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Saturday night at 7:07 PM a guy walked up to my front door and knocked four times. Seems normal enough. Only this guy was holding a fire extinguisher and had several other guys with him carrying skateboards. Continue reading
Saturday night at 7:07 PM a guy walked up to my front door and knocked four times. Seems normal enough. Only this guy was holding a fire extinguisher and had several other guys with him carrying skateboards. Continue reading
I woke up one Saturday morning, after enjoying a few (too many?) libations the night before, with a hankering for a really good cinnamon roll. In a world full of fancy donuts, macaroons, cupcakes and even cake pops it's bewildering to me that there aren't any truly awesome cinnamon rolls around anymore.
Back when I was a kid Cinnabon was the king. They were hot, fluffy, flavor-rich and delicious. But the last few times I've had them (probably three in the last ten years) they've been super disappointing.
So when I embarked on making the ultimate cinnamon roll, perhaps still a little tipsy from the night before, I did my best to avoid the "Cinnabon Clones" and instead decided to try something a little more original.
What I ended up with was a fluffy, gooey and delicious roll. I've made these now four times, each time a little different, but this recipe is the latest and best so far. Continue reading
I'm the type of person that can become totally obsessed with the weirdest things. Sometimes they stick, like my obsession with high end audio equipment, and other times the obsession is fleeting, like my obsession with sherry wine which lasted a solid season of Frasier and then disappeared.
The obsession I'm about to share could very well be the lamest though and it all started from working at Starbucks. I'm absolutely obsessed with clean drinking water. When I started with Starbucks back in 2005 I was amazed as the care they went through to purify their water. Most stores had a 5-stage filter system though one of my stores went all the way to 7 stages! Continue reading
It's a new year and of course one of my resolutions is to get back into shape. The very thought of putting something like this at the top of your resolutions is stressful. 80% of people who put going to the gym as their New Years resolution abandon it by the second week of February.
But I'm determined to not be part of that 80% dropout rate which means I not only need a gym but I need one that's convenient enough and offers the things I really want in a gym. Continue reading
It seems like New Years last year went by without any notice for me. I made no resolutions and thanks to all the fun I had at the Rich's, I don't really remember much of the celebration haha.
To be honest I've never really been someone that relied on New Years resolutions in order to make good changes in my life. In my mind it's really just an opportunity to set yourself up for failure that's so expected, when it happens there is no consequence. With a failure rate of 92%, it should come as no surprise that I don't put much credence in them.
That being said, I am making a conscious effort to do a few things different in 2016 that I failed miserably in accomplishing in 2015. Continue reading
If you thought I'd be writing like a mad man in 2015 you were sadly mistaken. In a period of time where so much has changed for me it's bewildering that it was the first year in over a decade that I wasn't writing.
I managed to go over a year without a single post and it sure wasn't because I had nothing to share. The last time I checked in with anyone on here was nearly 500 days ago. In that time I've made some massive changes to my life.
Let's go through the highlights. I'll keep this part brief, so much to share would hate to condense it into a single post! Continue reading
Two weekends ago I did something I didn't think possible. I paid off all of my credit cards. I paid off all of my student loans, years early even! And after all of that I still had money burning a hole in my pocket. How much money? Well… let's just say enough for me to pay cash for a few new toys.
First I picked up the big guy. A brand new Nikon D810. For the last six years I've been shooting with a Nikon D700 and I've loved it. This camera changed the way I shot photos and put me ahead of almost everyone in my photography courses with the incredibly powerful sensor and ability to capture such dynamic range. It is what allowed me to make the images I made with the awesome subtly that became my style. Continue reading


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the montgomery method
Recently I posted a piece about Martin Luther King Jr's global legacy, and later another one about religious unity during the protests in Egypt. Those two strands are tied together in this story on Comics Alliance:
Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Martin Luther King Comic
(Thanks to my friend Steven, who posted it on Facebook.)
The article details how The Montgomery Story, a comic book about King originally published in 1958 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, was recently translated into Arabic and Farsi by the American Islamic Congress and distributed in the Middle East – including Egypt. The comic is an account of the historic bus boycott led by King in Montgomery, Alabama, and includes a primer on "the Montgomery method" – the program of nonviolent action that King initiated in the American civil rights movement and which proved so crucial in the struggle. The article hints the comic may have had an influence on some Egyptian activists during the resent uprising, and helped shape its largely peaceful nature.
Look, The Montgomery Story probably won't ever win any artistic awards, but for a comic it is remarkably thorough and insightful in disseminating the spiritual values of nonviolent resistance and… well, love. It even includes a thoughtful recap of Gandhi's satyagraha movement in India.
The translation and distribution of The Montgomery Story's Arabic edition was spearheaded by activist Diala Ziada, director of the AIC's Egypt office. Ziada tirelessly promotes peace, civil rights and nonviolent change in the region with various media projects and sheer determination. Among her noteworthy projects is the Cairo Human Rights Film Festival, now in its third year.
It's fascinating to read this Time Magazine profile, published in 2009, identifying Ziada as part of a "soft revolution" of Middle Eastern women pushing for change within Islam. It really highlights how the earthshaking events in Cairo this month have changed the paradigms completely – the story is so right and prescient about some things, and so completely wrong and outdated about others. How quickly our perspective has changed. Note the description of the trouble the first edition of the film festival encountered from the government authorities, and Ziada's heroic efforts to keep it going:
The censorship board did not approve the films, so Ziada doorstopped its chairman at the elevator and rode up with him to plead her case. When the theater was suspiciously closed at the last minute, she rented a tourist boat on the Nile for opening night – waiting until it was offshore and beyond the arm of the law to start the movie.
I hadn't heard of this woman until I read this article, and I have to say I'm seriously impressed with her courage and energy and her commitment to nonviolent principles. (And she's only 28. Ever feel like you're not doing enough with your life?) In covering the Middle East, the mainstream media has generally focused primarily on victims and bad guys, giving us impressions of violence and pathos and little else. That's why so many of us were caught off guard with the uprising, a genuine people's movement defying lines of class, gender and religion, and not dictated by the agendas of elites and foreigners.
The Comics Alliance article admits that since only 2000 translated copies of The Mongomery Story were distributed, its influence on the events in Egypt could not have been widespread. But righteous seeds have a way of germinating at just the right time, and having an impact far greater than it may seem at first. In this letter, Zadia insists the book has had an important effect on those it reaches:
When, at first, we went to print the comic book, a security officer blocked publication. So we called him and demanded a meeting. He agreed, and we read through the comic book over coffee to address his concerns. At the end, he granted permission to print, and then asked: "Could I have a few extra copies for my kids?"
The comic book has been credited with inspiring young activists in Egypt and the larger region… Last week I distributed copies in Tahrir Square. Seeing the scene in the square firsthand is amazing. Despite violent attacks and tanks in the street, young people from all walks of life are coming together, organizing food and medical care, and offering a living model of free civil society in action.
It's quite an image, a young Muslim woman handing out copies of a 60-year-old comic book about the revolutionary vision of an American Baptist minister, right in the middle of her country's greatest crisis. As the writer of the Comics Alliance article says, "It's certainly cool that a comic book starring one of America's greatest real-life heroes has inspired even one person to take to the streets in the way we've seen over the last several weeks."
Click here for complete PDF versions of The Montgomery Story in Arabic, Farsi and English.

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Many people today view drones as scary military machines largely unsuitable for domestic use.
But Chris Anderson is building a company in San Diego and Tijuana based on the idea that drones can be a big benefit at home – doing things such as climate research to daily crop monitoring.
"We're building a home brew drone class, if you will," said Anderson at a technology conference in San Diego Friday. "Regular people couldn't build an auto pilot 10 years ago. Five years ago it was unaffordable. And now we can buy the parts at Radio Shack."
Anderson is chief executive of 3D Robotics – which makes small, relatively inexpensive drones using many components commonly found in smart phones. He and partner Jordi Munoz now sell more drones every six months than the entire drone fleet of the U.S. military, which numbers about 7,000 aircraft.
Anderson, who quit his job as editor and chief of Wired magazine to head 3D Robotics, spoke at the Rock Stars of Innovation conference sponsored by Connect and Xconomy.
He focused on how the technology to make drones has become available to everyone, allowing dramatic innovation akin to what occurred when personal computers emerged in the late 1970s and the Internet became mainstream a few years later.
Anderson also spoke on how San Diego and Tijuana are positioned to challenge China's manufacturing prowess by offering a time to market advantage. 3D Robotics is based in San Diego but manufactures drones in Mexico. Most of its competitors are Chinese.
"We had to build a company from the ground up that was designed to compete with China in the 21st century," he said. "We had to have cost parity on production and superiority on innovation. There is only one place in the world where we can do that: The San Diego/Tijuana nexus."
3D Robotics' small drones work today in such things as climate research, placing temperature sensors on glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic, for example. But Anderson sees big potential for drones in agriculture.
Having a drone fly daily reconnaissance missions over massive crop fields could allow farmers to target their application of pesticides or water only to areas where they're needed.
"It could be a game changer," he said. "This is the way to diminish the chemical loads on our farms and in our food. We have agricultural drones on farms right now. This is the killer app for domestic unmanned aerial vehicles."
Anderson said the manufacturing landscape is changing. While it used to be about lowering labor costs, automation of factories has made the labor a smaller part of the cost equation.
Today for many manufacturers, getting products to market quickly is a key competitive advantage. "That dimension – the speed dimension – is how we compete with China Getting our supply chain from 9,000 miles to one mile, we are fast. We are now as cheap and much faster."


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As the CakePHP framework grows in popularity, more and more tutorials are show up for it, including this quick and handy one from Graham Bird. In it, he explains the use of "slugs" instead of IDs to make URLs simpler to use and remember.
In this tutorial you will learn how to use words rather than IDs in your Cake URLs. These words are known as "slugs" in Wordpress so I decided to call them slugs too.
Cake's normal URLs look like this: www.example.com/stories/read/123245221
and we are going to make them look like this: www.example.com/stories/read/sleepingbeauty
Thanks to the simplicity of the framework, the tutorial is pretty short, using one of CakePHP's "magic functions" to help cross-match the slug given with a table in the database with a slug/title relationship. There's not much code to it and he provides a demo


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Va. Senate panel backs felons' rights bill
Legislation to restore voting rights to nonviolent felons
Legislation backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell to automatically restore nonviolent felons' voting rights has been endorsed by a Senate committee.
The Privileges and Elections Committee voted 10-5 Tuesday to send the measure to the Senate floor. The resolution calls for a constitutional amendment that would give the General Assembly authority to determine which nonviolent felony offenses would be eligible for automatic restoration of rights. Currently, only the governor can restore felons' rights after they've served their sentences.
Democrats have championed automatic restoration for years. They got an unexpected boost when the Republican governor backed the idea in his State of the Commonwealth speech. Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli also advocates approval of measure.
If it clears the Senate, the measure likely faces more resistance in the House of Delegates.


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WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades Wednesday, rejecting tighter background checks for buyers and a ban on assault weapons as they spurned pleas from families of victims of last winter's school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
"This effort isn't over," President Barack Obama vowed at the White House moments after the defeat on one of his top domestic priorities. Surrounded by Newtown relatives, he said opponents of the legislation in both parties "caved to the pressure" of special interests.
A ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines also fell in a series of showdown votes four months after a gunman killed 20 elementary school children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary.
A bid to loosen restrictions on concealed weapons carried across state lines was rejected, as well.
That last vote marked a rare defeat for the National Rifle Association on a day it generally triumphed over Obama, gun control advocates and many of the individuals whose lives have been affected by mass shootings in Connecticut and elsewhere.
Some of them watched from the spectator galleries above the Senate floor. "Shame on you," shouted one, Patricia Maisch, who was present two years ago when a gunman in Tucson, Ariz., killed six and wounded 13 others, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Vice President Joe Biden gaveled the Senate back into order after the breach of decorum.
Gun control advocates, including Obama, had voiced high hopes for significant action after the Newtown shootings. But the lineup of possible legislation gradually dwindled to a focus on background checks, and in the end even that could not win Senate passage.
Chances in the Republican-controlled House had seemed even slimmer.
By agreement of Senate leaders, a 60-vote majority was required for approval of any of the provisions brought to a vote.
The vote on the background check was 54-46, well short of the 60 votes needed to advance. Forty-one Republicans and five Democrats voted to reject the plan.
The proposed ban on assault weapons commanded 40 votes; the bid to block sales of high capacity ammunition clips drew 46.
The NRA-backed proposal on concealed carry permits got 57.
In the hours before the key vote on background checks, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., bluntly accused the National Rifle Association of making false claims about the expansion of background checks that he and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., were backing.
"Where I come from in West Virginia, I don't know how to put the words any plainer than this: That is a lie. That is simply a lie," he said, accusing the organization of telling its supporters that friends, neighbors and some family members would need federal permission to transfer ownership of firearms to one another.
The NRA did not respond immediately to the charge, but issued a statement after the vote that restated the claim. The proposal "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution," said a statement from Chris Cox, a top lobbyist for the group.
Said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, "Expanded background checks would not have prevented Newtown. Criminals do not submit to background checks."
Even before the votes, the administration signaled the day's events would not be the last word on an issue that Democratic leaders shied away from for nearly two decades until Obama picked up on it after the Newtown shootings.
Obama, standing near Giffords and relatives of other shooting victims, said at the White House public opinion was strongly behind expanded background checks. Despite that, opponents of the legislation were "worried that the gun lobby would spend a lot of money" at the next election, he said.
"So all in all this was a pretty shameful day for Washington," he added.


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Loch Raven United Methodist
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
An open, dynamic and multicultural community of faith
Dough for Funds Panera Bread Fundraiser!
Date: Sunday, June 03, 2018
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Loch Raven United Methodist Church - Dough for Funds Panera Bread FundraiserPrevious Page
- Start Date: Sunday, May 13th End Date: Sunday, June 3rd
- For the next few weeks, we will be offering a delicious, easy fundraiser to our Loch Raven UMC families and friends.
- This fundraiser revolves around the sale of two types of coupon strips: One six coupon Bagel Strip which features three
bagels per coupon (18 bagels in total) and one six coupon strip which features a variety of baked goods.
- Retail value for the coupon strips is greater than the $10.00 selling price.
- The cost of each coupon strip is $10.00. The church will make a profit of $5.00 per coupon strip sold.
There is no expiration date on the coupon strip. Coupons are only valid in Maryland!
- Cash and checks are acceptable forms of payment. Checks should be made payable to LRUMC. Payment and order forms
are due to church no later than Sunday, June 3rd. All profits from the Panera fundraiser will go toward startup costs related to
the creation of a food bank at Loch Raven UMC.
- All orders must be turned in by Sunday, June 3rd.
- Delivery will be around the second week of June.
- If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jen Webster at (410) 419-6886 or email email@example.com.


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I have come across the following Canadian websites, blogs, Facebook, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too
No new websites this week.
Family Tree Knots http://familytreeknots.blogspot.ca Ken, a cousin of mine (related through the Chipman – Webster family of Kentville, Nova Scotia) has a new blog in which he tackles brick walls in his family tree.
Facebook, Videos, You Tube
No new sites this week
Newspapers Articles of the Week
Lac-Mégantic library to get Maine donations after explosion Farmington Public Library raises funds to help rebuild destroyed library in Quebec town http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lac-m%C3%A9gantic-library-to-get-maine-donations-after-explosion-1.1363080 Libraries across Maine have been busy collecting donations to help the people in Lac-Mégantic, Que. rebuild their library which was totally destroyed in the train derailment and explosion in June.
Plaque honours Angus MacLean - war hero, politician, farmer and family man http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2013-09-15/article-3390983/Plaque-honours-Angus-MacLean---war-hero,-politician,-farmer-and-family-man/1 The late Angus MacLean, a member of parliament and then as premier of Prince Edward Island was honoured with a plaque placed at the Lord Selkirk Park by the The Clan Maclean Heritage Heritage Trust, Clan Maclean Atlantic Canada, the Caledonian Club of P.E.I and the Belfast Historical Society.
Windsor Historical Society's Veterans' Memories Project http://www.examiner.com/article/windsor-historical-society-s-veterans-memories-project Corinne Frontiero writes a piece about Matthew Pritchard, a young historian involved with the Windsor Historical Society's Veterans Memories Projects
Story of the Week
Some very sad news for Ottawa as news slowly came out that two of the six people in the train – bus accident Thursday had indirect ties to the genealogy community in Ottawa.
Robb More, the son of vice-president Mike More of the Ontario Genealogical Society, and former chair of the Ottawa Genealogical Branch, and Karen Krzyzewski, an employee at Library and Archives Canada both passed away in the accident.
Our prayers are with the families at this time.
All flags in Ottawa are at half mast this week, and if you wish to learn more about this symbol of the county's grief, you can go to http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1311704914994/1311705010488
Reminder: Check out Canadian Week in Review every Monday for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada. It's the ONLY news blog of its kind in country! The next post will be on 30 September, 2013


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Residents especially those prone to respiratory problems should be cautious of potential health risks related to smoke from two nearby fires.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Regional Air Quality Council issued a wildfire smoke health advisory for the Weber Fire on Sunday, which is burning southeast of Mancos.
The advisory warned of moderate to locally heavy smoke near Mancos and Cortez, and said smoke would move southwest, west and northwest Sunday evening and this morning.
Meanwhile Sunday, at the State Line Fire burning near the Colorado-New Mexico line, two firefighters were treated by medics for smoke inhalation, Dave Imming, spokesman for Durango Fire & Rescue Authority said.
Imming warned of the danger related to smoke exposure.
For people with respiratory illnesses, smoke is definitely going to cause serious problems, he said. Smoke can trigger an asthma attack or bronchitis smoke is definitely an irritant.
An emergency room nurse at Mercy Regional Medical Center said there hadnt been many complaints of smoke-related respiratory issues Sunday, but recommended people prone to respiratory issues stay indoors with the air conditioner on, take any usual medications and stay hydrated.
Cindi Shank, director of the Southwest Colorado Chapter of the American Red Cross, said the Red Cross moved its check-in center from Mancos to Cortez on Sunday in part because of health concerns related to smoke in the area. Shank said she had not heard any complaints relating to smoke inhalation while checking in evacuees Sunday.
People who have pre-existing respiratory or circulatory conditions, respiratory infections or smoke allergies are most likely to be affected, as are elderly people, children and pregnant women, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environments Air Pollution Control Division.
Where visibility is less than five miles, strenuous physical activity should be avoided, said Mark Salley, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in Denver.
People experiencing irritated eyes or coughing should try to leave the area, Salley said.
Information about symptoms related to wildfire smoke and what you can do is available at www.colorado.gov/airquality/wildfire.aspx.
For an updated Colorado air-quality summary and information on wildfire smoke health advisories visit www.colorado.gov/airquality/colorado_summary.aspx.


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Hey Flavio! I might be out of town this weekend, but not 100% sure yet. If I'm around, I'd definitely be down for some tennis. Where do you usually play?
I miss you guys!!! I'll come back for a reunion before too long...
Yes! Thanks, Flavio, I enjoyed it.
Great! I'm patient, just like Gunther :-). Let me know what time you may be heading out there and if you'd like me to join.
Hi Flavio, thanks for your invite. I'm too busy the rest of this week but hope to play doubles next Wednesday or just hit (singles is OK too but doubles is twice the fun!). I just wish there were more lights at the RCEN, Las Positas lights are much brighter.
Let me know if you need directions, just take the Los Carneros off ramp from 101, head towards Isla Vista and turn left on Mesa Road (the first left after Hollister). Go through the first stop sign and it is just up the hill on the right hand sign (approximately 150 meters past the stop sign).
There will be between three and five of us on Tuesday. If you can make it we will have enough to play doubles.
There will be at least 3-4 of us tomorrow at 6pm. Hope you can make it. Do you know where the UCSB Rec Cen courts are? There is a small parking lot off of Mesa Road, where you can park all night for $3.00. This link shows the six (6) tennis courts immediately north of the recreation center. Just take Mesa Road west from Los Carneros.
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Former insurance agent Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim is scheduled to be sentenced later today for stealing more than $1 million in retirement savings from several elderly clients. Jamrus-Kassim pleaded guilty last month to 10 counts of first-degree theft.
The King County Prosecutors Office is seeking an exceptional prison sentence of 68 months. The case is State v. Jamrus-Kassim, with sentencing slated at 3:30 p.m. before Judge Sharon Armstrong in courtroom E-847.
From 2007 to late 2009, several of Jamrus-Kassim's clients cashed out large portions of their retirement accounts, apparently thinking they were re-investing the money. In reality, the money went to Jamrus-Kassim, who spent tens of thousands of dollars on a psychic hotline, clothes, jewelry and a trip to Mexico.
An investigation by the Washington insurance commissioner's Special Investigations Unit led to her arrest in March.
And Bankers Life and Casualty, one of the companies that Jamrus-Kassim worked for, agreed last month to repay the money that Jamrus-Kassim stole.
Update: As it turned out, sentencing was continued until Dec. 9 after Jamrus-Kassim demanded a new attorney.
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Whether you're looking to take a quick weekend getaway to the Grand Canyon, splurge on a luxury trip to Greece or take a one-month sabbatical in Japan, knowing how to properly plan and budget is crucial.
Though travel prices are expected to be high in 2018 - research from the GBTA Foundation predicted airfare would increase by 3.5 percent this year, while hotel prices would increase by 3.7 percent - you can plan the perfect budget-friendly trip with these strategies.
From tips on which debit cards have no foreign transaction fees to data on the cheapest days of the week to travel, here's everything you need to know at every stage of the planning, budgeting and traveling process.
Picking a destination
Look at the average airfare cost where you want to travel. The U.S. Department of Transportation allows you to search major cities across the U.S. to see the average cost of airfare. Looking through these numbers will help you find a destination that won't leave a hole in your wallet. For example, the average airfare for all cities in the U.S. in the third quarter of 2017 was $335.83. Austin had an average of $331.26, while Chicago had an average of $284.79. If you were deciding between those two cities, selecting Chicago might be a more affordable option (depending on your home base).
Forgo the "EuroTrip"/multi-destination mentality. If you're planning a big trip, it can be tempting to try to visit several countries, or even a handful of cities within one country. Nora Dunn, an author and blogger, ran her own financial planning practice in Toronto, which she sold in 2006 to travel. She has since been to 55 countries.
Dunn advises shying away from the multi-stop trip mentality - both for your experience, which will be less immersive, and your wallet. "When you're planning a trip, it's easy to want to conquer the country and to move around a lot," she says. "But the more planes, trains and automobiles you're getting on, the more money you're inherently going to spend."
Consider flying to a neighboring country or city and taking a short road trip. If you're itching to go to Austin, for example, but the fares are too steep, consider flying to Dallas and going on a three-hour road trip. Smaller cities often have pricier airfare, so check the closest major cities to see if there's a significantly cheaper fare.
Check conversion rates if traveling internationally. Conversion rates fluctuate, and it's wise to check the current rate in the country you intend to travel to. If it's high or has been steadily increasing, consider choosing a different destination.
Book your flight at the optimal time. How far ahead to book a flight is heavily debated, but research conducted by CheapAir.com in May 2017 found that for flights in the U.S., it's anywhere between three weeks and 3 ½ months ahead of time. For international travel, the optimal time to book is typically two to four months before your departure date. The research study looked at 350 million airfares in the U.S. and in 3,000 other cities.
Planning & budgeting
Research in advance. Dunn advises figuring out what everything will cost - from big things like airfare and lodging, to small things like breakfast and souvenirs. "Get an estimate for what you think the trip will cost, and then backtrack," she says. "Say you want to take that trip in eight months and you need to save X amount of dollars. Backtrack and make sure you have the ability to save that amount of money for your trip."
Allocate funds into a specific travel account. Andrea Woroch, a personal finance and consumer savings expert, recommends having an automatic savings account for travel. By creating an account that you automatically allocate funds into each month, you can better track your progress and also know exactly how much you've saved for your trip.
"You can picture yourself taking that dream vacation when you see the money in that fund growing," Woroch says. "Plus, when you have it all mixed together, it's hard to see how much you're actually putting away toward the vacation, or it's easy to dip in when other things come up that you need money for."
Sign up for travel credit cards under one condition: That you pay them off in full each month. Travel credit cards that allow you to accumulate miles can be great, so long as you can afford to meet the sign-up minimums and regularly pay your balances off. "No frequent-flyer mile strategy is a good one if you have to carry a balance on your card in order to do it," Dunn says. Her secret strategy is having frequent flyer membership in one airline from each major Alliance.
If traveling internationally, use an ATM for exchanges. "No matter how you slice it, you're going to end up paying to exchange money," Dunn says. Even though banks charge fees to use ATMs to withdraw cash, you're less likely to lose money in a scam or pay a commission that's too high.
Consider a no-fee card. If you're an avid international traveler, consider using a checking account that doesn't charge or at least reimburses for ATM fees. Kristin Addis, founder of Be My Travel Muse and a former investment banker, says this is her secret weapon when traveling internationally. "They refund all ATM fees, so they are giving me back around $70 per month when I'm traveling," Addis says, adding that they also don't charge any foreign transaction fees. "I never use a money changer because I'm able to do an almost apples-to-apples transaction with them at an ATM."
Don't travel from Friday to Friday. The cheapest flights in the U.S. are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, while the cheapest flights to Europe are typically during the week, according to FareCompare, a fare-comparison website.
Woroch advises avoiding Fridays in particular. "Fridays are busy days for business travelers," she says. "So prices are always higher because airlines know that business travelers are willing to spend more because it usually goes toward the company. Leisure travel prices go down on Saturdays."
Enjoying your trip (and not overspending)
Consider using a prepaid debit card. Erica Sandberg, a consumer finance expert, says she loves the advice someone recently gave her to go on a trip with a prepaid debit card you use for all of your transactions. "Almost no money management is necessary," she says. "You use those funds. It's a really cool instrument that doesn't cost much - it's a couple of bucks - and if it's stolen or you lose it, you can replace it."
Be mindful of small expenses, and prepare for them. Woroch advises planning ahead for all of the small expenses that will pop up during your travel. For example, airport parking. She recommends AirportParkingReservations.com, which offers private parking and a shuttle to the airport.
In addition, Addis recommends researching the average cost of a taxi (or public transportation) to your hotel or Airbnb once you land at your destination. "You're going to get off the flight and be tired, and it's going to be confusing because it's not in your currency," she says. "Something will seem like it's reasonable price-wise when it's not."
Don't go over on your cell phone data. If you're abroad, consider downloading key items from your phone, such as maps, ahead of time. Woroch does this to avoid using too much data and paying penalty fees. "You can also download your maps before you leave your hotel if you're using their free Wi-Fi connection," she says.
Prepare for any in-country activities. Though spontaneity can be wonderful when traveling, researching what you'd like to do ahead of time will allow you to save a few bucks here and there. Woroch recommends finding free walking tours and paying for any attraction, activity and museum tickets ahead of time, because it's typically cheaper to pre-purchase them online.
Now that you know all of the best tricks and tips for booking a budget-friendly vacation in 2018, get to planning!
MagnifyMoney is a price comparison and financial education website, founded by former bankers who use their knowledge of how the system works to help you save money.


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Embattled community group ACORN, stung by undercover video showing employees giving illegal advice, has named a former Massachusetts attorney general to head up an internal probe.
Democrat lawyer Scott Harshbarger, who specializes in corporate governance, will conduct an "aggressive, thorough and far-reaching" investigation, according to ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
"We have strengthened our systems on a number of fronts," Lewis said. "But that process is ongoing."
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The organization has seen its federal funding cut off by Congress in recent weeks and even President Obama, who once worked with the group, said he was shocked by the video, which was shot by two freelance journalists posing as a pimp and a prostitute. Shot in four cities, the video caught ACORN counselors telling the pair how to hide their income, even after they said they were looking to run a brothel with underage illegal immigrants.
The embarrassing video is the latest of ACORN's problems. Its board forced its founder out last year after his brother embezzled nearly $1 million from the organization. The money was later repaid by an anonymous donor.
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The Third International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'04)
La Jolla, California, October 20-22 2004
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
UCSD Institute for Neural Computation.
UCSD Center for Human Development.
In technical cooperation with:
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience
and robotics have stimulated the birth and growth of a new research
field, known as computational autonomous mental development.
Although human mental development is a well known subject of study, e.g., in
developmental psychology, computational studies of mental development for
either machines or humans had not received sufficient attention in the past.
Mental development is a process during which a brain-like natural or artificial
embodied system, under the control of its intrinsic species-specific
developmental program residing in the genes or artificially designed,
develops mental capabilities through its autonomous real-time interactions
with its environments (including its own internal environment and
components) using its own sensors and effectors. The scope of mental
development includes cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental
capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals and artificial
systems. Investigations of the computational mechanisms of mental
development are expected to improve our systematic understanding of the
working of the wide variety of cognitive and behavioral capabilities in humans
and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities
by robots and other artificial systems.
ICDL-04 is the second regularly scheduled conference following the conference celebrated at MIT June 12-15 2002. The origin of these conferences traces back to the Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), funded by NSF and
DARPA, held April 5 - 7, 2000 at Michigan State University . Some discussion about this new direction is
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An autonomous, real-time, incremental, open-ended, sensor-grounded and
effector-grounded operational mode of mental development implies that multiple
disciplines of human intelligence and artificial intelligence face many
similar research issues. Therefore, this conference series is
multidisciplinary in nature, inviting researchers from all related fields
including, but not limited to, machine intelligence, machine learning,
computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, animal learning, psychology,
neuroscience, computational intelligence, and philosophy. Although
understanding or realizing fully autonomous mode of mental development is a
goal, intermediate results toward this goal are all encouraged.
The subjects of the conference include, but not limited to
(1) Architecture of mental development
(2) Learning and training techniques that facilitate mental development
(3) Development of visual, auditory and other sensory cortices
(4) Development of filters and feature detectors
(5) Neural plasticity during development
(6) Development of value system
(7) Development of emotion
(8) Development of cognitive system
(9) Coordination and integration of behaviors through development
(10) Development of attention mechanisms
(11) Development of vision system
(12) Development of audition system
(13) Development of taction system
(14) Integration mechanisms through development
(15) Computational models of language acquisition through development
(16) Generation of representation during development
(17) Integrated developmental programs or systems
(18) Autonomous thinking behaviors through development
(19) Development of consciousness
(20) Robot bodies that facilitate autonomous mental development
(21) Robots capable of autonomous mental development
(22) Robotic techniques for mental development
(23) Comparison of approaches to machine intelligence
(24) Social and philosophical issues of developmental robots
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- Vector Faces - Cleanup all curves,nodes, close all paths (100% completed)
- New Back - Create at least one high quality back that can be easily customized (95% completed) Offer in four colors (blue, red, green, black)
- Move all downloads to my site, create custom download page (10% completed)
- Review licensing terms, perhaps simplify (will keep attribution requirement and look into the rest) (50% completed)
- 3.0 release deadline 10/31/17 or sooner (fingers crossed!)
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Arena Kitchen (Level 1)
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AWE Gourmet (Level 1)
During the event days, visitors can enjoy a variety of delicious fast food in efficient self-service catering counters.
IKON Seaview Restaurant (Level 2)
A retreat for guests with our stunning 180 degree seaview, served with casual fine dining or delectable Oriental-themed delights.
Spotlight Bar (Level 1)
A dynamic place where visitors head to for exotic cocktails and restorative drinks. During large-scale events, it can also be changed to a carving buffet serving different kinds of roasted cuisine.
Ebeneezer's Express (Hall 10 & Mobile Kiosk)
Traditional taste of Kebabs, Curries, Pizzas, Biryanis, Salads, Fish-N-Chips and with a wide variety of dressings.
Hana-Musubi (Hall 6 & Mobile Kiosk)
A Japanese onigiri (rice balls) eatery specializing in additive-free onigiri made daily. The restaurant also provides a variety of bento and a-la-carte items to choose from.
Pacific Coffee (Level 1 and Ground Level Foyer next to Hall Units)
A perfect place to enjoy world-class coffee and great tasting snacks. The store environment provides you comfortable music selection and relaxing atmosphere for business socialising.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and eat haggis straight out of the can. LET'S GO!
EAGLES/STEELERS – 8:00PM (FOX) It's your first primetime look at Michael Vick this preseason, and the Eagles have surrounded him with an embarrassing amount of talented free agents (oh, and they signed Vince Young). Many people have already called this Philly squad a "Dream Team," and this is your first chance to see them utterly fail to live up to that moniker. Should be fun! ANTICIPATION: DOGGONE EXCITED!
DO SOMETHING AWARDS 2011 – 9:00PM (VH1) Coming in a distant second Logo Network's NewNowNext Awards in the category of "Weird Award Show Titles," VH1 brings back their annual salute to young people who do lots of good things for the community. Your host is Jane Lynch, because only horrible people don't like Jane Lynch. There will also be musical performances from the likes of OneRepublic, and I always see that group's name and assume it's a clothing line. Anyway, sit there and do nothing while you watch young people who have done the precise opposite. ANTICIPATION: DO GOODERS!
PROSTITUTION: LEAVING THE LIFE – 9:00PM (OWN) It's a two-hour special about hookers in Cook County trying desperately to leave the sex trade, a business they almost certainly entered out of either financial or personal desperation. You'll be rooting for them. ANTICIPATION: SAD!
HOOTERS SNOW ANGELS 2 – 11:00PM (Spike) Meanwhile, over on Spike, WAHOOOO HOOTERS GALS IN SWIMSUITS! Awesome! High five! It's exploitation with a side of hot wings! YEEEEHAW! ANTICIPATION: SHADY!
PROJECT RUNWAY – 9:00PM (Lifetime) Tonight, the designers have to create a fancy garment for cruelly indifferent judge Nina Garcia, who I think would declare herself bored even if she witnessed the Second Coming. And Nina has already thrown her weight around this season by more or less declaring her hatred for Anthony Ryan, who's probably one of the better contestants. I tell you, this woman is the David Stern of fashion. Always scheming. Always rigging the game. It's not right! I hope they design an iron maiden for her! ANTICIPATION: CROOKED!
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'Inside Llewyn Davis' review: Folk era an empty prop to Coens
Inside Llewyn Davis
Black comedy. Starring Oscar Isaac, John Goodman, Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. (R. 105 minutes.)
The Coen brothers' worldview is portable through time and space. Whether they are presenting the American heartland circa 1980, Minnesota in 1967 or New York City in the early 1960s, life is harsh, pointless and absurd, though sometimes it's also funny, at least funny to watch. Their latest, "Inside Llewyn Davis," is set in the Greenwich Village folk scene over the course of a few days in 1961, but it might just as well take place at a Model T plant in 1925 or at a 17th century tulip farm in Holland, because the message would be the same: It's horrible out there.
So we have a movie that's enjoyable and yet puzzling and hard to embrace fully. "Inside Llewyn Davis" goes back to a very specific cultural moment but shows no real interest in the way people really thought, talked or acted then. It visually re-creates the folk era but has nothing to say about it in particular. The Coens, with this film, are like people who fly all the way to Paris on vacation and then eat at McDonald's every night, because that's what they know. Why bother making the trip at all?
The film begins in a dark, smoky nightclub, with Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) entertaining a crowd with just his voice and guitar. This is a talented man, an artist, someone who deserves good things from life. But what he soon gets is a punch in the face, and from there the movie becomes a series of bad breaks, stresses and indignities. As played by Isaac, Llewyn is used to this life and yet is completely shocked and exasperated by every bad turn. His ridiculously astonished reaction to his fate is what makes this a comedy and not a tragedy.
For sure, this is a funny movie. The humor is of the darkest possible variety, but it's there, and once you get onto the wavelength and start enjoying every awful thing that happens, the laughs become frequent. Laughter is its own justification. It makes "Inside Llewyn Davis" a better than middling movie. And yet the laughter can only cover over, or make us obliged to ignore, what is a highly inharmonious match - the cool, smirky pessimism of the Coens versus the guileless hope of the pre-Dylan folk scene.
How could the Coens approach such a mind-set? They could never embrace guileless hope, and they have no interest in re-creating the era's mood. Yet they don't quite want to mock the folk scene, either, because, in their own stone-faced way, they love it. That's why some scenes land in a neither/nor category, a weird zone of not quite satire.
It's also why some of the best scenes are the musical performances. All of Llewyn's solo numbers ache with a depth of feeling that the Coens cannot otherwise match nor rope into some unconscious synthesis. They're pure in themselves and stand alone. And the movie's original song, "Please Mr. Kennedy" - a mock novelty tune about the space program, sung by Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver - is a blast of fun that comes closest to capturing what another generation considered clever.
Timberlake wears such an earnest expression throughout that he is barely recognizable - good character work. Carey Mulligan, in a black wig, plays his folk-singing wife, who has become pregnant by Llewyn and absolutely hates Llewyn's guts. It's another unnuanced performance from Mulligan, who seems to have been directed into madcap unpleasantness, yelling every line.
"Inside Llewyn Davis" is a movie about luck, about the human condition, about how life is unfair, but these are general things with no specific connection to the folk era. Just as the Coens use the time period as a gesture without purpose, they give the movie a picaresque structure that becomes a storytelling strategy in place of an idea. Perhaps they hoped it might all come together, all the disparate elements - such as John Goodman, as a veteran musician, barking insults at Llewyn from the back of a car, and then walking and stumbling on two canes.
But it never really adds up. It never becomes more than one scene, followed by the next, and then another. Yet those scenes are easy to watch, and they have the Coens' signature humor. In fact, let's be honest: If this were the Coens' first movie, before we'd come to expect more, "Inside Llewyn Davis" might even be cause for excitement.
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Sony has metaphorically given the US trade body the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) the finger, saying it will continue to brand its 3840 x 2160 TVs '4K', thank you very much.
The Japanese giant briefly said this afternoon: "We laud the CEA's efforts to come up with a common language to describe the next generation [of] high-definition technology."
But "Sony will continue to use the 4K moniker for its products and will market its future products as 4K ultra high-definition (4K UHD)... to ensure clarity for consumers and delineate between today's and tomorrow's technology".
Last month, the CEA said it would begin recommending that telly makers' better-than-1080p sets "will be called 'Ultra High-Definition' or 'Ultra HD', connoting its superiority over conventional HDTV". The decision, unanimously agreed by the CEA's "Board of Industry Leaders", followed a report drawn up by a CEA body called the 4K Working Group, which has since had to rename itself the Ultra HD Working Group.
However, most of the 8.3 megapixel TVs announced to date have been branded '4K' or '4K x 2K', though that clearly represents rather a lot of rounding of the pixel dimensions, and the TV industry, from hardware through to content, has been chucking the term '4K' around for years.
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), which defined a 3840 x 2160 format in 2007 - and a 7680 × 4320 version too, for that matter - dubbed its standard UHDTV, but appends either '4K' or '8K' to it to indicate which of the two sizes it happens to be talking about. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has also standardised UHDTV 4K and UHDTV 8K.
You'd have thought the industry would have learned from the HD roll-out, with its plethora of terms, including '720p', '1080i', '1080p', 'HD TV', 'HD Ready', 'Full HD', leaving ordinary punters unsure as to what they were getting exactly.
Some folk will surely assume Ultra HD means 'a little better than HD', though not necessarily boasting four times the number of pixels in a 1920 x 1080 image. Then again, does '4K' really suggest a significant improvement over HD either?
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'I Do-nut:' Local donut cart debuts on the weddin' scene
For most brides-to-be, planning a budget means allocating the most funds to the reception– while the most important part of the Big Day may be the ceremony, the most memorable part is often the reception. And why not? The food, the music, the dancing, the food, the favors, the food– more often than not, the guests will look back lovingly at the vows and longingly at the petit crab cakes and bacon-wrapped scallops.
But gone are the days of cliche cocktail hors d'oeuvres and a standard three-tiered raspberry butterscotch wedding cake– numerous new options flood the realm of wedding food. According to Carpe Donut founder and pastry innovator Matt Rohdie, wedding food is now open to new interpretation. For those with a sweet tooth, the growing trend of buffet dessert bars mean that the treats served at the end of the night have limitless possibilities. And for recent Charlottesville newlyweds, calling in Rohdie's red donut cart is the perfect way to say "I do" to dessert.
"People do get a little beyond where their own comfort zone is for how fancy [food] can be– an event we did at Keswick was having foie gras peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, for example," Rohdie says. "When you've reached the point of your menu getting that baroque, it's satisfying to close the whole event down with a food that's not taking itself too seriously."
Both a former caterer and a social worker for 15 years, Rohdie has found a way to combine two loves into one– much like the couples who are attracted to his mobile "micro-catering." Looking for a simple, economically sustainable, yet sumptuous catering option, Rohdie and his wife Jen experimented with various foods before settling upon and perfecting an organic donut recipe. Bringing his product to the street, Rohdie discovered an untapped desire in town for an easily accessible, "cute" dining option.
"Donuts have a uniquely American element and is a very industrial food– machines were invented early on to allow one person to make 1,000 donuts in one afternoon," he says. "My wife's vision was that if you make the cart cute, visually appealing, people will love it."
Love for Carpe Donut has expanded from occasional street-side vending to high demand wedding treat. Rohdie offers a wide variety of catering options– from a mere coffee service, with java, cider, and endless donuts to a full-service breakfast of fruit, scrambled eggs, and, yes, donuts– at prices and precision sometimes overlooked by larger catering companies.
"Folks hiring us for weddings bring us in to do a component of dessert that they don't have to get from a traditional caterer," Rohdie says. "I spent one and a half years on that donut recipe, put energy into making them exceptional, but what I really like is interacting with people."
Finishing up its second full calendar year in business, Carpe Donut began attracting the attention of wedding planners and imaginative brides in 2008. The first few weddings spread the concept further– and Rohdie began trekking with his red cart for weddings throughout the state, reporting that there's no upper limit to how far he will drive. And while the novelty of having freshly made donuts available for guests may now be a norm, Rohdie has even gone so far as to craft full-fledged wedding cakes out of donuts for more adventurous brides– complete with a double donut on top for the couple to break.
While for Rohdie the expansion of culinary tastes translates into a new arena for wedding desserts, it also allows a couple to symbolize their unique relationship– or just provide an extra treat for over-danced guests– by embracing a new standard bearer for stereotypically predictable wedding fare.
"It is still a donut, it's not trying to be anything else," Rohdie warns. "At some events when things have gone kooky with the food, this is the opportunity to settle things down at the end with something totally recognizable."
Push aside the pies, cookies, and lemon bars– the artisan yet homey style of Carpe Donut has recently become the favored night cap after local couples tie the knot.


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PhoebeO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
My Favourite.com.au is on online gift business selling premium thoughtful, practical, clever and beautiful products gift wrapped and delivered efficiently and quickly via an exceptionally created and thought out website.
My Favourite.com.au will provide:
- the ultimate gift products
- a user friendly, efficient and stylish shopping experience for the Australian/NZ market
- presented in luxury packaging
- convenience and reliability to the customer
- Predominently the Australian and New Zealand market
- The time poor, cash rich customers
- Those wanting an original, unique and stylish gift
- Gift categories:
Corporate market, Babies & new parents, For Him , For Her, Children, Engagement / Marriage, Calendar events - Fathers Day/ Mothers Day/ Valentines / Christmas
I am looking for a logo/design that can be used on the following:
- Landing page of a new online retail website
- Gift cards / vouchers
- Stationary i.e. business cards, letterhead etc
- Customer newsletters, blogs etc.
- PR / Marketing promotional collateral
It needs to be relevant and appropriate for all markets i.e. female and male shoppers and the corporate market so therefore can't look too 'cute', too feminine/masucline or 'dull' corporate etc.
I am looking for something that is on trend, stylish, creative yet contempory and sophisticated that will be relevant to an online gift store and that is inviting when first viewed and eye catching so that you remember it and when you see it you associate it with the website.
Re. colour pallete - would prefer no primary colours to be used! I am looking for a stylish and contempory feel that reflects the demographic of the customer.
The site URL needs to be included in the logo i.e.: myfavourite.com.au
Can't wait to see what you come up with! The site is going to be the number one online gift retail store in the years to come and it will all start with your design!
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SUGGESTION: You should add new forum for reporting bugs.
BUG: The tab character is the spawn of SATAN so no tab character should ever be allowed to be injected into any source file what so ever. This is THE golden rule for me. I never allow any source file of mine to ever contain even so much as a SINGLE tab character if I can possibly avoid it!
BUG: The "convert tabs to spaces" configuration item is broken. I hit tab and TABS are being injected into the source file. These tabs are not being converted to spaces on exit (nice to have that too but I MUCH prefer prevention to cure).
The configuration item should be "tab key insert spaces" and should not be broken EVER! amg!
ok i guess its NOT b0rked after all, i guess the use tab stops feature was confoozing me. i disabled that feature
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'You're Next' FF Review: A Pitch-Perfect Horror Movie
You're Next is a pure, pitch-perfect horror movie. It's as though writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard took the DNA of a dozen home invasion and slasher films and then spun them around in the centrifuge that is their twisted minds until all the bad genes, the cliches and the tropes we've all been rolling our eyes at for years, had separated, leaving behind the best genetics the genre has to offer. You're Next is the complete distillation of everything that makes the idea of having masked men invade your home both scary and exciting, only all the pretense that comes with those films has been replaced by an inspired understanding of the audience, what they want and, most importantly, what they need.
That's not to say that You're Next is derivative of movies like The Strangers. It simply is not. You're Next is, however, completely aware of the fact that you've seen movies like The Strangers where people go out to a big house in the middle of nowhere and are attacked without warning or explanation. And it uses that awareness of the audience to manipulate those expectations in order to deliver a potent horror brew with the heightened ability to make your pulse pound and your cheeks ache from smiling too much.
That's not to say that You're Next is a horror comedy, either. Oh, it's got jokes, but it's not a satire of cabin-in-the-woods movies. Everyone involved has an intimate understanding that humor and horror go hand-in-hand and so Barrett and Wingard use their characters like pressure relief valves whenever their devilishly smart scenario needs a bit of levity to diffuse the well-earned tension. This is the kind of movie that works the crowd like a piece of clay. It takes a little bit to ease them into it, but once arrows starting flying through windows, the audience is nice and warmed up, and then it's time for You're Next to begin molding its centerpiece: the characters.
It's a done deal that the biggest buzz you'll hear about the film is how awesome Australian actress Sharni Vinson is as Erin, the film's final girl. And there's no reason to take away from that, because Vinson is indeed a smoky shape shifter that can smoothly change her colors from the reluctant girl meeting her boyfriend's family for the first time to the pain-resistant, alarmingly-adept-at-killing-fools badass that she becomes. But this is one of those uncommon ensemble horror movies where every actor pulls their weight no matter how long they get to survive. None of these roles feel like they're padding the body count, and that's because Adam Wingard is dealing with a cast that includes Ti West, Amy Seimetz, AJ Bowen, Barbara Crampton, Joe Swanberg, Nicholas Tucci, Rob Moran, and Larry Fesendon. That is an intentionally atypical gang to be thrown together in a home invasion horror movie, but they each turn this family of rich, white suburbanites into a truly memorable, grin-inducing bunch.
Whether it's Bowen as Erin's living-in-his-parent's-shadow boyfriend, Crampton as the fragile but loving mother, Tucci as the one son who doesn't seem to give a damn what his parents think, or Swanberg as the way-too-smug daddy's boy, everyone just elevates the material. It's not often these days when you hate to see this many characters die. There's always one or two in the lot begging to bite it, but because You're Next knows how to handle its characters so well, even the ones who do deserve an arrow in the back stick around until you can see them finally kick the bucket in a glorious way. This is the kind of horror movie where you hate to see the characters go, but you just love to see them die. The kills are inventive and drawn-out (though not in a torturous way), each designed to give the character the most audience-pleasing send off possible. It's movies like You're Next that prove horror doesn't need to have buckets of elaborate, stagey gore to entertain you. Sometimes all you need is a lithe final gal who isn't afraid to open up trained killers with household objects.
But above having excellent kills and well-rounded characters, You're Next also happens to have an exceedingly slick look as well as a perfect score that feels at once modern and a throwback to the synth-heavy days of the '80s. Even when Wingard goes handheld during much of the stalking-portion of the film, things never feel chaotic or out of control thanks to Mads Heldtberg's score, which guides the movie along like depth charges seeking out hidden prey. And when those prey, be they the family or the masked men, are found, it's just... bliss. You're Next is a wholly satisfying, distraction-free, thrilling horror movie that milks every red drop out of its premise, characters and presentation. To put it simply: miss it, and you're missing the most entertaining American horror film in years.
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Load balancers have matured from devices that distribute access requests across web servers into full featured Application Delivery Controllers that play a vital role in the modern application focused world. Most users of a computer, tablet or smartphone are running applications that consume and display data from back end servers. Often these applications are wrappers for web views that communicate with web and content delivery servers. Load balancers have a vital role to play as part of a modern network to ensure that applications on all types of desktop and mobile devices are delivered and function well.
The fact that VIP (virtual IP) load balancers with awareness of Layer 7 application traffic are available allows additional functionality beyond intelligent distribution of requests based on server and network load. Information from the application layer can be used to ensure that requests for certain types of data go to the servers that are configured to best handle it. For example sending requests for video compression to dedicated media servers.
Application layer awareness also means that industry standard applications can be intelligently load balanced. Configuration templates are available to optimize load balancers for specific business applications. This ensures that the applications perform optimally when deployed. A selection of application configuration templates for Kemp LoadMaster includes:
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Microsoft Skype for Business
- Microsoft Lync Server
- Microsoft SharePoint
- VMware Horizon View
- Oracle E-Business Suite
Load balancers have matured greatly and are now fully fledged application delivery controllers. They are a core component to application delivery networks that are based on a selection of technologies deployed in concert to deliver applications over a network. Load balancers are key to application delivery networks and as such they help provide the following functionality:
- Application Acceleration - To increase the responsiveness of applications that are delivered over the network.
- Application Traffic Management - Optimizes the routing and delivery of specific data types to the best server as quickly as possible.
- Application Layer Security - Protects data and information at the points where applications interact with the network.
- Application Discovery - Provides a centralized and managed way for users to find applications that deliver business functionality.
- Application Load Balancers - The load balancing component of an Application Delivery Network.
- Processor Offload - Handle processor intensive tasks, such as SSL encryption, to free up web servers for content delivery.
- Content Caching - Reduce the number of requests to back end servers by caching recent content locally.
The ability to work with, and inspect, layer 7 network packets also allows load balancers to become a key component of the network security infrastructure. Packets can be inspected for malicious content. Load balancers are a very important piece of modern network security for other reasons too. They provide another layer of defense on your network between the outside world and your business systems. As such they operate with your standard border security firewalls and provide strength in depth against attacks. This includes protection against DDOS flooding of the servers. The incorporation of Kemp Web Application Firewall functionality into the load balancer network inspection systems, allows common security threats associated with web page code hijacks and injections to be detected and neutralized.


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'20 Years Younger': Bob Greene's Advice for Living Well, Eating Healthy and Looking Great As You Age
Oprah's trainer on how to live healthy and look great as you get older.
May 4, 2011 -- Fitness guru Bob Greene is the founder of the Best Life diet plan, and he has written several books that have helped people to lose weight and live better.
Greene is well-known for being Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer.
In his latest book, "20 Years Younger: Look Younger, Feel Younger, Be Younger!" Greene gives advice for living well and looking good as you get older.
Read an excerpt from "20 Years Younger" below, then check out some other books in the "GMA" library.
Several years ago, I spent part of the spring cycling my way across the country, riding from Long Beach, California, to New York City. It was something I had always wanted to do, and the opportunity presented itself when I was booked on a multicity tour to promote a book I'd written. I knew that the 3,600-mile trip would be grueling, but I thought it would actually be less stressful than racing from one airport to another, which is how a typical book tour unfolds. To prepare, I trained hard so that I'd be able to hit my target of riding about one hundred miles a day. I planned to sleep in a different town every night and visit bookstores, malls, and fitness centers in more than thirty cities along the way.
I wasn't far into the trip when I began to feel dramatic changes taking place. By the time I hit Arizona, I had a mental and emotional clarity that I'd never before experienced. At times, I'd be riding for eight hours or more with nothing but the sound of my own breathing and the beat of my heart in my ears. As I looked around me, colors seemed brighter, the world smelled fresher, sounds seemed sharper, the things I touched seemed more textured. All my senses were amplified. And nothing rattled me -- not a dog giving chase, rain on my back, a treacherous ascent. As my legs cycled rhythmically, the pedestrian concerns of the everyday slipped away and I'd find my thinking stripped down to the essentials. I contemplated the scenery and I contemplated my life. What was important to me? What did I want out of life? While I was on that trip it all became so much clearer.
As I edged toward Chicago I became aware that I was also going through extraordinary physical changes. I'd been hailed on at the Grand Canyon and twice climbed more than 11,000 feet in the still snowy Rockies, and I felt invincible, virtually bulletproof. Every night I slept like a rock. In my early forties at the time, I thought I was pretty fit going into the ride, but that extreme physical challenge left me much stronger than I'd ever been in my life, even in my twenties.
While I knew riding cross-country would be a challenge and that I'd come off the bike fitter than when I started, I hadn't realized how much the trip would transform me both physically and emotionally. I was particularly amazed at how clearheaded I felt. I was able to look at my life and see exactly where I wanted to go. By the time I reached the East Coast, I was operating on all cylinders and had regained (and even significantly surpassed) the strength, power, energy, lucidity, and drive of my earlier years.
Graduate students in exercise physiology learn about the anti-aging benefits of physical activity, and I was no exception. In fact, I'd had a longtime interest in the science of aging and the prevention of age-related decline. But once my cross-country trip allowed me to see the possibilities for myself, I became passionate about the subject. It wasn't long after I completed that cross-country tour that I started exploring ideas for this book.
It's not practical for most people to get on a bike and ride for a month (it's not something I could easily fit into my life anymore either), but I wondered if there were adjustments you could make to your everyday life that would have a similar de-aging, life-enhancing effect. I knew that a good fitness plan could go a long way toward turning back the clock, but what else was possible? To find out, I spent the next few years talking to experts in other fields, learning about the latest advances in anti-aging science and determining what aspects of that research could be translated into a workable plan for daily life.
After a time, it became evident that there are four main fronts on which you can vigorously fight back against the effects of aging: exercise, nutrition, skin care, and restorative sleep. Addressing any one of these areas with an eye toward shaving off the years can have a tremendous payoff, but it pales in comparison to the combined impact of all four -- especially when you also control the stress in your life and practice positive thinking, two other aspects that can significantly slow the aging process. A well-rounded comprehensive approach can not only help you look and feel younger, but can actually make your body reverse course, even at the cellular level. At this point there's little doubt: Good anti-aging strategies can both extend your life and substantially raise the quality of it.
By calling this book "20 Years Younger" I'm making what some might think is an exaggerated claim. But most people these days are living lives that predispose them to early aging. If you grab ahold of your health and actively pursue greater well-being, I don't think it's extravagant to say that you can dramatically turn things around. It's commonly accepted that the body undergoes certain changes with age, and to some extent those changes are inevitable. Even works of art maintained under pristine light and temperature conditions eventually begin to wither. What is less known, though, is that the life you lead and the decisions you make every day are largely responsible for how quickly, profoundly, and noticeably you age. In fact, much of what we think of as aging -- wrinkles, weight gain, memory loss, lack of energy, certain types of illnesses -- is not primarily attributable to the passage of time. Rather, it's a direct result of sedentary living, poor diet, lack of sleep, insufficient (or nonexistent) skin care, too much stress, and even a defeatist attitude. It stands to reason, then, that if you reverse those habits -- if you get moving, eat longevity-promoting foods, sleep soundly and adequately, protect and nourish your skin, and improve your outlook on the world -- the signs of aging will reverse themselves, too.
Some people have gotten the message that the life you lead can indeed turn back the clock. But I feel others have misinterpreted the message to mean that they should zealously pursue any program that promises everlasting youth. Extreme exercise regimens, severely restrictive diets, unproven hormonal therapies, cosmetic surgery makeovers -- they may all seem like quick and effective ways to return the body to its youthful self, but more often than not they're counterproductive. What we're offering you in this book instead are natural, research-based strategies for getting your body (and mind) in top form and even lowering your physiological age. The goal isn't to help you turn yourself back into a teenager but rather to help you lead your longest, fullest, and healthiest life. Stay strong, energetic, mentally sharp, and confident, and your age will not define -- or debilitate -- you. Instead it will be incidental; something noted on your driver's license but not indicative of your health or capabilities.
I'm in my fifties now and I've always prided myself in trying to live a healthy life. Some of those habits, as it turns out, have helped me when it comes to aging. I've been extremely conscientious about exercise, of course, and I'd give myself a pretty good grade in healthy eating, getting enough sleep, and controlling stress, too. The one area where I wish I'd been more diligent is in caring for my skin. It's long been my Achilles' heel. Like so many people, I grew up before the widespread use of sunscreen. Nobody had heard of SPF back then, and while we knew that getting sunburn hurt, we hadn't been clued in to the dangers of sun exposure. I've always had rather fair skin, and when a friend of mine in my elementary school suggested I get a tan, I began to feel self-conscious about how pale I was -- an insecurity that lingered well into early adulthood. I never was that successful at getting a tan (I always burned instead), but that doesn't mean I didn't try.
A number of years ago Oprah and I were training for a race when, probably annoyed at me for urging her to "push harder," she turned to me and said, "I've never met anyone so together. Is there anything you struggle with?" "Well, I don't tan very well," I replied, giving an honest answer. Oprah burst out laughing. I know she thought I was kidding, but I was genuinely insecure about my fair skin!
As I gathered information for this book and went looking for an expert to contribute a chapter on skin care, I thought I might be able to use myself as a guinea pig. By now I was regretting every unprotected minute I'd spent in the sun, and I needed some help in rejuvenating my skin. My plan was to interview several top-echelon dermatologists, try their products and advice, and see how well they -- and I -- fared.
By the time I met Harold A. Lancer, MD, I'd already talked to a few different doctors and tried their plans, but with less than stellar results. When I went in to see Dr. Lancer, both his knowledge and his demeanor immediately impressed me. During my appointment, he had me take off my shirt so he could assess the skin below my chin, and then he proceeded to call in his staff of assistants and nurses. There I was, with a group of women looking at me as if I were in a petri dish, when Dr. Lancer said, "Look at him. He has the body of someone decades younger." Just when I was starting to feel a little puffed up, he added, "His skin, though -- that's just about right for his age." He started to point out all my sun damage and age spots. I was hoping for a better report, but given that I have the kind of skin that wrinkles if you look at it too long, I wasn't surprised. And Dr. Lancer, as you'll see when you read his chapter, tells it like it is.
What I like most about Dr. Lancer's approach (and I think you will, too) is that he has shown that you can get your skin to behave younger -- not just look younger, but actually be younger -- with three simple skin care steps. To his mind, all the popular cosmetic procedures, ranging from lasers and fillers to neurotoxins, are really beautifiers of the last resort. He sees the trend starting to go away from these more invasive interventions and toward a more cost-effective, natural, do-it-yourself approach to skin maintenance. I can say from personal experience that it really works.
Another expert whose contribution to this book offers great benefits is Ronald L. Kotler, MD. Dr. Kotler and I met when we happened to be appearing on "Good Morning America" on the same day. I watched his segment on sleep and admired his approach to getting a good night's slumber and the user-friendly way he conveyed the information. In his chapter, Dr. Kotler, who is also the coauthor, with Maryann Karinch, of "365 Ways to Get a Good Night's Sleep," explains how sleep changes as you get older and how you can offset those changes with some simple strategies. It turns out that adequate sleep not only affects the way you look and feel but is also connected to lowering the risk of many life-shortening diseases.
I like to keep my website updated with the latest information about health, exercise, skin care, and nutrition, including vitamin, mineral, and other dietary supplements. But I'd been feeling frustrated by the quality of the supplements on the market as well as the information supporting them. They always seemed to have too much of one thing and too little of something else. I was so disappointed by what I found out there that I started thinking about developing my own line. That's when I met Diane L. McKay, PhD, to whom I turned for advice on both the efficacy and safety of supplements. Dr. McKay has done extensive research on vitamin and mineral supplementation, is up on the latest studies, and brings a bit of sanity to a topic that can be confusing and somewhat controversial. Her contributions to the book have been invaluable. In chapter 3, Dr. McKay helps separate the supplements that have true anti-aging and overall health benefits from the ones that are a waste of money, and she provides a guide to safely adding supplements to your diet.
Someone once asked Woody Allen how he felt about the aging process, and Allen answered, "Well, I'm against it." I laughed when I read that and thought to myself, Me too! But the truth is, I'm not really against aging. I'm simply for aging well. Accepting that you're growing older is not the same thing as accepting a life that's limited by age-related maladies or where you don't look or feel your best. Age, as they say, really is just a number. It's how well you're able to live your life that counts. Another showbiz guy, the comedian George Burns, once said, "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." And Burns knew what he was talking about. He lived a vigorous life until the age of one hundred.
I'd like to live to one hundred, too, as long as I could still live a high-quality life at that advanced age. I'm sure most people would, but as the father of two young children, I have a particular reason for wanting to live long and have the strength and vitality to enjoy my family for many years to come. I came late to fatherhood -- I was almost fifty when we had our first child -- and it's given me incredible incentive to stay as energetic, healthy, and youthful as I can. If I've learned anything during the time I've spent exploring the aging process, it's that motivation is key, just as it is for achieving anything worthwhile. You can't be complacent if you want to age gracefully. It takes some discipline and hard work to slow down aging -- if it were easy everyone would look and feel twenty years younger. When you commit yourself to all the elements of this plan -- staying fit, eating right, caring for your skin, sticking to good sleep habits -- you're distinguishing yourself from the crowd. And you'll be richly rewarded for your efforts. Examine your current lifestyle, readjust your schedule, direct your passion and drive toward adopting a new, healthier anti-aging lifestyle, and -- trust me -- you'll get amazing results.


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Kelford 182-A Mechanical Camshaft Set 89-94 Nissan Skyline R32 RB26
Kelford Cams have been producing high quality racing camshafts since 1968 but it is only in the last seven years that we have been operating with ultra modern design systems and cnc grinding machinery. Kelford's new racing camshafts are among the best available anywhere in the world and are found in many record breaking race engines in all forms of motorsport, whether it be professional or amateur racing, they have the will to win and they will do their best to help customers win.
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Saman Mohammadi
Monday, January 16, 2012
On Sunday, January 15, CNN reported that "The U.S. military has postponed planned military exercises with Israel ahead of a scheduled visit by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
Is this a sign of cooler heads prevailing in Washington, or a bump in the road to the planned destination, World War III? At this stage, we can only guess.
At lobelog.com, Jim Lobe writes that "we're seeing some serious distancing by the Obama administration from Israel's provocations and possibly some serious interest in engagement with Iran, although the latter may be too hopeful a conclusion to reach."
This shocking new development has made me question my views about U.S. intentions towards Iran, its fractured relationship with the renegade state of Israel, and the overall U.S.-Iranian crisis. This whole situation is just so confusing and crazy that it is hard to make my mind up about who are the villains in this drama, and who are the responsible adults.
In my article yesterday, I asked whether or not the U.S. government is telling the truth or not about the murder of another Iranian nuclear scientist by Israel. Did America have knowledge of Israel's assassination plot, or not? Is it publicly denouncing this action, but quietly cheering them on? Is America on board with Israel's broader terror operations? If not, then why is America on the sideline and watching Israel get away with murder? Is this a case of a good cop/bad cop con game? Or is it a marriage made in hell, and an ugly divorce is around the corner?
The Zionist Lobby is not all-powerful, so how is it possible that it is single-handedly holding back President Obama and senior U.S. government officials from coming clean about Israel with the American people and the world. The biggest and most powerful lobby in America is the American people. And the majority of the American people are for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and against a war in Iran.
If the battle is between the American people and world public opinion versus Israeli hawks, the Zionist Lobby, Neocons, and Republican morons, then on what side of this battle is President Obama on? Why is he so passive and weak with Israel? Is Obama being blackmailed by the poisonous Neocons and the Israeli terrorists into attacking Iran? Are there dangerous secrets about Obama's personality and history that he does not want the world to know?
I used to doubt that Obama is being held hostage by domestic and foreign blackmailers, but not anymore. What other explanation is there to explain Obama's passivity in the face of Israel's betrayal and disregard of American interests? Israel is openly hijacking U.S. policy towards Iran by murdering Iranian scientists, blowing up Iranian military sites, and provoking Iran into a fight with the United States and Israel. And yet, Obama is just standing by and watching all this happen like a frail puppy.
Maybe it's because Obama is choosing to sacrifice the nation of Iran, the U.S. military, and the world economy in order to save his own skin. Maybe it's because this coward is too scared to admit that he is gay, that he is being blackmailed because of this big secret, and that he has been scamming the American people all along.
In February 2010, Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones wrote in article called "Obama Is Being Blackmailed Into Attacking Iran":
"A schism between hawks in the Obama administration aligned with Zionist Israel and more sober individuals is clearly causing division over how to deal with Iran, prompting Obama to warn the Israeli government that it should not launch a military attack on the Persian nation.The neo-cons are essentially telling Obama that they will destroy him if he doesn't follow their orders, but that they will defend him if he does play ball and launch an assault on Iran."
In August 2010, Wayne Madsen reported that Obama is "subjected to blackmails," because of his gay lifestyle. Madsen wrote that, "Leading secret alternate life styles, Obama and his chief of staff [Rahm Emanuel] provide classic blackmail threats," and added: "Throw in the intelligence agencies of America's allies, friends, enemies, and the situation becomes a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
If Obama is being blackmailed because he is a secret homosexual and because he has a fake birth certificate then the presence of President Obama in the White House is an existential threat to America, Israel, and Iran. Israeli terrorists and neocon war hawks are using this explosive information to force Obama into a corner and make him support everything they do vis-a-vis Iran.
An Israeli attack on Iran supported by the Obama administration is a threat to America's long-term national security interests and political destiny, the security of the American people and U.S. military, the stability of the Middle East, and the existence of millions of people.
A blackmailed president in the White House is a bigger threat to America's existence than Nazi Germany ever was. The national destruction of America is not a possibility, but an inevitability under President "blackmailed" Obama.
There are two solutions to Obama's blackmail problem.
One, Obama comes clean about his past and blackmail threats, and lays everything on the table in a televised speech to the world, in which he brings Israel into line and calls off a war against Iran.
And two, Obama is impeached and/or sent to prison immediately for acts of high treason. If he is not removed and punished, then the terrorists in Israel and the poisonous snakes of war in Washington may use their knowledge of Obama's gay lifestyle to blackmail him into supporting an attack on Ian. This may be their secret "blackmail nuclear option" which they will use if their confrontation with Obama over Iran becomes heated.
A blackmailed president puts the security of the planet and its people at risk. America and the world is truly in uncharted territory. The fate of the world is in the hands of nuclear terrorists who are blackmailing politicians and government officials in Washington, including the president of the United States.
That should scare you and keep you up at night, not Iranian nukes, Islamic radicals, gay marriage, a cyber Pearl Harbor attack, or anything else that warmongering politicians say that America and the world should be scared of.
Saman Mohammadi is the writer and editor at The Excavator
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Join the winemakers for what we have been told is one of the best wine tour experiences on the East Coast, America, and maybe the World! Join them as they tell their story, share their experiences and offer you a window into the world of wine in a way that only people who learned it from the bottom up (that is, the hard way) can.
The Afternoon includes:
- Two hour tour of Vineyard, Winery and Barrel Room
- Tour guided exclusively by one of the owners of Auburn Road
- Intimate tour groups limited to 12 people per tour
- Tasting of all available Auburn Road wines in the beautiful, rustic setting of the Barrel Room
- Complimentary Auburn Road Antipasti including artisan cheeses, Castelvertrano Olives and Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Claudio's Specialty Foods at the Italian Market in Philadelphia and Liscio's fresh Italian Bread
- Complementary souvenir stemware wine glass
- A coupon for a special 10% off on the day of the tour on any purchase of 6 bottles or more as well as any merchandise (t-shirts, caps, etc.)
- A coupon for $2 off the purchase that day of a Ravello Woodfire Pizza (available at Auburn Road after the tour)
The details of the Afternoon are:
- $30 per person
- Tours are Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 2 pm and require reservations. Spots are subject to availability.
- RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED! To make a reservation, call the wine line at (856) 769-WINE or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Girl, 10, injured in ATV accident in Danville
DANVILLE, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire Fish and Game officers say a 10-year-old girl riding in an ATV driven by a 9-year-old boy has suffered serious injuries in a rollover accident.
Officers say the ATV struck a large rock and rolled on top of both children on Sunday afternoon in Danville. The boy was not injured; he was able to free himself from the ATV and get help. The girl was trapped under the vehicle.
Two men pulled the machine off the girl and called 911. The girl was taken to Boston Children's Hospital to be treated for her injuries. Her condition was not immediately known.
Officers say both children were wearing helmets at the time of the accident.