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|Checkpoint Charlie: Berlin or Southwest Ranches?
This vote well reinforces a whole series of absolutely selfish, despicable, and very questionable legislative practices by this 12 years old town named Southwest Ranches.
Our first exposure to how underhanded Town officials and unelected leaders are occurred when we became aware that under the cover of the Holiday season, the Town had passed a resolution which doubled the size of the prison facility and increased the bed count by 50%. Notice of this resolution was made between Christmas and New Year of 2010.
This resolution was approved on January 6, 2011 by the same cast of characters who are jamming a prison down your throats today. Nelson, Breitkreuz, McKay, Fisikelli and Jablonski unanimously voted to do this to you. As proof of how nefarious this was, once Broward County staff and the public began to look a this issue, CCA and SWR agreed to drop the attempt to modify the land usage. Mayor Jeff Nelson NEVER mentions this resolution when discussing the "history" of openness that he's trying to sell us. Does he have a short term memory problem or just a problem with honesty?
On Wednesday night, December 23rd, the Pembroke Pines Commission voted 3 to 2 to rescind the 2005 Interlocal Agreement on Road Closures and Other Matters. Anti prison activists were livid at Pembroke Pines for their support of the prison. That agreement contained a completely irrelevant poison pill which Pines used to justify their not taking active measures to opposed the prison.
5.3 JAIL FACILITY. THE CITY [PEMBROKE PINES] SHALL NOT INTERFERE WITH CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, OR ITS SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, DEVELOPMENT AND/OR OPERATION OF THE JAIL FACILITY, OR WITH THE TOWN'S [SOUTHWEST RANCHES] AGREEMENT WITH CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA CONCERNING THE SAME.SWR Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff has repeatedly mentioned this clause in email and seemed quite proud of it.
Last year, Southwest Ranches passed a resolution cancelling the ILA. There was much debate and input from Pembroke Pines' Attorney Sam Goren. There is near universal agreement that Sam Goren is one of the best municipal Attorneys in the state. Mr. Goren's analysis, upon reading the termination, was there there WAS NO expiration date of SWR's resolution cancelling the agreement. Mayor Nelson resorted to paraphrasing the resolution rather than quoting it verbatim when he justified the need to "protect the Town's rights" to terminate the agreement. He claims that there was a deadline at which once passed REVOKED the resolution requesting cancellation of the ILA. This is just preposterous. The exact text is:
The exact language contains a respectful request to agree to terminate by 12/15/2010. There is no demand to do so. There is no stipulation that the resolution is withdrawn after that date. Goren advised that the date was only a request and that the resolution was not withdrawn by a vote of the Town Council; therefore, was still in effect.
Our Attorney must know that and must have advised the Town Council accordingly. The Town then INSISTED on an emergency meeting for the following evening where the termination would be approved AND 3 roads would be closed. The termination was already in effect the day before as both parties bilaterally agreed to the termination. Clearly, Southwest Ranches officials and residents wanted the roads closed and were using the supposed protection of their rights to cancel the agreement as a ruse to close the roads.
So, back to the cover of darkness. The first public notice of this emergency meeting intending to close roads came from Attorney Keith Poliakoff's Twitter account at approximately 2:00 AM on Thursday morning.
At 8:20 AM that morning, the notice was not on the agenda for the meeting.via webTown to consider termination of 2005 ILA with Pines and closure of 199, 202, & 205 Thursday night
Put this into perspective. Two nights before Christmas eve, a disgusting road closure resolution is SLAMMED into a Town Council meeting with almost ZERO notice under the false premise that it was needed to "protect our rights to terminate an agreement," but the clear intent seemed to have been to CLOSE ROADS.
The Council was advised by many people that they were rushing into this, that their prior history of slamming through stunning changes to land use regarding the prison under the cover of our sacred holidays was happening again and that they were behaving is a very disreputable manner.
This time, apparently they felt themselves to be absolute rulers dividing Berlin in half and installing automatic check point Charlies for emergency access of SWR residents to THEIR contracted fire provider.
The Town leaders told the audience that this was "a Christmas present" to the town. What an unbelievable offense to the very nature of Christmas that the partitioning of a Town from its neighbor could be considered a "Christmas present." Shame on you whoever said this.
As if to annihilate Mayor Nelson's claims of openness and of the public's inclusion in the whole list of supposedly public meetings that took place regarding the prison, Resident Bob Hartmann as well as Town officials quickly reminded us all that this was a RESOLUTION and not an ORDINANCE and was not subject to the same meeting notification laws.
This is simply unreal. Town officials and SWR civic leader honestly believe that skirting the intent of open meeting laws with hair splitting differences between whether something is an ordinance or a resolution is acceptable. If a resolution is proposed to put a 2200 bed jail in the Town or partition the town off from their neighbors, then honest notice of this is not required. If road closures affecting both residents and neighbors alike are going to be implemented, then respectful notice to tax payers and voters is NOT required, apparently according to these people.
Neighbors, THIS is the mindset you are dealing with when it comes to both the selfish HOA presidents, Town founders AND the entire voting body (minus Mayor Nelson) regarding respecting YOU as a resident and/or an affected neighbor. They don't respect you. They seem to operate with malice as their motive. It's really sad that such an affluent community, with blessings and good fortune beyond belief can possibly act with such spite, and malice.
Are there legitimate issues with road usage that affect both Pines and SWR? Yes, and they must be addressed by both Pines and the Ranches with an honest desire to work out this issue.


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Bibliography of Slavery
From Conservapedia
This article list the major English language books on the history of slavery around the world.
- Drescher, Seymour, and Stanley L. Engerman eds. A Historical Guide to World Slavery (1998), 456pp excerpt and text search
- Finkelman, Paul, and Joseph Miller eds. Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1998)
- Hinks, Peter, and John McKivigan, eds. Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. 2007, 2 vol 795pp; isbn 978-0-313-33142-8
- Miller, Randall M., and John David Smith, eds. Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988) 862pp; authoritative articles by scholars
- Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study 1982
- Phillips, William D. Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Atlantic Slave Trade 1984
- Rodriguez, Junius P. ed. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1997)
- Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. 2007, 2 vol, 750pp isbn 0-313-33271-1.)
- Rodriguez, Junius P. ed. Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia ( 2 vol 2007)
- Rodriguez, Junius P. Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression (2008) 778pp
- Davis, David Brion. Slavery and Human Progress (1984).
- Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 1966, intellectual history of anti-slavery
- Engerman, Stanley L. Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor. Stanford University Press. 1999. online edition
- Hellie, Richard. Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725 (1982)
Africa and Middle East
- Campbell, Gwyn. The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia Frank Cass, 2004; online edition
- Eldredge, Elizabeth A., and Fred Morton; Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier Westview Press, 1994 online edition
- Lovejoy, Paul. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Cambridge UP, 1983
- Meillassoux, Claude. The Anthroplogy of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
- Miers, Suzanne, and Igor Kopytoff, eds., Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives 1977
- Morgan, Kenneth. Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2008) excerpt and text search
- Toledano, Ehud R. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East U. of Washington Press, 1998 online edition
- Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Society at Rome (1994) excerpt and text search
- Cuffel, V. "The Classical Greek Concept of Slavery", Journal of the History of Ideas, 27 (1966), 3, 323-42 in JSTOR
- Finley, Moses, ed. Slavery in Classical Antiquity (1960)
- Westermann, William L. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity 91955) 182pp online edition
- Wiedemann, Thomas. Greek and Roman Slavery (1981) quotes from primary sources online edition
West Indies, Latin America
- Aimes, Hubert Hillary Suffern. A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868 (1907), 298 pages full text online
- Butler, Kathleen Mary. The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica & Barbados, 1823-1843 (1995) online edition
- Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006)
- Eltis, David. "Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation," American Historical Review 98 (Dec. 1993): 1399-1423. in JSTOR
- Green, William A. British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 Oxford UP, 1976
- Higman, Barry W. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 (1995) 330 pp. online edition
- James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Second Edition. New York: Vintage, 1991 (1963).
- Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean Oxford University Press, 1988 online edition
- Morgan, Kenneth. Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2008) excerpt and text search
- Stinchcombe, Arthur L. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World Princeton University Press, 1995 online edition
- Walvin, James. Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (2nd ed 2001) online edition
- Ward, J. R. British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834 Oxford UP 1988
United States
Primary Sources
- Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowlands, eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 5 vol Cambridge University Press, 1982. primary sources
- Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies.Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
- Kemble, Fanny. Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) complete edition online free
- Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography . 19 vols. Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972.
- Rose, Willie Lee, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (1976) 554 pages
Major topics
- Baptist, Edward E. and Camp, Stephanie M. H., eds. New Studies in the History of American Slavery. (20060. 306 pp.
- Ira Berlin. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. general survey
- Berlin, Ira, and Ronald Hoffman, eds. Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution (1983). essays by scholars
- Fogel, Robert W. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (1989). by Nobel Prize winner in economics online edition
- Genovese, Eugene D. Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974). one of the most influential studies
- Genovese, Eugene D. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South (1967)
- Genovese, Eugene D. and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (1983)
- Higginbotham, Jr., A. Leon In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. (1978).
- Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois. Slavery and the Making of America. (2005). 254 pp.
- Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993). short survey
- Miller, Randall M., and John David Smith, eds. Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988), exellent reference book
- Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975). online edition, influential book shows how the Founding Fathers defined liberty in juxtaposition with slavery
- Morgan, Kenneth, ed. Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide. (2005). 456 pp.
- Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (1996). online edition
- Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime (1918), the first major study; criticized as too friendly toward the owners. online edition
- Ransom, Roger L., and Richard Sutch. One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (1977) libertarian economics.
- Robinson, Armstead L. Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. (2005). 326 pp.
- Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956), influential survey, left-liberal
- Tadman, Michael. Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1989).
- Jenny B. Wahl. "Slavery in the United States" in EH.NET (2004) online
- White, Shane and White, Graham. The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech. (2005). 241 pp.
- Wood, Betty. Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776. (2005). 131 pp.
State and local studies
- Berlin, Ira and Harris, Leslie M., ed. Slavery in New York. New Press, 2005. 403 pp.
- Campbell, Randolph B. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas 1821-1865 Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
- Fields, Barbara J. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century Yale University Press, 1985.
- Follett, Richard. The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860. Louisiana State U. Press, 2005. 290 pp.
- Hurt, R. Douglas. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie University of Missouri Press, 1992
- Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen; Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History Greenwood Press, 2004 online edition
- Kennedy, Cynthia M. Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society. Indiana U. Press, 2005. 311 pp.
- Kulikoff, Alan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
- Minges, Patrick N. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867 2003 deals with Indian slave owners online edition
- Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Mooney, Chase C. Slavery in Tennessee Indiana University Press, 1957.
- Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 Cornell University Press, 1998.
- Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt" Political Science Quarterly 20 (June 1905): 257-75.
- Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts". American Historical Review (July 1906): 798-815.
- Phillips, Ulrich B. [http://www.dinsdoc.com/phillips-1.htm "Slave Crime in Virginia." American Historical Review 20 (January 1915): 336-40.

- Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Slave Labor Problem in the Charleston District" Political Science Quarterly 22 (September 1907): 416-39.

- Reidy, Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South, Central Georgia, 1800-1880 University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
- Ripley, C. Peter. Slaves and Freemen in Civil War Louisiana Louisiana State University Press, 1976.
- Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation University Press of Florida, 2000.
- Schwalm, Leslie. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Sellers, James Benson, Slavery in Alabama University of Alabama Press, 1950 online edition
- Sydnor, Charles S. Slavery in Mississippi. 1933
- Takagi, Midori. Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865 University Press of Virginia, 1999.
- Taylor, Joe Gray. Negro Slavery in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Historical Society, 1963.
- Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion 1974.
Anti-slavery and political debates
- Fehrenbacher, Don E. Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective Oxford University Press, 1981 online edition
- Filler, Louis. The Crusade Against Slavery: 1830-1860 . 1960.
- Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. U. of North Carolina Press, 1997. online edition
- Striner, Richard. Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. Oxford U. Press, 2006. 295 pp.
- Blight, David W. "The World the Slave Traders Made: Is there a Postrevisionism in Slavery Historiography?" Reviews in American History, 1991 19#1 pp 37-42 in JSTOR
- Boles, John B. and Evelyn T. Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham (1987).
- Davis, David Brion. "Slavery and the Post-World War II Historians," Daedalus (1974), vol 103#2, pp 1-16
- Davis, David Brion. "Looking at Slavery from Broader Perspectives" American Historical Review (2000) v 105#2 pp 452-66. in JSTOR
- Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E., eds. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. New Press, 2006. 272 pp.
- King, Richard H. , "Marxism and the Slave South", American Quarterly 29 (1977), 117-31. focus on Eugene Genovesein JSTOR
- Kolchin, Peter, "American Historians and Antebellum Southern Slavery, 1959-1984", in William J. Cooper, Michael F. Holt, and John McCardell , eds., A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald (1985), 87-111
- McPherson, James M. et al., Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays (1971). outdated
- Parish, Peter J. Slavery: History and Historians Westview Press. 1989 online edition
Historical fiction
- Janes, Edward P. The Known World (2003) Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
- Styron, William. The confessions of Nat Turner (1967) 428 pages; influential and highly revealing novel; Pulitzer Prize for fiction


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Rolling to a 6-1, 6-0 victory at third singles and joining fellow frosh Stephen Monk '15 for a commanding 8-0 victory at second doubles, Ben Hudson '15 (photo) picked up two impressive triumphs to lead Wesleyan past Holy Cross Sat., Oct. 1, 8-1. Next on the slate was a rematch with Roger Williams Sun., Oct. 2 to complete the home weekend series. Last year, Roger Williams defeated the Cardinals, 5-4, in Rhode Island. This time, the Cardinals dismantled the Hawks, 9-0, yielding just one set on the afternoon.
Against Holy Cross, the Cardinals opened with a 3-0 lead by sweeping the doubles affairs as Jeff Legunn '13 and Donald Kleckner '13 combined for an 8-5 win at #1 while Robert Troyer '12 and Michael Glen '13 were busy staging an 8-2 win at third doubles. Wesleyan then collected five straight-set wins in singles play as Legunn at #1, Donovan Suh '15 at #4, Alex Hirsch '13 at #5 and Charlie Seifer '15 at #6 all subdues their Crusader rival. Hirsch was equally impressive as Hudson with his 6-1, 6-0 win while Legunn was not far behind, taking a 6-0, 6-2 decision.
While some of the singles matches with Roger Williams were a bit tighter with three sets going to tie-breakers, Legunn, Monk and Suh dropped a total of eight games between them in sweeping their Hawk adversaries. Once again, Monk and Hudson were most effective at #2 doubles with an 8-1 win. Legunn and Kleckner won 8-4 while the tandem of Jonathan Coombs '15 and Alex Rachlin '15 combined for an 8-4 triumph at #3. Hudson, Hirsch and Seifer were all close winners as well.
With a 4-1 record thus far, the Cardinals wrap up their fall campaign Thurs., Oct. 6 by hosting Salve Regina.


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Basic PHP mail() Function code to send emails from a form
You can use the PHP mail() function to send an email with PHP. The simplest way to do this is to send a text email. This is one way to handle sending you the results when a visitor to your website fills out a form.
Basic PHP email() fuction code
Below is the code for the baic email function. We can take the script and actually use a form on our website to set the variables in the script above to send an email.
<?php //if "email" variable is filled out, send email if (isset($_REQUEST['email'])) { //Email information $admin_email = "firstname.lastname@example.com"; $email = $_REQUEST['email']; $subject = $_REQUEST['subject']; $comment = $_REQUEST['comment']; //send email mail($admin_email, "$subject", $comment, "From:" . $email); //Email response echo "Thank you for contacting us!"; } //if "email" variable is not filled out, display the form else { ?> <form method="post"> Email: <input name="email" type="text" />
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2014-04-10 3:26 am
Hi ,
This code is working properly and display ed the msg as Thank you for contacting us but mail is not send to the correspomding mail address.. pls give any suggestions...
2014-04-10 4:56 am
Hello Sankar,
It's possible that the message is ending up in a spam folder in the recipient's email address due to the mail coming directly from a PHP script.
If that is the case, you could use something like phpMailer in order to send an SMTP authenticated email.
Either that or there is some incorrect information typed in to your script. The Thank you for contacting us! message is displayed if the email form is submitted, but it doesn't actually check to ensure that the mail was delivered. If you have access to the server's mail logs, you should be able to see if the PHP mail attempt is making it to the local server to even attempt a delivery out.
It looks like we might need to update the example script used in this guide to at least wrap the code with if (!mail( ...)){ echo "Failure" } code to see if the server accepts the PHP mail attempt. However this is more just a proof of concept then something you'd probably want to use on a live contact form for your website.
- Jacob
2014-04-11 12:07 am
Hi Jacob,
i was alredy used the phpmailer code it was shown the error of Message was not sent.Mailer error: SMTP connect() failed..
2014-04-11 12:20 am
Hello Sankar,
If you're getting a SMTP connect() failed error, then this means your PHP script can't establish a SMTP connection with the server you've entered into your script.
Are you possibly trying to connect to a secure mail server by chance? You might need some additional settings in your phpMailer script such as:
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
If you're still having issues let us know.
- Jacob
2014-04-25 2:13 am
mail is not send to the correspomding mail address.. pls give any suggestions...and i m a new devoloper to php socan u sugest me how to use
phpMailer script...
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2014-04-25 7:52 am
for information on using phpMailer, I recommend that you review our article on using phpMailer to send mail using PHP.
2014-07-02 3:30 am
how to work SMTP i Dont no can anyone explais pls.... advance thank
2014-07-02 7:38 am
Hello Darshan,
SMTP settings are explained here. If you need to send an SMTP authenticated message you may want to check out the phpmailer article.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-05-13 9:23 pm
Just wanted to mention an issue I just ran across in the hopes that it might help someone else. In our situation we use inmotion for web hosting, but host email for the same domain locally in our network. When the domain was set up on inmotion, thedefault setting was to use InMotion's MX server, so all email sent to address on our domain were attempted delivery to inmotion rather than our mail server. I think I've fixed this by setting the mx servers to be remote instead of local.
2014-05-14 5:44 pm
Hello Nathan, and thanks for the comment!
Yes you are correct that if your domain's email is not hosted with us, when you try to deliver from a PHP script it will try to deliver it locally unless you change DNS records to have email hosted by a 3rd party.
You also need to set the Email Routing option to Remote Mail Exchanger instead of the local one like you mentioned.
Thanks again for your comment!
- Jacob
2014-06-27 5:28 am
Please, i am sending email via phpmail() with a link, the link work perfectly but did not display any information posted to the link from sql. And even the email is not entering into inbox of my client.
can you help me?
2014-06-27 9:09 am
Hello Olorunnisola,
If you are not getting any errors or messages saying the email was not sent, but the recipient is not able to see the email, you will want to contact our Live Support team to see if they can confirm the email actually left the server. If it did, then the script worked properly and the issue maybe on the receiving end. If not, they may be able to see something specific to advise you on a next step.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-06-27 5:33 am
Please someone teach me how to create ds text formats and attached files form computer to a textarea on a webpage.
2014-06-27 9:12 am
Hello Olorunnisola,
We are unfamiliar with what you mean by ds text format. Could you be more specific in what you are trying to accomplish?
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-06-27 10:27 am
Thank you scott,
here are my codes:
//$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
$subject = "Call For Meeting";
$message = "Dear"." "."Sir\Madam,".
"You had been invited to attend a meeting by the name organization"." ".$org_ind." "."that is to hold on"." ".$date." "."by"." ".$start_time." "."via online, Based on"." ".$meeting_title."."."Your feedback about this proposed meeting will be of better help for the preparation.
Please click to give your view."." "."Notification"." "."Thank you.
";
// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8'. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Gentlesoul <email@example.com>'. "\r\n";
foreach($_POST['division_name'] as $key =>$email)
$mail = mail($email,$subject,$message,$headers);
if ($mail) {
echo "
Message sent!
";
} else {
echo "
Message delivery failed...
";
The project is my own personal project that i want to host by tuesday, please help me.
have not being here before, this will be my first time.
About the text format! I mean to give client opportunity to bold,italic or number list to typing text has he or she type.
echo "
Meeting set successful!
";
2014-06-27 10:33 am
on my own system here, if i view my mail send has a text, i saw everything.
But on other peoples laptop, they saw the message and the link but inside the link all the field i call from mysql server to that notification page was not showing.
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2014-06-27 12:00 pm
Hello Olorunnisola,
Thank you for contacting us today. Since you are having trouble coding a PHP contact form, I recommend following our updated guide on How to create a custom PHP contact form with validation.
That tutorial provides a successful example that should help you code your form.
If you have any further questions, feel free to post them below.
Thank you,
2014-06-30 4:35 pm
I am using Wordpress WooCommerce and my order confirmation emails are not being sent. I am using an email forward to send mail (email@example.com forwards to an AOL email account). Would this prevent emails from being sent if I am using the default DNS records? I also have not changed the Email Routing option to Remote Mail Exchanger.
2014-06-30 5:36 pm
Hello Fawn,
I would recommend sending your order confirmations directly to an email account hosted on the same domain as your WordPress site to rule out any 3rd party delivery errors.
If you are missing any order confirmations at your AOL.com address I would suggest that you login to webmail and check for them locally on the server.
I do see some delivery errors from your account to AOL.com and this will happen from time to time, as AOL offers free email accounts and sometimes will reject automated messages from servers, especially on their first delivery attempts. This is also referred to as temporary defferment and is mentioned on this AOL page about 421 errors which is what some of your mails are getting rejected by.
Please let us know if you had any further questions.
- Jacob
2014-07-06 2:37 pm
i'm new in programming, i created a form to send email from my website to yahoomail but i got this error
Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()
what can i do
2014-07-06 6:42 pm
Hello Morphy,
As your PHP error states, it can't connect to the server localhost on port 25.
You'll need to check with your web host to find out what mail server you should be using. You might need to send mail with phpMailer instead of the default PHP mail() function depending on your server configuration.
You more than likely need to define some SMTP settings, and use the same server and account information you would use when setting up a normal email account on your desktop. Or your web host might let you know you need to define another SMTP port rather than 25 in your php.ini file.
- Jacob
2014-07-06 11:41 pm
hi, i want to create auto responder and get the data into database and its like send a data differently to sender. help me
how could i create it. im very new in php
2014-07-07 7:12 am
Hello Eihton,
While not a difficult task, it would require a few more pieces to be added. To auto respond to the customer, you would need to add another piece of code that emails out that the information was received. Then, to add the data to the database you would need to have the proper tables set up in an existing database, code for php to connect to the database, then build your SQL query using the information input by the user as the data to insert. Finally you would insert that data into the database.
Unfortunately we currently do not have that type of tutorial information available, however there are many articles and tutorials around the web for each part that is required. I have given you the layout, so go from there and see if you can find code samples to assist. Be sure to also read up on error checking and avoiding SQL injection from malicious users to protect your database. We do have an article that may help you get started.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-07-09 11:17 am
Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wamp\www\design\mail.php on line 13
what will i do now
2014-07-09 11:36 am
Hello Antara,
When you use 'localhost' in your settings, that means it will look on the current computer. If you are using this on your local computer, yuo likely do not have it set up as a mail server, which is why you are getting the message. You will need to have it point to a server with mail serving functionality, such as your webhosting server.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-08-21 1:02 am
Q .As u ve mentioned here
$admin_email = "email@example.com";to send mail to that particular mail address.. I m using phpmailer n its working fine for me to send mail to any gmail or yahoo mail but not to any custom mail address.
I want to send mail to any custom domain address by phpmailer. Any help here ??
2014-08-21 7:39 am
Hello Pooja,
If the you are successfully sending emails to some addresses but not others, then the issue would not likely be with the function. You will want to test by sending an email from your server via webmail to the address that is not receiving it. Look for a return message in that email account for the reason why it is not getting through.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-08-26 5:50 am
should give the explanatory example like on w3 schools (try yourself).
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2014-10-06 10:28 am
Hello priya,
Thank you for your suggestion. For anyone else who may find this post, here is a helpful link to the w3Schools page on PHP 5 mail() Function.
Thank you,
2014-09-05 6:34 pm
Hi there, i have made use of the basic PHP mail code thanks to you but the issue im having is that the email comes through to me from my hosting server and no comments added to the email... subject is the visitors email address as i set it... see below and please advise if i am doing it wrong:
<?php//if "email" variable is filled out, send email if (isset($_REQUEST['email'])) { //Email information $to = "firstname.lastname@example.com"; $name = $_REQUEST['name']; $email = $_REQUEST['email']; $telephone = $_REQUEST['telephone']; $comments = $_REQUEST['comments']; //send email mail($to,$name,$comments); //Email response echo "Thank you for contacting us!"; } ?>
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2014-09-05 6:50 pm
Hello Mo,
Make sure that you when you use the code above, that it's spaced out with the comments on their own line - like the following:
Your email form requires should be asking for the comment as well. As per the code above, the form section has "comment" set in the text area. I hope that helps to clarify the issue! Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Arnel C.
2014-09-05 8:36 pm
Thank you for the speedy reply.
I have made changes to the PHP code and now have the message come through in the body of the mail but still cannot get the visitors email to come up as FROM:.... just comes from my webhost name. see code below:
//if "email" variable is filled out, send email if (isset($_POST ['submit'] )) { //Email information $to = "email@example.com"; $from = 'email'; $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; //send email mail($to,$email, $name, $message,$from); //Email response echo "Thank you for contacting us! We will contact you shortly "; } ?>
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2014-09-05 8:54 pm
Hello Mo,
If you look closely at your code, take a close at your $from. I think that's the problem. Make sure you're using the right variable there and then everything should be okay.
I hope that helps!
Arnel C.
2014-10-02 5:57 am
pls i am new in web designing and development. how can i design a php webpage that i can use to send and recieve mail like that of yahoo and gmail. it will have all the features like the trash box, draft box, inbox, sent and delet links. if you can send m the codes and syntax it will be welcome. pls forward to my email
2014-10-02 1:27 pm
Hello Chike,
While your question is about email, it does not relate to this article directly. I have moved your question to be a brand new question. You can find it here.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-10-13 5:00 am
following code is not working
<?php $to = 'firstname.lastname@example.com'; $subject = 'Website Change Reqest'; $message="Message Goes Here"; $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) { echo 'Your message has been sent.'; } else { echo 'There was a problem sending the email.'; }?>
2014-10-13 10:43 am
Hello Satbir,
Are you getting an error message? If so, what is it? Where are you trying to use this code? Is it a webserver or a WAMP, XAMP, LAMP setup?
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-10-24 1:37 pm
I use LAMP postfix centos and this script :)) i recive Thank you for contacting us! but i dont recive the mail please help me
2014-10-24 2:56 pm
You will need to check in your email logs to see if the email went out or if there is an error message.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-10-28 9:48 pm
this code is selecting an email address from my database and is going to send a message to the selected email. the code works fine but not the mail function for $to = $address
$to = $address;
// select statement $SQLString = "SELECT email\n" . "FROM tutor\n" . "WHERE MATCH(text_data) AGAINST ('{$messageText}' IN BOOLEAN MODE)\n" . "GROUP BY id\n" . "ORDER BY sum(5) DESC"; echo $SQLString; $result = mysql_query($SQLString); // Verify it worked if (!$result) echo mysql_error(); // execute select statement $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); // Should show you an integer result. $address = print_r($row, true); echo $address; $to = $address; $subject = "testing..."; $txt = $messageText; $headers = $senderPhone; if (mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers)) { echo "successful"; } else { echo "error"; }
thanks for any help in advance :)
2014-10-29 9:07 am
Hello Kaleb,
From the way you phrased your question, it seems that you are having issues with $to taking the value of $address. The code snippet you provided does not show where the $address variable is filled. What do you get when you echo $address? The $to = $address is not a function, but an assignment, making $to the value of whatever is in $address at the time. Do the other variables ($subject, $txt, etc) receive their values?
The mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers) function is called but you do not have any code to catch and display the return code to know why it is failing. You will need to do that in order to understand what is going on.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-11-11 5:36 am
Hello Iam Alaa i have error and i can not find it can help me when i sent to email see this massage what can i do
Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\Light\js\sendmail.php on line 49
10,022 Points
2014-11-11 10:40 am
This means that you are using a function that has been removed from newer versions of PHP within that code located at C:\wamp\www\Light\js\sendmail.php. You will need to further investigate the code of that file and re-write the PHP to allow it to work on newer versions of PHP.
2014-12-05 7:25 am
when use this code this error ocur(" Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()") and we can not handle this :O
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2014-12-05 11:13 am
Hello Kiran,
Unfortunately PHP's mail() function does not support SMTP protocols. I did however find an alternative on a Stack Overflow thread.
Kindest Regards,
TJ Edens
2014-12-07 8:40 am
I am use your phpmail function ok, function is work fine & mail send & receive ok,
when i am add my more input box main name input box then create a problem.
<?php//if "email" variable is filled out, send email if (isset($_REQUEST['email'])) { //Email information $admin_email = "email@example.com"; $name = $_REQUEST['name']; $company = $_REQUEST['comname']; $email = $_REQUEST['email']; $subject = $_REQUEST['subject']; $comment = $_REQUEST['comment']; //send email mail($admin_email,$name,$company,$subject,$comment, "From: . $email"); //Email response echo "Thank you for contacting us!"; } //if "email" variable is not filled out, display the form else {?> <form method="post"> Name: <input name="name" type="text" />
 Company: <input name="comname" type="text" />
 Email: <input name="email" type="text" />
 Subject: <input name="subject" type="text" />
 Message:
 <textarea name="comment" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea>
 <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> <?php }?>
Problem::Warning: mail() expects at most 5 parameters, 6 given in /home/mailsend.php on line 22
how to solve it.
2014-12-08 3:39 pm
Hello Nayeem,
The php mail() function needs at least 3 arguments, and has two optional ones, totaling 3-5 arguments. These arguments are specific arguments and not ones you can create on your own. The required arguments are 'to', 'subject', and 'message' with the optional ones being 'additional headers' and 'additional parameters'.
Your call to the function has some different arguments and totals 6, so you will need to fit those custom arguments into your message and then reformat the function call to match the standard php mail() function call.
You can learn more about that function here at thephp manual page.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
2014-12-16 3:42 am
I have the same problem. I am using the PHPmail script. I config this script and it shows the message "Mail has been sent". But didnt reached at desired email location. Please Anyone helps me to solve this issue.
2014-12-16 9:16 am
Hello Arvinder,
If you are working with the phpmail function and got the "Mail has been sent" message, it should have been sent from the server. You will now need to check the server logs and see if the message was indeed sent and if it was received properly by the other server.
Kindest Regards,
Scott M
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Draucker CB (2005) Processes of mental health service use by adolescents with depression. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 37(2), 155-162.
Eklund M (2002) Explicit and implicit methods in psychosocial occupational therapy. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health 18(2), 3-15.
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Flanigan A (2001) Occupational therapy with adolescents. In L Lougher (Ed) Occupational Therapy for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (pp.151-170). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Goldberg B, Brintnell S and Goldberg J (2002) The relationship between engagement in meaningful activities and quality of life with persons disabled by mental illness. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health 18(2), 17-44.
Harrison M and Forsyth K (2005) Developing a vision for therapists working within child and adolescent mental health services: poised or paused for action? British Journal of Occupational Therapy 68(4), 181-185.
Jaffa T, Lelliott P, O'Herlihy A, Worrall A, Hill P and Banerjee, S (2004) The staffing of inpatient child and adolescent mental health services. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 9(2), 84-87.
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adolescents, youth, mental health, occupational therapy, multidisciplinary, professional identity, role
The mental health and well being of Australians has become an increasingly important area of health (Mental Health Council of Australia, 2006); it is estimated that 20 percent of the Australian population will experience mental illness. This has a profound effect on the entire community (Mathers, Vos & Stevenson, 1999), and mental illness is a key factor in social exclusion, leading to unemployment, poor housing, poor health and family breakdown (Mental Health Council of Australia, 2006). Two-thirds of people with a mental illness do not receive any treatment in any twelve month period (McLennan, 1998).
Young people, between the ages of 12 and 24 years, are faced with physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual changes that may impact on their mental health and wellbeing (Arnett, 1997). With more specific attention being given to the mental health and well being of young people, and research focused on the impact of mental health on an individual's ability to function, exploration into factors that may facilitate and improve the mental health of young people is required.
Occupational therapists have historically worked in mental health (Kleinman, 1992). Their role in this setting includes assisting individuals to gain and maintain independent living, manage in community settings and engage in productive, meaningful and enjoyable activities (Lloyd, King & Bassett, 2005). This paper aims to critically review the published literature regarding the professional practice of occupational therapists working in youth mental health.
The primary purpose of this review was to investigate:
- the extent to which the mental health literature describes the actual or potential role and scope of practice of the occupational therapist as a member of the multidisciplinary mental health team; and
- the extent to which the occupational therapy literature identifies and describes interventions for adolescents with mental health problems.
It was anticipated that this process would identify gaps in the current literature, thus highlighting future research directions.
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COMSOL Releases Version 4.3 Today
Phil Kinnane | May 18, 2012
Yesterday was a big day as we officially released the new version of COMSOL Multiphysics, version 4.3. This will be shipped towards the end of May, and customers should be receiving it in the beginning of June. It's an exciting release as it involves three new products as well as a large number of improvements to the core software and most of the modules.
Yesterday involved a press meeting where the software was presented to a number of magazines. They and others received our press release (COMSOL Multiphysics Version 4.3 Now Available) and were pointed to our image gallery. We're looking forward to seeing this all showing up through the next few months.
Many of you have already been drawn to the fact that version 4.3 is on its way and seen a summary of the new products, features and enhancements on our 4.3 Release Highlights page.
The press release not only mentions the developments that have been included in the new version, but also touches upon how they came about. User input has been an important part of the development process and has led to improvements in the core software, such as fast meshing; requested new features, such as 3D rotating machinery support for motors and the like; as well as new products like the Nonlinear Structural Materials Module.
The new version should really add to your modeling capabilities.
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Consumer Loan Company Annual Assessments
Important Deadlines and Information
Assessment Due Date – March 3, 2014
All Washington State Consumer Loan Annual Assessments are due by close of business on March 3, 2014. In order to avoid late fees and penalties, all assessment reports and payments must be filed by close of business (5pm Pacific Standard Time) on March 3, 2014. This means you must have uploaded your company's Loan List Workbook, attested to the accuracy of the reports, and made your electronic payment by that deadline. We suggest you begin the process a few days early to avoid any problems.
NEW - License Expiration for Failure to File and Pay your Annual Assessment
Effective January 1, 2014, failure to file the reports and pay your Consumer Loan Annual Assessment fee by the March 3, 2014 due date; can result in expiration of your Consumer Loan License. Please refer to chapter 208-620-430 WAC http://dfi.wa.gov/cs/pdf/rulemaking/2013/cla/cla-2013-amended-rules.pdf for better understanding of the amended rules and reporting requirements.
Mortgage Servicing
For Residential Mortgage Servicing, DFI will calculate the amount owed based on the volume of loans serviced and the proportionate cost to DFI for operating the program. After DFI receives your servicing information, DFI will calculate your portion of the cost of operating the program and send you a bill. You will receive your bill through the NMLS system by July 1, 2014. The assessment fee is due to DFI on or before August 31, 2014, and is paid through the NMLS system.
Online Assessment System and Workbook
- Online Consumer Loan Assessment System
2013 CL Assessment Loan List Workbook (Excel)
(Right click link and select save as to download)
- Workbook and Online Assessment Do and Don'ts
About the Assessment System
In an effort to streamline the filing process, DFI has launched an online assessment filing system. This system will allow you to file both the Annual Assessment Report (AAR) and the Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) as well as make your payment via E-Check, Visa or MasterCard.
How does the online assessment filing system work?
Your company will provide your 2013 loan data and enter it into a Pre-Formatted Excel Workbook provided by DFI. Someone in your company then uploads your completed Loan List Workbook into the online assessment filing system. The system will email that individual a unique link, the link will return you to the system to review the annual reports, attest to the accuracy, and make an electronic payment.
What data must I provide to file my annual assessment reports?
You will be required to report all Washington loan activity during 2013 in an Excel pre-formatted Loan List Workbook provided by DFI. See: Loan List Workbook (Excel).
Can I provide my 2013 loan data in any format?
No. The online assessment filing system requires that you use the DFI provided Loan List Workbook to report your loan data. You need to prepare your data in DFI's Excel format to successfully transfer data into DFI's Excel workbook and avoid errors and delays completing your assessment filing.
Am I required to use the online assessment filing system?
Yes. DFI requires all Consumer Loan licensees to file their annual assessment reports and make payment through the online assessment filing system. DFI will not accept paper filings or physical checks.
What can I do right now to prepare to file my annual assessment reports?
There are several things you can do right now to ensure a smooth and successful annual assessment filing:
- Prepare the Loan List Workbook with all 2013 Consumer Loan Activity.
- Determine how you will pay your annual assessment fee – DFI's online system accepts E-Checks or credit cards. If you plan to use E-Check and you have an ACH debit block on your bank account, you must notify your financial institution to allow the E-Check to be processed. Removing the ACH debit block for DFI can take as long as two business days. DFI's company identification number is 9911603040. If you plan to use a credit card, the system only accepts Visa or MasterCard and only up to $10,000. If you do not have a Visa or MasterCard credit card or must pay $10,000 or more, you must use E-Check.
- Coordinate roles within your company – If the filing of your company's annual assessment typically involves several people, now is the time to coordinate roles. The person who uploads the company's Loan List Workbook will receive an email containing a unique link to return to the system to attest and make payment. If that person is not authorized to attest to the filing, you will need to coordinate communication between the person who uploaded the loan data and the person who is going to attest. Likewise, at the point of attestation, your company can request that an email be sent to an individual authorized to make payment.
Workbook and Online Assessment Dos and Don'ts
- Ensure that you have the most up to date version of your internet browser
- Remove the debit block from your bank account, if paying with a ACH transfer
- Have all of your information available when you start the filing process
- Complete all information requested on the workbook pertaining to your loan activity
- Check all worksheets within the Loan List Workbook to ensure that you have provided all 2013 loan activity to the Department
- Print a copy of your Assessment Summary Report and Payment Receipt for your records
- File and pay your assessment by 5 pm PST March 3, 2014
- Add worksheets to the provided workbook
- Add loan counts or total loan volumes in the workbook
- Rename the workbook
- Delete or add any worksheets
- Use any form of collateral type other than the initials RE, PP, or U
- Reformat the workbook
- Duplicate the workbook
- Include dollar signs or commas. General formatting is acceptable
*Doing any of the above actions prior to uploading your workbook could cause the system to reject your workbook or populate incorrect information.
Annual Assessment Information
What if I did not do any business in Washington during the 2013 calendar year?
Consumer Loan Licensees must file both the AAR and the CAR even if they did NO business in Washington State during 2013. Both the AAR and CAR must be filed, even if no annual assessment fee is due. You will need to upload a blank workbook, and complete your annual assessment filing through the system in order for it to be considered a complete filing.
What constitutes a complete and timely filing of the AAR and CAR?
You must electronically submit your worksheets and payment of your annual assessment on or before Monday, March 3, 2014. DO NOT SUBMIT AAR AND CAR REPORTS IN PAPER FORM.
In addition to electronic submission of the AAR and CAR, you must also file your 2013 financial statements via the NMLS no later than March 31, 2014. Financial statements must be prepared in accordance with GAAP and contain both a balance sheet and income statement. Please visit our NMLS Mortgage Call Reports webpage for more information.
What if I fail to deliver my complete filing by the March 3, 2014, deadline?
If you upload your AAR, CAR, or Payment after the March 3, 2014 due date, you will be assessed a late penalty of $50.00 per item, for each day of delay. Payment of late fees will be billed and paid through NMLS.
What transactions do I include on the AAR?
The AAR includes all Washington residential mortgage loans secured by first and junior liens, to include business, commercial, or agricultural loans secured by a lien on the borrower's primary residence, and non-mortgage loans:
- Loans held in the Licensee's portfolio on December 31, 2013
- Loans brokered or table funded by the Licensee, regardless of the interest rate, or lien position
- Loans made by the Licensee, regardless of the interest rate, or lien position
- Loans purchased by the Licensee through the secondary market
- Advances on Reverse Mortgages made or table funded
- Accrued Interest on Reverse Mortgages serviced
- Non-mortgage loans made by the Licensee
- Non-mortgage loans brokered by the Licensee
What loans in my portfolio from the previous year do I include in the AAR?
You must include Washington loans that you made or purchased and have not been transferred off of your warehouse line or out of your portfolio as of the last day of each year. Loans carried over into the next year will be assessed in that next year. Other examples Include: Washington loans held for servicing with or without servicing rights, loans repurchased, and loans securitized for investment.
Why do I include the loans in my portfolio from the previous year on the AAR?
WAC 208-620-440(2)(a) requires the principal loan balance on Washington loans in your loan portfolio on December 31st of the prior year to be counted in the assessment calculation.
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Note: Global Justice Ecology Project has watched the steady takeover of the UNCBD by business interests, which dominate its outcomes. Now with the Green Economy, the CBD is busily creating schemes to advance the commodification of all life to allow business as usual to continue as long as possible. The Convention on Biological Diversity has become the Convention on Buying Diversity…
–The GJEP Team
by M Suchitra, Oct 19, 2012. Source: Down to Earth
Bolivia is one of the few countries that has consistently been opposing treating biodiversity as a commodity at the ongoing Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity at Hyderabad. It has raised its voice against pro-market approaches in implementing the Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets of CBD. Even during the high-level ministerial segment of CoP 11, Bolivia did not leave any room for guessing while expressing its views. Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation, explained his country's stand to M Suchitra. Some excerpts:
Diego Pacheco (photo by M Suchitra)
On many occasions, Bolivia has expressed its apprehensions about the implementation of CBD objectives. How do you view the processes of CBD?
We are totally against mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystems with a profit-oriented, pro-market approach. Natural resources are the treasures of the poor. We are against taking biological resources out of the hands of local communities and indigenous people and making natural resources mere commodities. We believe it is not right to move biodiversity conservation and its sustainable use into plain economic terms to achieve the objectives of the CBD.
Are you saying that CBD has lost its track?
Yes. Why should we conceal the truth? When CBD was concluded for the first time in 1992, before the Earth Summit in Rio, it was considered as something very positive for developing countries. But somewhere along the line CBD has lost its track and now its approaches for implementation of its objectives favour market forces. Through the present mode of mainstreaming biodiversity, CBD gives leverage and power to the private sector and the market forces for utilising the natural resources only for their profits. Everything connected with nature is being commodified, putting at risk the livelihoods of indigenous and local people, and of the common goods.
What are Bolivia's views on conservation of Biodiversity?
Bolivia has recently enacted an important legislation called Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living Well. This law is oriented to create a new paradigm in order to reach a balance between conservation of biodiversity, poverty eradication and sustainable development. The legislation recognises rights of Mother Earth, rights of indigenous people and local communities, rights of Bolivian people to their integral development for living well and rights of poor people to overcome poverty.
What exactly do you mean by rights of Mother Earth?
It's a philosophy and approach towards nature. Bolivia does not recognise nature as a commodity. We believe earth has its own rights which we should not violate. The rights include ensuring regeneration and restoration of ecosystems, the right to life and diversity of life. We give importance to linkages between environmental, social and economic issues. We need to explore and recognise different understandings about nature and different approaches for conserving it. When you say Mother Earth, it considers earth as a sacred living system. Bolivia considers that the way to effectively mainstreaming biodiversity into economic and social planning processes is through the recognition of the rights of Mother Earth.
Resource mobilisation was the most contentious issue.
It was decided from the beginning that developed countries should be committed to transferring funds to developing countries in order to enable them to implement the targets and Strategic Plan effectively. But the developed countries show a low commitment on this. Most of the biodiversity-related issues and loss are the creations of the developed countries. But they conveniently ignore this fact and ask the developing countries to divert funds for biodiversity conservation. G 77 countries are trying hard to make the developed countries to stick to their commitments. How can poor countries contribute more? We are a poor country. Half of our people are poor.
And another important aspect is that there are some serious flaws in the conceptual framework of the strategy for resource mobilisation and preliminary reporting of resource mobilisation by the Parties (to CBD). The discussions focus only on public and private sector funds for the achievement of the CBD objectives and the Aichi targets. The present mechanism totally ignores the role of the collective action or efforts by the common people. This has created vacuum in the assessment of the overall national efforts towards the conservation of biodiversity, and ignores the outstanding role of the indigenous and local populations in this endeavor.
What's Bolivia's stance?
Our stance is that the preliminary reporting framework should consider not only the valuation of how much financial resources are invested into conservation but also how much collective effort is developed in order to reach the Aichi targets. The indicators regarding resource mobilisation should be revised to make visible the efforts of communities, indigenous people and local people. In Bolivia, the role of collective action is very prominent with respect to conservation of biological diversity. About 70 per cent of our total population are indigenous people.
How will you assess the value of the collective efforts?
We need to develop a conceptual framework and guidance regarding how to assess the role of collective action and the effort of indigenous and local populations in the conservation of the biological diversity. While doing so we need to keep in mind the critical role of local communities in the sustainable management of natural resources, and we need to fully explore the role of non-market based approaches in this endeavor.
What is your country's stance on Nagoya Protocol? Will you be ratifying it?
For Bolivia, modalities of implementation are a key issue. At present, theNagoya Protocol has pro-market modalities of implementation. We will ratify it only when it moves forward to a non-market based approach for implementation. It should be ensured that genetic resources will not be converted into commodities. If the Nagoya Protocol sets forth only an all-market approach, it would be big blow to pro-people promotion of equitable sharing and the solidarity of the local communities and indigenous people.


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The PCMH Portal
What is a Patient-Centered Medical Home?
A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a more effective and efficient model of health care delivery. This new model produces better care and lower costs. In a patient-centered medical home:
- Patients have a relationship with a personal physician.
- A practice-based care team takes collective responsibility for the patient's ongoing care.
- Care team is responsible for providing and arranging all the patient's health care needs.
- Patients can expect care that is coordinated across care settings and disciplines.
- Quality is measured and improved as part of daily work flow.
- Patients experience enhanced access and communication.
- Practice uses EHRs, registries, and other clinical support systems.
For a very good overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, please visit http://www.medicalhomeforall.com.
To download a copy of the AAFP's Patient-Centered Medical Home checklist, click here.
PCMH Model at work in North Carolina:
Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC)
CCNC is a demonstration program that began in July 1998 and aims to build upon North Carolinas' Primary Care Case Management Program - Carolina Access - by working with community providers to better manage the enrolled Medicaid population.
CCNC is designed to bring together providers to cooperatively plan for meeting patient needs and to strengthen the community health care delivery infrastructure. Providers are expected to take responsibility for managing the care of an enrolled population, to provide preventive services and to develop processes by which at-risk patients can be identified and their care managed before high cost interventions are necessary.
Currently, CCNC provides care to more than 750,000 Medicaid recipients in the state, making the program the largest payer in North Carolina. The program relies heavily on medical homes, population health management, community-based networks and case-management services to deliver care.
The CCNC program is distinguished by the following features: Partnership, a Population Health Management Approach, and Accountability. For more information on CCNC, please visit www.communitycarenc.com.
Key Transformation Resources & Sites -
AAFP's PCMH Resource Page - http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/membership/initiatives/pcmh.html
AAFP's Free Webinar Series on PCMH - http://www.aafp.org/practice-management/pcmh/patient-care.html
Transformed - http://transformed.com/
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative - http://www.pcpcc.net/
Community Care of NC's PCMH Toolkit - http://commonwealth.communitycarenc.org/toolkit/8/default.aspx
Agency for Healthcare Quality & Research PCMH Site - http://www.pcmh.ahrq.gov
CCNC's PCMH Recognition Guide - https://www.communitycarenc.org/emerging-initiatives/pcmh-central1/
PCPCC's Practical Guide to Transformation - http://www.pcpcc.org/guide/putting-theory-practice
The DeltaExchange at TransforMED - http://www.aafp.org/practice-management/pcmh/initiatives/dx.html
Merck Overview Video of PCMH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC4YCLG4h5k&feature=player_embedded
Reports, Articles & Presentations on PCMH -
Trends in Healthcare in NC - http://www.ncchamber.net/docs/pdfs/EASTER_2012healthcare.pdf
Building Medical Homes: Lessons From Eight States with Emerging Programs - http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/2011/Dec/Build...
Medical Home 2.0 - http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Document...
AHRQ's PCMH Articles Listing (w/citations) - http://pcmh.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/pcmh__home
BCBSNC's Move Towards the Patient-Centered Medical Home is Helping My Small Family Practice - http://www.ncafp.com/2014/sites/default/files/PCMH-BQPP.pdf
Downloadable Resources -
AAFP's Checklist - http://www.aafp.org/content/dam/AAFP/documents/practice_management/pcmh/PCMHChecklist.pdf
Patient Handout by PCPCC - http://www.pcpcc.org/guide/consumer-education-english-spanish
NCAFP Handout: Value of PCMH - http://www.ncafp.com/2014/sites/default/files/PCMH-PatientValueFlyer.pdf
NCAFP Handout: What a Medical Home Means to You - http://www.ncafp.com/2014/sites/default/files/PCMH-WhatitMeanstoYou.pdf
Current PCMH Efforts in North Carolina -
Community Care of NC - http://www.communitycarenc.com/population-management/medical-home/
Multi-payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Project - http://www.communitycarenc.com/emerging-initiatives/multi-payer-demonstration/Blue Quality Physician Program at BCBSNC - http://www.bcbsnc.com/content/providers/bqpp/index.htm


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Inner Cor Yoga
| Yoga Classes in Geelong Victoria
|Inner Cor Yoga Website
|Yoga Style: Hatha
P.O.Box 435, Belmont
Geelong, Victoria 3220
|03 5223 3117
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Inner Cor Yoga is a unique program that has merged the classical style of Hatha Yoga with Core Muscle and weight resistant work to create a powerful and effective style of Yoga giving a true understanding of the intricate workings of body, mind and spirit. TIMETABLE: Monday & Tuesday : 6:00 - 7:00pm Wednesday : 8:00pm - 9:00pm Friday: 9:30am - 10.30am Saturday: 10:30am - 11:30am All classes held at St Davids Church Hall, Aphrasia st Newtown. Vic 3220 For all other classes please see website.
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