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Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an infection caused by the same virus that causes
—the varicella-zoster virus. Even decades after you've recovered from chickenpox, inactive copies of the varicella-zoster virus live within your nerves. If these viruses become reactivated, then you develop shingles.
Contact with a person who has shingles could lead to chickenpox in someone who has never had chickenpox and has not received the varicella vaccine.
If you develop shingles, you will probably first notice a burning or tingling pain in a band or line along one side of your face or torso. About three days later, you'll see a rash appear in the same area. The rash consists of fluid-filled bumps on reddened skin that eventually crust over and begin to dry. It usually takes about five weeks to recover from shingles. Some people take longer to recover and continue to have pain in the area of the rash. This complication, called postherpetic neuralgias, is due to nerve damage.
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About 20% of people who have had chickenpox will develop shingles. Most people will have only a single episode of shingles. However, if you have a weakened immune system, then you may have more than one episode.
NINDS shingles information page.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
website. Available at:
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/shingles/shingles.htm. Updated January 10, 2013. Accessed May 30, 2013.
The American Academy of Dermatology
website. Available at:
http://www.aad.org/dermatology-a-to-z/diseases-and-treatments/q---t/shingles. Accessed May 30, 2013.
Shingles (herpes zoster). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/shingles/about/overview.html. Updated January 10, 2011. Accessed May 30, 2013.
Stankus SJ, Dlugopolski M, et al. Management of herpes zoster (shingles) and postherpetic neuralgia.
Am Fam Physician. 2000;61(8).
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http://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/0415/p2437.html. Accessed May 30, 2013.
Zoster. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated May 20, 2013. Accessed May 30, 2013.
Last reviewed May 2015 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Shredfest will be held Saturday, July 27, at the Ramp Park in Huckeberry Park, sponsored by the Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department, Hannibal Clinic Health Services and PlanNine.
The fifth annual event is a free skateboard, bike and scooter competition. The first 200 people to attend as a spectator or participant will receive a T-shirt and a Pro-Tech helmet from Ride Cool, sponsored by Hannibal Clinic Health Services.
Registration starts at noon with the competition beginning at 1 p.m.
PlanNine, an extreme sports company and ramp park in Hazelwood, will run the competition and demonstrate stunts.
Prizes have been donated by Glik's, Blackout Distribution, Kink Bike Company, Jack Martin Company, Lucky Scooter, DVS Shoe Company, Stussy Incorporated, Tilt Scooter and Quality Bike Company. There will be a free raffle for a Fasen scooter.
The Ramp Park concession stand will be open.
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How Companies—Together–Can Stop Cyberattacks
TIM PAWLENTY: Millions of consumers were impacted by recent large-scale credit-card data breaches at retailers. These breaches have resurrected the issue of cybersecurity for policy makers. The financial-services sector has successfully tackled cyberattacks for decades, but consumers interact with many others in the "payments ecosystem" when making purchases. The security of cybersystems is only as strong as the weakest link in the system.
Businesses need to share threat information with each other and the government. These exchanges should exclude personal customer data, but they should detail cybercriminals' patterns and methods. The financial industry is experienced with such information sharing. Other industries would be well-served to adopt similar models as part of an effort to stay ahead of cybercriminals and better protect consumers.
Companies also need to be careful about how customer data is stored and transmitted. They should review, catalog and assess practices and systems relating to how sensitive information is handled and protected. Threats continue to evolve and such reviews need to be current and ongoing.
Data-system operations also typically involve vendors, service providers and other third parties. Such third parties must be properly screened and required to observe security protocols to ensure the integrity of connected systems.
The Financial Services Roundtable announced a coalition of major retail and financial groups that will work to enhance consumer-data protections against cyberthreats. One of our objectives is to spur legislation that helps facilitate cyberthreat information sharing between industries as well as with the public sector. We believe these efforts will increase awareness and improve the ability of the private sector to defend against cyberattacks and protect consumers.
Tim Pawlenty (@TimPawlenty) is the president & CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable. He is a former GOP Presidential candidate and the 39th governor of Minnesota
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Twenty Mercedes-Benz fuel cell vehicles deployed in California will be part of a technology validation project of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Program. Mercedes-Benz recently announced that it will place seventy fuel cell vehicles in California by 2012. This deployment shows a strong commitment to advanced technology vehicles and international collaboration to bring these technologies to their fullest fruition. Bringing vehicles with the latest technology advancements to U.S. roadways as part of the DOE's project will help validate the technologies for ultimate market acceptance.
The U.S. Department of Energy has participated with industry in a 50/50 cost-shared project to validate fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen fueling stations under real-world operating conditions and demonstrate advances in research. Mercedes-Benz North America has been involved since 2005 and will continue to provide critical data to the DOE from 20 of the fuel cell vehicles being announced today.
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The Marceline Tigers golf team has had a busy few days on the links. Late last week, the team hosted a tri-meet at the Marceline Golf Course. Early this week, the team competed in another tri-meet on the road. The team split wins in these two events.
On Friday, Marceline hosted Trenton and Cairo, winning with a team score of 163. This was 21 strokes ahead of second place Trenton.
Brett McGlothlin tied for the Medalist's honors, shooting a 37. Rounding out the varsity scoring: Tucker Dunham shot a 40, Brandon McGovern shot a 46, Trevor Hamilton shot a 43 and Tanner Sims shot a 43.
For the Marceline JV: Brandon Newman shot a 47, Bryce Jobson shot a 54, Nate Florine shot a 53, Tim Niemeier shot a 43, Zach Bollman shot a 54, Blake Linebaugh shot a 53, Kaden Ronchetto shot a 62, Michael Anders shot a 58, Cody Schmitt shot a 53, Alex Gladbach shot a 60, Walter Anthony shot a 69, Nick Lodder shot a 55, Nic Chiolerio shot an 83, Michael Arnold shot a 49 and Eric Thurman shot a 52.
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Prairie Cairn
Andy Goldsworthy: Three Cairns is the largest project in the Western Hemisphere by British artist Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956, Cheshire, England). The project spans the continent with permanent and temporary stone markers called "cairns" at sites on the two coasts of America and the Midwest. Two key components of the project in Iowa Prairie Cairn (Midwest temporary cairn) near Grinnell and the Three Cairns (Iowa permanent cairn) at the Des Moines Art Center.
Prairie Cairn, the first component of "Andy Goldsworthy: Three Cairns" to be built, was created in early spring 2001 at Grinnell College's Conard Environmental Research Area near Kellogg, Iowa. Prairie Cairn was completed before the prairie grass had begun to grow and was hotographed over a period of 18 months to document the sculpture in varied weather conditions. The result is a suite of large-scale panoramic images—now in the collection of the Des Moines Art Center—showing the cairn with varying heights of grass, in snow, and amid flames as the prairie was ubjected to a controlled maintenance burn. Although considered a temporary work, Prairie Cairn should last for decades before eventually succumbing to the effects of the weather.
Roots of Renewal
A 2003 art exhibition focusing on challenges and changes in the Upper Midwest under pressure from new immigrants, new industries, new farming practices, and new attitudes towards the original tallgrass prairie; a collaboration between Grinnell College's Faulconer Gallery and the Center for Prairie Studies.
The Prairie Suite
A suite of 12 original prints by twelve artists, commissioned by the Center for Prairie Studies and completed in 2001, united around the themes of prairie and place.
Iowa's Vanishing Agrarian Landscapes
A collaboration between the Center for Prairie Studies and New Haven, Connecticut, photographer David Ottenstein resulted in thousands of photographs of the changing Iowa countryside.
Prairie Earthworks Project
Earthworks have been a major force in contemporary sculpture since the 1960's. For most artists working within the earthworks tradition, the method of creating a sculpture becomes a part of a process of interpreting their surroundings. As the sculptor works in an area ideas are materialized through the transformation of materials usually found at the site. The setting of a sculpture in the natural landscape provides a different set of references than the gallery or museum. The earthwork cannot be self-referential like a painting or sculpture in gallery or museum can. The earthwork's context is part of its content.
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Grinnell Area Local Foods Alliance
The Grinnell Area Local Foods Alliance (GALFA) works to encourage local institutions and individuals to buy locally-produced food.
Local Foods Co-op
The goal of the Local Foods Co-op is it to support the local economy and sustainable agriculture by providing members of the Grinnell community with access to locally grown food, from fresh vegetables to spices and various kinds of grains. Members can order produce from local farmers on a monthly basis through their website during the school year.
Grinnell Farmer's Market
Grinnell Farmer's Market is held on Thursdays (May 20 - Oct. 29) 3:20 pm - 6:20 pm and on Saturdays (May 22 - Oct. 31) 10 am - noon on 4th Avenue between Broad Street and Park Street. Dozens of vendors sell locally-grown fresh produce, baked goods, honey, jams, plants and flowers, hand-made crafts, and many other items. For more information, contact Sheryl Parmley at the Chamber of Commerce at 641-236-6555.
Community Supported Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a growing international phenomenon that directly connects food producers to consumers. Sometimes known as a "farm share" program, CSAs involve consumers purchasing a share at the start of the growing season and in turn receiving a weekly offering a wide array of local produce, eggs, and sometimes meat and baked goods throughout the growing season. Some CSAs are operated by a single producer while others are "collaborative," involving more than one producer. Two CSAs currently operate in the community of Grinnell.
- Compass Plant CSA, established in 1999 and run by Ann Brau, is a collaborative CSA served by growers in the Grinnell area and in Malcom, Iowa. The story of the beginning of the Compass Plant CSA is told in "Joining the Food Revolution in Grinnell," by Professor Jonathan Andelson, director of the Center for Prairie Studies. To learn more about the Compass Plant CSA, contact Ann Brau at lbdunham[at]iowatelecom[dot]net.
- Grinnell Heritage Farm CSA, owned and operated since 2008 by Andrew and Melissa Dunham, is located on a farm that has been in the family since 1858 and is counted among the oldest family farms in central Iowa. To learn more about Grinnell Heritage Farm CSA, visit www.GrinnellHeritageFarm.com.
Student Garden
The student garden is an on-campus vegetable garden that allows Grinnell College students to learn about organic gardening and to harvest their own food. It includes nine beds, a greenhouse to extend the growing season, and composting bins for communal use.
Community Garden
The community garden is located in Lake Nyanza Park and is a tool to connect college students and Grinnell community members through gardening. It allows community members of all ages to learn how to garden organically and provides them with a cost-effective and healthy alternative source of food. All of the produce grown in the community garden is distributed to the community through the farmers market and the MICA food pantry.
Regional Food Initiative
Regional Food Initiative, a project undertaken in collaboration with the Iowa Valley RC&D, cultivates connections between food buyers and local food producers. It works to educate institutions about the value of buying locally and to educate producers about the expectations and needs of institutional food buyers.
Slow Food Grinnell
Slow Food Grinnell is a chapter (aka convivium) of Slow Food USA, the US arm of the global Slow Food movement. We're a new and growing group of people interested in exploring and celebrating food that is good, clean, and fair. We aim to do this though meals, tasting events, technique demonstrations, and general celebration of the slow life.
Local Foods Resources
Directory of Grinnell Area Food Producers Who Market Locally is intended to promote a local food system. It provides a listing of area producers and the food they market locally as well as a listing of regional farmer's markets.
Local Food and Grinnell Dining Services: A Group Independent Study Students in this course spent the spring 2006 semester studying the Grinnell College Dining Services program and its relationship to locally grown food.
Grinnell Youth Conservation Corps Program (GYCC)
The Grinnell Youth Conservation Corps program is a summer employment opportunity for local high school students to work on conservation projects at Arbor Lake Park, an 80-acre natural area park in Grinnell. The program is a collaboration of the Grinnell College Center for Prairie Studies and the City of Grinnell, with support from Imagine Grinnell.
Outreach - Local Schools
The Center continually seeks ways of connecting people of all ages to the natural landscape of this region. One such way is through partnerships with local schools that create opportunities for kids to learn about prairie and other native habitats.
Pioneer Cemeteries
The Center for Prairie Studies has worked with the Poweshiek County Pioneer Cemetery Commission in planning prairie restoration and maintenance at a pioneer cemetery near Victor. Pioneer cemeteries are some of the best places to look for prairie remnants, prairies that have never been plowed. A pioneer cemetery is a cemetery that has had fewer than 6 burials in the last 50 years. Center staff, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, students with the Grinnell College Environmental Action Group, members of the Poweshiek County Pioneer Cemetery Commission, and Township trustees worked together to restore prairie to the Old Victor Pioneer Cemetery in Poweshiek County.
Poweshiek Skipper Project
The Poweshiek skipper, Oarisma poweshiek, is a small butterfly that was discovered in 1870 in Grinnell, Iowa, by Professor Henry W. Parker and named after the county in which it was found. The Center for Prairie Studies collaborated with butterfly enthusiast Harlan Ratcliff to study the present day distribution of the Poweshiek skipper and explore the possibility of reintroducing the butterfly to Poweshiek County. See Poweshiek Skipper Project for more information.
Iowa River Corridor
In 2005, the Center for Prairie Studies collaborated with the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development office, Free River Press, and author and publisher Robert Wolf to create The Iowa River Corridor Book: A Subregional Profile from the Amanas to Tama and Toledo. The publication, based on the premise that economic and cultural regionalism offer an alternative to globalization, explores the Iowa River corridor through short essays (many written by Grinnell College students and faculty), photographs (most of them taken by high school students from corridor communities), and an assessment of community assets and needs.
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Some people buy game consoles at launch only to take them apart immediately and post pictures of the insides on the internet. Web pages, wikis, and forums are devoted to putting Linux on game consoles even before they have been released. Recently released videos feature Windows XP successfully booting on a Sony PlayStation 3 via Linux/QEMU and another running emulators using a Gamecube Action Replay exploit on the Nintendo Wii. Why bother? Why reverse engineer a console? Why void your warranty? Aren't the games and provided content enough?
It's part of the ideology of the hacker: take it apart, fiddle with it, and make it do what you want.
Illegal home brew development has existed for years: shady individuals authored and sold bootleg Atari cartridges back in the '80s, followed by 100-in-1 Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges, and so on. However, hobbyists have found better (and more legitimate) ways to explore and extend their hardware: home brew software. If a program doesn't exist (or it does exist and you don't like the way it was done), do it yourself. If there's a barrier like Digital Rights Management, find a way around it.
An excellent example of this sort of home brew is the Xbox Media Center. Why have a DVD player, a computer for watching videos or playing music, and a console for playing games, when you can combine all three into one unit? Unhindered by corporate interests, DRM restrictions or marketing concerns, a geographically distributed development team has built an incredible piece of software. XBMC is an extremely versatile video and audio player with network streaming, RSS feed readers, live Weather reports, access to YouTube and Google video, and much more. Bill Gates was even impressed by its capabilities.
Another area of constant development is Linux. Why stop at developing software just for one console when you can use platform independent software? Over the years, Linux has found its way onto many common consoles.
Dreamcast Linux, the veritable granddaddy of console Linux, has been around since at least 2001, and there's still interest today.
Gamecube Linux is still under semi-active development, and will probably find much more interest now that the Wii is out. Already, people are trying to find ways to get GC Linux to run on the Wii, in addition to the fledgling Wii Linux projects such as Wii-Linux and Wiili.
Xbox Linux exists in a couple of different forms, including a branch of Ubuntu and Gentoo. An effort to get Linux on the Xbox 360 hasn't gotten nearly as far yet.
The Sony PlayStation 3 includes Linux support out of the box with their Open Platform. The Sony-sponsored Yellow Dog Linux, released on November 27, 2006, was written specifically for the PS3. Other distributions such as Fedora Core 5 and Gentoo have been successfully installed.
You have to admit, there's a certain amount of "because I can" mentality with Linux. However, there are many uses for a game console running Linux, including game console emulators, routing, or serving web pages.
Emulation allows programs to run on a platform other than what was originally intended. Common examples include MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) and cartridge dumps of older consoles, such as the Atari 2600, NES, or Sega Genesis. At this point, virtually every cartridge-based console has been emulated in one form or another. For example, armed with a ROM (software image of the contents of the game media) and an emulator, you could play the Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers 3 on an Xbox.
However, this brings legality into question; if you don't own the game, even though the product isn't being sold, do you have the right to copy that game? Nintendo has recognized the market potential with their Virtual Console, allowing consumers to easily purchase older games from different consoles from a growing library of titles.
I heard a story of a Student Association web server running on an Xbox with Linux and Apache until the new manager, not knowing what it was, took it home for his kids to play with. In essence, a tool was mistaken for a toy, and that's part of the paradigm shift one needs to recognize when dealing with these consoles: they're not just children's toys anymore.
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> if you don't own the game, even though the product isn't being sold, do you have the right to copy that game?
unless that right was given to you (passed into public domain/copyright owners explicitly allow for this to happen) then under copyright law, there is no right to copy the game.
Fair use permits a variety of copying activities to take place even for all rights reserved work. In particular, making a personal copy to transfer from one medium to another, or for purposes of making a backup is most certainly legal.
Of course, there are industry interests who are lobbying to remove this right, and when they can't get it by direct legal action, are trying to do it with TPM and use law to protect the TPM, but that's another matter.
1. Copyright owner makes
1. Copyright owner makes game and authorises copies
2. People get authorised copies
3. Copyright owner neglects/abandons game. Game becomes "abandonware"
4. Copyright owner doesn't authorise more copies
5. Someone else hears about the game.
6. The same someone downloads the game from an abandonware site.
I understand about fair use for the people in number 2, but please show me where it says it is fair use for that someone else to get an unauthorised copy?
It's not, but...
It's not, but there is a defense in that case. It can be argued that since the original copyright is not being exploited, you are doing no damage to the author's market or profitability on the work.
This is important, because the basis of copyright is entirely financial (at least under US law): it exists as an incentive program to promote the creation of intellectual works. As such, the only result of a copyright infringement suit is usually monetary damages based on the amount of market taken away from the legitimate owner.
But if those monetary damages would be zero, then there's effectively no penalty, hence effectively no case.
Many people feel that "abandonment" of a work should have an actual legal definition of some kind, so that this idea can be formalized, rather than relying on this kind of shaky (shady?) argument. However, there is some basis for it.
There's also the point that copyright infringement is not criminal (it's a civil offense) and so it has no real significance unless it is prosecuted. Rights on abandoned works are unlikely to be enforced (that's more or less the definition of "abandoned" at present).
Of course, I am not a lawyer.
I baught a xbox 360 game for
I baught a xbox 360 game for $59.99 at best buy. I had the game Saint row for 2 months used it maybe 4 time it began to frezz up i took it back, they told me the could not exchane it because it pass 30 day. I felt like i was rip off. i dont know how to make a backup copy of all the games i have baught but i am trying to find out. i have a computer with a dvd + - writer but have never write anything.i dont want to brake any laws but i feel that if they wont exchange the games then you have no choise but to make a back up copy
why hack it? because it's
why hack it? because it's cheaper than a pc, and xbox's is quite powerful - good enough reason?
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2. Go into your Insaniquarium folder
3. open userdata
4. now where it says user1 copy and paste it to the desktop
5. where it says user1 on the desktop, change the 1 to a 2 so it says user2
6. copy the one on the desktop overtop of the user2 file in the userdata
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PS. if you want to keep making shells refer to step 6 and go from there again
gotta love copyright
Its funny how companies keep making things that render their products "uncopyable" if that is even a word. They always blame the people who copy software, music, or movies. Yet, the funny part is that there IS ALWAYS a way to copy the stuff.
Sooner or later someone comes up with a solution to their anit-copying measures. Look at windows XP. Microsoft said that it was going to be VERY VERY VERY hard to copy it and what not. But as we can now see, its not hard to find Windows ISOs all over the internet.
You never hear about these same companies blaming hardware producing companies though. For example, the PSP: Sony developed the UMD. Although there are people who are going about to copy the games, there has been very little progress in the matter. What's more, you can't make copies to play on your psp because there is no UMD burner. How do you copy CD's? a burner! how do you copy dvd's? a burner again! windows? A burner!!
I know companies and their lawyers will argue that just because it's there it doesn't mean that you should do it. Sort of the same arguement that the bible gives for Adam and the apple. "just don't". People are always going to go about and do this because a) they can do it, or b)piracy for profit.
I don't agree with piracy for profit. That's stealing at 110%. But I don't know about copying for personal use. That's always a big debate I suppose. Let me tell you, the Native Americans had it right: no system of ownership (but then came the Europeans... oh well).
PSP UMDs can easily be backed-up and played
PSP UMDs can easily be backed-up and played,all you need is Dark Alex's custom firmware,and this,if you go to calo-hacks.com,and then tutorials,there is a section on PSP UMD backups,and saving them to your MS,and even compressing them to save storage space.
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What we can learn when we accidentally a hackathon
Oslo.pm organized a Perl 6 Patterns hackathon a short while ago. I feel compelled to address some of the claims that have been made about this event, and hopefully set some records straight. The rumors have been going on for too long. Important issues need to be shed light on. We need more facts, and I hope that this journal entry can help.
Before the facts are served, I have to clarify which parts I played in the events during that fateful hackathon. It must admit I was present much of the event, maybe not fully in my fragile mind, but certainly in in the corporeal sense. I've done my best to manage the effects this event did to my psyche, so I hope these half-mad ramblings can serve as a fair heads-up or perhaps a cautionary guide for all who might choose to follow in the footsteps leading to and through the hackathon time-line.
Preparing for the inevitable
We were three who decided to make stuff happen. Jan (frettled), Karl Rune (krunen) and myself, Salve (sjn). We had only a vague idea of what we getting into, but luckily sense enough to spend some attention preparing for the event. Here follows the most important items on our list of pre-hackaton tasks. I choose to list these to give you an idea about our preparations, so others may learn from this. The points are listed in a rough chronological order.
- Pick a weekend and a venue. Meeting rooms and classrooms are especially well suited for hackathons, but make an effort at finding a venue that also has a space that is suited for quiet activities, and also isn't too far away from food and drink.
- If you can pick a weekend just before or after a relevant conference, you can use this for your benefit. Conference organizers often appreciate when community members approach them offering to bring interesting people to their attention. They might even help you with the budget!
- Then approach a couple of the most prolific core members of a cabal of your choice, asking them if they would be interested in traveling to a distant country for some food, drink and hacking. Make sure to do this well in advance, at least six months, preferably 12.
- If they seem interested, ask them for a list of people they would like to meet at the hackathon. After receiving a couple of these lists, tally them up to see who should be contacted next. If you ask for a ranked list, it'll be easier to figure out who to talk with in the beginning. Also, remember to tell them what your intentions with the list is ¢ to find out who to help with funding first. When they're giving you their list, they're in fact pointing at someone they would like to meet and saying "these are the guys I'd like to help come to the hackathon".
- Keep adding votes to your tally (having a spreadsheet to calculate this helps a lot), and keep on contacting the "most wanted" people, until you can see that your list stabilizes. At this point, you have a good idea about who you should make an extra effort for getting to the hackathon.
- For bonus points, contact each of the people on the list (or at least a couple of the "most wanted" ones) and ask if there are anyone outside the cabal that they would consider inviting. This might include academics, active newcomers to the community, experts in some related but important field, or people they have some other good experience working with. Add these to the list, and try to get them to come too, if you can.
- And most importantly, get commitments from the participants. They should be willing to publicly say "If you can manage to organize $event, I'll come. In any case, I'll put your $event in my calendar."
You should now have a list of core participants. Make a very preliminary budget. It should include expenses for travel and hotel for your most wanted participants, and perhaps some of the "bonus" people if possible. It helps to keep down expenses, if some of the participants don't mind sleeping on a couch, it means you might afford buying air fare for someone who lives further away. Also remember to add the following points to your budget:
- Venue expenses, if any.
- Food expenses. Lunch for everyone every day; And if you can, dinner. Also remember plenty of 40cm rotary debuggers.
- Snacks and fluids for the hackathon.
- In-city travel expenses, if attendees have their lodging somewhere outside walking distance of the venue.
- Travel expenses for those who come from far away. Include travel expenses from and to your local airport/train station.
- Hotel expenses for those who prefer this. Pick a reasonably cheap hotel with easy travel to the venue. Don't go super-cheap, since a good day of hacking requires a good night of sleep.
- Add a small buffer for unexpected expenses. You can do this by liberally rounding up the other items in the budget, or by having a separate item for it.
The next task is to find funding. Having a budget ready helps, but you also need a good idea about any issues that need to be addressed in the community. (For the Perl 6 hackathon, we tried to focus on issues around visibility, teaching and teachability.) Find some topic that your attendees "get" and agree with, but keep in mind that hackathons often have a life of their own. The theme or goal you find, should only be used a guide for the participants. The biggest value in a hackathon isn't a good topic, but rather the fact that people who usually don't meet in person get an opportunity to do so. Write a public web page that describes the hackathon, goals, who you've invited, and anything else useful (make sure to keep it up to date). Write a sponsor proposal describing the hackathon, it's goals, who you have invited and who have confirmed. Send this to any companies, foundations or other institution that might want to help make this happen. At this stage, it helps a lot if you have access to a good community network (e.g. an active Perl Mongers group) where other members can take the sponsorship request to their bosses. Knowing who to contact helps, and already having a relationship with them helps much more. If you already have some funding (e.g. your Perl Mongers group has enough to help with an initial sum), then make sure to tell about it! Some people think about risk management, and like the idea that they're not the only ones funding an event. Then, get people excited. Talk with the attendees about what you'll do, about the social events, and about how nice it'll be to have a weekend full of hacking and fun. Bring the best you can offer. Do they have good beer nearby? Tell about it. Great food? Cool places to visit? Tell about it, and ask your attendees to blog about their plans and expectations. Finally, make sure you have a clear idea about the necessary cut-off dates and deadlines. For final go/no-go, set the date at least 6 weeks before the hackathon. If you can't find enough funding, or if there are some other reasons the hackathon has to be downscaled (or even canceled), make the decision as early as sensible, and certainly no later than the final go/no-go date. Also, if there is a risk of a change of plans, make sure to tell the attendees about this possibility as early as you can. Other deadlines you might consider:
- When can the attendees book the cheapest flights? Set a signup deadline 1-2 weeks before this (take holidays and weekends into account).
- When does the venue or hotel add cancellation fees? Set your sign-up or pre-pay deadlines accordingly, giving yourself one or two weeks for handling late signup or cancellations.
- When should you announce the different deadlines? Preferably a week or three before the deadline itself. Announcement deadlines are deadlines too!
Much of the preparations involve talking with people, making sure everyone knows what's going on, and finding the right people and enough funding. Do your best to find help for this; especially if the hackathon is organized in your spare time. If you can't find help, consider scaling down your ambitions, but beware that this might make the hackathon less appealing for both sponsors and attendees. If you have managed to find a good theme for your hackathon, you might also consider preparing some activities related to it. A workshop, a demonstration or something else to get the attendees interested or excited about the theme. But don't spend too much time preparing. Schedule it early in the hackathon, and try to make the attendees care about your issues in a positive way. If you do your job well, they'll take your examples and points into account when they do their other tasks during the weekend. But in any case, treat these events as a "bonus" – Nice to have, but not necessary for creating a successful event.
What happened
We started off our pre-hackathon schedule with three days of courses with Damian Conway as the instructor. Thursday evening, Damian gave his awe-inspiring lecture about Quaquaversal Nanomachine Programming in Multiple topologically connected timespaces, and by then the first attendees were already in Oslo in order to see the talk and to start the hacking early. We ended Thursday evening with a few beers at the Schouskjelleren microbrewery. We were quite pleased that even a couple "regular" Oslo.pm people showed up, and not just the die-hard Perl 6 fans.
Friday, we managed to find the early-comers a meeting room so they could dive into their weekend tasks. By dinner time most of the attendees had arrived, and we met up at Amundsen Bryggeri & Spiseri for a nice three-course and socializing to formally start off the hackathon.
And to top it off, several had by this time already blogged about their expectations for the event.
- Moritz Lenz: Upcoming Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo, Norway
- Jonathan Worthington: Back from vacation, hackathon coming up!
- Tadeusz So?nierz: Plans for the Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo
- Moritz Lenz: Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Be Prepared!
- Jan Ingvoldstad: Oslo.pm Perl 6 Patterns Hackathon 2012
Saturday started showing the first signs of something being not as it should. Salve overslept, and since he was the only one with access to the building, everyone had to wait for him to get to the venue and let them in.
Somehow this didn't deter the hacking, and several of the attendees blogged later about what they spent their time on. Karl Rune and Jan organized lunch and we had tasty pizza for dinner later in the evening. The day ended late, but not before a few more managed to blog about what happened.
- Moritz Lenz: Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Report From The First Day
- Jan Ingvoldstad: Oslo.pm Patterns Hackathon pictures
Sunday, Salve managed to get up early, so everyone managed to dive into the code without delay. Lunch was nice, and dinner at a cheap Viet restaurant Salve was fond of, and the evening was rounded off at the Schouskjelleren microbrewery with good discussions and tasty brews.
- Carl Masak: Revenge of the Oslo hackathon
- Moritz Lenz: Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Report From The Second Day
- Tadeusz So?nierz: Back from Oslo
- Jan Ingvoldstad: Post-hackathon thoughts
Monday, everyone was already home or at least on their way.
Post scriptum
So, what went wrong? What could improve?
Our biggest loss was that Damian became sick and wasn't present for most of the event. A major reason for organizing the hackathon at all was because Damian was in town, and we thought it would be great to gather some of the #perl6 regulars while he was on this side of the planet. There's not much one can do about things like these, but I do have to admit organizing all this seemed a little wasteful when the "guest of honor" had to stay at the hotel to sleep off a cold.
Furthermore, we didn't spend much time on topics related to the hackathon theme. The hope was to discuss and come up with novel ways of teaching Perl 6, but with Damian out of the loop, no-one pressed to make anything happen in this regard. Too bad.
The lunch was nice, but not everyone seemed prepared to make their own sandwiches. Maybe it's worth trying catering next time? (Personally I loved the food, but then again I'm used to having lunches like this.)
Other than that, things went reasonably well. 13 people signed up and 14 showed up. We kept our expenses down, meaning we could cover dinner all three days and even a little beer with the food. Everyone but two people have been reimbursed for their expenses, and the last ones have been thoroughly reminded of this.
I think it's safe to say that despite our setbacks, the hackathon went pretty well. Code was written, we had a good time, Perl 6 newbies learned new things and Perl 6 hackers got to meet face-to-face and discuss. Happy times!
Finally, I'd like to thank the sponsors of the hackathon. Without their help, this event would not be much less successful.
- NUUG Foundation
- Oslo Perl Mongers
- Jan Ingvoldstad
Thank you!


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Day 01 : Hanoi – Halong bay (L, D)
07h45 - 8h30: Our guide and shuttle bus will pick you up at your hotel or private
12h30: Arrive Halong Bay, Welcome aboard with drinks. Checking in and setting sail through the mysterious bay whilst an exquisite lunch is served in a relaxing ambiance. Our cruise sails amongst natural rock formations of picturesque beauty; boasting views of the UNESCO World Heritage unique seascape of Halong Bay, offering an opportunity to admire a collection of sculpted islets with amazing shapes resembling: Fighting Cock islet, Human heads islet, Swans islet, Toads, Finger islet and Rocky Dog islet
14h30: Visiting Ba Hang (three caves area) floating village by local rowing boat - one of 4 fishing villages serving major tourist attractions in Halong Bay, located in the region of well-known three caves, next to Thien Cung (heaven) grotto, Dau Go grotto ... only with about 50 families spending their whole lives here. Excursion to floating village: Taking a rowing boat by a local woman and visiting the floating villages of fishing folk that will provide you with a unique cultural insight of warm and friendly people of the sea who have lived their whole lives aboard tiny bamboo boat.
16h00: Drop anchor in the calm water surrounded by beautiful islets for swimming, kayaking to visit Luon cave, surrounded by luxuriant trees and high dangerous stone walls. Exploring by kayak: After a lesson with our expert on how to paddle safely, you will kayak a maze of incredible rock formations rising majestically from green water, every turn will bring you new surprise. Secret passages leading to hidden lagoons and magical sea caves with a unique ecosystem, getting close to sea creatures and coral reef.
17h00: Enjoy the complimentary sunset party on the sundeck with local wine and fresh fruits. At this time, our guide also takes this chance to share more about local people's living and customs.
17h30: Join Cooking demonstration.You will be guided by our chef step by step how to make a Vietnamese traditional cuisine. This is a very great chance for you to know about their daily life in Northern of Vietnam and understand more Vietnamese ingredients and its substitution that we use for our cooking class on the boat.
19h30: Dinner is served in the restaurant. A perfect moment for talking with friends and having a discussion on the next day's exploration.
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12h00: Lunch is served on the small boat while cruising another part of Halong bay.
14h00: Rowing small bamboo boat to vistit Van Gia floating village where you have chance to see the real daily life of fishermen.
15h30: Visit Soisim island- an soil island 400 m away from Ti Top Island with many ancient trees – suitable for Short trek to the top, and from there, you will have an overview of Halong bay, Baitulong bay and Halong city.
16h30: Return to Royal Heritage cruise, take time to refresh and relax
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There's nothing quite as essential as the SOAM from the first set as there is in the second set, but the YEM>Vibration of Life>YEM and the Hood (which briefly goes type 2 in the quiet part of the jam) are good listens. The Hood doesn't peak as well as the best versions from this period. The extended encore is a nice addition to bolster this show somewhat.
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New York Muscles Ahead of Hong Kong in Cross-Border IPOs
The initial public offering of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., slated for September, could mark 2014 as the most successful ever for Chinese listings on U.S. exchanges.
High valuations for tech stocks offered by U.S. investors have prompted a flurry of new Chinese listings on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. This has helped the U.S. outpace Hong Kong for cross-border IPOs for the first time in the past five years, according to data compiled by law firm Baker & McKenzie.
"There are better valuations for tech companies and software and app developers in the U.S. The [price-to-earnings] ratio is a lot more generous," said Elsa Chan, a leading IPO partner with Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong.
A deeper understanding of tech stocks among U.S. funds and retail shareholders with decades of experience investing in the sector has injected confidence into earnings growth to support high initial valuations. A thirst for exposure to one of the world's fastest growing major economies doesn't hurt either.
Last year Hong Kong exchanges had $15 billion of listings for offshore companies, driven by $14.5 billion of business from China. The U.S. fared poorly by comparison, drawing in only $5 billion of offshore IPOs and a paltry $900 million in Chinese business.
Already the trend has reversed in the first half of 2014. U.S. exchanges had $8 billion of cross-border IPOs, nearly tripling the amount from the same point last year. Of that, IPOs by Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges drew in $3.5 billion for the first half of the year. This compares with just $6 billion for Hong Kong exchanges so far in 2014, all of which came from China.
In 2014, companies such as JD.com Inc., an online retailer and Amazon.com rival, and Australian-owned Chinese job-seeking website Zhaopin, have listed on U.S. exchanges. Alibaba, China's biggest internet company, is seeking to raise up to $20 billion through a float on NYSE, equivalent to the value of all cross-border IPOs on U.S. exchanges over the past three-and-a-half years.
Hong Kong's main exchange and smaller GEM exchange traditionally have bested U.S. bourses for offshore business, as new Chinese companies from state-owned enterprises to startups listed in the former British colony. The trend has continued with companies like commercial lender Harbin Bank Co Ltd., which raised $1.13 billion, and Tianhe Chemicals Group, which raised $654 million, through listings so far this year.
"Hong Kong has done pretty well in terms of the number of companies listing," said Ms Chan. "But take a closer look, though, and it seems bigger companies have chosen the U.S."
In terms of IPO numbers overall, Hong Kong still came out on top, with 35 companies choosing to float there compared with 27 for U.S. exchanges.
Updated listing rules in Hong Kong have added credibility to the exchange, but may also be one reason New York has gained an edge. Hong Kong's main exchange recently changed its rules to provide more vigorous vetting of company prospectuses, said Ms. Chan.
In the case of Alibaba, the Hong Kong exchange's owner, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing and regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, partly have themselves to blame. The firm initially considered listing on the exchange but failed to reach agreement on a novel structure that would have allowed founding partners to continue nominating board members even after the company was listed.
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Still, the overall picture is rosy for most exchanges, with a surge in cross-border IPOs as firms look to tap better valuations for their companies in markets around the world. Capital raised through cross-border IPOs in the first half of the year jumped 151% in value compared with the same time last year, with 102 listings raising $25.7 billion, according to Baker & McKenzie.
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Meagan Siemieniewski, 16, passed away Friday, March 8, 2013, as the result of an automobile accident near Granite Falls.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 13 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Sacred Heart with burial at First English Cemetery in Sacred Heart.
Meagan Elizabeth Siemieniewski was born November 2, 1996, the daughter of Wayne Siemieniewski and Lisa Ahl, in Willmar. She was baptized at the First English Lutheran Church in Sacred Heart in 1997.
Meagan loved horses, wrestling, volleyball, swimming, camping and fishing. She was a three time first place state wrestler and also participated in the tractor pedal pull from age 5 to 11 in the state, national and international levels. She loved the holidays and spending time with family and friends. Her family remembers her as smart, funny, beautiful, helpful, a big heart and a mind of her own.
Meagan attended the Alternative Learning Center in Montevideo, from which she was going to graduate this year. She had plans of attending Ridgewater Community College in Willmar. Meagan worked for Dairy Queen in Granite Falls for the last two years.
She is survived by her mother Lisa (Carlos Mendoza) Ahl of Springfield; paternal grandparents George and Sonja Siemieniewski of Sacred Heart, maternal grandparents David and Jean Ahl of Atwater; great grandmother Joan Krouth of Sacred Heart; siblings: Tyler, Nicholas, Allyson, Joseph, Alexander and Ray; special friend Vincent Garvick and numerous extended family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her father Wayne in 2004; grandmother Dolores Frank; three great grandparents and her aunt Alta Grandquist.
Arrangements were with the Wing-Bain Funeral Home.
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Remembering Roberto Clemente's 3000th hit MAR 12 2013
This story by Kevin Guilfoile about his aging father (who worked for the Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame) and the mystery of what happened to the bat that Roberto Clemente got his 3,000th hit with is one of my favorite things that I've read over the past few months.
[My father's] personality is present, if his memories are a jumble. He is still funny, and surprisingly quick with one-liners to crack up the staff at the facility where he lives. He is exceedingly polite, same as he ever was. He is good at faking a casual conversation, especially on the phone. But if you sit and talk with him for a long time, he gets very anxious. He starts tapping his forehead with his fingers. "Shouldn't we be going?" he'll say. You tell him there's no place we need to be, but 30 seconds later he'll ask again, "Shouldn't we be going?"
What happens to memories when they're collapsed inside time like this? They don't exactly disappear, they just become impossible to unpack. And so my father, who loved stories so much -- who loved to tell them, who loved to hear them -- can no longer comprehend them. The structure of any story, after all, is that this happened and then that happened, and he can't make sense of any sequence.
That is the real hell of this disease. His own identity has become a puzzle he can't solve.
Objects have stories, too. Puzzles that need to be solved. Like a pair of baseball bats, for instance, that each passed through Roberto Clemente's hands before they passed through my father's. One hung on my bedroom wall throughout my childhood. The other is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
These objects never forget, but they never tell their stories, either.
Without a little bit of luck, we'd never hear them.
Or more than a little luck:
My father has lots of old baseball bats given to him by players he worked with over the years. He has Mickey Mantle bats from his years with the Yankees, and Willie Stargell and Dave Parker bats from his days with the Pirates. The one I always loved best was an Adirondack model with R CLEMENTE embossed in modest block letters, instead of the usual signature burned into the barrel. On the bottom of the knob, Roberto had written a tiny "37" in ballpoint pen, presumably to indicate its weight: 37 ounces. It also had a series of scrapes around the middle where someone had scratched off the trademark stripe that encircled all Adirondack bats. Former Pirates GM Joe Brown gave my dad this bat several years after Roberto died. For much of my childhood it hung on the wall of my bedroom, on a long rack with about a dozen other game-used bats.
My dad had been working at the Hall of Fame for more than a decade when, in 1993, his old friend Tony Bartirome, a one-time Pirates infielder who had become their longtime trainer, came to Cooperstown for a visit. Tony and his wife went to dinner with my folks and then came back to our house to chat. The only way to go to the first-floor washroom in that house was through my old bedroom, and on a trip there, Tony noticed that Adirondack of Clemente's hanging on the wall.
Tony carried it into the living room. He said to Dad, "Where did you get this bat?" My dad told him that Joe Brown had given him the bat as a gift, sometime in the late '70s. "Bill," Tony said. "This is the bat Roberto used to get his 3,000th hit."
My father was confused by this. "That's impossible," he told Tony. "The day he hit 3,000 I went down to the clubhouse, and Roberto himself handed me the bat he used. I sent it to the Hall of Fame. I walk by it every day."
"Well," Tony said. "I have a story to tell you."
It's a wonderful story, read the whole thing. Or get the book: the story is excerpted from Guilfoile's A Drive into the Gap, available here or for the Kindle.


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A physicist who extracted the first-ever recorded tune, an ecologist who revealed that climate change is hurting crops and a botanist who studies how ancient plants altered our world are among the Bay Area recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."
The awards, announced Wednesday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, were given to 24 recipients, including audio preservationist Carl Haber of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and agricultural ecologist David Lobell and paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce, both of Stanford. The $625,000 gift gives each recipient unfettered freedom to pursue creativity.
"It is unbelievable. It's still sinking in," said Haber, of Berkeley who created high-resolution optical scans bringing to life an 1860 recording of "Au Clair de la Lune," as well as the voices of Alexander Graham Bell and long-gone Native Americans.
Even for extraordinarily creative researchers such as Haber, Lobell and Boyce, conventional funding tends to support research with a practical outcome. Funding agencies are reluctant to support experimental and high-risk work that might lead to a dead end -- or a breakthrough.
"Grant agencies expect a return on investment ... for research that we often already know the answer to," said Boyce, 39, a resident of Palo Alto. "This encourages us to think more creatively," he said.
He was eating lunch on the Stanford campus with a colleague when he excused himself to take a call from the foundation. "It was a very long call," he said, laughing.
This year's MacArthur recipients are a mix of the little known and world renowned, representing a broad cross section of the arts, economics and science. They range in age from 32 to 60 and work in settings as different as rural Alaska and inner-city Manhattan.
The award, which this year was boosted from the previous $500,000, comes in five annual payments, with no strings attached. Winners don't need to tell anyone how they'll spend the money. There are no reporting requirements.
The MacArthur award has been bestowed on 873 other MacArthur Fellows since the program began in 1981. It is given to individuals with a track record of achievement -- and the potential for even more significant contributions in the future.
The Bay Area always claims a disproportionate share of grants -- historically, about one-sixth of all recipients live here.
The foundation honored:
To read about the other 2013 fellows, go to http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/2013.
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Thanks to federal stimulus money and flood recovery funds, the Army Corps has graciously decided to have Christmas three times this month for the ICDGL.
Christmas #1
Last week, the ACoE purchased roughly $1,000 worth of lumber and building materials to help improve the courses at Sugar Bottom and Turkey Creek.
Christmas #2
The next day, we went to a local nursery and bought 43 new trees to be planted at SB. Mark Ramsey and I dug those in last Friday. Now the area between 1 and 2, 1 and 18, and the 7,8,9,17,18 cluster, all have new trees and shrubs to separate the fairways and provide shade.
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Today I get a call from ACoE and they tell me that they have $1500 to spend. "How many baskets do you want?" was the question. After I picked up jaw off the floor, I called Scott Keasey at DGA. Sometime next we should be getting 3 new baskets, one number plate conversion kit (for #2), and number plate stickers for the remaining baskets.
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Published: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 10:37 p.m.
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A man said his 16-year-old son attacked him after he confronted the teenager about his absence from school, according to Spartanburg Public Safety.
The incident occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday on Brookwood Terrace.
The man and his son struggled, before the father broke loose and got a bat, the report states. The teen was fighting with two other relatives when the man told police he struck his son with the bat.
The man locked himself in a bedroom after he said his son threatened to kill him, went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, according to the report.
The teen was treated at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center for minor injuries to his head before he was taken to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia, the report states.
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Pump and puncture repair kit
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Spare inner tube (quicker than fixing a hole)
Tyre levers (for removing tyres)
Essentials for longer cycling trips
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Hawaii Orchid Growers Association Meeting
Was held in Hilo, Hawaii on November 2 - 4. Dr. Tracie Matsumoto was a guest speaker presenting Miltoniopsis Flowering. Past research has indicated that cool temperatures and short photoperiods are required for flowering of Miltoniopsis. However, equipment to modify day length and temperatures are often cost prohibitive. Plant growth regulators such as gibberellic acid (GA³) are successful in promoting flowering in other orchid genera. We have successfully used 5 mM GA³ solutions as a soil drench and foliar spray to increase inflorescence emergence in various grexes of Miltoniopsis. Plants most responsive to the GA³ treatment are those approaching the first full flowering season and flowering seasons occurring March to August compared to those flowering in January and February. Equivalent concentrations of ProGibb® can also be used in place of GA³, however, cultivars such as Martin Orenstein 'Shirley P' display inflorescence and flower deformities with ProGibb® but not GA³ treatments.
17th Annual International Tropical Fruit Conference
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Dr. Tracie Matsumoto presented Management of Flowering and Fruiting of 'Kaimana' litchi in Hawaii. 'Kaimana' litchi was selected in Hawaii based upon its high fruit quality and capacity to flower under Hawaii's mild winter climate. In Hawaii, consistent litchi production is achieved through management practices that limit high nitrogen content and new vegetative flushes during the time of year when cooler temperatures induce flowering. To further refine this procedure, foliar fertilizer was used instead of ground application granular fertilizer to 1)provide consistent levels of nutrients to the trees, 2) reduce reliance on fertilizer availability dependent upon rainfall and 3) limit the amount of residual fertilizer held in the soil. Preliminary experiments utilizing pruning and foliar fertilizer to synchronize and condition 'Kaimana' litchi trees were conducted at the USDA/ARS PBARC litchi orchard for two consecutive seasons (2005, 2006). The production of twenty-four 8-9 year old 'Kaimana' trees averaged about 100 lb per tree per year for the two seasons. To further evaluate this method, this pruning and foliar management protocol was expanded to commercial 'Kaimana' fields located in Kona and Hamakua. The pruning and foliar fertilizer application successfully resulted in flowering and fruiting of litchi in Kona similar to the trees in the USDA/ARS PBARC litchi orchard. However, the pruned and foliar fertilized trees resulted in vigorous vegetative growth and reduced flowering and fruit production in the Hamakua orchard. The best treatments for this location were non-pruned control trees or non-pruned trees treated with foliar fertilizer only. These experiments are being repeated at the various locations for the next litchi season.
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BROOMFIELD - And everyone in Vail Christian blue, silver and white lived happily ever after.
In a basketball game and/or track meet and/or boxing match that was pretty much a microcosm of everything Saints boys basketball experienced in 2012-13, Vail Christian outlasted four-time defending state champion, Caliche, 87-76, Saturday afternoon at the state playoffs at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield to finish the season as the third-best team in Class 1A.
First, there was the matter of bouncing back. No team wants to play in a third-place game. The goal is a state title. The Saints threw themselves into this one figuratively and literally.
"Fourth doesn't get a trophy," said senior shooting-guard Robby Bowles. "Third, second and first get a trophy, and we wanted a trophy. And we wanted 20 wins. Twenty was the big push."
"I guess all the anger and sadness after yesterday, we were like, 'We can't go out on a loss. We can't,''' senior Zach Linder said. "And it feels a lot better now."
It's worth noting here that the 2013 Saints are officially the best basketball team in school history with a 20-5 record. They broke the alleged curse of Friday at districts and went farther in the postseason than any team in Vail Christian history.
Then there was tempo of the game. Saints coach Sheldon Kuhn had expected a physical game against Caliche, so he gets a gold star. The Saints can run and that creates whistles, as did Caliche's strategy of charging the basket relentlessly. But no one expected Foul-a-Palooza 2013.
The Saints and Buffaloes combined for 59 fouls and 80 free throws in a 32-minute game Saturday. In the first half alone, Caliche was 20-for-28 from the line as the Buffs led 37-36 at the break, and that stat left the Saints in a slight state of consternation.
"During halftime, (assistant) coach (Josh) Sibley came there and said, 'We can't do anything about the officials, so we might as well not worry about it,'" Linder said.
And while everyone in a Vail Christian uniform, including scorekeeper Melita Kuhns, was in foul trouble, the Saints kept their heads very well. The refs whistled Caliche 19 times in the second half to Vail Christian's 13.
That translated into a 51-point eruption in the final 16 minutes of the season for Vail Christian as the Saints pulled ahead for good.
Gunnar Wilson ended the afternoon with a stunning 32 points.
"Did you realize the (school) record is 33 and you missed two free throws," Bowles said with Wilson standing right next to him in postgame.
"Just like Robby to know that right away," Wilson replied.
Wilson may want asterisk on Pearson's 33 points. Pearson put up that record in an 83-78 overtime win against Coal Ridge on Dec. 15, 2005. Either way, Wilson had a little bit of everything in Saturday's game. After one of his baskets, Wilson headed the ball back to the baseline and got a warning for delay of game.
"I had some fans yell at me, 'Go play soccer,'" Wilson said with a smile.
Wilson might have his name on a trophy somewhere for his efforts with Battle Mountain last fall. (And, yes, so does Vail Christian's Nigel Johnsen.)
Bowles finished his stellar hoops career with 22 points against the Buffs. Not to be overlooked was the depth, especially in a foul-filled game, the Saints showed. Junior Branden Currey was huge with 13 points off the bench.
"I'm just proud of them. See, now you're going to get me emotional," Sheldon Kuhns said. "For four years, they showed up to practice everyday. They showed up and played hard everyday. They showed up in the summer time. They gave everything for four years. They showed the younger guys how to play. I am proud to have coached them."


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There's a priest doing confessional at a local church, and all of a sudden he needs to go to the bathroom really bad. He peeks outside the booth to find a long line of sinners waiting to squeel about their wrongdoings.
So, our esteemed Father Rather (Dan's cousin) steps out the back door of the confessional and slinks his way over to an alter boy quietly.
"Would you mind running the confessional for a moment while I go to the bathroom?"
"Sure...I don't know what to do though."
"It's easy, for each sin there is an adequate penance. There's a chart on the wall right next to you in the booth."
"That sounds easy," the kid says and sneaks into the booth.
A woman walks in and says, "Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I had sex with a man that was not my husband last night."
The boy looks at the chart and finds 'adultery'.
"Five Hail Mary's and four Our Father's" he tells her.
The next woman walks in.
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So the boy starts browsing the list for 'anal sex' and he can't find it anywhere. Panicking, he runs out and finds another alter boy.
"Quickly, what does Father Rather give for anal sex?"
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2 guys are having breakfast at a restaurant.
the waitress comes over and takes their orders.
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after she walks away guy #1 says "wow she's really nice, she must get huge tits"
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#2 "a Freudian slip. you know when you are saying one thing and thinking another and what you're thinking comes out in what you say."
#1 " OOOOH yeeeahh. that happened to me this morning. my wife made me breakfast and I meant to say "honey you burnt the toast" but I said "Bitch you ruined my life."
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