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MANILA, Philippines—Starting classes in August instead of June may be within the law, but the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) expressed "concern" should other universities follow suit with the plan of four of the country's top universities to adjust their school calendar.
The University of the Philippines and Ateneo De Manila University have announced that they will shift to an August to May school calendar, from the current June to March calendar.
Spurred by the upcoming Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic integration next year, the country's top universities have laid plans to synchronize their school calendars with their counterparts in Asean and the region's partner nations.
CHEd Chair Patricia Licuanan said UP and Ateneo's plan falls within the parameters of the mandated school calendar or Republic Act No. 7797 which states that "the school year shall start on the first Monday of June but not later than the last day of August."
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"CHEd allows higher education institutions to change their academic calendars as long as these are in accordance with the law," she said.
"These changes are motivated by the desire of these institutions to internationalize their programs and the experience of their students and faculty," Licuanan added.
For UP, the change will take effect in the coming school year 2014-2015. Except for its Diliman campus, UP campuses will start classes in August instead of June.
Ateneo meanwhile will implement the new academic calendar in the next school year 2015-2016.
De La Salle University and the University of Santo Tomas have also informed CHEd that they plan to revise their school calendar.
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WINNING WAYSSerena Williams knows championships. Take a look back at her 17 Grand Slam singles titles.
Williams, who will be chasing a sixth Australian Open singles title beginning Jan. 14 in Melbourne, has been affected by chronic foot problems since treading on glass and badly cutting both feet in 2010.
The 15-time Grand Slam singles champion said Friday ''the foot is better ... it has come through fine.''
Williams this year won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and London Olympics singles gold.
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Had the same problem with a flexable coupling on a 1" dia shaft and getting the coupling off the shaft, tried hitting it, pullers, heating it, no chance.
Then told an old trick, undo all the coupling bolts enough to put a 'large socket' (bigger i/d than the shaft) between the two coupling flange faces, re tighten all the coupling bolts, you then push the couplings apart no problem !
The flange on the end of the shaft usuallly has a key to locate it, so don't lose it in the bilge!
Also check most flanges have a grub screw, pin or bolt locking it, so make sure you have undone them before starting.
As Tim said the stern tube rubber seal is not ordinary rubber piping, it is special thicker walled especially for the job.
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does anyone have one of these? is it any cheaper? can you recommend one? what#s the bread like - is it really as easy as put it all in and press a button?
I've never owned one, I make bread with a bowl and wooden spoon :D but I know some folks love theirs.
(I think the loaves are wicked ugly).
Well, that would do it then, having a bread maker. I used to make all our own bread. It's really not too much trouble once you get into a routine, honest! I was working the 3-11 shift at the time though, and that made a big difference.
If you use a sponge base, you can have some ready to go when you are, instead of having to start with a fresh yeast base each time. It adds a touch of tang to the bread, but not as pronounced as sour dough (which I don't like at all).
You can even incorporate vegetable mashes into the bread for added moisture and body.
You'd be surprised how much you can do and how quickly! The more you do it, the better your loaves come out and the faster you become at it, too.
I had a breadmaker and the novelty soon wore off. I didn't like the amount of oil or sugar that the bread recipes came with. Plus the loaves came out all tasting the same after a while ifykwim. And they resembled doorstops most of the time and because they were freshley made they went mouldy after one day practically. The only plus side for me was the wonderful smell of the bread cooking. Never again would I own one but I reckon if I knew how to make it freehand then it would be really nice to have that instead. (Plus it wasn't any cheaper to make it in the machine) This is just MY opinion though ok.
I bought one for Uncle Art a dozen years or so ago. That man loved bread--preferrably freshly baked--and could gobble it faster than I could make it!
The one I bought has an elongated shape similar to a small loaf of store bakery bread. And it has a number of recipes. You can put the ingredients in advance and program it to finish at a specific time.
The taste isn't quite as good as my home made bread, but definitely better than the store bought stuff. And you can control what you put in it. The basic recipe I used for it didn't use oil at all. I'm trying to find the booklet so I can use the thing again!


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English Translation of Ayman al-Zawahiri's letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
12:00 AM, Oct 12, 2005
(1) If we are in agreement that the victory of Islam and the establishment of a caliphate in the manner of the Prophet will not be achieved except through jihad against the apostate rulers and their removal, then this goal will not be accomplished by the mujahed movement while it is cut off from public support, even if the Jihadist movement pursues the method of sudden overthrow. This is because such an overthrow would not take place without some minimum of popular support and some condition of public discontent which offers the mujahed movement what it needs in terms of capabilities in the quickest fashion. Additionally, if the Jihadist movement were obliged to pursue other methods, such as a popular war of jihad or a popular intifadah, then popular support would be a decisive factor between victory and defeat.
(2) In the absence of this popular support, the Islamic mujahed movement would be crushed in the shadows, far from the masses who are distracted or fearful, and the struggle between the Jihadist elite and the arrogant authorities would be confined to prison dungeons far from the public and the light of day. This is precisely what the secular, apostate forces that are controlling our countries are striving for. These forces don't desire to wipe out the mujahed Islamic movement, rather they are stealthily striving to separate it from the misguided or frightened Muslim masses. Therefore, our planning must strive to involve the Muslim masses in the battle, and to bring the mujahed movement to the masses and not conduct the struggle far from them.
This, in my limited opinion, is the reason for the popular support that the mujahedeen enjoy in Iraq, by the grace of God.
As for the sectarian and chauvinistic factor, it is secondary in importance to outside aggression, and is much weaker than it. In my opinion-which is limited and which is what I see far from the scene-the awakening of the Sunni people in Iraq against the Shia would not have had such strength and toughness were it not for the treason of the Shia and their collusion with the Americans, and their agreement with them to permit the Americans to occupy Iraq in exchange for the Shia assuming power.
(4) Therefore, the mujahed movement must avoid any action that the masses do not understand or approve, if there is no contravention of Sharia in such avoidance, and as long as there are other options to resort to, meaning we must not throw the masses-scant in knowledge-into the sea before we teach them to swim, relying for guidance in that on the saying of the Prophet @ to Umar bin al-Khattab<: lest the people should say that Muhammad used to kill his Companions.
Among the practical applications of this viewpoint in your blessed arena:
(A) The matter of preparing for the aftermath of the exit of the Americans: The Americans will exit soon, God willing, and the establishment of a governing authorityas soon as the country is freed from the Americans-does not depend on force alone. Indeed, it's imperative that, in addition to force, there be an appeasement of Muslims and a sharing with them in governance and in the Shura council and in promulgating what is allowed and what is not allowed. In my view-which I continue to reiterate is limited and has a distant perspective upon the events-this must be achieved through the people of the Shura and who possess authority to determine issues and make them binding, and who are endowed with the qualifications for working in Sharia law. They would be
elected by the people of the country to represent them and overlook the work of the
authorities in accordance with the rules of the glorious Sharia.
And it doesn't appear that the Mujahedeen, much less the al-Qaida in the Land of Two Rivers, will lay claim to governance without the Iraqi people. Not to mention that that would be in contravention of the Shura methodology. That is not practical in my opinion.
You might ask an important question: What drives me to broach these matters while we are in the din of war and the challenges of killing and combat?
My answer is, firstly: Things may develop faster than we imagine. The aftermath of the
collapse of American power in Vietnam-and how they ran and left their agents-is noteworthy. Because of that, we must be ready starting now, before events overtake us, and before we are surprised by the conspiracies of the Americans and the United Nations and their plans to fill the void behind them. We must take the initiative and impose a fait accompli upon our enemies, instead of the enemy imposing one on us, wherein our lot would be to merely resist their schemes.
Second: This is the most vital part. This authority, or the Sharia amirate that is necessary, requires fieldwork starting now, alongside the combat and war. It would be a political endeavor in which the mujahedeen would be a nucleus around which would gather the tribes and their elders, and the people in positions, and scientists, and merchants, and people of opinion, and all the distinguished ones who were not sullied by appeasing the occupation and those who defended Islam.
We don't want to repeat the mistake of the Taliban, who restricted participation in governance to the students and the people of Qandahar alone. They did not have any representation for the Afghan people in their ruling regime, so the result was that the Afghan people disengaged themselves from them. Even devout ones took the stance of the spectator and, when the invasion came, the amirate collapsed in days, because the people were either passive or hostile. Even the students themselves had a stronger affiliation to their tribes and their villages than their affiliation to the Islamic amirate or the Taliban movement or the responsible party in charge of each one of them in his place. Each of them retreated to his village and his tribe, where his affiliation was stronger!!
The comparison between the fall of Kabul and the resistance of Fallujah, Ramadi, and Al Qaim and their fearless sisters shows a clear distinction, by God's grace and His kindness. It is the matter towards which we must strive, that we must support and strengthen.
Therefore, I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally with the military action, by the alliance, cooperation and gathering of all leaders of opinion and influence in the Iraqi arena. I can't define for you a specific means of action. You are more knowledgeable about the field conditions. But you and your brothers must strive to have around you circles of support, assistance, and cooperation, and through them, to advance until you become a consensus, entity, organization, or association that represents all the honorable people and the loyal folks in Iraq. I repeat the warning against separating from the masses, whatever the danger.
(2) Striving for the unity of the mujahedeen: This is something I entrust to you. It is between you and God. If the mujahedeen are scattered, this leads to the scattering of the people around them. I don't have detailed information about the situation of the mujahedeen, so I ask that you help us with some beneficial details in this, and the extent of the different mujahedeen movements' readiness to join the course of unity.
(3) Striving for the ulema: From the standpoint of not highlighting the doctrinal differences which the masses do not understand, such as this one is Matridi or this one is Ashari or this one is Salafi, and from the standpoint of doing justice to the people, for there may be in the world a heresy or an inadequacy in a side which may have something to give to jihad, fighting, and sacrifice for God. We have seen magnificent examples in the Afghan jihad, and the prince of believers, Mullah Muhammad Omar - may God protect him - himself is of Hanafi adherence, Matridi doctrine, but he stood in the history of Islam with a stance rarely taken. You are the richer if you know the stances of the authentic ulema on rulers in times of jihad and the defense of the Muslim holy sites. And more than that, their stances on doing justice to the people and not denying their merit.
The ulema among the general public are, as well, the symbol of Islam and its emblem. Their disparagement may lead to the general public deeming religion and its adherents as being unimportant. This is a greater injury than the benefit of criticizing a theologian on a heresy or an issue.
Of course, these words of mine have nothing to do with the hypocritical traitors who are in allegiance with the crusaders, but I wish to stress the warning against diminishing the ulema before the general public.
Also, the active mujahedeen ulema - even if there may be some heresy or fault in them that is not blasphemous - we must find a means to include them and to benefit from their energy. You know well -what I am mentioning to you- that many of the most learned ulema of Islam such as Izz Bin Abdul Salam, al-Nawawi, and Ibn Hajar - may God have mercy on them - were Ashari. And many of the most eminent jihadists, whom the Umma resolved unanimously to praise such as Nur al-Din Bin Zanki and Salahal-Din al-Ayyubi - were Ashari. The mujahedeen sultans who came after them - who didn't reach their level - whom the ulema and the historians lauded such as Sayf al-Din Qatz, Rukn al-Din Baybars, al-Nasir Muhammad Bin-Qallawun, and Muhammad al-Fatih, were Ashari or Matridi. They fell into errors, sins, and heresies. And the stances of Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiya regarding al-Nasir Muhammad Bin Qallawun and his extolling of him and his inciting him to jihad - despite the prosecutions and prison which befell the sheikh in his time - are well known.
If you take into account the fact that most of the Umma's ulema are Ashari or Matridi, and if you take into consideration as well the fact that the issue of correcting the mistakes of ideology is an issue that will require generations of the call to Islam and modifying the educational curricula, and that the mujahedeen are not able to undertake this burden, rather they are in need of those who will help them with the difficulties and problems they face; if you take all this into consideration, and add to it the fact that all Muslims are speaking of jihad, whether they are Salafi or non-Salafi, then you would understand that it is a duty of the mujahed movement to include the energies of the Umma and in its wisdom and prudence to fill the role of leader, trailblazer, and exploiter of all the capabilities of the Umma for the sake of achieving our aims: a caliphate along the lines of the Prophet's, with God's permission.
I do not know the details of the situation where you are, but I do not want us to repeat the mistake of Jamil al-Rahman , who was killed and whose organization was shattered, because he neglected the realities on the ground.
(4) The position on the Shia: This subject is complicated and detailed. I have brought it up here so as not to address the general public on something they do not know. But please permit me to present it logically:
(A) I repeat that I see the picture from afar, and I repeat that you see what we do not see. No doubt you have the right to defend yourself, the mujahedeen, and Muslims in general and in particular against any aggression or threat of aggression.
(B) I assert here that any rational person understands with ease that the Shia cooperated with the Americans in the invasion of Afghanistan, Rafsanjani himself confessed to it, and they cooperated with them in the overthrow of Saddam and the occupation of Iraq in exchange for the Shia's assumption of power and their turning a blind eye to the American military presence in Iraq. This is clear to everybody who has two eyes.
(C) People of discernment and knowledge among Muslims know the extent
of danger to Islam of the Twelve'er school of Shiism. It is a religious school
based on excess and falsehood whose function is to accuse the companions of Muhammad { of heresy in a campaign against Islam, in order to free the way for a group of those who call for a dialogue in the name of the hidden mahdi who is in control of existence and infallible in what he does. Their prior history in cooperating with the enemies of Islam is consistent with their current reality of connivance with the Crusaders.
(D) The collision between any state based on the model of prophecy with the Shia is a matter that will happen sooner or later. This is the judgment of history, and these are the fruits to be expected from the rejectionist Shia sect and their opinion of the Sunnis.
These are clear, well-known matters to anyone with a knowledge of history, the ideologies, and the politics of states.
(E) We must repeat what we mentioned previously, that the majority of Muslims don't comprehend this and possibly could not even imagine it. For that reason, many of your Muslim admirers amongst the common folk are wondering about your attacks on the Shia. The sharpness of this questioning increases when the attacks are on one of their mosques, and it increases more when the attacks are on the mausoleum of Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib, may God honor him. My opinion is that this matter won't be acceptable to the Muslim populace however much you have tried to explain it, and aversion to this will continue.
Indeed, questions will circulate among mujahedeen circles and their opinion makers about the correctness of this conflict with the Shia at this time. Is it something that is unavoidable? Or, is it something can be put off until the force of the mujahed movement in Iraq gets stronger? And if some of the operations were necessary for selfdefense, were all of the operations necessary? Or, were there some operations that weren't called for? And is the opening of another front now in addition to the front against the Americans and the government a wise decision? Or, does this conflict with the Shia lift the burden from the Americans by diverting the mujahedeen to the Shia, while the Americans continue to control matters from afar? And if the attacks on Shia leaders were necessary to put a stop to their plans, then why were there attacks on ordinary Shia? Won't this lead to reinforcing false ideas in their minds, even as it is incumbent on us to preach the call of Islam to them and explain and communicate to guide them to the truth? And can the mujahedeen kill all of the Shia in Iraq? Has any Islamic state in history ever tried that? And why kill ordinary Shia considering that they are forgiven because of their ignorance? And what loss will befall us if we did not attack the Shia? And do the brothers forget that we have more than one hundred prisoners - many of whom are from the leadership who are wanted in their countries - in the custody of the Iranians? And even if we attack the Shia out of necessity, then why do you announce this matter and make it public, which compels the Iranians to take counter measures? And do the brothers forget that both we and the Iranians need to refrain from harming each other at this time in which the Americans are targeting us?
All of these questions and others are circulating among your brothers, and they are monitoring the picture from afar, as I told you. One who monitors from afar lacks many of the important details that affect decision-making in the field.
However, monitoring from afar has the advantage of providing the total picture and observing the general line without getting submerged in the details, which might draw attention away from the direction of the target. As the English proverb says, the person who is standing among the leaves of the tree might not see the tree.
One of the most important factors of success is that you don't let your eyes lose sight of the target, and that it should stand before you always. Otherwise you deviate from the general line through a policy of reaction. And this is a lifetime's experience, and I will not conceal from you the fact that we suffered a lot through following this policy of reaction, then we suffered a lot another time because we tried to return to the original line.
One of the most important things facing the leadership is the enthusiasm of the supporters, and especially of the energetic young men who are burning to make the religion victorious. This enthusiasm must flow wisely, and al-Mutanabbi says:
Courage in a man does suffice but not like the courage of one who is wise.
And he also says:
Judiciousness precedes the courage of the courageous which is second
And when the two blend in one free soul it reaches everywhere in the heavens.
In summation, with regard to the talk about the issue of the Shia, I would like to repeat that I see that matter from afar without being aware of all the details, I would like my words to be deserving of your attention and consideration, and God is the guarantor of success for every good thing.
(5) Scenes of slaughter:
Among the things which the feelings of the Muslim populace who love and support you will never find palatable - also- are the scenes of slaughtering the hostages. You shouldn't be deceived by the praise of some of the zealous young men and their description of you as the shaykh of the slaughterers, etc. They do not express the general view of the admirer and the supporter of the resistance in Iraq, and of you in particular by the favor and blessing of God.
And your response, while true, might be: Why shouldn't we sow terror in the hearts of the Crusaders and their helpers? And isn't the destruction of the villages and the cities on the heads of their inhabitants more cruel than slaughtering? And aren't the cluster bombs and the seven ton bombs and the depleted uranium bombs crueler than slaughtering? And isn't killing by torture crueler than slaughtering? And isn't violating the honor of men and women more painful and more destructive than slaughtering?
All of these questions and more might be asked, and you are justified. However this does not change the reality at all, which is that the general opinion of our supporter does not comprehend that, and that this general opinion falls under a campaign by the malicious, perfidious, and fallacious campaign by the deceptive and fabricated media. And we would spare the people from the effect of questions about the usefulness of our actions in the hearts and minds of the general opinion that is essentially sympathetic to us.
And I say to you with sure feeling and I say: That the author of these lines has tasted the bitterness of American brutality, and that my favorite wife's chest was crushed by a concrete ceiling and she went on calling for aid to lift the stone block off her chest until she breathed her last, may God have mercy on her and accept her among the martyrs. As for my young daughter, she was afflicted by a cerebral hemorrhage, and she continued for a whole day suffering in pain until she expired. And to this day I do not know the location of the graves of my wife, my son, my daughter, and the rest of the three other families who were martyred in the incident and who were pulverized by the concrete ceiling, may God have mercy on them and the Muslim martyrs. Were they brought out of the rubble, or are they still buried beneath it to this day?
However, despite all of this, I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our Umma. And that however far our capabilities reach, they will never be equal to one thousandth of the capabilities of the kingdom of Satan that is waging war on us. And we can kill the captives by bullet. That would achieve that which is sought after without exposing ourselves to the questions and answering to doubts. We don't need this.
E-I would like you to explain for us another issue related to Iraq, and I think without a doubt that you are the most knowledgeable about it. Can the assumption of leadership for the mujahedeen or a group of the mujahedeen by non-Iraqis stir up sensitivity for some people? And if there is sensitivity, what is its effect? And how can it be eliminated while preserving the commitment of the jihadist work and without exposing it to any shocks? Please inform us in detail regarding this matter.
F-Likewise I would like you to inform us about the Iraqi situation in general and the situation of the mujahedeen in particular in detail without exposing the security of the mujahedeen and the Muslims to danger. At the least, we should know as much as the enemy knows. And allow us to burden you with this trouble, for we are most eager to learn your news.
G-I have a definite desire to travel to you but I do not know whether that is possible from the standpoint of traveling and getting settled, so please let me know. And God is the guarantor of every good thing.
5-Please take every caution in the meetings, especially when someone claims to carry an important letter or contributions. It was in this way that they arrested Khalid Sheikh. Likewise, please, if you want to meet one of your assistants, I hope that you don't meet him in a public place or in a place that is not known to you. I hope that you would meet him in a secure place, not the place of your residence. Because Abu alFaraj - may God set him free and release him from his torment - was lured by one of his brothers, who had been taken into custody, to meet him at a public location where a trap had been set. 6-The brothers informed me that you suggested to them sending some assistance. Our situation since Abu al-Faraj is good by the grace of God, but many of the lines have been cut off. Because of this, we need a payment while new lines are being opened. So, if you're capable of sending a payment of approximately one hundred thousand, we'll be very grateful to you.
7-The subject of the Algerian brothers at our end, there are fears from the previous experiences, so if you're able to get in touch with them and notify us of the details from them, we would be very grateful to you.
8-As for news on the poor servant,
A-During an earlier period I published some publications:
(1) Allegiance and exemption - A Faith transmitted, a lost reality.
(2) Strengthening the Banner of Islam - an article emphasizing the authority's commitment to monotheism.
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(3) Wind of Paradise - an article about: Most Honorable Sacrifices of the Believers - Campaigns of Death and Martyrdom.
I endeavored in this article to include what was written on the subject as much as I could. I also strived to verify every word in it, and it's an issue that took me almost a year or more.
(4) The Bitter Harvest - The Muslim Brotherhood in 60 Years - Second Edition 1426h - 2005m.
In this edition, I wanted to delete all the extreme phrases for which there's no proof, and I referred to the book a number of times, then I wrote a new preface. In it I pointed out a dangerous trend of the Brotherhood, especially in the circumstances of the New Crusader War which was launched on the Islamic Umma. In my opinion, this edition is better than the first with respect to the calmness of the presentation instead of being emotional. The Brotherhood's danger is demonstrated by the weakening of the Islamic Resistance to the campaign of the Crusaders and their supporters. God is the only one who is perfect.
(5) I have also had fifteen audio statements published and six others that were not published for one reason or another. We ask God for acceptance and devotion.
I will enclose for you the written statements and what I can of the audio and video statements with this message, God willing. If you find they are good, you can publish them. We seek God's assistance.
(6) I don't know if you all have contact with Abu Rasmi? Even if it is via the Internet, because I gave him a copy of my book (A Knight under the banner of the Prophet@) so he could attempt to publish it, and I lost the original. Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper published it truncated and jumbled. I think that the American intelligence services provided the aforementioned newspaper with it from my computer which they acquired, because the publication of the book coincided with a publication of messages from my computer in the same newspaper. So if you can contact him and get the original of the book, if that is possible for you all, then you can publish it on your blessed website and then send a copy to us, if that is possible.
B-As for my personal condition, I am in good health, blessings and wellness thanks to God and His grace. I am only lacking your pious prayers, in which I beg you not to forget me. God Almighty has blessed me with a daughter whom I have named (Nawwar), and Nawwar means: the timid female gazelle and the woman who is free from suspicion, and technically: it is the name of my maternal aunt who was a second mother to me and who stood with me during all the difficult and harsh times. I ask God to reward her for me with the best reward, and have mercy on her, our mothers and the Muslims.
9-My greetings to all the loved ones and please give me news of Karem and the rest of the folks I know, and especially:
By God, if by chance you're going to Fallujah, send greetings to Abu Musab alZarqawi.
In closing, I ask God entrust you all with His guardianship, providence and protection, and bless you all in your families, possessions and offspring and protect them from all evil and that He delight you all with them in this world and the next world, and that He bestow upon us and you all the victory that he promised his servants the Believers, and that He strengthen for us our religion which He has sanctioned for us, and that He make us safe after our fear.Peace, God's blessings and mercy to you.
Your loving brother
Abu Muhammad
Saturday, 02 Jumada al-Thani, 1426 - 09 July, 2005.


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Clark, Shona, Barnett, Neil, Adams, Mike*, Cook, Iain*, Dyson, Gail and Johnston, Geoff* (2006) Monitoring a commercial fermentation with proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with the aid of chemometrics, Analytica chimica acta, vol. 563, no. 1-2, pp. 338-345, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands [C1]
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What is a weak era or strong era in tennis?
We've had a lot of discussions on so called weak eras in tennis. Some of the reasons are because they may serve as explanations for why one player may have done well in a certain era. If one player dominates it may have been because of the so call weak era.
I do believe that just by logic alone, there had to be times in tennis history in which the relative quality of play more have been lower. However I do think it's hard to pinpoint and a so call weak era may be in reality a strong era.
For example I do believe in Pre-Open tennis that perhaps there were very weak eras in the amateur ranks. Roy Emerson won a lot of majors in the 1960's and yet he may not have been one of the very top players in the world. Would he have won so many majors if Gonzalez, Laver, Rosewall, Gimeno, Hoad were playing in the majors? I would doubt it. But that was the times. The Pros had all the best players and while there were some strong players in the amateurs, there weren't of the level of the pros.
So I'm curious what people consider a "WEAK ERA" and what is a "STRONG ERA" in tennis and why? Please don't just give an explanation that currently we have the strongest era in history just because it's the present. I want some explanations if possible.
Obviously there is no right or wrong answers here. No one can prove anything but it would be interesting to see the explanations and perhaps learn from them.
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IMO strong v. weak eras can be identified by the strength/weakness of two elements:
1- generational overlap both front and rear. IOW the holdover apex players of the generation prior, coming to the big tour 5-6 years earlier than the current generation currently enjoying their prime AND early door kickers, the young guns from the "next gen" breaking in 5-6 years after the current crop had. Sometimes it becomes further enhanced when 1 or 2 great players from two gens prior hang long enough to be a factor in the first part of a current generations run.
2- health - of the top echelon current and crossover generations, but mostly the current generations nearest peers all peaking at or about the the same period of time.
I think that the history of the game shows that each generation produces somewhere between 2 and 3 truly elite players and it's the presence and overlap of multiple generations that makes any particular era great. The vast majority of any era are draw fillers and would remain draw fillers in any generation, there's a second tier of very good, but there's only a couple of great players per generation. The absence of such players from any of those generations creates a vacuum or weaker era.
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Increase in number of athletes and countries competiting. Logic say the bigger pool, the greater depth and talent. It doesn't necessary has to be tennis, but in other sports too. It's natural that the game continue to progress, it cannot stay still and improvement is the only way to survive.
While it's true that each generation produces 2 or 3 dominant players, but the quality of tennis in their respective era are not the same. For example, no one in there right mind would say Court would have won 11 AO in this current era.
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That's is a great point and extremely valid.
But let's say Court played in this era. I believe she was around Serena's height with world class speed in her time. What if she had the training of today? Clijsters is shorter (or at least near Court's height) than Court and she's one of the dominant players in the game today.
I do think Court would be one of the top players today. She would be different and probably play with a different style but I don't think her physical gifts and mental desire would be denied.
Did Court play in a weak era? Her main competition was Bueno, Wade and Billie Jean King with Evert and Goolagong coming in at the tail end of her dominance in the early 1970's. Is it as strong as today? Offhand I would think the top players could compete but perhaps there weren't as many good players then as there are now. It's a gut feeling.
The increase pool of course is a tremendous help and logically there should be greater athletes but we can never assume that genius cannot be found from a little pond.
Writers in the United States used to complain all the time how the United States players were being dominated by the population of a small country in Australian for years. Why were the Aussies so powerful for such a long time? Perhaps it was Hopman, who may have been very unique. I guess Hopman can claim credit for developing John McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis also among all the great Australians.
Is tennis better today? Are the athletes better today? Hard to say. But clearly the talent pool is larger. Would that make Roger Federer of 2005 a weak player relatively speaking twenty years from now when the talent pool should be even larger? I don't think so. I think Federer's genius would probably be valid in 2031 but obviously I wouldn't know for sure now.
In watching John McEnroe compete against some of the athletes of today I am convinced a young John McEnroe would do extremely well today. His speed and hand/eye coordination and his great touch would still be very effective today in my opinion and this a player who's peak was over 25 years ago. It was from a smaller talent pool.
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Probability suggests that if a given set of organisms is more populous, the specimens who survive are probably better adapted to survive. But in reality the exact opposite could happen. Probability means that it is more likely to happen, but offers no guarantee that it will actually happen.
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Number of countries has little to do with it. As the former USSR and Eastern European countries fragmented it doesn't mean more players playing it merely means players playing under more flags. About the only country that could have an impact is China but that depends on if the sport catches enough people's interest there. Aside from that many countries are no larger in terms of area or population than states in America.
The decline in participation in New York is just one example of once established tennis playing locales being a shell of themselves as far as participation. A large local public par of 16 courts here was jammed with 2-3 hour waits in the 70's and 80's. One is lucky to find 3 or 4 courts occupied at a time nowadays. The majority of indoor clubs that sprang up like mushrooms during the "tennis boom", whose JD programs lured the best coaches in the world to suburban and even urban New York have either been downsized to accomodate other sports or training facilities or sold off outright for their land value. Having been in the industry here since before the bubble burst, there isn't 1/10th the participation in tennis there was in the sport's hey day here. That's just one state whose area and population rivals many of the "new countries" you speak of. About the only locales it has survived in numbers are the traditional US sunshine states.
Tennis has to compete against many more leisure time activities today than ever before, that's worldwide. X-sports, more water sports, vehicle sports, etc. Also every sport has to compete against ever more sedentary generations attracted more to video/computer games and activities than outdoor sports.
So merely because the world's population has increased doesn't mean there are more potential elite tennis players in the pool of potential prospects.
As far as other sports go, look no further than baseball. Where are the .400 hitters? W/O drugs who has hit more homeruns in a season than Ruth or Maris? Why aren't all pitchers throwing 120 mph today?
Lebron James is held up as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Better than MJ? Better then Kareem? Chamberlain? Based on what exactly? He was recently quoted as saying the league is watered down by having too many franchises and preventing teams being formed with multiple tier 1 stars as they were in the 1980's. Why would he say that?
Why is a country like Jamaica producing all the world class sprinters not caught doping? Why aren't all those "new countries" producing them? It's only my opinion, based on almost all other record breaking 100m times being rolled back as each of those athletes were discovered to have been PED enhanced, is that Jamaica is merely just somehow ahead of the testing curve. If that isn't the case then how is a sport like horseracing, one that has control over all the variables of the subject population, engages in selective breeding, bioengineering and various types of doping (legal and illegal) able to produce ever faster horses? The simple answer is there are limits. And to think with that much "control" over their subjects horseracing can't produce ever better "athletes" but with human subjects, by shear chance, to multiple powers (i.e. parent's genes, the offspring choosing the sport, finding the right environment, the right training, the right competition, remaining healthy), simply through the passage of time and increasing general population, human beings MUST produce better tennis players is a concept that is rendered amusing.
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The same can be said for men although the increase is more marked immediately following WWII.
I feel there is a great tendancy to throw out the perforformances of players for the pre open amateur days as always being down to weak opposition. While this is true to a certain extent a high level of domination within the amateur ranks is still worthy of respect even if the subesequent rating is deflated. E.g. Emerson hit 2768 during the 1965 year and Laver 2762 during 1962.
We cannot dismiss all performances because an era was weak but we do need to temper achievements to better reflect the real performance level.
Just my humble opinion.
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Lets better talk about strong eras, and leave the weak era debate to others like Mats. Otherwise we get the usual flame war with the usual suspects. If you have 6-7 great players competing for the big titles and top ranks, you imo have a strong era. Three of these strong eras were imo the late 50s at he pro game, the early open era around 1970, and the late 80s until ca. 1991.
While i certainly agree about the problems of the pro-amateur-split, i don't see the 60s as a particular weak era in the shamateurs. Because the National Federations spent money to control and hold their amateurs, great and very good players remained amateurs like Emerson, Santana, Pietrangeli, Stolle (till 1966), Fraser, later the upcoming Newcombe, Ashe, Roche. The semi final lineup of the Australian of 1967 with Emerson, Ashe, Newcombe or Roche was certainly not bad. When the younger ones came into age in the late 60s, they faced the older pro generation and the older amateur generation, so we got together a very strong era imo. The early and mid 50s had also a very strong amateur game, with Sedgman, Patty, Drobny, Schroeder, Rosewall, Hoad, Rose, Trabert, Seixas and others competing. A weak amateur era were the late 50s, when virtually all top players had turned pro. That resulted in the strong pro era, mentioned above.
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As far as the late 1950's are concerned I read in Jack Kramer's book that he thought Cooper and Anderson were the best of a bad group so he agree with you that time was poor for the amateurs also.
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In my opinion, it is shown a few ways:
1} how the older players of the previous generation do against the newer ones at the newer one's prime
2} Now, champion's series. If the old-men players can keep up with/beat the younger guys, they obviously would do well in the current era.
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I do think Urban is pointing that we all want to see greatness and also great competition, hopefully lots of it.
Bottom line is that we all want to see super skilled players with great physical talent play each other because I think we all love tennis and want to see great rallies. To see Isner and Mahut never lose serve is not my idea of fun and skilled tennis unless you love serving exhibitions. I'm not exactly a fan of Isner's groundies.
In the 1920's Suzanne Lenglen was virtually unbeatable and rarely lost games, much less sets. She was a great player of course but I would think the competition wasn't of the highest quality, to say the least.
To have one player dominant doesn't necessarily make it a weak era. Rod Laver was very dominant in 1969, not only winning the Grand Slam but a lot of other top tournaments. But in 1969 you had greats like John Newcombe playing, Tony Roche, Arthur Ashe, Ken Rosewall, Tom Okker, Andres Gimeno and while they didn't beat Laver in big matches, they were to make big impacts in later years. Newcombe won a few Wimbledons, US Opens, Australian and a WCT title. Roche was very good for a few years. Ashe was to be number one and was one of the top players for years. Rosewall had a few majors left to win plus he won a few WCT championships. Okker and Gimeno also did well. I think 1969 was very strong but you can see it from a perspective of time. You couldn't tell in 1969. All of Laver's top competition in 1969 could have done terribly afterwards and in this case you may say it was a weak era.
The era we have now has Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, del Potro, Roddick and some others. Maybe they all will do well in the future. But even if players like Murray do well is it because he fulfilled his talent or is it because Federer and Nadal has declined. Who knows? Only years from now can we truly get an idea of how strong this era is. It could be one of the best or one of the worst.
A lot of it is also very subjective. I for one don't think Roddick is very talented so I'm never that impressed by him. outside of his great serve. I think Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, Murray and del Potro are very talented and there is the makings of great competition here. Others may think Roddick is more gifted than anyone. What I'm getting at is that one person looking at the names and experiencing that particular era may consider it a great era for skills and talent. Another one may see and experience the same tennis era and think it stinks.
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If you allow the hypothetical in which you do have the "new player" who enters competition and completely dominates the other 6, then his domination indicates that it was indeed a weak era in general--because he is the single strong player.
If on the other hand, the same "new player" enters competition and competes well, wins his share but does not dominate, then one can say it is a generally strong era with more than several great players. (It is also possible that this period is a weak era with more than several weak players.)
I do think the only way to be certain whether a short term period is weak or strong is to introduce a new variable, such as a past "great" player coming out of retirement. If this past great player is able to completely dominate--much more so than when the player was in his prime, this would tend to indicate that it is a weak era.
I am not sure how to ascertain a strong era. Maybe the inverse.?
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It seems to me that what you're addressing is more of an epistemological problem, specifically: how do we tell whether an era is weak or strong. In which case a situation involving a player arriving and dominating players who were previously thought to be strong competition may be reason to revise our opinions on the strength of the era, but if a strong era has already been defined as 6-7 elite players competing fairly evenly for majors, then no such revision can be made. The era is/was strong by definition.
urban wasn't, as far as I can tell, trying to propose a scientific method for determining whether an era was weak or strong, rather he was defining what a weak or strong era is, something that is a necessary precursor to the issue of era-strength-determination that you discussed in your last post. All I'm saying is his definition is inadequate, and your points about revising our beliefs about the strength of an era can only stand if you too find this definition inadequate, so I think we are, at least implicitly, in agreement.
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If the definition of a weak era is one that has 6-7 mediocre players battling it out for slam titles. If the definition of a super-strong era one has 6-7 great players battling it out for all the slam titles. The only distinction would seem to be the determination that the top players are either mediocre or great. And how does one make this determination that the top players are either mediocre or great?
Most look at the records, and say if player X has more than one slam title, then player X is a great player, but this is very problematic. Because records are entirely a function of the quality of the competition. Perhaps it could work if you have 6-7 players at the top, all of whom have some minimum like 5+ slam titles. I am not sure.
PC1 has proposed looking at the skill-sets of the players at the top. Does player X have a complete skill-set? Can player X hit every shot in the book, and will to beat all comers? Or does player X have only one way of playing and a very limited repertoire (for instance, "a serve and a forehand"), it just happens to be a little better than everyone else's. This seems more plausible and more fruitful.
Take for example, 2002-03. Here are the slam winners:
2002: Thomas Johansson--Albert Costa--Lleyton Hewitt--Pete Sampras
2003 Andre Agassi--Juan Carlos Ferrero--Roger Federer--Andy Roddick
Eight different players. I believe that is only through hindsight, that we can look back and conclude that this was not a strong era.
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Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is the third installment of Ubi Soft's popular stealth action game. The new game in the series has undergone some drastic changes offline, but remains relatively the same online.
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