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Certainly, there are a lot of factors that contribute to whether you hit the ball like Roger Federer or Serena Williams—or whether you can hit the ball at all for that matter—but as is the case in most sports, the equipment plays a big part in how well you play the game.
In the past several decades tennis racquets have undergone some significant changes. From the size of the racquet and the materials it's made with, right down to the way it's strung; just about every aspect of the racquet has seen some technological advancement.
Let's talk about size first. Unlike years ago, when there was typically only one racquet size, today, there are four distinct head size classifications: mid-size (95 square-inches and below); mid-plus (100-107 square-inches); oversized (108-120 square-inches); and super-oversized (122 square-inches or larger). So, what does this mean to the average player? Put simply, the bigger the head size, the larger the "sweet spot", and thus, the better the chances of hitting the ball cleaner and perhaps even farther.
That said, according to John Rapson, Wilson Territory Manager for Michigan and Ohio, these days, head sizes are actually getting smaller.
"Ten years ago," says Rapson, "there were a lot of 135 square-inch racquets. Now, you'd be hard pressed to find one that's over 120." In fact, Rapson says that today, a lot of players are gravitating toward racquets with a 103-110 square-inch head size, as they are less bulky and more aerodynamic.
In addition to head size, the balance point—head-heavy or head-light—and grip size of racquets have also changed. A head-heavy racquet (which, if held by the shaft would feel heavier toward the face) provides more power on serves and groundstrokes, while a head-light racquet (which would feel lighter toward the face) provides more control. Either balance point can be easily changed to fit a person's style of play.
Like the racquet balance, the grip size (also easily customized) can affect play style, so care should be taken when choosing one to fit your hand and stroke.
"Racquets have become a lot more forgiving," says Mike Graff, ASPTA and Director of Programming and Operations for Baseline Tennis in Michigan. "With larger sweet spots, vibration dampening and technology that affects how the racquet responds to off-center hits, the average player is going to have a much more enjoyable game."
Now, let's talk about materials. Do you remember the tennis racquets from the days of Bobby Riggs, Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King? Chances are, they were made of wood. That alone caused a number of inconsistency problems—the most common of which was warping. Gradually, manufacturers started designing racquets with metals like aluminum and titanium, and soon after materials like boron, graphite, ceramics and composites were used. While each material had its own advantageous qualities, ultimately consumers gravitated toward ceramics and graphite because they were lightweight, stiff and had excellent vibration reduction.
According to Rapson, while graphites and carbons are the still the most widely used materials—Wilson uses a hyper carbon graphite material called [K]arophite Black in most of their racquets—these days the trend in the marketplace is actually toward a heavier racquet.
"The sub-10 ounce frame is out of vogue," says John. "You have a more stable feel with a heavier racquet, and if you hit the ball off center, it doesn't twist or torque as much as with a lighter one."
In addition to the size and composition of the racquet, the type of string and the way it is strung has a lot to do with what happens when you hit the ball. A lot has changed with regards to strings—namely the fact that the earliest ones were made from cow intestines—but with time and improved technology, manufacturers have been able to create synthetic strings that are designed to produce more spin, power and durability. Generally speaking, tighter strings give you more control when hitting, while looser strings give you more power.
Ironically, with all of the technological advancements in the industry and with so many ways to customize a racquet to fit your game, these days many of the pros play with "off the shelf" racquets. From Federer and the Williams sisters, to Feliciano Lopez and Pete Sampras—who currently plays with a Wilson KPS 88—the same racquets that are making their way to Wimbledon and the U.S. Open are also being used on neighborhood courts and in tennis clubs across the U.S.
So, whether you're a seasoned pro or just getting into the game, with so many high-tech racquets available today you're sure to find a Love Match.
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Looking for a hitting partner. 2.5-3; prefer playing at Ville St-Laurent tennis courts but can travel if it's not too faraway. Hit me up.
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Hi , let me know if you are still interested playing at ville st-laurent. i am available tomorrow and this weekend.
Yes i am available during the week evening also
If you need an extra partner you can let me know as well. Weekday evenings are fine for me as well.
with pleasure Karrar, what about today around 16h00?
Apologies for missing your message. Email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com next time you wish to play. I will get the message immediately that way.
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Available to play tomorrow (Monday) morning or afternoon? Only if it's not raining.
yes i am available for the afternoon, you can call me on my cell to confirm: 514-586-7865
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I am looking for tennis partner to play occasionally, I live in DDO, right now i am finishing the course in tennis 13,in Laval. the last practice is this Sunday. My level is between 2.0-2.5 according to the coach. Please let me know if you are still interested or if you know somebody who is interested.
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Getting ready for Turkey Day, I wanted to try different ways cook the big bird. I brined a turkey and my hubby, Ted, said he wants to smoke it. Being the considerate person I am, I agreed! ~smiles~
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When grill is between 250 and 275 degrees...put turkey off to the side, away from the coals, on grill.
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There are many misconceptions about co-dependents and co-dependent behavior. Many people still consider co-dependents to be merely "enablers" or people in relationships with addicts. But if we define a co-dependent person in such a way as to require that they be in a relationship with an addict (or with anyone) in order to qualify as "co-dependent," that would be like defining an alcoholic as someone who is actively drinking—so that when the alcoholic is sleeping, we might rightly say he's not an alcoholic. A co-dependent, like an addict, is identified by his mental perceptions—how he envisions his interactions, not who or what he's interacting with in the moment.
This is not to say that if someone offers a definition of a co-dependent using a relationship model that there is no place for that. Certainly, if I were a family counselor, I would likely lean very hard toward a working definition that addressed my model of therapy in a way that would help my patients understand their roles in the situation. That's fine. But I'm not defining "co-dependent" here in order to target a working treatment model. I'm seeking to understand a mental mindset that results in the dysfunctional relationships co-dependents gravitate toward due to a developmental disorder.
"Co-dependency is defined as a psychological disorder caused by a failure to complete one of the most important developmental tasks of early childhood, that of establishing psychological autonomy. Psychological autonomy is necessary for the development of the self, separate from parents."
—Barry K. Weinhold, PhD, and Janae B Weinhold, PhD, co-authors, "Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap."
It is then, literally, to be blunt, a childish worldview that was never outgrown. This deals with boundaries, especially psychological boundaries, that the co-dependent has either weakened or lost. Just as a child who stubs his toe on a piece of furniture might become angry and hit (blame) the chair, so does the adult co-dependent not see the clear divide between himself and other people and things outside himself. And he sees his emotions as being at least partly dictated by people and things outside himself. He believes others have the ability to affect his emotional state, without his consent, to some degree. And to the level he accepts this, that is the level to which he is engaged in co-dependent thinking.
In order to address this problem, the following was suggested: "…to treat and heal the suffering and dysfunction of co-dependence, we first realize that we are powerless over others. We are powerless over their beliefs, thoughts, feelings, decisions and choices, and their behavior. But we discover that we are powerful over ourselves, our own beliefs, thoughts, feelings, decisions, choices, and behaviors."
And in order to offer a useful, broad definition (not narrowed for specific treatment programs), "…we can define [co-dependence] briefly as any suffering or dysfunction that is associated with or results from focusing on the needs and behaviors of others…it may be mild to severe."
—Charles L. Whitfield, MD, (both quotes above) from his book "Co-Dependence, Healing the Human Condition. Whitfield is certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a former instructor at Rutgers Univeristy.
In other words, if I experience unpleasant or unwanted responses ("any suffering") based on my observations of the actions of another ("associated with the behaviors of others"), that is a co-dependent perspective. And that last bit is important. This is not an "all" or "nothing" measurement. The level to which you relate to this worldview dictates the level to which you are co-dependent—mild or severe.
In the section of their book entitled "Healthy Ways to Handle Feelings," Drs. Weinhold write, "own your feelings and take responsibility for being the source of your feelings."
My posts are long enough, but that bears repeating: "take responsibility for being the source of your feelings." As long as I continue to hold to a model that there are sources, other than me, for my emotional responses, I'm feeding into a mindset born of a developmental dysfunction.
"CBT treatments have received empirical support for efficient treatment of a variety of clinical and non-clinical problems, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders, and psychotic disorders. It is often brief and time-limited. It is used in individual therapy as well as group settings, and the techniques are also commonly adapted for self-help applications…In cognitive oriented therapies, the objective is typically to identify and monitor thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors that are related and accompanied to debilitating negative emotions and to identify those which are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply unhelpful. This is done in an effort to replace or transcend them with more realistic and useful ones."
—Wikipedia entry on "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)"
In other words, the goal is not to avoid situations where unwanted emotions arise and it is not to learn to live with these emotions and contain or suppress them. The goal is to teach people how to choose more appropriate, beneficial emotions over ones that are causing problems for them in their lives—because we can, and do, choose our emotional responses. A person suffering from anxiety disorder can actually learn to stop feeling anxious. This is achieved by heightening the person's awareness via teaching him to monitor what is happening in his own mind, and make better choices in his reactions—including emotional reactions. We can choose appropriate or inappropriate emotional responses. However, most of us don't really consider our mental reactions and responses. We take them for granted and let them move along without much interference unless and until something really bothers us enough to the point we need to learn how to take a more active role in controlling our mental, intrapersonal dialogues.
A quick word about avoidance: If you go to the local book store and pick up a copy of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, you will find that in treating emotional disorders, such as anxiety, avoidance is a behavior the therapist must try to interrupt. It is not uncommon for people to suffer from anxiety in particular environmental situations. In order to avoid the anxiety, the patient avoids the situation (for example, driving a car). The problem here is many-fold. The patient is heading for phobia and soon will be not just someone with anxiety disorder, but someone with anxiety disorder and a phobia of driving.
The patient is misattributing the environmental stimulus as being the catalyst for the anxiety he feels. In reality the catalyst is his misinterpretation of the environmental stimulus: He sees driving—a mundane activity—as irrationally threatening and fearsome. What he doesn't understand is that his anxiety and fear are not brought on by driving, but are rather brought on by his mentally defective interpretation of driving. The event occurs and is nonthreatening. But the patient's mind interprets it as a threat, and he then responds with fear, panic, and anxiety to his imagined and unjustified mental model of what is happening. So, his emotional reaction is not in response to anything outside his head. It's a response to a distortion within his head. If the distortion can be addressed, so that he regains a more realistic perspective of driving, then he will find he can choose an emotion other than "anxious" when he drives. But he first has to be able to make a rational evaluation of the event (while he's in the event). He has the capacity to do this, as do we all, but he does not know how to do that at the time he enters therapy.
In communication psychology and intrapersonal communication, there are two thing
s I learned that have served me extremely well in life:
1. Nobody and nothing can make me mad.
2. Emotions tell us nothing about the world outside our own minds.
This is not to say I never get angry. The key word is "make." When I become angry, I know I must accept responsibility for the anger I emote. Choosing anger as an appropriate emotional response is not the same as being forced to be angry. Likewise, choosing anger when it is an inappropriate response is not the same as being "made" angry. As an honest person I must admit I became angry—of my own free will. I was not force or made to be angry—no matter how tempting it might be to blame others for my own lack of judgment or unwillingness to exercise self-control.
And that is very difficult for some people to grasp, because not everything in reality is intuitive. Some things are actually counterintuitive the more deeply we study them. And it is often to our detriment that our emotional reactions are not intuitively understood for a great many people.
Something good happens—someone gives me a birthday present—and I feel good. Something sad happens—my dog dies—and I feel sad. Something scary happens—I step on a snake—and I'm scared. What could be more simple? A child can make this connection, right? Well, right, a child could make this connection, but the child would be wrong to say the events were the catalyst to his emotional reaction. It is not these events that evoke these emotions. It is our mental models and interpretations that evoke these emotions. How can I know this? Because, fortunately, we sometimes have cases we can examine where our mental models don't correspond with environmental realities. And when that happens, which one of those things (our environment or our noncorresponding interpretation) do you imagine our emotions align with?
Well, when we consider it that way, it becomes intuitive again, doesn't it? Would anyone fail to rightly guess that our emotional reaction will align with our interpretation of the environment—and not the environment? If there is nothing to fear in my environment, but I believe there is something to fear, I will feel corresponding fear. But corresponding to what? To reality or to my interpretation?
This becomes relevant in religion when people use emotional response as an affirmation of their belief that god is interacting with them in their lives. They "feel" god—and for many people that reinforces that there really is a god "out there" beyond their minds, creating these emotional impulses. But their model is flawed and actually a prime example co-dependent thinking and misattribution.
In other words, if I hear a strange noise in my house—and I believe someone is trying to break in—I will react emotionally as if an intruder is trying to enter my home (even if it's just a branch scraping my window). My cognitive self confronts existent reality, interprets that reality, and then relays that interpretation, which is fed into another part of the brain that kicks out an impulse—emotional or otherwise. That response then goes to my cognitive self and I must decide whether or not the response is appropriate. If I deem it appropriate, I will unleash it. If I deem it inappropriate, I will send a new message back to my brain letting it know that isn't an acceptable response, and I will choose another. And all this can happen instantaneously. In fact, this internal dialogue is happening in each of us, nonstop, all the time—whether we pay attention to it and acknowledge it, or not. We actually can tune into it—we just generally don't bother.
This process can take milliseconds or years to produce a change in emotional response. And in very few cases, we may not have time to cognitively assess our response at all. Something might not frighten us slowly—but, instead, very quickly. This would be an emotional "spike," and the immediacy of it would make it difficult or impossible to process and restrain in the moment. But we are, most of us, rarely confronted in daily life with such immediate and extreme levels of emotional impulse. You might think of it as walking along normally and stumbling over a tree root. Ninety-nine percent of the time you are in immediate control of your walking. That doesn't mean you spend your energy focusing on it and monitoring each move—but you still understand you are the one controlling your movements as you walk. You don't have to concentrate and think about it, because you've done it for so long that it's nearly automatic. But hit that tree root and you look like you have lost any and all control over your legs and body. It's a glitch for sure, but the exception and not the rule.
We take our emotional responses and psychological control for granted. And how many times do we hear people claim outright that we can't control how we feel, who we love, what we like, what we hate, sometimes even what we do? These are excuses to unburden ourselves of our responsibility for our own reactions—literally to not take responsibility for our very selves.
Many, many things can show us that we have the capacity to adjust our emotional responses toward things—to change how we feel about them. If we are reasonable, someone might present a good argument or evidence that contradicts something we thought we understood previously, but now realize we did not. And we decide that maybe our attitude about a particular situation is perhaps not appropriate. So, we adjust it. Who hasn't had that experience? Just as well, we might have a sudden and impactive emotional experience or trauma that changes our view. Maybe we nearly die, and it makes us realize that we should take more joy in our lives while we're here. And we really do enjoy life more after that. Or maybe there is no trigger. Maybe I go to a party that I felt obligated to attend. I'm committed to be there for five hours and it's pure tedium. I've served two hours of my hell-party sentence sitting in a chair by myself, when I simply consider that maybe if I tried to go and meet a few people it might not be so horrible. I go out and mingle, and whether I find any interesting people or not, I find the night is at least somewhat improved over brooding in a corner for three more hours.
In all of these cases, there are common denominators. One is that I agreed to consider another view—and ultimately to adopt another view of my situation. The person who gains new information can't say that anything outside his own mind changed. The situation is the same. The information he gained wasn't "not there" before. He simply was unaware of it. But reality didn't change, only his view of it broadened. He now can consider "more" of it and has a different feeling about what he's looking at. The man who nearly died did not come back to a new wife, a new son, a new job. He simply gained a new view of it all. And the guy at the party didn't find a way to change the party. He just changed his view of it—all on his own. He recognized that he had zero control over the party, over the people, over the refreshments, over time, but he discovered, as Whitfield pointed out, that he was powerful over himself, his own beliefs, thoughts, feelings, decisions, choices, and behaviors. Over himself, his actions, his attitude, he had total control. And by exercising it, he went from frustrated, angry and bored, to at least somewhat interested. He went from a co-dependent view of himself as a victim, obligated to a hateful five-hour torture session, to someone in control who was willing to take responsibility for his evening and whether or not he enjoyed it on any level.
Another common denominator in these three cases is that any of these men could have refused to agree to adopt a new attitude. I could get new and contradictory data and still hold tenaciously to my perspectives. I could nearly die, and come back and be the same complacent, joyless ass I was before. I could go to the party, wall
ow in my piss-poor mood all night, and go home thinking about how I'll never get that evening back. It's completely up to me. I am the only one who can control my attitude—and I can change it to a polar opposite view if I deem doing so is justified.
But whatever I do, as the Drs. Weinhold note, I must own my feelings and take responsibility for being the source of my feelings. I can't be held accountable for everything that happens to me in life. But I can very well be held to account for every reaction express—so long as I'm enjoying a normal level of mental health.
Co-dependent attitudes are so prevalent, mainly, I would wager, due to some of the issues noted above—being so used to having near-automatic, appropriate emotional responses that we hardly notice them or feel a need to exercise restraint or control over them, and also, understandably, misattributing our emotions to things outside of our own minds, because so often, for the most part, our mental models are close enough to the Real McCoy that we don't stop to examine whether our emotional reactions are toward the models or the reality being modeled.
According to Whitfield, "Co-dependence is the most common of all addictions: the addiction to looking elsewhere." Whitfield acknowledges we "live in a world where nearly everyone is acting co-dependently most of the time." In other words, this thinking, based on a developmental flaw, is extremely pervasive and common. It is so common in fact, that some co-dependence evaluation questionnaires have people answer with a scale like this one, (Almost Always = 4, Frequently = 3, Occasionally = 2, Never = 1), where the low score would be the least co-dependent attitude. Note there is no setting for "0." In other words, nobody gets out of that test with zero level of co-dependence.
It may sound unfair, but it's true. Examples of these evaluations appear in Weinholds' and Whitfield's books, and in many other places. I guess the message is that it's simply too much to hope that a person could actually take full responsibility for himself. While I'd love to recoil, I can't say that I don't see a lot of this attitude in people. And I can't say that I don't have to police it in my own head. Road-rage anyone? But when I recognize it, I can say I don't defend it as being beyond my control. Not controlling myself, certainly, is not the same as not being able to control myself—and not the same as not being responsible for controlling myself. I do what I do, because it's what I chose to do—whether in the moment or after careful consideration is irrelevant. It is my reaction, and I must own it—since nobody else can. My mental and physical reactions are mine and come out of my human experience and worldview. If I can't defend them, then I should reconsider them—in the moment or after careful consideration.
All this said, I admit fully that without religion, there would still be co-dependent people. And, actually, at least one religion, Buddhism, appears to give people props for exercising mental control and taking as much responsibility as possible for their own mental reactions. So, that said, not all religions feed into the "co-dependence trap" (as the Weinholds' labeled it). Even Hinduism, with its self-defeating caste system and karma, contains an example in the Bhagavad-Gita of the self exercising control of emotional impulses. The process is compared to a charioteer driving a team of horses, and the analogy is meant to illustrate the value of exercising measured self-control over the mind's impulses.
And isn't this supposed to, somewhere, touch on religion a bit more?
With that, let's have a word about compartmentalization. Consider Whitfield's earlier statement, "we are powerful over ourselves, our own beliefs, thoughts, feelings, decisions, choices, and behaviors." His point in a nutshell is to take responsibility for you reactions, and stop blaming others for things that should be your responsibility as part of your life. Be the captain of your own destiny! And the Weinholds' appear to agree. Intrapersonal communication models, based on research in communication psychology, also concur, and CBT demonstrates it as a working, demonstrable model as well. So, how does one explain statements like the following from Co-dependents Anonymous' 12 Steps? Is this funny or sad?
Step 2: "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
Step 3: "Made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood God."
Step 6: "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."
Step 7: "Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings."
Step 11: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out."
I refuse to elaborate on the discrepancy here, because to do so would be an insult to the intelligence of every reader. If you can't see the glaring hypocrisy of these steps in a program to help people who are having trouble taking responsibility for themselves and their own lives and personal reactions—as Foxworthy might say, "You just might be" a co-dependent.
Here's what's even spookier. Dr. Whitfield promotes and advocates this 12-step program in his aforementioned book. The same man who says my problem is that I am not acknowledging I am the source of power over my own life, advocates letting go and letting god, by throwing me into a program where I am immediately told I must accept I am powerless—beyond whatever power god, in his mercy, is willing to grant me.
How is that any better than being powerless over myself except for whatever power someone else or my environment grants me? In any of those scenarios, I still haven't taken responsibility, I've merely shifted the responsibility for my life from one source that is not me to another source that (I believe) is not me. Where exactly did I gain any power from this shift?
But as if this weren't disturbing enough, isn't this pretty well Western religion in a nutshell? Conservative fundamentalists preach "responsibility," then co-dependently slough off responsibility for everything in their lives to a mental model that does not represent themselves. Again—oh, the irony. They absolutely rail against people who they perceive to not be taking responsibility for themselves, and they preach out of that same mouth, the doctrine of fully crippling, co-dependent salvation (because I just can't rely on myself to run my own life).
But let me add one last thing. Let's end on an atheist note. We get many letters. And for every letter we get saying X, I can promise you we get just as many saying –X. One topic particularly that I find funny is "Matt's attitude toward callers." Matt could get 10 e-mails a day on this subject, and I promise you that five would scold him for being too mean and nasty, and the other five would praise him for his patience and kindness toward callers (some even scold him for being too kind). Some go on to say Matt, and the rest of the hosts/cohosts are no better than fundamentalist Christians in how we pig-headedly shove our opinions down the throats of others.
How do we stack up with this question from the "Patterns and Characteristics of Codependence"?
"I attempt to convince others of what they 'should' think and how they 'truly' feel."
Let it be known that for myself, I understand that I have no control over what someone else thinks and feels. Without their consent to dialogue, consider, and ultimately change their mind, I can do nothing to impact them or their views. The power is fully, 100%, with them. They own that realm utterly.
But that doesn't mean I can't invite them to dialogue, consider or change their views. Whether t
hey think they should or can or will—is not within my power. I don't lose sleep over it. An invitation is not an attempt at coercion. Anyone can refuse—no threats or fear of reprisals. Anyone can turn the channel, not call, or not e-mail us. Anyone who interacts with us has, of their own free will, and under their own power and cognition, chosen to engage with us for whatever reason of their own. And whatever they get out of it, they own it. Whatever they feel about it, they own that as well. If someone is offended, it's not because of something I've said, it's because they maintain such fragile ego models that even words manage to make them feel threatened. Whatever, they express or send to us—they own it. None of that belongs to anyone at AE. It's completely the sender's.
Own yourself. Empower yourself. Live your life and don't lose out by thinking you have anything less than total control of what you put into it—mentally and physically. Whatever you have, you can give—100%—if you choose. Or you can be a walking, talking reaction—wandering through your life feeling powerless and victimized, waiting for your sign from your partner, environment or god model, before you'll dare to make your next move. But I'm not telling you what you "should" do. I'm just inviting you to expand your perspective to consider what you "could" do. The power is only ever yours, whether you use it or convince yourself you can give it away.


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IMF Head on Suicide Watch, Despite Ben Stein Defense
Following a mental health evaluation, accused rapist and International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn has been put on suicide watch at Rikers Island Prison. But don't worry, M. Strauss-Kahn! Hack economist/game show host Ben Stein is on your case!
Sure, Strauss-Kahn might have forced a chambermaid to perform oral sex on him, Ben Stein muses in his American Spectator column. And yet — here it's best to imagine Stein in a deerstalker and Inverness cape, addressing a small gathering in an English manor — Stein wonders: "How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife?" Good questions, indeed! And why are prosecutors overlooking this simple fact?
I have had hotel maids that were complete lunatics, stealing airline tickets from me, stealing money from me, throwing away important papers, stealing medications from me. How do we know that this woman's word was good enough to put Mr. Strauss-Kahn straight into a horrific jail? Putting a man in Riker's is serious business. Maybe more than a few minutes of investigation is merited before it's done.
Maybe a few hours is merited! Maybe, if the detective investigated for a few days, they might remember this key detail:
People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes?
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Thanks for this article Paul. As a Project Manager it was extremely reassuring, refreshing and helpful.
As I read it I kept thinking about storytelling and how it is essential to ensure that we tell the right stories targeted at the right people.
I think the points you discuss definitely go hand in hand with finding the right story to tell and then once you know that, using design and development to tell it in the most appropriate way.


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Hope College Theatre will present "Second Class" by Brad Slaight in the DeWittCenter main theatre beginning Friday, Oct. 3.
Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3 and 4; and Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 8-11, all with an 8 p.m. curtain.
"Second Class" is a continuation of Brad Slaight's previous play, "Class Action"; both plays pertain to the trials, tribulations, and joys of high school life. Through a series of scenes, vignettes, and monologues, "Second Class" aims to demonstrate that although teens have their tough days, there are plenty of good times and a lot of laughter, too.
"I wanted to examine the clichés of high school. I'm of a mind that when I just think back on my own high school experiences - some of those friends are my friends for life," said "Second Class" director Jean Reed Bahle, "I learned a lot of important stuff. Things beyond English and biology, but life experience, how to be with other people."
Bahle has been involved with the arts in West Michigan for more than 30 years as administrator, publicist, reviewer, and free-lance talent in radio, television and industrial films; and involved in area theatre as a playwright and director. As an actor, she has appeared in more than 50 productions, working with Boarshead in Lansing, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Grand Rapids Civic and Circle Theatre, and most prominently with Actors' Theatre.
For the past 20 years, Bahle has taught acting and writing workshops in area schools, at Actors' and Civic, and has served as adjunct faculty in the theatre department at GRCC. Since 1994 she has served as visiting assistant professor in the theatre department at HopeCollege.
Bahle has enjoyed working with students in a directorial capacity. She said, "It's a terrific ensemble and a mix of upperclassmen and freshmen. One of the first things new students always ask is, 'Will I get cast?' Half the cast of "Second Class" are freshmen. How's that for equal opportunity?!"
"It's a true ensemble piece" Bahle continued. "Everybody gets their glory moment; they each play five or six different characters. It's a nice stretch piece for actors."
Bahle wrote to playwright Brad Slaight to discuss the script. She was interested in adding stylized movement in between scenes, and, with Slaight's go-ahead, Bahle and the cast have been experimenting with a guest artist from the department of dance, Sharon Wong. In addition to incorporating movement into "Second Class," the cast wrote its own epilogue. For Bahle, this is what playmaking is all about: honoring the playwright but finding the portion that one can bring to it.
As Bahle summarized, "[It's] going back and looking at experiences that you may tend to dismiss. High school is very different now than when I went to high school, and yet some things never change."
Faculty members working on the production team are Michelle Bombe, costume designer; Perry Landes, lighting designer; and Richard Smith, scenic designer. Serving as technical director is staff member Paul Anderson.
Several students are also serving on the production team: senior Lisa Borton of Hudson, co-costume designer; junior Ken Chamberlain of Metuchen, N.J., sound designer; senior Jaclynn Cherry of Rochester Hills, stage manager; freshman Elizabeth Dwyer of Ypsilanti, assistant stage manager; junior Samantha Molnar of Chardon, Ohio, assistant stage manager; senior Naomi Pointer of Manistee, assistant director; and senior Katie Terpstra of Zeeland, properties designer.
The cast ensemble includes: sophomore Brianna Cooney of Waterford; freshman Seth Hoard of Traverse City; freshman Cory Lakatos of Howell; junior Alex Martin of Saugatuck; senior Maggie McGurn of Traverse City; sophomore Jackie Richards of Worthington, Ohio; freshman John Telfer of Western Springs, Ill.; sophomore Jenny Tremblay of Oostburg, Wis.; freshman Madison Tustin of Plainwell; and freshman Kara Williams of Saline.
Tickets for "Second Class" are $7 for regular admission, $5 for Hope faculty and staff, and $4 for students and senior citizens, and are available at the Hope College ticket office located in DeVos Fieldhouse, which is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition, the theatre lobby ticket office in the DeWitt Center will be open on performance nights shortly before 8 p.m. The ticket office may be contacted at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets. The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street.


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A friend of mine complained that he was getting mixed signals from a woman. According to him, they were spending a lot of time together, but she seemed to have a thing for a guy who was, as my friend described him, "kind of an asshole." My advice was to tell her how he really felt, which was bad advice, he said, because he got rejected. "I've been friend zoned," he said.
That's bullshit. There is no "friend zone." Either she liked him or she didn't, and he got an answer. He could cut ties with her, or try to keep up the relationship as friends. That's how telling someone you like them works.
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text: As of Jan. 17, support for Gov. Rick Snyder's plan for $350 million in state funding to augment the $330 million committed so far by foundations was uncertain, as was the amount the DIA itself may be required to contribute.Reports of a requirement that the DIA contribute $100 million over 20 years or $5 million a year to the plan surfaced late last week, an amount DIA Chairman Eugene Gargaro said isn't doable. "Of course we want to participate and help; that's a given," he said. "But I'm not going to saddle the DIA with debt that will jeopardize its ability to function." Gargaro said the museum already raises $12 million each year to supplement $23 million in millage revenue from Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties for its annual budget, Gargaro said. And the millage revenue isn't available for the fund. Per the agreements between the arts authorities in the three counties and the DIA, that revenue can only go to fund the museum's operations, and the museum must provide regular reports to the authorities on its use, he said. Gargaro told Crain's that in exchange for a state contribution, the museum could relaunch the statewide outreach it provided in the 1990s when it was receiving $14 million a year from the state. The museum loaned art to other cultural institutions around the state, took exhibitions statewide, provided conservation expertise to other museums and consulted on arts education programs until its state funding was cut in the late 1990s to early 2000s.


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MLB rumors: 'Yankees will not be outbid' for Masahiro Tanaka
One National League executive pursuing Masahiro Tanaka believes the New York Yankees will bid more money than other team in their quest to land the Japanese pitching star, The New York Times reports.
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RS: [HNOV2] mid-to-high 80s [PAND2] mid 90s (both for five days) on May 22, 17:18
Thanks for that, SS. {nm} on May 22, 17:25
Yeah, sure, but - you know on May 22, 17:36
MTC will be higher on Hangover. {nm} on May 22, 17:39
(Though I said that about Bridesmaids and they went LOWER... ) {nm} on May 22, 17:40
Sorry there was no Professor Pooch, Dr Dog PHD read on Pirates this weekend. on May 22, 19:16
I was so confused without his advice! Maybe this weekend?! {nm} on May 22, 20:17
I hope so. I am sad that I couldn't post his ratings for Pirates. It was going to be the best yet, IMHO. He thought about it for 2 weeks. on May 22, 20:25
He provides a beacon of hope through the murkiness of the HSX boards.. on May 22, 21:26
I don't think chain mail is sufficient on these boards. I believe I will invest I. Full plate mail. ;) {nm} on May 23, 00:22
Same here.. :-) {nm} on May 23, 07:05
future numbers all seem reasonable to me. super 8 buzz just does not seem to be there at all. and maybe high on popper, but Ive felt on May 22, 17:41
Thanks, ss. I expect MTC will be higher than both, esp. Panda. Isn't tracking historically less accurate (both RS *and* MTC) with 5days? {nm} on May 22, 17:41
really think mtc will be higher on panda? any particular reason? i looked at BOM to see what the best 5 day grosses were on May 22, 17:47
What does RS track? Is it simply unaided awareness, or is it interest in attending, or some combination of all? Why do you think Super 8 is on May 22, 17:44
It doesn't make much sense to me since according to the data, it's doing better than GLANT. on May 22, 17:57
Thanks, that is weird. I wouldn't be surprised that there are people who aren't aware of it..but nearly everyone I know is excited to see on May 22, 18:07
Key will be whether it is good. Am eager to hear the first reviews but am guessing studio is trying to keep under wraps as long as possible {nm} on May 22, 18:08
reminds me of E.T. (children actors) - what was the rs/mtc tracking on that summer blockbuster?? {nm} on May 22, 18:11
E.T. only opened to $11M, a flop! on May 22, 18:26
SUPR8 is definetly a movie that HSX comunity would overvalue by alot. It has hapened before many times {nm} on May 22, 18:15
SUPR8 is definetly a movie that HSX comunity would overvalue by alot. It has hapened before many times {nm} on May 22, 18:16
I still think GLANT is being hugely over-estimated. He is more obscure than AquaMan. {nm} on May 22, 19:44
Are there any other tracking services for futures? Is Super 8 tracking as badly on them as it is on RS? {nm} on May 22, 17:45
Haven't seen for myself but I hear numbers aren't strong for it on other paid services (like NRG) {nm} on May 22, 20:12
I simply don't believe that HNOV2 number. Nope, not having it. LESS than what PIRT4 just did? No way. {nm} on May 23, 06:27


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By Claudia Loya
I was doing my usual morning routine of reading work-related articles to send out on Twitter. I had just read an interesting article from The Rivard Report. It discussed the crisis of young professionals leaving San Antonio and never looking back.
San Antonio is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. As it grows, community leaders are trying to figure out how to make it more appealing to young professionals who are not seeking just a career, but a lifestyle. That includes a satisfying nightlife, dog-friendly businesses, urbanized living, and innovation.
I felt a familiar sadness. As a proud UTSA alumnus, I was one of the few to stay behind after graduating in 2010. I've lost a lot of my friends to Austin, some to their hometowns and a couple to a nomadic life around the world.
I tweeted the article, and then kept reading. After a few more articles I discovered one describing The Awesome Foundation, an organization that provides a way for people who are not wealthy to get involved with local philanthropy. This was part of the solution to our crisis. It described everything young professionals, including myself, find appealing: art, philanthropy, community, friendship, awesomeness. I had to tweet this from my personal account. Then to give it more of an emphasis, I re-tweeted from the Area Foundation's account. That morning on May 9, 2012, it received a lot of positive feedback, including a re-tweet by Graham Weston, chairman and founding investor with San Antonio-based Rackspace Hosting, a global leader in cloud computing.
It was amazing. I knew the next step was a plan of action. I immediately brought it to my supervisor's attention and together we decided the San Antonio Area Foundation should offer its leadership support to this refreshing and innovative grassroots movement. We needed to establish an Awesome Foundation chapter in San Antonio.
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This foundation appeals to those wanting to enhance San Antonio through their artwork or through innovative solutions to small problems. It also appeals to young professionals wanting to give back philanthropically without long-term commitments.
With one tweet, my morning routine was broken; I gathered an interested group willing to start the San Antonio chapter, received positive feedback from my colleagues and now have part of the solution to bringing my friends back into town.
If you're interested in joining our Awesome force, shoot us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or if you're just curious, visit the Awesome Foundation online.
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