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If the scariest man in the NFL isn't Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis, it might be Denver quarterback Peyton Manning.
Irk them at your own risk.
Both Manning and Lewis are champions. The Pro Football Hall of Fame has space reserved for both players. Both men are so fiercely intense competitors, their stares alone can melt a teammate's soul.
Take your pick: Lewis or Manning. Which guy would you be smarter to tick off?
"Well … I don't know," Denver wide receiver Brandon Stokley said. "I think I wouldn't want to make either one of them mad. On the football field, they're both the type of player that seems like the madder they get, the better they play."
Consider yourself warned from a man with first-hand experience. When Stokley entered the league in 1999, he joined Lewis in Baltimore. From 2003-2006, Stokley caught passes from Manning in Indianapolis.
The NFL casting department portrays quarterbacks as brainier than Stephen Hawking and linebackers as tougher than Dirty Harry.
Lewis, however, is one smart football player. And, when irritated, Manning can flash such an intimidating yippee-ki-yay glare that you know he watched "Die Hard" growing up.
Is it really fair to compare a linebacker to a quarterback?
"He reminds me of Peyton," Stokley said. "He raises the level of everybody's play up."
And heaven help the teammate who doesn't meet the requirements of Manning or Lewis.
"You won't be on that team very long," Stokley said.
Time and again this week, Denver players have uttered the word "physical" when paying respect to the Ravens. It's a Baltimore calling card, established nearly two decades ago by Lewis, whose intensity is contagious.
"Put your hands on 'em and let's play!" Lewis growls to a defensive teammate before kickoff in a classic NFL video. "Let's see if they can play physical football!"
Across sports, from Michael Jordan to Patrick Roy to Lance Armstrong, there seems to be one trait shared among superstars more often than any single physical attribute. It's an almost unhealthy obsession with winning.
What Manning and Lewis share is respect born of an intensity that's rare even among that prime cut of athletes in the 99.9 percentile at the top of their game.
"His intensity and passion, it's real. I've always kind of kidded: Ray is just as intense and passionate in the fourth quarter of the fourth preseason game as he is in the first quarter of a playoff game," Manning said. "It's real. That's pretty special and that's pretty unique. Some guys can turn it on in big games. He always has it on."
Lewis is 37 years old. You know he's heard the whispers. One of the greatest linebackers of all time is done. After tearing a triceps in late October, he is desperately trying to get back on the field for this game against the Broncos, with playoff seeding on the line.
At age 36, Manning has returned Denver to relevancy in the Super Bowl discussion and made a strong argument as a MVP candidate. His pain from being cut by the Colts was a real as anything endured through four neck surgeries that put his playing career at risk.
The NFL star with whom Manning seems forever linked is Tom Brady. They have instigated a million barstool debates: Which quarterback would you take?
But maybe the real rivalry here is offense against defense.
Manning vs. Lewis.
I pity the fool who steps between them.
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Yup, a whopping $12.2 million between the three of them. Way to break the bank, Steinbrenner.
Regardless, the Galaxy have been criticized for essentially trying to buy a title, and good for them because it finally paid off. Led by their Big 3, the Galaxy defeated the Houston Dynamo by a ridiculous 1-0 to win the MLS Cup, as millions of Americans finally caved and bowed down to their new soccer gods. Or they probably watched "Family Guy." One or the other.
But the big winner was David Beckham, who came to the U.S. as a poor, unknown British man looking to make it in America and fulfill his dream of being a footballer on the world's biggest stage. Accompanied by his demure, modest wife, Victoria, David has been the epitome of hard work and perseverance as he has shied away from the public spotlight and simply been a man of the people.
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Consolidation instruments (increases in particular taxes and cuts in specific spending areas) can be ranked according to their effects on short- and long-term growth, income distribution and current accounts, with the rankings taking into account country circumstances. Based on these rankings, illustrative consolidation packages to optimise the side-effects of consolidation on other policy objectives can be drawn up for each country. The packages are based on using instruments sequentially, and within reasonable limits, starting from the most desirable and moving down the ranking until consolidation needs are satisfied. Based on this approach, half of OECD countries appear to be in a position to fulfil their short- to medium-term consolidation needs entirely through instruments that are well ranked (that is to say ranked in the top half). This suggests that, in these countries, well-designed consolidation packages can avoid severe adverse side effects on growth, equity and current account imbalances.
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The Chef's Kitchen Tour stops at some of the city's finest restaurants, including Magnolia's, Blossom, Tristan and Cypress - home to 2012 James Beard Award-nominated chef Craig Diehl. This Friday morning tour takes guests behind the scenes to chat with the chefs, learn a few lessons on Lowcountry cuisine and sample some of the most popular menu items. With so many great places to dine in Charleston, the tour can help you decide where to make dinner reservations and what to order as you see what chefs are putting on the menu.
A highlight of my visit to Charleston included dinner with friends at Husk, home to James Beard Award-winning chef Sean Brock. We knew this was an epicenter for Southern cuisine making food news nationwide when we ran into Napa Valley chef Michael Chiarello and his wife on their way to the bar. Brock's menu at Husk reads like a map of South Carolina, listing locations and names of local purveyors, farmers and fishermen such as my dinner choice: red grouper from Mark Mahefka, Geechie boy eggplant, wood-fired South Carolina peaches and chanterelles.
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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, April 7
Wednesday's recommended picks
Miguel Cabrera, 1B, Tigers
.889 AVG (8-for-9) lifetime vs. Royals starter Luke Hochevar
Mark Teixeira, 1B, Yankees
.364 AVG (12-for-33) since '05 vs. Red Sox starter John Lackey
Todd Helton, 1B, Rockies
.455 AVG (5-for-11) since '05 vs. Brewers starter Doug Davis
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
Even with slightly less than half of MLB's teams in action last night, BTS users showed a deft touch when it came to making their picks.
Fourteen of the 15 Top players selected whacked at least one hit, with only Stephen Drew (0-for-5) coming up short.
Clearly, BTS participants are already in midseason form. Now, it's just a matter of sustaining that form through the coming weeks. For the huge pack tied atop the leaderboard, it's three down and 54 to go!
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Derek Jeter (NYY): 13.0%, 1-for-5
2. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 11.2%, 1-for-3
3. Joe Mauer (MIN): 9.0%, 1-for-4
4. Chone Figgins (SEA): 6.8%, 1-for-4
5. Evan Longoria (TB): 5.9%, 1-for-4
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Hey all,
My third season playing this. So far 2-2. I'm employing a new strategy this year and am curious to hear opinions.
I typically look at matchups where there is a good team playing an absolutely terrible one and choose a player off the good team. This got me at my all-time best last year of 35 games before I blew it and strayed off course and picked a slugger who took the golden sumbrero that day.
I tend to stay away from the big power hitters because they are so streaky. If you get lucky and catch one at the beginning of a hot streak, you can ride him for a good two weeks.
Any thoughts?
Well I usually don't pick the big sluggers either, simply because knowing that they are going for the big fly automatically makes me assume they aren't willing to just "get on base" late in a game. My favorite strategy is choosing about 4 or 5 players who hit for good avg. and rotate, if one doesnt get a hit one day, i'm sure to pick that player the following day, because he is more than likely to get a hit. Good Luck!
Sounds like a good plan, this has go to be the hardest fantasy game out there to win. You can have a strategy, but alot of it is luck and all you can do is hope for the best. Each year I've been playing ( i started from the beginning ) my best streaks have got up 1 game each year haha.. last year i hit 29.. hope to hit 30.. but even then your still a huge 27 games away from the encholota. Even Ichiro goes 2 games without getting a hit.. so if it can happen to our games best hitter it can happen to anyone.
I have alot of fun with this, I'll take guys in the games I'm watching alot of the time. If you actually think you can win the 3 million you are out of your mind. I took Ryan Braun today, because it gives me something to do at work. Go Milwaukee! Hhaha
I'm from Toronto.. Texas is starting Harden who is a huge strike out pitcher but hes not the pitcher he once was.. take Aaron Hill. In a high scoring game in Texas.
I took Carlos Gonzales against the Brew Crew
Nice to see guys sharing ideas. Keep the thoughts coming.
We can help each other with this dialogue.
Here is my tip of the day:
Stay away from Chi Sox v. Indians
This is a night game in Chicago Wed. 4/7/10.
Raining, temp at game time in the 40's – not a hitters day to say the least.
I'm a Cub fan so I have Chicago info. I will pass info on the blog. Please do the same for your city/team.
Good Luck to all,
it is fun to play and so hit or miss at the same time. Based on last year, i see many patterns and techniques that people use but no one seems to even come close.
As easy as you think it is, it's that hard as well. Yes there are many great hitters in baseball but no one gets a hit every game.
What are the chances that Todd Helton plays in the Colorado game?
well it looks like the 2 picks on the blog have already came through! Braun and Gonzalez! 🙂 Man this game is easy LOL nottt
this is my fifth season to play and i find it fun to watch who picked who. i do not have any particular way to pick a player though i do look at who the site recommends, sometimes i like it and sometimes i go somewhere else.
sometimes looking at the whos hot and whos not also works.
its going to be a fun season, best of luck to everyone who is playing.
maybe someone here should start a group so that all of us who post or read the blog can be in the same group
My strategy which got me a 43 game streak last year is to 1) pick a few days in advance to make sure I don't get shut out or forget to make a pick on any single day. 2) I take a look at individual hitting vs. starting pitching matchups and select a player that has good results against the starting pitcher he is facing that day (usually .400 or better with more than 7/8 at bats against the pitcher). I also take into account a hitter's current hot/cold streak, how he has fared against the opposing team during his career. 3) I try to stay away from picking the same hitter in more than 2 consecutive games.
Did you guys notice Mauer's numbers against Santana and in Anaheim. He hit .500 against Santana in Anaheim last year and is hitting .538 in his career against Santana and that is my pick for tonight.
Is Todd Helton hurting? He pinch hit and went 0 – 1?
Does anyone know?
DRAGBUNT, im guessing that Helton didnt get the start because it was a day game after a night game…
Miguel Cabrera goes 0-for3 then in his last at bat battles the KC all star reliever and on the tenth pitch of the bat, hits a home run. 40 people that i know of picked Cabrera, and that was only after looking at the first seven pages of leaders……………
I had Cabrera tonight.
I'm at a 3 game streak so far and hoping to get to 4 tonight.
All I want to do is win among the Levi Ghetto Cats. There are four in our league. Last season's champion won with a streak of 15. Two others tied for second with 11. Our fourth-place player had 10. My secondary goal is to win $3 million.
My hitting streak is at 4 with Pujols tomorrow who kills Arroyo so things are looking up right now.
Amazing how this game is simple yet so hard to win.
I doubt Mlb even realized how hard it was for someone to win this game when they created it.
The prize the first year for winning wasn't even money. It was a trip to the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
I bet they never would have assumed that after so many seasons of playing there would still be no winner.
Hopefully someone will win this year. 🙂
Is anyone else having trouble connecting to Beat The Streak??
Click the MLB.com Beat The Streak link at the top of this page, then click on Already Playing? Log in > and tell me if it works. Doesn't for me.
BTLE- I often say the same thing. Who would have thunk–especially with hitters like Ichiro and Mauer–this game was so great?
If only we weren't such a puritan dominated society, and betting of all kinds were legal, this is one of those games that would take in TONS of cash for MLB. I'd love to see interesting games like this all over the place.
Tomorrow, its Mauer by a long shot for me. Thanks Uts for tonight. Go Phils.
-the wizz
So its just me who can't sign in and make a pick??


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Devers, the Red Sox's No. 11 prospect according to MLB.com, went 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, a walk and three RBIs.
As a 16-year old, Devers was ranked No. 6 on MLBPipeline.com's Top 30 International Prospects list a year ago. Scouts believed he was the most advanced left-handed hitter on the international market and the Red Sox signed him for $1.5 million out of the Dominican Republic on Aug. 9, 2013.
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Four decades after releasing his first album with Roxy Music, the singer sets aside his microphone and surveys his career from a 1920s point of view – aging in reverse, in a way. The period-style arrangements are performed by an octet led by Ferry's longtime accomplice, pianist Colin Good. The ensemble incorporates the signature sounds of the era, right down to the clarinets, bass saxophones, banjos and ukuleles. Every period detail is in place, even the straw hats and flappers depicted in French artist Paul Colin's cover art.
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Brian O'Driscoll holds the record for the most Test captaincies © PA Photos
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In this edition, John looks at Brian O'Driscoll's Test captaincy record, beating World Cup holders, Ellis Park's name, John Hayes and early fullback Test tries.
Does Brian O'Driscoll hold the world record for Test captaincies and if not how close is he to the record? Barry, Ireland
Brian O'Driscoll became the world's record-holder when he led Ireland in the third Test against New Zealand in Hamilton last month. That was his 83rd Test as Ireland's captain (equalling John Smit's record for South Africa).
O'Driscoll, who first captained Ireland in the autumn internationals of 2002 (standing in for Keith Wood), has also led the British/Irish Lions in one Test: against New Zealand at Christchurch in 2005. He has therefore captained Test sides a world-record 84 times.
Further to your list of wins by reigning world champions, which country has the most wins against a reigning world champion? Hayj, New Zealand
The following sides have beaten Rugby World Cup winners:
1987-1991 when New Zealand were champions
1991-1995 when Australia were champions
1995-1999 when South Africa were champions
1999-2003 when Australia were champions
2003-2007 when England were champions
2007-2011 when South Africa were champions
2011 - with New Zealand as champions
New Zealand with 24 wins have the best record against reigning world champions followed by Australia (19) and South Africa (10). France lead the Five Nations with eight successes, England have seven, Ireland six and Wales three. Scotland have two wins and Argentina one. The Lions have won four Tests against world champion sides but only one Test series: against the Springboks in 1997.
What is the original of the "Ellis" in Ellis Park, South Africa's Johannesburg base? John Stevens, England
The ground isn't named after William Webb Ellis but a Mr Ellis who, many years ago, fought Johannesburg's city council when they wanted to convert the site of children's playing field into buildings. At length the Transvaal Rugby Union moved there during the 1920s when their former HQ at the (old) Wanderers ground was appropriated for the construction of Johannesburg's mainline railway terminus.
The Transvaal RU were compelled to retain the "playground" aspect which is why it was developed with additional cricket, tennis and Olympic-standard swimming facilities. It staged its inaugural rugby Test during the 1928 series against the All Blacks who won 7-6 there in front of 38,000.
The 'Boks got their revenge (12-6) on the 1949 All Blacks there, and in 1955 a then-world record crowd of 95,000 for a rugby match watched the British/Irish Lions win a pulsating first Test 23-22 on the ground.
All told, the Springboks have played 44 Tests at Ellis Park, won 31, drawn two (both against the Lions) and lost 11.
John Hayes was only red carded once in his career © Getty Images
How many times was John Hayes red-carded during his career? D O'Sullivan, England
The former Ireland prop led a remarkably disciplined career. In more than a hundred games at the highest level for the Lions and Ireland, 212 competitive matches for Munster and countless senior club matches for Bruff and Shannon he was dismissed only once.
His red-card came on October 3 2009 playing for Munster in a Magners League match against their old rivals, Leinster, at the RDS. He was dismissed for careless use of the boot at a collapsed maul after referee Simon McDowell had taken advice from his touch-judge.
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The law change became universal in September 1968 and revolutionised full-back play. Before then, the full-back's duties were to tackle, field kicks ahead and kick into touch. The ball could be kicked direct to touch from any part of the ground before the new law was introduced.
Tries by full-backs were extremely rare at Test level. William Penny (for England against Ireland in 1878) and Tom Fry (for England against Scotland in 1880) were the first full-backs to score tries in internationals but it was not until 1934 that Vivian Jenkins became the first to score in a Championship match. He crossed in Wales's victory against Ireland at Swansea.
The next full-back try in the Championship was by France's Claude Lacaze against Ireland in Paris in 1962 and the last was arguably the most famous before the law change. It was scored by 18-year-old Keith Jarrett on his debut for Wales against England at Cardiff in 1967.
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Sounds of gunfire were heard; Charles Mack located nearby
Police arrested a Sacramento woman after she barricaded herself inside her home and fired a number of shots, officers said late Wednesday afternoon.
Stacey Curnow, 34, faces two charges: Discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner, and drawing and exhibiting a firearm in the presence of a police officer, according to a brief statement from the Sacramento Police Department.
No one was ever in the house with Curnow, police said. She surrendered peacefully about 6:40 p.m.
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A San Diego community college shows how schools can use the federal stimulus to help California climb out of the recession and put people back to work.
MiraCosta College received $400,000 in federal stimulus money to purchase two hybrid vehicles -- which it's using for a one-of-a-kind program designed to teach mechanics how to repair hybrid cars. That's a skill that could help unemployed mechanics land jobs.
Linda Kurokawa, the school's director of Community Services and Business Development, developed the program after grant administrators encouraged her to come up with something that would be forward thinking and organic, a program that could start out small and then becomes self-sustaining after the grant money runs out.
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Most of the mechanics that work on hybrid technology are trained by dealerships to work on particular types of cars, she says. This class teaches the students how to repair at least two types of hybrid technology.
"For working on this type of vehicle, everything is specific," Carl Ladd, a student in the program, told the North County Times. "You can't just go out and buy what you would consider an equal replacement from Kragen."
The course accepts underemployed students like Ladd, who works at a gas station on Camp Pendleton, or those who are unemployed. It's not a beginner's course -- applicants have to pass a basic mechanics skills test first.
The grant will pay to put 120 students through the course. The program is operated by the San Diego Workforce Partnership, and only accepts San Diego residents as students. When the funding runs out, the college will need to find resources to continue the class -- which means they'll likely open it up to eveyrone and start charging a fee.
With California's unemployment rate at 13%, this is a program that can help reduce the growing jobless numbers -- and other schools across the state can learn from.
"It's a start," says Alan Gin, economics professor at the University of San Diego. "What's happened in this downturn, there is this massive restructuring in the economy. (Certain types of jobs) are not coming back. We need to get people where they can get new jobs of the future. We are not out of the woods yet, so anything along these lines would be helpful."


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text: 30 October 2013 Why Ann Summers' Halloween and Christmas kink is just another way of policing your sex life If you walk past Ann Summers' shop window at the moment, you'll get the distinct impression that, even if it's cold as a witch's tit outside, you can have a hot Halloween in the boudoir. So why does none of it actually feel that much fun? Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up In the countryside, it's easy to tell what time of year it is because of how the sheep are crying. Late winter: crying because they're giving birth. Late summer: crying because their lambs have been removed for slaughter. Rest of the time: just crying because they're sheep and they don't know what else to do. In the city, though, you have to look for different signs to mark the rhythm of life, and you'll find those signs in the window of Ann Summers. Whatever the festival, Ann Summers has a sexy get up to get you up for it. Right now that means that if you walk past the shop window, you'll get the distinct impression that, even if it's cold as a witch's tit outside, you can have a hot Halloween in the boudoir. All you need to do is invest in the correct confection of underwiring and lace scraps, and you could be trick or treating your way to ecstasy. And it's not just All Hallows' Eve that you can mark with some themed penetration. For Christmas, you can dress up as a Sexy Santa or Santa's Little Helper. Either one, I imagine, feels just as exciting after a day's slog in the kitchen followed by a turkey feast topped off with a heavy evening at the cheese board: what could be sexier, after all the planning and sweating, than yet more heavily planned sweating with your Celebrations-distended midriff framed between a red suspender skirt and Mrs Claus' fur-trimmed balconette? The Easter display generally consists of bunny girl-alike costumes and shopfront-appropriate allusions to the erogenous zone-busting vibrator known as the Rampant Rabbit. None of this calendar-appropriate kink feels like all that much fun, to be honest. For all the sexiness on show, you might as well tape two small fluffy wireframe chicks to your nipples as pasties and coat your mons in a melted Easter egg. The Ann Summers window displays are, I'm sure, supposed to be cheekily charming. What they feel like instead is one more harrying item on the bloody to-do list: carve the pumpkin, make the costumes for the kids if you have any (no, they won't be happy as a ghost), run to the corner shop for extra Haribo in case the trick-or-treaters come and then – then, when you've done all that! – slip into something mildly demonic for a bit of Satan-stirring action. Sex is a delightful thing. Dressing up too. But the leery gaze of the mass retail sex shop window is only asking you to see the insufficiencies in yourself and your relationships: are you getting enough, and is what you're getting sufficiently kinky? Maybe you should have more, or kinkier? And whether it's Christmas, Easter or Halloween, wouldn't right now be the perfect time to spring your newly accessorised libido on your partner? Like the drone of an overloud vibrator, the hum of contrived dissatisfaction drives into your bed and makes you think: maybe if I bought that erotic goop, that gadget, that scrap of eyelets and satin, maybe then I could be having all the sex I'm supposed to be having? The amount you're supposed to be having is, of course, the amount that makes you happy – give or take some adjustment for the happiness of whoever you're in a relationship with. There is no "enough times a year/week/night" figure that would allow you to declare yourself empirically satisfied – and even if there were, the adult toy vendors and the push-up pushers and the massage-oil slickers wouldn't want you to know what it is. They just want you to want more, so you'll buy more. There are companies whose business is in telling you you're not getting all the pleasure you need. Don't listen to them: your pleasure lies in knowing when you've got just the amount of business you want. › Motorola has been secretly planning an ambitious modular smartphone concept Ann Summers even has a display for National Nurses' Day. Image: Getty Sarah Ditum is a journalist who writes regularly for the Guardian, New Statesman and others. Her website is here. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month!


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Would you pay more money for items on eBay if they had interesting stories behind them? A group of writers has determined to find out, by selling objects on eBay that come with fictional alternate histories.
Among the participating authors are Matthew Battles, whose article on space travel we linked to the other day, as well as Susanna Breslin, Michelle Tea, Luc Sante, many more. They call their project Significant Objects. Each author buys a cheap trinket at a thrift store, invents a backstory for it, and then posts it on eBay. The opening bid price is exactly what they paid for it - usually just a few dollars. Most of the objects seem to be strange nick nacks, like a cow statue covered in red peppers or a plastic hot dog.
The project, conceived by io9 pal Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker, is only a few days old, so it's hard to say for sure whether these objects will acquire substantial value based on their invented alternate histories. Still, it's obvious that some stories appeal more than others. Lucinda Rosenfeld's backstory about a cow-shaped creamer has already gotten 10 bids that have increased the value of the object from $1 to nearly $10. Maybe it's because her story is all about how Norman Rockwell was secretly depressed and left this cow creamer behind at a sanitorium where he spent time? I'm excited about an alternate America where Rockwell was depressed all the time.
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AUSTIN (AP) – Texas House Speaker Joe Straus says lawmakers will fund public schools this session enough to keep up with booming enrollment growth _ a $2 billion proposition.
The San Antonio Republican also told The Associated Press on Friday that he hopes the Legislature will restore $4 billion in cuts to schools its members approved in 2011.
Texas' fast-growing population means enrollment in its public schools increases by over 150,000 students per year, requiring an additional $2 billion in the state budget to keep up.
Straus said, "The good news is we're dedicated to doing that." The Legislature reconvenes Jan. 8.
In 2011, lawmakers voted to cut $4 billion from the state's school funding formula. Straus refused to commit to restoring that money, but he said "I hope we can."
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So I'm on Facebook the other day, browsing through pictures of people I went to high school with in order to make sure they aren't happier than me, and I get a notification from somebody I barely know. I'll call her "Sarah," because that's her name.
It seems that Sarah is a photographer, and she's started a Facebook photography page, which she is calling – in an apparent window into her deeply creative soul – Sarah's Photography. It also seems that Sarah has invited everyone she has ever met to "like" this page, including her friends, her family, her casual acquaintances, her preschool teacher, the guy on Craigslist who she bought her couch from, her DUI lawyer, etc.
So I decided to humor Sarah, and I checked out a few of her photos. Unfortunately, I cannot reprint them here, because – at the bottom of each image – Sarah has posted a very strict, sharply worded copyright notice using the Comic Sans font. So instead, I am going to explain them to you.
PHOTO NUMBER 1: In this photo, Sarah has captured the serene beauty of nature in a dense forest. Unfortunately, she also captured a street sign in the background, and I think you can kind of see a jungle gym. Instagram Filter: EARLYBIRD.
PHOTO NUMBER 2: In this highly original image, Sarah has captured a bowl of fruit sitting on a kitchen counter. The photo is black and white, presumably to evoke the struggle that each piece of fruit must endure in order to become ripe. Instagram Filter: INKWELL.
PHOTO NUMBER 3: Here, Sarah has photographed a homeless man on the street wheeling a shopping cart past a liquor store. The homeless man is giving her a longing, desperate look, as if he is trying to speak out against his oppression and say: "You are the seventh hipster to photograph me this week." Instagram Filter: all of them combined.
It was at this point that I realized something highly important: why is Sarah Facebook friends with the guy on Craigslist who she bought her couch from?
No, I'm just kidding. What I actually realized is that Sarah isn't really a photographer just because she created a Facebook page and snapped a few photos. In order to be a true photographer, you have to slave over your passion, and convert your basement to a darkroom, and nurture a counterculture haircut that makes Republicans stare at you on the street, and then finally, when you're about to give up, when you're ready to accept a job as an administrative assistant at a dermatology practice, your photography is selected for an art gallery in La Jolla where rich people will walk in and say: "This has just enough green to match our bathroom."
Whereas Sarah is just a kid from the suburbs who has access to a) a Nikon, and b) the 24-hour photo lab at Walgreens.
And I would tell her this, but of course I don't want to devastate the poor girl. I could only guess what would happen then. She would be hurt, depressed, disappointed. Maybe she would send me a distraught photo of herself, crying. Instagram Filter: WILLOW.
Anyway: if this Sarah's Photography thing was an isolated incident, I would move on with my life and devote this column to a far more pressing issue, like when you buy tickets to see your favorite band, and you're excited because they only cost $19, and then Ticketmaster tacks on a service fee, and a convenience charge, and a processing fee, and an electricity surcharge, and a tour bus oil change fee, and an Ambien for the lead singer upcharge, and in the end, the tickets wind up costing as much as health insurance.
But this was not an isolated incident. In fact, I've been invited to "like" dozens of Facebook photography pages over the years, and I've generally turned them all down, because – and I say this in the nicest way possible – you can really only look at so many photos of fruit on a counter before you want to gouge out your own eyes, destroy the photographer's camera, and wish for a nationwide fruit-death epidemic that ensures such a photo will never again be taken, even if it means we all get scurvy.
The worst part of these photography pages is that the friends of these people generally say encouraging, polite things so they aren't considered assholes. For example: scroll through the comments on an amateur Facebook photography page, and you'll see remarks like:
This photo is so BEAUTIFUL! It reminds me of my father, who left us when I was two.
This photo is amazing, and I can only barely see the jungle gym.
What a wonderful photo. You really help me feel the struggle of that banana.
Of course, while these comments are primarily intended to be encouraging, I assume the commenters are actually rolling their eyes at every photo. I assume the commenters are actually wondering what clichéd image will come up next. I assume the commenters are actually thinking the same things I am, namely: is a copyright notice legally enforceable if it's written in Comic Sans?
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Three-Pointers: Pacers claim season's best win thanks to George's star effort
Paul George gashed LeBron James and the Heat for 29 points and 11 boards on Tuesday. (Ron Haskins/Getty Images)
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The Pacers handily defeated the Heat 87-77 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Tuesday night, improving to 21-14 on the season.
• It doesn't require any stretching whatsoever to term this the "best win" of Indiana's season. For one, there simply hasn't been much quality competition: the Pacers entered Tuesday ranked No. 30 out of 30 when it comes to opponent's average winning percentage. For two, only three teams in the league have a better winning percentage than the Heat -- the Clippers, Thunder and Spurs -- and the Pacers are a combined 0-3 against the trio (two losses to San Antonio and one to Oklahoma City with a 13.3 average margin of defeat).
Not playing anyone, relatively speaking, is one issue, but how Indiana has fared to date against quality competition is another. Run down a list of Indiana's 20 wins prior to beating the Heat and it's cupcake city: just four of Indiana's 20 wins entering Tuesday came against teams currently in the playoff picture. Eight of the 16 wins against non-playoff teams came against teams that are currently in their division's basement: Toronto, Washington (twice), New Orleans (twice), Cleveland (twice) and Phoenix. Indiana's losses made their wins look even more cream puffy by contrast. Eleven of Indiana's 14 losses came to teams currently projected to make the playoffs. Stacking wins against weaker teams and piling up losses to quality competition is a good recipe to hover around .500.
After making the playoffs last season, the Pacers eye bigger prizes than merely finishing .500, even after Danny Granger was lost to a knee injury earlier this season. Paul George's ascending star and the decision to offer coach Frank Vogel a new contract represent signs of hope for the future and trust in the current process, respectively. After beating the Heat, the Pacers currently sit atop the Central Division, but their clean, sometimes dominant, performance on Tuesday night gave Indiana something more than just a half-game edge over the Bulls. Indiana not only beat the Heat, the team that sent them packing in the 2012 Eastern Conference semifinals, they did it gimmick-free. Indiana won the rebounding battle by 19, benefited from a 29-point, 11-rebound effort from George and held the Heat, the NBA's No. 3 team in offensive efficiency, to just 41.2 percent shooting as a team. The Pacers entered Tuesday seeking confirmation of their standing among the East's best teams; they left with what would be called a signature win in college football parlance.
• Part of the glow from this victory for Indiana comes from the bitter taste left by last year's chippy playoffs series loss. Not only did Indiana watch helpless as the Heat flipped a switch to win three straight games after trailing two games to one, they had to watch it unfold after they got a little bit ahead of themselves in the trash talking and gamesmanship categories. Lance Stephenson's "choking" sign to LeBron James was the most memorable single scene, but the Pacers and Heat went back and forth on a series of hard fouls that helped James and Dwyane Wade enter "takeover" mode.
Before Tuesday's game, the Palm Beach Post reported that James had heard some of Indiana's saltiness after the series.
"But they've been talking a lot," James said. "I read a lot of clips that they've had before the season that said they were better than us, and they should have beat us, so we'll be ready."
Does James ever find that amusing? "Well, I mean, I'm not one to talk much," James said. "I just do it on the court. I let my game do the talking. But it is amusing, you see teams talk, and they didn't beat you."
Carryover effects could be seen on Tuesday. Stephenson, a productive starter now and not an end of the bench reserve, finished with 13 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals, taking every available opportunity to attack the hoop. Wade finished with 30 points on nine-for-16 shooting, the most points he's had since a Dec. 1 win over the Nets, and 23 of those points came in a first half that saw him unveil more of his offensive arsenal than we've seen in awhile.
Even in the moments where the intensity picked up, Indiana kept its collective wits and kept a stranglehold on the game. It surely helped that none of Miami's bench players showed up and Chris Bosh never made much of an impact, but the Pacers' poise and their commitment to rebounding on both ends prevented a re-run of the caving that defined last May's playoff series.
• It was George who had the most to prove and who proved the most. In last year's playoffs against the Heat, George averaged just 10.0 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists while shooting 36.5 percent from the field. He never hit more than four shots in a game during the series and never scored more than 13 points. In May, he was still untapped potential and a few notches below his current standing near the very top of the Pacers' Granger-free offensive totem pole.
George has been a different player, a blooming potential All-Star, this season and he played that part with confidence on Tuesday. He launched a career-high 27 shot attempts without unnecessarily disrupting Indiana's overall offensive rhythm and his 22 second-half points pushed Indiana to a lead and then kept Miami at bay. He trusted both his handle in traffic and his range. Praised recently by Vogel as one of the league's best perimeter defensive players, George did well against James, at least as well as can be expected. The 2012 MVP attempted to mount a few late-game flourishes only to have George hold them off with his own scoring on the other end.
"I was just coming out here to give him a tough time," George said of James during a televised post-game interview. "This was a chance for me to see where I'm at offensively and defensively. Last year I struggled against these guys. I wanted to be aggressive, attack them, luckily my shots were going down. I was trying to pick and choose my shots. Fortunately they went down. It feels good."
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The Conceptual Underwater Creative Photography of Jason Heller: New York based Jason Heller is a commercial and wildlife photographer whose work is regularly used for advertising and published in scuba, travel and mainstream publications worldwide. He can be best described as a conceptual commercial photographer specializing in underwater, travel & lifestyle photography, but the depth and breadth of his work both in and out of the studio has no bounds.
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Artistic Underwater Photos of S Lee: This young photographer's creativity started peaking at an early age; currently she's attending Chapman University in Orange. "Photography is my creative outlet. It inspires me, motivates me and allows me to visually express my aesthetic perspective on the life that surrounds me. Portraying subjects in their best light through camera-work and editing is what I strive to do."
Artistic Underwater Photos of Barbara Cole: A self-taught photographic artist Barbara Cole has built an extraordinary career in image making over the past two decades. She dropped out of high school and discovered it was what she wanted to do. According to her photography found her, identified her and ultimately saved her.
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Subaquatic Photography - Alix Malka: Alix Malka began his career in the world of fashion in 1985 working with Thierry Mugler. Today he is one of the most asked for photographers by the international magazines, who draws inspiration from the likes of P Almodovar & J Waters, & designers like J Galliano & Alexander McQueen.
Underwater Photos of Zena Holloway: At the age of 18, Zena Holloway traveled the globe working as a scuba instructor and developed interest in underwater photography. Over a period of time she mastered the skills. London based Bahrain born self-taught photographer has taken underwater photography to entirely new depths.
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1960s/70s Japanese-made Mustang copy before here on Guitarz but this Memphis-branded example currently listed on eBay is a bit more interesting. The body shape on the Memphis is still too crude and slab-like with not enough rounding over of the edges, and the pickguard looks like it should belong to an even-waisted guitar rather than one with an offset body like this. However, the guitar has been converted to fretless and this is what makes it interesting. Whoever has done this conversion seems to have made a nice job of it. They haven't merely lifted out the old frets and filled in the slots; it would appear that the whole fingerboard (you can't call it a fretboard on a fretless!) has been replaced. Note the discreet fret position markers along the bass edge of the fingerboard.
I understand I might be confusing some readers out there. In the previous post I was complaining about the desecration of vintage guitars with thoughtless customisations, but here I would seem to be applauding it. It's a very difficult topic, I guess, and we need to remember that often when such "customisations" were carried out a long time ago before the guitars in question could even have been considered one-day potentially "vintage" material by anyone. In my eyes the Japanese Mustang copy, being a real cheapy and not a particularly good "copy", would have been fair game for modification. If I wanted to customise a guitar today, I would avoid what were obviously quality instruments and choose something generic and commonplace from China or Korea perhaps. I guess that back when the Yamaha SG-12 we looked at yesterday was originally modified it wasn't considered to be a guitar of any particular importance or rarity because it was only something "Made in Japan".
But there's Made in Japan and there's Made in Japan. There are the quality guitars and then there's the cheap rubbish. Sometimes it can take some finesse to spot which is which as it is not always screamingly obvious. For example, some early Japanese Telecaster copies are not copied too accurately but are very nice players. (I wouldn't be too surprised if someone comments below that these Memphis Mustangs are also "nice little players", but I still wouldn't consider them the most exciting of "vintage" finds.) In fact, nowadays, I would be wary of butchering any MIJ guitar, because it seems that even the lowliest unplayable Teiscos (or Woolworths guitars as we used to call them) have their fans and now can fetch more money than they originally retailed for.
There are, I'm afraid, no definitive answers about which guitars are ripe for modification; which of today's guitars might be future classics, highly sought after "Holy Grails" even, and which will be considered firewood. I guess it all boils down to the fact that the owner has paid money for the guitar and it is theirs to do with as they please; some people will like it, others won't.
I have to wonder if in 20 or 30 years time, guitar enthusiasts will be searching vainly for an unadulterated Squier '51 and bemoaning the fact that this guitar was a favourite for modification and that an example in original factory condition is near impossible to find.
I suppose that on the Memphis Mustang, if a collector wanted it badly enough in near to original condition as possible, it would be possible to re-fret it. The fingerboard wouldn't be original but it would almost certainly be of better quality than the original! Anyway, this guitar is currently listed on eBay - the auction finishes later today and bidding is at $142.50 at the time of writing.
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Japanese Mustang copy with Competition stripe converted to fretless
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To cause one to speak uninhibitedly. Often refers to the effect of alcohol. A few drinks will loosen her tongue, and then I'm sure she'll tell me the secret without me even having to ask. I've never met a reporter like Courtney. She can loosen the tongue of even the cagiest politician.
loosen somebody's ˈtonguemake somebody talk more freely than usual: A bottle of wine had loosened Harry's tongue.
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To cause (someone) to speak freely or carelessly or to divulge information.


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Kaknab selalu baca mengenai bagusnya buah2an. Jadi boleh lah kaknab kongsi dengan kawan2 bloggers sekelian, tapi dalam English lah sebab kaknab copy and paste, heheh. kalau nak translate jenuh juga, berjela2 panjangnya, Oleh yang demikian baca lah nooooo untuk pengetahuan kita semua.
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Serving size = 1 medium sufficiently ripe banana [about 7″ long and 126 grams (0.28 pounds) in weight]With this nutritional information in the background let's work through the incredible health benefits of this commonplace fruit. I will try and list only substantiated facts with references wherever possible. I am particularly concerned about this because there have been some unsubstantiated claims (rumors) about extraordinary banana benefits floating around the internet (here is an example).
Total Fat = 0 g; Cholesterol = 0 g; Calories = 110
Potassium = 400 mg (10% of daily recommended value)
Dietary Fiber = 4 g (16% of daily recommended value)
Sugar = 14.8 g; Protein = 1 g (2% of daily recommended value)
Vitamin C = 16% of daily recommended value
Vitamin B6 = 20% of daily recommended value
- Bananas are good for your heart and nerves: Bananas contain a high dose of potassium - an essential ingredient to keep your heart and nervous system in good shape. Potassium is essential for proper muscle contraction and hence plays an important role in muscle-influenced activities including: the normal rhythmic pumping of the heart, digestion, muscular movements, etc., Some studies have also linked low potassium intake to high blood pressure and increased risk of stroke. Most Americans don't get enough potassium in their diet (recommended dose is about 4 g per day) - blame it on our fast food culture. Including a banana (or two) in your diet everyday would take you a step closer towards getting your daily recommended dose of potassium (references: American Heart Association, University of Maryland Medical Center, Colorado State University).
- Bananas are good for your kidneys and bones: Benefits to the kidneys and the bones are again due to the high potassium content of bananas. A normal intake of potassium suppresses calcium excretion in the urine and minimizes the risk of kidney stones. Also, for the same reason (suppressing of calcium excretion), it minimizes the loss of calcium from the body and thereby reduces the risk of osteoporosis (references: University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Kansas Medical Center).
- Bananas can act as mood enhancers or mild sedatives: Bananas contain tryptophan (although it's not one of the major sources, a medium still contains about 10.6 mg of tryptophan). Tryptophan is one of the 20 amino acids which are building blocks of proteins (btw, an incredible number of articles on the internet call tryptophan as a "mood-enhancing protein" and that is technically not correct). Tryptophan helps the body to produce serotonin - which has a calming effect on the brain (creates a stable mood) and acts as a mild sedative. It should be noted that the only way our our body gets it's dose of tryptophan is through our diet - it does not produce tryptophan naturally; bananas is one of the easiest ways to get it (references: Nutritiondata.com, Chemistry Daily, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NIH MedLinePlus).
- Bananas are good for your blood: Bananas are one of the highest sources of naturally available vitamin B6: Vitamin B6 plays an important role in converting tryptophan to serotonin (read #3 above), and also helps the body to make hemoglobin - a crucial ingredient of your blood. Vitamin B6 is also essential for antibody production and to maintain a healthy immune response. It also helps to convert carbohydrates to glucose and thereby maintains proper blood sugar levels. A medium banana can take care of 1/5th of your daily recommended intake of vitamin B6 and is one of the easiest (and cheapest) ways to increase your dietary intake of the vitamin (references: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements).
- Bananas are good for kids: Let me quote this from NIH's Medical Encyclopedia -
Bananas are part of the BRAT diet, a diet many physicians and nurses recommend for children recovering from gastrointestinal problems, particularly diarrhea. BRAT stands for the different components that make up the diet: Bananas, Rice cereal, Applesauce, Toast. These are binding foods that make the stools harder.
- Bananas are good source of dietary fiber: A single
serving (one medium-sized banana) contains 16% of the daily recommended
dietary fiber intake for a normal adult - that's substantial for a
single serving of any food. Fiber improves laxation (smooth bowel
movements). Fiber-rich diets have also been linked to lower risk of
coronary heart disease and of type 2 diabetes. Also, view this
information in light of the following facts (references: Health.gov, NIH PubMed - abstract is sufficient):
Current recommendations suggest that adults consume 20-35 grams of dietary fiber per day. Children over age 2 should consume an amount equal to or greater than their age plus 5 grams per day. Yet the average American eats only 14-15 grams of dietary fiber a day. source: Harvard School of Public Health
Got sugar concerns?: People worry a lot about the carbohydrates (especially the sugar part) in bananas. To that end, here are a few quotes from a couple reliable sources:
A banana has a glycemic index of 52 and 24 grams of available carbohydrate. This gives a glycemic load of 12. In comparison, an apple having a glycemic index of 38 and 15 grams of available carbohydrate has a glycemic load of 6 … Although an apple may be a little better choice for a snack, eating a banana isn't all that bad either because foods with glycemic loads in the low teens and below are the ones that should be selected as part of a balanced diet. (source: USDA.gov)
Despite being erroneously called "fattening" and too high in sugar, a small banana only contains about 100 calories, which is not much more than a medium apple. Nor should it raise your blood glucose level too high. (source: American Diabetes Association)Like always, stuff should be done in moderation and it should be noted that all the above health benefits are "general observations" - and there must be, for sure, exceptions to general observations. If you have specific health conditions related to any nutritional constituents of bananas, make sure you consult your doctor before you go bananas on bananas.


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If you are like me, you are about two glasses of wine away from sweet sleep right now, but you very likely did not realize the considerable amount of care, detail and -- dare I say it, love -- that goes into growing unnervingly large pumpkins for our Halloween enjoyment.
If you are like me, you are about two glasses of wine away from sweet sleep right now, but you very likely did not realize the considerable amount of care, detail and -- dare I say it, love -- that goes into growing unnervingly large pumpkins for our Halloween enjoyment.
You did not know, for instance, that although it's been a horrible year for a lot of Illinois, mostly Rex Grossman, it's been a good year for the world of Giant Pumpkin Growing. According to a recent newspaper article I stumbled across online while looking for a leak of the Britney Spears record (listen, I like the single, and STOP LOOKING AT ME), 90 percent of pumpkins used for cooking in the United States are grown in Illinois, and we don't fare too badly when it comes to jack-o'-lanterns neither. With these inarguable Facts on our side, I believe we can safely christen Illinois the Pumpkin Capital Of The Universe, and I challenge any pretenders to a full-on no-mercy pumpkin fight, which will probably be brief, as these pumpkins are heavy and hard to lift, and I have this weird twinge in my back that keeps making my left arm tingle. Also I bruise easily. Otherwise, it's on, suckas.
You also did not know, for instance, that on a good day a giant pumpkin can grow 20 pounds a day, well more than a grease-slurping sumo wrestler, apparently less than anyone who consumes a Wendy's Baconator, the unholy leviathan that's like six patties of burgerish meat topped with 25 strips of bacon, several quarts of ranch dressing, a couple tubs of Country Crock and a tire. When the day comes that giant pumpkin growers figure out a way to get their babies to eat fast food, I'm reasonably sure it won't be long after that we'll be doing the bidding of our behemoth-pumpkin overlords. (No idea what this bidding might be, but I bet it involves payback for scraping out the seedy, gloppy insides of so many of their brethren with our filthy hands.)
You also probably did not know that growing a giant pumpkin involves a lot of things, but one of those things is manure, which is why most people are content to purchase regular-sized pumpkins from the stringy-haired guy under the fragile-looking tent in the Costco parking lot. You were also probably blissfully unaware that growing giant pumpkins involves manual beetle removal. "Watch our for squash bugs and beetles," said California pumpkin kingpin Brian Myers, to the Newspaper out there. "Hand-pick them. You don't want to spray, because pesticides can mottle the appearance of the pumpkin, and they don't really kill them anyway." It should be noted that aside from not killing bugs, the pesticides work really well.
You could not have possibly been expected to realize that right now, out there in patches and unbearably boring towns across the country, there are people working to grow a one-ton pumpkin, and that many of these people are not above injecting their pumpkins with testosterone, or parts of Rafael Palmeiro, or cross-breeding them with whales. OK. I made the whale thing up, but you have to admit, the idea of armies of whale-pumpkins patrolling our nation's waterways seems like a pretty cool idea.
You almost certainly had no idea that the winner of last year's Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off clocked in at 1,124 pounds, or about twice the size of Fred Thompson's head. The thing is, this may mean nothing at all -- one lousy Google on "big pumpkins" turns in articles by all the pitiable reporters sent out to do the "big pumpkin story," all about people who purport to hold pumpkin-based records in some such nonsense; apparently, the world of Giant Pumpkin Growing is a vast, largely unpatrolled hellscape of chaos, backstabbing and misinformation, much like the Supreme Court or the world of boxing. (Basically, take boxing, add seeds, topsoil and a fleeting amount of public interest, and you've got pumpkin growing.)
Of course, at this level of girth, the items in question barely resemble pumpkins, and are more like, if these pictures are to be believed, carrot-colored Jabba the Hutts with embarrassing posture problems. Yet you were very likely utterly oblivious to the idea that later last year, a pumpkin that weighed nearly 500 pounds more than that was weighed in Topsfield, Mass., whose people are probably running around all proud of that, but whom I believe we could easily take in a pumpkin fight.
Jeff Vrabel is a freelance writer who is still waiting for the Great Pumpkin. He can be reached at www.jeffvrabel.com.


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Wow, I didn't see that lurking K Factor! Man, your eyes are sharp, Coach V!
I was religious about being at 59, but then I had one racquet at below 50 with Lux Ace. I couldn't get enough of it. Then I bought a used Prestige Pro at 53. It's just a different world. I now would string at 55.
what would you say is a good tension for the RPM, if you one would like a lot of spin?
Ah, anywhere between 40-56 is spin oriented. Depends how hard you hit through the ball also. I tend to like 57 to 58 and break the string in for an hour. Then it is at the tension I like it for the rest of its lifespan.
Does anyone know where exactly you can let make your rackets totally customized Including grip size and shape!
That makes sense If Rafa was using the out of the box Aeropro Drive I am sure he would have tennis elbow. Unfortunately most players think he is using the actual Aeropro Drive which is a lot stiffer than what he actually uses.
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Let's take the numbers 0-10. Their mean is 5, and the individual deviations from 5 are
-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
And so the average (magnitude of) deviation from the mean is $30/11 \approx 2.72$.
However, this is not the standard deviation. The standard deviation is $\sqrt{10} \approx 3.16$.
The first mean-deviation is a simpler and by far more intuitive definition of the "standard-deviation", so I'm sure it's the first definition statisticians worked with. However, for some reason they decided to adopt the second definition instead. What is the reasoning behind that decision?


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16 January 2020
Special Transportation Services
The following information is a handy overview of the public transportation services available on the above day at AsiaWorld-Expo for reference. Please note that public transportation operators may provide flexible transportation services tailored to the daily event calendar of AsiaWorld-Expo, and thus, the public transportation schedules may vary from day to day. Terms and conditions apply. For further details, please contact the public transportation operators directly.
Airport Express - Exclusive Fare on Event Days
Airport Express - Exclusive Fare on Event Days
Holders of valid proof-of-entry of the event are entitled to redeem Same-Day Return Exclusive Fare tickets1 between Hong Kong Station / Kowloon Station and AsiaWorld-Expo Station at just HK$60 with Octopus.
From Adult Fare (HK$) Indicative Journey Time2 (one-way) Counter Opening Hours Counter Location Hong Kong Station Same-Day Return at
just $60 3
(average = $30 x 2)
28 mins
3:00pm-6:30pm L2 Trains to Airport
and AsiaWorld-Expo
(next to the existing
Airport Express
Shuttle Bus counter)
Kowloon Station Approx
25 mins
L2 Trains to Airport
and AsiaWorld-Expo
AsiaWorld-Expo Station (Out-bound) NA 9:00pm-12:00mn AsiaWorld-Expo (Near AEL Exit A)
All Year Round Fare
From Adult Fare (HK$) Indicative Journey Time2 (one-way) Service Hours Remarks Tsing Yi Station Same-Day Return at
just $47 4,5
(average = $23.5 x 2), with free MTR connection 6
Approx 17 mins All Year Round Passengers must use the same Octopus and stay in AsiaWorld-Expo for over 1 hour.
- Service is limited and is on a first-come-first-served basis.
- The journey time is for reference only and is subject to the actual traffic conditions which are beyond the control of AsiaWorld-Expo.
- The tickets of Exclusive Fare on Event Days (Same-day return) can be redeemed with an event proof-of-entry and Octopus at the designated counters at Hong Kong Station / Kownloon Station (located on Lower Level 2 - trains to Airport and AsiaWorld-Expo) / AsiaWorld-Expo. The special offer is subject to change without prior notice.
- Children aged 3-11 enjoy a 50% concession rate.
- Passengers must use the same Octopus and stay in AsiaWorld-Expo for over 1 hour. Any excess fare will be refunded at the return trip exit gate.
- Passengers can enjoy free MTR connections when using the same Octopus (with sufficient value) to interchange within 1 hour of arrival between the Airport Express at Hong Kong, Kowloon or Tsing Yi Stations and the interconnecting MTR line. (When changing between Tsim Sha Tsui / East Tsim Sha Tsui Stations you must do so within 30 minutes of arrival at either station.)
Parking (SkyCity Carpark)
Ample parking space is available at the SkyCity Carpark (near the West Entrance of AsiaWorld-Expo) for private cars and motor cycles. Parking rate is offered at HK$20 per parking hour, HK$90 for day-park (for period from 8:00am to 8:00pm) or HK$160 for 24-hour parking.
For enquiries, please call (852) 2183 4360.
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Cross Border Bus
Cross border bus service at AsiaWorld-Expo allow direct and convenient connections with Mainland China. Service is available by appointment. For reservation and service details, please contact the following transport operators
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Counters of the above operators are located at the West Entrance of AsiaWorld-Expo.