Two of Missouri's biggest tourist destinations are Branson
and the Lake of the Ozarks, and that seems to be where our readers
seek refuge.
Editor's choice: The
Elms Resort and Spa in Excelsior Springs was built so Missourians
could "take the waters."
Best Trail Ride:
1st – Cross Country Trail Ride, Eminence
2nd – Katy Trail
3rd – Lake of the Ozarks State Park
We were thinking horses when we dreamed up this category and first
place goes to Missouri's largest (3,000 riders) and oldest
(celebrating its 50th year in 2005). But cyclists and hikers had
their say too with second and third place. Lake of the Ozarks State
Park has trails for hikers, bikers and riders.
Editor's choice: The Berryman Trail between Potosi and Steelville
is a wild ride for bikes and horses.
Best Camping:
1st – Bennett Spring State Park, Lebanon
2nd – Roaring River State Park, Cassville
3rd – Mark Twain State Park, Stoutsville
Two of Missouri's premier trout parks were the reader's
choice for camping. But anglers love Mark Twain for its greatly improved
fishing and facilities.
Editor's choice: Rough it at a Missouri wilderness area like
Hercules Glades near Ava.
Best Lake:
1st – Lake of the Ozarks
2nd – Table Rock
3rd – Truman
Last year Lake of the Ozarks didn't make the cut, but this
year the big lake with more shoreline than California took the top
spot. Clear-water Table Rock and fishy Truman offer completely different
experiences for the lake lover.
Editor's choice: We like our lakes a little smaller, like the
one at Crowder State Park in Trenton.
Best Theater:
1st – Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre
2nd – Fox Theatre, St. Louis
3rd – 19 Drive-In, Cuba
Our winners run the gamut from live theater in Arrow Rock to the
convertible crowd in Cuba.
Editor's choice: The Friends of the Farris in Richmond deserve
kudos for its work to restore the fabulous Farris Theatre, host to
silent films, regular movies, live theater and more.
Best Float Stream:
1st – Current River
2nd – Jacks Fork
3rd – Niangua
The ever-popular Current reigns supreme, while its tributary, the
Jacks Fork, gains ground.
Editor's choice: If you float and fish, try the Gasconade.
Best Outdoor Adventure:
1st – Katy Trail
2nd – Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Camdenton
3rd – Johnson's Shut Ins
Once a railroad, the Katy is today the nation's longest rails-to-trails
project with 225 miles to bike and hike. Most people never get past
the castle at Ha Ha Tonka. They miss the caves, springs and other
geologic wonders of the park. But for relaxing adventure, the shut-ins
can't be beat.
Editor's choice: Noodling, or hand fishing
for catfish, is now legal on the Mississippi, Fabius and St. Francis
rivers in Missouri. Sticking your hand into the mouth of a 100-pound
cat and wrestling it into a boat sounds like adventure with a capital
Best Cave:
1st – Meramec Caverns, Stanton
2nd – Marvel Cave, Branson
3rd – Onondaga Cave, Leasburg
Our readers prefer the creature comforts of the commercial caves.
Of the three, third place is the most natural.
Editor's choice: Bridal Cave in Camdenton boasts the world
record for underground weddings with 1,575 and contains more onyx
formations per square foot than any other show cave.


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Let's get serious about anal health! (But not too serious)
So I was down at the LGBTQXYZ health clinic the other day, getting some of the special LGBTQXYZ medications I take for special LGBTQXYZ diseases that I've contracted from bathhouse sex over the years, when I stumbled upon a great article in Positively Aware Magazine.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the publication, Positively Aware is a free 'zine available at health clinics that focuses on AIDS awareness. Oddly enough, the magazine has an unmistakeably gay bent, which is really inappropriate and downright ignorant. If I've learned anything from AIDS educators it's that AIDS is definitely NOT a gay disease. It has nothing to do with homosexuality, it has to do with lack of federal funding for research. Butt sex isn't the cause of AIDS, Ronald Ray-gun is. Thankfully, the magazine skips over references to butt pirates by referring to them as MSM–men who have sex with men. That's a totally different category from cock smugglers.
While I was waiting patiently for the doctor to fill my 'scrip for antibiotics (I have the clap, y'know) I found a wonderful article by Dr. Gary Bucher, MD, an anal dysplasia and anal cancer prevention specialist from Chicago. It was called "Getting to the Bottom of It: Be Proactive About Anal Health". What an eye opener!
The title of the article was, in itself, enough to tickle my funny bone. Get to the bottom of "it"? Get to the bottom of what, exactly? And then I saw the picture and it all became crystal clear to me. He's talking about my asshole! Silly goose. Why didn't he just say so?
The cup in the picture above is a symbolic stand-in for arseholes. I suppose the publisher thought that a picture of a dixie cup with a spoon in it was enough to get the point across without actually printing a picture of someone's sphincter. But the message came through loud and clear for me. That's about how wide my asshole is, and yes, sometimes I shove a spoon up there just cause it feels good. I'm kind of loosey-goosey in my anal region, due to years of using my asshole as the vagina I never had. Sometimes when I walk, it kind of wiggles and jiggles like one of those old Jell-O commercials with Bill Cosby. You get the picture, right?
Dr. Bucher explains that there are pro-active steps that a person can take to catch anal health problems before they get out of hand. Prevention is the key.
I also ask the patient if they have performed an anal self-exam by using their finger to feel around for any lumps or bumps inside their anus.
Well no, that's not something I usually do. But if the doctor wants to do it for me, that would be great.
The good doctor also recommends yearly anal pap smears for "high risk groups". I think I might be one of the high risk groups considering the fact that my sexual proclivities tend to make me high risk for just about everything. But how can I be sure?
Individuals at increased risk for developing anal cancer include HIV-positive men and women; HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM); women with a history of cervical, vaginal, or vulvar cancer or cervical dysplasia; chronically immunosuppressed organ transplant patients; men and women with a history of anal warts; and people who smoke tobacco.
Oh! Well, I don't have AIDS. At least I don't think I do. Maybe I should wait for the test results. But I've had anal warts before. I think there was a mean case of that stuff circulating in the West Village when I was there in the late 80s. I am also an "MSM". So that means that I fall into two high risk groups.
I don't smoke however; at least not tobacco. I prefer pole. Because tobacco is just gross. Smokers should be shunned and forced to pay eight dollars a pack just in taxes on their fifty cent box of coffin nails. Smoking is so unhealthy, and as we have seen, it obviously leads to cancer in all parts of the body, including the asshole. People shouldn't smoke because it's unhealthy.
Sodomy, on the other hand, is completely safe. And if any doctor ever told me that it wasn't, I would storm off in a snit and contact the state to see if I couldn't get his license pulled.
Okay, so I have a story to share about medical malpractice. It happened to me in the bad old days, about 1982, when fear and ignorance were the normative climate that surrounded all things HIV. I went to the doctor to get tested because half of my ex-boyfriends were coming down with it. He gave me a full exam and then sat me down for a little doctor/patient chat. He informed me that I had the gay "triple crown"–gonorrhea, anal warts, and protozoal infections– but thankfully not HIV. Back in those days, they referred the bundled package of STD's infecting the poop chute region as "gay bowel syndrome", which is such an obscene term. Thankfully, doctors don't talk like that anymore because the term itself makes me want to kill myself. He told me that the best thing to do for my anal health was to quit sticking things up my anus.
I broke down and cried right there in the office. He wasn't even supportive. In fact, he told me to quit being a sniveling bitch. He didn't understand that I really enjoy sticking things up my asshole–particularly other men's penises. And I have no choice at all whether I will continue to do it. I couldn't stop even if I wanted to because homosexuality is NOT A CHOICE.
Then I asked him if he thought, in his expert opinion, that the bruising and bleeding around my asshole was a result of my favorite pastime, sodomy. He told me that it was pretty obvious that blunt trauma was to blame and that if I ever wanted my pooper to recover, I should quit violently abusing it for pleasure.
That's how bad it was in those days. Seriously. Doctors actually recommended that gay men stop doing the things that put them at elevated risk of contracting every disease known to man. It would almost be like telling a smoker that if he wants to avoid lung cancer he should quit smoking. Or telling a boozer that if he wants to avoid cirrhosis of the liver he should give up drinking.It's just backwards, ignorant thinking.
Wait, it's not like that at all. Because no one–NO ONE–has the right to make me feel bad about my sex life. I do what I want and everyone has to affirm me, even my doctor.
I sure am glad that Dr. Bucher isn't such a neanderthal. Nowhere in the article does he recommend discontinuing sodomy as a means of preventing anal cancer. I think that's because the good doctor is himself a homosexual. He takes it in the ass just like me. So his expert advice tends to be pretty straightforward.
Just keep engaging in high risk behavior and then get checked, m'kay?
Thank goodness he's not so backwards as to assert that people shouldn't use their assholes as a two way street if they don't want to get icky diseases and stuff. He wants you to be serious about anal health, but NOT TOO SERIOUS!
"Take charge of your anal health. Ask for your DARE exam and your anal Pap smear!"
Yup. And by all means, continue to take it up the ass, if that's what floats your boat. Just make sure you make an appointment with Dr. Bucher once a year so he can stick his finger up there and probe around for pre-cancerous lesions.
Dr. Bucher's website (http://www.analdysplasiaclinic.com/) breaks down the cold, hard facts on the subject. here they are:
135 out of every 100,000 HIV+ MSM will develop anal cancer
The risk in the general population is 0.9 per 100,000
Ah ha! So the risk of anal cancer among HIV+ MSM is one hundred and seventy-two times higher than the rate for the general population. And the general population includes other HIV+ MSM, other MSM, and women who also take it in the poopchute. It kind of makes me wonder what the risk is in comparison to people who don't use their assholes for sexual pleasure. Probably pretty high.
But, please–by all means, keep on keeping on! Don't let a little thing like anal health get in the way of your anal health. I mean, don't let it get in the way of your pleasure.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Spouses whose partners suffer from chronic pain may sleep poorly, according to researchers at Penn State, Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and Kent State University. The researchers also found that the effect of chronic pain on spousal sleep is worse for couples with the closest relationships.
"We know that pain affects the spouse's emotional well being, and that over time it takes a toll on the relationship, but until now we did not know the extent to which pain affects spouse sleep," said Lynn Martire, associate professor of human development and family studies, Penn State. "Getting adequate sleep is important for maintaining long-term health."
The team recruited 138 patients with knee osteoarthritis and their spouses to complete baseline interviews plus daily diary entries for 22 days. To be eligible for the study, one member of each couple had to have been diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis by a physician, had to experience knee pain of moderate to great intensity and had to be at least 50 years old. The couples had to be married or in a long-term relationship in which they shared a residence.
Following the baseline interview, the researchers trained the participants to use handheld computers to answer questions about their daily pain and sleep quality.
"Very few studies on couples have the intensive, repeated measures design we used in which we asked people questions every day as opposed to just interviewing them at one or two time points," Martire said.
The team's results will appear in the Aug. 16 issue of the journal PAIN®.
"We found that greater knee pain was associated with spouses' poorer sleep quality that night and feeling less refreshed after sleep," Martire said. "We don't yet know the mechanism by which a person's pain affects his or her spouse's sleep. In our study, we examined several possibilities, including disturbances in patient sleep and quality of marital interactions during the day, but did not find that these factors explained our findings."
The team also found that patient pain was more strongly related to less refreshing sleep for spouses who both reported that they had a close relationship.
"We usually think of closeness as a good thing, but being overly involved in each other's health could actually have some negative implications -- it could take a toll on your health over time," Martire said.
In the future, the researchers plan to investigate physiological changes, such as changes in heart rate variability, and neurological changes.
"There's an interesting line of research showing that people have the same neurological response to witnessing pain in somebody they love as they have to being in pain themselves," Martire said.
Other authors on the paper include Francis Keefe of Duke University, Richard Schulz of the University of Pittsburgh, Mary Ann Parris Stephens of Kent State University and Jacqueline Mogle of Penn State.
The National Institutes of Health supported this research.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Buoyed by a December election landslide, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is rolling out a comprehensive PR strategy mixing Facebook, public appearances and policy announcements to prop up voter ratings ahead of a crucial July poll in an effort to avoid becoming just the latest of the country's short-term leaders.
Backed by media-savvy advisers, Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) hope to stay in power long enough to implement a broader agenda going well beyond reviving a stagnant economy to altering a pacifist constitution, seeking a bigger global security role and revising Japan's take on its wartime history.
The strategy, a far cry from the often mixed and amateurish messages of Japan's revolving door leaders, is aimed at giving the LDP and its coalition partner a good shot at winning a July upper house poll to take control of both houses of parliament.
"They are not only being strategic in what they announce and when - taking time for people to digest the announcements - but they are being strategic in how they talk about things," said Deborah Hayden, regional director at the Japan office of Edelman, the world's largest PR firm.
"They're giving people a sense of what it means - the 'whys' rather than just 'here are the facts'."
The LDP-led bloc has a two-thirds majority in the lower house - big enough to override most legislative objections by the upper chamber - but a majority in both houses would make it easier to push through policies, and holding two-thirds in both chambers would open the door to revising the 1947 U.S.-drafted constitution for the first time.
"Only after winning in the lower and then the upper house can we manage parliament with stability and carry out bold policies," Abe told NHK public TV on Sunday.
The strategic PR campaign, a departure from previous ad hoc attempts to harness the power of the media, includes the prime minister's office opening a Japanese language Facebook account - it had one in English after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters - in addition to Abe's personal account.
"Under (defeated Democratic Party Prime Minister Yoshihiko) Noda, they were very cautious about having wider feedback through Facebook. They were afraid of having negative comments," said a person familiar with Abe's media strategy.
Japanese rightwing activists are frequent Internet users and have targeted those who offend them with comments and threats.
On Twitter, too, Abe is leading the charge for a more modern Japanese political machine, with around 54,500 followers, compared to fewer than 1,900 for his predecessor in the prime minister's office. By comparison, U.S. President Barack Obama has more than 25.7 million Twitter followers.
Several of Abe's aides are involved in media strategizing, including Isao Iijima, often compared to U.S. Republican strategist Karl Rove when he served as adviser to soundbite-savvy Junichiro Koizumi during a rare 5-year term that ended in 2006.
"This administration is very aware of the importance of information dissemination," said the person familiar with Abe's media strategy, which also includes targeted interviews, news conferences and keeping ministers "on message".
Those ministers, of course, have only been in office less than three weeks and need to avoid the scandals and gaffes that plagued Abe's first 2006-07 administration, which ended with his abrupt resignation just months after losing an upper house poll.
"They've got a grace period and have plans afoot, but they have got to deliver on it," said Edelman's Hayden.
In an effort to reduce the risk of mistakes, Abe has abandoned the twice-daily brief stand-up Q&A; sessions with reporters that were skillfully used by Koizumi, but tripped up many subsequent leaders including Abe himself.
The government and the LDP have taken a number of symbolic steps to try to convince a wary public, which appears to have let the LDP back on sufferance, that the hidebound party that ruled for most of the past six decades has changed.
The glass separating receptionists from the public at LDP headquarters has been removed to present a more "open image", women have been appointed to key party posts, and cameras were allowed to film the start of the New Year's first cabinet meeting in the room where ministers deliberate - rather than just the traditional photograph of them sitting stiffly in an ante-room.
Key to the Abe strategy is an initial focus on fixing the economy, trapped in deflation and stuck in recession, with a potent mix of spending and easy monetary policy.
By prioritizing economic revival, "I think many people will have a sense of security," Abe told NHK. "After that, I want to explain how important it is to write our constitution with our own hands to pave the way for a new 21st century era," he said.
Advisers have mapped out a steady flow of economic policy announcements to keep up momentum - although the real verdict on his print-money-and-spend-it policies will take time.
He also plans a judicious mix of overseas trips including a probable visit to Washington next month and one to Moscow in May to show off diplomatic prowess. Abe begins his travels this week, visiting Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Following Friday's unveiling of a 10.3 trillion yen ($115.6 billion) stimulus package, the cabinet will approve an extra budget to fund it on Tuesday. Then, at a January 21-22 policy meeting, the Bank of Japan - under intense pressure from Abe - is expected to double its inflation target to 2 percent and consider easing monetary policy again. A draft budget for the year beginning in April should be ready by the end of this month, and the extra budget for 2012-13 could pass in February.
The government then appoints two new BOJ deputy governors in March and a new central bank governor to replace Masaaki Shirakawa whose term expires in April, most likely people more willing to bend to Abe's wishes on easy money - although the appointments need approval by both houses of parliament.
May will likely see the 2013-14 budget enacted and in June, government advisers are to unveil plans to boost competitiveness, spur growth and rein in Japan's bulging debt.
"They have a big agenda, it's very impressive and they seem to be staying on message - that they are focusing on the economy," said Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University in Tokyo. "They want to win the upper house election, and then they will do what they want."
(Editing by Ian Geoghegan)


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Former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has been convicted of assaulting a celebrity blogger at a music festival.
The N-Dubz star hit Savvas Morgan during an altercation at the V Festival in Essex. She was found guilty by a judge at Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London today. She was fined £200 for the assault.


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Escape Velocity/ dEVo Spring Series 2008
Courtesy Team Escape Velocity
Race #4 (The Snake) And Race #5 (Bradner) This Weekend!
The Escape Velocity/dEVo Spring Series continues this week with racing for the A, B and C groups on both Saturday and Sunday. After last Sunday's suffer fest on the Armstrong Road hill, the dEVo race organizers have cooked up a slightly longer circuit that encompasses all the elevation gain of Armstrong and is affectionately referred to as "The Snake". On Sunday, the venue will be the challenging Bradner course, the site of the BC Masters road race.
Race #4: The Snake, Langley, BC. If you liked the Armstrong Road course last week, you are going to love The Snake. This course features a longer 10.1 km lap with a very steep climb off the Fraser River floodplain. If you have an extra lung, be sure to bring it along.
Date: Saturday March 15, 2008
Location: East of Fort Langley, BC. Parking on 88th Avenue near the race start/finish area at the junction of 88th Avenue and 256th Street.
Race #5: Bradner, east of Abbotsford, BC. Challenging 9km circuit in rural Bradner featuring rolling hills, a couple of short climbs and lots of corners. Don't ride off the front on the first lap if you didn't pre-ride this course.
Date: Sunday March 16, 2008
Location: Fort Langley, BC. Parking at Bradner Hall, just south of the Start area at the junction of Bradner Road and 58th Avenue.
Further Event Details
Time: All races start at 10:30 AM sharp.
Categories: Please see the category suggestions below to help advise you on which category to race.
A Group: This is generally comprised of category Pro, 1 and 2's as well as some very fit 3's.
B Group: This is composed on the top Category 3's and 4's as well as most top Women and top Junior racers.
C Group: This is the place for most Category 4's and 5's as well as Novice racers that have some but limited race experience. In the spirit of the Spring Series if you are new to racing but have been riding consistently over the winter and are keeping up with cat 3's in your club then B's are more than likely where you belong.
Novice: There will be NO Novice races this weekend.
For complete details including course maps, race distances and other important information please see: www.escapevelocity.bc.ca or contact Race Director Austin MacDougall (austinmacd [at] gmail [dot] com).
Special Instruction 1: Fenders must be removed for racing in the Spring Series.
Special Instruction 2: You must print off and bring a waiver and sign-on form to your first race. NO WAIVER, NO RACING (download the forms at http://www.escapevelocity.bc.ca/spring).
Special Instruction 3: A valid UCI licence is mandatory for the Spring Series races. USCF licences will not be accepted.
Special thanks to our Spring Series sponsors:
Powerbar - Be Great
Louis Garneau - The Global Solution
Wentings Cycle
La Bicicletta Pro Shop
Our sponsors provide great prizes for the Spring Series and are fantastic supporters of the cycling community in British Columbia. Escape Velocity and dEVo appreciate their continued involvement and commitment to the sport.
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Small, intimate tasting room and bar with intricately hand-crafted wood and metal work. Tours are generally run by the owner, winemaker, or owner's daughter. It includes a full tour of the facility, including caves, fermentation room, and bottling line.Wine Education: Owner, winemaker, and owner's daughter share extensive knowledge of winegrowing, winemaking, Napa Valley history, and AVA's
The Napa Green program is supported by a wide variety of groups including the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, and the University of California. The Napa Valley Vintners, along with Fish Friendly Farming, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers, the Napa County Farm Bureau and others developed the Napa Green program. Learn more about the program at napagreen.org.
Neal Family Vineyards is certified under the Napa Green Winery Program by the Napa County Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Association of Bay Area Government's (ABAG) Green Business Program and completed all the regulatory components needed for environmental sustainability. These components included developing water and energy conservation methods, preventing pollution, and reducing solid waste. In addition to developing sustainable winery practices, this program is set to become the standard for the state of California.
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Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
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The Never Forgotten House
This essay will also appear in the next issue of Pool.
Image of Williamsburg Waterfront by C-Monster, April 30, 2006.
Several weeks ago, I was leaving a party in Park Slope. As I waited to cross the street, I recognized two places across the way and realized I had eaten meals at both. I had brunch with a friend in the cafe at the corner last year. I met another friend for dinner two years earlier at the Thai restaurant at the address next. I remembered two separate phone calls with each friend explaining how to get there from the 7th Ave station. The second call, and the second walk from the stop didn't remind me of the first. It took a third visit to that intersection, and from that vantage point —across the street —to discover the venues were neighbors. Two pleasant but very different conversations came back to me at once.
I will never know if some of the places I remember from these early New York trips have been torn down or exist on streets I haven't walked by again yet. I refuse to ...
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- The phone hacking scandal exposed the failures of traditional institutions to maintain boundaries, distinctions and thresholds against the spectrallike entity of contemporary corporate media. - Sam Jacob in Domus on "The Architecture of Corporate Media"
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- "I think that speed is part of the innovation process. If ideas aren't built on with a sense of urgency, time can pass you by." Fast Company talks with DARPA director Regina Dugan...
Short Documentary on Internet Infrastructure
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors is a short documentary explaining internet infrastructure, focusing on the art deco building 60 Hudson Street in Tribeca, which is now one of the most concentrated carrier hotels in the world. The internet has an "ironically very limited geography in terms of big strategic concentrations," explains Stephen Graham, professor of cities and society, Newcastle University, in the short film. "The big affluent high tech information rich regions" is where the infrastructure is densely located. And 60 Hudson Street was especially ideal as a hub, given that the building was already designed to accomidate cables as it was first fitted for pneumatics tubes, then telegraph cables and telephone lines.
In an interview with The Atlantic's Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, director Ben Mendelsohn explains, "The issue of how this infrastructure is hidden fascinates me. Andrew Blum has a book coming out in May about physical Internet infrastructure, which I'm very excited for. He was giving a lecture and handing out postcards of "data monuments" in New York City, and I asked him: if these are monuments, what do they reveal about the culture that built them? Their message is really one of ambivalence. Service providers need to let potential clients know where they are, but they generally decline to make their presence widely known beyond that marketing purpose. Andrew did say that he envisions "brewery tour" style visits or class field trips to Internet buildings in the future, and I think that would be great, but the industry is not there yet."
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Steam Postcards is a tumblr documenting the melancholy landscapes of video games. The role of architecture is important in gameplay. A level designer is considering the way that a surface responds to weather conditions, the depiction of shadows and textures, and other factors that contribute to a realistic looking structure. Sometimes a game will pose its own uncanny valley hypothesis, when something about the gravity in the virtual world does not match up with human experience. But as still images these buildings look like "postcards" from the future. The uncanniness is the dream world depicted, not any failure in representation.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Auto Show opens to the public Friday after two days of media previews. Here are some of the most buzz-worthy vehicles being introduced at this year's show:
BMW adds a convertible to its 4 Series line of two-door coupes, which debuted over the summer. The 4 Series replaced the 3 Series coupe; BMW is now reserving the 3 Series name for four-door sedans. The convertible, which goes on sale in the U.S. early next year, has a three-piece retractable hardtop that can be automatically lowered in 20 seconds at low speeds. To keep away the chill, the car has optional neck warmers in the driver and passenger seats. As in the 4 Series coupe, there are two engine choices: a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 240 horsepower in the 428i and a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline six-cylinder with 300 horsepower in the 435i. Both have an eight-speed automatic transmission. The 428i is offered as a rear-wheel-drive or an all-wheel-drive, while the 435i is only offered as a rear-wheel-drive. The 428i starts at $49,675, around $8,000 more than the starting price of the coupe. The 435i starts at $55,825.
Porsche is entering the fast-growing small SUV market with the Macan. The Macan — the name comes from the Indonesian word for "tiger" — is six inches shorter than its sibling, the Cayenne SUV, but features the same muscular look. It also uses some tricks to look more substantial, like a broad, wraparound hood that encompasses the headlights. Porsche designed two versions: The Macan S, with a new, 3.0-liter V6 engine that gets 340 horsepower and the Macan Turbo, with a new 3.6-liter V6 that gets 400 horsepower. Standard features include an off-road mode, which adjusts the torque, shifter and other functions for off-roading at the touch of a button. There's an optional air suspension chassis, which can set the vehicle's ground clearance at three different levels. Porsche says the feature is unique to the Macan among small SUVs. The Macan goes on sale this spring at a starting price of $50,895 for the Macan S and $73,295 for the Macan Turbo. Sales of small luxury SUVs are up 25 percent so far this year, making them the fastest-growing segment in the luxury market.
Ford says its Edge concept vehicle previews the design direction and technology of the company's future SUVs. The lines on the concept are sharper and more angled than the current Edge, and it adopts the trapezoidal grille shape and narrow headlights of Ford's newer products. Advanced safety features include an automated parking system that can find and park in a perpendicular space. The system can even be activated remotely, pulling the car out of a tight spot before the driver gets in. The Edge concept also will automatically steer away from obstacles and brake to avoid a collision. The Edge mid-size SUV has recently been overshadowed by Ford's newer SUVs, including the small Escape and larger Explorer. This will be the Edge's first full redesign since it was introduced in 2007. The new Edge will also target a global audience — it will be sold in Europe, China and South America for the first time. Ford isn't yet saying when the new Edge will go on sale, but it's likely to arrive sometime next year.
The F-Type convertible, which went on sale in the spring, was Jaguar's first two-seat sports car in 50 years. Now the company's adding a hardtop version. The 2015 F-Type coupe, which goes on sale this spring, starts at $65,000, or $4,000 less than the convertible. The base model of the all-aluminum coupe — made, in part, from recycled metal — has a 340-horsepower V6 engine and a top speed of 161 mph. For $77,000, buyers can upgrade to a V6 with 380 horsepower and a top speed of 171 mph. At the top of the lineup is the $99,000 F-Type R, which has a 550-horsepower V8 engine and goes from zero to 60 mph in four seconds. It has a top speed of 186 mph. All versions have an eight-speed transmission and a hidden rear spoiler that automatically rises at 70 mph and tucks back in at 50 mph or less. Jaguar's U.S. sales are up 36 percent so far this year, thanks to the F-Type convertible and the recently redesigned XF sedan.


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Essential to every artist's practice is their choice of materials and tools, the significance of which is often forgotten or overlooked. My paintings aim to express the subtle yet inherent beauty of the very same materials which were instrumental in producing my work by making them their own subject matter. This in turn provides insight into my own practice, conveying how much more there is to an artwork than the resolved product on the gallery wall. The imperfect, twisted, well-worn forms should provoke contemplation on the significance of the discreet, commonplace objects everywhere in the world surrounding us.
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7C4 - The Trial of a Time Lord 12
The most straightforward, and therefore most disappointing, segment of the Trial season ends with The Doctor's trial supposedly changing immeasurably, as he is now accused of genocide in addition to his crimes of meddling. Or has the latter charged now been dropped? Much less attention is paid to it after the shocking new charge, so shocking that it warrants a warp speed zoom into Colin Baker's face at the conclusion of the episode - very serious stuff, indeed.
At the time, I only relatively enjoyed the Vervoid segment, even though I was never quite keen to rewatch it. I'm not sure my opinion of the onscreen product has changed since in the 20 years since I first saw it. There's a lot of death going on here, and, while none of it is particularly graphic, it certainly seems to go against the new ethics put in place by the Sixth Floor of the BBC to make Doctor Who a more family friendly programme. What does it say that the only main characters on the Hyperion who seem to survive the bloodbath are the highest ranking (Commodore Travers) and the lowest (stewardess Janet)? Take that, middle class, but should Travers really be that pleased with the situation at the end of this episode when practically every ranking officer and crew member under him has died (apart from that strange bearded extra who's in practically every other scene in this episode)?
Really, as the years have gone on and more details have come out, it's the behind-the-scenes drama that occurred during the production of the latter half of The Trial of a Time Lord that far outweighs what was going on in front of the cameras. For starters, there wasn't a script editor for Parts 9-12 as Eric Saward had walked off the job, the camel's back having been broken by any multitude of straws from mistreatment of the recently deceased Robert Holmes to rejection of Saward's original cliffhanger ending to Part 14. Really, a lack of a script editor on a Pip and Jane Baker story might be a match made in hell, but thanks to the efforts of an exasperated John Nathan-Turner, it's amazing that this thing holds together at all.
Slag JNT for his slavish devotion to continuity and fandom (which was reaching its peak at this time in the days before the massive fan conventions in the USA were starting to wane in popularity) or his sometimes questionable stunt casting, but he bent over backwards to try and make Doctor Who as good as it could possibly be, often without any backing or support from his direct superiors. He saved the show from outright cancellation in 1985 by leaking the news early to get the fans on his side, and he was spinning plates behind the scenes from then on just to try and get the show made, often at the behest of his own interests (he had been trying to leave the producer's chair since the end of Season 20; Doctor Who would never have another producer during its original run). The Trial of a Time Lord is John Nathan-Turner's last stab at making Doctor Who because he really thought it was, finally, his last actual stab at making the show. Sadly, events that transpired shortly after production of this segment (which was mostly produced before the final two episodes of Trial) would leave more than a few people unhappy.
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Some of the many and massive delays between posts on this blog can be attributed to me not having the time and energy to be able to devote to writing reviews (thanks to real life, work, etc). On other occasions, though, the main reason is that I simply can't find anything noteworthy to write about, even after several passes through an episode.
Part 11 of The Trial of a Time Lord is just one of those instances. Nothing much is revealed about the murderer; in fact, we're distracted from the main plot by Bruchner foolishly hijacking the Hyperion to fly it into a black hole just so we can have something dramatic to end the episode on (and director Chris Clough doesn't even do that, choosing to end, as was the style at the time, on a close-up of Colin Baker's overly concerned visage). We nearly lose Mel to the pulverizer, which may seem like a good thing, but she displays a remarkable amount of pluck and quick thinking by using a gym headset to record some incriminating Vervoid chatter that will play an important part in the next episode. My main memory of the episode is actually that one Mogarian who was frightfully rude to the stewardess, Janet, by knocking her tray over for no reason at all. What an odd scene, I thought, although Janet didn't look half enticing bending over to pick up the...ahh, now I see the reason.
Even the Valeyard and the Inquisitor keep their interruptions to a bare minimum. Either they're just not interested in the story playing out on screen or they simply have no objections, or perhaps The Doctor seems to think that the video evidence is enough in itself to prove his innocence. Although, one must point, out, it's not necessarily his innocence that The Doctor is fighting for, it's his justification for his meddling. Sadly, he does little meddling in this episode at all, and the drama suffers because of it. Roll on Part 12, already.
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Winners Announced in State Securities Division Essay Contest
PIERRE, S.D. – Seniors from seven South Dakota high schools have been named cash prize winners in an essay contest coordinated by the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, Division of Securities.
How to Create Financial Independence by Understanding Five Principles of Investing was the theme of the investor education and protection initiative. South Dakota high school seniors were invited to submit five-page essays to win cash prizes of up to $6,000.
Winners of the 2012-2013 contest include:
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The Division of Securities received 196 entries from 38 schools in the seventh annual contest. Essays were judged on their content and placed in one of four levels. When all papers were categorized, division officials randomly selected two winners from each level.
In addition to submitting essays, students also had to be sponsored by a teacher from their high school. Educators sponsoring the top five winning students received cash prizes up to $500. The teacher sponsoring the most senior student essays won $500. One teacher was also randomly drawn to win $100. Educators honored as sponsors are:
The essay contest was funded by a grant from the Investor Protection Trust (IPT), a nonprofit organization devoted to investor education. Since 1993, the IPT has worked with states to provide independent, objective investor education all Americans can use to make informed investment decisions. For more information, visit www.investorprotection.org
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Your small business clients know that the health insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are coming—and soon—but they may not realize that they create significant benefits for employers in the form of dramatic cost savings above and beyond the current rules governing deductibility of premiums and eligibility for certain tax credits.
Beginning Nov. 1, small business clients will be eligible to sign up online for a specially created Small Business Health Options Program (the SHOP exchange), but clients are unlikely to have realized that the rules of the game have changed with the advent of SHOP.
(The exchange opened Tuesday, but because of technical problems, clients must sign up by mail or fax and full implementation of some features will be delayed.)
By signing up for the SHOP exchange, your small business clients can create a powerful employment benefit for their employees—in the form of dramatic tax savings—without any corresponding requirement that employers with fewer than 50 employees actually finance the employees' health care.
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Under the ACA, every state is required to establish a health insurance exchange that is specifically designated for small business use. The SHOP exchange allows small business clients with fewer than 50 full-time employees to sign up (eligibility requirements will expand in 2016 to allow clients with up to 100 employees to sign up).
The purpose of the SHOP exchange is to allow small business employees to access a variety of health insurance options (though it is predicted that only one option will initially be available, with expanded options not actually available until 2015). Further, by encouraging these employees to purchase health insurance, the SHOP exchange is meant to eventually decrease costs for employers who do choose to contribute to employee insurance costs.
Customer service representatives called "navigators" will be available to guide the employer and employee through the process of signing up for the exchange and navigating the various insurance options that will eventually be made available.
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Under current rules, to derive any type of tax benefit from offering health insurance to employees, the employer is generally required to pay at least 50% of the premiums. In many cases, this requirement discourages employers from providing health insurance at all. Even under the ACA, many small businesses with fewer than fifty full-time employees are not actually required to provide health insurance.
Enrolling in the SHOP exchange, however, does not create a requirement that the small business owner pick up a portion of employees' health insurance premiums tab. The employer can choose to pay a portion of the premium, but is also permitted to enroll simply so that employees have access to the exchange—the employer can pay nothing.
SHOP Exchange Benefits
While health insurance purchased in an employment situation may be purchased with pre-tax dollars, an employee who purchases health insurance independently pays with after-tax dollars and is permitted to deduct only the premium cost to the extent that it exceeds 10% of adjusted gross income (AGI) if the employee chooses to itemize deductions). The deduction limit applies even if the employer does not sign up for the SHOP exchange, but the employee purchases health insurance independently through the exchange.
By signing up for the SHOP exchange, your small business clients can allow employees to pay for health insurance with pre-tax dollars even if the employer itself is not paying for a portion of the premium. Even if the employer does not wish to contribute, the exchange can save employees thousands in taxes, creating a powerful employment benefit with minimal effort on the part of the employer.
If the employer does decide to contribute, and pays at least 50% of employees' premium costs, it may be eligible to take a small business tax credit. However, the credit is available only to employers with fewer than 25 employees.
Even if your small business client has no intention of contributing to the cost of employee health insurance premiums, simply signing up for the SHOP exchange can allow that client to provide a significant tax benefit to employees and will eventually provide access to a variety of insurance options for employees.
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text: Sons & Daughters is an ABC sitcom that stars Fred Goss ("Significant Others") in this unique hybrid comedy series that offers a mix of improvisational and scripted humor in an unadulterated look at marriage, raising children and living in close proximity to an extended family. Series creators Goss and Nick Holly borrow from their own middle-American, middle-class upbringings to deliver a very real and relatable modern-day family comedy. At the center of the family dynamic is Cameron (Goss), happily married to his second wife, Liz (Gillian Vigman, "Mad TV"), and the father of three children with her. One of the speed bumps on their road to domestic bliss comes from Cameron's resentful teenaged son from his first marriage who recently moved in and is not adjusting well to life with his father and new step-family. Cameron's life is further complicated by his sister, Sharon (Alison Quinn), and her husband, Don (Jerry Lambert), seemingly happily married with two teenaged children -- yet both in deep denial on several issues, including a current years-long sex drought. Cameron and Sharon's very pretty younger stepsister, Jenna (Amanda Walsh) -- the "it girl" when she was in high school -- had her career plans derailed by becoming a single mom. She continues to be attracted to "bad" boys like Tommy White, AKA Whitey (Greg Pitts), and not to the nice guys -- like Wylie (Desmond Harrington) -- who are attracted to her. The three siblings' parents, Colleen (Dee Wallace) and Wendal (Max Gail), are extremely devoted to their adult children and their grandchildren but, not surprisingly, have some issues of their own. Colleen, a little uptight and impulsively judgmental, both likes and dislikes the safe and comfortable environment that husband Wendal has provided for 25 years. A good guy, Wendal juggles and struggles with the varied relationships he has with his extended family members.


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Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.
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I've recently been observing a business saga that I fear isn't destined to end well. Sam, a sales and product development director, is preparing to submit an exciting new product proposal to his company. If accepted, it could transform a significant aspect of company operations and further enhance its industry-leading standing. Unfortunately, I believe Sam's proposal is likely to be rejected for, as ground-breaking as his concept is, he has failed to prepare the ground so that the project might be accepted, take root, and bloom.
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Sam's idea represents the culmination of years of blood, sweat, and tears to understand and serve the needs of his customers. The concept addresses their needs in a way that gives both his customers and his company a platform for growth and collaboration, and it pushes the state of the art in their field forward by several steps.
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The success of the venture depends heavily on a partnership with another organization. However, the leadership of Sam's company has a very negative Continue reading