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700,000-Year-Old Horse's DNA Sequenced
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While studying the ancient stallion's DNA, the team see found that the Przewalski's horse (seen here) diverged from the line that became domestic horses about 50,000 years ago.
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When it comes to mapping equine genomes, researchers' test horses seem to be getting older: In 2007 it was a 3-year-old gray Thoroughbred marecalled Twilight from New York. In 2012 it was 18-year-old Sugar, a Quarter Horse mare from Texas.
Now in 2013 it's Thistle Creek, a Middle Pleistocene stallion from the Yukon permafrost near the eastern Alaskan border. He's roughly 700,000 years old. That makes Thistle Creek—named for the excavation site where his leg bone fragment was discovered—the oldest equine to have its DNA fully sequenced.
And actually, Thistle Creek's DNA is the oldest DNA of any species to be fully sequenced. The second oldest? 110,000-year-old polar bear DNA.
Ludovic Orlando, PhD, HDR, associate professor in the Centre for GeoGenetics Paleomix Group at the University of Copenhagen's Natural History Museum of Denmark, led an international team of 56 scientists listed as co-authors of the groundbreaking study.
Sequencing such old equid DNA was like "working a jigsaw puzzle," Orlando said, as millenniums of damage resulted in sequences no longer being on the same place on the genome map as the modern horse. Still, with patience and dedication, the team worked out the 2.4-billion-piece puzzle.
"We've been working on the technology to be able to do this for the past three years, and we realized that we just weren't pushing the right buttons to fully use the tools we have that would allow us to succeed in mapping such an ancient genome," Orlando said.
Orlando's "buttons" included what is known as "third generation sequencing," a novel technique that allows researchers to sequences genes "on the fly," he said, without having to go through the delicate and possibly inaccurate process of trying to amplify damaged DNA. "We expected this to drastically improve our sensitivity, and we were right," Orlando said.
While this finding is exciting for genome scientists throughout the world, it's also particularly interesting for equine research. By sequencing this one horse, Orlando and colleagues have been able to compare data with that of domestic horses—including Twilight and Sugar—of varying breeds as well as the partial sequencing of a 43,000-year-old horse. By looking at the number of mutations occurring over the years in these horses, the scientists were able to calculate—with surprising confidence—approximate dates of the history of the horse.
Notably, the common ancestor of the horse, donkey, and zebra roamed modern-day North America four million years ago, according to the research team. That's about twice as long ago as paleontologists had thought, Orlando said. They could also see that the Przewalski's horse diverged from the line that became domestic horses about 50,000 years ago. They even detected numerous changes in horse population at different times throughout prehistory, specifically due to severe climate changes.
"We were amazed to discover that there were three major periods of expansion in the horse population, which were always followed right after by a drastic decline in the demographic of the horse," said Orlando. "The most recent was around 25,000 years ago. That trend stopped at the start of a warm climactic period that we are still experiencing today, so the horses did not get enough resources to keep on expanding." The other two periods occurred 200,000 and 1.2 billion years ago, he added.
Thistle Creek was probably around 14.2 to 15 hands, or about the size of a modern-day Arabian or Icelandic horse, Orlando said. Between 50,000 and 700,000 years ago the horse evolved to become smaller. Domestication and breeding programs then led the horse to its now wide range of sizes, he said.
By contrast, the common ancestor of all modern equids was probably what paleontologists identified as not even a member of the Equus genus at all, Orlando said. This genus no longer exists, but its lines led to the horse, donkey, and zebra, he said.
Orlando's research also confirms what scientists have declared for years: The equid originated in the Americas but was then driven to extinction about 12,000 years ago. Horses returned to the Americas on European ships after Christopher Columbus' famous 1492 journey, he said.
"This research opens up hundreds of doors and possibilities of working with DNA samples that until now have been considered too old," Orlando concluded.
The study, "Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse," will appear in an upcoming issue of Nature.
About the Author
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
Christa Lesté-Lasserre is a freelance writer based in France. A native of Dallas, Texas, Lesté-Lasserre grew up riding Quarter Horses, Appaloosas, and Shetland Ponies. She holds a master's degree in English, specializing in creative writing, from the University of Mississippi in Oxford and earned a bachelor's in journalism and creative writing with a minor in sciences from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She currently keeps her two Trakehners at home near Paris. Follow Lesté-Lasserre on Twitter @christalestelas.
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Placido Polanco notched his 2,000th career hit with a two-run homer in the eighth, which put the finishing touches on the Philadelphia Phillies' 5-1 win over the Houston Astros.
Polanco's first home run of the season, as well as a three-hit, two-RBI effort by Freddy Galvis, backed Joe Blanton's solid performance on the mound.
Blanton (4-3) extended his unbeaten streak at Citizens Bank Park by allowing six hits and just one run -- on a homer by Marwin Gonzalez -- over seven-plus innings. He improved to 8-0 in 21 home appearances (19 starts) since May 8, 2010.
"He threw the ball well," Astros manager Brad Mills said of Blanton. "It seemed like he was able to throw the breaking ball when he wanted to, and he was spotting his fastball. When you're able to do that, you're going to have a good night, and that's what he did."
The Astros dropped their third straight and Lucas Harrell (2-3) took the loss after surrendering three runs -- two earned -- on five hits in 5 2/3 frames.
Gonzalez stepped in as a pinch-hitter in the eighth and hit a leadoff shot over the right-field wall for his first career home run, cutting Houston's deficit to 3-1.
Blanton's outing was finished when Jose Altuve followed with a single, and Antonio Bastardo and Chad Qualls combined to retire the next three hitters.
Carlos Ruiz singled with two outs in the bottom half to give Polanco another shot at the plate, and the 15-year veteran homered to left field off David Carpenter for his milestone hit.
"I knew I hit it good. I thought it would drop somewhere," said a humble Polanco.
The game was scoreless until the Phillies benefited from Jed Lowrie's error on a potential inning-ending double play ball in the fifth. The miscue put runners on first and second, and Galvis laced a base hit to center to knock in Polanco.
Philadelphia left the bases loaded, but pushed two more across in the sixth. Shane Victorino opened the inning with a triple and raced home two batters later on Ruiz's line-drive single.
Harrell was pulled with two on and two out, and Galvis greeted Wilton Lopez by knocking in Polanco again. John Mayberry was thrown out at home on the play.
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Polanco is the 17th active player to join the 2,000-hit club...Carlos Lee went 3-for-4 for the Astros, who went hitless in seven at-bats with runners in scoring position...The finale of this two-game series will take place Tuesday. The Phillies will be trying to win three straight games for the first time this season.

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Incredible. Who could have foreseen that drummer Louie Bellson and trumpeter Clark Terry, both of whom joined the celebrated Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1951, would be reunited for another high-powered big-band date in 2007. Even more amazing, what are the odds that Terry, who has turned eighty-seven, and Bellson, three years his junior, would still be playing like zealous teen-agers auditioning for their first gig.
Implausible as it may seem, that's undeniably the case on the enterprising Louie & Clark Expedition 2, a thoroughly engaging session that is enhanced by Bellson's and Terry's inbred enthusiasm and consummate musicianship. Bellson not only kicks the band smartly, as he has a host of others including Ellington, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and several of his own, he also wrote every number (one each with Remo Palmier and Jack Hayes) and arranged a pair including the frisky "Two Guys And A Gal," on which he trades forceful drum rolls and rim shots with (relative) youngsters Kenny Washington and Sylvia Cuenca.
Terry isn't heard until Track 5, "Davenport Blues" (following Bellson's four-part "Chicago Suite"), but he immediately seizes the rudder and takes command, betraying no signs of rust or of age. In fact, Terry's half-dozen solos are uncluttered models of tastefulness and inspiration. Not bad for someone who plays more often than not these days while seated in a wheelchair.
Bellson, of whom Ellington said, "Not only is [he] the world's greatest drummer...he's the world's greatest musician," shows his impressive chops as a composer with a series of rhythmic and harmonic gems that are never less than exhilarating. "Chicago," his third suite ("New York" and "Los Angeles" came earlier), is superb, as are the other charts from "Davenport Blues" through "Well All Right Then." There's not a clunker in the carton.
We've not even mentioned the band, which is trim and admirable throughout. Soloists are first-class, notably baritone saxophonist Adam Schroeder and pianist Helen Sung ("Piacere"), Stantawn Kendrick (soprano on "Lake Shore Drive," alto on "Give Me The Good Time"), tenor Steve Guerra and trumpeter Stjepko Gut (who may be the same "Steve" Gut with whose Yugoslavian band Terry recorded some years ago). But Louie & Clark are the headliners here, and deservedly so, as they make sure this Expedition is not only successful but unforgettable as well.
The Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra
Nimmons 'n' More
McMurdo Sound
This two-disc set is the second in which the Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra has paid its respects to the dean of Canadian composer/arrangers, eighty-four-year-old Phil Nimmons (the first, comprising three CDs as a part of the Canadian Composers Portraits series, was released in 2005). This time, it's Nimmons 'n' More, as compositions by the honoree ("Mod's Mode," "Conversations") bookend others by McMurdo, Mike Malone, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, the standard "Over The Rainbow" and the late Harry Freedman's four-movement "Jazz Suite," written in 1958.
McMurdo introduces the members of the orchestra at the end of Disc 1, and he and Nimmons say a few words in the middle of Disc 2, separating Freedman's suite from Nimmons' thirty-two minute "Conversations" (subtitled "Aural Communication"), commissioned by the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Canada and performed by McMurdo's ensemble in January 2006 as Nimmons accepted the inaugural SOCAN/IAJE Phil Nimmons Established Composer Award.


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• Leonard D. Barefield, 57, two counts delivery of a controlled substance — $10,000.
Agents with the 5th Judicial Drug Task Force (DTF) met with Barefield twice through the use of a confidential informant in September, purchasing a total of 20 Oxycodone pills for $200.
Barefield was arrested Saturday on an arrest warrant issued Feb. 14 for the delivery charges.
• Randall Rapp, 32, delivery of a controlled substance — $20,000.
Over the last six months, agents with the DTF met with Rapp through the use of a confidential informant, who purchased approximately 8 grams of methamphetamine from Rapp in exchange for money.
• Tasha A. Holland, 28, possession of controlled substances with the intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia, introducing a controlled substance into a governmental facility — $5,000.
• Thomas Plaisance, 35, possession of controlled substances with the intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia — $10,000.
Russellville Police responded to Budget Inn on East Main Street Saturday after the hotel's management reported an employee went into a room to clean it and found two unresponsive and possibly non-breathing adults on the bed. When police arrived, they found Plaisance and Holland unconscious on the bed and several syringes scattered about the room. Plaisance awoke after efforts by the officer, but could not offer any explanation as to why the two wouldn't wake. Holland awoke a short time after Plaisance, according to the report.
Upon searching the room, officers found five empty bags containing what they believed to be methamphetamine residue; 15 bags containing a total of 5.1 grams of methamphetamine; a small amount of marijuana; four syringes and rolling papers.
After being told he was under arrest, Plaisance allegedly fled the scene and was caught about 25 yards from the room.
Upon arriving at the Pope County Detention Center, police found Holland had bags containing methamphetamine and marijuana, according to the report.


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Woods will have to wait at least one more day for No. 1
ORLANDO, Fla. Tiger Woods is going to have to wait one more day to try to reclaim No. 1 in the world.
Moments after Woods made a 10-foot birdie putt on the second hole, a vicious thunderstorm packing gusts that topped out at 62 mph interrupted the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational and wiped out play until 8 a.m. (Mountain) today.
The storm dumped nearly 1½ inches on Bay Hill and formed small ponds in the fairways there was even a fish in the middle of the 18th fairway. The wind toppled the TV tower behind the 10th green, which was a pile of metal poles, wood, mesh netting and had a stationary camera in the middle of it all.
College Basketball
UCLA fires Ben Howland after a decade as head coach
LOS ANGELES UCLA has fired Ben Howland as basketball coach after 10 seasons that included three Final Four appearances,but culminated with another early-round exit from the NCAA Tournament.
Athletic director Dan Guerrero told Howland on Sunday he was out, and the university announced it in the evening.
Howland had a 233-107 record in Westwood, including three consecutive Final Four appearances from 2006-08 and four Pac-12 championships, including this season. The Bruins season ended last Friday with an 83-63 loss to Minnesota in the NCAA Tournament.
Froome pedals to overall win at Criterium International
COL DE LOSPEDALE, France Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome of Britain won the Criterium International on Sunday in the third and final stage.
Froome broke away 3.4 miles from the end of the 110-mile stage to beat Team Sky teammate Richie Porte by 27 seconds and overtake the Australian in the overall standings. Froome had started the day two seconds behind Porte, who won the individual time trial Saturday.
Martins Irish eyes smile wide at Volta a Catalunya
BARCELONA, Spain Daniel Martin of Ireland held off local favorite Joaquin Rodriguez to protect his lead and win the Volta a Catalunya on Sunday.
Thomas de Gendt won the seventh stage, a 76-mile ride from El Vendrell to Barcelona along the Mediterranean coast ending in a climb of the Catalan capitals Montjuic hill.
The 26-year-old Martin took over the leaders jersey on the fourth stage of the seven-day race, and the Garmin Sharp safely protected his 17-second lead over Rodriguez.
Michele Scarponi of Italy finished third, another 17 seconds behind.
Auto Racing
Hinchcliffe clinches the first IndyCar win of the season
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. James Hinchcliffe watched the 2011 season-opening race at St. Petersburg from the sidelines because he didnt have a deal yet to drive in the IndyCar Series. Out of work again at the end of the year when his race team closed its doors, the Canadian was pondering his future in the Indianapolis house he shared with a bunch of roommates when his big break finally came.
Sebastian Vettel sorry for his 27th career F1 victory
SEPANG, Malaysia Sebastian Vettels 27th victory in Formula One didnt earn him a lot of admiration. He even had to apologize for it.
The three-time defending champion ignored team orders Sunday and overtook fellow Red Bull driver Mark Webber toward the end to win the Malaysian Grand Prix, having been told to stand down and cruise to a 1-2 finish.
The Germans move left Webber fuming and had team officials remonstrating Vettel publicly after the race. Vettel apologized but said he didnt realize he had been told to hold back.
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Location: Integrated Cropping Systems ResearchTitle: Female fecundity and longevity in Northern Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in relation to multiple mating and body size Author
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Publication Acceptance Date: 2/14/2011
Publication Date: 3/15/2011
Citation: French, B.W., Hammack, L. 2011. Female fecundity and longevity in Northern Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in relation to multiple mating and body size. Entomological Society of America North Central Branch annual meeting, Minneapolis MN, March 13-16, 2011. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: A single mating generally supplies female insects with enough sperm to fertilize a lifetime of eggs; however, many females mate repeatedly during their lifetime. It is believed that female northern corn rootworm mate only once in their lifetime. We paired combinations of large, small, and average sized male and female northern corn rootworm in Petri dishes. Copulating females were caged individually with ample food, water, and an oviposition dish and placed in growth chambers. Each week until death, females were provided with oviposition dishes and the opportunity to mate with an average sized male. Of 201 copulating females, 63 mated twice and five mated three times, but neither the proportion of females that copulated more than once nor their age at first copulation varied with cross type. Females tended to re-mate at a younger age when originally mated to small males. We found no differences in longevity or in total and viable egg numbers with cross type. Females that mated more than once lived longer than singly mated females. These females also laid more eggs and viable eggs. Should greater longevity of multiply mated females and thus their greater fecundity occur under field conditions, then reproductive success of these females should exceed that of singly mated females. Female corn rootworms resistant to Bt corn could enhance offspring survival by maximizing fertilization of their eggs by Bt resistant males. Further research on the reproductive biology of corn rootworms is needed to fully understand the evolution of Bt resistance.


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Arizona Atheist: Arguments Against God's Existence
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The truth is, though, that I see nothing special about these arguments. Each of these arguments are fatally flawed when you think about them for just a few minutes (or when you look at the contradictory evidence).Do you think he makes his case? Link


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I'm new here. I've been learning C++ over my holidays and thought I'd start using the GUI side. I'm using the form designer in MSVC++ express edition. I followed the video tutorial on Microsoft's site and understood it, except the part where the person suddenly typed things like "label1->Text=String::Format("Choose a date {0}", dateTimePicker1->Value);" and "Application::exit()" etc. I understand what these do, and using them seems pretty self-explanatory. However, does anyone know where I can find a nicely laid out list/reference of these GUI commands and their parameters?
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A Michigan doughnut hut pitches sweets alongside an Ocala highway.
OK, so what happened to that big ol' Cops and Doughnuts billboard in Ocala? Furthermore, just where IS the bakery it touts, anyway?
Well, to answer the first question, the billboard that first appeared late last year at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Northwest 27th Avenue has moved; it's still on U.S. 27, a few miles farther south, just above Air Power Plus and down the hill from the Hilltop Barbecue stand.
And the Cops and Doughnuts Bakery?
Well, it's north of town. WAY north of town, in Clare, Mich., which can be found in the upper-central lower peninsula of the Great Lakes State.
"It's called promotion, getting your name out there," said Greg Rynearson, who's CEO of the historic bakery and doughnut outlet. But here, in Ocala? We're easily a thousand miles away ...
"One thousand, two hundred and thirty-four, to be exact," he added — though with the billboard's move not long ago it's probably a few more miles away now. "We put it there because of all the travel between Florida and Michigan. We're a tourist destination, and we just thought Ocala was a good spot."
Plus, he added, "we got a really good deal on the billboard" — a deal that evidently allows the billboard company to move it at need, which apparently is what Lamar did after Regions Bank snarfed up the billboard at U.S. 27 and 27th Avenue. At least the billboard is visible to northbound traffic; anything else would have been ludicrous.
Daniel Jones of Ocala noted he saw the billboard last summer "and went to their Facebook page intending to let them know they needed to fire their marketing company."
"Turned out they were running a contest on FB seeing if anyone could guess where the billboard was located," Jones wrote. "Naturally, since I was standing under it, I won, but never did claim my prize of a lady's one-piece bathing suit."
Yes, along with coffee and doughnuts and bread and stuff, the bakery also sells swimsuits and tank tops and hoodies.
But what about that stereotype, cops and doughnuts; isn't that a bit demeaning?
Absolutely not, said Rynearson: "We're real cops here."
All nine members of the Clare Police Department pooled their cash a few years ago and, with a bit of help from the city itself, bought the historic Clare City Bakery that's been in operation since 1896. The boys in blue have been in charge since July 2009.
"The city's real good about it, letting us wear our uniforms and badges here," Rynearson said. Furthermore, they have their own coffee label — Cops Coffee — which Rynearson said was introduced into Key West in March. He said it's doing real well there, too.
While Cops and Doughnuts is a full-service bakery, Rynearson said the doughnuts are "No. 1. We sell hundreds of dozens."
After all, some 350,000 customers walked through the door last year, he said. And some goods — breads and cookies — are available over the Internet.
And some folk in Michigan responded to my blog item about the billboard last week, wanting me to know just how good the grub is at Cops & Doughnuts.
"The Squealer, a doughnut with maple frosting and two strips of bacon on top, is one of the tastiest things I've ever eaten in my life," wrote Tim S. Williams in Hadley, Mich. — which is closer to Flint than it is to Clare, though it's closer to Clare than Ocala is. "No lie."
Another blog reader simply wrote: "Clare Michigan." I don't get it, but hey …
Still, 1,200 miles is a long way away for billboards, right?
Maybe not; Rynearson said they're considering a billboard along the historic Route 66 in Arizona.
"You know that 27 is the new Route 66," he added.
Evidently there's a push afoot to designate the route from Miami to Mackinaw City, Mich., a historic highway.
The advertising is actually starting to pay off.
"A gentleman who said he was from The Villages dropped in the other day, said he'd seen our billboard in Ocala," Rynearson said.
And Rynearson fielded a phone call not long ago from a woman "who said she was looking at our billboard and had driven around but couldn't find us, and was wondering where we were. I told her to look again, and notice 'Clare Michigan' on it; well, that's where we are."
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Redo in the neighborhood: About 10 years ago, Applebee's joined our Ocala-area neighborhood, over on Easy Street across from Walmart.
And despite the polished, kitschy d�cor that doesn't look the least bit dated — well, except that some of it is really old stuff! — folks higher up the Applebee's food chain have decided it's time for a face lift.
So when the Ocala Applebee's at 2615 SW 19th Ave. Road closes at 10 p.m. on May 19, it'll be closed until the following Thursday morning, when it re-opens with hoopla befitting a first-time opening.
"We are absolutely, positively reopening," said Pamela Jones, the marketing executive for Neighborhood Restaurant Partners Florida, the Tampa outfit that owns the Ocala link.
Apparently this is a chainwide deal; the Ocala Applebee's is the ninth unit in NRPF's Central Florida stable to be remodeled with "warmer color tones." The new look also will feature photos from local activities, such as the Marion County Chili Cook-Off.
All the artifacts currently decorating the place, from Tiffany lights to roller skates, are available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting ARC Marion.
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Werewolves of Brooklyn (MUSIC VIDEO)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 4:51PM
Halloween is coming, and though it's a fun, spooky time, in Brooklyn there's a serious problem on the rise. WEREWOLVES! This PSA (& rockin' music video) includes footage of sightings in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Park Slope. Stay safe, humans!
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A young Russellville mother found out the hard way in the early morning of Feb. 11, because a baby comes when a baby comes.
Ashley Eubanks was taking a bath that morning to relax while having what nurses in the obstetrics (OB) ward at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center called Braxton-Hicks contractions. Eubanks was sent home a little after midnight that morning after several hours of close observation by OB nurses.
"I remember sitting in the bathtub while the water drained from the tub. I stood up and felt something slip down my leg," Eubanks said,
She suspected her water had broken, but that's when Eubanks got a real surprise.
"He rocketed out and slid across the tub," she said. "I could see the baby, he didn't hit the wall."
The next thing she remembered was screaming for her mom really quickly, because she couldn't move.
"My mom handed me my baby and called 911. We kept him warm with a pillow case," she said.
Eubanks was transported by ambulance to Saint Mary's after emergency medical technicians checked her and the baby's vital signs.
The attending OB physican that night, Dr. Vickie Henderson, arrived at Eubanks' house to ensure that mother and baby were all right.
Eubanks said the idea to take a bath came from reflecting on past experiences.
"I couldn't go to sleep," she said. "The doctor told me to go to bed. I was hurting, so I ran a bath. During this pregnancy, I used baths to relieve pain."
Little Freya Eubanks, her 2-year-old daughter, was there and witnessed the birth. When she walked into the bathroom and saw what happened, she said to her mom, "You have a baby, cute."
"I feel like it stressed her out. But, now she is acting like a normal 2-year-old again," Eubanks said,
Luna Eubanks, 5, went to school and told her teacher all about the unexpected birth.
"She seems to be adjusting well," Eubanks said. "She is still a little scared of the bathroom, though.
"I always wanted to do the home-birth thing with a midwife," Eubanks added, "but not quite like this."
Eubanks said everyone is physically fine and that so far, there have been no negative effects.
She named her newborn son Corvid Kale.


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Captain Ned wrote:just brew it! wrote:Jeez, been a few years since I browsed that NeedleDoctor site I linked. Their "budget" phono cartridge category goes up to $650.
I've been trying to tell you that the Last Great Turntable Revolution (I think) has been on for 2-3 years.
I haven't bought vinyl LPs for years (literally decades). Other than my efforts to rip my old LP collection to FLAC, I don't listen to vinyl any more.
I was pretty anal back in the day, and would return LPs to the store repeatedly until I got one that was free from factory defects (warps, scratches, off-center center holes that caused audible pitch variation, foreign matter molded into the vinyl that caused audible "thumps", etc.). Sometimes this resulted in me running through the store's entire stock of a particular album over a period of several days; on a few occasions we (the store manager and I) even concluded that an entire run had been pressed from a bad master, since all had the exact same defect.
QA of vinyl LPs really was crap back in the day unless you paid a hefty premium for (and put up with the limited selection available from) specialty reissue labels like MFSL.
So... is the quality of current vinyl pressings any good, or is it just a hipster retro nostalgia thing?


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Dynamo broadcaster Glenn Davis is back on the air tonight with a new episode of Dynamo All-Access, presented by Houston Community College. The show will air on Yahoo! Sports Radio 1560 AM from 7-9 p.m.
Glenn has a packed lineup tonight, with rookie Dynamo forward Mark Sherrod, goalkeeper Tally Hall, head coach Dominic Kinnear and more. Call in and give Glenn your thoughts on the Dynamo's weekend tilt against the Vancouver Whitecaps!
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thirteenth employee jumped/fell from
a high roof or ledge at Foxconn's
Shenzhen factory in rural China. The young woman
reportedly survived and Foxconn is
disputing reports that she meant to take her life.The
factory in Shenzhen assembles Apple's the majority of Apple's iPads,
iPhones, and iPods – it also produces products for HP and Dell
among other manufacturers. After a string
of suicides, Apple has become alarmed and has pressured
Foxconn to seek solutions to stop the deaths.The deaths
are not unusual when compared to rural China's average suicide rates,
which are among the world's highest. However, they are unusual
for Chinese factories, which typically feature lower suicide rates.
For example, last year all of Foxconn's factory towns had only 3
reported suicides, one of which involved the suspicious
death of an employee who lost an iPhone prototype.In
addition to Buddhist
music, religious counseling, and an anger room (with dummies to
beat on with bats), Foxconn reportedly has adopted yet another tactic
-- having employees sign a letter promising not to kill themselves.
The letter reads [translated]:
Letter to Foxconn Colleagues
enthusiastically welcome you to the Foxconn Technology Co. family!
wish you happiness in crossing this career milestone into a great
stage in your life, Foxconn has provided you with this: A workplace
environment that will help you gain experience and wisdom; complete
living facilities; various entertainment venues, learning and sports
facilities, and activities; as well as a service staff that will help
resolve difficulties.
If you or your colleagues come across frustrations, grievances,
embarrassments in your work, daily activities, schooling, feelings,
family life, or health, you can ask for help by calling our "Worker
Care Center" hotline: 78585 (phonetically it sounds like "Please
help me, help me"). The company will arrange a professional to
help you or your colleague solve your problems. If your reports on
your colleagues helps prevent an accident, the company will provide
an adequate reward.
If you have other non-urgent problems, you can also contact the
Complaints hotline: 15000, trade union hotline: 81111, employee
suggestion box, and the trade union mailbox to make a report. The
company will also dispatch a professional to solve the issue.
the same time, please understand:
The company respects operational and management law, and respects and
cares about the staff.
The way the company deals with employee accidents is based in
national law and is in accordance with regulations, as well as the
principles of the corporation and humane care. As for the accidents
to employees (including suicide, self-mutilation, etc.), the company
cannot pay more than what is regulated, but will actively cooperate
with government departments according to the laws of compensation and
will work out a reasonable pension.
company is attaching importance to prevention programs, and will
continue their expansion. As a reminder, the company has especially
drafted this letter for you to sign.
wish you a smooth career and happy life with the Foxconn family!
Technology Co.
am aware of the contents of the open letter as well as the variety of
services and care the company is providing. I promise the following:
If I encounter problems and difficulties after entering the company,
I will ask for help from the "Employee Care Center" and
other related departments.
In terms of my own responsibilities, if I have great difficulties or
frustrations I will reach out to relatives to resolve them or report
them to the company director, I will also agree to contact and
communicate with colleagues, personal staff and relatives. However, I
will not harm myself or others; I agree that, in order for the
company to protect me and others, it can send me to a hospital should
I exhibit abnormal physical or mental problems.
In the event of non-accidental injuries (including suicide, self
mutilation, etc.), I agree that the company has acted properly in
accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and will not sue the
company, bring excessive demands, take drastic actions that would
damage the company's reputation or cause trouble that would hurt
normal operations.
confirm that I have read and am aware of these issues
(signature)Employee number:Residence number:Date:
employees are reportedly a bit nervous about the letter, as they
worry that it will give their supervisors grounds to have them
committed to a mental hospital if they disagree with them. They
may not have much choice in the matter, though; under pressure from
Apple, at this point Foxconn is willing to try just about anything to
stamp out the suicide trend.


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Outside of Nintendo, Sony probably has the most recognizable cast of characters. The only difference between the two companies is that Nintendo managed to find a way to bring those characters together in a mascot/mash-up brawler called Super Smash Bros. It's been over 10 years since Nintendo first introduced that game series which has been a (pardon the pun) smash hit among Nintendo fans.
Obviously seeing the demand for such a genre, Sony, 10 years later, has decided to step up to the plate and offer their own mascot brawler for PlayStation owners: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Although it's clearly inspired by its predecessor, PlayStation All-Stars has already drawn comparisons and unfair criticism to Super Smash. While the core of PlayStation All-Stars is awfully similar to what we've already seen before, Sony and SuperBot Entertainment have attempted to tweak a few gameplay elements to ensure PlayStation All-Stars stands as its own, original entity. Unfortunately, not all of those changes work to the game's advantage.
The first major change is the use of the Super meter and each character's corresponding Supers. Whereas in Super Smash Bros. you fight to do damage to the other opponent and increase their damage percentage, in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale you are dealing damage to increase your own Super meter. Once filled, players have the ability to perform their character's Super, which is the only way to eliminate the opponent and score points. There is no other way to eliminate an opponent than by successfully landing your Super move.
Each character has three different Supers which can be earned by building up the meter. Once the meter is filled once, you have the option of casting your Super or continuing to build to the next level. This creates a fun, little meta game of sorts, with each player struggling internally with the decision to use their level one Super or saving for the next, presumably stronger Super. The problem with saving, however, is that you run the risk of missing with your higher level one and potentially wasting all the time you spent saving. Of course, if you manage to save until level three, you're almost always guaranteed a triple kill.
The core combat in PlayStation All-Stars completely revolves around the meta game of your character's Supers. Although it's easy to assume that the level one Super is the weakest, level two a bit stronger, and level three the strongest. However, that's not always the case. Certain Super's may better fit your playstyle and for that reason it can't be assumed that way. It's also for that reason that you can't really judge the balance of each individual character's Supers. What works for you may not work for someone else.
It all comes down to your playstyle and preference. Perhaps you prefer a quick, single-elimination playstyle; then simply save until your level one Super and then strike. Or perhaps you like to go for the big bang and would rather wait until your level three. The decision is all yours and this sort-of-mini-game is what makes the concept of Supers so intriguing.
With all that being said, there are some drawbacks to the Super concept. The main drawback being the lack of fear for taking damage. There's more fear when you have to worry about not only dealing damage, but taking it as well. In PlayStation All-Stars you can get hit a thousand times and unless your opponent lands a Super, you'll be completely fine. Getting hit in PlayStation All-Stars does nothing but help your opponent increase their Super Meter, but that isn't enough to really make you fear getting hit. Who cares if you get hit as long as you hit them first; it turns the game into a button masher and who can get their Super off fastest rather than a strategic fighter. The lack of a damage meter is probably the game's biggest setback, and it spreads far beyond the Super meter.
All of the stages in PlayStation All-Stars are interactive and pose some sort of threat to the player. This threat is subdued, however, by the fact that you can't be eliminated or even take damage from it. Sure, you may lose some of your Super meter bar, but it's so easy to regenerate that there's really no lasting impact. For that reason, it's hard to really care about the environmental hazards, but it is cool to see them wreak havoc during the match.
The same can be said for item pick ups. Since there's no risk of being eliminated, why bother caring? Sure, they can help you steal your opponents Super meter once you hit them, but like I said, it's so easy to increase your Super meter on your own that it doesn't really matter. Still, slapping someone does provide a certain amount of joy.
It may sound like I'm hating on the entire Super meter, but the fact is that it's still an enjoyable system. It didn't ruin the gameplay for me, because when it's all said and done, the real joy in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale comes from the ability to pick your favorite Sony character and beat the hell out of others. Kratos vs Nathan Drake vs Sweet Tooth vs Cole MacGrath? Sign me up!
Outside of the Super meters, the combat in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is fast and fluid. Although each character has the same basic move concept, their moveset and specialties vary greatly. Some characters excel at close combat, while others shine at a distance. From a personal standpoint, I believe melee characters (Kratos, Big Daddy, Nariko) have an advantage over ranged characters (Colonel Radec, Nathan Drake), but I'm sure those ranged characters will have their fair share of expert players. The important thing here, outside of character balance, is that each character feels unique and authentic to their original game.
From the more modern Dante to the lesser-known Sir Daniel Fortesque, the character roster in PlayStation All-Stars will appeal to Sony fans of all ages. Each character's voice, music, introduction, and related stage are all authentic to the games they are from. For each character, you are given a short single-player story-type arcade mode with various types of matches. You are presented with a brief introduction, loosely explaining why they are participating in the PlayStation All-Stars battle, a short cutscene with their rival, and a final cinematic. It's not much in terms of storytelling, but it's enough to get the job done.
Outside of arcade mode, there are plenty of other goals and challenges to strive from. You have individual character challenges, game challenges, online tournament challenges, and much more to keep you busy. Successfully completing these challenges will level up each individual character you play as, unlocking new introductions, icons, clothing and colors, and sidekicks. With 20 characters, there's plenty in PlayStation All-Stars for you to strive for and unlock. That's not even including becoming the best in the world via the tournament ranked seasons.
On the surface, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale may appear to be nothing more than a clone and a gimmick, but beneath the basic concept of mascot-brawler, it offers so much more. A solid combat system coupled with an impressive cast of characters and a slew of unlockable challenges makes the game a fun romp with tons of replay value. For fans of Sony and the rich history of the PlayStation characters, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a must-have.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Sharks announced Monday that the team has been assigned quarterbacks Kyle Rowley and Lee Chapple. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.??
"We were put in a situation where we needed to act quickly, and we are excited to bring aboard a player with the championship experience of Kyle Rowley," Sharks head coach Les Moss said. "He is a quarterback with a long history of success in the indoor game, and we expect him to step in and help our team win games. In addition, Lee Chapple is a young talent who did a great job of competing during training camp, and is already familiar with our system and personnel. We're glad to have Lee back."
The 34-year-old Rowley (6'0", 195) is a fourth-year AFL veteran who began the 2013 season with the Orlando Predators. Appearing in five games with Orlando, Rowley completed 93 of his 180 passes for 1,153 yards, 18 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Before joining the Predators, Rowley enjoyed an outstanding three-year run with the Spokane Shock.
Rowley first played with the Shock in 2010, leading the team to the ArenaBowl XXIII title in the franchise's first season in the League. That year, Rowley completed 65.3% of his passes for 4,428 yards and 100 touchdowns against just 11 interceptions, setting what was a the time an AFL rookie record with a passer rating of 120.8. He capped that rookie season with a stellar nine-touchdown performance in ArenaBowl XXIII, earning ArenaBowl MVP honors in the process.
Returning to Spokane in 2011, Rowley again completed well over 60 percent of his passes, going 294-for-454 for 3,322 yards and 78 touchdowns. In his final year with the Shock in 2012, Rowley nearly hit the 100-touchdown mark for a second time, ending the year with 96 touchdown passes and a career-best 65.4% completion percentage. On June 23, 2012, Rowley established a new single-game AFL record by throwing 12 touchdowns against the San Jose SaberCats – though that record was tied by Utah quarterback Tommy Grady later in the season.
Prior to the start of his AFL career, Rowley gained significant experience in af2. In 2006, he led the Shock, then an af2 franchise, to an Arena Cup championship and was named the 2006 Arena Cup Offensive Player of the Game. The native of Warwick, Rhode Island spent his collegiate career at Brown University, leading the school to an Ivy League Championship in 1999.
The 23-year-old Chapple (6'1", 215) participated in the Sharks' training camp prior to the start of the 2013 season before being placed on recallable reassignment on March 16. Chapple is in his first season in the Arena Football League after wrapping up a stellar career at North Alabama, where he spent the final two years of his collegiate career. As a senior in 2011, Chapple led the Lions to a 9-3 regular-season record, completing 65% of his passes for 3,322 yards and 24 touchdowns against 12 interceptions. He also topped the 3,000-yard mark the previous year, totaling 3,051 yards and 21 scores against 12 interceptions as a junior in 2010. During that 2010 season, Chapple established a new single-game school record by racking up 447 passing yards in a game against Glenville State.??
Chapple transferred to North Alabama after spending three years at Georgia Southern. After redshirting in 2007, he appeared in seven games as a freshman in 2008 and served as the team's full-time starter in 2009. He completed 233 of his 360 passes (64.7%) for 1,774 yards and eight touchdowns during his final season at Georgia Southern. A native of Alpharetta, Georgia, Chapple attended Greater Atlanta Christian High School.
To make room for Rowley and Chapple on the team's active roster, the Sharks also announced Monday that quarterback Bernard Morris has been placed on inactive reserve, and quarterback R.J. Archer has been placed on league suspension. Following the transactions, the Jacksonville roster remains at the league maximum of 24 active players.
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Football is only "confusing and vexing" to people with room temperature IQs. Nuclear physics it is not. But the even dumber implication that women somehow find it "especially" confusing and vexing is absolutely misogynist.
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Date: December 12 2012
A second consecutive lay day has been called at the World Championship Tour season-ending Pipe Masters with minimal surf on offer in Hawaii.
Organisers will assess conditions again on Wednesday morning with the 2012 world title race down to a head-to-head battle between Australia's Joel Parkinson and 11-time world champion America's Kelly Slater.
It is anticipated the 10th and final stop on the ASP World Championship Tour will enjoy a promising swell later this week.
"As expected, we've got small conditions at Pipe this morning and have called competition off for today," Marty Thomas, contest director said. "The swell on the horizon looks good for an exciting finish to the event but, with that said, we'll still return tomorrow morning to make another official call."
Event organisers will reconvene on Wednesday at 6.30am (local time) to determine conditions for a possible 8am start.
When competition resumes, Gabriel Medina of Brazil, Australian Josh Kerr and American legend Slater will take to the water first in heat three of the fourth round.
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Deal for Victoria overpasses dumped
Oct. 12, 2010 at 5:12 a.m.
It appears plans to build two overpasses on Zac Lentz Parkway in northeast Victoria are dead because the city no longer intends to help pay for the project.
"Everything has changed," Mayor Will Armstrong said. "Our priorities have changed drastically since we went to Austin."
Randy Bena with the Texas Department of Transportation said that means funding for the overpasses probably won't be available again for 10 or 15 years.
"There is no other way to fund it within the Texas Department of Transportation," he said. "It's kind of a dead issue right now."
The city, county and state had agreed to help fund overpasses on the parkway at Mockingbird Lane near East High School and at Salem Road, the site of fatal crashes.
The estimated construction cost was $22.6 million, although the state believes bids could have come in as low as $18 million to $20 million, given the economy.
The commissioners court agreed earlier to pay $3.3 million of the local match over 11 years beginning in 2014. The city council agreed to pick up the balance of the local match of $9 million.
Victoria also planned to issue debt to pay for most of the rest of the cost, with the state reimbursing the city for the principal over time based on traffic volume. Interest on the debt was estimated at $7.8 million.
Bena said safety at the intersections is a concern if the overpasses aren't built.
He said the traffic signal at Mockingbird and the parkway, also called Loop 463, was intended to be a temporary fix until the overpass was built there. But he said that so far it appears to be handling traffic well.
The Salem Road intersection is Bena's biggest concern.
"We don't have any immediate plans to address it," he said. "I'm not sure how we will handle it."
The city sent a letter to the state on Oct. 7 notifying it the city no longer planned to participate in the deal. But it encourages the state to keep the project high on its priority list.
"Several council members believe that the overpasses on Loop 463 are a valuable worthwhile addition to the highway, but the current economic times make this contract too great a risk for the city," it states.
Armstrong said there are several reasons the city backed out of the proposed deal with the state.
He said city officials negotiated with the state wording that would allow Victoria to keep any state money left over after the project is done. He said it also negotiated a clause that would allow the city to get out of the deal if the cost came in so high over the estimate the city couldn't afford it.
"We thought we would get the agreement back immediately," Armstrong said. "They waited weeks and weeks and weeks."
When the contract proposal arrived, Armstrong said significant changes had been made.
The new wording stated that if there was city money left over, the state would keep it to spend on a project in the Yoakum District of the state transportation department, he said. It also stated the city could not get out of the contract under any circumstances.
"That's only part of it," Armstrong said. "Since all that time passed, our priorities have changed substantially."
Caterpillar has announced it will build a manufacturing plant at the Lone Tree Business Center and hundreds of trucks a day will be using John Stockbauer Drive, Armstrong said. It is in deteriorated condition and the city plans to rebuild it between the Houston Highway and U.S. Highway 59.
"If we did all of these projects, we would be locked in with no discretionary funds for five years," Armstrong said. "That weighed really, really heavily, I believe, on every city council member."
He said it's his opinion that the city also needs to reserve money to extend Airline Road east to property that has been offered for a destination university. He said that university could bring 5,000 to 10,000 students to the city.
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Discussion in 'Tennis Tips/Instruction' started by Power Game, Apr 3, 2005.
Grip Guide with Pictures:
Semiwestern Forehand:
One handed Western Backhand:
Eastern Backhand:
Eastern Forehand:
um thank you... nice racquet btw.
this is in the tennis magazine last issue i think but great post anyways.
Western Forehand:
2 Handed Backhand:
PLease keep in mind that there are many acceptable variations of any grip....
Very nice pictures. Thanks for taking the time to take and upload them.
Nice Head racquet, by the way
I'd like to take this time to mention a certain thing about one grip modern tennis...
...it is possible to use one grip to hit both the forehand and the backhand.
The western forehand grip and the eastern single-handed backhand grip are actually the same!
Also the semiwestern Forehand and western backhand...
powergame... i think they are opposite...
Powergame, that's a nice looking racquet, but could you take some pictures of it without your ugly hand?
donnyz they arent opposite, you just use the same side to hit a forehand as you do to hit a backhand
its a paintjob
duuuuude. sweet racket. i have the same ones. got three of those beauts. they're so awesome. i love em. they're even better with rubber bands as dampeners. i love the feel and spin. and the power! WOW! THE POWER! actually, there's pretty little power in those rackets, i'm just really strong. =) or maybe the spirit of Safin resides in my rackets... hehehe
What are you talking about?
Just a random thought, but everytime I see that racquet, my fingers cringe to the thought of stringing it with thick poly strings....
Sweet racquet nevertheless. Power Game, how hard is it to get deals with HEAD? I love that stick and wouldn't mind using the newer models either.
My wife just decided that there is someone geekier than I after she looked at this thread.
I'd also like to know... please enlighten me
Me? Why? I took these pics to help some kids with grips and I figured I might as well post them here so some people can benefit.
I use an eastern backhand grip and I'll be damned if that's the same as a western forehand grip. There's no way I can turn my wrist that far clockwise to hit a forehand with if I don't switch grips going from the eastern backhand to the forehand. I think you mean the western forehand and the western backhand use the same grip if you hit with the same side of the face.
I use a semi western forehand and an eastern backhand and they are mirror images of each other.
i don't get it, it just lokos like a LM prestige to me.
Many thanks for the great grip pics, Power Game. Now I have somewhere to refer to when people ask me what the various grips are. The grip pics at Turbo Tennis are too small.
Rickson, I think that you might have a different conception from most of what an eastern backhand grip is. I consider an eastern backhand grip to be first knuckle on the top bevel with the hand angled so that the line of the knuckles sits at roughly a thirty degree angle to the handle in the clockwise direction. A western forehand grip is the first knuckle on the bottom bevel of the grip with the hand at a similar angle to that of the eastern backhand, so if you hold a western forehand, rotate the racquet to the opposite side of the body, and turn the palm face down, you should have an eastern backhand and will hit with the same side of the racquet for both shots.
Maybe you consider an eastern backhand to be more towards continental, i.e. the top knuckle is on the edge of the bevel?
Bobby, you're thinking of a full eastern backhand grip aka western. The western forehand and the western backhand (full eastern) are matches, while what you're thinking about is probably a Hawaiian grip on the forehand side.
Hey Power Game,
I noticed that you also have a Head LM Radical tennis bag. Do you think you can take some pictures of that for me?
No, I don't have one.
Oh...I saw an orange, black, and grey bag in the picture and I thought it was a Head bag.
If you consider the backhand that I described to be a "western" backhand, then yes I agree that a western backhand and western forehand are matches. However, I think that many people refer to what I described for the backhand grip as simply being an eastern backhand grip, so an eastern backhand grip and western forehand grip would be the same. Also, I'm not sure why you think that I am thinking of a Hawaiian grip for the forehand. Isn't Hawaiian the continental grip with the wrist flipped around, i.e. not what I described?
Power Game: Good pictures and good effort. Your hand is beautiful!
I agree I think he may have mixed up the grips, but I'm not quite sure. Can anyone else confirm this?
The western forehand and the western backhand, aka extreme eastern backhand, use the same grip and the same side to hit with. The semi-western forehand and the eastern backhand do not take the same grip and are opposites in that they mirror each other. The eastern backhand would be the same grip as the Hawaiian grip.
I like his racquet better than his hand but whatever floats your boat
can anyone confirm whether or not they are mixed up and also what are the pros and cons of each grip
They are not mixed up, I promise. The more extreme you go the more spin you get and the harder it is to hit low balls.
Can't tell the difference
Hello all...I just found these forums a couple of weeks ago, and I think they are amazing. I've learned alot just from reading through some of the old posts.
Well, to cut to the chase....I'm having a problem seeing the difference between the Semi-Western and Western grips. They look the same to me.
When I play at net, I assume I am using an Eastern FH. From what I've gathered from reading the boards, Continental is the correct grip to use for net play.
I tried using the pictures posted on this thread for reference, but the images for Continental and Eastern FH look very similar. Can someone please help explain the difference? Thanks for your help!
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Cool, it is the eastern backhand grip I hit my slice and topspin serves with, but I use an eastern forehand grip for almost everything else (forehand, flat serve, forehand vollies, 2 hand backhand). I am trying to force myself to learn the continental on one-handed backhand vollies since it is easier clearing the net on low balls and for serving flat outwide since it adds more spin than when serving flat with eastern. Thanks for the photos.
Eastern backhand (2 bevels, 1/4 turn, left of eastern)
continental (1 bevel, 1/8 turn, left of eastern)
semi-western (1 bevel,1/8 turn, right of eastern)
western (2 bevels, 1/4 turn, right of eastern)
This place is just awesome. Does anyone remember the music video for Blind Melon's "No Rain"? That's how I feel. It's nice to find other people who are enthusiastic about tennis.
Thanks for the photos Powergame, and thanks for the text description Kevhen.
I have the same racquet ... the mid anyway ... not sure what you have there
But what are those black and white things between the grommet holes and string?
And why is the overgrip so short?
Ok i'm scared now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same as Naga, I can't tell the difference between the semi-western hand and western forehand in the pictures.
He probably uses a 1hb and doesn't need to wrap overgrip that high.
thats awesome nice pictures
acutally I have a 2 handed backhand, the overgrip was just too short. Yes, those are power pads.
I actually do have the same understandig of grips as Power Game.
To my knowledge the semi-western forehand is the exact same grip as the western back-hand or extreme eastern backhand.
These are actually the grips I use most of the time except I tend yo go more towards the eastern forehand when trying to go flatter on my forehand and more towards western on mid-court approaches.
What I find intriguing is that I can not keep the same grip going from one side to another. Altough the position shoud be the same they have some mino differences I can't tell.
Which grips are used for forehand and backhand slices? Volleys?
You use a continental grip for all those things. Here is a link to another grip guide: http://tennis.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?si...d=&tier=4&id=E0E25DFF246E45A4A9D6F005280C53F2
I'll post this link in addition to this thread in the 'Post Links to Useful Threads' sticky.
Continental grip for the forehand slice? That's wierd. I've been using the Eastern grip for that...
What's the difference between the Continental grip and the Western grip?
i use Continental for FH slice
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Unheralded defense helping Rays win
Upton proof that glovework has been key to ALCS success
By Mark Remme / MLB.com
In Tuesday's 13-4 win over the Red Sox in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, the younger, less experienced Rays out-everythinged the defending world champions. They scored relentlessly, ran the bases and pitched according to game plan.
Yes, there were three errors in the box score, but they were the first miscues this team committed all postseason -- a span of eight games.
Two of them came on a play where Evan Longoria tried to field and throw a ball as Jason Bay's broken bat sailed at the third baseman's head, and another came as B.J. Upton overran a ground ball in center field with the score already 13-3 in the eighth.
"I thought it [was going to hit me]," Longoria said after the game. "I wasn't even unhappy about the error. I was just happy I got underneath the bat."
Even with Longoria's mishaps, the Rays relied on keen defense to get out of that second inning without allowing a run. Coco Crisp grounded into double play neatly turned by second baseman Akinori Iwamura to shortstop Jason Bartlett and over to first.
That was only the beginning.
In the third, Iwamura snatched up another grounder and threw a ball to first that Carlos Pena stretched to make the play. In the fifth, Bartlett nabbed a Crisp grounder and hurled it to Pena with ease, proving his ability to make the necessary plays and then some at short.
It was the work of a poised group of infielders working together and yielding strong results.
Even the typical shift to defend David Ortiz's pull-hitting worked perfectly. Iwamura, playing in the right-field grass in the first inning, ended the frame and sent the Rays' bats back to work.
"We have Aki at second base, Bartlett at shortstop, Longoria at third," Pena said. "These guys can pick it. The next thing you know we have a solid infield and we're incredibly solid up the middle."
It's been a trend of Tampa Bay's all season long. The Rays were sixth in the American League with a .985 fielding percentage in 2008, and they yielded the fourth-fewest errors in the AL with 90.
"It was one of our more complete games tonight, I thought, in regard to all facets," manager Joe Maddon said. "I thought we made some really good defensive plays."
When looking for a highlight reel of exceedingly difficult catches that look simple, search no further than Upton in center.
The 23-year-old holds a certain amount of deceptive speed in his 6-foot-3 frame, using his legs to track down balls all over the grass in center without necessarily having to air out. His speed takes him to the spot almost effortlessly.
"He plays stellar center field," Pena said. "He makes it look so easy. The reason why it looks so easy is he has such long legs -- you think he's just jogging out there. But if you clock him he's going probably 40 miles per hour out there."
Fenway Park has one of the larger, more unconventional center fields in the Majors. With the irregular triangle that is 420 feet away from home plate at its deepest point, there's a lot of room to roam when tracking down fly balls.
Yet Upton did it five times on Tuesday. Not only did he make the catches, but he showed off his arm in the process.
In the seventh, with Bay at first, Upton retreated to snag a long fly ball by Mark Kotsay to the warning track, then fired a laser back to first keep Bay from advancing. It was the type of play that makes onlookers think the young talent has the makings of a Gold Glove Award-winning future.
"I was in awe, because he threw a ball from the wall all the way to first base and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? How can you do that?'" Pena said. "That's far. But that's how much talent that kid has. He can do it all.
"It got to me with force."
His manager, equally impressed, singled that seemingly meaningless play in the midst of a blowout contest as a defining moment for the defense.
"B.J. in center really roamed well, and you got to see his arm strength when he threw that ball to first base," Maddon said.
It might be the least talked about aspect of the Rays' success this postseason, but it certainly isn't undervalued by the team itself. Even with mistakes, everyone relies on each other to keep doing their jobs.
With Tampa Bay just one win in Thursday's Game 5 away from the first World Series trip in team history, it will again be the hitting and pitching that gets the headlines.
But take a moment to watch this unit field balls throughout the diamond. This defense, young and athletic, has the ability to yield plays as breathtaking as a shot over the Green Monster.
"Defense is important," Pena said. "You look at today. We didn't need that many runs, because of pitching and defense."
Mark Remme is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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On March 7, BMW employees will blow 97 candles - accurately gapped to a 0.5mm tolerance - off a flawlessly circular cake to celebrate the company's birthday. Slice allocation will be measured with a protractor. Laughing will be monitored. There will be no crumbs on the floor. NICHT KRÜMEL, MENSCHEN.
So we thought we'd join in on the celebrations by highlighting this classified ad - a rather tasty E12. And while it looks a lot like it's the first cool-looking BMW we found online, this car actually represents the German manufacturer's leap from small European car company to global luxury automaker. Well, this and a man called Eberhard von Kuenheim.
As well as a profoundly German name, Eberhard had many talents. Chiefly, he could grow car companies. He joined BMW as CEO in 1970 at just 40 years old after leaving Daimler-Benz AG. By 1971 he'd moved it to its now-iconic Munich HQ, architecturally modeled to look like four cylinders. A year later he signed off the 5 Series to replace the New Six saloons, and with it won over the American luxury market. It was a model that kick-started the brand's international presence, and contributed greatly to the 18-fold increase in turnover and four-fold increase in car production during his stewardship.Based on the 1970 2200ti Garmisch show car designed by Bertone, the E12 was built to compete with Mercedes' W114 model, which was effectively an E-Class equivalent. Like the Benz, it was offered with a huge breadth of engines, incorporating six and four-pot variants (but no diesel, thankfully) - you could have a 1.8 or 2.0-litre four pots, alternatively the six-pots were available as 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.0, or 3.5-litre units. Unless you were American…
Part of Eberhard's scheme was marketing US-market cars as posh saloons, so you could only buy a 530i or 528i. Inside, they were smeared with stuff like wood trim, electric windows, leather seats, and most got air conditioning as standard. But the American market imposed several restrictions, chiefly hideous bumpers designed to withstand a 5mph impact with no body damage. Despite looking dreadful compared with Euro-speccers, they flew out of showrooms, imbedding themselves - and the BMW brand - in the USA's upscale consciousness.
This is not one of the posh ones. It's a proper European, work-a-day 2.0-litre four cylinder BMW. It has an auto 'box, un-hideous bumpers, its original Biscay blue paintwork, sparkly factory britework and jet black grills on the C-pillar (they tend to go grey and horrid) - but most importantly, there's only 24,811 miles on the clock. Remarkable considering that this is the model that built BMW's brand identity.
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Sometimes it takes new tools to achieve the ends of an old idea.
The Biological Sciences Division, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has retrofitted a classroom in the biology building with active learning instructional tools.
Modeled off a SCALE-UP class, which stands for Student-Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies, the classroom positions the instructor literally in the center of the classroom among students. Dozens of large-screen Apple computers for students, a video camera and projection screens at two ends of the classroom are just some of the tools that promote instructor-to-student and student-to-student interaction.
A similar classroom was set up in the physics building in 2012. The Science Learning Center, which is scheduled to open in 2016, will have two SCALE-UP classrooms.
While the gadgets and classroom layout are new, the concept behind the pedagogical philosophy has been around for a while.
William Said, a senior lecturer and Distinguished Honors Professor in Franklin College's cellular biology department, alluded to this well-established concept during an advanced level Maymester biology and cellular biology class, the first class taught in the SCALE-UP classroom.
Said stood at an instructor's podium with an old-fashioned pencil and paper. He trained the video camera on the piece of paper as students watched the projector screens. Said wrote down a version of an old proverb about education: "Lecture me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will learn."
That involvement between instructor and students is the point of the SCALE-UP classroom.
The classroom can seat up to 45 students, with a computer for groups of three to share. Each computer's screen can be shown on the projectors for the entire class to see. This access to students' work fosters dialogue in class and allows the instructor to see how well students are learning class concepts.
Whereas students get the opportunity for hands-on experience with experimentation in labs, SCALE-UP classrooms offer the chance for students to better grasp concepts about understanding research results, said Mark Farmer, a professor and chair of the Division of Biological Sciences. In practice, Farmer said, working scientists use data to analyze what they are studying.
"That's how real science works," Farmer said.
In an active learning environment, students get the opportunity to work with data sets and figure out how to use them.
Farmer said exercises in the SCALE-UP classroom can make learning "much more realistic, much more meaningful and much closer to learning by doing rather than learning by memorizing."
If the first class, Said's Maymester course, was any indication of how students like the classroom, then there are promising signs.
"It's user friendly," said Katie Rowlett, a biology and psychology major. "Having a computer right in front of my face is nice because I can pull things up and show the class what I'm looking at."
The SCALE-UP renovation was jointly funded from the Office of the Vice President for Instruction and from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Farmer also credits staff in the Facilities Management Division for helping to prepare the class for renovation.
SCALE-UP classes have traditionally been used in physics and math classes, Farmer said, and not many universities use them for biology. So there are not many established lesson plans for using SCALE-UP in the life sciences.
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