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Fans of jams, jellies, and marmalades will have a chance to watch chefs and small-batch companies make and serve these tasty treats in the working kitchen of the Museum's special exhibition Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture. The menu includes avocado jam with dates on Wednesday, June 19, and cherry jam on Friday, June 21.
Fruit preserves of one kind or another have been made for thousands of years.
Today, many jams and other preserves are made using "canning" techniques. Canning protects food from spoiling in two ways: sterilizing the food by heating it enough to kill all microbes and preventing new microbes from entering the sealed container once the food cools.
As the exhibition also points out, industrial canning methods used today date "back to the early 1800s, when French chef Nicolas Appert invented the technique. The French military had offered a reward for anyone presenting an effective way to preserve food for soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars." (French armies also played a role in the creation of margarine, as "Mad Men" fans learned last month when Peggy, a copywriter on the margarine account, noted that the long-lasting spread "was invented for Napoleon III...because armies need to move, and it never spoiled.")
Many other techniques preserved foods before refrigeration came along, as the exhibition explains. In addition, sugar, often used in jams, jellies, and other preserves, keeps bacteria from growing by drawing water from cells.
Learn more in Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture, open through Sunday, August 11.
The exclusive corporate sponsor for Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture is J.P. Morgan.
Additional support for Our Global Kitchen and its related educational and online resources has been provided by GRACE Communications Foundation.
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The entire quilt was free-machine quilted where I quilted petals from the centre of the circles and then did a large meander in the blue areas of the quilt.
I ended up making 12 blocks and set them together in a 3x4 setting.
This quilt was quite a lot of fun to put together as each wheel was different. I think I wouldn't mind trying the design again but in scrappy fabrics and maybe even bigger circles...now wouldn't that be fun!
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The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct driver license roadside safety checkpoints during the week of July 22 at Hwy. 70 and Poland Hollow Road in Roane County.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by unqualified drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by drivers who would violate the driver license laws of Tennessee.
Crack cocaine was allegedly found on a Rockwood man already wanted on drug charges.
According to an arrest report, a Rockwood police officer saw Elvin Landis Witherspoon walking in Evans Heights on Thursday.
The report said Witherspoon, 30, was arrested after the officer was advised of his active warrants for drug charges.
"Upon taking subject into custody, he advised he had a $20 rock in his left pocket," the report said. "I removed it and he stated that it was crack cocaine."
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A Rockwood man charged with selling cocaine agreed to fork over some money to a fund aimed at helping law enforcement fight the war on drugs.
Harlan Shane Clower was charged in October 2007 on two counts of selling cocaine. He appeared in Roane County Criminal Court on June 27.
"Mr. Clower, do you agree that there are ample facts for you to enter a plea of guilty without having those stated by the attorney general?" Judge Eugene Eblen asked.
Mortgage fraud schemes continue to be a major problem in communities across the nation, and combating them is one of the Department of Justice's highest priorities.
U.S. Attorney Bill Killian said the Eastern District of Tennessee is averaging one mortgage fraud case per month.
Total losses estimated by all the mortgage fraud cases currently being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office are in the tens of millions of dollars.
Assistant U.S. attorneys have been active in pursuing the prosecution of these cases.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct three sobriety roadside safety checkpoints during June in Roane County.
One of the checkpoints will be from 9 to 10 p.m. June 10 on Patton Lane (Hwy. 382) near the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Two checkpoints are planned on June 24 — from 8 to 9 p.m. at Hwy. 70 and Swan Pond Road, and from 10 to 11 p.m. on Pine Ridge Road (Hwy. 29).
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting two driver license roadside safety checkpoints in Roane County during June.
The first checkpoint will be from 5 to 6 p.m. June 3 near the railroad tracks on Pine Ridge Road (Hwy. 29).
The final checkpoint, from 1 to 2 p.m. June 17, will be on Fiske Heights Road.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting two driver license roadside safety checkpoints during May in Roane County.
A checkpoint is planned from 10 to 11 a.m. May 6 near the new bridge on Hwy. 58.
Another checkpoint, from 9 to 10 p.m. May 20, will be at Hwy. 70 and Poland Hollow Road.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct a sobriety roadside safety checkpoint on April 29 on Hwy. 27 at the Roane and Rhea County lines.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by intoxicated drivers, Troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by intoxicated drivers. The Tennessee Highway Patrol has found these sobriety checkpoints to be an effective means of enforcing DUI laws of Tennessee while ensuring the protection of all motorists.
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Since you are reading this blog, I assume you already know what DNS is and how does it function? If not, do not worry; let me put this in the simplest form ever. DNS refers to domain name system which associates the domain name of every website to its dedicated and unique IP address. This is done in order to make servers understand what a user is looking for. After all, not everyone knows English right? Or in this case, binary is the language to learn!
Now coming back to the topic,
What is DNS Spoofing?
In order to make you understand this technical attack on DNS, let me tell you some technicalities of DNS. When a user types a website in the browser, the browser sends the request firstly to the local DNS server. This request gets accepted by the local DNS server and the query is matched with the stored IP addresses in the database. When found, the Local DNS immediately sends the perfect response to the user with the required IP address. This is how a website is opened in the browser.
Now imaging a bug in the DNS server which breaks the core functionality of the server and confuses it with bogus IP addresses. The entire system will get hacked and you may lost all your personal belongings and secret data to the bug.
This is not any bug. Hell, this is not a bug at all. It is DNS Spoofing!
In simpler words, DNS spoofing is a type of DNS hacks which feeds the DNS server with malicious information about one or more domain names. This way, the DNS server responds to a query by redirecting the user to a bogus site without any warning or notice.
This, in-turn, results in e-mail hacking, bank account hacking, personal files hacking, system hacking and virus infections.
Scary. Isn't it?
This brings me to the next topic of this blog:
How to Prevent Yourself from Becoming a Prey to DNS Spoofing?
The way DNS servers work, there is no protocol to automatically locate the malware and eliminate it. However, there is an ultimate way by which this DNS hack can be tackled with:
Install a DNS Firewall:
DNS firewall is designed with pre-loaded set of instructions which prevents this kind of DNS hacks from happening. Since DNS spoofing is one of the most dangerous and widely spread DNS security issues, DNS firewall is the best way to approach it.
By taking the help of a DNS Firewall, you will be secured from the sites which attackers have created especially for spoofing purposes. Any attempt to play with your DNS settings will be restricted by the DNS Firewall and you'll be notified not to visit that site again.
Not only that, the bogus site will be added to the DNS Firewall's universal blacklist and hence, every users who have a firewall, will be protected against the blacklisted sites.
I hope I was helpful in this blog post about "What is DNS Spoofing and How can We Avoid it". Put your questions in the comment section below and I'll try my best to address them as quickly as possible!


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Open Day in Laboratory of Metallomics and Nanotechnology Vojtech Adam | added on Dec 14, 2011 | Czech Republic Laboratory of Metallomics and nanotechnology , Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno in the completion of the International Year of Chemistry organizes open day. They are ready to habitat, where visitors will be able to see the ingoing scientific laboratories and chemical analysis. The speech will be about nanotechnol
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Chemistry Week in Ecuador Bernardo Cordero | added on Sep 28, 2011 | Ecuador Conferences will be held in the most prestigious universities in Quito, Ecuador. Varied topics will be delivered by experts covering everything from the history of chemistry, application of ionizing radiation, nuclear engineering, environmental chemistry, applications of industrial chemistry, and Human Genome.
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Since it was formed in 1989, the ACT Academy of Sport (ACTAS) has assisted elite and potentially elite ACT athletes in reaching their potential across a variety of sports. These sports include athletics, baseball, basketball, cycling, hockey, football, rowing, netball, rugby union, rugby league, cricket and orienteering, as well as a large number of individual athletes in archery, triathlon, judo, boxing, wrestling, squash, table tennis, power-lifting, equestrian and volleyball.
The ACTAS was established by the Federal Government and filled the gap for developing ACT athletes involved in non-AIS sports.
Early scholarship holders who went on to great performances include Bruce Hick (rowing), the Rogers brothers (cycling), the Powell sisters (hockey) and Angela Kennedy (swimming former World Record holder).
Since 1992 the ACTAS has assisted 62 athletes in becoming Olympians, with 25 of those athletes competing at more than one Olympic Games. 29 ACTAS athletes have participated in the Paralympic Games, with 17 competing in more than one Games. 20 staff members from the ACTAS have been support staff or coaches at both Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Representatives from the ACTAS competing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics included Lisa Corrigan (athletics), Ged O'Mahoney (boxing), Oenone Wood (cycling), Matt D'Aquino (judo), Matthew Inabinet (shooting), Danny Ellis (cycling), Nicole Arrold and Sarah Young (hockey).
In total, ACTAS athletes have achieved 21 gold, 14 silver and 14 bronze medals from Olympic and Paralympic Games. Olympic medals consist of 4 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze.
The ACTAS recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary and named its Top 20 Athletes of All Time. Some distinguished Olympians from this list include Katrina and Lisa Powell (four gold medals- hockey), Michael York (one silver and two bronze medals- hockey), Michael Rogers (cycling), Ben Hardy (volleyball), Bruce Hick and Jane Robinson (rowing), Carl Valeri (football) as well as Joanne Brown and Sally McCreedy (four bronze medals- softball).
Nowadays the mission of ACTAS is to support the development of ACTAS athletes and enable them to gain national team selection for their sport.
The ACTAS is committed to the long term development, health and wellbeing of its' athletes. It aims to assist local and nationally identified athletes in gaining national team selection through embracing an athletic performance development model which allows athletes to mature as individuals through a competency based system.
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This means that the ACTAS is at the front line of support and development of ACT's Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games athletes.
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I've been out here working on our upcoming link building tool which should hit beta within the week. I can't say much about this tool, but when it launches you'll all get the gist. But luckily for us the Beta will be a very small taste of what we got cooking. Speaking of cooking….we decided to go out and make the most disgusting and fatty food we could think up. We succeeded. The entire set of food cost around $65 Canadian and we could barely eat a third of what we made.
If you'd like the recipe for the Poutine 2.0 you can check out Info Barrel! This mess was at least 6000 calories each bowl and I can honestly say I've never felt so sick in my life. This should keep us going for our all night coding session. I'm thinking of auctioning off the left overs on Ebay..any takers?


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Orthodontists Earn More Than CEOs: 10 Facts About Wages
The average U.S. orthodontist earns $196,270. The average CEO makes $178,400.
Those numbers, released Tuesday by the Labor Department, might come as a shock in some boardrooms. But they probably don't catch parents of crooked-teeth teenagers off guard. Both positions counted among the nation's ten best-paying occupations last year, according to a ranking of 821 jobs tracked by the government.
The discrepancy likely reflects the fact that the nation's 248,760 chief executives far outnumber the 5,570 orthodontists. A good number of those CEOs likely earn modest salaries at small companies. (The Labor Department calculates wages as a worker's base pay plus tips, commissions and bonuses tied to quotas or job completion. The figure excludes stock and year-end bonuses, overtime pay, clothing and tool allowances and other perks.)
The comparison is among several tidbits found in the latest data covering 2013. Here are 10 more:
1. The median pay for an athlete or sports competitor is $39,050, which is less than the Miami Heat pays LeBron James per quarter (of a basketball game.)
2. One out of every 17 jobs in America is held by a retail salesperson or a cashier. There are 4.5 million retail salespeople, the most of any occupation. That's followed by cashiers at 3.3 million. Average pay for those jobs: $12.20 per hour for retail sales and $9.82 for cashiers.
3. Anesthesiologists make the highest average salary of any profession: $235,070 a year. They even earn more than the doctors performing the operations. Surgeons have the second-highest average salary at $233,150.
4. The average annual pay of a nonfarm animal caretaker ($22,510) exceeds that of a child-care worker ($21,490).
5. Of the 10 largest occupations, only registered nurses — with an average annual salary of $68,910 — earn more than the national average for all occupations ($46,440).
6. Both athletic trainers and service-unit operators in the oil, gas and mining industry are precisely at the median annual salary for all U.S. occupations: $42,790.
7. The job with the lowest average hourly pay is a fast-food cook, at $9.07. Those burger flippers (and their peers) are in one of just three occupations with average annual pay of less than $19,000 a year. The others are shampooers – yes, shampooers — and fast-food servers.
8. Operators of nuclear-power reactors earn an average of $78,410 annually. That's less than real-estate brokers ($82,380) and funeral-service managers ($80,250).
9. The U.S. boasts 4.6 public-relations specialists for every reporter or correspondent. Those PR pros earn 40% more a year on average than journalists.
10. The median annual salary for economists is $93,070, which they'd probably say is more meaningful than their average salary of $101,450.


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My grandparents are far less racist than their parents were
The problem is that racism, or at least prejudicial thinking, is a natural human tendency. Given the number of stimuli that the average human must face every day, the mind automatically begins to form stereotypes and prejudices about different things simply in order to comprehend the world quickly enough.
Baby face: Infants know who you areWASHINGTON (CNN) -- Because of the way human brains develop, 6-month-old babies are better at recognizing certain faces than 9-month-old infants, a new study says.Even more surprising, those 6-month-olds are also better than adults at some face recognition, it contends.But there's a catch: It is non-human faces that the 6-month-olds excel at recognizing.In a study detailed in Science magazine, researchers discovered that the 6-month-olds had no problem distinguishing between individual humans or between individual monkeys. But just three months later, at 9 months of age, while babies could still tell the difference between human faces, they couldn't tell one monkey from another."Early in development, the brain is open to any face," said Charles Nelson, a child psychologist at the University of Minnesota. But apparently sometime between 6 and 9 months of age, he said, babies' brains "key in" on the fact that human faces are the ones they need to pay attention to.As people get older, they get better and better at detecting the subtle differences in the faces they see a lot: human faces, Nelson said. But at the same time, they lose the ability to detect differences in things they don't see a lot.It's a phenomenon called "cognitive narrowing."


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You may know The Arc best by our donation trucks often seen driving through neighborhoods throughout the country, or by visiting one of our local thrift stores which brings in revenue that helps to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). But did you know that The Arc does so much more? If you ever have a child, family member or other loved one diagnosed with any type of I/DD, you will quickly come to realize just how invaluable The Arc is, and come to appreciate in a new way all that The Arc does.
The Arc is the largest national organization of and for people with intellectual and related developmental disabilities and their families, promoting and protecting their human rights and actively supporting their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes. We foster respect and access, giving people with I/DD the power to achieve a full and satisfying life through a strong grassroots network of 140,000 members affiliated through more than 700 state and local chapters across the nation. At the national level, a 22 member national board of directors and a delegate body of representatives from each chapter guide The Arc's work. National headquarters staff located in Washington, D.C. carry out their decisions and directives.
The Arc was founded in 1950 by a small group of parents and other concerned individuals. At that time, little was known about the condition of intellectual disability (then referred to as mental retardation) or its causes; there were virtually no programs and activities in communities to assist in the development and care of children and adults with intellectual disability and or to help support families. In the early days the organization worked to change the public's perception of children with intellectual disability and to educate parents and others regarding the potential of people with intellectual disability. The Arc also worked to obtain services for children and adults who were denied day care, preschool, education and work programs. In 2010, The Arc celebrated its 60th anniversary.
The Arc works to ensure that the estimated 4.6 million Americans with intellectual and related developmental disabilities have the services and supports they need to grow, develop and live in communities across the nation. These services include, but are not necessarily limited to, early intervention, health care, a free and appropriate public education, and supports for their families. For adults, services and supports may include preparation for employment, help in finding a job, independent living skill training, leisure and recreation activities and any other supports needed across the lifespan.
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The Arc also educates policymakers, people with intellectual disability, service providers, families and the greater community on best practices and issues that impact people with intellectual disability and their families. The Arc's is a national force that creates the environment and the opportunities for people with intellectual disability and their families to have choices as they live their lives in the community.
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A native New Yorker, Ron St. John came to north central Florida in 1986, and has blazed a trail of innovation and expansion in dairy farming ever since.
St. John lives in Trenton, Fla. He owns five dairy farms, including two in Georgia, and has a new one under construction in Florida.
As a result of his dairy farming success, St. John has been selected as the 2011 Florida winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award.
St. John now joins eight other state winners from the Southeast as finalists for the award. The overall winner will be announced on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at the Sunbelt Ag Expo farm show in Moultrie, Ga.
Last year, he farmed 11,820 acres, including 6,995 acres of rented land and 4,825 acres of owned land. He has about 17,000 milk cows.
Confinement cows produce some 20,500 pounds of milk per cow per year, while cows in his grazing dairies produce about 14,000 pounds of milk per year.
After evaluating costs and returns of both confinement and grazing dairies, he says grazing dairies produce greater returns on investment. Labor costs are especially lower for grazing dairies.
He raises replacement heifers, keeps some for his own herd and sells the rest. He also buys herd bulls. The bulls are mainly used on his Georgia dairies and after artificial insemination at his Florida farms.
In Florida, he grows three crops per year, corn silage, forage sorghum and ryegrass. "We're growing brown midrib forage sorghum," says St. John. "It produces more digestible fiber and yields more than the forage sorghum we had grown. At some point, brown midrib sorghum may replace some of our corn."
Forages serve another purpose by using nutrients in the waste effluent he applies to the land. "The number of cows we keep is determined by how well we recycle nutrients," says St. John. "I like to think we're the ultimate recycler." He says corn is especially good at taking up nutrients.
He started his Georgia dairy operations in 1996.
In Georgia, the growing season isn't as long. If there's a Georgia crop that's short-changed, it is forage sorghum. "If we don't plant sorghum on time, we just plant ryegrass," he adds. "We get tremendous ryegrass yields in Georgia."
On his grazing dairies, he also relies on Tifton 85 bermudagrass that he over-seeds with oats and ryegrass for winter grazing.
Uses wide variety of feeds
He also uses a variety of feeds in his rations, including cottonseed, soybean meal, citrus by-products, hominy, wet distiller's grain and wet brewer's grain.
He markets milk through Southeast Milk cooperative. Latitude Foods based in Orlando, Fla., buys milk from the grazing dairies.
He hopes to invest in an anaerobic digester to convert dairy waste into methane gas. In addition, he's exploring technology to remove solids from waste and concentrate nitrogen so it can be applied as fertilizer.
"My dad was a county agent who tried vegetable farming before dairy farming," recalls St. John. "He was a child of the Depression and taught me to be conservative in financial dealings."
St. John drove a tractor to pull a hay baler when he was six years old. In 1960, when he was 14, his dad took his first vacation. While his dad was gone, a big barn burned down on the farm. It was a traumatic event, but St. John says, "It was one of the best things that could have happened to me because we built a modern milking parlor, and that encouraged my interest in dairying. After I graduated from Cornell University, my dad turned over the farm to me."
In time, his dairy in western New York became one of the state's biggest. St. John wanted to expand, but competition for land was fierce. At an Atlanta Dairy Herd Improvement Association meeting, he saw a Georgia Extension report that showed low costs for producing milk in the Southeast.
"That got my attention," he recalls. He explored dairy farming in Georgia, but learned that milk prices were higher in Florida, so he moved to the Sunshine State in 1986. "We located here for economic reasons, but we sure enjoy the weather," he says. "I remember a terrible blizzard that hit western New York in 1977, and I don't miss it a bit."
He farms in partnership with several good friends. "A good partnership is a good ship to ride in," explains St. John.
One partner is Peter Gelber who was raised in the Bronx and now manages the Georgia farms. Gelber's wife Elizabeth is a veterinarian who handles animal medicine issues for all of the dairies.
His other major dairy farming partner is William "Sandy" McArthur. Wes Grant is managing partner of Chiefland Farm Supply, a retail dealer for Ace Hardware, Purina Feeds, lumber and farm supplies.
Suwannee Valley Feeds is another of St. John's sideline businesses. It specializes in buying commodity feeds and in risk management through milk and feed ingredient futures trading.
He also invested in Tri County Metals, a roofing and truss fabrication business owned by a daughter and her husband.
Vertically integrated
These farm-related enterprises allowed St. John to vertically integrate his operation and be more competitive by containing input costs.
St. John sponsors a local soccer team and sits on the board of Palms Medical Group. He has been active in the New York Dairy Herd Improvement Association and was named Outstanding Young Farmer in New York by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
He currently sits on the board of Farm Credit of Florida and Southeast Milk Inc. He is also on Florida Farm Bureau's Dairy Advisory Committee and is on an advisory committee for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
He has also spoken on dairy farming to groups throughout the U.S. and in Brazil.
St. John's wife Marcia works as chief financial officer for Chiefland Farm Supply and assists with paying bills and handling finances for the dairy farms. She also sits on the board of the College of Central Florida Foundation.
They've been married 14 years and have four daughters from previous marriages. Ron's daughters include Jan who returned to the dairy after a 12-year career in farm lending, Christine who is an elementary school teacher in Kansas and Betsy who owns the roofing and truss business with her husband in Trenton, Fla. Marcia's daughter Brooke is a senior at Florida State University.
"I believe in expansion using the latest technology," says St. John. "We plan to expand our grazing dairies and capitalize on our competitive advantage with year-round grass."
Joshua Craft with Florida Farm Bureau is state coordinator for the Farmer of the Year awards. Joe Siegmeister, assistant director of field services with Florida Farm Bureau, nominated St. John for the award.
Siegmeister says, "He is pro-active on environmental issues. The digester is just the latest example. He also avoids the pitfalls that can grow into financial disasters."
As the Florida winner, St. John will now receive a $2,500 cash award and an expense paid trip to the Sunbelt Expo in Moultrie, Ga., from Swisher International of Jacksonville, Fla., a jacket and a $200 gift certificate from the Williamson-Dickie Company, and a $500 gift certificate from Southern States.
He is now eligible for the $15,000 that goes to the overall winner.
Other prizes for the overall winner include the use of a Massey Ferguson tractor for a year from Massey Ferguson North America, a custom made Canvasback gun safe from Misty Morn Safe Co., and another $500 gift certificate from the Southern States cooperative.
Also, Williamson-Dickie will provide another jacket, a $500 gift certificate and $500 in cash to the overall winner.
Long-term relationship
Swisher International, through its Swisher Sweets cigar brand and the Sunbelt Expo are sponsoring the Southeastern Farmer of the Year awards for the 22nd consecutive year. Swisher has contributed some $844,000 in cash awards and other honors to southeastern farmers since the award was initiated in 1990.
Previous state winners from Florida include: Ernie Nunez of Dade City, 1990; Ernie Nunez of Dade City, 1991; Wayne Wiggins of Plant City, 1992; Leroy Baldwin of Ocala, 1993; Billy Long of Apopka, 1994; Richard Barber of Ocala, 1995; Al Bellotto of Lakeland, 1996; Rex Clonts of Apopka, 1997; John Hoblick of DeLeon Springs, 1998; Doug Holmberg of Valrico, 1999; Damon Deas of Jennings, 2000, Gene Batson of Mount Dora, 2001; William Putnam of Alturas, 2002; Sonny Williamson of Okeechobee, 2003; Dale Sauls of Anthony, 2004; Louis "Red" Larson of Okeechobee, 2005; Damon Deas of Jennings, 2006; Alto "Bud" Adams of Ft. Pierce, 2007; Randy Strode of Longwood, 2008; Cary Lightsey of Lake Wales, 2009; and John Hundley of North Palm Beach, 2010.
Florida has had six overall winners: Ernie Nunez of Dade City, 1991; Leroy Baldwin of Ocala, 1993; Rex Clonts of Apopka, 1997; Doug Holmberg of Valrico, 1999: Louis "Red" Larson of Okeechobee, 2005; and Cary Lightsey of Lake Wales, 2009.
St. John's farm, along with the farms of the other eight state finalists, will be visited by a distinguished panel of judges during the week of Aug. 1-5.
The judges this year include Jim Bone, a retired field development manager for DuPont Crop Protection from Valdosta, Ga.; Charles Snipes, a retired Mississippi Extension weed scientist who is president and research scientist with Stoneville R&D, Inc., from Greenville, Miss.; and John McKissick, longtime University of Georgia Extension ag economist from Athens, Ga.


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Just poking around online and came across this Popular Mechanics article from 2008 titled10 Best Car Chases in Movie History: Does Wanted Make the List? (By John Pearley Huffman, Published on: June 26, 2008)
So the list consisted of car chases in these films. (Note: This article was from 2008)
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- The Blues Brothers
- To Live and Die in LA
- Smokey and The Bandit
- Against All Odds
- The French Connection
- Bullitt
- Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
- Vanishing Point
- Ronin
And they ranked the car chase from Ronin the #1 Car Chase of all time… Pretty impressive. Take a look.
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It's 1956, and working-mother Ava Lark and her son, Lewis, have rented a house in a less-than-welcoming Boston suburb. There, Lewis finds he is only able to befriend the other fatherless kids on the block, Jimmy and Rose. But when Jimmy goes missing, neighborhood paranoia ramps to new heights, further ostracizing Ava and Lewis.
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- MissSusie66
- 30-07-2013
Emotionally Complex
This is such a unique tale, set in the 50's divorced mother Ava and her son Lewis find it hard to fit into their Boston suburb because Ava is *Gasp* divorced so she must be a wanton woman after every man in town but that isn't the case Ava is just trying her best for her and her son. Lewis has his own set of problems being the child of a divorcee' but there are a brother and sister, Jimmy & Rose, that don't have a father either and they bond and become best friends until the horrible day when Jimmy goes missing and everything changes.
This book is told from the perspective of an adult Lewis who has had his share of relationship problems with not only women he has dated but with his mom too. When the truth comes out about Jimmy's disappearance things don't become any easier for Lewis, Rose & Ava.
This was a complex story, filled with emotion, it is a family drama and a story of how friendships can change when something bad happens especially when you are young. I truly loved this book it is so well written that even though it isn't an edge of your seat thriller type book it still grabbed me and I didn't want to stop reading/listening. There were times when I thought if you people would just talk to each other maybe some of these long held misunderstandings could have been avoided but that is what made this book all the more real, these are real people dealing with huge events in the best way they know how and that isn't always easy.
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- 11-06-2013
A Story I Couldn't Walk Away From
This is a story that moved slowly through the lives of a woman and her son as it revealed their individual experiences in a pointedly discriminatory society, and it had a mesmerizing way of holding my attention.
The book is about the bare bones existence of a divorced women and her son in the 1950's and beyond; and about how people evolve, redefine themselves, escape their pasts and then return to those pasts over and over again.
I wondered all the way through where the story was going. . . and in time, there was a mystery to be resolved.In addition there was a need for recompense and healing that was a long time coming.
Key elements: A lost boy thought to be kidnapped; a boy who was lost because of an absent parent; a mother with great expectations but no means to achieve them; and a social climate (friends, neighbors, bosses, teachers, counselors) that dampened aspirations. These elements give this book lots of depth. The characters are people you will admire, have empathy for and yet, at times, waiver between holding in disdain for their lack of bravery and willpower and cheering for their meager accomplishments when the world seems against them.
I like this book and the only flaw was in the narrator's attempts to create male voices, child voices and differentiation among female characters. Her efforts were grand, the results not so much.
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David Cohn has been busy. After three years developing Spot.us, a non-profit for community-based reporting, he's handing over the reins to the Public Insight Network and moving on to a new project, Circa. I met David Cohn last year while I was interning at the San Francisco Public Press, where we used Spot.us to fund the housing and homelessness beat that I reported on. Cohn was in Istanbul when I emailed, so I sent him the questions for this Q&A and he was nice enough to send me some video clips recorded on his iPad. Ah, technology!
Was there a Eureka moment when you started Spot.us three years ago?
There kind of was. At the time I had worked a lot in distributed reporting, or sometimes called citizen journalism- I was doing that with Jay Rosen. I was also the research assistant for the guy who coined the phrase "crowd sourcing" a guy named Jeff Howe. So I was researching a chapter on crowd funding. The Eureka moment was when I was reading a friends blog, it's late at night, it might have been three four in the morning and I thought he was writing about crowd funding for journalism. I remember my heart started beating fast. I was like man that was a really good idea; I wish I had thought of it. I couldn't sleep that well that night and I woke up in the morning, not that much later maybe 8 o'clock and I realized he wasn't talking about crowd funding at all, he was talking about something completely different.
The non-profit model seems like a natural fit for Spot.us, what were some of the benefits and drawbacks of using the non-profit business model?
The main reason I did it was just because the nature of what we were doing was asking people for money—money for what I would call a common good or communal good. The best way I thought to get people to do that would be quick and easy via a tax deductible donation. So that was one of the benefits, was to earn peoples trust in giving donations. They weren't purchasing something, they weren't getting exclusive access to anything, it was for the common good. The main downside was non-profits and for-profits all have to raise money. I think it's a little bit easier to actually to raise money when you are a for-profit. I'm learning that a little bit now with Circa. People are ready to give $50,000 or $100,000 if they think it's going to come back two or three fold, whereas non-profit people are willing to give you $100,000 if they think it is for is a cause they believe in. Which is much more nebulous and there are fewer types of people giving in that philanthropic sense.
You are no longer involved with Spot.us as of March, following the Public Insight Network acquisition it in November. Is it hard to walk away after three successful years?
Certainly it's a little difficult. Spot.us is something I started from scratch. I started it when I was turning 25 about to turn 26. As a result I feel invested in it. It's sort of my baby on the web. At the same time I think it was just time for me to move on personally. I've been working on it over three years, and on the web that's a long time. It was the longest time I had ever worked on a project or any organization. I am always interested pushing boundaries and the boundaries I was interested in pushing on Spot.us had been pushed. I was also really happy Public Insight Network was there, there was no reason to shut us down, and there was money in the bank.
Was it difficult to transition? How did you prepare to hand over the reins?
The transition was about six months and I also stayed on for another 4 months so it was almost a full year. All in all, the main thing was just that the spirit of Spot.us remains and that they are going to honor the spirit of it.
Will the integration with the Public Insight Network change anything about the way Spot.us will fundamentally work?
In truth its not up to me that's the point. I think that Public Insight Network may change certain things American Public Media may change certain things. If they do change it I'm sure they are doing it because they earnestly think its stuff they have to change to make the site better. That's certainly fine. Any organization that goes from two or three people which is what Spot.us has been for two or three years to an organization the size of American Public Media which is very very large, $110 million non-profit, they are just going to do things different— that's the nature of the beast. So I think there are things they are going to change and I look forward to seeing it. I hope it's going to make it better than it is now.
What was it like being your own boss?
There's certainly a lot of freedom but what you gain in freedom you give up in relief— or you gain in stress. There is no complaining about the boss. If something's not going the way you want it to, there's nobody to blame but yourself and you just have to get up and go and do it. That's the downside but that's also the upside.
What do see for the future of online community-based reporting?
I will say I do believe I am bullish about the future of community reporting. I think journalism is healthier than it has been before. The journalism industry isn't necessarily as healthy as it was before, but I do believe there are more acts of journalism than there have ever been before in history. One follows the other, there's been lot of disruption but there will also be a lot of new business models and things to build upon them. It's important to keep in mind we're in the top of the second inning or maybe the bottom of the second—it's way too early to call any game.
Did you learn any lessons from Spot.us that you'll take into your next project?
I think there a ton of lessons. I like to break it down for lessons for me personally and lessons for the larger journalism community. On that second one, there's a few things there. One is the specifics around community or crowd funded reporting are low hanging fruit. It's very possible. It's not hard for news organizations to try or individuals to try. I don't think that it is the saving grace of how to fund journalism, but I do believe it is low hanging fruit and it will actually continue to grow. Now there is this sense of entrepreneurial journalism more people are into it, studying it, preaching it and practicing it, which is fantastic. Spot.us was an early example of that, this sort of fail early, try an idea and see what happens kind of attitude, which I think is benefiting the larger community. Me personally it is sort of impossible to list all the many things I learned. Obviously everything from running a non-profit, dealing with taxes, having a payroll, managing the development process, working with freelancers, and that's not even to touch the editorial lessons, working with all types of different journalists and news organizations, so it's sort of countless.
Can you tell me anything more about Circa?
While I won't say anything too specific I will that it's going to push more boundaries— a totally different set of boundaries from Spot.us, which is about transparency and participation in the process of journalism, particularly around the finances of journalism, and exposing that in a way it hadn't been exposed before. Circa is going to push boundaries more in how we think of and understand the process of journalism and the consuming habits of people with journalism. It's really early to tell so we'll see.