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"It has been a frustrating time," he said. "It has been nearly four weeks now and I didn't think it would be lingering on this long.
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"Maybe I was a bit unlucky to have the defect in the first place, but I've played without any problems and will play in the future without problems.
"I'm working with the medics to get it right and get myself to a stage where I can take part in full training and obviously play a game.
"I'm not quite there yet and so I have to keep working hard, but I'm very grateful that I've been given the opportunity to travel with the squad to Argentina and try and get it right over there.
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Kristin Todd's semester just got a little easier, and it was just as studying for exams arrived.
The senior biological sciences major might still have a full slate of finals to face, but at least she's finally able to let her friends in on a little secret: She won $10,000 on this season's premiere episode of CMT's "The Singing Bee."
Having aired on Friday, April 20, the episode shows Todd turning back five other competitors to take home the top prize. Contestants have to fill in the blanks with song lyrics. "You might have to sing the whole chorus, or you might just have to fill in a few words," said Todd, who nearly posted a perfect score in the competition.
"I only missed one word, in "Bonfire" – and I actually knew it, but I was so nervous that I messed it up," Todd said. "So I don't even like listening to it anymore."
Todd learned about the audition process from the show's website. "I sent an e-mail, saying I went to USC, and I was from a small town, Aynor, S.C., and they e-mailed back that they'd love to have me try out."
She traveled to an Atlanta casting session Feb. 4, where she answered a written quiz and participated in a mock audition. Within a week, the producers called to invite her to Los Angeles to film the show.
"I had never flown in an airplane, so that was fun," Todd said. "I made my Mom go with me, because I was so nervous. We flew to LA and stayed in a hotel for free for two days. The first day we were able to do some sightseeing in LA, and the second was a full day of filming."
"The worst part was that I've known since March 2, when we filmed the show, that I had won, but I couldn't tell anyone," she said. "So I've been keeping this huge secret, and it was exciting watching it this past Friday when it premiered. It was great to see everyone's reaction when they saw I won."
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Trenton, NJ: Governor Chris Christie faces a federal investigation over his use of $US25 million ($27 million) of Hurricane Sandy relief money for a commercial he starred in promoting tourism at the New Jersey shore. The probe comes amid new details of political payback from the New Jersey Governor's office.
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development inspector general will audit the marketing campaign, Representative Frank Pallone, a Democrat who requested the probe in August, said in a statement on Monday. Democratic lawmakers have said the "Stronger Than the Storm" ads gave the 51-year-old Christie free publicity as he campaigned for a second term. He beat State Senator Barbara Buono in the November election by 22 percentage points.
"At issue is the bidding process for the campaign and released documents which raise questions as to why the state chose to award the contract to a firm that charged the state over $US2 million more than a comparable bid for similar work," Mr Pallone said. Christie spokesman Colin Reed said in a news release that the disclosure was timed to damage the governor.
"Amazing that the inspector general's investigation leaks now generating the headline 'Feds investigating Christie's use of Sandy relief funds' when the governor is at his lowest point, no?"
It is the second federal investigation of Christie's political activities disclosed within a week. A US attorney is examining his administration's involvement in the creation of a four-day traffic quagmire in the town of a Democratic mayor who didn't endorse the Republican governor's re-election.
"For Chris Christie, it's probably been the worst week he's had yet," said David Redlawsk, a poll director who teaches politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
The governor soon faces several crucial moments. His annual agenda-setting State of the State address Tuesday will be followed January 16 by a special session of the Democratic-led Assembly to consider extending its investigatory power into the September tie-ups at the George Washington Bridge, which connects Fort Lee and Manhattan. Federal prosecutors also are reviewing the matter.
On January 18, as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Christie is to appear at Florida fundraisers for several candidates, Susan Hepworth, a spokeswoman for the organisation, confirmed.
Three days later, Christie will be sworn in to his second term followed by a party on Liberty Island, probably absent four casualties: Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff he fired after e-mails disclosed January 8 showed she said it was "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" before officials shut lanes; Bill Stepien, the campaign manager with whom Christie cut ties last week; and Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, appointees who resigned last month from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bridge operator.
The Sandy investigation had its genesis last year. Mr Pallone said in his August letter to David Montoya, HUD's inspector general, that the winning ad firm was being paid $US4.7 million for its work, while another firm proposed billing $US2.5 million. The winning bid included Christie in the ads. The cheaper proposal didn't.
"It is inappropriate for taxpayer-funded dollars that are critical to our state's recovery from this natural disaster to fund commercials that could potentially benefit a political campaign," Mr Pallone wrote.
In response, a basic review was conducted, according to Mr Pallone's statement. Last week, Montoya's office notified him that they had enough evidence to justify a full audit, he said.
The Christie administration said the advertisements had been properly vetted.
"The Stronger Than The Storm campaign was just one part of the first action plan approved by the Obama administration and developed with the goal of effectively communicating that the Jersey Shore was open for business during the first summer after Sandy," Mr Reed said in his release. "Federal agency reviews are routine and standard operating procedure."
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LAZZOLI, José Kawazoe; CASTRO, Claudia Lúcia Barros de; NOBREGA, Antonio Claudio Lucas da and ARAUJO, Claudio Gil Soares de. Accuracy of vagotonia criteria in the 12-lead resting electrocardiogram: analysis with ROC curves. Rev Bras Med Esporte [online]. 2002, vol.8, n.2, pp.50-58. ISSN 1517-8692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-86922002000200004.
OBJECTIVE: To determine sensitivity (Sens), specificity (Spec), positive (PPV) and negative (NPV) predictive value, and accuracy of different electrocardiographic criteria for vagotonia. METHODS: Seventy-four Olympic athletes (51 male and 23 female; age = 24 ± 5 years) underwent an evaluation consisting of a 12-lead resting electrocardiogram (ECG), and an assessment of cardiac vagal tone (CVT) by the 4-second cycling exercise testing (4-sET), with the B/C index utilized as the gold standard. The 4-sET is a well-standardized and valid protocol for CVT assessment based on the mechanism of exercise-onset tachycardia regardless of the sympathetic component. Using ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves, the authors selected the cut-point with the best sensitivity (Sens)/specificity (Spec) ratio for each ECG variable, and calculated the positive (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV), and accuracy (AC). The authors also correlated B/C index with ECG variables. RESULTS: B/C index showed a poor association with ECG variables, with the exception of R-R interval (r = 0.353; P = 0.004), that also presented a significant ROC curve (c2= 0.863; P = 0.002), whereas the R-R interval ³ 990 ms criterion showed the following results: Sens - 100%; Spec - 73%; VPP 20%; VPN 100%; AC 75%. The ECG variables that presented cut-points with accuracy > 80% were: T-wave amplitude in lead V5 ³ 8.0 mm; T-wave amplitude in lead V6 ³ 7.0 mm; Q-wave amplitude in V5 ³ 7.0 mm; R-wave amplitude in V4 ³ 50.0 mm; presence of J-point elevation in two or more leads; presence of S-T segment elevation in five or more leads, and presence of fast precordial transition. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The performance of ECG criteria considering PPV, NPV, and AC was generally very poor, with the exception of the R-R interval. The combination of other criteria such as T-wave amplitude in leads V5 and V6, R-wave amplitude in V4, and presence of J-point and S-T segment elevation in several leads should help predicting vagotonia.
Keywords : Cardiac vagal tone; Electrocardiography; ROC curves; 4-s cycling test.


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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2015 — The movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy and climate solutions has exploded, growing 50-fold in just one year and topping $2.6 trillion in assets under management by institutions and individuals committed to divestment, according to a new analysis released today.
More than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals have pledged to divest from fossil fuels, the report from Arabella Advisors found. These commitments include governments and investors from 43 countries and multiple sectors, including pension funds, health, education, philanthropy, faith, entertainment, climate justice and municipalities.
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"Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem," said actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, who announced his commitment today. "After looking into the growing movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, I was convinced to make the pledge on behalf of myself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks."
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"Investing at scale in clean, efficient power offers one of the clearest, no regret choices ever presented to human progress," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UNFCCC, in a video statement at a press conference in New York today unveiling the Arabella Advisors report. The United Nations climate chief has been advocating for the shift of investment flows from fossil fuels to climate solutions to meet the $1-trillion-a-year need for clean energy investment–and to create momentum ahead of the upcoming international climate negotiations in Paris this December.
"This shift in investment flows is especially critical for underserved communities and people living in poverty, who are disproportionately affected by the negative impacts of climate change," said Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., president and CEO of Hip Hop Caucus. "Climate change hits the poor first and worst. It is a racial and economic justice issue that must be addressed with solutions like the Divest-Invest movement to empower these communities, eliminate health disparities and drive the shift to a clean energy economy."
"If these numbers tell us anything, it's that the divestment movement is catching fire," said May Boeve, Executive Director of 350.org. "Since starting on the campuses of a few colleges in the U.S., this movement has struck a chord with people across the world who care about climate change, and convinced some of the largest and most influential institutions in the world to begin pulling their money out of climate destruction. That makes me hopeful for our future, and it's sending a clear message to world leaders as they head intoParis: It's time for them to follow suit, and divest our governments from fossil fuel companies too."
"Pope Francis told us this past June in his encyclical that the earth is a gift from God and that we are responsible for protecting it," said the Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director of GreenFaith. "The pace of fossil fuel divestment within faith communities worldwide, combined with the growing commitment to investing in clean energy, particularly for the world's poor, show that the world's spiritual and moral leaders grasp the urgency of the climate crisis and are ready to act."
Divestment strategies vary among participants in the movement. Some have divested from all fossil fuel companies both large and small; others are beginning with coal and/or tar sands. The Arabella Advisors report provides details on commitments made to date.
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Jennifer Gavin was the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of
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The 24-year-old line cook from Chicago, IL became the twelfth culinary contestant cut from
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"From Day 1, I came here banking on the fact that I'd make it to the top. I don't see anybody here more passionate about cooking then me, and I know I had a really good chance of winning this," said Jen after her ouster. "But I need to improve on my attitude. The competition started to get the better of me. This was a great opportunity, but this is the end of it for me. It hurts. I just have to stay positive, stay strong, and do what I do best, which is cook."
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"I'm happy that I made it to the Final 4 but I do feel like the people here might be threatened by me," said Jen.
The next morning the four remaining contestants met Gordon in the kitchen for their next challenge, which he said would be the "toughest" so far. Each contestant would prepare a luncheon dish that they'd need to make for 80 "demanding" customers. The contestants would have one hour and a fully-stocked kitchen to prepare their dishes.
The challenge commenced with Christina preparing an island turkey sandwich with avocado and heart of palm salad; Corey Earling, a 25-year-old private chef from Brooklyn, NY, preparing a salmon sandwich with vegetable chips; Louis Petrozza, a 47-year-old catering director from Charlotte, NC, preparing a monte cristo with spicy sauce; and Jen preparing a grilled grouper with mango salsa.
All the chefs had a hard time since one hour isn't very long to prepare 80 portions, but Corey especially struggled and was subsequently the only one to not finish when time expired.
Gordon then revealed that there were actually 160 guests for the luncheon, as the restaurant would be serving 80 pregnant women. Each contestant had their food placed on a different colored plate, and the women would sample each and determine who won the challenge. Corey quickly found herself at a disadvantage when she kept several of the women waiting.
"I kind of felt like I was losing from the beginning," opined Corey, as her competition worked their personalities and pushed their dishes.
After all the votes were tallied, Gordon revealed Corey received the fewest and Jen finished third. He said only two votes separated Christina from Petrozza, but she ultimately won the challenge -- her second consecutive challenge victory. For her reward, Christina would be accompanying Gordon on a $1,000 shopping spree at Lisa Kline.
"For somebody with only three years experience, I've kicked ass on these individual challenges," said Christina.
For their punishment, Corey, Petrozza and Jen would have to clean the kitchen for that night's dinner service. After an afternoon of shopping, Christina returned to the kitchen and flaunted her new duds to the Corey and Jen, who -- not surprisingly -- were jealous.
"Let's see how you do in service tonight mama," said Jen under her breathe to Christina. "Somebody's going home."
As Christina changed and came back to help with prep work, she received the silent treatment from her fellow contestants.
"That's a little cold," she said, adding it could hurt her in the dinner service. "I definitely feel a little scared."
However Petrozza continued to preach teamwork -- a common theme with him throughout the season -- so he went and helped Christina.
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twelfth fourth-season dinner service commenced, with Gordon imploring the four finalists to "unite as a team and emerge as individuals."
Orders began to come in with Jen and Corey working on appetizers, and both realized the importance of the service and had good communication between each other. It paid off, as Jen's risotto and Corey's scallops were complimented by Gordon.
Appetizers continued to fly out of the kitchen until Gordon compared some of Jen's risotto to mush and implored her to concentrate and move faster. She did just that and Gordon was pleased with the results but commented on her inconsistency.
"It's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it," he told her.
Petrozza was working the meat station while Christina was working on garnish and vegetables. Christina accidentally left the handle of a pot containing carrots over a stove burner, and when she passed it to Gordon, he burned his hand. He gave her a good tongue-lashing for it.
"If a handle is over the f**king flame, say something will you please!" he yelled. "One more time and you're f**king finished!"
As if on cue, Christina immediately burned Gordon's hand again, this time with a pot containing garnish.
"I've had enough!" screamed Gordon, as Jen commented she could smell his flesh burning from across the kitchen. "Now I think you're doing it on purpose... Wake up!"
With Christina bearing the brunt of Gordon's ire for the time being, Jen refused to cook eggs for Corey's scallops because she was too busy stirring a risotto -- not exactly the most time-consuming task. Christina helped Corey with the eggs until Gordon preached teamwork with Jen, which is when she finally decided to help.
One hour into the service and all the appetizers were out. Corey knew that some of the Jon Dory she was cooking wasn't completely ready, but since she was being pressured by Gordon to hurry, she decided to serve it undercooked. Gordon didn't notice, however the patron did and sent the fish back to the kitchen.
"If I wanted sushi this would be perfect," the patron told maitre d' Jean-Philippe Susilovic.
Petrozza was the one contestant who seemed to avoid making any mistakes throughout the entire service, as his meat was constantly complimented by Gordon for being properly cooked. However as has been the case all season, his work station was criticized for its messiness.
"Clear down and stop working like a pig!" yelled Gordon.
Petrozza did his best and since his food was almost flawless, Gordon seemed to relent.
"You can work like a pig from now on," he told Petrozza. "Your meat has been excellent."
The dinner service then came to a close in record time, and Gordon was genuinely pleased with the effort put forth by the Final 4. After calling the service the "best so far," Gordon sent the contestants upstairs into the dorms to come to a consensus between them on two nominations for elimination.
Jen immediately gushed about how she felt she was having a "heart attack" about one of the Final 4 leaving, which Petrozza found convenient since Jen hadn't been concerned with anybody but herself until her fait laid in their hands.
"You cold bitch," said Petrozza. "You finally feel like you have a heart? Why, because you know that there's a good chance that your ass is going on the chopping block? That's why you feel like you have a heart? You're just full of s**t."
The contestants decided to each write down two nominations in a secret ballot, with the stipulation that you couldn't vote for the same person twice. However a problem quickly arose when Christina garnered three votes -- which was impossible unless somebody voted for her twice. All fingers pointed at Jen for being the culprit.
"I don't think I need to be up there," said Jen. "I do feel like the people here might be threatened by me, that's why they continue to put me up. I just look around and be like, 'Damn, I can't see that anybody here deserves this more than me!'"
The four contestants then reconvened in the kitchen. Christina revealed they decided to nominate Jen because she clearly lacks teamwork skills and is currently the "weakest link;" and Corey because of her poor performance during the challenge.
Corey defended herself and so did Jen, who attempted to bill herself as "definitely a team player." However it was too little too late for Jen as she was booted from the competition.
"A great chef should not only be consistent with their cooking, but with their attitude," said Gordon. "I never knew which Jen I was going to get at dinner service, and that's why it was her time to go."
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote: > However, that solution would not detect subtle corruption, like > single-bit-flipping issues caused by quantum errors. Well there is a solution for this, ECC RAM. There's *no* software solution for it. The corruption can just as easily happen the moment you write the value before you calculate any checksum or in the register holding the value before you even write it. Or it could occur the moment after you finish checking the checksum. Also you're not going to be able to be sure you're checking the actual dram and not the L2 cache or the processor's L1/L0 caches. ECC RAM solves this problem properly and it does work. There's not much point in paying a much bigger cost for an ineffective solution. > Also, it would > require reading back each page as it's written to disk, which is OK for > a bunch of single-row writes, but for bulk data loads a significant problem. Not sure what that really means for Postgres. It would just mean reading back the same page of memory from the filesystem cache that we just read. It sounds like you're describing fsyncing every single page to disk and then wait 1min/7200 or even 1min/15k to do a direct read for every single page -- that's not a 20% performance hit though. We would have to change our mascot from the elephant to a snail I think. You could imagine a more complex solution where you have a separate process wait until the next checkpoint then do direct reads for all the blocks written since the previous checkpoint (which have now been fsynced) and verify that the block on disk has a verifiable CRC. I'm not sure even direct reads let you get the block on disk if someone else has written the block into cache though. If you could then this sounds like it could be made to work efficiently (with sequential bitmap-style scans) and could be quite handy. What I like about that is you could deprioritize this process's i/o so that it didn't impact the main processing. As things stand this wouldn't detect pages written because they were dirtied by hint bit updates but that could be addressed a few different ways. -- greg
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The 29-year-old Icelandic international has passed a medical and is poised to sign a three-year contract.
"I like Helguson a lot," Bolton boss Sammy Lee told the club website. "He has a great work ethic and understands the demands of the Premier League.
"I have always been an admirer of his attitude to the game and his ability to score goals at vital times."
Helguson had also been linked with a move back to former club Watford, as well as West Brom and Charlton.
Fulham signed the striker from Vicarage Road for a £1.3m fee in 2005 but he was unable to win a regular first-team place.
He made 57 appearances, scoring 12 goals.
Helguson brings Lee's summer signings to three following the arrival of Gavin McCann and Jlloyd Samuel.
But Lee said: "We have not finished adding to the squad yet.
"You have to be looking to improve things on a daily basis and I feel we are still one or two components missing.
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Tia [tia]▼ as a girls' name is pronounced TEE-ah. It is of Spanish origin, and the meaning of Tia is "aunt". Short form of Cinthia (Spanish), also a short form of names like Tiana, Laetitia and Lucretia. See also Tea. Actresses Tia Carrere; twin actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry.
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Tia is a very popular first name for women (#749 out of 4276, Top 17%) and also a very popular surname for both adults and children (#68782 out of 150436, Top 46%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Tia entered the list in 1950-1959 and reached its apex position of #261 in the U.S. in 1991, and is at #1187 presently. (2015 U.S. SSA RECORDS)
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Cal U names building for husband, wife
The names of a Greene County husband and wife soon will be added to a residence hall at California University of Pennsylvania.
During a special meeting on Friday, the university's board of trustees unanimously renamed Residence Hall C the Ivan H. and Adelaide Ivill Guesman Hall.
Ivan Guesman graduated in 1941 from California State Teachers College, and his wife preceded him in 1938.
The couple, both in their 90s and of Jefferson, were notified by phone of the honor. A small, private meeting will be held to share the moment with the former educators, university officials said.
"Ivan and Adelaide Guesman truly embody our university's core values of integrity, civility and responsibility," said Geraldine Jones, university interim president. "As alumni, Adelaide and Ivan are wonderful role models, in terms of both their careers and their exemplary service to others, including their alma mater.
"I am proud to have our university associated with this remarkable couple, and I am pleased to know that their names will become a permanent part of our campus landscape," she added.
The recommendation to the trustees cited the couple's philanthropy among the reasons for renaming the residence hall.
"Their alma mater is indebted to them for their generosity and support," it states. "Their donation to fund one of the guest rooms in the Kara Alumni House, dedicated in honor of their parents, is a wonderful accolade to the very special people who taught those values and instilled in them a love for others."
Neither of the Guesmans was available for comment.
Ivan Guesman began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Greene County, an assignment he learned about two weeks before school started.
"I was sure that my professors prepared me well in all my academic areas," he said in a 2009 Cal U Review article. "But there was no way they could have prepared me for how to actually teach 17 children in eight different grades — and keep the coal stove burning — all at the same time."
He transferred to an elementary school in Pitt Gas, Greene County.
At the new school, he saw Adelaide Ivill, a fifth-grade teacher, and discovered they both had attended the teachers college. They were married in 1943, 10 days before Ivan was called to duty in Europe during World War II.
He went on to get a master's degree and served as West Greene School District superintendent. In 1968, he joined the faculty at California University of Pennsylvania, teaching for 13 years.
His wife retired in 1975, having taught for 35 years.
The couple sponsor scholarships for students, and they helped in other fundraising activities for the university, according to the Review article.
In 2008, they received honorary doctorates from the university.
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- 3 tablespoons chopped onion
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- 3/4 cup chicken or beef stock, preferably homemade, unsalted and defatted
- Dash of salt
- Dash of red pepper flakes
- 1 stalk broccoli (3 to 4 ounces)
- 2 tablespoons grated Swiss cheese
Heat the oil in a small sturdy saucepan. When it is hot, add the onion and cook over moderate heat for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned. Stir in the rice, then add the stock, salt and red pepper flakes. Bring to a boil, cover and cook over very low heat for 30 minutes.
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I mentioned last week that I was going to send brownies to my friend Chris, who is currently hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. He's been out there since the beginning of March, and he has fewer than 900 miles to go. His wife, Amy, went to visit for a couple of days, so I sent a couple of Fairytale Sprite Dozen brownie gifts with her for Chris to share with his hiker buddies.
Sunday morning, I got a text from Amy with this picture of Chris and his box of brownies before he headed back out onto the trail. I've learned from his blog that thru-hikers commonly encounter "trail magic," which Wikipedia tells me is any kind of assistance from strangers through kind actions, gifts, and other forms of encouragement. I know that Chris will share his fudgy chocolate brownies and pass on some trail magic with that extra special Fairytale magic. :)
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Skateboarding is a highly competitive landscape and for proof, just ask Blind. The company has undergone major changes since its heyday in the '90s and looks vastly different from the company with which Guy Mariano released his career-launching part. Sure, there'll never be another Video Days, or even really another Class of '91, but Blind is still around and that has to be a testament to something.
The company in its current incarnation consists of several heavy hitters and relative unknowns, neither of which see much documentation. Perhaps it's with this notion that Blind channels its inner Uncle Drew (also, Tyga) to release "DAMN…," a new full-length video to show skateboarding that they 'still got it.'
The trailer for the film was recently released and, without paying much attention to the name (simultaneously acknowledging that skaters watch videos named "Cosmic Vomit" and "WTF…"), the level of skating here looks to be on par with Blind's contemporaries. With filming from the legendary Mike Manzoori; skaters like Kevin Romar, Felipe Ortiz, Morgan Smith and Ronnie Creager in the lineup; and the surprise introduction of Cody McEntire to the squad, "DAMN…" looks to have the makings of a sleeper hit. Be sure to pick up the video when it releases on May 27 on iTunes and DVD.


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ABRAM-VILLAGE – Evangeline School's 2013-14 athletes of the year contributed in many more ways than just on a sports field or in a gymnasium.
"Excelling at sports for these two individuals is a given, but that's not why they were chosen as athletes of the year," said Evangeline School athletic director Jason Arsenault. "Their sportsmanship, their character, the way they hold their head high when they win, the way they hold their head high when they lose, the respect they have for their teammates, coaches and officials is what sets them apart.
"These two athletes are the complete package."
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Grade 12 students Jacqueline Hughes and Jason Gallant. "These kids make school sports what it is," continued Arsenault. "Their attitude and ongoing commitment serve as a great role model for the kids who will follow in their footsteps."
Like Grade 9 students Tyson Arsenault and Nathalie Richard, who were announced as the midget athletes of the year during the Evangeline School Awards Gala held before a big crowd in the gymnasium.
Arsenault was the most valuable player in midget boys' soccer while Richard was the most dedicated female in midget badminton and track and field, and was the most valuable player in midget softball.
"Nathalie Richard is a great all-around athlete with a great understanding of the game," said Jason Arsenault. "She's focused, she keeps her head in the game and gets the job done."
Jason Arsenault described Tyson Arsenault as a phenomenal young athlete.
"For a young athlete at the intermediate level, he has a skill set that would make most seniors envious," added Jason Arsenault. "He's fast, he's co-ordinated and he really knows how to set up plays to get his team in an offensive position for points depending on what sport he's playing."
Tyson Arsenault is the son of Christine and Kevin Arsenault while Richard is the daughter of Kelly and Desmond Richard.
Two years in a row
Gallant, the 18-year-old son of Claude and Darlene Gallant of Abram-Village, was named male athlete of the year for the second year in a row.
"I didn't expect to win it twice in a row," said Gallant. "I am surprised."
Gallant represented the Evangeline Coyotes in four senior sports – soccer, golf, badminton and softball. One highlight for Gallant was the senior boys' soccer team taking home the silver medal from the P.E.I. School Athletic Association (PEISAA) provincial senior A championships.
"It was actually a great year," said Gallant, who was named the most valuable player in soccer and most dedicated player in softball. "We had a good experience and had fun the whole time."
Dedication awards
A clear illustration of Hughes' commitment to her teams is the fact she was named the most dedicated player in both soccer and badminton. She teamed with Joel Arsenault to win the PEISAA provincial senior mixed championship. That championship banner is proudly displayed on the wall outside the school's main office.
"That was a pretty cool experience," said Hughes reflecting on the provincial badminton championship.
Another highlight for Hughes in her senior year was the senior girls' soccer team advancing to the provincial quarter-finals in just the second year of Evangeline School fielding a team.
"It was a pretty cool school athletic career," continued Hughes, 18. "It's a pretty small school, so I got to play each sport with basically the same group of girls. . . I'm going to miss it."
The daughter of Ernest and Patsy Hughes of Sherbrooke also competed in softball and cross-country.
Next year, Arsenault plans to study industrial electrical at Holland College in Summerside, and Hughes will take science at the Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia.
"I have no doubt in my mind that whatever they decide to set their sights on they will reach it," added Arsenault.
List of results for the Evangeline
School athletics awards:
Most dedicated player (MDP) – Luc Gallant.
MDP – Shelaine Gallant.
MDP – Adéle Arsenault.
Most dedicated female – Myriam Cyr.
Most dedicated male – Joel Gallant.
Midget Girls
MDP – Nathalie Richard.
Most valuable player (MVP) – Joceline LeBlanc.
Midget Boys
MDP – Patrick Bernard.
MVP – Tyson Arsenault.
Senior Girls
Rookie of the year – Breannah Gaudet.
MDP – Jacqueline Hughes.
MVP – Adéle Arsenault.
Senior Boys
Rookie of the year – Joshua Nyonkuru.
MDP – Scott Bernard.
MVP – Jason Gallant.
Rookie of the year – Andrew Gallant.
MDP – Jeremy Gallant.
MVP – Ryan Gallant.
MDP – Cameron Gallant.
Most dedicated female – Nathalie Richard.
Most dedicated male – Rémi Arsenault.
MDP – Adéle Arsenault.
Most dedicated female – Jacqueline Hughes.
Most dedicated male – Joel Arsenault.
Track and Field
Most dedicated female – Chrystel Arsenault.
Most dedicated male – Evan Gallant.
Most dedicated female – Nathanie Richard.
Most dedicated male – Tyson Arsenault.
Most dedicated female – Myriam Cyr.
Most dedicated male – Jonathan Barriault.
Midget Girls
MDP – Stephanie Arsenault.
MVPs – Shelaine Gallant, Nathalie Richard.
Midget Boys
MDP – Marc-Andre Gallant.
MVP – Robert Richard.
Senior Girls
Rookie of year – Jenna Arsenault.
MDP – Adéle Arsenault.
MVP – Rachelle Gallant.
Senior Boys
Rookie of the year – Brett Ramsay.
MDP – Jason Gallant.
MVP – Riley Arsenault.
Athletes of the Year
Midget female – Nathalie Richard.
Midget male – Tyson Arsenault.
Senior female – Jacqueline Hughes.
Senior male – Jason Gallant.


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Melbourne: Former Australia skipper Steve Waugh thinks that a 'favourable' schedule could see Indian cricketers doing well on their upcoming tour Down Under.
''They have got a pretty good draw really,'' Waugh was quoted as saying by Melbourne"s Herald-Sun newspaper.
Steve Waugh, who has strong personal and business ties with India, does not believe that the Indians would be a pushover in the four Test series which starts on a batting friendly MCG pitch in Melbourne on Dec 26.
Two other venues, Adelaide and Sydney are traditionally considered to be more favourable to spinners. India is likely to have an edge at these two centres as they have two world class spinners in the shape of captain Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.
''I think there is some hope (of an Indian victory) because they are playing at two spinner-friendly venues, Adelaide and Sydney,'' Waugh said.
But the Australian veteran has put the onus on the Indian bowlers to bowl out world"s best Test team twice to secure rare wins. He has predicted that India may even play three spinners at Adelaide and Sydney for this purpose.
''They will have three good spinners in their squad and that will give them the chance to take 20 wickets,'' the former Aussie skipper stated.
''It seems in the past decade in Australia they haven't been able to take 20 wickets.'' ''It doesn't matter how many good batters they have got, they can't win a Test unless they can take 20 wickets.''
''They have to pick a team capable of taking 20 wickets otherwise they'll get thrashed,'' added 'Tugga' Waugh known for his never-say-die attitude.
India has had only four victories from 32 Tests in Australia.
The South Asians would be banking on their strong batting line-up to try to increase their tally this southern summer. But Steve Waugh would still like the Indian bowlers to spin extraordinarily to make an impression on the best team in the world.
''It really depends on how they bowlers go. I think their batters have got enough experience to get them runs. If they bring an attack capable of taking wickets they are a chance,'' Waugh said.


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Shanghai (AFP) April 22, 2013
A World Health Organisation official reiterated Monday there is still no evidence that a new strain of deadly bird flu is passing in a "sustained" fashion from person to person, despite fears some family members may have infected one another.
"Right now we do not see evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission", Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security and environment, said at a press conference.
He added, however, that officials "are always worried whether there could be person-to-person transmission".
Chinese health officials have acknowledged so-called "family clusters", where members of a single family have become infected, but have so far declined to put it down to human-to-human transmission.
Commenting on the clusters, Fukuda said that, based on available evidence, "it is not clear why we have these cases".
He said families where more than one person has contracted the virus may have caught it from animals, the environment or one another.
Health experts differentiate between "sustained" human-to-human transmission and cases in which family members or medical personnel caring for the ill become infected.
Fukuda spoke as a WHO team wrapped up a visit to Shanghai, the centre of the country's bird flu outbreak that has killed 20 people, as part of an investigation into how the H7N9 virus is spreading.
Since announcing on March 31 that the virus had been discovered in humans for the first time, China's health ministry on Sunday confirmed a total of 102 cases, in Shanghai, the capital Beijing and four provinces.
"There has been no discovery of evidence of human-to-human transmission," the ministry said in a statement.
Experts fear the prospect of such a virus mutating into a form easily transmissible between humans, which could then have the potential to trigger a pandemic.
The WHO's representative in China, Michael O'Leary, said Friday that the purpose of the 15-member team's week-long visit was to study whether H7N9 was spreading among humans.
"The primary focus of the investigation is to determine whether this is in fact spreading at a lower level among humans. But there is no evidence for that so far except in these very rare instances," O'Leary said.
The son of a man who was Shanghai's first case of H7N9 was confirmed to have contracted the virus after an initial test ruled it out, Chinese officials said last week.
The Shanghai government also said the husband of a woman confirmed with the virus had become sick with H7N9, but added there was not enough evidence to verify transmission between them.
"Family clusters in general do not change our understanding of the characteristics of the disease," said Feng Zijian, an official of China's disease control centre.
"It is still passed from poultry to people and there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission," he said on Wednesday.
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Potato Production
There is also a substantial wholesale market in the Mid-Atlantic based around the increasing demand for locally-produced foodstuffs and specialty-type potatoes.
Due to the wide diversity in types and high consumer consumption, potatoes are a good enterprise option for many growers. They can be marketed directly to consumers at farm stands, farmers markets, and through other local retail outlets. There is also a substantial wholesale market in the Mid-Atlantic region based on increasing demand for locally produced foodstuffs and specialty-type potatoes. Wholesale marketers will want to explore local and regional produce auctions, grocer local-buyer programs, and direct-to-restaurant sales. The diversity of potatoes is just beginning to be realized as more and improved specialty potatoes with different skin, flesh colors, and uses are being grown and marketed. The use of different colors adds to the visual appeal of potatoes on display and can attract attention at a retail outlet.
Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are the world's most important vegetable crop. They originated in the Andean region of South America and were first brought to Spain, where they were marketed as early as 1576. The potato was then introduced to the rest of Europe, where the Irish were the first to recognize it for its high food value. By the early 1600s potatoes became the staple food of the Irish, with the majority of the people depending on them for their existence. When late blight disease came to Ireland from America, it caused a national famine from 1845 to 1848 that resulted in the death of nearly one million people and the mass oversea migration of one million more. Late blight caused the death of the potato vines and decay of the tubers, resulting in a total loss of the crop. Late blight, although manageable, is still a challenge for growers today.
Potatoes were introduced into the United States in 1719 from stock brought from Ireland and were first grown in New Hampshire. Today, the United States produces more than 420 million hundredweight (cwt) of potatoes annually on around 1.1 million acres with an approximate value of $3.5–4.0 billion. The northeastern states combine for around 100,000 acres each year; Pennsylvania potatoes supply both the processing (primarily for potato chips) and fresh (or table-stock) markets.
Potatoes grown for the fresh market are marketed in the Northeast from mid-July through late September if not stored and from mid-September until mid-May if held in storage. Fresh-market potatoes are sold loose, in containers, and in 3- to 50-pound paper or poly bags. Another sign of change in the potato industry is in the marketing of "B" size potatoes, which were once discarded as too small or kept for seed. They are now packaged in 1.5-pound clamshells or in quart baskets as a ready-to-use product.
Three basic marketing alternatives are available to the potato grower, wholesale markets, retail markets, and processing:
- In wholesale marketing, producers negotiate price with the retail chain stores. Cooperatives, such as the Pennsylvania Co-Operative Potato Growers, market potatoes to a wide variety of outlets. Produce auctions provide another excellent outlet for new and smaller growers since all product is generally sold, but the price will vary with demand, quantity of other potatoes at the auction, quality, and type of potato.
- Local retailers (individual grocery stores) are another possibility, but you must take the time to contact produce managers and provide high-quality potatoes when the stores require them. Roadside stands (either your own or another grower's) provide opportunities to receive higher-than-wholesale prices for your potatoes, but you may have some additional expenses for advertising, building and maintaining a facility, and providing service to your customers. CSAs (community-supported agriculture) may be another option. CSAs strive to provide the greatest variety over the longest season, and potatoes are a good match for other crops such as winter squash and root crops for fall and winter sales or markets. Some growers sell to local restaurants. Because chefs stay up on trends, this may be an important avenue to sell high-end specialty potatoes that may not be recognized at other markets.
- Pennsylvania is one of the foremost potato-processing states in the country. This output is almost entirely in the form of potato chips. Although it is an important part of Pennsylvania's large food-processing industry, most of the potatoes used come from outside the state. The acreage of chipping potatoes grown in Pennsylvania is still significant but has been declining for over twenty years. Potato varieties used for chipping have been selected for their frying characteristics and are generally not very good choices for general table-stock use. Most chipping potatoes are grown by larger farming operations on a contract basis. Processors are not likely to contract with small-acreage growers.
Planting and Fertilization
Potatoes grow best in deep to moderately deep, loose, well-drained soils. The soil should have a pH of 5.5 to 6.5. The best method to determine lime and fertilizer requirements is by soil testing. Some factors to consider in the fertility program are the method of fertilizer application, crop use (fresh or processing), variety, length of the growing season, and manure applications. The fertility value of a legume crop grown the previous season should also be considered. Excess nitrogen fertilization delays maturity, while excess potassium greatly hinders the uptake of magnesium and reduces the firmness of the potato (decreases the specific gravity). Magnesium is recommended when soil levels of magnesium are low or potassium levels are excessively high.
Potato varieties recommended for the northeastern United States are listed in Table 1.Table 1. Recommended potato varieties for the northeastern United States.
|Snowden (chips only)
|Dark Red Norland
|Michigan Purple
|light yellow
|Kueka Gold
|pale yellow
|Russian Banana
|pale yellow
|Yukon Gold
|rose pink
|Austrian Crescent
|Purple Majesty
|Adirondack Blue
|Adirondack Red
|Villeta Rose
|white (mostly B-size potatoes
Adapted from B. Lamont, Producing Specialty Potatoes - Preplant Through Harvest.
Use only certified seed or seed known to be free of virus diseases. Space seed pieces 7 to 12 inches apart in the row. Spacing varies with potato variety, soil type, amount of moisture available, fertility and the amount of fertilizer applied, and potato size desired at harvest time (closer planting yields smaller potatoes).
In conventionally grown potatoes, the amount of nitrogen applied typically ranges from 160 to 200 pounds per acre depending on the variety. Cultivation is often used to break the soil crust, promote aeration, and kill the first flush of weeds not controlled by herbicides. Later the potatoes have soil ridged over the rows ("hilled") to prevent greening and control weeds in the row. If hilling is delayed, be careful to minimize root damage caused by tillage. Hilling should be completed before the potatoes start to bloom. Potatoes are typically fertilized twice — first at planting when a band of fertilizer is placed along-side the row, and later when the plants are side-dressed during cultivation or at hilling.
Potatoes are well suited for production in a plasticulture system (using plastic mulches, drip irrigation, fertigation, row covers, and even fumigation, if needed). Although primarily used by smaller growers (less than 5 acres of potatoes) due to the slower planting speed and specialized equipment required, this method produces excellent yields of high-quality potatoes. Plastic mulches warm up the soils faster in the spring and hasten the emergence of the potato plants. The plastic mulch also prevents weeds and eliminates the need to hill and cultivate.
Because drip irrigation provides complete control over the amount of moisture applied, it is also an excellent method for applying precise amounts of nutrients. Tissue-culture sampling should be used to measure plant nutrient needs so excessive fertilizer is not applied. The only drawback to plasticulture is in handling the waste plastic at the end of the season. Due largely to eliminating preemergence herbicides, plasticulture greatly simplifies the production of organic potatoes.
Pest Control
Like nearly all vegetable crops, potatoes require weed, disease, and insect management. By practicing IPM (integrated pest management), growers can greatly reduce their reliance on chemicals. IPM includes use of crop rotation, cover crops, nutrient management, predictive computer models for insects and diseases, crop scouting, improved varieties, and other related practices and techniques to produce a high-quality crop and keep pesticide use to a minimum. In an IPM protocol the sole difference between an organic grower and a so-called conventional grower is their selection of pesticides and fertilizers. Organic growers are limited to fertilizers and pesticides that are on the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) list, while conventional growers can use both OMRI-approved materials and any other federally approved pesticide.
Weed management can be achieved with herbicides, cultivation, plastic mulch, and crop rotation. Several preplant and postemergence herbicides are available for potatoes depending on the specific weed problem and potato growth stage. Careful preparation of a long-term crop-rotation scheme can greatly reduce populations of difficult-to-control weeds as a grower can vary cultivation and rotate herbicides. Early cultivation can be used in conventionally planted systems when weeds are young and before the potato canopy has closed.
Several insects can cause severe problems in potatoes, including Colorado potato beetles, flea beetles, aphids, leafhoppers, wireworms, and corn borers. Monitoring insect populations by scouting is critical in determining when you should use insecticides and which materials you should spray. Some of the newer insecticides are applied in the furrow at planting. Local and regional corn-borer-trapping programs focused on sweet corn provide important local information to time spray applications. Wireworms are a particularly difficult pest that can be monitored using field-corn-monitoring stations.
Several potato diseases can cause severe crop losses if not properly managed. These include early blight, late blight, common and powdery scab, blackleg, leaf roll and mosaic viruses, rhizoctonia, verticillium wilt, fusarium dry rot, and bacterial soft rot. Although the list of diseases seems overwhelming, most diseases can be managed with disease-resistant varieties, crop rotation, and proper use and timing of fungicides. It is also important to be aware of weather conditions that are related to the spread of certain diseases such as late blight. Growers can also access computer models based on local and regional weather patterns to obtain important data to help in managing diseases.
Harvest and Storage
Depending on the variety grown, potatoes are generally harvested from mid-July through October in the northeastern United States. Potatoes are harvested when they are mature or when the skins are set. In any case, harvest when the air and soil temperatures are above 45°F. Care should be taken to prevent bruising potatoes during harvesting, storing, grading, and marketing. Newly harvested potatoes can be sold immediately after harvest.
Consumers and restaurants often seek out these "fresh" or "new" potatoes, which often bring a premium price. Because the skins are very tender, handle them carefully, wash them only as much as necessary, allow them to dry, and get them to market quickly.
When storing potatoes, ventilation, storage temperatures, and relative humidity are important factors to consider.
Storage conditions during the first 10 to 14 days are critical to heal cuts and bruises in newly harvested potatoes to ensure you have a high-quality crop to market. Make sure there is good air movement, a temperature about 65°F, and high relative humidity (85 to 90 percent) in the potato storage facility during this period. Temperature should then be reduced very slowly (one degree per day) to the final storage temperature. Potatoes stored longer than three months for the fresh or tablestock market should be held at 38 to 40°F. Maintain relative humidity at 85 percent or higher to help prevent shrinkage and pressure bruising and to keep the potatoes firm. Be sure to consult an agricultural engineer who is familiar with the construction of potato storages when building a new potato storage facility or renovating an older facility. Plastic bulk containers are recommended for storing larger quantities of potatoes because they are much easier to clean than wooden ones.
Environmental Impacts
In the normal course of operations, farmers handle pesticides and other chemicals, may have manure to collect and spread, and use equipment to prepare fields and harvest crops. Any of these routine on-farm activities can be a potential source of surface or groundwater pollution. Because of this possibility, you must understand the regulations you must follow concerning the proper handling and application of chemicals and the disposal and transport of waste. Depending on the watershed where your farm is located, there may be additional environmental regulations regarding erosion control, pesticide leaching, and nutrient runoff. Contact your soil and water conservation district, extension office, zoning board, state departments of agriculture and environmental protection, and local governing authorities to determine what regulations may pertain to your operation.
Good Agricultural Practices and Good Handling Practices
Good agricultural practices (GAP) and good handling practices (GHP) are voluntary programs that you may wish to consider for your operation. The idea behind these programs is to ensure a safer food system by reducing the chances for foodborne illnesses resulting from contaminated products reaching consumers. Also, several major food distribution chains are beginning to require GAP- and GHP-certified products from their producers.
These programs set standards for worker hygiene, use of manure, and water supply quality.
These handling practices require an inspection from a designated third party and there are fees associated with the inspection. Prior to an inspection, you will need to develop and implement a food safety plan and designate someone in your operation to oversee this plan. You will need to have any water supply used by your workers or for crop irrigation and pesticide application checked at least twice each year. A checklist of the questions to be asked during the inspection can be found on the USDA website. For more information about GAP and GHP, contact your local extension office or your state's department of agriculture.
Risk Management
You should carefully consider how to manage risk on your farm. First, you should insure your facilities and equipment. This may be accomplished by consulting your insurance agent or broker. It is especially important to have adequate levels of property, vehicle, and liability insurance. You will also need workers compensation insurance if you have any employees. You may also want to consider your needs for life and health insurance and if you need coverage for business interruption or employee dishonesty. For more on agricultural business insurance, see Agricultural Alternatives: Agricultural Business Insurance.
Second, check to see if there are multi-peril crop insurance programs available for your crop or livestock enterprises. There are crop insurance programs designed to help farmers manage both yield risk and revenue shortfalls. Crop insurance is available for potatoes, but individual crop insurance coverage is not available for all vegetable crops. If individual coverage is not available for what you grow, you may be able to use the AGR/AGR-Lite program to insure the revenue of your entire farm operation. To use AGR-Lite you must have 5 years of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Schedule F forms. For more information concerning crop insurance, contact a crop insurance agent or check the Pennsylvania crop insurance education website.
Finally, the USDA Farm Service Agency has a program called the Non-insured Assistance Program (NAP) that is designed to provide a minimal level of yield risk protection for producers of commercial agricultural products that don't have multi-peril crop insurance coverage. NAP is designed to reduce financial losses when natural disasters cause catastrophic reduction in production. NAP coverage is available through your local USDA Farm Service Agency office. The application fee for this program may be waived for eligible limited-resource farmers.
The sample budgets included in this publication summarize the costs and returns for table-stock potatoes grown both conventionally and in a plasticulture system. These budgets should help ensure that you include all costs and receipts in your calculations. Costs and returns are often difficult to estimate in budget preparation because they are numerous and variable. Think of these budgets as an approximation and make appropriate adjustments using the "your estimate" column to reflect your specific production conditions. More information on using crop budgets can be found in Agricultural Alternatives: Enterprise Budget Analysis.
You can make changes to the interactive PDF budget files for this publication by inputting your own prices and quantities in the green outlined cells for any item. The cells outlined in red automatically calculate your revised totals based on the changes you made to the cells outlined in green. You will need to click on and add your own estimated price and quantity information to all of the green outlined cells to complete your customized budget. When you are done, you can print the budget using the green Print Form button at the bottom of the form. You can use the red Clear Form button to clear all the information from your budget when you are finished.
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to use these forms. If you do not have this program installed on your computer, you can download a free version.
Sample Potato Budgets
Sample Potato Budget - Conventional Production
Sample Potato Budget - Plasticulture Production
For More Information
Bohl, W. H., S. B. Johnson, eds. Commercial Potato Production in North America. Orono, Me.: Potato Association of America, 2010.
Christ, B. J. Potato Diseases in Pennsylvania. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1998.
Dunn, J. W., J. K. Harper, and L. F. Kime. Agricultural Alternatives: Fruit and Vegetable Marketing for Smallscale and Part-time Growers. University Park: Penn State Cooperative Extension, 2009.
Johnson, D. A, ed. Potato Health Management. St. Paul, Minn.: APS Press, 1993.
Hallee, Neal D., J. Hunter, and S. H. Belyea. Potato Storage Design and Management. Bulletin #1092. Orono:University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 1995.
Harper, J. K., S. Cornelisse, L. F. Kime, and J. Hyde. Agricultural Alternatives: Budgeting for Agricultural Decision Making. University Park: Penn State Cooperative Extension, 2013.
Kime, L. F., J. A. Adamik, E. E. Gantz, and J. K. Harper. Agricultural Alternatives: Agricultural Business Insurance. University Park: Penn State Cooperative Extension, 2004.
Lamont, W. J., A. R. Jarrett, L. F. Kime, and J. K. Harper. Agricultural Alternatives: Irrigation for Fruit and Vegetable Production. University Park: Penn State Cooperative Extension, 2012.
Lamont, W. J., M. D. Orzolek, J. K. Harper, L. F. Kime, and A. R. Jarrett. Agricultural Alternatives: Drip Irrigation for Vegetable Production. University Park: Penn State Cooperative Extension, 2012.
Maynard, D. N., and G. J. Hochmuth. Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers. 5th ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2006.
Orzolek, M. D., W. J. Lamont, T. Elkner, K. Demchak, E. Sanchez, J. M. Halbrendt, S. J. Fleischer, L. LaBorde, K. Hoffman, and G. San Julian. 2013 Pennsylvania Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 2013.
Stevenson, W., R. Loria, G. D. Franc, and D. P. Weingartner, eds. Compendium of Potato Diseases. 2nd ed. St. Paul, Minn.: APS Press, 2001.
AssociationsPennsylvania Co-operative Potato Growers, Inc.
3107 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA 17110-1310
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association
815 Middle Road
Richfield, PA 17086-9626
- Global Potato News
- Idaho Center for Potato Research and Education
- International Potato Center Maine Potato Board
- National Potato Council
- Nebraska Potato Eye
- Northwest Potato Research
- Oregon State University Potato Research and Extension
- Potato Association of America
- University of Idaho Potato Disease Problems
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Potato Education Guide
Initial Resource Requirements:Conventional Production
- Land: 1 acre
- Labor: $450 to $550
- Capital: $2,700 to $3,100
- Equipment: tractor (50 to 75 hp); boom sprayer; potato harvester
Initial Resource Requirements: Plasticulture Production
- Land: 1 acre
- Labor: $850 to $1,50
- Capital: $4,300 to $4,600
- Equipment: tractor (50 to 75 hp); boom sprayer; plastic mulch layer; mulch lifter; irrigation system; rotary mower
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Prepared by Steven M. Bogash, retired extension educator; William J. Lamont Jr., professor of horticulture; R. Matthew Harsh, Harsh Consulting; Lynn F. Kime, senior extension associate; and Jayson K. Harper, professor of agricultural economics.
This publication was developed by the Small-scale and Part-time Farming Project at Penn State with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Extension Service.
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2009-10 (Jr.): Made a successful transition to the shooting guard position, starting all 33 games … paced the team in free throw percentage (.750) … ranked second on the Lady Flames with 55 assists, while recording a positive assist-to-turnover ratio (55 to 51) … opened her year with eight points and a pair of steals versus Winston-Salem State (11/13), in her first career start at shooting guard … tallied six points and a season-high seven assists in a win over Glenville State (12/5) … equaled her career high with eight rebounds at Gardner-Webb (1/2) … posted back-to-back double-digit scoring efforts for the first time in her career, during mid-January … scored 11 points in just 20 minutes against Presbyterian College (1/16) … two days later, tossed in 10 more points versus UNC Asheville, in her most complete effort of the season … also grabbed five rebounds while tying her career high for three-pointers made (2) and steals (4) against the Bulldogs … equaled her career highs for both free throws made (5) and attempted (6) during a nine-point effort at Radford (2/1) … included on the Big South Presidential Honor Roll.
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