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Even so, many antivirus tests still use thousands of well-known malware samples because it's just plain difficult to do otherwise. Gathering brand-new malware samples is a challenging task, as is presenting them to different antivirus products in a way that's fair and balanced. Fortunately, the expert researchers at AV-Comparatives are up to the task. Even they can't do it alone; the Whole-Product Dynamic "Real-World" Protection test operates with help from the University of Innsbruck and some funding from the Austrian government.
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Every day, AV-Comparatives researchers collect a set of malicious URLs, trying to keep a balance between direct malware downloads and drive-by attacks. After verifying that the URLs are indeed dangerous, the researchers feed them into an automated system that checks each product's response. If the malware attack is completely foiled the product gets credit for blocking it; if the system is compromised the product gets no credit.
Some antivirus products pop up a query asking the user whether to allow or block less-risky items. The AV-Comparatives automated system always chooses "Allow" in these cases. Sometimes the antivirus prevents the attack even though the user chose Allow, in which case it gets full credit. If a wrong click by the user can subvert protection, the antivirus gets half credit.
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You can view an interactive chart of monthly results on the AV-Comparatives website. Every few months, the results get rolled up into a full report. In the latest such report, just released, Trend Micro and Bitdefender stand at the top for detection. Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security missed just one of the over 2,000 malicious URLs, while Bitdefender Internet Security missed just two.
AV-Comparatives uses a clustering system to assign similar ratings to products with similar scores. Initially Trend Micro and Bitdefender received ADVANCED+, the top ranking. However, Trend Micro dropped one level due to a higher than average rate of false positives – valid websites identified as malicious. Four other products lost a level due to false positives, leaving Bitdefender, G DATA, Qihoo, Kaspersky, and BullGuard the only ones rated ADVANCED+.
All products achieving an ADVANCED or STANDARD rating are considered successful. AV-Comparatives lists those that didn't reach the minimum standard as simply TESTED. GFI Vipre and McAfee fell into this category due to too many false positives. Fortinet, Webroot, and Ahnlab landed here based solely on protection scores.
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PC Magazine Editor's Choice Norton Internet Security is conspicuous by its absence from this list. AV-Comparatives requires all vendor who subscribe for testing to participate in all tests, but Symantec objects to the methodology of one particular test. This year, they chose not to participate at all. I hope next year they'll just bite the bullet and offer a counter-argument to the test they don't like.
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete, also an Editors' Choice, rated merely TESTED. Indeed, Webroot's method for handling brand-new threats isn't a good fit for this test. When it encouters a brand-new application that looks suspicious, Webroot puts limits on its ability to modify the system, submits it for analysis, and starts journaling every action taken by the program. If the program turns out to be malicious, Webroot can undo every action and delete the program. However, that often doesn't happen in the five-minute timeframe allowed by this test.
Webroot and AV-Comparatives are negotiating a separate test, one that would test whether Webroot's technology really does protect against unknowns and roll back malware activity if given a little more time. I really want to see the results of that test!
The AV-Comparatives Whole-Product Dynamic "Real-World" Protection test really does come close to testing virus protection as a user would experience it. It definitely takes a lot of resources; I'm glad AV-Comparatives has found the help and funding needed to keep this test going.
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Buick has pulled a complete 180 in the past five years, revitalizing its lineup with well-crafted models and attracting younger buyers. These younger buyers apparently want smaller, more efficient premium vehicles and Buick plans to keep chasing the trend with its compact 2013 Encore crossover.
This thing is tiny — with the exception of height, it is within an inch of the Audi A3 in every dimension. It may not be quite as petite as the Mini Countryman (the Buick is over a half a foot longer than the Mini), but almost non-existent front and rear overhangs and standard 18-inch wheels cause any of the vehicle's bulk to disappear. The brand's oversized waterfall grille is exaggerated here within the crossover's proportions, though a rising character line accentuating the rear haunches helps to keep the Encore from looking too tall and skinny.
Inside is par for the course of what we have come to expect from the tri-shield brand. The seats are very comfortable, the materials, fit, and finish are all nice to the touch and high-quality, and the center stack is logically laid out, albeit covered in too many similarly-sized buttons.
A first for the U.S. market is the turbocharged 1.4-liter inline-four that resides under the hood of Buick's baby SUV; estimated power outputs are modest at 140 hp and 148 lb-ft of torque. There will only be a six-speed automatic offered to power the front wheels, though all-wheel drive will be optional.
Pricing has yet to be determined, but when it is, Buick dealers will be ready to start swapping cash for Encores come the first quarter of 2013., and it will go on sale in China shortly thereafter.
For more on the 2013 Buick Encore, check out our First Look here. For more on the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, including videos, the latest photos, and more information, click here to visit our Detroit Show homepage.

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She was a 1998 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In the fall of 2006, she was McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University. Keller also is guest essayist on the PBS program "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer."
Her book, "Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It," will be published by Viking in May 2008.


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"In my opinion, my style compares to Messi's," Lucas, who was signed for a reported fee of 45-million euros from Sao Paulo, told France Football in an interview on Tuesday.
"We grab the ball and immediately go on the attack. We take knocks but we stay on our feet.
"Messi's dribbling is also towards the goal…he does not fall, does not dive," he said of Barcelona's prized Argentine striker. "When he's fouled, he does not stay on the ground.
"That is why I like him a lot and why I see myself in him.
He's an example for me; he's my other idol," the 20-year-old Lucas, whose first idol is former France great Zinedine Zidane, added.
PSG, who have spent more than 200-million euros on transfers since they were taken over by Qatari investors last year, agreed terms for Lucas in August under which he will join them in January on a 4-1/2-year contract.
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I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
Isn't that great? Not only does he emphasize the very real pitfalls of representing dialects in writing, but he does so with a deliciously dry wit that borders on juicy.
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Danny was born July 13, 1945 in Steubenville, Ohio. He attended Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1967. Xavier University has presented Danny with the two most prestigious awards bestowed on a student athlete – Legion of Honor and Hall of Fame.
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A jury reached the guilty verdict against Ronald Herron in federal court in Brooklyn.
Before trial, the defense had argued Herron's recordings were constitutionally protected free speech that should be off-limits. But the judge ruled that the recordings could be used as evidence to establish Herron's identity as the leader of a Bloods faction called the Murderous Mad Dogs.
Herron testified that he decided to leave his life of crime and pursue a hip-hop career using the name "Ra Diggs" in 2007 after serving a six-year prison term for drug dealing. He described pursuing a rap career using lyrics that drew on his experiences growing up in a drug-plagued housing project in Brooklyn.
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The case is the latest battleground in the debate over whether rap lyrics constitute criminal evidence. The American Civil Liberties Union has said that in 18 cases nationwide in which courts considered rap music evidence, they were admitted about 80 percent of the time.
Sentencing was set for Oct. 1.
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The three large companies making eBook readers are Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Barnes & Noble Nook. There are also some Android tablet devices which are marketed primarily as eBook readers. The market for dedicated eBook readers focuses on being as cheap as possible, and so they tend to be small and light, with few features. Tablets are larger and heavier, with colour screens and more features.
The market for dedicated eBook readers focuses on being as cheap as possible, and so they have minimal accessibility and no speaker.
The Kindle Fire, often thought of as an eBook reader, is actually a tablet device with many other capabilities, including text-to-speech. There are a number of other devices in the same category.
It may still be possible to purchase a Kindle Keyboard second-hand. This has a voice for the menus on the device, so you can browse the list of books on it, and also for book content. It is not possible to read by word or character, and neither the dictionary nor annotation facilities are accessible.
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We've already been persuaded about the glory that is yellow eyeshadow from the photos at Derek Lam, but after flipping through all the shots our intrepid photog Dan McMahon took at Jeremy Laing, we're halfway out the door on our way to Sephora. We love these quiet moments backstage, made all the more dramatic with these (surprisingly) flattering golden eyes that look stunning on just about every skin tone. Yellow? The eyes have it!
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Because it's awesome, that's why. Good job, Me, answering questions Like A Boss.
But seriously, the Porsche 918 is 880-horsepower fast. And sure, it's 0-60 time might be a bit, well, gamed, but that doesn't mean it isn't still offer completely brutal acceleration. Just check it out in this video from Sport Auto, where it goes for 333 km/h, or 207 mph.
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Nine days into the Olympic Games of summer 2012, we've all been reminded that this event is not, in fact, a simple series of sports competitions. It's an international, hallucinatory carnival of dancing horses, Coca-Cola, terrifyingly strong teenagers, Paul McCartney singalongs, badminton scandals, rude commentators, bodies doing the nearly impossible—and, of course, poetry.
Poetry? Yes, from every quarter. A quotation from Tennyson's "Ulysses" has been carved into a wall at the Olympic Village. Canadian writer Priscila Uppal is in London as an Olympic "poet in residence," posting new poems daily about the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Earlier this summer, a weeklong festival called the Poetry Parnassus brought hundreds of poets to London, one from each of the competing Olympic nations. Of course, there is a long association between poetry and the Olympics: At the ancient Greek Games, poets such as Pindar wrote famous odes in honor of the winners.
In recent history, however, the relationship went still deeper: For some decades, literature was actually an Olympic medal event. Today, the strange story of the event's debut 100 years ago—and the florid, slightly unsettling poem that won—have been almost forgotten. But together, they offer a fascinating glimpse of the spirit of the Olympics at the time.
In 1906, the International Olympic Committee began discussing a proposal from the French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the man credited with launching the modern Olympics in 1896, to include arts competitions in the Games. Eventually, the committee announced that the 1912 games in Stockholm would include not just sports but also five unprecedented events: competitions in architecture, music composition, painting, sculpture, and literature. The rules called for entries to be unpublished or unexhibited works, "directly inspired by the idea of sport."
From the start, the arts events did not exactly rival the world-class swimmers or sprinters for public appeal. Most prominent artists ignored the contests, the judges struggled to choose among works of myriad styles and languages, and after 1948, as Richard Stanton recounts in his book "The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions," the decision was made to abandon the medal events in the arts.
The gold medal winner in literature at that first 1912 competition, however, was one very special poem. Presented in full in both French and German versions, attributed to the duo of Georges Hohrod and Martin Eschbach, it was called "Ode to Sport"—a rhapsodic, nine-verse prose poem praising athletics as a model of "Joy," "Audacity," "Justice," and other virtues. The judges went wild. As they wrote in their published review of the poem, "It is of the exact type that we sought for the competitions....It praises sport in a form that to the ear is very literary and very sporting." So taken were the judges with this Olympic gold poem that they refused to award either the silver or the bronze.
Weeks later, however, according to Stanton, the judges were still trying to get a solid address where they could send Hohrod and Eschbach's medal and certificate. Only sometime after that did the truth emerge: There was no Hohrod or Eschbach, and the perfect fit of the poem with the initial impulse behind the arts events was no accident. Worried that there wouldn't be enough entries in his beloved arts competitions, the baron had written the poem himself.
To look at the poem today (helpfully translated into English by the IOC), it's no surprise that it survives not in the Norton Anthology of Poetry but in a back issue of the Olympic Review, the IOC's house publication. But as the excerpts below show, it does say a lot about what was considered excellent sports-themed verse at the time—and about what de Coubertin saw in the global Games that, with so much effort, he had managed to revive.
The winner, excerpted
The winner, excerpted
With a classical invocation,
de Coubertin nods to the Games'
ancient roots.
O Sport, pleasure of the Gods, essence of life, you appeared suddenly in the midst of the grey clearing which writhes with the drudgery of modern existence, like the radiant messenger of a past age, when mankind still smiled. And the glimmer of dawn lit up the mountain tops and flecks of light dotted the ground in the gloomy forests.
He takes a stand against doping.
O Sport, you are Honour! The laurels you bestow have no value unless they have been won in absolute fairness and with perfect impartiality. He who, with some shameful trick, manages to deceive his fellow competitors feels guilt to his very core and lives in fear of the ignominious epithet which shall forever be attached to his name should his trickery be discovered.
He shows a troubling enthusiasm for eugenics.
O Sport, you are Fecundity! You strive directly and nobly towards perfection of the race, destroying unhealthy seed and correcting the flaws which threaten its essential purity. And you fill the athlete with a desire to see his sons grow up agile and strong around him to take his place in the arena and, in their turn, carry off the most glorious trophies.
In the end, he embraces an Olympic ideal we'd all recognize today.
O Sport, you are Peace! You promote happy relations between peoples, bringing them together in their shared devotion to a strength which is controlled, organized and self-disciplined. From you, the young worldwide learn self-respect, and thus the diversity of national qualities becomes the source of a generous and friendly rivalry.Amanda Katz is the deputy editor of Ideas. Follow her on Twitter @katzish.


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Africa is growing fast but transforming slowly. This is the message of the 2014 African Transformation Report, launched last week by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET). The report addresses a worry on the minds of many: in spite of impressive growth, the structure of most sub-Saharan African economies has evolved little in the past 40 years, with a poorly diversified export base, limited industrialization and technological progress, and a large informal economy whose economic potential remains mostly overlooked. In many African economies, manufacturing—the sector that has led rapid development in East Asia—is declining as a share of GDP. The worry is that without a major transformation Africa's recent growth may soon run out of steam. The report argues that for growth to continue, Africa needs to invest in "DEPTH"–diversification, export competitiveness, productivity, and technological upgrading, all for the purposes of human well-being.
The African Transformation Report contributes in a pragmatic and detailed way to a new narrative for Africa. Gone is the continent of poverty and desperation, and in its place is a continent of promise and opportunity—but only if economic transformation takes place. In building the new narrative, the report follows others: the African Union's Agenda 2063, the African Development Bank's long-term strategy, the UN Economic Commission for Africa's 2013 report, multiple recent IMF papers, and UNCTAD's 2012 report on structural transformation and sustainable development in Africa. What the ACET report does better than most is provide a concrete roadmap to maneuver through the individual components of such a transformation, based on a three-year research program covering 15 sub-Saharan countries. The report reinforces these case studies with a summary index of transformation, bringing the power of focused measurement and transparent data to what is otherwise an overwhelming landscape.
A few recommendations deserve special attention:
- Navigating structural transformation. The best path for structural change in Africa is tricky to identify. Recent rapid growth is quite unusual, compared to what happened elsewhere. As outlined in a blog post by Dani Rodrik and evidenced in multiple academic papers (see for instance Rodrik and McMillan 2011 and De Vries, Timmers and de Vries 2013), African workers moving out of agriculture have typically bypassed manufacturing and gone straight into services—sub-Saharan Africa is actually less industrialized today than it was in the 1980s. What makes it worse is that these services are often low-productivity and informal. The ACET report takes a balanced approach, calling for Africa's entrance into labor-intensive manufacturing as well as for greater productivity growth in agriculture (or agro-processing), upgrading the agricultural supply chain and developing tourism. The report also provides suggestions on how to better optimize extractive resources, similar to the Africa Progress Panel's 2013 report.
- Bringing out the potential of the informal economy. There is a welcome recognition that most people are working in informal firms or self-employed, and helping them develop better bridges with the formal sector as suppliers and distributors would boost their productivity and competitiveness.
- Managing the youth opportunity. By mid-century, sub-Saharan Africa's workforce will be larger and younger than either India's or China's. The needed skills agenda is far broader than the traditional focus on access to and quality of basic education. It also includes vocational training in relevant industries, training of informal workers, and improving technological skills. These recommendations are closely aligned with the approach of the Global Competitiveness Report 2013–2014, which develops a model of stages of development based on levels of innovation rather than on the traditional agricultural / manufacturing / services classification.
True! I have seen Kenya grow
True! I have seen Kenya grow in terms of infrastructure and wealth, but rare;y; do the lives of the people change e.g healthcare, employment and democracy.
You mean their interrelevence
You mean their interrelevence between transportation and standard of living is not high?
There is no respect for each
There is no respect for each other in Africa. Those in the upper class look at those at the bottom as objects which is very unfortunate unlike in Europe where citizens of all levels are given the opportunity to live a descent life. Very pathetic on how those on top in Africa look down on those who actually put them there one way or another.
A serious academic research
A serious academic research on the African situation.
I pray African policy makers read this to rethink African models to solve Africa's challenges.
Thanks for this wealth of
Thanks for this wealth of research. Africa could truly be leading the thinking and delivery on shared value (see www.sharedvalue.org).
The skills needed are not difficult, but they are not necessarily being taught in our universities. They are uncommon wisdom - but we need to bring these skills (including shared value strategy tools, leadership micro skills and culture re-patterning for organisations) into Africa's mainstream.
I believe shared value is in Africa's DNA. It just got beaten out of us over centuries of colonialism and decades of cronyism.
Interesting research. But in
Interesting research. But in the opinion of many experts the top priorities of the continent should be to build efficient institutions and adequate infrastructure. Investing in DEPTH could only come as a complement.
Daniel Biau
I quite agree with you, DEPTH
I quite agree with you, DEPTH is a natural by product of investments in infrastructure, power most especially and education, as only with these can the the knowledge on what and how to diversify would come and the right environment in which to do these and remain globally competitive
Africa's strengths:
Africa's strengths:
- Natural resources
- It's vibrancy
- It's people and endurance
- Heath
- Governance
- Corruption
- Lack of education
- Lack of infrastructure
- Unequal wealth distribution


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By Jeff Case
In case you missed it, Grinnell College's Jack Taylor went off last night, scoring an NCAA-record 138 points in the Pioneers' 179-104 win over Faith Baptist College. The nitty-gritty details on Taylor's big night were as follows:
- Taylor scored 58 of his 138 points by halftime, passing the NCAA Division III record of 89 set last season by teammate Griffin Lentsch.
- Set NCAA records for field goals (52), field goal attempts (108), 3-pointers made (27) and 3-pointers attempted (71). For a little perspective on the 3-pointers, shooters in the All-Star Weekend's 3-Point Contest attempt 30 3-pointers per round … so Taylor essentially shot roughly the equivalent of 2 1/2 circuits in the 3-Point Contest.
- Taylor broke Clarence "Bevo" Francis' (we all remember him, don't we?) record of 113 points that he set back in 1954 as a member of Division II Rio Grande.
- Taylor surpassed the 100-point mark with 8:55 left in the second half and officially broke Francis' record with 4:42 remaining off a 3-pointer.
NBA-wise, the two highest scoring efforts ever put forth were by Wilt Chamberlain (100 points vs. the Knicks on March 2, 1962) and Kobe Bryant (81 points vs. the Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006). Once word of Taylor's exploits spread across social media, NBAers were abuzz and sounded off. Here are some of the best responses around:


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Religion and sports don't mix well, never have and never will
News item: UConn president Susan Herbst has reprimanded assistant football coach Ernest Jones, who told the Hartford Courant recently that "we're going to make sure (the players) understand that Jesus Christ should be in the center of our huddle, and that that's something that is important."
Herbst issued a statement via a letter to the Courant, saying, "It should go without saying that our employees cannot appear to endorse or advocate for a particular religion or spiritual philosophy as part of their work at the university, or in their interactions with our students. This applies to work-related activity anywhere on or off campus, including on the football field. Our athletic director and Coach (Bob) Diaco agree wholeheartedly with me, and have made this clear to their staff."
Kudos to Herbst for a quick, appropriate, measured response.
But I'm still dumbfounded.
What would have ever possessed Mr. Jones, an employee of a state university, to say that publicly? Could he be that na�ve, given the tenor of the times?
I understand that Mr. Jones used to work at Notre Dame, where they get more mileage from "Touchdown Jesus" than the rest of the world could get from a Toyota Corolla. But this is a different forum.
Plus, such issues rarely produce a measured reaction. It's always an overreaction. Like one letter writer to the Courant: "It sounds like football players who are not Christian might not be welcome at UConn, and would not feel a part of that huddle."
Dear letter-writer: You might try decaf. You know. The green can. Athletics has always been among the most welcoming, tolerant endeavors. Mr. Jones didn't insult anyone here. Some might even view his spirituality refreshing, given that college sports are a cesspool. But that's the problem with espousing such spirituality at a public university. The easily offended get their 15 minutes.
Religion and sports should have barely a passing relationship, aside from the old joke about what Billy Graham and the football Giants have in common: The only two things that can fill a stadium and make people yell "Jesus!"
But then, I bet some of you were offended by that.
You'll be offended by this, too. You know whose stance I adopt on this topic? Archie Bunker's. Don't laugh. I know it's not normally smart practice to use Archie as a moral compass. But one of his best lines applies, still on point almost 45 years later.
Archie apparently witnessed the mugging of Tony Vicino, a shoemaker, but wouldn't tell the whole story. The repartee:
Vicino: "You saw! You and I know you saw!"
Archie: "You ain't got no witnesses to that."
Vicino (pointing to God): "He knows you saw!"
Archie: "Aw, what are you dragging Him into it for?"
Vicino: "He sees everything! He knows everything we do!"
Archie: "Get outta here. You don't really believe that."
Vicino: "Yes I do."
"Archie: "Then how come youse people are always running to confession telling Him what's happening?"
It should be noted that the studio audience applauded after Archie said that.
The point: God is everywhere. Think we can leave it at that? If we accept that God � your God, my God, your neighbor's God � is everywhere, there would be no reason to invoke His name unnecessarily. Like on a football field. Because he is presumed to be there. He is everywhere.
The concept of an omnipresent God would help us all practice our own individual spiritualities privately. Where they belong. As in: You don't lord your Lord over me and I won't lord mine over you. That way, we don't broadcast whatever relationship we want with our God.
And we'd sure hear less from the easily offended. Although I'm sure they'll be on to their next cause c�l�bre, once their current 15 minutes expires.
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are joining forces and telling President Barack Obama to do his job and secure our borders. Check out their new ad:
See also the statement on Sarah Palin's Facebook page. Money quote: "We're all Arizonans now and we say with clear unity: 'Mr. President, do your job. Secure our border.'"
Jan Brewer succeeded Janet Napolitano to become the 22nd governor of Arizona when Napolitano was appointed Secretary of Homeland Security in 2009. Prior to her service as governor, Brewer served a term and a half as Arizona Secretary of State. She served for thirteen years in the Arizona State Legislature, three years as a state representative and ten years as a state senator. She served as chairwoman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for six years, steering Maricopa County through a serious fiscal crisis and earning the county the reputation of being "one of the two best managed large counties in the nation," according to Governing Magazine.
Gov. Brewer already has more experience in government than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin had in 2008. She has more executive experience than any of the candidates on either of the 2008 presidential tickets. Gov. Brewer will have recently turned 68 years old on November 6, 2012. I think you know where I'm going with this.


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Welcome to our community of massage, bodywork and reflexology practitioners. Therapists, if it's been more than two weeks, it's time for your massage.
Forgot one more question. Well, more like 2 questions:
1) Is there enuf time when there is a waiting line to read all the information on form??
2) For what conditions would you turn someone away? I was taught my pathlogy and disease in school, but just wondering if you treat it same way as if you were doing one hour full session on a table? For table massage where condition are contraindicated, would they be the same for chair massage??
All great info! Thanks!
Is the Intake Form different than the "Sign up sheet??
Is the sign up sheet to determine the "next in line order"?

Denise, try not to sit around thinking about how to do something so much that you miss the opportunity. Just walk in the store, ask for the manager, introduce yourself & tell him/her what you'd like to do. It might be something that they've never thought about, or they might be able to refer you to another store/location. You never know, but if you keep trying to figure out the best way to do it, someone else might get there before you.

Just do it!!!Thanks for your help! I do love chair massage, just wish i knew how to market it on my own more. Like approaching even big stores, like borders or something, or for grand openings.

The cool thing is, you probably will... even though I think you were making a joke about this. It is amazing how fast chair massage is figured out! You'll do great! Let us know how it ends up! :)I have my first one next tuesday and another one on wednesday, soooo, im sure ill be somewhat of a pro by then.
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text: Two weeks ago, Nyetimber vineyard owner and entrepreneur Eric Heerema made the sale of a lifetime. Heerema, a Dutch-born business mogul now living in southern England, sold his 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO to Craig McCaw, a US-based car collector, for the reported sum of $35,000,000. McCaw certainly had the cash, selling McCaw Cellular to AT&T in 1993 for a whopping $11.5 billion, according to Bloomberg. This is just the latest in a string of high-dollar Ferrari sales that have taken place in 2012, but little is known about the other multimillion-dollar Fezzas that have changed hands in the past few years. In the collector car realm, there are two markets: the auction world, where bidding takes place in public forums and the sale amounts are disclosed by the auction house, and then there's the other market, where collectors conspire to sell their hyper-exotic wares to each other, rarely releasing the amounts. Tracking down exact prices in this underground world is next to impossible, as neither the buyers nor the sellers are inclined to disclose what they paid for the latest addition to their collections. Further, collectors don't even want to be identified for a range of insurance and security reasons. So how do we know that this particular GTO is the most expensive Ferrari in the world? We don't. But based on a smattering of reports and our own digging, the now McCaw-owned 250 GTO stands to be the king of the hill when it comes to not just Ferraris, but all other classic car purchases, toppling the 1936 Type 57SC Bugatti Atlantic owned by famed Southern California car collector Peter Mullin and purchased for between $32,000,000 and $34,000,000 in 2010. So what other Ferraris are fetching tens of millions of dollars on the collector market? We'll start with McCaw's and go from there. 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO McCaw's new ride is one of only 39 250 GTOs ever produced between 1962 and 1964, and its heritage is even more exclusive than its VIN or price tag. This 250 was designed to competed in the 24 Hours of LeMans and was built for none other than Sir Stirling Moss. The odd hue was in line with Moss' period racing livery, but he never had the chance to turn the 250's wheels in anger after his massive shunt in 1962 that ended his career. Thankfully, the GTO did serve its intended purpose just once, driven by Innes Ireland at the 1962 LeMans before it was promptly retired. As you'd expect, the 250 GTO takes several of the top sales spots, including a 1963 model (numbered 5095) that was reportedly sold this past January to an undisclosed buyer for somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 to $32 million. UK radio personality Chris Evans has also reportedly sold his 250 after purchasing the 1963 model in 2010 for $18,000,000. The exact sum Evans' GTO sold for is unknown, but dealers estimate something in the high $20 million range. Photo: edvvc/Flickr1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Ferrari dominates any list of dream cars, and this collection is no different. The last Ferrari 250 Testarossa that sold at auction fetched a little over $16 million when it went on the block in August of last year. The "TR," as it's known to the Ferrari cognoscenti, came in a variety of forms in the 1950s and 1960s, but this 1957 model is one of the most desirable. While the curvaceous body is a sight to behold, it didn't fare particularly well on the track, and later models were modified for better aerodynamics. Nonetheless, it's remains one of the most gorgeous Ferraris ever built, and if you're wondering what testa rossa means, it's Italian for red head. Photo: Simon Davison/Flickr1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider Remember Mr. Evans? The UK talk show and TV host? He's a Ferrari Tifosi of the highest order. In addition to his recently departed 1963 250 GTO, he picked up a Short Wheel Base (SWB) 250 GT California Spyder in 2008 for nearly $12 million. If you recognize the 250 GT, you're not alone. It's the same car that Cameron's father owned in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. But this one is real. The model in the movie was a replica based on an MG. Photo: Ed Callow [torquespeak]/Flickr1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider Last month in Monte Carlo, Monaco, RM Auctions put up a 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider on the block, just two weeks before the Formula One circus came to town. The result was the highest price ever for a 625, with the buyer plunking down $6.5 million before auction fees and taxes were assessed. The 625 is based on the Ferrari Monza, with the typical blend of racing pedigree and road worthiness common of Ferraris in the '50s and '60s. At the time, it was one of the world's fastest cars, weighing a scant 1,500 pounds and putting out 190 horsepower. It never dominated the racing scene, but placed a respectable seventh overall at the 1957 24 Hours of LeMans.1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione This ex-Scuderia Ferrari Team car took fifth overall at the 21st running of the 24 Hours of LeMans, driven by the Marzotto brothers, Paolo and Gianno. After its successful campaign, the engine displacement was bumped from 4.1 to 4.5 liters. Three of these competition-grade Berlinettas were produced in 1953 and there are only two left in existence, and its racing pedigree is some of the most exclusive in Ferrari's history. When RM Auctions put it up for sale in 2007, it was expected to fetch between $3.5 and $4 million. It wound up selling for almost $5.7 million. Photo: KlausNahr/Flickr1966 Ferrari 330 P3 Another Ferrari that crossed the block for a record sum in Monterey, California, is this 1966 330 P3. It was the first Ferrari to have a revolutionary technology fitted to the intake manifold: fuel injection. There's some debate about whether this car is still considered a 330 P3, as the entire line was converted to a P3/4 or 412 P by Ferrari in the following years. This last of the breed -- chassis 0844 -- was sold by Christie's in August of 2000 for $5.6 million.1975-1989 Ferrari 308/328 GTB/GTS So what if your net worth doesn't top seven, eight or nine figures? We've got a couple of Ferraris for you. The first is the Ferrari 308/328, sold between 1975 and 1989, and it solidified its place as the de facto Fezza for well-off Wall Street types and Miami nose-candy merchants. Packing a 240-hp, 3.0-liter V8 mounted amidships and available in either coupe or cabrio forms, it's a relative steal at around $30,000 today. However, maintenance costs can run well into the tens of thousands if major engine work is needed, and you've got to supply your own Magnum PI porn-stach. Photo: Alexandre Prévot/Flickr1980-1993 Ferrari Mondial Can't swing the 308 and need seating for four? The Ferrari Mondial is your ticket to Italian bliss. Or perpetual misery, depending on your perspective. Introduced at the 1980 Geneva Motor Show, the Mondial used the same engine fitted to the 1973 Dino GT4, with mechanical fuel injection feeding the V8 for a total of just over 210 hp. A convertible model was later offered, and both the coupe and drop top were largely reviled by Ferrari fans. Still, in its 13-year production run, Ferrari managed to sell nearly 7,000 Mondials, making them relatively easy to find on the used market for anywhere between $20,000 and $30,000. So this or a kitted-out Chrysler Sebring? You make the call.... Photo: storem/Flickr


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Unintended Consequences
One of my favorite political thinkers, the late James Burnham, famously noted that it is impossible to do just one thing. Any action may bring about the intended consequences, but it will certainly bring about some unplanned ones, too.
The reason is this: The Securities and Exchange Commission office in the World Trade Center complex was destroyed in the attack. It contained the original material and evidence in the SEC's probe of underwriter misbehavior in initial public stock offerings. Class-action plaintiffs lawyers, whose coat of arms is emblazoned with the vulture, do not do their own work in most cases, instead piggybacking on some federal investigation. This federal investigation has now disappeared. Yes, it could probably largely be recreated, but it's not the top item on the SEC's stack right now, for a number of reasons. One is that securities manipulations having to do with the attack itself are suddenly consuming a huge part of the SEC's investigative resources. Another is that improprieties in IPOs scarcely constitute a burning problem right now, in that nobody is currently going public.
As it happens, it's unlikely that much would have come of the lawsuits, anyway. Lawyers are having increasing difficulty getting classes certified, and recent appellate rulings will make litigious fishing expeditions far more difficult.
While we naturally recoil from deriving benefit from atrocious acts, we gain nothing by ignoring the law of unintended consequences -- especially in this case, where reaping the benefits can improve the lot of the entire free world.
I'm talking about Linux, which has suddenly become of strategic importance.
There are three reasons for the sudden added importance of Linux: It is good. It is relatively secure and can be made very secure. And it's out there. All three are important, but most important is the last one.
Single Source vs. Open Source
There are problems with any system in which there is a single source for a critical commodity. These involve quality and vulnerability. When there is a single source, the quality needn't be high. When there is a single source, that source, if cut off, eliminates access to the commodity. Both of these apply in connection with the products of Microsoft Corporation. Indeed, Microsoft has managed to combine them. Look at this from the Gartner Group, from just last week:
"Gartner recommends that enterprises hit by both Code Red and Nimda immediately investigate alternatives to IIS, including moving Web applications to Web server software from other vendors, such as iPlanet and Apache. Although these Web servers have required some security patches, they have much better security records than IIS and are not under active attack by the vast number of virus and worm writers. Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten, thoroughly and publicly tested, new release of IIS."
Want to guess how long it will be before Microsoft rewrites IIS? And if they announce that they have, how will we know they're telling the truth? Very few people know what's in Microsoft's code. Even if it were very good, this fact alone would represent a tremendous vulnerability. The fact that it's not very good allows us to see time and again the quality aspects of single source. In the few days since Gartner's report, there has been yet another Outlook macro virus. If one downloads signature files that are added to a program that is added to Windows so as to eliminate some of that system's obvious shortcomings, one can be relatively safe from this new infection. But nowhere do we see an outcry that the underlying system itself be fixed. It has been, what, two years since Outlook's vast and expensive security problem was first exploited, yet the single source company that publishes it still has not fixed it. As I've said before, nothing as important as computing has become can be entrusted to a company that behaves so irresponsibly toward its own customers. But it goes beyond that: nothing as important as computing can be entrusted to a single company, period.
With Linux, though, fixes are quick, high security is possible, and bad programs simply aren't used -- they're cast aside in favor of something better. There is very little that cannot be done nowadays on a Linux machine, the lone serious exception being interchanging documents with boxen running Microsoft Office applications -- which merely underlines my point about the dangers of single source.
Linux is not entrusted to any small group of people. It is available in source code to anyone who cares to have it. Its contents are well known, and there are hundreds of thousands of people capable of maintaining it. Tens of thousands, all over the world, do just that. Security holes are found and fixed. New applications are developed, hacked, released again, hacked some more, released some more. Quality is the only driving issue. And it cannot be eliminated by the elimination of any one company (or country, for that matter).
This has been increasingly obvious for some time, never more so than when the U.S. government's clandestine services let it be known early this year that Microsoft code has been invaded so many times and so thoroughly while sitting on Microsoft's own corporate machines that it not only cannot be thought of as secure, it cannot be made secure. Hence, the National Security Agency has undertaken Secure Linux, a startling demonstration of the strength of open source.
Computer security, we all knew, was important, but now it is important as never before. Single source software cannot provide that security, especially as relates to Microsoft, which seems to have no particular interest in security anyway. Open source can provide security; indeed, there is no way that it won't unless the entire Linux community suddenly takes leave of its senses, which is unlikely.
But there is more to security than locking up our machines. The most important fundamental is that our machines keep working, that our information systems remain intact and uncorrupted. Linux is, of course, not utterly invulnerable in this regard, but as we have seen, exploits are far more quickly found and fixed when Linux is involved than they are when Windows is involved -- again, Microsoft seldom fixes the problem, leading to the existence of an entire industry devoted to putting a bandaid on Microsoft's problems. Though the majority of websites are non-Microsoft, it is Microsoft's products that have come closest to bringing down the web.
This is not Microsoft bashing, because it would apply equally to any single source system. It is inevitable. A single source system is capable of holding hostage, and it is capable of being held hostage. Open source isn't.
- Skip Ahead
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|162: St Ignatius of Antioch, New York City
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Mystery Worshipper: Newman's Own.
The church: St Ignatius of Antioch, New York City, USA.
Denomination: Episcopal Church in the USA.
The building: Angelic Gothic charm, somewhat the worse for wear from water damage. There were many angels about this altar besides the invisible ones appearing on the reredos and delicate stained glass windows. This small church illustrates the rare and quite delightful quality of being both rich in furnishings and very tasteful, with nothing overdone. Typically Roman furnishings (ornate baptistry, Stations of the Cross, "old style" confessional, elegant gold crucifix, large vigil lights) were blessedly combined with classic English restraint. The Lady Chapel had a lovely reredos, reminiscent of the Middle Ages. The building did not appear to be in the best of repair.
The neighbourhood: Typical New York City: middle-class blocks of flats, discount stores and small-scale restaurants.
The cast: The preacher was Rev. Roger Gentile. The names of the other clergy were not listed in the leaflet.
What was the name of the service?
Solemn Mass.
How full was the building?
About one-third full, perhaps 50 people.
Did anyone welcome you personally?
I received a pleasant, dignified greeting from the female usher, who not only handed me the leaflet, programme and hymnal but kindly led me to the loo when I requested its location.
Was your pew comfortable?
It was average comfortable enough, but a bit too narrow to enable easy kneeling.
How would you describe the pre-service atmosphere?
The atmosphere was generally quiet and prayerful, with some members of the congregation deep in meditation or lighting candles before one of the statues. A few people were carrying on conversations, but in whispers.
What were the exact opening words of the service?
"Asperges me."
What books did the congregation use during the service?
Booklet with the ECUSA Rite 1, Hymnal 1940, leaflet with directions for finding hymns, settings, and prayer options in the other materials.
What musical instruments were played?
Did anything distract you?
Though it had its charm, seeing a few people walking about with small children was a mite distracting although better than the alternative of hearing the kids cry.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what?
Anglo-Catholic of a variety that is so High one could nearly get the bends.
Exactly how long was the sermon?
13 minutes.
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
7. The sermon was rich in content and well structured, relating the transfiguration, passion and resurrection of Jesus to our call to discipleship, with equal measures of solid ascetic theology and common sense. I particularly liked Father Gentile's stress on how suffering is not to be sought or desired, but that Christian sacrifice involves discipline which is "90 per cent giving up our own ideas, and listening."
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
Our road to discipleship, as mentioned by Jesus before his transfiguration, is the way of the cross: death and resurrection is the road to this Jerusalem.
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
The beautifully reverent moment of consecration... especially with all of those angels looking on.
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
Nothing in the service itself was hellish, but seeing several people who were obviously ill begging in the street and on the subway was very painful. One beggar had a prescription for cancer medication and was requesting help in order to obtain his medicine.
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
I was not lost for long it was off to the Lady Chapel for the anointing, which was beautifully done.
How would you describe the after-service coffee?
There was a coffee hour, but when I learnt that one could receive the laying on of hands and unction for healing after Mass, I decided that would be stronger medicine than coffee.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
6. Lovely though the service was, and High Church Anglo-Catholic though I am, it was perhaps one step higher on the ladder than I care to be on a regular basis.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a Christian?
Definitely yes.
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
The homilist's excellent explanation of discipleship.


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Apollo Aligning with Metropoulos for Possible Hostess Bid
Private-equity firms Apollo Global Management LLC and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. are in discussions about teaming on a possible bid for Hostess Brands Inc.'s cakes business, said people familiar with the matter.
They are vying with other potential bidders to be the opening bidder in a looming bankruptcy auction for the cakes business, which includes the iconic Twinkie and Ding Dongs, among other snacks, one of the people said. The person said Hostess's sales process for the cakes remains ongoing, so it remains unclear whether the pair would end up becoming the so-called "stalking horse" bidder when the businesses are later sold.
A stalking horse bidder agrees to buy assets for a certain price that others can later top at an auction. The opening bidder usually gets a fee if it ends up losing at the auction.
Apollo and Metropoulos have long been looking for a business deal to pursue together, one of the people said.
The New York Post earlier reported the joint interest of Apollo and Metropoulos.
The discussions don't necessarily mean Apollo and Metropoulos, the owner of the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer brand, will end up bidding on the businesses. But the talks show the wide interest in the brands and their appeal to consumers.
Flowers Foods Inc. and Grupo Bimbo SAB are among those considering bids for Hostess's bread brands, which includes Wonder Bread.


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MRI Reveals Partially Torn Labrum in New York Knicks Carmelo Anthony's Shoulder
According to the Daily News, the New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony played through a partially torn labrum during this year's playoffs and may now face surgery.
The team says they hope the injury will heal on its own and is going to wait 3-4 weeks before re-evaluating the situation.
If surgery is needed, it could sideline Anthony from three to five months and could compromise his availability for the start of training camp in October. Throughout the playoffs, Anthony refused to use the injury as an excuse, even though his shooting percentage dipped considerably. Having to play against two defensive-minded teams in Boston and Indiana also didn't help, but it was obvious that Anthony, the NBA's scoring champion, wasn't 100%.
Anthony was unavailable for comment.
During the Knicks' series against the Indiana Pacers, Anthony made just over 43% of his shots. In 12 playoff games, he managed to shoot only 40% while shooting 45% during the regular season.


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Misogyny is the hatred of women.[1] Several leftists were well known to have practiced misogyny. Ironically, misogyny was later hijacked by the leftists as a weapon to use against traditional morality and Christians, sometimes falsely implying that Christianity invented the concept (when it actually existed as far back as Ancient Greece).


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Half of UK's entrepreneurs held back by skills shortage
"A lack of financing and the skills shortage is holding back the
UK's entrepreneurs, according to a recent survey by the Institute of
Directors (IoD)." continues Virtual College.
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The research showed that some 42 per cent of the 650 entrepreneurs surveyed - who were all under the age of 35 - reported that they had difficulty hiring people with the right skills, while almost 40 per cent of entrepreneurs said that problems accessing financing had put a halt on the growth of their company.
What's more, 56 per cent of respondents relied on personal unsecured finance such as credit cards, while a further 53 per cent said that money from their families had played a major role in helping to grow their business.
The respondents agreed that access to skilled employees and good digital infrastructure are key for starting a new business.
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How Allfirst Gambled on Monte CarloBy Sean Gallagher | Posted 2002-03-12 Print
Online exclusive: Some observers blame the bank's big loss on inadequacies in its risk-analysis software. Do Monte Carlo simulations have a place in currency trading? (Analysis)
It's a truismor at least it should bethat the most expensive software you can buy is the wrong software. Never has that been more painfully obvious than in the case of Allfirst Financial, the U.S. subsidiary of Allied Irish Banks, where one trader managed to lose $690 million, and conceal those losses from managers over a period of more than four years.
The scandal wasn't necessarily the result of the gaps in Allfirst's currency trading systems (detailed in a story in our March issue). However, the problems may never have occurred if John Rusnak, the trader in question, had been using better risk-analysis software.
It appears that Rusnak at least was aware of the inadequacies of Allfirst's approach. In 1999, according to a report on Feb. 17 in the newsletter Derivatives Week, Rusnak had approached at least one vendor seeking new risk-management software because he felt what he was working with wasn't adequate. The purchase was alleged to have been blocked for budgetary reasons.
The company's annual reports indicate that Allfirst used "Monte Carlo simulations with 1,000 iterations." According to Peter Davies, president of risk-managment software vendor Askari, Monte Carlo simulations are generally only used for credit-risk modeling, not for currency trading.
Askari, which is owned by the financial services company State Street, provides the RiskBook risk-management software used by Allfirst's parent, AIB. Since its acquisition by State Street, Askari has focused more on the wealth-management market and doesn't have many banking customers. However, AIB remains a big clientalthough the RiskBook software was never installed at Allfirst.
Monte Carlo simulations are derived from a statistical description of the data. "You try to simulate possible paths that underlying assets could take in the future," says Dr. Haluk Unal, a professor at the University of Maryland's R. H. Smith School of Business and a visiting scholar at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. "Once you create thousands of these pathsdo the Monte Carlothen you average the value over these paths and determine the most likely outcome."
But Allfirst, according to its 10-K filing, didn't take the average. Instead, it chose the "tenth worst observation resulting in a 99% confidence that the actual losses will not exceed this amount." By the resulting calculations, the company claimed to have no more than $2 million at risk in its foreign exchange positions in 1999 and 2000.
"Monte Carlo takes a view of the data and creates artificial data that matches that statistical description," says Davies. He compares it to what happens when you compress music off a CD into an MP3 file, then re-expand the MP3 onto a new CD. "You can never recreate what was lost in the compression. It's only as good as the compression; it doesn't give you any extra detail. Every note of the original music is lost in the compression. It can be re-expanded, but there's nothing to fill in the gaps."
For this reason, Davies says, risk management is usually done using the original market data, rather than a Monte Carlo simulation. "The one exception is in credit. Credit defaults are so rarea company, once it defaults, no longer exists, usually. So Monte Carlo creates an artificial model for risk."
Davies is puzzled by Allfirst's use of Monte Carlo for currency trading risk. "Their use of Monte Carlo would be unusualif they thought it was giving them a more sophisticated view of the risk, they were wrong."
Unal disagrees about the suitability of Monte Carlo to currency trading. "Monte Carlo could be used in currency risk," he says. "The underlying asset [being analyzed] could be interest rates, credit risk, or currency value."
Garbage In ...
Of course, Davies and others point out that risk-management software is only as good as the data entered into it. And if Rusnak was entering fraudulent trades to counter his bad trades on the books, there's little any software could have done to detect the danger he was placing the company in.
"Even if you have a sophisticated risk-managment system, you should still be looking at trades," says Davies. "Just because you have a risk-management system doesn't mean you have risk management."
A good example of this is Barings Bank, which was essentially bankrupted by a single trader, Nick Leeson, in 1995. The company had systems in place, but Leeson hid his losses by placing them into an account that the bank apparently didn't monitor. "If you aren't looking or questioning, what you see in a system may not make a differece," says Davies.
But if RiskBook had been installed at Allfirst, he adds, it "would have provided a richer source of information, had there been an inquiring mind."
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The 99th Tour de France runs from Saturday 30th June to Sunday 22nd July 2012. This race will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,497 kilometres (2,172 miles). The prologue and first two stages are in Belgium before the cyclists enter France for the remaining 18 stages, finishing at the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Out of the 22 cycling teams taking part Team Sky will be the only exclusively sponsored British one in this year's race.
Tour de France hill climbs fall into five categories, roughly corresponding to the gears used when driving an old car up a hill. A hill that the car can climb in third gear is a category 3; in second gear, a category 2; and so on. Hills that are so steep that the car can't even climb up it are known as category HC or category H for short. HC is an acronym for the French term Hors Catégorie which in English means beyond categorisation.
Category 4 climbs are short and easy.
Category 3 climbs last approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 miles), have an average grade of 5 percent, and ascend 150 metres (500 feet).
Category 2 climbs are the same length or longer at an 8 percent grade and ascend 500 metres (1,600 feet).
Category 1 climbs last 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) with an average 6 percent grade and ascend 1,500 metres (4,900 feet).
Category H climbs are the hardest including an altitude difference of at least 1,000 metres (3,280 feet) from start to finish and have an average grade of at least 7 percent.
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The 2013 Izod IndyCar Series schedule will end again at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana on Oct. 19, the finale of a 19-race schedule that includes its annual stop in Long Beach on April 21, the league announced.
IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard said during the announcement on Speed Channel on Sunday night that the fans "love the fact that IndyCar ended their series at an oval" this season, and the league decided it was "important for us to continue."
The 19 races is up from 15 a year ago and is highlighted by a return to Pocono Raceway after 24 years, as well as a new street course in Houston.
There are three doubleheaders on the schedule — two races at the same track on a Saturday and Sunday. Those will be June 1-2 at Belle Isle, July 13-14 in Toronto and Oct. 5-6 in Houston.
NBC Sports Network will do 13 of the races, with the other six on ABC, including the May 26 Indianapolis 500. ABC has its six telecasts in a seven week schedule from May 26 to July 7.
There is also a "triple crown" promotion where a driver winning at Indianapolis, Pocono and Fontana receives a $1 million bonus. Wins at two of three is worth $250,000.