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A vote is forever, Howard warns
Don't treat your precious vote like an unwanted Christmas present: that's the Prime Minister's entreaty to voters considering a shift to Labor.
With just three days of campaigning to go, Mr Howard is urging voters not to flirt with change for change's sake.
And as part of a concerted effort to garner enough support to get re-elected, the Coalition is blitzing voters in marginal seats with pre-recorded telephone messages.
"Flirting" is a word both the Liberal and Labor camps use to describe voters' inclination to support Kevin Rudd. Labor hopes it will translate into a solid commitment. The Coalition hopes it's a transient infatuation that will soon pass by Saturday.
"If you think that Howard hasn't done a bad job, if you think the economy is good, that national security is being looked after, but you're flirting with change just for the sake of change, remember that you can't have a changeless change of government," Mr Howard said.
With no sign the Coalition has managed to dent Labor's commanding lead, the Prime Minister has told The 7.30 Report he's not running a scare campaign by warning voters that Mr Rudd is a risk, as is the prospect of so-called wall-to-wall Labor governments.
"And Australia will not be the same if we elect a government," he said.
"It's not like a Christmas present you didn't want and you can take it back at the Boxing Day sale. It's not like that, it's much harder than that, and the country will change.
"Every country changes when it changes its government."
Labor's campaign spokeswoman, Penny Wong, has told AM she doesn't think the shock tactics will work.
"I think Australian voters will see that there is only one candidate coming up to this election, who is talking about his plans for Australia's future challenges and that is Kevin Rudd," she said.
"All we've heard in the last 48 hours, indeed in all of this campaign for Mr Howard is a desperate scare campaign, negative scare campaigning time after time.
The Government is also hitting the phones. Short recorded messages from the Prime Minister, Treasurer, ministers, and retiring MPs, are being sent by computer to the home phones of voters in more than 20 marginal seats across the country.
The Liberal Party says they won't go to mobile phones or people on the Do Not Call list. The blitz started yesterday afternoon.
Campaign spokesman Andrew Robb says now is the critical decision-making time for many people.
"We've found that they're a welcome and effective form of communication," he said.
"It's not invasive. They're quite short. They are positive, they're about our plans for growth and low inflation and jobs, and people want to know about that. And in our view, it works very effectively."
In 2004 Labor dubbed it "un-Australian", "unwelcome and bizarre", lodging an official complaint when the Coalition started mass calls.
After losing that argument, Labor now regards it as a legitimate electioneering tactic. The party has declined to rule out using high-profile voicemails over the next few days, though Kevin Rudd says he can't recall recording a message to send to voters, uninvited.
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By Bill Choy
Triplicate Sports Editor
BRENTWOOD Del Norte High junior grappler Roger andquot;Bronkandquot; McCovey continued his strong early season showing, winning a major Bay Area tournament this past weekend.
Competing in the Lou Bronzan Tournament at Liberty High School in Brentwood, McCovey went 5-0, earning first place in the heavyweight (275) division.
He was never truly threatened in the tournament, despite facing some of the top wrestlers in the North Coast Section, defeating his opponents in the semifinals and finals 9-4. His opponent in the finals, Andrew Benjamin of Jesuit, is ranked sixth in the state, while McCovey is ranked fourth in the state in the heavyweight division.
andquot;It feels pretty good,andquot; McCovey said, adding it is a positive step in his ultimate goal of making and winning state.
For the season, McCovey is 11-0 in his matches.
For McCovey, who made state last year and is considered one of the top wrestlers in his division in the state, it was nice to do well at the tournament at Liberty High. Last year, he placed second.
And, McCovey did not start wrestling until recently because he was still in the middle of the football playoff run, which did not end until the first week of December.
McCovey said it has taken time to get from football to wrestling shape and said he is still working on getting back to his ideal wrestling shape. andquot;I'm getting close, but I'm not quite there yet,andquot; he said.
Del Norte head coach Aaron Schaad said McCovey has been andquot;dominantandquot; this year, and commended him for doing what it takes to be a great wrestler. Schaad said McCovey works hard, is a great athlete and is dedicated to being the best wrestler he can be.
Although he is a heavyweight, Schaad said McCovey normally places either first or second when the team does sprints.
andquot;He's a hard worker,andquot; Schaad said. andquot;He's doing well.andquot;
Another Del Norte wrestler that did well was Joey Kravitz, who went 4-2 in the 140 pound weight division.
While he did not place, Schaad said he defeated some top wrestlers and did well against the No.1 wrestler in his division at the tournament before losing to him.

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Greg Jones, executive vice president, said the bank made the decision six weeks ago after learning from Albertson's officials that an extensive remodeling project is about to get under way at the store.
"Right now we think it will close either Aug. 25 or Aug. 27," he said.
Jones said that to accommodate its customers, ASB plans to keep all four of its motor banks open an extra hour to 7 p.m.
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- Develop iPad/iPhone/Android Mobile versions of Smart Football.
- Polish up the sidebar — what would be most useful to have on it?
- Clean up the header, title, etc.
- Add Google Plus to the social share at bottom — any other sharing tools people wish they had?
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I'm a slacker at time. Just ask my family. I decided to make my brother-in-law a gift for his birthday LAST YEAR and finally just finished it a few weeks ago. Pretty pathetic, right? I bought all the stuff back in November and ended up having to re-buy most of it so that it was "fresh." LOL. I guess it's better than not getting it done at all, but still. Pretty bad that it would take about 6 months to do.
Any who, the idea came from HERE. I saw it via Pinterest and knew it would be a quick and easy gift that any receiver would love. I mean, it's made out of the person's favorite soda/drinks and candy. What's not to love about that? In this case, my BIL loves Squirt, Dr. Pepper and Almond Joys so that's what I got to make the cake. Fortunately, it didn't take long to make (which makes me wonder again why it took so long to do). Perhaps it was because I was preggo and getting ready to move out of state. Excuses, excuses – I know! 😉
Here is what you'll need to make it this Favorite Treats Birthday Cake:
– regular size cans of soda
– skinny size cans of soda
– 1/2 liter bottle of soda
– mini candy bars
– twine/jute/ribbon
– candle
– stand (or sturdy plate/board to place cake on)
1. Gather your supplies.
2. Begin by putting your 1/2 liter bottle of soda on your stand. Surround with the regular size soda cans. I used 7. Tie cans with jute/twine.
3. Add your second layer with your skinny cans of soda. Tie around.
4. Place candies around the top of your 1/2 liter of soda.
5. Tie together.
6. From there I hot glued a candle on top.
EASY, right?!
I must warn – this is a little heavy, but as mentioned… if you have a friend or family member who loves soda, then they'll love this gift!
This would also work as a party centerpiece too!
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Something had to give at JELD-WEN Field on Sunday night. And, it turned out, it was Portland's 18-game competitive home unbeaten streak.
Real Salt Lake beat the Timbers 1-0 in the second leg of the Western Conference Championship, extended their unbeaten streak against Portland to 10 and secured a berth in MLS Cup 2013 on Dec. 7.
Despite that, RSL could not manage a definitive explanation for how it has managed to dominate one of the best teams in MLS this season, going 4-0-2 and outscoring the Timbers 14-8.
"I don't know," RSL midfielder Javier Morales told MLSsoccer.com. "They are one of the best teams in the league and we beat them four times? I think they play the same way as us, so maybe we are a little bit more experienced than them."
Salt Lake forward Robbie Findley, who scored the winning goal Sunday, echoed those thoughts.
"They are a great team. They have plenty of talent," he told MLSsoccer.com. "I don't know. We've got experience."
As it happened, Portland edged out Salt Lake to win the regular-season Western Conference title by a single point. But the Timbers haven't beaten RSL since the first time the two teams met, a 1-0 win in April 2011.
"I can't really explain it. I honestly can't," RSL head coach Jason Kreis told reporters. "I think that we do a pretty good job of exploiting the spaces that are there, and we have the players in the right spots to take advantage of that situation.
"I think that the teams are very evenly matched. I think that every game feels to me to be very even."
The Claret-and-Cobalt did produce a pair of 4-2 wins over the Timbers this season – one in the regular season, one in the first leg of the Conference Championship. But RSL's win in the semifinals of the US Open Cup was 2-1; Sunday's win was 1-0; and there were two ties in the 2013 series between the clubs.
"We've scored some goals at some critical moments," Kreis said. "I think that they haven't scored some goals at critical moments that they probably should have."


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NLC Supports White House Resources to Detroit to Spur Economic Recovery
Sep 27, 2013, 16:23 ET from National League of Cities
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement is from Clarence Anthony, Executive Director of the National League of Cities on the White House announcing funding for Detroit:
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"Today's White House announcement about federal grants and private money aimed at boosting public safety, neighborhood revitalization, and public transportation will hopefully help Detroit begin the long road to recovery. It is a good example of what is possible when all levels of the intergovernmental partnership – federal, state, and local – come together to find creative solutions that will assist in accelerating innovation and building a foundation for future growth for families and children.
"It is important to note that these federal resources are not a bailout, but are funds that were already available to Detroit that are being repurposed or made available at a quicker rate. There is nothing to indicate that this will alter the course of the bankruptcy proceeding and prevent the difficult decisions that lie ahead.
"We applaud the partners who came together to make today's announcement possible."
The National League of Cities is dedicated to helping city leaders build better communities. NLC is a resource and advocate for 19,000 cities, towns and villages, representing more than 218 million Americans.
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Lorain police have released the names of the individuals involved in a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon.
Nancy Lotko, 56, of Vermilion, was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Camaro that drove left of center and struck a Kingston of Vermilion man on Kolbe Road, said Lorain Police Officer Kyle Gelenius.
Lotko was transported by Lifecare to Mercy Regional Medical Center and later flown to MetroHealth Medical Center, where she was treated and released.
There were eight people in the van, which was driven by Douglas Substanley, 74, of Wakeman.
One of those passengers, Edna Akers, 87, of Vermilion, was taken to Mercy in critical condition before being flown to MetroHealth, where she was treated and released.
The other seven passengers were Maureen Byrne, of Vermilion; Delores Symons, 69, of Lorain; and Kingston of Vermilion residents Betty Schneider, 88; Johnathan Young, 65; Nannie Johnson, 83; and Grace Phillips, 81.
Johnson was being treated at MetroHealth on Friday.
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Photographer's Note
UMS (Universiti Malaysia Sabah) is the 9th university in Malaysia. Located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
I took this photo early in the morning hoping to capture a good image of the building, trying to get the very best of it for publication.
I did not manage to get the color i want from lens work, but photoshop cs3 help me to slightly bring out the color... some color balance and sharping was done.
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trekks (14348) 2007-11-14 3:42
Hello Ramdan
Welcome to TE community. Your post of UMS is
.great color tone with PP
.time stamp says 2007-7-12 at 3:09pm? (yr EOS is off time?)
.if you try earlier time, should be better
.sky is not bright
.composition : can try alternatives
.pov : can also try alternatives
.you should have many choices for above 2
.why not UMS main entrance?
You posted this same shot on TL with exactly identical Note here. Why not post a different angled shot?
All in all, this shot is quite well done. Good work.
TFS, cheers
Silke (3027) 2007-11-15 5:45
Please read the Terms of Service for TrekLens and TrekEarth.
It reads "5. Identical photos may not be posted to more than one Trek Gallery (TrekEarth or Treklens). "
rabani (9645) 2007-12-04 21:58
Assalammu'alaikum Ram,
Photography is about getting everything that you see interesting into that camera's sensor of yours. The problem is, the camera's sensor is not as good as your eyes. So...it's your job to help the camera. Either you walk around to get a better shot of this building or come again at another time, when the light is forgiving and promoting.
Welcome to TE Ramdan
Photo Information
- Copyright: Ramdan Nain (Ramdan) (117)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2007-07-12
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Canon EOS 300D
- Exposure: f/7.1, 1/125 seconds
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Governments around the World are Acting to Reduce their Footprints
European Union (EU)
The EU's commitment to renewable energy has helped to advance renewable energy sources like wind power. Other encouraging signs are also in evidence in the European auto industry. EU legislation, passed in 2008, requires manufacturers to reduce CO2 by one fifth by 2015. Business Week is reporting that European car makers are ahead of schedule in their efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, thanks in part to increased consumer demand for more efficient vehicles.
China has engaged in an ambitious renewable energy policy that will see heavy investment in solar power and subsidies for cleantech companies. The country is also offering consumer subsidies for the purchase of electric cars and has also been closing down small coal plants in order to help it meet its goal of reducing CO2 per unit of GDP by 45 percent through 2020. Business Week reports that China is exploring cap-and-trade to help meet its targets. By some estimates, a cap-and-trade market in China could be functioning as early as 2013.
As reported in the Business Standard, the Indian government has launched a cleantech certification process that will help Indian power distribution companies to meet their renewable portfolio obligation (RPO) through the purchase of certificates. The Electricity Act of 2003 mandates that state distribution utilities purchase electricity from renewable energy sources as a certain minimum percentage of the total consumption of power in the state. This certification scheme will help promote clean power.
Reuters reports that Brazil managed to stem deforestation and cut its emissions by 34 percent over the past five years, enabling the country to meet its 2020 target ten years ahead of schedule. The government of Brazil has come down on cattle ranchers and loggers. Brazil also announced that its state developmental bank, BNDES, has opened a $588 million fund to finance projects that reduce deforestation caused by the agricultural sector.
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All I have to say to Jennifer Love Hewitt is, "You go, girl!" I just finished reading some super mean comments about the pictures of JLH on TMZ.com. In case you don't know, photos of her in a bikini in Hawaii have been making the rounds on the Web with a lot of criticism about her body – and she's a size 2!
Now the star of "Ghost Whisperer" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is speaking out. On her blog she writes, "I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized. To set the record straight, I'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with their body image."
"A size 2 is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size 0 doesn't make you beautiful."
"What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles. I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body."
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Chaz Anderson recently picked up his first offer from Boise State and it's a big one because he has friends who play for the Broncos and the Los Angeles Loyola prospect said he's relieved to be on the board.
Boise State has quickly moved right to the top of Anderson's list.
"I have a cousin up there, Bryan Douglas, he's like my role model and with him up there and getting an offer I have so much interest in that school," Anderson said.
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"One of my best friends, like my other brother, Lee Hightower, is going there next year. Getting that first offer is great and it's a dream to go there and play with my family so it's wonderful."
Anderson, who's also hearing from Oregon State and SMU, said he's strongly considering a commitment to the Broncos even though things are just heating up in his recruitment.
"Boise State is definitely extremely high on the list," Anderson said.
"As soon as I found out Bryan was going there and they have a good program in football and school, their academics are pretty good, I fell in love with the school. Just to get that offer is overwhelming. They're extremely high on the list and committing is a definite possibility."
Anderson has been impressive at multiple events this spring including the Los Angeles NIKE Camp but his recruitment is still slow to take off. The offer from Boise State is a big deal and could just be everything he was looking for.
"This was a surprising thing," he said. "Right now I'm not hearing from a lot of schools.
"I know several of them may have interest in me but Boise State is the first to really go this far and give me an offer. I've never been up there but I really, really plan to go as soon as I get the chance."


text: Hi, I'm Connie. I'm a retiree,mom and grandma who loves quilting. My friend and I do a minimum of 3 shop hops a year-love making the table runners from the hops. I pretty much do all my quilting by machine and I like to incorporate my machine embroidery into my quilts and runners. I have EQ5 but haven't had the nerve to do much with it, and would appreciate any suggestions in working with it.


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Keilah: Humble Introductions
Travis Hearne, a dedicated Christian and accomplished guitarist, felt led to create a music ministry that reached out to today's youth. He had watched many of his own friends' lives spiral downward and felt the need to go beyond the safety and comfort of the church's walls to reach out to those so in need of something to believe in beyond themselves. He asked his brother, Cannon, also a dedicated Christian and extensively-trained drummer, to join him. Cannon exchanged his raucous, intense drumming style for the complexities of acoustic percussion-- congas, bongos, djembe, and shaker. Travis then asked Austin Curry, also a devout Christian and long-time Christian musician and producer of theatrical productions, to join Keilah. Austin's riveting voice and unusual bass runs completed the group. Travis and Austin began honing each other's musical compositions and Keilah ultimately won the GMA Song of the Year Award, which recognized both the authenticity and quality of Keilah's message. Each member's contribution to the style and character of Keilah is uniquely his own, but all three share a unified sense of purpose, to bring God's words of love, reassurance, forgiveness, and salvation to those who feel alone, those who stand doubting and unsure about their life and reason for being, and those burdened by hopelessness. This is God's gift, and this is Keilah's message.


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The osgShadow nodekit is a powerful collection of classes for adding shadows to your scene. Thanks to this powerful nodekit, you don't need to learn the complex calculations, multi-texturing units and programmable shaders involved in creating shadows. Just add these nodes to your scene graph, and the work is done for you.
The Class documentation for osgShadow shows the classes and methods. This document describes how to use them.
Simple Case
In the simplest case, there is a single light enabled in your scene. You create a ShadowedScene? node (a subclass of osg::Group), and add children to it. A ShadowTechnique? is chosen and assigned to the ShadowedScene. The children of ShadowedScene can have the CastShadow? bit set in their node mask, and/or the ReceivesShadow? bit. As the scene is rendered, ShadowedScene calls the methods of its ShadowTechnique to compute the shadows and decorate the scene graph with StateSets to render them:
Texture Resolution
Generally speaking, a projected texture is used to render the shadow. This means that if your shadow casting geometry is very large, then the texture resolution must be spread over a large area. This can produce blocky aliasing in the shadow. Therefore, it is advisable to keep the bounding sphere of your shadow casting geometry as small as possible. Just placing a ShadowedScene above a large scene graph, where everything casts a shadow, is not likely to produce good results. You should very deliberately choose which nodes will cast shadows.
You can also increase the resolution of the texture with the ShadowTechnique?'s setTextureResolution method.
The Techniques
As of OSG 2.4, there are five different shadow techniques available. All of them have varying requirements on the capabilities of your 3D card. If your card's shader engine and driver does not support certain commands, then it will not be capable of using some of these techniques.
- ShadowMap?. This is the simplest option and most mature and stable implementation. TODO: how does it work, what are pros and cons of using it?
- ShadowVolume?. As of OSG 2.4, this is still experimental and may not produce shadows on some graphics cards.
- ShadowTexture?. How is this different from ShadowMap?
- SoftShadowMap?.
- As of OSG 2.4, this is still experimental and may not produce shadows on some graphics cards.
- The original idea for this technique was published in GPU Gems 2 presumably the article "Efficient Soft-Edged Shadows Using Pixel Shader Branching".
- ParallelSplitShadowMap?. This is the most complex and potentially powerful algorithm, with many more options that can be set.
- PolygonOffset, MaxFarDistance, MoveVCamBehindRCamFactor, MinNearDistanceForSplits, forceFrontCullFace, useLinearSplit : need explanations for each of these settings.
Example Code
This code loads two cessnas, offset from each other. The first cessna casts a shadow on the second. In fact, because ShadowMap? treats everything as shadowed, the first cessna also self-shadows.
const int ReceivesShadowTraversalMask = 0x1; const int CastsShadowTraversalMask = 0x2; osg::ref_ptr<osgShadow::ShadowedScene> shadowedScene = new osgShadow::ShadowedScene; shadowedScene->setReceivesShadowTraversalMask(ReceivesShadowTraversalMask); shadowedScene->setCastsShadowTraversalMask(CastsShadowTraversalMask); osg::ref_ptr<osgShadow::ShadowMap> sm = new osgShadow::ShadowMap; shadowedScene->setShadowTechnique(sm.get()); int mapres = 1024; sm->setTextureSize(osg::Vec2s(mapres,mapres)); osg::Group* cessna1 = (osg::Group*) osgDB::readNodeFile("cessna.osg"); cessna1->setNodeMask(CastsShadowTraversalMask); cessna1->getChild(0)->setNodeMask(CastsShadowTraversalMask); osg::Group* cessna2 = (osg::Group*) osgDB::readNodeFile("cessna.osg"); if (!cessna2) return; cessna2->setNodeMask(ReceivesShadowTraversalMask); cessna2->getChild(0)->setNodeMask(ReceivesShadowTraversalMask); osg::MatrixTransform* positioned = new osg::MatrixTransform; positioned->setMatrix(osg::Matrix::translate(40,0,0)); positioned->addChild(cessna1); shadowedScene->addChild(positioned); shadowedScene->addChild(cessna2);
CastsShadow and ReceivesShadow
The two ShadowedScene masks are there to help the ShadowTechnique implementations differentiate where appropriate between different types of objects in the scene - with some techniques like ShadowTexture this is essential, with others it doesn't make so much sense and actually can be rather awkward to implement. osgShadow library itself is also still quite young with the various implementations still not fully ground out, so some areas that they don't currently implement fully will hopefully be filled out in the future.
For example, with OSG 2.4, ShadowMap respects the CastsShadow bit (only objects with that bit will casts a shadow) but ignores the ReceivesShadow bit (all objects in the shadow scene graph receive shadows).
Common Questions
- Where in the scene graph does ShadowedScene go? Does it have to be at the root?
- You can put your ShadowedScene node anywhere in the scene graph.
- What if the shadower and shadowed nodes are far apart in the scene graph, should the ShadowedScene be inserted above their mutual parent?
- Yes. The root node of the subgraph which you want to have shadows should be an osgShadow::ShadowedScene
- Do the ReceivesShadow and CastsShadow mask bits need to be set to 0 for all the other nodes in the tree under ShadowedScene, to omit them from the shadow computation?
- Yes. You will have to iterate through the entire scene graph to change the node mask for every node from its default (0xffffffff) to turn those bits off (generally 0xfffffffc). However, remember that some shadow techniques will ignore some bits in some cases, so you may not be able to omit nodes in all cases.
- Does the Light need to be present in the graph under the ShadowedScene?
- No, you don't need to add light to shadowed scene nor it does not need to be present in fixed location in viewer scene hierarchy. In case of many lights, it would be helpful if you point out the Light source that must be used to generate shadows. See !ShadowMap::setLight function.
- Does ShadowedScene always rerender the shadow every frame?
- Yes.
- If I know that the light and geometry are not moving, can I avoid the shadows being constantly re-rendered?
- Possibly. See the mailing list thread osgShadow one shot shadow map
- What if my objects already have a shader applied to them?
- ?
- Can osgShadow be combines with osg::Fog?
- Probably not (?) Most of the ShadowTechniques use shaders. osg::Fog wraps up glFog, which is part of OpenGL's fixed function pipeline. As soon as you enable shaders you loose fog support unless you shaders directly include a fog shader in them.
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- Italian Grand Prix
'We underperformed' - Webber
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Mark Webber believes Red Bull underperformed at the Italian Grand Prix and missed out on an opportunity to take a more commanding lead in the championship.
Webber finished sixth after his closest championship rival Lewis Hamilton crashed out on the first lap and went five points clear in the title chase.
"We underperformed as a team today and we could have capitalised on getting more points but instead we sniffed around just getting a few," he told BBC Sport. "It's a bit disappointing but at least we got some."
Webber was held up by Nico Hulkenberg during the race after the Williams driver controversially skipped a few of the Monza chicanes. After the race he said he was frustrated by the stewards' decision not to penalise him.
"We lost out at the start and a bit in the first lap and obviously we spent a lot of time behind Hulkenberg - he spent every second lap going through the chicanes. The stewards did a hard job on him by just leaving him alone, so that was interesting," he joked.
Asked if he was surprised to be beaten by team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who made his tyres last a whole race before pitting on the final lap, Webber responded: "Not very because we fought with Hulkenberg [for such a long time]. I knew the option was fine and that the prime tyre wasn't mega so it worked out well for him [Vettel]."
In his defence, Hulkenberg pointed out the stewards had not found anything wrong with his driving and said it was a result of pushing hard.
"I did cut the chicane because I was trying hard and I was fighting, I was also struggling a bit with the brake pedal," Hulkenberg said. "I was fighting the car, trying to defend my position and obviously when you push this can happen. I didn't get a penalty so I think it was OK even though it was pushing the limits. But it was a nice fight and a nice result."


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Who didn't love doing Mad Libs as a kid? Heck most of us here at Jack still do.
Coming up with the most ridiculous nouns, verbs, and adjectives to fill in the blanks of a story could become a competition at times.
The producers of Jimmy Fallon's late night talk show polled the studio audience for a special version of Mad Libs. Jimmy and special guest Anne Hathaway then performed Mad Libbed versions of "Jingle Bells" and "Deck The Halls" karaoke style, having no prior knowledge of the Mad Libbed results. Both Fallon and Hathaway have a hard time keeping a straight face as they sing their way through the lyrics.
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wmceaton I just bought a pack of these hot dogs in NH and they were great! It is a natural casing beef dog that is about 4 inches longer than the standard hot dog roll. I steamed them using a 50/50 water to American Larger solution & cooked them in a bamboo steamer until the hot dog looked dry. The dog provides a wonderful snap when bitten into. I had my standard toppings of yellow mustard, relish & Texas Pete's to top it off.
Scorereader I almost thought I had to recind my above post when I went to Harris Teeter today, only to see Boar's Head meats in the deli - then I was thinking "gee, did I buy Boars Head and not D&W?" But alas, Harris Teeter turned over to Boar's Head this week (two days ago). So, it was D&W I bought last week. Maybe I'll give the Boar's Head dogs a try. I generally think Boar's Head offers some better meats, especially in the Ham, bologna and cured meat depts. I'll definately be checking out the samples over time.
ALRUI I tried these the other day just to find out for myself & while I didnt find these dogs overly greasy (I grilled some in a cast iron pan & some on the gas grill outdoors) I was not impressed. Considering they have a natural casing they were lacking "snap" and the dog itself seemed mushy to me. I dont be buying them again - the quest is still on for a quality dog in Western North Carolina....
the ancient mariner alrui----anything would be mushy going throught the mountains to get to MURPHY. Nice town but the trip is tough.
Scorereader Funny reading this old(ish) thread. I had almost forgot about my D&W experience - which was a year ago this past weekend, then I posted about it on 6/1. I mentioned Wegmans, at that time, being an hour drive away. Well, just a couple months later, a new Wegman's opened under 20mins away AND sits adjacent to a Costco. Woodmere town Center near Landover, MD. I park in between the two and hit Costco, then Wegmans. Now-a-days, Harris Teeter is the "I'll pick that (small item) up" place on the way home from work, rather than my weekly grocery store. So, I never got to try the Boar's Head, as I've been eating Hofmann's Brand Franks and Coneys (white snappies) since then. My, what a difference a year makes!


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With Dimmu Borgir preoccupied with re-recording their sophomore album Stormblåst, 2005 certainly looked to be Old Man's Child's time to shine. Galder's genre mainstay had finally come into it's own upon the back of two great records in Revelation 666: The Curse of Damnation and In Defiance of Existence. Old Man's Child was dealt a winning hand, but in a shocking about-face decided to play it way too safe and delivered a criminally boring record in Vermin.
Exactly why this album falls so short is a difficult paradigm to accurately distinguish. On a superficial level, much of Vermin's caustic delivery falls in line with it's direct predecessor. Biting, modern-sounding tremolo passages merge with tense, reverb-drench acoustic tones and esoteric keyboard pads that repeatedly make ill-fated melodic advances upon the listener. Their jest is largely in vain, as the stock and phoned-in nature of Vermin's compositional aesthetics is both glaring and obvious. The faceless guitar acrobatics defer to the keyboards whenever possible, but the ivories aren't up to the task as they end up fumbling the melodic ball more often than not.
One interesting note is that Galder has dialed up the incendiary disposition of his riff assault, showcasing his blisteringly-quick picking hand and plenty of acrobatic palm-muted passages that upstage In Defiance of Existence on a technical level alone. Regardless, the riffs fall mostly flat in the manner in which they are used here. It certainly doesn't help that their tone comes off as very sterile and stock-sounding, lacking the boomy sonic palette that gave a knuckle-cracking appeal to Revelation 666: The Curse of Damnation's distorted swells. Vermin gains some level of coherency when the band plays up it's heavier inclination, achieving a decent level of combustible appeal most apparent during the keyboard-free sections of "Lord of Command (Bringer of Hate)". Most of Vermin's tracks feature isolated sections that exhibit glimmers of past brilliance, but the band repeatedly kneecaps itself along with any hope of turning the proceedings around just when things start looking up.
Vermin features an organic, flat drum mix that reminds me of Overkill's pacified dud I Hear Black. Killerich is actually a decent technician on the kit, but he doesn't exactly enthrall here. These compositions, while masterminded with zeal and fervor by resident misanthropic architect Galder, do little more than exist. This remains something of a shame, especially after the truly indelible In Defiance of Existence. Some, like "Twilight Damnation" try and conjure up some sort of abstruse, clinical hybrid of melodic black metal and melancholic synth lines but come off as unreasonably forced in the process. "Black Marvels of Death" has some minor neck-jerking potential by virtue of it's simplistic driving drum beats alone, but even pointing out obscure high points such as these required me to sift through layer upon unbridled layer of meandering mindrust on Galder's part.
Old Man's Child would recover in memorable fashion with 2009's Slaves of the World, so Vermin thankfully remains the band's lone post-millennial low point. Even as such, it remains disconcerting to know that Galder has the proclivity to grace us with less-than-stellar compositions when creativity begins to wane. The man's torrid output very nearly forgives him on principle alone, but Vermin is simply far too off-putting to be given a free pass.


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I would be suspicious if my husband didn't want to have sex after being apart for six weeks. I know my husband and his libido, and I would be VERY suspicious! I would figure he had been getting some and maybe brought an STD home as a memento of his trip(???) That is what I thought when you posted.
If I were you I would go get checked for STD's. Your health has been at risk. Does he travel a lot? I ask since there are lots of opportunities for one night stands, friends with benefits, traveling buddies etc. if he does.
Being suspicious is one thing, but the tough part is getting the information and then what to do with it once you have it.
Did he get individual counseling to get to the root of why he cheats? Was he at all remorseful the last time.
I don't think you are wrong at all to be suspicious.
I am sorry ((((((((inmisery1))))))))
Forgive me for asking the obvious but can you ask him what's up? You have been gone for six weeks and I feel like you don't see me or want me? Help me understand this?
Not trying to over simplify - not knowing where you are in your process and healing.
Punch a pillow. Scram in the shower. Yell alone in the car. All great releases.
Hang in there. Hope things get better for you soon.
Sending hugs and want you to know you deserve truth and honesty.
Be kind and true to your self.
Figure out what YOU want and go from there. You can't change him but you can change your reality.
We are here. Keep moving and have faith.
(((BIG HUGS)))) Sorry you find yourself here but you came to a great place!


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A closed-door meeting today produced no breakthrough agreement, only a pledge to spend the remaining hours of the session looking for more possible budget cuts.
If they can't make a deal, the governor has said he'll balance the books on his own after legislators go home.
DFL House and Senate leaders were trying to accentuate the positive when they emerged from the hour-long meeting with Gov. Pawlenty.
DFL Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller said all sides recognized a lot of progress was made this session, but deep differences remain.
Pogemiller says the Republican governor didn't budge in his opposition to tax increases, but they agreed to look at the tax bills for some possible savings.
"That would be some aids and credits and some things like that, to narrow the gap that we have. So, we'll be visiting with our tax chairs, and our tax chairs may be visiting with the governor on that, and see if there are some possible tradeoffs that would interest the governor," said Pogemiller. "We're also working in the health and human services area to see if there's not some way to accommodate some of issues there."
It's unclear if those discussions will bear any last-minute fruit, especially because the two sides are still about $2.7 billion apart. Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung says the governor remains prepared to act on his own, using his emergency budget-cutting authority.
"We hope they can come back to us with some ideas that will work," said McClung. "But if not, as the governor said, he's willing to make sure that we have a balanced budget, that we have no special session and that we have no government shutdown."
Earlier in the day, on MPR's Midday program, DFL House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher said she thought the governor made the decision to go it alone with unilateral cuts several weeks ago. Kelliher said Pawlenty has not negotiated in good faith.
"This is kind of the end of the line here for Gov. Pawlenty, in terms of wanting to continue to bleed Minnesotans to death with a tourniquet on from year to year. We're still bleeding to death," said Kelliher. "Until we fix the fiscal underpinnings of this budget, it's going to be very difficult to come to an agreement."
House Republicans also sounded pessimistic. GOP Minority Leader Marty Seifert emerged from the governor's office worried about time. Seifert said the Democrats were essentially responding to an offer than was nearly two days old.
"It's getting late, and we're hoping that there can be some progress in one way, shape or form," said Seifert. "Obviously the meeting was cordial, but we have a lot of work to do between now and midnight if there's going to be a closing of the gap, whether it's fully closed or partially closed."
While the budget talks bogged down, several policy bills steamed ahead.
Legislation for medical use of marijuana cleared the Minnesota House 70-64, after it was tightened to apply only to terminally ill patients with severe symptoms. That's stricter than the version that cleared the Senate, which accepted the change and repassed the bill 38-28.
Debate on the House floor created unusual political alliances, with conservative Republican Rep. Mark Buesgens arguing for the change and DFL Rep. Joe Atkins pushing for more restrictions.
"I don't understand what there is to be afraid of," said Buesgens, R-Jordan.
Atkins, of Inver Grove Heights, amended the bill to exclude those with chronic but not terminal conditions. He said the change would make it more likely to win Pawlenty's support.
Pawlenty has opposed the legislation, saying he agrees with law enforcement concerns about expanded drug use. His spokesman, Brian McClung, confirmed late Monday evening that Pawlenty will veto the measure.
After years of stalling in the House, legislation giving police more power to ticket unbuckled motorists is cruising toward passage.
The House passed the so-called primary seat belt law on Monday 73-60. The measure has long fared better in the Senate, and Pawlenty has voiced his support. The Senate later approved the bill 47-19, sending it to the governor.
The bill gives police the ability to pull over and ticket motorists solely because they or their passengers aren't buckled up.
Currently, law enforcement must spot another traffic offense to make the stop. A second provision would let drivers go 10 miles an hour over the speed limit when passing.
"Our law enforcement officers are tired of going to an accident and having to clean up the mess that's left there, the heartbreaking results of people that are ejected from their cars and killed needlessly," said the bill's sponsor, DFL Rep. Kim Norton of Rochester.
The seat belt violation carries a $25 fine.
Minnesota has $3.4 million in federal transportation money riding on the change.
Opposition centered on whether it would fuel racial profiling. Others say seat belt use should remain a personal choice. "This is about how far we go in legislating how people live," said Rep. Randy Demmer, R-Hayfield.
An elections bill would move the state's primary elections from September to early August, which proponents say should give more time for voters to compare their general election choices and return absentee ballots if they live overseas.
An attempt to allow no-excuse early voting was removed from the bill, but there were other absentee ballot law changes crafted in response to the state's lengthy 2008 Senate race.
Local election officials would have to make extra efforts to contact voters whose ballots are rejected and give them the option of casting a new one.
The Senate passed it 44-20; the House vote was 85-49.
Pawlenty hasn't said what he'll do with the bill; his fellow Republicans wanted a requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls.
But Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, said the changes are too important to put off.
"If we wait to do it next year, most of the changes won't go into effect in the 2010 election," he said.
The House started debate on a bill dividing up sales tax money for habitat, water and cultural projects.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)


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The Winnipeg Jets have recalled forward Patrice Cormier from the St. John's IceCaps of the American Hockey League.
Cormier, 22, has seven goals and 11 points in 32 AHL games this season.
The bruising forward can play either centre or wing.
The Jets are back in action on Thursday against the New York Rangers.