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A note from RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium Director Steve Fentress
Every August since 2003, we've gotten questions from people who receive a particular curious e-mail message. The subject line is usually something like this:
Subject: Fwd: FW: FW: Fw: Fwd: Mark your calendar in August (You don't want to delete this)
In earlier years, people got a simple e-mail with a picture included. More recently, a Power Point show (.pps) has been attached. Opening with "The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!" the message seems to say that the planet Mars is going to do something unusual in August -- possibly appearing as big as a full moon. After a bit of astronomical information, the message ends: "Share this with your children and grandchildren. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN!"
Real or bogus?
Here's what's really happening:
In August 2003 -- that's seven years ago -- Earth came unusually close to Mars. On August 27, 2003, by a fraction of a percent, we were closer than any time in the last 60,000 years or so. Mars looked very bright in the sky for several weeks around that date. Around the world, planetariums were swamped with visitors who mistakenly believed you had to look on the night of August 27, 2003 or you'd miss whatever there was to see.
This close approach had been predicted many years before. Everyone interested in astronomy knew it was coming. Professional and amateur astronomers prepared to get better-than-average views of Mars through their telescopes. The twin Mars rovers called Spirit and Opportunity were launched to take advantage of the short travel time to the "red planet." And, somewhere, sometime in that spring or summer, someone wrote the e-mail and sent it to some friends. The e-mail was quickly passed from person to person around the world.
The e-mail had confusing wording. It was trying to say that if you magnify Mars through a telescope you can make it look as big
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as the full moon does
without a telescope
. That's true. However, many people interpreted it to mean that you could go outside and see Mars as big as the moon, or two moons in the sky, or something like that. A side-by-side picture of the moon and Mars, doctored to look the same size, reinforced this idea.
False. Mars never looks larger than a star unless you magnify it with a telescope.
The e-mail mentioned August and early September ("this month and next"), but did not mention a year.
So, every year in August the e-mail goes around again, and planetariums all over the world - including ours - get questions about it.
Actually, Earth and Mars come near each other about every 26 months. The last time this happened was in late January 2010. The next time will be in March 2012. (I am writing this in August 2010.) Some of these approaches are closer than others. Approaches to Mars that are exceptionally close occur about every 15 years. The next exceptionally close approach will be in July 2018, when Mars will be almost as close as it was in August 2003.
You can check this yourself, thanks to websites and astronomy software that can show you planet positions for any date almost instantly. Let's look at some diagrams generated by the free "Solar System Live" viewer at
. We'll use dates calculated by Jean Meeus, probably the world's foremost authority on this type of orbital calculation, from his book "Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets."
Here's the inner solar system on August 27, 2003.
The sun and planets are represented by big colorful dots. Their sizes are exaggerated but their positions are correct. The blue dot with the plus sign is Earth; the red dot with polar caps and the traditional sword-and-shield symbol is Mars. Also shown are the planets' orbits. Blue parts of the orbits are even with or slightly north of the plane of Earth's orbit, green parts slightly south of it.
Notice that the orbit of Mars looks off-center. In the lower-right part of the picture it's almost twice as close to Earth's orbit as in the upper-left part. That's correct. This so-called eccentricity was first calculated by the astronomer Johannes Kepler in the early 1600's. (Notice that the orbit of Mercury is even more eccentric.)
On August 27, 2003, Earth and Mars happened to come near each other almost exactly at the point where their orbits are closest. The actual distance was roughly 35 million miles.
Times when Earth comes near Mars are often called "oppositions," because Mars appears in almost exactly the opposite direction in the sky from the Sun. However, because of the slight tilt of Mars's orbit compared to Earth's, the moment of closest approach may differ from the moment of opposition by as much as 8 1/2 days. So, for the present, I'll talk about "close approaches."
Now, let's go forward in time. The planets go around the sun counterclockwise as seen from this viewpoint. Earth takes about 365 days to go once around the sun; Mars takes almost twice as long, about 687 days. When we get to October 30, 2005, Earth has caught up with Mars again.
Earth has made two trips around the sun plus a little extra, Mars one trip plus a little extra. So the location of the meet-up has shifted slightly around the solar system, to a place where the orbits are not so close. Distance from Earth to Mars is about 43 million miles this time.
Twenty-six months later, on December 18, 2007, the planets meet again, but the place of the encounter has shifted more, and Earth and Mars are still farther apart:
We can continue in the same way, to January 27, 2010:
March 5, 2012:
April 14, 2014:
Notice that the place of the encounter is now moving around to the area where the orbits get closer again. The next two approaches will be closer.
May 30, 2016:
And July 31, 2018. This is the next unusually close approach between Earth and Mars, with Mars only about 3 percent more distant than in 2003:
So, approaches between Earth and Mars occur about every 26 months. If we continued with this exercise we'd see that exceptionally close approaches, down in that lower-right corner of our picture, occur about every 15 years. That lower-right part of the picture is where the Earth travels every year in July, August and September, so the exceptionally close approaches occur in those months.
But these time intervals are not exact. So some unusually close approaches are closer than others. The Mars e-mail mentions an exceptionally close approach in 2287. Here it is:
Wait another four and a half centuries, and we get closer still. Mr. Meeus calculates that the closest approach between the years zero AD and 3000AD will occur on September 8, 2729:
Earth to Mars distance will be about two tenths of one percent closer than in August 2003, about 3 percent closer than in 2018.
You can see Mars, with some effort, in August 2010 in the early evening sky. It appears faint and low in the west at nightfall, not far from the almost unbelievably bright planet Venus. At the Planetarium our star shows reproduce these arrangements so you can preview them conveniently in the Star Theater.
So that's some context for the curious Mars e-mail that circulates every August. In astronomy circles, this e-mail is sometimes called "The Mars Hoax," but I'd disagree. A hoax involves a deliberate attempt to deceive, and I don't think that's what is going on here. I think some well-meaning person who understood almost all the science involved wanted to share their excitement. Whoever it was had a hidden talent for what is now called viral marketing. As far as we can tell, no one promotes this e-mail. It goes around and around because people like it.


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I was just wondering if anyone was following the steam holiday sales, or if anyone's purchased anything. My actual gaming desktop is not set up right now, but I've bought a bit for myself. (Don't really have any gamers to gift.)
To see what the sales are right now go to http://store.steampowered.com/ . Or, you know, just open up steam if you have it.
My purchases:
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 $6.80
Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers $4.99
Expansions for MTG: $7.50 total (Should have bought the full pack, but I wasn't thinking)
Batman Arkham Asylum : GOTY edition $7.50
Total spent: $27-ish
I may still be getting one of the indie gaming packs (they're only 5 dollars for about 4-5 games), but I don't want to lose track of my spending.
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So how about those Steam sales?
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I bought Super Meat Boy and the F.E.A.R. series. I can't remember how much I paid, but it was super cheap.... so cheap, I feel like kind of a sucker for ever buying a full-price game on Steam.
Super Meat Boy is infuriating.
Super Meat Boy is infuriating.
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Super Meat Boy is infuriating.
Hahahahaha. Forgive me for laughing, but I can do that because I, too, have suffered the pains of this game.
If it helps, my death counter is nearing on 3k.
The only thing that saves my controller with playing this game is the fact that once you finally complete a level, it shows all of your failures in synchronizing fashion. Somehow it makes me laugh.
But back to Steam sales...there's some nice stuff in there, was tempted to buy the ten dollar games (like Bioshock 2 and some other RPGs), but it turns out the stuff that I really want are games I've purchased already. Instead, I just gifted a few to others. These deals seem to support indie games rather well though, so I might pick a few of those up. And that Popcap bundle is calling to me every day.
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I haven't bought anything, but I got me a whole bunch of wonderful, magical items in TF2.
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I got 65 new games for christmas. 45$ on indie packs (45 games).
Total: 180$ spent on me, 70$ spent on friends.
Shame on everyone who bought tf2 items. :)
I got 65 new games for christmas. 45$ on indie packs (45 games).
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Shame on everyone who bought tf2 items. :)
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Pope Benedict XVI has allowed and encouraged the Extraordinary Form of the Holy Mass (also known as the Traditional Latin Mass) to be more widely available to those who desire it. In answering the call of our Holy Father, the Bishop of Trenton, David M. O' Connell, has designated that the Reverend Brian Patrick Woodrow be appointed Liaison to the Diocese of Trenton Celebration of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin Mass).
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Celebrating the Traditional Mass is yet another step closer to the heart of the liturgy. The Mass is our opportunity to worship God, and the Traditional Mass brings us to a new height of worship through its rich symbols, finely detailed ritual, and sublime words. For now, the Traditional Mass may seem foreign to us, but as the language of our ordinary Mass changes, we will become better acquainted with the Latin roots of our liturgical life and better suited to participate in the "extraordinary form," as our pope has dubbed the Traditional Mass.
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EDIT: yeah... this probably should be in the social and relationships forum, sorry about that. I've come a ways from when I first posted about anxiety - now I'm able to be truly conscious and aware when I'm around people... But it's like I have this very very very faint vision of who I want to be, but I'm so totally not that person, or anywhere close. Where I am at now: -I sound rather unexcited in person, and not as INTO conversations as I used to be. If you talked to me I'd probably have very little to talk about until we were really good friends, and even then I wouldn't talk a whole lot. -I still have literally no friends, and live by myself -Something about my voice makes me feel less conscious (or, more self conscious rather), mainly around people I don't know... it's like I don't like talking at all? Everyone else seems so natural, but I just want to convey information, I don't want to actually TALK. This makes me rather awkward, which in turn occasionally brings back my anxiety. Usually I'm good about not bringing it home with me (something I really struggled with before) at least. Is it just a matter of learning social skills? I want to love myself, and be someone that society enjoys, not just accepts. Another random question that has confused me for much of my life: when people smile for photos, are they really happy? Because I seriously can't smile unless I'm happy. How can you just smile? I can put on a fake smile sure, but it'll look hilariously fake. Is this sort of like part of your ego that I just don't have? I only smile when I laugh, when I'm thinking about something that's making me happy, when I feel love, or out of respect in certain situations - which generates a fake looking smile, or makes me look passive aggressive. Last edited by nistacular; 11-12-2011 at 11:00 PM. |
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You shouldn't feel awkward for not being able to smile for photos, that just means you're not as comfortable with putting on a facade as most other people. You come across as a much more "natural" person than most others to me. You also shouldn't feel awkward for not being very talkative, most people talk FAR too recklessly, with very little (if anything) of what they're saying having any true value or meaning. It's easy to feel insecure about not being talkative when everyone around you is talking up a storm, just try to stay centered and act as naturally as possible, there's no need to act like a clone just to impress people or be one with the herd. You don't want to be a part of the herd anyway, the herd is boring and extremely overrated. Just be yourself.
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But I'm still not content about who I am to others.... life would so boring being a non-talkative person with little influence... I love people. But I can't bring myself to talk naturally most of the time... I haven't had a good friend in so long, it's killing me, and now it's leaving me dissatisfied with who I am. I don't view this as a negative thing... it's like wanting to be more charismatic. How possible do you think this is? You're right though... the herd in overrated. Ideally I'd find myself the perfect gf, and then I would probably stop complaining, but that's even less likely My question about smiling in photos - I literally don't understand putting on a facade. I mean, I can't bring myself to move the muscles in my face to make a genuine smile unless I'm experiencing happiness. How do they do it? |
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It's isn't about forcing yourself to smile or doing things to change your behavior. This will not work. If you have social anxiety like I think you do, it is about changing your beliefs about yourself and being social, including and lack of self-accepetance and bad self-image (when you said "I am not content with myself'.) This is all very fixable with cognitive-behavioral therapy and it is MUCH more important to change your beliefs and thoughts than to just try to smile more or harder, or make more eye contact, etc. Believe me I've been down that road and while you might make some temporary progress, you're sure to fall back into your old ways because it's in your neurobiology currently. Again this is all changeable and CBT is one of the best methods for treating social anxiety. |
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- As with every role playing game, keep this in mind: talk to everyone! Villagers will often have information, quests, or items to give you, and it never hurts to chat with them to see what's up.
- Be well-prepared for each battle. Have plenty of potions in your inventory with a few stashed in your quick-access slots. Entering the menu screen doesn't pause the game, so you're vulnerable while looking at your inventory.
- Save using the portal in town or from the menu screen. Do this as often as you can, you never know when you'll kick it!
- During combat, practice the quick-hit, quick withdraw method. Dart in, smack the enemies a few times, then step back and wait for their attack. Only go for the damage when you see an opening.
- The more enemies you defeat, the more levels you gain. Arcuz 2 is a game of grinding, meaning you'll have to spend some time doing nothing but defeating enemies in order to progress safely.
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- It's usually best to avoid flying enemies until you have the skills to deal with them properly.
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- The well in the village often has treasures. Tap the spacebar rapidly to pull it from the depths!
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Equip Items – A simple start, head to the blacksmith and pick up a cap, shield, and any of the three weapons you prefer. Drop them in your inventory, then head back to mayor Wayne.
Spider Hunt – Combat! Susan opens a portal nearby, all you have to do is walk to it to transport to the forest. Three spiders attack, but they're easy to defeat. Press J to swing your weapon and dispose of them quickly. Pick up any gold they drop, then head to the portal again and talk to Paul.
Spider Slayer – Talk to Paul again and repeat your quest from above, only this time there are more spiders to defeat! Susan will sell you potions beforehand, just in case you need them.
Frosty Combination – Infusing items with magic is a big part of Arcuz 2, and this will be your introduction. Pick up the three required ingredients and drop them on the alchemy boxes to the left. Add your weapon and start the infusion!
Candy for Crystal – Anna needs a crystal, but all she's got is a piece of candy! Talk to Chung (directly below Anna) to make the trade.
Antivenom – Back to the forest via portal, but this time, it's a mini-adventure! Move through the different screens in the forest and kill every spider you see. Grab venom vials from the chests they sometimes leave behind. When you're through, head back and talk to Susan.
Finishing up – Talk to Wayne. He'll tell you how to enter the poison dungeon as well as hint that Kimura wants to join your quest. Talk to Kimura, then your adventure begins!


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Hey, your back. I'm glad to see that you are back and nothing was wrong. I understand about taking a vacation from media. When I go on vacation, it's a trip without media as well. Coming back home to face a huge amount of e-mails and snail mail is a drag. It is interesting how media has intertwined into our lifestyle. It's become hard to live with and hard to live without. What oh what can we do? :0)
I loved the video about "having to feed everything." I just love how the cows are looking on with a look on the faces of "crazy humans."
Have a great day on the farm. - July 10, 2012 at 8:05 AM
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Just found you via Amy (Homestead).
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A lot of bloggers slack off during the summer. Too much to do. Fun video.
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Glad all is well. Looking forward to future posts.
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The Washington Township Council held its annual reorganization meeting Wednesday.
The Washington Township Council elected Dr. Steve Cascio as its president and Fred Goetz as its vice president for 2013 during their annual reorganization meeting Wednesday.
Council members and Mayor Janet Sobkowicz said they believed they had made progress last year toward making the township's government run more smoothly.
"This year, I think we've layed the groundwork in establishing good communication," Councilman Richard Hrbek said.
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"I hope this is going to be a productive year for us," Councilman Joseph D'Urso said. "I hope we can work together. I know we're not always on the same page."
Council members also thanked Sobkowicz for reappointing Catherine Navarro-Steinel as the township administrator for 2013.
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5:26 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
build on what they accomplished. Are you kidding me! This council has done zero. Laid the ground work. Really. The shopping center, the corner of pascack and washington ave, the traffic at exit 168 , Memorial field and the cell tower were all election issues that councilman Durso and Goetz ran on. four years and they have accomplished nothing. can,t wait til the election in june
11:29 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
Lets see Oldmantwp. 1) Shopping center-- Do you think the government should take private property over now and tell the owner how to run it? Sounds like the USSR to me. 2) Pascack and Washington ---Mayor had a chance to have the county come in and upgrade traffic and put 2 Mill or the infrastructure as resolutioned by council- mayor stopped it. 3) Cell tower- been on council business for over 8 years. Everybody wants service but no one wants tower in their yard.(How about you oldmantwp....can we put it on your property?) 4) Memorial Field- everyone wants Turf but no one wants to pay for it -- a two to three million price tag. By the way the field has just been re sodded. Oldmantwp get out of the house once in awhile and get your facts correct.


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What is this hack?
One of the experiments from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment), has released a small amount of the data for educational purposes. However, it is hard to access and even more difficult to understand. Can we hack a better interface to these data? Can we create a website to allow others to use these data for education or art? Or can we do real science with these data ? I'll bring the data and explain what is in these datasets and some simple tools to interface with these data. Looking for hackers, coders, educators, artists and definitely designers, to figure out if this can be done.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
``The Large Hadron Collider sits in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva."
``The LHC is designed to collide two counter rotating beams of protons or heavy ions. Proton-proton collisions are foreseen at an energy of 7 TeV per beam."
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector
The data for this hack
What is a muon?
A muon is a subatomic particle, related to the electron, but 200 times more heavy!
It possesses either a positive or negative charge.
Muons do not interact very often with atomic nuclei that make up the CMS detector, and so they travel through much of the material and are relatively easy to detect.
Where are these muons coming from?
When the protons collide in the LHC they produce many other particles. Some of these particles decay very, very quickly and produce a spray of other particles that are then detected in CMS.
Sometimes one of these particles decays to two muons.
Sometimes the muons are coming from two different parent particles.
The goal of this exercise is to figure out when the muons are coming from the same parent. To do this, we calculate the invariant mass of the two-muon system. If there is a preference for certain values of this mass, we may be seeing signs of the common parent particles!
To calculate the mass, we have two choices:
- Classical physics, which relates momentum, energy and mass from the equations of Newton.
- Special relativity, which relates momentum, energy and mass from the equations of Einstein.
We use the following variables for these values:
- m: mass
- v: velocity
- KE/E: kinetic energy/total energy
- p: momentum
- c: the speed of light (300,000,000 meters per second)
Calculating the mass from Classical Physics
p = mv
KE = 1/2 m v^2
KE = p^2 / (2 * m)
Calculating the mass from Special Relativity
E^2 = (p*c)^2 + (m*c^2)^2
(m*c^2)^2 = E^2 - (p*c)^2
With the data we are using, the units have taken into account the factors of c, so that we do not need to include it in our calculations (c=1).
The analysis chain
Collisions in the detector
Muons! Masses!
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This is not about prayers or healing or responsibily sharing expenses. The secret of this scam is that hospitals consider someone with this to be in the same group as an indigent with no insurance. The medical provider doesn't expect to be paid and ends up taking pennies on the dollar.
Because hospitals are required to provide care for serious conditions regardless of an ability to pay, those who operate this scam are basically taking advantage of those of us responsibly providing for our families.
He has placed his family in the same moral vacuum as a crack user in the south side of Chicago who shows up at the Emergency Room for every overdose or other ailment they have with no ability to pay but knowing that someone will take care of them.
If this idiot - who was shocked that his son "collided with another guy" playing football truly believed in this, then why does his website say he sells Long-Term Care insurance? Shouldn't he just rely on the members of his church and their prayers if he is no longer able to care for himself.
The Bible has a verse that deals with this...it is "Thou Shalt Not Steal."
You don't perhaps SELL insurance do you?
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/c...storm0122.htmlTwo major Arizona roadways remained closed Friday morning after the worst winter storm to hit Arizona in 17 years took its toll, forcing evacuations, stranding hikers and swept away a child in flooding.
Authorities on Friday morning said they believe a 6-year-old boy who was swept away in floodwaters near the northern Arizona community of Mayer is dead and that searchers were switching their efforts to trying to locate his body.
Yavapai County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said the boy's parents tried to bring the sick child to a hospital during a powerful storm on Thursday night.
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Brilliant! Hope you guys are able to slow down and catch a breath in between releases! lol
Excellent, but I still can't find the births of either of my grandparents in Manchester.
Excellent, but I still can't find the births of either of my great grandparents in Manchester.
Job well done! I've now discovered the mysterious missing birth registration for one person in my tree – in Cyprus. And thanks to the overseas marriages I now know why I couldn't find Kate Atcherley after the 1891 census: she married Abraham Hurwitz in Brussels sometime between 1891 and 1895! Checking the main marriage index and the 1911 census here at findmypast then revealed that Kate married again in London in 1910. "Kate's fate: Kate Atcherley and her family's story" is the subject of my latest blog post (which of course has several links back to findmypast.co.uk).
I was glad to get the link to Trinity House records recently, which enabled me to trace a petition from my 3 x great grandfather. I had always wondered why he had not taken in his orphaned granddaughter (my great grandmother). It turned out that he had had a seriously disabling accident at work by this time, and could not even support himself or his remaining immediate family. One small mystery solved!
I love Findmypast- much easier to search than Ancestry where you get too many hits and it takes forever to sort through them. Is there an "overseas" 1841 and 1851 census that you might add to your site? My Lewis Purnell was in the 54th Regt. of Foot and I can't find him in England for those years.
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I can still remember my first tennis lesson. "Just put your hand on the strings and slide it down to the handle. Now pretend the racquet is an oversized hand, like a big glove you are using to hit the ball."
Logical enough advice, and reinforced countless times by numerous instructors throughout my tennis life. So then why has it taken me 40 years to sort through the subtleties of this sound and simple strategy?
Doug King describes how to reference the hand to the racquet face.
Could it be my own limitations? Maybe, but through my 25 years of teaching and watching thousands upon thousands of players, I would say that there are some very commonly shared breakdowns in this approach. Although on the surface it appears very sound, I would like to expand on what I have found to be some of the keys to translating this advice into improved technique in your tennis game.
I will look at two ways which we use our hands to develop racquet control. The first part is developing a feel as to how the racquet can "become the hand," how they can join together properly. Then I will look at how to use different hand positions to create proper alignment with the racquet face to perform the two fundamental functions of stroking.
Connecting the Racquet to the Body
The idea of seeing the racquet face as an extension of the hand is a concept I entirely endorse; however, as simple as this sounds, it is actually quite tricky to implement. Most people make the mistake of thinking of the racquet handle as an extension of the arm and the racquet head as a "hand" attached to the end of the racquet. Instead, the entire racquet should be felt as part of the hand. The difference is that the hand should be thought of as the center of the racquet, not the end of the racquet.
Imagine hitting a tennis ball with a shield you are holding in your hand. The hand is positioned behind and in the center of the shield, with the edges of the shield extending equidistance from the hand. Even if you hit the ball at the edge of the shield, you are still applying force from the center. When the force is applied in the center, there is more stability to the edges. In addition, there is more uniformity to the alignment of the edges to the center point. The extension of the shield equally to all sides of the hand creates "balance" and confines force to the center. In such a case the shield moves with the hand in a more unified way. They work much more as a single unit.
King talks about how to get the hand and racquet to achieve a unified feel.
The problem we have with the tennis racquet is that we hold one end of the racquet and the racquet extends out on one side as though it is an extension of the arm rather than like a shield. We can generate more speed by swinging the end of the club or bat but we lose stability and we lose a true sense of the end of the bat as "being the hand." The further the "sweet spot" moves away from the hand (as in golf), the more difficult it is to create synchronization between the hand and the sweet spot. This is why we can attain better control with two handed strokes since the sweet spot is closer to the hands. In order to achieve this unity of the racquet and the hand it is critical to maintain force in the handle of the racquet rather than trying to get the racquet head to swing. Imaging the racquet as a shield that extends to both sides of the hand, will help get the racquet and the hand working as a single unit.
Aside from getting the racquet and hand to work as a single unit, the other challenge in connecting the hand and racquet is learning to adjust the hand position (grip) to perform various stroking functions.
The Two Grip Categories: Catching and Striking
I believe that our grips are the most defining characteristics of our stroke. The grip will not only orient the racquet face to the hand, it will also orient the arm and hand to the body. There is so much discussion of the nuances of grips that you can go crazy trying to figure out all of the implications. What I propose is that we take a slightly different approach to grips – a very broad perspective that will address grips indirectly by seeing how the hand functions in some very basic and familiar physical actions.
Closed fist (knuckles) for striking, open hand (palm) for catching.
First, let's think of two classes of grips – "Catching Grips" and "Striking Grips." What you call these grips is less relevant than what they are designed to do, and that is either absorb power (Catching) or deliver power (Striking).
The common way of thinking about the hand-to-racquet face alignment is that the palm of the hand corresponds to the racquet face (or back of the hand in the case of the backhand). In my opinion this is at the very root of most people's problems with grips. This "palm to strings" way of aligning the hand and racquet is actually a "catching grip" and when we try to power with that grip we end up with more of a slapping action. Do a simple experiment. Make a stroking motion (shadow stroke) without a racquet. Chances are you extend your fingers, made a flat surface with your palm and fingers, and used this as though it was the racquet face stroking the ball. What I suggest is that what you really have done more closely resembles an "open handed slapping" action, rather than a power drive.
Striking grips with knuckles under for forehand and knuckles on top for backhand.
Now compare that with a closed fist shadow swinging model. Close your fist and reproduce the swing and what you will feel is something very different than the open handed slap. Instead, you will get a much more of a compact, solid strike. This is exactly how a boxer or martial artist would hold their hand and arm to deliver a powerful blow. Instead of the palm orienting to the racquet face, the knuckles of the hand now align to the racquet face. If you look at any top player, you will always see this alignment of the knuckles to the racquet face on both forehand and backhand drives. If you can relate it to how a boxer delivers a blow, it makes perfect sense. If you use the "knuckles to strings", closed fist alignment, you will have the knuckles down on the forehand and knuckles up on the backhand.
Positioning the hand into a closed fist and leading with the knuckles reorients the arm to the body. It draws the arm and hand into a much more stable and supportive position, and automatically connects and involves the larger muscle groups (hips and shoulders). The body, arm, hand, and racquet become connected and are transformed into a "battering ram." When the palm is held open to strike an object, it forces the relationship between the body and the object being struck into a very weak position. That is why the open palm position actually works well to "catch" the ball. If you had on a baseball glove, the palm is always held open to the oncoming ball. This is much better for catching a ball because the hand is weaker and the body position is weaker, and as a result the ball will tend to absorb into the glove rather than spring out. This is effective for volleys and other shots where "touch" is more critical than power.
Now this does not necessarily mean you cannot put power onto a ball with a certain grip or you cannot take power off of a ball with another grip but there are what I would call primary natures and secondary natures. Consequently all grips are not equally suited for all actions. This is how we define a more "technically correct" stroke and insure the correct grip is used for the desired result.
"Open hand" grip to catch with underspin.
Learning to create the proper association between the hand and the racquet is fundamental to the game but hardly simple. Not only are there many variations, there are also many physical, anatomical, and mental obstacles to creating a proper connection. Even the identification of the strokes as "forehand" and "backhand" imply an association of the front of the hand and the back of the hand with the racquet face and that can be very limiting. Below is a summation of the key elements to creating a solid hand-to-racquet connection.
Think of holding a shield and apply force at the center. Always feel as though you are hitting the ball with the handle of the racquet rather than the head of the racquet. Push or drive the handle through the ball rather than swing the head.
Think of two hand positions; closed fist striking (add power) and open palm catching (absorb power). When you align your hand on the racquet (grip), think of these two actions and their corresponding hand positions. Align the knuckles to the strings for the striking blow (knuckles down for forehand and knuckles up for backhand.) and align the palm (or back of the hand) to the strings for the catching move.
Fully adapting to the nuances of the hand and racquet connection will take time and effort but if you can make the association of hand and racquet face to "knuckles for power" and "palm for softening" and clearly distinguish between catching and striking, I think you will have made a huge jump in understanding and internalizing grips, racquet face orientation, and stroke patterns.
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Quick Tip: Returning a Substring From an Oracle/MySQL Text Field (From the Start Or the End)
Miscellaneous , Oracle Add commentsIn addition to the normal aggregate functions (Count, Sum, Avg, etc.), most database implementations of SQL also include functions for manipulating string values. One of those is substr(), which allows you to extract a substring of the text value in a database field by specifying the start position and the number of characters.
So if you wanted to extract the first 5 digits of a 9-digit postal code from your "zipCode" field. You could do it like so:
select substr(zipCode,1,5) as mainZip...
...where 1 is the starting position and 5 the number of characters. If you knew that the format of all the zip codes was "xxxxx-xxxx", then you could also retrieve the last 4-digits by moving the starting position and adjusting the character count:
select substring(zipCode,6,4) as extendedZip...
But what if you had strings where you wanted to extract the last 4 letters in the string, but the string length varied, like these values:
Professor - GVPT
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You could use the length() function to get the full length of the string and then subtract one less than the number of characters you want from it to get the starting position:
select substr(nameDept,length(nameDept)-3,4) as dept...
...but Oracle and MySQL provide a simpler method: you can designate the starting position from the right end of the string by using a negative number:
select substr(nameDept,-4,4) as dept...
2 responses to "Quick Tip: Returning a Substring From an Oracle/MySQL Text Field (From the Start Or the End)"
Maggie Says:
Nov 20, 2012 at 1:45 AM This is very interesting. Tello me would the code be the same for postal codes with letters and numbers in it.
Thanks for your reply -
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Nov 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM @Maggie: Not if the length of the postal code remained the same. The substr command doesn't differentiate between the letters and numbers within the string.


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Hawaiian Airlines will begin offering nonstop flights between Honolulu and Brisbane, Australia, three times weekly starting November 27.
Hawaiian will become the only U.S. carrier to operate service to Brisbane.
Adding Brisbane service will increase Hawaiian's weekly flights between Honolulu and Australia to 10, with daily services already operating to Australia's largest city, Sydney.
President and CEO Mark Dunkerley said Brisbane would serve not only as the airline's second gateway to Australia, but also as an important new source of tourism to Hawaii.
"Australians love Hawaii as a holiday destination, and visitor numbers have grown steadily since Hawaiian inaugurated service on the Sydney-Honolulu route in 2004," Dunkerley said. "That service reawakened Australian awareness and interest in Hawaii, which had been under-served for over a decade."
Hawaiian's Brisbane service will add more than 40,000 seats annually between Australia and Hawaii, and will increase its total seat numbers from Australia by 38 percent.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority estimates that Hawaiian's Brisbane-Honolulu service will generate $83 million in visitor expenditures and $9 million in tax revenue annually for Hawaii.
Centrally located on Australia's East Coast, Brisbane is the capital city of the State of Queensland, home of the world-famous Great Barrier Reef, world heritage listed rainforests, iconic outback locations and the renowned leisure regions of the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.
Brisbane is also a key hub for onward travel throughout Australia, and Hawaiian's new flights will be timed to connect with same-day services throughout Queensland and to other states, through a partnership with Virgin Australia.
Ticket sales for the new service will start at a date to be announced.