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May the better side win, though I don't want Germany's seven epic goals to be 'wasted'...

"...I've never seen a goal less celebrated in my life"
- Commentator

I wonder what Pele is thinking now.

I feel for them, though.

These Germans are damn so accurate and precise! Respect to their coach/technical adviser.

It's very difficult to come up with this kind of list.
But it's a real shame no one has mentioned Jimmy Cliff.

Well, it's the end of the year and it will be interesting to know some
2013 forum statistics like -
Thread with highest number of views.
Thread with highest number of pages(I suspect that eclipse thread).
Post with most likes.
Etc.
Or make it a top 10 countdown.

Admin, over to you.

Happy new year in advance.

Nice. A marriage of talents.

fkayode: May God bless their marriage.
Congratulations and happy married life.

Mirror-in-the-sun

It's called G'ORIMAPA

To name a few....

Shirley Caesar
Rev. Timothy Wright
David Ingles
Carman
Andre Crouch
Jimmy Swaggart
Marilyn Baker
The Good Women Choir(CAC)
Don Moen
Chika Okpala
Luke Ezeji
Obi Obidigbo

.......

(yes, I'm old school)

Never too late!

A 99-year-old Iowa woman who dropped out of a high school more than 80 years ago despite needing only one credit to graduate has finally received her diploma.

Audrey Crabtree, of Cedar Falls, smiled Monday as she received an honorary diploma for her time at Waterloo East High School.

"And I feel so much smarter," Crabtree quipped.

Crabtree, who began her education at a one-room school house in northeast Iowa, left high school in 1932 due to a swimming and diving accident that forced her to miss several school days. She also had to care for her sick grandmother.

"I was a senior, but I was short a credit, so I would've had to go back the next fall," she told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (http:///15pHtO3).

That would have interfered with her plans to marry her first husband. In 1957, the couple bought the flower shop where Crabtree had worked after their two children started school. But her husband died of a heart attack two months into their business venture.

Crabtree operated Flowers by Audrey for 28 years. She married two more times and outlived both husbands. Her family today includes five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Despite Crabtree's professional and family success, those around her had noted her dissatisfaction with not finishing school.

"She had voiced quite a while back the one regret she had in life was that she never had gotten her diploma," said Shelley Hoffman, Crabtree's granddaughter.

Hoffman contacted Waterloo Community Schools and helped arrange the diploma ceremony.

Family and friends surrounded Crabtree as the current principal of East High handed her a diploma during an education board meeting.

"I wouldn't advise anyone to drop out," she said. "I just have to say in my life the Lord has been so good."

Crabtree was given a copy of her last report card and memorabilia from her time at the high school, including a jacket and homecoming pins. She also received more than 100 handmade congratulatory cards from middle school students.

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[size=15pt]The Government should look for a way to immortalize his name, he is a true hero
and this heroic act should serve as an inspiration for generations to come.[/size]

Good work.

Hilarious.

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An electric bus that charges its batteries while driving (rather than while sitting idle in a charging station) is no longer science fiction.

Researchers at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently constructed a seven and a half mile stretch of asphalt roadway in the city of Gumi in South Korea with specialized electric cables designed to power batteries on a moving passenger bus.

The first of it’s kind technology doesn’t need the vehicles to stop at a point to charge.

The bus’s batteries are equipped with a novel technology called “Shaped Magnetic Field In Resonance” that sends electromagnetic fields created by the electric cables buried in the asphalt to the bus but not normal cars.

The technology recognizes vehicles capable of accepting the electric charge and those that cannot.

A coil in the battery can turn the electromagnetic fields into electricity at a distance of more than half a foot above the road.
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Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling around 185,000 vehicles globally including the Yaris compact due to a glitch in the electric power steering system, which could make the steering heavier.

Yaris models, known as the Vitz in Japan, made between November 2010 to March 2012 have been recalled. Toyota said it is also recalling the Verso-S, known as the Ractis in Japan, manufactured from August 2010 to August 2011.

The world's best selling carmaker is recalling around 130,000 vehicles in Japan, some 7,050 vehicles in Germany and about 7,000 vehicles in France, as well as in several other countries.

No accidents have been reported from this glitch, said Toyota spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto.

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Among the names the students gave the baby are Oriyomi, Omomoremi, Oluwanimilo, Titilayo, Eniolorunopa, Bamitale Omole.

Lovely and very fitting names, I trust those Awo boys.

Achebe and Soyinka are very good friends, it's just petty people trying
to make them look like rivals - and some of Soyinka's statements have
been (deliberately) misinterpreted and misunderstood - that's the cause
of the whole brouhaha.

Peace.

macwilcy1: I have been working on a social networking website using php - http://www.friendsinteract.com Though am having some challenges and I very much welcome any help. Thank you

The challenge am having is that when a user logs in, his or her own post is fetched first before other of his or her friends post is fetched. Inside the database, there is a column that contain the a user's friends username separated by comma (,) for instance - macwilcy,cy,cyril,cy1,macwilcy1,... I want to use the username to fetch post made by users ordering it by date. I initially used "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE username = '$username' ORDER BY DATE" but it was fetching the posts starting from the first username to the last username regardless of which user's post is the latest post. I will very much appreciate your help. Thanks

Do you mean you have a column that contains comma separated values of username[b]s[/b]?!
To start with, that's a bad design, you should have a separate table that stores the friendship relationship,
i.e friends table with columns id,username,friend...something like that...

GraphicsPlus: It's still used. It's just text-align: center used for centering other elements that they removed.

text-align is a CSS property.

The "align" attribute is no longer used in HTML5.

Time to start my own political party...All Programmers Caucus.

mkwayisi: I'm not a PHP guru (far from it; may take me a lifetime to reach that status) but here's a simple simultaneous equations solver I just wrote. The complete source code is available as well. Link: http://www.michaelkwayisi.com/sim-equations-solver.html

Very nice blog you've got there, kudos.

Cute.

Good idea, hope they can match the quality of production
and acting of the original series. I was privileged
to 'stumble' upon the cast at NTA studios, V/I when they
were preparing for a rehearsal back in the day, didn't
know those scenes they were showing on TV all took place
in a studio. Good creativity. They were really nice and
friendly, I had a chat and handshake with HRH Oloja of Oja,

I found this on Facebook:

Wow- very interesting....Everyone should read

ONIONS! I had never heard this!!!
PLEASE READ TO THE END: IMPORTANT

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu...
Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser. She said that several years ago, many of her employees were coming down with the flu, and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmer's story...but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia, and, needless to say, I was very ill... I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put it into an empty jar, and place the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough it happened just like that...the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

This is the other note. Lots of times when we have stomach problems we don't know what to blame. Maybe it's the onions that are to blame. Onions absorb bacteria is the reason they are so good at preventing us from getting colds and flu and is the very reason we shouldn't eat an onion that has been sitting for a time after it has been cut open.

LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, Makers of mayonnaise. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.

Ed, who was our tour guide, is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe.

"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the summer picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table, and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that, when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as it's not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the ONIONS, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.

He explained onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It's already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!). Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you'll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you're asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

Please pass this on to all you love and care about.
— with Adonain Danny Rivera.

math-diva:
Thumbs up guys for the good job. I studied pure maths in unilag and I must say that my life has been the better for it. For all those who have the passion for maths I encourage you to study it in school and learn to make your passion work for you. Maths forms the base of all science and engineering courses so it's very easy to convert to other professions. A lot of my colleagues work in banks, audit firms, marketing firms, oil and gas, telecoms, food and beverages etc

I remember in 300 and final year I rarely used my calculator cos most of the courses we did were theoretical and used more of x, y and z rather than numbers. Then I was so sure Prof Olaleru was making up some of the stuff he taught us. So you can imagine how surprised I was to find all those pure maths principles embedded in stuff I do at work.

What am just trying to tell you all who want to know if it's worth their time to study maths or stats the answer is yes, especially if your a natural guru. All the maths gurus in my class spent more time playing games than reading, in maths once u know it you know it and unless your ecturer na witch, there is no way he wants to set his questions that u will not answer it and get method mark.

So Dr. Olaleru is now a Prof., congrats to him.