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One of the fun aspects of each wrestling season is debating which team is the best in the Baltimore area.
This year, the conversation centers on whether defending Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference and Maryland Independent Schools champion McDonogh is at the top, or whether the No. 1 ranking belongs to a public school squad, like Winters Mill or River Hill, which both return strong teams after winning the Class 2A-1A and Class 4A-3A state championships, respectively, last season.
It's a lot like figuring out the national champion in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. There is no playoff that includes everyone to settle the matter.
But early this season, Maryland's wrestling fans will have a better idea about the answer than they may have ever had before.
No. 1 McDonogh, No. 2 Winters Mill and No. 3 River Hill will be joined by No. 5 John Carroll and No. 12 Wilde Lake in a 10-team field at the McDonogh Holiday Duals on Dec. 28 and 29 to find out which school reigns supreme.
It's a gathering so rare that no one can remember when three defending state champions last met in one place.
The seed for the meeting was planted last March when Winters Mill coach John Lowe noted his team ended the 2011-12 season with a 32-0 record, earning both the Class 2A-1A state tournament and state duals titles. But the Falcons finished No. 2 in The Baltimore Sun's final poll, behind McDonogh, which won the MIAA and MIS titles before finishing fourth at the National Preps championships.
"We're going to the McDonogh [Holiday] Duals and settle this," Lowe said when he was selected as the All-Metro Coach of the Year.
Lowe and McDonogh coach Pete Welch have been friends for decades, and the rivalry between the two men and their teams, while real, is friendly -- as it is with River Hill coach Brandon Lauer, who was coached by both.
"I don't see any negatives in this," Lauer said. "Maryland wrestling is unique with the private schools and the public schools, which each have different rules. To have this opportunity is extremely rare. What this does is show that each program is willing to wrestle the best. Pete, John and I all want to just push our kids to get better. A meet like this will prepare everyone there for their postseasons."
While McDonogh, Winters Mill and River Hill once again appear to be the premier teams in the area, their conference, county and state rivals are seeking to dethrone them.
In the MIAA, John Carroll and No. 4 Archbishop Spalding appear to be the strongest challengers for the Eagles, but No. 10 Mount St. Joseph is getting tougher. No. 11 St. Paul's, despite losing several champions, including four-time MIAA and MIS champion Eric Friedman, still features a competitive team. With the talent level in the MIAA A Conference, almost no one can be overlooked.
"McDonogh takes big trips to tournaments like Beast of the East and the Ironman to face some of the best teams in the country and then they come home to Maryland to compete here," Lauer said. "This is our opportunity to get that same kind of experience by facing them. McDonogh is the best in Maryland and competes well on the national level. We can learn from that."
In Howard County, the Hawks will have to contend with the Wildecats, as well as No. 9 Reservoir, No. 12 Wilde Lake, Oakland Mills and Glenelg, while Winters Mill will get challenges from No. 14 South Carroll, No. 15 Liberty and Century.
Anne Arundel County's No. 6 South River, North County, Meade and Old Mill should make an impact heading into the postseason, while Harford County's Fallston, C. Milton Wright and Bel Air are teams to watch.
No. 7 Owings Mills, No. 8 Hereford and Sparrows Point lead the notable teams in Baltimore County, and Poly, Digital Harbor, Mervo and City will field strong programs in Baltimore City.
The McDonogh Holiday Duals should provide a glimpse into which local team deserves to be No. 1, but are Winters Mill and River Hill also carrying the weight of public school wrestling on their shoulders?
"I didn't think of that pressure until you just brought it up," Lowe said. "McDonogh has a strong team and has earned its reputation. [It has] some advantages, being able to recruit across the East Coast. We have a completely different dynamic. I get ninth graders, many of them have never wrestled before. It's my job to develop them in two years. Our players develop at a different rate in different environments. I wouldn't say we're apples and oranges, but we're different kinds of apples.
Our goal is to come out as unscathed as possible. That's the goal of every underdog."
Kenwood coach John Cooper, a former Archbishop Curley wrestler who is in his first year with the Bluebirds, said he will watch the McDonogh event with interest, but he doesn't think the results will carry the same impact as they would have decades ago when there was very little crossover or mixing of private and public school wrestlers.
"The sport has evolved so much since I went to Curley [in the 1980s] and some of my friends went to Overlea," Cooper said. "Public school kids now have a sense of pride in their schools and sport. I think there is a sense of respect. It's 'Hey, we're all competitors. I want to wrestle the best guy.' I think this match is a great thing. You want your wrestlers to meet the best. If you've got exceptional wrestlers like those teams do, you should be competing with each other."
The outcome will inspire others, Hereford coach Ron Causey said.
"Meets like this make your kids tougher," Causey said. "I think anytime you take good wrestlers and give them great competition, it's exciting. It's not equal footing at McDonogh, but I think Winters Mill can hang with McDonogh just fine."
At McDonogh, Welch smiles.
"I think this is pretty awesome," he said. "We have all three state champions in Maryland coming here to go at each other. I'm not thinking about how they match up with us, I think it's more about how we match up with them. I'm just excited to have such good competition within our state."


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Classes of 2002 & 2003 Reunion Weekend
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A Study of ISIS 2922 in the Treatment of Advanced Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002187
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : June 24, 2005
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|Cytomegalovirus Retinitis HIV Infections
|Drug: Fomivirsen sodium
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Comparison of Two Dosage Schedules of Intravitreal ISIS 2922 for Patients With Advanced Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
- Oral ganciclovir.
- Leukocyte growth factors (GM-CSF and G-CSF) for patients with febrile neutropenia.
Patients must have:
- Documented AIDS.
- Clinical diagnosis of advanced CMV retinitis in 1 or both eyes.
- >= 2 previous induction courses with anti-CMV retinitis therapy licensed by a regulatory agency.
- > 25% retinal involvement with CMV retinitis.
- Baseline CMV retinitis lesions which have leading edges > 1000 micrograms from the macula or optic disk.
Prior Medication:
- >= 2 previous induction courses with anti-CMV retinitis therapy licensed by a regulatory agency.
- All anti-CMV therapies other than ganciclovir must be discontinued no less than 2 days prior to entry.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms and conditions are excluded:
- External ocular infection in the eye to be treated.
- Other herpetic infections of the retina, toxoplasma, retinochoroiditis, or other disease of the fundus that would preclude assessment of CMV retinitis in the eye to be treated.
- Ocular conditions that will obstruct visualization of the posterior ocular structures on the eye to be treated.
- Retinal detachment in the eye to be treated.
- Ganciclovir implant in the eye to be treated.
- Known or suspected allergy to phosphorothioate oligonucleotides or intolerance of ISIS 2922.
- Silicone oil in the eye to be treated.
- Pseudoretinitis pigmentosa.
- Syphilis.
Patients with the following prior conditions are excluded:
- History of surgery to correct retinal detachment in the eye to be treated.
History of syphilis.
1. Systemic anti-CMV therapies other than oral ganciclovir.
- Mellaril, Stelazine, chlorpromazine and clofazimine.
- Combination use of ethambutol and fluconazole.
- Investigational medications and/or procedures for the treatment of CMV retinitis in the eye to be treated.
- Ganciclovir implant delivery device in the eye to be treated.
- Ganciclovir other than oral.
- Foscarnet.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00002187
|United States, California
|Retina - Vitreous Associates Med Group
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90017
|Community Eye Med Group
|Pasadena, California, United States, 911052536
|Univ of California San Francisco / SF Gen Hosp
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|Dr Jacob Lalezari
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
|United States, District of Columbia
|Dr Alan Palestine
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20006
|United States, Florida
|Dr Julio Perez
|Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, 33060
|United States, Georgia
|Georgia Retina
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30327
|United States, Illinois
|Chicago Ctr for Clinical Research
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60610
|Univ of Illinois
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana Univ Med Ctr
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|United States, New York
|New York Univ Med Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Vitreo - Retinal Consultants
|New York, New York, United States, 10028
|United States, North Carolina
|Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Association
|Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28204
|Duke Univ
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Hahnemann Univ Hosp
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 191021192
|United States, Texas
|Baylor College of Medicine
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|United States, Washington
|Novum Inc
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00002187 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 24, 2005
|Last Verified:
|December 1998
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Antiviral Agents
Drug Administration Schedule
Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
Vitreous Body
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Retinal Diseases
Eye Diseases
Cytomegalovirus Infections
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Eye Infections, Viral
Eye Infections
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents


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Fred Fuller says company will reimburse state for hotline costs
By TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
Answers still sought from Fred Fuller
Fred Fuller to meet with NH officials on reimbursement of oil delivery hot line
CONCORD — Fred Fuller Oil and Propane, which was dogged with late oil deliveries and a malfunction of its telephone system last month, has agreed to reimburse the state for the costs associated with running a 24-hour hot line for customers and set up a fund for inconvenienced customers, the company owner, Fred Fuller, said in a letter to the state.
In a letter to Perry E. Plummer, director of the state's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office, Fuller said: "Although there is no requirement for us to reimburse the State of New Hampshire for the assistance provided, we think it is the responsible thing for us to do on behalf of the goodwill provided by you and the State of New Hampshire." The letter was dated Feb. 1.
The letter comes after the company's attorney, Simon C. Leeming, said Friday that Fred Fuller Oil would determine on Monday, following a meeting with Plummer, whether to reimburse the state the $20,972.44 in costs associated with running the hot line.
Gov. Maggie Hassan and Plummer started the hot line Jan. 7 after fielding customer calls concerning heating fuel deliveries and tanks either nearing empty or running on empty amid a cold snap. Some customers were unable to get through to the Hudson-based Fred Fuller Oil, which had experienced major phone system problems.
The hot line was staffed around-the-clock for nearly six days.
"We have received the letter and Governor Hassan greatly appreciates that Fred Fuller intends to do the right thing on behalf of his customers and the people of New Hampshire," Marc Goldberg, Hassan's spokesman, wrote in an email.
In a letter to Fred Fuller Oil on Jan. 23, Plummer noted that the call center handled 3,832 incoming calls and 1,862 different cases and made 2,745 return calls to residents as follow-ups.
"I want to commend you and your agency that worked with us around the clock to mitigate the unfortunate circumstances that lead to the delivery backlog," Fuller wrote to Plummer.
Fuller said the company, in addition to reimbursing the state, will "match that amount and create a fund to assist those customers of ours that were inconvenienced by this situation. We will be working out the details associated with this fund and communicating that to our customers that experienced problems."


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With Barack Obama now promising to put his "full weight" behind gun control next year, the clear response should be for the blogosphere to respond with a concerted effort to highlight how law-abiding citizens use legal weapons for self-defense and crime deterrence, and not just for hunting. It ought to be the new year's resolution in fact. (Yes, given that the rail-thin Obama's "full weight" wouldn't budge a half-full Whole Foods shopping cart, maybe this is another of his clever empty boasts, but still.)
Every issue of The American Rifleman, the NRA's magazine, contains a feature on "The Armed Citizen," with true stories reflecting the title of crimes thwarted. For example, the latest typical Armed Citizen item goes as follows:
After locking up, a female employee of Cakes and Confections 4U was leaving the business through a back door when she realized she was cornered by two strange men. One man struck her in the jaw while the other ripped off her necklace and earrings. When the men then attempted to sexually assault the woman, she produced a concealed .32 cal. firearm from her waistband and fired. Both men immediately dropped the stolen jewelry and ran. It was last reported that the assailants were still at large. After the incident, the woman said her firearm saved her life and that she had a strong message to all women, "If you don't have a gun or you're scared of guns, get familiar with them and get a gun."
Now, I'm going to go way out on a limb here here and estimate that the number of journalists who read The American Rifleman in the newsrooms of our elite media outlets (NY Times, WaPo, LA Times, ABNBCBS, CNN, etc) is, in approximate round numbers, zero. And since the media is actively hostile to the Second Amendment anyway, they won't report these stories in any case. So we'll need to do it loudly and often. Power Line readers are invited to send in their own stories in the comment thread here, or pass along stories reported in their local press.
I'll go first. Some months ago a cousin of mine at an ATM machine had a knife put to his back, along with the demand for all his money. Unfortunately for the assailant, my cousin, an off-duty Army MP, was packing his piece. The assailant is now in jail, and my cousin still has his wallet.
Meanwhile, some clever person going by the handle "ma5one" has produced this video skewering the hypocrisy of the Hollywood left on this issue. Yeah, I know, low-hanging nuts, but still. . . (Warning: Language alert—sort of like most Hollywood movies.)
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds.


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Does anyone know the code in either perl or C++ for perceptrons?
Perceptrons, for those who don't know, are like electronic neurons in AI.
My name is Draxx...you simians may refer to me merely as \'sir\' for a less syllable-intensive workout.
An introductory comment:
If you are just a starter into the world of neuronal networks,
I recommend also to study fluxes in a network in parallel. The
later can be used in large scale "ethernet" networks (in the
end possibly well paid ), and the correlations between the two
are large. For a start, check Robert Sedgewick's Algorithms[1].
Well, in any case, Sedgewick's book is a must.
A MATLAB comment:
I have no experience with the c/c++ packages I mention below,
but they made the impression to create a good fundament to built
upon. However, if you have available MATLAB I highly recommend the
neuronal network toolbox[2]. It is easy to develop in this framework
and quite similar to c/c++. And it is an industrial standard.
Some c/c++ packages/libraries:
A collection of basic implementation/algorithms can be found at
neural-networks-at-your-fingertips[3]. A typical project is
Annie[4], some more general machine-learning environment can
be found at Torch[5].
If you are already familiar with the backpropagation algorithms,
you may have noticed it is very slow/inefficient in realistic
scenarios. A good paper[6] dealing with its optimization has been written
by Schiffmann (a google for "schiffmann neural network" also is interesting).
A kind of review can be found at the datamininglab[7], which also deal with
global network optimization.
You did not specify your current state of knowledge, so I tried
to cover the whole spectrum a little bit.
Have fun (it's been a while I played with these, but I really enjoyed
it - and got paid at the same time).
[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846
[2] http://www.mathworks.com/access/help...nnet/nnet.html
[3] http://www.neural-networks-at-your-fingertips.com/
[4] http://annie.sourceforge.net/
[5] http://www.torch.ch/
[6] www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxt/NC/schiffmann.bp.pdf
[7] www.datamininglab.com/pubs/Elder92_PRaGNO.pdf
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
(Abraham Maslow, Psychologist, 1908-70)
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The appointment of Abu Mazen as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority has received a lot of publicity, some of it optimistic, but Haaretz reports that in Israel, little change is expected:
"Military Intelligence told the political echelon at the beginning of the week that the new Palestinian government headed by Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has no intention of uprooting the terrorist infrastructure."
Haaretz also anticipates that the states and other organizations that support Palestinian terror will be exerting strong pressure for more violence:
"As far as the terror organizations are concerned, the coming months will be an all-out race. After the defeat in Iraq and the total lack of violent resistance to the American powers in Iraq, the main focus returns to Israel and the territories. For the elements that direct the Palestinian terror from outside the territories – Syria, Hezbollah and especially Iran – there is enormous importance to a renewal of the terror against Israel now, especially in light of Tehran's fears that Damascus might concede to American pressure and limit activity of the terror organizations in Damascus."
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If you want a conventional liberal/realist view of Obama's coalescing second term foreign policy team, you probably can't do better than to take a look at David Ignatius's Washington Post column comparing Barack Obama with Dwight Eisenhower. I won't say anything more about it other than that it has caused me a slight setback in my anger management therapy.
For a more realistic assessment of the "realists," such as they are, let us turn to Barry Rubin. In "Noxious nominations: Four horsemen of the American foreign policy apocalypse" Rubin lets it rip. The four horsemen are Obama and his nominees John Kerry at State, Chuck Hagel at Defense and John Brennan at the CIA. Rubin is good on all of them, particularly so on Brennan:
–Their ideas and views are horrible. This is especially so on Middle Eastern issues but how good are they on anything else? True, they are all hostile to Israel but this isn't the first time people who think that way held high office. Far worse is that they are pro-Islamist as well as being dim-witted about U.S. interests in a way no foreign policy team has been in the century since America walked onto the world stage.
Brennan is no less than the father of the pro-Islamist policy. What Obama is saying is this: My policy of backing Islamists has worked so well, including in Egypt, that we need to do even more! All those analogies to 1930s' appeasement are an understatement. Nobody in the British leadership said, "I have a great idea. Let's help fascist regimes take power and then they'll be our friends and become more moderate! That's the equivalent of what Brennan does.
–They are all stupid people. Some friends said I shouldn't write this because it is a subjective judgment and sounds mean-spirited. But honest, it's true. Nobody would ever say that their predecessors—Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, and David Petraeus—were not intelligent and accomplished. But these guys are simply not in that category. Smart people can make bad judgments; regular people with common sense often make bad judgments less often. But stupid, arrogant people with terrible ideas are a disaster.
Brennan's only life accomplishment has been to propose backing radical Islamists. As a reward he isn't just being made head of intelligence for the Middle East but for the whole world! Has Brennan any proven administrative skill? Any knowledge of other parts of the world? No. All he has is a proximity to Obama and a very bad policy concept. What's especially ironic here is that by now the Islamist policy has clearly failed and a lot of people are having second thoughts.
With Brennan running the CIA, though, do you think there will be critical intelligence evaluations of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizballah, or even Hamas? Is the CIA going to warn U.S. leaders about the repression against women, Christians, and moderates? Will there be warnings that Islamists are taking over Syria or reports on Islamist involvement in killing Americans in Benghazi? Can we have confidence about U.S. policy toward Iran?
To get some insight into his thinking, consider the incident in which a left-wing reporter, forgetting there were people listening, reminded Brennan that in an earlier private conversation he admitted favoring engagement not only with the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah but also the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Ask yourself this question: when an American intelligence chief told Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood was a moderate, secular group who approved that line of argument?
That's a rhetorical question, but I'm thinking that, in addition to Brennan, David Ignatius may very well be the answer. Rubin in any event has much more in his excellent column, all of it worthy of your attention.


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Pacific's men volleyball team went to Los Angeles pulled off an upset.
Pacific's men volleyball team went to Los Angeles pulled off an upset.
The 15th-ranked Tigers beat No. 7 USC 25-18, 25-21, 26-28, 28-26 on Sunday at USC's Galen Center. It was Pacific's first win against the Trojans since 2007.
The Tigers (2-2, 1-2 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) had a shot at a sweep, but the Trojans (2-2, 2-1) rallied to take a game.
Junior Adam Troy led the Tigers with 15 kills, senior Taylor Hughes had 13 kills and 10 digs and sophomore Tommy Carmody had nine blocks and seven kills. Cristian Rivera had 12 kills for USC, and Micah Christenson had 34 assists.
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What Country Eats the Most Turkey?
by Nicholas Nehamas
Did you get your Thanksgiving turkey yet? We hope so, or someone from Mexico or China could be chowing down on your drumstick.
Turkey, you see, has moved well beyond the pilgrim's platter.
On a per capita basis, Israel might actually consume more turkey than the U.S. Yes, Israel.
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture data, Israelis ate 28.9 pounds of turkey in 1999, the last year for which statistics are available. That same year Americans ate 17.6 pounds of the mouthwatering fowl. Today we put away 16.1.
Because of land and climate constraints, red meat costs a lot of money in Israel. Turkey has become a popular alternative and is often served in pita bread as a shawarma.
In the U.S., we've known about the bird's succulent white meat since the 17th century. The Aztecs and other native cultures also relied on Meleagris ocellata—a different breed from our North American Meleagris gallopavo—for meat and eggs. And the United Kingdom has long celebrated Christmas with a dinner of roast turkey.
But the rest of the world didn't start catching on until the 1990s, according to Joel Brandenberger, president of the National Turkey Federation, a DC-based lobbying group.
"In 1990, the year before I came to work here," Brandenberger says,"the turkey industry exported 53.9 million pounds of turkey. This year the industry exported 728 million pounds, a record. What's equally as significant about that is, in 1990, about one percent of all the turkey produced in the U.S was exported. Now it's more like 13 percent."
The main beneficiary of all that extra turkey is Mexico, which imported almost 400 million pounds from the U.S. last year.
"I was in a supermarket in Guadalajara a couple of years ago," Brandenberger remembers, "and I went to the processed meat case and the volume of pavo products you'll find there is incredible." (Pavo is the Spanish word for turkey)
China (82.8 million pounds), Hong Kong (37.9 million), Canada (22.6 million), and the Dominican Republic (15.2 million) round out the top five importers.
A Bird on the Rise
Brandenberger points to several factors in turkey's global popularity. The U.S. government has expanded free trade by signing agreements like NAFTA and granting permanent normalized trade relations to China. Also consumers in the developing world can afford to buy more meat as their economies improve.
And Brandenberger says Americans' own pickiness has helped his industry grow.
"Americans for a lot of reasons tend to prefer white turkey meat . . . breast meat," he explains. "But most of the rest of the world prefers dark meat. So the items that Americans are least interested in then become available for trade, and that's helped us export aggressively."
The industry has also had success promoting its product as a useful alternative to other meats. When China's pork industry underwent a major crisis in 2007, Brandenberger says the USDA showed the Chinese how turkey could be used as a substitute in many of their processed meats.
Chinese annual consumption doubled to .09 pounds per person in 2008 before halving again the next year. After Israel and the U.S., the top per capita consumers of turkey are Canada (9.2), the European Union (7.9), Brazil (4.2) and Australia (3.7).
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The change in seasons should bring about more than just a change of wardrobe. It's important to check out your appliances and home systems now in order to help prevent unnecessary repairs when you need those systems the most.
Spencer County Circuit Court Clerk Becky M. Robinson participated in the 2011 Circuit Clerks Fall College that took place Nov. 15-17 at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Conference Center in Frankfort. The Administrative Office of the Courts provided the education program for the state's circuit court clerks. The theme for the event was Building Excellence in Changing Times.
Readers in areas served by community newspapers continue to prefer the community newspaper as their sources of local news and advertising. The 2011 results of an annual survey conducted by the National Newspaper Association and the research arm of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism show that 74 percent of people in communities served by a newspaper with circulations under 15,000 read a local newspaper each week.
The survey, in its sixth year, shows consistent trends.
On Saturday, the boys of Cub Scout Pack 465 in Taylorsville/Elk Creek will collect food in local neighborhoods to help the hungry in our community. All food collected will be taken to the Spencer County Family Resource and Youth Service Center.
Donations can be brought directly to Spencer Christian Church between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Once again, the Spencer County Public Library is sponsoring Food for Fines, a win-win situation for those who have late fees on books and DVDs and for those in need of food during these tough economic times.
The Food for Fines program is an effort by the Library to collect nonperishable food items in exchange for fine amnesty. According to Library Director, Debra Lawson, "The program received great community response last year and we are happy to bring it back."
State Rep. Brad Montell and Sen. Paul Hornback visited and spoke during the Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday. Both addressed the upcoming legislative budget session.
It's kick-off time. The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life event kick-off will be Tuesday at 6:30 at the Methodist Church. This is a pot luck soup and dessert, each team is invited. Bring a dish or dessert.
Relay For Life is the signature fund raising event of the world's largest non-profit health organization. Money raised will benefit the local and surrounding communities by providing education, advocacy, services and research related to cancer, Relay for Life event is a 24-hour event that will be held June 8, 2012.
Russell Miller's 'Ice Socks' team, which participates in the Polar Bear Plunge for the Special Olympics of Kentucky each year, attended a fall festival at the Millers' home to rally for next year's plunge. The team has raised over $200,000 for the Special Olympics since it started participating in the plunge in 2006. The team has grown from nine to 81 members and raised $66,030 in 2011.
Pictured are scenes from the 2011 Trick or Treat on Main Street event, which took place Monday.
The Spencer County Extension Service along with AARP will offer the AARP Safety Driver's Class on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Extension Office at 66 Spears Drive.
The class will last from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. with a short break around 11 a.m.
The class is open to any senior age 55 and older. AARP members pay $12 and nonmembers pay $14. Make checks payable to AARP and bring your driver's license and AARP cards, if applicable.
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Bautista starts as AL clinches home-field advantage
MINNEAPOLIS -- After an 0-for-2 performance in Tuesday's All-Star Game, it's back to work for Jose Bautista as he prepares to lead the Blue Jays in a second-half playoff push.
Though Bautista didn't make an impact in the box score, the American League came away with a 5-3 victory, a fact that the Blue Jays hope will be relevant to them in October.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- After an 0-for-2 performance in Tuesday's All-Star Game, it's back to work for Jose Bautista as he prepares to lead the Blue Jays in a second-half playoff push.
Though Bautista didn't make an impact in the box score, the American League came away with a 5-3 victory, a fact that the Blue Jays hope will be relevant to them in October.View Full Game Coverage
"We secured [home-field advantage] for the league," Bautista said. "It's always good to win any game you're participating in. The All-Star Game is no different. We played pretty good. We had some good at-bats from Mike Trout, Miguel Cabrera and Jose Altuve drove in a run with a sac fly. A lot of different people contributed. It was a good game."
Bautista struck out swinging in the bottom of the first and grounded out to third in the fifth inning of the AL's win. He nearly made a great catch in foul territory while playing right field during the third inning, but couldn't corral the ball.
"I got scared by the fans. I thought they were going to get their hands in there, and they didn't," Bautista said of the play. "I had a last-minute panic situation, and I dropped it. But Yu Darvish picked me up and we came out of the inning with no harm."
Bautista, who led all of baseball in fan voting this year, said he was thrilled to represent Toronto in the All-Star Game -- as he played in his fifth straight, which includes four straight starts.
"It was unbelievable. Awesome as always," Bautista said. "Minnesota was a great host. I've enjoyed my time here. I was busy, but it was pretty fun. There was stuff to do before and after the games and everybody seemed to be getting along great as a group. We have a little core group that keeps coming back every year and we're getting pretty acquainted with each other. It's nice to see everyone back."
Like many others, Bautista said one of his lasting images from this game would be the emotional farewell to Derek Jeter.
"It was amazing. He's a class act and one of the players that's going to be the most missed in the game today because of the way he goes about his business on and off the field. The moment was cool," Bautista said. "Everybody got up and clapped for him and cheered for him for a really long time, and that was pretty neat to see. I can't complain the last two years, having had the pleasure of seeing sendoffs like that."
With the Blue Jays currently sitting four games behind Baltimore in the AL East, Bautista hoped the All-Star break would be a refresher for the team, which has last eight of its last 10.
"We're close. We're only four games back," Bautista said. "If we get back to playing the way we were and we get the people that are hurt back on the field, it should be a good last two months of the season."
The outfielder was the only Blue Jay who saw action, as left-hander Mark Buehrle did not make an appearance in the game. The five-time All-Star said before the game he wouldn't be heartbroken if he missed out on the action.
"If there are some younger guys or some hometown guys they want to throw and they tell me they're not going to throw me, it's not going to be the end of the world," Buehrle said Monday. "I'm just here to have fun."
The Blue Jays' third All-Star selection, first baseman Edwin Encarnacion, did not make the trip to Minnesota after straining his right quad muscle on July 5.
Caitlin Swieca is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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ROCHESTER — On day two of an active investigation regarding a shooting during a home invasion at a Second Street home, Maine State Police report they are still trying to tie up "loose ends" and piece together what actually happened.
Spokesman for the Maine Police Department Steve McCausland said the victim – Richard Potorski, 42 – was the homeowner of the 11 Second Street property. Lt. Brian McDonough confirmed pon returning home for a lunch break early Tuesday afternoon, Potorski found a man in his home with a gun.
McCausland said it is still unclear what happened inside that home next but Potorski was reportedly shot in the shoulder and incurred a serious gunshot wound. He was flown by helicopter to Maine Medical Center with assistance from the Lebanon Rescue Department.
"He is expected to live," McCausland said. "…We've conducted some interviews but an interview with the homeowner is key here and we haven't been able to talk with him directly."
McCausland noted the black SUV recovered behind the Big Lots retail store in Rochester is owned by Potorski. Authorities believe the gunman shot the homeowner and then fled in the vehicle. McCausland said Rochester police were notified Tuesday afternoon when a Big Lots employee called to report the vehicle was abandoned on their loading dock. The area was roped off with crime scene tape around 2:30 p.m. as Rochester police looked through the back of business plaza for evidence with assistance from a Portsmouth Police Department K9 unit.
McCausland said the vehicle was returned to the Maine State Police Department for further processing, and noted the York County Sheriff's Office is assisting in the case along with the Rochester Police Department.
McCaulsand said there were no witnesses to the incident inside the Second Street home which has been classified as a home invasion.
"At this point we're still trying to determine the sequence of events of what happened inside that home on Tuesday," he said. "…We worked late into the night and are continuing to investigate this."
It is unknown at this time if the victim knew the gunman. McDonough noted investigators are still seeking a motive for the crime and will conduct an extensive "victimology" review, where they will interview the friends, family and co-workers of the victim to find why he was a target..


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The three elementary school-aged children of Latalia Robinson and Dean Hamilton were the first to discover their parents' lifeless bodies at the family's home on Sunday afternoon.
The three elementary school-aged children of Latalia Robinson and Dean Hamilton were the first to discover their parents' lifeless bodies at the family's home on Sunday afternoon after an apparent murder-suicide.
On Saturday, Hamilton took the children to his new place of residence, the home of his friend Winston Walsh, 5554 NW 57th Place, Ocala. He had moved into the home after a Dec. 17 court order temporarily awarded exclusive use of the couple's home outside Dunnellon to Robinson, 32, who had filed for divorce from Hamilton in November.
After spending Saturday together, Hamilton, 33, put his two daughters and a son to bed and said good night.
Sometime that night, he drove his 2004 Honda Pilot to the family home at 24113 NW Water Oak Ave. in Rainbow Lakes Estates. Inside, according to the official Marion County Sheriff's Office description, "an apparent domestic violence death" occurred.
Both Robinson and Hamilton were killed by apparent gunshot wounds, reports state.
On Sunday morning, Walsh realized Hamilton was gone. He told officials he tried for hours to call Hamilton and eventually figured out where the Water Oak Avenue home was located.
He drove there with the children and told them to go ahead into the house while he rolled up the windows of Hamilton's car because of the rainy weather.
A few moments later the children ran out of the house saying their parents were dead, according to reports.
The front door of the trim yellow home, which had been built in 2005, was damaged. A large dirt impression was found on the front door and part of the door jamb was broken off, according to reports.
Officers found Robinson dead on the bed in the master bedroom. Hamilton was found dead between the bed and the entrance to the master bathroom. A semi-automatic handgun was found on the floor near the bed, reports state.
On Monday, Sherry Downes remembered her friend.
"When I heard, it broke my heart. She was a good friend. I remember her bubbly personality," said Downes. "Her children and mine rode on the bus together."
Downes said the boy was in fifth grade, while one of the girls was in kindergarten and the other was a first-grader.
"Those poor children. It's such a tragedy for those poor children," she said.
Downes said she spoke to Robinson just before Christmas, but did not know she and Hamilton were having marriage problems.
"I saw him a couple of times, but I didn't really know him," Downes said.
The same court order granting Robinson exclusive use of the house also barred Hamilton from going to West Port High School, where Robinson was a biology teacher. There was no official protection injunction granted, but the order came on the heels of an incident in November where Hamilton showed up at the school demanding to see Robinson.
Hamilton suspected Robinson was having an affair, according to reports.
Calls to Marion County Public Schools and to Cheney Brothers, a food distributor where Hamilton worked, were not immediately returned on Monday.
On Monday afternoon, the home where the family had lived was quiet. A few goats ate hay in the backyard and a pair of sheriff's investigators sat in front of the house.
Nearby, a neighbor who did not want to be identified said the family came over when they first moved in, but that it was one of the few times they spoke.
"They were a nice couple. They seemed very happy, but that was seven years ago. When my husband died we just drifted apart," said the woman, who lives in one of only three homes in the immediate area.
The sparsely populated area of Rainbow Lakes Estates in on the northwest edge of the sprawling development.
The couple's three children were taken by Robinson's sister, reports state.


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After a three-year wait, former state Corrections Capt. Robert Johnson finally got the chance Thursday to stare down the man accused of pumping six rounds into his body in front of his wife.
Johnson, 59, traveled from the Sumter home where he was ambushed to a Columbia courtroom to see the accused triggerman arraigned on federal charges in connection with the March 2010 murder-for-hire plot.
Sean Echols, 29, of Orangeburg is accused of trying to kill Johnson in exchange for $6,000 in cash, according to U.S. Attorney for South Carolina Bill Nettles. Echols faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted, authorities said.
"He didn't get a chance to say anything, but I looked at him and he looked at me," Johnson, who was forced into retirement by the shooting, said. "I was full of joy to be able to get to this point, and hopefully start the process of getting some closure to this thing."
Johnson worked for the state Department of Corrections for 16 years and developed a reputation for being able to ferret out illegal cellphones, drugs and other contraband smuggled behind the prison walls. His efforts so riled inmates at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville that one prisoner reportedly used a smuggled cellphone to order a hit on Johnson, authorities said.
As Johnson was preparing for work on March 5, 2010, a gunman broke down the front door of his home and blasted six rounds into Johnson's chest and stomach in front of his wife.
The bullets sliced Johnson's liver, shredded his abdomen, broke his ribs and caused other damage. Doctors pumped 63 units of blood into his body to keep him from bleeding to death.
He endured 15 surgeries and spent four months in hospitals receiving care and therapy.
Three years out, he still has trouble breathing at times and walks with a pronounced limp and the aid of a cane. Through it all, he's waited for justice to be done.
Federal prosecutors called Johnson on Wednesday to let him know a grand jury had issued a sealed indictment against Echols last month. They told him to keep the information quiet until Thursday's arraignment, when a federal judge unsealed the document.
Johnson said he recognized Echols as an inmate he had encountered before in the prison system.
Echols has a criminal record dating to 2000, with convictions for second-degree burglary, assault and battery with intent to kill, armed robbery, first-degree assault and parole violations, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.
He currently is housed at Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia after being sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for a brutal 2011 armed robbery in Orangeburg. He and another man were accused of pistol whipping and stabbing two elderly men during an early morning holdup, according to reports in the Orangeburg Times and Democrat.
In connection with Johnson's shooting, Echols is charged with conspiring with unidentified accomplices to murder the former corrections captain. He is also charged with using facilities of interstate commerce in connection with the attempted murder and using and discharging a firearm in connection with a crime of violence.
Echols faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted of either count one or two of the indictment. Count three, the firearms count, carries a mandatory minimum term of 10 years imprisonment and a maximum term of life, which must be imposed to run consecutive to any other sentence Echols is serving.
Johnson has said investigators told him the conspiracy involved the shooter, a getaway driver and two inmates who orchestrated the hit. So far, only Echols has been charged. But Johnson has said the others are reportedly locked up on unrelated crimes.
He's eager to see the others charged as well, but he's impressed with the work federal and state investigators have done on the case, considering how little information there was to go on after the shooting.
"We went from nothing to this," he said. "Hopefully, this can start the process of getting everyone involved."
Prison officials have repeatedly cited Johnson's case to illustrate the need for technology to block calls from contraband cellphones in prisons. South Carolina has been seeking federal permission to jam cellular signals at state prisons, but the request has stalled before the Federal Communications Commission, despite support from 30 other states.
Johnson and his wife, Mary, are now suing 20 cellphone companies and cellular tower owners in connection with the attempt on his life, alleging that these companies had the ability to block inmate calls but chose not to.


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Welcome to the selection headache facing new Force coach Michael Foley, who must choose between 33-year-old Brett Sheehan and 26-year-old Kiwi Alby Mathewson for the starting halfback role.
The Force have completely revamped their backline since their doomed 2012 campaign, when they only narrowly avoided the wooden spoon.
Former Cheetahs five-eighth Sias Ebersohn, Junior Rasolea, Sam Norton-Knight, Ed Stubbs, Jayden Hayward and Chris Tuatara-Morrison are among the new arrivals, along with Mathewson.
But the most intriguing question is who out of Sheehan and Mathewson will get the nod at halfback.
Foley doesn't yet have the answer, but it's a question he'll ponder heavily over the next few months as he runs his charges through a typically gruelling pre-season campaign.
"It definitely will be a battle. All good nines have that type of personality anyway," Foley said on Monday.
"We are extremely lucky to have two international nines. Nine is the position that touches the ball more than any other.
"Temperament at nine and 10 is critical.
"I can think of any number of nines and 10s that have a complete skill set and physically they're good.
"But when the pressure really comes on, their decision making fails them.
"So temperament will be very important - making the right decision at the key times."
Whichever way Foley goes, he will be safe in the knowledge a quality No.9 will be running the play for the Force.
Mathewson notched four Tests for the All Blacks in 2010 and spent the previous three seasons with the Blues.
Sheehan's international career was revived during the recent Rugby Championship following a raft of injuries to Australia's scrumhalf stocks.
"Both of them have a nice running game around the edge of the ruck and they're tough, so they're not frightened to get close to big forwards and play our guys through those holes," Foley said.
"And both of them have good a good pass.
"Besides the temperament, we're looking for them to get to the ball quickly and do something with it."
The arrival on Monday of former Highlanders and Hurricanes centre Hayward as the Force's second overseas development player completed the club's 30-man roster.


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You were somewhere in SE?
Nope...Montgomery County (Montgomery Village, to be specific). Are you kidding? You wouldn't catch me anywhere near SE
So you didn't live in DC


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To be frank, learning how to implement and use the magic functions that come included with PHP 5 isn't as hard as it may seem at first glance. The entire process requires knowing which event triggers a particular function, and then giving that function a concrete definition in accordance with the specific needs of the application being developed.
So, if you're a PHP programmer who is searching for a comprehensive guide that introduces you gently to using the most important magic methods provided by PHP 5, then this group of articles may be the material that you need to start reading right away!
If you already went through all of the articles that precede this one, then it's probable that by now you have a solid background in working with the most relevant PHP 5 magic functions. This includes, among others, the handy trio comprised of the "__set()", "__get()" and "__call()" methods; the "__sleep()" and "__wakeup()" functions; and the "__clone()" method, which was explored in depth in the last tutorial of this series.
However, it's fair to say that the aforementioned functions aren't the only ones that you can use within your classes. There are a few others that can be really useful for performing relatively complex tasks with a minimal amount of code. That's exactly the case with the "__destruct()" method, which will be called automatically by the PHP engine before destroying an instance of a particular class at the end of a script.
Indeed, implementing destructors is itself a huge subject that is out of the scope of this series for now. Yet, during this tutorial I'm going to discuss how to add a destructor to the sample "User" class that you saw in previous articles, so you can learn how to use it for constructing simple persistable objects.
Now, it's time to get rid of the dull theory and start discovering how to use the "__destruct()" PHP 5 magic method. Let's jump in!
{mospagebreak title=Review: the clone magic function}
In case you still haven't had the opportunity to read the last installment of the series, where I explained how to trigger the "__clone()" method when cloning an instance of the sample "User" class coded previously, below I included the source class of this class, along with a rudimentary example that shows how to use it.
Here's the class that implements the "__clone()" method:
class User
// constructor (not implemented)
public function _construct(){}
// set undeclared property in a restrictive way
public function __set($property, $value)
if (in_array($property, array('fname', 'lname', 'email')) === TRUE)
$this->$property = $value;
// get undeclared property
public function __get($property)
if (isset($this->$property))
return $this->$property;
// single point to fetch user data
public function __call($method, $args)
if ($method === 'fetch' AND empty($args) === FALSE)
return $this->$args[0];
// implement __clone( method
public function __clone()
echo 'Cloning user object.';
From the above code sample, it's clear to see how easy it is to give a concrete implementation to the "__clone()" method. In this particular case, the method has been coded to display a message on screen when a user object is being cloned, but it's perfectly possible to define it for performing more useful tasks.
Now that you hopefully recalled how to include this magic method within a specific class, below there's an example that demonstrates how things look behind the scenes when an instance of the "User" class is cloned via the "clone" keyword.
Take a look at the following script:
$user = new User();
$user->fname = 'Alejandro';
$user->lname = 'Gervasio';
$user->email = 'email@example.com';
// display user data
echo 'First Name : ' . $user->fetch('fname') . ' Last Name : ' . $user->fetch('lname') . ' Email : ' . $user->fetch('email');
displays the following
First Name : Alejandro Last Name : Gervasio Email : firstname.lastname@example.com
// clone user object
$newuser = clone $user;
displays the following
Cloning user object.
See how simple it is to put the "__clone()" magic method into action? I guess you do. In this case, when the "clone" keyword is utilized for cloning a user object, the method displays an indicative message on the browser. It's that easy, actually.
So far, so good. At this stage, you've surely learned how to implement the "__clone()" magic function within a class. So, it's time to explore another handy method included with PHP 5. Yes, as you might have guessed, I'm talking about the "__destruct()" method, which unlike its counterpart "__construct()" is triggered before destroying a specified object.
As I explained earlier, destructors can be used for performing all sorts of clever tasks, and taking this capability into account, in the next section I'm going to reuse the previous "User" class by adding a destructor to it, so you can learn the full details of this process.
That being said, please click on the link that appears below and read the following segment. I'll be there, waiting for you.
{mospagebreak title=Working with destructors in PHP 5}
As I stated in the previous segment, it's possible to accomplish interesting and useful things with a destructor. In this case, I'm going to use it within the already familiar "User" class to create an object that will save itself to a session variable before being destroyed.
How will this be achieved? Well, take a look at the enhanced definition of the "User" class, which now implements the "__destruct()" method. Here it is:
// define 'User' class (implements the __destruct() magic method)
class User
// constructor (not implemented)
public function _construct(){}
// set undeclared property in a restrictive way
public function __set($property, $value)
if (in_array($property, array('fname', 'lname', 'email')) === TRUE)
$this->$property = $value;
// get declared property
public function __get($property)
if (isset($this->$property))
return $this->$property;
// single point to fetch user data
public function __call($method, $args)
if ($method === 'fetch' AND empty($args) === FALSE)
return $this->$args[0];
public function __destruct()
$_SESSION['user'] = serialize($this);
As shown above, the implementation of the "__destruct()" method is very easy to follow. All it does is start or resume a new session, and then save an instance of the "User" class to a session variable. Period.
Logically, nothing spectacular is happening here, except for the fact that all of these tasks will be performed before the instance of the user class gets destroyed. In this manner we're building an object that has the ability to maintain its state across different HTTP requests, by using only the PHP built-in session mechanism.
Even though the definition of the "__destruct()" method is indeed self-explanatory, an example is in order her to understand how it works. Therefore, in the last section of this tutorial I'm going to set up such an example, so you can see how the destructor does its thing.
To learn how this wrapping example will be created, click on the link shown below and keep reading. We're almost done exploring destructors!
{mospagebreak title=Creating a persistable object with the destruct method}
Undeniably, the best way to grasp how the previous "__destruct()" method is called by the PHP interpreter is by means of a concrete example. Thus, with that idea in mind, below I coded a simple script that spawns an instance of the "User" class, and then adds some properties to it.
The aforementioned script looks as follows:
// example on implementing the '__destruct()' magic method
$user = new User();
$user->fname = 'Alejandro';
$user->lname = 'Gervasio';
$user->email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
Admittedly, the above script looks pretty boring, aside from showing how to overload some properties of the "User" class. However, things are a bit tricky in this case, since right before the script finishes its execution (and the user object gets destroyed), the "__destruct()" method will be invoked, therefore storing the object on a session variable.
Of course, it's also feasible to make the method save the object to a database table, or even to a flat file. Certainly, possibilities are numerous and very interesting to try out.
And finally, feel free to edit all of the code samples included in this tutorial, so you can arm yourself with a better background in using destructors in PHP 5.
Final thoughts
Over this sixth episode of the series, I covered another magic method that comes packaged with PHP 5, that is the popular "__destruct()," also known as a destructor. As was demonstrated previously, destructors can be really useful for performing all sorts of clean-up tasks, or for creating objects that are capable of maintaining their state across several HTTP requests.
Now, speaking specifically of the topics that will be discussed in the last tutorial, I must admit that there's still a magic function that we haven't explored so far, which is used commonly within PHP programs to load classes automatically.
Yes, you guessed right — I'm talking about the "__autoload()" function. If you want to learn how to work with it, then don't miss the final chapter of this series!