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Andy Murray defeats Roger Federer to reach the Australian Open final.
British No.1 Murray overcame the Swiss world No.2 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-2 in four hours on Rod Laver Arena to face world No.1 Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final.
Murray, 25, looked the more dominant player for the majority of the match, controlling points well on his serve, only for Federer to dictate the two tie-breaks of the match in sets two and four.
Murray, who came back from 4-1 down in the fourth set to lead 6-5 and serve for the match, was denied by 31 year-old Federer who forced the match into a fifth.
Scintillating hitting from Murray saw him take the early break in the fifth; a hold gave him a comfortable 3-0 lead. In the final game Federer sent a forehand long and Murray secured the win.
Murray plays Djokovic on Sunday at 8.30am, British time.
Andy Lapthorne has reached the quad singles final at the Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships, while also finshing runner-up in the quad doubles event.
Lapthorne faced a more difficult challenge against Sweden's Anders Hard in their decisive round-robin match than he had last weekend when beating Hard in straight sets to win the Melbourne Open. However, Lapthorne recovered well from losing the first set to prevail 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 and finish second in the round-robin phase of the competition behind American world No. 1 David Wagner.
The world No. 4 will now face Wagner for the second time this week in Saturday's quad singles final as the Brit bids for his first Grand Slam singles title.
Meanwhile, in the women's doubles final Lucy Shuker and Marjolein Buis of the Netherlands missed out to Dutch top seeds and Wimbledon champions Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot 6-4, 6-3.
Italian top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the Women's doubles title with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Australians Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. The Mixed doubles final was setup with the teams of Jarmilla Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden and Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak winning the semi-finals.
There will be an all-Australian Boys' singles final as Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis both secured straight sets semi-finals wins. In the Girls' singles semi-finals there were victorries for 2nd seed Katerina Siniakova and 3rd seed Ana Konjuh.
There was further Australian success in the Boys' doubles final as Jay Andrijic and Bradley Mousley saw off Maximilian Marterer of Germany and Lucas Miedler of Austria 6-3, 7-6(3). The Girls' doubles title went to top seeds Ana Konjuh and Carol Zhao as the Croatian/Canadian team recovered to defeat Oleksandra Korashvili and Barbora Krejcikova 5-7, 6-4 (10-7).


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Makes 6 to 8 servings
Easy to make and even easier to devour, this dip is a crowd-pleaser that's hugely popular at Duke tailgates and welcome anywhere that big flavors reign. Thick-sliced, peppered bacon gives the dip a distinctly porky flavor.
- 1 (8-ounce) tub whipped cream cheese
- 3/4 cup crumbled Danish blue cheese
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
- 2 tablespoons minced onion
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- Dash of hot pepper sauce
- 6 slices peppered bacon, cooked until crisp and crumbled
- Apple wedges, cut up raw vegetables, and/or Wheat Thins
1. Put the cream cheese, blue cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, horseradish, onion, Italian seasoning, and pepper sauce in a food processor. Pulse until very smooth. Add the bacon and pulse until just blended.
2. Transfer to a bowl, cover, and refrigerate until the flavors are well integrated, at least one hour or overnight.
3. Serve with apples, vegetables, and/or Wheat Thins.
Reprinted with permission from Gameday Gourmet by Pableaux Johnson, © July 2007 ESPN Books
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recipe at a glance
type: Quick & Easy, Vegetable
main ingredients: Cream Cheese, Bacon, Onion, Apple, Sour Cream, Blue Cheese, Mayonnaise
holiday/celebration: Tailgating, Fall, Superbowl


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It was the most contested election in the history of Texas. On August 28, 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, a ruthless young Texas congressman, squared off against former Governor Coke Stevenson in a brutally competitive runoff for the U.S. Senate. In the chaotic days following the election, Stevenson appeared to be victorious. STEVENSON'S MARGIN FIRM, blared The Dallas Morning News five days after the polls closed.
But election officials received an amended return from Jim Wells County, a backward region in south Texas, which showed two hundred additional votes for Johnson. Those votes put Johnson ahead of Stevenson, and eventually guaranteed his victory by eighty-seven votes. Pundits would later refer to "the eighty-seven votes that changed history"- votes that came from Precinct 13 in Alice, Texas. The election judge for Precinct 13 was a burly, belligerent pistolero named Luis Salas, a top lieutenant to the "boss of bosses" in Jim Wells County and a political ally of Lyndon Johnson. Salas stole the votes.
In 1986 Robert Caro, hard at work on volume two of his projected four-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, ventured to southern Texas in search of Luis Salas. The elderly men in the streets of Alice told him that Salas was deceased, but eventually someone exclaimed: "No, Luis is alive. " After several weeks of scouring telephone books, Caro found Salas in the Houston suburbs, where he was living in a mobile home in the backyard of his daughter's house. The author knocked on the door. Caro recalls: "It was just like he was expecting me."
Caro was greeted by an eighty-fouryear-old man, frail and withered, who bore no resemblance to the thug he had read about in old newspaper clippings. "Mr. Salas, my name is Robert Caro. I'm doing a book on Lyndon Johnson." "Oh," Salas replied, "then you want to know about Box 13." They sat on a couch in the trailer. Salas's ailing wife languished in an adjacent room, and Caro has never forgotten the old man's tenderness toward her. With regard to the 1948 election, Salas announced: "I have written it all down," at which point be produced a battered, typed and handwritten manuscript that revealed, in striking detail, the machinations surrounding Box 13. The two men went to a stationery store and made a Xerox copy. Caro thanked him. "Everyone is dead except me, Robert," Salas remarked. "And I'm not going to live long. But Box 13 is history. No one can erase that."
By obtaining the firsthand recollections of the man who actually stole the crucial votes in the 1948 Texas Senate race—and thereby set Lyndon Johnson on the road to the presidency—Caro achieved a stunning journalistic feat. For years, Johnson's partisans had worked to create an obfuscatory haze around LBJ's chicanery in that election; but the Salas manuscript is the closest thing we have to a smoking gun.
It was vintage Caro. Beginning at Newsday in the 1960s, Caro has forged a reputation as an indefatigable muckraker, a man whose tenacious research and indepth reporting have enabled him to produce books that are acclaimed by his peers and celebrated by his readers, books that leap to the top of the best-seller lists. His first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and continues to sell briskly a quarter century after its publication. Since then, Caro has dedicated himself to a massive biographical project on LBJ, a project dubbed The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The first book in the series, The Path to Power (1982), covered LBJ's life until 1941. Means of Ascent (1990) tracked Johnson from 1941 to 1948. The third volume, Master of the Senate, has just been published, at nearly twelve hundred pages.
In some influential journalistic quarters, Caro's infallibility is simply assumed. In a recent New York Times article concerning the plagiarism controversy swirling around the historians Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin, the publishing columnist Martin Arnold wrote: "As for today's popular historians, no one would waste a moment checking Robert A. Caro, who invests years in researching and writing each of his books."
Yet the praise for Caro is not unanimous; his work is controversial and contested. The sides are clearly drawn. Firmly in Caro's corner are two of the most powerful institutions in American literary life: Alfred A. Knopf, his publisher, which is promoting Master of the Senate as "the most celebrated political biography of our era," and The New Yorker, which recently ran two long excerpts from Master of the Senate.


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Makes 2 servings
- 4 slices thick-cut bacon, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 cups small (3/4-inch) cauliflower florets
- 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon drained capers
- 1/4 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1/4 cup rice flour*
- 1/4 cup Cream of Wheat
- 1/4 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon
- 1/4 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 2 7-ounce pieces boned skate wing (or Dover sole fillets)
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped purchased plain croutons
For cauliflower:
Sauté bacon in heavy large skillet over medium heat until brown and crisp. Using slotted spoon, transfer bacon to paper towels to drain. Add cauliflower to drippings in skillet and sauté until crisp-tender and beginning to brown, about 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, lemon juice, capers, and thyme; simmer 1 minute to blend flavors. Remove from heat.
For skate:
Whisk rice flour, Cream of Wheat, and herbs in large shallow bowl to blend. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper. Coat fish on both sides with flour mixture. Heat oil in another heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add fish. Sauté until brown and just opaque in center, about 3 minutes per side.
Rewarm cauliflower mixture over medium heat. Mix in bacon and croutons. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Spoon cauliflower mixture into center of 2 plates; top with fish.
*Available at some supermarkets, specialty foods stores, and natural foods stores.
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- Calories902
- Carbohydrates44 g (15%)
- Fat60 g (93%)
- Protein45 g (91%)
- Saturated Fat12 g (62%)
- Sodium961 mg (40%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat13 g
- Fiber5 g (19%)
- Monounsaturated Fat30 g
- Cholesterol135 mg (45%)
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main ingredients: Tarragon, Vegetable, Lemon, Cauliflower, Bacon, Capers, Thyme, Fish, Pork, Fruit Juice
cuisine: American, New England
holiday/celebration: Fall


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I have posted my Sriwijaya Air's repaint on Aerosim 737-200 model in my previous post about a month ago. Recently Sriwijaya have added their fleet with Boeing 737-300 and 400. Maybe Sriwijaya wants to regenerate their fleet by phasing out 737-200 considering a few of these b732 have reached the operation's period limit after years serving with Sriwijaya. I have complete my repaint one of boeing 737-400 of that owned by Sriwijaya Air. The Boeing 737-400 with PK-CJV registration tag. This PK-CJV is the one of the latest 737-400 in Sriwijaya Air's fleet. Arrived in December 2008, this aircraft with model 737-4Y0 was built in 1990.
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Scott Goethel (BBA), a senior information technology security consultant for UnitedHealth Group, has received the certified information security manager (CISM) certification from the ISACA information systems organization. Requirements for CISM certification include professional experience, adherence to the ISACA code of professional ethics, continuing professional education and passage of the CISM exam. The management-focused CISM certification promotes international security practices and recognizes individuals who manage, design, oversee and assess an enterprise's information security.
John Biederman (BA) graduated from Fort Lauderdale City College School of Nursing, cum laude, in July 2012. John was also afforded the opportunity to sing the National Anthem at the ceremony. If you would like to get hold of him to say hi, his email address is: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Aaron Harder (BA) was featured on the Safe Sound Family's website as part of a panel of cyber safety experts. Aaron and the panel of experts were hand-picked and asked to share advice for parents on how to keep kids safe online. The advice was turned into a comprehensive guide, "Internet Safety for Kids," which can be found here: http://safesoundfamily.com/blog/internet- safety-tips-for-kids/.
Shawn Pfaff (BA-E) opened Pfaff Public Affairs, a government and media relations firm, in November 2013. Pfaff, who has spent the last seven years as a senior associate at Capitol Consultants Inc., has nearly 15 years of experience in the public policy arena at all levels of government. He has worked as a legislative assistant at both the federal and state levels and as a gubernatorial aide. Pfaff, currently the mayor of Fitchburg, holds a master's degree in public administration from UW-Madison and is a director on the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Association board.
Robin (Sallis) Tutt (BSHCA) was promoted to senior associate at Lindquist & Vennum, LLP. Robin joined the firm is 2007 and is part of the Trusts and Estates practice group. She graduated from William Mitchell College of Law.
Allison Whittenberg (MA) will have her fifth novel, "The Sane Asylum," published by Beatdom. Her other novels including "Tutored," were published by Random House. Her middle-grade novels, "Sweet Thang" and "Hollywood and Maine," are available through Yearling, and her first novel for teen-readers, "Life is Fine," is available through Delacorte Press. Allison enjoys traveling and loves to hear from her readers. She lives in Philadelphia.
Jamie Bruhn (BA) and his band, The Lizardz, released a new album of all-original material in July 2013. The album features two members of classic rock music legends, Blue Oyster Cult. Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser plays rhythm and lead guitar on two songs and Richie Castellano plays lead guitar in a third tune. Roeser also mixed and co-produced a portion of the album. Jamie is also currently recording a new album with The Dukes of 1987. He can be reached by email at email@example.com.
Andrew Crouse (BA) received the 2012 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner's Award for his achievements with research and tool development involving the digital forensics analysis of damaged hard drives, smartphones and GPS tracking devices. As part of the CBP Digital Forensics Team, he performs digital evidence analysis for the CBP Laboratories and Scientific Services and conducts training sessions for U.S. CBP officers and agents to help locate narcotics smuggling routes, combat human trafficking and determine terrorist connections.
Lisa (Johnson) Bendall (BS-E) earned her MBA from Grand Canyon University in February 2014. She currently teaches mathematics at Island Pacific University in Kapolei, Hawaii.
Ruth Staus (MSN) received an Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2012-13 academic year from Metropolitan State University. Ruth, an associate professor in the university's College of Health, Community and Professional Studies, teaches more than a dozen courses in geriatric nursing. Staus has a BAN in nursing and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Metropolitan State.
Lori Kampa (BA), head of promotion at Dualtone Records, directed the promotional campaign for The Lumineers' hit song "Ho Hey," which was named 2013 Song of the Year at the Friday Morning Quarterback Inc.'s annual Triple A Rock Radio Conference in August 2013. Dualtone is a Nashville-based boutique indie label that has garnered a total of 17 Grammy nominations and four wins. The Lumineers' self-titled debut album, released by Dualtone in 2012, was one of music's biggest breakout success stories of the year, selling almost 1.6 million copies in the U.S. and 2.4 million worldwide. Kampa would enjoy hearing from her Blugold friends by email at email@example.com.
Jan Masters (BSN) has been selected as the director of quality management
for Summit Surgical at Virtua Health in Voorhees, N.J. Jan received her master of science in nursing degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2010. She also holds the certified in executive nursing practice credential from the American Organization of Nurse Executives. Jan is a Region 5 officer for the New Jersey State Nurses Association and is a member of the organization's Congress on Policy and Practice Committee.
Andrea (Wall) Osborne (BBA), and husband Matthew, are proud to announce the birth of their second daughter Jillian Reese on July 23, 2013. Jillian joins big sister Morgan, 2, at home. The family lives in Mattapoisett, Mass.
Scott Stulen (BFA) has been tapped by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) to be the museum's first-ever curator of audience experiences and performance. Created by IMA director and CEO Charles Venable, the position will develop a strategic vision for innovative public programming in the museum's galleries, theaters and nature park. Stulen comes to the IMA from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he was the project director for mnartists.org and in charge of curating and producing the first-ever Internet Cat Video Festival.
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Mark Garbrecht (BS) and his wife, Kendra (Erickson) (BS), graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Mark was recently awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor in the biology department at Winona State University. He received his Ph.D. in anatomy and cellular biology from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Iowa. Kendra received her Doctorate of Optometry from the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago in 2005 and is working in private practice in La Crosse where we live with our 5 year old son, Zander.
Kelly (Schneider) Leahy (BS) and Dan Leahy were married in September 2012 in Minneapolis.
Kelly graduated from the mortuary science program at the University of Minnesota in 2003.
She currently works as a funeral director at the Dignity Funeral Homes throughout the Twin
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Angela (Marks) Schutt (BS) and Terry Schutt were married Aug. 9, 2013, in Cottage Grove, Minn. Several Blugold alumni celebrated with the couple. Angie and Terry live and work in the Twin Cities metro area.
Beth (Hagen) Ellie (BA) was named director of quality and continuous improvement at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau. Her duties include accreditation, evaluation and organizational development. In February 2013 Beth presented on the System of Comprehensive Internationalization evaluation tool at the Community Colleges for International Development annual meeting.
Kelly Vine Pulido (BS-E) is president of Advocate Medical Company, which sells health-related products made with natural active ingredients for men and women. AMC, the exclusive importer of products from Italian company Uniderm Farmaceutici, recently announced the national placement of one of its products, Lubrigyn Cleansing Milk, in CVS pharmacies across the country. Kelly is married to Fernando Pulido '89 (BBA). More information about AMC is available at www.advocatemedco.com.
Stephen Skeels (BS) was promoted to president of power tools in Asia for Stanley Black & Decker. Stephen and wife Jean (Thompson) Skeels '93 (BA) relocated to Shanghai with their three children in early 2013.
Kristen Gunderson-Inden (BS) and her husband, Joel Inden, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Maximilian Gunder Inden, on Feb. 20, 2013. Kristen is an environmental engineer at Charter Steel in Saukville. The familiy lives in Milwaukee.
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Christina Zaleski (BS) has accepted a new position as the director of genetic counseling and client services at Prevention Genetics in Marshfield. She would love to hear from classmates by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Eric Betthauser (BME) continues to enjoy teaching middle and high school choir, general music and other courses at Henley Middle School and Western Albemarle High School in Crozet, Va.
Michael Quimby (BA-E) returned to the Peruvian Amazon and Napo rivers for the fifth time in April 2013. Participating in CONAPAC's Adopt-A-School program, Michael joined a group of 20 volunteers who spent 10 days delivering school supplies to more than 50 jungle communities. This year his adopted village, 28 de Octubre, started a kindergarten and became a pilot recipient of household water purification systems. Last year Michael received two paintings from a former student who now attends college in the jungle city of Iquitos. More information about CONAPAC can be found online at conapac.org.
John Horn (BS-E) was named director of the Division of Recreational Sports at UW-Madison on May 24, 2013. Horn joined the division in 2004 as director of recreational programs and facilities and has served as the division's interim director since September 2012.
Jennifer (Mackley) Degel (BBA) and husband Tony Degel welcomed son Gavin Robert Anthony Degel on June 13, 2013. He joins big sister Samantha and big brother Jaxson. The family lives in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
Darin Preston (MSE) has written a work of contemporary fiction titled "Sequence 77." Published by Lucid Style, the work shares a tale that delves into the realms of history and scientific technology, leading the reader on an adventure that could be imagined in the present. Preston, a psychologist in the Fond du Lac school district, has seen in his own community and workplace the necessity for agreeable interaction and understanding amid a variety of cultures. This desire for understanding has led to his writing of "Sequence 77," with which the author desires to begin open conversations toward positive goals. Preston lives in Fond du Lac.


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Directions to the 2012 Championships
Fans traveling to the OHSAA State Football Championships in Canton and Massillon should follow the specific directions for each school.
Each school's directions take a different route in order to avoid traffic back-ups at any one highway exit and when approaching the stadiums.
Thank you for your cooperation as we make every effort to provide an enjoyable experience here in Stark County!
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I got this in the mail yesterday to complete my new bedding set...and first (my fault) the pic showed 2 pillow shams...but when I opened it only one came out. In addition the back closure was to the right hand side instead of the middle as usual and did not close once I put my pillow inside. I had to use safety pins since my shams are fluffy. And last but not least the sham feels like sandpaper, not that I will be sleeping on them directly, but even with fabric softener they were still a bit rough.
Reading the reviews I was expecting a really thin, sandpaper like sham but that is not what I got at all. I got the black sham and although it is not like my 1000 count sheets it is really a good fabric for a euro sham - I do not use these to sleep or lie on they are just for looks and they look great on my bed. For the price this is a 5 star product - it is not what you would get if you paid $80 each like a lot of stores but it works.
These shams were very well described and the color was perfect for my bedding. The fabric is sturdy, not soft, but they stand up nicely on and did not need to be pressed after I washed them.. Great price and quality.
Fit my Euro pillows perfectly. Color was an exact match to what was pictured online.
Although it says it is 250 thread count, even after washing with fabric softener, the fabric is very coarse. I would not put my head on this to sleep and am using it for decoration purposes only.
Exactly as described. Very nice & great price
I was looking for 4 stark white plain euro shams and came across these. They were exactly what I wanted and was a great price.
Nice looking, but not comfortable to lay on.
The pillow workmanship is poorly made. The fabric quality is of the low end product. It does not look like in the picture at all. The price is fair just like they said "you get what you paid for" . I would not recommend these pillow shams to my friends and I will not order any type of pillows or pillow shams online. This is my first and will be my last.
I needed these euro shams and the price was perfect as are these shams. The texture is great and I'm very happy with these shams.
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Sundown: Founder Disses Human Rights Watch
Plus fetal justice, and two kinds of Holocaust confusion
• Robert Bernstein, founder of Human Rights Watch, turns against his creation for "issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state" and hopes the organization will return "to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it." [NYT]
• An article on the Jewish take on abortion makes a leap of logic when it compares a fetus endangering a pregnant woman's life to a murderer intentionally pursuing an innocent victim, but its heart is in the right place. [The Bible and Interpretation]
• A New Zealand gay dance party has been canceled due to outrage over its planned theme: Concentration Camp! "The whole idea was to concentrate on the word 'camp,'" says one of the organizers. "It was not meant to have any pull on the Holocaust." [Dominion Post]
• The trial of the alleged killer of a Wesleyan University student, Stephen Morgan, whose journals contained such sentiments as "I think it's ok to kill Jews," has been postponed to allow more evidence to be accrued. [WTNH]
• 25-year-old Holocaust denier Eric Hunt, who assaulted Elie Wiesel in 2007, is suing an 80-year-old Holocaust memoirist for "tormenting Gentiles and instilling hatred in Jews using such hideous lies." [Boston Herald]


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Digitimes: Next iPad to be lighter, mini to feature updated display
According to a report today from Digitimes, the next round of iPads will feature some exciting differences. The main focus of the new iPad mini will be an enhanced display, which a lot of people feel has been missing from the iPad mini released earlier this year. The sources have yet to specify whether the… Read More
Tiny Wings 2 Teaser Trailer Released, to be Released on July 12th
Just today, YouTube user touchgameplay uploaded the teaser trailer to the sequel to the hit iPhone game Tiny Wings. It isn't clear what will make this version of the game different, but the developer has stated that it is less than a week until the game's release on July 12th. Check out the adorable teaser below!… Read More
Infinity Blade 2 Showing Up In the App Store for Some, Download Now!
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Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008
Deconstructs Metal
Heavy metal, despite its commercial success, remains a highly misunderstood, frequently maligned genre. Often, too much attention is paid to vocal or guitar histrionics, while the rhythm section goes unnoticed or underappreciated. Yet if you closely examine some of metal's greats—Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Slayer, to name but a few—you'll begin to realize that it is the drumming that propels these bands.
Whether it is in the shape of Bill Ward's manic originality, Clive Burr's galloping time keeping, or Dave Lombardo's brutal blast beat, it's the drummers that separate the great from the good in the world of metal.


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Remember a few days ago when the Kings were curb stomping everyone in their path and Game 4 of the Final series felt like a mere formality? Just lose and go away, Devils. Know your place in this fairy tale.
If you are a religiously-inclined hockey zealot, you had to be cringing at the audacity of it all, even if it also didn't seem realistic that anybody was going to stop the Kings' march to the cup. The level of certainty in seemingly every corner of the hockey universe that the Kings would sweep, or at the very least, wrap it up in New Jersey last night, was off the charts.
And we all know what happens when err'body gets too cocky up in Hockeydom: The Hockey Gods send your ass to church.
When I was a kid, I remember our preacher doing a series of sermons on each commandment. Thou shalt not do this or that or the other – I dunno, I was busy doodling in the program.
But I do know there are 10 very bad things on that list and I've probably done several of them. Likewise, the Church of Hockey has its own commandments, and right there at the top of the list is:
Thou shalt not hand out wins prematurely.
It's a big one, and an obvious one. We played god, and the Hockey Gods put us in our places for it. Snack on some humility, suckers!
And they're right, of course. Not only should we have known better, purely for religious reasons, than to anoint the Kings the Champions before they'd actually earned it, but there are other signs that this bounce-back was entirely possible, and maybe even likely.
Who's the Fatso Now?
I wrote earlier in the season pleading my case to Marty Brodeur to retire whenever he wants, but to please do so with dignity – don't hang on too long and make us all watch your game decline and feel sorry for you.
Then he got to the final and the consensus seemed to be, "Aww, isn't that nice that that old man could maybe get another ring thanks to all that offense around him?" Read: Not much credit to the man himself.
Then the series started and it looked like the young, agile Jonathan Quick was going to have one of those "son surpasses father" moments. That perhaps the torch of goaltending greatness was about to be passed.
But Brodeur holds most of the goaltending records in the league for a reason. A) He's really freaking good. B) He's been there.
Goaltending is a rollercoaster. One week, you're in the zone, the puck is the size of a beach ball and nobody's getting it past you. The next week, it's the size of a pinto bean and has eyes, arms, and legs and has been chain-drinking Red Bull since 8 a.m.
But the longer you play, the more skilled you become at not only correcting nosedives, but also not getting rattled by your own success. Eventually you find peace with the fact that you won't always be lucky, get the bounces, or stop enough pucks, and that it's nothing to get the yips over if you're have an unbelievably good run. I'm not sure Quick has mastered that.
And if anybody is equipped to rebound from a handful of not so great games, it's a living legend like Brodeur. We should have known he had it in him to take the Kings by the crown and dominate them.
And now that he's found that rhythm, the Kings suddenly feel a little bit like underdogs. The beast is awake…
The other reason we should have seen this coming is that the first two games were incredibly close. Both teams played like the best teams in the league and it took overtime to resolve them both. A bounce here, a bounce there, and those games could have gone the Devils' way.
Then, a 4-0 beat down in Game 3 maybe tricked us into thinking the Devils were throwing in the towel.
But what has this team done all playoffs besides prove to us that we don't really know them at all? They keep winning in the face of adversity, thriving in their underdog role. It's like the kid picked last in gym class being one of the last ones standing in the dodgeball game.
What's more, why WOULD they roll over when games 1 and 2 proved that they're 100% capable of hanging with the Kings? How silly of us.
Now, here we are with egg on our faces, but a real series on our hands. And that's why the hockey gods are ultimately good and benevolent: In the course of teaching us a lesson, they gave us a few more hours of the best, most meaningful hockey of the season.
I, for one, will be honoring that by not getting ahead of myself and believing, much like the Devils have all along, that this is anyone's cup to win.
Hallelujah and amen.


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Top 5 favorite Hawaii waterfalls: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results
by: Derek Paivaposted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM
We asked you to chase a few waterfalls for us, and you did.
The votes have been tallied from our latest HAWAII Magazine Facebook Ohana poll question: "What's your favorite Hawaii waterfall?" And we've got your Top 5!
Hawaii is home to hundreds of spectacular waterfalls, many of these among the most beautiful in the world. Travel the Islands and you'll find waterfalls of all heights and sizes on just about every type of terrain, from deep in the mountains and rain forests of Kauai to seacliffs along the Big Island's Hamakua Coast.
There are waterfalls in Hawaii accessible only by arduous hiking trails, and some just outside of population centers like Honolulu, Hilo and Kapaa. Other waterfalls are so remote they can only be seen by air. On Maui's winding Hana Highway, whose rustic bridges cross dozens of mountain streams, it's possible to even drive up to several lush roadside cascades.
We knew our poll question was a tough one the moment we thought it up. But we found out readers were really having an exceptionally tough time choosing a favorite Hawaii waterfall the moment comments like these started rolling in:
"Love them all … How can anyone choose!!!" – Tammy Monahan
"Any one I am near, because it means I'm in Hawaii!!!" - Herb Ayer
"That's like asking which one of your kids is your favorite—all unique, all awesome, all special." – Lori J. Hernandez
At one point during voting, our Facebook ohana's rapidly growing list of favorite waterfalls proved too enticing for reader Josie Romero, who commented, "OMG this page is killing mmmmeeeeeeeeeee!" We hope you return to Hawaii to visit 'em all soon, Josie!
If you'd like to join in on our next poll and vote along with our growing Facebook fan page ohana, click here. Become a HAWAII Magazine Facebook fan and you'll get our "Hawaii favorite" poll questions as soon as we post them, and also get instant updates on your Facebook wall when we post all of our daily HawaiiMagazine.com stories and features.
We'll be posting our next Ohana Poll question on HAWAII Magazine's Facebook fan page in the days ahead, so join soon if you haven't yet.
But first, here's the Top 5 countdown of our Facebook ohana's favorite Hawaii waterfalls:
Waimoku Falls
Where: Kipahulu, Maui
Height: 400 ft.
Waterway: Pipiwai Stream
Access: 3- to 5-hour hike on Pipiwai Trail from Pools of Oheo (aka Seven Sacred Pools) at Haleakala National Park's Kipahulu Visitor Center, 10 miles south of Hana on Hana Highway.
It isn't easy to get to Waimoku Falls. First off, there's the winding Hana Highway, which you have to drive all the way to Haleakala National Park's oceanside Kipahulu Visitor Center, 10 miles beyond Hana. Then there's a two-mile hike up Oheo Gulch, crossing Pipiwai Stream several times and a thick bamboo forest. But, oh, what a reward when the trail ends with a full view of Waimoku—the largest waterfall on Maui.
Check out these related HawaiiMagazine.com posts:
Your Top 5 favorite Hawaii snacks: Our HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results
Top 5 favorite Maui swimming beaches: HAWAII Magazine facebook poll results
Top Five snorkeling spots in the Islands: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results


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Best explanation of the right wing, EVER
Reading a review of Dubya's new "not my fault" autobiography today, I came across this gem of an explanation of what drives today's right wing:
"I can't prove it, but I would bet money that the very people who now decry deficits and spending and say they were horrified by Bush's domestic policies are the same 30% who stuck with him to the end. What they loved about him was his crudeness and cruelty and --- more than anything --- that he inspired such loathing from liberals. It's the in-your-face defiance that they admire, the eagerness to be politically incorrect, the exclusion from the process of those whom they see as not fully "American." It's a defining characteristic of the right. Domination, exclusion, and eliminationism are what animates their thinking, not deficits, taxes or the constitution."
Don't confuse the TEA Party with fascism. In America we call the Fascist Party the Democrat Party. P is for Pelosi, O for Obama, R is for Reid, K for Klan. What have you got? The PORK klan!
Watch out Chris. TEA party gone git u.
Bacon, he doesn't even understand the notion of fascism or its definition.
It's humorous that he has this as a tag line, akin to an oxymoron given his philosophy. Fascism is the outcome of his philosophy (a strong central government that can solve all problems) and the antithesis of the Tea Party philosophy (smaller decentralized government), pretty funny. LOL
I smile every time I see it. He's a dupe of the socialist elite a non-thinking dupe.
He does parrot well though.
and watch him bounce off the wall.
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Postpartum Depression and the Myth of the Natural Mother
We live with the myth of the natural mother. The truth is that many social behaviors, including mothering, are learned behaviors. It might be easier to discuss communication and relationship skills within a marriage as a learned behavior than mothering.
If you grow up in an abusive or just non-communicative home, it is likely that when you marry, you will discover that you need some help in the how-tos of a relationship. It is the same type of thing when becoming a mother. You might need some some help about the how-to of parenting a newborn and developing your identity as a mother.
Remember, social learning comes from watching other people in our personal lives and from the larger culture, and we integrate this into our personality. Give yourself the gift of qualified education and assistance.
Breastfeeding and helping a baby to sleep is a learned behavior. There are many ways to be a good mother and no one size fits all. You can decide to have a natural birth, to safely bed-share, or to breastfeed, if this is the right decision for you. These might be perfect choices for you as an individual, or these decisions may be too difficult for a woman with a history of rape & abuse. You need to look at your individual situation, what your values are, what you can tolerate, and compassionately integrate the competing needs and feelings of yourself and your family. Be kind to yourself.
If you are feeling depressed after giving birth, remember that it is normal to experience the "baby blues." 50% - 80% of new mothers experience the baby blues. The baby blues occur in the first two weeks of pregnancy and self-resolve, in other words, go away by themselves. The baby blues are not a mild form of postpartum depression.
After about two to four weeks after the birth, if you are still feeling depressed, you many be experiencing postpartum depression. You are not alone. Your ob/gyn, your pediatrician, your primary-care physician, your psychiatrist, your therapist, are all ready to help you. Use the medical insurance that you are already paying for to see these healthcare practitioners.
Sometimes postpartum depression can occur even four to six months after giving birth, particularly if there additional stressor is present, such as addiction in the marriage, an accident, a death in the family.
Remember, You Are Not Alone. There is help available.
Some of the risk factors for postpartum depression are listed below:


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Debian Weekly News - October 31st, 2006
The Debian Weekly News seems to be back in business. Today they published this years 40th issue. I hope this doesn't mean the end of Ben's Debian Weekly Nudes, but nevertheless, here's a link to this week's official Debian Weekly newsletter.
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The Office of the Comptroller consists of four core divisions. Responsibilities range from timely recording, classifying and reporting of all financial transactions of the City. And it is responsible for the management, monitoring and disbursement of the City's cash resources.The Department is responsible for all cash disbursement such as the payroll for over 6,000 City employees and 1,500 of its retirees. It facilitates payment to vendors through a decentralized accounts payable process.


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Just 25 of my favorite songs by some of my favorite, mostly unknown artists. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
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Hey, I LOVE the Beartones' cover of I'll Be. I haven't found a good version online. Is there a way I could get this music file from you?
Ah girl, I am so sorry! I have no idea how to do all of that file transfer stuff without a flash drive or external hard drive. I could have sworn they had a website where you could buy their albums, but I must have been making that up in my head. If you know how to get audio files from a YouTube video, you could probably get it from there. I just don't know how to do that, but I know people that have done it before! So sorry I'm not more help!


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Hobart parade backdrop for marriage proposal
By Michelle L. Quinn Post-Tribune correspondent July 5, 2014 12:27AM
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HOBART — After Aleah Turner's now-fiance, David Wortsman, proposed to her during Hobart's July Fourth parade, one of her first questions was, "Is that why you guys put out our stuff two days ago?"
Attendees of the parade seemingly forever, the Turner, Walter and Albano families usually stay behind the sidewalk at 3rd and Wisconsin streets to watch the parade.
With Wortsman's proposal looming, however, friend of the couple Jessica Walter scoped out and claimed their spot at the side of 3rd Street two days ago.
That, Walter said, is one of the beautiful things about the Hobart parade: People honor the "dibs" system.
"We put our stuff out there, and we knew it would be there untouched," Walter said before her friend proposed to his love of eight years. "We all grew up here, and most of us still live here, so we all just went to sit in our spot."
Wortsman, who got off work at 5 a.m. from the Dyer Police Department, had told Turner's father and brother a week ago of his intent to ask Turner at the parade for her hand in marriage.
His plan, put in motion a month ago, involved Ginter Realty and their float in the parade: A rider in the first golf carts got out at the corner with a sign asking Aleah Turner to marry him.
After she read the sign, the breathless Turner smiled a mile wide before turning to the right to see Wortsman on bended knee.
"Well, it seemed like a good way to surprise her, plus it's a good day to celebrate all around," the surprisingly calm Wortsman said.
Turner's mom, Jacki Turner, and sister, Emily Albano, both of Valparaiso, were left out of the proposal-planning process. Albano was glad for it.
"I would've been looking (for the Ginter float) too much and would've given it away," Albano said. "So unfortunately, yes, it's good that I didn't know."


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How To Update Classic Hair & Makeup Looks
Blah blush is so our mom's generation. Nowadays, getting a sexy flush like Katharine McPhee's involves more than dotting some pink powder on the apples of your cheeks. M•A•C Cosmetics Senior Artist Keri Blair offers this update on the classic rosy cheek: "Use a domed brush to blend creamy textured blush into the crease of the eye. Then, blend it down onto the cheek bone–almost like the color is spilling from the eye to the cheek. Create interesting dimension on the cheek bone with a pop of color!"
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Red lipstick has come a long way since Cleopatra had carmine beetles and ants crushed up to create her custom deep red lip pigment. Women like Selena Gomez (hey, it got Justin Bieber) have clearly been rouging their lips for centuries, though, so it's time to switch it up a bit. "Try using two shades of red together," Keri Blair suggests. "Try a deeper red for your whole lip, then add a little POW to your pucker by using a lighter red with a tinge of pink just in the center of the lip. The play on color makes the everyday a bit abstract!"
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We know, you just perfected your go-to fancy hairstyle, and now we're asking you to tweak it. Have no fear, this update on the classic romantic updo is easy. To create a side chignon like Rashida Jones', follow these simple steps from James Williams, Head Stylist at the Canalé Salon in Beverly Hills: "First put your hair in a low side pony. Start twisting your hair collapsing it towards your head. Have another band ready to wrap around the twisted portion. After it is secured fan out to create the perfect evening look."
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Using the standard three color gradation to create a smoky eye can get old. Put your own spin on the standard smoky eye by using your preferred metallic shade and texture. Or, follow Keri Blair's instructions: "Use your finger to apply M•A•C Cosmetics Metal X Eye Shadow in Vintage Coin (a burnished olive green) to the lid of your eye and then blend it into the crease with a soft brush. Add M•A•C Cosmetics Eye Kohl in Smolder (an intense black) to the water line and voila!
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You've probably never worn a French twist in your life, given that you're not Melanie Griffith's character in Working Girl, but with James Williams' modern update to the style, it's time to start. "Brush hair smooth. Flip your head forward and starting at the nape of the neck, begin to twist your hair loosely to the top of your head. Stand up and let your hair create a controlled messy "nest." Secure with bobby pins, then let it fan out. Pull some pieces down–this look should be effortless, so make sure it doesn't look perfect. Finish with hairspray for a sophisticated coif á la Chanel Iman.
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When you're going heavy on the eye makeup or just going for a subtle pout, a great nude lip color is a makeup bag essential. Here, Michelle Trachtenberg offers a dramatic update to a classic nude lip; the actress pairs her pale lips with dramatic eye makeup. To copy her look, "Try mixing your concealer with bit of lip balm and apply with your finger by pressing it into the lip. It acts as a veil on the lip to tone down the natural lip color without covering it completely," says M•A•C's Keri Blair.
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A winged eye is oh-so-sexy, but women have been rocking the black eyeliner cat eye for decades. If you truly want to amaze with your gaze, change up your cat eye materials. "Black eyeliner is definitely a must have, but let's try updating that classic cat eye shape by replacing black with a color," Keri Blair recommends. Here, Rachel McAdams does a daring winged eye with bold yellow eyeliner. It may not be the best color for the actress, but we admire her willingness to try new things. You can follow Keri Blair on Twitter @MAC_Keri_B for all things makeup and MAC!
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I admit this post is a little photo happy. But that's because this is probably my favorite dress ever. Yesterday was my 26th birthday and I was feeling a little blue about it. I've never minded getting one year older each birthday, but 26 was the first year that seemed to me like, geez Lil, you're getting OLD. I know in the scheme of things that's still quite young. But lets face it. It's not THAT young. It's not sweet sixteen. You know what I mean?
Anyway. I got over it pretty quickly. Part one of getting over it was my sweet Dusty making me breakfast and giving me the sweetest card of my life, literally making me cry. Oh my gosh do I love that man. Part two was getting dressed and deciding that this was the perfect day to wear this amazing hot pink vintage dress for the first time.
I bought it this summer at a little antique shop along with one other dress. (Which I think is going to be amazing as well, but it needs a major hemming alteration.) I saw the bright pink color, the short sleeves, the dropped waist, the single pleat, the mod styling, and I knew it had to be mine. I tried it on in the tiny shop bathroom and actually stood on the toilet to look in the little mirror above the sink to check if it fit. I figured it was close enough and took it up to the register. The lady told me it came from this really cool mid-century mod house that had tons of awesome sixties dresses like this. How cool, right?
I think you can tell from these photos that I felt like a million bucks in it. Exactly how you want to feel on your birthday. Dusty and I did a little shopping at Mall of America and I got so many compliments on it. At J.Crew the workers were chatting with me about the color of it, and I got such a kick out of replying, "It's actually vintage!" when they asked where I got it. I've always wanted to say that! (I think we've already established here that I'm pretty nerdy.)
So it was a really nice birthday. My whole family came over later for dinner, including my twin brother who I obviously (happily) share my birthday with. We had amazing food, French macarons, lots of laughs at funny baby Carolyn, and a neighborhood walk to end the night. If day one of my 26th year was any indication, I'm in for a great year.


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Just curious as to how good they grow vertically and how large of a melon can be grown this way. Sugar Babies grow well here so I'd try that one but I was also thinking Yellow Doll might be a good choice. Are larger melons possible?
I believe melons are going to be just as addicting as growing tomatoes for me. My problem is I don't have the space for both in my two raised beds. I'm planning on opening up a 12 foot wide section against the block wall at the back of our yard. I haven't decided on any trellis materials yet or if I should attach the trellis directly to the wall or not. I believe this area will work out nicely as it gets full sun all day long. This is good early on in the year up until June or so. Not so much now with continuous 110+ daily temps. I believe I'd also front the trellised melons with okra which appears to be holding up rather well in this heat. One other thing, would there be any issues fall planting winter squash in the same area the melons & cukes were in the spring? If I continually did this would I be setting myself up for diseases and what not? Wade |
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I'm growing crimson sweet watermelons on a fence this year along with cantaloupe and both pickling and slicing cukes. Planning on using either old tshirts or pantyhose to make 'hammocks' for the fruit to rest in. |
I don't have a huge garden area either and love tomatoes and melons. This year in one bed I am trying to trellis melons and have some melons that are hanging but I am prepared to make some sort of support for them as they get bigger. In my other raised bed I trained the melons to spill out of garden bed and I have about 6-7 large melons that are on cardboard so they won't get dirty on grass/dirt. I think it may be hard to grow watermelons on trellis butwhy not give it a shot. Next year I am gonna make some mounds just for watermelons and wintersquash so I don't have to use my precious raised garden space. |
Here is a link that might be useful: garden blog with raised bed and melon setup
dlmka, your corn looks so fantastic!! perfectly spaced etc, I am so embarrased about the way my garden looks I might even have to post a pic, I dont think anyone would believe there was anything in there!! I only post pics of the harvest, which isnt huge by any means, but Im always proud that I get anything out of that jungle at all!! I have volunteer crimson sweets from last year randomly in the garden, but they are all mixed up in the weeds, and I dont water unless it rains, or fertilize, so I dont know what they will do, but they look better than the ones last year that I tried to take care of. I had big plans to trellis them, but my garden got overgrown supersonicly fast with weeds, johnson grass etc, its hopeless now. Next year I hope to trellis some as well, and I hope my garden looks half as nice as all the pics of everyones garden on here:) |
Thanks a lot, I'm an engineer, everything in the garden is done with a measuring tape or a gauge of some sort. I cut a piece of PVC to 10" when planting corn and used that as a guide to space the seeds. To think, my corn looked like this on June 18. |
- Posted by west_texas_peg 7b West Cen TX (My Page) on Mon, Jul 20, 09 at 15:37
My watermelons, cantaloupes, squash, and cucumbers are all on a trellis. I use knee-hi's to support if need be. Most of the melons don't turn loose until they are ripe. I noticed today that one of the Golden Midget Melons has begun to crack...think I watered too much...we have been in triple digits with 20mph+ winds. I have one that I think is Yellow Doll...it has 4 melons and one is getting nice sized. Had 4 on Golden Midget until Saturday morning. I had checked to see if they needed watering and all was well, about 2 hours later I was putting something in the compost pile and realized one of the melons was on the ground...someone pinched the thing off the vine that is growing on my 6' fence...think the culprit is one of my neighbors who is not having any luck with his melons...he's mean enough to have done it. He doesn't like the new neighbors who just moved in next door to us...he was seen by his neighbor throwing sticker grass into my neighbor's yard. Some people! I planted some small pumpkins last week...hoping to grow these on a fence, too. Peggy |
Peggy your neighbor sounds horrible. I would be so pissed if someone pinched one of my melons. |
- Posted by mister_gin z9 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 23, 09 at 13:13
dlmka, I thought Crimson Sweet would be a little too big to be grown vertically. How do you plan on supporting a melon of that size? I was thinking sugar baby would be the biggest you could get by with growing vertically. Wade |
- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Thu, Jul 23, 09 at 15:20
If grown on treliss, the weight of melon will act on the vine.For small fruit like cucumbers it is ok but for melons weghing 10lbs(or more) it is too much. The weight actually will tend to stretch the stem and the capilary tubes, just like if you stretch a thin plastic tube.This is the best senario. Worse senario will be breaking the stem or branch. This is my take on the subject, of course. |
I am trying it for the first time this year and we will see how it goes...I have a pic of mine on my blog link below... I have the heaviest one tied up with knee highs for now, don't know if that will have to change. I know that one of the guys on the sq ft forum trellises his and aims for very big watermelons. I think his GW name is Engineeredgarden...I know he has some pics too, you might do a search there to take a look. His look really nice. Hope it works out well for everyone. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Garden blog
I plan on using old t-shirts to make a sort of hammock to support the growing melons and keep the stress off the plant. If it doesn't work I'm not out anything but a few square feet of garden space. I'm already bursting at the seams with produce the way it is. |
- Posted by dancinglemons 7+ (My Page) on Fri, Jul 24, 09 at 1:16
Hello all, No matter how heavy the ripe melon might be if you have a trellis strong enough to hold that melon you can grow that vine on a trellis. The need is a strong trellis and a sling that is sturdy enough to hold the melon on the trellis. If you have a weak trellis your heavy melon/watermelon/pumpkin will break the trellis and in so doing will snap your vine. Just make sure your trellis is strong. Think about using a cattle panel or a section of chain link fencing supported by strong posts. Cattle panels hold in 500++ pound cows and hogs. Works for me. DL |
- Posted by rj_hythloday 8A VA (My Page) on Fri, Jul 24, 09 at 7:20
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WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee to be secretary of defense, came under sharp and sometimes angry questioning Thursday from fellow Republicans at his Senate confirmation hearing, including from his old friend, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who is still smoldering about their break over the Iraq war.
Hagel, 66, a former senator from Nebraska and a decorated Vietnam veteran who would be the first former enlisted soldier to be secretary of defense, often seemed tentative in his responses to the barrage from Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who showed him little deference and frequently cut him off.
One of the most hostile questioners was Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who told Hagel to "give me an example of where we've been intimidated by the Israel-Jewish lobby to do something dumb." Hagel, who in 2006 said the "Jewish lobby" intimidates Congress, could not.
From Hagel's home state, Sen. Deb Fischer told Hagel he held "extreme views" that were "far to the left of this administration." Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, surprised the hearing with excerpts on a giant video screen from an interview Hagel gave to Al-Jazeera in 2009. Although it was difficult to hear the short clips, Cruz claimed they showed Hagel agreeing with a caller who suggested Israel had committed war crimes.
"Do you think the nation of Israel has committed war crimes?" Cruz demanded.
"No, I do not, Senator," Hagel replied.
His exchange with McCain was the most notable, given that the two former Vietnam veterans were close friends when they served in the Senate until Hagel's views on the Iraq war caused a split. In 2008, Hagel did not endorse McCain for president and traveled with Obama, then a senator from Illinois, to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hagel dodged a direct answer as McCain asked him repeatedly if history would judge whether Hagel was right or wrong in opposing the buildup in U.S. armed forces in Iraq when he was in the Senate. The escalation, along with other major factors, is credited in helping to quell the violence in Iraq at the time. When Hagel said he wanted to explain, McCain bore in.
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"I did question the surge," Hagel said. "I always asked the question, 'Is this going to be worth the sacrifice?' "
He said 1,200 American men and women lost their lives in the buildup. "I'm not certain it was required," Hagel said. "Now, it doesn't mean I was right."
It was unclear how the committee would vote on Hagel's nomination. He needs a majority of the 26-member panel, which includes 14 Democrats, almost all of whom are likely to support his nomination.
In his opening statement, Hagel said he was fully committed to the president's goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He also said the United States must lead other nations in confronting threats, use all tools of U.S. power to protect its people and "maintain the strongest military in the world."
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Debt-limit deal: Congress sent President Obama legislation Thursday raising the debt ceiling, averting a government default and putting off the next tax-and-spending clash until later. The measure cleared the Senate, 64 to 34, after winning House approval last week. It permits the Treasury to borrow above the current $16.4 trillion debt limit through May 18. Obama has said he would sign it.
Menendez probe: The Senate Ethics Committee is reviewing accusations that Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., accepted inappropriate gifts from Dr. Salomon Melgen, of West Palm Beach, Fla., who has flown Menendez to his estate in the Dominican Republic, a senior member of the panel confirmed. Menendez's office says he reimbursed Melgen $58,500 Jan. 4 for two of the three 2010 trips to the Dominican Republic. The third trip was reported to the Federal Election Commission.
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Obama said in an interview with NBC News, "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me."
The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin called it "an unusual act of contrition for a president who has come under heavy criticism for misleading the public." The Wall Street Journal's Colleen McCain Nelson wrote, "Mr. Obama said he had intended to make good on his pledge but the administration wasn't as clear as it should have been in describing the changes the new health law would bring."
Yes, everyone from presidents and kings to parents and teachers say things they later regret. In fact, few can honestly say there is no one in their past to whom they do not owe an apology. As author David Augsburger said, "Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness."
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