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Content Management System or CMS has always been popular among the developers and normal users. It breaks the boundation where knowledge of working code is must and gives normal users the freedom to create a masterpiece out of their imagination. Creating a website through any CMS is a lot easier when compared to develop it from the scratch. And that is the reason why we have compiled this list of Top 10 PHP CMS of the year for all of you. We have ranked them depending upon their use and popularity among the users. Some time back we have updated a list of top 10 php cms, which ultimately landed in google knowledge box. Now, we have updated that list according to the latest stats and usage.
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WordPress is a popular platform for non-technical users there is no choice better than wordpress. It allow you to easily create and manage content. From past few year wordpress is only use for blogging plaform but now a days wordpress support some basic ecommerce functionality using Woocommerce plugin. WordPress provide a simple user interface. WordPress provide large number of Themes and Plugin.
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ExpressionEngine is license dependent.
EE is a versatile and flexible CMS for any type of project. It provide a clean and intuitive user administration area. It only takes a few minutes to understand the layout of the backend and to start creating content. There is no restrictions on how a site can be designed. EE Cost is high, especially for commercial sites.
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Concrete5 is not just a CMS but also be used as a framework for developing web applications. It is extremely powerful and comes with an easy-to-use admin panel. Through Concrete5 designing sites is very easy.
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Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts Preface On the 30th of November 1094 AD (or to be more precise, the 19th of the month Dhu al-Qa`dah in the year 487 of the Muslim era), a scribe in Baghdad completed a copy of an Arabic treatise by one of the most important medieval physicians and clinicians -- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya' al-Razi, who worked in Baghdad in the previous century and was later known to Europe as Rhazes. This manuscript is the oldest volume in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the third oldest Arabic manuscript on any medical topic known to be preserved today. The present exhibition is both a celebration of the 900th anniversary of this important manuscript and an opportunity to highlight the nature and achievements of the medical profession in Islamic culture from the 9th to the 19th century. The core of the exhibition is a selection of 39 volumes from the Islamic manuscript holdings at NLM. The bulk of the Islamic medical manuscripts at NLM -- that is to say, 129 of the volumes -- were acquired in 1941 from Abraham S. Yahuda, a Biblical scholar and orientalist who had come to the U.S. as a refugee. Most of his large collection of Islamic manuscripts were acquired by Princeton University, but the Army Medical Library purchased the medical items by means of a bequest from William F. Edgar, a physician who in 1849 had taken a wagon-train over the Oregon Trail and settled in California. In the 50 years since the main group of manuscripts was purchased, an additional 22 manuscripts have been acquired from various sources. As a result, NLM now has 105 Arabic, 33 Persian, and 13 Turkish manuscripts, bring the total to 151 volumes. Many of these volumes, however, contain a number of treatises, so that the collection actually comprises 351 individual medical treatises. Detailed catalog records of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts are now available on NLM's online catalog, LocatorPlus . The exhibition was supplemented with some printed books and Latin manuscripts from NLM, as well as artifacts on loan from the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Items were also borrowed from the private collections of Dr. Ahmad Younis and Mohamed Zakariya. Photographs of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Clendening Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, were also displayed. The kind cooperation of these institutions is gratefully acknowledged. In preparing the exhibition and the accompanying brochure, we have had the generous and enthusiastic assistance of many people. The calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya designed the poster announcing the original exhibit. This image was reproduced on the cover of the accompanying brochure, and appears as the title decoration for this online version of the exhibit. His inspiration for the design was the frontispages that are a distinctive feature of Bulaq printings of Arabic texts. In 1821 the Egyptian government established a printing press in Bulaq, a suburb of Cairo, and for the rest of the 19th century it was the most important Arabic press, responsible for modern printings of many classical Arabic medical texts. A video on Islamic calligraphy, with Mohamed Zakariya demonstrating some techniques, was available for viewing at the exhibition. This online multimedia version of the exhibit includes a section which contains the complete narrative along with selected static images and video extracts from the original video production. To Dr. Ahmad Younis, now of Bethesda, Maryland, we owe a debt of gratitude for his tireless efforts on behalf of the project. Without the generous support of the League of Arab States, the U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and the Arab-American Physicians of the Washington Area, the present exhibition and brochure would not have been possible. And last, but by no means least, I must express my thanks to Anne Whitaker of the History of Medicine Division, who had the unenviable task of taking my ideas and instructions, prepared a great distance away, and transforming them into the exhibition and brochure that you now see. While she bears no responsibility for whatever errors or omissions I have made, her uncomplaining and highly professional work is responsible for the exhibition and brochure coming to fruition. It is hoped that through this effort more people will come to realize the important role in the history of medicine that Islamic medicine has played and will become aware of the artifacts of that important medical tradition that now reside in the collections at NLM. A Note Regarding Dates: The Muslim calendar is a lunar one of 354 days beginning from the day of the Emigration (Hijrah) of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, which occurred on the 16th of July 622 of the Christian calendar. Consequently, Muslim dates do not correspond directly to those of the Christian era (AD) commonly used today in Europe and the U.S. In the following essay, when specific dates are given, the first will be that of the Christian calendar and the second that of the Muslim era, designated by H (for Hijriyah referring to the Emigration of the Prophet). For example, the date 787 (171 H) refers to 787 AD, which is roughly equivalent to 171 of the Muslim calendar. General references to a century rather than a specific year refer to centuries of the Christian era. For example 9th century refers to the years 800-899 AD (or 184-287 of the Muslim era). The designation AD will be used only when there is need to distinquish a date from an earlier BC date. 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Discussions on any related topic, whether or not it has a related abstract, can be carried out on the conference wiki. Please list your ideas for the conference here; use this page to note events or presentations you would like to see, to suggest open space topics, and to communicate with other possible presenters (to find co-organizers for a bof/workshop, &c). Feel free to start new pages on this wiki to discuss any of these ideas in detail, to link to them from this page, and to invite others to participate in a collaborative discussion here.
General ideas
These are broad discussion themes which have been proposed; many of them have been discussed on Meta and various projects to date. Each of these will eventually have its own discussion space on the conference wiki; which will inform and be updated by discussions during Wikimania. Discussions which have been formally accepted for a slot on the program are marked with a P.
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Older ideas
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- Researching to add content to articles and content
- Using articles and content for researching other works
- Content
- Disambiguation pages and authority files
- Classification and standardization
- Quality (review, trust networks)
- Trust - Who and what can be trusted? Measures, styles, community dynamics.
- Policy and organization - How democratic should Wikimedia and its projects be? What is best for the goals we are trying to reach? Dictatorship, Anarchy, Regulated democracy, something else? Some merge?
- Policies: the why and how of their creation, and how they should be applied.
- Conflict resolution - How should conflicts be solved? Should it work through an arbcom, by direct community decision? How should such an arbcom work, what demands should its members fulfill? What are the experiences of the arbcom-members? Some exchange of experience and advice should take place.
- How to give a good Wikipedia presentation -- how to give a great presentation on the projects to (any random group of people); resources to use.
- Wikimedia and open courseware -- How do we make wikimedia "academically respectable"? How do we get around issues of the non-commercial tag? What can we do to cooperate with MIT OCW?
Birds of a Feather Topics
List below topics that we might use for "birds of a feather" sessions at Wikimania. This time is an opportunity to catch new or abstract projects and connections and opportunities that noone is talking about yet. Many of these discussions will be organized, and topics chosen, organically after the conference begins. New topics will be suggested then as well; brainstorming on-wiki is simply another way to help develop ideas.
- Wikis and social structure -- moving towards a new type of community
- The transparent society
- Editing and versioning the physical world
- What is truth, how we can best approach it, how to recognize it.
- Moral obligation - Should Wikipedia only take care of its own existance, is Wikipedia there only to be Wikipedia, or is there a broader responsibility? Does Wikipedia have a social responsibility to the people using it and thinking it is true, has Wikipedia a responsibility to teach people, or to tell them stories by "dictatures" are not true, how should we see ourselves in this world? How big is our responsibility, how big do we want it to be?
- Gender and Wikimedia -- why the gender disparity on the projects? (is it true?) Does this hurt content? What can be done?
- Commons: Seperate project or media repository?
- Constructed languages in Wikipedia
- New wikiprojects -- Chinese law? Quantitative finance?
- Global digital divide -- Representation on wikipedia by less developed countries
- Wikipedia mainstreaming -- What happens when wikipedia becomes mainstream enough to attract representatives of companies, governments, etc. etc? What should Wikipedia do about PR firms?
- Who does wikipedia? Do we have statistical data on who is on wikipedia?
- Wikimedia & Google -- Is a partnership between the two popular internet organizations possible? How would it benefit both companies?
- SisterSites - the value of linking to same-name pages on other wikis, how to do it, and a coding sprint to implement it for MediaWiki and other wikis
- Criticism of Wiki[p]edia -- why it can't work, why it doesn't work, why it hasn't worked so far; preferably constructive criticism with examples of better systems and community structures.
Organizational use of wikis
There are already panels around this subject. What I miss there is use of a wiki in software engineering projects. SW engineers and designers currently work on individual documents that they are responsible for. Therefore nobody else feels the need to make improvements in these documents, which are of coure abundant during the project. How would this be different when a wiki was used for sw design and documentation during the sw product lifecycle?
- Workshop making tools (like popup) and adapting other people's tools to your wishes.
- How to make a pretty page? How can I let an article or my userpage look great, what are the possibilities in wiki-makeup? should there be extensions in the software for this?
- How each project works (fill in a projectname like Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary etc) - Explain how people can add their information best, how policy works somehow, and EDIT!
- Media - Workshop editing image-material and sound-material to improve quality or to merge pictures etc by a freesource (or at least fréé) program. The target of this workshop would be to have more people able to edit pictures when they are home and downloaded some edit-program.
- Research 101 - Workshop finding information, especially free and/or trusted! Where can I search information about certain topics, in certain languages.
- Search 101 - Combined Workshop and discussion - How to search in Wikipedia? First some ideas are stated, some tools are listed, and tried. Next people should discuss their pros and cons, how they could be improved, and if one or some of them should be implemented in the search-functionality of mediawiki.
- For what kind of targets is a wiki usable? What are the experiences of others for using a Wiki? Are there any demands to start a wiki-like subject or community? etc. What works, and what won't?
- What are those people in that OFFICE doing all the time? How is their way of work? Who are they? etc.
- Fiduciary responsibility and authority
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A wave of brutal attacks in the Central African Republic, including the systematic rape and murder of civilians, highlights the urgent need for stronger UN action to protect civilians, Amnesty International said today.
On-the-ground research by the organization in August 2017 also uncovered a horrifying surge in torture, pillage, and forced displacement by a Seleka off-shoot, the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC).
"Communities living in Basse-Kotto have been left at the mercy of the UPC. Women have been raped, men murdered, villages destroyed, and the region's UN peacekeeping force has proved ineffective in stemming these abuses," said Joanne Mariner, Senior Crisis Response Adviser at Amnesty International.
"Civilians are not accidental victims in this conflict; they are direct targets. If the UN's mandate in the Central African Republic is to mean anything, civilians must be better protected."
In its two-week visit to the country, Amnesty International interviewed 30 people who had fled violent attacks on civilians in Basse-Kotto prefecture over the past several months, including a massacre in the town of Alindao on 8 May in which at least 130 people are believed to have been killed.
They gave the names and identifying information of 47 people killed by the UPC in these attacks. The exact number of people who have been killed is not known, but credible sources estimate that the number of victims has reached several hundred.
Sectarian attacks on civilians
As in late 2013 and early 2014, when hundreds of thousands of Muslims were violently expelled from the west of the country, the sectarian nature of the non-international armed conflict is increasingly evident.
The largely Muslim UPC has targeted Christian townspeople and villagers, perceived as supporting armed groups that oppose their rule, while the primarily Christian anti-balaka and armed "self-defence" groups have relentlessly targeted Muslim civilians.
A religious figure from Alindao, one of the worst-affected towns in the region, told Amnesty International: "The problem is now the Muslim population versus the Christian population …. We don't want a religious conflict; we absolutely refuse it, but there's very clearly an inter-communal conflict."
The ongoing abuses are horrific. Annie, age 36, described how UPC fighters captured her and her husband in Alindao on 10 May. When her husband tried to run away, they shot him in the legs.
"'We're going to do something to you Christians that won't be forgotten for many generations,'" she said the men told them, before one fighter raped her and another fighter raped her husband.
"After raping my husband, he shot him in the head," Annie told Amnesty International. The rapes and the killing were carried out in front of her five children.
Twenty of the 25 women that Amnesty International interviewed from the region had been raped and nearly all had seen their adult male relatives killed.
One widow, age 28, sobbed as she described how she lost her husband, her father and her five-year-old son.
Her husband was killed in Alindao on 8 May, and the following day the rest of the family was caught by the UPC as they hid in a hut in the bush. She said the UPC fighters killed her father, gang-raped her and her 62-year-old mother, and bashed her son's head against the floor of the hut, killing him.
"After three of them raped me I lost consciousness. When I came to, I was attached to a tree," she told Amnesty International. "My mother untied me and we fled. I was hysterical."
"The UPC's use of rape as a weapon of war, and as a means of violently humiliating and degrading its victims, appears to be systematic," said Balkissa Ide Siddo, Amnesty International's Central Africa Researcher.
"However, it is the increasingly sectarian nature of these attacks that is perhaps the most worrying aspect of the current crisis."
The Central African Human Rights Observatory (Observatoire Centrafricain des Droits de l'Homme, OCDH) has registered more than 100 victims of sexual violence who have fled the region for the capital Bangui in the last few months, a number that is no doubt a fraction of the total. Many, if not most, of the victims were gang-raped.
UN peacekeepers unable to protect civilians
The UN peacekeeping force, the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), has failed to prevent these abuses. Consisting of 12,870 uniformed personnel in the country, including 10,750 military personnel, the force is stretched thin in many areas.
Witnesses said that MINUSCA troops did not reach the town of Alindao until at least a day after the violence erupted, and even then, their numbers were insufficient to put a stop to the abuses. Rather than pro-actively carry out regular patrols, the troops focused on protecting the hospital and the displaced persons site run by the Catholic Church.
"We're afraid that if there's an attack [on a site for displaced people in Alindao] the MINUSCA will retreat into their base, and there will be a massacre," said one local leader.
Amnesty International is calling for a review of MINUSCA's capacity to carry out its mandate, covering factors such as training, equipment, coordination and the number of uniformed and civilian personnel.
"Although MINUSCA troops have saved many lives in the Central African Republic, their failures risk destroying public confidence in the peacekeeping mission and are putting thousands of people in danger," said Joanne Mariner.
"Many Central Africans are now expressing increasing cynicism about MINUSCA's willingness and ability to restore order, and about the mission's capacity to conform to even a limited civilian protection mandate."
Crimes under international law committed against civilians in the Central African Republic fall within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the recently established hybrid Special Criminal Court (SCC), and the national justice system. However, all three institutions have weaknesses.
The ICC's ongoing investigation, which began in September 2014, will most likely only target only a handful of suspects. The SCC is not yet functioning, though it now has a prosecutor and some funding. Meanwhile, the already fragile national justice system has been weakened by the conflict and needs to be rebuilt almost entirely.
"There is little hope of ending the cycle of violence in the Central African Republic without an effective system of accountability to bring those responsible for these horrendous crimes to justice," said Balkissa Ide Siddo.
"The Special Criminal Court must be funded so that it becomes operational as soon as possible."
More than a million displaced by conflict
More than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict since April. At least 600,000 people are now displaced within the country and another 438,700 are refugees in neighbouring countries (primarily Cameroon, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)).
Tens of thousands have fled the towns most affected by the fighting, including Alindao, Mingala, Nzangba, and Mobaye (at the border with DRC), as well as countless smaller villages in the region, heading for Bambari, Bangui, and DRC. Other displaced people are surviving in horrendous conditions in the bush, including on small islands in the Ubangi River, on the border of the DRC.
Some towns and villages in the Basse-Kotto region are said to be nearly empty, with what little is left of the civilian population taking refuge in church compounds that have become ad hoc displaced persons sites.
The OCDH reports that violence in the region is continuing, with the most recently documented clashes taking place in the town of Kongbo on 23 August, and that displaced people continue to flood into Bangui.
Basse-Kotto prefecture is one of several regions that exploded into conflict in 2017, as the country's security situation worsened. At present, the country's democratically elected government wields little or no power outside the capital, and much of the countryside is under the de facto control of a diverse array of armed groups.
Background to the conflict in Basse-Kotto
When Michel Djotodia stepped down as president of the Central African Republic in January 2014, armed fighters belonging to the Seleka coalition withdrew from the western third of the country, but consolidated their control over the country's central and eastern regions. The coalition split into various factions, each asserting de facto authority over different parts of the country.
The UPC, led by Gen. Ali Darassa Mahamat, controlled the city of Bambari and a large portion of Ouaka prefecture for more than two years. Made up largely of ethnic Peulhs (Darassa is a Peulh), the UPC carried out a series of vicious attacks against civilians whom it believed supported the largely Christian anti-balaka fighters arrayed against it.
In February 2017, as part of an effort to demilitarize Bambari, MINUSCA convinced Darassa to leave the town. He moved his headquarters to Alindao, in Basse-Kotto, and immediately began cracking down on the civilian population.
The first changes that civilians perceived were an increase in coerced payments –for example, fees charged for crossing UPC checkpoints – and outright extortion. Relatively well-off local people, such as cattle owners, were particularly targeted.
Amnesty International interviewed a man from a small village near Nzangba who was held prisoner and tortured by the UPC in March, as a means to force him to hand over his herd. He told the organization that UPC fighters came to his house and demanded he hand over his 26 cattle and all his goods on the orders of Ali Darassa.
He was held for six days during which time he saw four of his fellow prisoners killed.
The human cost
The UPC carried out a string of violent attacks in May: in Alindao on 8 May, Nzangba on 17 May, and Mobaye on 25 May.
The bloodbath in Alindao was precipitated by an early morning attack by anti-balaka forces in a neighbourhood called Paris-Congo, in the town's southeast. After routing the anti-balaka, the UPC unleashed its full force on the town's Christian population.
Judith, 29, from the Paris-Congo neighbourhood, became separated from her husband when she fled with her children after shooting broke out near their home. After she ran into UPC fighters in the bush, the men in her group were shot and the women were raped.
"They told us to lie on the ground …. We were a group of women …. I didn't lie down quickly so a fighter threw me on the ground and tore my underpants, to have sex with me in front of everyone … After the rape, he kicked me twice …. Other fighters were raping other women. My four children were there and they were crying."
Marie, 33, was captured along with her husband in the fields outside Alindao on 10 May. She described how UPC fighters shot dead her husband for refusing to hand over his cattle, then gang-raped her in front of her children.
Florida, age 27, fled to the bush with her family on 8 May, but returned two weeks later because of the poor conditions in the bush. The night of the family's return, UPC fighters came to their house and broke down the door.
"They tied [my husband] to a tree in front of the house. They put a black blindfold on me and undressed me …. They said that my husband would get to see how his wife would be treated. Two of them raped me in front of him. The children cried. After that, they shot my husband in the throat."
Guilaine, 30, lived with her 60-year-old father and two children in the centre of Alindao. Three UPC fighters entered their neighbourhood and tied her father to a tree. When she began crying, upon seeing her father helpless, the fighters told her they would show her what they were capable of doing, and they cut her father's throat.
"The three soldiers raped me in front of the children, then they hit me in the back with a rifle butt. I fled with my children, but I could hardly walk."
It is not known precisely how many people were killed during the attack at Alindao, but the Central African Red Cross reported that it had picked up more than 130 bodies as of 14 May, after six days of violence. Besides killings and rapes, the UPC also carried out large-scale pillage of civilian homes.
Now Alindao is like a ghost town, its streets empty of life. While some Muslims remain in their homes, and run a small market, the Christian community has largely fled. Some 20,000 Christians have taken refuge at ad hoc displaced persons sites at the Catholic Church and other churches.
Therèse, 43, watched her husband and son being killed when the UPC attacked the town of Nzangba on 17 May.
"Three Seleka entered our compound … They were wearing military uniforms. They made gestures to tell my husband to lie on the ground. He refused. Immediately, a Peulh shot him. He fell. My eldest son then fell crying on my husband's body. Another [fighter] shot him. He also died … The three of them (then) raped me … in front of my children."
Princia, 20, who lived with her parents, fled for the bush when UPC fighters arrived, then returned home when the family believe the armed men had left.
"They came and broke down the door. They killed my father and raped my sisters and me. They tied us up with cords. I fainted during the rape. When they left, we fled into the bush."
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Former CIA Agent Jeffrey Sterling has been indicted in Virginia for leaking classified information to NY Times reporter James Risen.
Mr. Risen wrote about a C.I.A. attempt to disrupt Iranian nuclear research in his 2006 book, "State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration."
Risen was subpoenaed to the grand jury to disclose his source in April. At the time, he said he would not comply with the request and seek to have the subpoena quashed. The subpoena was quashed and Risen says he did not disclose his source.
"I never testified and never provided the government with any information," he said. "I never met with prosecutors and never reached any agreement with them."
This is the 5th case in which the Obama Adminsitration has charged a current or former government official with leaking classified information. [More...]
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15 Things Musicians Did to Help Us Survive 2020 Without Live Music Concerts
This was the year that everything changed in the music industry. The pandemic required restrictions and new rules for everyone to play by, including musicians. But rockers are a creative and resilient bunch, finding ways to keep us entertained and help us survive our new normal without the ability to attend live concerts in person.
With this list, we celebrate 15 things musicians did to help us survive 2020 without live concerts.
For one, the Internet has opened new ways to connect with fans for several decades now, but in 2020 online communication took on greater importance than ever for artists and their fans. From socially distanced Zoom covers (we see you Charlie Benante) to social media special features (much respect to Steel Panther), we found new ways to feel just as close to the music (and musicians) we love.
And concerts? Well, they didn't completely go away, but they did take on a new look in 2020. An old time entertainment platform got revived as one way to put on a show while the boom of the livestream concert provided sometimes inventive ways for acts to get back to the now suddenly vacant venues and deliver something close to a traditional live concert.
Have a look below as we reflect on the year that was and how artists adapted to connect with fans and help us survive a 2020 without live concerts.
15 Things Musicians Did to Help Us Survive 2020 Without Concerts


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The Colors of Change
I came across David Tolk's music when someone sent me a link to one of his songs. After the first listen, I knew I wanted more. There is something about the combination of piano, light ensemble and irrevocable reverence that gets to my soul. There is a certain grace to David's music. The heartfelt, harmonic tone of his works reminded me of only one other artist, John Michael Talbot. Although Talbot is a guitarist, like Tolk, his playing and compositions are drenched in a strong sense of faith. Tolk's latest offering is called Seasons. It is eleven tracks of sublime contemporary instrumental music that produces a musical landscape of spring transforming into summer and fall tiptoeing into winter.
The beginning tune is called Morning Light. From a mere delicate glow in the east to the warming rays of the full sun, nothing is more perfect in springtime. Even though the day star is millions of miles away, the warmth that reaches body and soul is instant in the first light. David's subtle combination of violin and piano balance that warmth and light.
Beneath A Starry Sky is a languorous melody with the coolness of the night and the pinpoint brilliance of distant stars. The music makes me feel as if I am in one of those time-lapse photos. The focus changes almost unperceptively, but it is there. The music is pacific and somewhat unearthly.
The title tune, Seasons, is an echoing soliloquy on the changes in our physical world, and maybe more than just that. The music itself has a Beethovian shadow, having classical blandishments, but the main melody has an evocative refrain and a soft vocal that is more than memorable. But beware, for the feelings may be bittersweet.
Living at the foot of the Smokey Mountains I could understand and enjoy the tune Clouds on the Mountain. There is an ethereal voice, delicate as gossamer, which permeates the song along within David's haunting composition. For some strange reason, the next day after a summer rain, the clouds grow out of the mountain in thick white billowy masses. There is a purity to them, a chaste entity with an inner glow. This tune was an immediate favorite.
We are having a dry spell where I live, so leaves are dropping, but without their customary colorful coats. I turned to David's tune Falling Leaves for all the color that I need. With the rhythmic cadence of the song, I could imagine the leaves, gold, orange, and red, letting go of their organic bond with the trees and hoping for something new to embellish. A forest path, a dusty roadside or even a daydream.
There is a droning sadness to the song Mists of Scotland, but the music is so apropos to the overall subject of the album. I could see the summer mists rising out of the glen, translucent with the morning light. Tolk's piano ladened theme is suffused with quietude, a stillness more felt than heard. The music suggest to me that once the mist clears, there is promise to the day.
When he wrote Elegy, I wonder if David was thinking of the coming winter. The leaves fall, the trees sleep and the snow comes. Some equate a departure, almost a death with the change of fall into winter, but I feel it is more of a preparation. The passing of fall may be the converse of spring. Winter is temporary. Winter is a sleep to mend, refresh, and for time that allows for that prima verde. David's flowing violin tune wanders about, touching heart, appeasing soul, but always with an undisputable strength found inside the spirit.
The final tune is called The Return. It is bright, cheerful, and practically exuberant. Is it the spring we experience in the morning? Does it suggest fresh, tender green growth, warm sunshine, is it the petrichor of the new? Piano and voice along with gentle ensemble come together to form not a goodbye for the recording, but a greeting. A sweet welcoming.
David Tolk's compositions are vivid and lush, complex and expansive. There is emotion in every blade of grass, every ray of sunshine, every fallen leaF, and every snowflake he musically creates. Tolk has ten previous releases. I have had the pleasure of listening to his albums called Graces and Impressions, but I have to hear more. I end this review with an appropriate quote.
"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." — Henry David Thoreau
Rating: Excellent
- reviewed by RJ Lannan on 10/31/2017


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Differences Between Human and Animal Eyes
Our jobs are all about keeping human eyes healthy and making sure our patients see clearly.
However, every once in a while, we like taking a look at the fascinating world of animal eyesight. There are some incredible eyes in nature that work very differently from the way human eyes do.
Human Eyes Versus Animal Eyes
One thing all eyes have in common is that they focus light onto a retina, turn the image into signals, and send them to the brain. Depending on what the animal does to survive, that requires different adaptations. The ones we need are things like depth perception, the ability to see movement, and color vision.
You may have noticed that predator animals tend to have their eyes on the front of their skulls (like us), while prey animals (like sheep and rabbits) have their eyes on the sides. Predators use front-facing eyes for binocular vision, which allows them to pinpoint how far away a prey animal is. Prey animals use their side-facing eyes to see predators coming from most angles, making it harder to sneak up on them.
Eye position is only the beginning. Eagles, for instance, have much deeper foveae than we do, which is like having built-in telephoto lenses. They can see incredible detail from great distances, and their field of vision is wider. They can also see a wider range of wavelengths, up into the UV spectrum!
The Best Eyes in the Animal Kingdom
Eagles have the best eyesight in the skies (at least during the day) but they don't win every category. There are so many different amazing eyes in the wild.
- The animal with the best color vision (that we know of) is the bluebottle butterfly. While we only have three types of cones to detect different colors. Bluebottles have fifteen, some of which see in the UV spectrum.
- The animal with the best night vision is the owl. Their eyes are shaped more like tubes and don't move in their sockets (that's why they swivel their heads so dramatically). Their eyes are very large and their retinas have five times as many rods as ours. They also have a biological mirror built into their retinas, the tapetum lucidum, which improves their night vision even more.
- In the water, sharks have the best eyes. They are adapted to hunting in murky, dark conditions. Like owls, they have tapeta lucida, and their eyes have a protective layer to protect them from the water.
- The most complex eyes we know about are those of the mantis shrimp. They have eyestalks that move independently and each contain three separate compound eyes. Each segment does different things and communicates with different parts of the brain, and they have twelve types of photoreceptors.
Keep Us Updated About Any Changes to Your Vision
Human eyes can't do a lot of the things all these animals' eyes can do, but there are things they should be doing very well. If yours aren't, or if you've noticed any changes to your eyesight, don't hesitate to schedule an appointment so we can discover what's causing the problem. It could be as simple as needing a stronger prescription.


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DENVER—Colorado lawmakers are set to vote Thursday on whether greenhouses that grow marijuana should be treated as agricultural property for tax purposes.
The vote in the Senate Finance Committee is focusing on whether pot farmers should have access to the kinds of tax advantages given to conventional farmers.
Marijuana laws — Seven differences between Colorado and Washington
A Republican senator proposed the tax bill to streamline property tax assessments for nurseries and greenhouses. A Democratic committee last week rejected his amendment to say that marijuana growers can't qualify, and the Republican lawmaker said he wasn't sure whether he still wanted to pursue the bill.
Some Democrats say that immature pot should be taxed like the hops or barley that go into heavily taxed alcohol.
Washington state is also considering pot agriculture taxes.
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Don't hold onto a knit item just for the sake of keeping it, instead give it to someone who needs it, and would use it. You can include hand knit items with your donation of old clothes to Good Will and Salvation Army.
I am preparing for a move across the country, so Keith and I are evaluating our belongings and reducing the amount of stuff we have. My feelings aren't hurt when we choose to give away something that I knit, I would rather that my hard work be used by someone than sit in a closet unseen and unused.
Even if I don't know who they are, the hat was made with love.
Today, we made the decision to donate the earflap hat that I made for Keith because it didn't fit him properly, so therefore he never wore it. Hopefully this hat will be able to keep someone warm through the winter cold.


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She reveled in the feeling of glorious anticipation as she took her body massage-her out of her purse. She loved how it was the perfect size for her to take everywhere with her. So petite and powerful, she smiled to herself as she pressed the button to turn it on. This was her private time and she intended to make the very most of it. She had discovered that these secret solo rendezvous' occupied her thoughts throughout her day. She loved knowing that she could bring herself to orgasm whenever she wished. She leaned back in her chair and slid the massage up inside her skirt. At first she just enjoyed the smooth sensation of the soft silicone massage-her as she rubbed it against her inner thigh. This was part of her thrill – the anticipation of knowing how good this was going to feel. She pressed the power on and felt the stirrings of titillating vibration begin. She rubbed the massager over her panties, as there was no reason to rush. Why rush her private time? When she couldn't wait any longer she slid her body massage-her inside her panties and pressed the button to up the vibrations. Yes… there it was. The massage-her had connected with her sensitive clit and she was beginning to feel an incredible warmth spread throughout her body. Her heart fluttered and she could feel her pulse quicken as she gently rubbed her massage-her against her swelling bud. Once more she pressed the vibration button. Ahhhh…. Her head swung back and a gasp escaped her lips as a sensual wave of incredible pleasure pushed her closer to her climax. She wanted to wait and ride this feeling for as long as she could. And then, slowly, slowly, her orgasm rolled from her depths, curling her toes and giving her skin exhilarating goosebumps. Gradually she returned to her senses and relished in her feeling of complete relaxation and utter satisfaction. Now she knew she could face anything her day brought her way. It's all about Her.
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On this Wednesday, we are following developments in Pakistan. A U.S. drone strike has killed four suspected militants, including - according to some reports - the Taliban's second-in-command in Pakistan. Now, we should say the militant group denies that he's dead. This is the first strike since President Obama's speech last Thursday, announcing that the use of drones would be scaled back to limit civilian casualties.
Pakistan's incoming prime minister says he plans to negotiate with Washington to end drone attacks, which he says violate his country's sovereignty. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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"Almost 80 percent of the adult kids of divorce were doing fine and had made some peace about their parents' divorce," says Dr. Ahrons, author of We're Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce (Harper Collins), which expands on her previous book The Good Divorce (HarperCollins).
Forgive my skepticism but making "some peace" is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the so called good divorce. If "some peace" is the best case scenario of the 80 percent I wonder how dysfunctional the 20 percent must be.
My personal experience with friends and with friends of my sons tells me a different story. Even in the so called "good divorce" the effects often are significant and leave lifetime scars. I had one child of a "good divorce" ask me to write a book addressing how you can recover from the betrayal (his word) of Christian parents abandoning their vows. I was interested and encouraged to see that author Elizabeth Marquardt had the courage to challenge the idea of the good divorce.
Disclaimer: obviously if a divorce is inevitable it is far better to be amicable than bitter, angry, and vindictive toward one another. Having said that, lets examine the following excerpt that appeared in the Dallas Morning News Family section on January 18, 2006.
In Marquardt's book, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce (Crown Publishers), she includes results from a three- year study involving more than 1,500 young adults.
"The day that I sat there, looking at the data for the first time, there was this amazing moment of, 'Wow, all that stuff I struggled with; it wasn't just me.' "
Ms. Marquardt, believes divorce is "a vital option" for what she terms "high-conflict" marriages which involve violence, chronic addiction or other problems. Children do better after high-conflict marriages end, she says. But her study suggests that children fare worse after divorces that end "low-conflict" marriages, in which parents break up because they feel unhappy or unfulfilled. As a result, she wants parents to think twice before these "low-conflict" break-ups, which she says account for about two-thirds of divorces.
I believe that Marquardt has hit the nail right on the head. Clearly some marriages must be dissolved. But it is the other two-thirds of divorces that are problematic. The hard truth is that Christians have embraced the cultural creep of the "easy out" marriage. I wonder if we really understand the vows we take on the wedding day. As comedian Margaret Smith suggests, perhaps we should change the vow from "'till death do us part' into 'till my self-esteem grows enough to upgrade.'"
We read the passage from Paul's letter to the Corinthians at our wedding nearly thirty years ago.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
We start out believing that is possible. Then life comes along, and we start thinking such love is not realistic. Discouragement follows and the inevitable thought process about deserving happiness comes shortly thereafter. The decision to bring children into the mix raises the bar even more.
Too many of us are like Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson simply cut out portions of Scripture that he didn't believe. Jesus had some hard things to say about divorce. I wonder if we don't just choose to cut those hard things out in application.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
"Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"
Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."(Matthew 19)
I know this is uncomfortable for many. I don't believe that divorce is the unforgivable sin. But you need to at least be honest enough to acknowledge that divorce will have an impact on your children. You are making a decision that can affect generations and the very DNA of your family. This is serious stuff. Don't fool yourself with hopeful oxymorons.
Dave Burchett is an Emmy Award winning television sports director, author, and Christian speaker. He is the author of When Bad Christians Happen to Good People and "Bring'em Back Alive – A Healing Plan for those Wounded by the Church." Dave is available to bring his unique perspective to your conference, meeting, or broadcast. Dave and Joni, his wife of twenty-nine years, have three grown sons.
This was first posted in the Crosswalk Weblogs. You can reply by linking through daveburchett.com.


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Hapland Cheats
Submitted by: conner54
Open both windows and turn the arrow sign. Open the hatch and make the
stick man pop out. Fire the first rock at bridge. Fire the second rock
at bell. Fire both grenades at the bridge, and as it hovers over bridge,
click on it. This will make the grenades pop into the air and explode.
Fire the keycard at the bridge to make the stick man underneath open
the door. Put the man into the cannon by clicking on him again and make
another man pop out of the hatch. Have him fire the man in cannon up
under the bell, but you must click on the spear to bend it slightly so
that the stick man wont get speared. Click on the man under the bell
to move the bell tower. Click the bell a few times to drop on spear,
flinging rock onto mine blowing it up. Then, click on the door to make
a man come out. He will walk past where the mine blew up. Just as he
is about to enter the door, click on the man on the bottom.
Note: This requires precise timing.
Ok, to begin. First click on the grey slab directly above the yellow arrow.
This opens the hatch where the people you control come from. Secondly click
the yellow arrow to command your first stickman. He'll walk up to the steps
to the lever, which is next to a cannon shaped device. Click the stickman
next to the cannon to fire the first stone downwards so it knocks over the
blank of wood, forming a bridge over the gap.
Now, open the window on the left, by clicking on it. Also click on the red
arrow, to switch it's direction so it is pointing to the right. Click on
the cannon so it is pointing upwards. Click the stickman next to the cannon
again to fire the second stone that should ring the bell. Because you opened
the window, the door on the left opens. Note that the stone now rests on the
spike which makes it unable to be moved.
The next action requires the first bit of timing. Click the cannon so it is
facing downwards. Click the cannon but get ready to click the blank of wood
so it jumps upwards slightly. As soon as you launch the rock you must be
ready to click the plank. You have to time it so the blank of wood knocks
the "stone" in mid-air. Kaboom. That ain't no stone mister, that's a bomb.
Repeat this action for the second bomb.
Fire the last stone downwards and if by magic it lands in the cave. The
little stickman here picks up the stone and uses it on the metal/grey post.
It's a keycard and the post reclines into the ground above leaving the
stickman free!
Click on the stickman next to the cannon. Because there are no stones left
the steps move up and tip him into the cannon. Click the yellow arrow, again
to acquire another stickman. Click the cannon so it's positioning to fire
upwards. This next part requires some more timing. Click the stickman next
to the cannon to fire the other poor stickman up into the air. Just before
the super-stickman is about to be impailed, click the spike so it flexes
and allows him safe passage over. Click on this guy now and he pushes the
bell tower over to the right. Click on the bell three times so it falls
onto the spike. This projects the stone onto the mine below allowing safe
passage for the guy in the house on the left.
Now the mine is out of the way you can click on the door, which is on the
left of the screen. Another stickman appears. He checks the arrow and moves
in the direction it states (to the right). He walks across the plank of
wood, past where the mine was and into the open door. When the door closes
the flame outside the house, the light inside the house and the first flame
on the portal are all lit.
Now you're onto the last stage. This is all about timing. Ok? Ready?
Click the stickman who's at the bottom of the screen (the one who was in the
cave). When you do this a razor-creature-thing falls from the hazard crate
on the right. Just before the creature touches the ground, open the window
where the stickman has just turned the light on. If you time it correctly,
as the stickman closes the window the rocks below are nudged and fall onto
the razor-creature-thing. The stickman is then free to walk into the cave,
lighting the second flame and opening the portal!


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I recently bought an OCZ Agility 60GB SSD without having a clear plan how to use it (it just looked a good deal). My vague initial idea was to use a SSD as a caching solution, like OCZ's Synapse but at the time of the purchase that variant was more expensive. Since a stand-alone caching soft is not available I decided to use this SSD as a boot drive. I made some research on the net about configuring it but I'd like some more opinions.
1. Currently my Windows folder occupies ~20GB, C:\Program Files\ and C:\Program Files(x86)\ take up about 23GB. Would it make sense to keep all these on the SSD?
2. What other files/folders should go to the hard drive to reduce wear on the SSD?
Thanks for your input
My System:
Phenom IIx2, 3.0GHz
Sapphire Radeon 4650, 1GB
HDD Seagate 250GB (really old)
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Kim and I conducted a webinar on Thursday, October 3, 2013 that focused on IBM Data Interoperability software products and their specific strengths, weaknesses, and use cases. We highlighted the application of the InfoSphere family of products to other-vendor databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and Teradata. Kudos to Kim for putting together a presentation of disparate, but complementary technologies.
The recording of the webinar can be found here. The presentation materials can be downloaded: Data Interoperability Presentation – FINAL 10.3.13


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Special Ops News and InformationDelta Force has been released a little over a month now. People have met Logan and enjoyed his story. Heartache followed by becoming a stubborn asshole to meeting the woman of his dreams who changes his life forever... Well let's say Delta Force invokes a lot of emotion! OMG he's a beast! -- Amazon review Holy Hannah! I figured I read a little before I go to sleep...well I could not put this book down and finished! -- Amazon review [She] carried him when he didn't know he was being carried. -- Amazon review This book is full of emotions, it makes you hopeful, cry, laugh, pissed and then happy. -- Author Lily-Ann Johnson, author of Blondie's Hero What's next? Sniper is coming out mid-summer! If you've read Delta Force then you've met Tom Brody. Brody's story is told in the next installment and let me tell you... it's HOT!! Where Logan reclaims his life in Delta Force, Brody teaches his girlfriend, Tony, how to live life in the world of BDSM! I've been planning out book three, Ranger, recently, and this story will take me into a very dark place. As thought on this story, plotting it out, and listening to the voice of Ponce (you'll meet him in Delta Force), I'm touched, moved, and scared to death to write this story. I chatted with a friend today about his story and before I could even tell her, I was on the verge of tears. Once I gained control of myself, she went a little nuts with me! It's dark story telling, more so than I have attempted before. So a part of me is excited to venture down this unknown road, while the other is fearful to considering knocking on that door. Once the door opens and I decide to walk through it, there's no going back. That is the exciting, and fearful part of it all! You've also seen posts where I'm writing a book with Marianne Morea. Well we're closing in on being done! It may happen this week! Dragon Master is happening and our goal is to have it ready for Authors After Dark! We're both very excited about this story and cannot wait for you to meet King Tryst, Sebastian Lord Dragon, Jamie, Luke and Rowena! Books, Books, and more... Returns?There's been post among post recently of authors having books bought and returned. Maybe it's because the reader doesn't like it, maybe it was a duplicate purchase (although Amazon prevents this if you've already bought the book) or maybe the cost of the book is just too much. Is 99 cents or the amount of $3.99 too much for someone's budget? Let's take a look at this and see... Book for $3.99 is a one time purchase fee and the ebook you get to keep for the lifetime of your Amazon (or however you read through) account. (unless Amazon et al changes their dynamic, this is the way it is.)
Maybe the toilet paper was so good, but it was $1.00 more than the average? Would you use the toilet paper then return it to the store? Of course not! How embarrassing would that be! "Excuse me, Joe Q. Public. I wiped my ass with this, but I think it should be free, so I'm returning it." Oh, and let's not forget Starbucks. If the latte is so amazing, would you drink it, then demand your money back because it was too expensive? Would you pee and demand a refund because the latte is now out of your system and you think, "it should have been in my system at least another full day." Imagine taking a bottle of pee to the Starbucks counter... Eww... just as bad as returning poopy toilet paper. Disgusting, right? SO WHY IS IT OKAY TO RETURN READ BOOKS? GO TO THE LIBRARY AND GET A FREE BOOK!!! Don't tell an author to make their books free! We spend a lot of our time away from home writing these stories, time away from our families, and put so much effort into them. Whether you enjoy them or not, do not steal by reading and returning. If you loved it, leave a review saying as much. If not, we'll take that one to two star over a return any day. Please, for all things holy, stop returning our books!!! EventsMy first event is behind me for 2016, the Novel Experience Event in Atlanta. If you missed it, you sure missed a great time! My next event will be in Jacksonville on June 4th! I hope to see you there! To check out my next in person appearance, go to my events tab (click here).
Sassy in Jacksonville (June 4th) is a one day mass signing. We'll be right on the beach so I hope to see you there! I'm setting up two outings; one Friday night and one Saturday after the signing. I hope to see you there so we can hang out! Go to my events page for more information! Next will be Authors After Dark in Savannah August 3rd through the 7th. This will be the last and final AAD event so I REALLY hope to see you there! I'll be releasing Sniper, book two, just before the event! I'm also co-writing a book with Marianne Morea called Dragon Master! Both books we plan on having available at the event! You know who else is planning a release during AAD? Sherrilyn Kenyon! She will be joining us the entire week! She'll be releasing a book in her series and wants to celebrate it with you! Click on my events tab for more information! Finally to end the year on a high note, I'll be back in Tampa for Beach Babe Book Blast November 12th! Join us for this one day mass signing! Last years event was outstanding and I'm expecting good things to come around again! Click on my events tab for more information! That's all from me for now. It's a lot, and a lot needed to be said. Make it a fantastic day and leave that review for the books you've read, don't return them, get excited with me for Sniper and Dragon Master, and I'll see you at the next event! |
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INTRODUCTION: This game gives student exposure to final stable syllable –le words. A final stable syllable is one of the six syllable types in reading and is a rather easy one for students to learn. The final stable consonant -le is found only at the end of words. If a -le syllable is combined with an open syllable, there is no double consonant before the -le. For example, the word 'trifle'----'tri" is an open syllable, so the 'f' is not doubled before adding the 'le.' If the -le syllable is combined with a closed syllable, a double consonant is added before the -le syllable. For example, the word 'puddle'----'pud' is a closed syllable. Therefore, the 'd' is doubled before adding the –le syllable. The following word lists include words using both long and short vowels with the following final stable –le consonants: –ble, -cle, -dle, -fle, -gle, -kle, -ple, -sle, -tle, -zle. The game is played just like UNO. There are Draw 2, Reverse, Skip, Wild, Wild 4 cards, and 85+ final stable syllable -le word cards in the deck.


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Revelation 4: The Cheese Board Collective
When you make the kind of tour of the Bay Area that we did (i.e., one that's very much focused on the local delicacies), you very quickly become aware of the massive influence Chez Panisse has exerted on the region. Not only did Chez Panisse more or less single-handedly transform its district into a teeming food haven, not only did it help foster the local organic foods movement of the last 30+ years, but everywhere we turned we encountered businesses (restaurants, bakeries, cheese shops, etc.) that had been started by people who had once worked at Chez Panisse. And while this family tree was weighted towards food-related businesses, it also included a host of people who'd gone into other creative professions. The truth of the matter, however, is that Chez Panisse itself was the product of a particular moment that followed in the wake of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Berkeley had had a bohemian side to it for decades, but in the mid-1960s it became a powerful magnet for a particularly passionate and committed scene, and many of these people remained in the region, laid down roots, and began to establish a way of life that challenged the accepted notions and conventional wisdom of the day. One of the businesses that was started during this period, was a source of inspiration to others, and that clearly reflects the energy that was in the air at the time is The Cheese Board Collective, founded in 1967 (some 3-4 years before Chez Panisse set up shop just around the corner). What started off as a tiny, collectively run cheese store soon turned into a very successful bakery/cheese store, one that has continued to grow and expand slowly over the years, but one that has always remained steadfastly committed to its original vision.
I first discovered The Cheese Board back in the early 1990s, when I started visiting my sister in the years when she was attending UC Berkeley. She was lucky enough to have lived around the corner from The Cheese Board (as well as Chez Panisse, the Juice Bar Collective, and a number of other interesting businesses that populate the area), in a house on Francisco Street (this being Berkeley, there were a couple of peacocks that ran wild in her backyard and the backyards of her neighbors at the time). I got very attached to The Cheese Board's impressive selection of cheeses, their excellent sourdough-based baked goods, and the shop's relaxed atmosphere. Their cheeses and baked goods were the heart and soul of many nice meals.
Some 10+ years later, I was glad to see that The Cheese Board Collective was just as active as ever. Michelle and I ended up going there twice, but both times we had to focus on their baked goods instead of their cheeses because we were cooler-less and therefore not in a position to buy cheese. No matter, we were all too happy to stick to their excellent scones, "chocolate things," English muffins, curry buns, and other treats. This time I was particularly happy to find out that the bialy had found a home at The Cheese Board. This was a real bialy, too, not the bland, anemic, and overly doughy pseudo-bialys I've been encountering in New York over the last few years.
Without question, though, the most impressive treat that we got at The Cheese Board was their pizza. Pizza became a part of The Cheese Board's repertoire some 20 years ago. Typically, it began as a small operation that was run out of their in-store bakery. Their pizzas soon developed a loyal and, frankly, ravenous following, though, and the collective's members eventually established a second collective, one that would deal only in pizzas, in a shopfront just a couple of doors down from their store on Shattuck. The first time we visited The Cheese Board the pizza collective was closed for a week of vacation, so thank God we were in the area for two weeks, because it gave us an opportunity to come back. And come back we did. We met at The Cheese Board Pizza Collective for lunch one day just as the line-up was really beginning to grow (the pizza collective is only open from 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM and from 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday). The pizza collective only offers one pizza per day and you can purchase their pizzas by the slice, whole, just out of the oven, or whole, half-baked. We ordered two slices each, a couple of beverages, and then made our way to the nearest strip of grass to sit and have a picnic.
The pizza we had that day was easily one of the top three pizzas I've ever had in my life (only American Flatbread's pizza in Vermont and the pizza my sister and I had in Marseilles are in the same league). The pizza of the day that day was one with Roma tomatoes, feta cheese, mozzarella cheese, red onion, cilantro (!), and lemon zest (!), and one secret, unlisted ingredient: just a bit of fresh squeezed lemon juice (!!). Highly unorthodox, I know, but you wouldn't believe just how good it was. We found out later that this was the most popular pie that they make, and with good reason. Just how good was it? Well, for some reason, that day every order by the slice came with an extra sliver of pizza thrown in free of charge. That pizza was so good we never wanted it to end, and we gave praise for that extra slice.
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A new Santa Clarita bike safety campaign says Respect is a Two-Way Street.
But they lose me with the illustration of a bike crashing into a car. And the last line that seems to put responsibility on riders to avoid getting killed, rather than on drivers to avoid killing someone.
So what do you think?
This is what cyclists are up against in Beverly Hills.
Better Bike's Mark Elliot quotes Beverly Krasne, city council member and former mayor of the Biking Black Hole, in justifying her adamant opposition to bike lanes on Santa Monica Blvd:
Cyclists are on a donor cycle mission – to give their organs to someone.
Somehow, though, her solution to our perceived recklessness is to keep the city as dangerous and anti-bike-friendly as possible.
Maybe someone should let her know most of us just want to get through her damn city without getting killed in the process.
Police are reviewing the $100 ticket a DC cyclist got for following too closely after he's buzzed, then brake checked by an angry truck driver — despite riding on sharrows at the time — after bike cam video of the incident is released.
Something tells me the officer needs a little retraining. Or maybe a new job.
And the driver needs to be behind bars.
As long as we're in DC, I somehow missed this one last week as the US Secretary of Labor says he just wants to ride his bike to work. And that the department is committed to making "cycling to work an affordable, easy and enjoyable option."
Sounds good to me.
LocalThe Source says the new Metro bike map was released just in time for last week's Bike Week.
The new Los Angeles Register looks at the Bike Kitchen.
The Bike League profiles LA's own Miguel Ramos of Multicultural Communities for Mobility.
Free bike repairs and repair demos in Santa Monica on Saturday the 31st.
Santa Monica's Cynergy Cycles is offering a discount on registration for the California Coast Classic Bicycle Tour benefitting the Arthritis Foundation. Which means I now have two medical conditions with their own benefit bike rides, and I'd like to stop there, thank you.
Long Beach's monthly Kidical Mass continues to grow in popularity.
Ex-con Michael Reyes pleads guilty to killing Chula Vista bike rider Daniel Voigt while driving in a stolen car with a suspended license last month; he faces over 14 well-deserved years in prison when he's sentenced in July.
San Diego considers building an enclosed bikeway under the Coronado Bridge, which currently bans bikes. I seriously want to ride that one.
Okay. The Tour de Cluck offers a bike tour of Davis-area chicken coops. Yes, chicken coops.
The problem with Same Roads, Same Rules is that neither was designed with bicyclists in mind. Amen, brother.
In an insightful piece, a rider says the bike industry shouldn't forget the women who already ride in their efforts to reach the ones who don't.
Ten reasons why Open Streets events like CicLAvia rock.
Only 1% of head injuries occur on bikes, while 48% occur in cars. But no one suggests helmets for automobile passengers. Or most business employees, for that matter.
Not surprisingly, Portland comes out on top in a new ranking of the best cities for bicycling; also not surprising is that LA is nowhere on the list.
My hometown bikes to work at 11 times the national rate. When I last lived there three decades back, it was pretty much just me.
Is anyone really surprised that a Nebraska football star won't faces charges for stealing not one, not two, but seven bicycles? It's long past time to stop coddling criminal athletes.
Evanston IL plans to encourage bicycling by banning bikes on some streets. Yeah, that'll work.
Protected bike lanes are the best medicine for dangerous Winnipeg roads.
Great Britain honors the cyclists who lost their lives in World War I. That was the war so devastating it was supposed to end all wars. Despite their sacrifice, it didn't.
Dover police knock a cyclist off his bike when he allegedly failed to respond to commands to dismount, then say he just fell off.
Bradley Wiggins wants to restore your faith in cycling. My faith in cycling is as strong as ever; my faith in pro cyclists, not so much.
IKEA is now offering an e-bike in some Austrian stores; no word on whether you have to build it yourself.
An Aussie writer debunks popular bicycling myths. And says yes, cyclists cause collisions but so does everyone else.
As China continues to re-enter the world, its citizens face the same dangers Westerners do, as a Chinese bike rider is kidnapped by Taliban militants in Pakistan.
A Cambridge, Massachusetts bike safety campaign uses the local vernacular as it urges riders to Be Wicked Smaaht. And a British driver who killed a teenage passenger in a 130 mph crash — in a 60 mph zone, no less — has his sentence cut in half because he's sorry. Oh, well okay, then.


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Documentation That DSM-5 Publication Must Be Delayed By Allen Frances, MD | February 7, 2012
Last week, I wrote that DSM-5 is so far behind schedule it can't possibly produce a usable document in time for its planned publication date in May 2013.1 My blog stimulated 2 interesting responses that illustrate the stark contrast between DSM-5 fantasy and DSM-5 reality. Together they document why publication must be delayed if DSM-5 is to be set right. The first email came from Suzy Chapman of Dx Revision Watch. Re DSM-5 delays, here is a telling statement made by Dr Darrel Regier, its Vice Chair, on March 9, 2010: "We have just released draft criteria on a website on February 10th at dsm5.org. And we'll be having a field trial starting in July
of this year. We'll then have another revision based on field trial results going into a second revision or second field trial in July of 2011.
As a result, we will not have our final recommendations for the DSM-V probably until early 2011." She continues, Please note the dates. Dr Regier's promised timetable has been missed by more than a year—we still don't have final recommendations. Dayle Jones, PhD, is head of the Task Force of the American Counseling Association that monitors DSM-5. She sent in a timeline comparing DSM-5 promised deadlines with actual delivery dates: The DSM-5 academic/large clinic field trials were designed to have two phases. Phase 1 was first scheduled to begin in June 2009, but had to be postponed for a year because the criteria sets were not ready.
The timetable for field trial completion was unrealistic from the start and not surprisingly the end dates have been repeatedly postponed from early 2010 to early 2011, and we're now already into 2012 with no end in sight. Phase 2, originally scheduled for September 2011 to February 2012, was to re-test those diagnoses that did poorly in Phase 1 and had to be revised.
The phase 2 trials were quietly canceled. We still don't have results from the phase 1 field trials, but the APA leadership has warned us that we must accept reliabilities that are barely better than chance. Without the second stage, uncorrected problem diagnoses will be included in DSM-5. The separate clinician field trial has been an even worse disaster. Clinicians were originally scheduled to be trained by August 2010, enrolling patients no later than late November 2010, and ending by February, 2011. Training was finally completed 18 months late in December 2011, which means the earliest these trials could possibly end is June 2012—well after most DSM-5 final decisions will have been made. Furthermore, of the over 5000 clinicians who registered to participate, only 70 (1.4%) have begun enrolling patients for the field trial.
My guess is that like academic/large clinic Phase 2 field trial, poor planning and disorganization will force cancellation. Dr Jones concludes, In my opinion, there is no process and not enough time left to ensure that DSM-5 will attain high enough quality to be used by counselors. Fortunately, we can always bypass it by using ICD-10-CM. Sobering stuff. Its constant procrastination has at last caught up with DSM-5. Having fallen so far behind schedule, DSM-5 abruptly dropped the second stage of field-testing—without public comment or justification or discussion of what would be the effects on quality and reliability. In fact, the second stage of the field trials was perhaps the most crucial step in the entire DSM-5 process—a last chance for sorely needed quality control to bring a lagging DSM-5 up to acceptable standards. The DSM-5 proposals that were weak performers in the first stage were supposed to be rewritten and retested in the second to ensure that they deserved to be included in the manual. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is now stuck with the most unpalatable of choices—protecting the quality of DSM-5 versus protecting the publishing profits to be gained by premature publication. Given all the delays, it can't possibly do both—a quality DSM-5 cannot be delivered in May 2013.
The DSM's have become far too important to be done in this slapdash way—the high cost to users and the public of this rush to print is unacceptable. Unless publication is delayed, APA will be offering us official DSM-5 criteria that are poorly written, inadequately tested, and of low reliability. The proper alternative is clear: APA should delay publication of DSM-5 until it can get the job done right. Public trust should always trump publishing profits. Let's close with a worrying and all too illustrative quote from Dr Regier, just posted by Scientific American.2 When asked if revisions to criteria in DSM-5 could be completed by the end of this year, he said "there is plenty of time." I beg to differ—there is not nearly enough time if the changes are to be done based on a much needed independent scientific review and are to be tested adequately in Phase 2 of the field trial. Without these necessary steps DSM-5 will be flying blind toward the land of unintended consequences.
APA Should Delay Publication of DSM-5
By Allen Frances, MD | January 31, 2012
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