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Set on the Gulf of Mexico and backed by beautiful bays and languid lagoons, Panama City Beach (nicknamed PCB) is the quintessential Gulf Coast destination. Known as a spring break party town and a haven for heat-seeking retirees, the city is a healthy mix of family fun, vibrant nightlife, beautiful beaches, and nearby nature parks. In short, it has everything. Choose a Panama City Beach vacation rental to suit your needs—near the club scene or off the beaten path—and bask in the sun and the glory of your good decision.
One thing you can count on if you book a PCB vacation rental: you'll never be bored. Museums in the area will delight any kids in tow, and they're quirky enough to fascinate grown-ups as well. The Man in the Sea Museum takes a close look at the sport of diving, and its interactive exhibits allow you to crank up an air pump, climb into a submersible, and learn how diving bells really work. WonderWorks is half museum, half amusement park, with an obstacle course, a laser-tag maze, and virtual-reality soccer matches.
The hub of Panama City Beach is the beach itself, miles of white sand that's known for being so soft, it squeaks underfoot. Pair that with the emerald green ocean waters, and well, what more could you ask for? The scene is lively and youthful, especially during spring break and summer. If you don't mind a crowd and love a club scene when the sun goes down, you'll be in heaven. If something quieter is more your style, book a sunset boat tour or take the sailing shuttle to Shell Island, a more peaceful beach destination.
PCB's subtropical climate means some wet weather during hurricane season, but don't let that cloud the facts—the city boasts 320 days of sunshine each year. Spring break is the most popular time for visitors, especially the college-age variety, so join the party or wait until May if you don't want to share your beach towel. Hot, beach-perfect weather makes summer an ideal time to visit. Just bring an umbrella for rainy days, especially in July and August. If you'd like a deal on a Panama City Beach vacation rental, book in winter and enjoy the quiet.
You might think PCB is just too busy and bustling to accommodate marine species and wetland wildlife. Fortunately, you're wrong. St. Andrews State Park, on the southeast edge of the city, is 1260 peaceful acres of nature trails, swimming spots, and habitats for foxes, coyotes, seabirds, and alligators. (Don't touch! But do swim freely in the saltwater. 'Gators stay safely in their freshwater homes.) Head to the northwest corner of the city for another natural locale, Conservation Park. Its 2900 acres offer 24 miles of trails shaded by cypress trees.
Panama City Beach is found on the stunning Florida coastline with white-sand beaches and turquoise seas. Vacation homes are available near beaches like Panama City Beach, a long stretch of white sand and clear water with a fishing pier, and Alys Beach, a picturesque beach area with soft sand and gentle waters. Camp Helen State Park, a park with a beach near a large coastal dune lake, and Rick Seltzer Park, a swimming beach with calm waters and pavilions and picnic areas, are also great places for sun and surf.
The nearest airport is in Panama City, FL (ECP-Northwest Florida Beaches Intl.), located 12.2 mi (19.7 km) from the city center. If you're unable to find a flight that fits your schedule, you could also fly into Destin, FL (DSI-Destin-Fort Walton Beach), which is 42.5 mi (68.4 km) away.
Panama City Beach is filled with kid-friendly attractions for children of all ages. Vacation home rentals can be found near exciting places like St. Andrews State Park, a vast park with beaches, nature trails, and campsites, and Shipwreck Island Waterpark, a tropical-themed water park with slides, a wave pool, and a lazy river. Kids will also enjoy Gulf World, a tropical garden with sea life like dolphins and sea lions, and ZooWorld Zoological and Botanical Conservatory, which houses conservation species and shows in a tropical environment.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch said the spirit of the Egyptian revolution in 2011 is undermined by draft legislation that would curtail the right to public assembly.
Long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign in February 2011 following weeks of protests against his regime. Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Middle East programs at Human Rights Watch, said draft legislation on demonstrations making its way to Egyptian lawmakers poses a serious concern.
"This law as drafted would severely restrict one of the key human rights that determine Egyptians' ability to continue to call for bread, freedom and social justice," she said in a statement from New York.
The rights group said it was concerned about prohibitions on demonstrations that would interfere with vehicle traffic. Police, under the proposed rules, would be allowed to use force to disperse protesters who violate terms of the restrictions.
Egypt is preparing for parliamentary elections in April. Some political movements and groups said they'd boycott the election. President Mohamed Morsi, elected in June, has faced growing opposition from disenfranchised Egyptians.
Whitson said Morsi's government has a right to regulate public demonstrations "but not to ban them for spurious reasons."

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2012: I call it the year in "meh." Not the worst we've ever experienced, but nothing particularly great to say about it either. Like being a socialite, but in Tampa.
I am looking forward to 2013, however, because I love the odd-numbered years — they're the ones without congressional elections, Olympics, World Cups or weird extra days tacked onto the calendar by so-called scientists. Odd-numbered years are chill. They're the 3 p.m. of years — that small sliver of time when lunch is digested and it's too early to think about dinner and you stand at least a fighting chance of getting something done.
In that spirit, here are the New Rules for the new year:
NEW RULE Now that their end-of-the-world prophecy has proved to be complete baloney, the Mayans must be given a job predicting election results for Fox News.
NEW RULE Sometime during the 2013 awards show season, "Gangnam Style" must be given an award for the shortest amount of time between my finding out what something is to my being completely sick of it. Besting the time of 7 hours, 12 minutes, set by "The Macarena" in 1996.
NEW RULE Congress must make it a tradition to drive off the fiscal cliff every year. And I mean really off the cliff, like Toonces the cat drove that car. This way Republicans can learn that lower military spending won't lead to China invading. And Democrats can learn that no one cares what the Commerce Department does anyway.
NEW RULE No more mixing politics with pizza. The filthy rich founder of Papa John's, John Schnatter, said he'd cut his employees' hours to avoid the costs of Obamacare. This is where I'd normally suggest boycotting Papa John's, but that's like telling people to boycott sadness. Nobody eats Papa John's because they like it. They eat it because Domino's won't deliver to crack houses.
NEW RULE The winners of next month's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show must later compete against the winners of "Toddlers & Tiaras" — so we can get their handlers in one place, lock the doors and let the kids and dogs run for their lives.
NEW RULE The New Year's Eve ball drop must be moved to one of the two states that recently legalized pot, so we can hear the crowd sing in unison, "Should old acquaintance be... what are the words again?"
NEW RULE Second-term Obama must have a few laughs by acting out the Tea Party's worst fears. He must order Air Force One to fly everywhere upside-down like Denzel and replace Bo the White House dog with two pit bulls named "Malcolm" and "X."
NEW RULE Drugstores, supermarkets, department stores and all other retail establishments must stop asking me to join their "club." A club is a place to have a few drinks. What you're offering me is two dollars off a bottle of NyQuil. And that's nothing like being in a club. Unless I drink the whole bottle at once.
NEW RULE You can't run for president if you don't know how old the world is. Quizzed recently, Marco Rubio answered, "I'm not a scientist, man." As if you have to be Galileo to Google, "How old is the earth?" And when asked his thoughts on evolution, Chris Christie said, "None of your business!" Which is what you say when someone asks you if you made a baby with the maid. Fellas, if you and your party want to be taken seriously, you don't have to recite the collected works of Stephen Hawking — just stop regurgitating the Facebook page of Sarah Palin.
NEW RULE If we must sit through a 30-second ad to see your Web site, you have to take down all of those banner ads, which no one has clicked on since 1997. Please — I'm trying to watch a video of a nipple slip from last night's episode of "Real Housewives of Atlanta." Let's not cheapen it.


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- A sleek box-style bag in grainy leather with a distinctive D-ring fastening inspired by our signature trench. Wear it on the shoulder using the polished chain strap.
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text: California Seating Student designers draw inspiration from nature and technology to create compelling new chair designs using laminate as their only medium. 06/22/2012 By Robert Nieminen High-pressure laminate probably isn't the first material that comes to mind when you think of furniture design. In fact, it's probably among the last. It's not a medium you'd likely think of for your next art project either. Sure, it's durable and there are a lot of decorative finishes to work with, but it's hardly what you'd consider a good raw material for sculpting. Unless, of course, you're a student who just entered the "Wilsonart Challenges …" design scholarship competition. This annual program, now in its eighth year, challenges students at a designated design school to create a unique chair that uses Wilsonart laminate to answer a specific design challenge. Last winter, the folks at Wilsonart selected the Furniture Design Department at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in Oakland, Calif., to host the challenge. The competition is, in reality, a semester-long course taught by professor Russell Baldon, and design historian and materials specialist (and I&S blogger), Grace Jeffers. The students were taught about laminate—including its history, technical capabilities, current market trends and sustainability issues—as well as the history of chairs as decorative art forms. This year's theme asked students to immerse themselves in the ethos of California; to examine both the state's contribution to the man-made world and the unique phenomena of its nature. Special consideration was given to the question, "What is California design?" Since the mid-century, California has and continues to pioneer seminal design solutions, and students attempted to answer the question, "How can today's students be more aware of this design legacy?" "One thing that amazes us is how each school's unique culture and approach to design unfold with the project," explains Alison DeMartino, Wilsonart's director of marketing communications. "California College of the Arts was no exception, as their ever-merging undercurrents of design, craft and art are predominant." As you are about to discover, laminate isn't just for decorative surfacing anymore. The following group of CCA students are keenly aware of the design legacy that has been passed onto them, and are busy shaping their own to pass down to those who follow. THE WINNER kaii tu | torrey chair Officially pronounced the winner of the "Wilsonart Challenges …" competition at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in May, Kaii Tu's Torrey Chair features a fragmented geometry, rendered from multiple perspective points. Seemingly random angles of different colors of wood grain laminate are used to simultaneously sculpt and paint the form. Laminate cannot be formed into a compound shape—although it is flexible, it can bend in only one direction, preventing the creation of curvaceous forms. The engineering Tu applied to his design defies this rule, and artfully demonstrates that an undulating, three-dimensional form can be made out of high-pressure laminate. He used a total of 8 colors and 40 separate hand-cut pieces of laminate to create the chair. "Torrey is a place to rest for a while, before moving on with our busy lives. It is an embrace of dueling currents in California culture: nature and technology," says Tu. "Windswept coastal pines are the point of departure; their forms, abstracted in the pixilated manner of computer-aided design, create a perch with multiple sitting and leaning options. Wilsonart wood grain laminate fit perfectly in this meeting of natural and engineered. The material—with its vast variety of colors and grain patterns—'paints' light and shadow across the facets. The laminate helps not to recreate nature, but to re-present it, turning its 'faux' qualities into an asset." Tu is currently working as a designer across disciplines and industries, from furniture to interactive experiences to household products you can find on supermarket shelves today. What unites his diverse designs is a blending of analytical thinking and craft, supported by an investigation into the histories and contextual narratives behind objects and actions alike. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in visual and environmental studies, and continued his studies at Design Academy Eindhoven and California College of the Arts. RUNNERS-UP noah hillis | the wave chair "The inspiration for The Wave Chair came from the Santa Monica, California beaches, a place where I would often go to relax and appreciate the surrounding environment," explains Hillis. "Three defining aspects of the chair are directly inspired by the visual cues that repeatedly presented themselves while hanging out on the Pacific Coast." He says the decorative stringers which run across the left-hand side of the chair were inspired by the stringers of surfboards. The shape of the chair was influenced by the crashing waves of the ocean and the arm structure resembles the modern architecture typical of the coast. hannah quinn | 8/4 Familiar, yet unexpected, organized but fun—look a little closer and Hannah Quinn's 8/4 chair just might surprise you. What appears to be a tidy pile of boards at the lumberyard is actually trompe l'oeil—an illusion of depth. The use of wood grain laminate creates the sense of a three-dimensional stack of lumber. "Real boards only wish they were finished that beautifully," Quinn quips. "The name 8/4 [pronounced eight-quarter] is a standard wood thickness and a common term in lumberyards. From a distance this chair may look like a simple stack of 8/4 maple lumber, but as you approach it the graphic elements overwhelm the natural ones." This is no rough-hewn timber—the exact lines of the edges and the flawless finish demonstrate precision, giving the piece an ironic, playful tone. steve sanchez | laminate chair The form of this chair is simply titled Laminate Chair, and it is an incongruous experiment in construction. "Structure to me is something to be celebrated in conjunction with form, not hidden by it, and laminate is a covering," notes Sanchez. "This chair is an exploration of the tension between the laminate surface and the structure of the chair, and represents an effort to reveal a truth in materials." "My interest in making started with structure, specifically its form. There's a certain satisfaction that comes from tackling a problem and creating an alternate solution, similar to forming an opinion," he adds. "I'm interested in investigating human behavior and objects, together and separately." jeni tu | linea The Linea Chair is inspired by the vibrant, visually arresting lines found in Los Angeles, from twisting overpasses to the gestural sensuality of the Getty Center to the word paintings of quintessential L.A. artist, Ed Ruscha. Linea is an investigation into how a two-dimensional ribbon of material, continuous and unbroken, can be transformed into a three-dimensional form. At the same time, it explores the unique material possibilities of laminate. Made from bent steel powder coated in a neon red-orange evoking taillights on the freeway, Linea is covered in Wilsonart's Montana Walnut, a nod to L.A.'s storied mid-century design heritage. rosalie wild | seven stumps The Seven Stumps is a collection of interlocking stools which combine to become a larger seating environment. Mimicking a grove of trees, the varying heights and diameters of the seats celebrate natural diversity, in opposition to the homogeneity of manufactured goods. The stools can interlock in a multitude of playful arrangements. Wilsonart laminate and edge banding in two different hues highlight laminate as a surfacing material and create subtle visual depth, according to Wild. These stunning chair creations were on display at the Interiors & Sources Materials Pavilion at NeoCon (#8-3130) at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, as well as at the ICFF show in New York. For more information, visit www.wilsonart.com. About the Author Robert Nieminen Editor-at-Large Robert Nieminen is an award-winning freelance writer and former Editor-in-Chief of interiors+sources magazine, for which he currently acts as the Editor-at-Large. Read more articles from this author Related Articles Form Follows Function: Design's Future Ware Malcomb acquires WorkSpace Plans Takeda in Tokyo: A Human-Centric Redesign