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by Nargiza Kiger, BLS student, Tamale, Ghana
I am in the middle of my online midterm test, and rather confident that I know the material, but becoming anxious because the test has a limited time and my internet connection is being torturously slow. I click to submit my answer, and watch the precious seconds go past, becoming more anxious as I wait for the next question to finally appear. I answer it…click…and wait again.
That's when the power goes out.
Cussing and feeling defeated I storm outside to calm myself. The last time the power went out (the day before the test), it lasted for over twelve hours. In my head I am already drafting yet another email to my professor trying to explain my situation. "Just don't make it sound like one of those excuses professors get from students all the time," I tell myself as the security guard approaches me.
I have been living in the West African region since 2011—the same year I became a student at UNCG—and since then I have been taking my classes from Nigeria and Ghana. Living in West Africa is exciting and rewarding both on a personal and a professional level, and the new phenomenon of "distance learning" creates huge opportunities for a student like me, who can live in Ghana and take online classes from an American University. However, living in and taking online classes from Tamale has its own set of challenges. Sudden power losses and slow, at times non-functioning internet are common situations. Reliable internet access and reliable electricity are rare. As a distance learner I face these challenges on daily basis. It can be maddening.
As Ibrahim the security guard approached me, I wanted to vent my frustration and complain to someone about how challenging it is to be a distance learner when you have such poor infrastructure around you. In the course of our conversation something special happened that made me reflect back on the bigger picture and why am I a student in the first place. He brought me back to reality, and now any time I am frustrated about my tests, quizzes and mid term exams, I remember the story of Ibrahim Sulemana.
Ibrahim is a 22-year-old young man who wants to be a medical nurse. He was the oldest son of a farmer who relied on him greatly in managing the farm. When Ibrahim was 14 an educational project "Literacy and Development through Partnership" came to his community. This project focused on adult education and taught them how to write and read in English, the formal language of Ghana. Ibrahim joined the project and started going to night school after long, labor-intensive days in his family farm. Only at the age of 14 did he have access to basic education that I had had access to at the age of 7 growing up in Uzbekistan.
In rural parts of Ghana basic education can easily become a burden for parents. In rural Ghana a person on average lives on $2 USD a day. Although the education itself free from 1st grade to 9th grade, if you want to go to high school you have to pay on average 100 Ghana Cedi ($50 USD) per academic year. Private schools are 4-5 times higher. Because Ibrahim wanted to further acquire his higher education, it was crucial to graduate from high school.
Ibrahim committed to his night school education so much that his uncle noticed his abilities and convinced Ibrahim's farther to let Ibrahim go to high school. In the following farming seasons, his father encouraged Ibrahim to hire some assistance in the field, so he could spend less time on the field and more at school. Ibrahim joined the junior high school at the age of 17 and graduated from High School in 2013 at the age of 22. He paid for his school from the small profits he made from growing rice. He told me that one year he had such a bad yield (6 sacks of rise) that he did not have any money or rice left when he paid his school expenses.
Ibrahim told me that he was surrounded with classmates who were much younger than him and always felt a bit ashamed, but he said that adult students like him tend to have clearer goals and have less time to "play around." Now he is studying for his standardized entrance exam for the Nursing School. He tells me that it is very competitive and mostly not based on merits. Since he has no connections to the influential people at nursing school, he says that he has to only rely on his abilities and knowledge. At the same time the educational system favors those with financial capabilities. Ibrahim says that if a person pays about $5,000 in bribes to "the right person," the person's place at the Nursing school can be secured without any exams. He knows that it is impossible for him to save up that much money working as a security guard and making about $150 a month. So, he is determined to challenge himself and take the test. He told me that most of his salary and harvested rice is spent on his siblings' education. He wants them to be educated at much earlier age than he was.
The day Ibrahim and I shared our educational journeys was the day I told myself that I will not feel frustrated over small challenges and will do my best to focus on the bigger picture. Ibrahim's story made me reflect on educational journeys that many young people go through in different parts of the world, facing their own challenges. Most of us in the United States are lucky to have the opportunities in front of us. We only have to recognize them and take advantage of them. Immense resources and technology make education even more accessible. Online education has become a widely used approach in non-traditional education. It definitely allows me to achieve my educational progress from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Ibrahim and I became good buddies since our bond over our educational goals. We both encourage each other in our so different world, and remind each other of our ultimate goals in this journey. Recognizing poor availability and access of the resources for Ibrahim, I now share my books with him, as he is very nervous about passing English on his big test.
Nargiza Kiger (rhymes with "tiger"), a senior in the BLS Social Sciences concentration, currently lives in Tamale, Ghana with her husband. A resident of North Carolina, she finished her Associate of Arts at Forsyth Technical Community College before coming to UNCG. Prior to that, she grew up and started her education in Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan, and she speaks enough languages that the College foreign language requirement probably won't be an issue for her.


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But that frustrating finger slip showed me the advantages of casting a wide net on the Web. The article at the top of my hit list, dated Oct. 1, 1852, was about another Tyrone Power, an actor who died in 1841. Who was he? A relative, I suspected, of my Tyrone.
I was right. It turns out that the Tyrone Power of Zorro fame descends from an entertainment dynasty. His father, born Frederick Tyrone Power in 1869, was a Shakespearean thespian and silent film star, who died in 1931 while working on his first talking picture, The Miracle Man. Frederick's father, Harold, was a concert pianist. And Harold's father, the subject of my fortuitous newspaper find, was born in 1797 in Ireland. He was a comedic actor, primarily in England, though he traveled to America a number of times. In fact, he died in 1841 on board The President during a return trip from America. My Tyrone's great-great-grandfather, named — you guessed it — Tyrone Power, also was an actor. He died in the United States in 1798.

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Impact of brain injury on menopause and memory
David Stock, post-doctoral researcher at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Early and sudden menopause can put a woman at greater risk of dementia. Studies suggest traumatic brain injury can have the same effect. Now researchers are investigating possible links between the two that could lead to preventative treatments.
David Stock, a post-doctoral researcher at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, is trying to find out if traumatic brain injury affects the timing of menopause and, if so, how.
Previous research shows that women who suffer brain injury often have disrupted menstrual cycles, including long periods of time without menstruating. Stock wants to know if brain injury might also trigger early menopause.
During menopause, a woman's estrogen levels decline. That's important because brain regions linked to forming new memories, such as the hippocampus, are chock full of receptors for estrogen. In fact, the hormone is one of the keys to the hippocampus' functioning and this part of the brain is often the first to be targeted by dementia.
Men, on the other hand, don't experience the same drastic decline in estrogen in their brains. Their sex hormone, testosterone, is converted in the brain into estrogen. Since testosterone doesn't significantly drop as men age, their hippocampus keeps working.
Funded in part by the Alzheimer Society Research Program, Stock will recruit women from Toronto-area hospitals who have suffered brain injury. He will then monitor their hormone levels and menstrual cycles, looking for markers of early menopause.
If he finds a trend suggesting a link, and subsequent studies back it up, hormone replacement therapy could be considered.
"I know hormone replacement therapy has been a hot button issue," says Stock. "Large clinical trials in the early 2000s found it to be a risk factor for dementia. But the issue could be about when treatment is prescribed."
If women with brain injury could be screened to see if they were entering menopause early, they could take hormone replacements before their bodies had a chance to adjust to lower levels. Stock hopes to have results to share within three years.


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EPA Takes First Steps Towards Protecting Bristol Bay Salmon Fishery from Pebble Mine
Initiates Clean Water Act 404(c) process
In February 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is using its authority under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act to consider options for protecting the world's largest wild salmon fishery in Alaska's Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine.
Section 404(c) authorizes the agency to restrict or prohibit mine waste disposal in the rivers, streams or wetlands that feed Bristol Bay to safeguard the salmon fishery. During the review, the EPA will rely heavily on its peer-reviewed scientific assessment of the impacts of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed, released in January 2014.
What's next?
Today's action is not a final decision to block the mine, but it does put on hold any attempts to build the mine until the process is complete. There are several steps in the Clean Water Act Section 404(c) review process, and public involvement opportunities are part of the process:
Step 1 – Consultation period with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and owners of the site (initiated on February 28, 2014).
Step 2 – Publication of Proposed Determination, including proposed prohibitions or restrictions on mining the Pebble deposit, in the Federal Register for public comment and one or more public hearings.
Step 3 – Review of public comments and development of Recommended Determination by EPA.
Step 4 – Second consultation period with the Army Corps and site owners and development of Final Determination.
Anchorage editorial responds to House Republicans
Be sure to read the editorial in the Anchorage Daily News today, which responds to recent pressure from House Republicans from California and Georgia, against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agnecy (EPA) for the draft watershed assessment it recently completed of Alaska's Bristol Bay. Here's how the ADN responds: "The EPA isn't the issue here. Whether […]Read the rest of this entry »
Commercial fishermen take message to UK food magazine
Alaska's commercial fishermen have taken the message about the risks to the wild salmon fishery to those that love to buy and eat salmon. A recent article and letter appear in the UK magazine – The Grocer. Did you know that the UK is the largest importer of Bristol Bay canned salmon?Read the rest of this entry »
Word is out: Toxic mine spills frequent at Anglo American Mine
A new article in the Santiago Times describes multiple toxic spills at Anglo American's Los Bronces mine in Chile. According to the article, a a truck transporting ammonium nitrate veered off the road near Santiago on March 28, spilling 20 tons of its toxic cargo just feet from a river feeding the Aguas Cordillera water […]Read the rest of this entry »
Supermarkets Rally To Support Alaska's Bristol Bay Fishery
It's big news. For the first time ever, the Food Marketing Institute, which represents 26,000 food retail stores and $680 billion in annual revenue, has spoken out on behalf of protecting Alaska's Bristol Bay wild salmon fishery – the largest wild salmon fishery in the world. FMI, announced its support for an EPA study of […]Read the rest of this entry »
AP story shows how Pebble Partnership stone-walled agencies
The Pebble Partnership recently released its 27,000 pages of baseline data, but an AP story documents how PLP stone-walled agency staff who are tasked with studying the impacts. "It's virtually impossible to provide substantive review comments when (Pebble) doesn't disclose more details of their development plans and their contractors only occasionally share snippets of the […]Read the rest of this entry »
Anglo American's Pebble Mine Poses High Risk to Investors
A new investor risk report highlights the regulatory, legal, political and engineering hurdles confronting Anglo American's controversial Pebble mine project. "Local opposition to the Pebble mine project has translated into a barrage of legal, political and regulatory hurdles over the last year," said Jonas Kron, analyst at Trillium Asset Management Corp. "After scrutinizing the project […]Read the rest of this entry »
Anglo American withdraws from the Pebble Partnership
As Anglo leaves, eyes turn to EPA
A Reprieve for Bristol Bay
March 2, 2014 | The New York Times
Feds, miners, Alaska natives: What they're saying about Pebble Mine
March 2, 2014 | L.A. Times
We Can't Eat Gold in Bristol Bay – An Interview with Yup'ik spokesman Bobby Andrew
January 23, 2014 | IC Magazine
EPA: Mining would destroy fishery, villages, part of watershed in Alaska's Bristol Bay
January 15, 2014 | Washington Post
EPA Says Northern Dynasty Pebble Project May Harm Alaska Salmon
January 15, 2014 | Businessweek
Alaska Native Tribes, Jewelers, Investors, Commercial Fishermen and Conservation Groups Applaud EPA's Final Study of Large-Scale Mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay Watershed
January 15, 2014 | Earthworks et. al.
EPA releases Bristol Bay Assessment describing potential impacts to salmon and water from copper, gold mining
January 15, 2014 | EPA
EPA now expects to release Pebble Mine report in 2014
December 15, 2013 | Juneau Empire
EPA now expects to release Pebble Mine report in 2014
December 15, 2013 | Juneau Empire
Religious Leaders in Alaska Urge EPA's McCarthy to Finish Bristol Bay Study
December 11, 2013 | KDLG
Luki Akelkok, Sr. Chairman of Nunamta Aulukestai
September 16, 2013 | Nunamta Aulukestai
Press Statement of Earthworks Executive Director Jennifer Krill regarding Anglo American's Withdrawal from the Pebble Mine Proposal
September 16, 2013 | Earthworks
Fishing or Mining: Alaska's Bristol Bay Region Debates Its Future
September 3, 2013 | Center for American Progress
EPA chief hears Pebble mine arguments in SW Alaska visit
August 28, 2013 | Anchorage Daily News
Poll Shows Wide Fears of Pebble Mine
August 26, 2013 | Alaska Public Media
Alaska's salmon, more precious than gold
July 29, 2013 | CNN
Proposed pebble mine threatens Native Alaskans' way of life
July 27, 2013 | Alaska Dispatch
100 Jewelers Pledge Support for Alaska's Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine, Earthworks Announces
June 27, 2013 | Earthworks


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Erasing Computers for Donation, Office on Netbooks and Installing Windows 7 on an iMac
I have an old but serviceable Apple eMac that I would like to give to charity. I have deleted all my files (I think) but am leery of having some of my personal info still retrievable. Would deleting and reloading the OS be of value, or are there other steps to take?
A: For peace of mind, you should use a secure file-wiping utility and erase the entire drive using it. Then, presuming you have the original disks, you can reinstall the operating system.
A file-wiping utility erases files, and then overwrites the portions of the hard disk they occupied, as well as free space on the drive, multiple times, usually with zeroes, so the original contents can't be recovered.
I don't know which version of the Mac operating system you have, but the original disks that come with most Macs contain a program called Disk Utility that can do this, if you select the "Erase" option and then the "Erase Free Space" option. You will have to first boot the computer up from the operating system disk.
I just got a netbook and need a free or cheap package to read, edit and create Word, Excel, PowerPoint-compatible files. Would Open Office or Google Docs work? I am open to using an online package.
A:Yes. In my limited testing of both, they have done a good job with typical, basic Microsoft Office documents. I can't say how they'd perform if your documents are especially complex, but, as the programs are free to use, it's certainly worth a try.
Can Windows 7 be installed on an iMac? Since many of my old files are from a Windows XP computer, would it be better for me to just purchase and load a copy of Win XP on my new iMac instead of trying Windows 7?
A: Windows 7 can indeed be installed on an iMac. Both the Parallels and VMWare Fusion programs that create virtual Windows computers on Macs now support Windows 7.
As for the data files from your Windows XP computer, there is no reason they shouldn't run in programs under Windows 7 unless they require some older Windows program that isn't compatible with Windows 7.
However, if you install Parallels or Fusion, you can also opt to set up two virtual Windows machines, one with Windows 7 and one with Windows XP. The only downside is that you'd have to buy and install copies of both versions of Windows.
I should also note that most common file types, like MP3 music files, text files, Microsoft Word files, and JPG picture files, can be handled by Mac programs without installing Windows.
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I work in Peru, where a lot of coffee, particularly organic coffee, is grown. What's always seemed strange to me is that quality coffee is not available in most of the country. Whereas brewed coffee is sold at every street corner in non-coffee producing countries like Chile and the US, Nescafe instant is the only coffee you'll find in most Peruvian stores, restaurants, and homes, even in cities of 70,000 people or more. It costs more than in the US (while most foods cost less), about a day's wages for a rural laborer for an 8oz/225g can of instant coffee. Instant coffee is really popular as a breakfast item, often with sugar and evaporated milk.
What kinds of economic patterns could lead to a product being less available and more expensive in the country in which it is produced? Why don't growers bring beans to markets in the highlands or the coast and undermine Nestle's monopoly with a cheaper, tastier product? I have never been able to fathom it. It may have something to do with the fact that part of instant coffee's appeal is that it is a pre-packaged product you buy in a store, not at the market. As such, it is a marker of middle class identity. Or maybe the growers have exclusive contracts keeping them from selling their beans domestically. Does anyone have ideas about what's going on?
First, coffee production is very labor intensive, so adding the roasting and grinding of beans is probably something that most farmers would not want to do. Moreover, to create a viable product would involve processing a lot of coffee, and then waiting for buyers. One of the interesting aspects of volumes two and three of Marx's CAPITAL is his discussion of turnaround time. For a coffee grower, the turnaround time for selling the beans in bulk is much shorter than the turnaround time for roasting the beans and selling them one cup at a time.
Second, coffee roasters are not simple devices and are rather expensive. In the US, a roaster than can handle less than a pound of beans at a time sells for $150 and up. Even for a well-off farmer, that is a significant capital expense that will result in additional labor requirements that in the end involves the sale of the product in small amounts. Even in the US, most coffee roasters prefer to sell in bulk rather than peddle small quantities for retail.
So the short answer is that for most coffee farmers, roasting coffee is more trouble than its worth and delays payment for the product. There may be other factors at work in Peru, but these two factors probably apply.
The relationship between production and consumption is always complicated. In the US, farmers grew grain and drank rum until the 1780s, at which time they began to ferment and distill grain and drink whiskey. The reasons why they shifted from rum to whiskey was not that they lacked the capability to make whiskey (some even bought molasses and made rum before the 1780s), but because the export market for flour began to decline and the price of rum began to climb--rather than let all the grain go to waste or be sold under the cost of production, they distilled it.
One of the main ways coffee is graded is origin. This has a lot to do with the texture and flavor of the beans. And while patronage may come down to personal preference, some of the hype around origin is linked to the the idea of authenticity. Who can claim coffee? Who can wield it? And consequently speak with some authority on its properties and control the supply? Ethiopia, the country linked to the original legends of discovery, actually has the smallest output which is partly due to the socio-political history of the African continent overall.


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It is inexplicable to me that the Yankees hold the last surviving "Old Timers' Day" – they used to be regular features in nearly every ballpark, and for a time constituted a kind of floating franchise, managed centrally and sending the veterans on virtual summer-long tours of parks in the majors and minors.
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I think today's crowds largely lack the respect and interest (and education) to appreciate widespread Old Timer's Days. We are a fickle breed. Good luck getting that scorebook filled out, sounds like fun.
You'd think St. Louis would be a natural place for an old timers game, anybody in Cardinals management read KO's blog?
Wry musing … did Narron add the Bible reference to the line-up card before or after the game? Put another way, was it meant to be inspiration for the game … or a commentary on the outcome?
The Rangers won this particular game; the verse cited here is "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" so it works in either instance, I guess. Did he use a different verse for every day?
As a expression of faith within the baseball world, it's certainly more gentle & subtle than the "Jesus is Coming Soon! Every Knee Shall Bow" bumper sticker that A's manager Alvin Dark had on his car in the mid-70s.
I wish old-timers games were still common. A couple of thoughts:
1. Too many of the "old-timers" actually are old, and the more recent retirees don't tend to have the same kind of camaraderie and love for the game. Money really has changed that, I think.
2. Bill Veeck put it best: have an old-timers day but don't let them play. He said he got no joy from watching old, pot-bellied men trip over each other. Maybe have some batting practice.
Great story. In the late 1950s, Ty Cobb played in an old-timers game at Yankee Stadium. He led off, got a huge ovation, looked at the catcher–Wally Schang of the 1927 Yankees–and said, "Wally, I haven't touched a bat in 10 years. You might want to back up a bit because I don't want to hurt you." Schang thanked him and backed up. Cobb then laid down a perfect bunt in front of the plate, and got a base hit. Surprise, surprise.
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Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a definition for bank till.
Could anyone tell me what the following headline means?
More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a definition for bank till.
till = until?
Or till = where the shop assistant / bank clerk puts the money handed in by customers.
till3 (tl)
1. A drawer, small chest, or compartment for money, as in a store.
2. A supply of money; a purse.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
\Till\, n. 1. (Geol.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land. --Loudon.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
The headline was, supposedly: "More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till".
What do you call the machines in shops and banks for keeping money? In BE, they're tills.
In AE they are also called tills, but you don't bury bodies behind them. For one thing, they aren't stationary.Originally Posted by tdol
I'd like to read on to find out what happened next. )
To find out what happened after they found the bodies?Originally Posted by tdol
It calls for the mystery to be solved.
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If you're already a kale and lentils kind of person (we know there are a lot of frugal foodies out there) — you won't be surprised by this finding: According to a new study from some economists at the USDA, eating a healthy diet isn't necessarily more expensive than a diet loaded with sugar and fat. In fact, fruits and vegetables are often cheaper when you calculate the cost in a smarter way.
Cost is often cited as a barrier to eating well. But USDA's Andrea Carlson and her colleagues analyzed the cost of more than 4,000 foods using three different measures: Price per calorie (or food energy), price by weight, and price per average amount consumed.
By using this last measure — which is a good proxy of what actually makes it onto our plate — the news is good.
"We find that fruits and vegetables — especially vegetables — come out much less expensive than the less-healthy food such as potato chips, ready-to-eat cereals [which are] often high in sugar, [and] anything with a lot of fat like cookies and pies." That's because you get more bang — like vitamins and minerals — for the buck.
So how do you do it?
Well, for starters, when you're trying to get the most nutritional and economical benefit in the protein category, think legumes. Lentils and beans are very affordable, and a good alternative to meat.
Also, check sugar labels. For the purposes of this study, lots of foods people may think are healthful actually ended up in the "less-healthful" category because of added sugars. Think yogurts sweetened with jam, sugary cereals and granola bars.
And for veggies: Shop the frozen food aisle. You don't have to consume an entire package in a single use (frozen peas will last weeks). And frozen veggies are just about as nutritious as fresh — with a lot less work on your part.
For the full USDA report, click here.
OK. That's what's on TV. What's for dinner? When we're deciding what to eat, many of us have this impression that healthier foods are often more expensive. Well, a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has analyzed the costs of several thousand healthy and unhealthy foods. And their conclusions could come as a surprise. Here's NPR's Allison Aubrey.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Lots of us don't think twice about reaching into our pocketbooks every morning for the few bucks it takes to sustain a morning coffee habit. But when we get into the grocery store and see asparagus at $3 a pound or a huge bag of spinach for $4, we think, ah, the cost of produce is really high. Robert Williams is familiar with this thinking.
ROBERT WILLIAMS: Exactly, I would definitely agree that I will spend 6 bucks on a latte, but the produce, too expensive.
AUBREY: Williams is single and 20-something, and he says in the grocery store, he gravitates towards what he thinks are the best deals.
WILLIAMS: Like for me, I'm trying to race up and down here before a big crowd gets in here. I'm just grabbing stuff. And again, like I said, the most, the cheapest thing was the thing that jumps out at me, if anything.
AUBREY: Williams has no fresh produce in his cart except for bananas, and he, like many of us, assumes that lots of fruits and vegetables will break the bank.
But economist Andrea Carlson, who is one of the authors of the new report, says this is not necessarily the case. She analyzed the costs of some 4,000 different items, in different ways. Not just in terms of individual package price or price per calorie, but how that translates into what ends up on your plate. She compared the costs of sugary and fat-laden items that Americans routinely eat with the costs of healthier foods, and the results were clear.
ANDREA CARLSON: We find that fruits and vegetables, especially vegetables, come out much less expensive than the less healthy food such as potato chips, a lot of the ready-to-eat cereals or anything that has a lot of fat in it - cookies and pies.
AUBREY: A lot of you are probably skeptical. But, let's see how this plays out with our shopper Robert Williams. We'll take two examples.
And for a little help with we've brought in Laura Seman. She a nutrition educator with the group Share Our Strength. She helps direct a program called Cooking Matters that teaches people how to shop for both value and good nutrition.
LAURA SEMAN: It's complicated.
AUBREY: She catches up with Robert and takes a quick look in his cart...which makes him a little nervous.
WILLIAMS: I live by myself and I don't cook a lot, so...
AUBREY: But she has tips on how to get good deals on healthy food. Now the economists' study found that some of the most affordable sources of protein tend to be legumes, such as lentils and black beans. But lean meat can be a good option too, if you know what to look for.
SEMAN: So I just want to ask you a question. We have here have two different types of ground turkey.
We have ground turkey that's 93 percent lean.
AUBREY: One costs $4.50 per package. And right next to it, a more expensive option, six bucks for 99 percent lean turkey.
SEMAN: So, if you were to buy one of these, which one would you buy?
WILLIAMS: The five dollar one.
SEMAN: Why is that?
WILLIAMS: Just most likely the price itself. I'd just grab that one just to save a buck or two.
AUBREY: But wait a second. The cheaper one is fattier, it's going to shrink down when you cook it.
SEMAN: Have you ever seen that happen?
WILLIAMS: Oh yeah.
SEMAN: Yeah. So your meat shrinks down, whereas, and when you take this meat and you cook it in the skillet, it's not going to shrink down as much, right, because you're not melting that fat away.
AUBREY: So by buying the fattier grade, you're really not saving anything at all.
WILLIAMS: Never thought about it that way, really never thought about it that way, but yeah, good point there.
AUBREY: The next example takes us to the produce aisle.
SEMAN: We're standing in front of all of the bagged lettuces.
AUBREY: Picking up a big $4 bag of greens, Semen says think how many servings you can get out of this.
SEMAN: A portion of lettuce is about a couple of cups.
AUBREY: Eat that much and the bag's not even a third of the way gone. But you've consumed lots of vitamins and nutrients.
SEMAN: When you look at it that way, then actually, lettuce becomes a lot more affordable.
AUBREY: Currently the typical American spends only one-fifth of their food budget on fresh fruits and vegetables, compared to the 40 percent that's recommended. What this report shows is that with some strategic shopping, it's possible to get a healthier cart without spending any more money.
Allison Aubrey, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Web page to rent Boats. We have used the WPML plugin to make the multi-language Web in Spanish, Catalan and English:
- Pages
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- URLs
- Menus
- Woocommerce
How to build a multilingual e-commerce website with Toolset and WPML
To build an e-commerce site similar to this one with Toolset and WooCommerce you will need to:
- Add custom fields and taxonomies to your WooCommerce products with Types
- Create your own templates for WooCommerce products
- Create a customized shopping page and a side by side product comparison
- Build a product search so customers can find your products
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- Add a product categories slider
- Create front end forms so users can add and edit products using Forms
- Display information on store orders and which customers bought a product
You can find more details on each step within our guide to creating an e-commerce WordPress site. We have also created an example of a multilingual shop.
To translate an e-commerce website with WPML you will need to
- Choose who will translate your content, yourself, your own translators or a translation service
- Translate your pages and posts
- Translate your taxonomies
- Translate your strings from your theme, plugins and other places
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team will host Mount St. Mary's on Monday night at Detrick Gymnasium. The Blue Devils (9-8, 3-4 NEC) and Mountaineers (9-10, 4-3 NEC) are scheduled to tip-off at 7 p.m. Fans can also watch live on NECFrontRow.com.
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Today • The Blue Devils (9-8, 3-4 NEC) host the Mountaineers of Mount St. Mary's (9-10, 4-3 NEC) at Detrick Gymnasium as the mid-point of the Northeast Conference scheduled approaches. CCSU and Mount both won in overtime on Saturday and both victories further tightened the NEC Standings. These teams will also meet next Monday night in Emmitsburg with the game being broadcast live on ESPN3.com.
Up Next • After hosting St. Francis BK and Mount, CCSU will hit the road to visit SFBK (1/1) and the Mount (1/3). CCSU's game against the Mount on Feb. 3 will air live on ESPN3. The Blue Devils will then play at Bryant (2/8) and host LIU Brooklyn (2/10) before traveling to Robert Morris (2/15) and Saint Francis U (2/17).
Series History • The Mount holds a 19-10 advantage in the all-time Division I series between these programs, but CCSU has played the Mountaineers much better under head coach Beryl Piper. During Piper's tenure the Blue Devils are 6-3 against the Mount and 4-1 at home, including a current four-game winning streak vs. the Mountaineers at Detrick.
Packed Standings • The Blue Devils are the only team in the NEC with a 3-4 record, which currently has them sitting in seventh place. However, CCSU is just two games out of second place and three behind first place Robert Morris. With the exception of first place Robert Morris (6-1) and last place Fairleigh Dickinson (0-7), eight teams are separated by just three games in places 2-9 in the standings.
Double-Digit Victories • A win tonight over Mount St. Mary's would give the Blue Devils 10 or more victories in six straight seasons. It would be the first six-year run of double-digit win totals in the history of CCSU women's basketball. Last year's 16 wins gave the Blue Devils five straight double-digit win seasons for the first time in the Division I era. The program also had a five-year run at the Division II level between 1975 and 1980.
Quick Facts • The Blue Devils are 6-1 when scoring 70+ points this season
• Senior Jessica Babe scored nine of CCSU's final 16 points in Saturday's win
• TeJahne Malone scored a career-high 15 points against Sacred Heart in her first career start
• The Blue Devils are 7-0 when leading with two minutes left to in regulation
• Raven Makins scored a career-high 18 points against Saint Francis U, her previous high was six points
Climbing the Career List • Senior Jessica Babe already third on the CCSU career steals list at 210, broke a tie with Paige Martin for fifth on CCSU's all-time assist list on Monday night. Babe now sits alone in fifth place with 341 career assists. She needs just three assists tonight to pass Sethe Thompson (343) for fourth on the career list.
In Overtime • Head Coach Beryl Piper has been very successful in overtime with a career record of 11-4 after Saturday's victory over St. Francis BK. The Blue Devils are 1-1 in OT games this season after posting a 4-1 record in extra time last year.
Close Games at Home • The Blue Devils have played eight home games this season and three have had the game -winning points scored with less than seven seconds remaining. Seven of CCSU's eight home games have been decided by single-digits with six being decided by seven points or less. Two of the eight games have needed overtime.


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Our prosperity lasted for about forty years, but as cacao fell from grace with the impact of the great recession of 1929, our fortunes began to change. As family members inherited land, the large estate was broken up, leaving ourselves with a much smaller one. Our fortune was no longer favouring us, and the post war economics saw the status of those farming cacao diminished.
By the nineteen fifties cacao production was in decline and the younger generation, our parents at the time, were being called up to the old colonial home Britain to work in the jobs that no one wanted to do at the time. The cacao plantations were to suffer as our grandparents were left to fend for themselves. The strength of the Arawak's in our family has been its women, and it is to this that we pay homage too and the last of those Arawak's who have handed down the 2000 year old family recipes of our products.


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Major banks in Canada recently announced a reduction to their fixed rate mortgages. It seems bank executives are more confident about the housing market and the likelihood of a major correction in housing prices.
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|a Simple Email form 1.00
|1999-09-09 12:07:27
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|This script is used to set up a form so everybody on your page can send free E-mail.Demo @ http://www.itcp.com/~islands/Semail.html
|A Simple Feedbackform 1.00
|1999-09-08 14:37:56
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|This is a simple Feedback form with PHP I am only 14 and this is my first script so it is realy simple, but it woork fine. NB! the pretty wrsion don't work Se a Demo on my page: http://www.itcp.com/~islands/feedback.html
|A Form Solution 5.0
|Analysis and Solutions Company
|2003-05-05 22:44:56
|[ link ]
|A PHP class to clean and validate user input. Holds all variables submitted by a form. Generates XHTML compliant date and time form elements. Offers a complete email contact form to thwart spammers by adding one line of code. The result is improved security and data quality.
|Form Class 1.11
|Jay Bloodworth
|1998-04-21 11:14:49
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|Form is a utility class for generating html forms. It provides form initialization and regex based data validation (both server and client side) with a convenient interface. This version obsoletes version 1.0a
|Form Class 1.0a
|Jay Bloodworth
|1998-03-03 14:22:00
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|Provides a consistent and easy to use interface to html forms. The form class provides client-side (javascript) and server-side input validation.
|Dynamic Selectors 1.0
|Leon Atkinson
|1998-01-28 14:20:00
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|Builds JavaScript that updates the contents of one selector based on another.
|FormSession class 1
|Ed Williams
|1999-05-25 07:54:24
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|Simple and Easy to use form Session Class used for retaining the state of variables and arrays between web pages.
|Integrating and form 1.0
|Steven Boger
|1998-07-31 18:10:57
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|I looked everywhere for code that would take multiple text files and do simple formatting on them and add them to a webpage. I ended up writing one myself. The premise is simple, I needed a way for the monkeys hitting the keys to easily add to the company webpage news section. Writing HTML was DEFINATELY out, so I have them create a simple text file in windows notepad and save it to a share drive. The code looks at the share drive, gets the filenames, reads each file and formats the text - All on the fly. NEATO FEATURES: 1. Totally self-maintaining: Instantly reads new news on the fly and when the monkeys want it off the news section, they just delete the text file. 2.By using the ls command with -t, it automatically puts the newest news item first, without a ton of extra code. Also, ls allows you to look at multiple extensions and directories at the same time. 3. It can read from any mounted drive: works with Novell, Samba, NFS, Apple.. ----- ---- Text file format(I use): First line is department, second line blank, third line is title, fourth line blank, fifth line and on is the news... -----Steven S. Boger---- email@example.com---- email me if you have questions
|Form Processor 1.6
|Richard Heyes
|2000-01-06 19:37:52
|A generic formprocessor that can handle multiple forms from one script. Supports all types of input including file uploads. Highly configurable. Can use templates for the thank you page enabling custom messages based upon what was entered in the form. Templates for the email that is sent coming soon, along with text file and MySQL logging.
|Date, Time, Number Selector 1.0b
|Gary E Bickford
|2000-01-09 20:32:00
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|Complete class for date, time select lists for forms - Year,Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second, generic number. Can use "myvar[]" args to return date array. Set_functions for defaults and internal variables. All arguments are optional. show_usage() tells how to use it. Tarfile at ftp://ftp.fxt.com/pub/fxt/pub/selecttime.tar includes test/demo page.
|Cloaking Variables 2.1
|Leon Atkinson
|1998-01-28 14:16:50
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|Parses HTTP_USER_AGENT so that you can customize your site to different browsers.
|formDropDown 1.0
|John Bryant
|1998-01-28 13:58:40
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|Makes an dropDown (SELECT). Use in echo or print statements. Example: $name = "color"; $value = "red"; $labels["red"] = "Bright Red"; $labels["blue"] = "Dark Blue"; echo formDropDown($name,$value,$labels); Result: <SELECT NAME="$color"> <OPTION V
|HiddenVars 1
|David Sklar
|1998-02-05 11:48:04
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|A class to put get and post variables in hidden form elements. Works on scalars, normal arrays, associative arrays.
|DateSelector 1.0
|Leon Atkinson
|1998-01-28 14:13:18
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|Creates three SELECT form fields: Month, Day, and Year. You give it a string which will be used to make the name for the three fields, and a number of seconds to use as the default date. If you give it blank for this value, the current date is used.
|DateSelector 1.1
|Leon Atkinson
|1998-06-10 12:32:56
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|Creates three SELECT form fields: Month, Day, and Year. You give it a string which will be used to make the name for the three fields, and a number of seconds to use as the default date. If you give it blank for this value, the current date is used.
|Formmail.php 4.0
|joe lumbroso
|2001-03-28 14:45:16
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|\"Jacks FormMail.php\" is a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don\'t need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access. Also features: File uploading, support for Canadian Postal Codes, Referer security, Support for multiple recipients, Handles multiple selection fields, style sheet-driven customization, and much more.
|RequireFields 0.5
|Paul Schreiber
|1999-12-01 01:26:49
|[ link ]
|form validation functions; verify email, zip codes, IP adresses, phone numbers and more
|A Hidden Vars Generator 1.0
|Jonathan Barlow
|2000-10-29 23:55:31
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|[ show ]
|I used the same object name as the similar program written by David Sklar at http://px.sklar.com/code.html?code_id=15 I couldn't get his to work for array data for some reason and his variable names were sort of abstract for my tastes, so I developed this one.
|Flexible SELECT creation 0.1
|Stephan Beal
|2000-02-15 07:57:01
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|A function for creating MULTIPLE SELECT lists based on a number of criteria. This one is "different" in that it directly supports arbitrary Objects. Also shows how to use arbitrary strings which can later be used to run methods (see the $compfunc and $valuefunc variables). I have NOT tried this on PHP3 - only on PHP4Beta2. It might work, but I haven't tried it.
|CountryList 0.5
|Paul Schreiber
|1999-07-10 17:17:52
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|Provides an ISO standard list of countries and abbreviations in a state-maintaining popup menu. Requires my popup_menu.php.
|Bs_Form (form building, validating and handling) 4.2
|2002-12-02 16:20:40
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|Bs_Form is a package that implements HTML forms as PHP classes. With all its features and the 41 classes (16602 lines of documented code) it is by far the most comprehensive web form building and handling we have seen.
|PHP Form Mail Generator
|2003-09-25 20:22:43
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|PHP FormMail Generator - A tool to create ready-to-use web forms in a flash. Once the form has been generated, you have a full functional web form. Including error checking of required fields, email address validation, credit card number & expiry date checking, multiple attachments sending, and email auto responding. Features: Unlimited fields of form All standard type of fields, plus lots of template, such as credit card number & expiry date... List/menu builder for multiple lists of Radio Buttons, Selection Menu, Check Box. Error checking : credit card number & expiry date, email address, required fields checking. Mail multiple attachments Email auto responding Store submitted form data to a text file Multiple language support ( to do ) Anti-spam feature for ISP companies( to do )
|WYSIWYG Text Area Field eWebEditPro 184.108.40.206
|William Rogers
|2000-12-21 21:33:59
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|[ show ]
|Ektron\'s eWebEditPro--WYSIWYG web based editor, works in Netscape and IE. Easily replaces a HTML text area field so content contributors can create and publish their own Web content while Webmasters and IT professionals maintain control over a Web site\'s look and feel.
|POST Variable SCAN 1.0
|2000-03-14 07:53:05
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|Form validation code
|Select Parser 1.0
|Darrell Brogdon
|1998-06-10 17:30:57
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|Allows you to parse a deliniated string and put the individual fields in a SELECT option in a form.
|Info Form With Write To File 1.0
|John Crockford
|2003-01-01 20:30:24
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|The following scripts were written to create a module that provides a format (a form) through which a user can input his or her name and e-mail address. Upon submission of this information, the e-mail address is written to a text file. As more users submit their information, their e-mail addresses are also added to that text file. This process provides for a grouped list of e-mail addresses that can be copied and then inserted into the addressee portion of your e-mail message.
|Sean O\'Donnell
|2002-05-04 14:27:59
|[ link ]
|this is a simple set of php functions used to easily create forms via php. BASIC INSTRUCTIONS: 1) include the functions.inc file in you php form 2) viewsource/use the examples included to help get you started (input_*.php)
|StateList 0.5
|Paul Schreiber
|1999-07-10 17:19:20
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|Provides a configurable list of US states, military bases, possessiosn and Canadian provinces in a state-maintaining popup menu. Requires my popup_menu.php.
|2001-06-05 06:59:43
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|Simple way to post data via post method to server.
|options_array 0.1
|Chad Lieberman
|2000-07-06 03:29:28
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|A simple function for converting multiple arrays into html SELECT menus. Convienient for building menus with more than one list of options.
|FormSender with Javascript Regex Validation
|J. Chakrabarty
|2001-02-17 23:30:29
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|A versatile Form Sender with Javascript Regex validation to reduce server load. Download at http://www.creativephp.com/
|2001-06-05 06:59:11
|Simple way to post data via post method to server.
|VDaemon - Form Validation 1.0
|Alexander Orlov
|2003-01-21 12:53:21
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|[ show ]
|An important aspect of creating Web Forms pages for user input is to be able to check that the information users enter is valid. VDaemon is a PHP library that grants an easy-to-use but powerful way to check for errors and, if necessary, display messages to the user.
|botproof email 2.0
|Kai Blankenhorn
|2003-01-31 04:13:10
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|Hides the contact email address on a website from spambots. Users trying to contact you have to enter a code from a displayed image into a form or click a randomly generated square in a larger image. Upon correct input they are forwarded to your email address. Both methods are effective ways to stop spam harvesting robots to collect your email address from your website.
|A Complete & (Very) Fast HTML Form Generator 1.1
|2007-06-09 12:07:24
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|Create HTML forms based only on simple text inputs. For example, you entered "Name,{a:1}Address,{r:2}Gender". The generator then will create a text field named "Name", a textarea named "Address", and two radio button named "Gender" in a table. You can create every form object, like check boxes, password field, combo boxes, etc. Try it, it's fast & free!
|phpObjectForms 1.0
|2002-06-05 07:24:25
|[ link ]
|phpObjectForms is a fully object-oriented, highly customizable, easily extendable, library for creating and processing forms without writing any HTML code. The main goals of the library are ease of use and universality.
|US States HTML SELECT list
|Rob Duarte
|2005-04-25 16:15:55
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|[ show ]
|Creates an HTML SELECT list of US states. Displays either the full state name or abbreviation, XHMTL or HTML, and allows you to choose a default selection.
|PHP Examples
|2006-03-24 03:25:47
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|Snippets for doing cute things with PHP:
|Blind Email Script 1.0
|Corps Technologies
|2004-03-20 21:24:06
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|This set of scripts is a standard email processor that has a selectable 'Send To' email address and a selectable subject. The subject and email address are pulled from a MySQL Table. The email address are blind so that email bot won't pull your emails. Configuration is a little more difficult than ct_email but works well when configured properly. This is especially useful to keep those pesky mail bots away from your email address.
|Rich Editor 1.6
|2003-10-28 02:09:37
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|Rich Editor (RE) is a browser-based WYSIWYG html editor. No knowledge of HTML required. 100% script. Web Developers can use RE in CMSs or just instead TEXTAREA tags. Implemented as a PHP class. It is easy to use it in you scripts! Create as many RE elements, as you want to be placed on your page! Advanced work with images, including file uploading, tables, links, stylesheets, FLASH, multilanguage support and more! No slow Java Applets! No additional ActiveX components are required! RE can be easily rebrandable!
|Simple Email Script V 1.0
|Corps Technologies
|2004-03-30 04:02:43
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|This set of scripts is a standard email processor that has a selectable 'Send To' email address and a selectable subject. This requires minor configuration for the drop down values. Less than 15 minutes of configuration and you are ready to use. We are working on combining the form and submission into 1 script. Won't work any different but cleaner.
|Address Standardization Solution 5.0
|Analysis and Solutions Company
|2003-05-05 22:47:32
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|Formats addresses to US Postal Service standards and generates XHTML option lists of states.
|HTML Input Widgets 149 [Halfl
|Paul Wieland
|2001-04-25 13:39:50
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|Functions for easily printing all standard HTML input widgets. Arguments are passed for values of widget. Basic instructions in code comments. Would like some feedback on the design & idea.
|Blind Email Script V 1.0
|Corps Technologies
|2004-03-30 04:03:28
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|This set of scripts is a standard email processor that has a selectable 'Send To' email address and a selectable subject. The subject and email address are pulled from a MySQL Table. The email address are blind so that email bot won't pull your emails. Configuration is a little more difficult than ct_email but works well when configured properly.
|phpObjectForms Library 1.0
|ilya boya
|2002-05-29 04:35:36
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|phpObjectForms is a fully object-oriented, highly customizable, easily extendable, library for creating and processing forms without writing any HTML code. The main goals of the library are ease of use and universality.
|phpObjectForms Library 1.0
|ilya boya
|2002-05-29 04:36:48
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|phpObjectForms is a fully object-oriented, highly customizable, easily extendable, library for creating and processing forms without writing any HTML code. The main goals of the library are ease of use and universality.
|Corps Technologies 1.0
|Corps Technologies
|2004-03-20 21:21:45
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|This is a standard set of scripts used for email processing. There are only two variable to change and it will be ready to use. This script is very effective. This can only be used for 1 email address. If you have multiple email address I suggest you use ct_email for more flexibility. Also there is a blind email version so that you won't get hit by mail bots.
|phpObjectForms Library 1.0
|ilya boya
|2002-05-29 04:36:19
|[ link ]
|phpObjectForms is a fully object-oriented, highly customizable, easily extendable, library for creating and processing forms without writing any HTML code. The main goals of the library are ease of use and universality.
|Easy Content Management for PHP/MySQL 3.2.7
|2006-07-08 12:21:09
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|Create a content-managed website quickly, with no programming! Similar to site-builders like Geocities. EasySite is the only layer-based CMS of its kind. That means that all content areas & menus are DHTML layers which can be positioned anywhere!
|Fast Forms 2.77
|Brett W
|2007-08-02 02:05:14
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|Fast Forms is a visual tool utilizing drag and drop that creates and deploys HTML forms without you needing any knowledge of HTML or Server Side coding. Key Features - Upload files with thumbnail preview Confirm user's email address Confirm human filling in form Slider bars for quick number selection Terms and conditions confirm Calendar feature Mouse over help feature in form Paypal payment system in form CSS system with Create css editor CSS objects that can be resized Re-usable saved element blocks. Fast Forms has been designed to take out all the coding involved in creating a form, validating a form both locally and server side, capturing form data, encrypting form data, emailing form data, and displaying form data through password protected login. It will even do a mass mail out of a form. The program will transfer and set up all the programs necessary to do this to a Web server. There is absolutely no coding or form knowledge required to create a form. Forms can be easily created using a drag and drop system, or you can set up a form page created on another program. The program has been carefully designed to save huge amounts of work when it comes to creating, capturing, emailing, viewing, and validating form data.
|Myref class library
|Eugene Panin
|2007-05-23 08:37:35
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|This PHP class library is designed for PHP-programmers and Web-designers to make their management of select, checkbox and radio lists easy and comfortable. Every PHP-programmer faces the task of outputting a large number of lists (references) like either �select� element or �checkbox� and �radio� on the HTML-page. The core is that generally there are many such lists on the page and it takes a lot of time and efforts to work with the large amount of lists and references. Every list is actually stored in a separate table of a database and is extracted from it by its own specific request. If there are many of lists, the page code becomes too complicated to cope with. Moreover, if the system has been developed for a long time, it suddenly becomes clear that every reference should work in several languages at the same time, for example, in English, Russian and German. And program code becomes more and more inexplicable and complicated with every such upgrade of the page. So, we need a perfect tool for the comfortable work with any reference and it should work with all system references at once and provide them with a single API. This tool is Myref class library which solves two main tasks: it gets lists from database for further output on the HTML-page and provides administrative script for inputting the references into the database.
|PHP DataForm
|Chara Miteo
|2009-02-24 06:45:54
|[ link ]
|PHP Dataform (PHP DF) script is a simple tool for creating HTML Forms with ease. It was especially designed for web developers, who don't want to loose time on creating Forms in HTML or escaping them through PHP, but to use a first-class OOP backend for the work. Expandable structure, wise usage of common PHP-Patterns and continues support make this a must for your PHP-swissarmy-knife.
|JS Auto From Validator 1.0.5
|Chara Miteo
|2009-02-02 09:31:55
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Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Saturday, January 31, 2009
Ibizzare is having a grand opening today. It starts at 11, but many if not all gifts are out. This is a nicely designed shopping sim with a variety of vendors. With clothes, poses, shapes, furniture, pets and more, it's likely you will find something you like here.
The special opening day gifts are in small red jewel boxes, but there are other gifts around too, so watch for those. Shown here are three of my favorites.
Top photo: The gift includes some very cute nylons and a sheer bolero (not shown). Shoes by Juicy, Hair by HOH, Pose by LAP.
Middle photo: Top only from the hunt. Jeans by Adam and Eve, Hair by HOH
Bottom photo: Hair by Exxess, pose by LAP.
Exotic Textures
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Friday, January 23, 2009
Snatch has some great jeans mixed in with some other items as a group gift until Sunday. Find it on the wall not far from the entrance and be sure and check out the lucky chairs while you are there. The set includes a baby pink halter and some black and pink bangle bracelets.
The jeans are dark blue with a great Moroccan design on the front legs and back pockets. I shortened them here so I could wear them with the current camp chair item for Dark Eden -- BOOTS (see earlier post).
Dark Eden
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Thursday, January 15, 2009
Dark Eden has some fantastic new items in the prize campers. An exclusive (only for campers right now but possibly available in the store for purchase later) Vagabond Boots. These are simply lovely and the nicest boots I have seen from Dark Eden. Yes, I have a few.
Find the campers barrel and crate campers in the middle of the store. Camp for 60 minutes for the boots. And if you want the matching skirt? It's another 45. Be prepared to check back for a camping spot. There are two for each product but they have been busy of late. I'm sure that will calm down in a few days.
The matching skirt called Ruin comes in two attachment versions and includes a thong. I paired my new items with tights from Glam, a tank from Imperial Elegance, and a shirt from Callie Cline. Hair from Exxess, poses from Ana_mations and LAP.
Bewitched Hair Gifts
When I saw a post that there were new hairs gifts out at Bewitched, I zipped on over. Some of my favorite hair colors are here and who knew what might be included in the release gift pack.
Indeed, there was a style in canapl (RED) that I really love as well as some others that worked well for me too. Here are some of the styles included in today's release.
There have been lots of changes in the last week or so at Bewitched. I like it! It is more open and the other shops are easier to get to -- at least it seems that way to me. Also, while these may not be new, I hadn't noticed them before. There is a freebie wall of some nice styles in the bargains and free stuff room.
Poses by Lap.
Heads Up
Lots happened in my RL nighttime which only goes to show how global Phil's Place is :D. Divine came over this morning early to show me the new beanie hairs given out to the Philotic Energy group. There is one for guys and one for gals and the gals can -- of course -- wear either.
Also in the night came an announcement from Tuli about new Meredith makeups AND a skin pack of hardy partying Meredith called post party available for everyone. Just buy it for 0 from the large poster vendor in the shop. You should be able to find it easy enough from the crowd of green dots.
The skins come in all skin tones with four eyebrow colors and include a brow shaper option. Eyes by Treasured Visions.
Lucky Board Hair
Black Maria has four great punk hairs on their lucky boards right inside the entrance. While I wasn't lucky enough to get any hair, my friends got all these (Wonder got a green mohawk also) in maybe five minutes.
So if this is your style, get over there and check it out. There are lots of other similar hairs as well as some free things there at the store. Enjoy.
Thanks to Dahlindah for posting this. A fun picture for sure.
Outfit shown are from OMFG, Bare Rose and Tuli.
Poses by LAP.
OMFG for Guys
I was so happy that Wonder sent me a picture of his choices of OMFG dollarbies. This is all one set and comes with a giant hammer and some other things. Jeans by WoE. AO by LAP from the Noob Hunt :D
So now the guys can see the outfits in guy mode and this is good. Again, most things are sized for guys. Wonder said he had to make the belt a bit bigger but everything else fit well. Wonder is a BIG guy.
Over 200 items down in the vault at Forgotten City. Be there or wish you had been :D
OMFG Mix 'n Match
I haven't had so much fun in ages! Woot!
After a problematic time with my earlier post (Blogger not happy with new RC viewer it seems and I can't figure out the new Wordpress at Iheartsl -- sigh), I did finally get things posted -- a few hours after my plan. But by then, I was free from the real world, and guess what? I went back.
I bought the assign's cloak, the wings of anchoring free and a couple pairs of boots. I may go back and get the stilettos as the other shoes are definitely sized for guys and while I appreciate the big boot look on others, I'm not too comfortable with it myself.
Anyway with lots of mixing and matching, I came up with this outfit that I love. For like $3 or $4. Hard to believe.
The assassin's coat belt and "skirt" mods fine for gals, the arm cuffs "could" mod but some parts are below the small size limit so it would be a piece at a time thing if you are a builder. The collar fit me perfectly however and I paired it with the leggings from the space suit. All in all just a lot of fun. Guess I'll go back and get those stilettos.
I'm off. EDIT: Stilettos are oversized too. CUTE but BIG :D
Hair by HOH, Pose by LAP.
OMFG - Dollarbies!!!!!
This has got to be the hottest deal in town. $1000 multi-pieced outfits as well as TONS of accessories, gadgets, eyes, wings, motorcycles -- the list seems endless. All for a linden each. Yes, for the SETS as shown here -- not per piece.
These costumes are extremely well done. The environmental - space suits seem to come with sizes for both men and women. They include items not even shone here. So if this style interests you, get over there and SHOP :D
Find them at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zamyatin/226/20/2990
Take the manhole grate opening down to the vault. You'll see the green dots so you can't get too lost.
New Gifts at HOH
Just a quick post to let you know there are new hairs out at House of Heart. Five new styles are showcased in the release gift pack. This was my favorite -- and also went with what I was wearing. I am SO lazy these days.
So a heads up to head over and check them out. HoH landmark is HERE.
Bangle Sets - Gold Dollarbie
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Friday, January 2, 2009
The last version of this bangle set went up this afternoon -- in GOLD! It is a dollarbie for January. The other colors are available for $10 each color. They come in a set of two - left and right.
2008 Goodbye - Hi 2009
I'm sad to see 2008 end and sad to say goodbye to a lot of friends here at Phil's Place. But they have their lives and they need to go where the wind takes them. It was a good year for me. I never got to that post # 500, but I can probably do that THIS year.
When I logged on today I found a fantastic New Year's gift from Phoenix Designs. This is a great shop with lots of fun products. Since I really loved this bag, I decided to make an outfit for it to show it off.
Included in "Le Look" :D are a few of my favorite items from 2008 as well as some I haven't worn much at all - I was such a busy bee blogging I rarely put on anything for ME - LOL.
I am wearing:
- Treasured Visions Clubbing: Bloody Rust eyes
- Laqroki Pilot Shades in brown
- Velvet pants from Love Chic
- Grey Uni Sweater from Dutch Touch
- Maryjoanna hair from Exxess Designs
- New Crys_SK SmokeEyes_IceLips_BlackEB from PXL Creations
- Juicy Slingback pumps in peppercorn (not shown)
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eddie2 wrote:what he is saying nicky is that king achilles has already said in a thread that players are not allowed to hold onto other players passwords, but clan moderators are saying in these rules/discussions that you can do this, so is there going to be a conflict here where players are following rules allowed by clan moderators then someone gets pissed off and opens a c and a report.. will the players get a busted/ noted/ warned because they are breaking a site rule ???
like i have said love the idea of new rules, just think they need to be clarified more because they are vague like a lot of rules. So as they stand just now you do not know what you can or cannot do properly.
actually it was Night Strike
Night Strike wrote:This right here is the completely FALSE mentality that gives rise to all of these stupid clan-sitting cases and blatant rule violations. You do NOT have the right to have someone else's password 24/7 in case they MIGHT miss a turn. Account sitting is supposed to only be used when people know ahead of time that they will be away from the computer and can change their password to a temporary one for the duration of the account sitting. Jumping into everybody's turns simply because they might miss is utterly ridiculous. A missed turn is literally not the end of the world. If you lose a game or clan war because of it, then so be it. Breaking the rules to have someone jump on your account anytime they want is not worth it. If Chuck was missing too many turns and becoming a liability in the clan war, then why did you keep putting him in those games? You deal with the problem when the next set of games become available, not when you have their password and can log in any time you feel like it. It's that mentality that every single game must be won at all costs (including breaking the rules) that has caused so many people to make clan wars completely intolerable to everybody else who doesn't adhere to that fundamentally flawed philosophy.


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thats why you dont let your kite hang around 12 oclock. any advise you might have gotten about above your head (12 oclock) being a good, or safe or "neutral" place to put your kite, for any reason, is bad, and extremely outdated advise. (wasnt actually good advise back in the day, either)
if you cant save it, let go of bar and let it fall depowered. if you are on the beach or near downwind obstacles, definitely dont try to save it (unless you know you can, based on experience, which you dont have enough of yet). in that case, disable the kite onto the leash (aka, quick release) it will fall lightly with no power, you can easily reset and keep going after..
dont hesitate to disable the kite when that happens and you are around the beach, shallow water, or dw obstacles. that should have been thoroughly covered and practiced in you kiteboarding lessons.
as for techniques to stop the fall and try to save it: what others said. it is different every time, line tension is the key, sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, you will know from experience.
this is also an easy time to snag a line around your neck, harness, bar end, or other things, or develop a line tangle on the kite, so be aware.
[[ edit: wow, i need to start reading other peoples posts more often and not assuming they are full of sketchy advise, there are a ton of good responses in this thread, sorry for the repeat info]]


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Fraudster pressured Rep. Hochul
A convicted fraudster tried to pressure Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) to convince her husband — a U.S. Attorney — to dismiss the case against him in return for a political favor for the congresswoman.
Instead, Hochul's campaign informed the FBI after being approached by James Lagona on Nov. 2. FBI agents then secretly taped Lagona's meeting with one of Hochul's campaign staffers the following day.
Lagona pled guilty on Tuesday to one count of "endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice." He faces a possible 10-year jail term and $250,000 fine when sentenced in March.
Lagona had been convicted in Feb. 2011 on 27 counts of felony mail fraud, and he was scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 3 on that separate matter. Lagona's case is being handled by William Hochul, the U.S. Attorney Western District of New York.
According to a statement from the Justice Department, Lagona approached Kathy Hochul's campaign on Nov. 2 and "claimed that he had been involved in discussions with the political party of Rep. Hochul's election opponent, and falsely claimed that the opponent's party was interested in featuring him in an advertisement or rally to claim wrongful prosecution and religious persecution. He told the campaign staffer that he would instead publicly support Rep. Hochul, if her spouse, Western District of New York U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr., dismissed the criminal case against him."
DOJ added: "Lagona admitted to meeting with the campaign staffer a second time on Nov. 3, 2012. During the meeting, which was covertly recorded by the campaign staffer under the FBI's supervision, Lagona admitted to specifying that he sought a 'quid pro quo' in exchange for refusing to campaign with the party of Rep. Hochul's opponent and for publicly supporting her instead. Lagona admitted he told the staffer that in exchange he wanted his case dismissed and for no further charges to be brought against him."
Lagona later called the staffer back to follow up on his meeting, prosecutors added. There is no evidence that Hochul or her campaign ever had intention of making any agreement with Lagona, or that Republicans were at all aware of what he was doing.
With his guilty plea on Tuesday, Lagona's sentencing in the fraud case has been postponed until next year.
Rep. Hochul's office did not comment on the case.
Hochul won a hotly contested special election in May 2011 to replace former GOP Rep. Christopher Lee, who resigned after admitting to send a partially nude picture of himself to someone who met on the Internet.
She was defeated on Election Day by Republican Chris Collins, ending her short congressional career.


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However, Guoguang (represented in cyan), leaving every 15min, runs directly to Taipei Main (Train) Station, which is just one stop away from Ximen. I suppose that would be the quickest way to get from the airport to Ximending by public transport?
Leg 2 flights - if Taipei to Jakarta there are 2 excellent nonstop flights available if there was some amount of extended pit stop (which I consider likely):CI761 (code-share GA9981) 0845 1300BR237 0900 1310
To the primary 3 flights listed by Neobie above needs to be added this one just slightly later:MH95 LAX TPE nonstop departed 0111 (scheduled 0045) and arrived 0552+1 (scheduled 0615+1)
What are the most likely Train stations in Jakarta for these schedules please?
If it helps, supposing that they get on the best flights they will arrive in Jakarta around noon to 14.00 local time.
So probably not any tasks or activity until the 22nd (Jakarta time). Maybe by around 19.00 EDT tomorrow there will be something else.
Which of those stations is easiest to get to from the airport??
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I have eight (8) floodlights on my tennis court. I didn't install these, they came with the court.
Questions: Recently, in the evening when it was cold I switched them on and only 3 of the 8 came on. A few days later in the middle of the day when it was warm I switched them on and all of them came on. The normal functionality of the lights is that they slowly get brighter and brighter (as you can see from the attached images) until about 5 minutes has passed when they are fully "powered."
What type of bulbs are these that illuminate slowly? Is it normally behavior that these lights might not work when it's cold (a few degrees above freezing)?


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Minimum Housing
The City of Dunn has a minimum housing code, which sets minimum standards for residential structures. The purpose of this code is to ensure the protection of the health and safety of the residents of our community. City staff inspects homes for compliance with the code. These inspections are conducted on a systematic basis, or in response to a specific complaint. If you have questions about the minimum housing code, contact the Chief Building Inspector, Steven King at 910-230-3505 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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