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Come Party With Me: Halloween Bash — Invites
This Saturday night, I'm co-hosting a blowout Halloween Bash. My girlfriend Emily came to me at the end of September and asked if I would help her plan a costume party. Never one to say no to hosting a party, I excitedly said yes.
We decided on a date — the Saturday before Halloween — and got busy making invitations. We chose to send the invites via snail mail, instead of through email or Evite, in order to set the tone for the party and give everyone enough time to come fabulously disguised. To see how I made this simple yet spooky invite,
To make a similar invitation to the one seen here, you will need:
- cardstock
- transparent paper
- a stapler
- scissors
- computer and printer
- a fun Halloween image
To assemble the invite:
- Start by dragging your image to a new Word document or blank Photoshop file. My image of a bloody knife and splattered "blood" is a picture I took after I pitted several bunches of cherries while making ice cream sandwiches this Summer. Crop the image to your liking and add the text Come if you Dare... in a haunting font. (I used Lucida Blackletter in bold.) Print out a test copy and, if you're satisfied with the look, print it out on the transparent paper. Set aside.
- Create a new Word document and type out the details of the party. My invitation says:
…to a freakishly fabulous Halloween bash.
All goblins, ghosts and ghouls welcomed.
Come dressed in costume or be prepared to pay the price.
10 pm, October 27, 2007
San Francisco, CA 94117
Regrets only…
PartySugar 415.555.5555
Print out on a plain sheet of paper and carefully check for grammar and spelling mistakes. Ask someone else to take a look at it, because they might notice something you forgot. Once happy with the text, print it out on the cardstock.
- Cut both the front and back of the invitation down to size.
- With a stapler, staple the two sides to each other, back to back. Staple twice, making an X, on the left-hand side of the invite.
- Send in an envelope with the address written in your best handwriting.
Lots more of this party to come! Is anyone else hosting a costume bash? If so, tell me about your invites below.


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I far prefer dict.org [dict.org] when I'm unsure about the spelling of a word. Unfortunately I don't know of a definitive source for the correct use of phrases, but I don't trust Google blindly then either.
The reason is pretty simple: a lot of native English speakers are actually awful English speakers. (Which is not surprising. My native language is Greek and my secondary is German, and I've seen that the same goes for Greeks and Germans speaking their respective native languages shoddily.) A lot
Indeed, I would prefer to speak English like someone who could actually pass a basic English test. Maybe that's not a laudable goal.
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Butternut Squash and Kale Torte
This is how vegetarian fare should taste; layered like lasagna with flavorful vegetables and nutty cheese. If the torte feels too fancy, prepare it casserole-style in a baking dish and serve by scooping out portions.
Total Time:
Level: Moderate
Serves: 4
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- ½ small butternut squash (about 1 lb)
- 1 medium red onion
- 1 small bunch kale
- Kosher salt and pepper
- 1 medium Yukon gold potato (about 6 oz)
- 6 oz. thinly sliced provolone cheese (from the deli counter)
- 1 plum tomato
- ¼ c. grated Parmesan (1 oz)
- Crusty bread, for serving
- Heat oven to 425°F. Oil a 9-in. springform pan. Arrange half the butternut squash in the bottom of the pan, in concentric circles. Top with half the onion, separating the rings. Top with half the kale, drizzle with half the oil and season with 1/4 tsp salt. Top with the potatoes and half the provolone cheese.
- Top with remaining kale, drizzle with the remaining oil and season with 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper. Top with the remaining onion, tomatoes and provolone. Arrange the remaining squash on top and sprinkle with the Parmesan.
- Cover with foil, place on baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake until the vegetables are tender and the top is beginning to brown, 8 to 10 minutes more.
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The Falcons' Michael Turner—arrested Tuesday morning, hours after playing a game in Atlanta against the Broncos—is the 15th NFL player charged with an alcohol-related driving offense in 2012.
Turner also is at least the 22nd athlete in the four major sports—including the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball—arrested on such a charge this year.
For what it's worth, that's not a terrible rate, 22 out of about 3,600 players on active rosters between the four leagues. That's actually lower than the national average, according to statistics in recent years from the FBI and other federal agencies. Obviously, though, those arrests are much more widely known. After all, they're celebrities, with money and resources and opportunities.
That's the problem.
We'll never be able to reduce those numbers—15 in the NFL and 22 throughout big-time American sports in one year—to zero. But they should be a lot closer to zero—because the number of excuses they have for getting busted for DUI, or DWI, is pretty close to zero.
Few segments of our population have more ways to avoid a crime like that than pro athletes, NFL or otherwise. They have advantages that lots of drivers of all ages can't touch. But they're not using them. There's some kind of disconnect going on between them, their knowledge, their judgment and their decision-making. The messages are all around them. So is the help. They're not clicking at the right time.
Those disconnects could cost someone his or her life—maybe even that player's own life. Pitcher Josh Hancock of the St. Louis Cardinals learned that the hard way. When he was killed on a Missouri highway after a game early in the 2007 season, his blood-alcohol level was nearly double the legal limit; he had gone from the ballpark to a bar and was on his way to another bar.
Lots of people don't have the cash to get a cab, much less a limo, nor do they have the resources to use their employer's ride service. Pro athletes have a choice of all of the above—at least NFL players still do, as the league provides a program called "Safe Rides." Several teams do the same. And, of course, if they don't want to use that—and some have said they don't want teams to reach that far into their private lives—they can afford other means.
They also usually are surrounded by people who can (and should) support them. It might be teammates, or friends or relatives or agents or bodyguards or restaurant employees or club managers who don't want bad publicity—but players rarely are alone in public.
Ideally, they're capable of changing their friend's mind about getting behind the wheel, or adept at taking his keys away, or pinning him down before he even leaves.
When Jason Kidd, days after being traded to the Knicks, was arrested after driving into a tree in New York last summer after a party, photos surfaced of him being helped out by others at that party. None of them stopped him from driving, or he didn't listen to them—but again, some logical connection was broken.
There's also the notion that what the various leagues taught players in their rookie symposiums as they entered the league would have sunk in. The ones for the NBA and NFL are mandatory; players can get punished for skipping it or leaving early. The tales that get the most traction from there come from former and current players themselves, about how they failed to take advantage of what was laid out right before them over and over again.
Plus, no matter how much of a rookie or veteran that player is, they find out in a hurry how many eyes are on them wherever they go in public, and often in private—again, the kind of incentive the average over-indulger doesn't have as a deterrent.
Finally, their teams and leagues have a couple of tools at their disposal that, in a perfect world, should be effective. They have lots of ways to counsel players struggling even a little bit with such issues, from professionals to career-development staffers who often are former players. They also have the big stick of team or league discipline; if they don't think Roger Goodell or a David Stern will hit them hard for an incident that soils the reputation of the sport, then they probably don't have the attention span a big-time athlete needs.
It's almost as if you have to go out of your way, to try with all your might, to cross that line and commit an act as simplistically avoidable as driving while impaired. As if you're making a concerted effort to evade every possible obstacle to saving you from yourself.
That might be a bigger problem than any league can solve.
But at this point, after 15 arrests in one hyper-popular league in less than one calendar year, almost one on every other team in the NFL … everybody had better come together and solve the problem.
As much as they're doing, it's not working. They're not making the connection.
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Towers still believes in 25-man roster
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
BOSTON -- Not long ago, manager Kirk Gibson said he was hoping to have a more set starting lineup as the season wore on, but he is still searching for the right combination to settle on.
"I think what's made it difficult for him, we are a versatile team, but the problem is we have so many guys that are having down years," general manager Kevin Towers said. "It's hard for him to have a set lineup when he's trying to find that guy with a hot hand, and there aren't many guys with hot hands right now. He's at a point where he's trying to look at historically who has been good second-half finishers, who has numbers against pitchers -- maybe even if it was a year ago -- to try to put a lineup together. I don't blame Gibby at all for having to change it around a lot. We just don't have a lot of guys swinging the bat."
While the D-backs have had their share of stumbles in the rotation and in the bullpen, it's the offense that Towers said was most to blame for the team falling behind the Dodgers in the National League West.
Towers was asked if Triple-A shortstop Chris Owings, who is the organization's No. 4 prospect, might be called up to help provide an offensive spark, and he said probably not until the Triple-A season ended.
"I still believe in the guys that we have here," Towers said. "It's just the waiting and how much longer do you wait? It becomes frustrating, because guys will have down years, but it seems that almost the majority of our [players] have regressed. And it's not like they're old players. They're in the prime of their career."
The D-backs have reshaped their roster since Towers took over at the end of the 2010 season.
While that version of the D-backs featured lots of home runs, but lots of strikeouts, Towers has tried to remodel the offense to reduce the strikeouts and increase the activity on the bases.
"I knew we probably wouldn't be a club that would homer a lot," Towers said. "But I expected us to apply pressure, high on-base, moving runners, moving the line. We had a lot of guys who if you looked at them historically, that's the kind of hitters they were. But it's four months we've struggled now."
D-backs players play tourist at Fenway Park
BOSTON -- With the D-backs making a rare trip to Fenway Park, some of the players took advantage of the opportunity to play tourist.
Left-handers Wade Miley and Patrick Corbin took pictures up in the seats above the Green Monster before batting practice while others went into the wall itself to check it out.
Outfielder A.J. Pollock was raised in Connecticut and was a Red Sox fan as a kid.
"I grew up watching this team and it was probably my favorite place to go watch a game," Pollock said of Fenway.
Pollock, who was Arizona's leadoff hitter Friday, took batting practice at Fenway while he was playing in the Cape Cod Summer League.
"I'm going to be pretty excited," Pollock said of the first at-bat. "A little more adrenaline, but at the same time, it's still just a game and we've got to go and get things rolling here. It will last for a couple of minutes and then it's just a normal game."
Corbin, meanwhile, grew up a Yankees fan in upstate New York. Friday was the first time he had gotten to see Fenway in person. Corbin will start Saturday's game against Jake Peavy.
"It's just neat the history and everything here," Corbin said. "Probably a place I always wanted to come, but never had the opportunity. Now I've got the chance to pitch here."
Even manager Kirk Gibson, who has seen plenty in his years around the game, takes time to reflect when he comes to Fenway, which opened in 1912.
"Just think of the guys that have sat in this room," Gibson said from behind the visiting manager's desk. "The lockers, they're virtually the same. There's just been great players, great tradition, history and some great ballgames played here."
Snake bites
• D-backs catcher Miguel Montero, who was placed on the disabled list Thursday with lingering back issues, was scheduled to see Dr. Chris Yeung, the team's spine specialist, in Phoenix on Friday.
Towers said the team was hoping to learn whether anti-inflammatory medication or an epidural shot would be better treatments.
"We're not going to bring him back if he's not ready to be 100 percent," Gibson said. "That's why we put him on [the disabled list] and we'll have to wait until it's fully gone."
• The D-backs have not announced who will start for them in next week's two-game series against the Rays on Tuesday and Wednesday. The team is off on Monday, so it could skip a starter if it wanted.
Zeke Spruill was called up from Triple-A Reno to start Thursday against the Rangers, but the team has not decided whether he will get another start or be sent back down.
Brandon McCarthy is slated to come off the disabled list to start Sunday, while Trevor Cahill is supposed to make another injury rehab start Monday for Reno.
"Just day to day," Towers said of the rotation. "We have an off-day where you can kind of change things. Cahill is throwing again on Monday. We'll see how he does. We don't have to make a decision right off the bat. How McCarthy looks on Sunday, too. Where we're at, we have so many new pieces coming in, I hate to commit right away."
• Recently demoted left-hander Tyler Skaggs is not throwing as hard as he did a couple years ago, but Towers said that was a matter of mechanics not health.
"You wouldn't be able to throw the curveball with the torque that he has if his arm was bothering him," Towers said. "I think it's mechanical. We tried to look at delivery. He's more upright and not getting out over his front leg. He was kind of crouched when he was in the Futures Game a couple years ago and now he's more straight up and down."
Better fastball command is something the D-backs would like to see from Skaggs.
"He relies too much now on his secondary stuff," Towers said. "He has a great breaking ball and change-up, but in order to be effective up here, he has to have much more confidence in his fastball and be able to use his fastball more."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Donald Lawson of Lapeer, Michigan: $337 Million Powerball Lottery Winner
Donald Lawson of Lapeer, Michigan was revealed to be the lucky lottery winner of $337 million Aug. 15- the third largest Powerball jackpot ever. Friday, during the press conference, he said all his new millions won't change him.
Donald Lawson, the Lapeer, Michgan railroad engineer, did change one thing as soon as he won, though: he quit his job. He immediately called his boss and told him he wouldn't be making the night shift- ever. The 44-year-old man doesn't plan to change too much, though. The first thing he bought proves that.
"A pack of bubble gum," Lawson told a reporter who asked him about his first purchase after discovering his riches. Lawson opted for the $224 million lump sum, which after taxes came to $158 million.
"I'm a millionaire now but I'll still eat at McDonald's. I don't like filent mignon," he joked.
At the press conference, Lawson's picture was taken with a big check and Lottery Commissioner Scott Bowen, who put the Arkansas native's name on it. The numbers were 06-27-46-51-56, and the man claimed "something from above" guided him to pick the lucky numbers.
"Does that come tax free?" Lawson kidded. "My name goes there."
He was overwhelmed, however, when he first found out he won. The Powerball lottery winer- recipient of the largest prize ever in Michigan's history- kept moving the ticket once he found out he was the winner. The publicity sparked recognition in his hometown.
"Everyone just started coming to the house. [I put the ticket] on my Bible. I put [it] under my couch. It was on top of the refrigerator," he explained.
Still, besides his aspirations to help his daughters go to college, take care of his family, retire, and travel, he said he will budget.
"This money won't last forever if I don't budget it right," he admitted.


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Amber Cochran, Jonathan Miley and Amy Miller have already gained valuable experience working in the lab of biology professor Romi Burks.
This winter they will build on that experience by spending six weeks conducting research in Uruguay.
Burks is taking the three students to Uruguay with funds from a National Science Foundation grant she received in 2011. The grant is designed to help undergraduate students gain experience conducting international research.
Each of the students has designed their own research project to do in Uruguay. The projects all focus on species of apple snails that belong to a diverse family of mollusks known as Ampullariidae.
"This family provides an exciting model to ask questions about biodiversity, conservation, phylogeography and ecology," Burks said.
Cochran, who is a senior biology major, plans to compare the hatching efficiencies and growth rates of two species of apple snails: Pomacea megastoma, which lays its eggs on rocks, and Pomacea maculata, which lays its eggs primarily on plants. Burks said both species display similar reproductive behaviors, but so far only Pomacea maculata has been transported outside of South America, and has established several exotic, invasive populations globally. Comparing the two species may help Burks and Cochran understand what makes Pomacea maculata such a successful exotic, invasive species.
Miley, who is a senior biology major, plans to study the hybridization between several different species of apple snails − Pomacea maculata, Pomacea megastoma and Pomacea canaliculata – both in their native range and in non-native ranges where possible. He will bring back tissue samples to look at gene sequences for evidence of gene flow or exchange.
"Studying hybridization helps us understand the genetic diversity found within this genus of apple snails," Burks said.
Miller, who is a sophomore animal behavior major, will study three species of apple snails within the genus Felipponea that are native to Uruguay. In contrast to species within the genus Pomacea, which lay bright pink eggs above the water's surface, species within the genus Felipponea spend their entire life in the water and lay small groups of gelatinous green eggs. The Felipponea snails are found in the Rio Uruguay, a system noted for its conservation value.
"Compared to Pomacea, not much has been published about these specific apple snails," Miller said.
Burks said the work done by Miller and the other students can lead to novel, and hopefully publishable, results.
Kenneth Hayes, an evolutionary and conservation biologist who is the co-principal investigator on the NSF grant, spent two weeks at Southwestern this fall helping Burks and her students develop their research projects. He and a colleague also set up a molecular ecology lab that will enable the students to process tissue samples for DNA analysis when they come back from the trip.
Two students from the University of Hawaii – which is a partner on the NSF grant – will be joining the Southwestern students in Uruguay. The research expeditions in Uruguay will be led by Uruguayan malacologist Cristhian Clavijo (malocologists are people who study mollusks).
Before the students embark on their field research, they will spend some time at the Natural History Museum in Montevideo, where they will have the opportunity to meet internationally respected malacologist Fabrizio Scarabino.
They also will attend a day-long symposium on apple snails that is being held in Maldonado, Uruguay, and have the opportunity to collaborate on on-going field experiments directed by Mariana Meerhoff, an associate professor from the University of the Republic who is based in Maldonado.
"By the end of this trip, all the students will be better malacologists," Burks said. "The world of science needs more participants who value invertebrate diversity."


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Discussion in 'Tennis Tips/Instruction' started by effortless, Sep 26, 2012.
Title is self explanatory
It's impossible to answer that, while there are obvious pros and cons, the biggest factor is personal preference and how one's body mechanic produce power.
Someone that relies on timing may not need the longer backswing with more potential energy, and can easily outhits one who relies on brute strength and longer backswing.
Also, it depends on the shot. Service returns, compact swings are better. Volleys should have zero swing. Picking stuff up off the ground should have little to no swing. Blah blah blah.
You can't just have one type of swing for your entire game.
But if you have to ask which is better on any given shot, I'm going to say shorter backswing is better. The game of tennis and sports is to keep things simple: the less moving parts you have, the less likely you'll make a mistake.
I would leave technicalities for coaches but I can tell you from my own experience, my backswing was always big 'cos that's how I've been playing for nearly 30 years. The problem is with faster ball exchange, where I tend to get a bit late. Shorter backswings in modern shots make strokes more compact and it's relatively easier to deal with faster paced balls. I'm in the process of rebuilding my forehand but it's not that simple to remove something that's been ingrained for years. I keep trying though.
Compact backswing, long follow-through.
Seems like more people prefer short compact swings.
But doesn't a longer swing mean more power? In that case wouldn't you want a long swing when you have time to wind up for ground shots?
I personally think there are benefits to both. The reason i started this thread is that to me it seems too many people are advising other players to have short compact ground shots and i'm not sure that is right.
If you hit with timing, power (or lack thereof) becomes a non-issue. Not to mention, it's easier on the body.
But yes, longer swing generally mean more power, but how much more does one need? However, like I said, if you time it right, a massive swing won't give you that much more power.
You definitely need to have both, but you'll be surprised by how many winners/forced you can get by just blocking and flicking **** back.
It's all about timing. Look at 2hdb for example. The swing is obstructed with your other hand crossing the body but when timed properly, those balls are like cannons.
If someone gives you a weak shot you can't generate a fast shot with only good timing.You need to generate your own racquet head speed. I agree that with good timing you can block a fast shot back as a winner if you only have a very short swing. But there are occasions when you need a long swing.
In my opinion a player should have the ability to generate as much power as possible when they have the opportunity to do so.
If you have short backswings you can benefit from hitting the ball on the rise.
it depends on how much time you have to hit the shot
A lot of variables to be honest. The first thing you want to look at is, regardless of size of backswing, do you have a consistent contact point? If you don't, then that means your backswing is masking problems with your unit turn (or a complete lack thereof.)
The "correct" size of your backswing can be determined by the one-foot drill. Standing on just your plant foot, go through your complete swing. If your backswing is significantly smaller, then that means your normal backswing is covering up a hitch.
Alright, I think we're beating on a dead horse here. It's pretty obvious that OP likes to have long, epic, Earth shattering swings.
Just so you know, power isn't everything. What you gain with power, you lose on precision. And as I mentioned before, the more moving parts you have, the less accurate and consistent you'll be simply because there are more opportunities for stuff to break down.
Here are a few examples:
Fernando Gonzales - monster backswing loop, monster forehand:
Juan Martin del Potro - medium backswing, still a big forehand:
Andre Agassi - more of a straight takeback, due to the fact that he was usually hitting the ball on the rise, at shoulder level.
Agassi is usually used as an example of a pro with a shorter takeback, but if you watch more videos of him playing, you can see that he also had the tendency to do a loop when he had more time to prepare for the shot.
The general trend is, the bigger (more loopy) the backswing, the more powerful the shot.
At the park, I see all the time guys with a really short takeback, simply lowering the racquet at knee level behind them, and then just hitting up from there. But this way they "muscle the ball" instead of using the swing of the racquet to generate energy, and they can't really put enough power behind their shot.
Personally, I like Del Potro's swing. It is a relatively simple, clean motion, and is easy to imitate.
But when I have more time to prepare for the shot, I still go for a Gonzales monster winner!
A longer swing will take less effort to generate racquet head speed. Theoretically, less effort means it will be easier to be accurate with your swing (and to hit the ball in the center of the racquet). However the nature of the game (speed and depth of ball coming at you) mitigate some of these advantages.
My opinion is shorter backswings are MUCH better. I think Agassi ground strokes or Federer's FH with compact backswings and full WW follow-thrus have inherit advantages. At higher levels, a full backswing will be difficult as you will not have as much time and timing the hit will be more difficult. Also, shorter swings have less moving parts which equates to less things to go wrong in my view.
But, Soderling had massive swings and did well with them. So, it can work either way but I strong feel compact backswings are the way to go. Some WTA players also have longer backswings like Wozniacki.
My rule of thumb is the entire swing should be in front of your shoulders - you pivot the shoulder to the side as part of the prep and from there, the hand and racket head should start entirely in front of you chest/shoulders. The racket head should never go so far back that your opponent can see it sticking out from behind you back.
IMO, your swing should be generated primarily by upper body rotation and arm supination/pronation, not by swinging independently with the arm from the shoulder. A long unit turn will get your chest to about 4 O'Clock (from above). That's where your racquet face should be pointing as well. I hope that answers your question.
I think this is where the discussion should head. It is kind of hard not to have a longer backswing if you are getting good trunk rotation. I think people should get good trunk rotation and pull the racquet back far enough that the buttcap faces the net and then let it rip.
If people are not getting good trunk rotation and trying to hit everything open stance with a short backswing, then it is my guess that they are just arming the ball and not getting the body involved. And there is always time to properly set up for a hard hit rally shot if one does a proper split step, gets their shoulders turned and has good footwork and speed. If a player doesn't have those fundamentals down solid it is useless to circumvent them by using a compact swing.
What is the source of power on the forehand, the arm or the rapid recoil of the hip and shoulder back to the ball?
Which takeback provides better timing for the rapid recoil, getting the racquet in the slot with the arm extended in stretch for the best potential to rapidly accelerate out of "the butt pointed at the ball" position?
The best backswing is the one you don't have to think about.
No. I like you Say Chi but don't just assume that i have a long, earth shattering backswing. I use a different swing depending on what has been delivered by my opponent. The reason i started this thread was that i felt too many people were advising other players to have short backswings. I think this is good advice for a beginner or intermediate who wants consistency, simplicity and placement. But there comes a point in one's game where i think you need the ability to potentially hit a powerful shot with a long back swing.
In charliefederer's photos you can see that they all have medium to long backswings. To generate your own power you need to use your whole body (legs, torso, shoulders, arm, wrist). I think a long to medium backswing makes this easier.
Good post . I would describe Federer as having a medium back swing though (he hits the ball differently all the time). The thing is pros alter their swing depending on the shot. E.g. Agassi used a shortish backswing most of the time but if he had to generate his own pace he could do so with a more loopy take back. He had the ability to do it if he needed it.
"Better" for who and what ball, what's the idea behind the shot?
Incoming balls, hard hit, deep and tons of spin, you're more consistent with a shorter backswing.
Incoming balls, something you can handle, a big swing allows you to effortless hit a bigger ball.
Incoming ball, slow and popped up, favors EITHER. A short backswing can generate enough power to hit a good shot, as does a long backswing.
Now if you swing short and compact, you cannot swing well with a long loop.
Conversely, if you naturally flow into long loopy strokes, you never be content with the lack of power using a short compact stroke.
a shorter backswing has less moving parts and is generally harder to get the timing perfect
Really? I find a long backswing has more moving parts and generally harder to get the timing perfect.
I love compact backswings and I think I do fine with one. However, everyone seems to tell me I need a bigger backswing
gotta disagree with that. I use a short to medium backswing for normal/heavy rally balls, but if its a putaway then i take the big swing to add some juice into the shot.
well most of the power today comes from the hip and spine rotation in the modern swings. that means as long as you coil your body enough away from the target (closing the shoulders) you can still hit hard even if you don't have a huge arm and racket lift.
most of the "long swing" appearance of the pro strokes is because they are doing a full shoulder turn which you should do.
I don't like a pure rotation backswing though. this can lead to a swing that relies too much on body rotation and neglects a nice independet arm whip at the end. so I like a little racket lift at the end of the turn so that the elbow is at least in a 45 degree angle away from the body.
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by far is not a name that most Americans are familiar with. The top
search destination for Chinese users is Baidu – Baidu holds 63.9%
of the Chinese search market reports Reuters. That leaves
Google in second place with 31.3% of the search market.
reports that the Chinese search market is very lucrative with a value
of $293 million in Q3 2009. Microsoft is looking to increase the
popularity of its Bing search engine in China and the software giant
announced this week that China is its most important strategic market
for search.
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because it is home to the world's largest internet population with
more than 350 million users. Bing has been available in China as a
beta product for a while now, but has not made a significant impact
in the market so far. Even Google is currently little threat to
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users is mobile apps that work on 25 different devices, including an
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NYIFC Top Ten Hockey Items to Drop/Crush
Kjoy.com along with USA Today Kevin Allen reporting Bryan Berard has been invited to Flyers camp in his blog is about all that's happening.
Delcotimes.com: Anthony J. Sanfilippo has Berard's comments on his tryout with Philadelphia along with those of general manager Paul Holmgren.
I'm sure a few older folks remember this on television so I thought being that this is the time of year we see articles about things folks want to change around the NHL in that spirit here at NYIFC we would give our own list of requests as what we would like to see dropped or crushed in terms of hockey.
1. The Eric Lindros (smile) Bobblehead doll.
2. The Shoe Mike Milbury used to beat up a Ranger fan. (Fan/Milbury not included)
3. A nice big bowl of Wendy's Double-Chili.
4. The Mark Messier Leadership Award.
5. A pair of those Roberto Luongo overstuffed pads.
6. Some Red Wings Octopus.
7. The Marine Midland Arena (Buffalo Sabres) first scoreboard.
8. Those ugly Reebok Edge NHL jerseys filled with all the water they hold.
9. Billy Smith's Thirty one cases of Budweiser from his retirement ceremony.
10. Those larger goal nets to match Luongo's pads.
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1) An Eric Lindros bobblehead. A tad redundant? ; )ReplyDelete
2) Never get tired of seeing that Milbury MSG footage!
3) 'Double chili' was a 10 goal game against the rangers if we recall? They didn't like it if we remember. LOL
4) The Messier picture is just plane disturbing.
1) Never saw the Lindros bobblehead and that would look great in the crusher.ReplyDelete
2) Something with Milbury seemed to fit so why not pick is most popular moment.
3) Double Chilli was something the Isles brought back but I was at this 10-5 game and used to have an audio tape and the place was going wild when the Isles took a game they were trailing 1-0 and made it 8-1.
4) There is no picture of Messier's award by itself of value so I picked something everyone could laugh at.
Thirteen hundred blogs and I think that's the first one that actually went away from serious hockey discussion.
I have one more I'm saving along these lines I may or may not release but that will be it until next August.
The KJOY link doesn't work. Looks like there is something wrong with their site. I want to hear what Gordon has to say. Let me know if you get an updated link.ReplyDelete
Hi Patrick,ReplyDelete
I checked the link twice (after you posted this) and both times it brought me to the page and the listen/download for the interview which was right on the main page.
There was no direct link to the interview itself, just the page but here it is again:
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Coinciding with the release of their new album Music From Another Dimension! – and to provide Boston residents with a memorable Monday afternoon – Aerosmith have revealed plans to perform a surprise concert at an undisclosed location in the city on November 5th, the day before the album comes out.
According to a press release, the band is "planning to show up somewhere in the city, around noon, and play on the streets." No other details have been provided. The press release goes on to say, "Well, they would LIKE to tell us more, but they're cooperating with authorities who will let them reveal the location the morning of November 5."
Aerosmith is also celebrating Election Day (November 6), and is encouraging people to get out and vote. "Anyone who votes is a Freedom Fighter," guitarist Joe Perry said in the release.
It'll be a busy week for the band, as they kick off the second leg of their Global Warming Tour on November 8th in Oklahoma City. As with the first leg, Cheap Trick is the opening act.
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text: Besides the Bat-nipples. (Yes, everyone hates them.) Granted it's not as universally despised as its immediate successor, but I think Forever catches more than its fair share of flack from detractors. As I sit here watching it on AMC, it's just as good to me now as it was when I was ten. There are things that I would have done differently, but there are probably as many if not more things I would have done differently in Burton's first two films. I also happen to think Forever has aged better than either of Burton's two films. People cite the colorful, cartoony quality of Forever as a detriment, but this is a film based on a comic book, and if you like TAS (and I think most card-carrying Bat-fans do) then I think it's difficult to argue against the cartoonyness. It's a different approach, that in this case IMO works decently. I do feel that there was too much going on. I guess after Returns had two villains, it was deemed necessary that Forever have two villains, and add a sidekick. I don't mind Two Face being behind the deaths of the Graysons, but I do hate the way Two Face's origin was so quickly glossed over in favor of the origin for Jim Carrey's spastically different but IMO interesting take on the Riddler. The studio obviously wanted Joker 2.0 with the Riddler, but I think this Riddler distinguished himself nicely from the Joker. (And, I might point out, we didn't end up with Marlon Wayans as the Boy Wonder as Tim Burton might have had.) So, what don't you like?


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I have a 05 Xterra with 35k and i have for some time now a vibration sound from mostly the rear when at a stop light. It seems to be more extream now with the more mile i put on it. And the cold weather seems to inhance it.. I have had it in the shop a couple of times and can't find what the problem is! I hear there are a few others out there that have this problem! I have 500 miles left on teh warrenty and would like to get it fixed!! Its getting really bad now! Any one out there have this problem?
Mine is a 06 and has the same issue it's driving me crazy. Could you find a solution to it? Please let me know if so, my warranty is over in 7 months.
I still have the problem but it comes and go's.. I have 37,860 miles on it and I notice if the weather is cold it seems to be more intense.. and then when the weather is warm it won't do it until i turn the AC on.. Some times it will not happen for the longest time and then it appears again. I have taken it to the Nissan dealership several times and once they did replace the engine mounts but that just soften the sound for a while! I suggest taking it there seval times and keep record of it.. I did contact and sent an email to the Nissan consumer affairs dept is email@example.com and let them know about the problem in case one of these days it becomes an expensive repair or possible recall..
Good luck!
I am haveing the same problem & nissan employes are no help , so if you found out what the problem is please let me know.
edaisyf Posts: 1I have the same problem. I notice it mainly when I step on the gas. My xterra is a 2000 with 240,000 miles on it. Other than this small problem its been great!
lmd0007 Posts: 1I have a 08 that vibrates at idle in or out of gear but it seems to come from the front of the vehicle and is intermittent. Sometimes the whole vehicle shakes and seems to be worse when the A/C is on. The dealer replaced the crankshaft pulley saying it was warped but that didn't make any difference in the vibration problem. I need to get it back into the dealer as the warranty is up in 6k miles. The local dealer hasn't been very good at servicing problems in the past especially when it is under warrantly. Anyone else have the vibration coming from the engine area??l
tjjackson01 Posts: 1I recently purchased a 2009 Xterra and am experiencing the same issue with the intermittent vibrations sounds. It has not occured to me that the air conditioning running may have been a factor. I have e-mailed the Nissan Customer Service and am awaiting a response. Truck was purchased with 28K.
fuzzyfrankie Posts: 2I just bought a 2010 Xterra Off Road last week and on a long road trip I noticed a high pitched squeak in the rear of my Xterra. I had it loaded with stuff but it was making the noise before that. I tried to get my rear passengers to pin-point the noise but they couldn't. The noise ended up going away and hasn't come back but now I'm afraid it will.
christie11 Posts: 1I have an 07 Xterra with 43,000 miles on it. I hear a vibration in the front end when it's shifting between low gears (especially after I'm stopped at a light). I just bought it in November and haven't used the AC so mine's not mutually exclusive to the AC being on.
I also have the high-pitched squeak coming from the rear end when I go over bumps (no matter the size). It's driving me crazy. I am taking it to the dealership this week to get looked at. Anyone have any luck of finding out what's going on or getting their problem fixed?
corey53 Posts: 1I have an 08 Xterra with 35k on it, I started hearing a vibration noise coming from the front of the vehicle mainly when accelarating or changing gear.
What I found to be the problem with mine was the exhaust rattling. There are several points where there is an exhaust shielld above the exhaust pipe and the pipe is attached to the shield with a steel band. The In two of these places the steel bands had rusted away causing the exhaust pipe to rattle against the upper shield.
I just bought a couple of hose clamps from the hardware store and tightened swapped them for the rusted steel bands. I hope this is the same problem some of you are having, because it is a quick fix.
monsterz Posts: 1Exactly the same problem with my 08 Xterra (45k) - found a broken steel band (rust) this morning. I guess the pipe rattles against the metal shield (pretty noisy)
Do you know - do I need to put some damp material between the shield and the pipe before I tighten the pipe with the hose clamp? Anyone else did this? Thanks -


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Breathing Mechanisms in Aikido
by James Loeser
In humans, breath control is initiated and
maintained by the central nervous system (CNS). First, the CNS must produce a rhythm for
the periodic cycle of contraction and relaxation of respiratory muscles. Second, the CNS
must adapt and adjust this rhythm so that the appropriate inhalation and exhalation of the
lung is maintained for proper blood gas (dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide) homeostasis.
Third, the CNS must integrate respiratory movements with other body movements such as
speech, swallowing, postural changes, and locomotion.
To produce rhythmic respiratory action, the
CNS operates by utilizing aggregates of motoneurons nerves that connect directly to
and stimulate muscles. Motoneurons responsible for the breathing mechanism originate at
the brainstem (rear side of the lower head and upper neck) and extend to the lumbar (lower
back) regions of the spinal cord; motoneurons carry an excitatory signal from the
brainstem, down the spine, to respiratory muscles, which contract upon stimulation. The
minimum neural circuitry necessary for the pattern generation of rhythmic breathing is
contained within the pons and medulla, located within the brainstem. In mammals, rhythmic
contraction of the respiratory muscles continues to function even after the cerebrum and
cerebellum have been removed. The cerebrum controls higher cognitive function, such as
thought, logic, emotion, and memory, and the cerebellum is responsible for the regulation
and coordination of complex voluntary muscular movement as well as the maintenance of
posture and balance. Thus, the brainstem alone is responsible for rhythmic generation of
your breath patterns; moreover, breathing patterns can persist even if the rest of the
brain is clinically dead. However, simple rhythmic breathing is not conducive to survival
in a dynamic world, and the CNS must adjust breathing patterns to adapt to changing
internal and external environments.
When you engage in strenuous exercise, your
tissues require increasing amounts of oxygen to maintain heightened activity levels. The
CNS must determine how much to increase breathing rate to adequately supply the body with
oxygen, while expelling used up oxygen in the form of carbon dioxide. To determine the
adequacy of ventilation and to optimize the effort expended in breathing, the CNS depends
upon feedback from chemoreceptors. Chemoreceptors are molecules on the surface of cells in
the body that respond to specific chemicals or molecules, such as oxygen, and their
essential function in breathing is to provide information to the brainstem about the
status of respiratory gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) so that optimal activity levels
can be maintained. If chemoreceptors found in major blood vessels detect
increased levels of carbon dioxide or decreased levels of oxygen, they send this
information to the brainstem. The brainstem then sends signals to the respiratory muscles
to increase the tempo and depth of breathing. The major respiratory muscles that make
breathing possible are the diaphragm, which separates the abdominal (stomach) and thoracic
(chest) cavities, and the intercostal muscle groups, which are located between the ribs.
Normal breathing is accomplished by contracting the dome-shaped diaphragm downward into a
flat shape. This contraction increases the volume of the thoracic cavity and lowers the
pressure inside the lungs. Since air prefers low pressure to high-pressure environments,
air is sucked in through the nostrils, travels down the windpipe, and enters the lungs
(i.e., inhalation). We exhale by relaxing the diaphragm a primarily passive
process into its original dome shape, which decreases the volume of the thoracic
cavity and raises the pressure inside the lungs, thereby, pushing the air inside the lungs
to a lower pressure outside the lungs. During heavy breathing the intercostal muscle
groups are engaged, in addition to a deeper diaphragm contraction, which lifts the rib
cage up and outward, further increasing the volume of the thoracic cavity and drawing more
air into the lungs. In addition, muscle groups in the throat and neck may be contracted or
relaxed to decelerate or accelerate forced airflow created by the respiratory muscles.
Furthermore, muscles of the abdominal wall (external abdominal oblique, internal abdominal
oblique, transversus abdominis, and rectus abdominous) may be contracted, stabilizing the
spine during heavy lifting or sudden, explosive movement.
With the scientific understanding of
breathing outlined, we can better appreciate, from a Western point of view, the importance
of breathing in Aikido. Aikido ("Ai" = blending, joining; "Ki" =
internal, life energy; "Do" = way, path) training requires a holistic retraining
of the of the mind and a complete reconfiguration of the muscles in the body is necessary;
one must learn to deconstruct their present conceptual system and unlearn all previously
learned and conditioned responses. Technique alone is not sufficient in Aikido; the
psychophysiological state of the Aikidoka is more important than the mechanics of
movement. Aikido proficiency requires one to extend Ki, and the Aikidoka must be in
a centered state of being to successfully do so. Aikido techniques should be
executed through ones hara the location of ones spirit (source of
Ki) and ones center of mass, located about two inches below the navel. Ones
awareness radiates outward from the hara, bestowing equanimity, stability, and
freedom from doubt and anxiety. The hara is also the ones physical center
from which all major muscle groups symmetrically radiate. Fundamental Aikido skills teach
one to begin movement from the hara and allow this initial movement to flow outward
into ones surroundings. Once aware of your centered physical state, you may
begin to enter a centered mental state of being. When you are centered
physically and mentally, you can effectively extend Ki. Thus, a centered
state of being requires both a physical and a mental transformation.
To extend Ki, one must center
both the physical and the mental organism. In Japanese culture, breath joins the mind and
the body, and breathing techniques are used to attain a centered state. In Aikido,
Misogi (literally, "ritual purification") breathing focuses ones physical
and mental awareness in the hara. During Misogi breathing, the practitioner
comfortably sits seiza (on ones knees) or cross-legged, with spine erect. He slowly
draws breath in through the nostrils and to the hara, and then he takes a moment to
focus all of his awareness in the hara. Slowly, he releases his breath from the hara
and out through his mouth, while visualizing all tension, negative emotion, and illness
leaving his body with the expelled breath. After many repetitions, the practitioner will
begin to relax and feel revitalized; an experienced practitioner will quickly enter a
trance-like, hypnotic state, and, among other experiences, he will "see" a
thick, cleansing fog being drawn into the nostrils and a murky cloud exiting the mouth.
Therefore, breath is ones peace, freedom, and power, i.e., ones centered
state. This centered state resembles accounts of the physical and mental state of
great athletes at the height of achievement, sometimes referred to as "entering the zone"
in athletics. Similarities between being centered and entering the zone are
thoughtless, reflexive action, heightened awareness of oneself and ones
surroundings, time dilation, merged peripheral and focused vision, and diminution of
physiological reflex mechanisms.
With the physical and the mental state centered,
the Aikidoka can now extend Ki in the execution of his techniques. First, the
Aikidoka must reflexively react to an attack, and, to successfully do so, he must be aware
of the automatic system regulating breathing patterns in the body. Second, the Aikidoka
must enter and remain in a centered state of being, and, to successfully do so, he
must become familiar with and eventually learn to control the CNSs response to
increased demands of oxygen required to sustain heightened activity levels. Third, he must
learn voluntary control over muscles involved in breathing to produce efficient breathing
and coordinated, effective movement.
When a beginning student of Aikido is
attacked, his unconscious bodily reactions will cause his breathing and movement to be
inefficient. His natural breathing pattern will increase in tempo and depth, causing a
greater but inefficient exchange of respiratory gasses. His throat and neck muscles will
contract which protect the soft tissues under the muscle but also lead to restricted
airflow. Muscles in the abdominal area will contract to form a more solid base, but are
often overstimulated, depleting energy reserves. The number and frequency of neural
charges will increase causing his senses to be heightened, but the beginner will become
overwhelmed by sensory input, causing confusion and disorientation. The increase in neural
charges also causes natural reflexes to be enhanced, but can lead to overreaction. All of
these natural responses begin with heightened breathing activity, and are inefficient and
not conducive to sustained movement. On the other hand, the expert Aikidoka is cognizant
of his bodys reaction to automatic systems, can control his central nervous
systems response to an attack, and has learned voluntary control over unconscious
bodily movements.
By focusing on the automatic breathing
pattern generated by the CNS, the advancing Aikidoka will become aware of this natural
cycle, and he will soon realize that the natural pattern is often times too rapid for
present activity levels. In addition, one will recognize that the throat and neck muscles
are tensed up, causing airflow to be restricted. Recent neurological studies of the brain
have demonstrated the plasticity of the human brain. In other words, the brain is not
immutably "hardwired," and it may reorganize itself to better serve the organism
and adapt to its changing internal and external environments. Since we have the ability to
retrain our automatic breathing rhythms, we have the ability to customize more efficient
breathing patterns; typically a slower, deeper pace is most suitable. Also, the Aikidoka
will learn to relax muscles involved in breathing that will up open airflow. Thus, the
body will have a more efficient mechanism to supply its tissues with oxygen, while
allowing the body to relax by decreasing the number and intensity of neural impulses
reaching the CNSs breathing center. Furthermore, the Aikidoka can dampen reflex
responses or learn to reconfigure emotional reactions to events, which always seem to
accompany the CNSs response to a changing environment, such as a perceived threat or
an attack. It is plausible that if we can exert control over our automatic breathing
mechanisms, we can exert control over other automatic body responses such as reflex
responses or emotional reactions to stressful situations.
Although we can consciously control our
breathing patterns and other bodily responses, most of our preprogrammed responses are
conducive to our survival. For example, if a man takes an extended series of deep breaths
or holds his breath for too long a duration, the brainstem will take over breathing
patterns, making it impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath. However, these
general, preprogrammed responses, propagated by nature through species, can be altered to
better suit the individual. For example, since biomechanics requires muscle force against
a stationary object to produce bodily movement, muscle contractions must occur; however,
the typical person overexerts himself on simple, preprogrammed movements, such as climbing
stairs, because of a lack of efficient movement. So the Aikidoka strives to have the most
efficient movement with the least amount of muscle contraction, i.e. the strongest, most
supple movement with the least amount of energy expenditure. This means that the
Aikidokas stabilizer muscles, including those around the abdominal area, are
minimally contracted to effectively stabilize a base. The same customized alterations can
be accomplished in breathing, in emotional responses to stressful situations, in
heightening or dampening physiological reflex responses, in heightening perceptual
awareness, and in maintaining relaxed, erect posture which is essential to good airflow
and efficient bodily movement.
In summary, the first step toward
efficient, controlled breathing is awareness; you must concentrate on your current
breathing patterns, and you must believe that you can change your nature because you
can. The second step is optimistic, diligent, and patient practice. Systemic body changes
do not happen overnight, or even in a few months; they happen over the course of many,
concentrated practices. The third and most crucial step is reflection: you must look back
upon your progress and acknowledge your small gains in voluntary control over your
inherent breathing mechanism. In this way, you can fully utilize the fruits of your
endeavors, and you may begin to refine the changes you have made and begin new systemic
body changes.
James Loeser has his M.S.from
Northwestern University, in Biotechnology - Specializing in Medicinal Chemistry /
Bioinformatics. He is a student of Aikido and a dental student at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
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text: We often need to know, for integers x,y, the solutions to equations of the form axy+bx+cy=d where a,b,c,d are integers. If we multiply both sides of the equation by a and add bc to both sides we get (ax+c)(ay+b) = (ad+bc) Then each factorization uv = (ad+bc) gives a rational solution x = (u-c)/a y = (v-b)/a The requirement for integer solutions is that (ad+bc) can be split into factors uv such that u-c and v-b are both divisible by a. Any solution must be of this form, so there are at most only finitely many integer solutions. One application of this is The Diophantine Walk-a-thon Problem: Two brothers are going to participate in a walk-a-thon, and they have each received pledges for certain amounts of money per mile (no fractional-cent pledges are accepted, and fractional miles will not be counted). To get their pledge drive started, the boys' mother pledged 5 cents/mile to each of them. On the eve of the walk the two boys figure out that the maximum amount of money that CANNOT be their combined total "earnings", regardless of how many miles they each walk, is $576.57. How much, per mile, had been pledged? The solution is based on that fact that, for any co-prime positive integers x and y, the maximum integer c such that ax+by=c has no solutions in non-negative integers a,b is xy-x-y. Thus, given c, we need the solutions of xy-x-y = c. Adding 1 to both sides allows us to factor this equation as (x-1)(y-1) = (c+1). Since c=57657 we know that 57658 must be the product of (x-1) and (y-1). The prime factorization of 57658 is (2)(127)(227), so the only possible factorizations are (x-1) (y-1) x y ------ ------ ----- ----- 1 57658 2 57659 2 28829 3 28830 127 454 128 455 227 254 228 255 The first two can be ruled out because each boy received at least 5 cents. The fourth can be ruled out because 228 and 255 are not co-prime. Therefore, the third factorization gives the only possible answer: one brother had pledges of $1.28/mile and the other had pledges of $4.55/mile. Another puzzle whose solution relies on the solution of a linear diophantine equation is "The Beastly Urn" problem: An urn contains 666 white marbles. What is the minimum number of marbles, some red and some green, that must be added so that if all the marbles are then drawn out one-by-one, the expected number of occurrances of a red followed immediately by a green is exactly 1? Let R,G,W denote the number of red, green, and white marbles, respectively, and let T=R+G+W denote the total. For any two consecutive draws in the sequence the probability of a red marble on the first AND a green on the second is given by the conditional probability formula Pr{(1st red)AND(2nd green)} = Pr{1st red} Pr{(2nd green)|(1st red)} Hence the probability is (R/T)(G/(T-1)). Also, there are T-1 sets of two consecutive draws, so the total expected number of such occurrences is (T-1)[(R/T)(G/(T-1))] = RG/T. We want this to equal 1, so we have RG/T=1, which gives RG = R + G + 666. Thus we have RG - R - G = 666 and so (R-1)(G-1) = 667 = (23)(29) Hence we must have R=24,G=30, or else R=30,G=24, and in either case the total number of red and green marbles added to the 666 white marbles is 54.


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Certification of Boneless Beef
Since the reopening of markets to U.S. boneless beef, it has become clear that some countries implement defect criteria for boneless beef which include bone fragments.
While FSIS does not consider this to be a food safety issue, exporters should be aware that this policy does exist in certain countries.
It is imperative that exporters work closely with importers to determine if such policies exist and, if so, that boneless beef products exported to these countries will meet their requirements and will be allowed entry upon their arrival at the port.
FSIS inspection officials should continue to certify boneless beef products, provided the product meets all USDA regulatory requirements (including labeling) as a boneless beef product.
FSIS re-inspection activities related to exports of meat products should continue to be applied as they are today; that is, in accordance with FSIS policy as outlined in FSIS Directive 9040.1, Revision 3, Re-inspection of Product Intended for Export (PDF only).
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Dream, Jul 28, 2012.
please don't be hyperbole
Millar doesn't know how to speak without hyperbole...but let's hope it's not unfounded this time. I have full confidence in Singer. This gonna be a ballbuster of an X-Film.
^ Exactly. He has a massive reputation for it in fact Probably why Fox hired him
I'm pretty sure I remember reading an interview with either Brian Singer or Matthew Vaughn around the time FC came out where they said they were hoping to jump forward a decade with each movie.
^ Yep. Singer is also the one who suggested the sequel could take place in the 70's. He even mentioned Vietnam as well.
Having McAvoy still playing Xavier past 40ish is going to be tough to buy, even with a shaved head. His babyface doesn't look a day over 30.
Some minor aged prosthetics around the eyes/nose etc would take care of that. Hollywood has been doing that for decades.
Which was why I put a question mark after the original comment.
I'm very familiar with aging makeup, having done it a few times myself with both 2d and 3d techniques. In small doses it can be convincing on just about any face, but generally you're better off getting someone closer to their older version and aging them down to their younger version(assuming we're talking a decade or two) rather than getting someone young who you'll have to add a decade or two to. In addition, some faces simply don't take to it well because different faces age differently and bone structure is a major part of that. McAvoy, I suspect, would just look like McAvoy in makeup if you tried to add more than a decade to him, and probably show how little he looks like Patrick Stewart in the process.
Fassbender, however, should probably take to the makeup very well. He wears just enough of his age on his face that emphasizing and adding to it would be a cakewalk in comparison to McAvoy.
The rest of the cast would be a mixed bag. Pushing up the timeline to the point that half the cast needs to spend every morning in the makeup chair for a few hours seems just unnecessary in any case, considering the other half will be in there for their mutant looks already.
Honestly, I hope they don't even bother. Ten years, no big whoop. Just the radically different fashion will be enough to differentiate it from XMFC.
I'm not talking for this movie, but for the theoretical next one pushing it another 5-10 years.
Or recast with Tom Hardy.
Given that Fassbender was channelling the young Sean Connery in the last movie, for that whole 1960s-007 vibe, I think he ought to start imitating Roger Moore in this one, set during the era of Rog-as-007.
I can just see Fassbender rocking the classic Moore safari suit . Would be a nice fashion nod.
^Hee-hee, the safari suit was exactly what I was thinking of!
Totally off topic but after seeing Fassenbender in First Class I totally wanted to see him in a Bond movie set in the 60s.
A girl friend of mine and I felt the same way. Neither of us are big Daniel Craig fans as Bond. When Fassbender sneaks onto the boat in the all black wet suit, that whole scene just screamed BOND.
I like Daniel Craig but I just think taking Bond back to his Cold War roots would be all kinds of awesome. Plus Fassenbender would make a great 007.
Hugh Jackman describes his role as "large", and says that his involvement in the movie "came out of the blue".
An interesting bit...
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Enterprise' started by Spock/Uhura Fan, Aug 24, 2012.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
So you prefer to be abused/killed by polite people?
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
If I'm going to be murdered, yes I would choose a polite murderer over a vulgar one. A dubious distinction perhaps, but I believe in civility!
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
It's nicer to die silently, never seeing it coming from a Vulcan sniper rather than be hacked to death by an enraged batleth wielding Klingon.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Sorry about that. I type my responses to these episodes as I watch them or right after. I may not get around to posting at that time, much of the time yes, but this was typed when I just couldn't believe how she was being treated.
Here's where I have an issue with this part of your statement. She did agree to the meld, but she agreed as someone who'd never tried it before and was a bit apprehensive about it to begin with, and her soon-to-be-attacker knew that. She was placing her trust in him, and he knew that too. Things were fine up until he wanted to push farther than she was willing to go and he went there anyway, and that was the violation. She never consented to that.
What he did was the equivalent of sleeping with a virgin who's not all that sure about sex in the first place (you basically had to talk them into "trying" it), and then a few minutes in deciding to have rough, hard-core porn-star sex with them after they've already said they're not comfortable with that and they shout out "Stop!" and that you are hurting them. And yes, it's going to hurt them. He should have known better and to stop as soon as she said she was uncomfortable. And I think he did know better. He just didn't care. Poor T'Pol had to find that out the hard way. He damaged her mind, but at least it wasn't permanent. Had she not been strong enough to fight him off and he had his way, she would have been permanently damaged. She didn't consent to that.
He really does. I think he's the only moody captain out of the bunch. Sisko could get emotional at times, but he wasn't moody. Moodiness implies an emotional instability that I would think could bar someone from the captain's chair, but it was the first mission, so...
True. Although, they didn't really speak to or interact with him.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Have you seen Voyager?
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Yes, but "Stigma" makes pretty clear that all Vulcans know about the P'nar syndrome, so either Polly didn't ask if he had it or believed a denial without testing it, and was therefore rash either way.
In contemporary terms, she banged him without even employing a rubber, far less an STD test. The mind-violation was a serious offense, but it didn't occur until after she willingly initiated that encounter, even brushing aside his suggestion she might be going too fast.
The revelation of the syndrome retroactively establishes that she was way out of character to do that, which is another reason to consider "Stigma" a strong but non-canon ep.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Is P'Nar Syndrome communicable? I thought it was caused by the incompetence of an inexperienced Melder
Spoiler: S4 Spoiler
Isn't that what T'Pau says in S4 when she cures T'Pol
, rather than melding with someone who had it?
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
I got bored with and didn't finish the S4 Vulcan arc, but "Stigma" made it very clear it was communicable via infected melders, yes.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
I think he's emotionally green as well as being the green captain in space.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Enterprise Season 1 I found was better in the books than on TV. I read the novelizations of "Broken Bow" and "Shockwave" years before I saw them on the DVD sets, and I couldn't believe the amount of garbage that was on the screen. I kept wondering how anyone could've approved the episodes.
Plus the books that take place in between the two episodes are a lot more interesting than the actual episodes. I'll take "By The Book" over "Shuttlepod One" any day!!! I would actually say that "Shuttlepod One" was the 'jumping the shark' episode for Enterprise...a whole episode about two guys being stranded in a shuttle and talking about nothing more than who has the better rear end...some one definitely took leave of their senses.
Pilot wise, I would say that Enterprise was in last spot.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
^ I don't know. It's not so bad right now, but Shuttlepod One definitely isn't on my rewatch list, lol.
I guess it's nice that you gave her a nickname, but I suspect dear "Polly" didn't want that cracker her attacker pushed off on her. She didn't bang him because that requires a more active participation than the tentative and apprehensive one that I saw.
Any by your logic, anything that happens after an initial agreement to something totally different makes what wasn't agreed to okay? There's something wrong with that.
Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. After all, Spock mind-melded many times and never infected anyone. But, then he was able to control himself and wouldn't hurt anyone for his own selfish pleasure.
Aaand onward.
Cease Fire
It's the Andorians again, and they are still fighting the Vulcans on some planet that resides on the border between their areas of space. Right off, I think they should just split the terrirory of the planet down the middle, but Archer is called in to help. Trip did a very nice job as acting captain. It's too bad that there were Andorians that would rather fight and die than talk it out. Overall, this was one of the better episodes this season.
Grade: B
Future Tense
I'm not sure exactly what this was about. We never know for sure what was going on with that ship or the supposed beacon. We never get to see the Tholians. We don't know how any of this will affect future episodes. So, all I can say is that it was interesting.
Grade: B minus
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Cease Fire... more Evil Vulcans and Andorians. And playing devil's advocate splitting the planet won't work... it rotates and the Andorian side may face Vulcan space half of the time! We can't have that. Shran's always fun and the Enterprise Vulcans just make me understand why the Romulans left. It's a good episode though overall though. Really Archer confuses me at times. It's firmly established that Earth and Vulcan are closely affiliated, even if not formally allied. I get that Archer plainly -likes- Shran more than Soval, but he really goes out of his way to alienate the Vulcans in favor of the Andorians time and again. I'm surprised Forest or someone else hasn't fired him over it once the political pressure starts getting applied.
Future Tense... another cliche time travel episode. Though at least they broke the cliche super powerful Vulcan ship always being nearby to save the day trend. And the Tholians are one of the true -alien- species in every respect of the world instead of just humans with funny foreheads/ears/etc. You'll get to see one later on eventually... though this episode has nothing to do with it. The Vulcan/human child joke was funny and probably the best moment of this episode.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Yes Tholians are from TOS.
My biggest ENT crush.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
You've got me there. Planets do spin.
I think he kind of favors the Andorians a bit because he's not that fond of Vulcans (T'Pol being the exception) himself. It's nice to know that Tholians will make an appearance.
Oh, well I can't recall ever seeing them in the episodes I sometimes watched, so I guess I never saw that/those episode(s).
Soval. He did make me laugh when he says the Andorians must have been pleased with Archer's negotiating skills and he looks at his aide, signaling an addition to the point. I think he's the most naturally expressive Vulcan I've seen.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Soval's role develops.
But meanwhile, even undeveloped, he is gorgeous.
I had him as my avatar for a few years.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Nice pictures.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
That man is very blood warming for a guy who is cool to the touch.
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
I liked Future Tense as one of those 'Trek eps that has fun stuff in it but nothing really interesting happens'. So: the Tardis joke, the vulcan/human reference, the temporal loop, and unseen Tholians (like the unseen Romulans - both of whom eventually show up).
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
I like it a whole lot better than Cease Fire. For some reason I always fond Cease Fire rather dull. I love when they first open the ship in Future Tense, LOL
Re: My Trek Through Enterprise: Season One
Wasn't me!
Tucker: Look, Polly...I owe you an apology.
T'Pol: For trying to kill me back on that planet?
Tucker: Nope.
T'Pol: For putting the dog at my duty station and calling him T'Porthos?
Tucker: Nope.
T'Pol: For calling me Polly a minute ago?
Huh? I never defended the rapist dude one bit. I just said that his crime doesn't change the fact that, by what we learn in "Stigma", Polly was irresponsible with regards to her own health by willingly engaging, before the encounter turned ugly, in a potentially dangerous act without getting him screened.
Again, by what we learn in "Stigma", she would have contracted the disease even if the meld had ended in mutually enjoyable fashion.
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Jan 14 2011
How to Get Windows 7's Aero Snap Feature in Linux
So I've just finished creating my own script based off of the tips found at LifeHacker, OMG Ubuntu, ClickOnF5, and a video here.
You may ask: why create yet another script for this? Well, I found a couple issues with the other implementations that bugged me.
- After snapping, windows lost their original dimensions :-/
- The left & right states failed to unset the horizontal maximized window property 🙁
- Inputting the scripts directly into CCSM, or separate scripts was a bit messy
So, I created a single script that fixes these issues, and also adds another feature: Set a window's size back to a default state. Currently, this default is set using a bash variable, because I usually like to keep my terminals and nautilus windows one manageable size. I also mainly find myself only using this snap feature on nautilus and terminal windows as well, so it works for me. Perhaps in the future there may be some need to keep track of each window's individual default size… but that's too complicated for now.
How to use:
Use -l for left, -r for right, -m for maximized, and -d for a "default" sized window. The default window geometry is configurable as a variable called $WIN_DEFAULTGEOM. If the variable is set at runtime, it will override the hardcoded value in the script. You can use this to create however many default window sizes you need if you set them in multiple commands in compiz. See the manpage for wmctrl for the format to specify window geometry arguments. (This is called <MVARG> in the manpage). If you're wondering why I chose such a weird default value… it cooresponds to an 80×26 line terminal window on my resolution.
aero-resize -l # Snap left
aero-resize -r # Snap right
aero-resize -m # Maximize
aero-resize -d # Default size (as hardcoded in script)
# You may also use whatever geometry you wish like so:
WIN_DEFAULTGEOM=0,20,80,800,600 aero-resize -d
How to install:
Get the script and save as "aero-resize" someplace in your PATH (I put mine in ~/bin). Then add the commands you wish to your compiz command config, or simply use it in a terminal window to resize it.
cd ~/bin
wget http://lyraphase.com/src/aero-resize/aero-resize
chmod +x aero-resize
Here are some screenshots of my compiz settings. If, you're still having trouble, follow the instructions in this video, but replace the commands he uses with my script.


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