breakthrough design

If you’re like us and you’ve always wanted to learn how to provide simple or clean urls, while still maintaining an easy .php or .asp setup in your main directory, you can do so easily with an .htaccess file. (For you apache guys/gals).

Special thanks to corz.org for their great .htaccess rewrite article.

So, you have:

http://somesite.com/services.php

and you’d like your visitors to type:

http://somesite.com/services

Solution

1. Paste the following in your .htaccess file:


Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^services services.php


Looking at the third line only:

• Rewrite
• ^services = what will appear after your domain name (e.g. http://somesite.com/services)
• services.php = the actual page in your structure

And voila! Add as many lines as you like to this file. An example .htaccess file, for a small site might look like:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^services services.php
RewriteRule ^technology technology.php
RewriteRule ^contact contact.php
RewriteRule ^vendors vendor-registration.php
RewriteRule ^hospitals hospital-registration.php

More Information on .htaccess

Kathleen Frizzi has been practicing yoga since 1999. While living in NYC, she practiced many styles like Ashtanga, Iyengar, Jivamukti, and most treasureadly Anusara w/ Elena Brower.

Kathleen traveled to study yoga in India and Thailand in 2002 after helping The Robinhood Foundation raise millions of dollars for the World Trade Center Relief Fund. In 2003, Kathleen traveled back to Thailand for a year long stay and began officially teaching daily yoga classes in Koh Pan-gnan at Jungle Gym.

More on Yoga with Kathleen in Syracuse, NY

As a member of our community, please consider taking a small action of solidarity as the Buddhist monks and people of Burma’s attempts to reclaim their human rights from a military dictatorship. They are an incredible inspiration of how a personal and group contemplative practice can lead to social action for justice and reform, exactly what The Interdependence Project is striving toward!

Below are a few very concrete ways you can help the situation. The basic rule of interdependence is this: every action matters. Please take the small time and mental effort necessary to make a difference. Please forward this widely.

With Compassionate Wishes,
BDG Crew

1. There are upcoming protests planned for Sat. Oct. 6th.

For more information: http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/
(this website contains disturbing images and news of what’s actually going on.)

2. Take part in a letter writing campaign sponsered by Amnesty International.

(if you participate then visit their website- http://web.amnesty.org/pages/mmr-270907-action-eng and check the box that says- Yes, I have taken this action)
You can copy and paste this sample letter into an e-mail or a document to print out:

Dear Minister:
I am deeply concerned by the reports that hundreds of monks and other peaceful protesters, including well-known comedian Zargana and member of parliament Paik Ko have been detained.
I strongly urge the Myanmar authorities to release them immediately and unconditionally, unless they are to be charged with recognizably criminal offences. I call on the authorities to ensure that, while they remain in custody, all the detainees are held only in official places of detention, and are given immediate access to lawyers, their families and any medical treatment they may require. I also call on the authorities to ensure that the detainees are not subjected to torture or any other ill-treatment.
I call on the authorities to ensure that all people in Myanmar are able to peacefully exercise the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly without fear of harassment, intimidation or arbitrary detention, in line with international human rights standards.

Yours Sincerely,

Please send appeals to:
Foreign Minister Nyan Win
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Naypyitaw
Union of Myanmar
Fax: +95 1 222 950 OR +95 1 221 719
E-mail: mofa.aung@mptmail.net.mm

3. Please sign an online petition to Chinese Officials:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/uscampaignforburma/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=730&t=HomePage.dwt

Chinese action is crucial to pressuring the military dictatorship!

4. Please Sign the petition that will appear in ads in the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post tomorrow.

There are 500,000 signatures already from around the world and they are aiming for a 1 million.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/u.php

avaaz.org is a new international grass-roots group.

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Check out Bella Luna Lanes, a great choice for Bowling in Syracuse!

Announcing Perfect Practice Online!

13,000 square foot Baseball/Softball Training Facility located in Baldwinsville (West of Syracuse), NY. The new site features custom fonts, color scheme, and design integrated with existing logo. The site is integrated with the EZFacility’s Training Management Software; Customers can view cage/trainer availability, order time with trainers, and reserve cage times online! All transactions and scheduling, classes, purchases, etc are controlled via the same interface (in-house and online)! Also included is a Virtual Tour of the facility provided by Ron Trinca of Ron Trinca Studios.

Also, owners Mike & Joanne Dipaulo offer classes, and summer training programs which are all available for signup online!

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