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Monday, February 27, 2012
Open Link Monday
It's another beautiful day, and the gates have been flung open to the imaginary garden once again. Please share a poem of your choice, leave a few thoughts behind, and visit the blogs of your fellow poets, in friendship and mutual respect for the art we all hold so essential to our daily lives. There are no rules guiding the Open Link, so select a piece from your archives, or your latest work. Anything goes.
25 comments:
- Madeleine Begun Kane said...
Thanks as always for hosting this! Here's my Hick Limerick.
- February 27, 2012 at 12:38 AM
- kaykuala said...
Great for being host. Submitted my recent poem!
- February 27, 2012 at 1:05 AM
- Gattina said...
That's an amazing garden !
- February 27, 2012 at 1:57 AM
- Mimi Foxmorton said...
Love that you allow us the freedom to frolic in your garden!
Since I mostly write Collage Poetry, I was pleased and surprised to notice I have a recent post titled Graden of Delights.
I share it with you.
Mimi Foxmorton
Collage Pirate
- February 27, 2012 at 3:34 AM
- Fireblossom said...
Happy Monday, Toads and Toad friends! Mine is one from 2 years ago. I hope you like it. :-)
- February 27, 2012 at 4:54 AM
- "' said...
oh I love the picture! It's so lovely!
And this place- glad to be A Toad- that would sound ghastly anywhere else!
- February 27, 2012 at 6:33 AM
- Laurie Kolp said...
Have a great week, fellow toads!
- February 27, 2012 at 6:52 AM
- Mary B. Mansfield said...
Happy Monday everyone!
- February 27, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- Marian said...
good morning, Toads. i am behind and sadly not being very productive, but here's my state of mind over the weekend. maybe Monday will help! xo
- February 27, 2012 at 8:15 AM
Good Monday morning all and thank you, Real Toads, for being here!
- February 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- Kerry O'Connor said...
Hello All, I'm so tired this evening: long hot day at work.. will try to read a few pieces but my concentration is nil.
- February 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Kay L. Davies said...
I thought about submitting my "hick limerick" too, but looking outside at all the recent snow made me think of last spring when we were in Paris, so I came up with a little something new, made to look longer with the use of photos and large type!
- February 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Sherry Blue Sky said...
Hi kids, I dragged out an old one and dusted it off.......happy Monday, all!
- February 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Herotomost said...
Do with it what you will....I just appreciate the chance to post it again. Thanks in advance and Happy Monday!!!!
- February 27, 2012 at 12:30 PM
- Unknown said...
That pictures makes me think of a marshmallow maze :-)
- February 27, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Mary said...
Wrote this tonight (Monday) so decided to link.
- February 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- Mary said...
Dead tired today, linked what I wrote tonight.
- February 27, 2012 at 8:11 PM
- Grace said...
I am busy with writing haiku for my other blog...tomorrow is the last day..whew...I will see about posting a new poem tomorrow and catch up with everyone ~
- February 27, 2012 at 8:47 PM
- shawnacy said...
whew... finally have something to contribute. happy week, brilliant toads. :)
- February 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM
- Apeetha said...
When's the next challenge? *can't wait*
- February 28, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Susan Fields said...
What a beautiful photo!
- February 28, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- Margaret said...
Just thought I'd pop in and say I miss my toad friends but I have been busy working and getting things done... sigh. Hope to be back Sunday.
- February 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM
- Karen said...
My first time in the garden, it's full of delights!
- February 28, 2012 at 7:20 PM
- Scarlet said...
Kerry and all toads:
I wouldn't step into the garden of
# 24. Somehow I know RT OLN would get around.
- February 29, 2012 at 7:27 AM
- Melbourne Australia Photos said...
My first time here, thank you for hosting!
Mined the archive and came up with my linked poem:
"Foggy Brain"
- March 1, 2012 at 7:44 PM


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It's a simple look with a lingering hint of rebellion.
The bob — that century-old, typically jawline-length haircut — is surging again.
You can see it in celebrity circles. Golden-tressed Taylor Swift is a recent convert; Katy Perry followed suit, her version adding classic bangs; singer Brandy posted Instagram images debuting her asymmetrical version for an Oscars-related event.
And when the Queen Bey — Beyonce — opened the Grammys recently, her sexy lingerie was paired with a wet-look parted bob that exposed dark roots.
The stars' different approaches to bob-dom highlight its versatility.
James Akers, owner of Durham, N.C.'s Do or Dye salon, says that's the reason he's gotten more requests recently for the cut. "It goes across ages, and it's pretty easy to take care of," he said. "And it's flattering on all face shapes."
When the bob first appeared in the late 1910s and early 1920s, it challenged the era's notions of femininity. "To have long hair was to signal your delicacy, your sexuality, and your elegance and refinement, all of the traditional attributes associated with femininity at the time," said Anya Kurennaya, an adjunct faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design in New York.
"Cutting one's hair meant rejecting that traditional femininity, because it decreased the visible difference between men's and women's hairstyles."
Today, with men with long hair and women with pixie cuts, that thread has been upended to a great extent. And the changes in women's lives have changed their reasons for adopting short hair.
Depending on whom you ask, practicality can trump liberation.
"A young woman's decision to shear her locks and adopt a rebellious choppy bob makes a different statement than a mother's decision to part with her long hair to cut down on styling and maintenance times," Kurennaya said.
Akers says the bobs he's styling aren't the prototypical one-length cut with bangs and slight elevation in the back. It's evolved.
Today's bob includes layering, and angling around the face. If there's a bang, it's often sideswept, and there's often color, he said, a variation that adds depth.
In other words, today's modified bob reflects today's more complicated times. And yet, some of those traditional notions the bob fought against linger.
In the early part of the 20th century, women who chose the bob, Kurennaya said, were often considered unfeminine, insubordinate and morally loose.
That sounds silly a century later; in the post-feminist era, there's arguably been an embrace of the glories of insubordination among many women.
Still, last April, when model Karlie Kloss wore a bob in an ad campaign, commenters proclaimed it "Mall of America" and "librarian" hair.
Kloss, it seems, was not meeting the feminine ideal. And she was wearing Victoria's Secret lingerie. The incident illustrates, Kurennaya said, "the high standards of beauty women are held to, particularly regarding their hair length."
It seems more than the bob needs to continue evolving.
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Raag Durga performed by Ramesh Misra and accompanied by Benjamin Stewart on tanpura. Filmed in the gallery for the art of Mughal South Asia and Later South Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May13, 2013.
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By Hammer Nutrition
My mother would greet me with this phrase in the dark of an early morning, when it was time to get up and go to a swim practice. I was reluctant more often than not, but if I had just lain there, I wouldn't have gained anything but a little more sleep. In this regard muscles aren't any different. If they aren't awakened, all that potential is never tapped.
The University of Wisconsin- Madison's Kinesiology Department has offered a weight training course for the past three plus decades. I was involved with the course for 15 of those years. We had thousands of subjects' weight training gains recorded. Significant increases in strength, up to 50% increases in one-repetition maximums, occurred in a four-week period! I'm still amazed at these numbers. How could this be?
There are three things that keep a muscle from getting stronger. They are inhibition, inhibition and, you guessed it, inhibition. What is this inhibition and how does it affect strength? Consider what makes a muscle contract. The signal to contract starts most commonly in the brain. This signal, a nervous impulse, follows a chain of nerve cells that end at a group of muscle fibers. Chemicals moving all along this chain eventually results in the propagation of a muscular contraction. Muscle fibers are inhibited from contracting when there are interruptions to the chemical movement along the chain of nerve cells. Remove these inhibitions and more muscle can contract. Given the results from the weight training classes, the inhibition can be quickly diminished. All that is required is a forceful muscular contraction repeated over and over again.
Getting stronger and weaker can occur quickly. Injury can increase muscle inhibition, and the amount of time for these changes to come about is surprisingly short. Four weeks ago I had arthroscopic surgery on my knee to repair a torn meniscus. My training had been going very well. My strength was great going into the surgery because I long had been E-stim strength training. I was bummed to think that I'd lose while recovering what I had gained. My plan was to build strength with my Compex while rehabilitating. Even though I couldn't do the customary running and biking I was used to, I could build muscle while not moving or loading my knee joint. I got started on my plan four days out from the procedure. What surprised me though was the amount of inhibition that had crept into my injured leg's muscle in this short four-day period. Normally my strength is pretty balanced from side to side. I can tell with the Compex because I'll get the same amount of contraction in both legs at a given energy level setting. Both legs had been inactive over the four-day period. Neither leg had been used more than the other for the four days. During my first Compex session, I noticed that the injured leg required half again as much stimulation to contract the muscle to the same degree as the uninjured leg. That is a lot! Beyond surprised I was disturbed that I had to use E-stim to regain the strength balance from leg to leg. The good news is that as fast as the inhibition increased in the injured leg's muscle it returned to a balanced state with E-stim.
When I'm looking for strength, I factor in the time required to gain it. I know that I can wake up the amount of muscle recruited to do more work in a matter of weeks. When is a good time to inject strength training into your plan? Anytime. Once more muscle is recruited, this newly recruited muscle is available to be trained in the specific way you want. Your newly recruited muscle can be incorporated into the specific firing pattern for your sport. You can generate more force while doing the sport you love. When you place the pads and fire up the Compex, you're telling your muscles, "Wake up! It's time." HN


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text: Someone rang up yesterday as I was cooking dinner to tell me that The Folded Earth is on the Crossword shortlist. I've a powerful sense of deja vu because An Atlas of Impossible Longing was on the same shortlist in 2009, and Amitav Ghosh was on that shortlist too (with Sea of Poppies ), as he is here. That year he shared the prize with Neel Mukherjee's Past Continuous , but what I remember most about going to Bombay for the award ceremony is the rain that lashed the beaches, the high winds that turned umbrellas inside out, and the crisp fried Bombay Duck at Mahesh Food Home. Here's the complete list for fiction in English: River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil The Storyteller of Marrakesh - Joydeep Roy Bhattacharya The Folded Earth - Anuradha Roy The Sly Company of People Who Care - Rahul Bhattacharya


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Madonna reference! Awesome!
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At a fundamental level, everything is made of the same stuff. But thanks to the countless ways that matter can be combined and recombined at every level from the macro down to the subatomic, the material universe is one of infinite variety with lots of unexplored territory. Here are some recent developments that remind us how big the universe's Lego set really is:
- Researchers have combined nickel with an organic compound to create a self-assembling material that is extremely similar to graphene but with fewer limitations. The material shares graphene's high conductivity, but is also potentially more suited to applications like computer chips and solar cells. [url]
- Not all new materials are created in a lab — a mining company has discovered a new mineral that is unlike any known mineral or artificial compound. "Putnisite" is composed of strontium, calcium, chromium, sulphur, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen in the form of purple crystals with pink streaks. [url]
- The periodic table is about to grow following the successful synthesis of the superheavy Element 117. There's still some review to be done, after which the discoverers will propose a name for the new element. [url]
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A former controller for imprisoned Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to history's largest Ponzi scheme.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – A Louisiana couple have written a book defending their belief that their son was a World War II fighter pilot in a past life.
Bruce and Andrea Leininger appeared on "Good Morning America" to promote their book, Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot. Their son James, now 11, was obsessed with fighter planes from an early age. But around when he turned two years old, James began to have vivid nightmares of dying in a plane crash in water.
The Leiningers swear that James only watched children's television, and was never exposed to anything that could have triggered that kind of imagination. With nowhere to turn, Andrea got in contact with Carol Bowman, a specialist in past lives counseling. Bowman taught the parents how to talk to James about his nightmares in order to learn who he was reliving.
After two years, the Leiningers had gathered enough details to determine James was in fact reliving the death of Lt. James McCready Huston, a 21-year-old Navy pilot who died during World War II when his plane was shot down in the Pacific Ocean in March 1945. Even James Huston's now elderly sister has met the boy, and believes it is true.
These days, James does not have the vivid memories he once did, but he is excited about the book being released. Take a look at the video below of James as a child:
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As Light Shines on thy Thigh by Anton Kusters
Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo –
Going deeper underground… Walking the streets with Soichiro and his family. Kabukicho is the red light, food & gambling district of Shinjuku, smack in the middle of Tokyo.
We gather at his office, where he shows me the work of Watanabe Katsumi, a japanese street photographer of this particular district who, for about 40 years, barely making a living, sold his street photographs back to his subjects. Amazing stuff.
I'm surprised that somehow he must have taken the time to research this book and lend it to me to look in. We talk about photography, the schedule that lies ahead of us, and the places he and his family are going to take us to. I am impressed what is in store for us. And excited.
Some of the other family members arrive at the office. Everyone is waiting outside, time to go.
I'm definitely aware of the weird mix of feelings while walking the streets at night with them, in 'their' burrough. A mix of respect, fear, clueless-ness, anger and admiration from the people, the hustlers, the shopkeepers, the prostitutes, the restaurants, the tourists, the club owners,…
It's my first night out shooting. We're on a so-called "go-around", where the whole family gathers in fine suits to walk the streets collectively, greeting everyone, being greeted by everyone, in effect unmistakably showing everyone that they are, simply, 'there'.
The message is crystal clear.
Two regular japanese guys walk up to me, smiling and gesturing friendly, apparently wanting to see my pictures.
I see Soichiro in the corner of my eye taking an immediate distance and signaling me, that this is in fact undercover police… The family disperses, like nothing ever happened… Just in time I have the presence of mind to start playing dumb and speak in a way too loud voice "tourist, tourist, picture"…. and I take off in another direction.
They don't follow me. Close call.
And thus ends the first shoot.
Anton, april 2009
About the Essay
Soichiro is the lead character of the story that i'm starting to tell, about a Yakuza family in Japan. After more than 10 months of preparation, my brother and I have been granted access to start a long-term project to document the visible and hidden life of that particular family. All names used in the account above (and previous and future accounts) are fictional.
Here on BURN, i will regularly provide visual and textual accounts of our adventures.
I hope to be able to publish a book on this story.
Previous chapters:
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There is a curious aspect to Sir Alex Ferguson's time at Old Trafford – more than 25 years of evolution and sustained glory – that the great Scot has probably never signed a free-spirited 'number 10'. The player, in the parlance of modern tactics-speak, who ghosts between the lines; neither midfielder, nor attacker in any distinct sense.
Yet, Manchester United's much talked about interest in Belgian youngster Eden Hazard, and the more likely acquisition of Shinji Kagawa, appears to mark a distinct break in this tradition.
And Ferguson's moves this summer, at least if Kagawa's acquisition is completed, could have widespread ramifications for both United's tactical shape, style of play and personnel. Indeed, word is that Ferguson wants to return his side to a more expansive, one-touch, fast-paced style that was last seen late summer, 2011, but disappeared post that thrashing by Manchester City at Old Trafford.
While it is unlikely United ever had a genuine shot at securing Hazard's transfer – money and success talk like little else in football – the Belgian will showcase his wares in England after agreeing a £32 million move to Chelsea. The west Londoners will confirm the deal when the transfer window opens on 1 July, and are set to build a new team around the 21-year-old whomever is manager next season.
So often deployed from the left by Lille Métropole over the past four years, Hazard has flourished this season in a more central role, scoring 20 league goals and providing a further 15 assists. The campaign has catapulted 21-year-old Hazard into the limelight, together with a huge bump in salary and potential super-stardom in England.
Certainly, the fleet-footed forward is one many of the world's leading players, and Joe Cole, believe is in the next generation of elite performers.
Kagawa, meanwhile, has progressed at Borussia Dortmund since a €350,000 move from Cerezo Osaka in the J-League two summers ago. The Japanese player has become a central part of Dortmund's tactical make-up during the last two title-winning campaigns – representing remarkable progress from the years spent in J-League division two, where the player spent much of his early career.
Indeed, Kagawa made over 100 appearances in the lower reaches of Japanese football before being transplanted to Europe, and into Dortmund's first team. Next step Old Trafford, it seems, with Dortmund announcing that a fee of around €22 million, including bonuses, has been agreed between the clubs.
If, and presumably when, Kagawa joins he will surely be deployed in the shadow of a lone-striker, having rarely played in a midfield two during a fledgling European career. Most comfortable deployed between-the-lines of midfield and attack, Kagawa could help rid United of predictability – especially against sides tending to park the bus at Old Trafford.
And while others have played off the front man in Ferguson's time, few is any have been a specialist in that position. True, Wayne Rooney has been widely deployed deep in the campaign just ended, linking midfield and Danny Welbeck together. Yet, over the last eight years Ferguson has more often deployed the former Evertonian in a straightforward attacking role.
Then, of course, there was Eric Cantona, who was so comfortable playing off Mark Hughes, and then Andy Cole, but was always a striker who loved to roam rather than the trequarista in the grand tradition of Gianni Rivera, Roberto Baggio, and latterly Alessandro Del Piero.
Similarly, Teddy Sherringham, who joined the club after Cantona's departure, was a forward comfortable dropping deep into midfield.
Then there are those Ferguson has missed out on, including Ronaldinho in 2003, although United's manager had earmarked the Brazilian for David Beckham's wide role. Or Mesut Özil – the "ghost" as Ferguson once dubbed the German playmaker – who has excelled in his second season with Real Madrid this year.
Into the present and Ferguson seems likely to use Kagawa is the Japanese player's favoured role between midfield and attack in a 4-2-3-1 system that is a gradual evolution of the formation most regularly used in coming second to City.
With the Japanese in the team, Rooney is more likely to be deployed further forward, with two from Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Anderson, Darren Fletcher and Tom Cleverley playing through central midfield.
Yet, unless Ferguson brings in another, more traditional, midfielder this summer United is still likely to face searching questions through the centre of the park. After all, while Carrick performed admirably in recent months, Scholes turns 38 in November. Meanwhile, Anderson and Cleverley have rarely spent time away from the physio suite in recent years, while Fletcher's long-term future in the game remains in doubt due to illness.
Kagwa's arrival also asks questions of United's forwards, with Rooney seemingly likely to play at '9' next season; presumably as the lone front-runner in a flexible four-man attack. That's bad news for Welbeck, who performed so well last season when fit, and Javier Hernández, the Mexican whose stop-start campaign proved so disappointing.
Indeed, in this sense Kagawa's likely purchase is as much a replacement for the departing Dimitar Berbatov, as it is for the ageing Scholes.
Interesting, then, that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is determined to replicate the system at Stamford Bridge, with Hazard central in a three-man supporting line to Fernando Torres. Presumably Juan Mata and Marko Marin, or an as-yet -to-be-determined right-sided player, will be deployed off the Spanish forward. Torres may even flourish in Didier Drogba's absence.
Time will tell whether Ferguson's first foray into the market for a genuine 'number 10' is an experiment worth making. Or, indeed, whether the outlay on the Japanese player turns out to be half the return of Hazard's huge fee, or double the value – to coin a Fergusonian phrase.
There are fewer questions about the Belgian's quality though, with Kagawa having spent just two seasons at the highest level of European football. Hazard, by contrast, is now two-times French Player of the Year.
Moreover, Kagawa, while scoring 13 in 31 Bundesliga appearances last season, can also be wasteful in possession, and comes off worst in more than two-thirds of tackles and 50-50s entered into. Worryingly, the 23-year-old also gets substituted more often than he actually remains on the pitch, strongly suggesting a problem with stamina.
The stats only paint one part of the story, of course, but do give an indication of a player who will surely take some time to bed down in English football, with all the physicality that it brings. And if Kagawa takes time to star at United, then Ferguson's players may also need games to unlock both the new man's undoubted potential, and a new approach to the game.


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Cramer: Supporting Center Is Key to Breaking Gridlock
Over the past several years, partisan bickering has hamstrung Washington. The extremes of both parties have turned "compromise" into a bad word, attacking any and all Members who dare to reach across party lines to engage in honest and thoughtful debate on the issues facing Americans today.
Unfortunately, we have a political system that reinforces this type of hyper-partisan rhetoric, rewarding Members who do nothing but move to their respective ideological corners and throw bombs at the opposing party.
Our country faces great challenges in the years ahead. The debt. High unemployment. Energy independence. Tax and entitlement reform. These are neither Republican nor Democratic issues, and finding long-term solutions will require the type of meaningful reform that is possible only when Republicans and Democrats have the courage to come together in an honest debate of the issues. The courage to compromise.
In my experience, neither party has a monopoly on good ideas. The moderates provide a necessary insurance policy against the parties in control of Congress and the White House, preventing both sides from straying too far to the extreme.
This is why Center Forward is an organization dedicated to taking a practical approach to addressing the partisan gridlock in Congress. Self-identified moderates and independents are growing by the millions every presidential election year; it's time they have an advocate in Washington, D.C.
Center Forward is not only working to provide a forum for reasonable cross-party dialogue in Washington, but we are committed to putting considerable resources behind candidates who are willing to reach across the aisle in the best interest of the country.
We recently announced $1.25 million in television ads supporting Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who are willing to work across party lines to cut the deficit in a responsible manner. The ads are running in eight districts across the country and promote the organization's primary purpose of facilitating constructive dialogue in Washington.
This is no easy task, but we have always been and always will be a centrist nation. Elected officials and decision-makers in Washington have a responsibility to the American people to work together to confront our challenges head on. Center Forward will be sure to hold them to task.
Bud Cramer, chairman of Center Forward, is a former Democratic Member of Congress from Alabama.


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Empire Kosher fined for environmental violations
Published June 5, 2013
NEW YORK (JTA) — Empire Kosher Poultry was fined $99,000 by Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection for repeat violations dating back to 2008.
The infractions at America's largest kosher poultry producer, which has its plant in Mifflintown, Pa., included chemical spills, discharge of untreated industrial wastewater into the nearby Juniata River, improper storage of solid waste and a lack of reporting to state authorities of some unauthorized discharges.
For example, a state inspection on March 15 revealed an unreported industrial wastewater spill that an Empire employee said was from the chicken de-skinning operation area. Inspectors found a wastewater manhole that overflowed to the ground and into a storm water conveyance system, spilling chicken skin and fat into the areas.
The earliest citation, in May 2008, faulted Empire for having dysfunctional dissolved-air-flotation machines, not maintaining proper records, failing to provide secondary containment around storage containers in the feather pit, and having chemical spills and process waste in the feather pit.
As after other inspections, Empire told state authorities that it would take corrective actions.
On May 28, Empire agreed to pay fines totaling $99,000. Approximately $15,000 was paid to Pennsylvania's Solid Waste Abatement Fund and another $84,000 will go to the state's Clean Water Fund over a period of about five months.
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If April is the cruelest month, as T.S. Eliot wrote, then April as National Financial Capability Month could be the cruelest joke. It's as if every day is April Fools' Day, especially tax day, the dreaded 15th.
This also is the host month of this year's Tax Freedom Day. Every year, the Washington-based Tax Foundation computes the trademarked day when "the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay off its total tax bill for the year."
Tuesday, the Foundation will announce that Tax Freedom Day 2013 will fall on April 18. After that date, you'll be working for your paycheck, not for the government.
What does "financial capability" mean in Washington? It's an odd term that departs from the usual money lingo -- like financial planning and financial literacy, two terms mentioned in the proclamation. There are some financial planning tips on the aptly named government website, Mymoney.gov.
While financial planning entails saving and investing, "financial capability" seems to be about -- what else? -- borrowing and spending. No wonder Obama wants to give the idea an ovation.
The proclamation promotes the administration's College Scorecard and Financial Aid Shopping Sheet. Then it talks about more borrowing: "Financial capability also means helping people avoid scams and demand fair treatment when they take out a mortgage, use a credit card or apply for a student loan."
Given the president's record, the White House might want to rename April "Financial Audacity Month." It goes with the president's memoir, "The Audacity of Hope," and his record of adding more than $4.trillion to the national debt while giving lip service to deficit reduction.
It's rather bold for this White House to believe it is in a position to counsel anyone -- except maybe Cyprus -- on "how to budget responsibly," as the proclamation promised.
As Tax Foundation chief economist Will McBride put it, Washington's borrowing binge is fueled by two groups -- "bootleggers and Baptists coming together to make really bad policy."
The bootleggers, McBride explained, are "a bunch of people who are basically profligate and run up the deficit to spend money on their cronies. But then there's a whole set of people who believe that it's a good economic policy." As an example of the Baptist variety, McBride named economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
On the spending side, the White House recommended "high-quality preschool and early education that gets every child on the right track early" as "ladders of opportunity" that lead to a solid middle-class life.
Financial capability then must be all about spending what you don't have, putting more faith in education programs than they merit and heeding the sage advice of Washington politicians. It should start with this disclaimer: "Do as I say, not as I do."


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Decorah eagle cam to shut down for season
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — The online world will have to wait until next season to watch a famous northeast Iowa eagle family.
The Raptor Resource Project is turning off the Decorah eagle cam on Saturday. The website that allows people to watch the American bald eagle family has been viewed over 270 million times.15360558
The nest is in a tree at the Decorah Fish Hatchery.
Raptor Resource project researcher Bob Anderson says three eaglets, born in March, are now spending less time in the nest.
He says the offseason will be used to test and install new cameras, computers and audio equipment for the 2013 nesting season. Raptor Resource will also build and install nest boxes for peregrine and kestrel falcons, and begin a kestrel program.


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Central Bank of The Gambia
Mr. Buah Saidy
|Headquarters Banjul, Gambia
|Established 1971
|Currency Dalasi - GMD (ISO Code )
|Website www.cbg.gm
History of the Bank
The Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) was established in 1971 when it took over the assets of the then Gambia Currency Board which was formed on 01 October 1964.
In 2005, the Central Bank law was reviewed to make it conform to current best practice in mordern centrl banking law. This current trend focuses on protecting the central bank from the Gorvernment's short-term influence on monetary policy whilst at the same time ensuring that the central bank is more accountable for its conduct of monetary policy and the use of its resources..
The Central Bank carries out its functions independently. However, its carries out those functions under the overall supervision of the Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs. The Central Bank also has responsiblilites within the framework of the ongoing economic integration processes in ECOWAS, In addition the Central Bank has responsibility to carry out economic and financial policies that have been agreed between the Gambian authorities and the IMF.
The Gambia is one of fifteen now fourteen countries that formed the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS in 1975, In 1987 the ECOWAS Monetary Cooperation Programme EMCP was adopted evisaging, amongst other things the eventual establishment of a single currency with a common central bank. The limited success of this initiative led to the adoption of the Accra Declaration by six countries inculding The Gambia on 20 april 2000 for the creation of a Second Monetary Zone. This initiative was eventually dubbed West African Monetary Zone. The six countries committed themselves to the establishment of a common central bank and the introduction of a single currency with the eventual aim of merging with the other ECOWAS monetary zone UEMOA to establish a single currency for the ECOWAS region. The West African Monetary Institute WAMI has been set up to guide and monitor progress towards convergence of the econoies. The CBG works with WAMI and other national central banks in ensuring that the intergration process is on track.
In addition, the CBG also collaborates with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to formulate key economic and financial policies that will support The Gambia's poverty reduction strategies. Additional background information on the work of the Central Bank and the challenges we face is provided in Chapter 2. Our Mission, Values and Vision are contained in Chapter 3. The primary objectives of the bank and our strategies for achieving them are contained in Chapter 4. This plan will serve as the roadmap of the CBG's agenda for the next five years. It would be subject to regular review in light of changing circumstances to keep it relevant. We recognize that the dedication and support of our staff has been important in our past successes and their continued dedication is essential to allow the Bank to meet the challenges of the future. We also acknowledge the invaluable guidance of the Board of Directors in steering the CBG to successfully discharge its mandate.


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SWAT team cuffs masked Dell flack for 'deadly' tablet promo
Call 911! He's selling the Dell Streak!
Dell's Round Rock, Texas headquarters was stormed by a police SWAT team on Monday after multiple 911 calls reported that a masked gunman was ordering employees into a building lobby.
Round Rock's finest discovered employee Bryan Chester dressed in a biker outfit, wearing a skull mask, and carrying what callers identified as "two metallic objects."
But this wasn't really a hostage situation. Chester and his supervisor Daniel Rawson were engaged in a ill-advised promo stunt, reportedly to introduce staffers to a new Dell Streak tablet.
"Through a series of misinterpretation, miscommunication, this sent a lot of others into a controlled panic," police spokesman Eric Poteet told Austin news station KXAN.
Chester and Rawson compounded their idiocy, KXAN reported, by refusing to comply with police orders to cease and desist. "If it wasn't serious enough," Poteet said, "that elevated it to extreme risk scenario."
Considering the gun-happy culture of Texas, the two marketeers were lucky that none of the employees they terrorized were packing heat.
Both pranksters were arrested, and according to KXAN, Both face misdemeanor charges for "Interfering with Public Duties and Deadly Conduct."
A Dell spokesman called the use of a skull-mask to drive employees into the building lobby for a product intro "an unfortunate choice," and thanked the Round Rock police for responding quickly before anyone was hurt.
One commenter to the KXAN story aptly summarized the event by quoting tough-guy actor John Wayne's well-know dictum: "Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid." ®


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Ionian Bruschetta with OreganoFrom INN AT ELLIS RIVER
Featured in the June, 2010 issue of NH to Do Magazine's article on the Inn to Inn Herb Tour, this recipe is a wonderful summer appetizer that blends the flavors of Greece and Italy- that's why we call it Ionian Bruschetta!
- 1 cup whole milk ricotta
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- 1 pound ripe Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 2 medium shallots, minced
- 8-10 Kalamata olives, pitted and diced
- 1/3 cup roasted red or yellow bell peppers (from the grocery's deli/salad counter)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons capers, chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh Italian parsley, minced
- 1 tablespoon Greek oregano leaves, minced fine
- 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes
- 16 1-inch thick slices of baguette
- 2 tablespoons fresh Greek oregano
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Coarse sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- Oregano sprigs for garnish
Two hours before serving: Infuse 2 tablespoons of oregano in 1/4 cup olive oil. Let stand at room temperature. Prepare ricotta spread by whisking together ricotta and Parmesan cheeses, olive oil, and cream until light and fluffy. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Dice roasted peppers. Combine tomatoes, 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt and pepper, shallots, olives, roasted peppers, garlic, capers, parsley, oregano, and red pepper flakes. Let stand at room temperature one to two hours.
At serving time: Brush baguette slices with infused oregano oil and broil on both sides until toasted. Sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Spread ricotta mixture on each slice of baguette and top with tomato mixture. Garnish with sprigs of oregano.


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Title: Affliction
Author: Marilee Brothers
Series: Soul Seeker #1
Release Date: 29 February 2016
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
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Twenty-two year old Honor Melanie (Mel) Sullivan has an affliction. Due to childhood trauma and inappropriate social behavior, she is diagnosed with Aspergers, a form of autism. But, Mel knows Aspergers is not her true affliction. She prefers not to gaze into a person's eyes because she is a soul reader, and what she sees can be frightening. It can also get Mel into trouble. After a brush with the law, Mel leaves her family home in Southern California and travels to Oregon where she meets Harley-Davidson riding William McCarty (Billy the Kid) and stumbles upon a human trafficking/baby-selling scheme involving a foreign girl from Kazakhstan and others. Even though Mel's life is in danger, she won't stop until she finds the answers that will help those unable to help themselves.
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His cheek scrapes across mine, his mouth just inches from my lips.
"Look at me, Minnie," he whispers. "Tell me what you see."
I lift my gaze and stare into his eyes, fully expecting to see my own face, possibly streaked with bits of sticky syrup and framed with flattened helmet hair. Nothing scary. Just something I'd rather not experience right now. But someone changed the channel.
My breath hitches in my chest. "Fire," I say. "I see a smoldering fire."
Billy's mouth grazes my cheek. "Smoldering, huh? Let's make it burn hotter."
His lips touch mine, tentative at first, until I wrap my arms around his neck and try to climb inside his skin. He deepens the kiss, his silky tongue slipping into my mouth. I'm transported to another place. My world consists of all things tactile. The sound of our breathing. The smell of his leather jacket. The warmth of his body against mine. The softness of his lips. The heat spiraling through my body like wildfire. More. I want more.
I'm brought back to earth by the sound of a honking horn and a raucous shout, "Hey, you two, get a room!"
Embarrassed, I push away from Billy and stare at the ground, trying to get my breathing under control. Billy grabs my hand and kisses the back of it like an errant knight wooing a fair maiden. This strikes me as hilarious and I snort laugh. Also embarrassing.
Billy releases my hand and tilts my chin back. "I'm not leaving until you look at me one more time. I promise you, it's safe."
~ Book Trailer ~
~ About the Author ~
Marilee Brothers is a former teacher, coach, counselor and the author of ten books. Marilee and her husband are the parents of three grown sons and live in central Washington State. After writing six young adult books, Marilee is once again writing romantic suspense for the adult market. She loves hearing from people who have read her books. Feel free to contact her at Website and sign up for her newsletter The Obsessive Page Turner. Her author page on Facebook is: www.facebook.com/marilee.author and she occasionally tweets @MarileeB. Check out Marilee's Amazon page here Marilee's blog is Book Blather, http://bookblatherblog.blogspot.com where she features aspiring and published authors as well as some tidbits of her own.
~ Other Books by this Author ~
Series: Unbidden Magic
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MOONSTONE A Fictionwise Fantasy bestseller Young Adult A sickly mom. A tiny house trailer. High school bullies and snarky drama queens. Bad-guy dudes with charming smiles. Allie has problems. And then there's that whole thing about fulfilling a magical prophecy and saving the world from evil. Geez. Welcome to the sad, funny, sometimes-scary world of fifteen-year-old Allie Emerson, who's struggling to keep her and her mom's act together in the small-town world of Peacock Flats, Washington. An electrical zap from a TV antenna sets off Allie's weird psychic powers. The next thing she knows she's being visited by a hippy-dippy guardian angel, and then her mysterious neighbor, the town "witch," gives her an incredible moonstone pendant that has powers only a good-hearted "Star Seeker" is meant to command. "Who, me?" is Allie's first reaction. But as sinister events begin to unfold, Allie realizes she's got a destiny to live up to. If she can just survive everyday life, in the meantime.


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8 comments:
- Vordan said...
Because I wanted something different I think thats why I made my warrior and my hordes. I have my 65 rogue and 63 priest that I am waiting to get my leveling gear so I can wtf pwn with my rogue and not sure if I want to heal with my priest or do uber damage in shadow, either way, its not like pally healing or being ret. Its all a change. What level is your space goat priest?
- December 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Angry Gamer said...
Aww really a shot at Gearscore? Cmon man. Dont ride that bandwagon. No one said the Gearscore mod was to tell you who had skill or not, it is to tell you quickly what the overall equipment of a party is and what to possibly expect.
I dont look at it and freak out immediately but I will tell you this:
If some scrub douchebag gets in my PUG with a GS of like 2700 I know for a fact they will suck and are not making any effort to improve themselves at 80, because you can beat that with faction rewards and AH shit. And the mod will be right 80% of the time let me tell you that. I dont sweat 3500 or higher, but when some scrub shows up in the 2000's I think they need to go run regular ToC and get back to me in 3 days so fuck that
So don't tell me that mod isn't useful.
- December 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- Vordan said...
I dont use the gs mod, I have always gone by Wow-heroes *shrug*
- December 29, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Fettsbounty said...
@Darraxus. Yeah yeah. Top overall damage and dps. Damn trash. But the individual boss fights tell a different story my friend.
@Angry Gamer. Yeah that shot at GearScore was mostly because one of our runs had me on my rogue with GS around 4200, Darrs Pally at 4500ish and another rogue at 5100. But that 5100 must have been carried cuz he was third behind Darraxus and myself. And he was trying. So yeah, he's not actually bashing gearscore itself.
- December 29, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Darraxus said...
Oh, my DWARF priest is 49 or 50 atm.
- December 29, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- MmoGirl. said...
Would love to know how you find healing on your priest, I'm bored on my pally and am just tired of being a tree. Gearscore is vastly over rated anyway.
- December 29, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Not sure if someone else said this, but a tip for levelling weapons at 80 is to head into N VH but not start the instance. The mobs there constantly spawn and the NPC will help kill them and tank them as well.
- December 31, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Totally know what you mean about the Glyph of Indomitability. Awesome use, but i'll lose a chunk of stam from dropping The Black Heart.
@last Anonymous, that's an awesome tip. I've been trying to find a good way to lvl weapon skills since Bliz stopped granting weapon skill-ups for hitting those guys who couldn't die in Blasted Lands.
- December 31, 2009 at 9:27 PM


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Au Revoir Font Family by Hanoded
Au Revoir - saying goodbye is one of the hardest things in life, but in a sense it is also beautiful: there is a promise of seeing each other again, as 'Au revoir' literally means: 'to the next time we see one another'.
Au Revoir font is slightly cursive, elegant without being posh, simple and legible. You could write a poem or a farewell letter with it, but I guess its simplicity lets you use it in various other, less dramatic, designs.
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Complementary and alternative medicine: state of clinical research
The CAM-QUEST® databases have been designed as search tools for people interested in responsible information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The aim of the databases is not to rate clinical studies but rather to point out that indeed a huge body of clinical research in the field of CAM does exist.
The CAM-QUEST® Quick Search provides a fast and easy way to get information on most common diseases and their alternative treatment options investigated in clinical research with just a few mouse clicks.
The CAM-QUEST® Expert Search provides a tool for detailed search requests of clinical research in CAM embracing all CAM therapies and diseases.
CAM-QUEST® is a European-wide unique search portal which is regularly updated. It was designed for people interested in looking for scientifically certified treatment options within complementary and alternative medicine. Thereby, CAM-QUEST® (amongst others) provides a solid ground for discussions on CAM in general as well as the integration of CAM in general health systems. In addition, CAM-QUEST® alleviates the preparation of manuscripts related to CAM and may stimulate the initiation or continuation of CAM research projects.
As special feature, the CAM-QUEST® Expert Search enables practitioners of homeopathy and other people searching for homeopathic case reports (casuistics), even if they have only been published in German.


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-By Rich Miller
Hunt or don't hunt? Since deer season opened a couple weeks ago, the wind has been really inconsistent every day that I have had a chance to hunt. Seems like every magazine article I read or television show I see is talking about which stand to hunt based on wind direction. Some say only hunt a certain stand during a certain wind, or don't go into an area if the wind is wrong. I think there can be a lot of truth to this, but what about the hunter who doesn't have the option of waiting on a certain wind? Some of us have to hunt when we have the opportunity whether bad wind direction, rain or uncomfortable temperatures.
When these conditions occur there are a few things I do that seem to be a little more successful no matter what the conditions. I am really obsessed when it comes to controlling my scent. I start before I ever leave the house with the clothes I plan on hunting in. I wash them and store them separately from any of my other clothes. I prefer to wash my hunting clothes with Code Blue's laundry detergent with fresh earth scent. I don't think it is any better than the unscented version, but it is the one I have always used and I have a lot of confidence in it. I store my hunting clothes in a really large Tupperware-type container with a sealable lid.
I also use like to use scent eliminator sprays. Whether I'm checking my cameras, filling a feeder or hunting, I always spray down before entering my hunting area. Field wipes have been a great asset for these hot September afternoons also. No matter how hard I try to take my time getting into the stand, I cannot help but work up a sweat. I use these wipes to wipe off my face head and neck. In addition to getting rid of the perspiration, it also feels really nice and helps cool me off.
I am not saying that I don't pay any attention to the wind and if you take these precautions you will never get winded by a deer again. If the wind isn't right for the stand, you want to hunt try to find a stand site that is a little more favorable for that wind direction. When you have the opportunity to get in the wood go for it, whether the wind is in your favor or not you have a better chance of being successful in the woods than you do sitting at home on the couch.


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A $1,000 genome sequence is close to being available. What will your sequence tell you about your actual risk for certain diseases?
Many companies advertise a laundry list of disease risks associated with your genes. But your genome is unlikely to reveal whether or not you will actually get one of these conditions, according to a study published online April 2 in Science Translational Medicine.
"Whole-genome testing is not a crystal ball," Bert Vogelstein, director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins University, and co-author of the new paper says. "It may become one important determinant in patient care, but certainly not the only one—and possibly not even a major one." Also, he doubts it will ever surpass more traditional tactics used by doctors to help shape care regimens, including preventative medicine and other information such as family history. Most common diseases, heart disease and stroke included, do not result from a single-point mutation—or even a combination of them; such diseases also involve one's own lifestyle and environmental exposures.
He and his fellow researchers examined genetic and health data from large existing registries of tens of thousands of identical twins. They searched for 24 common maladies, including some cancers, along with autoimmune, heart and neurological diseases. Although we do not yet have a perfectly clear picture of all of these conditions' potential genetic correlates, the researchers developed a model that acted as if we did already have that science down in an effort to test the upper boundaries of what we might be able to learn from the genome alone. If the tests were optimal in this way—and as Vogelstein says, presuming "that the interpreter of the genome would be omniscient" and already knew all of the potential links with these diseases—nine out of 10 people could get a tip-off about one or more of these two dozen diseases with robust enough results to be able to change their lifestyles or medical responses based on them.
But overall, based on their genome sequence alone, most people will wind up getting a "negative" (that is, "low risk") result for most diseases. "These negative test results will, in general, not be very informative," Vogelstein and his colleagues noted in their paper. Not only are low-risk readings less useful than high-risk ones (which could prompt lifestyle changes, more frequent screenings or prophylactic treatments) they also do not guarantee that an individual will not get a disease.
In fact, for about half of the diseases most of individuals from the registries who would have received a "low-risk" result from a whole-genome sequence would have ended up getting one of these diseases anyway. (Diseases that had a stronger link with the genome results included Alzheimer's disease, some autoimmune conditions, type 1 diabetes and, for men, heart disease.) And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low-risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population—thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.
"This level of risk reduction is probably not sufficient to warrant changes of behavior, lifestyle or preventative medical practices for these individuals," the researchers wrote.
Upside of negative news
Not all negative results are useless, however, some were relatively robust and could bring, if not a change in health behavior, at least some relief. Twins in the study whose genomes showed a low risk for Alzheimer's, for example, did have about a 12 percent (thus, much, much smaller) risk than that of the general population (which, to begin with, has a relatively small risk of getting Alzheimer's during their lifetimes). And that could be a big comfort, the researchers noted, "particularly to those with a family history of Alzheimer's disease."
Muin Khoury, director of the Office of Public Health Genomics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was not involved in the new study, notes that it is solid work and that the twin data is an excellent source.
At the same time, he says, "whole-genome sequencing is a great tool, but it's not ready for prime time—for a number of reasons."
Among those reasons, he notes, is that we have definitive genetic correlates for very few diseases—most of which are relatively rare in the general population. Most diseases are not inherently genetic in nature, and even if they seem to have some associated genetic hallmarks, those are not strong enough to be able to say for certain that a person will or will not get the disease at some point in his or her lifetime.
As Vogelstein notes, these genetic risk predictions are unlikely to get much stronger. Because they conducted their mathematical analysis based on an ideal scientific world, in which we already knew how gene variants were connected to diseases, even "1,000 years from now, with intense research, these numbers wouldn't change," he says. That is, they created a model that was as generous as possible in terms of genetic correlates to disease in order to create a sort of upper bounds of the utility of these tests.
Not all in the genes
One of the keys to improving disease risk prediction will be to collect even more comprehensive information from study subjects and individuals. "We need to integrate nongenetic factors because most factors are nongenetic anyway," Khoury notes. Variables such as diet, exposures to carcinogens (such as via first- or secondhand smoke) and family history have a strong influence on many disease risks. "That's part of the challenge we face," he says. The genome "really doesn't mean much by itself"—and for people seeking the most accurate picture of their risk for various diseases, a more nuanced and integrated picture is needed.
As Vogelstein and his co-authors pointed out in the study, most identical twins do not die from—or even get—the same diseases, which should be a first clue that genetics can only go so far in determining pathological outcomes.
Khoury cautions consumers that even if the price of a whole genome sequence becomes reasonable for them, it is worth spending some time asking, in turn, what they are going to get from it. Although the extra genetic information might not hurt, for an individual who is looking for educated estimations of disease risk, having strong family history and personal health and lifestyle information are some of the most valuable data points one can take to the doctor.
But that does not mean that whole-genome sequencing will not be useful in the future—or that is not already for some higher-risk individuals or well-characterized rare conditions. "I'm an optimist—but also a realist," Khoury says. "We'd all like for whole-genome testing to succeed—I think it's already succeeded in some areas. But for population health, I think we have a long way to go."
By better understanding the limitations of genome-wide sequencing, Vogelstein notes, researchers and policymakers might be better able to direct funding and efforts to areas, such as Alzheimer's disease, where a person's genetic profile might have a very real effect on their likelihood of getting the disease. With that information comes an opportunity to make a much larger impact on public health in general—and a way to ease consumers' minds as well.


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Iam newbie to YII framework and using its latest vesion 1.1.0. I have enabled seo friendly urls through config file. My next problem is that how can I remove 'index.php' from URL. Iam using following .htaccess file.
Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
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Man Swings His Nuts in Front of Packed Alvin and the Chipmunks Screening
Tooth-deficient Chicago cinefile Edward Brown got a little overenthused during a recent screening of odds-on Oscars favorite Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. According to police, Brown, 34, disrobed and "paraded in front of the audience at the North Riverside Park Mall's Classic Cinema."
Brown then returned to his seat, where he sat, nakedly. Police arrived a short time later and evacuated children and parents from the theater, then ordered Brown to put his clothes back on and arrested him. He was charged with "sexual exploitation of a child and misdemeanor disorderly conduct."
We know what you're thinking: Why? Hang tight! It's coming.
Brown later told police that a woman had promised him crack and sex if he sat in the front row of the theater and took off his clothes, KTLA-TV reported.
The woman, universally hailed by 15-year-old boys worldwide as some kind of genius messiah, has not yet been located. [NY Daily News, Photo via Police Handout]


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UM Researchers Get $1.7M To Conquer Resurgent Whooping Cough
ANN ARBOR -- Two University of Michigan population ecologists have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year study that will try to explain the changing patterns of whooping cough outbreaks, using records from several countries spanning more than 70 years.
Thanks to widespread childhood vaccination, whooping cough (pertussis) once seemed to be under control. But the bacterial illness, which in infants causes violent, gasping coughing spells, has made a comeback in the United States and some other developed countries since the 1980s. In addition, there's been a shift in who's getting sick, with fewer cases seen in preschool children and more in teenagers.
Unlike a conventional epidemiological investigation of a disease outbreak, the new UM study will rely heavily on the use of long-term incidence reports, mathematical models of pertussis transmission and statistical methods for extracting information from data. Records from recent and historical outbreaks in several countries -- including England, Wales, Sweden, Denmark, Senegal and the United States -- will be analyzed.
"I think pertussis research has, until now, been piecemeal. Researchers have used different methods on different data sets and arrived at diverse conclusions," said UM population ecologist Pejman Rohani, co-leader of the new NIH-funded study.
"What we have proposed to do would, we believe, represent the most comprehensive stab at a systematic examination of pertussis," said Rohani, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, a professor of complex systems and a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health.
The co-principal investigator on the pertussis study is Aaron King, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and an associate professor of mathematics.
Some researchers say the reason for the observed changes in pertussis outbreak patterns since the 1980s is clear: The childhood vaccine for whooping cough wears off quicker than experts had previously believed. But Rohani and King say the explanation may not be that simple.
"That's probably the easiest hypothesis to understand because it's fairly straightforward, but infectious disease systems are usually much more complicated," King said.
"We're trying to understand why we see these patterns of pertussis, both the resurgence in the total number of cases and the change in the age distribution of those cases," he said. "We don't really understand either of those things, and we see it happening across the United States."
The new UM study will use archival data from outbreaks that occurred in the pre-vaccination era to pin down some of the fundamental biology of pertussis: the duration of infection-derived immunity and the epidemiological impact of repeat infections, as well as the respective contributions of population demography, age-specific contacts and seasonality. A second phase of the research will address the vaccine-specific aspects of the problem by focusing on countries with known vaccine usage and immunization schedules.
"The ultimate test of whether our understanding of pertussis has significantly advanced will be to explain an enigmatic body of data, namely the changing patterns of pertussis incidence in the United States over the past 30 years," Rohani said.
New insights provided by the study could, for example, lead to recommendations about revising the pertussis immunization schedule for children or the design of optimal adult/adolescent boosters, Rohani and King said.
Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that infants and children receive the diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 15 to 18 months of age. A booster of DTaP is given at 4 through 6 years of age and another dose of whooping cough vaccine, known as Tdap, is recommended for adolescents.
In 2010, 27,550 cases of pertussis were reported nationally with 27 deaths -- 25 of which were infants. Worldwide, there are 30 million to 50 million cases of whooping cough each year, resulting in about 300,000 deaths, according to CDC.
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Mt Garfield, from Palisade One shot, two crops. I could not decide which I like the best, so I posted both. 10-21-2005
Mt Garfield, from Palisade. Second, closer shot... I could not decide which I like the best, so I posted it too. 10-21-2005
Mt Garfield, from Palisade Park at sunset. 10-23-05. Smoke in the air from BLM controlled burns made some extra color. It would have been beautiful had there been clouds.
Honey Locust tree, with very stinky beans that will soon fall all over my lawn. But, the yellow, gold and bronze leaves are pretty. 10-24-05
Cloudy, fall sunset and Mt Garfield,
Sun Pillar at sunset
Sunset...clouds & trees..looking out my front door.
Cloudy sunset...trace of sun pillar is still showing.
I love clouds, and blue sky.
HEY... ya got bail money? Shaiti & Shashi... in jail, taking a yard break while doing time, getting their hair cuts. ;)


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Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents
Project News
22 July 2015 - POI 3.13-beta1 available
The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.13-beta1. Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes.
A summary of changes is available in the Release Notes. A full list of changes is available in the change log. People interested should also follow the dev list to track progress.
See the downloads page for more details.
11 May 2015 - POI 3.12 available
The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.12, our next stable release. Featured are a several new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes.
A summary of changes is available in the Release Notes. A full list of changes is available in the change log. People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress.
See the downloads page for more details.
Mission Statement
The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. In addition, you can read and write MS Word and MS PowerPoint files using Java. Apache POI is your Java Excel solution (for Excel 97-2008). We have a complete API for porting other OOXML and OLE2 formats and welcome others to participate.
OLE2 files include most Microsoft Office files such as XLS, DOC, and PPT as well as MFC serialization API based file formats. The project provides APIs for the OLE2 Filesystem (POIFS) and OLE2 Document Properties (HPSF).
Office OpenXML Format is the new standards based XML file format found in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2008. This includes XLSX, DOCX and PPTX. The project provides a low level API to support the Open Packaging Conventions using openxml4j.
For each MS Office application there exists a component module that attempts to provide a common high level Java api to both OLE2 and OOXML document formats. This is most developed for Excel workbooks (SS=HSSF+XSSF). Work is progressing for Word documents (HWPF+XWPF) and PowerPoint presentations (HSLF+XSLF).
The project has some support for Outlook (HSMF). Microsoft opened the specifications to this format in October 2007. We would welcome contributions.
There are also projects for Visio (HDGF), TNEF (HMEF), and Publisher (HPBF).
As a general policy we collaborate as much as possible with other projects to provide this functionality. Examples include: Cocoon for which there are serializers for HSSF; Open Office.org with whom we collaborate in documenting the XLS format; and Tika / Lucene, for which we provide format interpretors. When practical, we donate components directly to those projects for POI-enabling them.
Why should I use Apache POI?
A major use of the Apache POI api is for Text Extraction applications such as web spiders, index builders, and content management systems.
So why should you use POIFS, HSSF or XSSF?
You'd use POIFS if you had a document written in OLE 2 Compound Document Format, probably written using MFC, that you needed to read in Java. Alternatively, you'd use POIFS to write OLE 2 Compound Document Format if you needed to inter-operate with software running on the Windows platform. We are not just bragging when we say that POIFS is the most complete and correct implementation of this file format to date!
You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an Excel file using Java (XLS). You'd use XSSF if you need to read or write an OOXML Excel file using Java (XLSX). The combined SS interface allows you to easily read and write all kinds of Excel files (XLS and XLSX) using Java. Additionally there is a specialized SXSSF implementation which allows to write very large Excel (XLSX) files in a memory optimized way.
The Apache POI Project provides several component modules some of which may not be of interest to you. Use the information on our Components page to determine which jar files to include in your classpath.
So you'd like to contribute to the project? Great! We need enthusiastic, hard-working, talented folks to help us on the project. So if you're motivated, ready, and have the time time download the source from the Subversion Repository, build the code, join the mailing lists and we'll be happy to help you get started on the project!
Please read our Contribution Guidelines. When your contribution is ready submit a patch to our Bug Database.


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As Congress continues to debate comprehensive immigration reform, it's worthwhile to ask about the immigrants who will be left out of whatever reform is enacted. Here's a short comment I wrote for Zócalo Public Square, a "a not-for-profit daily Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism," as part of its discussion about what immigration reform would mean for Chicago.
Comprehensive immigration reform legislation offers much promise to the 1.8 million immigrants in and around Chicago, including the more than half-million unauthorized immigrants. But even the best promises can be undercut by restrictive procedures. If CIR is enacted, many hopeful Chicagoans will find themselves shut out of legalization by what are shaping up to be onerous eligibility criteria.
As it currently stands, the Senate's immigration proposal would bar many people who go about their daily lives as ordinary community members from obtaining the provisional green-card status that could eventually lead to citizenship. Even though immigrants commit fewer crimes than the native-born, the criminal bars to eligibility for legalization would affect many people convicted of relatively minor crimes. A conviction for jumping the turnstile to get on one of Chicago's famous El trains, shoplifting, or a few misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions will likely thwart the legalization hopes of many, even if those convictions are in the distant past.
Innumerable Chicagoans commit these offenses every year, but many, such as students in the city's elite college campuses who surely smoke marijuana on occasion, do so without encountering the criminal justice system. Thousands of others, however, are caught and convicted of these common offenses. For most, the consequences are trivial—a fine or a few days in jail. But for unauthorized immigrants, such convictions are likely to mean ineligibility for legalization, no matter how otherwise exemplary they may be.
Congress is poised to deem many unauthorized Chicagoans unworthy of legalization. They will continue to live in the shadows, forced to endure the uncertainty of being apprehended by immigration officials at any moment by the ordinary mistakes that countless in our society make.
This comment is re-posted from Zócalo Public Square's web site.
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Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams lets you work remotely. You can chat, meet, call and collaborate with your colleagues. Check out tips on how to get started with Teams quickly and easily.
Microsoft Teams
Log in with <your own ULCN username>@vuw.leidenuniv.nl and your usual password. You can verify your identity with Microsoft Authenticator.Download Teams
Log in to the website to use Teams without downloading the app on your device.
Verify your sign-in
You will have to verify your identity with Microsoft Authenticator to able to sign into Teams.
Read the manual on the helpdesk portal >>
Teams and educational activities
For which educational activities can you use Teams? Check the Microsoft Teams page on the site Teaching Support for advice and tips.
Six tips
In a very short time many staff members have started using Microsoft Teams. You can use MS Teams in different ways: via a mobile app, via an app on your desktop, but also via a web app. Six tips for using MS Teams:
The desktop version has more options than the browser version. While video conferencing, you will see several people on your screen. You can share your screen with colleagues and can blur your background to protect the privacy of your housemates. Install Teams on your device.
Always make two people owners of your team. This is to ensure that at least one owner is available even if the other is not.
When you start using MS Teams, you will probably share everything in the general channel. This is manageable to begin with, but without thread discipline you will soon lose track of what is going on. Create structure by working with channels or tagging subgroups in your messages.
It is easy to communicate with the whole team through channels. All the members can read what you have to say. A chat, however, is one-on-one or with a select group. You can also use the chat option to chat or video conference with people outside your team(s).
Each team in MS Teams also has its own team site in SharePoint online. Files that you share in a channel are stored in SharePoint. Files that you share in chat are stored in OneDrive. You can access OneDrive through the Files button on the left-hand side of the screen. Here you will also find a list of all the files that have been shared.
Follow the next guidelines in order to save and share files within MS Teams correctly.
Assistance and support
Microsoft offers a great amount of information on working with Teams, go to the general help and support page for more information.
ISSC made all public teams in MS Teams private
At the start of April, the ISSC made all public teams in MS Teams private. This is a security measure to prevent unwanted access to chats and files within Teams. Public teams are accessible to all students and staff at Leiden University, and all the chats and files within these teams are visible to all. If this is a conscious decision, that is fine, but it does mean a greater risk of data breaches. That is why the decision was made to make all public teams private. If you still want your team to be public, see how to do so below.
Are you the team owner?
Click on the three horizontal dots (the ellipsis) behind the icon and team name and select Edit team. Under Privacy you can select Private (default) or Public.
Are you a member of a team?
Click on the three horizontal dots (the ellipsis) behind the icon and team name and select Manage Team:
In the next field hover over 'Team' in the top right to see who can see the channel content:
Questions? Contact the helpdesk +31 71 527 8888.