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Youth Helps At Booth
ST. MARYS — As veteran poll workers helped guide voters to their precincts, a handful of Memorial High School students took the chance to learn first-hand what goes into running an election.
Seniors were excused from class as part of the Youth at the Booth program, which allows students to serve as poll workers to learn about the electoral process. In all, six Roughriders were stationed at polling locations throughout the county.
"The students are all taking government classes so we talk about the voting process," Memorial High School Government Teacher Mike Jay told The Evening Leader. "This is a great way for them to live the voting process — to experience what goes into it. I think it's a great educational thing for them to do."
Three students — Brooke Hertenstein, Jason Freewalt and Charlie Eberle — were stationed at the Union Hall in St. Marys. Hertenstein said she decided to take part in the program as a way to learn more about the election process.
"I thought it would be a really neat experience, especially for my first year being eligible to vote," she said. "So far, it's been going really well. It's a really neat experience."
The students had to take a training session to learn all the aspects of being a poll worker. Like their veteran counterparts, the students also worked the entire day at the polling locations.
"I was surprised at how much checking we have to do," Hertenstein said. "We end up checking off three different books of who voted just to make sure we get everyone accounted for."
Freewalt said he decided to serve as a poll worker because he felt it was his duty as an American voter.
"As an American, it's our privilege to vote and people before us fought for that right," Freewalt said. "I feel like for me to be a voter, I should experience, at least once, what it's like to be a poll worker. I think there are too many people who don't vote, and they should because it's the only way you have to speak up about the way you feel."
When the polls opened at 6:30 a.m., there was a line at the door. Freewalt said that initial rush surprised him.
"A lot of the people come in at once and you just have to get it down as fast as you can," Freewalt said. "There was a line of people waiting at 6:30 a.m. and normally I wouldn't even get up until 6:30 a.m."
Freewalt also encouraged his fellow Roughriders to take part in the program.
"It's a good learning experience," Freewalt said. "It helps you learn how our voting process works."
Eberle said the forecast for a close election sparked his interest in becoming a poll worker.
"I just wanted to be part of it all and learn what it's all about," Eberle said. "I thought it would be more complicated. It is a pretty simple job, but you have to do it very thoroughly and make sure it's done correctly."
Auglaize County Board of Elections Director Carolyn Campbell said the program is a good way to expose the students to the election process.
"I think it's an eye-opener for them," Campbell said. "I think it's a good working environment for them — they are in an adult atmosphere and it's an important job. They are expected to do the same job as the adults — they don't just stand around. They get trained and work just like the other workers. It's really a neat program."


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More Archie
Archie likes small talk.
He'll toss a casual salutation to anyone that passes him by.
"How are you?"
"Nice day, ain't it?"
"Don't miss the Fall Festival. I hear Piltch's pumpkins are even better than last year."
"Hey kiddo, your Ma was looking for you!"
By the time he arrives at the General Store (his place of employment for many a year), Archie will have spoken to at least a dozen people.
Archie sweeps the floors, stocks the shelves, fixes what's broken, and goes down to the market to haggle with Kurcha for the odd item when inventory is low.
It's good work and he likes it. Keeps him busy, keeps him social, and most importantly, keeps him happy.
This figure is approximately 6 inches tall.

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Skip to comments.Israels Big Gusher: The Next Middle East Energy Power House
Posted on 03/07/2014 1:33:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Forget olive oil. Israels offshore drilling is about to make it the Middle Easts next energy exporter.
It wasnt long ago that Israels oil and gas industry was the territory of wishful thinkers like John Brown, a born-again Christian from Texas who saw a map to oil gushers in readings of the Bible. In the 1980s, I interviewed his site manager, also a born-again Christian, who told me that the Lord had bequeathed oil to his chosen people. In a cluttered cabin in the hills of central Israel, the rangy Texan leafed through his copy of the Bible and read me Deuteronomy 33:24: Of Asher he said, More blessed than sons is Asher. May he be favored by his brothers, and may he dip his foot in oil.
Asher and his descendants hadnt found oil, the prospector said, but they just didnt know where to lookor have the tools we have today. For guidance, he pointed to another verse, Deuteronomy 32:12-13: The Lord alone guided him, and there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field. And He made him suck honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock.
High placesrocktheres oil here somewhere, the prospector continued, throwing his arms wide to include all the hills and forests and distant sea. However, after years of searching the desert and rocky wastes, he confessed: Maybe I got it wrong. Maybe they meant olive oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
This can 't be real.
It looks like its REAL.
Israels natural gas reserves reshape Middle East dynamics
...the recent discovery that Israel's offshore natural gas reserves are far larger than previously thought has the potential to revolutionize the country's economic fortunes. The find could save Israel tens of billions of dollars in energy imports from Egypt and other places, and see it positioned as a new natural gas source for Europe, one of the world's largest LNG markets.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, recoverable natural gas in the Levant Basin located in Israeli and Cypriot waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, amounts to a massive 18.9 trillion cubic feet.
I have shares in Zion Oil. Praying one day they strike it big!
But is Is rael, so that's close enough.
Oil is often figurative in the bible, but I would aver that the creation is often strewn with divine puns.
There is a God who provides and the creation is rife with evidence. But there is also a devil that fights God. Being too careless can open the door to that devil.
Yet another reason for Israel not to give away any more of her tiny little country.
And hovering darkly over it all is Turkey, which also wants a slice of the pie.
At some in the not too distant future I think Israel will find a lot more oil and gas and that many other nations may gather against Israel, in part, to try and liberate these resources.
God will bless you just for blessing a people He has made to be an evidence of His love and provision.
A people that sometimes behaved as profligately as is seen in the bible accounts would have blown itself asunder long ago. But God the Shepherd was constantly hemming them in. Sometimes the story seemed to be nothing but cruelty to them, and yet they survived because God kept their determination alive. We may have seen pity parties, but not disunity.
It would be a fitting sign if the Lord chose to grant Israel resources that would put all Araby to shame.
Oh Yea,it's real.
And this is where I bet America will suddenly remember... hey! we supported those guys! let's not waste that investment!
If America had regained a gospel consciousness by then, it would make for a beautiful subplot in the story.
Golda Meir: "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
Looks like the natural gas fields could get Moses off the hook.
I don't know why it wouldn't be. There are scads of gas and oil reserves in the earth that nobody has even touched because they are in places considered unlikely. Who is going to drill millions of dry wells to look for one gusher? But if the Lord provides efficient ways to identify the presence of these reserves, then the impractical becomes practical.
Well folks, I say God has blessed Israel. For God's own sake. And God will bless Israel again.
Now I want to share something with you that may sound wacky.
For a while I was working on contract with Hewlett Packard in the city where I have been, Nashville TN. But things went wrong and I lost the contract.
But before I left Hewlett Packard, in the boredom of not having any actual assigned work on this job, I came up with an idea in discussion with one of my remotely located co-workers, and I submitted it to Hewlett-Packard's patent department.
It was about a method to use a means that the Lord has provided (I don't want to be any more specific, because I don't know if my saga with Hewlett Packard is over for good) to perform geological exploration.
If Israel could use this... they might be able to fairly easily locate that gas. And oil too, if it's there. And minerals.
Call me crazy as you want, but please pray for me. I've fallen on hard times again and would only be a few weeks from living under a bridge in Nashville, from what I thought was a lead pipe cinch of a job.
Yet in the end, those who oppose Israel will fail. The Lord see to that.
And the inverse too. Those who support Israel will succeed.
"Very cool and interesting."
Yes it is. Not only is there oil off Israel's shore. There's new finds off of Turkey and Greece in the Aegean and on around into the Adriatic. This could be an opportunity to devise a "Southern Strategy" for Europe to counter Russia's use of their oil and gas to blackmail Europe. We shall see.....
So do I!
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OT: Embarrasing hockey goal video EDIT - now with GIF
So while we're stuck waiting for the NHL to come back, the KHL is still playing. This silly goal took place in their recent all-star game on a penalty shot and I thought this shot was brilliant. I kind of feel bad for the goalie, who gets massively embarrased in this clip. Can anyone think of a sillier goal on a penalty shot than this one?
Apologies for the lack of an embed, but video streaming sites are banned here at my office, and I do not know how to embed from a Droid phone (which is how I watched the video). If someone could embed this clip I'd appreciate it! Also, I sent the link to Ace in the hopes that he would turn this into a GIF, maybe if we collectively guilt trip him he will.
EDIT: Thanks to user Trauber19 for linking to this GIF of the shot. I still think its worth it to watch the video though, because it has it from a couple angles.


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New backpack book bags
Forget the stockings: The Fond du Lac Public Library's new backpack-style book bags will hold a lot more of Santa's loot, and they're just $2. The backpacks are sold at the Main Library downtown and at FDLPL Express, near Festival Foods. The library's popular red totes also are available for sale at both locations for $2. The new bags were suggested by high schooler (and backpack model) Gavin Stinemates, who volunteers at the library with his grandmother, Charlotte Nelson.


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I know Sly posted about this in the Indie Game topic, but I thought it deserved it's own thread.
As mentioned it looks a lot like the old Commando and Desperado games, only set in feudal Japan. The game is due out on the 9th of December and you can grab a demo off GOG or Steam.


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Genealogical searching for all descendants and the origins of the MULZAC family. Recent research has some MULZAC's emigrating to Aruba such as Milton Mulzac. Are there other Mulzac's presently in Aruba who have knowledge of their family history?
Most notable of this surname is the late Captain Hugh N. Mulzac of Union Island who during WWII was the first African-American to become a Captain with the US Merchant marine. The MULZAC name is highly likely to have been a derivation of the French surname MALZAC. This family is closely aligned to the Huguenots and some were exiled as prisoners to settle the islands.
A patriarch of the surname is Charles Mulzac (d. 1893) who is erroneously described as a Scotsman. Charles Mulzac leased Union Island for the production of Cotton and his son Richard later operated a lucrative Whaling business.
MULZAC's are known to have lived (or still live) on: St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, Canouan, Grenada, Martinique, Carriacou, and Bequia.
Jean Malzac of Basseterre, St. Christophe (St. Kitts) was the 'court reporter' for the 1828 trial against the pirates of "Las Damas Argentinas" for which they were hung. I'm seeking his biography and emigration from France.


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Stopwatch class which can
provide timings for any section of code.
It's important to note that
has low resolution, on the order of 10ms for most systems.
For timing the execution speed of code,
it's usually best to use
instead. According to this excellent article
by David Holmes, the typical resolution of
nanoTime is on the order of microseconds.
Since variations will naturally occur between invocations, you should take the median value of a number of different measurements.
Profiling tools like Visual VM are another option as well. Profilers are often included in IDEs.
Note that precise micro-benchmarking in Java is a tricky business, mostly because of just-in-time compilation (the HotSpot compiler):
java -Xint.
See the copy an array topic for an illustration.
Here's an example run of the
Stopwatch class appearing below:
The reading for StringBuilder is: 3.611 ms The reading is high: 193.484 ms
import java.math.BigDecimal; /** Time the execution of any block of code.
This implementation times the duration using <tt>System.nanoTime</tt>.
On most systems <tt>System.currentTimeMillis</tt> has a time resolution of about 10ms, which is quite poor for timing code, so it is avoided here. */ public final class Stopwatch { /** An example of the use of this class to time the execution of simple String manipulation code. */ public static void main(String... arguments) { Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); stopwatch.start(); //do stuff StringBuilder messageOne = new StringBuilder(); int numIterations = 5000; for(int idx=0; idx < numIterations; ++idx){ messageOne.append("blah"); } stopwatch.stop(); //Note that there is no need to call a method to get the duration, //since toString is automatic here System.out.println("The reading for StringBuilder is: " + stopwatch); //reuse the same stopwatch to measure an alternative implementation //Note that there is no need to call a reset method. stopwatch.start(); //do stuff again String messageTwo = null; for(int idx=0; idx < numIterations; ++idx){ messageTwo = messageTwo + "blah"; } stopwatch.stop(); //perform a numeric comparsion if ( stopwatch.toValue() > 5 ) { System.out.println("The reading is high: " + stopwatch); } else { System.out.println("The reading is low: " + stopwatch); } } /** Start the stopwatch. @throws IllegalStateException if the stopwatch is already running. */ public void start(){ if (fIsRunning) { throw new IllegalStateException("Must stop before calling start again."); } //reset both start and stop fStart = System.nanoTime(); fStop = 0; fIsRunning = true; fHasBeenUsedOnce = true; } /** Stop the stopwatch. @throws IllegalStateException if the stopwatch is not already running. */ public void stop() { if (!fIsRunning) { throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot stop if not currently running."); } fStop = System.nanoTime(); fIsRunning = false; } /** Express the "reading" on the stopwatch.
Example: <tt>123.456 ms</tt>. The resolution of timings on most systems is on the order of a few microseconds, so this style of presentation is usually appropriate for reflecting the real precision of most timers.
Ref: https://blogs.oracle.com/dholmes/entry/inside_the_hotspot_vm_clocks @throws IllegalStateException if the Stopwatch has never been used, or if the stopwatch is still running. */ @Override public String toString() { validateIsReadable(); StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); BigDecimal value = new BigDecimal(toValue());//scale is zero //millis, with 3 decimals: value = value.divide(MILLION, 3, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_EVEN); result.append(value); result.append(" ms"); return result.toString(); } /** Express the "reading" on the stopwatch as a numeric type, in nanoseconds. @throws IllegalStateException if the Stopwatch has never been used, or if the stopwatch is still running. */ public long toValue() { validateIsReadable(); return fStop - fStart; } // PRIVATE private long fStart; private long fStop; private boolean fIsRunning; private boolean fHasBeenUsedOnce; /** Converts from nanos to millis. */ private static final BigDecimal MILLION = new BigDecimal("1000000"); /** Throws IllegalStateException if the watch has never been started, or if the watch is still running. */ private void validateIsReadable() { if (fIsRunning) { String message = "Cannot read a stopwatch which is still running."; throw new IllegalStateException(message); } if (!fHasBeenUsedOnce) { String message = "Cannot read a stopwatch which has never been started."; throw new IllegalStateException(message); } } }


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Just a few short months since last December's FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, Asian aspirants begin their qualifying journey for this year's global showpiece - and continental glory - as the 2013 AFC Champions League group stage kicks-off on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Featuring four former winners and five novices, as well as a series of the tournament's most seasoned campaigners in Pakhtakor, Al Hilal, Sepahan and Al Gharafa, this year's competition looks set to capture increased interest from fans across the continent and beyond.
Chinese hopefuls have been handed hard opening assignments, with Marcello Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande entertaining 2007 winners Urawa Red Diamonds, while Beijing Guoan travel to Korea Republic to challenge 2006 champions Jeonbuk Motors.
And there are no easy tasks for the debutants, either, with El Jaish taking on Al Shabab and Vegalta Sendai welcoming last year's surprise packages Buriram United. Join FIFA.com as we preview these enticing match-ups.
The match
Al Ain-Al Hilal
The match-up between the tournament's inaugural winners Al Ain and nine-time participants Al Hilal from Group D is sure to be among the most eye-catching. This week's match-up will conjure memories of their previous meeting during the 2006 group campaign, as each side claimed a home win, though it was Al Ain that progressed as section winners.
Having missed the last edition, Al Ain sealed their return to the continental showpiece by winning their 10th UAE Pro League title unchallenged. The side, spearheaded by top-scorer Asamoah Gyan and Alex Brosque, are leading the way in the domestic campaign although they suffered a surprise 1-0 loss at home to Dibba recently.
Al Hilal, too, enters the campaign with a 3-2 defeat at Al Shabab, a result which leaves the Riyadh giants trailing leaders Fath by seven points. Arguably the most successful Saudi side in local competitions, the Blues, captained by recently-returned Yasser Al Qahtani, are aiming to shrug off their tag as Champions League under-achievers.
In the other game, hosts Al Rayyan face an uphill task against in-form Esteghlal. Skippered by striking veteran Farhad Majidi and reinforced by Iran captain Javad Nekounam, Amir Ghalenoei's visitors are hoping to win a league and continental double this season.
The other attractions
In Group A, both hosts Tractor Sazi and Al Jazira head into their first encounter with league victories, but it is the UAE visitors that can take heart from their free-scoring form during last year's campaign. The other match pits Saudi champions Al Shabab against first-timers El Jaish, who recently edged Al Arabi 1-0 to move to the fourth in the Qatari league table.
Having twice lost to Al Ittihad at the same stage last year, Group B's Pakhtakor open against another Saudi giant; Al Ettifaq. Al Shabab Al Arabi, meanwhile, can look to their qualifying play-off victory over Saba Qom when they travel to Lekhwiya. However, they will be mindful of the hosts' recent form, which has seen them go seven matches unbeaten.
Last year's runners-up Al Ahli of Group C are expected to win comfortably at home against out-of-sorts Al Gharafa, who lost 2-0 at Al Khor to slip to sixth place in the local table. Iranian champions Sepahan may be strongly favoured against Al Nasr, but the UAE side, managed by Walter Zenga and with Sven-Goran Eriksson as technical adviser, can draw inspiration from their 3-2 qualifying play-off win over Lokomotiv Tashkent.
If their fairy-tale runners-up finish in last season's J.League is anything to go by, it seems that debutants Vegalta Sendai from Group E are set to mount a serious challenge against Buriram United. The same can be said of Jiangsu Sainty, who are keen to topple FC Seoul in their maiden continental campaign.
Having managed four points against then J.League champions Kashiwa Reysol last year, Guangzhou of Group F will be confident of opening brightly with a home victory over Urawa. Jeonbuk Motors, meanwhile, are looking to bounce back after last year's disastrous campaign, when they visit Thai champions Muang Thong United.
In Group G, Japanese champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima welcome Bunyodkor on the back of a Super Cup win over Kashiwa, with striking-ace Hisato Sato striking the only goal which sealed the silverware. The other match sees Pohang entertain Beijing Guoan, with the Chinese visitors desperately searching for their first win against K-League rivals.
Elsewhere, with Brisbane Roar's surprise play-off defeat to Buriram, Group H's Central Coast Mariners will be the only team to carry the Australian banner as they welcome Suwon Bluewings. In the other game, debutants Guizhou Renhe entertain Kashiwa Reysol seeking to emulate Guangzhou's feat of last year.
Player to watch
Having topped last year's tournament scoring chart with 12 goals, four more than the second-placed Naif Hazazi, the question is whether Al Jazira's Ricardo Oliveira can emulate or even surpass his old feat this time around.
The stat
11 - Heading into their 11th Asian appearance, Pakhtakor are the only side to have featured in every edition of the Champions League since its inception in 2003.
What they said
"No team has won both the J.League and AFC Champions League in the same season, but we will try to reach that goal while it is possible. We must ensure we reach our potential in every game. The team must be coherent and always play to win," Urawa Red Diamonds midfielder Yuki Abe
2013 AFC Champions League matchday 1 fixtures
26 & 27 February
Group A: Tractor Sazi-Al Jazira, Al Shabab-El Jaish
Group B: Pakhtakor-Al Ettifaq, Lekhwiya-Al Shabab Al Arabi
Group C: Sepahan-Al Nasr, Al Ahli-Al Gharafa
Group D: Al Ain-Al Hilal, Al Rayyan-Esteghlal
Group E: Vegalta Sendai-Buriram United, FC Seoul-Jiangsu Sainty
Group F: Guangzhou Evergrande-Urawa Red Diamonds, Muang Thong United-Jeonbuk Motors
Group G: Sanfrecce Hiroshima-Bunyodkor, Pohang Steelers-Beijing Guoan
Group H: Central Coast Mariners-Suwon Bluewings, Guizhou Renhe-Kashiwa Reysol


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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said central bank stimulus has been ramped up this year with the decision to increase outright bond purchases to $85 billion a month and that a growing balance sheet could be complicated to unwind.
"The current stance of U.S. monetary policy is considerably easier than it was in 2012," Bullard said in a speech prepared for delivery today in Starkville, Mississippi. "The size of the balance sheet could inhibit" the Fed's "ability to exit appropriately from the current very expansive monetary policy."
Bullard, who votes on policy this year, yesterday predicted U.S. growth will accelerate to 3.2% in 2013, a pace he said would allow the Federal Open Market Committee to consider slowing its bond buying after this spring from a rate of $85 billion a month. Policy makers have pushed the benchmark interest rate close to zero and expanded Fed assets to a record exceeding $3 trillion to fuel growth and reduce 7.9% unemployment.
"As labor markets improve somewhat, the pace of asset purchases could be reduced somewhat, but not ended altogether," Bullard said at Mississippi State University. "Without an end date, the Committee may have to alter the pace of purchases as news arrives concerning U.S. macroeconomic performance."
Asset Purchases
Bullard told his audience that asset purchases could be reduced to "$75 billion or $65 billion" in response to improved data.
The St. Louis Fed leader told reporters after his speech the central bank could consider a formula to guide a slowing of asset purchases, for example, reducing monthly purchases by $15 billion for each tenth of a percentage point drop in unemployment.
"Something like that I think would be reasonable" though the committee hasn't backed any kind of formulaic approach, he said. "I'm very cognizant we are not in that position right now."
One challenge with a reduction in stimulus is that record profits that the Fed has turned over to the U.S. Treasury may disappear as the central bank shrinks its balance sheet and interest rates rise, Bullard said.
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LeTourneau University is named for its founder, R.G. LeTourneau, one of the world's greatest inventors of earthmoving equipment. A businessman and devout Christian, LeTourneau toured Longview, Texas, with his wife, Evelyn in 1946 to consider a manufacturing site for his next earthmoving equipment factory. While flying over a sprawling complex of a vacated Army hospital consisting of over 200 frame buildings, Mrs. LeTourneau inquired about the facility. When told it was no longer in use, she suggested establishing a school to educate returning World War II veterans.
The site became LeTourneau Technical Institute, founded in 1946 with only male students. In 1961 the school became LeTourneau College, a co-educational four-year school. In 1989 LeTourneau College became LeTourneau University, a SACSCOC and ABET accredited, nondenominational Christian university, offering four-year and two-year degree programs in engineering, technology, the liberal arts, business, aeronautical science, education, and the sciences, plus master's degree programs in business and education.
In that same year, the university began expanding into offering programs for working adults in evening and weekend classes. Calling it the LEAP program, which stood for LeTourneau Education for Adult Professionals, classes with the same students making a group, or cohort, met weekly for six to eight weeks per course. Cohorts were kept on track through to degree completion with students automatically enrolled in each next class, and as each class finished, the next course began in the same location the following week with a different professor. Many other universities have adopted this format to reach working adults.
Today, around 1,000 students attend LeTourneau University classes online or at our educational centers in Dallas and Houston, and might not step foot onto the university's beautiful main campus in Longview, Texas unless they come for graduation.
Longview and Tyler both opened learning centers for evening and weekend classes in 1989. Dallas and Bedford opened in 1990. Houston followed in 1993. A second Houston site, in the Westchase District, opened in 2006.
Today the university has six schools.
Today LeTourneau University is led by its sixth president, Dr. Dale A. Lunsford, and its board of trustees.
LeTourneau University is an unapologetically Christian university. While it has no direct denominational ties, it welcomes students of all denominations who love and seek after God. It is a place where students have found a deeper relationship with Him, grown in their spiritual walk and discovered God's purpose for their lives.


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Vendors readied the goods on their tables inside the Curb Market Saturday morning, sprucing up for an Ol' Timey Christmas tradition that sprouted 88 years ago in the heart of Hendersonville.
Vendors readied the goods on their tables inside the Curb Market Saturday morning, sprucing up for an Ol' Timey Christmas tradition that sprouted 88 years ago in the heart of Hendersonville. They warmed up the hot mulled cider. They filled the trays with complimentary cookies, crackers and cheese.
On the tables, from wall to wall, were homemade crafts and jams, intricate art, fresh floral arrangements, cakes, specialty items and labors of love from one family to another. The band piped up to play "Christmas in Dixie."
The tree was trimmed on Tuesday, and outside, the carriage horses gave their harness bells a shake, ready for riders.
Christmas had come to the corner of Second Avenue and Church Street. The shoppers came too, greeted with a hearty "Welcome. Have some cider and a cookie."
Joy Rockett of Hendersonville has been coming to the Curb Market for years.
"It's like an old-fashioned country Christmas all in one day," Rockett said. "It wouldn't be Christmas without coming to the Curb Market."
Henderson County native Louise Orr has been manning a table at the market for about 15 years. "It's a lot of good fellowship with a lot of good people," she said.
Many of the vendors inherited their spots in the market from their ancestors.
"That's how you get a table. It's passed down in your family," Shannon Ball said with a smile.
He was manning his family's corner with his wife, Robbie, of Green River. He inherited his spot in the market from his grandparents, Nancy and Ben Justice. The Justices were one of the original vendors at the market when it opened in 1924. They sold cut flowers, cakes, ham, rabbits and eggs. The Balls sell special ornaments, greenery and flowers.
Earl and Fran Griffin of Hendersonville inherited their table from Earl's Aunt Bea Allen. The Griffins still use Allen's recipes in some of the goodies they sell. And shoppers still ask about Aunt Bea and her unforgettable macaroni salad. Allen's deviled eggs were hot items every year until they were banned by health officials, Fran Griffin said, over safety concerns from a lack of refrigeration during transport.
At a spry 80 years old, Louise Hill has been coming to the Curb Market since childhood. Her parents were raspberry farmers and manned a table selling produce for many years.
Her father passed away in the very corner of the Curb Market where she operates her table today, she said, selling produce, greenery and handmade dish towels.
"You'll find a lot of things here that you won't find anywhere else," Orr said.
Cornhusk dolls, Sara Edney's decorated gourds, the talented woodwork of Kenneth Justus and famous sweet treats from "The Caramel Cake Lady," Marilyn Horne, are just a few of the one-of-a-kind finds.
Regenia Bishop has been vending at the market since 1984, selling basket liners, sportsinspired memorabilia and "a little bit of everything."
Carolyn Serrano had her intricate prints on sale. She started drawing when she moved to Hendersonville almost 19 years ago and was commissioned by the Henderson County Education Foundation to draw all of the county's schools, past and present.
The market is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday through December. Call 828-692-8012 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Reach Weaver at email@example.com or 828-694-7867.


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Executive Chairman, CognitiveScale; Managing Director, The Entrepreneurs' Fund; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas/San Antonio; Former General Manager, IBM Watson; Expert on Machine Intelligence and Digital Disruption
Types: Entrepreneur, Male, Philanthropist, Top Executives
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We are on the cusp of a dramatically different world brought on by the super convergence of Intelligent machines, Cloud, Big Data Analytics and the Internet of Things. Manoj Saxena, a leading practitioner and investor at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing, reveals his knowledge of how technology will drive business model shifts, impact the future of enterprise IT, and drive Talent wars.
President and Chief Economist of Prestige Economics; Chairman, The Futurist Institute; Executive Director, Texas Blockchain Association
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Jason Schenker is ranked one of the most accurate financial forecasters and futurists in the world. He shares his forecasts with business leaders and policy makers around the world.
Chief Information Officer of the United States (2015-2017); Chief Information Officer, VMWare, Microsoft, General Motors, and The Walt Disney Company
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An innovative leader who has transformed information technology for global brands and the federal government, Tony Scott shares leading approaches to digital modernization and enterprise cybersecurity.
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LAS VEGAS – A high pressure system hanging over the West this weekend is bringing temperatures extreme even for a region used to baking during the summer.
Temperatures are forecast to approach or match records in the southwest. The mercury should hit 117 in Las Vegas for only the third time ever, while Phoenix should see 118 and Death Valley may see 129.
National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Stachelski says the oven-like conditions are coming earlier than normal. Las Vegas' summertime highs usually arrive in the third week of July.
The hottest cities are taking special precautions to protect residents from scorching temperatures. Police are pleading with drivers not to leave babies or pets in their car, and temporary cooling stations are opening to draw homeless people out of the rays.


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Heukelom, van, family
Van Heukelom is a Mennonite family, since the end of the 17th century found at Leiden, Dutch province of South Holland, and since the 18th century also in Amsterdam. Their ancestor, Hendrik van Heukelom of Goch, Germany, in 1615 left the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Mennonite congregation of Goch. He was married, first to Janneken Hol, then to Grietje Kops of a well-known Mennonite family living in the Lower Rhine district (see Kops family). Until the 19th century the family name of van Heukelom was very common in the Goch congregation. At least two great-grandchildren of Hendrik van Heukelom, Matthys and Johannes, moved from Goch to Leiden. His son, Matthijs van Heukelom, born 1663 at Goch, died 1725 at Leiden, married to Trijntje Floh of Krefeld, was a deacon at Leiden 1692-1694, 1697-1704, and 1714-1718, and then the manager of "De Hoeksteen," a home for the aged. He was a merchant and woolen weaver, as were many of his descendants, nearly all of whom also served the church as deacons or as managers of the Hoeksteen home. One member of this family, Frans van Heukelom (1738-1787), married to Elisabeth Hartsen, moved from Leiden to Amsterdam; he and his descendants were merchants and bankers.
Many of the van Heukeloms were prominent in the leadership of the Dutch Mennonite Church. Walraven van Heukelom (1775-1853) of Amsterdam was treasurer of the Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit (General Dutch Mennonite Conference), as was his cousin Hendrik Pieter van Heukelom (born 1868), during the years 1907-1941. Jean Charles van Heukelom (1840-1912) of Amsterdam was treasurer of the North Holland Mennonite Widow's Fund and the Verhogingsfonds, and Lodewijk Casper van Heukelom (1847-1920) of Amsterdam, director of the Netherlands Bank, was also treasurer of the Verhogingsfonds.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1898): 112; (1907): 145; (1912): 220.
Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1850): 143, 179.
Nederland's patriciaat: genealogieën van vooraanstaande geslachten. 's‑Gravenhage : Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie: IV (1913), 1741-1781; XXVII (1941): 140-157.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Heukelom, van, family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 20 Aug 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Heukelom,_van,_family&oldid=133625.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Heukelom, van, family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 August 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Heukelom,_van,_family&oldid=133625.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 735. All rights reserved.
©1996-2018 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Bernard Percy—One of those Teachers you Never Forget
Just returned to Los Angeles from Spanish Lake, Missouri, from the annual conference of Applied Scholastics International April 4 - 6, Bernard Percy has been involved for the past four decades in the movement described in a new brochure published by the Church of Scientology.
Those of us who are lucky can look back over our schools years and remember a favorite teacher—one whose guidance and care made an impact on our lives, brought out the best in us and made us believe in ourselves. Just such an educator is Bernard Percy, one of the early pioneers of the program described in the new brochure Scientology: How We Help—Applied Scholastics, Achieving Literacy and Education.
Although possessed of the personality, aptitude and a genuine concern that he hoped would lead to success in his chosen profession, when he began teaching Percy came face to face with the harsh reality that his formal education had not prepared him for what he encountered.
"I was an honors student in college, majoring in education, and I received my master's degree from Columbia University in childhood education. But I was unable to meet the practical realities of working with students in an inner city school and achieve my goals as a teacher," he says.
Help came from a direction he had not anticipated. Percy had recently begun studying Scientology. To his surprise, he learned that the technology developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard for the training of Scientology spiritual counselors could also be applied to overcoming the barriers to studying any subject.
"When I studied and applied the references, including how to get the true cooperation and agreement of my students, as well as preventing or overcoming any barriers they may have hit during their studies, I became more effective as a teacher," he says.
From then on, Percy was able to tackle even the most problematic students and help them become successful. A reminder of the difference this made came in the form of a very special phone call he received not too long ago. The call was from a man Percy taught in the 1970s. As a child he had fallen badly behind the rest of the class and despaired of ever learning the alphabet much less becoming truly literate. In less than a half hour, using Study Technology, Percy located and resolved the reason the boy had been unable to learn—a problem other teachers had tried to handle for years.
Hence, the phone call that began with, "Hi Mr. Percy, it's me, Charlie."
"After 40 years, I found out that Charlie went on to college and had a successful career in the army as a trainer," says Percy. "I know it was my application of the correct Study Technology tools that contributed to Charlie having had so much success in his career."
Percy was not the only teacher using Study Technology to help his students. Other educators had begun using these tools in their classrooms too, and Applied Scholastics was founded in Los Angeles as a secular nonprofit public benefit corporation to make this technology broadly available.
"I have been involved with and supporting Applied Scholastics since it started in 1972," he says.
His original interest was as a teacher working in the inner city in New York and applying this technology and philosophy to his classes. He later became a spokesperson for Applied Scholastics and in 1980 published a book in which he included data on the educational tools and philosophy of Mr. Hubbard. From there he went on a media tour of radio and television shows and introduced Applied Scholastics educational programs and materials.
Four decades later, Percy is still going strong.
"Recently I have been delivering teacher training seminars and workshops across the globe. These feature Study Technology with a focus on how to get the agreement and cooperation of students," he says. "Having, understanding, and applying the educational technology and philosophy of Mr. Hubbard has helped me develop the certainty and confidence I can make my dreams come true as an educator, and for this I am eternally grateful."
The Church of Scientology has published a new brochure Scientology: How We Help—Applied Scholastics, Achieving Literacy and Education, one of a series of publications presented to meet requests for more information about the Scientology religion and its support of global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs. For more information, visit the Scientology website at Scientology.org/AppliedScholastics.
Applied Scholastics International is a secular nonprofit public benefit corporation that addresses head-on the problem of illiteracy by making L. Ron Hubbard's discoveries in the field of education and literacy broadly available. It has trained nearly 140,000 educators and has helped more than 39 million with Study Technology. The organization works with hundreds of affiliated schools and educational programs throughout the world, providing the effective learning tools developed by L. Ron Hubbard.


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Nokia wanted to take the hard road with the Nokia X and forgo Google certification of its new handset. In other words, the Nokia X runs Android, but it doesn't have access to any Google apps like Google Play and all the apps found inside the music, video and app hub. Nokia has made porting Android apps over to the Nokia X incredibly easy, but now it may have taken it too far.
If you're an Android developer and you haven't already ported your app over to the Nokia Android app store, don't worry; it may just do it for you. AnderWeb, creator of ADW Launcher, made public an email that makes it appear as though Nokia uploaded ADW Launcher to its own app store and created a Nokia account so that the app could be sold – all without AnderWeb's permission. According to the email, all that AnderWeb has to do is get in touch with Nokia and ADW will be ready to go.
There's still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the situation, but if it's as simple as it sounds and Nokia is essentially acting on your behalf without your permission, the company should be ashamed of itself. Rest assured this is not the last we'll hear of this. Be on the lookout for more.


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Last week, in Rolling Stone, Reid Cherlin, a former spokesman for President Obama, explored the reasons for the president's uncomfortable, adversarial relationship with the media. In the process, he illuminated an ongoing issue for the administration: Even in Obama's second term, it's clear that he and his team are having a difficult time making the transition from campaigning to governing -- and in some ways they appear to have all but given up hope on effectively managing government.
Cherlin recalled the wisdom of a veteran staffer on the first campaign he worked on: "Just remember, your worst day on the campaign is better than your best day in the White House." That, said Cherlin, turned out to be not much of an exaggeration.
"The president is nominally in charge of so much that it often feels like the power dynamic inverts, and that the White House exists to take blame for the misdeeds of others -- very often agencies or bureaucrats over which you have essentially zero control," Cherlin wrote.
"Zero control"? It's true that the federal government is a massive, incredibly complex enterprise that extends into myriad aspects of Americans' lives. But a president has much more than "zero control" over the agencies that he leads. It's how he or she chooses to exercise that control that counts.
As I've written before, Obama has a tendency to characterize management failures -- from the Healthcare.gov rollout to political targeting at the IRS -- as things that are happening to him, not efforts for which he and his lieutenants ultimately bear responsibility. To a certain degree, that's acceptable in a first term, as an administration adjusts to governing. But in a second term, Americans have a right to expect the basic machinery of government to function well.
The president obviously is not directly responsible for the day-to-day management of federal agencies. And he's right to point out that it's not really his fault that "at any given moment on any given day, somebody in the federal government is screwing up."
But the president is responsible for setting up a structure in which appropriate decisions are made and carried out. Mostly, this is a matter of devoting time and attention to management. That means setting clear priorities, requiring those down the chain of command to establish apprpriate goals for reaching them, and evaluating their progress.
That is, much of the time, a thankless endeavor. And it almost never results in accolades -- even from one's political supporters. Had Veterans Affairs medical centers met their goal of ensuring veterans saw doctors within 14 days of requesting appointments, there would have been no congressional hearings to congratulate them.
Nevertheless, declaring that the president has "zero control" over federal operations comes very close to a "buck stops there" philosophy that almost guarantees ineffective management.


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by Christian W. Peck
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Niagara County Public Information Office
The attendees at the 13th annual Technology & Homeland Security Forum are already up on languages like Java, SQL, Python and ASP.NET. But this year, the only languages that some of their presenters are familiar with are Alpo and Milk Bone.
That's because, this year, the Niagara Falls-based Technology & Homeland Security Forum - long a fall staple in Western New York and the Greater Toronto Area - is going to the dogs.
The police dogs.
Niagara County Sheriff James R. Voutour confirmed that three of his K9 officers - Sarge, Taz and Vedder - will be on hand at the Oct. 24 confab, along with their human handlers, Sgt. James Hildreth, and Deputies Craig Beiter and Sean Furey.
"Our working dogs may seem low-tech at first, but they are trained to be the most effective tools available for narcotics detection, tracking, building and area searches, explosive detection and criminal apprehension," Voutour said. "The Technology & Homeland Security Forum has always stressed a number of security issues, and we welcome the opportunity to demonstrate some of our leading-edge systems we utilize to keep the public safe - and no systems are more important than the flesh-and-blood ones."
As in past years, the forum will be heavy with technology, with speakers from the FBI focusing in on "Cyber Threat Awareness" to kick off a day of morning and afternoon class sessions in the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel's 18 classrooms. More than 60 top industry vendors offering hardware, software, training and various other services will also be on hand. Industry giant Microsoft will close out the day with a detailed class on Windows Server 2012 R2.
"This is our 13th year sponsoring an event that is focused on protecting systems and people against vulnerabilities and threats in an increasingly interconnected world," explained Niagara County Information Technology Director Larry Helwig, who organizes the annual event. "Like the sheriff, we're focused on safety and security. We're also trying to help colleagues in IT and related fields meet their continuing education requirements."
Helwig noted the forum will, as in past years, count as six continuing professional education hours toward ISC2 and ISACA certifications. He praised the group of partners that helped organize the conference, noting the annual event continues to be put on for free and at no cost to county taxpayers.
"This collaborative effort between Niagara County, the Erie County Local Emergency Planning Committee, the Niagara County Local Emergency Planning Committee, the InfraGard Buffalo Members Alliance, and infoTech Niagara benefits our region as a whole by giving local private and public-sector employers a chance to access employee training for their IT and security professionals at no cost," Helwig said.
The Tech Forum was roundly praised by county lawmakers, who have long supported Helwig's annual efforts to position Niagara County as a regional leader in the promotion of IT security.
"The Technology & Homeland Security Forum is an asset for our region's employers, and another way we try to be an engine of economic development," explained Legislature Chairman William L. Ross, C-Wheatfield. "Technology is such an important part of this region's identity now as we're drawing high-tech employers, with some, like Yahoo!, set to expand their operations here."
Ross also noted Niagara County is geographically unique.
"The Buffalo-Niagara region sits on a busy international border and is home to some key infrastructure," he said. "Homeland security is a very serious everyday concern for us, and that Larry and the IT department can bring in presenters from the FBI and Microsoft to discuss security issues is a benefit to everyone from our governments and school districts to banks and other companies doing business here."
A sampling of this year's Tech Forum classes finds topics such as "Cloud Backup: Optimizing Data Backups and Recover in the Cloud," "Implementing an ICS-Based Incident Response Plan," "Developing the Organization's Security Posture," "Intelligent IP-Based Physical Security and Access Control Systems," "Hazmat Awareness Overview for Businesses and Communities," and "Defending Cyber Attacks."
In addition to their K9s, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office will also be presenting a class on the GIS mapping system. Meanwhile, perhaps in a bow to the police dogs' presence, the Niagara County Department of Health will offer a class on tracking and reuniting pets with their owners during disasters.
"This forum is our opportunity to draw attention to real security threats and real security concerns - something we've been doing since before 9/11," Helwig said. "And then, we try to teach people solutions, or at least to be vigilant against those threats."
Promotional materials for the forum say the targeted audience for the Oct. 24 event consists of "key decision makers from both the public and private sector working in information technology, information assurance, homeland security or corporate security." Last year's forum had more than 350 attendees from throughout the region representing employers as diverse as local, state and federal government, school districts, colleges, small business owners, local company IT staff, health care professionals, banks and financial institutions, utilities, and law firms.
The conference runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, located at 310 Fourth St., Niagara Falls. Attendees must register in advance, and may do so by visiting www.niagaracounty.com/Forum.aspx. For more information, call 716-439-7048.


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A Food Blog that shares tried & true recipes, and my passion for cooking and baking with a garnish of beginning gardening and some travel.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
How do you like your eggs? Mexican Style! Huevos Rancheros
I've had a busy morning in my kitchen! I baked Applesauce Oatmeal Muffins and then I did some house cleaning. My stomach got a little hungry for some protein a few hours later-- so I took a peek into my fridge. Hmmmm, I had some thawed, cooked Pinto Beans (with the reserved water) that I had cooked and frozen a few weeks ago...eggs... some pico de gallo that was reaching the end of it's life...some cilantro. I always keep some kind of cheese and sour cream on hand. That's it! Huevos Rancheros!
I've never made Huevos Rancheros before, but I figured it had to be pretty easy to do. In scouring a few food blogs and recipe websites, I saw several recipes for Huevos Rancheros. I decided to improvise, and to hope that my Mexican D.N.A. would lead the way:
I thawed some corn tortillas (I am blessed to have an upright freezer in the garage). I was too hungry to make my own salsa, (and I wanted to use up what I had) though I found a great recipe idea on roasting my own tomatoes for salsa. That will wait until my own homegrown tomatoes start ripening-- in a few months.
So, I heated up the leftover pico de gallo and added a little bit of cumin. I was on to something...
Now, for the beans. This was easier than you can imagine-- and MUCH tastier than refried beans in the can! I know that lard is commonly used to make refried beans. I had bacon, and I figured that would work just as well.
I cooked four slices of bacon, to render the fat. I set aside the bacon for me to nosh on, until my son spied them and swiped them as an appetizer.
Next, I placed the thawed beans and the juice into the bacon fat and heated it up on a medium-high heat. I didn't photograph this step, but the beans looked pretty watery-- at first.
I took a potato masher to break down the beans, and then let the beans cook for a good 5 minutes or so. In no time at all, the beans thickened and looked great. After tasting the beans, I felt that they needed salt, so I added sea salt (a little at a time), tasting it until it was seasoned just right. Hmmm, I felt I needed something else... ah, a pinch of cumin...and they were good to go.
I decided to brush the corn tortillas with a little olive oil and I baked them, at 350F, for 5 minutes and set them aside.
In a non-stick skillet, I brushed some olive oil and then cracked four eggs. I added a splash of water and covered them for just a minute, or two. I wanted t eggs to be a little undercooked. One recipe version that I found (America's Test Kitchen)-- that I might try another time, suggests that you make four "wells" in a pan of cooked salsa to poach the eggs. I thought that was brilliant, but I didn't have the time, nor enough salsa-- as you can see:
To pull the the Huevos Rancheros together, I spread some beans on a corn tortilla.
Then I added some salsa, then an egg. At the last moment, I decided to add cheese and place
this under the broiler for a minute (to melt the cheese). That's why I needed to under cook the eggs.
I garnished the Huevos Rancheros with sour cream, fresh cilantro and a lime wedge. I love lime!
This was delicious! The next time I make these, I will make my own salsa and garnish with some fresh avocado. I wish I had more salsa, so that I could have added more.
Making your own refried beans is so simple. I'll try to photograph how to do it, another time.
In the meantime, I am reposting how to cook pinto beans, Cowgirl style (or Cowboy, if you prefer). These are inexpensive to make, and it's great to freeze them. I find that making my own beans is cheaper than buying beans in a can (and there's nothing wrong with that, by the way), and I like controlling what goes into them. I have never learned to like canned refried beans. There is nothing easier and tastier than stove top refried beans, from scratch! I especially love refried beans with hot, fresh tortillas.
5 comments:
- Culinarywannabe said...
You are one busy lady!! You have some lucky men in your house with all this good cookin' going on in the kitchen!
- March 15, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
Wish I was there to enjoy all this goodness. It looks absolutely delicious!!
- March 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Elyse said...
Mmm, I love Huevos! I wish I could have had this for breakfast rather than my plain ole oatmeal. Talk about a delicious-looking meal!!
- March 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- MaryBeth said...
Sounds like you had a very busy day...the meal looks very hearty and delish.
- March 15, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- Monica H said...
There's a cafe down the street fom us tha serves Huevos rancheros and it's one of the two things I order from there every time. Love them!
- March 25, 2009 at 11:33 PM
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May 2, 2013
Paul E. Sax, M.D., is director of the HIV Program and Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
There it is, right in your daily paper, on your tablet or computer screen, or wherever you get your news today -- a headline about a great medical breakthrough everyone's been waiting for:
Scientists on Brink of HIV Cure
Researchers believe that there will be a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV "within months."
Yes, I read this exact headline recently. Here's the full article, published in the English newspaper the Daily Telegraph. It details how some Danish researchers have figured out a way for "the HIV virus to be stripped from human DNA and destroyed permanently by the immune system."
Furthermore, they are "expecting results that will show that finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible."
By all means, go ahead and read the full piece; you've got 20 free reads on the Telegraph website. As a treat, there's a colorful stock photo too, showing red blood cells floating through some blood vessels, along with a few HIV virions glowing bright green -- it's very Fantastic Voyage-esque, minus Raquel Welch in her scuba gear.
But return here for a moment, please. I'm going to recommend three simple steps to getting the most from this -- and other medical breakthroughs -- in the mainstream media.
Step 1: Be a skeptic. As exciting as curing HIV would be, and no matter how much you'd like this to happen, just think for a moment about the plausibility of this story. Are scientists really on the "brink" of curing HIV? If so, why is this only appearing in the U.K. Telegraph? Trust me, this brink-of-cure has not yet appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals or at scientific meetings. And wouldn't you expect this kind of advance, if real, to show up everywhere in media land? Fire up that Google machine, and see what you can find about it elsewhere -- lo, it's the great following herd, all stampeding after that same U.K. Telegraph story. And importantly, here's a New York Times piece on the very same general subject -- HIV cure -- and they don't even mention these Danish researchers. Sure, the Times misses some stories, but it's got some pretty impressive Health and Science sections -- could they miss this, researchers ON THE BRINK OF CURING HIV, no less? I think not. So perhaps Mr. U.K. Telegraph Science Reporter is exaggerating a bit, for the sake of his story, of course.
Step 2: Don't be a complete snob -- give the story a chance. This is the other side of that same coin. Sure, it's been a challenge curing HIV, but we've got that Berlin patient (now living in Las Vegas, by the way) -- he's cured. And the baby from Mississippi, he/she is cured (sort of). Plus, a whole army of smart HIV researchers actively tackling the problem as we speak. In fact, this very same approach cited by the Danish researchers -- stimulating the HIV reservoir with an HDAC inhibitor -- is a leading candidate for a viable cure strategy; it's being looked at by many groups. Hey, why can't Good Ol' Ole Søgaard and his team be the first to succeed? The extra funding provided by the Danish government -- 12 million Danish kroner! -- is further evidence of the soundness of Professor Søgaard's approach.
Step 3: After all that, land someplace between Steps 1 and 2. Take a deep breath. Read the full piece.
Discard the fluff: Brink of cure; 12 million Danish kroner; expect a cure to be available in months; you can distribute it to millions; it's affordable, too.
Focus on the facts: Some Danish researchers have some funding to investigate a potentially promising HIV cure strategy; they are testing it in a small number of people; some European scientists may soon be collaborating; we have no actual results yet to report.
After these three steps, all these medical breakthroughs -- on HIV, cancer, Alzheimer's, weight loss, male-pattern baldness, you-name-it -- make a lot more sense.
Even if they are less exciting. Enjoy the movie.
(You can also read this post on WBUR's CommonHealth blog.)
Paul Sax is Clinical Director of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His blog HIV and ID Observations is part of Journal Watch, where he is Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care.
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Perp Lines are Perfect
Lesson 7 of 9
Objective: SWBAT find the perpendicular bisector of a line segment and construct perpendicular bisectors using a compass and straight-edge.
Big Idea: Algebra and geometry intersect, please pardon the pun, in this lesson on perpendicular bisectors.
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Students will complete two warm-up questions that require them to use pre-requisite skills of writing equations of perpendicular lines and also finding the midpoint of a line segment.
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The student notes provide scaffolded notes and examples for students to complete two constructions of perpendicular lines through a point on a line and a point not on the line. These videos explaining construction from a point on a line and not on a line are a great resource for in-class instruction and also for absent students (MP 5).
CCSS for Geometry requires that students prove how and why constructions work. The construction in this lesson requires students to have knowledge of congruent triangles (the next unit) so teachers should make students that we'll be proving why these constructions work in future lessons (MP 7).
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Student can work on practice question in pairs or small groups. To review, you can ask students to explain how the 3 constructions learned in class today are similar and different. One suggestion is that you may want to ask students to come re-state the steps to these constructions in their own words.
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Students will find the perpendicular bisector of a line segment given 2 endpoints. This Exit Ticket can easily be collected by asking students to write their work on a separate piece of paper or a post-it note.


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Science hits NH fishermen with tough regulationsBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
January 30. 2013 10:19PM
PORTSMOUTH - All Dave Goethel of Hampton ever wanted to do was fish. He began a life at sea in 1967 and never looked back.
He never imagined that before he reached retirement, the fishing industry that supported his family for nearly 50 years would approach extinction.
But when the 2013 ground fishing season begins on May 1, Goethel thinks he will only be at sea for three days as a result of drastic cuts to Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank cod catch allotments set by the New England Fisheries Management Council on Wednesday.
After a long day of science and discussion, the council voted to reduce Gulf of Maine cod catch allotments to 1,550 metric tons each year for the next three years, and similar cuts were made to Georges Bank cod. Last year, the allotment was 6,700 metric tons of cod. Goethel is a member of the council and voted against the cuts.
Doug Grout, chief of the marine division of New Hampshire Fish and Game and a member of the council, said the cuts will officially be the death of what's left of the New Hampshire commercial ground fishing industry.
Fishermen in iconic fishing villages from Mid-Coast Maine to Gloucester, Mass., will be impacted; recreational fishermen will also feel the blow.
Scientists at Wednesday's meeting said both cod stocks have been over-fished for more than 20 years and environmental factors may also be playing a role in low cod recruitment rates.
Just three years ago, the industry was told that the Gulf of Maine cod stock was rebounding and was expected to be fully rebuilt by 2014. The following year, they were told the models had been wrong and the stock was actually approaching depletion. Fishermen continued to express concern with the science behind the stock assessments on Wednesday.
Whatever the cause, the fish are not out there. So far, this year fishermen have caught between 60 and 65 percent of their allotment, and are not sure they will even reach quota.
In September, the Department of Commerce announced a disaster declaration for the commercial ground fish industry in New England, but no federal money has been allocated as a result to help fishermen deal with the cuts.
Goethel said he does not want federal disaster money. He wants to fish.
Portsmouth fisherman Peter Kendall also sits on the council, and said he is unsure of what he will do next year after 15 years as a commercial fisherman.
Kendall said there are not a lot of other fisheries to diversify to. This year, the shrimp season may only last a few days at sea, scallop allocation is low and other stock allotments are also being cut, including yellowtail flounder and grey sole.
Josh Weirsma, sector manager for the New Hampshire fisheries, said fishermen are also outraged at an announcement made by the National Marine Fisheries Service on Tuesday that fishermen will have to bear 50 percent of the cost of at-sea observers in the new season.
Kendall said it does not really matter, as there will be no fishermen left to monitor.


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I embraced Islam recently then I got married. Then I had a big argument with my wife. I got extremely angry and said to her: You are divorced (talaaq) three times. Now I regret that very much but I do not know what my intention was at the time; did I intend to divorce her or not? I looked for a ruling on this divorce and I found out that the Hanafi madhhab, which is the madhhab of my country, regards that as an irrevocable divorce. Some websites regard the threefold talaaq as an innovation (bid'ah) and say that it should be counted as one divorce, but others say that divorce does not count as such if there are no witnesses to it. Which view is correct?.
For divorce to count as such, it is not stipulated that there should be witnesses to it; rather divorce (talaaq) may occur without any witnesses.
When divorce is issued in anger, in some cases it counts as such and in some cases it does not. The anger in which divorce does not count as such is extreme anger in which a person does not think straight and utters the word of divorce without meaning or wanting to. For a detailed discussion on that, please see the answer to question no. 45174
The threefold divorce counts as one talaaq, according to the correct view.
See the answer to question no. 170606 and other questions referred to therein.
If a man clearly utters the word of divorce (talaaq), then it counts as such, whether he intended it or not, because there is no stipulation that the intention be present in the case of a clear statement, unless he was forced to issue the divorce or he was in a state of extreme anger, in which case his divorce does not count as such.
See also the answer to question no. 174341.
If you have consulted a scholar whom you trust, you should accept his opinion and not look for another view.
And Allaah knows best.


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EDF has most complaints in big six
EDF was the most complained about of the "big six" energy companies at the end of the last year, according to figures demanded by regulator Ofgem.
The energy giant received 8,072 complaints for each 100,000 customers in the final quarter of the year - more than double the 4,001 logged by rival Npower, which received the second most complaints.
Under new Ofgem rules, the big energy firms must publish quarterly complaints data on their websites, including information about how many complaints were received and how quickly grievances were dealt with.
Britain's biggest energy supplier, British Gas, said it received 2,285 complaints per 100,000 accounts, while EON posted 3,023, SSE 1,435 and Scottish Power 1,359.
In its last quarterly report in July, watchdog Consumer Focus found EDF was the most complained about of the energy giants after it was the only one of the six to see an increase in complaints last year.
Consumer Focus compiled ratings based on figures from the Citizens Advice Bureau, the ombudsman and its own information from case workers dealing with vulnerable people.
EON, Scottish Power and SSE, which were the only companies to provide figures for the previous quarter, all posted an increase in the number of complaints on the previous quarter, with numbers traditionally rising over the winter months.
Ofgem said it was encouraging the companies to provide details of what measures they were taking to improve their performance.
The data showed EDF and EON were the quickest in dealing with complaints, with both managing to resolve 92.3% of complaints by the end of the next working day.
The new rules come after British Gas and NPower were fined £2 million and £2.5 million respectively for not properly dealing with grievances in 2011.
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안녕하세요! This is the Sentence Building Drill (문장 만들기 연습) lesson! In this series, we will look at how you can expand your Korean sentence building skills by adding or replacing certain words in given sentences. All the "key" sentences that are used in these lessons are composed of grammar points that have previously been introduced through our lessons. This series will be a good opportunity for you to review what you have learned in the past and also to learn some new vocabulary! Have fun studying!


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Offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch discussed the Notre Dame game and looked ahead to this week's North Carolina matchup on Monday.
The Hurricanes (4-2, 3-0 in ACC) were plagued by drops against the Irish. Fisch agreed drops seem to be the only real negative that has affected his offense this season.
"It definitely has hampered us at times from really the Boston College game," Fisch said. "We kind of looked back and I think we had seven drops in that game and we had seven drops in this one. I think there are games where we are getting better at it. I don't think we were dropping it in the games that we had our bigger games in terms of production. We had less drops [in those]. This one got us. Against Kansas State we dropped a pretty good amount. It is one of those things that you have to work through and be able to find ways to catch the ball and execute the plan."
Fisch called Saturday's performance against the Irish "weird" because the offense performed well but only produced three points. "We look back on the game and we had two offensive penalties the whole game, we didn't turn the ball over, no interceptions, no fumbles," he said. "I thought Stephen Morris did have a good game, and we walked away with only three points. What do you tell them? How does that happen? Well it happens because we didn't execute. We didn't finish. You can throw a beautiful ball, but if you don't catch it then you don't finish."
> There weren't many changes on the Canes' depth chart on offense. But there was one notable new addition: freshman Robert Lockhart is now listed on the two-deep. Fisch said Monday he would "like to have a role for [Lockhart]" in Saturday's game against North Carolina.
"I'd like for him to have an opportunity," Fisch said. "He's done a great job competing each week and improving. He has a good understanding now. I think we can use him as one of our weapons. He has a better understanding now and I think we can use him as another one of our weapons."
> While freshman Duke Johnson continues to rank in the top five in the ACC in all-purpose yards (1st, 168.3), kick return average (3rd, 27.9), and rushing (5th, 63.5), his overall production rushing and receiving has begun to slow down a bit in the past three weeks. He's scored just one touchdown in the past three games and had 57 yards combined total offense versus the Irish. Fisch said Duke's drop in production Saturday was just a case of not being able to get things going on offense at all.
"Obviously, you would like to hit on some of those bigger plays because that would have given us more plays and not dropped the ball on the third down," Fisch said. "When you get more plays, you get more opportunities to run the football, you get more opportunities to get the ball in Duke's hands. I think in terms of our ratio to plays run and his touches, it was good, I just don't think he didn't have enough touches because we didn't run enough plays."
> Duke has had some drops during some games this year. Is that unlike him?
"It is certainly not like him in practice," Fisch said. "I don't even know if I could think of a play that Phillip dropped a ball in practice. It is not like him either. It's not like Duke. Duke didn't drop that slant against Kansas State all week long when we practiced it. It just happens to be sometimes that it happens. No, it is very unlike Duke to drop it and it is very unlike Phillip to drop it. I don't expect it to be an epidemic by any means."
> Fisch said the accuracy of quarterback Stephen Morris "has really improved."
"One of the things that we were talking about going into the season was that we all knew he had a very strong arm, but how was his accuracy going to be?," Fisch said. "That was an earlier knock maybe. I think it's A, hard work; and B, I think his ability to be accurate is due to how hard our wide receivers practice during the week. If you are always running full speed, then you are practicing that way and you become more accurate. When you have guys practicing at different tempos all the times -- and that is an issue we had until this season -- our guys practice full speed everyday. Phillip runs that route that fast Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Therefore were able to become more accurate throwing it on Saturdays.
"I think we have been able to convince Stephen to trust himself. Trusting yourself means that if you believe somebody is coming open, throw it then. You don't have to wait until you see them come open every time. That's part of it. Trusting yourself means that if we tell you that he is going to run by the safety 40 yards down the field, trust it and let your feet do the talking -- meaning throw it on one hitch, don't wait until three or four hitches and wait and wait and wait. That's a huge difference. I think that's why he is more accurate and more confident and our receivers are doing a great job running routes in practice."
> One player who continues to gain the trust of Morris and Fisch is fifth-year senior Davon Johnson, who is now fourth on the team with 16 catches for 262 yards.
"DJ's done a really great job," Fisch said. "He has made some of the tough catches and some of the easier catches that sometimes when you are wide open and thinking about it. You're thinking about 'I got to catch it.' He has been very mature. It think his age has shown up, his maturity. He has been around the program for a while and I think that's helped him and I think that's helped his consistency."
> North Carolina's defense isn't as highly touted as Notre Dame's, but they still present a good challenge, Fisch said. The Tar Heels rank 26th in scoring defense (17.83 ppg), 20th in total defense (312.33 ypg) and 11th against the run (86.33 ypg).
"They are very fast up front, their secondary is good," Fisch said. "Obviously, Butch [Davis] did a great job recruiting, so they are very talented players. They do a great job schematically -- really a great job. It is going to be a challenge for us. It's going to be an all day challenge for us.
"Their defensive line is excellent, they are very active. Their secondary does a great job of ball-hawking. I think they have a number of interceptions, a high number of takeaways and a high number of sacks. So our [offensive] line is going to have to do a great job. I think our line is giving up a sack once every 34 passes, which is double compared to last year when we're 1 for 17. It is going to be an all day event on Saturday. They're not a big man team. They play zone. They're very aggressive and their safeties are very good."


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Disc Drivin' for iPhone and iPad
Pixelocity Software
Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Age Rating: 4+
Asynchronous turn-based games—those apps in which you and an opponent trade turns in a game that unfolds at a pace of your choosing—have proven to be a popular addition to the iOS App Store. But Disc Drivin' may prove that even the most popular format has its limitations.
Both the iPhone game and its iPad counterpart, Disc Drivin' HD, put you in control of a disc as you race around a track. (The game offers a variety of tracks, and they all look pretty good, especially if you've got a device with a Retina display.) When I say "race," though, I don't mean to suggest a fast-paced contest involving breakneck speeds; instead, owning to the game's turn-based style of play, you use your finger to push your disc down the track and then wait patiently for your opponent (or opponents) to do likewise before you can move again. That can be anywhere from a matter of minutes to days on end. Pulse-pounding, it is not.
Disc Drivin' looks to up the action with a series of power-ups—lightning bolts that will propel you further down the track, for example—or obstacles such as oil slicks and water hazards that can slow your progress down. You also build up your power gauge as you advance down the track, and when it's full, you can tap a button to either give yourself an extra boost, leap over some of those on-track obstacles, or leave a few hazards in your wake for opponents to discover.
How much you enjoy Disc Drivin' will likely depend on which style of game you play. You can find a random online opponent, but that will likely limit you to just a head-to-head race. Other options include inviting friends who've also got Disc Drivin' on their iPhones or iPads. The game supports races over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on a local network, as well as a pass-and-play mode on a single device. You can race up to eight people in local games and four in online matches. Disc Drivin' supports up to 20 separate races at once.
If you're racing against a friend or someone who takes their turn at a pretty snappy pace, you'll likely enjoy Disc Drivin'. I also enjoyed multiplayer races more than head-to-head contests when I tested the game. But unlike word games (think Words with Friends), drawing contests (Draw Something) or even Battleship knock-offs, racing games don't really lend themselves to a deliberate, turn-based approach. When I make a move in Disc Drivin', I want to keep playing, lest I lose track of where I am on the board; instead, I have to wait for everyone to take their turn, and in some games, that means a pretty long wait. Throw in the fact that races in Disc Drivin' are three laps, and you have a recipe for tedium.
I'd feel more warmly about the game if there were a practice mode. Disc Drivin' courses can be pretty challenging, particularly those with a lot of twists and turns. And without a chance to take your disc out for a test run or two, you can find yourself going nowhere fast. Bumping into walls, careening off the course, or ricocheting backward becomes particularly frustrating when you realise you won't get a chance to make up for your poor turn for hours or days. (Pro tip: I use the pass-and-play mode as a de facto practice mode, which has improved my racing ability dramatically.)
Macworld Australia's buying advice
Disc Drivin' has more than its share of enthusiastic players, and I'm glad that Pixelocity Software's game appeals to them. But it really doesn't work for me, not in its drawn-out turn-based format. You can test out a free, ad-supported version of the game to see if you can live with its sometime excruciating pace. Me, I prefer to live life in the fast lane.


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More and more evidence is emerging that suggests an April release date for the Sprint branded Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Today's leak comes from BGR, who received a screenshot from an internal Sprint system that states that the "Samsung Nexus" will go on sale on the 22nd.
We still don't know how the Sprint variant will differ from the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, which we reviewed back in January. We're hoping we see a few improvements in the Sprint variant, most notably a bigger battery and better camera. We do know that the Nexus will come with support for Sprint's next-gen LTE network, which is starting to roll out to a handful of markets this quarter. Unfortunately, if you don't live in an LTE location, you'll be stuck on the sometimes frustratingly-slow 3G network.
Still, the Galaxy Nexus will easily become the must-have Android smartphone on Sprint whenever it launches, knocking the several-month-old Galaxy S II off its current pedestal. We know many of you Sprint customers are anxiously awaiting the Galaxy Nexus to land on the Now Network. Who out there is planning on picking one up later this month?
UPDATE: And we've gotten a tip from a Sprint employee who wishes to remain anonymous that the 22nd date is essentially set in stone in their internal system. Looks like it's 10 short days for all you would-be Nexus owners.


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Written by Amos Nachoum
The Law Of The Wild says kill only when you are hungry. Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw:
"These three brothers (cheetahs) have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old,' he said. 'On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together. 'At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away.. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily'."
These extraordinary scenes followed.
The images, which ran in the Daily Mail, show the cheetahs playing with the impala and the sequence ends with the impala running away, you assume to safety and a happy ending. But that's not the whole story. When you look at Denis-Huot's website, he posts the entire series, which ends with the big cats eating the impala. Sorry, no Disney ending here.
The picture sequence shows how complicated the animal world really is, and how often we want to simplify it by putting our own human vision on it. Cheetahs are hunters at heart, and those in the pictures probably didn't kill the impala right away because they weren't so hungry, or because it was a different time of the day than when they usually hunt, or for some other reason. Many animals, though, show kindness, and even to people. There are sometimes reports of dolphins rescuing fishermen from capsized boats, and there was even one recently about a pod of dolphins helping a lost dog. Naturalists like Bernd Heinrich have written about how ravens will share food with each other in the dead of winter, and scientists Frans de Waal have studied how primates will help their sick and take care of their elders. We may have a lot in common with animals, but we also need to respect them for who they are, not for what we think they are. This is a truth that I discover, and share with you, on so many of my BigAnimals trips.
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LongTimeVegan wrote:[Flat DB Press: 4x8 with 80lb DBs
DB Pullovers: 4x8 with 60,60,55,55lb DBs
(These excercises were Superset with no rest between excercise 1 & 2, then 2-3 minutes rest before beginning again)
I love to supperset benchpress with pullovers. Never done any supersetting before starting this program I'm on now, really cool stuff! I also like tri-sets, no need for cardio!


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text: World Ag Expo Launches Video Contest with $3,000 Grand Prize October 14, 2013 05:22 AM Tweet World Ag Expo, to be held Feb. 11-13, 2014 in Tulare, Calif., is the largest annual agricultural show of its kind, with 1,400 exhibitors displaying cutting-edge agricultural technology and equipment on 2.6 million square feet of show grounds. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email Public will vote for top "Feeding Tomorrow's World" entries in December. Source: World Ag Expo Tulare, Calif. - World Ag Expo is calling for video submissions to tell the story of agriculture for a chance to win $3,000. The contest will focus on World Ag Expo's theme for 2014, "Feeding Tomorrow's World." Entrants are asked to tell the true story of agriculture and the people who work to provide the products we enjoy. Entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges. The top videos will be posted at www.WorldAgExpo.org and the public will vote for their favorites beginning in December 2013. "Farmers and ranchers are dedicated to providing us with a safe and consistent supply of food and fiber. We want the public's help to tell their stories," said Jerry Sinift, chief executive officer of the International Agri-Center. "The contest challenges you to come up with a creative way to tell the great story of agriculture, and we can't wait to see the results!" The winner will be announced on January 31, 2014 and awarded the $3,000 cash prize. The top video will be posted on World Ag Expo's website and will play during the show, Feb. 11-13, 2014 in Tulare, Calif. The winner will be recognized at World Ag Expo. To enter, upload your video to your own YouTube or Vimeo account and complete the online entry form on the World Ag Expo website. Videos must be at least 30 seconds long and may not exceed six minutes. Anyone 30 years of age or younger is eligible to enter. All videos must be submitted by Dec. 1, 2013. Visit www.WorldAgExpo.org for full rules and the online entry form. The International Agri-Center is home to World Ag Expo, Feb. 11-13, 2014 in Tulare, Calif. An estimated annual average of 100,000 individuals from 70 countries attends World Ag Expo each year. The Expo is the largest annual agricultural show of its kind with 1,400 exhibitors displaying cutting-edge agricultural technology and equipment on 2.6 million square feet of show grounds. Back to news


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UPDATE: All the tickets to the raffle are now sold out.
Ducati's Desmosedici RR is about as close to a MotoGP race bike as you can get on the street. But with a $72,500 price tag, the Desmo replica is a bit out of the price range for most mortals, so what if we told you could get one for $40? That's what's going on right now with the Los Feliz Charter School raffle, sponsored by ProItalia. There's only a hundred or so of these $40 tickets left, so if you want a chance of snagging a Desmosedici on the cheap, you better act fast.


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