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In Search of the Old Florida
Twenty-five years had passed since I last set foot in the panhandle of Florida, and what I found was bittersweet. Gone were many of the thick stands of pines that once towered to the sky. In their place were homes painted in the hues of a Crayola box: a pastel paradise of homes painted in pinks and blues with white picket fences bordered by pearl-white sands and emerald green seas.
Once, there had been just a handful of restaurants. Now every culinary option is possible. A gastronome's dream it is.
Driving down the 16-mile stretch of Highway 30A, which reaches from Mirimar Beach at its most-western point to Inlet Beach in the south, I find myself intrigued, gawking at all the newness as one town melts into a another.
If you miss small signs posted at each town line, you may not know the difference between WaterColor and Seaside. Or Rosemary and Alys. All delightful names with architecture that teases out the personalities of each planned community.
On the hunt for "Old Florida"
Gone are the mom-and-pop motels that once sprouted along the oceanside highway like sea oats, their "no-vacancy" signs flashing red during high season. In their place stand palatial, modern hotels and condos, either sprawling across the sands or, if built before height restrictions were enforced by the local government, reach toward the sky.
So is the Florida of old still hiding among the palms and pines? The answer isn't an easy one. You have to do some digging.
Once my eye is tamed to such, I begin seeing flashes of old Florida everywhere. The most-convenient place to experience it is at one of the state parks where you'll find it in its natural state, their dunes and wildlife, along with sugar-white beaches forever protected.
There there's, Dune Allen Beach where, right along the highway and tucked between two massive condo complexes, I see a small, one-story house so typical of those from the 1960s. It's hard to believe that, with its oceanfront location--the Gulf of Mexico stretching out for thousands of miles in its back yard-- some developer hasn't snatched it up.
And then it happens again as I continue my drive into Santa Rosa Beach: Goatfeathers. A funny name for a restaurant full of funk and flavor. I enjoyed bringing my kids here when they were young, so you can only imagine my surprise when I find that it is still there.
The area boasts so many new restaurants, such as Havana Beach Bar and Grill inside The Pearl, a $400-per-night swanky boutique hotel at Rosemary Beach. The menu is a pure inspiration of Cuban and Southern fusion; or Whiskey Bravo along the highway at Seagrove Beach where some say the shrimp and grits are the best to be found.
I pull into Goatfeathers for a classic fried shrimp po' boy, then continue my way east, looking for more signs of life as it had been when this area was more suited to nomadic retirees looking for a warm place to hibernate over the winter than the kind of place it is now: one full of life for families and couples, old and young.
Grayton Beach
Grayton Beach appears out of nowhere. This is a beach that was retro before retro was cool. Sure, it's seen its share of development, with modern structures wearing their refreshing pastels. But I get off the beaten track and find the homes I'm looking for, their old cypress sidings now swathed in handsome grey patina.
A not-to-be-missed trip to Grayton includes an evening at The Red Bar. It doesn't look like anything more than an old barn if you drive by unaware. But it's here you'll find eclectic decor and a menu of crab cakes and crawfish. It's been a local favorite for years. A jazz band plays nightly, and after the dinner crowd goes home, the party gets going.
My tour back in time continues with one last discovery in mind. I'd already heard that the old house I'd stayed in as a child at
Seagrove Beach had been torn down years ago. But I was wondering about the hotel/condo complex I'd brought my children to decades ago: Hidden Beach Villas. Surely it would have been razed be a forward-thinking developer.
But there it is: A beacon in a fog of newness calling out to me: "I'm still here."
I slam on my brakes, pull into the parking lot of the squatty two-story building and text my daughters a picture. "Remember this place?" I ask. "Fondly," my oldest daughter replies. My job complete. I found the Florida of old.
From old to new
But for all my wanderings to experience "Old Florida," one thought kept tapping at my brain. It was beautiful, yes. And it still is. But after a few days, life became monotonous for the kids and not much of a vacation for parents trying to entertain them. That's not the case now. Progress can be a good thing.
There's Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin with its multiple shops and restaurants; and for kids, a carousel, ropes course and zip line. The Artist Collective at Grayton Beach shows the creative edge of the community. And food trucks roam the highway shifting from donuts at dawn to hot dogs and Key Lime pie pops well into the evening. At night, restaurants like Fish Out of Water offer al fresco dinners overlooking an amazing sunset over the gulf waters.
City planners did a good thing when it became apparent that change was on the horizon. By keeping state parks, limiting building heights and providing sufficient public access to beaches, it's still possible to find the Florida of old living comfortably with the active lifestyles that carry over from one beach to the next.
A vacation of sunning with a good book just doesn't "do it" for many. We demand more, and the beaches of South Walton deliver.
Anne Braly is a food columnist and travel writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, WordSouth Publishing and Tennessee Home and Farm.She loves eating her way across every city, state and country she visits, then writing all about it.
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Hopping Freight Trains and Living the Life of a Hobo
Rapid T bummed a cup of coffee from me and told me about his life on the rails. He plans to travel to Greenfield today and get some free dental work done at a clinic he heard about at the Northampton shelter. He'll ride his bike up there, look at the East Deerfield train yard and to find out where he will be leaving from when he takes another train.
He used to stay in hostels but now said they are hard to find. He told me about the life of a freight train rider...the secret is the grain car. "There is a little room you can get to from the outside, it's a great place to sleep and you can fit your bike in there."
When he was a young kid he studied trains and was in a train enthusiast's club. He has Asbergers, 'it's the opposite of ADD, I find things I like to study that don't really fit with most college courses.' But the study of railroads is coming back. It was those early days of watching trains pass by that gave him the inspiration to live the hobo life.
He told me more about living cheap, using the college bus system and the Pioneer Valley's networks of shelters and free services. He stayed in a shelter in Northampton, and said it was just like a youth hostel. He uses his wits and the internet to get by, finding for example, the schedule for when trains depart on obscure railroad websites.
He's 38, and took a couple of years to go to Ohio State studying education, in 2008. Since he left college he's been traveling the rails. First to Huntington, West Virginia and doing mostly east coast trips. But he's been to Montana and Portland and LA on freight trains. "The west coast police are much tougher than the east, the people are a lot more conservative. California liberals? Not to him.
Rapid T uses Google Earth to scope out railyard layouts, and says it's helpful for somebody who does what he does.Tonight he said he'd go back down to West Springfield to catch a freight, or stay overnight in a laundromat. He looks for Labor Ready storefronts. They offer short term work in plastic mills, recycling, sorting cardboard etc. He'd work for a week or a day or so. You have to stand in line at 4 in the morning and hope to get picked, "It's mostly hazardous work that no one wants to do."
He gets by with these short term jobs, but he's not above holding out a beggar's cup either. "Some people with great apartments do nothing but stand there and beg. Northampton is a great hobo city, it's so easy to make money panhandling," he said.
Iowa is a sea of corn, you can actually see the curvature of the earth from up on top of the grain elevators. You can fall asleep with all of that corn going by as you travel by rail. You can tell where you are by smelling things....rubber and plastic in Akron, or Wonder Bread in Cleveland."
"I could live on nothing. Cumberland Farms throws away the whole sandwich in the plasticwrap. I can shower at the Y, you can pay $3-15 to take a shower. Woman are nicer in the south," he said. He told me this after he told a woman passing by on the sidewalk that she looked great even without make-up. I distanced myself from his catcall.
Younger Hobos
The two showed him how to enter the grain cars at the openings on each end, and how to pull yourself up on the railings on the side of cars, underhand, not overhand.
In the Southeast coast, there aren't a lot of places for trains to stop. He ended up in the port of Brunswick Georgia and found a box car, taking him to Savannah. It was his first experience riding in a freight train.
The freight is an indication of the economy...recently Rapid T's seen a lot more lumber being shipped. He told me he's on a hobo shitlist. He's been giving information to the younger hobos on how to ride the rails. That makes the older guys unhappy.
"It's like the Masons. People don't want to share the secrets. A mystique, hobos should learn how to travel from other hobos...and not from the internet or a book."
Rapid T tells newbies where the yards are, where to find the schedules for the intermodal trucks (who connect with freight trains in yards), crew change guides, things that help people find where the trains depart from.
"You learn not to be shy of dirt or grime," he added, about living this mobile lifestyle.
Max Hartshorne is the editor of GoNOMAD and has always wanted to hop a freight train.
Rail Travel
Top Family Places in Miami, Florida
Under the sun or cool in the shade!
By Stephanie DiCarlo
When I set about to find family-fun places in Miami, I knew it was going to be an intriguing city to write about looking at it from a family-friendly perspective. When one first thinks of Miami, images of beach parties and college kids might come to mind, or, as my mother told me after she visited, retirement centers.
However, Miami is not simply a haven for young adults and the retired--it has a lot of great places to bring young children and families of any ages--whether you're a local or a tourist.
A classic family spot that never fails? The zoo! The Miami Zoo is the perfect place to spend the day as a family, and has an amazing assortment of activities and animals to see. You can see reptiles, lions, bears, koalas, tigers, birds, gorillas, chips, elephants, and so much more! This is a serious zoo, and will please any animal lover at any age.
Interactive activities are also available at this zoo- you can feed the giraffs yourself and even ride a camel! There are also playgrounds, including a water park, as well as a 'children's zoo,' where kids can get up close with various small and friendly animals, like barn animals and meerkats. This zoo is big, has lots to do, is clean, and fun!
Tropical Park is a place that families rave about for its miles of beautiful scenery, perfect for a bikeride. Bikes are available for rent at a small fee, and paths lined with palm trees keep you shady as you bike, or walk, through this park. One visitor suggested stopping along the pretty lakes as you bike your way through the park. A weekly farmer's market is also held in the park every Saturday year round, and Tropical Park gets about one million visitors a year. The nice thing about farmer's markets in Florida is that they have local produce year 'round too!
Open every day from 10 am to 6 pm, Miami Children's Museum is another great
place to bring creative and inquisitive children. Especially popular on rainy days or when the heat is too much, this museum is fun and interactive, a great indoor place for children to expend their energy while parents literally "chill" out of the sun while their kids play.
Particularly great for the little ones, this museum is great for children five and under. Exhibits consist of an interactive play "super market," a two story sandcastle where children can "see sands from around the world," a safety zone where children can dress up as fire fighters and ride police cars, as well as an "ocean odyssey" where they can learn about the deep sea, and an exhibit where they can learn about the city of Miami itself. Moms rave about the friendly and helpful staff, as well as the cheap prices!
If your family is a bit too old for the Miami Childrens' Museum, but still wants to visit a museum, the Museum of Science might just be the place to go. This museum is appropriate for older kids, and it includes interactive exhibits on the sea, outer space, climate change,
and weather. It also has a planetarium as well as a lazer show, and a wildlife center. Parents say it's the lazer show that kids love most- and they love it too! One mom said it was the perfect place to spend a few hours to get away from the beach crowds, and where the kids
can learn something in the process.
Trump International Beach Resort is the perfect place if you're staying in Miami Beach with children.
This resort has it's very own children's program dubbed "Planet Kids," where children can play and socialize with other children while their parents take some "adult time," as one mother dubbed it, to relax by the pool. While kids get to play, they also participate in "Enviro-Adventures," which Planet Kids designed as a fun and informative curriculum for children to come away not only having had fun, but having learned something as well.
Planet Kids runs from 10 to 4 every day, and is complementary for hotel guests. It's a fantastic place for kids to make friends, learn something while on vacation, and to give their parents a break! In addition, the pool areas are kid friendly, and parents love the waterfalls and shallow pools available for active chldren. This resort is the perfect place to stay for families!
If your family wants more of the sea beyound Miami's beaches, the Miami Seaquarium is just for you. This aquarium offers the full interactive sea animal experience- you can swim with dolphins, seals, dive in their tropical reef tank, their 300,000 gallon tank designed to imitate a reef habitat.
You can feed manatees, stingrays, and turtles and enjoy their killer whale or dolphin shows. You may also see your favorite fish, catch a glimpse of a crocodile, and even see some sharks. This aquariam is perfect for families of all ages, and even has a "Pirate Playground" for the little ones. If your family wants to engage with aquatics, this is the place to go!
If you're looking for a fun place to eat, Big Pink is a great place to go with your family. Its retro atmosphere, affordable prices, and great food is sure to please everyone. Known for it's 'modern day diner' atmosphere, with pink buggies parked outside and it's unique waffle burgers (yes, burgers between two belgian waffles), this place is sure to please the kids. And if it doesn't, the menu has over 200 items to choose from.
Bar far, however, it's fried chicken on waffles gets the biggest thumbs up from diners. Go for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
Jungle Island is a great place to take the kids if your family is in the mood to go a step farther than the zoo- and into 22-acre rainforest with real tropical animals. Specializing in different kind of birds, mammals, reptiles, and primates, you can take a safari throught the park to see the animals as they might be in their natural habitat.
There is also a petting zoo, a chance to meet some lemurs and birds up close and personal, and shows featuring trained animals. Bring your camera and see the exotic animals Jungle Island has to offer.
Visit Miami with your family, and find the best deal on a hotel at Trivago.com!
Stephanie DiCarlo is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and has a Bachelor's degree in English and History, as well as a specialization in creative writing. She also writes for the young adult literature magazine Ultimate YA and she likes to travel and eat good food. You can follow her on Twitter at @ccioSteph
Using China's Toilets: A Step by Step Guide
By Nadine Cresswell-Myatt
The pandas at the breeding research base (Xiongmao Jidi) should have been the highlight of a trip to Chengdu but it was the white porcelain that held us transfixed.
A toilet beyond our wildest imaginings. It had a bidet, a dryer and even a bottom deodorizer.
I won't say it was the highlight of our trip to China but it was photographed along with the Great Wall and the Forbidden Palace. China transforms you into a connoisseur of loos.
For many Chinese it is our western toilets that are the subject of derision. When you squat Asian style (and a lifetime of squatting makes you an expert) it is more hygienic as nothing except your shoes touch the toilet. On a Western toilet a series of bottoms have touched the same seat. The Chinese considers this gross and it probably is.
But westerners just aren't accustomed to squat toilets where the rims are flush with the floor and there are grooved sections to place your feet. There are just too many pitfalls to navigate: the art of squatting for a start, without falling over or even worse falling in and how to accomplish one's task without splash back on one's shoes or clothes.
Then of course, for the less agile amongst us, there is the attempt to stand up again without tripping over one's undies.
Many lavatories in China don't supply toilet paper. I guess if the population of China, some 1.3 billion individuals, were all to be stuffing toilet paper into their latrines all kinds of sewerage complications would arise.
Toilet Paper Goes in the Trash
When public toilets do occasionally have toilet paper people tend to take a single square, dab away, and then fold it discretely before depositing it in the cubicle's waste paper basket. These are inevitably lidless and made of mesh. Learn from my mistakes and do not look inside.
In the past, particularly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, toilets were the downfall of the Chinese tourism industry with some tourists even labeling them as some of the scariest in the world.
So in the lead up to the Olympics there was a rush to build a smattering of western style toilets at tourist spots such as the Summer Palace, the Badaling section of the Great Wall and the Palace Museum.
Tourists who go rural, however, are likely to experience the dreaded Gonggongcesuo -- the squatting over an open communal trough where privacy is not an option.
As an interesting observation on history there is some anecdotal evidence; it was the Koumintang government that removed partition walls during the Civil War to prevent Communist Party members from exchanging information.
And you also take potluck with public toilets in the city where there will almost certainly be squats and perhaps even cubicles with half walls, or no doors.
In some ways this is sensible. After all door handles that have been touched by thousands of people carry germs so it is healthier not to have them. And it is only our Western notions of privacy that make us cringe.
The Chinese tourist authorities are aware of Westerners concerns. In fact apparently a third of all complaints received by the Beijing Tourism Administration were about toilets and since the mid '90s millions of yuan has gone towards rectifying, or should that be westernizing, a number of latrines.
Tourist toilets now even feature star ratings and in Beijing there are seventy of these star rated toilets.
The one we encountered in Chengdu with all its myriad of pleasurable possibilities would have been five star and I suspect the one star toilets are not for the faint hearted.
While privacy is not normally an issue in the city you are bound to have an encounter with squat toilets. We found them in airports and in one of the local hotels in Chengdu that the airline put us up at when our flight was delayed. That squat is pictured below.
Because Chinese toilets are such a point of discussion amongst tourists they are even becoming a tourist attraction in themselves.
There is even a toilet themed restaurant in Shanghai, called More than Toilet, where patrons sit on unplumbed lavatories and eat their meals out of toilet shaped utensils. The miniature toilet bowls with piles of chocolate soft serve ice-cream that look like excrement but I am sure tastes divine.
A Toilet Primer for First Time Visitors:
Like most travellers China's toilets fascinated me. All I can do to prepare you is to lift the lid on some basics that might help you in your search for the perfect porcelain bowl.
1. Carry some pocket issues or even some toilet paper with you. Yes, seriously.
2. It is also worth having a small bottle of hand sanitizer liquid and Wet Ones
3. Unless you are totally agile space out your day to use western styled toilets at your hotel and at major tourist attractions. It is known as preventative peeing.
4. You will always find western style toilets in the chains such as Starbucks and McDonalds, hotel lobbies and in most tourist attractions but by no means all.
5. If you cannot use squat toilets then keep an eye open for disabled toilets that will have a full sized western style toilet or at least a frame. Sadly when it comes to using squat toilets westerners are disabled.
6. There is an app called SitorSquat (www.sitorsquat.com) that gives you the low-down on loos.
7. You will encounter squat toilets so it might be worth simply practising squatting and rising before you visit China. Squat toilets if clean are hygienic and the exercise is excellent for your thighs and sense of balance
8. Toilets for westerners are constantly cleaned hence the hovering attendants. Unsure if this is because of our standards or their view of our toileting habits. You will notice this in hotels and even on Chinese airlines. If you'd do find a western toilet seat that is dirty it is likely to be from shoes rather than anything else. (Go figure!)
9. It is not uncommon to have toilet doors without locks. Therefore you might want to take someone to stand guard for you.
10. Girls, if you see Chinese women rolling up the legs of their pants, when entering a cubicle, then it is wise to follow suit. Because you will encounter a squat it can be advantageous to wear skirts and to even take your undies off completely to navigate the squat position. As for men –
"How I envy you."
Nadine Cresswell-Myatt is a Melbourne based travel writers who has been writing for over 20years. Her work has appeared in a wide range of print and online media both at home and overseas.
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LGBT-friendly travel options in the Caribbean
Obviously the concept of 'gay travel' shouldn't exist. Why does travel have to be 'gay', when it's never described as 'straight'? Travel should just be 'travel', open to all.
Unfortunately, the concept highlights how attitudes about same-sex relationships aren't changing fast enough. On the straight side of things, it's taken for granted that there is no need to search for heterosexual-specific hotels, to research difficulties a straight couple may face in particular cities due to antiquated laws, or to fret that PDA (public displays of affection) between a man and woman may provoke public outrage or discrimination.
Same-sex couples, on the other hand, frequently face these issues. Gay couples are often still unable to express affection in public or act outwardly 'gay' in an overwhelming number of countries worldwide, as though the PDA police are on crackdown and a loving hand stroke between two people of the same sex is indicative of an inner evil.
Gay is Different
We're still encouraged to think of being gay as being different, by television advertisements which omit gay couples, by politicians who advocate criminalization of homosexual acts, and by backward thinking religious zealots who promote ideas of 'unnaturalness'.
In reality, two people fancying each other does not do the world any harm, and our validation of that fact should not even be considered requisite for people to continue with their romantic interests as they please.
In countries where such logic and rational thinking has yet to prevail, it can be difficult for LGBT travellers to understand where their relationships will be welcomed and where they will be greeted with 'would you like us to book you a twin room?', 'that will be extra' and disdainful glances.
The Caribbean, where strict laws are rife and sexual liberalism is still something that occurs behind heavily curtained windows, can be a difficult one to maneouvre when it comes to establishing which country thinks what. With this in mind, where is gay ok?
Jamaica = Least Gay Friendly
The laid-back, reggae loving stereotype often held of Jamaicans runs at odds with the social prejudices, anti-gay music and harsh laws still present in the country in 2014. Although it would be an unfair generalization to suggest that travellers to the island would face discrimination or feel persecuted for their sexuality, there is always the chance that local indoctrinated nutjobs will spring from the bushes and spout anti-gay threats.
(Or perhaps less dramatically, they will experience occasional homophobic slurs from hotel staff and waiters). For peace of mind, the LGBT traveller would be better off seeking gay-friendly travel options when booking island guides or accommodation.
Trinidad and Tobago = On the fence
In Trinidad and Tobago the situation is slightly more ambiguous. While laws do criminalize homosexual activity, there is a 'gay scene' with night life centered in Port of Spain. The situation in this country seems to be a case of 'don't ask don't tell', and while a large number of residents are in support of gay rights, it is not overtly publicized. Travellers from very liberal, gay friendly countries may find the repression slightly uncomfortable, in which case they might think of looking at alternate Caribbean islands.
Cuba = Much more open
In Cuba, for example, anti-discrimination laws have recently been implemented. Like any country, the odd homophobe will of course rear their ugly head on occasion, but for the most part the island is in support of gay rights.
T he daughter of President Raul Castro, in particular, is very active in the struggle for equality. There is no need to search for gay-friendly accommodation options in Cuba, as regular hotels will (or at least should) be perfectly accommodating towards all paying customers, regardless of sexual orientation.
(Although it might be helpful to read reviews just in case previous customers have been at the receiving end of anything untoward). For beach trips, Playa Pesquero is ideal, whereas city-dwellers may prefer the convenient comforts of Havana.
Puerto Rico = Gay bar Haven
Although LGBT travellers are not necessarily seeking gay-centric holidays as much as, like anyone else, a relaxing and exotic getaway, some travellers may feel more at home if they know that they're going to be free to act however they please on the dance floor.
For the fan of energetic and bustling gay bars, Puerto Rico
has the liveliest gay scene in the Caribbean.
In particular, San Juan is host to a gay beach neighborhood where LGBT travellers and friends can gather together in multitudes to party on gay-friendly beaches, enjoy the weekly drag shows and visit gay-owned bars and restaurants. (There are welcoming straight-owned versions too, of course).
Saba = LGBT diving paradise
Finally, Saba is the only place in the Caribbean to have legalised same sex marriage (although Cuba is looking to head in that direction). The teensy island is home to a significant gay and lesbian population, and has several gay/lesbian-centric diving operators, such as Undersea Expeditions, pictured above.
So while it's not particularly pleasant and shouldn't be necessary, checking out holiday destinations before you go could save the LGBT traveller a whole world of hassle.
The most important thing is not to put yourself in a situation where you may end up feeling persecuted or insulted as, after all, a holiday is meant to be your chance to get away from any troubles and relax.
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Sharing Meals With Strangers While Traveling
In the past few years the concept of sharing ones belongings with strangers has become a global trend. Car sharing companies like Uber and Lyft allow every day people to use their vehicles as makeshift taxis and cart users around for a fraction of the usual price. Airbnb and Flipkey turn any apartment, house, or vacation home into a hotel for anyone to rent for weeks on end.
Everywhere people are tossing out the old conventions of keeping what you have to yourself and sharing their personal belongings with others.
For many however, the sharing of property is more than just a tool for making some extra money on the side. "I love meeting and talking to all the people that get in my car" explains Rob, an Uber driver in the Boston area. "Yea the money is great, but what's better is I drive around making friends and listening to ridiculous stories. It's not like getting into a cab, when people use Uber they're much more open with the driver."
I have found the same thing while using Airbnb across the country in the world. In New Orleans I stayed right in the French Quarter (for a fraction of the price of a hotel) with a lovely woman who went out of her way to make sure I was having a good time in the city and directed me to all the best places for seafood. While in Spain a few friends and I stayed at in a beautiful beachfront condo with a couple that helped us with our Spanish and pointed out the best place to get tapas. These people were genuinely happy to have people share their space.
So why Not Share your Dinner Table?
Recently I discovered MealSharing.com, a website that takes the sharing of personal belongings to the next level. In a nutshell, the website allows users to either "share" a meal or "request" a meal online in over 450 cities around the world. However, what the website really does is connect people across the globe for a night of good food, conversation, and making new friends and connections.
Similar to the other forms of sharing, whether it be rides or rooms, there is a rating system of users in order to make sure everyone has a great experience. Guests can "chip in" to their hosts a monetary contribution to offset the costs of the ingredients for the meal, or bring food of their own for a pot-luck style meal.
MealSharing.com takes the social aspect of the other sharing websites and brings it to the forefront.
In the "how it works" section of the website, this concept of openness is strongly encouraged. "Be open. You're likely to encounter food, customs, and experiences that you don't fully understand. Take on an attitude of curiosity and be willing to participate."
This isn't to say that as a user you blindly show up to a meal and, whether you like it or not, have to eat what is put in front of you in the spirit of being 'open'. Hosts posting their meals they wish to share list what they plan on cooking that evening, and what a guest could contribute if they wish.
The first thing I thought of when searching the various cities available was how perfect this was going to be for my next traveling adventure. Many times when you get to a new place all you want is a real home cooked meal with authentic cuisine from the area. What better way to get that then sitting down in a home for a meal cooked by a local living there?
A new way to experience Thanksgiving
As we creep further and further into the Fall, MealSharing.com is announcing its second annual "ThanksSharing" to promote food and togetherness for the classic American holiday. Introducing the concept of sharing this traditional holiday meal, usually centered around family and friends, with strangers brings us back to what the holiday was originally about.
Very often, people find themselves alone on thanksgiving. However, in many cities they are almost certainly not the only person on their own block in that same situation, or even in their same building. Why not share the iconic American meal with new friends and recipes?
In addition to all the obvious benefits of ThankSharing, hosts will also be able to raise money for local food banks through the website. Now, it feels even better making new friends knowing that others in need will be able to celebrate as you can.
Signing up for MealSharing.com is very simple, and the website is very user friendly. Reviews are readily available to aid in your choice of host, and meals are served nearly every day. For those interested in cooking, becoming a host is just as easy, and you will be sure to find guests to attend your meals in no time.
For more information be sure to check out MealSharing.com


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10 New Bikes in 2014
1. Honda 110cc Dream Slide
Honda 110cc Dream Slide
Competition in the 100cc commuter segment is getting fiercer with Honda Motorcycle and Scooters India (HMSI) going out all guns blazing to wrest the top spot from former partner Hero MotoCorp.
HMSI has launched a brand new motorcycle in the basic 100-110cc segment, called the Honda CD110 Dream. The CD110 Dream is equipped with a Honda Eco Technology (HET) engine with a class leading power output of 8.3PS and torque of 8.63Nm. Honda claims the new HET equipped engine will deliver fuel consumption figures of 74 kmpl in actual city riding conditions.
Competition: Hero Splendor Plus, Suzuki Hayate, Mahindra Centuro
Price: Rs 41,100 (Ex-showroom Delhi)
2. New TVS Victor
TVS Motor Company is planning to bring back the bestselling Victor brand with an all-new Victor in the next few months.
The Victor was one of the company's most successful motorcycles, and during its run in the market, the popular commuter motorcycle made quite a dent in Hero MotoCorp's sales figures.
The new Victor will be based on the 109cc TVS Star City+ platform, but it will be a premium motorcycle with more features and a new design. It will be powered by a motor from the family of TVS EcoThrust engines, which are tuned for fuel efficiency with performance.
Competition: Mahindra Centuro, Hero Passion Pro, Bajaj Discover 100T
Expected Price: Rs 48,000-50,000
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Kawasaki Versys 1000 India launch in January 2015Kawasaki will introduce its first Versys offering...

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A few months ago, I sent out surveys to several groups of online marketers. My goal was to find out what the biggest problems and "sticking points" for online marketers were and part of the reason for that was that I wanted to find out if I could detect demand for a product or service I could provide. Quite surprisingly, the results showed that the number one biggest problem for most online marketers had nothing to do with online marketing.


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Silver Springs to become state park
One of Florida's oldest tourist attractions is about to get a new lease on life.
The Florida Cabinet approved a modification of a lease agreement between the owners of Silver Springs, Palace Entertainment, and the state.
The move will allow Silver Springs to become part of Florida's state park system on Oct. 1.
Palace Entertainment's lease to manage Silver Springs had originally run until Dec. 31, 2029, but negotiations with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ended with the state providing $4 million in work by Palace Entertainment to restore the property to its natural condition.
Palace Entertainment will continue to manage the property until Sept. 30, and the Silver Springs attraction will remain open until then.
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Capt. Mark Oakes said Gregory Marple was burning leaves in his front yard at 651 E. Stover Road shortly after noon when he lost control of the burn and several arborvitae ignited near the house. There were no injuries but the house and contents were a total loss, Oakes said in a news release.
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AdaCore today announced a new target platform for the latest version of its GNAT Pro Safety-Critical Ada Development Environment. Hosted on Windows workstations, GNAT Pro Safety-Critical V7.2 is now targeted to the LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 V2.2.2 RTOS for PowerPC, and supports both ARINC-653 APEX partitions and POSIX pthreads. GNAT Pro Safety-Critical includes the standard GNAT Pro components – the GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) and GNATbench IDEs and accompanying toolset – along with specialized tools and run-time libraries oriented towards applications that have to meet demanding software safety standards, such as DO-178B or DO-178C for avionics. With GNAT Pro Safety-Critical for LynxOS-178, developers who need to deliver high-assurance applications on this LynuxWorks RTOS now have an integrated and full-functioned toolsuite that implements all versions of the Ada language, including Ada 2012, and is backed by AdaCore's expert support.
GNAT Pro Safety-Critical includes two static analysis tools that are especially valuable in a certification context. GNATstack predicts the maximum stack usage for each task in an application, directly supporting DO-178B objective A-5(6), "Source code is accurate and consistent". GNATcheck enforces a customer-tailorable set of rules comprising a project-specific coding standard, directly supporting DO-178B objective A-5(4), "Source code conforms to standards". GNAT Pro Safety-Critical also includes a number of tools for testing and dynamic analysis: the gdb debugger, the AUnit test framework, and the GNATtest unit test harness generator.
GNAT Pro Safety Critical provides several run-time profiles – libraries reflecting restricted feature sets – that are tuned to the requirements of safety certification. The ZFP (Zero Footprint) profile does not require any Ada run-time routines, thus reducing the memory footprint to user code only. The Cert profile supplements the ZFP with support for exceptions and a secondary stack, along with limited dynamic allocation and several other features. The Ravenscar Cert profile includes the Cert features along with the subset of tasking features defined by the standard Ravenscar profile, providing a deterministic concurrency model consistent with the requirements for certification. A full Ada run-time is also provided.
"With its partitioning and its support for both POSIX and ARINC-653 APEX, LynxOS-178 is a versatile RTOS for developers of safety-certified systems," said Ed Falis, AdaCore's Product Manager for GNAT Pro Safety-Critical for LynxOS-178. "Ada is an excellent language choice for this sort of software, and we are happy to make it available to LynuxWorks users through our latest version of GNAT Pro Safety-Critical."
"With this latest version of GNAT Pro Safety-Critical for LynxOS-178, Ada developers now have support for both legacy Ada applications using Ada 95 / Ada 2005, as well as new Ada applications using Ada 2012," said John Blevins, LynuxWorks Director Product Marketing. "With strong type checking and powerful static analysis tools, Ada provides the ability to run more sophisticated avionics applications on top of our proven safety-critical RTOS. LynxOS-178 is the only RTOS with FAA acceptance as a Reusable Software Component (RSC) and provides an excellent foundation for building certified avionics systems in Ada."
About AdaCore
Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, a state-of-the-art programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where safety, security, and reliability are critical. AdaCore's flagship product is the open source GNAT Pro development environment, which comes with expert on-line support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has an extensive world-wide customer base; see www.adacore.com/home/company/customers/ for further information.
Ada and GNAT Pro see a growing usage in high-integrity and safety-certified applications, including space-based systems, commercial aircraft avionics, military systems, air traffic management/control, railroad systems, and medical devices, and in security-sensitive domains, such as financial services. The SPARK Pro toolset, available from AdaCore, is especially useful in such contexts.
AdaCore has North American headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com
About LynxOS-178 RTOS
LynxOS-178 is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) that fully satisfies the objectives of the DO178B/C Level A specification and meets requirements for Integrated Modular Avionics developers. LynxOS-178 delivers the security and real-time responsiveness needed for safety-critical systems and provides a low-risk path to DO-178B certification for developers to meet the technical requirements in the production of software for airborne systems. In addition, LynxOS-178 provides full POSIX conformance, enabling developers to take advantage of the time-to-market and investment-protection benefits of open standards-based development. The powerful formula of DO-178B certification, POSIX conformance and ARINC-653 partitioning allows developers to meet the most stringent requirements for real-time, safety-critical applications, while at the same time ensuring application portability, software reuse and interoperability between embedded systems.
About LynuxWorks
LynuxWorks, a world leader in the embedded software market, is committed to providing open and reliable RTOS and software tools to embedded developers. The company's LynxOS family of OSes offers open standards with the highest level of safety and security features, enabling many mission-critical systems in defense, avionics and other industries. The latest product in the portfolio, the award winning LynxSecure offers a secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor that forms a platform for the development of high assurance systems. Since it was established in 1988, LynuxWorks has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, avionics, aerospace/defense, and consumer electronics companies.
LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San Jose, CA. For more information, visit www.lynuxworks.com.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.Dawn Adams
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensableDalai Lama
Art Exist for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the worldShinichi Suzuki
The True happiness that Man has searched for since the dawn of humanity, that is the inner gold that awaits any person who holds compassionately the key of anonymous generosity. Do something for your fellow man, not for the gold, but for the love of Man, and you shall truly have the goldUnknown
If you canít find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.Unknown
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.Sri Chinmoy
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.Rainer Maria Rilke
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.James Allen
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.Lord Mansfield
A life without love is like a year without summer.Swedish Proverb
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.Jorge Luis Borges
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.John Gray
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truthHenry Louis Mencken
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.Phyllis McGinley
Love that cares, listens.Paul Tillich
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.Ben Okri
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflectionThomas Paine
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.William Ellery Channing
How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!Eileen Elias Freeman


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MediaMath continues to scour the landscape for buyout chances, and now it's found a new senior executive in the process too.
MediaMath continues to scour the landscape for buyout chances, and now it's found a new senior executive in the process too.
Here's a summary of recent personnel changes announced at Massachusetts biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
CEO Tom Leighton said much the company's recent growth has been due to the gaming sector and video-related content, not to mention an explosion in online traffic and users.
Since 2003, the Georgia CIO Leadership Association has brought together the senior technology leaders of Georgia's largest organizations to share ideas, best practices and experiences relevant to CIOs. Our mission is to build a strong, professional information technology community by working with business, government and industry leaders within the state and nationally, to build valuable relationships and establish Georgia as a technology leader. With the addition of executive director Lisa LaRoque, our membership has grown to well over 100 members, including CIOs from over half of the billion-dollar organizations in our state.
The move of the IT industry to the cloud means CIOs must take ownership of a host of security and privacy issues, says George Conrades, a computer and technology industry veteran who is now chairman of the board at cloud services provider Akamai.
Kansas significantly boosted its Internet speed, a new study found, but the Sunflower State still was slower than most of the U.S.
Akamai's vice president of cloud security emphasized the importance of cybersecurity measures at a technology event in Boston on Tuesday.
The Seaport and Fort Point areas will almost double in population in the next three years. But is the city ready?
Here are ten Massachusetts-based public tech companies that are generating the most revenue per employee.
Three Silicon Valley cities have cleared an initial hurdle to bring high-speed Google Fiber Internet connectivity to town.
San Francisco content delivery network startup Fastly raised $40 million and hired a Microsoft general manager to head its worldwide sales.
As the Internet continues to change the way people shop, content is the "king, queen, prince and princess" of making the sale. That was among the many pieces of advice that attendees heard from digital experts at a panel hosted by PBN last week.
Each year the U.S. Supreme Court decides about 70 to 90 cases. So far this year, six have been patent law cases sent up from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. That may not seem like many, but that volume is rare in the world of patents.
The San Francisco-based company said the Greater Boston area's talent pool was a big draw. The company plans to hire as many as 50 employees in the next year or so.


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Great films they were, still have the DVD Box set somewhere.
I'm afraid shopped. All a big mistake by a movie website that tried to get out of it by shopping the image. Article here.
Have to wait another 5 years
If you think that's bad go and watch Transformers the Movie (the animated one). In the opeing monologue they announce that the year is 2005.
Plus it's 1:21AM, not PM!
Five more years for the perfection of the Hoverboard then!
Was gonna say it wasn't 2010 before even looking it up! Huge fan of those films, they don't make them like they used to
I love them.....absolute classics! I am still waiting for a train that moves like that or at least one that runs on time. Here's to the furture!! ha
I thought it was 2015 they travelled to. Great Scott!!
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In response to my October 3rd article, "Gordon College, Don't Sell Your Soul for Secular Accreditation," a representative of the school reached out to me with some very positive news, assuring me that the school had no intention of changing its policy on homosexual practice.
First, I was referred to a statement by Gordon College President Michael D. Lindsay, quoted in a September 20, 2014 interview with the (Gordon) Tartan school newspaper.
In the interview, President Lindsay stated that, " . . . I think it would be shortsighted for us as a community to expect, come February, the board is going to make some master pronouncement, and that will be the end-all-be-all. Based on my conversations, I think that the board is currently quite satisfied with our current policy around homosexual behavior." more >>
Today, Pastor Rick and Kay Warren of Saddleback Church are hosting "24 Hours of Hope," a free global online event designed to encourage individuals living with a mental illness, educate and support their families, and equip church leaders for compassionate and effective mental health ministry.
On Thursday, Kay Warren talked to The Christian Post about what she has observed transpiring in the church community on the topic of mental health. Because of the family's high profile, CP asked Warren to talk about how the suicide of their son, Matthew, who struggled with mental illness, has impacted the church in the U.S. Matthew Warren died at the age of 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 5, 2013.
Rick and Kay Warren hosted the historic gathering on "Mental Health and the Church" last March, which was also co-hosted by Bishop Kevin Vann of the Diocese of Orange, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness – Orange County (NAMI-OC). more >>
Liberty University and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association announced Monday that on-campus students as well as those working toward their degree online can enroll in evangelism courses that feature presentations by the Rev. Billy Graham, Franklim Graham, and LU alumnus William Graham.
Students in all majors can take the courses, which began this semester through the university's School of Religion.
Will Graham, who's a 1997 graduate from Liberty University, said in a statement shared with The Christian Post that the collaboration is part of his grandfather's dream "to not just preach the Gospel, but to equip others around the world in the work of the evangelist." more >>
The brazen intellectual bankruptcy of campus censorship never fails to impress. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education was the latest prestige publication to cover the California State University system's mass-scale de-recognition of so-called "exclusionary" Christian groups.
And how, pray tell, are these groups exclusionary? They're open to any and all students, but they merely require that the leaders of Christian groups be, well, Christian.
The unspeakable horror. How dare these organizations subject their delicate members to such exclusion and discrimination! The poor, fragile adults at Cal State are obviously completely unequipped to handle contact with private organizations exercising the same religious-liberty rights that are absolutely and unequivocally protected off campus. Doubt me? Try applying to pastor a church of a different faith and then sue when they don't hire you. See how long your case lasts. more >>
The Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin, is now lobbying an Oklahoma School District to remove a painting by artist Donald Zolan because it suggests that "real American children pray." The district, however, has refused to comply with the secular group's request.
"It is our information and understanding that in the Kenneth Cooper Middle School office hangs a religious poster with an image entitled, 'Faith in America' by Donald Zolan. The image features two children with their hands clasped in prayer, with an American Flag background. The meaning could not be more clear, real American children pray," noted staff attorney Andrew L. Seidel in an Oct. 2 letter to Fred Rhodes, superintendent of Putnam County Schools in Oklahoma City.
The letter further claims that even if the children in the painting aren't really praying and just clasping their hands, it would be in violation of the First Amendment and requested that the painting be removed. more >>
A New York high school could face legal action after refusing to renew a Christian student organization this year.
Ward Melville High School of East Setauket received a letter from a New York City-based law firm demanding that they continue to recognize the group, Students United in Faith.
The demand letter came from the Liberty Institute and their volunteer attorneys at the firm McDermott, Will, & Emery. more >>


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Heaven's gate was a religious UFO cult in San Diego, California. They believed planet Earth was supposed to be recycled (wiped clean, everyone dead) and the only way to survive was to leave immediately.
They believed that their bodies were vehicles only meant to help them on their journey. They performed mass suicide, but defined this suicide as going on to the "next level".
They thought that there only means of escape would be to board their souls abroad a space craft that was trailing comet Hale-Bopp.
The cult rented a 9,200-sq.-ft. mansion.
Thirty-eight Heaven's Gate members, plus group leader Applewhite, were found dead in the home on March 26, 1997. In the heat of the California spring, many of the bodies had begun to decompose by the time they were discovered. Autopsies were carried out on the corpses, and medical examiners found the people had taken cyanide and arsenic.
The members took phenobarbital mixed with pineapple, washed down with vodka. Additionally, they secured plastic bags around their heads after ingesting the mix to induce asphyxiation.
Authorities found the dead lying neatly in their own bunk beds, faces and torsos covered by a square, purple cloth. Each member carried a five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets, said to be for interplanetary toll.
You can read more about them here in this Wiki article
Only one of the group's members, Rio DiAngelo/ did not kill himself: weeks before the suicides, in December 1996, DiAngelo agreed to leave the group so he could ensure future dissemination of Heaven's Gate videos and literature.
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MTV's 'Snooki' fined $500 for annoying beachgoers
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) -- Calling her "a Lindsay Lohan wannabe," a judge fined "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi $500 on Wednesday and ordered her to perform community service after she pleaded guilty to disturbing others on a beach in July.
Her lawyer said Polizzi was under the influence of alcohol when she stumbled around the beach in Seaside Heights, using loud language that disturbed other beachgoers.
Municipal Court Judge Damian G. Murray lectured Polizzi, borrowing from Dean Wermer's speech to Flounder in the movie "Animal House" in which the dean admonished the wayward student that "fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."
"Rude, profane, obnoxious and self-indulgent is not the way to live your life," the judge told Polizzi. "If this was your idea of a good time, it appears your recent celebrity has affected your judgment."
The judge also questioned whether Polizzi had staged the event for the show. Cameras were rolling as she stumbled around the beach on July 30.
"It was not scripted, sir," Polizzi replied.
Her lawyer, Raymond Raya, told the judge that Polizzi had had a few drinks "and was under the influence of some alcohol, and stumbled and tripped into people on the beach. She used loud language on the beach and interfered with the public's right to quiet enjoyment of the beach."
As part of a negotiated plea deal, Polizzi pleaded guilty to one count of interfering with the quiet enjoyment of the beach — essentially disturbing the peace. Charges of disorderly conduct and criminal annoyance of others were dropped. Raya and municipal prosecutor Kim Pascarella agreed Polizzi's conduct on the beach that day did not rise to the level of a crime.
"I would definitely like to apologize to the Seaside cops," Polizzi said in court. "This is not like me. I've never been in this situation before. I'd definitely like to apologize to anybody I hurt."
The judge fined her $500, plus $33 in court costs, and sentenced her to two days of community service. He gave her credit for one day of community service, which she spent quietly on Sunday at Popcorn Park Zoo in Lacey, a facility for abused or neglected animals run by the Associated Humane Societies. While there, she cleaned out cages, petted and fed animals, Raya said.
The zoo's general manager gave Polizzi a graham cracker — the favorite treat of its camel, Princess, who is famous for her ability to pick the winners of National Football League games — and told her to approach the animal with the treat in her mouth. She did so, and Princess took it from her mouth and "gave her a kiss," Raya said.
The remaining day of community service will be served in the next few weeks with the public works department, though the exact assignment has not yet been determined.
Raya said that after downing a few drinks on July 30, Polizzi was stumbling around the beach, and at one point ran toward the ocean, with her friends calling her to come back. She did not want to, and defiantly sat down on the sand, Raya said. A crowd that quickly swelled to 300 surrounded her, yelling things — all while MTV cameras were rolling.
Raya said neither he nor Polizzi knows whether the network plans to show that footage when the third season of "Jersey Shore" begins airing in January. Filming recently wrapped.
But the lawyer said the 22-year-old Poughkeepsie, N.Y., resident was rattled that day by the constant presence of cameras, a crowd trailing after her, and of course, the drinks.
"Judge, this was a bad day," he said. "I think we all have those days."
Outside the courtroom, Raya said the judge's comparison of Polizzi to the oft-arrested Lohan was unwarranted and unfair.
"This is what I would say is an anomaly in an otherwise well-lived life," he said.
Polizzi did not speak to reporters as she raced to a white sport utility vehicle outside the court and sped away.
But on her Twitter page, she wrote afterward, "Ah never again! So scary ... thank you judge for understanding, I'm very thankful for that!"
In her haste to flee the court, Polizzi left behind her credit card, which she had used to pay her fine, prompting a court employee to run after her with it.
"Jersey Shore" chronicles the carryings-on of a group of hard-partying 20-somethings — most of whom are from New York — at a beach house on the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
It has offended Italian-American groups but remains one of MTV's highest-rated shows. The cast was taping the third season in Seaside Heights.
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out of dateLine breaks: out of date
Definition of out of date in English:
1Old-fashioned: everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date
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- It's difficult to say whether the film would have been better had it gone before cameras three or four years ago but, by 2005, it feels creaky and out-of-date.
- Which will seem more quaint, out-of-date, or stupid?
- Those seeking to abuse the fast-developing connected digital era are mediated by archaic laws based on out-of-date concepts.
old-fashioned, outmoded, out of fashion, unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outdated, dated, out, outworn, old, former, musty, old-time, old-world, behind the times, behindhand, past, bygone, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated;
defunct, medieval, prehistoric, antediluvian, old-fogeyish, old-fangled, backward-looking, quaint, anachronistic, crusted, feudal, fusty, moth-eaten, olde worlde;
informal old hat, square, not with it, out of the ark, creaky, mouldy
North American informal horse-and-buggy, clunky, rinky-dink, mossy
archaic square-toed
1.1No longer valid or relevant: an out-of-date passport
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- Reports from Italy yesterday suggested he may have been travelling on an out-of-date passport in his old name.
- They included an out-of-date passport and references from people who were unable to verify clinical skills.
- After a long and tedious afternoon's work, all the out-of-date raisins and lentils have been chucked and the kitchen cupboards have been restored to order.
superseded, obsolete, no longer current/topical, stale, expired, extinct, lapsed, elapsed, run out, invalid, void, null and void
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This is a jam-packed resource you will want to add to your quilt library. Full of photographs and diagrams for 75 quilt blocks, this book will teach you three basic block construction methods to get you started in the world of quilt blocks. Discover the inner designer in you to create your own beautiful quilts. Mix and match the provided blocks in unique way such as rotating them; you may just find a secondary pattern just by doing so!
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The book is divided into sections using three different quilt making techniques with basic instructions at the beginning of each section. There are 25 traditional-pieced block patterns, 25 foundation-pieced patterns, and 25 applique block patterns. There are six quilt layout examples using several popular ways to arrange blocks including horizontal, on-point, and in strips. She also gives an example layout using all the blocks in the book. The traditional-pieced blocks are given in three different sizes serif"If you are new to foundation piecing I found the instructions very clear and quite a few of the patterns are considered beginner patterns. I can't wait to try out some of her applique patterns and use the decorative stitches on my machine.
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$ selenium
in a shell window Install the gem using the following: (note the case sensitive Selenium)
$ gem install Selenium
Note that the last time I checked the selenium jar file bundled with the Selenium gem is crap and will not work correctly. Instead use the latest build from the selenium site. Download the latest jar here: http://seleniumhq.org/download/ (I actually downloaded a more recent nightly release and it seemed to be more stable than the one listed on the home page -- current home page lists 1.0 beta2) Anyways, once you've done this you need to take that jar file and copy it to your where your current Selenium gem has the selenium-rc jar file. On my system it was in this directory: C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\Selenium-1.1.14\lib\selenium\openqa and the filename is selenium-server.jar.txt Supposedly there was an issue with a file name ending in .jar in ruby so they gave the file a .txt extension (who knows?). Anyways, you can make a backup of that one and copy the newest version there and give it the same name as the old one. From there you can just type selenium at the command prompt and the server will start up for you. One option I usually run with is -singleWindow when I'm trying to see what is going on (its very hard to see when the windows are real small). Anyways, on my system I also have the selenium-server.jar file installed at: c:\selenium-rc\selenium-server.jar which is where I run it from within my custom rake tasks. If you use the rakefile I've posted below to run your tests, you won't need to bother starting selenium first. In fact, if you start selenium before you run the rake tasks, the selenium server you start up will be immediately shut down by the rake tasks. The rake tasks starts up its own server so that you don't have to remember to start up selenium first. Its nice to be able to run cucumber tests one a time when you are developing though, and for those times you'll want to start up selenium without messing with rake. Here is the rakefile i'm currently using which will run your cucumber tests through each browser (if the test uses a browser).
require 'cucumber/rake/task' require 'selenium/rake/tasks' #require 'rubygems' #add this if you don't have rubygems added automatically # Change these to specify which browsers on which # platforms you want to cover @win_browsers = ["*iexploreproxy","*firefox"] @osx_browsers = ["*safari", "*firefox"] @linux_browsers = ["*firefox"] # Supported platforms @platforms = {"win"=>"Windows", "osx"=>"OS X", "linux"=>"Linux"} if RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase.include?("darwin") @platform = 'osx' elsif RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase.include?("mswin") @platform = 'win' elsif RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase.include?("linux") @platform = 'linux' end if ENV["SELENIUM_RC_JAR"] # User override SELENIUM_RC_JAR = ENV["SELENIUM_RC_JAR"] elsif File.exists?(File.dirname(__FILE__) + \ "/vendor/selenium-server/selenium-server.jar") # Bundled version included with project SELENIUM_RC_JAR = File.dirname(__FILE__) + \ "/vendor/selenium-server/selenium-server.jar" else SELENIUM_RC_JAR = case @platform when 'osx' then "/var/lib/selenium/selenium-server.jar" when 'linux' then "/var/lib/selenium/selenium-server.jar" when 'win' then "C:/selenium-rc/selenium-server.jar" else raise 'Unsupported Operating System' end end if not File.exists?(SELENIUM_RC_JAR) raise "File Not Found -- SELENIUM_RC_JAR" end desc "Invoke behaviours on all browsers on specified platform" task :test do @browsers = case @platform when 'win' then @win_browsers when 'osx' then @osx_browsers when 'linux' then @linux_browsers end puts "Running tests for the #{@platforms[@platform]} platform" Rake::Task[:"selenium:rc:stop"].execute [] rescue nil begin Rake::Task[:"selenium:rc:start"].execute [] @browsers.each do |browser| puts "executing on browser" + browser.to_s + "\n" @current_browser = browser ENV['SELENIUM_BROWSER'] = browser year,month,day = Date.today.strftime("%Y,%m,%d").split(",") dir = "reports/#{year}/#{month}" FileUtils::mkdir_p(dir) filename = "#{dir}/#{day}-#{browser.delete "*"}.html" ENV['CUCUMBER_OPTS'] = "--format progress --format html \ --out=#{filename} features" begin Rake::Task[ :run_browser_tests ].execute() rescue RuntimeError puts "Error while running task" end end ensure Rake::Task[:"selenium:rc:stop"].execute [] end end Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:'run_browser_tests') do |t| #t.cucumber_opts = "--format progress --format html \ --out=#{filename} features" end Selenium::Rake::RemoteControlStartTask.new do |rc| rc.port = 4444 rc.timeout_in_seconds = 30 rc.background = true rc.wait_until_up_and_running = true rc.jar_file = SELENIUM_RC_JAR rc.additional_args << "-singleWindow" end Selenium::Rake::RemoteControlStopTask.new do |rc| rc.host = "localhost" rc.port = 4444 rc.timeout_in_seconds = 30 rc.wait_until_stopped = true end desc "Restart Selenium Remote Control" task :'selenium:rc:restart' do Rake::Task[:"selenium:rc:stop"].execute [] rescue nil Rake::Task[:"selenium:rc:start"].execute [] end task :default => [:test]
Then in your env.rb file do this:
Before do profile = ENV['PROFILE'] || 'default' c = YAML.load_file('selenium.yml')[profile] browser_type = ENV['SELENIUM_BROWSER'] || "*firefox" @browser = Selenium::Client::Driver.new(c['server_host'], \ c['server_port'], browser_type, c['root_url'], c['timeout']) @browser.start end
Which means you'll need a selenium.yml file like this (mine is in the same directory as the rakefile):
default: server_host: localhost root_url: http://server-ip-address server_port: 4444 timeout: 28
And that should be it. Now just put your feature tests in a features directory and then put all your step definitions in files in a step_definitions directory.. Your tree should end up looking like this:
path/to/project/feature_tests/Rakefile.rb path/to/project/feature_tests/selenium.yml path/to/project/feature_tests/features/my_feature.rb path/to/project/feature_tests/features/step_definitions/my_feature_steps.rb path/to/project/feature_tests/features/support/env.rb path/to/project/feature_tests/features/lib/SomeClassToAbstractFeature.rb
Thats how I have my tests structured and it seems to be working out good.


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I've had this for about a month, and I think it's quite good for what it is. The oven heats quickly, which is great. I used to have a smaller toaster oven, but it always had unreliable temperature setting. This one is pretty accurate. This is a perfectly adequate toaster oven for my and my boyfriend.
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