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Some observations about the SEC's less-than-stellar showing in the bowl games.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
About that bowl showing . . .
8 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Hey buddy thanks for the Georgia analysis. I guess they will be as relevant as the one line u gave them. We will see, as they probably will be the favorite in the east next year.
- January 3, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
Just wait until next year! UNC -- the REAL Carolina will win every game!! Starting with LSUlosers! Hahahahahah! This is the REAL Carolina way. LOOSERS!
- January 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM
- Peter from Georgia said...
I guess you could consider the Dawgs a real contender if they only had a quarterback, a consistent running attack, discipline, defense, and a defensive coordinator. Other than those considerations, the prospects are great.
- January 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
Watched the USC game against UCONN and I think it was a reasonably good defensive effort had against the huskies. What I think most SEC fans don't realize is that UCONN is far better than most football fans realize. UCONN lost five games but came just fifteen points away from knocking on the door of an undefeated season and all their losses were decided within the last few minutes of each of those games! They were incredibly close to playing in one of the major bowl games, so don't knock USC as much as one should give UCONN more credit. UCONN has done an incredible job in light of the fact that they are an "infant" program in the world of big time football.
- January 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Michael said...
Mr. St. Onge:
You're absolutely right. Auburn should have won by 14 points. Instead, they were lucky to win at all.
Facts are facts. There are three complete teams in the country this year and two of them came from the SEC.
But many of the conference's traditional powers didn't play up to the par or are at least a year away. The mediocre bowl performances prove that.
Auburn exceeded expectations in many ways, certainly, and the future is very bright.
And true, a bowl win is a bowl win. Except when it's really not.
As for the Dawgs, it's hard to see UGA as the favorite of anything until they find a quarterback and a better defense.
- January 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- bama brother said...
Mr. St. Onge has a point about Alabama's close encounters. Pointing out the obvious, I don't think the Tide will remove all the doubters until they beat Texas. Of course, they have never beaten the Horns (though Joe Namath might disagree given a certain quarterback sneak call that went against him and his team in the 1965 Orange Bowl). Nonetheless, I have a weird feeling about this upcoming game, only because it has made me think of another Orange Bowl, the one in 1972 between Alabama and Nebraska.
At that time, after a four-year slide, Alabama seemed to be back, and what better way to cap off the season than to beat Nebraska, the team that was on the losing end in Alabama's last bowl victory, the 1967 Sugar. Unfortunately, the Huskers had spent their season dashing some other schools' dreams, and they treated Alabama like a fly at the end of a swatter.
There's not much of a comparison between then and now; I'm just going on a feeling. With all that has happened so far and with so much at stake now, you'd think we would not dig ourselves too deep a hole too soon. But, an error or two here or a big play or two there, and you're wondering where that shovel came from.
- January 3, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
I take issue with MG's assessment of the Outback Bowl (surprise!).
I told y'all when the pairings came out that this game would be a track meet. Auburn hasn't had many playmakers on defense all year, so I can't believe MG is surprised Northwestern moved the ball so easily.
I take serious issue with the celebration penalties. The game announcers not only agreed with the penalties, but probably felt they should have been penalized 30 yards for both of them. But both of the penalties were horse crap. McFadden started high-stepping at the 15 yard line. OMG!!!!!!! High-stepping????? What an evil act!!!!!! And slam-dunking the ball over the goal post after a TD? OMG again!!!!!!!! Who could ever conceive of committing such an atrosity!!!!!!!!!!!
Did these officials take an SEC-sponosored seminar on celebration penalties? Ridiculous.
And while I'm berating officiating, you can't seriously think that roughing the kicker penalty was legitimate. Dude lunges to block the kick, misses, and rolls over twice and rolls into the kicker, who falls and hurts his knee. Running into the kicker? Yes. Roughing the kicker? You've got to be kidding.
Now the face mask on what should have been the game-clinching sack? Legit, and quite stupid.
Looking forward to next year and life with a decent QB.
- January 4, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- Maroussia said...
It will be great to watch Penn State Nittany Lions, i have bought tickets from
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At the ripe old age of 32, ESPN is in its prime.
The self-proclaimed worldwide leader in sports has become just that, airing in 200 countries and raking in billions of dollars while carrying games featuring all of the major American sports leagues. Between its six US cable networks, thriving website, bi-weekly magazine and sprawling radio network, ESPN employs 6,500 people, including 3,800 at its 116-acre Connecticut campus.
In Those Guys Have All the Fun, co-authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales track the network's meteoric rise. Though ESPN's success now seems like a foregone conclusion, no one in TV thought so in 1979. Founders Bill and Scott Rasmussen first planned to launch a channel devoted to Connecticut sports, but the happenstance good fortune of landing cheap satellite time convinced them instead to make it a national network. All of four reporters attended the press conference announcing ESPN's arrival.
Today, however, what once was a hapless $9,000 start-up in a dead-end town (Bristol, Conn.) has morphed into a Disney-owned media property worth more than the major leagues of baseball, hockey, and basketball combined.
"Those Guys Have All the Fun" is built on hundreds of interviews with executives, staffers and other insiders in an oral history format linked by intermittent narrative threads from Miller and Shales. At 763 pages, this book is, like its subject, bloated but bound to succeed.
The alternating voices can be a boon, as when several people contradict and deflate former Disney executive Michael Eisner for his hindsight-is-20/20 pronouncements. At other times, the authors force the reader to slog through several people all saying the same thing with minimal additional insight. No doubt the authors felt indebted to try to use as much of the material they gathered as possible, but it slows the story.
And yet "Those Guys Have All the Fun" must be reckoned with. Despite numerous frustrations with some of the interviews (Venus Williams, Peyton Manning, and Danica Patrick are among the athletes quoted who have absolutely nothing of interest to say) and some of the section topics, this reader tackled it handily, driven by a combination of nostalgia and curiosity. Plenty of sports fans, I suspect, will share the sentiment, eager to pull back the curtain on an entity that has eaten up so much of their leisure time dissecting inevitably meaningless news (the fate of a 9th round draft pick who will never see an NFL field) and other insignificant affairs (any NBA game involving the Los Angeles Clippers, to cite but one example).
Any American sports fan can hum the "SportsCenter" theme, a theme that Miller and Shales say ESPN uses without paying licensing fees to its composer. Familiar faces and voices from the ESPN roster offer wildly varying accounts of life in a world of never-ending scores and highlights. These reflections include the obligatory self-importance, bloviating, internecine feuding, and ego-stroking inherent in most media endeavors.
Chris Berman, the network's longest-running recognizable figure, emerges in these pages as arrogant but diligent. Alum Keith Olbermann is, as ever, difficult, contrarian and cutting with bosses and co-workers alike, but extremely popular with viewers. Future talk-show host Craig Kilborn comes across as the one guy who may have had it all figured out, using ESPN as much as it used him. Tony Kornheiser appears here as shrill, thin-skinned, and mean-spirited, while Dan Patrick manages to be smooth and down-to-earth all at once. Bill Simmons, ESPN's online star, pokes fun at the monolith ESPN has become and wonders aloud about leaving, while giving short shrift to the clout and influence he would be sacrificing.
Other venerable well-known ESPN hosts heard in these pages include Bob Ley, the network's steadiest journalist; Stuart Scott, who brought hip-hop flavor to "SportsCenter"; and glass-ceiling pioneers Gayle Gardner and Linda Cohn. More recent recruits and emerging stars (Hannah Storm and the Los Angeles duo of Neil Everett and Stan Verrett) weigh in with a mix of platitudes and insights.
One of the most intriguing characters is a man little known beyond Bristol: John Walsh, the oracular presence behind "SportsCenter," the network's signature daily highlights and news show. As countless interviews make clear, Walsh's influence on what is seen on ESPN and its various offspring networks can not be overestimated.
A priceless comment comes from college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, who joined ESPN during its first year, just after he was fired as coach of the Detroit Pistons.
When someone from the start-up sports network called Vitale and inquired about his interest, the exchange was memorable.
"He says, 'I'm with a new network called ESPN,' and I swear I said something to the effect like, 'That sounds like a disease. What is ESPN?'" Vitale is still at ESPN today, known everywhere for his over-the-top enthusiasm and a quirky jargon invented by him and adopted by millions of viewers.
Embarrassments include familiar but nonetheless sobering accounts of the network's internal jock culture, plagued by numerous episodes of sexual harassment. "Monday Night Football" announcer Mike Tirico, is among those cited for bad behavior.
Many of the circumstances and feuds explored in the book belie its title. Examples abound of the network underpaying executives, broadcasters, and staffers alike, while also striving to avoid the merest hint of celebrity even when it's obvious. (Think Patrick and Olbermann's "Big Show" heyday in the early 1990s).
Missteps and critical drubbings, not always one and the same, also can be found here. A disastrous venture into ESPN-brand cell phones provides juicy fodder. The authors relate a memorable exchange between Apple chief Steve Jobs and ESPN's Bodenheimer at a Disney shareholder meeting. Upon introduction, Jobs tells Bodenheimer the venture is the dumbest thing he can imagine. The future iPhone inventor proves prophetic, as ESPN and Disney went on to lose $135 million on the venture.
Mark Shapiro embodies much that is good and bad about ESPN. His 12-year tenure comes in for close inspection, with mixed verdicts.
Shapiro was in his mid-30s when he left ESPN in 2005. By that time, he had launched the popular and profitable "Pardon the Interruption" hosted by the sparring Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon; shepherded the well-received "SportsCentury" documentary series; and bet the programming house on poker coverage and won big.
At the same time, Shapiro infuriated the NFL with a prime-time drama chronicling the misbehavior of professional football players; erred with the expensive and disastrous launch of a morning show called "Cold Pizza;" and lost the rights to NASCAR races.
Shapiro also ran everyone ragged. He presided over weekly 5-hour staff meetings, where eating was prohibited, along with individual bathroom breaks. Those guys may not have had much fun, after all.
These chronicles and anecdotes make for enjoyable reading and the authors must be credited with a thorough exploration of ESPN's various eras and transformations.
Still, Miller and Shales fall far short of a perfect game. On too many occasions, "Those Guys Have All the Fun" detours to superfluous side roads, choppy editing, and puzzling monologues. Exhibit A: three uninterrupted pages of radio host Colin Cowherd discussing his media philosophy, an extended non sequitur jammed into a section ostensibly about The ESPYs, the network's awards show.
Criticizing the duration of Cowherd's quote and its misplaced slot overlooks a larger question: What need is there for an extended rumination on The ESPYs? It's more than a stretch when Miller and Shales write sentences like this: "One of the key turning points for the ESPYs occurred in 2000, when the setting was moved to Las Vegas …" Um, sure it was. What sports fan doesn't savor that moment?
Such problems pop up through much of the book's second half. Thus the reader is granted insights such as why political columnist George F. Will voted for Jackie Robinson as the best athlete in the "SportsCentury" series. With a knowing nod to the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, the reader can only say, "So it goes."
In a book this lengthy, it is to be expected some typos and errors would slip through the editing cracks. Still, it is distracting to see the surname of one of the best-known sportscasters of this generation misspelled over and over (CBS's Jim Nantz is, in this book, Jim Nance). A similar tic miscasts Texas Longhorns head football coach Mack Brown, whose first name becomes Mac on more than one reference. Deadspin.com founder Will Leitch, a well-known figure in sports blogging, is, instead, Will Leach.
Some strong insights emerge from recent years. Among them: ESPN executive John Skipper's love of soccer leading to an overhaul of World Cup coverage and the indefensible decision to ignore NFL star Ben Roethlisberger being accused of sexual assault. College football sideline reporter Erin Andrews and several colleagues offer candid assessments of her being stalked and filmed through hotel-room peepholes, a harrowing episode that became an online nightmare for Andrews and the network.
There is also an interesting section on the highly rated but equally loathed LeBron James interview special to announce his free-agency decision. None of the principals emerge with much dignity intact, a sign of how ESPN's extensive investments in the various sports leagues often leave it functioning as little more than an industry cheerleader.
Which goes to show that while life at ESPN is hardly just fun and games, it is all but impossible to ignore. After hundreds of pages and perspectives, leave it to comedian Jimmy Kimmel, whose show once employed ESPN.com's Bill Simmons, to put it all in perspective.
"The truth of the matter is, ESPN is great," Kimmel says. "It's just when you make the mistake like I did of thinking you can do something edgy on that network and you can't. You just can't. It's McDonald's."
And, yes, "SportsCenter" is serving millions and millions even as you read these words.
Erik Spanberg is a Monitor contributor.


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glTransformFeedbackVaryings: specify values to record in transform feedback buffers
Function Definition
void glTransformFeedbackVaryings(GLuint program, GLsizei count, const char **varyings, GLenum bufferMode);
- program
- The name of the target program object.
- count
- The number of varying variables used for transform feedback.
- varyings
- An array of count zero-terminated strings specifying the names of the varying variables to use for transform feedback.
- bufferMode
- Identifies the mode used to capture the varying variables when transform feedback is active. bufferMode must be GL_INTERLEAVED_ATTRIBS or GL_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS.
The names of the vertex or geometry shader outputs to be recorded in transform feedback mode are specified using glTransformFeedbackVaryings. When a geometry shader is active, transform feedback records the values of selected geometry shader output variables from the emitted vertices. Otherwise, the values of the selected vertex shader outputs are recorded.
The state set by glTranformFeedbackVaryings is stored and takes effect next time glLinkProgram is called on program. When glLinkProgram is called, program is linked so that the values of the specified varying variables for the vertices of each primitive generated by the GL are written to a single buffer object if bufferMode is GL_INTERLEAVED_ATTRIBS or multiple buffer objects if bufferMode is GL_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS.
In addition to the errors generated by glTransformFeedbackVaryings, the program program will fail to link if:
- The count specified by glTransformFeedbackVaryings is non-zero, but the program object has no vertex or geometry shader.
- Any variable name specified in the varyings array is not declared as an output in the vertex shader (or the geometry shader, if active).
- Any two entries in the varyings array specify the same varying variable.
- The total number of components to capture in any varying variable in varyings is greater than the constant GL_MAX_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_SEPARATE_COMPONENTS and the buffer mode is GL_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS.
- The total number of components to capture is greater than the constant GL_MAX_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_INTERLEAVED_COMPONENTS and the buffer mode is GL_INTERLEAVED_ATTRIBS.
glGetTransformFeedbackVarying is available only if the GL version is 3.0 or greater.
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if program is not the name of a program object.
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if bufferMode is GL_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS and count is greater than the implementation-dependent limit GL_MAX_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS.
Associated Gets
See Also
glBeginTransformFeedback, glGetTransformFeedbackVarying, glLinkProgram
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On your 2nd point, SRAM might be larger, but remember your program is running in it. EEPROM on the other hand is all there for you to write data to, and you'd be able to store up to 341 of your 3 integer value sets before you ran out.
Thanks for the help! I already know each integer takes 2 bytes. Thats 6 bytes for the ints and 2 bytes for the commas, 8 bytes.<snip>The EEPROM is 1024 bytes right? So 1024/8=128 value sets. I dont understand how you get 341, thats 1024/341=3.002 bytes?
And I thought the SRAM because yes it has more space and you have to declare the size of an array at initialization anyway, so I can just see how much memory my sketch takes (slightly more than half) and then assign some (not all) of whats left for my array? Or would that slow down the processing or something?
edit: Is the playground link for writing the data bytewise? So thats how you can store the integer values without a comma? Does that mean its being written like this? 28 23 55 27 22 54 ? for two 3 int entries? Only in bytes?


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Update (6/19/09): from reader Rosalina, you can indeed hack it from the homebrew channel:
Materials:This information is out of date, but I'll leave it here for posterity:
A Homebrew Channel on your Nintendo Wii
An SD Card
Ocarina in your SD Card
Legend of the Twilight Princess for Wii
Use Legend of the Twilight Princess game to get Homebrew Channel and then
Go to File and then open TXT file. Then select rmce01 is Mario Kart Wii's ID. Then go to add a code/comment. Type in as many as you want but make sure you call it what it is called in the Mario Kart Wii Instructions Manual. And make sure you put "Infinite" before the power you want (the most fun powers are Star, Mega Mushroom, Triple Red Turtle Shells, Triple Green Turtle Shells, Bullet Bil l(the rocket) and some time Triple Banana, Fake Item Box and Bomb-omb.) OK? Now type the codes in the code box {codes are at www.usbgecko.com/codes}. Insert the SD Card into the PC and then go to 'Export to GCT' and select your SD Card. Insert the SD Card into your Wii and go to the Homebrew Channel and press start. You will be able to hack Mario Kart on the Homebrew Channel. My guess to stop hacking Mario Kart is to take your SD Card out of your Wii.
I did some digging and this guy who goes by the handle /dexter0 (aka ihack@you) appears responsible for this nonsense (46 pageviews when I accessed it), but I could be wrong. It appears this hack is accomplished using a USB Gecko attachment, which is pretty much like an Action Replay or a GameShark.
He basically just edits the database values that represent your item box status to choose what item you have at any point (resulting in unlimited items).
From /dexter0 (aka ihack@you):
These codes were hacked under NTSC-USA. And since they involve assembly hacking, they are not easily ported. So don't ask for PAL or JP codes.Have fun. Try not to be a dick.
[Write Char Offset]
[Always Have Item *Works anywhere] - Add Your Own Button Activator
58010000 00000014
48100000 80001500
...you need both of them for it to work. The Write Char Offset must come first! And don't click the apply button while a race is active, you'll crash them game.
If you wish to report a cheater, drop a comment on my Wall of Shame page with their name and a description of their Mii (if available).


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Advanced uses of pBiblx2
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Robert and Kathy Little both placed first in separate categories. Robert took first place in the AA no-till/strip-till nonirrigated category with a yield of 297.12 bu./acre. Kathy won first place in the AA nonirrigated category with a yield of 294.76 bu./acre.
Robert planted his no-till contest plot at 39,500 seeds/acre in 30-in. spacings. "I try to be very meticulous about planting," says Robert, who manages the farm's primary day-to-day field operations. "Speed-wise, I can tell from my monitor when I'm at the sweet spot, between 3½ and 4 mph. I also make sure the fields are dry enough to plant."
The farm's contest acres are sandy loam, "black sand" soils. "This is river-bottom, flat ground that drains pretty well," Robert says.
Weed control is also a major emphasis. "On our farm, the hard-to-control weeds are waterhemp, lambsquarters, fall panicum, shattercane and velvetleaf," he says. "We plan for a two-trip weed control application — one pre and one post."
In 2012, the Littles hired an airplane to spray a fungicide, insecticide and a stress-reducing yield enhancer before tasseling. At about 10 days after tasseling, they hired another airplane to make a second fungicide and yield enhancer application.
What they bought:
Seed – Robert Little
Pioneer hybrid P1339XR
Seed - Kathy Little
Pioneer hybrid P1339XR
300 lbs./acre of liquid 8-18-6-6S starter fertilizer
1 qt./acre zinc
½ pt./acre Stoller Bio-Forge and ½ pt./acre Stoller X-Tra Power
Crop protection
Bayer CropScience Defcon 2.1 granular insecticide in-furrow
1 qt./acre Buccaneer (glyphosate) burndown from Tenkoz, Inc.
2½ qt./acre DuPont's Cinch ATZ preemergence herbicide with 15 gal./acre of 28% liquid N
1 qt./acre Buccaneer, 3 oz./acre BASF Status postemergence herbicide
200 units/acre N side-dressed in anhydrous ammonia form
10 oz./acre BASF Headline Amp, ¼ pt./acre Stoller BioForge, 1 pt./acre Dow AgroSciences Lorsban insecticide prior to tasseling
6 oz./acre BASF Headline and 1/4 pt./acre Stoller BioForge after tasseling
Case IH subsoiler (on minimum-till acres)
Hurricane ditcher
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Precision Planting finger pickup units
20/20 SeedSense Precision Planting monitor system
Yetter residue managers
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Case IH 2577 combine, Case IH roundbar concave
Woodburn Farm, Somerville, Tenn.
Woodburn Farm registered the highest yield in NCGA's four nonirrigated contest categories with a yield of 334.95 bu./acre. This was the farm's first year entering the contest.
Last year, the Rheas no-till planted corn on some acres, but they relied on conventional tillage for their contest acres, which were located on river-basin soils. "We always push this bottom ground for top-end yield," says Scott Rhea, who farms with his dad, Rube, and brother, Matt. "We also like to create a raised seedbed to elevate the seed at planting for early-season rains." The contest acres were planted March 21.
Rhea credits weed control and crop rotation for much of their success. "Our main weed concern right now is glyphosate-resistant Palmer pigweed," he says. "We scout and use machetes and back-pack sprayers to chop it down and kill it during the season."
They also broadcast half the labeled atrazine rate at planting and the other half with a full rate of Roundup and a full rate of Expert herbicide as a postemergence application.
What they bought:
DeKalb hybrid DKC64-69
100-100-140 dry preplant fertilizer; 10 lbs./acre sulfur, 8 lbs./acre zinc, and 1 lb./acre boron
200 to 220 units of ammonia nitrate, side-dressed
Crop protection
FMC Corp. Mustang pyrethroid insecticide at planting
Monsanto Roundup and Valent Valor preplant herbicides
½ rate Syngenta atrazine at planting with sprayer attachment, TK-3 FloodJet spray tips
½ rate Syngenta atrazine with full rate of Monsanto Roundup and Syngenta Expert herbicides postemergence
John Deere 900 V-Ripper, John Deere 980 field cultivator and soil crumbler, Brandt Hipper Roller
McFarlane reel disk and a John Deere 637 tandem disk with a soil crumbler
John Deere 1720 stack-fold planter (30 in., 16 rows), XP row units
Keeton seed firmers
John Deere 4830 self-propelled sprayer, 100-ft. boom
Machetes and back-pack sprayers
John Deere 9770 STS combine
Geringhoff NorthStar Elite corn header
Kip Cullers, Purdy, Mo.
Kip Cullers placed third in the no-till/strip-till irrigated category with a yield of 322.71 bu./acre. "It was the best hybrid we had last year," Cullers says. "We averaged about 300 bu./acre with it on all our farms. On our contest plot, it averaged 321 bu./acre for the whole 50-acre field."
Cullers says that he selects corn hybrids for contest fields by closely examining his DuPont Pioneer IMPACT (Intensively Managed Product Advancement Characterization and Training) trials and research plots for top-performing hybrids. Other than his hybrid selection in 2012, "the only thing we did different last year was use DuPont's Coragen insecticide to control earworms," Cullers says. "We applied it with our first application of Headline Amp fungicide (at 6-oz. rate) at silking (V12)."
Prior to planting, Cullers applied two tons/acre of chicken litter. At planting, he applied Bicep II Magnum and Kixor preemergence herbicides, using a high-clearance sprayer. "We scout almost every day," Cullers says. "The Kixor was effective throughout the growing season."
What they bought:
Pioneer hybrid P2088HR
2 tons/acre of chicken litter
Crop protection
1.5 qt./acre of Syngenta Bicep II Magnum herbicide at planting
Labeled rate of BASF Kixor herbicide at planting
BASF Headline Amp fungicide (at 6-oz. rate) at silking, DuPont Coragen insecticide
Labeled rate of Stoller BioForge root promoter at the V4 or V5 growth stage with Monsanto Roundup postemergence herbicide
John Deere 1770 central-fill, no-till planter
RoGator self-propelled, high-clearance sprayer
John Deere 9770 STS combine
David Oberbroeckling, Davenport, Iowa
David Oberbroeckling placed second nationally in the AA no-till/strip-till nonirrigated category with a yield of 284.41 bu./acre.
"There is no single production decision that is more important than any other," says Oberbroeckling, a multiple state and national yield contest winner. "They're all important."
Still, Oberbroeckling cites scouting often and taking care of weeds as critical factors in addition to hybrid selection. Fertile soils and timely rains also helped him reach high yields.
Oberbroeckling planted on April 23 at 35,500 seeds/acre. He also credits GPS-guided machinery for helping him obtain high yields. "Precision farming equipment gives us uniform application," he states. "It makes a big difference in anhydrous ammonia application and eliminates product overlap and skips."
Oberbroeckling harvested his contest plot Sept. 24 at 19.6% moisture using a Geringhoff rotor disc head.
What they bought:
DeKalb hybrid DKC62-09
140 units per acre fall-applied N, with anhydrous ammonia
Dry-applied 65 units P and 75 units K per acre with 20 lbs. sulfur and 1.5 lbs. zinc
Chandler dry seed treatment
Crop protection
6.2 oz./acre Bayer CropScience Corvus preemergence herbicide, l.5 lbs./acre atrazine, 6 oz./acre Agri-SC soil treatment, from Four Star Services, Inc., 50 units of 32% N/acre one day after planting
Monsanto Roundup postemergence herbicide
2.5 oz. Bayer CropScience Stratego fungicide at 5th leaf stage
Case IH 1250 planter with row clutches
Case IH autosteer equipment
Martin floating row cleaners
Case IH AFS Pro 700 display monitor
Iowa Department of Transportation RTK GPS signal
Hardi pull-type sprayer
Case IH 7010 combine
Geringhoff rotor disc corn head
Jamie Gorder, Wahpeton, N.D.
Jamie Gorder placed 2nd nationally in the nonirrigated category with a yield of 298.62 bu./acre. She planted her contest plot on April 26 at a 40,000/acre seed rate on former sugar beet ground. "We selected the right variety for the year we had," she says. "It was 100-day maturity; we normally plant 95-day maturities.
"We plant on ridges that we make the previous fall," reports Gorder, who farms with her husband, Mark, and son, Vincent. "It's very flat ground with hardly any slope. The ridges help to warm up the ground and keep the seed from sitting in too much moisture."
Much of the equipment used on the farm is homemade. "Our son made our ridger," she says. "He rebuilt an old toolbar and put it together with a cotton lister that he'd bought from Texas. He also adapted a stalk puller made for cotton equipment that we could use for corn after corn."
In addition, her son created the starter- and foliar-fertilizer mixtures that the farm uses. "This year we put down our own (starter) fertilizer concoction that included a root stimulant," she explains. "It's kind of our own magic elixir. We also foliar feed our own concoction three times at various growth stages before full maturity as we're doing weed control."
What they bought:
Pioneer hybrid P0062XR
Spring-applied dry, 100-60-60 NPK preplant fertilizer along ridge
Homemade starter fertilizer concoction with root stimulator
Home-concocted foliar fertilizer
100 lbs./acre liquid nitrogen side-dress applied
Fertilizer drop nozzles
Crop protection
Volley preemergence corn herbicide, from Tenkoz, Inc., banded with the planter
Bayer CropScience Buctril postemergence herbicide, sprayed on 8-in.-tall corn
Arysta LifeScience Evito fungicide applied at brown silk
Homemade ridger for making raised seedbeds
Modified cornstalk puller
12-row, 30-in. John Deere 1710 integral vertical fold planter
Homemade row cultivator
John Deere 9770 STS combine


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½ cup (125 mL) chickpea flour
2 tablespoons (30 mL) dried fenugreek leaves
1½ tablespoons (22.5 mL) garam masala
1 teaspoon (5 mL) Spanish paprika
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons (30 mL) grapeseed oil
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1 teaspoon (5 mL) garam masala
1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground coriander
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I recommend the flexible and/or adjustable cockrings. These are generally made of stretchable rubber or leather. For the more daring there are the metal variety. These may look pretty, but they can be a bitch to put on and to take off. Here's how ya do it.
- Pull your ball sack through the ring first.
- Follow this by popping each of your balls through the ring one at a time.
- Now bend your cock down and pull it through the ring.
As you can see, putting on one of these little buggers before you have a raging hardon is gonna make it a whole lot easier. To take the cock ring off, simply reverse these steps, pushing your flaccid cock back through the ring first, followed by each of your balls and finally your ball sack.
It's absolutely essential that you not wear an inflexible (metal) ring for longer than a couple hours. Make sure you don't buy one that is too small either. If your dick is turning an angry red or worse, purple, or it is cold to the touch, you're in trouble. Take that ring off immediately. If you don't you will risk serious injury to your precious johnson. Remember people, play smart with all your toys!
Good luck
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The Einstellung Effect refers to "a person's predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though there are "better" or more appropriate methods of solving the problem."
As a programmer with a decent amount of experience, how can one combat this tendency to always approach problem solving from "tried and true" paths from past experience?
To give two very concrete examples I have been building web applications for a long time, long enough to predate wide use of Javascript frameworks (e.g. jQuery) and better web application frameworks (e.g. ASP.NET MVC). If I have client work where I am under a time crunch or pressing issues from the problem domain or business rules, I tend to just use what I know to try to achieve a solution. This involves very ugly things like
or using ASP.NET with template bound controls (DataList/Repeater) rather than figuring out how to rearchitect things with an ASP.NET MVC approach.
One technique I've used in the past is to have personal projects which exist simply for exploring these new technologies but this is difficult to sustain. What other approaches could be recommended?


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Clinton gives liberals 2008 deja vu
Hillary Clinton is giving some liberals flashbacks to 2008, and not in a good way.
Progressives are wincing over Clinton's foreign policy comments in a blockbuster interview with The Atlantic, saying her statements are excessively hawkish and reminiscent of her past support for the war in Iraq. Some foreign policy experts, meanwhile, are criticizing her views as too simplistic; one analyst called them downright disloyal to President Barack Obama.
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In the interview with prominent foreign affairs writer Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton called Obama's decision not to back Syrian rebels early on a "failure;" stood staunchly with Israel in its fight against Hamas; took a tough tone on Iran; and said that the West Wing's foreign policy mantra — "Don't do stupid stuff"— is "not an organizing principle."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama backs effort for new Iraqi government)
Clinton has always been more of a hawk than Obama, whom she served under as secretary of state during his first term. But for many liberals, whose enthusiasm will be important if she runs again for president in 2016, her comments simply felt like code for Bush-era interventionism.
"She basically seems to be taking positions that are very similar to the vision of America's role in the world that [in 2008] Democrats rejected," explained Michael Cohen, a fellow at the progressive Century Foundation. That approach, he said, was "out of touch with Democrats in 2008, and it's out of touch now."
Prominent liberal writer Joan Walsh wrote at Salon.com that she expects to support Clinton if she runs in 2016, but she called the interview "sobering."
"Clinton may think she can write off the anti-interventionist left — again — and win the White House this time," Walsh warned. "But she may find out she's wrong this time, too."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's mixed messages)
And Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who helped publish Edward Snowden's National Security Agency leaks, sniped on Twitter that Clinton is "demanding more militarism and violence."
In the 2008 Democratic primary, Clinton positioned herself as an experienced hand who could handle the "3 a.m. phone call." She was pilloried for that by the Democratic base, and the war-weary grass roots turned instead to Obama, who was able to position himself as the more anti-war candidate.
Polls today also indicate that Americans have little appetite for much overseas engagement, even as chaos is erupting in theater after theater — including Iraq, where Obama recently authorized airstrikes against Islamist militants. (Clinton's interview took place before Obama's decision and coincides with the promotion of her new memoir, "Hard Choices.")
At the same time, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll from earlier this month showed Obama's approval rating at an "all-time low." Fairly or not, Clinton's interview was seen by many political observers as an opportunity for her to separate herself from an unpopular president, and some found that distasteful.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama rebukes Syrian 'fantasy')
"My understanding is that there's political utility in her bad-mouthing the president now," said Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group. "But it's bad for foreign policy. It is disloyal …When Hillary does it, it's a bigger deal. It does more damage."?
One Obama ally described Clinton's maneuver this way: "Inevitable. Predictable. Authentically HRC in a fashion that reminds people like me why we opposed her so strongly in 2007."
A Clinton aide replied that the interview, posted over the weekend, "was a long-planned-for target on a list of interviews around the book — and not part of an overarching political strategy related to 2016, or anything else for that matter."
One key difference in the run-up to the presidential race this time, in contrast to 2008 is that, for Democrats, there's no clear, competitive alternative to Clinton. Liberal grass-roots darlings such as Elizabeth Warren have said they are not running, and there's no Obama-like figure on the scene. Also, unlike 2008, there is no other candidate who can overwhelmingly win black voters, a key part of the base, like Clinton could.


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Tech Still One Step Ahead: New Service Downloads Torrents Directly To Dropbox
from the it's-unstoppable deptUpdate: Well, that didn't take long. Dropbox has already blocked Boxopus.
Every time some sort of file sharing service is shut down or someone else is arrested, we hear the regular crew of supporters of the existing copyright regime declare victory. But, every time, people just shift to some other service and move on. None of it leads people to suddenly spend money again when they hadn't before. TorrentFreak recently had an article about a service calls Boxopus, which uses Dropbox's API to automatically download content from torrents to a Dropbox file. Think of it as torrenting in the cloud. From a user perspective, there are plenty of advantages, including the fact that the content is then available on all your synced devices. Of course, there's also the fact that for an end user, it's somewhat anonymous -- since Boxopus is the "downloader" rather than the user themselves. So if the content is infringing, it's more difficult to track them down (though, I would imagine not impossible, if someone got access to Boxopus' logs). Apparently, a number of services have already implemented this as a download option. Of course, this probably just means that Boxopus will soon be targeted as a "problem" even though it has plenty of non-infringing uses, and actually could be quite handy for all kinds of authorized activities in a more cloud-centric universe.
Either way, what strikes me about this is a simple fact: the technology always advances. It sees areas where people try to stop it, and figures out a way to route around it. Whether or not people like this, it exists, and tons of other, similar offerings will likely exist in short order. You can fight the tide -- as some seem to want to do -- or you can look at ways that you might take advantage of tools like this. Only one of those is a winning strategy.
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Mississippi man shot while sleeping in car in Colorado Springs in 2004
Dequincy Janeah King was only 19 when he went to Pansan's Sports Bar at 3:15 E. Arvada St. in Colorado Springs on Jan. 23, 2004.
The bar remained opened after 2 a.m. because it had hosted an after-hours party, according to a Colorado Springs Gazette article.
Exhausted, King told family and friends he was going to go outside and sleep in the car until the party was over. That was at 2:40 a.m.
The car was parked in the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex that had been known as a base for prostitution and drug dealing.
His friend went out 10 minutes later to check on Dequincy and he was doing fine.
At 3:20 a.m., he checked on him again and he was okay, according to a Colorado Springs police report.
But a half hour later, the friend saw blood on his face.
She rushed him to Memorial Hospital and left him bleeding at the emergency entrance of the hospital at about 4 a.m.
Doctors pronounced Dequincy dead at 6:15 p.m.
Dequincy had moved to Colorado Springs a week earlier to find a job to support his wife and stepchildren.
No arrests have been made in his case.
Anyone with information that could help solve this murder is asked to call the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7613 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Denver Post staff writer Kirk Mitchell can be reached at 303-954-1206 or twitter.com/kmitchelldp. Mitchell's book "The Spin Doctor" is available now from New Horizon Press.


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It's your boy Lil B
You know I got a lot of shit on my mind
Got a lot of things I just need to talk about
First off I want tell everybody I love them
And I just appreciate being alive
You feel me?
[Verse 1]
I bring you back to last year
No dollars bruh
Until we changed the game
The whole world followed us
A lot of people part of us
But they not who started us
They stealing money
Now acting like they charging us
It's not about the money
It's the attitude that's harming us
Had the team thinking I was leaving on the charter bus
What's this about the album?
Niggas is so foul
Saying "our management" (What?)
But they don't manage shit (Never)
Niggas left me in the park for five years
I got stabbed in my back
Man up, that shit's real
Niggas know that I love 'em to the end
And if you is my friend you gon' tell me what it is
I'm all ears and I keep my eyes open
Last time I fell asleep I left the game wide open
Last time I fell asleep I almost got my neck broken
Charge it to the hood
I might leave his face smoking
Lil B
[Pondering to the sounds of Toto's I Won't Hold You Back]
What has happened to me?
You know I'll just...
I'll never do it again
[Verse 2]
Bruh, a lot of niggas claiming they got trust issues
Man, if I smell a sucker I can't fuck with you
Every year a nigga switch up on you
Man he say he called my phone
He was never my homie
All of a sudden niggas start to think we're friends from Middle School
That's why I never spoke on you in my interviews
They say I'm crazy cause I'm fucked up, maybe
I been ran over, played with, left for crazy
I been locked in that courtroom, down in Oakland
Nigga scarred from YA
But he kept on rolling
We all sing the same tune
But I chose to wake up
Changed my whole mindset and I got my cake up
But I ain't change too much
Niggas still is leeches
Still got the same skin and I'm happy I'm breathing
And if I wronged you in my past
I'm sorry
I suffer inside and that's the worst thing for me
Lil B
[Pondering to the sounds of Toto's I Won't Hold You Back]
Man, I got so many questions
Like I said
They ask
If I could do it again all over again, would I do it?
Yeah, I'd do it all over again
But do it way better
I love this life
[Verse 3]
Gotta do it for my uncles
You don't even know what's in my soul
They deserve the whole goal (I love y'all!)
They wanted me to stop
But I gotta keep going
I ride through West Oakland
I'm near the Greyhound
I put the grapes down cause these niggas like me slipping
I stay with the Mac
It's sorta like I'm pimping
I can't speak on it
But I don't condone it
Live your own life and be happy for them moment
Just cause you got it don't mean you own it
Just cause you bought it don't mean that you flaunt it
We starving at the moment
Sitting in the office
Another damn referral, man I see this paper often
Fuck 'em if they don't understand my genius, bitch
I'll be Albert Einstein times a million, bitch
And I'm still saving people on a daily basis
Another reason why these bitch motherfuckers hating
It's Lil Boss
[Pondering to the sounds of Toto's I Won't Hold You Back]
I'm Lil Boss
Lil Berkeley
Lil B
Lil Based God
Lil Based
Some motherfuckers even had the nerve to say Lil Bitch
Fuck 'em
Bitch Mob fi-yaaah
You feel me?
Sample: The 1982 hit 'I Won't Hold You Back' by the rock band Toto
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PHOENIX — Arizona has become a national leader in the gun rights movement in recent years as the state enacted law after law to protect the people's right to bear arms nearly anywhere, at anytime.
The shooting rampage that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a former legislative colleague, has done nothing to slow down the Legislature.
Gun rights bills were introduced in the days after the shootings last week, and more proposals are to come.
"I don't think it really changes anything," Republican state Sen. Ron Gould said of the mass shooting. "I don't see how gun control could have prevented that shooting unless you take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens."
The shooting in Tucson brought new attention to the national gun control debate after authorities said the rampage was carried out by a man who couldn't get into the military because of his drug use and had repeated run-ins with police at his community college because of his bizarre mental behavior. Jared Loughner bought the 9 mm handgun legally at a Tucson gun store, and was also carrying extended magazines that hold 30 rounds of ammunition.
Arizona Republicans remain adamant that the shooting will not dissuade them from pushing their pro-gun agenda.
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They want new laws allowing college and university faculty members to be able to carry concealed weapons on campus, an issue that gained attention after the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech University. Only Utah has a law allowing concealed weapons on college campuses while 24 states have bans, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
"There are going to be some nervous Nellies, so to speak, but I think that it will be overcome," said John Wentling, a leader of the Arizona Citizens Defense League, a gun owners advocacy group active at the Capitol. "We still have an obligation to protect constitutional and civil rights."
Bills already introduced this year in Arizona in the Republican-controlled Legislature include barring landlords and homeowner groups from restricting the right to bear arms in self defense, and expanding the current law that allows gun owners to display a weapon in self defense. And Wentling said his group's priority bill, which he wouldn't discuss, hasn't been unveiled yet.
Arizona's permissive gun laws and the state's heritage dating to the Wild West days sometimes jolts newcomers, particularly in Phoenix and other metro areas where most residents live. Heads turned in 2009 when a man openly carried a semiautomatic rifle to a Phoenix protest outside a speech by President Barack Obama.
At the Legislature, some female lawmakers with concealed weapons permits have acknowledged carrying guns in their purses despite a state law prohibiting guns in public buildings. Visitors to legislative buildings are supposed to place their weapons in lockboxes.
Last year, Arizona become the third state to make it legal for adults to carry a concealed weapon without getting training and a background check. In 2009, the big change was allowing armed people in bars and restaurants, if they're not drinking alcohol and the establishments haven't posted signs against it.
House Speaker Kirk Adams said last year's bill to legalize carrying concealed weapons without a permit wasn't a mistake.
"Arizona remains a place that is respectful and adamant about our Second Amendment rights, and I think the people of Arizona support that," said Adams, one of 61 Republicans making up two-thirds of the 90-member Legislature.
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Former Gov. Janet Napolitano signed several bills supporting gun rights between 2003 and 2008, but the Democrat vetoed others. When Napolitano resigned to become U.S. Homeland Security secretary in 2009, Republican Jan Brewer stepped into the governor's office, and more laws protecting gun owners were made.
Brewer signed bills into law that let people keep guns in locked vehicles at parking lots of businesses that prohibit guns and barred local governments from prohibiting a person with a concealed weapon permit from having a gun in a park.
Gun control proponents hope that the Tucson shooting can create momentum in pushing back against the various pro-weapon bills in the Legislature. They want to pass more regulation of gun shows while prohibiting sales of extended magazines like the one authorities say the suspected shooter used.
Still, Sen. Steve Gallardo, a Phoenix Democrat, acknowledges that such proposals have little to no chances of ever passing, but said "we have to start the education. I would hope that many members of the Legislature see it as a wake-up call."
Sen. Jack Harper, a Republican sponsoring the campus-carry measures, said he didn't want to be seen as trying to take advantage of the Tucson tragedy by citing it as reason to support his legislation, but he said it was vital, given the deadly shootings on university campuses and the Arizona Board of Regents' policy banning guns. The board oversees the state's schools.
"University professors are tired of feeling like sitting ducks," Harper said.
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'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' Trailer: Chris Pine Revamps a Tom Clancy Character
Paramount has released the first 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' trailer, a prequel to the established Jack Ryan stories that previously featured the likes of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck in the title role. But now Chris Pine is up at the plate.
The late Tom Clancy, who passed away on Tuesday night, created the Jack Ryan character, having written various stories, four of which have been adapted into films. In 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,' Chris Pine portrays a younger version of this pre-CIA intelligence officer who's working as a stock broker for a billionaire in Moscow. Unfortunately, said billionaire frames him for a terrorist plot and kidnaps his wife, forcing Jack to race against the clock to clear his name.
According to director Kenneth Branagh, "We take the fundamentals of the myth of Jack Ryan and do an original film that was never a book. We're making our own story in a modern-day 2013." But don't worry. "Mr. Clancy is very aware of and very behind the concept."
'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' is slated for release on December 25, 2013 (though that could change), and is directed by Branagh (who's also starring as the villain) and features Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, and David Paymer.


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Former Greenwich chaplain dies from fire injuries
The former Greenwich chaplain who suffered severe burns in a December gas pump explosion in Danbury died Tuesday evening in Bridgeport Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment since the incident.
The Rev. David Wentroble, 60, a Presbyterian minister who most recently was director of pastoral care at Nyack Hospital in Nyack, N.Y., died between 6 and 7 p.m. Tuesday in the presence of family members, a hospital spokeswoman said.
A "compassionate person who just wanted to bring solace and hope to people," Wentroble made a career in comforting ailing patients at hospitals and hospices in Connecticut, New York and across the country, a line of work suited perfectly for his character, said a fellow clergyman in Nyack.
"He was a gentleman," said Dr. Fernando Arzola Jr., pastor of the First Reformed Church of Nyack. "He was a humble person who cared very deeply for people and their suffering, which is why he dedicated his life to pastoral ministry and to chaplaincy."
Wentroble came to Greenwich Chaplaincy Services in 1991, a through the agency spent 14 years providing spiritual care for residents of the town's long-term care facilities.
He was remembered Wednesday for a compassionate nature that brought comfort to the elderly and infirmed in town.
"He was a very tall, distinguished gentleman, and yet his gentleness was so evident," said Greenwich Chaplaincy Services Vice President Judi Mastoloni, whose mother, Mickey Forbes, lived in Greenwich Woods Health Care Center's Alzheimer's unit from 1994 to 2001.
"He would bring a big bundle of little stuffed lambs to his meetings with the Alzheimer's patients," she said. "Everyone would sit in a circle and he would hand out these fuzzy, cuddly, little lambs and just to see the residents sit there and pet these lambs was remarkable. It was remarkable to see what a little stuffed animal could to. He knew just about everyone's name and he would speak quietly."
Wentroble was "very well loved" by the residents of Nathaniel Witherell, Mastoloni said.
"He was just a very compassionate, gentle human being," she said. "His gift of gentleness and kindness to all our senior residents in the nursing home -- it certainly was a blessing."
Wentroble suffered extensive burns the morning of Dec. 20 when he stopped for gas at Wheels Gas Station on Tamarack Avenue in Danbury.
At about 6:20 a.m., gasoline fumes ignited to create a fireball as Wentroble filled his vehicle's gas tank, inflicting severe burns on him but somehow failing to cause significantly damage either his vehicle or the pump he used, said Danbury Fire Chief Geoff Herald.
Staff at the gas station rushed to help extinguish the flames as city firefighters responded. Wentroble was soon transported to Bridgeport Hospital's burn center, while officials in Danbury struggled to determine what sparked the blaze.
In time, fire officials ruled out any possible defects in the gas station's equipment and determined the fire began accidentally.
Video surveillance of the incident did not show Wentroble doing anything that could have started the fire, such as using a lighter or striking a match.
Although the lack of evidence led officials to the theory that perhaps static electricity sparked the blaze, an exact cause will likely never be determined. Investigators were unable to speak to Wentroble about the incident due to his injuries.
"Our investigation, we left it because we could not determine a cause," Herald said Wednesday. "It was in the hands of the police department ... They were going to have to talk to him and they obviously weren't able to do that."
Though it is "extremely unusual," static electricity can ignite gasoline vapors when a person picks up a charge inside their vehicle and unwittingly transfers it to metal on or near the gas pump nozzle, according to the American Petroleum Institute. This occurs most often in cool, dry weather.
The person operating the pump can become charged by friction between his clothing and his car seat before he gets out of the vehicle to fill up. This can also happen if he gets back inside while pumping, according to the Petroleum Equipment Institute, which advises against ever entering a vehicle while fueling.
"It's just a terrible tragedy," Herald said, "a horrible thing to happen. And it's very difficult to recover from those type of burns and the type of exposure that this individual had."
Given the nature of his injuries, Mastoloni said "In a way, it's a blessing," of Wentroble's passing.
"He was a good man," she said. "He certainly went to heaven immediately -- no two ways about it."
A 1978 graduate of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Wentroble intended to work in parishes until his first job as pastor of a Presbyterian church in West Virginia brought him to the bedsides of elderly parishioners. In time, he realized his true vocation lay in chaplaincy.
"You know, it's just terribly rewarding," Wentroble told Greenwich Time in 2005 during his final week with Greenwich Chaplaincy Services.
"You get to know these people's life stories, the struggles they've had. Most of these people lived through the Great Depression, World War II, some of them World War I. You learn their loves, likes and dislikes. The people here are great gifts."
In his time in Connecticut, where he lived in Fairfield, Wentroble became chairman of the state's chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and also designed a religious program for dementia patients, an area in which he specialized.
After 14 years with Greenwich Chaplaincy Services, Wentroble took a position in Indiana before making his way to Nyack Hospital, where he "was both a resource and a friend to countless patients and staff members," said David H. Freed, president and CEO of the hospital.
"His involvement in people of all faiths' most wonderful and most difficult moments alike helped to double their pleasures and halve their sorrows, respectively," Freed said in a statement. "He seemed to be omnipresent throughout Nyack Hospital, and we will all continue to feel his presence yet miss him terribly."
Staff Writer Brittany Lyte contributed to this report.