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A fight over Obamacare? That's so last week.
With the government shutdown firmly in its second week, and the debt limit projected to be reached next Thursday, top House and Senate Republicans are publicly moving away from gutting the health care law — a practical move that could help resolve the stalemate and appear more reasonable in the eyes of frustrated voters.
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In a private meeting among Senate Republicans, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed openness to a plan by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that includes a repeal of Obamacare's medical device tax but nothing else related to the health care law.
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
With polls showing their party is suffering the brunt of the blame for the shutdown, many top Republicans are quietly moving past the Obamacare debate. Many Senate Republicans' demands do not include changes to Obamacare, but rather cuts to Medicare, Social Security and changes to the Tax Code. House Republicans are also considering a short-term debt hike, but no one expects that it will be accompanied by changes to Obamacare.
"I'd like to get rid of Obamacare, no question about that, but I think that effort has failed," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the veteran member of the Senate Finance Committee. "And we're going to have to take it on in other ways."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said bluntly: "We took an unpopular law and chose a more unpopular tactic to deal with the law."
"Why don't we focus on entitlement reform, Tax Code reform, regarding the debt ceiling and continue to fight on Obamacare [separately], because there's not a consensus there," Graham said.
( Also on POLITICO: Full health care policy coverage)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) wrote an opinion piece that appeared on The Washington Post's website Wednesday that simply urged President Barack Obama to negotiate with Republicans.
In the House, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's Wall Street Journal column — which sucked up much oxygen in the Capitol — conceded that changes to health care policy are not achievable in the short term. In a meeting with House conservatives Wednesday, Ryan proposed raising the debt ceiling for a short period, accompanied by spending cuts, and then working for four to eight weeks to reform entitlements and the Tax Code.
Conservatives are saying flatly that they are willing to think beyond Obamacare to solve this impasse.
( PHOTOS: Debt ceiling fight: 20 great quotes)
"Obamacare is a component part of a bigger picture," said Rep. Mo Brooks, a conservative Republican from Alabama. "The bigger picture is a growing risk of bankruptcy and insolvency brought about by too many financially irresponsible politicians in Washington."
He added, "Something has to be done. I'm flexible on how we do it with respect to cutting spending to conform our revenues to our taxes. We have to be more aggressive than we have been."
Rep. Tom McClintock, a conservative California Republican, dodged questions on where the party is heading on Obamacare, and instead said it should be decided by a bipartisan negotiating conference.
"The whole nature of negotiations unfolds as it unfolds," McClintock said.
( WATCH: 10 great quotes on debt ceiling fight)
In fact, much of the closed negotiations within House GOP leadership is centering on a temporary lift of the debt ceiling to allow negotiations on tax and entitlement reform. One option that has gained some steam is to allow a four- to eight-week debt ceiling increase to permit negotiations, with another increase contingent upon a budget agreement. With this process moving through the regular channels of Congress, major changes to Obamacare would be next to impossible to achieve.
The pickle on Obamacare is playing out behind closed doors, as well. In a private meeting Wednesday between Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Cantor, Pelosi expressed discontent with having to accept sequester-level spending in a government funding bill. Boehner shot back that it was the "law of the land."
"So is Obamacare," Hoyer responded.
But the bickering among Hill leaders doesn't help resolve the stalemate. Obama says no negotiations will happen until Republicans reopen government and lift the debt ceiling. That, Republicans say, gives up their only leverage.


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My name is Tina McNaught and I have just started my own home based business as a retailer of really fine table, bed, bath, kitchen linens from France, Belgium, Italy, NZ and Australia. My linen is targeted at the higher end of the retail market as a tablecloth can cost up to $500. Most of my products will be made from 100% linen. I love linen, it's my passion, I also love lemons, I love their smell, taste and colour, they are such a happy sunny fruit. Hence the name Linencello, I also love the drink Limoncello!. The personality I am trying to get a across is simple, clean, fresh and elegant.
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Water quality of streams in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana shows a few statistical changes from 2001 to 2010, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report.
The USGS report focuses analyses on 17 sites that had data collected from 2001 to 2010. Also included is an evaluation of a subset of these sites with longer-term data collected from 1991 to 2010. The Powder River at Arvada, Wyo. showed changes in dissolved minerals and other constituents most consistent with changes that might be expected from coalbed natural gas (CBNG) production during both time periods. The report, written in cooperation with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, is available online.
"This study shows the value of the USGS's water monitoring program, which maintains a national network of stations that sample for a broad array of constituents indicative of the quality of water used by humans and wildlife," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "After there is some major development that could potentially affect water quality, it is too late to wish someone had established a baseline monitoring program years earlier."
USGS stream monitoring for effects from coalbed natural gas development began in 2001. Trend analysis is a tool to statistically analyze whether or not water-quality changes have occurred.
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A few sites in the study showed some changes in the quality of stream water over time, but because multiple factors can affect stream-water quality, or because changes also were seen in sites upstream from the CBNG development, the reason for the trend could not be determined.
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estled at a slight bend along the narrow River Road and overshadowed by tall, drooping trees, Walnut Grove lies mid-way between Sacramento and Stockton in northern California. Also fronting the Sacramento River, one mile to the north of Walnut Grove, is Locke, a small, peaceful community settled by people who had earlier lived in Walnut Grove. The river was once a major thoroughfare for shipping agricultural products to markets across the country. Today, only excursion boats and houseboats share its waters. River Road parallels the bends of the Sacramento River on its eastern side and, like the river, still carries some traffic between San Francisco and Sacramento in Northern California, but like the other narrow roads that once connected the communities with larger cities, it has been largely bypassed by travellers, who favor the quicker freeways and interstate highways that crisscross the region.
Here, in the Sacramento County delta area, where the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers converge, the history of the once bustling Chinatowns and nihonmachi's (Japan towns) can still be seen in buildings constructed some 50 to a 100 years ago. Store signs in Chinese and in Japanese still advertise the Dai Loy Gambling House, the Hayashi Company Store, and other places that once provided services to the immigrant agricultural workers who began their American experience in the Sacramento Delta.
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2013 NAIA Softball Players of the Week ? No. 3
By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kate Santos of Concordia (Ore.) has been tabbed as the NAIA National Softball Player of the Week and teammate Ashley Suter has been named the NAIA National Softball Pitcher of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. The duo was chosen based on their performances from March 18 – 24 out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 21 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
The last time that two players from the same school were honored as national softball players of week was May 10, 2006. St. Gregory's (Okla.) were represented by Sharon Bell and Michelle Andrew as national pitcher and player of the week, respectively.
Santos, a 5-foot-6 sophomore catcher from Gladstone, Ore., hit .467 (7-for-15) with six home runs, nine RBI and seven runs scored during a 6-0 week for the Cavaliers. In the 1-0 win against Northwest (Wash.) on March 19, Santos hit a solo homer in the sixth for the winning score. In the nightcap, she smacked two roundtrippers in the 7-4 victory. Santos provided both Concordia runs with one swing of the bat in the 2-0 win over College of Idaho on March 22. In the opening game against Eastern Oregon, a 8-0 triumph on March 23, Santos hit back-to-back homers in the third and fourth innings.
With her efforts, she now stands second in the NAIA with 14 homers and 11th in runs scored with 32.
Suter, a 5-foot-8 senior pitcher from Tigard, Ore., posted a dominating week where she compiled a 4-0 record with a perfect 0.00 ERA for Concordia. In 23 innings, she fanned 25 batters with no unearned or earned runs given up and allowed just one extra-base hit. She posted three complete-game shutouts and surrendered one hit in a four-inning relief performance in the 7-4 win against Northwest on March 19. Overall, she held her opponents to a .139 batting average for the week.
For the season, Suter is ranked No. 3 in the NAIA with 129 total strikeouts and stands 12-4 on the year with a 1.65 ERA.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
Player Nominees: Whitney Hardwick, Blue Mountain (Miss.); Rachel Ivelia, Jamestown (N.D.); Ryler Moreno, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Yolanda Alailefaleula, Sterling (Kan.); Alex Holland, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Hannah Petersen, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Ashton Bell, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Jasmin Dresser, Concordia (Calif.); Megan Blythe, West Virginia Tech; Brookelyn Visker, Indiana Southeast; Felicia Woodard, Williams Baptist (Ark.); C.J. Browder, South Carolina Beaufort; Emma Napier, Campbellsville (Ky.); Rhea Hobson, Culver-Stockton (Mo.); Jessica Cotton, Indiana Tech; Micalah Sacre, Virginia Intermont; Dominique Hannah, Lee (Tenn.); Miranda Manchester, Central Baptist (Ark.); Gabby Bogear, Indiana Wesleyan; Brooke Sampson, Doane (Neb.); Brianna DiGioia, Judson (Ill.); Kayla Cisneroz, Menlo (Calif.).
Pitcher Nominees: Sarah Elizabeth Cousar, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Emily Snow, Jamestown (N.D.); Taylor Mohler, Bellevue (Neb.); Dawn Villegas, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Kelsey Garner, Friends (Kan.); Kimberly Hazlett, Rio Grande (Ohio); Katera Eltsosie, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Bridgett Goss, West Virginia Tech; Ciara Fraher, Southwest (N.M.); Karisa Hendrix, Williams Baptist (Ark.); Amanda Beeson, Concordia (Neb.); Jenna Harshbarger, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Summer Rattliff, Asbury (Ky.); Liz Gonzalez, Hope International (Calif.); Katie Williams, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Kristy Cook, South Carolina Beaufort; Caitlin Santefort, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Kamaron Strickland, Mobile (Ala.); Ashley Riffell, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Micalah Sacre, Virginia Intermont; Sam Berrios, Indiana Tech; Mikayela Viramontes, Menlo (Calif.).
2013 Softball Weekly Honors (Pitcher; Player):
Week 1 (March 12): Caitlin Santefort, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Latainna Eltsosie, Lubbock Christian (Texas)
Week 2 (March 19): Katie Cotta, Concordia (Calif.); Stephanie Nippert, Corban (Ore.)
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neiled necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 125 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Company has similar principles to its first major website, to be small, approachable and friendly.
Website is aimed at small, distributed teams who are experts at what they do. Not necessarily technical background.
Logo required including a graphic of a bee (the insect) incorporated into the wording "busywith.com".
The bee should be of simple design without too much shading or detail.
It is more likely that the bee will appear by itself on the website and should be simple enough to be recognisable at small resolutions.
The website's colour theme is (r,g,b):
Dark Green - 125,138,46
Light Green - 201, 215, 135
Light Pink - 255, 192, 169
Dark Pink - 255, 133, 152
Black should be used sparingly and should be used only for definition, no large solid black areas (unless the designer feels it adds drastically to the logo).
The busywith.com wording should be written using Arial Rounded MT Bold and can be a combination of any of the colours above. Again it should be kept simple, friendly and clean.
Overall I'm looking for a very clean Web 2.0 look without appearing childish.
The website is available at busywith.com but the design on this page should only be used as a very rough guide.
The winning designer maybe asked to provide full website designs in a future project.
As a deliverable I would require vector based images readily readable by adobe photoshop or illustrator.
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Vancouver, B.C. Canada, August 22, 2017 - Belmont Resources Inc. (TSX.V: BEA; FSE: L3L1; ("Belmont", or the "Company").
Belmont Resources Inc. (the "Company") announces that it has been informed of the decision by the Tribunal of the International Centre For Settlement Of Investment Disputes in reviewing the dispute involving the Company, EuroGas Inc. ("EuroGas"), and the Slovak Republic in connection with Rozmin S.R.O. and its ownership of the Gemerska Poloma talc deposit. The Tribunal, comprised of 3 members, in a majority decision with one (1) member dissenting, has declined to accept jurisdiction for the review and determination of the dispute on technical grounds related to the inter-jurisdictional treaty between Canada and Slovakia. The Company is very disappointed given the length of time, effort and expense incurred by all parties that were seeking a proper determination of the dispute itself and in is in discussion with its legal counsel in regards of a judicial review of the Tribunal's decision to decline jurisdiction.
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On March 30, 2016; the Company acquired sixteen placer (16) mining claims, representing 1036 hectares (2,560 acres) in Esmeralda County, Nevada, U.S.A. The Kibby Basin property is located 65 km north of Clayton Valley, Nevada-U.S.A. The Company believes the property to be highly prospective to host lithium.
On July 11, 2016; the Company reported it has arranged the staking of 213 x 20 acre additional placer mineral claims totaling approx. 1724 hectares (4,260 acres), adjoining the Kibby 16, increasing the total Kibby Basin land position (the "Property") to 2760 hectares (6,820 acres).
In 50/50 ownership with International Montoro Resources Inc., Belmont has acquired and is exploring joint venture opportunities for its two significant uranium properties (Crackingstone -982 ha & Orbit Lake - 11,109 ha) in the Uranium City District in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Sure, we all know Glenn Beck is the eager disseminator of all manner of goofy conspiracy theories. But lately he's been diving even deeper into these mysterious waters, pondering the dark conspiracies behind the conspiracy theories. A theory of meta-conspiracies, if you will. A fractal universe of endlessly convoluted conspiracies, layers upon layers, all the way down.
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Here at Mtbr HQ, the iPhone is king. Of all of us employees, the actually count is 5 iPhones vs. 2 others (the two others being a Blackberry and an Android G1). I love my all purpose iPhone and it's even better when I can combine my inner tech geek with my mountain biking Passion! Here is a list compiled from our own opinions along with current forum discussions on just what the hottest iPhone apps for mountain bikers are.
#5.) "The Bike Computer" ( https://www.everytrail.com/iphone.php) FREE – Provides a large display of speed and distance based on your iPhone's GPS. Also contains a bunch of other GPS based features, but the clean and simple bike computer is the best part.


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Brenda from our Seattle store says:
The Leons run approximately half a size larger than average, so try going down a size!
The LoPro Leon is pioneering the way for fellow Fluevogs to run faster, jump higher, and swim further (just kidding, Fluevogs don't really like to swim). John took inspiration for this Fluevogian sneaker from The ProVog sole, adding a padded collar and tongue, textile accented panels, and strong but light plastic eyelets. They're made with Italian fabric and Portuguese leather and nubuck -- which creates a multi-material masterpiece that comfortably fits the feet of all Fluevogers and demands appreciation everywhere -- courtside to sidewalk.
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Brenda from our Seattle store says:
The Leons run approximately half a size larger than average, so try going down a size!
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I like it that sometimes people say "i like your boots!" In the burgundy color, I don't feel like I'm wearing tennis shoes, necessarily, and they look cool with just about anything. I'm sad I can't wear heels anymore, so it's fun to have shoes that help my feet feel comfy, but aren't boring in any way, or obviously high tops.
I agree they run a little larger than the average.. about 1/2 size. so i was happy to have read the recommendation that i get the larger size. Thank you for these!!


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What do Faith Hill, Julia Roberts, David Letterman, Temple Grandin, Reba McIntire and Herschel Walker have in common?
Each is an American icon. Each is known to be a consummate professional. And each was in 4-H when growing up.
Over the years, 4-H has provided millions of youths with opportunities to develop their leadership, citizenship and life skills that have helped them become community leaders, successful professionals, astronauts, entertainers, athletes whatever they dreamed.
Now, findings from a recent study led by Richard M. Lerner, professor at Tufts University, confirm that young people in 4-H Youth Development programs do better in preparing to be productive and contributing adults than their non-4-H peers. Youths involved in 4-H experience high levels of positive youth development and are more likely to contribute to their families and their communities, findings showed.
The study, sponsored by National 4-H Council in Washington, D.C., is the first longitudinal study to measure the characteristics of positive youth development over an eight-year period. It had more than 7,000 participants in 44 states, including Colorado, and measured the effect that personal and social factors have on a young persons development.
Overall, researchers are finding that involvement in 4-H makes a more significant difference in many areas of positive youth development than other youth-development programs. Colorado 4-H Director Jeff Goodwin said that the 4-H program makes a positive difference in the lives of more than 100,000 Colorado youths each year.
We have always known that 4-H is good for kids, families and communities, Goodwin says. Here is strong evidence to support that fact.
Participating in high-quality youth development programs such as 4-H plays a critical role in helping young people achieve success.
The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development confirms what we have always believed to be true; 4-H in the community contributes to a stronger community, said Donald Floyd Jr., president and CEO of the National 4-H Council. New information about positive youth development provided by this study will ensure that 4-H continues to support young peoples growth into successful, contributing members of their communities.
Study findings show that compared with their non-4-H peers, young people in 4-H are:
More likely to achieve better grades, higher levels of academic competence and elevated levels of engagement at school.
Less likely to engage in risky behaviors, such as drinking, smoking and drug use.
Two times more likely to plan to go to college.
More likely to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology. Girls in 4-H are more than twice as likely to participate in science, engineering and technology programs as their peers.
3.4 times more likely to delay sexual activity by grade 12.
2.3 times more likely to exercise and be physically active.
3.4 times more likely to contribute in their communities.
Information about Colorado 4-H Impact Studies can be found on the Colorado 4-H website, along with more details of the Tufts study, at www.colorado4h.org/research_impact.
firstname.lastname@example.com or 382-6463. Greg Felsen is La Plata County 4-H youth development agent. This story was adapted from a news release by the Colorado State 4-H Office.


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In honor of all the summer weddings this month, I decided to sing a little song.
(With apologies to Nat King Cole.)
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Thanks to Christin S., Amanda C., Rachael H., Jessi T., Chelsea W., Chase C., Amy S., Angela I., & Susan C. for scaring all the brides-to-be out there.


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Gingrich Campaign $4.3 Million In Debt, Filings Show
(WASHINGTON) -- Newt Gingrich owed $4.3 million in debt by the end of March, his monthly FEC filing shows.
The Gingrich campaign only took in $1.6 million in March — $1 million less than it did in February. The campaign spent $2 million, and reported having only $1.2 million cash on hand at the end of the month.
The campaign's list of debts and obligations is long, but Gingrich owes the most money to Moby Dick Airways Ltd., a private charter company based in Sterling, Virginia. The campaign owes the company roughly $1 million. The second largest debt is owed to Patriot Group Security Services; filings show that the Gingrich campaign owes the company $449,502.
Gingrich also owes himself $271,775 — money that was listed as being for travel.
In addition, the March debt report is filled with typical campaign expenses — travel, consulting fees, legal fees, media production, ballot access fees, etc., are all listed as expenditures.
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In 1934—close to 80 years ago—a little girl walked down Elmwood Avenue to begin kindergarten at the School of Practice, which was housed in present-day Ketchum Hall. Today, she remembers that era with fondness from her home in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
"I lived on Claremont Avenue near Bird, and my friend Nancy Freedman lived on Manchester Place," recalls Jean (Stripp) Poleszak, '50. "We would walk to school every day and watch as the other children were dropped off by their chauffeurs. It was a very rarified atmosphere!"
Poleszak remembers the time Lois Kittinger, her second-grade classmate, received a surprise from her father, who owned the Kittinger Furniture plant on Elmwood. Craftsmen from the plant walked into their classroom one day and constructed a miniature house—a cozy abode where the children could read books. She also remembers playing with classmate Harriet (Rockwell) Vogelsang at the Rockwells' home. Harriet's father was, of course, Harry W. Rockwell, who served as principal of the Buffalo Normal School from 1919 to 1926 and as the first president of Buffalo State from 1926 to 1951.
"Buffalo State has been such an important part of my life for a lot of years. It really is a wonderful place," said Poleszak, who recently made a significant gift to the Transforming Lives campaign to establish the Leonard and Jean Poleszak International Travel Scholarship Fund. "It's a place that deserves support."
After graduating from Lafayette High School in Buffalo, Poleszak returned to Buffalo State as a college student with the goal of becoming a kindergarten teacher.
"I started college in 1946, which was a marvelous time to be in school," said Poleszak, who was a member of the Kappa Delta Pi honor society and the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. "The war had ended, there were lots of vets coming back to campus, and everyone shared the proud feeling that we had just made the world safe for democracy. It was a very upbeat, happy place to be."
Poleszak's happiness grew exponentially during her senior year when she started dating Len Poleszak, who was working on his master's degree at the University of Buffalo. The two married in 1952.
After graduation, Poleszak, who had taken classes in exceptional education at Buffalo State, traveled to Michigan State to work in a summerlong program for the visually impaired. "When I showed up with 'Buffalo State Education Department' on my résumé, they said, 'Oh, you're from Buffalo State; you have one of the best teacher education programs in the country!" said Poleszak. "I didn't realize that our school's reputation had spread that far."
With excellent credentials, Poleszak was hired to teach at a school in Ithaca. She then taught in Randolph and, after years at home raising three children, went back to teach kindergarten at Spruce Elementary in North Tonawanda.
Meanwhile, upon returning from two years of service in the Korean War, Len Poleszak accepted a position teaching industrial arts at Buffalo State. He eventually served as chair of the Professional Studies Department. During the 1970–1971 academic year, Len and Jean directed students in the college's Siena (Italy) study-abroad program, taking along their own children, who were 11, 12, and 14 at the time. Jean homeschooled the kids, and the family traveled around Europe every weekend with the students from Buffalo State.
Len, who retired in 1983 and passed away in 2009, served as one of the early presidents of the Buffalo State College Foundation and as a liaison to the Alumni Association.
"Len and I were always very connected to Buffalo State. We had so many friends there; we felt right at home," said Poleszak.


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Think of a typical game out today. It is made up of many different screens. Some games have an introduction that plays to introduce you to the game. There is usually a menu that you can use to select options. There is the game itself. A game might also have a high score screen to display the players with the highest score.
As games get larger it gets harder and harder to manage the different states of a game, especially if you are creating a complex game like a role playing game with lots of different screens that the player will interact with. Using a screen management, or scene management, system you can reduce the complexity of using multiple screens in your game. This tutorial will use the concept of XNA Game Components to implement a screen manager for your games. An XNA Game Component can be thought of as almost like a game inside your game. It has all of the methods that an XNA Game has, it only has visual elements if you create Drawable Game Component though.
If you look at the class definition of an XNA game you will see that it inherits from the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game class. Inheritance is an important concept in object-oriented programming. Using inheritance, a class that is derived from a base class can use the public, and in C# protected, methods, properties, and fields of the base class.
If you look at the methods of an XNA game they all contain they override keyword. This means that they are virtual methods that you override in your game. Virtual methods allow you to override, or change is a better word, the way the base class works. In an XNA game you are overriding the methods of the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game class which controls the way the game executes. It is in this overriding of the default behavior of the Game class that makes your game work.
What I am going to do in this tutorial is set up a simple menu that will allow you to scroll between various options in the menu. I will implement the switching between screens in the second part of this tutorial.
Go a head and create a new XNA game and you can call it whatever you would like. You are going to need a SpriteFont for the menu. SpriteFonts are XNA's way of drawing text in your game. Add a SpriteFont to your game by right clicking the Content folder, select Add and then select New Item. In the left pain make sure that XNA Game Studio is selected. Now choose SpriteFont and call it menufont.spritefont.
Now it is time to make the menu. I will use a DrawableGameComponent for this. Right click your game project in the solution explorer select Add and then New Item. Make sure that XNA Game Studio is selected on the left side. Select the GameComponent entry and call it MenuComponent. When you create the component a lot of code will be generated for you. There will be the default constructor for the component, an override of the Initialize method and an override of the Update method. I will be making a few changes to this. I will let you read the code and then explain the way that it works.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Net; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Storage; namespace ScreenManager { public class MenuComponent : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.DrawableGameComponent { string[] menuItems; int selectedIndex; Color normal = Color.White; Color hilite = Color.Yellow; KeyboardState keyboardState; KeyboardState oldKeyboardState; SpriteBatch spriteBatch; SpriteFont spriteFont; Vector2 position; float width = 0f; float height = 0f; public int SelectedIndex { get { return selectedIndex; } set { selectedIndex = value; if (selectedIndex < 0) selectedIndex = 0; if (selectedIndex >= menuItems.Length) selectedIndex = menuItems.Length - 1; } } public MenuComponent(Game game, SpriteBatch spriteBatch, SpriteFont spriteFont, string[] menuItems) : base(game) { this.spriteBatch = spriteBatch; this.spriteFont = spriteFont; this.menuItems = menuItems; MeasureMenu(); } private void MeasureMenu() { height = 0; width = 0; foreach (string item in menuItems) { Vector2 size = spriteFont.MeasureString(item); if (size.X > width) width = size.X; height += spriteFont.LineSpacing + 5; } position = new Vector2( (Game.window.ClientBounds.Width - width) / 2, (Game.window.ClientBounds.Height - height) / 2); } public override void Initialize() { base.Initialize(); } private bool CheckKey(Keys theKey) { return keyboardState.IsKeyUp(theKey) && oldKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(theKey); } public override void Update(GameTime gameTime) { keyboardState = Keyboard.GetState(); if (CheckKey(Keys.Down)) { selectedIndex++; if (selectedIndex == menuItems.Length) selectedIndex = 0; } if (CheckKey(Keys.Up)) { selectedIndex--; if (selectedIndex < 0) selectedIndex = menuItems.Length - 1; } base.Update(gameTime); oldKeyboardState = keyboardState; } public override void Draw(GameTime gameTime) { base.Draw(gameTime); Vector2 location = position; Color tint; for (int i = 0; i < menuItems.Length; i++) { if (i == selectedIndex) tint = hilite; else tint = normal; spriteBatch.DrawString( spriteFont, menuItems[i], location, tint); location.Y += spriteFont.LineSpacing + 5; } } } }
When you create a Game Component it is inherited from GameComponent. I changed this to inherit from DrawableGameComponent because I will be drawing the menu items in this component. I added eleven fields to the class. The first two, menuItems and selectedIndex, will hold the items for the menu and which item is currently selected. normal and hilite will be used in drawing the menu items. normal will be the color to draw the normal menu items and hilite will be the color to draw the currently selected menu item.
The KeyboardState fields keyboardState and oldKeyboardState will hold the current state of the keyboard and the state of the keyboard in the previous frame of the game. What I mean by frame is that an XNA game tries to call the Update and Draw methods as close to 60 times per second by default. Each call to the Update and Draw methods are considered a frame in the game. These fields will be used to detect single key presses of the Up and Down arrow keys.
The spriteBatch and spriteFont fields will be used for drawing the text of the menu. The SpriteBatch class has a method called DrawString that draws text on the window. Like I mentioned earlier you need a SpriteFont object to draw text with XNA. The last three fields, position, width, and height will be used to position the menu on the screen.
I truly do not like making fields inside a class public unless it is absolutely necessary. I will eventually need a way to get and set the selected menu item. I used a property for this called SelectedIndex. The get part of the property just returns the value of the selectedIndex field. The set property preforms a little validation on the value to set the selectedIndex field. It first sets selectedIndex to value, the value passed to the property. It then checks to see if selectedIndex is less than zero. If it is it then sets selectedIndex to zero. It then checks to make sure that selectedIndex is not greater than or equal to the length of the array. If it is it sets selectedIndex to be the length of the array minus 1.
The reason for these checks is that the menu items are stored in an array of strings. If you try to access an array element using a negative index you will get an array out of bounds exception. Similarly if you try and access an element greater than or equal to length of the array you will get the same exception.
The constructor for the class has four parameters: game, spriteBatch, spriteFont, and menuItems. The reason for the first one is that the class that GameComponents and DrawableGameComponents inherit from require a Game object. That is why there is a : base(game) after the right bracket. The constructor sets the spriteBatch, spriteFont, and menuItems fields. It then calls the MeasureMenu method that I wrote to measure the height and width of the menu. It will also center the menu on the screen.
The MeasureMenu method first sets the height and width fields to be zero. The reason is that they will be used to center the menu in the window. Each time this method is called you should reset the values so they will be set to the appropriate values.
In a foreach loop I then loop through the items in the menu. I get the size of the string using the MeasureString method of the SpriteFont class. This method returns a Vector2 with the X property being the width of the string and the Y property being the height of the string. If the X property of the size is greater than the width I set width to be the X property of the size. This is because to center the menu properly I need to know the width of the menu. To calculate the height of the menu I use the LineSpacing property of the SpriteFont class. If you think of a word processor. When you are typing and you go to the next line of text there is a little spacing between the lines of text. The LineSpacing property measures the distance from the start of the text to the start of the text on the next line. I also add an extra 5 pixels to space it out a little more.
Centering objects is something that you will come across frequently in programming, especially game programming. To center an object horizontally you take the width of what you want to center the object in, subtract the width of the object and divide that by two. So for the X property of the Vector2 that will hold the position of the menu I use the width of the window and the width of the largest menu item. Similarly for the height you take the height of what you are centering in, subtract the height of the object, and divide that by two. So for the Y property of the Vector2 of the position I take the height of the window, subtract the height of the menu, and divide that by two.
After the Initialize method, that I didn't do anything in because there was no need, is a method called CheckKey that accepts a Key parameter and returns true if the Key parameter has been pressed in the last frame and released in the current frame. Many people do this the opposite way, checking to see if it is down in the current frame and released in the last frame. This will lead to problems when working with menus. The reason is when you move from one menu to another the keyboard states could be in the same state causing the currently selected item in the next menu to be selected. You check to see if a key is currently up using the IsKeyUp method of the KeyboardState class passing in the key you are interested. Similarly to check if a key is down you use the IsKeyDown method passing in the key. In the first one the method returns true if the key is currently up, false otherwise. IsKeyDown returns true if the key is currently down and false if it is up.
The Update method is where I actually handle the moving of the selected menu item up and down using the Up and Down arrow keys. I first set the current state of the keyboard, keyboardState, to the current state of the keyboard using Keyboard.GetState. That reads the current state of the keyboard. I then I call the CheckKey method passing in the Down key. If the Down key was pressed I increase the selectedIndex field by 1. I check to make sure that it is not the length of the menu items. If it is I go to the first item in the causing the selected item to wrap from bottom to top. I then check to see if the Up key was pressed once. If it was I decrease the selectedIndex field by 1. If it is less than zero I set selectedIndex to be the number of items minus 1, the last item, causing the item to wrap from the top of the menu to the bottom. Before exiting the Update method I set the oldKeyboardState field to be keyboardState field so that in the next frame of the game I will have the current state of the keyboard and the last state of the keyboard.
The Draw method is where I draw the menu items on the screen. You maybe wondering why I am drawing things after the call to base.Draw(gameTime). The reason is that since I am using Game Components drawing after that call will cause this component to be drawn after other components. The reason is that the order of rendering objects in 2D is important. The last drawn objects will appear over top of previously drawn objects. If you draw the menu before the call to base.Draw(gameTime) it will be drawn over by other objects. You want the menu to appear on the top. You also maybe wondering why there is no call to the Begin and End methods of the SpriteBatch class. The reason is when you add a Game Component to the list of Game Components in the game, XNA will automatically call their Draw and Update methods when the base.Update and base.Draw methods are called in your game, if the components are enabled and visible. You will see further when I get to the Game1 class.
There are two local variables in this method: location and tint. location will hold where to draw the next line of the menu and is set initially to the position field that I calculated earlier. The tint variable will be used to determine what color to draw the text. There is a for loop that loops through all of the menu items. I used a for loop instead of a foreach loop so I could check if the index, i, is equal to selectedIndex. If i is equal to selectedIndex I set tint to hilite so the item will be hilited other wise I set tint to normal because it is regular text.
I used the DrawString method of the SpriteBatch class to draw the actual string. The overload that I used requires four parameters: the SpriteFont to draw the text with, the text to draw, the location to draw it, and the color to draw it.
To have the lines of the menu appear on different lines I add the LineSpacing property of the SpriteFont and 5 pixels to the Y property of the location variable. Just the same as I did in the MeasureMenu method. If you don't do it the same as you did there it won't be centered in the window.
Now I can implement a simple menu that you can scroll through the items of the menu in. At the moment it will not do anything else. Adding that in will make the tutorial longer than it already is. The first thing you will need to do is add a field to the Game1 class to hold the MenuComponent. Add the following field to your class just below the SpriteBatch field.
MenuComponent menuComponent;
Now you need to actually create a menu and add it to the list of components of the game. You will do that in the LoadContent method. What I did was create a string array with three entries in it: Start Game, High Scores, and End Game. After the spriteBatch field was created, because I need to pass it to the component, I created the component using the constructor passing in: this, spriteBatch, the sprite font, and the menuItems variable. The word this refers to the current Game object. spriteBatch is the current SpriteBatch object in use. I used the Content.Load method to load in the SpriteFont that was added to the game. I finally add the new MenuComponent to the list of components of the game. This is the code for the LoadContent method.
protected override void LoadContent() { string[] menuItems = { "Start Game", "High Scores", "End Game" }; spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice); menuComponent = new MenuComponent(this, spriteBatch, Content.Load<SpriteFont>("menufont"), menuItems); Components.Add(menuComponent); }
I didn't have to add anything into the Initialize, UnloadContent or Update methods. Because the component was added to the list of components of the game its Update method will automatically be called when base.Update is called.
In the Draw method I call the Begin method of the SpriteBatch class after the call to the Clear method which clears the window. Then there is the call to base.Draw so that all child components will be drawn and finally call the End method of the SpriteBatch class to stop drawing. This the code for the Draw method.
protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime) { GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue); spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.AlphaBlend); base.Draw(gameTime); spriteBatch.End(); }


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Solitaire Royale (FM-7)
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DescriptionThis was an early commercial instance of Card Solitaire. There are 8 different solitaire games, including Klondike, Calculation, and Three Shuffles and a Draw. You can also play "Aunt Anne's Tour" where you play all 8 in row, trying for the highest combined score, and 3 children's games. In addition, there are 10 different choices for deck art.
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InspirationA message from the developer Brad Fregger:
My dad inspired Solitaire Royale in this way. My folks were visiting us during the holiday season, 1986, and my dad loved to play cards. One night we promised to play with him, but my mother was playing Shanghai, she'd told us, "Just one more game!" My dad looked at me and said, "I'll never be addicted to a computer game!" The rest of the night all I could think of was what game could I create that would addict my dad? Then it dawned on me that he loved cards, I decided to put card solitaire on the computer (multi-player games were very difficult to sell at this time, so I knew poker wouldn't work...additionally, I wanted something simple, something that didn't need any AI...solitaire was the answer). I went to my publisher (Spectrum Holobyte) with the idea...and the rest is history...computer card solitaire ultimately became "the most played computer game in history." That's a quote from Microsoft.Terok Nor (27934) added Solitaire Royale (FM-7) on Jun 16, 2012Other platforms contributed by Rockin' Kat (2657), Kabushi (231101), Martin Smith (66827), Brad Fregger (178) and Mr Giggles (3961)
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Brazilian GP 2012
Friday Team Quotes
Red Bull-Renault
Sebastian Vettel (2nd, 1:14.300): "It was alright today, it was very slippery for everyone. It was quite hot today and in terms of track conditions not that easy, so I think everyone suffered the same kind of problems looking for traction and stability etc. So far we can be happy, we have to do our homework now, first comes tomorrow morning and we go from there."
Mark Webber (3rd, 1:14.523): "The track was slippery today, it's very hot. I think we're all a little bit surprised by the lack of grip we had, but we got what we could out of today in these conditions. We got through plenty of stuff and also did a bit of'13 work, which was useful. It's the last test before next year, so we made the most of the beautiful sunny day in Brazil, before we go to colder Jerez in February."
Lewis Hamilton (1st, 1:14.026): "I'm savouring every moment It's been a positive first day - I hope we can maintain our form or even progress it tomorrow. We're certainly looking strong, but this place can be so tough on tyres that it's hard to make any accurate predictions at this stage. The track and ambient temperatures were so high today that it felt almost as though I was sliding around the track with the tyres melting! Having said that, our long runs are usually tougher on the tyres [than shorter runs], but our long runs still looked quite good today. It's great to have such a positive final Friday with the team - it's been one of the best Fridays we've had for a long, long time, in fact. I'm savouring every moment of this weekend, and I'll be taking photographs of my engineers and mechanics through each day. The car feels really good - thanks, guys - and it would be the perfect Saturday if I could take pole tomorrow."
Jenson Button (8th, 1:14.863): "We were running a lower downforce set-up package to Lewis this afternoon. It was quite an interesting comparison, but, in the hot weather, lower downforce makes things trickier because the car slides more, which hurts the tyres. Still, it was a useful test, because we needed to see how well the smaller rear wing works. Obviously, it operates in a different way [from the higher-downforce set-up package], so we wanted to be able to understand that. Using the smaller rear wing, our long-run pace was surprisingly good. However, our single-lap pace wasn't as strong - probably because we weren't able to use DRS as fully as we could with the bigger wing."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team Principal: "Topping the time-sheets in both today's sessions was a nice fillip for the whole team, and it gives us great motivation to carry that momentum forward with us for the rest of the weekend. Indeed, our car appears to be competitive on both low- and high-fuel loads, and, as ever, I'm sure our hard-working engineers will once again mine the data this evening, further to refine our package ahead of FP3 and qualifying tomorrow. For Lewis, it must have been an emotional final Friday with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. But, as ever, he performed faultlessly. Jenson, too, has worked diligently with his engineers, following a divergent set-up route from Lewis's, and has given us plenty of useful data to work through this evneing. Finally, the decision to provide each team with 2013-spec Pirelli rubber was extremely useful. Many teams, ourselves included, took full advantage of the opportunity to measure and understand the new tyres' behaviour ahead of their introduction next year. It was an extremely productive day in terms of strengthening our understanding of a key performance variable. Now, though, our focus narrows towards qualifying: we expect strong competition from our key rivals, but we're in a good position to fight for pole, and victory, this weekend."
Felipe Massa (4th, 1:14.553): "A very busy Friday in terms of our work on track, with a lot of kilometres completed to find the best set-up for the car. I am reasonably pleased with my times, especially when it comes to pace over a long run: I think I was the fastest man on track in the final part of the session. On my first lap with the Mediums, I lost a few tenth at the second corner, so, in terms of an outright time, I could have done even better than fourth place. The tyres are the same, but their performance is completely different to what we saw in Austin last week: definitely degradation is much higher here and so I don't think we will see a one-stop strategy. The helmet? It's odd not seeing anything yellow in the mirrors to the extent that sometimes I thought it wasn't me at the wheel!"
Fernando Alonso (5th, 1:14.592): "It was very hot out on the circuit today and, especially this afternoon, the track temperatures were well above normal, even for this circuit. We have not yet found the ideal balance on the car, so there is still a lot of work to be done with the engineers going into the rest of the weekend. The predictions are for very different conditions from Saturday to Sunday, further reason to concentrate on the best choices when it comes to preparing the car for qualifying, but especially for the race. After so many Fridays, there is nothing much new to say about the tyres: the Hards appear to be more consistent, while the Mediums produce a quicker lap time. It's hard to say if we prefer rain or the dry: as I said before, it is vital to be prepared to tackle both situations. We know we have to score 14 points more than Vettel for the Championship and not lose the same number to McLaren to maintain our second place in the Constructors'. Our targets are clear, but also difficult to achieve."
Pat Fry: "We have reached the very tight finale and today it was important that we managed to complete our entire planned programme: we did it and that is already a first, if small positive step. We worked this morning on evaluating various aerodynamic solutions, while in the afternoon, we concentrated mainly on a comparison of the two types of tyre brought here by Pirelli. It's alway difficult to assess the hierarchy in the pit lane on a Friday and today was not different. From what we can see a few minutes after the end of the session, we can say that we are reasonably competitive, especially over a long run. We are well aware that, in order to reach our objectives, first and foremost we will need to be perfect in everything we do and be ready to exploit whatever opportunity might come our way. It's not just the Drivers' title that's up for grabs, as there is also a second place in the Constructors' classification which is actually something quite important for us."
Mercedes GP
Michael Schumacher (6th, 1:14.654): "It was a reasonably good day, and we kept working on our planned programme. However, the predictions for Sunday at the moment are for rain, so there may be totally different conditions then. We therefore have to see what we can make of today's data and transform it into a good qualifying and, even better, a good race."
Nico Rosberg (7th, 1:14.669): "It was a decent Friday for us today. There were difficult conditions out there because of the high track temperatures and the altitude which made it hard to find grip. However we managed quite well and, especially on the long runs, the pace was good. So I hope we can do better here than in the previous races. But it will be tough for us, and our focus is still on learning and understanding for 2013."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal: "We had a pretty good final Friday of the season today. We had the 2013 development tyres from Pirelli to work with and spent this morning going through a series of evaluations. It was a good session and we collected a lot of interesting data. This afternoon, we focused on race preparation and high fuel work. The car seems fairly well balanced and the tyres for this weekend proved consistent despite the high track temperatures. There is speculation that Sunday will be very wet so it may prove futile, but we've completed a large part of our preparation if it remains dry."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "A smooth and decent first day for us at this last Grand Prix of the 2012 season. During the first session, we had our first experience with the Pirelli tyres for the 2013 season. In the second session this afternoon, our lap times looked quite consistent during our race simulations. The weather forecast predicts rain for Sunday and slightly cooler temperatures tomorrow than we experienced today when track temperatures reached about 50 degrees. If the forecast is right, everybody will have to handle different conditions than experienced today."
Romain Grosjean (9th, 1:14.994): "It was a very hot and sunny day which wasn't so easy for the tyres as it was difficult to get them to work properly so we struggled a little bit. Speed was not especially easy to find today, but we ran through our normal programme with a little bit of focus on a wet set-up as we know there's rain forecast for Sunday. We only ran a little with the 2013 tyres in the morning; my initial impression is that they feel a bit better and you can notice they have a different construction. Our long run pace was good so let's see what we can do tomorrow."
Kimi Raikkonen (12th, 1:15.371): "We had a problem in the morning but it's just one of those things; you don't want it to happen, but it's not the end of the world. It's unfortunate it took a while to fix as we missed time on track. Other than that, it was a very normal Friday for us. It was quite difficult to find a good set-up so we tried quite a few things. Tricky is usually the way for our Friday's and we've always been able to find a better set-up for Saturday so that's exactly what we'll try to do for tomorrow."
Alan Permane, Chief Race Engineer: "We've had an encouraging start to the weekend. Although Kimi's track time in FP1 was restricted, Romain completed some interesting back-to-back comparison runs with Pirelli's 2013 development tyre which looks to be a few tenths quicker than the current configuration even on this year's car. Kimi had some catching up to do in the afternoon and struggled initially on the prime tyres, but with a few balance tweaks to accommodate the soaring track temperatures and his engine now running as it should he settled down to put in some decent runs. The track temperature was around ten degrees higher than in the morning - one of the hottest Friday's we've seen all year in fact - and therefore yielded less grip. Despite this however, our long run pace with Romain looked very competitive. We also ran differing setups in anticipation of a potentially dry qualifying, wet race scenario, so there's a lot of data to look at overnight but overall we're pretty pleased."
Force India-Mercedes
Paul di Resta (10th, 1:15.129): "I think we can feel quite positive about today. It was all pretty straightforward and the data looks quite encouraging. The hot conditions were tricky for everyone and the car was moving around quite a bit, but we've ended the day with a pretty sorted car that is working well in the low and high speed parts of the lap. I'm certainly feeling more confident with the car compared to recent races and I think we are looking reasonably competitive here."
Nico Hulkenberg (11th, 1:15.131): "You certainly felt the heat today and the car was quite loose and difficult to drive at times. Apart from that it was business as usual - doing the long runs and getting the tyre data. We also had an extra set of the 2013 tyres available this morning so it was interesting to get a taste for them and do a direct comparison with this year's tyres. It's difficult to judge where we stand at the moment, but we have all the information we need, so it's just a case of trying to understand things more tonight to be ready for tomorrow."
Jakob Andreasen, Chief Engineer: "Two productive practice sessions today have left us well prepared going into the weekend. There were some aero test items on the cars this morning and we also had a chance to sample the 2013 development tyres. That proved extremely valuable and we made the most of the opportunity to try and get a head-start on next year. In the afternoon the temperatures continued to rise, with the track reaching a high of 55žC - one of the highest peaks we have seen all year - and the drivers said the car was sliding around quite a lot, as you would expect in such conditions. More warm weather is forecast for tomorrow, unless the rain arrives, and there is also a high risk of rain on Sunday."
Sergio Perez (14th, 1:15.542): "It was a good day in terms of getting done everything that was on the programme. We did a fair amount of work, but the heat just doesn't suit us. I found the car very difficult to drive this afternoon and I think some big changes are required. The difference between the two tyre compounds is really marginal. Let's see how we can improve."
Kamui Kobayashi (15th, 1:15.839): "We did a lot of set up work today and also tested some aerodynamic items. We had a busy day, but performance wise we are not good yet. Because of the high track temperatures the rear tyres overheated. The lap times were slower in the afternoon than in the morning. The rear is really weak and so far I don't know how to cool the tyres. We will now work on that."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "With regard to today's programme, everything went well including the evaluation of Pirelli's tyres for next year. That was important for the 2013 car design. With regard to this weekend, we will have a long night ahead of us as we are struggling with the grip, but we have collected a lot of data regarding down force levels and set up. Now we just have to put it all together to understand where we can find performance and hopefully to be where we want to be tomorrow."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Daniel Ricciardo (16th, 1:15.902): "We must try and learn from today, but we have to bear in mind that the conditions could be very different when it really matters on Sunday. The two sessions could have been better, but hot conditions have not been the most suitable ones for us this year. All the same, we tried various different set-ups, splitting the work between me and Jev to learn as much as we could. It's going to be a long night trying to evaluate everything and then see what the weather does. In performance terms it would have been nice to do better, but in terms of knowledge I think we gained a lot. The 2013 tyres? They felt a little bit different, but nothing dramatic. Let's say we didn't find any negatives with them."
Jean-Eric Vergne (18th, 1:16.048): "I don't have much to say as we seemed to struggle a lot today to get the car working properly. That was mainly linked to the high temperature which did not suit us and made life hard for the tyres. We will have to work very hard tonight to come up with ways of improving the car for qualifying, even if we expect Sunday's race to be a wet one. Rain would definitely suit us better. We had some 2013 tyres to try and we had some sensors fitted this morning to see what they did. It's interesting to see for next year as the shape of the tyre is slightly different which will have an impact on the aero."
Laurent Mekies, Chief Engineer: "Quite a tough day for us, which was not unexpected as we know we find things a bit more difficult when the conditions are as hot as this - the track temperature reached 54 degrees today - and this year we have always suffered a little bit more than our competitors in these conditions. On the plus side, it has been a trouble free day, during which we tried various changes to try and find the right set up. Even though it is meant to stay hot tomorrow, I feel we can improve the car and then we are expecting a wet Sunday anyway. It was interesting to have both drivers run the 2013 tyres that Pirelli supplied to all the teams here. We got some useful data for next year, therefore it was important to invest some of our track time in this exercise in both sessions."
Bruno Senna (13th, 1:15.432): "It was quite a tough session today as we didn't get as much information as we would have liked for tomorrow. We've got some work to do to understand how we can do things better to make sure we're competitive for tomorrow, as the grid is very close here. It's very hot today but it was great to see all my home fans out there, even with sweat in my eyes!"
Pastor Maldonado (17th, 1:15.953): "The car felt good today; we were alternating the strategy between the two sessions, as we were trying different things, which meant we lost a bit of performance against this morning. However, I think we'll be competitive in qualifying tomorrow. We just need to work through the data to get the set-up right, but I feel confident heading into tomorrow."
Valtteri Bottas: "Today were predominantly doing some tests for next year which mainly involved doing short runs just to gather data. It was interesting to feel the difference on the new 2013 tyres and we will now go away and analyse the data from FP1. The last run was slightly busy with traffic but it's great to experience this track for the first time as it was really enjoyable to drive."
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "We completed a very busy FP1 programme in the morning testing the 2013 prototype tyres and some development items. With the very high track temperatures and track evolution it was difficult to find a decent balance, especially in FP2. The weather still looks like it will play a big part in the race on Sunday so we need to keep the changeable weather conditions in mind as we prepare for tomorrow's qualifying."
Vitaly Petrov (19th, 1:16.126): "I think we made some good progress in both sessions and I'm reasonably pleased with where we ended up. In the morning session we ran both the development tyre and the prime we have for this weekend and have a lot of very good data from both. We also tried a couple of different aero configurations which gives us options for this weekend, particularly bearing in mind the chance of bad weather on Sunday. In the afternoon we were looking at fine tuning the setup on long and short runs - we have more to do to get the best out of the harder of the two compounds but the car felt pretty good on the options and we can get even more out of them for the rest of the weekend. One thing that was immediately clear was how high tyre deg is going to be here. It's completely different to last week in Austin where one stop was the obvious choice - if it's dry here on Sunday it's much more likely to be two or three stops so tyre management is going to be key."
Heikki Kovalainen (20th, 1:16.655): "Having sat out FP1 I was back in the car for the afternoon session and it was important to get as much mileage completed as possible. We went through the usual program, focusing on tyre usage and setups on different fuel loads and I think it went ok. It's a shorter lap here in Brazil than quite a few of the other circuits, but our times looked ok relative to the cars around us and with some more work tonight and tomorrow we should be ok both for qualifying and the race on Sunday."
Giedo van der Garde: "That was a really good way to sign off my 2012 FP1 sessions for sure. We got through a decent number of laps and I have to say I enjoyed myself today! The track is great, especially with the 2013 development tyres I was on for the first couple of runs, and it's good to know I've helped the team get through a lot of work that will be really valuable this weekend. I thanked the guys at the end of the session for today and for all the work they've done to help me this season. I've really enjoyed working with them this year and I feel like I've learnt a lot and developed well. Now it's back to the normal race weekend plan and I hope it's a good one for the team."
Pedro de la Rosa (21st, 1:17.244): "This is an amazing circuit and really fun to drive. We found a good set up base from the beginning but it would have been better to do many more laps and long run simulations to fine-tune it in order to get a better use of the tyres. We have a lot of work to do mainly on the rear end because traction is still pretty poor. Today's times may not be quite representative, as we haven't worked on full loaded configuration but, on a positive note, the car worked very well on the medium tyres and I am confident that we can improve on the hard compound for tomorrow."
Narain Karthikeyan (24th, 1:18.139): "The circuit is exactly how I remembered it. It is very nice and flowing and there are a lot of nice corners, which makes it quite enjoyable to drive around. It was a difficult day because we couldn't do many laps and we didn't get the most out of the option tyres as I got a lot of traffic on my flying laps at the end of the session. I have to say that the car balance has been pretty good from the start and we managed to improve it slightly throughout the sessions. We certainly have room for improvement, though. Rear tyre degradation is still too high and we must improve traction so that's where we are going to mainly focus for tomorrow."
Luis Perez-Sala, Team Principal: "It has been a first positive day overall; much better than in Austin. Here we don't have any issues with getting the tyres up to temperature. On the contrary, temperatures have been very high and I think everyone struggled with tyre degradation. We need to take a step forward to improve this as well as traction, especially on the hard compound. This track seems to suit our car better and hopefully we can do a good qualifying tomorrow. Once again, I want to thank the whole team for the job they are doing here in Brazil despite the circumstances."
Timo Glock (22nd, 1:17.675): "It has been a difficult start to the weekend to be honest. As usual it's all about the tyres and we are experiencing a bit of a different behaviour here again. We had quite a bit of oversteer in the car this morning, which was slightly better for FP2. However, at the end of the day we were still struggling with the balance of the car. Overall we concentrated more on race pace and didn't do much for qualifying yet, so we have some work to do tonight when we will try to improve the car and, I hope, make it a bit quicker!"
Charles Pic (23rd, 1:18.127): "The day started well for me as I completed some aerodynamic testing whilst acclimatising to one last new circuit for me. This afternoon we were focusing rather more on set-up work and the behaviour of the tyres in race-representative conditions. We were not able to get a good read of the option tyre and then unfortunately, towards the end of the session, I had to pull off the track as we experienced an alternator problem. I'm pleased with my long run pace but we have some more work to do to improve our qualifying pace."
John Booth, Team Principal: "A very interesting first day of running at the final race weekend of the season. The work we were able to do this morning with the Pirelli PZero prototype tyre was extremely useful and the information we gathered from that will be fed straight into the development cycle so that we can work on the set-up for winter testing. Timo did a great job with carrying out most of the evaluation work, while we tried to give Charles the opportunity to learn what is another new circuit for him. This afternoon we opted to stay with running the programme which evaluated the tyres in the eventuality of a dry race. Although this seems slightly at odds with the weather forecast, since there were no wet conditions today this is the only thing we could prepare for. We are reasonably happy with the performance of the car on high fuel, although we do seem to be experiencing some quite specific tyre issues at this event. We need to look a little more at our low fuel pace and that's what we will be focusing on this evening."