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PSP as iTunes remote
By Gnat Man (Jimmy)
So you are sitting around playing wipeout and listening to your favorite Johnny Cash, when all of a sudden the A*Teens comes on! Whatever will you do? You can't get up, that's a lot of work, we'd better come up with a way to control iTunes with your PSP and quick!
What we'll need:
- a PSP
- Wipeout Pure
- an Apple computer (Mac Mini works great and looks good doing it!)
- a wireless router
If you're going for a basic set up, all you have to do is set up apache and connect to it with the PSP, but if you
want to get fancier (and we do) then we can add great features like playlist selection, and a "Now Playing" display,
and your own DNS server to exploit wipeout.
First things first, lets get apache configured for our needs. If you don't have it running now, it might be a good idea to turn it on (System Preferences>Sharing>Personal Web Sharing). Now, open up Terminal and type the following to begin editing the configuration file:
Go down a ways until you find the "Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support" section. and towards the end you'll find the following line:
Uncomment it (delete the #) and continue down the file towards the end of the next section and uncomment this line as well:
Continuing on, you will find the section:
We have to change this to the account that is running iTunes. So set User to the short name of the account that will be running iTunes and change the group to staff so your section should now look like this:
This brings with it some security risks because apache is now being run as a user process and not as it's own user, just a word of warning for the paranoid.
Finishing things up, continue further down to:
add index.php after index.html (make sure there's a space between them)
Now save the file (Control O) and exit out (Control X).
Finally gracefully restart apache for the changes to take effect:
Now that we have apache running, we need a website for it to serve. I have already created such a site, and you can download a zip of with it right here.
Unzip and copy the contents of the folder to /Library/WebServer/Documents (your apache documents folder) and make sure that it is not within it's own folder, it will only work right if files like pspTunes.html and the wipeout folder are directly in the Documents folder.
Now, double click and run the "generate_playlist_app" script. It will make a list of all your playlists, and create an html file with them so you can select them from your psp. Everytime you add a playlist, you will have to rerun this script to make it show up. Sorry, but I haven't found a nice way to automate it yet.
That's the basics, that should work fine, but you will be stuck with the title of the song being "Ring of Fire" unless you continue on to the next step.
For this step we are going to need an external program, or at least that's the only way I have found to do it so far. So go get yourself a copy of Kung-Tunes start it up. Go to the preferences, and change the following:
- Set upload method to none
- Set File location to /Library/WebServer/Documents
- Set Name to pspTunes.html
- Under the Runtime tab, check every box
- Set Timer to zero
- Set recent tracks to zero
- Under Miscellaneous, change whatever you want, or leave it alone
Now the tricky part, still in Kung-Tunes, go to the applications menu and select formats (or just hit Command ,) and
we have to adjust this to create our main html file.
First: Go ahead and call this template PSP
Second: make this your header:
Thirdly: in the next box place the following:
Fourthly, if you want to, copy this into the inactivity box:
Finally, make sure the footer says the following:
Now save your config, and make sure Kung-Tunes and iTunes are both running, and it should all work fine. If it's still not working, make sure the timer is running on Kung-Tunes.
Now to connect from the PSP you have a couple of options. First you can use one of the many portals out there (Like This One) to connect to your own server with your IP address, and make sure you have your firewall configured poperly.
Or you can set up your own DNS server and keep it all internal. To do this we are going to use another 3rd party app, but we should only need to run this once. Head on over here and download DNS Helper.
First, fire up the program, and enter your password. On the first page, the domain name should be scea.com the name server should be fake.scea.com make the IP address your own internal IP address, don't worry about the email address, and set the router IP address to your
router's IP address.
Under hosts, add the following hosts, ingame.scea.com and webcluster.scea.com and have both of them link to your computer's internal IP address.
Then go to the expert tab, and authenticate by clicking the lock and entering your password again. Check the three boxes in "file options" and hit write files. Then Start bind in the same window.
Wake up your psp and go to the network settings. Hit infrastructure and set up a new connection. Give a name, something snappy and slightly apple, like pspTunes! Scan for your network, and choose custom address settings. Go with automatic IP address, but manual DNS. Set the first
DNS to the IP address of your computer, and skip the second. Don't use proxy, and save it!
Now pop in Wipeout and test it out!
That was too easy! Show me a more comlicated method that works better on the PSP!
That should be it, The only problem I have found is you might have to click twice on the buttons through the PSP, I'm not sure why...I am not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, and much of this is just hacked together from other people's hard work. I will work to try to improve it, I have recently found that if I use perl instead of php, it is more responsive, so maybe I will work on something there and update this when I get it working right.
Here is just a short list of people's work I have borrowed from:
roto http://omlette.net/psp/roto/
fugimax http://fugimax.base2.org/
ado http://www.kung-foo.tv/itti.php
Josh Wisenbaker http://mail.computertree.com/~josh/simple/
John Masone http://www.whatsmyip.org/itunesremote/
Grayson Hansard http://homepage.mac.com/fromconcentrate/
That's all I can think of right now, if you think I used your work and
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*Fingers Crossed* Guida vs. Hioki, Grant vs. Wiman, + More Added to Stacked UFC on FOX 6 Card
(We know, Clay, we had a hard time watching your last fight too.)
It's looking like the crippling power of this year's injury curse is going to be tested early come 2013, because the UFC's first major network event of the year is currently stacked with more budding talent than a Miss Teen USA pageant. Aside from the Cerrone/Pettis, Jackson/Teixeira, and Dodson/Johnson fights that were announced earlier this week, the UFC has recently announced that Clay Guida will be making his featherweight debut against Hatsu Hioki at the same event as well.
Guida's last performance saw him channel Steve Prefontaine for the majority of five rounds against Gray Maynard at UFC on FX 4, earning him his second straight loss at lightweight following his much more exciting loss to current champion Benson Henderson at the inaugural UFC on FOX event.
Despite the fact that he is coming off a close decision loss to Ricardo Lamas at the same event, there's no denying that Hioki is still considered to be one of the top contenders at 145, so a win over Hatsu is not only essential for Guida — he has never dropped three straight in his MMA career — but would easily launch him up the list of potential contenders to boot. Let's just hope he brings a more aggressive strategy against Hioki or we could be in for a long three rounds.
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Johannesburg – South African Davis Cup captain John-Laffnie de Jager on Friday said he was confronted with a poser in finalising his team for next week's Euro-Africa Group Two tie against Monaco in Pretoria.
The South African captain submitted the names of Rik de Voest, Nikala Scholtz, Raven Klaasen and Izak van der Merwe to the ITF as the designated four players who will represent South Africa at the Irene Country Club from January 31 to February 2.
"This was only done in accordance with the ITF rule that the four names had to be submitted to the international body 10 days before a Davis Cup event," De Jager said.
"The rules also stipulate one change can be made to this original choice when the draw is made 24 hours before the start of the tie on Friday and that is when I will actually make my final decision."
De Jager earlier in the week named Ruan Roelofse in the five-man squad from where the final team would emerge.
De Voest is certain to be nominated as the number one singles player, with in-form Australian Open finalist Klaasen and Van de Merwe earmarked as the doubles combination.
This leaves the 954th world-ranked Scholtz and 733rd-ranked Roelofse as the contenders for the second singles berth.
Scholtz is on a scholarship in the United States and his commitments to Davis Cup would cut into his ATP schedule where world-ranking points are accumulated.
Also, a lingering concern for De Jager is if Van der Merwe comes through next week's strenuous build-up for the Davis Cup tie without any ill-effect after being out of the game for more than nine months following foot and ankle surgery.
Should any doubts exist over Van der Merwe's fitness, both Scholtz and Roelofse could find themselves in the final team, with a revised doubles pairing also coming into question.
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Thursday marks 30 years since 20-year-old Debbie Eckles was found murdered in the Walkertown section of Hazard.
It the only murder in recent history that remains unsolved within city limits.
However, despite the time that has passed, Hazard Police are not giving up on finding her killer.
Hazard Police Chief Minor Allen said knowing that the person responsible for Debbie Eckles death is still out there is something that is not lost on his department.
"That case has always been probably on every officers mind that ever worked here because it has been an unsolved murder," said Allen.
Back in 1983, Eckles was found stabbed to death.
Allen said the gruesome nature of her murder can only mean one thing.
"A crime of passion of some type of revenge just because of the nature of how many times that she was stabbed. It seems like someone was really wanting to try to punish her for some reason," said Allen.
The mystery of who killed Debbie Eckles is still on the mind of many people in Hazard and the police are hoping that interest will help create some new leads in the case.
"Years have passed and you know, I keep holding out that somebody might be sitting there with a guilty conscious or have come to some different understanding in life that they feel like they need to get something off their chest," said Allen.
It is a sentiment Eckles' older sister Carolyn Miniard shared with us during an interview in 2011.
"That was my baby sister and I did not want to lose her and I did not want this,"said Miniard.
Allen said he remains hopeful about the case.
"You hear of cases all the time, 30, 40, 50 years later that are solved or whatever. Maybe it will take a confession from somebody," said Allen.
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|Proliferation of germ cells and somatic cells in first trimester human embryonic gonads as indicated by S and S+G(2) +M phase fractions.
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|Objectives: The number of germ cells and somatic cells in human embryonic and foetal gonads has previously been estimated by stereological methods, which are time- and labour-consuming with little information concerning cell proliferation. Here, we studied whether flow cytometry could be applied as an easier method, also enabling estimation of the fraction of cells in S or S+G(2) +M (SG(2) M) cell-cycle phases as indicators of cell proliferation. Methods: Cell suspensions from 35 human embryonic gonads at days 37 to 68 post-conception (pc) were immunomagnetically sorted into C-KIT positive (germ) cells and negative (somatic) cells. They were stained for DNA content and analysed by flow cytometry. S and SG(2) M fractions could be measured for 13 of the female and 20 of the male gonads. The number of cells was estimated using fluorescent reference beads. Results: During the period from 37 to 68 days pc, female germ and somatic cells had a stable S and SG(2) M fractions indicating steady growth of both subpopulations, whereas they decreased in both male germ and somatic cells. The number of germ and somatic cells estimated by flow cytometry was significantly lower than in stereological estimates, suggesting loss of cells during preparation. Conclusions: Cell proliferation as indicated by S and SG(2) M fractions could be estimated specifically for primordial germ and somatic cells. Estimation of total number of germ and somatic cells was not feasible.
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5 Signs Montessori Is Right for Your Preschooler
Is a Montessori preschool right for your child? Created by Dr. Maria Montessori "to observe and support the natural development of children," the Montessori Method is a popular alternative to the teacher-led educational system at traditional schools. It focuses instead on individualized, independent learning.
The Montessori curriculum also often comes with a higher price tag. This leads Circle of Moms members like Rebecca to wonder if sending her twin 2-year-olds to a Montessori preschool will provide a valuable education, or if the cost, which she says "is literally giving me heartburn," will be a waste of money. According to the many Circle of Moms members who've weighed in, the answer depends on a number of factors. Here are their five suggestions for determining whether a Montessori preschool is the best choice for your child.
1. Your Child is Adventurous
Children at Montessori schools generally guide their own learning. Kate C. relays that a good Montessori school will teach children to respect each other and their environment, and encourage them to be as independent as possible. However, moms like Lindsey O. find that this method isn't ideal for every child. She switched her daughter out of a Montessori school when she found her daughter was "choosing" to do the same tasks day after day because she isn't adventurous enough to try new tasks on her own.
2. Your Child Thrives with Less Structure
Circle of Moms members also recommend the Montessori Method for preschoolers who are self-motivated and who thrive with less structure. "For some children [Montessori schools] are amazing," shares Sherri C., but "for others they are the worst thing possible." She explains that moms really need to know their children to determine whether they will flourish in a more free-flowing educational environment, or if the lack of structure will be detrimental.
3. The Specific Classroom is a Good Fit
When evaluating preschools, Montessori or not, it's smart to observe the classroom several times and meet the teacher to get a better idea of whether or not your preschooler will benefit. "There are many things that people don't understand about the Montessori Method, and that is okay," says Becky G., adding that, "The important thing is to make sure that you understand what they are doing in the classroom."
Additionally be aware that the name Montessori is not legally protected, so any institution can say they are a Montessori school without having their teachers go through compulsory Montessori training, Erin R. points out.
4. You're Prepared for What Comes Next
Another factor to consider is how long your child will study under the Montessori Method, and what school she will attend next. Some Montessori schools offer only pre-kindergarten classes, while others continue up to grade 8 or even grade 12. Circle of Moms members say that if your child switches to public school, there likely will be a transition period.
Lori L. explains that because the Montessori Method focuses on the individual, some children "are less apt to be socially ready for the demands of public school." Debbie, a public school kindergarten teacher, says she can always pick out the students who went to a Montessori preschool because they have "trouble with following the teacher's directions and transitioning from one activity to another. They usually want to set their own pace and get easily frustrated when they have to follow what all the other kids are doing." However, Sandy G. says the transition seems a less difficult one to make in high school.
5. The Cost is Within Your Budget
If you believe the self-propelled learning at Montessori schools syncs with your preschooler's personality and long-term education plan, then determine whether the cost of such an education is within your budget.
A Circle of Moms member named Rosie P. "shudders" at the cost of Montessori preschools in her area, because she believes her child can get a great education at a normal preschool if she is actively involved. On the other hand, Sandi M. is pleasantly surprised that the Montessori school in her neighborhood is cheaper than daycare, so she is planning to make a switch.
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Belfast - Eating chips during pregnancy can lead to significant health problems for newborn babies, research suggests.
Consuming a vast quantity of chips, crisps and biscuits during pregnancy can lead to babies having a lower than average birth weight, the study found.
Mothers-to-be who have a high intake of acrylamide – which is found in commonly consumed foods and coffee – are also more likely to have a baby that has a smaller head circumference.
The size of a child's head has been associated with delayed neuro-development while lower birth weights have been associated with adverse health effects in early life and as children grow up.
Babies born to mothers with a high dietary intake of acrylamide were found to be up to 132g lighter than babies born to mothers who had a low intake, researchers said.
The effect caused by acrylamide was comparable to lower birth weights caused by maternal smoking, they said.
The infant's heads were also up to 0.33cm smaller, they found.
Acrylamide is a chemical that is produced naturally in food as a result of cooking starch-rich food at high temperatures, such as when baking or frying. It has been found in a wide range of home-cooked and processed foods including crisps, chips, bread and coffee.
"The potential public-health implications of our findings are substantial," the authors said.
"Increases in head circumference are an important indication of continued brain growth, and reduced birth head circumference has been associated with delayed neuro-development.
"Reduced birth weight is a risk factor for numerous adverse health effects early in life, and has been associated with multiple adverse outcomes later in life such as reduced stature, increased incidence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and osteoporosis."
They added: "These findings provide evidence supporting the need for changes in food production and for providing clear public health advice to pregnant women to reduce their dietary intake of foods that may contain high concentrations of acrylamide."
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Summer is almost here. In fact, in Southern California, I think summer is already here as the sky is blue and the sun has been coming out to play.
I absolutely love summer. Summer time is my favorite time of year as the warmth of the sun embraces my body as I say goodbye to pasty skin, frumpy winter clothing, and greet a big hello to sandals and sun dresses! Summer also means party time: barbeque by the pool, picnics by the sea, road trips up and down the California coast, and eating (and drinking) with friends. Summer is pure bliss and happiness!
This year, I plan to share a series of fun, delicious, yet simple summer recipes with you. I have a brand new KitchenAid grill sitting in my patio so I can foresee a lot of casual al fresco dining this summer. To kick start the series (I know it's not officially summer yet, but I just can't wait), I made this utterly delightful beer steamed mussels that transports me back to south of France.
This dish is very similar to Moules Marinière, which is made with white wine but I find beer to be a great (and much convenient) substitute. The slight bitterness of the beer is offset by the briny sweet taste of fresh mussels and the end result is a mussel pot that you can serve throughout summer.
Serves: 4-5 people | Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 5 minutes
3 tablespoons melted butter or olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 onion, finely diced
2 1/2 lbs – 3 lbs mussels, bearded and scrubbed
12 fluid oz beer
A bunch Italian (flat-leaf) parsley leaves, coarsely chopped
Salt, to taste
Lemon or lime wedges
Rinse the bearded and scrubbed mussels thoroughly. Drain the water dry.
Heat up a deep skillet or a pot with the melted butter/olive oil on medium heat. Saute the garlic and onion until you start smelling the aroma, but not browned. Add the mussels into the skillet/pot and stir to combine with the garlic and onion. Pour in the beer and cover the skillet and pot, for a few minutes, or until the mussels are open and cooked. Stir in the chopped parsley and add salt to taste. Serve immediately with a squeeze of lemon or lime, if you like.
The beer broth with the briny and sweet flavor of mussels is absolutely delicious. "Drink" the juice or sop up with garlic bread.
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Last weekend I was invited for a beautiful night out at The West End at Crown, by Nuffnang and Crown Melbourne. This is a sponsored post to not only share my experiences at this new area of the entertainment complex, but there are TWO amazing giveaways for you Aussie readers (I'm talking flights, accommodations, meals, etc) that you would not want to miss out on!
I didn't manage to snap much pictures of the inside of the new complex as taking photos is not permitted in the gaming areas, but I've got heaps to share from Lumia, a great new bar that has an awesome terrace view of the city, and from The Merrywell, reinvented pub-food at its finest.
Follow the link below for a massive post of some great mouth watering snaps and info on two giveaways!
Firstly, my outfit of the day.
(Fur coat from Sportsgirl, Necklace from Ziba, Sweater and Skirt from Korea, Jeffrey Campbell Lita boots)
So I started my evening at Lumia, which is just adjacent the gaming floor on level one. They have 20% off cocktails from 5pm to 8pm Sunday to Thursday, and lots of great chill out spots both indoor and outdoor. It's a perfect venue to chill out after work with a larger group. My boyfriend and I got us both two girly drinks, a Watermelon Sherbet Martini and a Strawberry Shiraz Cobbler before heading to the terrace to enjoy the view. Here's some pictures
View of the city from the terrace, and finally some random shots of the venue.
And finally, the highlight of the night – The Merrywell. Actually, two nights since I came back here for dinner the next day! This restaurant has 2 floors, downstairs – a contemporary venue for a quick burger or sandwich meal, and upstairs – great dinning atmosphere for delicious mains and share plate dishes, with a DJ spinning tunes that progressively gets louder throughout the night as the bar fills up. I'll let the photos do the talking now, and read on below for the giveaway details where you may score a $100 voucher at The West End or even more!
Seafood tower!
Salmon Tartare in a cone.
Prawn cocktails.
A Lamb burger with an perfectly crusted bread. I'm so hungry now.
The caveman! A 1.2kg steak.
Devoured off the bone by my crazy friend James.
Wagyu steak, taste so much better than it looks!
Beef ribs, my boyfriend's favourite, photo doesn't do it justice!
Awesome tiny dessert platter! Love the mango the best.
I hope those pictures stirred up your appetite because courtesy of Nuffnang and Crown Melbourne you could be in the running to win a $100 voucher to use at The West End. Enter the giveaway with the raffle app below.
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She likes to tell people she's the "fake Jan." As in Jan from the short-lived sequel, "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour," that lasted all of nine episodes in 1976. She was 17 at the time.
Reischl, an actress and recording artist, was happy to chat about "fake Jan" for the many visitors who stopped by her table last weekend during the American Music & Pop Culture Expo in Hershey. Cleverly, she uses "fake Jan" as a marketing tool to promote her career. A banner on the wall behind her table featured the nickname.
The personable Reischl smiled or laughed each time a visitor inquired about "fake Jan.
Reischl got the role of Jan when actress Eve Plumb - who played Jan on 117 episodes of "The Brady Bunch" - decided she didn't want to do the variety show. Maybe the show bombed, but it was a great experience for Reischl, who did a lot of singing on the show.
Reischl loves the music of that era so much that she recently released a CD of '70s covers, titled "1200 Riverside."
Another project that is creating buzz is a CD single featuring the Brady Bunch hit "Your Song." The album cover proclaims "Fake Jan sings for real."
"This is my signature song on 'The Brady Bunch,'" a smiling Reischl said. "Everyone I sang it to loved it. And all these years later, I thought I should re-do it. It's a limited edition.
"I sang it at a Monkees convention, and the fans were blown away," she said.
Reischl was busy as a child actress, appearing in more than 40 TV commercials, including 10 for Mattel Toys. Readers may recall the cute, little blonde promoting Mattel.
"I was the Mattel Toys girl," said Reischl, who added with a giggle, "until I reached 12 - then I was too old!"
She guest-starred on shows like "Gunsmoke" and "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors," and she sang on "The Mike Douglas Show" and "Pop! Goes the Country.
Fans who chatted with Reischl last week discovered a warm, down-to-earth performer. Reischl has been well-grounded since childhood because, as she explained, her mother wouldn't have it any other way.
"I'll never forget one day my mom said, 'sit down, I want to talk to you,'" Reischl recalled. "She asked me if I was sure I wanted to be in show business, because I didn't have to do it. I could go to school like other kids, play sports, be a cheerleader, go to dances.
"And I said, 'no, mom, this is what I want to do.' And she said, 'that's fine. But if I ever see you get a big head and think you're better than everyone else, I will pull you out (of show business) right away."
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LETTER: Learn about Constitution
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Shirley Dobson, District X director, Pocahontas Chapter/Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Learn about Constitution
Sept. 17-23 commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution. This year is the 225th anniversary of the signing of this great document.
You might have even heard the phrase, "That's unconstitutional" or "That's my constitutional right!" Many times Americans believe that sayings and phrases are in our Constitution, but they really aren't.
Did you know that nowhere in the Constitution does it say, "It's a free country"? Amendment 1 of the Constitution does not include the words "freedom of expression" but over time it has been ruled to include limits to the freedom of speech/press/assembly for defamation, perjury, contempt of court, hate speech, size of public demonstrations, trade secrets, noise pollution, classified information and treason.
Let us celebrate Constitution Week by resolving to be better informed and responsible citizens. Read the Constitution!
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Progressive Fitness Center is a unique company. Not only for the service to its client's, but because it was created by our clients. Director & Owner Jennifer Opaka teaches with a blend of strength conditioning and core seasoned with pilates techniques and yoga stretching for a well balanced and highly effective program. More importantly, clients see and feel the results, are constantly challenged and experience a completely different work out than they ever have before.
Our clients do not know what they are doing may be a Pilate's move or core strength move they know that they are simply getting the best work out ever. Jennifer has been in the fitness industry for 20 years training and teaching clients, featured in Self Magazine, taught at San Diego State University as an Instructor for the Personal Training Certificate Program and directed Personal Training and Group Exercise as Fitness & Manager for Gold's Gym for 10 years.


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Thursday May 31, 2012UF's Mike Zunino & Brian Johnson Named All-Americans by Louisville Slugger
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Florida junior catcher Mike Zunino (Cape Coral, Fla.) was named a first-team Louisville Slugger All-American on Thursday by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, while junior left-hander/designated hitter Brian Johnson (Cocoa Beach, Fla.) was a second-team selection in the utility spot.
Zunino became the first Gator to be named an All-American by the publication in consecutive seasons since Brad Wilkerson received the honor three-straight times from 1996-98. For Johnson, it was his first career All-American recognition.
A semifinalist for the Johnny Bench Award, the Dick Howser Trophy and the Golden Spikes Award who was the 2011 SEC Player of the Year and a 2012 first-team All-SEC selection, Zunino leads the Gators in batting average (.323), total bases (146), RBI (55), doubles (27), sacrifice flies (8) and slugging percentage (.664). A two-time first-team All-SEC recipient and two-time member of the leagues All-Defensive Team, he has registered a .993 fielding percentage, with three errors in 452 chances, and has thrown out almost a third of the runners who have attempted to steal on him.
One of the 10 players in the running for the 2012 John Olerud Award presented to the nations top two-way standout, Johnson was voted onto the SECs first team for the second-straight time in the designated hitter spot after ranking third on the Gators with a .309 batting average in league play. He drove in 16 runs, scored 11 runs, collected five doubles and belted two homers against league foes. On the season, Johnson is 7-4 with a 3.67 earned run average on the mound and has 64 strikeouts in 81 innings, to go along with a .318 clip, 39 RBI, 20 runs, 12 doubles and five homers. The southpaw tossed his first career complete game to oust fourth-ranked South Carolina from the SEC Tourney last Friday night and matched his career high with four hits on Saturday against Vanderbilt.
No. 1 Florida (42-18) opens the 2012 NCAA Tournament on Friday at 7 p.m. at McKethan Stadium by hosting fourth-seeded Bethune-Cookman (34-25) in the second game of the double-elimination Gainesville Regional to be held at McKethan Stadium. Second-seeded Georgia Tech (36-24) meets third-seeded College of Charleston (37-20) at 1 p.m.
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One of the first "wisdom" sayings I learned was "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." This saying applies to educated folks who display less common sense than ordinary people and are easily fooled. A recent example was Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme where he convinced highly educated folks into giving him millions of dollars.
Global warming (aka, climate change) is a piece of foolishness concocted by Al Gore and other snake oil peddlers. Their exhortations have taken in countless supposedly "smart" people. They predicted scorching summers followed by disappearing winters. Global warming was exposed as a hoax when the barely rising temperature of earth leveled off and now is turning colder. Their predictions of more hurricanes, more tornadoes, etc. also were flat out wrong.
Why is a little knowledge dangerous? In the burning of fossil fuels like gasoline, carbon in the gasoline combines with oxygen in the air to produce carbon dioxide. It is a trace gas that has varied greatly over eons of time. In the 1970s and 1980s, carbon dioxide happened to increase at a time when earth was in a warming cycle. Gore incorrectly concluded that the increased carbon dioxide was the cause of the warming. For the past 15 years, the carbon dioxide has increased, but the earth's temperature has not changed, or is decreasing.
Reputable scientists realize that the increasing carbon dioxide is actually a blessing because it is a plant fertilizer and the production of food from plants has increased and helped eliminate much worldwide starvation. As the bitterly cold winter of 2013-14 refuses to give way to spring, the global warming adherents have become desperate and proposed increasingly shrill and nonsensical explanations. My reaction to this madness runs the gamut from amazement to amusement to pity. I have finally decided that they are simply unable to connect the dots in life and deserve our pity.
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Congratulations to our 2014 Photo Contest Winners. The winner of each category receives a $500 trip credit towards any trip that Randonnée Tours offers. Thank you to everyone who participated. We hope these photographs will inspire you to travel with us in 2015.
And the winners are...
Moments Category Winner 2014: Cathy & Brian W. and David & Margaret S. - Provence South
"Nothing more rewarding after cresting the hill of a solid climb than to be greeted by an open winding descent with a glorious mountain view and sharing the moment with your partner. Looking forward to our next bike trip!" Cathy & Brian W., Caledon, ON & David & Margaret S., Caledon, ON
Honourable Mentions
Geoff & Janet P. - Dordogne
Pam & Dale J. - Portugal
Susan F. - Utah
Barbara V. - Loire Valley
Places Category Winner 2014: Geoff & Janet P. - Dordogne
"My father had an expression that he used to describe the serendipitous moments of travel. The pleasure you had not planned for. He called them "added value". This was one of those moments. The hanging gardens de Marquesyssac lived up to advance billing. A riot of trimmed boxwood and lovely, perfectly laid out, tree-shaded paths. But the views over the Dordogne were the surprise. The whole river valley laid out below you, all the ancient castles and green hills and walnut tree fields and the river itself. And the village of La Roque-Gageac strung out along the bottom of the cliffs down below, with the promise of a late afternoon cool glass of rose on the patio of La Belle Etoile, which I can see - can you?" Geoff & Janet P. Vancouver, BC
Susan M. - Utah
Faces Category Winner 2014: Lynn & Neil M. - Provence
"Aude & Jean Loup were our warm and friendly hosts at the B&B l'Eveche. Due to their generosity of spirit and love for Vaison La Romaine, they introduced us to all the best local spots. The B&B was decorated with 'objets d'arts' previously displayed in their art gallery, ever so charming." Lynn & Neil M., Cornwall, ON
Beverly & George B. - Prague to Vienna
In 2015 become a Randonnée Tours photographer!
The contest has three categories: Faces, Places and Moments. You can submit up to 5 photos per category. The winner of each category will receive a $500 trip credit.
It might be a French
winemaker swirling a
glass of his wine before
tasting in Burgundy;
elderly ladies sitting in
a square in an Italian
village, or (if you join
one of our special
departures to Vietnam)
a woman selling boat
trips on the river in Hoi
Whether in the
magnificent scenery of
the Canadian Rockies,
viewing a monastery on
a lake in Czech Republic
on our Prague to Vienna trip,
or NapaValley vineyards
at firstlight, photographs
that capture the beauty
of a place are what
will win here.
There is no doubt that
your trip will include
magical moments
throughout. It could
be getting a shave in
Ostuni, Italy, listening to
a storyteller in Ireland,
dancing to Pizica music
in Puglia, Italy.
Advice from our in house photographer:
Increase your chances at taking great photographs by catching the light at its best (early morning, late afternoon); try to incorporate something into the picture that lets people know what country you are in (even a sign in the background can help). You don't need people posing- it's usually better if they aren't. If they are wearing Randonnée Tours jerseys and t-shirts, we love that and of course, photos of people cycling are our favorites!
How to participate:
Submit your selection by email at email@example.com or on CD by mail to our office. Please use .JPG format with a high resolution (1MB minimum). Email subject line: Photo Contest. You can also send us the link to uploaded pictures on websites such as dropbox, flickr, etc...
All entries become the property of Randonnée Tours Inc., and may be used for publicity purposes and published on our website. Winning entries will not necessarily be published. All submissions may be edited for publication.
Past Winners
M. Kseniak - Amalfi Hiking
This photographer submitted so many amazing photos that we had a tie for 1st prize...The picture on the right is the Grotta Azzurra on the island of Capri for those of you wondering...
B. Matthiesen - Provence Hiking
J. Ridge - Dordogne Biking
M. Kinne - Ireland Cycling; A. Bushkowsky - Loire Valley Cycling; A. Robins - Las Alpujarras Hiking (from left)
R.Yurick - Umbria Cycling
P. Hardy - Ireland cycling
D. Auld - Rockies Hiking
C. Hill - Camino de Santiago Cycling
S. Colomby- Puglia cycling
P. Hesje - Tucany cycling
B. & S. Kelcher - Morocco Special Departure
J. Ladner - Brittany cycling
J. Brown and M. Neufeld - Cinque Terre Hiking


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The Highest-Paid Female CEO Is Exactly Who You Expect
But, with the latest report from FindTheCompany on the earnings of female CEOs, there's still a lot to celebrate. The list of the ten highest-paid chief officers reads like a who's who of successful women, not to mention the fact that many still clear more than $10 million a year.
Not surprisingly, the top spot goes to Marissa Mayer, the well-known head of Yahoo. Her annual compensation package is worth a whopping $36.6 million — in other words, some serious dough. Following close behind is Irene Rosenfeld with $28.8 million, who oversees Mondelez International (formerly Kraft). Rounding out the top five are the CEOs from Annaly Capital Management, Children's Place, and IBM, all bringing in over $16 million. While these women are still falling behind their male counterparts, it's still worth throwing out some major props. (Business Insider)


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In the whole range of government-business relations, nothing gives rise to more complaints than the federal income tax. Given every person's desire to hold on to what is his, it probably defies human ingenuity to devise a truly lovable tax. But the federal corporate income tax hurts small business in ways that are unnecessary:
• The law is so complex that unless small business retains the services of knowledgeable -- and expensive -- lawyers or accountants, not merely for preparing returns but also for every step in planning, unnecessary taxes will be incurred and opportunities to save overlooked.
• The tax is collected at times when it frequently diverts funds from the growth and financial support a small business needs in its starting phases.
Dissatisfaction with the income tax law is not new, as evidenced by the continual tinkering with its provisions. But there is a growing sense that tinkering is not enough. Thus we have various proposals, such as a flat-rate tax or a value-added tax, to name a couple, which might be both simpler and more helpful to the growth of the economy.
I believe that as far as small business is concerned, the basic source of the problem is that small companies are subject to exactly the same rules and regulations as the corporate giants. In computing depreciation, bad-debt reserves, recapture of investment credit, and every other aspect of the corporate income tax, the corner garage must deal with the same complexities as General Motors Corp. The complexities may be justified for GM in order to prevent huge revenue losses. But for the corner garage, this elaborate game is simply not worth the candle.
What is needed is a new and separate tax for small business -- a tax that is simple to understand, thus facilitating planning, and easy to comply with and administer. Further, it should be a tax that can be paid at times when it will not unduly burden the growth of the business. What kind of tax might accomplish this?
I propose a "cash flow" income tax.
The basic concept of such a tax is simple enough: All cash receipts are income, all expenditures are deductions. If during any year receipts exceed expenditures, there is a positive cash flow and a tax is due. If, on the other hand, the money spent equals or exceeds receipts, no tax is owed. The important point is that the nature of the receipt or expenditure does not matter. Therefore, all the distinctions of the present income tax law, such as that between "ordinary" and "capital," or that between interest and dividends, become irrelevant. If the business kept all its cash in a single bank account, all it would have to do to determine its tax liability would be to look at the balance at the beginning of the year and at the end. If tlne account had not grown, no tax would be due.
It may be asked whether this would not lead to tax avoidance, since a business could eliminate tax in any year simply by paying more salary or dividends to its owner-employees or by investing in more inventory or equipment. The answer is "Yes, but so what?" The owner-employees will have to pay income tax on tlne salary and dividends they receive, and that one tax on the income of the business should be enough. And if the desire to avoid the cash-flow tax encourages purchases of inventory and equipment, that is just the kind of incentive to economic growth the tax law should provide. We can count on the self-interest of the small businessman not to make economically unjustifiable expenditures for inventory or equipment.
To understand a little better what contribution a cash-flow income tax might make to both simplification and better economics, it may be helpful to compare it briefly with the income tax.
The income tax generally measures income on either the cash basis or the accrual basis. The accrual basis is required for all businesses that have inventory. (In this way they are prevented from deducting the cost of the inventory until it is sold.) The cash basis is simpler than the accrual basis, because it avoids such intricacies as LIFO (last-in, first-out) and FIFO (first-in, first-out) valuation of the inventory, bad-debt reserves, and the like. Nevertheless, it contains many complexities a cash-flow tax would eliminate.
For example, when a cash-basis taxpayer receives a payment, he may be required to classify it according to whether it is income or a return of capital -- for instance, a repayment of a loan, or interest on the loan. Also, because of the distinction between capital gain and ordinary income, the sale of a machine used in a business may require classification even by a cash-basis taxpayer into three different parts: return of basis, which is not taxable; recapture of depreciation, which is taxable as ordinary income; and the excess of the proceeds over the foregoing, which is classified as capital gain. Under a cash-flow approach, none of these distinctions matters. Money in is income, whatever the source.
The same holds true on the expenditure side. The present tax law asks if payment is interest and therefore deductible, or a dividend and nondeductible. Answering this question involves reference to many factors that indicate, somewhat uncertainly at best, whether money made available to the corporation by investors should be classified as debt or equity. Again the present law asks even of a cash-basis taxpayer: Does the asset that you have bought with your expenditure have a limited life so that it can be "expensed," or does it have a longer life so that its cost cannot be deducted from current income but must be recovered over its anticipated useful life through the depreciation deduction? If the answer is capitalization and depreciation, then the taxpayer must decide what the anticipated useful life is, what the probable salvage vnlue is, and what type of depreciation deduction is best.
The cash-flow tax does not take into account what the nature of an expenditure may be. Dividends and interest, loan repayments and stock redemptions, current expenditures and the cost of capital items are all deductible. The elimination of these complexities is such an enormous proposition that we might well go back to the one-page return with which the income tax began about 70 years ago.
Won't the cash-flow tax involve its own definitions and complexities? Probably yes, but to so much smaller a degree than the present income tax that the difference is not one of degree but one of kind. Thus "cash" will have to be defined to include such items as marketable securities and other passive investments, so that a business with a cash surplus at the end of the year cannot avoid tax by investing it in shares of AT&T. Further, a business may wish to spend some of the money it has received not immediately but rather over a period extending longer than the current year. This cash should not give rise to tax and, therefore, the law would have to provide a reserve for future business needs. Finally, if the tax treatment for small business is more favorable than for large, some may be tempted to divide existing large businesses into several parts. Therefore, rules would have to be established under which corporations under common ownership would be aggregated.
Each of these points involves some complexity. But each of these issues already exists under current law. We already have provisions dealing with passive investments, reserves for reasonable business needs, and the aggregation of corporations under common ownership. So while in these three areas some definitions would be needed even for a cashflow tax, this merely involves continuation of present rules. In all other areas the complexities would be eliminated.
While simplicity is the greatest merit of the cash-flow tax, its economic benefits should not be overlooked. These derive from the fact that the tax is better attuned to ability to pay. The payment of taxes requires not income but money; and so it is money that, generally speaking, determines ability to pay. An income tax taxes a profitable business even though it has invested all of its funds in the business; a cash-flow tax waits until cash is available and so does not interfere with expansion plans. The present law permits deductions on the basis of borrowed money by permitting depreciation deductions long before any money is actually invested by the owner, and therefore opens the door to abusive tax shelters. The cash-flow tax looks to the cash situation of the borrower. When the borrower's ability to pay tax is reduced by the need to pay off the debt incurred to buy the property, then tax relief is given.
One last question should be answered: What will the conversion to the cashflow tax cost the Treasury? In the first place, as just noted with respect to tax shelters, the cash-flow tax does not mean tax reduction for all, only for those who spend their money in the conduct of their business. In the second place, the impact of the cash-flow tax will depend on how we define the small business corporation that would be entitled to compute its tax liability on the cash-flow basis. The statistics indicate that the line could be drawn generously without risking any substantial loss in revenue. Roughly 2.6 million corporate income tax returns are filed each year. Of these, 1.4 million, or more than half, are filed by corporations having less than $100,000 in assets. These corporations as a group produce less than 1% of the total corporate income tax collection. Therefore, even if the cash-flow tax exempted these corporations entirely, which it would not do, the revenue loss would not be significant. Indeed, exempting these small corporations frorn the income tax would permit the Internal Revenue Service to concentrate on the top 0.1% of all corporations that now account for slightly more than half of all eorporate tax revenue. As a result, total tax collections might well increase.
To finish where I began: Small business cannot hope to have the relief frora the complexities and burdens of the present income tax by tinkering with what we now have, by patching once again thricepatched patches. What it must do is persuade Congress and the Administration to make a new beginning, to have a system appropriate to the financial and administrative ability of small business. A cash-flow tax fills the bill.


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Joey Ramone if he was a girl that grew up in LA and had a bottle of Absolute for a mom.
20, 20, 20-four hours ago… I used to be a lady.
Stems.. in the bushes I mean
done in one.
"Hey Pete! Pete Wentz!"
In every picture of a tree near a bush there is always Luke Walton holding multiple cups of coffee and saying it all with his 4 inch S&M heels.
Somebody get that fatty a gastric bypass STAT!
Michael Cera is in the stupidest movies.
Wonder if she went with the low-cal latte.
Justin Long looks like shit!
Why is Prince Valiant wearing a bra?
10 time Star Search winner, Geechy Guy!
She is to women what Bieber is to men…
Because she has almost a billion dollars and is wanted by the other sex…. what a terrible comparison.
Who the fuck has almost a billion dollars? She has about $5 dollars to her name and Bieber certainly does not even have a tenth of a billion dollars. You must be one of his retarded 15 year old fans.
I'm surprised she can actually carry that week's worth of groceries.
Why so many pics of Zachary Quinto?
At least clean the cum off the pants after the director blows all over you during your audition.
I've heard of skinny jeans, but I didn't know they also came in emaciated.
That's a size -2
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Ali: Ali
Barista: Alan?
Ali: No, Ali.
Barista: Alan?
Ali: No, Ali!
Barista: *pours steamed soy milk into eyes*
I think she looks fucking great. The face doesn't look like her at all but then that's an improvement over the "angry face" she's always wearing. You know the one I mean with the furrowed brow.
Actually, looking a little closer, her face looks like Davy Jones in his prime. Check that out. Davy Jones.
Initially thought *it* was a dude walking on stilts. *It* still looks better than her sister.
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What is the best building of the past 50 years?
The Barcelona pavilion is a decade too old, so for similar and yet slightly different reasons, it's the Farnsworth House because of the way its interior connects with the outside. It's a powerful intervention in a wonderful natural setting.And also because of the clarity of its layout. It's just a truly modern space. I visited it the same afternoon that I went to see a Bruce Goff house, circular steel frame, rope and a coal wall with coloured glass windows cast into it.
What is the most significant innovation of the past 50 years?
Double curvature cladding.
Computer design and manufacture has given us the freedom to produce more interesting building shapes. We are getting close to it but there's still far too much craftsmanship involved. It's still closer to, say, boat building.Although we can do it, it's still too expensive. So, more precisely, it's affordable double curvature cladding.
What is the best building product of the past 50 years?
I've had difficulty with this but I'd say glass. It has gone through a number of developments over the years although it's not there yet.What I'm interested in is intelligent glass and the possibility of such things as zero U-value glass. And then you think of photovoltaic cells which are bound up with the idea of glazing and then the way buildings could be powered.
What innovation do you hope to see in the next 50 years?
I would like to see buildings which respond not only to our physical needs but our moods. Physically responsive buildings are almost within our grasp but there's still a way to go to achieving any qualities of uplift or calming down - all available in the one building.
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Before I went on leave I topped up the milk container with water out of the tap for a laugh.
What gets me is, everyone goes on about the terrorists did this, the terrorists did that, blah, blah, blah, but nobody ever mentions how they completely fucked up my prank.
It would have been hilarious when Audrey went to have her lunchtime glass of milk.
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Monster; thanks for the digging and sharing your findings and thoughts here. Honestly, I haven't done much digging myself as I'm of the opinion that there's not much pertinent material to be had at the moment. I'm a shareholder largely because I believe in the business model and until management gets all the pieces of the business plan in place, frankly there's not much to discuss. It goes without saying that todays news regading financing for micro loan and the remittance business is of upmost importance. Without these two pieces, what's the value of this business? Others may disagree, but for me, not very much. So, again we wait to see if management can get it all together and hope that the stated schedule of closings has some sticking power. GLTA
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DENVER, Colo. (AP) - The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling siding with Democrats in a fight over Congressional redistricting that could give them a chance of unseating Republican Mike Coffman.
The court issued the final word in the redistricting battle on Monday.
The ruling upholds a decision from Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt in favor of changing Coffman's district by moving Republican-leaning portions of Douglas County into the Eastern Plains seat held by Republican Representative Corey Gardner. The map also puts the city of Aurora entirely in Coffman's seat, instead of being split between two districts
The GOP has held Coffman's 6th district since it was created after the 1980 election.
Republicans argued the Democratic map made unreasonable changes to make more races competitive.
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T-Mobile has announced an unlimited cellular plan to compete with similar offerings by AT&T and Verizon, both of which have already unveiled similar plans. The $100 monthly plan brings T-Mobile up to speed by offering its customers unlimited calling in the US, including roaming and long distance. Unlike the rival plans, the newest addition also includes text messaging without requiring an extension. T-Mobile offers the plan to customers for most of its phones as of Thursday.


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Coming home this time from my Boston trip is different, I have "A" with me and she is labelled as a graduate, and yes I am proud of my one and only. She also is labelled unemployed for now and I'm sure she will find a job that she will enjoy.. at Boston Logan Airport I ran into a young lady I had coached volleyball/basketball while she was in High School and she just attended her sisters graduation. She asked why "A" is going home so early and I said it's about time then she said NO, she should stay for as long as she can. There is nothing to come back to in Kuwait. I said of course there is .
Kuwait is booming at the moment, but is it booming in the right direction? We have a large number of graduates each year ready to enter the work force. Out of that percentage how many achieve their goals and dreams? How many are able to make a difference? How many will want to wake up and say yes I'm ready to go to work with a smile and eager to be honest and give it their best….
I have the answer, but I promised myself that this blog is one of optimism, one that will encourage others to move forward and make a difference, it's all about how you see things. One thing for sure.. keep those fresh graduates ideas and hopes running, because they are our hope to make a MAJOR difference in a country where it is MUCH needed…
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A lot of this merch is being marketed to young women. The impulse is to accessorize, as if the power of the conqueror could be worn as a talisman. That has always been true for men. Every military victory spawns a new male look. We owe the crew cut to World War II, and this time, it's microfibermania. The current Men's Journal tells its readers how to arrange these fabrics in seven formidable layers, just like the troops! This style requires a clean-cut mien, so watch for playa 'tude to lose its currency at the mall. The soldier stud doesn't bash women; he liberates them. And he doesn't take offense if they dabble in khaki.
Babes in battle gear are a fitting tribute to the women who fought on the front lines. The image of the fighting female is being presented as a victory for feminism. It might be if women were allowed to command men in combat, but that doesn't even happen at brokerage houses. So what does it mean when girls look hot in camo? One possibility: they have access to the phallus (and I'm not talking about blowjobs). What if the phallus isn't a penis? There's a French theory about this, so feel free to boycott it. But what if the phallus is a force that impinges on space—and other people? Anyone can possess that sort of dick, and once you do, you're fully equipped to get a T rush. Now the eagle soars for everyone, his wings immense, his beak erect. Horny days are here again, for better or worse.
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We put our patients first. Our doctors have over 80 years of combined experience treating patients with a seasoned, compassionate bedside manner. It is our sense of caring for each patient's individual needs that sets us apart. Our staff gets to know each patient's unique situation and then works on a personal level to ensure they experience speedy and sustaining relief.
Diagnosis is our priority for patients suffering from a variety of conditions. BACAS combines state-of-the-art techniques and technologies to successfully identify the "true-source" of pain, and then provide the appropriate, proven treatment necessary. Once we are satisfied with the diagnosis, we take the time to carefully explain each facet of our findings so that our patients may better understand what is causing their problem. The BACAS staff goes through extensive training in advanced pain management to ensure that each patient receives the most innovative treatment strategies aimed at not only managing pain, but eliminating it.
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Your Doctor Treats the Disease. BACAS Treats the Patient.
Improve your quality of life. Pain can come from many sources: disease, physiological exertion, inflammation, nutritional deficiency or injury. Pain that persists over a long period of time, known as chronic pain, can result from an untreated medical condition, unidentified injury or disease. This type of pain may be worsened by environmental and psychological factors, and can be difficult to treat. Most pain can usually be diagnosed and successfully treated within a relatively short period of time.
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This Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo provided by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office shows Charles Larkin Cowart. Cowart, 29, was arrested Monday after he led police on a half-hour chase through the city of Bunnell, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville, while intoxicated and riding a horse, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Flagler County Sheriff's Office) / AP
BUNNELL, Fla. A man who police say was drunk while riding his horse through a northeast Florida town is now in jail after a police chase.
Flagler County jail records show 29-year-old Charles Cowart was arrested Monday. Hes being held on $7,000 bond on charges that include disorderly conduct, resisting arrest without violence and cruelty to animals.
A message was left Tuesday at phone listing for Cowart in Bunnell, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville.
According to a charging affidavit, officers responded to a report of an intoxicated male riding a horse and found Cowart riding over railroad tracks. He told officers he was headed to his grandmothers house and ignored orders to get off the horse. He took off and police chased him for more than a half-hour.


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New Art Exhibit Begins MondayBy Logan Carpenter | February 6th, 2014 | Category: Arts and Entertainment | No Comments »
Glenville State College will be hosting a new art show that will be featuring great artworks of Jason Kiley and Nik Botkin and everyone is invited to view the amazing works of these two artists. The exhibit will begin next week, running from February 10 to March 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with a reception of the works on February 17 from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Refreshments will be provided during the reception and everyone is welcome to check out the ceramics and paintings provided. For more information you can contact Liza Brenner at the Fine Arts Center or check out the websites of Jason Kiley at https://www.facebook.com/OneEyedCatCrafts and Nik Botkin at http://www.apartmentearth.net/.


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MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced sponsorship of the GSA European Executive Forum and the ChipEx 2012 conferences. TowerJazz is a gold sponsor at the GSA event on May 8-9 in Geneva, Switzerland and will exclusively sponsor the Israeli Executive Summit event at ChipEx 2012 where Dr. Itzhak Edrei, TowerJazz President will present a keynote speech on May 1st in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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As the worldwide market leader in specialty foundry process technologies, TowerJazz focuses on multiple geographic regions and offers global sourcing on three continents. TowerJazz provides a broad range of process and IP offerings in power management, CMOS image sensors, RF and high performance analog technologies as well as process transfer optimization services. As the only pure-play foundry in Israel, TowerJazz maintains a strong local presence and operates two local manufacturing facilities that provide sourcing for companies worldwide. The headquarters' close proximity to Europe allows TowerJazz to facilitate strong customer support and onsite technical assistance where needed.
"We are proud to be a gold sponsor of the GSA event as the European market is important to us. With our headquarters located in Israel, we are in close proximity to our European customers and we continue to increase market share in this region. I am also pleased to provide a keynote at the Israeli Executive Summit at ChipEx 2012 in Tel-Aviv, for which TowerJazz is the exclusive sponsor. I look forward to sharing our advancements and new initiatives on our specialty process technologies with the leading companies attending this conference," said Dr. Itzhak Edrei, President, TowerJazz.
TowerJazz will exhibit at the GSA European Executive Forum on May 8-9 in Geneva, Switzerland, at booth #8. For more information, please contact Franz Riedlberger, TowerJazz Director of Sales and Marketing in Europe at email@example.com.
At the ChipEx 2012 conference on May 1-2 in Tel Aviv, Israel, TowerJazz will exhibit at booth #19. For more information, please contact Oded Harel, TowerJazz Director of Sales and Marketing in Israel, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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When we redesigned our site this fall we simplified our product offerings. One of the things I liked best about this was our choice to make FavePersonal a freely available theme.
I'm a big fan of owning your own online identity and owning your content. I believe that WordPress is a great tool for this, which is one of the reasons I've used it and supported it for the last decade. My personal site (alexking.org) is powered by WordPress, and it is my home on the web.
I blog there, I post photos and status updates, I have a list of my projects, and I point people there when they ask where they can find me or learn more about me. And I've been blogging there since 2002, so there is plenty of interesting stuff to find there.
However, my site is not an island. I have integrations with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (via Flickr), Pinboard, and GitHub. My site is my home, but I love interacting with my friends in these other communities.
When I began planning out the FavePersonal theme with our great designers, I did so with a few goals in mind.
- A personal home on the web for folks who want to own their data
- A design that encourages a more casual relationship (encourage you to post more frequently)
- Integrations with the greater social web
- Clean, readable, mobile and reader friendly design
- Designed for search/direct link traffic
Let's look at how we tried to achieve each of these.
Colors and Post Formats
One of the first thing we wanted to do was make it easy for people to change the colors to personalize their site (to better reflect themselves). We initially had an integration with Adobe Kuler to power the color swatches, but switched that to COLOURlovers to remove the API key restriction. It's a great feature, simply browse or search for color combinations you like, then preview and apply them to your site.
In order to make it comfortable to post more frequently, we wanted to make it easy to put up shorter form content and media as well as longer posts. We created our Post Formats Admin UI to create a customized posting experience for status posts, link posts, photos, galleries, videos, and quotes.
We also made sure that the output of each of these formats was tailored appropriately for desktop, mobile, and even RSS feeds.
Integrations and the Social Plugin
Your FavePersonal-powered site can display all the stuff you post to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr – all on a site that you own and control. But if you're not posting to those communities, you're not getting any of the benefits they provide. You shouldn't have to give up anything when owning your content, and FavePersonal is built with that in mind.
The integrated Social plugin does a ton of cool integration work for us. It both sends to Facebook and Twitter, and pulls back responses and stores them on your site.
Everything is sent to Twitter as a standard Tweet, but you can use the Twitter Cards plugin to customize the appearance of your content on Twitter. When broadcasting to Facebook, care is taken about the format of the content being sent. Status posts are sent as status updates, photos as sent as photos, videos as videos, and the rest as links back to your site. You can also use the WordPress Plugin API to customize exactly what is sent and how.
The broadcasting is really only part of the story. The integration with likes and comments on Facebook and with retweets and replies on Twitter is where things get really interesting. Those social reactions are brought back to your site as WordPress comments, and are displayed appropriately on your site.
It's a true two-way integration. You can have someone reply to you on Twitter, have that tweet imported back to your site as a comment, then have someone reply to that comment on your site and broadcast back as a reply on Twitter. What? Yes, really!
The same thing happens with Facebook comments, there is an option for each commenter to broadcast their comment back to the Facebook thread or to send it to Twitter.
I've found it to be really cool to have the discussion from Facebook/Twitter archived with the post on my own site. Instead of being lost into the ether as it scrolls through the stream, it's there and available to people who visit the post in the future.
I've also created integrations on my site with Pinboard, Flickr (supporting Instagram), and GitHub. I'll talk more about these and how you can do the same in a future post.
Featured Posts and the Bio Box
These days it's rare for people to land on your home page then navigate to your content. Thinking about your site design with each page as a target landing page is a better approach. That's what we did, and we came up with a few things we thought were important to include on every page:
- a context of what this site is/who the author is
- (optional) callouts to a few other things on the site that might be of interest
The ability to feature posts also helps encourage more casual posting (y'know, using your site more!). You don't have to worry about less important posts bumping more important posts down where they might be overlooked. Keep them up top as long as you like, or turn off the featured posts feature altogether. FavePersonal gives you a lot of flexibility.
Clean, Readable, Mobile-friendly Design
Above all, your website should be a place where people feel comfortable reading and want to hang out for a bit. We took care to design the presentation of content in a straightforward, reader-friendly format that adapts elegantly to mobile devices. Phone, tablet and desktop views are optimized with the reader in mind.
Are you thinking about how you can own your online identity in 2014? Give WordPress and FavePersonal a try. I think you'll like it. And look for a few follow-up posts here where we'll discuss how to further customize FavePersonal.


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