function GetLatestTweet() {

    var url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/Cooper4Congress.json?count=3&callback=?";



    $(document).ready(function() {

        $.getJSON(url, function(tweet) {



            var tweet_text = "";

            for (var i = 0; i < tweet.length; i++) {

                // The following date processing code is in place to handle

                // IE's inability to properly parse date strings (go figure)

                // This is unnecessary in Firefox.

                var raw_tweet_date = tweet[i].created_at.split(' ');

                var tweet_date = new Date(Date.parse(raw_tweet_date[1] + ' ' 

                                            + raw_tweet_date[2] + ' ' 

                                            + raw_tweet_date[5] + ' ' 

                                            + raw_tweet_date[3]));                 

                var formatted_date = (tweet_date.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + tweet_date.getDate() + '/' + tweet_date.getFullYear() +

                                        " " + tweet_date.getHours() + ":" + tweet_date.getMinutes();

                tweet_text += "<p class='tweet_text'>"

                    + tweet[i].text + "<br /><b>"

                    + formatted_date

                    + "</b></p>";

            }

            $(".latest_tweet").html(tweet_text);



        });

    });



}



function GetLatestVideo(ytplayer) {

    

    $.getJSON("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=KenArdForSc&orderby=published&alt=json&callback=?",

        function(data) {

            var base_url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/"

            var video_url = data.feed.entry[0].id["$t"];

            ytplayer.loadVideoById(video_url.substring(base_url.length, video_url.length));

            //ytplayer.loadVideoById('RD4cG7Tg0g0');

        });

        

}