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That's the Associated Press's admonition with regard to President Bush's speech on Iraq today. AP reporter Calvin Woodward gets my nomination for the most ludicrously biased story of 2005. His article, headlined "Bush Attempts Hard Sell on Iraq Progress", begins–and, no I'm not making this up:
WASHINGTON – President Bush's depiction of Iraqi security forces as "helping to turn the tide" is difficult to square with persistent setbacks in handing control of the country back to its own people.
His suggestion that Americans are solidly behind the mission also understates opposition at home, and his hard sell on the rising quality of Iraqi forces overlooks complexities on the ground.
Bush on Wednesday declared the Iraqi army and police forces are "increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists," even as recruits patrol Iraq's most violent cities barely three months after learning how to use weapons and police forces struggle to get officers to come to work.
You might mistake that for a DNC press release authored by Howard Dean, but it really is an AP news story. Woodward continues:
[T]he White House paper cited a number of positive statistics on the recovery of the Iraq economy, asserting "our restore, reform, build strategy is achieving results."
The International Monetary Fund, in its latest World Economic Outlook, in September, issued a more sobering view.
"The new government faces daunting medium-term challenges, including advancing the reconstruction of the country's infrastructure, reducing macroeconomic instability and developing the institutions that can support a market-based economy," the survey stated.
Bush tried to assure the midshipmen that the American people are behind them, but the Associated Press is having none of it:
Bush, making his remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy, spoke as if the debate about Iraq were limited to Washington and only politicians were questioning the mission.
"When you're risking your life to accomplish a mission, the last thing you want to hear is that mission being questioned in our nation's capital," he told cadets. "I want you to know that, while there may be a lot of heated rhetoric in Washington, D.C., one thing is not in dispute: The American people stand behind you."
Bush's public standing and support for the war have declined. In an AP-Ipsos poll taken in November, 62 percent said they disapproved of his Iraq policy,and his overall job approval rating dropped to 37 percent, the lowest level of his presidency.
And this is how Woodward concludes his neutral, unbiased news report on the President's speech:
As he did before the invasion, Bush tied Iraq to terrorism, to make the case that a stable Iraq would make for a safer America.
He declared, "The terrorists have made it clear that Iraq is the central front in their war against humanity. And so we must recognize Iraq as the central front in the war on terror."
Iraq was not, however, the terrorists' chosen battlefield until Saddam was defeated and extremists poured across unsecured borders.
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Skyways, the RASC's Astronomy Handbook for Teachers was written specifically for Canadian educators and meets the astronomy learning outcomes outlined in the Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes (the "Pan-Canadian Protocol"). The book contains instructions for hands-on activities on a wide range of topics including Seasons, Stars, and the Solar System.
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Tanaka pitches 4-hitter, Yankees beat Mets 4-0
NEW YORK (AP) -- Masahiro Tanaka pitched a four-hitter for his first major league shutout and the New York Yankees got home runs from Yangervis Solarte and Mark Teixeira in a 4-0 victory over the Mets on Wednesday night.
Brian Roberts tripled twice and the Yankees finally beat their crosstown rivals after dropping six straight.
The Mets took all four Subway Series games last year and won two slugfests in the Bronx this week. Back home at spacious Citi Field, however, their bats went silent again.
Tanaka (6-0) had plenty to do with that, overwhelming the Mets with his vast assortment of pitches while spoiling Rafael Montero's big league debut. Montero (0-1), the latest to arrive in a line of touted Mets pitching prospects, threw six competitive innings but was no match for the $155 million rookie from Japan.
"In some ways, this is a David-and-Goliath matchup. One guy's never lost and the other guy's never pitched," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said before the game. "So, it's interesting. We'll see how many rocks Rafael's got."
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Tanaka is 34-0 combined in Japan and North America over his last 42 regular-season starts. He did lose Game 6 of the Japan Series last year -- before earning a save in Game 7.
The right-hander struck out eight and walked none, throwing 76 of 114 pitches for strikes during his first complete game in the majors. He made it look easy most of the night in giving the Yankees' taxed bullpen a much-needed break.
Tanaka even singled in the ninth inning for his first major league hit -- giving him one more than Mets pitchers have in 64 at-bats this season.
Montero (0-1) allowed three runs and five hits. He struck out three and walked two after getting called up from Triple-A Las Vegas to step into the rotation slot previously held by Jenrry Mejia, who was moved to the bullpen.
The slim right-hander fanned Derek Jeter in the third for his first strikeout, but was hurt by his defense an inning earlier. With a runner on first and Tanaka on deck, left fielder Eric Young Jr. made an ill-advised dive in trying to catch Roberts' sinking liner with two outs.
The ball got past Young and went all the way to the wall, allowing Solarte to score from first base as Roberts cruised into third with his first triple.
Solarte, the AL's leading hitter at the beginning of the day, hit a solo homer to right in the fourth. A pleasant surprise as the replacement for suspended star Alex Rodriguez at third base, Solarte has 23 RBIs in his rookie season, tops on the team.
Teixeira sent Montero's second pitch of the sixth to right-center for his eighth home run of the season and seventh in his last 15 games.
Jeter's infield single, a dribbler that barely traveled 20 feet out in front of home plate, scored Brett Gardner in the seventh.
NOTES: Yankees RF Carlos Beltran (right elbow) was still unavailable but reserve outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (back) was feeling better, manager Joe Girardi said. ... Injured LHP CC Sabathia had his sore right knee drained and the Yankees hope he can return as soon as his 15-day stint on the disabled list is up, Girardi said. Sabathia was examined by Dr. James Andrews and is receiving treatment. ... The Mets plan to commemorate Jeter's final regular-season Subway Series game Thursday. ... The previous three starting pitchers to make their major league debuts for the Mets did not allow a run: Zack Wheeler, Collin McHugh and Matt Harvey. ... A resurgent Ruben Tejada started at shortstop again over Wilmer Flores. "You've got to ride that wave," manager Terry Collins said. "This kid has really put his mind to producing." Collins said his coaches told him Tejada was "too hot to take out."


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Abnormality is a subjectively defined characteristic, assigned to those with rare or dysfunctional abilities, attitudes, conditions etc. Defining who is normal or abnormal is a contentious issue in abnormal psychology. The term is used both in the statistical sense of deviation from the central tendency of a normal distribution and in the sense of behavioral deviation from the social norm approaching pathology. Problems arise when it is not clear which use of the term is employed. So, for example, a person with very high intelligence is abnormal statistically, but not pathologically.
Several conventional criteriaEdit
- One simple thing is statistical infrequency. This has an obvious flaw — the extremely intelligent, honest, or happy are just as abnormal as their opposites. Therefore, abnormal behaviour is considered to be statistically rare as well as undesirable.
- A more discerning criterion is distress. A person who is displaying a great deal of depression, anxiety, unhappiness, etc. is defined to be abnormal. Unfortunately, many people are not aware of their own mental state, and while they may benefit from help, they feel no compulsion to receive it.
- Another criterion is morality. This presents many difficulties, because it would be impossible to agree on a single set of morals for the purposes of diagnosis.
- One criterion commonly referenced is maladaptivity. If a person is behaving in ways counterproductive to their own well-being, it is considered maladaptive. While tighter than the above criteria, it does have some shortcomings. For example, moral behavior including dissent and abstinence may be considered maladaptive to some.
- Abnormal behaviour violates the standards of society. When people do not follow the conventional social and moral rules of their society, the behaviour is considered abnormal. However, the magnitude of the violation and how commonly it is violated by others must be taken into consideration.
- Another element of abnormality is that abnormal behaviour will cause social discomfort to those who witness such behaviour.
- The standard criteria in psychology and psychiatry is that of mental illness. Determination of abnormality is based upon medical diagnosis. This is often criticized for removing control from the 'patient', and being easily manipulated by political or social goals.
A mneumonic commonly used as a reference to define abnormality SID's eFFing DIM:
- SI: Statistical Infrequency simply defines whether a behaviour is abnormal if it doesn't happen very often. There are no negative or positive overtones when using this definition of abnormality, as it covers behaviours which others don't deem 'abnormal' i.e. stamp-collectors, racing drivers.
- D's: Deviation from social norms defines whether a behaviour is abnormal if it is a behaviour 'outside' of society's 'circle' of what is acceptable. The main problem with this definition of abnormality is that not all behaviours that break social norms are 'wrong', and that even some social norms need to be broken i.e. women wearing traditonally men's clothes. Another problem is that there are some behaviours that individuals may do, but don't openly admit it i.e. picking their noses is a crude example that not many people would admit to.
- FF: The Failure to Function Adequately definition of abnormality defines whether or not a behaviour is abnormal if it is counterproductive to the individual. The main problem with this definition however is that psychologists cannot agree on the boundaries that define what is 'functioning' and what is 'adequately', as some behaviours that can cause 'failure to function' are not seen as bad i.e. firemen risking their lives to save people in a blazing fire.
- DIM: Deviation from Ideal Mental health defines abnormality by determining if the behaviour the individual is portraying is affecting their mental well-being. As with the Failure to Function definition, the boundaries that stipulate what 'ideal mental health' is are not properly defined, and the bigger problem with the definition is that all individuals will at some point in their life deviate from ideal mental health, but it does not mean they are abnormal i.e. someone who has lost a relative will be distressed, but would not be defined as abnormal for showing that particular behaviour.
A common approach to defining abnormality is a Multi-Criteria approach, where all definitions of abnormality are used to determine whether an individuals behaviour is abnormal i.e. if an individual is exercising a particular behaviour that is preventing them from 'functioning', breaks a social norm and is statistically infrequent then psychologists would be prepared to define this individual as abnormal. A good example of an abnormal behaviour assessed by a multi-criteria approach is depression: it is commonly seen as a deviation from ideal mental stability, it often stops the individual from 'functioning' a normal life and some could say it is statistically infrequent.
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- Cohen, H. (1981). The evolution of the concept of disease. In A. Caplan, H Englhardt, & J. McCarthy (eds) Concepts of health and disease: Interdisciplinary perspectives (pp209-220) Reading MA:Addison-Wesley
- Wakefield, J.C. (1992). The concept of mental disorder: On the boundary between biological facts and social values. American Psychologist, 47, 373-388
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SSGT Marcus Burleson Home for Thanksgiving
We are thankful each day for the men and women who fight to protect our nation, and it seems only fitting that we are able to show our gratitude to a catastrophically injured service member by welcoming him home for the holidays.
On November 21, 2017, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, SSGT Marcus Burleson was presented with his mortgage-free, custom-built smart home.
Marcus Burleson served three deployments in Iraq, Papua New Guinea and Afghanistan. On December 9, 2011, while on dismounted patrol, Burleson and his team conducted a sweep on a suspicious area.
After locating and rendering one IED safe, SSGT Burleson and his team conducted a secondary sweep, uncovering a second device. As Marcus knelt over the IED to render it safe, the device detonated causing an explosion that resulted in the loss of both of his arms, a broken neck and other bones, loss of vision in his left eye and other major injuries.
The smart home, built in Dublin, TX, was built specifically with Burleson's injuries in mind. High tech features in the home will allow Marcus to do things for himself that he previously would have considered impossible.
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Adnexus Recruitment needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
We are rebuilding a website that has a large amount of traffic for job seekers in the IT industry. We'd like to simplify our website and improve the look and feel to focus on 2 main channels "IT professionals' & "Employers".
Adnexus Recruitment Services BV
Adnexus Recruitment work with IT jobs and candidates in the Netherlands. A young dynamic company rapidly growing but making a more personal approach in the interaction with the candidate during the process. We put the interest of the candidate first and provide an open platform to ensure we have clear communication and trust. We are accurate in our introductions and aim to make sure we have a conversion rate of 80% for an interview to placement.
- A simple web design - something professional but personal
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- Using the same color scheme as the logo we'd like to have something deep color and powerful clean lines for the web design
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GAFFNEY, SC — Coker's men's basketball team held on for an exciting 69-66 win at Limestone College Thursday night. The Cobras led for much of the game but endured some tense moments down the stretch before pulling it out at the foul line. Coker improves to 3-6 overall and 1-1 in conference, while Limestone drops to 4-5, 1-2 in CVAC play.
Junior Jason Fulwood/Cumming, GA set the tone for the night by drilling a three-pointer on CC's first possession for a quick 3-0 lead. The two teams remained fairly even for most of the first half and the Cobras took a 28-21 advantage into the break.
Another three from Fulwood gave Coker a 31-23 in the opening minute of the second period but Limestone went on a 13-3 run to take their third lead of the game at 36-34. After a field goal by senior Jamie Jenkins/Columbia, SC tied the game again at 36-36, Fulwood struck again to put the Cobras out front again by three.
Coker stayed out front for the next 12 minutes but the Saints didn't go away and eventually caught up with their visitors. Substitute Alex Bailey calmly drained a pair of free throws with 1:34 left to put LC back in front 65-64 and the momentum appeared to have swung back in their favor.
Fulwood's three-pointer on the following possession missed the target but senior Andre Blackwell/Bethune, SC grabbed the offensive rebound. Blackwell found classmate Ryan Queen/Philadelphia, PA wanted beyond the three-point arc and Queen buried a clutch three-ball for a 67-65 Coker lead.
The Saints had a chance to tie the game at the foul line but the first of two attempts by Ben Touchberry clanged off the rim. Blackwell redeemed sophomore Vance Caraway/Charlotte, NC following his missed free-throw by collecting his second big offensive rebound. Limestone fouled Caraway again after the rebound but this time the point guard dropped both shots through for the 69-66 win.
Fulwood finished with a team-high 17 points on 5-9 shooting from three-point range. Jenkins added 16 points and Queen totaled nine points, five assists and two steals. Marquintus Jones led the way for LC with 25 points, including a 14-15 effort from the foul line.
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Lets all we .net members of this area get together for the monday night game against the Rams at the SWINGING DOORS in Spokane.
We Spokane area fans have been kind of dragging our feet about a get together for to many years. Lets get out from behind our keyboards and meet face to face for a while.
I have reserved the north room at the Swinging Doors,(the place where they have the big screen for Gonzaga games)
Here is your chance to meet the Hawkstorian, who has a great history back ground of the Seahawks. I already have about 15 people commited to coming, lets push that out to 25 or 30. There are lots of you I've talked with via computer screens over the years. Now we can meet straight up, have a drink or 3 and see a great game.
Hawkstorian, Joz56, morgolon1, yours truly will be there. And Russ Deniston (about Spokane's most famous fan with be there with friends and family)
Not just .net fans but football fans/friends are all welcome.
(psst. We've been promised an appearance by Mr. Seahawks.net himself) Here's your chance to see him face to face. That alone is worth the trip.
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As a webmaster, it's only natural that later I discovered affiliate marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). Combining the two, I build simple mini-sites and use SEO strategies to drive highly targeted traffic and generate sales commissions.
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I had no problem using Dreamweaver for all of my sites. Well, that was until the day I received an email from my Sri Lankan friend, David.
The Day When I Was Late On My Bills…
A few years ago, I was a little behind on my bills. To make a quick buck just to solve that problem, I offered to design new web templates for only $50 each. About a dozen people took up my offer. That was more than I needed.
But one guy wrote back to me and his email really caught my attention.
David wrote, "Can you create web templates for XSitePro?"
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David sent me a bunch of files and I started to study the anatomy of an XSitePro website.
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As I said, I build mini-sites and earn from affiliate programs. Applying SEO strategies, your website needs to be built in a certain way. You need to pay attention to a lot of details, from having clean HTML code, layout structure, navigation menu, all the way to the look and feel of the website itself.
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I finished my design work for David and collected my fees. However, having looked at what XSitePro can do, I was curious. With the balance I have after paid my bills, I picked up a copy of XSitePro and had it installed on my Windows XP.
I had a picture of what I thought XSitePro was going to be. Though I was impressed with the code generated by XSitePro, I expected that my Dreamweaver can do everything that XSitePro can, and there would not be a reason why I should get this – at least not for me.
I thought it was going to be a simple, nothing new, just another website building software, built around a well-thought marketing message.
If things went to my expectations, my plan was to exercise my rights for a refund. Seriously, that was my plan. By the way, I am a pro web designer who is an expert with Dreamweaver…
I got the software, got it installed on my Windows XP and started exploring it.
So, did it meet my expectations?
Well, yes and no.
I figured that what XSitePro can do, there's nothing that my Dreamweaver can't do. I was right about that. But here's the problem. XSitePro does it so much better, faster and more efficiently… So much better that XSitePro is leaving Dreamweaver in the dust.
I want to be clear that all I am about to tell you about XSitePro, I am referring the ability to build a website that any Internet marketers would want to build. The websites created with XSitePro are search-engine friendly, human-friendly and designed to help you make money. When it comes to that, XSitePro is full of surprises and Dreamweaver can never beat XSitePro, hands down.
With XSitePro, I can build my affiliate sites much faster. You can expect to cut your website development time in half, maybe more. And your website will be optimized, ready for both search engine and human visitors.
Putting all that together, I believe XSitePro is more of a content management system rather than a website builder. I will explain more below…
All right, I am going to give it to you, feature by feature. There's so much that you can talk about when it comes to XSitePro, so I am going to cover those that I love the most about XSitePro. And you will start to see how this software will work for you.
Multi-Page Creation Wizard… Based On Your Keyword List
Let me start with one little aspect. When building a search-engine-friendly website to promote affiliate programs, you start with your keyword research where you end up with a bunch of keywords. Each of those keywords will later become articles. And you would create one web page for each article.
Previously with Dreamweaver (or any other website builder), you would first create your search-engine-friendly HTML template, and then copy and paste that file multiple times while renaming it to the keyword list you have. You would end up with a bunch of files with names like "basketball-cards.html", "basketball-trading-cards.html", "basketball-trading-cards-value.html", "topps-basketball-trading-cards.html", "fleer-basketball-trading-cards.html" and all the rest.
But let me tell you that copying, pasting and renaming HTML files one after the other is tedious and boring task.
I wish I could just drop a list of keywords and get all the HTML files created.
And you know what? XSitePro can do just that!
In XSitePro you can add pages and each page will be a HTML file. And there's a tool called the Multi Page Creation Wizard. With the Multi Page Creation Wizard, you can just load a file that contains all of your keywords, and your pages will be created for you. All of your new pages will be created according to your page layout (or template) settings.
After that, you just need to put in content.
Pages, Menus and Breadcrumb Links…
Talking about Pages, organizing your pages has never been so easier. XSitePro is also your content management system. I can make a page as a sub-page to another, move it up and down the list, add new ones and lastly delete those that I don't want. I like it that I can organize which page goes where, and the navigation links will follow.
That's not the only thing it does when it comes to Pages and Links. When I build websites, I like to have breadcrumb links as well. Breadcrumb links are the links you see on top of the title of the page, which indicates how far in the website you are.
If you are in a sub-page of a page, then you would see links for the parent page and the home. Having breadcrumb links is the part where you make your website human-friendly.
With XSitePro, you can create breadcrumb links easily. You just organize your pages any way you like and your links will be generated automatically. Just use the Breadcrumb Trail tool to turn it on or off.
Well, didn't I say that XSitePro is more like a content management? ?
Here's another feature that I really like in XSitePro.
If you have been building affiliate websites like I have, I am pretty sure that you will be opening each file, go through the header codes to change some of the META information like the keywords and descriptions. The META information is important for search engine rankings.
Having to open, edit and close one file after another just to edit a few lines of code makes me sleepy. That's why I like using XSitePro for this. I can just select the file that I want to make changes and all the META information will appear, ready to be edited.
An Important Huge Improvement – Silos…
I have been applying this strategy in my SEO before they came up with the term Silo. Back in 2004 (I think), Dan Thies of SEOFastStart.com had a book about SEO that he gave away for free. In that book, Dan uses the term keyword hierarchy to explain about grouping your content and putting in a hierarchical manner.
This is where you would have a page, with sub-pages. It is kind of like having an index page for a category and then deeper details into that category with individual pages and articles.
Today, with further research, Charles Heflin of SEO2020.com introduces a more scientific approach to this, and calls it Silos.
To implement Silos, the important thing is to have your linking structure right. You don't list all of your web pages on the main page. Instead, you let search engine robots crawl deep while discovering new links that get them even deeper into your site.
Search engines are a lot smarter now. And when they start to discover that previous web pages they crawled are a much bigger and broader topic of the current pages they are crawling, your website will start to be identified as a very tight niche. This will help you rank better in the search engines.
Better implementation of Silos is done by having the right URL structure. You would want your URL to contain your main topic, followed by folders and then articles.
Here's an example of a good URL Siloing…
Do you see what I mean? Of course you would have other related web pages in those folders and sub-folders.
Now, here's the huge improvement Intellimon implemented in XSitePro version 2.
In XSitePro version 1, all of your files and web pages resided on the main root folder. However, now you can arrange your content in sub-folders by using the Siloing Tool. Arranging your content, files and folders while making sure that the links don't break used to be a difficult task, even with some mature web design software. XSitePro makes this process a lot easier.
Now with XSitePro2, you can take advantage of this SEO strategy that not many websites use properly.
More on Search-Engine-Friendly Website…
XSitePro is packed with a huge collection of tools to help you build a better website for better search engine rankings. It could take me hours, maybe days to explain each and every one of these.
But just to give you an idea how XSitePro2 will help you optimize your website for the search engines, here is a list of tools that come built-in:
Google Map Generator, to create a sitemap specifically to be submitted to Google.
Site Map Generator, to create your general sitemap for human visitors and search engine robots.
Robot.txt Generator, you specify rules for the search engine robots.
Website SEO Analysis, analyses your web pages for better search engine ranking.
RSS Feed Generator, generates RSS feeds for your website.
Social Networking Links, generates links for social networking sites.
XML Syndication, generates XML version of your website content.
Flexible Layout Template Design
When it comes to design and layout, XSitePro is not as powerful as Dreamweaver. You can really get creative with Dreamweaver, but XSitePro sites are built using a template layout system.
Though XSitePro has its own template system, it's good enough to create stunning websites. The template system is actually a good thing. It simplifies the website creation process for newbies. Newbies now are able to create a good looking website, flexible enough to have content presented in a number of different ways, without having to go through a time-consuming learning process (you know how difficult and challenging HTML can be).
In fact the default installation of XSitePro itself is packed with hundreds of good looking website templates to get you started.
The templating system in XSitePro allows you to build websites with either a left side bar column, a right side bar column, both side bar columns and no side bars at all.
This may be a limiting feature to a number of new web designers. But if you really understand how this works, you will be integrating layout designs you never thought possible. When I first created the template for Cookie-Crazy.com for Bonnie Lowe, many XSitePro users were amazed. It didn't look as though was done with XSitePro at all. I keep getting emails asking how I did it. But now, many web designers have learned how to do it.
The new templating system that comes with version 2 – XSitePro2 – is even more powerful. In version 1, the template is set as a global setting. That will make all the web pages use the same template. However, starting in version 2, you can overwrite the template setting in individual pages. With that, you can use the main template for most of the website, and probably use a different template for a certain pages, or maybe a category.
I love this. In fact, I had been waiting for something like this since version 1. My idea was to have use a main template, and then use a different template, which reflects categories in the website. Now that can be done with the rollout of version 2.
What's even greater is that XSitePro version 2 is improved with a number of new extra graphics. You can create boxes and frames from a wide range of designs. You can use their graphical menu Wizard for more attractive navigations. You can choose from a huge selection on buttons for order buttons, form buttons, links, etc.
Let me just tell you that you won't run out of ideas with the XSitePro2 designing system. All those tools are easy to access and use. From your WYSIWYG web page editor, right-click on the mouse and you will a list of extras you can put on your website.
Easy Monetization
XSitePro is created to help you make money. And XSitePro makes it really easy for you. And I mean, really easy. Apart from the website builder feature, XSitePro is packed with a few tools that will integrate money making programs into your website.
If you sell products on the Internet like ebooks, software, short reports, you can easily create a PayPal button to collect payment. Just follow through the Wizard and you will be selling in minutes.
Apart from that, there are a number of advertising programs that you can stick on your website. Whatever your website is about, I am sure there are some books that you can recommend on that topic. It's good that XSitePro comes together with wizard applets to create your Amazon, AdSense and Oxado ads for your website.
With Amazon, you have the option to choose either the Product link, Self-Optimizing link or the Recommend link.
Enhancing Visitors' Experience with Multimedia
The Internet is getting faster and faster for everyone all over the globe. And video and audio has been proven to increase response and sales.
You don't want to be left behind by your competition. However, putting an audio or video on your website is not as easy at it seems. Even for a web programmer like me, I prefer something that I can throw and is guaranteed to stick. I remember the time when I wanted to put a short MP3 audio on my website. Though I found a free open source solution, it was not easy to get it on my website. I had to open this website, that website, copy some code, change some settings, upload some files… it worked, but it was messy.
With XSitePro version 2, you can now put audio and video on your website with a lot less mess, and a solution that you know will work. The audio player comes with a number of playback buttons in different colors. Just choose the one that suits your website.
A Mini Version of Your Mini-Site…
The mobile phone is getting smarter and smarter every day. Even I use my mobile phone (Nokia N95) to access the Internet.
A new feature in XSitePro version 2 will allow you to easily create a mobile version of your website. This will optimize your website for viewing from mobile devices. I think this is a great feature addition as more and more people are going mobile every day.
Of course you don't have to create the mobile version of your website. But it's there if you want to.
What XSitePro CANNOT Do…
All right, you've read about all the good stuff about XSitePro. Well, not all. I can go on for days.
But XSitePro2 is not all good. When it comes to building affiliate sites, direct response sales letter websites, corporate websites, search-engine-friendly websites, XSitePro is best – hands down.
But there are things that XSitePro cannot do.
It boils down to what you want to do and what XSitePro is designed for.
XSitePro is a website building tool. It only builds websites, specifically static websites.
Some people may get the wrong idea about what XSitePro is. Before you get ahead of yourself, let me clear the air on that.
XSitePro is not designed to help you blog. It's not a blogging tool. Also, while you can build a huge website and pack it with a lot of content with XSitePro, I wouldn't recommend XSitePro if you want to build a portal website.
A portal website would normally invite members to participate and interact with each other. XSitePro is not a portal solution nor is it membership website solution.
One more thing that XSitePro is not designed for – shopping carts. Well yes, you can design an e-commerce website, put up PayPal links for each product and upload your website, all done with XSitePro. But I believe other tools like ZenCart or OS Commerce do it so much better.
And further more, you can't use XSitePro to design themes for other website platforms. WordPress, Blogger, Joomla, Mambo, and other popular website platforms all have their own template systems. You can't design a template for those solutions using XSitePro. You would still need to use Dreamweaver or any of your other web design software for that.
Dreamweaver is great when you want to design templates for WordPress, Blogger or any other platform. You can use it to create a complex layout with a long list of CSS formatting rules. And Dreamweaver is also a fantastic tool for programmers. It helps programmers find the code and function they are looking for when they are programming in PHP, ASP, CFM and Javascript.
So those are the things that Dreamweaver can do and XSitePro can't. But there a lot of things that XSitePro can do, and it takes a while to get it done in Dreamweaver. An obvious example is all the website navigation links. You normally have to create navigation links manually, and you would have to check those links are correct yourself. Furthermore, you would need to update all of your files one by one to get those navigation links into the web pages.
That's just one area where Dreamweaver falls short. But of course, like I said, it boils down to what each tool is designed to do.
If you want to build profitable websites quickly, sites that will attract search engine rankings, and are appealing to human eyes, then XSitePro2 is your tool.
If you want to train yourself to become a web designer and a professional programmer, then Dreamweaver is the best tool on the market.
To Get Or Not To Get… That Is The Question…
DON'T get XSitePro2 if you want…
a blog
a portal
a membership site
a shopping cart
a forum
to design themes for WordPress, Joomla, Mambo, etc…
to do heavy programming and custom solutions
DO get XSitePro2 if you want…
to build and manage your corporate website
– to build and manage your personal website
to build and manage your clients' websites
– to build content websites for online revenue
to build search-engine-friendly websites quickly and easily
to build direct response, sales letter websites and sell your products
to quickly build virtual real estates (VRE)
to build a squeeze page and build a mailing list
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Baltimore, MD
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Dundalk, MD
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York, PA
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Charlottesville, VA
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Richmond, VA
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For those of you with whom I maintain a regular dialogue through PMs and regular posts I just wanted to let you know.
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Sweetie turns your photos — and any other images you choose — into beautiful ASCII art. The results are spectacular, and I've never enjoyed testing an app for review as much as I did here. The interface has some serious issues, which will need to be rectified before Sweetie can really shine, but that shouldn't stop you from picking it up. (more…)


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Kuchar in hunt as Kaymer leads U.S. Open
PINEHURST, N.C. - Matt Kuchar's fondness for the U.S. Open traces directly to San Francisco.
Kuchar was 19 at the time, still in college at Georgia Tech and unsure if he could handle golf's most demanding test. Then he improbably planted himself in contention at the Olympic Club in June 1998, only two shots off the lead heading to the weekend.
"I feel a special connection to the Open," Kuchar said Thursday. "That stems from winning the U.S. Amateur (in '97) and doing well in my first Open. I think my game's pretty well suited for this tournament."
Kuchar, now about to turn 36, counts as a popular and logical choice this week at Pinehurst. His opening-round 69 put him in the mix, one shot off the pace until Martin Kaymer finished with a flourish several hours later.
Kaymer made three birdies down the stretch to post 5-under-par 65 (including a back-nine 31) and take a three-stroke lead. This marked another step in the rejuvenation of Kaymer, who emerged from a long slump last month to win the Players Championship.
Graeme McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open winner at Pebble Beach, was among the players at 68. Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson headlined the large group at 1-under 69.
As for Kuchar, it makes perfect sense to see him in Open contention again. Georgia Tech coach Bruce Heppler saw it coming back in '98, when he summoned Kuchar into his office in advance of the Masters.
Heppler offered encouraging words about Augusta National, but he also told Kuchar his game - predicated on precision, not power - was more suited for the Open. Sixteen years later, Heppler sticks to his premise.
"I always thought the Open would be the major he wins, because he's straight and smart," Heppler said. "He doesn't take unnecessary chances and he checks his ego at the door. I don't think he'll do anything stupid."
At this point, Kuchar will gladly take any major title. He's ranked No. 5 in the world, but he remains winless in 34 career starts in golf's marquee events - probably because majors usually place a premium on length off the tee, and Kuchar doesn't hit the ball especially far.
He does own a reliable short game, which helps explain how he finished in the top 10 in each of the past three Masters. Kuchar had a chance to win at Augusta National in 2012, when he fell two shots short of the Bubba Watson-Louis Oosthuizen playoff.
Kuchar knows his name inevitably surfaces in conversations about Best Players Never to Win a Major. It's a compliment and a criticism all at once, reflecting both his successful career (seven PGA Tour wins) and his repeated shortcomings on the biggest stages.
"I've got a great life, but it's high up there on my 'want' list," Kuchar said of winning a major. "It helps to like a place the way I like Pinehurst. If you have a good feeling about a place, you tend to do better."
That showed Thursday, when Kuchar threatened to go even lower. He stood 3-under-par through 15 holes, bogey-free and in sole possession of the lead. Then he made consecutive bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17 to fall back to the pack.
Even as he stumbled, Kuchar's popularity became apparent - he walked off the 17th and 18th tees to loud chants of "Kooch! Kooch!" from the gallery. If you didn't know better, you'd almost think the fans were booing him. They weren't.
Then Kuchar approached the No. 18 green and showed why he really could end his major drought this week. His ball had scooted over the green, but he calmly chipped to 10 feet and rolled home the slick par-saving putt.
"Pars are important in the U.S. Open," Kuchar said.
That's just as true now as it was in 1998.
Return to form: Kaymer's opening-round 65 shows how he won the PGA Championship in 2010 and reached No. 1 in 2011. B7
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In the first article in this series aimed at helping job seekers and entrepreneurs, I chronicled how not to organize your work day. I then provided a template for how to organize your day in the world of social media. The response has been overwhelming. People are demanding a list of the best social media sites aka social media networks available today.
The following is a list of the top 25 social media "networks" as ranked by traffic (visits per month) in a great retrospective article by Andy Kazeniac of Compete.com "Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over the Top Spot, Twitter Climbs." This is a retro look at Andy's original ranking of the Top 25 last year. Note: Twitter came in at #22 on that list–look at them today.
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If you are a job seeker you should be concentrating your efforts on establishing a strong presence on #5 Linkedin.com and #3 Twitter.com. Although Facebook.com is #1, it has more cache for entrepreneurs looking to capture audience for a product or service.


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MONTPELIER — Curtis Smiley with the Vermont Big Game Trophy Club says a huge, 450-pound bear taken in the 2013 hunting season is the heaviest bear taken in Vermont by bow and arrow since 1898, and that it is a new record according to skull measurements.
Kevin Lamere of Brownington shot the bear on Oct. 5, 2013, with a bow and arrow in Orleans County.
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Middlebury — After finishing recording her first album, local singer and songwriter Deb Brisson says she's so proud of the result that it brings her to tears.
"I'm really happy with it," she said. "It's been a long time coming and we've been playing other people's music for so long. I just can't help it."
ADDISON COUNTY — Those who sensed that the first five months of this year were wetter than normal were correct. Precipitation at the Burlington International Airport so far in 2011 is 24.4 inches — almost double the 12.41 inches in a typical year.
"Last year was close to normal," said National Weather Service meteorologist Jessica Neiles. "We were 0.32 inches below normal. Now we're 11.99 inches above normal."
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Chris Brown Deletes Instagram Account Following Frank Ocean Brawl
First, Chris Brown defiantly deleted his Twitter account last fall after fighting with a writer. Then he expressed that he felt persecuted like Jesus Christ by painting a picture of himself after the epic brawl with Frank Ocean -- which erupted not over a song or a beat or even a girl, like Rihanna, since Ocean likely isn't into her after coming out, but a PARKING SPACE OF ALL THINGS.
Now, Breezy has further likened himself to Jesus Christ in the social media space by "detaching himself from that world" and deleting his Instagram.
Oh Breezus Christ.
We're going to have to keep our eyes fixed on his girlfriend's Instagram now to see pictures of their renewed relationship. And pictures of her topless, of course.
Brown is attempting to sign off and log off so that he doesn't get sucked into the negativity that is part and parcel of social media.
He made his Instagram account private, despite have 2 million followers. So he's disconnected for now.
"Social media takes away the essence of why we are even special or icons," Brown posted as a graphic. "So with that, I'm detaching myself from that world."
Now we can't see any more of his Christ paintings. We're bummed.
PopCrushers and Team Breezy, what's your take on the oft-troubled R&B star closing off access on Instagram? Good riddance or please, please, please come back?
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text: A southern Chinese court has upheld the guilty verdict and sentence against a former city official at the heart of a sex tape scandal. Lei Zhengfu was convicted in June of accepting more than 3 million yuan ($500,000) in bribes from a developer to pay off a businessman who was using the tape to blackmail him. Lei, the former party chief of a district in the southern city of Chongqing, had said the money was a loan. He subsequently appealed. The Chongqing High Court said in a statement posted online on Tuesday that it had upheld Lei's 13-year prison sentence, his being stripped of his political rights for three years and the seizure of 300,000 yuan of his private assets along with the bribes he took. The case riveted the public since video clips of the 55-year-old having sex with a woman went viral. She was hired by property developers in an elaborate extortion scheme. Four men and two women were sentenced for up to 10 years in prison for extortion in connection with the case. Three of the men also unsuccessfully appealed, the court said. SOURCE: AP Asia Pacific China


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Meet Megumi. She got a Wii U, and she thinks the Wii U's operating system is "too slow". To show how slow it is, Megumi presses the settings icon and then runs a stop watch. It takes nearly 17 seconds. And then, she presses back to the Wii U main menu and clocks that loading time too. That seems to take over 20 seconds.
"You wonder why it's this slow," she says, adding that perhaps the onboard memory and the operating system were bottlenecked. But she wasn't sure.
Wii U owners, how is your GamePad loading? Faster than this? Slower than this? Does this seem about right? Surely, this is something that Nintendo can fix with an OS update...
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This Positive Life: An Interview With Gary
March 10, 2010
This podcast is a part of the series This Positive Life. To subscribe to this series, click here.
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Table of Contents
- HIV Diagnosis
- Disclosure in Work and Family Life
- Dating and Loss of Libido After Prostate Cancer
- Connecting to Care for Prostate Cancer and HIV
- Keeping Healthy, Following New Paths
- Turning 60: Aging With HIV
- Lessons Learned in Living With HIV
This interview took place in September 2009.
About Gary
While Gary has never viewed HIV as a blessing in disguise, he also hasn't been a martyr to the disease. After the tragic loss of his partner and his own HIV diagnosis in 1992, Gary has made a point of learning all he can about HIV and soldiering on despite his losses, his fears and a battle against prostate cancer (and the treatment for it). Knowledge, work, personal goals and various support networks have all served to safely shepherd Gary into his 60s with grace, good humor and a desire to help others.
HIV Diagnosis
This is Olivia Ford reporting for TheBody.com. I'm here today with Gary, who's been living with HIV since 1992. Gary, welcome to This Positive Life. Can you start by describing how you found out that you were HIV positive?
Actually my partner was diagnosed. I was living in Detroit at the time. I decided, "Well, I better get checked out too," and my test came back positive. This was in 1992.
Very rapidly following his HIV diagnosis, Thom, my partner, was diagnosed with a very aggressive cancer. Within six months, he had passed away.
That was a very tough time for me, especially dealing with finding out I had HIV, and then six months later my partner passing away. Those six months were horrific for him. It was a very bleak time, especially because there were not many HIV medications out at the time.
I don't know when I was actually infected, but I remember back in about 1988, I had the worst flu. We found out later that that's a symptom of seroconversion. It could have been about 1988 or so that I was actually infected with HIV.
At the time, my reaction to finding out I had HIV was that I really didn't want to hear anything about it. It was tough enough taking care of Thom and all that. Anything that would come on TV, I would just turn the station. I really didn't want to hear anything about HIV.
Eventually I grew more used to it. Actually, I happened to see a special on individuals living with HIV. It was probably 1993 or 1994. [Renowned HIV/AIDS activist] Larry Kramer made a statement that really helped me deal with my disease and living with it. He said, "Living with HIV is like living with a monster in your house. Sometimes it's quiet and asleep in the corner. And other times, it's going crazy and trashing and destroying everything in the house."
For some reason, that really struck a chord with me and helped me learn how to deal with living with HIV.
From that point, I kind of dove into it and really wanted to become more aware of what was available. AZT [Retrovir, zidovudine] was the only thing that was available at the time and I did not respond well to AZT. My T cells were about 700 when I was diagnosed and within six months they had fallen to 500.
Especially with what had happened to Thom, I thought, "Well, OK, this is it. It's not going to last very long. I'm not going to last very long." That was the whole story of how everybody was living and dying with HIV.
Then Videx [didanosine, ddI] came out. I switched to Videx and I responded better to that and was on that for several years. Then I had to be transferred to Cleveland, Ohio, and was involved in a clinical trial at University Hospitals for Viracept [nelfinavir], which was the second protease inhibitor that came out following Crixivan [indinavir].
I responded very well, and that basically saved my life, because at the time my T cells were down to 200. I was feeling OK, but I was on the verge. With the Viracept, even though there were some side effects, I was able to rebound. My T cells came up.
Being involved in the clinical trial, I really did try to educate myself more and more about living with HIV. That's kind of how I became aware of POZ Magazine. Before POZ started, they had InfoPack, a newsletter that was in e-mail, started by Stephen Gendin and Sean Strub. At that point, I got involved with receiving the e-mail from them. That helped me learn more about treatment and people living with HIV.
How old were you when you and your partner were diagnosed?
Let's see. It was '92, so I would have been 43. Thom was the same age.
How did you and Thom find care initially? Was it more difficult with Thom having cancer and HIV?
There were doctors in Detroit who were already specializing in HIV and AIDS. In Cleveland, it was the same. When I went there, I went to the University Hospitals, which actually had an AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. John Carey, M.D., was my doctor. He was very active in HIV and in research and that type of thing. I was fortunate to get that type of care that early.
What was your community like in Detroit? Was there a large gay community there?
Yes. Detroit is a city of a million people, and there are about three million in the metro area, so there was quite a gay community. There weren't a whole lot of HIV organizations. Like I said, when I was in Detroit, I didn't really want to hear much about it, so I didn't get involved at all in any HIV activities.
Then when I went to Cleveland, it was a little different. It was when I was making my evolution into more acceptance, and I heard Larry Kramer and got involved in the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. I actually volunteered for quite a few clinical trials. They did a lung study where they injected your lung with a saline solution and then withdrew that liquid. In your lungs are where very young cells are made, and so they were able to study the progression of HIV, how it affects very young cells in the lungs, which was kind of a very unusual study. [Laughs.]
There were some other studies that I got involved with. I just really started trying to educate myself more and more about HIV and the treatments.
What regimen are you on now, if you don't mind my asking?
Prezista [darunavir, TMC114], Truvada [tenofovir/FTC] and Norvir [ritonavir].
How's that been for you?
It's OK. There are some stomach problems, but that's something you live with. [Laughs.]
Besides the low CD4 count with the AZT, you haven't, at this point, had an AIDS diagnosis?
No. I mean, I had neuropathy and I've had shingles. I've had pneumonia, but it wasn't a real serious type of pneumonia. I had thrush -- the standard type of stuff like that -- but nothing life threatening that I've had to deal with.
Going back to 1992: What was your knowledge of HIV at the time that you were diagnosed? Thom went and got tested, but what was the impetus for his getting tested?
You knew HIV was out there, but if you weren't infected, it really wasn't something that you tried to learn about. We had friends that were dying all the time. I had several good friends that passed away in the late '80s and early '90s. It was when safe sex started coming around and you knew that you needed to be protective. But Thom and I were in an exclusive relationship, so it really wasn't something that we were that concerned about.
The community had begun to organize, but there really wasn't a whole lot out there. There was ACT UP [AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power], which was the radical arm of the HIV movement and really did help bring about a lot of awareness and a lot of faster-track approval of medications. Thank God that they were around.
But there wasn't a whole lot of support. Thom had started a two-for-one support group several years back, in the late '80s. He had two people for every person that was diagnosed with HIV, as a support person for them in Detroit. It was informal -- just friends who had gotten together who had agreed to help other people who were living with the disease: getting them food or helping with their home or doing whatever they needed. If they needed to go somewhere and they couldn't drive, that type of thing. Because, as people were getting diagnosed with the disease, they began not to be able to take care of themselves.
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It seems that, in a sense, prior to being diagnosed, Thom had already gotten involved in HIV/AIDS work. Was he surprised himself when he was diagnosed? Were you surprised?
The way it started was that he had this really bad pain in his back. It was actually the cancer tumor that was causing the pain. He went to get that checked out. That's the initial reason he went to the doctor -- because of the pain in his back. As part of their procedure, they tested him for HIV, and that's when they found out that he had HIV and he had this very aggressive cancer.
What kind of cancer was it?
I don't remember. When they found it, it was the size of a golf ball. By the time he passed away, it was the size of a grapefruit. That was within six months.
Did any doctor express an idea that the cancer might have been related to the HIV? Were they really independent of one another?
They really didn't know at the time. There was never any official word that the two were directly connected. The problem was the treatment for the cancer, the chemotherapy, which ruins the immune system. In trying to treat the cancer they were ruining his immune system, which was being ravaged anyway by HIV.
He just deteriorated. He had been very healthy, worked out four, five times a week. Within six months, he looked like an 80-year-old.
How long had the two of you been together?
We'd been together about seven years. We'd known each other for about 15 years, but we'd been together about seven.
I imagine that Thom was the first person that you told about your diagnosis. Who else did you tell soon after?
Two people that I knew at the time, friends of mine, who were positive. They were the people that I contacted. Another very good friend of mine, also -- I talked to him about it because I needed to.
Do you remember feeling supported by the people around you as you were telling them?
Yes, I do. I vividly remember that day with the diagnosis, and when the doctor came in and said, "You're positive." When you find out something's "positive," that's normally a good thing, you know? But it was just a brief second, and then I realized, no, that's not a good thing.
It was very strange because I remember driving on my way home from the doctor's, and looking at the person in the car next to me, thinking, "Why do I have HIV? Why do I have to have this?" Actually, I was going on vacation the next day. The whole vacation was a strange one.
Do you remember where you went on vacation?
Yes, Thom and I went to a resort in western Michigan called Saugatuck. It's a popular resort on Lake Michigan.
Can you remember what the doctor said to you that day? Did he just say, "You're HIV positive," and then walk out?
I don't remember. My mind was just reeling at the time because I kind of expected it, but I didn't want to have it. I remember that he left me alone for a little bit because he said, "You just need to sit here for a little while and collect your thoughts. You can take all the time that you want."
But I don't remember what he said after he told me that I was positive. I know that my mind was processing it and dealing with it and reeling from it.
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