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Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 11:14 a.m.
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Santa Fe pitcher Kirby Snead realized a dream Wednesday morning when he signed and faxed his national letter of intent to the University of Florida.
The 6-foot-1, 175-pound left-hander, who verbally committed to the Gators and coach Kevin O'Sullivan in July of 2011, was a first-team all-area selection last season. He was 5-2 as a junior last spring with a 1.52 ERA, striking out 68 batters in 59.1 innings pitched.
"It just shows that hard works pays off, now that it is here and official this is everything that I have dreamed of," Snead said. "Playing for UF was a dream and it would be cool to do that and now that I can, it is a wonderful feeling.
"I have wanted to play for UF since I was five years old when I started playing baseball."
Snead is the second Santa Fe baseball player in recent years to sign with Florida. Former Raiders star Avery Barnes suited up for the Gators from 2006-2009.
Last season, Snead pitched Santa Fe to its first regional playoff victory since 2003. He threw six shutout innings in the Raiders' 5-0 win over Ocala Trinity Catholic in a Class 4A, Region 2 quarterfinal.
Snead's fastball has been clocked between 85-89 mph and he said his change-up is his best pitch. Raiders pitching coach John Pricher has been told by the UF coaching staff that they see him as a reliever to begin his career, according to Snead.
"As long as I am wearing the hat with the "F" on it and playing every day and just being out there that is all I need no matter what it is," said Snead, who plays travel ball for Gatorball Baseball Academy. "I am excited to be a part of the Gator Nation."
Although he is signed, Snead could be selected in June's MLB Draft. Snead said that playing in the majors is also a dream of his and that there are a couple of scouts who have taken an interest in him.
"My only concern right now is to finish this senior season and roll into UF," Snead said. "My intention is to play for UF."
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QuestionHere in Maine, the residents are caught in a rising tax base, increased insurance base and way high fuel costs for gas and heating fuel. My question is, Those of us who have a mortgage and have had a tax and insurance increase that effects the mortgage due to the escrow amount needed to pay taxes and insurance, How do we keep the mortgage monthly ammount at a reasonable limit so that we don''t loose the house and property.?
Unfortunately, many people are seeing increases in their fixed costs (such as property taxes) rise faster than their income. Fighting against this squeeze may require you to audit your expenses to see if any cuts are possible. For instance, if your current mortgage has a higher interest rate than what is currently available, you might be able to achieve some savings by refinancing your existing mortgage at a lower rate. Also, you might want to obtain some competitive quotes on your homeowners insurance to see if you might be able to save some money by changing companies or changing your coverage. But keep in mind that if you change your insurance coverage, you might lose coverage for some risks that are now insured. Make sure that you understand what insurance coverage you have and that you are comfortable with that. Finally, it makes sense to review all of your other expenses to look for ways to economize so that you can make your income stretch through these difficult times.
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A recent study shows less than half of Canadian taxpayers understand how their investments are taxed. While I know that this statistic is much too low when it comes to you well-informed Dollars and Sense readers, perhaps a quick review is still in order.
Here are the basics for investment income earned on non-registered investment accounts. This is money outside of RRSP, RRIF, TFSA or other registered accounts.
Interest income is paid on savings and deposit accounts, GICs, bonds and other fixed-income investments. It will also be paid to you by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on your tax refund, if they take as long to process as they have mine.
Interest is taxed at your top marginal tax rate (MTR). For example, if your taxable income is between roughly $31,000 and $43,000 after deductions, your MTR is 27.75 per cent in Manitoba. The MTR gets higher as your taxable income rises, maxing out at 46.4 per cent on taxable income above $136,000.
So, $1000 of interest income earned outside of RRSPs or TFSAs could cost you between $277 and $460 of tax.
Capital gains are more complicated, but still easy to understand. There is no tax on unrealized capital gains. As long as you continue to own "capital property" without selling it, no gain is realized and no gain is reported on your return.
(The exception might be a "deemed disposition," where CRA deems you have sold).
Capital property includes stocks, mutual funds, real estate (including second residences) or business assets.
When you sell capital property at a profit, only half of that profit must be included in income. Therefore, the tax on realized capital gains is exactly half the amount of tax on interest income of the same amount.
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This ability to carry back capital losses can be very useful, and quite gratifying when you recover taxes you thought were gone forever. We spend a lot of time every November reviewing clients' accounts for realized and unrealized gains and reviewing their history of claims to take full advantage of the opportunities available.
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The rate for eligible dividends in the first tax bracket is about 6.5 per cent, versus the 27.75 per cent applied to interest income. At the very top rate, dividends are taxed at 32 per cent versus 46 per cent for interest income.
The gross-up and inclusion rates for private corporations have changed in 2014, to 18 per cent and 13/18 of the grossed-up amount, respectively, so please take note if you are the owner of a small business corporation.
Knowing how investments are taxed can help you minimize your tax bill for a given amount of investment income, consistent with your personal risk tolerance and asset mix. A good basic to remember is to shelter interest income inside your RRSP, RRIF, TFSA or other registered account.
For even more fun, review your income tax return line by line to see how much tax you actually paid on investment income. It could be an eye-opener.
Dollars and Sense is meant as an introduction to this topic and should not in any way be construed as a replacement for personalized professional advice.
David Christianson, BA, CFP, R.F.P., TEP, CIM is a financial planner and adviser with Christianson Wealth Advisors, a vice-president with National Bank Financial Wealth Management, and author of the book Managing the Bull, A No-Nonsense Guide to Personal Finance.


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After the deployed soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, based in Shropshire, helped map and reach the county's vulnerable people and communities, the Worcestershire Silver Tactical Co-ordinating group decided it was time to scale back their duties.
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By Dr. Jan Meyer
Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:26 AM
Hyatt and Marge King sit on the patio adjacent to their backyard wonderland, filled with beautiful plants and flowers, that they have created in their Lanesboro backyard.
From the street, Marge and Hyatt King's residence on South Parkway Avenue in Lanesboro is a non-assuming bungalow-style structure with a postage-stamp-sized front yard, making up for its size with beautiful flowers and plants. But a walk through the house and into the backyard provides a surprise as big as entering the original "Secret Garden" (1926, by Frances Hodgson Bernett). First-time visitors are always amazed. What awaits them is both beautifully-tended flower beds and yard, and an outdoor museum of antique hand implements.
When the Kings acquired the home that had belonged to Marge's mother in her retirement, several factors were in play for the yard: low maintenance and a lot of color. After all, they are part-timers in Lanesboro, spending the winter months in Texas and the summer months here.
Because they usually come to Minnesota after the Memorial Day weekend each year, they are not here when the rest of Minnesota is busily cleaning up the detritus of winter and getting the beds ready for planting. Instead, their Lanesboro front yard, seemingly without human effort, provides a beautifully colorful array of tulips and other early bloomers for the enjoyment of people walking or driving by "on the Avenue."
When one type of flora is done blooming, it is quickly followed by another profusion of color, causing passersby to ask, "How do they do it when they are not here?" And that is just the front yard.
Marge King doesn't claim to be a talented gardener; nor does she or Hyatt spend an inordinate amount of time working on the yard and garden. Instead, they put in plants they like and scout garden stores for bargains to add to the mix.
It is her philosophy that "Plants don't ask for much, just a little talking to, a little water, feeding a couple of times a year, and then what will be will be."
Since they arrive just in time for what could be called "high season for watering," that quickly becomes a high priority. When asked how much time they spend at keeping the garden and yard as beautiful as they are, she replied, "As much as it takes, and we weed as little as possible."
Of course, on their arrival each year, it is catch-up time, because weeds have had their way while the Kings are gone. So weed-pulling is their first garden chore, followed closely by putting in annual edging plants such as petunias.
Snapdragons, usually considered an annual, "volunteer" in both the flower gardens and in the walkway cracks, adding a surprise splash of color. Those self-seeded snapdragons are a little later in blooming than if they were put in as seedling plants, so they tend also to be the last to give up in the fall, providing cheeriness right up to the first frost.
She describes all of the color as "pleasant, and it's great being able to appreciate it right in my backyard."
Color is a factor because in their Dallas home, they have very few flowers. In the Lanesboro yard, pink is the dominant color. This is partly because her mother loved pink, and it was, after all, her mother's house until she died in 1992.
Her mother had a lot of hollyhocks, but when her health deteriorated, she was not able to do a lot in the yard, so not many of those have survived. However, there are still peonies, lilacs, raspberry bushes and rhubarb plants left from her mother's days.
The lilies were from the legendary Carl John's yard and those too, are early bloomers.
The Kings' most favorite of the plants, in both front and backyards and at their Texas home, are "Knockout Roses." She discovered them in Dallas and has had them there for five years; they liked these so much that they decided to try them in this northern climate. They have done equally well here.
These roses are ideal for the Kings' requirements: they are heat tolerant and can survive a lack of rain. No deadheading is required, they give a lot of color, and are very hardy. They have been termed the most maintenance-free rose. The Knockouts do love mulch, she said, because that keeps moisture where it is needed.
As if a gorgeously landscaped garden and pathway is not enough, this backyard is also an outdoor museum. In what Marge described as their "auctioning days," they purchased a lot of antique farm hand tools and implements. Then, as it is with a lot of auction lovers, they didn't know what to do with them after they realized they had acquired so many.
Because they have always had dogs, they have also always had a fenced-in backyard. So, the fence became the perfect backdrop, the place to attractively display all of those tools.
The result is a great conversation piece. After admiring the flowers and yard, inevitably the conversation among guests enjoying the back deck will turn to the obviously-old and rusted farm tools.
Recently, their Dallas next-door-neighbors were visiting, and predictably, the discussion evolved into identifying what these old implements were used for on the farm. Because the Dallas guests were Iowa-farm-born-and-bred, this was a fairly easy task for them. In fact, one of the visitors was only stumped by one of the artifacts; he vowed to find out what it was before he visits again.
The garden of the Kings is not really a secret, but it is always a surprise for first-time visitors. It's a great local example of what creativity and a real need for and dedication to low maintenance can achieve. Along with, of course, a lot of antique hand tools needing a home.
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text: Story updated with confirmation of the layoff numbers.NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Morgan Stanley ( MS) will cut 1,600 jobs from its investment bank in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter confirmed to TheStreet on Wednesday. The cuts amount to 6% of the total workforce within its institutional securities group and infrastructure support. About half of the cuts will be in the U.S. The layoffs will be across the board, though there will be a focus on senior employees. The downsizing effort is in addition to layoffs announced last year, when the bank reduced its staff by 7%. Banks are continuing to slash jobs as they focus on expenses in a lackluster revenue environment. Citigroup ( C) notably said it would lay off 11,000 workers or 4% of its workforce, in an early move by new CEO Michael Corbat to improve efficiencies in the business. Bank of America ( BAC) is in the midst of a cost-cutting plan that involves laying off 30,000 workers. Analysts have welcomed banks' efforts to reduce expenses, evidenced by the slew of buy calls on Citigroup following its layoff announcement. Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has himself been a critic of Wall Street's hefty compensation packages and has warned employees that the days of excessive pay are over. Shares of Morgan Stanley were off by 0.3%. --Written by Shanthi Bharatwaj in New York >To contact the writer of this article, click here: Shanthi Bharatwaj. >To follow the writer on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/shavenk. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: email@example.com.


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• June 12, 1994: The bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are found outside her condo in Brentwood. They had been knifed to death.
• June 17, 1994: Instead of turning himself in, O.J. Simpson goes on a slow-speed chase in a white Ford Bronco, driven by friend Al Cowlings. The 90-minute chase spans 60 miles on L.A. freeways and is seen live on television by more than 90 million people.
Simpson is charged with double murder and the trial — dubbed the Trial of the Century — lasts nine months.
• Oct. 3, 1995: Simpson is acquitted.
• Feb. 5, 1997: A civil jury awards the Brown and Goldman families $33.5 million in wrongful death damages.
• September 2007: Simpson stages a hotel-room stickup in Las Vegas to retrieve some of his memorabilia from dealers.
He is sentenced to 33 years for armed robbery and kidnapping and must serve a minimum of nine years before being eligible for parole.
Simpson, 66, is serving his sentence in Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada.
Off in the distance the steady drone of helicopters grew louder by the second.
On the ground outside Parker Center, I began to count. How many? Was it 10? Twelve?
It seemed significant then. They circled above at different speeds and altitudes.
No one remembers or cares now. Using a pen and my third reporter's notebook of the day, I documented what I saw.
I didn't need to. I would never forget Friday, June 17, 1994.
A long week
On Monday of that week I had been assigned to write about the murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The pair had been slashed to death outside her Bundy Drive apartment on the Westside. I arrived after the bodies had been removed. Most of the police tape had been taken down. I made my way up the narrow walkway. The metallic smell of blood was still strong, and I noticed that there was still splotches of it on the pavement.
O.J. Simpson
Brutal. I couldn't shake the sight or the smell of the blood.
No one said it aloud, but it was clear from the start that O.J. Simpson — Heisman Trophy winner, NFL legend, TV star, celebrity — was the one and only suspect.
I drove over to O.J.'s house on Rockingham. I found it by following the helicopters. TV vans and satellite trucks lined the street. That was Monday. By Wednesday, it was a three-ring circus outside O.J.'s gated mansion. Radio guys John and Ken shouted over the gate, a man in a van passed out leaflets explaining that the CIA killed John Lennon and Bob Marley. Kooks offered "exclusive insider" information.
Thursday, the day of Nicole's funeral, was worse. I stayed until 10 p.m. and watched Stan Chambers do a stand-up for KTLA. I wanted to make sure I had everything.
Friday morning we heard O.J. would turn himself in. I was at Parker Center for the announcement that had been scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Pretty soon it was noon. Sometime later Cmdr. Dave Gascon mounted a stage inside Parker Center.
He announced that two counts of murder had been filed against the Juice.
"Mr. Simpson, in agreement with his attorney, was scheduled to surrender this morning to the Los Angeles Police Department," Gascon said.
Apparently, O.J. had other plans.
"The Los Angeles Police Department right now is actively searching for Mr. Simpson."
Reporters gasped. We all shouted at once:
"How did you lose him?"
"Is he armed and dangerous?"
Gascon petulantly answered, "We have spoken to (Simpson's lawyer Robert) Shapiro. We've expressed our dismay."
Gascon went on to praise the detectives. He said O.J. received no preferential treatment. He said the entire department was committed to capturing Orenthal James Simpson, "a wanted murder suspect."
It wasn't long before the whole world knew Simpson's whereabouts. He was rolling north on the San Diego Freeway in a white Bronco with his buddy Al Cowlings. On the lawn outside Parker Center, reporters huddled around dozens of video monitors watching the chase and the NBA finals playing out at the same time. Punctuating the surrealness of the situation, CNN and ESPN parked satellite trucks next to each other. It was big news.
About 90 minutes later, O.J.'s longest run had ended. He was in custody.
A few months later, I was one of many backup reporters covering the trial for my news organization. We shared a seat with another newspaper. They got mornings, we had the afternoon. On the days I was in court I would try to figure out what the jury was thinking. One afternoon Robert Shapiro stared me down for 10 or 15 minutes — I don't know why, but it was uncomfortable. I met Geraldo, Katie Couric, Dominic Dunne and Linda Deutsch. I saw and wrote about testimony from Mark Fuhrman, the coroner, a criminalist and a woman who tape recorded Fuhrman using the "N" word, even though he said he hadn't.
The morning O.J's jury came back with its verdict might have been more bizarre than the day he was arrested. Police closed off Temple Street as thousands of people milled outside the courthouse. Two and three deep, camera crews lined both sides of a staircase that led down to the front doors. I walked down the staircase on my way in, thinking about what I would write. Even with all the commotion, there was an eerie silence. I lingered on the stairs. For an instant that spot was the center of the world.
The jury ruled. I filed a story.
In 1997 when another jury ruled in the wrongful death case, I was parked outside Judge Lance Ito's house. He gave me a comment through a tightly sealed security door.
"This case is likely to be before the courts for years to come," he said before closing an inner door.
Unforgettable image
The lingering dusk of a long late spring evening suddenly became twilight.
The helicopters were overhead. Dust kicked up everywhere. A phalanx of unmarked Chevy Caprices came up Temple Avenue and whipped around the back of the building.
Sure as hell, that was O.J. Simpson sitting in the back of one. Wedged in between a couple of cops, he didn't bow down or cover his head. I watched detectives take him out and march him through the back door. I can't remember if he was cuffed or not.
It was the end of a long day and a longer week — and the beginning of a sea change in American culture. News would no longer be that toned-down delicacy dished with polite conversation over dinner; it would become a full-blown 24-hour fast-food commodity served loud, in your face and without apology.
On that late spring evening, no one knew what was in store.
I scored an LAPD mugshot, called in my story from a pay phone in the lobby and promised to drop the mug off on my way home.
My son Alex, who was 6, waited up.
He had one question before bedtime. "Will OJ come here and kill us?"
"Nope, he's locked up for good," I answered before giving him a kiss goodnight.


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YOUNG farmers in Clitheroe are preparing to celebrate their 70th anniversary.
The 140-member group will host a dinner dance to mark the occasion at Mytton Fold Hotel, on April 25.
Around 300 members from the past 70 years of the club will gather at the Ribble Valley hotel to celebrate.
Former National Federation of Young Farmers president Lionel Hill will be guest speaker.
Richard Whitwell, club chairman, said: "It's a fantastic achievement for the club to have been around for 70 years and I really hope that it's around in another 70 years.
"It's one of the best youth organisations going and it really sets you up for adult life. The range of activities, such as debating, gives you a whole range of skills.
"Everyone is looking forward to the big night and it will be great to mark it with former members from throughout the club's history."
The 25-year-old former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil, who lives in Simonstone, is part of a five-strong organising committee for the celebration night.
Meanwhile, the Lancashire Federation of Young Farmers will celebrate their 76th year on Saturday, February 1 at Ferraris Country House in Thornley, Longridge.
County chairman Jess Townson said: "It is wonderful to see so many members keen to be involved within the federation and to come together to celebrate our success.
"Young Farmers is an excellent organisation to encourage members, aged 10 to 26, to come together and learn some excellent skills, which can be put to use in all manners of social and working life."


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Rangers unable to overcome Tepesch's rocky outing
Offense manages just two hits off dealing Feldman
CHICAGO -- Scott Feldman has done things in about a month with the Cubs that he never did in eight years in a Rangers uniform. And now he's doing the damage against his former team.
Feldman, who signed with the Cubs this winter after 204 appearances with Texas, shut down his former squad in Texas' one-day stopover at Wrigley Field. After pitching his first career complete game in his last outing, Feldman allowed just two hits (both singles) in seven shutout innings of a dominant 9-2 win on Monday.
"He can have some good stuff," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "But he was good tonight, as far as our offense was concerned. We couldn't do anything with him."
The righty has allowed two earned runs or less in five consecutive starts for the first time in his career, and became the first Cubs pitcher to throw at least seven innings while allowing three hits or fewer in back-to-back starts since Rich Harden did it Aug. 11 and Aug. 19, 2009.
Feldman was slowed only by a cramp in his right hand, forcing him out of the game just two pitches into the eighth. He now owns a 3-1 record and 1.63 ERA over his last four starts. And he is responsible for halting the first-place Rangers' winning streak at three games.
"I tried to relax out there, but obviously I know a lot of those guys and have a lot of respect for them and had a great seven, eight years over there and made some good friends," Feldman said. "When we're not playing against them, I hope they do good. And on a night like tonight, I'm trying to get them out."
It was an entirely different story for Rangers starter Nick Tepesch, who lost his first decision since April 14. The rookie right-hander allowed at least one baserunner in each of his four innings, and was charged with six runs -- five earned -- on six hits and four walks (one intentional).
Michael Kirkman (one) and Derek Lowe (two) were also charged with runs in Chicago's heaviest run output of the season.
Truth be told, Tepesch didn't receive much help early from his teammates, who committed two errors in the first three innings after entering the game on a season-best seven-game errorless streak. The Rangers offense also mustered just five hits, stringing together two hits and a Cubs error to tack on two runs in the ninth.
But Texas was in a hole early. Catcher Geovany Soto had a throwing error on a David DeJesus stolen base in the first that allowed DeJesus to move to third and eventually score on an Alfonso Soriano groundout to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead.
Chicago poured it on in the fourth, when they batted through the lineup and notched four hits against Tepesch, who also walked two in the inning. Consequently, the key at-bat was against Feldman, who got a fastball with two strikes, two outs and two men on.
"[Tepesch] had Feldman on two breaking balls swinging and that's the one he should have tried to put him away with, not the fastball," Washington said. "And he went at the fastball and Feldman got him."
Said Tepesch: "I just didn't really make a good pitch right there. That was basically it."
Feldman drove in the first run of the inning before Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo each had two-run, two-out singles. Chicago tacked on another with a sixth-inning sacrifice fly and Rizzo laced a two-run line-drive homer to right field off Lowe in the eighth.
The Rangers have lost four of their last five to the Cubs, dating back to May 22, 2010.
"We got a lot of runs, which made it nice and comfortable out there on the mound," Feldman said. "It seemed like every time [the Rangers] hit a ball on the screws, it was right at somebody."
Joey Nowak is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @joeynowak. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A planning application which could result in Truro City's Treyew Road ground becoming a retail park will be submitted to Cornwall Council in the spring, according to club chairman Peter Masters.
In a statement released on Saturday Masters said London-based property developers Helical Bar, who have an option to buy the ground from owners JoJo Investco, had been working alongside the club to draw up the plans.
According to the statement a succesful development could see Truro City "acquire a significant interest in a new ground," with a site at Langarth Farm touted as a possible destination.
Masters said: "Helical are working up their proposals to develop the football club site and land adjacent for a retail park in consultation with ourselves. They are in Pre Application discussions with Cornwall Council as to the size and content of the scheme and hope to submit an application in the spring.
"Prior to submission Helical will consult with all interested parties including a public exhibition in order to receive feedback prior to finalising the design.
"The precise content of the scheme has not yet been released but a successful development will enable the club to acquire a significant interest in a new ground. This could be the stadium site at Langarth Farm but other alternatives are also being considered."
Masters also revealed that Helical Bar are facing competition from rival developers, Jersey-based LXB, for the right to build on land near the city centre.
LXB's plans for a site at Willow Green Farm near Threemilestone include 435 homes, a 60-bed nursing home, a primary school, and a major supermarket.
He added: "Helical will be objecting to the proposals by LXB at Willow Green Farm because they consider this to be far beyond the intentions set out in the planning brief for Threemilestone and beyond the intention of a district centre to serve the local needs.
"Treyew Road is sequentially the nearest available site to the City Centre and will provide space that the City Centre cannot provide. Truro needs this space to attract new retailers to the City to enable it to compete against proposals at St Austell and Hayle.
"Given the position the club found itself in prior to Philip and my intervention we see this as a positive move which will contribute to securing the long term future of Truro City Football Club and ensure that events that threaten our very existence will never be repeated.
"Further updates will be released as matters develop."


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Ricotta "Sundaes" With Gluten-Free Granolaby Amie Valpone in Gluten-Free, February 12, 2013
Instead of curling up with a pint of ice cream while watching a romantic comedy on Valentine's Day, try a lower fat ice cream-alternative instead. This special sundae recipe uses low-fat ricotta cheese to lessen up the calories, while maintaining a creamy taste. Top your "sundae" with crunchy add-ins like KIND Healthy Grains Clusters along with a sprinkle of dried fruit and coconut flakes for a fun, crispy texture. (Save any extra granola and fruit for snacks later on during the week with milk or on top of yogurt.) A sprinkle of dairy-free chocolate makes this sundae gleefully indulgent. So go ahead, dig in all you want.
Ricotta Sundae With Gluten-Free Granola
Serves 2
2 cups low-fat ricotta cheese
1 cup KIND Peanut Butter Gluten-Free Whole Grain Clusters
1/4 cup dried fruit
2 tablespoons. coconut flakes
1/4 cup gluten-free chocolate chips, such as Enjoy Life Foods Gluten-Free Chocolate Chips
Divide ricotta cheese evenly amongst two bowls. Top with granola, dried fruit and coconut flakes. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
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A Wallasey man was among 12 arrested in early morning raids to tackle football hooliganism.
Police carried out synchronised raids at 7am on homes of Liverpool FC supporters involved in a fight in a pub after a Liverpool's home game against West Ham in December.
Chief Superintendent Jon Ward, area commander for north Liverpool, said the operation sends out a powerful message to a small minority of "so-called football fans", intent on becoming involved in violence and disorder, that this type of behaviour in unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
He said: "Today's operation is just the start of our proactive work to target these individuals.
"Over the forthcoming weeks we have a number of operations planned to target those intent on causing trouble around football fixtures in the area.
"You might think you are anonymous in the crowd or in a busy bar and no-one can see your anti-social behaviour and actions but think about it next time because 12 people in custody right now had the same thought.
"In the next few weeks more people can expect to have early morning wake up calls courtesy of my officers.
"For an offence to be considered as being football related it has to be within 24 hours either side of a football match. Distance is irrelevant just as long as we can prove it was football related.
"Successful convictions should result in football banning orders which will mean they will no longer be able to attend games or follow their national side abroad.
"On Merseyside, there are already 70 football banning orders in force, which gives reassurance to those genuine fans and family groups who want to go and watch their local football club in a trouble-free atmosphere."
All 13 men remain in police custody at this time.
The arrests follow an incident in McHales bar on Lime Street after the Liverpool match against West Ham on December 7, when a brawl broke out between a group of Liverpool supporters and Everton fans, who were returning to the city from a gig in Manchester.
The raids are in advance of the derby game between Liverpool and Everton next Tuesday.


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First Bologna Ragazzi digital prize awarded
French publisher eToiles Editions, with an app that "breaks away from the page by page way of thinking won the first ever Bologna Ragazzi Digital Prize, awarded yesterday at the Tools of Change Bologna conference.
Stephane Kiehl's Dans Mon Reve (In My Dream) was praised by judges for being a "beautifully surreal and poetic app" that "leaves space for a child's imagination and provides a setting for collaborative play".
The prize, an offshoot of BolognaRagazzi illustration and design prizes awarded each year at Bologna, is an award for digital innovation. There were 252 entries by 179 publishers from 25 countries.
The judges, which included London-based ifBook's Chris Meade and Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children's Technology Review, also selected two honourable mentions: The Numberlys by Louisiana-based Moonbot Studios, an interactive app about the birth of the alphabet; and Qualm Soto o Pump? (Who Let the Fart Out?) by Sao Paulo' publishers Amendment Editor Schwarz.


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LFSN NCAA Regional Recap
The curtain dropped on the 2014 Liberty Flames baseball season, this past weekend. The Flames, who earned the first at-large selection to a NCAA regional in program history, fell to Arkansas and Bucknell at the Charlottesville, Va. Regional to see their season come to an end.
Liberty finishes the year with a 41-18 mark. Center fielder Ashton Perritt was named to the Charlottesville, Va. Regional All-Tournament team for his play during the weekend.
LFSN's Nick Pierce and Alan York take a look back at this past weekend's regional.


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I don't like this last update it does not realy promote resetting since it goes alot slower now. The speed at wich you where back to your old Cp\S was what made is fun.
So now i don't have a goal to work to. At least not in the short time. Just waiting for the next update now.
Also i think we might need a subforum for browers games. There are so many of these games that are at the very least worth trying.
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In 4 days my life will end. Batman: Arkham Origins, Ace Attorney 5 and Candy Box 2 will all be released at the 24th. D:
I guess I finished arkham city just in time then!
So, any word on when dungeons will be out? I heard they're kinda meh, but I'm kidna bored with the game right now :P
13T CpS with Frenzy. AMC costs 719Q, seems it's time for a reset.
Well, I think I screwed up my game, after I reset now each time I click a golden cookie, it only takes 3 seconds for a new one to spawn, wondering if I should refresh or keep the bug.
Tomorrow, Candy Box 2!
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9 hours to go.
Sorry for posting about an other game than Cookie Clicker, but I'm kinda excited for this.
We should probably open a Candy Box 2 thread tomorrow. xD
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A WOMAN in her 60s was taken to hospital with minor injuries following a crash in Red Lane, Colne, this afternoon.
An air ambulance was scrambled when a black Nissan Micra the woman was driving rolled onto its side, after colliding with a red Vauxhall Agila Club at around 11.45am.
Firefighters from Colne released the woman from the car, before she was taken to Airedale General Hospital by ambulance, suffering from minor injuries.
A fire service spokesman said: "The car was on its side when we arrived. We released the woman from the car, which was still on its side when we left.
The helicopter was not needed.
The road remained closed as of 1pm as recovery staff worked to remove the vehicles from the scene of the accident, which left Red Lane blocked.


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MARK TWAIN SERIES: CBS Radio Mystery Theater produced a total of eleven adaptations from Mark Twain's works for the show; nine were written by Sam Dann with Ian Martin writing only two. [0119] The Real Printer's Devil [0408] Tom Sawyer, Detective [0409] Is He Living or Is He Dead? [0410] The Belated Russian Passport [0411] A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [0412] The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg [0413] The Stolen White Elephant [0414] The Mysterious Stranger [0937] The Dead House [0984] A Curious Experience [1002] The Goddess Caper** The show always tried to kick off each new year of their Anniversary (in early January) with a weeklong series written by the same author, and so Sam Dann wrote episodes 408 through 414 to launch the start of their third season. **1002 was based on "The Legend of the Capitoline Venus"
Mark Main
Quote: "[Wicklow's mind has been turned ... by all those dime novels and sensation-story newspapers about all kinds of dark plots and mysteries; he's always making up all kinds of fables." From the original story: Quote: "It turned out that he was a ravenous devourer of dime novels and sensation-story papers -- therefore, dark mysteries and gaudy heroisms were just in his line." In The Mark Twain Encyclopedia (1993), John H. Davis notes that "scholars generally have dismissed" this story, and "little attention has been given to the story's central themes: the contrast of excessive and empty imagination and the illusionary nature of truth. ... Wicklow's fiction-based illusions provide a case study of a youth's escape from reality," pointing to "a recurring Twainian theme -- romanticism as a threat to social and moral health." In A Companion to Mark Twain (2005), Peter B. Messent notes that this story echoes Twain's friend William Dean Howells' "battle against ... sentimental and dime fiction." "... 'A Curious Experience' ... endorsed much the same message," "... in line with repeated attacks throughout [Twain's] work, from a realist perspective, on fraudulent sentimentality and romance."


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So remember, when I first posted about the Amex Blue Cash, and how I estimated I'd save about $21 a month/ $250 a year in groceries alone? Well, that was pre-December. This was a very, very expensive month for the Bargains family- not the holiday shopping (that was 99% done before Thanksgiving) but we had some unexpected costs incurred :
*Parts to repair our boiler
*Gas costs to haul 11 trailers full of wood chips out of here (Artillery Fungus. You don't want to know what it is, and if you do know, you know what a nightmare it can be).
*Purchase and delivery of 8 tons of gravel to replace the mulch
*Broken television due to power surges (even on the surge protector) which fried the HDMI cable
*Tubing and a few other parts to repair front loading washing machine, plus extra $ spent to heat more water because when the washer broke, a load was stuck in there for 3 days (iew, iew iew!)
*Our 14.5 year old kitty fell very ill out of the blue and while we rushed her to the vet, there wasn't anything that could be done
*Before I knew of all the surprises December had in store for us, I'd finally taken my mom's wedding band out of her jewelry box after 2.5 years of not being able to deal with the emotions, and brought it to my jeweler to be melted into a band that would fit me (she had super tiny fingers and I do not) and I could weld onto my engagement ring.
All of this was in addition to the normal holiday "groceries" which always cost a bit more, and extra gas monies from travelling to see friends and family we don't always see. All of this added up quickly, as I'm sure you can imagine. Doing a quick calculation, had we used a Blue Cash card, we'd be getting about $47.00 back from December. While not a huge amount, that's almost a tank of gas, almost half an electric bill…not just "pennies" back- and it's money we had to spend (we put everything possible onto our credit card and pay it off in full each month) anyway, especially the surprise costs.
I think we'll be taking a bit of time to contemplate the Blue Cash and Blue Cash Preferred programs when we're looking at our finances next- I think these programs have some great benefits for consumers!
Speaking of Amex Blue Cash, I wonder how winner Rachel S will be spending her $300 Amex Gift Card????????? CONGRATS Rachel!! I am fairly certain we'll be working with Amex again in 2012 so hopefully we can bring more of you some cash giveaways!!
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I remember a good few years ago when the word on the street was that you should have your content above you navigation in your HTML (regardless of how it lays out on screen). I don't hear that said anymore. Is it something that now doesn't matter?
It depends... of course!
The most important factor IMHO is accessibility and how people using assistive devices navigate around the site.
The vast majority of sites have primary navigation above the content so people using screen readers are used to that - they can skip past it to find page headings and navigate the content from there. If you wanted navigation at the bottom of the HTML then providing "skiplinks" would be useful!
I'm curious: How does this tie into internet marketing?
It used to be advocated as a technique for SEO, on the basis that the higher up the page your actual content appeared, the better it was likely to rank in search engines. I believe that back in the dark ages, search engines only read so many lines/characters per page.
So is this not a thing anymore? Like I said I've not heard it mentioned in a while.
Not as far as I know - certainly not with the major search engines. (If you want to try a quick test, do a Google search for the text of the last post of page 1 in this thread. It's a very lengthy page, but the post at the bottom had been indexed.)
I am leading a SEO agency here and i assure you that such a technique is not used anymore. Make sure your website is clean, clear and easy to navigate and don't worry about those useless hacks.
Cool. It sounded like a pain in the backside to implement anyway!
this type of tactic falls under the minutia category. I certainly wouldn't rewrite the website's code just so the content appears in a certain place in the markup
The latest redesign of my site just happened to end up with the content first, the sidebar second and the navigation last. Just the way it ended up - I didn't plan to set it out that way.
I used to allocate a blank header at the top of the page and after the "golden content" loaded use "position: absolute" to fill in the blank header. from memory there were slight problems with mobile responsive design so dropped the idea.
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I often wish that life was as simple as it is digitally.
Hit the delete button, erase or simply cut something out.
Try in someway to forget, but life doesn't work that way.
and to be honest I'm pretty glad it doesn't.
The other day I was walking to the train to go to the dentist and I heard this song for the first time in years.
This is fact not fiction, for the first time in years ….hmmm
Relating to art for myself I can say that… but I still find it hard to put the pen to paper with paint.
There is a huge amount of inspiration and thought going through my head, but now that the feelings are real again, I don't know what to do with them…
I used to record all the art I made, mainly because I forget how I did it…
I have an incredible lack of confidence right now when it comes to painting, but an incredible amount of confidence with it comes to a lot of other things in my life.. trying to make sense of it all, fuck this shit isn't easy.
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Sutton has the third-fastest selling houses in the country, according to new figures.
A house in Sutton takes an average of just 29 days to sell, according to property giant Rightmove.
The statistic makes Sutton the third fastest place in the country when it comes to selling houses, behind Cambridge and Lewisham.
The rate that houses in Sutton are selling is speeding up too - last year it took an average of 48 days for a house to go from being listed to being sold subject to contract.
Miles Shipside, Rightmove's market analyst, said: "Our study looks at the average time from first listing, to being confident enough in the buyer's ability to proceed, to actually mark it up as sold subject to contract.
"So although some sellers might find a potential buyer in a few days, the averages reflect the time taken to carry out thorough checks to minimise the risk of the sale falling through.
"People shouldn't be disheartened if their property has been on the market before a sale is agreed for longer than the time shown, but if it's been on a lot longer they should ask themselves and their agent if there is a different tactic they could try to help garner more interest in the property."
Wales has some of the slowest-selling properties with houses in Powys taking an average of 113 days to sell.


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Just announced - line-up looks astonishing...
Live Acts:
My Bloody Valentine (English festival exclusive), Aphex Twin (English festival exclusive), The Breeders, CSS, George Clinton & Funkadelic / Parliament, Gary Numan, The Human League (exclusive two performance concert), Pendulum (live), Jamie Lidell, 808 State (live), Foals, Lee Scratch Perry, Baaba Mal, Jeffrey Lewis, The Wedding Present, Metronomy, The Cuban Brothers, The Count & Sinden, Sebastien Tellier, Transglobal Underground, Two Gallants, King Creosote, Chas & Dave, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Grand National, Ladyhawke, Ebony Bones, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, The Duke Spirit, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Christopher D Ashley, Sportsday Megaphone, Kid Carpet, Ox Eagle Lion Man, These New Puritans, Tawiah, Red Snapper, Jon Hopkins, Lets Wrestle, Little Dragon, Subway, Imperial Leisure, Gideon Conn, Zombie Zombie, George Pringle, Subgiant, The Restaurant, Cage The Elephant, Vessels, The Ghost, Peter von Poehl, St Vincent, f*** Buttons, Drew, Micah P Hinson, Fleet Foxes, FM Belfast, Bastila & much more coming soon...
DJ Yoda, Layo & Bushwacka!, Annie Mac, Slam, Rob da Bank, Mark Moore, DJ Hype, Bailey, TC, Sub Focus, Chase & Status, Kevin Rowland, Yuksek, Touche, Digital Mystikz with Sgt Pokes, Loefah, Kode 9 & Space Ape, Freestylers, DJ Derek, Sombrero Sound System…
And many more acts to be announced shortly…
Tickets On Sale Now!
Our much anticipated September summer fest Bestival returns once again to the Isle of Wight's picturesque Robin Hill Country Park on the 5, 6, 7th September 2008, for another rip-roaring feast of merriment, mirth and musical treats. Expect frolicking aplenty as we dress up to boogie on down for our 5th mind-blowing spectacular. Exhibiting more than a touch of his famed good taste, Bestival curator Rob da Bank, has excelled himself once again with a truly stratospheric line-up of musical legends and super-hot scene setters.
The undisputed kings of ethereal dream-pop, My Bloody Valentine, will be headlining the main stage on the Friday night for their only English festival appearance this year. With their famed incandescent wall-of-sound and tremulous grooves creating a uniquely powerful live experience, My Bloody Valentine's return after more than 15 years is highly anticipated and their headline set is sure to mark yet another magical moment in Bestival's burgeoning folklore.
As if that alone wasn't enough to whet your appetite for this year's festival feast, electronic enigma Aphex Twin will be unleashing his West Country wizardry for an English festival exclusive headlining the Big Top on Saturday night. Whether he's bathing the crowd in the analogue bubbles of his pioneering acid techno, or selecting his revered ambient works, one thing is for sure, you can always expect the unexpected from Mr. Richard D James.
We are also massively thrilled that living legend George Clinton & Funkadelic / Parliament will be landing their mothership at Robin Hill to make their Bestival debut! One of music's true originals, George will be laying down some booty shaking psychedelic p-funk to bring one festival under a groove.
And it doesn't stop there, other acts confirmed so far for Bestival 2008 include Brazilian septet CSS, lead by the irrepressible Lovefoxxx, who are certain to rock the Bestival faithful, headlining the Big Top on Friday, with their ever infectious blend of indie rock and electro. Original electro-pop pioneers The Human League will be playing their classic Dare! album in its entirety in the Big Top before treating the crowd to a full on hits set on the main stage on Saturday and the nostalgia factor will be well and truly ramped-up a main stage set from synth-punk godfather Gary Numan.
The cutting edge is catered for by the DIY stylings of Ebony Bones, Foals, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Sportsday Megaphone, Christopher D Ashley and the arcade assault of Crystal Castles. Also making appearances will be the live drum 'n' bass juggernaut of Pendulum, plus jangling indie legends The Wedding Present, Kim Deal's tour-de-force The Breeders, the soul-tronica of Jamie Lidell, a live set from Acid House pioneers 808 State, Worldbeat marvel Baaba Mal, the first lord of Reggae Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Gallic love machine Sebastien Tellier, a right old cockney knees-up from Chas & Dave and Transglobal Underground's ethno-techno. And, of course, the joy of Bestival will be spread by our dear Main stage hosts The Cuban Brothers, as the mighty Miguel and his merry men keep the party spirit alive and kicking all weekend.
There will also be the very welcome return of the BBC Introducing… stage which will be showcasing a host of up-and-coming bands. Including: Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, The Duke Spirit, Teenagers, Tawiah, f*** Buttons, Cage The Elephant, Ladyhawke, Metronomy, Ox Eagle Lion Man, These New Puritans, Lets Wrestle, Little Dragon, Imperial Leisure, Gideon Conn, Zombie Zombie, George Pringle, Subgiant, The Restaurant, Vessels, The Ghost, Peter Von Poehl, St Vincent, Fleet Foxes and Six Nation State.
Bestival wouldn't be complete without some of our favourite acts from previous years, including the incomparable DJ Yoda, the retro rock n roll of Kitty Daisy & Lewis, BBC Radio 1's lovely Annie Mac, the sublime Grand National, the kiddy disco-punk of Kid Carpet, the legend that is DJ Derek, chief Dexy Kevin Rowlands and the Isle of Wight's own Bastila.
But it's not just the music that makes Bestival special – we'll be opening a Pandora's box of tantalizing treats including our Bollywood cocktail bar, Jestival comedy and spoken word tent, Farmers market, secret stages and Kids Area. Bestival isn't just a stunning music festival, it's a 3-day wonderland of outlandish adventure and unparalleled escapism. Unlike any other festival experience around, the eye-catching adornments and magical mood throughout the fields of fun offer up endless pleasures, where fancy dress is the norm and tea and cake is always a good idea.
Bestival 2008 Tickets available now from:
Ticketline - www.ticketline.co.uk / 08700 667753 (24 hr)
Red Funnel - www.redfunnel.co.uk/bestival / 0844 844 9988 (inc Ferry Packages)
Wightlink - www.wightlink.co.uk/bestival / 0871 376 1000 (inc Ferry Packages)
Lastminute - www.lastminute.com
Bestival 2008 Ticket prices:
Adult Weekend Tickets - £130
Age 13 to 15 Child Weekend Tickets - £65
Age 12 & Under Child Weekend Tickets – FREE (ticket required)
Campervan Tickets - £50 (per vehicle)
All Under 18s must be accompanied by a Ticket holding parent or guardian over the age of 21. And one ticket holding parent or guardian can only accompany up to 4 people under the age of 18.
All Tickets:
- include camping.
- will incur a booking fee.
- are non-transferable and cannot be re-sold.
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SO 4910 - Independent Study
Credits: 1-3
This course is repeatable
Provides a more intense background in some aspect of sociology through reading and research, supplementing previous courses or broadening the student's knowledge in some subject area not presently covered by SO courses. Consent required of the instructor who will supervise the independent study and the Department Chair.
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text: As daylight savings time approaches this weekend, brighter, longer days and warmer temperatures will soon follow. The official start to spring is just around the corner, so make sure you're ready to take advantage of better weather by cleaning up your yard and creating a plan to maximize your outdoor space. In fact, according to Lowe's 2012 Seasonal Consumer Study, more than 75 percent of people completed a yard cleanup project this time of year. Follow these six tips to manage your time efficiently, so you can enjoy the outdoor space when the warmer, longer days arrive. 1. Clean and wash your driveway, patio or deck and the exterior of the house. It's important to finish washing before you plant your garden beds because you don't want to disturb any new plantings. You also should clean any outdoor furniture and consider covering it until after all the pollen has fallen. 2. Tune up your outdoor power equipment to make sure it's in tip-top shape for the first mow of the season. Remember to sharpen the blades on your lawn mower, check the engine oil and restring your trimmer. 3. Don't forget to check your smaller gardening tools, which are as important as larger ones during spring planting. It's a good idea to sharpen them once a year to make lawn care easier. Also consider ergonomically friendly tools, such as those by Fiskars, which make pruning and lopping jobs easier and three times faster. 4. Trim and shape bushes around your yard and cut low-hanging tree branches. It's better to complete this task early and clean up the extra pieces before you freshen up and plant in the beds. 5. Consider adding definition and freshening up your yard by placing a new layer of pine straw or mulch in your beds. They come in a variety of sizes and colors. Be sure to check with your homeowners association for any restrictions. 6. Plan where you want to add color to the existing landscape with bulbs and spring perennials. Also consider planting an herb or vegetable garden this year. Start with a planter of rosemary or basil and grow from there.


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Hi Seoul,
The UART device has to be enabled after it's opened and configured. There is a VI called "BF Device Enable" in the Blackfin Devices Palette. Use that to enable the device after you use BF UART Open and BF UART Control and before you read/write. Let me know if that helps.
On a side note, in future it would be great if you could create a new forum post for a new topic (like this) and not post in multiple places 1, 2 . This way it would easier to address your specific question and won't get lost in other posts. Thank you.
Hi, how are you? You think you could possibly look at my previous thread and let me know if you have any suggestions? I have UART communications working properly between two boards and I also have wireless communications working with the bluetooth devices if I send characters across. I believe my problem is coming from trying to take the output of mu_law compression and sending it to the tx_buffer. I have tried multiple different things to get each 8 bit unsigned character from the output array. In C what I did to send mu_law compressed data through UART is:
//buffers for the data that will be compressed
short mu_buffer[2] = {0,0};
short tx_exp[2] = {0,0};
//storing the data in the buffers
tx_exp[0] = (short)(iChannel0LeftIn>>8);
tx_exp[0] /= 4;
tx_exp[1] = (short)(iChannel0RightIn>>8);
tx_exp[1] /= 4;
//mu law compression functions sends the 8 bit data to the transfer buffer
mu_compress(tx_exp, mu_buffer, 2);
tx_buffer[0] = (char)mu_buffer[0];
tx_buffer[1] = (char)mu_buffer[1];
I do have up to the mu_law working in LabVIEW. I can compress, and expand on the same board and still play my audio normally. I want to make the compression happen on one board, then send it over UART to another board and the other board will expand the audio and play it back. I have this working entirely in C, and I really want to get it working in LabVIEW. Then I will attempt the bluetooth after.
Thank you for any suggestions!
Hello!I've seen that you said that you managed to make communication via UART work properly betwwen two board.
I am working on a project that involves this step: i am recording a sound and transmitt it to the first blackfin( where i have the compression part of MELP alghoritm) , compress the sound here, and then i have to transmitt via UART the signal compressed to the second blackfin , where i have the decompression part of the MELP algorithm and then share the result obtained from the second blackfin to my headphones.
I have to compare the signal entering the first blackfin, with the result of the decompression returned by the second blackfin.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make my communication via UART between the two blackfins work.
I was wondering if you could ,please , send me the code where you did this to take a look.


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Phone: (307) 766-3175
Toll Free: (866) 653-0212
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To to understand your living options, you will want to read the information on this website carefully. Then you should complete the Residence Life & Dining Service Contract online. If you have not received a Viewbook or need a paper contract, please contact us.
A security deposit of $100 must be paid in order to complete your Residence Life & Dining Services Contract. This fee is part of the enrollment depost that new students to UW pay to confirm enrollment. Students returning to UW must pay this deposit separately.
Complete your contract and deposit as soon as possible -- especially if you want a single room or a special/academic interest floor, because they fill up quickly and are assigned on a date priority basis.
Room assignments will be made in July and continue through the opening of the halls in August. Your room assignment, with the name and telephone number of your roommate, will be mailed to your permanent address.
Prior to your August arrival, you will receive information about checking into the residence halls and what to bring for your room.
If you are paying rates for a double room, but remaining as the single occupant when vacancies occur, you will be given a few options for consolidation. If you wish to continue paying the double occupancy rate, you may:
You may reserve your current space starting on February 24th until March 7th. From March 10th to April 25th you may reserve any remaining available space in the halls that you are qualified to live in.
White and Crane Hall students will be unable to reserve their current spaces, White Hall will be reconfigured, and Crane Hall Single Queen rooms will be moved to Hill Hall for the 2014-2015 school year. These students will be able to reserve roughly equivalent space during the general room selection period that opens on March 10th.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN. – Third-ranked Penn (12-3, 6-3 Ivy) had its quest for the Howe Cup halted on Saturday afternoon, falling to No. 2 Harvard (14-1, 7-1), 6-3, in the semifinals. The loss was the Quakers' second to the Crimson this season, both coming by the same score. The Red and White will meet top-ranked Princeton (12-1, 7-0) on Sunday at 1 p.m. in a battle for third place – the Tigers were upset by No. 4 Trinity (16-2), 6-3, on Saturday.
Much like their first meeting this season, the Quakers and Crimson battled to an extremely close finish. Two of Penn's losses came in the full five games and another two came in four games.
The Quakers' three victories came at positions two, eight and nine from Yan Xin, Courtney Jones and Chloe Blacker, respectively. All three were very competitive matches, as Xin and Jones won in five games apiece, and Blacker took her match in four.
A day after huge win at No. 1 against Cornell, Nabilla Ariffin fell in straight games to the top-ranked player in all of collegiate women's squash, Amanda Sobhy. Rachael Goh was able to come back from two games down to force a fifth, but dropped a tough match at position three to Haley Mendez. Haidi Lala played in what was the most evenly matched contest of the day, falling in five games at No. 4 to Michelle Gemmell – three of the five games went past 11 points, including the first game which ended in Lala's favor, 20-18.
Pia Trikha dropped her match at No. 5 in four games, as did Camille Lanier at the seventh position. Yarden Odinak fell at No. 6 in straight games.
The Red and Blue will have another shot at payback when they face Princeton tomorrow. The Tigers will be just as hungry as Penn, falling in upset fashion to the Bantams in the other semifinal match earlier in the day. The last time the Quakers faced the nation's top-ranked team was back on Jan. 30 in New Jersey, losing 9-0. The two teams battled closely, with four matches going the full five games, and another three going four.
Check back with PennAthletics.com tomorrow for more updates on Penn's action at the Howe Cup.
Full Results
Harvard 6, Penn 3
No. 1: Amanda Sobhy (H) def. Nabilla Ariffin (P) 3-0, (11-5, 11-2, 11-3)
No. 2: Yan Xin (P) def. Laura Gemmell (H) 3-2, (11-9, 10-12, 2-11, 11-9, 11-7)
No. 3: Haley Mendez (H) def. Rachael Goh (P) 3-2, (11-9, 11-9, 6-11, 9-11, 11-8)
No. 4: Michelle Gemmell (H) def. Haidi Lala (P) 3-2, (18-20, 12-10, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7)
No. 5: Saumya Karki (H) def. Pia Trikha 3-1, (5-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-3)
No. 6: Natasha Kingshott (H) def. Yarden Odinak (P) 3-0, (11-7, 11-8, 11-7)
No. 7: Sarah Mumanachit (H) def. Camille Lanier (P) 3-1, (9-11, 11-3, 11-4, 11-3)
No. 8: Courtney Jones (P) def. Julianne Chu (H) 3-2, (11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 8-11, 11-3)
No. 9: Chloe Blacker (P) def. Megan Murray (H) 3-1, (11-6, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9)