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i have a permanent power/speed shortage in all my serves, and i cannot find any solution of solving it ATM. i developed a good selection to add variety so i can hold games with changing serves when i need to (flat, "rafter", slice, kick), and i even manage to keep the consistency of 1st serves. but i just have lame power/speed on all of them. even when i hit a decent flat, it can hardly reach the fence after 1st bounce. i will try to shoot a video soon, but i wonder if there's any "quick fixes" for power? i know it's not just "build more muscle power", because i can see older people and 13yr girls who can get at least x2 more speed than me. thanks.
Try holding the racquet a little lower and 'loosey goosey' on the grip. Relax it a heap and the RHS should increase instantly. Also, increase shoulder flexibility and range of motion will help a lot.
Hard to tell, without knowing what you are already doing. Make sure you are doing the following things correctly, as these are the main sources of power in an advanced serve: -Muscle relaxed (frees up the range of movement, allowing more power if the technique is correct) -Knee bend -Weight transfer forward into the court -Forearm pronation -Dropping the racquet head as your elbow raises up , just before the swing into contact -Rotation of shoulders through the shot All of these factor into the amount of power a technique can generate, but they won't necessarily give you a working serve. Your lack of power might be because you are unable to swing out at the ball, due to the height at which you are hitting the ball, or the trajectory you are hitting along.
good tips. i suppose i know them, but maybe just don't implant most of them enough. i definitely have to make a new video soon!! (but when i do i usually get so depressed )
Don't get depressed, knowing what you are doing wrong is essential to improve. Everyone here could do with making a few changes to their strokes, and someone who takes the time to take note of what they are doing wrong, will probably have better shots in the long run.
ha ha.. well now i got no choice! just went out and finally bought the Gorillapod so i could now easily stick the cam on the back fence
Watch only the extremely rapid elbow axial rotation just before and after ball impact. https://vimeo.com/63709517 https://vimeo.com/27528701 https://vimeo.com/63688132 Several other videos in that collection show the same rotation for the serve. Hold your arm straight out from your shoulder and rotate it. Watch the Todd Ellenbecker video for details on this motion and important safety advice when serving. See reply #16. http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=462137&highlight=todd+ellenbecker+shoulder+video
Easiest way is to make sure your toss is more out front so you can lean more into the court on contact getting more weight behind your serve. Works for me.
Next time on court, try throwing the tennis ball about 30 feet in the air over the net and make it go as far as you can. Do this by throwing smoothly upward through the contact zone. Don't overthrow because tennis balls are light and you can hurt your shoulder. Then take a few shadow swings and thing of throwing the racket head up thru the contact zone. Then serve about 10-20 ball thinking of throwing the racket head thru contact and try to make the ball land past the opposite baseline. Then keep the concept of throwing the racket head upward thru the ball and add a bit of spin until your ball begins to land in the service box. Another thing to try is a shoulder rotation drill. Stand with feet at 45 degree angled open stance toward service box. Try serving by rotating your shoulders and hips without moving your feet. Rotate shoulders back as you go into trophy stance and then rotate into contact as you swing up and forward. Feet do not move as you are hitting with hip and shoulder rotation. Do drill above with loose grip and sometimes add another facet by dangling your grip pinky off the bottom of the frame. This forces you to use rythm and flow rather than squeezing muscles. I have a friend over 60 years old and under 6' tall that uses a stable stance serve as his "game" serve and he can hit serves that land within a couple of feet of the fence without any leg push. He adds spin to get some carry on the ball. You can hit quite hard without any leg action. Also, maybe see a good pro for a couple of lessons which is probably better than anything you'll learn here.
Something that's not usually mentioned - the ball toss. You might need to place the ball further into the court.
Best not to assume without seeing the action, if he already has a good ball toss, hitting further in front will wreck his control and consistency, without adding power. That said, having the ball toss the correct height and distance into the court is vital. If it is too low or close, you will be unable to bring your body weight through the shot and you will still be accelerating when you hit the ball: which means less predictability and less power than hitting when the swing is at a point with a more constant speed.
Toss more into the court. Slow down the arm a little, loosen up your grip and your arm up until contact. When you make contact, consciously freeze the elbow keeping it high... until the racquet head points down towards the court.
i managed to give a little try to some of your tips in a quick practice. first of all, i gotta say the "pinky out" trick is not bad at all. makes the whole motion more relaxed and fluid, and gives more pop. feels a bit too free at first but i got used to it. my toss is at front as it is, tried tossing a bit more forward. as Goudx says, it might mess things up a little. freezing the elbow and proper snap/pronation are things i still not well accustomed to. well, i'm sure after i'll post a video we'll all be more productive. still, the fence was a feet away even with my best serves.
I don't know about older people and 13yr girls having 2x more speed than you. Maybe a little bit, but not 2x. If you're almost hitting the fence on one bounce, then you're not that far from a reasonably fast serve, depending on your level. My serves usually hit the fence in one bounce and sometimes stick or go through. I don't swing hard. I don't arch much, or bend my knees much or do anything like explode from a trophy position to the point of contact. But for my level (3.0 to 4.0) I have a serve that's apparently relatively hard for my opponents to handle. All I'm focusing on when I'm serving is to be relaxed, have a relaxed grip and arm, and a good wrist snap into contact. What other posters have said about putting the toss a bit more into the court so that your point of contact is a bit farther out in front might help. Doing this has helped me to get a little bit more easy power on my serve. At this point we need some vids from you to see why you're not getting the pace you want on your serve.
I wouldn't make assumptions before I see the actual serve. It could be anything from the toss, the arm, the shoulder, the hips, the legs, the stance, etc. Anything.
yea, i'm a tennis midget (1.70m), so i guess the pinky trick is extra useful. in fact, it immediately made the whole serve relaxed and flowing, as TennisCJC said. P.S - should i do it on all the serves? on the more spinny serves it felt weirder.
Holding the racquet with just a couple or three fingers is called "charming" the racquet and it's something that pros and good players have been doing since the beginning of tennis. It enables you to whip the racquet more, ie., increasing racquet head speed, and it's used for groundstrokes as well as serves.
If the part in bold is true, don't mess with it. People get too hung up on serve speed. Too much ego. If you have this kind of variety and consistency, you've accomplished more than many rec players. If you get obsessed with speed 1. your first serve percentage will drop, 2. you'll double fault more, 3. you may wind up hurting your shoulder if not using proper form and pre-habbing correctly, 4. you'll likely win less. So, why bother?
Some considerations for taking a video of your serve. Include in your videos some taken from directly behind the server viewing as best you can along the line of the ball's trajectory. If there is someone to help viewing from behind hold the camera as high as possible. That view shows best the angle of the shoulders and the angle between the arm and wrist at impact. Take your video in bright outdoor sunlight as many cameras with auto exposure control video will select a faster shutter speed when there is bright light - the fastest shutter speed minimizes motion blur. Many smartphone cameras do this. Repeat the videos until you get some frames very near to impact. If you should be taking video with a newer DSLR, if possible, set the shutter speed manually as high as possible (1/2000 or 1/4000) and also video at 60 fps if available. Many cameras have a high speed video mode such as some Canon Powershot models.
In a serve instructional video I would like to hear more about the stretch-shortening cycle. The 'kinetic chain' is more a sequence of steps where bigger-slower muscles stretch and move smaller and faster muscles. I don't get that from the 'momentum' discussion or much in the way of specific motions with checkpoints. If anyone can understand the final motion that leads to the high racket speed at impact please indicate the time on the video where it is explained. If I stop the swing motion with the racket in ball strike position at about 4:48, it's not the motion and body orientation used in real pro serves. Greg, Have you taken videos of your serves from behind with your high speed video camera? You should be able to compare your serve to ones like this and see the differences between 130 MPH serves and yours. There are other similar videos taken from behind. https://vimeo.com/27528701 At impact most pro serves have a straight arm that rotates extremely rapidly at the shoulder joint. The racket is also rising up rapidly and strikes the ball with an angle between the forearm and racket. This clearly shows in the videos taken from behind (and their thumbnails with ball impact). That picture is what you want for an initial assessment of your serve. Before anyone tries new serving techniques, they should understand the Todd Ellenbecker video on the shoulder. Search TW Forum: Todd Ellenbecker video shoulder serve
Not entirely sure what you're getting at when talking about with the stretch shortening cycle. I'm guessing that you're using it to how the muscles generate fast speeds from the racquet head drop. Regardless, talking about this motion when trying to explain a serve is more likely to damage form, as it sounds like it will lead to tensing the arm. The high racquet head speed on the serve only requires normal muscle movements and is due to the triple hinged pendulum movement of the arm, about the shoulder, elbow and wrist. The movement of the arm is a combination of a passive and active movement. Passive movement: If you keep the arm loose and move it using only the leg, core and shoulder muscles from the dropped head position the arm will naturally unfold into the fast motion we use in the serve, due to the mechanics of a triple pendulum. http://twu.tennis-warehouse.com/learning_center/doublependulum.php Active movement: The muscles in the arm do add extra power, however think how slow an arm only serve is (try hitting a serve from a sitting position if you don't believe me). Their main function of the arm muscles is to control the movement of the racquet in relation to this arm movement. The muscles control the planes along which the pendulum will travel, which is why you can hit flat serves, kick serves and slice serves with what is, for the most part, the same swing. How does this mean? -The racquet head drop is important for power, as it is the start of the pendulum movement. -Power comes from relaxed joints, if the joint can move, it will. This is due to the centrifugal force acting on it as the arm accelerates. This includes forearm pronation, which must occur if the correct racquet head drop position and contact point are used. -As the arm will naturally amplify the speed, you don't have to worry about really focusing on different muscles. You should relax the arm so that it can swing freely and use the arm muscles to ensure that the arm moves correctly through the contact point. -Most of the racquet head speed is generated by the movements which accelerate the triple pendulum, the leg drive and core rotation. These are the areas where controllable power is available. Also, height isn't an excuse for lack of power. I am 5'7 and I have hit around 110mph on my biggest serves. 5'5 Olivier Rochus once hit a 136mph serve.
i actually find this pretty true, when thinking about it. but still, let's say i'm trying to at least maximize my speed potential. even without hitting the fence, just to make sure i use my potential to the max. will do my best, thanks i did consider buying one of those casio slo-mo cams, but the quality of the high speed options are still pretty lame for me to invest. really crappy resolution. i'll wait for a newer better option that i hope will come out soon (ideal budget quality for me will be 1000FPS on 720p. still far away from that ATM) great aspect of the momentum thing! those 2 momentum points are great simple way of re-directing "free" energy with almost no effort! this went up to my brain successfully
We all now expect HD in our TV. Forget the high speed video low resolution issue because you don't need HD to see everything you need to analyze tennis strokes. In a high speed video camera the spatial resolution has to be just good enough to see the objects that you need to see: racket, ball, hands, arms, fingers, etc.. Check my videos to see if you can locate these objects. It does not have to be attractive, just adequate. The camera engineers have reduced the number of lines of resolution so that the frame rate could be increased in an affordable camera. A high speed video camera gives you time resolution, 240 fps takes a frame every 4 milliseconds. If this time is what is needed to to see the rapid changes in body, racket and ball in a tennis stroke, then it works.
A TW "thread" search of Chas Tennis Stretch Shortening Cycle gets 9 threads where I've discussed the stretch shortening cycle, mostly for the serve. If you select a "Reply" search it will highlight each reply. I find 90% of my views directly from references. The most prominent biomechanical researcher on the tennis serve is, in my opinion, Bruce Elliott. His book Technique Development in Tennis Stroke Production, Elliott, Reid, and Crespo discusses the stretch shortening cycle and the part it plays in tennis strokes. The book is available from the ITF store for a very reasonable price. A summary of the ideas is in the shorter article, Biomechanics and Tennis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577481/ You can also search the internet for stretch shortening cycle and find many descriptions. "only requires normal muscle movements and is due to the triple hinged pendulum movement of the arm, about the shoulder, elbow and wrist." How does internal shoulder rotation fit into this pendulum picture? I am now reading the very interesting Cross article TW link on the double pendulum. I don't see internal shoulder rotation mentioned so far. ?
you are right about the time resolution.. but if i invest in highspeed cam, i personally need it for other filmic stuff. i think that asking for highspeed 720p res today is not too much by todays standards.
Also, consider.... You probably cannot increase your service speed without raising your current contact point. At under 9', it would be VERY hard to hit 110mph serves IN ever. You can hit harder curving spin serves, but certainly not flat serves. Possibly, increasing the speed of your spin serves will serve no useful purpose, as it's still going to be slow and curve the same as all your other serves. Look at the serves of the short guys, Rochus, Barrasetchi, Chang, Ferrer.....
Here are a couple quick, easy things you can try. 1. Find any old racket with a head cover. Stick a paperback book inside the cover and practice the serve without a ball. Concentrate on getting everything right- then hit with your regular racket. 2. Find an old, heavy-ish, wood racket and, again, practice hitting the ball with good form. You will really need good form to hit well with a wooden racket- then try your regular racket. 3. Alternate between these 3 things as a king of practice to find better form, increase setregth and speed, and get the feel of hitting the optimal serve (if you do otherwise with a wooden racket- the results and feel will be very bad).
Don't matter if you increase his speed, he's still short with a low contact point, so the serves cannot be hit all that fast to bother anyone. Possibly, increasing his RHS would only move his serves into his opponent's strikezone, so it's LESS effective. Plus, if I remember correctly, OP has a decent motion with decent serve speed FOR HIS SIZE.
listen guys, i made a quick video yesterday. and now, after i finally suppressed my depression, HELL if i'm gonna show it to you!!! my body motion at serving looks disgraceful! horrible!! like a lazy bum doing a favor and serving!!! disgusting. really amazing how i can somehow hold serves and gain UE's from opponents. crazy thing, how you imagine yourself and how you really look. i'll have to do some more work, try to take the best tips here, take a lesson or two, and THEN make a more respectful video. still traumatized
This is what improved my first serve pace overnight: - Testing different rackets, just noting behavioral differences without making any changes to my motion. - Practicing by throwing tennis balls like a baseball (whipping motion) - Not doing intentional twists or other motions, just letting it whip (best learned by throwing tennis balls like you would a baseball) - Initially gripping racket with a decent firm fist, feeling for a nice groove in the bevels around your fingers, all using a slightly more extreme continental - Throwing out in front not overhead - Maintaining an L shape with my hand - One continuous motion from the time the racket rises until hitting - Not making a huge jump, keeping feet planted until the serve is consistent Mostly for me: Concentrating immensely on the ball, actually seeing exactly where I'm going to hit is and not taking my eyes from that spot until it's left my racket All in all, when it works for me, I have these all flowing in a natural motion requiring little thought besides actually watching exactly where I'm going to hit the ball. I will gladly post a video of my serve for you to see.


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These do not appear to be the actions of men whose sole desire is to represent their country. It is the behaviour of mercenaries desperately wanting to dip their noses in the trough. If the focus of these players was totally on playing for Australia they would not even consider placing themselves in such a compromised position. The hypocrisy of the players' union should not be ignored too. Players' representatives are constantly complaining about the volume of cricket played; now they are pushing CA to release players for more.
The most damning assessment of the situation came from Andrew Symonds, the outstanding Australia all-rounder who will play in the IPL. "The way things are heading, loyalty is really going to become a major issue, particularly when you can make more money in six or eight weeks than you can in a whole season," he said. "Who wouldn't be tempted to take a job offering more money for less work?
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Will my Gps work in the bahamas traveling to the bahamas
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The "G" in GPS stands for "GLOBAL".
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You might, however, depending on which GPS unit you have, want to look at loading additional maps on your unit (if they are available) because your Eastern United States maps will not cover the Bahamas.
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If you venture out of the "touristy" areas, be very aware of your surroundings and people around you.
You GPS will need to re-aquire satellites if it has been turned off for a while and you have moved a long distance from when you shut it off.
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One thing you can do to reduce the amount of time your GPSr needs to get a satellite signal lock, in the Bahamas, is to go onto Google Earth and get the coordinates of where you'll be staying. The coordinates don't have to be exactly dead on. Go into your GPSr setup, manually enter the coordinates the night before you fly out, and when you restart you GPSr in the Bahamas, your sat signal lock will take considerably less time than if you started your GPSr with the last set of coordinates back in North Carolina. Good luck, have fun, and don't forget to do a little scuba diving. Come on, it's the BAHAMAS!!
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I can only suggest that as mine does work in the Bahamas that you allow me to take your place.
And stop gloating!
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So if your GPS is on your phone, you may not get GPS service. However if its not, you should be fine.
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Went to the Mediterranean a while back didn't want to spent the bucks to buy the maps for all the areas I would be in. But the GPS worked fine just only gives you "Line of Sight" and tells the distance just doesn't show the roads to get to it. Had no problem finding the caches but always remember to mark where you start so you have an easy way back to where you started.
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twinpower78, on Jan 24 2010, 06:40 AM, said:
Well let's see now. late-January. Going to the Bahama Islands.
What you need to do is use plenty of sun screen so as to avoid getting a burn. "What do I need to do"?
Are you kidding me?
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You know, I once went to a GPS maze exhibit about 90 miles from home, cached around town a little, and turned it off there, seeing as I wasn't driving, and didn't need it anymore. The next day, I couldn't get a signal on my Garmin GPS60 series to save my life!! After about 10 minutes, I finally did a hard reset on the thing. This could just be some whacky thing that happened to me though. I almost always have it on for the duration of road trips.
EDIT: Thinking back, it might have been the next weekend, and it was off all week. Either way, I'm just sayin'.
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I guess it's going to take me six months to write a post here but these late spring days are so precious and beautiful I can't let them pass by without note. I can't imagine I have much time this morning so just a few pictures and thoughts.
My oldest daughter has finished her elementary school years and I'm happy to say I have no regrets about our decision to homeschool.
I have books set aside for summer reading and loads of recipes for homemade popsicles. The summer has started off far, far busier than I anticipated (summer baseball tournaments? Oh.my.gosh.) but I'm still hoping to schedule in a few family dinners, simple walks around the neighborhood, and afternoons spent knitting while watching our toddler splash in her baby pool. And I truly hope to be back here more frequently!
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Men's sports coaches (Average salary: $50,075) |
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Women's sports coaches (Average salary: $42,754) |
Sport | Varsity Men | Varsity Women | Club | Intramural |
All Track Combined | 23 | 14 | - | - |
Baseball | 39 | - | - | - |
Basketball | 21 | 14 | - | - |
Field Hockey | - | 20 | - | - |
Golf | 8 | - | - | - |
Lacrosse | 46 | 19 | - | - |
Soccer | 28 | 31 | - | - |
Softball | - | 21 | - | - |
Tennis | 10 | 7 | - | - |
Volleyball | - | 17 | - | - |
Student | Total |
American Indian/Alaskan Native | 0.2% |
Asian/Pacific Islander | 1.6% |
Black/non-Hispanic | 21.0% |
Hispanic | 3.9% |
Non-resident alien | 0.3% |
Race/Ethnicity unknown | 5.4% |
Two or more races | 0.0% |
White/non-Hispanic | 67.6% |
Disabilities | |
Percent of students with disability | 9% |
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Reserved Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
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Illegal Weapons Possession | 0 |
Drug Law Violation | 8 |
Liquor Law Violation | 5 |
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Personal Crime | 6 |
Property Crime | 2 |
The dorm rooms are pretty big compared to the other schools that I looked at, and they just got all new showers put in the dorms which are really nice!…
Fun, fun, fun! Even for commuters like myself, having friends who dorm brings on a whole knew life.…
Dorms are okay. Because this school is small alot of people live in the same dorm hall so it can get loud at night. But you can either have one…
Although I am a commuter student, I have seen the dorms, apartments, and town homes. Anything that has to do with the college is nice. The campus is nice, the…
Your first year in a dorm will not be that bad. There are four villages. V1 is strictly for freshmen, V2 is for freshmen and sophomores, then you get into…
I personally like the food but, others may disagree. We don't have any outside fast food restaurants on campus, but there is a McDonald's, Wendy's, and other places right down the street.
Read MoreThere are not many choices here. Head my warning. What you will get are many healthy choices in the cafe. And the grille does a better job of more variety.. but that's it. You will not be a late night junk food person as a result of Virginia Wesleyan College. Buying your own snacks is very important if you are a snacker at heart. Especially at night during times of midterms and finals. Make sure you grab a carry-out menu for the local places that gives the campus special discounts by the second week of school. You're going to need it if you don't have your own car.
Read MoreFood is okay, but not great. The cafeteria food is from Sodexo and it's pretty much all the same every day. Breakfast sucks, lunch is only good because of Rus, and dinner is mediocre. The Grill is a lot better than the caf, but it's only open limited hours.
Read MoreThey have an excellent cafeteria that I have had the pleasure of eating in several times. It is mostly buffet style however, the chefs will make items upon request.
Read MoreThe food is hit or miss. Sometimes the cafeteria makes delicious food and sometimes it's repulsive. They try to get creative with food choices but they're usually a flop. I love the food at the grille. It's convenient and tasty. The only problem with both places is that there is hardly any healthy choices for students to make.
Read MoreI love the buffet style dining hall with plenty of different food options.
Read MoreFood is normal, pizza, salad bar, sandwich bar, and dessert place. there are two other places in the cafeteria that change the type of food, sometimes Chinese food sometimes Italian.
Read MoreWe have these Sororities: -Alpha Kappa Alpha -Alpha Sigma Alpha -Phi Sigma Sigma -Sigma Sigma Sigma -Zeta Phi Beta W have these Fraternities: -Phi Kappa Tau -Kappa Alpha Order -Sigma Nu Greek life doesn't just stop with VWC, many extened to neighboring schools such as ODU and NSU nearby. They bring the party to the Batten Center and turn up the heat!
Read MoreLimited sororities. Lots of fraternities and even more fraternities being made. Very unbalanced.
Read MoreVery diverse.
Read MoreGreek life is big here. There are always greek events and greek unity going on here. The greek townhouses are all together so we can live amongst each other. Each greek organization supports the other.
Read MoreThe Greek Life is extremely friendly with other organizations. No one sorority or fraternity is dominant on campus, and the Panhellenic Council works to bring all the Greek Life organizations together.
Read MoreGeek life is great so far
Read MoreMy favorite part. I did rush a fraternity my freshmen year and I love it. There are 3 fraternities, and 3 sororities, and two Divine 9 sororities.
Read MoreI never joined them, but they do a lot of helpful things and seem to have a lot of fun.
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a rare storytelling gem. It is a migrant story told entirely through art. For people of all ages interested in the experience of those who have had to leave their homelands and start over in a strange world, this is a graphic novel to be cherished. Without the familiarity of words, the viewer is forced to experience alongside the protagonist the confusion of a new land: the food, animals and language. It's not just different, it's surreal.
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The storyline is told cleanly in an easy-to-follow format of boxes, so even a novice to the graphic novel can enjoy it. The artwork is not cartoony at all. Instead, each of the small squares could be framed. When the artist chooses to devote a whole page to one scene, it is breathtaking. The colors are black and white blending to sepia at different points of the story. Sometimes the main character meets others who tell their own tale–and the coloring is just different enough to let you know it's a new POV, without losing the continuity.
It is hard to put into words why this book had my children and me so entranced. Each of us has spent time staring at the pictures quietly absorbing the beauty. The emotional impact is strong, and because of the fantastic surrealism of the art, I would recommend it for school-age children and up. So far, I have not been able to share this book with people without tearing up. This is a magnificent example of what the graphic novel can achieve.
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Egg Noodle Lasagna Recipe
Mary Oberlin of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania was lucky enough to receive this recipe from one of her friends. The perfect take-along for charity events and church potlucks, the comforting crowd-pleaser is sure to warm tummies on the coldest of winter nights.
- 6-1/2 cups uncooked wide egg noodles
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1-1/2 pounds ground beef
- 2-1/4 cups spaghetti sauce
- 6 ounces process cheese (Velveeta), cubed
- 3 cups (12 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1. Cook noodles according to package directions; drain. Add butter; toss to coat.
- 2. In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Spread a fourth of the spaghetti sauce into an ungreased 5-qt. slow cooker. Layer with a third of the noodles, a third of the beef, a third of the remaining sauce and a third of the cheeses. Repeat layers twice.
- 3. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or until cheese is melted and lasagna is heated through. Yield: 12-16 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 cup: 266 calories, 15g fat (8g saturated fat), 65mg cholesterol, 432mg sodium, 16g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 1g fiber), 17g protein.
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'The Monuments Men' trailer gives a peek into the WWII drama (+ video)
(Read article summary)'Monuments' stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, and many others as a group who try to save culturally significant artwork, buildings, and more from the Nazis.
The film "The Monuments Men," the story of a group trying to save works of art and culture from the Nazis during World War II, is set to arrive in theaters on Feb. 7. The movie is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Robert M. Edsel
"Monuments" is directed by George Clooney and stars Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, "Downton Abbey" actor Hugh Bonneville, Cate Blanchett, "The Artist" actor Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, and "Moonrise Kingdom" actor Bob Balaban.
The book by Edsel was first released in 2009 and the film adaptation changes the names of the people involved. "We're not doing a documentary, and we wanted to be able to give these guys flaws," Clooney told Entertainment Weekly. "They were real people, and you don't want to give real people flaws. So we changed the names so we could mess with them a little bit."
The movie was originally set to be released this past December but was moved to its current release date.
One trailer for the upcoming film shows Clooney, who plays Frank Stokes, gathering the group to save valuable works of art.
"I'm to put a team together together and do our best to protect buildings, bridges, and art before the Nazis destroy everything," he tells Damon.
Later, Clooney describes the importance of their mission.
"If you destroy an entire generation of people's culture, it's as if they never existed," he says. "That's what Hitler wants and it's the one thing we can't allow."
In his interview with EW, Clooney said he tried for a mix of serious issues and humor in the film.
"There was a lot of important stuff to talk about, but we wanted it to be fun and entertaining," he said. "You want to be able to laugh at a lot of the stuff, too."
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Two people who are little more than strangers prepare to marry, and find themselves torn over their cultural identity in the debut feature from director Filippos Tsitos. Bruce (Harvey Friedman) is a footloose American traveling through Berlin when he meets Anke (Nadja Uhl), a single mother who supports herself giving guided tours of the city. For Bruce, it's love at first sight, and while Anke is initially reluctant about pursuing a relationship (especially given the earlier fling that left her with a...more
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Islamabad – Gunmen killed two senior members of a hardline Sunni Muslim group in a rare attack in the Pakistani capital on Friday, officials said, after weeks of sectarian tensions in the country.
The secretary-general of the Islamabad chapter of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) organisation, Mufti Muneer Muavia, and his colleague Qari Asad Mehmood were targeted in a residential area bordering the twin city of Rawalpindi.
"Two unknown gunmen sprayed bullets on their car and escaped from the scene on a motorcycle," Ghazanfar Niaz Ahmed, an official on duty in the local police station, told AFP.
Another police official Muhammed Nawaz, who was at the crime scene, confirmed that the victims were from the ASWJ.
ASWJ is known as the political arm of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of the most active terror groups in Pakistan, responsible for a string of bloody attacks on Shiites.
A party official confirmed its activists were targeted.
"Our leaders were killed in a targeted attempt on their life," Muhammed Tayyeb Haidri, an ASWJ spokesman in Islamabad, told AFP.
There has been a rise in sectarian violence in Pakistan after several deadly clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups near Islamabad in November last year.
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CAIRO -- Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's top democracy advocate and a key challenger to President Hosni Mubarak, returned to the country Thursday night after declaring he was ready to lead the grass-roots protest movement to a regime change.
Violence escalated outside the capital Cairo. In the flashpoint city of Suez, east of Cairo, rioters -- some wearing surgical masks or scarves over their faces to ward off tear gas -- attacked the main fire station in downtown and looted it before torching it with firebombs.
Firefighters jumped out windows to escape the flames, as heavy black smoke billowed from the burning building. In the northern Sinai area of Sheik Zuweid, several hundred bedouins and police exchanged live gunfire, killing a 17-year-old man.
Social networking sites were abuzz with talk that Friday's rallies could be some of the biggest so far calling for the ouster of Mubarak after 30 years in power. Millions gather at mosques across the city for Friday prayers, providing organizers with a huge number of people already out on the streets to tap into.
By Thursday evening, Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger services were interrupted, possibly a move by authorities to hamper protesters from organizing.
Egypt's ruling party said it was ready for a dialogue with the public but offered no concessions to address demands for a solution to rampant poverty and political change heard in the country's largest anti-government protests in years. Safwat El-Sherif, the secretary general of the National Democratic Party and a longtime confidant of Mubarak, was dismissive of the protesters at the first news conference by a senior ruling party figure since the protests began.
"We are confident of our ability to listen. The NDP is ready for a dialogue with the public, youth and legal parties," he said. "But democracy has its rules and process. The minority does not force its will on the majority."
The 82-year-old Mubarak has not been seen in public or heard from since the protests began Tuesday with tens of thousands marching in Cairo and a string of other cities.
Mubarak has not said yet whether he will stand for another six-year term as president in elections this year. He has never appointed a deputy and is thought to be grooming his son Gamal to succeed him despite popular opposition. According to leaked U.S. memos, hereditary succession also does not meet with the approval of the powerful military.
Mubarak has seen to it that no viable alternative to him has been allowed to emerge. Constitutional amendments adopted in 2005 by the NDP-dominated parliament has made it virtually impossible for independents like ElBaradei to run for president.
Mubarak's administration suffered another serious blow Thursday when the stock market crashed. The benchmark index fell more than 10 percent by close, its biggest drop in more two years on the back of a 6 percent fall a day earlier.
The protesters have already achieved a major feat by sustaining their demonstrations for three days in the face of a brutal police crackdown. Seven people have been killed, hundreds hurt and nearly 1,000 detained.
The government has banned all gatherings and police have fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and used water cannons to disperse crowds. They have also fired live ammunition in the air at time to warn people and there have been many scenes of riot police in helmets and shields charging crowds and beating people with batons and plainclothes police beating demonstrators with long sticks.
Some of the worst unrest Thursday was in the hot spot of Suez. The protesters also stoned lines of helmeted riot police with shields, who fired back with rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas. Debris and rocks littered the streets. Demonstrators ran through white clouds of tear gas and kicked the canisters back at police. Some shielded themselves with overturned metal dumpsters and hurled rocks from behind the makeshift barricades. Police said 30 people were injured in the melee.
In the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, east of Cairo, hundreds of protesters clashed with police who used tear gas and batons to disperse them.
Associated Press reporters saw scores of protesters outside the downtown Cairo offices of Egypt's lawyers' union, which has been one of the flashpoints of this week's unrest.
There were two other small, peaceful protests by lawyers in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta town of Toukh, north of Cairo.
ElBaradei, who has emerged as a prime challenger to Mubarak's rule, told reporters at the Vienna airport on his way back to Egypt that he was seeking regime change and ready to lead the opposition.
"The regime has not been listening," ElBaradei said. "If people, in particular young people, if they want me to lead the transition, I will not let them down. My priority right now ... is to see a new regime and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition."
When ElBaradei touched down in Egypt, he was greeted by a small group of family and friends and reporters.
"It's a critical time in the life of Egypt, and I have to participate with the Egyptian people," he said.
A spokesman for ElBaradei, Abdul-Rahman Samir, said the former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog was expected to join protests planned for after the Friday prayers.
ElBaradei urged authorities to exercise restraint with protesters expressing their "legitimate need" for an Egypt that is democratic and based on social justice.
ElBaradei returned to Egypt last year after living abroad for decades and has created a wave of support from reformists. But he so far insisted he would not run in this year's presidential election unless restrictions on who is eligible to contest the vote are lifted and far reaching political reforms are introduced.
His support base is primarily made up of youths and he is seen as untainted by corruption. But his detractors say he may be lacking a thorough understanding of life here because of the decades he has lived abroad, first as an Egyptian diplomat and later with the United Nations.
In another boost to the protest movement, the country's largest opposition group -- the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood -- also threw its support behind the demonstrations. If the group's backers join the protests on Friday, it could swell the numbers on the streets significantly. But the group has stopped short of an outright call for its backers to turn out.
The Muslim Brotherhood called on its website for protests to remain peaceful. It also called for new parliamentary elections under judicial supervision, the introduction of far-reaching reforms and the lifting of emergency laws in force since 1981.
The Brotherhood made a surprisingly strong showing in parliamentary elections in 2005, when it won 20 percent of seats and served as the main opposition bloc in the legislature. In the latest parliament elections held in November, the Brotherhood failed to win even a single seat. It decried widespread fraud by the ruling party and boycotted the runoffs.
The vote gave the ruling party all but a small fraction of the chamber's 518 seats, an outcome that analysts say chipped away further at the regime's legitimacy and likely contributed to the discontent being vented on the streets this week.
"The movement of the Egyptian people that began January 25 and has been peaceful, mature and civilized must continue against corruption, oppression and injustice until its legitimate demands for reform are met," said the statement.
"We are not pushing this movement, but we are moving with it. We don't wish to lead it but we want to be part of it," said Mohammed Mursi, a senior Brotherhood leader.
The stock market crash, which brought year-to-date losses to almost 21 percent, hit at the core of some of the regime's main accomplishments. The president has built his legacy continuing and expanding the open market policies launched by his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, in the 1970s.
While Egyptian officials have boasted about healthy economic growth figures, critics have argued that ambitious economic reforms have done little more than make the rich even richer while poverty, unemployment and prices rise unabated.


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Raw 100: Rupert Walker
This 100 second-long video of Brandon Semenuk will make you want to shred.
Raw 100 is a video series designed to highlight the talent and creativity of filmmakers. It's said that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and this series celebrates that idea.
The rules for each video are simple: 100 seconds in length, no slow motion footage, and no music. By having to work within these limitations, filmmakers have to get creative and think outside the box.
In this Raw 100 video, Rupert Walker comes through with a deceptively simple yet powerful video of Brandon Semenuk. This will make you want to hit the trails.
Raw 100: Rupert Walker
Vancouver native Rupert Walker has been prodigiously releasing his vision of mountain bike videos for a little over three years now. The self-taught 27-year-old started out much like most filmmakers; a creative vision with a desire to document how they see the world. Having said that, Walker has created his own path in the mountain bike film industry, and it certainly didn't happen over night. Walker is a one-man show when it comes to filming and editing.
With extensive background in dirt jumping and skiing, Walker shoots with a rider's perspective and enthusiasm. His style differs from the cookie cutter format that is seen in most mountain bike videos. Instead of excessive slow motion, filler shots, and techno, Walker's editing features fast paced shots with quick cuts, hints of slow mo, and hip hop music. All killer, no filler; his work is raw and to the point. For 2015, he's partnered with slopestyle's best, Brandon Semenuk, to shoot and produce their own film titled, 'Revel in the Chaos' set to be available on iTunes in summer 2015.
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I find that Friday, and Saturdays, are the busiest times there, while during the week around 2 to 8 pm the after work crowd comes out to play. This is a brand new bathhouse with plenty of secure and discrete parking available, not to far from Tampa Airport and the heart of Tampa Bay. Its a quick drive from Pinellas county (St. Petersburg) and all of the gay nightlife that Tampa has.
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Fruit flies and gnats are two similar small fly species that generally seem to carry out very similar functions. To make things more confusing, both species are sometimes referred to by local names like "fruit fly gnat," that imply that fruit flies and gnats are the same. There are however as many differences between true fruit flies and true gnats as there are similarities.
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Size And Colour
Gnats are tiny insects, while fruit flies (Drosophila spp) are slightly larger and more noticeable. The most common fruit flies are about 1/8 inch long with a light brownish head and thorax, black tail and large bright red eyes. Fungus gnats (Bradysia spp) are entirely black and only 1/16 inch in length, however they have long, gangly legs that are very evident in flight.
Although they are easily confused unless seen under a microscope, fruit flies and gnats actually belong to different families within the insect order Diptera. There are thousands of species of fruit fly worldwide which all belong to the family Tephritidae. Gnats are split into different families, with the common fungus gnat belonging to the family Sciaridae.
Fruit flies, as their name suggests, are attracted to fruit and are the small, winged insects most likely to congregate around the ripening fruit in your house. Females each lay hundreds of eggs in rotting fruits and vegetables. Gnats on the other hand are usually encountered in warm, often damp conditions flying round in small circles in large groups called "ghosts." Gnats are especially common around expanses of water, where they hover just above the surface and absorb the carbon dioxide given off by the algae.
Life Cycle
Fungus gnats lay tiny eggs in the soil of house plants, which within four days hatch into larvae. The pupal stage lasts one week before they emerge as adults and mate. Their adult life lasts only another week, during which the female lays up to 150 eggs. Fruit fly larvae continue feeding from the surface of the rotting matter on emergence from their eggs. Females can lay up to 500 eggs, and yet their entire life cycle is over in about a week. Fruit flies are more likely to contaminate foods with bacteria than are gnats.
Gnats can bite humans, whereas fruit flies cannot. This is only a general rule however that does not always apply. Fungus gnats, which may be the gnats that most commonly persist around houseplants, are of no harm to humans.


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Monday, May 24, 2010
Black Glutinous Ang Ku Kueh
I'm using the same Ang Ku Kueh recipe from here. I just substitute 40g of glutinous rice flour with black glutinous rice flour.
8 comments:
- DG said...
The colour of your Ang Ku Kueh is very unique, and looks chewy & yummy too.
- May 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Sonia (Nasi Lemak Lover) said...
Lovely colour kuih!
- May 24, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- wendyywy @ Table for 2 or more..... said...
Looks really good.
- May 24, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- MaryMoh said...
Wow...black ones! I haven't tried that. I love angku. Hope to try this type one day.
- May 25, 2010 at 1:07 AM
- Jess @ Bakericious said...
Hi Happy Flour, the color of the kuih looks so pretty
- May 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Happy Flour said...
Hi DG, Sonia, Wendyywy, Mary Moh and Jess @ Bakericious,
Thanks everyone for your nice words. :)
Due to the lighting so it appear like purple, the actual colour is dark purple more like Black Ang Ku Kueh. :0 - May 25, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Murnie said...
Hi, I am just wondering where we can purchase black glutinous rice flour from?
- February 10, 2012 at 8:41 PM
- Happy Flour said...
Hi Murnie,
I'm not sure where can you get black glutinous rice flour in Singapore. My friend get it from Indonesia. - February 11, 2012 at 12:48 PM
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I need a large cooker for the Festival, to make more sushi for the Forest. Anyone knows of someone who could lend me one? (mine is a mini size)
Thanks a million people
Large rice-cooker anyone?
Large rice-cooker anyone?
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Re: Large rice-cooker anyone?
forest got 2 more large cheap rice cookers for Eden Fest, making the total amount that it has, 3.
you could probably use one of those.
speak to the KMs.
you could probably use one of those.
speak to the KMs.
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2005: Doing Good
Written by Erin Blackwell, Jeffrey Morris & Keiko Shimosato Carreiro with Ellen Callas from a scenario by Dan Chumley & Joan Holden Music by Pat Moran, Jason Ditzian, Doug Port & Bruce Barthol Lyrics by Bruce Barthol & Amos Glick Directed by Victor Toman DOING GOOD featured performers Lisa Hori-Garcia, Michael Gene Sullivan, Noah James Butler, Michael Carreiro, Christian Cagigl, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro & Brian Rivera and band members Jason Ditzian, Pat Moran & Doug Port View show photos |
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The Seamless Composite
Drake BusathAristotle once said, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." In this video class, Drake Busath shows you how that quote can be true in family portraits as he creates a seamless composite that would make Aristotle proud!
Why might composites be the way to go when you've got a large family to photograph? Well, it's a lighting nightmare and how often do you get 15 or more family members to smile perfectly at the same time? So roll up your sleeves and get ready for Drake's step-by-step instructions for photographing the big family in segments. You'll learn about…
- The best type of lighting and poses to capture for each group with the final image in mind.
- Making measurements for all aspects of the setup so you can get images sized and positioned just right for the final composite.
- Handling the computer and Photoshop part of the composite, which the techies will love and even the non-geeks will understand, thanks to Drake's easy explanations.
- Guidelines for creating that composite image that you'll want to write down and save!
Next time you get that big family portrait request, you'll be ready. (And hey, think of all the other ways you could use these compositing skills for your different photographic needs!)
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text: New Man of Steel images prove that Henry Cavill truly is the hairiest Superman of allMeredith Woerner3/15/13 11:50amFiled to: man of steelsupermanmoviesZack SnyderHenry Cavill522EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkA collection of brand new Superman images dropped in the latest issue of Total Film, delivering plenty of mountain man Clark Kent pics. Truly, this is the manliest of Supermans to ever expose his chest hair in a deep V. AdvertisementThere's also a hefty interview with director Zack Snyder, with one particular quote that kind of stood out:We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do. Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human."Good! Here's hoping that comes true because that could actually make America's Boy Scout much more interesting. [via Comic Book Movie]


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Bookroo: "books for your kids...delivered for your doorstep every month."
Review by Lauren
Source: Bookroo gave me a discount on one month's subscription box and I paid for the rest - all opinions are my own
Review: Bookroo has two different types of subscription boxes you can choose from - board books (ages 0-3) and picture books (ages 2-6 +). I went with board books because it fits my niece and nephew better, and I didn't want to get books that only one of them could have. Unfortunately, they do not live near me anymore so I couldn't get reactions from them for the review - but I will be using these books as future birthday and Christmas gifts coming up!
I was sent a really cute box with my three board books, all carefully wrapped in fun paper. This is so cool because I know the kids in my life love opening gifts, so if you subscribe to this, they have something really fun to open every month!
Because I chose board books, I was given 3 books to check out. If you go with the picture book option, then you receive 2 books. This makes sense to me because picture books are usually longer and more expensive than board books! Each subscription service (no matter what type of book you choose) is $19.99 a month with free shipping to the United States. Learn about other shipping options here.
These are the three books that I recieved; none of which I had heard about before! I really love the eclectic mix of titles, good for both boys and girls. Then again, I don't really believe in "girl books" and "boy books." Let kids read what they like, as long as it's age appropriate! At any rate, I got the following titles:
The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane DeRolf: This is a really sweet book about a box of crayons that can't get along until a little girl takes them home and starts drawing with all of them. This is definitely going to my nephew, as he loves to color!
Hernando Fandango: The Great Dancing Dog by Rachel Swirles: This book is about a little girl named Adelaide and her pajama-case dog/best friend who love to dance, as well as watching Adelaide's parents dance. This is a fun book for an older reader/listener as there are more words. My niece dances, so I know she'd really adore this one!
Sassy: Let's Count! A First Book of Numbers: This one isn't a story but it is a cute book to help kids learn their numbers. Each page has a brightly colored number with a fun border. You lift the flap (which is almost as big as the page) to see what the number goes with, such as 6 Socks and 9 Ants. This would be a good book for a friend of mine who has a little girl starting to talk a bit...I just need to wait a bit longer, but she'll be one soon, so maybe for a birthday gift!
Overall: I really like this subscription service. You get some great books and it definitely helps promote a constant love of reading, if you're getting these books every month. I might have to subscribe for a few months and have them sent directly to my niece and nephew. I think they would love getting mail like this!
Bookroo has a FAQ page, but I loved some of these answers so much, I wanted to share a few of them.
One of the questions is about receiving a book you already own. Their answer?
No problem! Send us a picture of your giving the book to someone else and we'll give you $5 off your next subscription. Our experience has been that even community members with extensive libraries have discovered new books through Bookroo!
Another question was about having children in both age ranges (board book and picture book - like my niece and nephew). Their answer?
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Nudibranchs, some of my favourite photographic subjects, cos they don't move
too fast, and are very colourful.
Of course there are exceptions and not all fall into the above
description, but generally most of the subjects on the related pages
Most, as you can see from my photographs, are very colourful,
basically to advertise that they do not taste very good,
In case you are unaware of what a nudibranch is, it is in fact a type of
underwater snail (with no shell). NUDIBRANCH literally means NAKED
GILLS. Most have feathery bits on their back which are the gills, the
two horns on the front are called RHINOPHORES.
A more precise introduction and accurate description of these Opisthobranchs can be found in Nathalie Yonow's book published in 2008, which also happens to contain 16 photographs of mine.
Interesting that both Nathalie and myself both chose Nembrotha megalocera as the cover for our Sea slug intro
8th February a few years ago
This page updated
8th May 2009
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For a complete list by species
I hope that after viewing the above pages and checking out my links that you can appreciate why some people become obsessed by these magnificent creatures, and if you already are, I hope that you enjoyed my images.
Two Chromodoris species mating .... oh naughty!
The advantage of being an hermaphrodite is that you can have sex with
anyone of the same species.
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Logan is sent back to the past by Xavier and Magneto and tasked with a mission to find their younger selves and lead them to make changes for a better future.
The first trailer for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" has just come out. The past and the present collide as the mutants are in a battle to change the past in order to save their future. And the key to the success of this mission is in the hands of Logan a.k.a. Wolverine.
Xavier and Magneto are forced to join forces once again as their kinds are facing the impending doom in the present day. The two are sending Wolverine back to the old days, hoping him that he could change the events of the past in attempt to prevent a disastrous future.
"Find me," Xavier tells Logan. "Convince me of all this." Magneto chimes in, "It's going to take the two of us." When Logan asks where to find him, Magneto says, "A different path. A darker path." Professor X adds, "I was a very different man. Lead me, guide me, be patient with me."
James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are back as the young Professor X and Magneto with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen portraying their older versions respectively. Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Halle Berry as Storm, and Nicholas Hoult as Beast.
Directed by Bryan Singer, the film is due in the U.S. May 23, 2014.


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On January 2, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 41 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to the Order, ALJ Bullock granted a joint motion filed by Complainants Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Hitachi Metals North Carolina, Ltd. and Respondent Allstar Magnetics, LLC ("Allstar Magnetics") to terminate the investigation as to Allstar Magnetics based on a consent order stipulation, proposed consent order, and a settlement agreement.
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Newly elected N.C. House Representative Debra Conrad, whose 74th District encompasses roughly half of the Kernersville area in Forsyth County, has been busy.
Of the estimated 1,000 bills that have been introduced during current legislative session, Conrad's name has been attached in support of 71. She is the primary sponsor on approximately two-dozen of those. For more, see the Saturday/Sunday, May 4 & 5, 2013 edition.
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Subject | RE: Disable class monitoring for reloading container classes |
Date | Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:31:28 GMT |
André, thanks for the perl program. I tried it and got > qsh: 001-0019 Error found searching for command showmodified.pl. No such path or directory. when running from the IBM I O/S. I'll talk to IBM next week and see if perl is supported. It might need to be a C program. It ran fine on Linux. If I run the equivalent in C and Java on the two machines and compare the difference, if they're the same then it must be tomcat. I will run them from the command line - before and after the time change. It'll have to be sometime next week. Mean Thanks, Jane -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 7:19 AM To: Tomcat Users List; Jane Muse Subject: Re: Disable class monitoring for reloading container classes Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:email@example.com] >> Subject: Re: Disable class monitoring for reloading container classes > >> The timestamp of the file should be /the/ timestamp for the file, and >> shouldn't be affected by the current DST settings. >> The timestamp for the file itself might be affected by the current >> DST setting when you /touch/ it, but not when you do a simple stat() >> call. > > My guess is that the problem is specific to the platform: either the JVM or the OS is adjusting the retrieved time stamp, making it relative to the current offset from UTC. Even though this particular OS is not widely used as a Java EE platform (compared to the number of Linux and Windows boxes out there), I'm a bit surprised the issue hasn't been reported elsewhere. > > Try using simple Java and C programs to check the File.lastModified() and stat() st_mtime values respectively, comparing the results both before and after the DST switch. That should determine if the problem is in the OS, the JVM, or Tomcat. > Jane, Below is a simple perl program that will show the "last modified" time of a file, in 3 flavors : - the original timestamp as a binary value (number of non-leap seconds since the "epoch", on most systems this is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970). - the same timestamp as GMT date/time (this is Greenwich time, non DST-adjusted) - the same time stamp as "local" time (DST-adjusted) Copy and paste this into a text file, save it as "showmodified.pl", then type perl showmodified.pl <file_path> What would be interesting would be to run the program on your two different servers, to see if they answer differently. This does not use the Java JVM in any way. It uses perl, which itself uses mostly the built-in C library of the OS. So it will tell you what the OS responds for the file timestamps. Someone here might be able to provide a quick Java equivalent, to see if the JVM thinks differently on the same system. Note : I also send the program as an attachment. The list will probably strip it, so I emailed a copy to you directly. #!/usr/bin/perl # showmodified.pl use warnings; use strict; my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year); my $subject = $ARGV[0] or die "missing argument"; die "File not found or not readable : $!" unless ((-f $subject) && (-r $subject)); my $now = time(); ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = gmtime($now); $year +=1900; $mon +=1; print "Current GMT time (no DST) : ",sprintf("%04d/%02d/%02d-%02d:%02d:%02d",$year,$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec),"\n"; ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime($now); $year +=1900; $mon +=1; print "Current local time (with DST) : ",sprintf("%04d/%02d/%02d-%02d:%02d:%02d",$year,$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec),"\n"; print "File [$subject]:\n"; my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($subject); print "last modified timestamp : $mtime\n"; print "the file was last modified ",$now-$mtime," seconds ago\n"; ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = gmtime($mtime); $year +=1900; $mon +=1; print "last modified as GMT time (no DST) : ",sprintf("%04d/%02d/%02d-%02d:%02d:%02d",$year,$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec),"\n"; ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime($mtime); $year +=1900; $mon +=1; print "last modified as local time (with DST) : ",sprintf("%04d/%02d/%02d-%02d:%02d:%02d",$year,$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec),"\n"; exit; --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com | |
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Here's some good news for those working in offices these days.
Apparently, a survey by Accountemps says the mood around the office water cooler is generally positive.
In fact, 54 per cent of workers described the morale at their companies as somewhat good. Twenty-eight per cent of people said workplace morale is very good.
The survey includes responses from 276 Canadian working adults 18 years of age or older and employed in an office environment.
"People ultimately want work they are proud of, colleagues they respect and an environment where their contributions are valued," said Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps and author of Human Resources Kit For Dummies(R), 2nd Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). "Employers who foster this type of culture are rewarded with higher employee morale and productivity.
"Workplace dynamics change constantly. Companies should keep a pulse on staff engagement, particularly as business conditions change or new managers are appointed."
Here's some tips Accountemps suggests to help managers gauge the morale of their teams: talk to staff; observe behaviour and performance changes; survey employees; and conduct exit interviews.


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