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Living Dead Teen Costume
Give them the evil eye in this Living Dead Teen Costume. They'll get nothing but a lifeless stare when they see you in this tattered grey and black long sleeved dress and ripped tights. You'll look deadlier than dead.
Living Dead Girls Costume
Liven up the party when you arrive in this Living Dead girls costume. The undead outfit includes a tattered dress and footless tights. Make up a story about how you died and what brought you back - have a hauntingly good Halloween.
Living Nightmare Tube of Blood
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Proud Member Living Dead Magnet
…magnets and decals on the mini-vans driven by soccer moms - the proud parents who proclaim how great they or their kids are. What would happen if zombies were stocking the fridge and driving the mini-vans to the meat market? They'd have a Proud Member of the Living Dead magnet for sure...
Miss Reaper Tween Costume
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Miss Mistletoe Womens Costume
Your stocking will be filled with kisses when you celebrate the holidays in this Miss Mistletoe costume - it's red-hot! Flirty red velvet halter dress with white plush fur trim will keepyou warm, and if you catch a chill, there'll be plenty of fellows to turn up the heat!
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Monster Miss Teen Costume
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Miss Scissorhands Tween Costume
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Miss Diagnosed Nurse Adult Costume
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Miss Oktoberbreast Adult Mens Costume
They say breast is best - prove it when you suit up and serve them with a smile in this Miss Octoberbreast adult mens costume. Did we mention that the costume includes not just the blonde wig and classic beer girl outfit but a working beer tap breast/beverage dispenser? It holds 400 ml so drink up!
Miss Independence Adult Womens Costume
You'll have everyone saying, "God bless America" when you wear the Miss Independence Adult Women's Costume. This red and white, vertical stripe dress comes complete with a bow tie, blue vest with gold star details and tails, flag, and a hat with headband.
Miss Mad Hatter Girls Costume
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Magical Miss Adult Womens Costume
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Miss Wonderland Adult Womens Costume
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Miss Scissorhands Adult Womens Costume
Slice into the sad, the sweet, and the scary when you wear this officially licensed Miss Scissorhands adult womens costume. This classic black dress comes complete with a messy head of hair, scissor gloves, and belt to transform you into this twisted character.
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Sugar 'n spice and everything nice - it's all cutefor Christmas with this darling Lil Santa Girl costume. Pose pretty for the family portrait orannual Christmas card; perfect for the holiday pageant, Sunday School show or school play. Lil Santa Girl outfit includes a red dress with white plush trim…


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|May 18, 2010, 11:34 AM
Do either of these programs offer photo stitching needed for virtual tours? I'm trying to get my cannon t2i set up for creating virtual tours also if any one has a lead on which fish eye lens would best suit this camera and fill my needs I am very open to suggestions.
Thanks for your help!
|May 18, 2010, 11:55 AM
Do you have a good tripod and proper panaroma mount? Without those, creating good images of rooms will be painful (and they will likely not look very good).
Check out this guys site, he has a lot of pretty good information on what you require.
To answer your question neither LR nor Aperture are the best software for what you are trying to do.
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|Jun 21, 2010, 07:12 AM
Capture One Pro 5
I would highly recommend Capture One Pro 5 as piece of software to use. It allows tethered shooting with most cameras available at the moment and allows advanced colour correction, exposure control etc. I have used it for 8 years on numerous photo shoots and still haven't found anything better.
|Jun 21, 2010, 07:20 AM
I used Capture/1 a while ago, and found it's RAW processing to be much preferable to Lightroom. I switched to Lightroom though - because I really disliked the file handling in C/1 and it's failure to sensibly manage large numbers of files.
In the interim, I think that Lightroom has caught up on the image quality front, although C/1 has some really nice tools that Adobe doesn't (the sharpness hinting is really nice).
I now read that Phase One has bought Expression Media off Microsoft. I also used this (as iView) a while back.
What is the integration between Capture/1 and Expression media? Seems like a messy solution to have library management and RAW processing as two separate apps? Do you have to finalise (and create TIFFs) in Capture/1 to have final images in Expression Media, or can EM store RAW processing 'instructions' in much the same way as Lightroom and its 'sidecar' files?
|Jul 17, 2010, 07:43 AM
Apologies if it's been posted before (or even in the wrong place), but I found a site linked on a Photography forum elsewhere which has presets for LR/AP and PS
Seems to have a few different interesting effects.
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|Jul 27, 2010, 05:42 AM
Slightly different AP vs LR question
I've got a slightly different aperture vs lightroom question that i could do with some help on please. I'm a graphic designer that's just getting into photography as i spend most of my days searching through photos to find great ones, i think it's a good skill to learn. I downloaded the trial of both and really preferred aperture, especially with all of the quick tips on the apple website, it just seems so easy to use and do exactly what i want.
As i've not got my camera, a lumix fz38/fz35, i've found out aperture doesn't support raw files from this camera. Now i don't know what to do
1. Buy and use aperture and hope that apple bring support - is this likely to happen seen as i've looked on apple support forums and this topic was brought up months ago?
2. Shoot jpeg - really dont want to do this.
3. Learn lightroom - I don't like the interface but maybe if i get used to it. Does anyone have any good tutorials that show a good lightroom workflow? I can't find any on youtube but there seem to be some long videos on the adobe site. I also don't like this idea as using cs5 all day, i know how crashy adobe apps are. Is lightroom as bad?
4. Use a combinaton of bridge and photoshop? - I already have them so just sort out a good folder structure for projects/albums and view in bridge?
What does everyone think for the beginner photographer?
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|Jul 27, 2010, 06:45 AM
The guys from Luminous Landscape have just started selling their Lightroom 3 training videos. If you're serious about using Lightroom I strongly recommend buying and viewing these - absolutely worth the money if you want to really get the most out of the app.
|Jul 27, 2010, 09:46 AM
Thanks firestarter, I think I'm going to try and use lightroom for a while. After watching a few videos, i think i can get into the workflow and I do like the folder structure. No relying on massive iphoto or aperture libraries, all images in folders that can be viewed by other applications! I don't think I'm going to go with aperture as after reading a bit more, I don't think apple have supported any of the fz8 range so I'm not going to hope for support for this one if they haven't done it a year after its release. I don't like how they won't just say what raw files they are working on supporting and what ones they're not going to do at all.
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|Sep 3, 2010, 05:59 PM
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|Sep 23, 2010, 07:44 AM
Well, it's true, Capture One Pro has the superior RAW conversion. Hands down, it beats Both Aperture and Lightroom for critical adjustments and colour reproduction. Highlight recovery is unbeatable, for example.
But although C1 Pro is king when it comes to studio capture, it falls when out of this comfort zone. It's simply not quick enough for an importing from card workflow. It suffers with previews and leaves it up to you to manage your backups. In fact, it leaves it up to you to manage your library.
Aperture's all under one roof solution speeds things up considerably. The library organisation, and integration with OSX is clean and efficient (when it doesn't get a bit *confused* once in a while!) and having the simplicity of Mobile Me galleries, the convenience of an adjustments hud in full screen view, and a fairly good RAW processing engine, means that for me, most of my work is now in Aperture.
Sure, Aperture has some major issues - they could pump up the IQ on import a little, and deal with some of the library issues amongst others, but Capture One also suffered from massive problems when Phase One went to version 4. They still haven't got everything right.
In an ideal world there would be something of a mixture of the two, but as it stands there doesn't seem to be a perfect RAW conversion software. There are compromises.
|Sep 23, 2010, 08:15 AM
Phase One has just bought the 'Expression Media' library app from Microsoft (formerly called iView media pro):
Hopefully they'll integrate it and end up with an app that can take on both Lightroom and Aperture.
I do like Capture One and have used it in the past. The new focus-highlighting is an awesome feature.
Overall though, I've settled on Lightroom as the app with the library management that most closely matches the way I want to work. In this latest iteration Adobe have also improved the IQ a lot - so I'm pretty happy at the moment.
|Sep 25, 2010, 06:44 AM
iView had a huge head start, but when microsoft purchased them, they squandered what advantages iview had. Both Aperture and Lr have more features, and critical mass behind them. I don't see Expression Media becoming any real competition to either.
~Mike Flynn
|Sep 27, 2010, 06:35 AM
iView or Expression Media seems like a bloated solution to file management when 'the others' have been honing this as part of the feature set since day dot. It's pretty good as it stands, though I know Aperture could up the ante on stability with it's managed/referenced file crashes.
If Phase one were to integrate Expression into Capture One the first thing to do would be to head over to the Phase One user forums. Historically, there has been a lot of backlash from loyal users, especially when there was a jump from v3 to v4. They don't like their Capture software being messed with!
The point is that Capture One started life Primarily as professional capture software for Phase One's digital backs both in the Studio and on Location. Later on they started to include support for third party Raw capture, specifically from Canon (Tethered shooting) and Nikon (Import from Card) and then developed from there. The need for a managed library wasn't so important in the professional fashion and commercial market as jobs were shot, edited, processed, and delivered to the client all in one session. The next session would have always been a new job starting from a clean slate. New client, new session.
Apple recognised the need for an all in one solution for the professional portrait, wedding, events, user base, and created Aperture. Fundamentally a great solution for Mac users, even if you needed 'the most powerful computer the planet has ever seen' just to run version 1. Still, we're on v3 now and speed isn't really the issue any more.
And lightroom has the same approach - great Raw conversion/adjustments/asset management to enable workflow. Done.
The question isn't Aperture vs Lightroom? Aperture vs Capture One? or combinations of these. For most people it's Aperture or Lightroom? If you're using one or the other there is a good chance that you won't want to migrate your extensive hard drive crippling photographic library to a new system in the vain hope that the exposure sliders work better in Program X. They might do, but it's a hell of a lot of bother to go through only to discover that you actually preferred the way that Program Y dealt with highlight recovery after all.
And when you get to the conclusion that neither program is more or less capable across a broad range of features and that we're only really discussing the justification of choice of software, it becomes a little bit like chatting about whether a foggy day is better than a misty morning. It's a bit dull.
|Dec 1, 2010, 04:47 AM
Aperture 3 Resale
Hi - I'm new to the forum, and new to Mac. After my wife, a pro photographer, made the leap from film to digital this year she got a Macbook Pro, and on Black Friday I took the leap myself. The PC is history (what put me over the edge was the absolute inability to get the PC to reliably connect to the TimeCapsule ... but that's for another forum).
After trying both, my wife has firmly landed on the side of LightRoom. This leaves me with a copy of Aperture 3, which I presume I can resell. I'll take any suggestions on how to do this, as well as any offers. $125?
|Dec 1, 2010, 08:34 AM
"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." -- Emerson
|Dec 1, 2010, 12:01 PM
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|Dec 11, 2010, 06:20 AM
Barefeats have just posted a 'first take' on performance between Aperture and Lightroom.
Lightroom is more efficient with processing raw files while Aperture is quicker importing and exporting raw files
One thing for me to gauge with this is that buying an SSD won't solve my Aperture 3 slowness. Good news considering the prices of them at the moment. Bad news, I need a new Mac!
We tried exporting to both single HDD and single SSD. The export times were identical which tells us that the processing by CPU is the bottleneck. Activity monitor shows that even when the SSD was used, it was loafing along at 6.9MB/s transfer rate and 46 operations per second when it is capable of 40 times that transfer rate and 490 times that many operations per second.
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|Dec 13, 2010, 03:11 PM
|Dec 13, 2010, 06:29 PM
Although it makes sense that exporting is a CPU constrained task, I suspect an SSD makes a dramatic difference in application/library load time and possibly even navigating your library... something they didn't comment on.
I've got just about every product there is and a bunch of Canon DSLR gear that feeds my passion for tech, travel, and photography.
|Dec 27, 2010, 04:26 AM
I've been a user of Lightroom for over a year and just wanted to try the new Aperture v3. What got me excited about the opening of two great features - making books and slide shows with professional models for stills, video and audio.
|Jan 18, 2011, 10:47 AM
^^ yes must admit with the advances of Aperture 3 it is a seriouse contender to and imo now more fun than Lightroom, just wish they had added 'Layers' to ther mix
|Jan 19, 2011, 08:15 AM
capture one 6
Has anyone tried the newer version of capture 1.... I hear there are many improvements. One of the things I didn't like about Capture in the past was the use of adjustments. C1's adjustments are great, but frustrating for this reason. Unlike Aperture, there was a time lag with C1 from when I use an adjustment to when the image becomes clear on the screen. Also, while using an adjustment in C1 there was pixelating while I was making the adjustment. This is very frustrating, but with Aperture I find that when I use the adjustments there is no time lag and no pixelating. I can see what I am doing immediately with Aperture rather than guessing with C1.
I am wondering if Phase 1 Capture 1 fixed this. I am also wondering if C1 needs more RAM than my mere 4 GB on my 2009 24 inch iMac.
|May 19, 2011, 12:20 AM
Aperture and Lightroom is for serious photographer right? How about novice? I really like Canon's ZoomBrowser EX it can read photo EXIF very well.
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|May 19, 2011, 01:10 AM
Lightroom lacks with Photoshop Element intergration!!
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|May 20, 2011, 11:34 PM
I'm new to DSLR photography and want a bit more control and editing then iPhoto gives so I'm deciding between these two.
I realize I don't exactly have a powerhouse (iMac in the sig) but why is Aperture so much more sluggish then LR? I really want to like Aperture because the UI is so much better but I can't use many brushes without beachballing and lag while LR goes off with very little hitches in comparison.
I have already turned off faces, let Aperture sit for hours to digest the library, is there anything else I can do?
(Edit - What's helped me is to use smaller brushes and do multiple passes on the picture, rather then use the supersize one that bogs me down)
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Gulf Warm-water Eddies Intensify Hurricane Changes
Scientists monitoring ocean heat and circulation in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have a new understanding of how these tropical storms can gain intensity so quickly: The Gulf of Mexico's "Loop Current" is likely intensifying hurricanes that pass over eddies of warm water that spin off the main current.
"A positive outcome of a hurricane season like this is that we've been able to learn more about the Loop Current and its associated warm-water eddies, which are basically hurricane intensity engines," said Nick Shay, a University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) meteorologist and physical oceanographer.
The Loop Current is a horseshoe-shaped feature that flows clockwise, transferring warm subtropical waters from the Caribbean Sea through the Yucatan Straits into the Gulf of Mexico.
This year, the Loop Current extended deep into the Gulf of Mexico during hurricane season. Currents at this time of year typically become unsteady and pinch off deep, warm eddies, said Shay. The warm water then becomes ideal for hurricanes in the process of intensifying.
"Scientists have known that hurricanes form above the world's warmest ocean surface waters," said Jay Fein, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Atmospheric Sciences, which funded the research. "This study adds new information about hurricanes' journeys to landfall, and will help to better predict their paths and intensity changes during their final hours over open water."
After Hurricane Katrina and a week before Hurricane Rita, Shay, Peter Black from the NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and Eric Uhlhorn of the University of Miami/NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Science, deployed Airborne Expendable Conductivity, Temperature and Depth profilers (AXCTDs); Current Profilers (AXCPs); and Bathythermographs (AXBTs) to obtain information on water temperature to depths of up to 3,300 feet (1,000 meters).
The AXCTDs and AXCPs, which were funded by NSF, are dropped from aircraft and measure salinity and currents.
Meteorologists are learning a great deal as hurricanes pass over the deep, warm waters of the Loop Current, Shay said. "We have long been aware that these currents are an important way for the ocean to distribute heat and energy, but until now, we just didn't have much data on the role they played in building hurricane intensity."
Two days before Hurricane Rita, Black and Rick Lumpkin of AOML, and Peter Niiler of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, deployed surface drifters that measure surface and subsurface thermal conditions while traveling clockwise around a Loop Current warm eddy just south of La. The eddy was lying in the path of Rita.
"This represents one of the most comprehensive ocean-data sets where two major hurricanes passed through the same region," said Frank Marks, director of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division. "This series of observations is a testament to how new ocean observations are helping us understand hurricane intensity changes."
"The last time there was a season with two Category 5 hurricanes in the same basin was in 1961 with Carla and Hattie," said Shay. "However, the same phenomenon occurred the year before in 1960 with Donna and Ethel."
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita also have much in common with Hurricane Opal, a category 4 storm that occurred a decade ago, on Oct. 4. During Opal, meteorologists first recognized the pivotal role that deep, warm eddies play in quickly building hurricane intensity. Opal encountered a warm- water eddy in the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened in intensity from Category 1 to Category 4 in just 14 hours.
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The hotel had a very old-world charm to it without being run down. Rooms were spacious. The pool was very clean and private even though it was a two minute walk to front street in Lahaina. Nicely situated. Wish were could have stayed longer.
Great location. Excellent conceierge
Smell of sewage at HH entry
Stephen the valet set the tone from the moment he opened my wife's car door, escorted us to check-in, and down to our pool terrace room. His courtesy and hospitable attitude was echoed by the front desk, concierge, restaurant and housekeeping staff. Comfortable King bed room included a chaise lounge, desk, bench at foot of bed, huge LED TV and spa bath. In room coffee/tea and fridge for our own snacks/drinks. Clean clean clean. Excellence and luxury throughout. Amazing shore, pool areas, walking trails... Peaceful location above the fray of the more populated costal areas -- but only about a 15-minute ride to Lahaina with its lively stores, restaurants, and harbor activities, We know where we will be staying on Maui. Bravo!
Large well-appointed rooms...gorgeous beach.
Concierge team was excellent, especially Shelly.
The location is excellent- 5 minutes from Black Rock, steps from the beach
This hotel is old and outdated, lacks the luxury feel of the other hotels in the area
Proximity to the ocean, cleanliness, and owner suggestions re: restaurants, events, etc. Nice supply of kitchen ware (but didn't need to use due to short stay) as well as abundant linens. Also liked that snorkel gear was available!
Pull out couch mattress was uncomfortable.. Mattress should be replaced or have tempur foam overlay to improve comfort
Location-wave sounds all day and all night
Not really
The view was stunning, and the amenities top notch.
That I was unable to stay longer.
The design of the resort: the pools, the waterfalls, the wildlife lawns, etc. The staff are consistently nice and patient, the shuttle service within Ka'anapoli area, the size of the rooms. Compares to other resorts in the area such as Marriott and Westin, Hyatt's rate is very reasonable about average of $350/night.
Son'z restaurant food was terrible for 5-star, fine-dinning categorization. The popcorn ceilings in the rooms can be upgraded. It has no beach - we'd have to walk further the Marriott resort for the beach. Hyatt should do a better job enforcing the no-smoking policy on floors designated as non-smoking floors, it's never pleasant to be out on lanai and having to deal with someone next to your unit smoking up a storm.
Lots of space, nice views of ocean, swimming pool.
Not within walking distance of anything. Ocean front but no beach access.
Rare treat to stay in a condo through Priceline. Our young family enjoyed the ability to prepare our own breakfasts and lunches.
Room was functional and large enough great ocean front view. No HDMI Input on the flat screen TV so could play my iPad movies.
Bathroom was a bit small not particularly functional and a bit dated. Long walk to the large self park garage at closer smaller lot always seemed to be full
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EASTERN FOREHAND: lets cover the singularity of this grip
By eastern, I include a rather large array of slightly different grips, all the way from closely continental, up to nearly semi-western.
I was wondering why would such grips better suit lower balls; and if it really is that versatile.
On the personal front, I traded my full western for an eastern during last summer. I was in need of something that enabled me to hit more gently toward my girlfriend and it was just plain easier to pick short balls without whacking them using this grip. Witht the full western, I had a lot of trouble lowering both pace and spin while keeping control over the ball given that the face was so closed at contact.
I am in the process of learning how to hit with it... just like back in my first tennis days. Lol
Anyway, I wanted to soret out a few possible explanations and discuss it. Thanks.
Yeah me too. I hate when people want to play mini-tennis with me when I'm using my western grip. It's so hard to control the ball.
Its fun though to learn to hit with a milder grip... takes time, but I feel rewarded given how much ease I have to redirect all softer shots. I am no longer forced to whack the ball to get decent length and I get to play woth a straight arm which I feel is easier for me.
I love the eastern grip, you can hit any shot with a slight adjustment of the grip or your arm. High balls or crosscourt, bent elbow forehand while moving the grip closer to semi western. Any ball below the shoulder and down the line, full extension with a full eastern grip.
I think there was a whole thread on this that's still pretty recent. Basic idea is that E through W has it's strengths and weaknesses. You can make any of them work.
I normally hit with an almost SW grip (very strong E - like on steroids), but still occasionally hit a fh with a continental grip. I'll hit cont. with very short, low balls that I'm approaching on, sometimes when stretched really wide I'll do the Fed squash shot, and very occasionally I might block a ball back with a cont. grip. If I was just bunting balls to someone I'd likely use that grip.
try not to let the racquet head go below the ball. and try not to let the racquet head go below the hand. aim squarely at the back of the ball not below.
Fed's grip is so small to his hand his middle and ring fingers basically touches the thumbpad. Unless this is true to you the wrist range of motion will be more limited in all direction than what Fed can do with his wrist. i'm trying to say being aware of this is important in trying to emulate pros like Fed. most importantly the wrist range of motion will affect the stance.
I don't mean to pile-on boramiNYC, but you have got to get the racquet head below the ball if you're going to hit with topspin. The racquet head is below the wrist, and you are aiming to swing up and across the ball's flight path at the contact point, not squarely into the back of the ball. This is true regardless of what grip you use, but with an E grip I think it's super important to think about swinging up because you don't really get that motion so easily if you don't emphasize it. With more W grips you probably need to focus on swinging through more. In the end however you're getting the same swing path.
boramiNYC's advice is more appropriate if you want to hit super flat.
Some eastern forehand grip player's are the best at mini tennis, with a little practice.
Usually, full W grip players need much more practice to consistently hit slow, lightly topspinning balls.
Conti gripped players can play mini tennis well from the beginning, but slice the ball mostly.
the racquet head doesn't need to go below the ball to generate topspin. The racquet head must move upward as contact is made and afterward to generate topspin and this can be done without dropping the racquet head below the ball. And that's what I recommend to achieve the overall best form for E grip.
To borrow an MTM instructor's tongue, pull sideway near the ball level. the racquet head will move up and across and through the ball.
Flatter ball, probably, but that's the nature of E grip compared to more western grips. With a somewhat relaxed but tout wrist there's enough topspin potential to bring the ball down. Definitely not for loopy shots.
This video illustrates my point pretty well. But, as I said, Fed has more wrist range of motion than most rec players. Focus on waist to chest high balls.
Note that you'll see the center of Fed's racquet going below the ball when he hits. It's not feet below the ball, but it's enough to allow the racquet head to accelerate upward so that at contact the racquet has a significant upward velocity component.
The upward velocity component of the racquet is what generates the topspin, not the upward force the player is putting on the racquet. The upward force the player puts on the racquet accelerates the racquet upward, but that requires both time and distance to happen. If the center of the racquet head is inline with the ball, it wouldn't matter if you pulled up on the racquet with a million pounds because there would be no time for the racquet's upward velocity component to go from zero to some value.
Also, I think the spin potential of the E grip, as Fed has shown, is pretty darn good. You can get severe top and side spin with this grip, but the racquet head has to have at least a small amount of distance to accelerate up and across the contact point.
Regarding Fed, I don't know about the range of motion that you mention, but one thing that I've noticed that Federer is really good at is that the racquet's velocity really explodes at contact. He doesn't sweep it. He stores up all of the energy from his legs and body and fairly violently whips the racquet up and across the ball. It's a very efficient motion. This is true for all pros, but Fed's especially good at I think.
Most of the ones in your clip are at or lower than waist level. The best example shot is this:
I understand what you are saying and generally agree. The point I want to make is that from the high prep when the racquet head is dropped in forward motion, the lowest the head goes is very close to the height of the ball or in line with the trajectory of the intended ball. dropping any lower is not a good habit, imo.
Another point that's worth making is that the bread and butter contact point near the chest level is the best habit for aggressive nature E grip game is built on.
So, instead dropping the racquet head below, I'd say drop the racquet head back in majority of strokes and your E grip game will improve.
From what I see in the link in your post the racquet head still drops below the level of the ball. His hit is off center on this shot too you will note.
Generally, my opinion remains that if you want topspin you have to drop the center of the head below the ball and create an upward component to your swing. It is a good habit. With an E. grip I find that you really have to focus on that drop and swing up component because the grip naturally tends toward a swing path that is more linear through the ball. But, if you do it correctly, you can get huge topspin off an E. grip, and still flatten it out more when you want less topspin a bit more easily than someone with a W. grip.
The main advantage of E grip is its versatility. Meaning you can hit huge topspin or you can totally flatten out or even a drop shot is possible. But, my point is all these options are not equally suited for the grip and I believe the most effective type of shots by E grip is flat with some topspin from loose wrist and pronation. This is like the main attraction in a show. If this part of the fh stroke is not solid, that E fh is not really solid, but if that part is solid that becomes a usable E fh to build the game.
My message: practice your flat shots with E grip. The consistency comes from using the whole kinetic chain effectively. Big topspin is not an absolute necessity for consistency. Learning to use the wrist well in the swing, you can develop a consistent, powerful, and well controlled flat stroke.
I get what your trying to say, but you have to hit under the ball to generate enough topspin to keep the ball in play with a lot of pace that he is hitting with.
I hit my forehand with a semi-western bordering on Western, and for a long time I switched to continental on forehand slices and drop shots. The result would usually be a ball that floats but that has wicked sidespin...effective sometimes but inconsistent.
Yesterday in a casual match I started using an eastern forehand to hit the junk shots....I netted the first few but after I got the trajectory right, I was hitting nasty low skidding slice approaches off my opponents weak second serve. Instead of trying to hit the side skidding floater, I was slicing some mid-court balls right at his feet, which he was having a difficult time getting back over the net. And you really don't have to put much into the swing at all, because it's such a flat grip you can use all of the incoming pace.
The Eastern Forehand is a tremeondously versatile grip.
Now, when I tried to hit a topspin forehand with it I hit the ball into the back curtain, but that would take a little more practice to pull off.
I tried to do a J. Mac impression a few months ago, hitting a flat forehand with a continental grip ...and the ball went OVER the curtain. :oops:
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Today we're going to start the first installment on a series aimed at examining how Rite-Aid has aggressively targeted historic buildings at main intersections of small towns across the United States. Today's piece is an older one, coming from writer Joshua Benton's blog, found here, with further information provided by Sprawl Busters, located here.
It is a reprint of an article he wrote for the Toledo Blade almost eleven years ago, in December 1998, and holds information markedly similar to what Beachwood is facing today. The Toledo Blade can be found here.
Be sure to check this site Sunday as we begin uploading the entire downtown Beachwood Rite Aid Proposal Plan, as submitted to the borough for review.
Historic building fall to drug store chains across U.S.; Toledo fights over Rite-Aid
By Joshua Benton
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The nation's largest drugstore chains have been battling each other for several years.
But in Toledo, Rite Aid has been mostly alone in its aggressive construction of stand-alone "box" stores.
"Rite Aid is just an irresponsible corporate citizen," Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said at a recent press conference. "They have given up on mid-street locations and absolutely like piranhas are going after corner locations."
For the last year, Rite Aid has been replacing many small, neighborhood stores – many of them in strip malls – with larger stores on busy intersections.
Company officials say the move allows consumers to have more choice and convenience. But Mr. Finkbeiner and other Rite Aid opponents say the new stores come at the expense of old, historic buildings torn down for new, characterless hulks.
Most contentious has been the proposed Rite Aid at Broadway and South Avenue. Rite Aid wants to build a "model store" – the 11,000-square-foot box-styled store the company has built 1,000 of in the last three years. It would replace a smaller store Rite Aid operates just a block away.
But building the new store would require the demolition of seven older buildings housing several operating businesses.
So when council approved the demolition last month, Mayor Finkbeiner made a rare use of his veto power to stop it.
Council overrode his veto, 9-3, so the mayor had to try another method. He asked council to issue a 60-day moratorium on the issuance of most demolition permits in the city, saying the move is aimed at stopping Rite Aid from tearing down buildings.
In the last year, Rite Aid has closed stores at Bancroft Street and Upton Avenue and at Dorr Street and Junction Avenue. The company had opened a new store at Monroe Street and Detroit Avenue in 1997, about a mile from the two shuttered stores.
In April, the mayor held a press conference in front of the Dorr Street location, calling the moves an abandonment of the central city. Rite Aid officials said the new Monroe Street store was, in fact, a significant new investment in the central city.
At least two other former Rite Aid stores – at Dorr and Detroit, and in the River East Shopping Center – remain vacant.
Rite Aid is not done with its changes in Toledo. A company spokesperson said that it plans to build at least four more stores in the next year, each replacing an older store.
Rite Aid officials defend their moves, saying that they are all driven by giving consumers what they want: easy access, good parking, and access to convenience foods and other items that just can't fit in smaller stores.
"A lot of our growth in Toledo is based on upgrading to better service to our customers,' said Suzanne Mead, vice president of corporate communications. "As the demographics have changed, our strategy has moved toward busier intersections."
She said that Rite Aid works with local communities in planning stores. The company has made some concessions on the Broadway and South store to make it more fitting for the neighborhood.
Rite Aid will soon be joined by a new player in the local drugstore field. Walgreens, absent from the Toledo market for nearly 30 years, plans a store at Woodville Road and East Broadway.
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The Mayor of Toledo, Carty Finkbeiner, has compared Rite Aid and its competitor's to piranha fish, gobbling up inappropriate locations for their "convenience" stores.
"They have given up on mid-street locations," the Mayor told the Toledo Blade, "and absolutely like piranhas are going after corner locations for their drug stores."
The Mayor has vowed to fight this trend "on every street corner in Toledo"–and it looks like he'll have to. Rite Aid has been closing down its existing locations, and going after corner lots for increasing stand along visibility, and to clone their 11,000 s.f. prototype store, regardless of the neighborhood surrounding it.
For example, after only 4 years at the corner of Door and Junction, Rite Aid closed down, allegedly without even telling the building's owner.
"They left like undercover," said the building owner, Bobby Howard. "They haven't written a letter, made a phone call, or told me anything."
Yet Rite Aid has been sending a powerful message to Toledo neighborhoods–and the citizens don't like what they're hearing.
Rite Aid closed another store at Bancroft and Upton soon after it opened up a larger store about one mile away. Another Rite Aid at the Swayne Field shopping center closed, and another at the River East Shopping center is vacant.
Rite Aid has become an open and shut case in Toledo. The Blade says that neighborhood critics of this corporate leapfrog mentality feel that Rite Aid's policy weakens the look and feel of older neighborhoods, because they tear down older buildings, and leave empty stores behind.
The biggest controversy in Toledo over Rite Aid took place recently at the corner of Broadway and South. The City Council voted to OK a plan allowing Rite Aid to bulldoze seven older buildings at the corner, so that Rite Aid could build an 11,000 s.f. store across the street from an existing CVS pharmacy.
The Mayor was reportedly furious that Rite Aid was planning to close its downtown store on Madison Avenue.
The head of the City Council said: "It just sort of fits the pattern of their making decisions and the community finds out about it at the last minute."
Residents said it was absurd for Rite Aid to shut down a store it just moved into a few years ago, to build the new store one block away. The newspaper editorial called City Council's support of the Rite Aid move "an unconscionable sellout to selfish corporate interests." The Blade called Rite Aid's open and shut maneuvering "a common ailment in Toledo these days…in the so-called drug store wars: tear down buildings of value and character, and replace them with bland, concrete block emporiums that look just like the one down the street."
The Mayor protested that if the City Council voted to allow the Rite Aid move, he would veto it and wait for "development that was more people-friendly". When the Council approved the plan 10-2 in early December, including a plan to sell city land to Rite Aid for their parking lot, the Mayor said: "The big money of Rite Aid bought this vote, and that is shameful."
On December 5, the Mayor used his veto power to turn aside the City Council vote. But on December 9, the Council voted again to override the Mayor's veto, and pave the way for building demolition.
One City Councilor, who voted against Rite Aid replied: "I fear that when this drugstore war is over, we are going to be left with a number of these huge, box-style buildings…Rite Aid does not have a feel for the neighborhoods. Their bottom line is the only thing they're concerned with…".
Most recently, the Mayor tried to get the City Council to support a 60 day moratorium on the issuance of any demolition permits.
"It is shortsighted to tear down buildings for these box-like structures," the Mayor protested.
A writer for the Toledo Blade concluded: "Why to Toledoans confuse new construction with progress? Why do we find satisfaction in an overly franchised landscape that looks like anywhere else?" In Toledo, it looks like the piranhas are too busy chewing up neighborhoods to notice the opposition.
What you can do: We have documented at least half a dozen or more locations recently where Rite Aid proposed the demolition of older, sometimes historic buildings, in order to build their prototype 11,000 s.f. box, complete with drive thru. A Rite Aid official told people in Toledo why this was happening: "You have the advent of managed care," explained Billtitelman, a Rite Aid VP, "which overlays the whole picture here, which forces down profit margins at pharmacies, requiring a larger front end to make the thing profitable."
In other words, the profit margin on drugs is not great enough for Rite Aid, so they have to build bigger stores with more non-drug "front end' products. This is being done for the convenience of the company, not for the customer. It's all profit-driven, not need driven.


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- By Gretchen PetersGretchen Peters is a former ABC News reporter for Pakistan and Afghanistan. She authored the forthcoming book, Seeds of Terror (New York: St. Martin's Press), which probes links between the opium trade and insurgency.
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In June, I met with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to discuss how the drug trade benefits the Afghan Taliban. I urged him to pay close attention to the two history chapters of my book, Seeds of Terror, warning that Washington has a habit of making the same mistakes over and over in Afghanistan.
He assured me the Obama team had consulted with a raft of experts and historians, adding with a laugh: "We plan to make new mistakes."
I am not entirely sure, however.
Broadly speaking, the Obama administration's counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan is a huge step in the right direction. Thousands more western troops have poured into the Taliban-dominated southern poppy belt to provide security, and to train local security forces or replace those who were themselves tied to the drug trade. Efforts have intensified to interdict drug traffickers, destroy opium stockpiles and confiscate precursor chemicals. The Good Performance Initiative, co-funded with the UK, provides development assistance to communities that eliminate or significantly reduce narcotics cultivation. And there is greater focus on helping farmers find viable alternative crops to poppy and cannabis.
There is no doubt the Bush administration's proposal to launch a wide-scale aerial spraying campaign to wipe out Afghanistan's poppy fields was wildly misguided. It would have not only created a humanitarian disaster, and sent tens of thousands of poor villagers running to the arms of the insurgents, it would have actually benefitted the Taliban, drug traffickers and corrupt officials by driving up the farm-gate price of opium poppy.
Recent ground eradication efforts also were a costly flop. As Ambassador Holbrooke himself explained, they were wildly expensive — estimated to cost as much as $44,000 a hectare — and dangerous for the local eradicators, who died by the dozens in attacks by the Taliban and traffickers. Meanwhile, wealthy landowners and the politically well connected were able to bribe eradication teams not to cut down their poppy fields, meaning poor farmers became the predominant targets.
Ambassador Holbrooke is wise to phase out the misguided Bush-era eradication policy, however stopping eradication entirely would also be a mistake.
Counternarcotics strategy is like a four-legged table, supported by interdiction, alternative livelihoods, public education and eradication. Just as a table will wobble if its legs are uneven, there must be balance between the four pillars for a counternarcotics strategy to succeed.
It's the basic carrot and stick approach: Raise incentives for people to function within the law, while simultaneously raising the risks of operating outside of it.
If you remove the threat of the stick, the strategy fails. It's not a matter of being tough, but persistent.
I don't expect a need for wide-scale eradication in Afghanistan. According to my research and a separate survey by the Asia Foundation, more than 80 percent of Afghans oppose poppy cultivation, meaning that the majority of poppy farmers will switch to other crops without complaint once security, trade and market conditions allow it.
Ironically, it will probably be large landowners who will be most resistant to change. Those who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars each year off this lucrative cash crop will likely respond only when the level of risk for doing so is elevated.
The British funded a carrot-only approach in 2002, offering to pay farmers not to harvest opium. It was hastily cancelled a year later, after drug cultivation spread to new regions and thousands more Afghan farmers planted poppy just to get their hands on the easy cash. Now that failed policy is again being promoted in some Washington circles.
U.S. policy has typically swung like a pendulum with regards to the opium trade in Afghanistan, ranging from ignore it, to destroy it, to throw money at it.
But just as there are a variety of circumstances that induce Afghan farmers to plant opium poppy, it will take a blend of policies to get them to stop.
The Obama administration and Ambassador Holbrooke have taken important steps towards a coherent counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan. But if they want to avoid the mistakes of history, they should seek a balanced approach, and avoid the pitfalls of simply doing the opposite of those who came before them.
Gretchen Peters is the author of Seeds of Terror, How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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On the morning of April 6, the Smith-Cotton JROTC Drill Team competed in Louisville, Ky., at the second annual Army JROTC Drill Team National Championship. Drill teams from across the nation competed and the Smith-Cotton Drill Team received the national champion runner-up trophy.
On competition day, at least 2,200 cadets from 66 schools and 22 states, including one from Hawaii, vied for success. The Smith-Cotton Armed and Unarmed drill teams held their own against perennial drill powerhouses such as Douglas McArthur High School (Texas), Francis Lewis High School (New York), and James Madison High School (Texas).
�The Armed Drill Team performed well in every category, including a nearly flawless performance in Armed Regulation.
Just before the performance the team commander, Cadet Rachael DeMent, told the judge, �Are you ready for a show?�
The judge responded by saying, �It will be hard to beat the last performance.�
Cadet DeMent replied, �You haven�t seen us yet!�
Their performance earned the Armed Regulation Team a second-place trophy, and helped propel them to an eighth-place finish overall.
The Unarmed Drill Team performed exceptionally well in each of their events. Smith-Cotton received the unarmed exhibition first-place trophy. Very strong performances in the other events contributed to Smith-Cotton JROTC being named the national champion runner-up team.
Armed Team Exhibition Commander and senior 1st Sgt. Blake Kramer was very pleased with the teams� performances. He has been dedicated to the drill team for four years and has been very glad to have been able to lead, train and mentor the younger cadets to follow in his footsteps.
�I know that the drill team will be left in good hands after graduation,� he said, �and I hope that I have been able to make a positive difference in at least one cadet.�
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ADRIAN, Mich. – After seeing two big innings from Davenport send Cornerstone to a defeat in their conference tournament opener, the Golden Eagles fell victim to another big frame from Aquinas as they saw their 2015 campaign come to a close with a 9-2 loss to the Saints. AQ plated six un-earned runs in the sixth inning to conclude the Cornerstone season with a 26-31 overall record.
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"I felt like, for the first time in six months, which seemed like the longest I've ever been away from my dad," recalled Stansell's daughter Lauren, who was 14 at the time of his capture. "He was right there where I could touch him."
But just as suddenly, they were gone. The three men, fathers, husbands each, melted back into the jungles at gunpoint. They spent months, and years, moving from one prison camp to another. At one of those camps, there was a small gesture of kindness from one of their ruthless kidnappers. They got access to a transistor radio to share, a tiny treasure that became a lifeline to the outside world.
Nine months into their captivity, the men were moved to a new camp, which held Ingrid Betancourt.
It was apparent to the hostages that Betancourt held great authority, even while in captivity. According to the Americans, she helped dictate everything from where hostages were kept to when they bathed.
Whereas Gonsalves had a close relationship with Betancourt, Stansell's relationship with her was the opposite.
"Ingrid Betancourt, to me, is the most disgusting human being I've ever encountered," Stansell told "20/20."
Asked to elaborate, Stansell recalled the time when the FARC told them to split two cans of tuna fish among 10 hostages.
"We only have enough food for two spoonfuls apiece. And she just says, 'No, no, I need more,'" he said. "And so she took more tuna fish. And she believed -- because she was her --she deserved it."
Betancourt declined to be interviewed by "20/20."
Another Colombian hostage at the camp was Betancourt's campaign manager Clara Rojas. What happened to her in captivity haunted the other hostages.
Rojas had been kidnapped with Betancourt and was impregnated by a FARC guard. Although the FARC often forced female rebels to have abortions, Rojas was allowed to carry her baby to term only to endure unbelievable agony as she gave birth in the jungle.
"They put her on a table with basically an instruction booklet and a couple guys and put her under and just cut her open and took the baby out," Stansell said.
The baby's arm was broken in the process, but Rojas miraculously survived. She was eventually permitted to see her baby for only 45 minutes a day. Her story, however, did have a happy ending. She was released by the FARC in early 2008 after six years in captivity and reunited with her now-healthy boy, Emanuel.
There are so many hostages in Colombia that radio stations there devote time for people to talk to their family members locked up in the jungle. Soon, the three men were spending hours clustered around the radio, hoping to hear even a short message sent by telephone from home.
"It opens up a valve and your emotions spill out," said Gonsalves.
"The radio for us was a way to stay attached to the world, to humanity," added Stansell. "And to hear any news about our children, you know, was incredible."
Stansell was thrilled to hear from his kids, but when he finally got a message from his fiancée Malia, he realized something had changed. She didn't say "I love you."
As months turned into years, Gonsalves and Howes also felt their bonds with their wives slipping away, but the radio also brought the renewal of a relationship, in the voice of a woman Stansell never expected to hear from again.


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Dear Gossips,
Universal announced yesterday that By The Sea, written and directed by Angelina Jolie, starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, will be released November 13. November is definitely not January. Or February. November is an award season sweet spot. November means the studio might have some award season plans. November also means By The Sea could hit the festival circuit. That means Venice. And/or, hopefully, TIFF. God, please let it be TIFF.
The Jolie also added a statement along with the date confirmation:
"This is a story about a relationship derailed by loss, the tenacity of love, and the path to recovery and acceptance. It has been a privilege to explore these universal human experiences with such a generous and talented cast and crew."
I was initially thinking that she'd take her film to Cannes because the Brange in Cannes has always never disappointed. Read Full Intro
The two Maxes
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Tom Hardy at the Mad Max: Fury Road premiere last night. Yeah. He looked hot. Intense, as always, which is part of it, I think. It's not like you're always citing his smile as his best feature. So Tom Hardy is the new Mad Max. The original Mad Max, as you know, is Mel Gibson who made a surprise appearance and they posed together with director George Miller. Full Story
Scott Eastwood wants you to know…
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That he's on the cover of Men's Fitness. But, like, he didn't want to be too obvious about it. So he posted this on Instagram: Moment of extreme embarrassment. When men's fitness didn't send me a copy of the cover I was on. So had to buy it at store. This lady didn't even notice. Lol. #buyingmycover #blushing #mensfitness #goodtimes photo cred @adamrbeach Full Story
George Clooney talks about Amal and his birthday
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Tomorrowland comes out on May 22. George Clooney is now promoting the movie. Here he is at Jimmy Kimmel yesterday. And there are also interviews with Extra and Entertainment Tonight. As expected, he's asked about his birthday (Wednesday), which is why, well, he looks rough. Like really, really tired. Full Story
Joss Whedon quits Twitter, world implodes
On Monday, Joss Whedon quit Twitter. I assumed it was because with Avengers: Age of Ultron open in all the theaters everywhere, he was finally done promoting it and so he deleted his Twitter page, which was started two years ago to promote a movie. I didn't think much of it at first, but by the end of the day the internet was going nuts, saying that Whedon didn't quit, he was run out of electrical town on rails by a horde of rage-feminists who were mad at him for something about the Black Widow. Full Story
"The Thinking Man's Blake Lively"
Louisa forwarded me the New York Times profile on Alicia Vikander the other day highlighting this part in the piece: "Whether the MoMA show, "This Is for Everyone," was in fact her choice or that of her ever-present handlers, who seemed intent on positioning Ms. Full Story
Hey y'all, Draper James is here
Reese Witherspoon's lifestyle site, Draper James has been gestating for about a year, and a few days ago I mentioned an uptick in social media activity. Now, in the midst of promoting her new movie, Hot Pursuit, it has launched. So what's the deal, y'all? Well, it's hard to talk about Draper James without mentioning Goop, the OG celebrity lifestyle site, and Preserve, Blake Lively's plucky attempt at making each house a mason jar-filled home. Full Story
The last few days of Leo
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As you know, Leonardo DiCaprio was in Milan last Thursday for Mr Armani's 40th anniversary party. Click here for a refresher. Two days after that he was in Vegas on Saturday night for the fight. Leo was that guy who watched the event through his phone. Full Story
Amy Adams's wedding weekend?
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Amy Adams hit the gym yesterday before heading out for dinner with her partner Darren Le Gallo and their daughter. They've been together 14 years. Page Six reported earlier this week that they're getting married this weekend in LA. It'll be a small affair, not a Hollywood blowout. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
As we get closer to the MET Gala on Monday, I have a question for you. You remember what happened at the MET Gala last year, right?
It was The Elevator.
The Elevator was probably THE biggest gossip story of 2014. So far, Beyonce and JayZ do not appear on any leaked attendees lists for the MET Gala. What's your prediction then? Do Beyonce and JayZ return to the MET Gala? Or do they skip it for a year, put some distance between themselves and the scandal. Because if they show up, everyone's going to bring it up.
Or maybe they DO come. Defiantly. On several counts. Because Jay's been playing defence on the Tidal situation lately too. Maybe they even come WITH Solange. Like, you can't touch us, you can't bring us down. Can you see it? I can't decide. Read Full Intro
Who's undercover?
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Earlier I posted photos of Tina Turner and Tom Cruise in Milan for the Armani anniversary. Even Janet Jackson was photographed. And she's practically a recluse these days. So… tell me… Who do you think it is under this blanket? The person who can't just walk out of a hotel like all the others without looking like a f-cking asshole? The person who hates the attention but never hesitates to benefit from the attention. Full Story
Don't forget about Christian Grey
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Fifty Shades Of Grey was a smash hit at the box office. There should have been only good news coming out of its theatrical release. Except instead of positive headlines, all the focus was on the fact that they couldn't get their sh-t together for the sequel(s) because EL James is difficult to work with. Full Story
Outfit by George Clooney?
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Amal Clooney was in Washington, DC today. She called a press conference to advocate on behalf of Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives. She was there with Nasheed's wife Laila Ali. Just a regular day at work for a human rights lawyer who, apparently, needs help picking out her clothes. Full Story
G's Chicago wrap
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As mentioned yesterday (click here for a refresher), Gwyneth Paltrow is in Chicago for GOOP. There was a book signing. And I wanted to see the outfit. And there was a professional photographer there! It's a wrap dress. Wrap dresses are not my favourite for me. Full Story


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I decided to post a picture of my CAPped Elite Pro. Very nice racquet, both to look at and to play with...
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One of the best playing rackets, IMO
How was the CAPping experience? Did you have adjust the grommets to CAP it? I didn't but retrowagon recommends it. I still wonder how it works? :)
Tennis Man, I agree, it's a terrific racquet. According to my stringer the CAPping process went smoothly, so the answer is no adjustments.
For HEAD rackets made in the same era, the Elite Pro seems to be the rarest racket to acquire one these days.
Yeah, I love the PT600, PC600 and PT630s, but this is one sweet stick. I guess availability today reflects sales back in the day. How was it positioned price wise compared to other racquets at the time?
I ought to bring them all to the court at the same time to compare them properly. This is from memory only.
They compare favorably, I think, with the Head Graphite Pro of the same vintage in terms of stiffness, feel, comfort, and stability, but are more manoeuverable and do cut through the air more quickly. On the serve, they feel slightly more sword-like and a good player can use that extra degree of deftness to more easily make minute adjustments on the serve while in motion. The 1988 EP is less stiff and slightly more head-light than the concurrent Prestige Pro or the later PC600 (before HEAD lightened that frame up). It does have a softer feel overall than the Prestige mids (with the same 18x20 pattern) of various years. I played the PT600 for a little while, hoping that that model might replicate the feel of the 1988 EP, but by comparison that model felt sluggish and mushy. I later tried the PC600 for a couple years, but by comparison, it felt harsher and had far less ball feel.
HEAD (Austria) only made this model for one year, 1988. In 1989, it was replaced by a model of the same name, but vastly different "widebody" mold. Wilson had caught HEAD unaware with their marketing of the Kuebler-designed "Profile" frames the year prior, which sparked the Widebody craze and effectively killed traditional high-performance racquets (at least in the lucrative US market). Hence, the green/black Elite Pro "thinbeam" is extremely rare today.
The original white grommets and half-CAP bumper also were prone to brittleness and disintegration within two or three years of new. I retrofitted black full-CAPS (the TK52a from the iPrestige Mid, in my case, although any full-CAP TK52 variant can fit) in two different formats: trimmed (to match the original half-CAP dimensions of the original configuration of the frame), and full-length. There is a "notch" on the frame's mould where the half-CAP would end (at roughly 10 and 2 o'clock positions), and the beam beneath was bulked up slightly to make the frame smoother looking. The original Prestige Pro and subsequent Prestige Mids - all fitted with full-length CAPS - did not have the "notch." The only other HEAD frame to have the half-CAP and the "notch" was the 1988 Elektra Pro (the more flexible sister to the Elite Pro). I discovered when stringing up a full-length CAP on the Elite Pro that the CAP puckers in to the deeper groove in areas below the 10 and 2 o'clock positions, making it extremely tough to pull string. It also looks a bit odd. Since I like the original weight and balance of the stock EP, I trim my new full CAPS down to half-CAP size when retrofitting them.
The frames themselves are a bit on the fragile side. One good throw down on the top of the hoop is enough for a fatal cracking - unfortunately as a hot-headed player back when these were readily available, I killed roughly half a dozen of them in this fashion, regretted now... Also, as with other "thinbeam" HEAD models, care must be taken when stringing, as the shape of the head can deform if strung hybrid or with varying tension between mains and crosses. Really, this is the kind of a frame that begs for a full multi or natural gut bed, and rewards the user.
A special frame!
(Quick Prestige/Elite memory: Recall hitting up a Raleigh-Durham area Sports Unlimited store during summer '90 where they had literally RACKS of unsold Prestiges and Elites for $99/each. I mean RACKS! People were sleeping on these models because you had to follow the pro game avidly to know that every male Head pro was using the PP 600 then. Bought 2 US-made PP there - just a bananas, rubber-core-like feel! Later saw similar deals that same summer in a couple places in CA. No doubt, summer '90 was THE TIME to stock up on those models, as Head's adverting for them a year or two before didn't match up with the amount of product it put out to stores hence vast unsold backlogs.)
^ Good post. In 1988, it seemed like absolutely nobody (at least in the USA) was interested in what HEAD was selling, so popular were the original Wilson Profile widebodies. All the HEAD touring pros were either using the Graphite Pro (notably Dave Wheaton), or the Prestige Pro (i.e., the Sanchez bros. and many other Euro professionals). Tim Mayotte was the odd man out with the Graphite Master he was using. The only HEAD pro I recall using the 1988 Elite Pro was Conchita Martinez.
I do recall seeing racks of 1988 Elite and Elektra Pros for sale in Northern Calfornia Copeland's Sports chain stores, circa 1990-1991. I also found a small horde of dusty 1988 Elektra Pros at a small mom & pop sporting goods store (mostly ski stuff) in Turlock, CA circa 1998! I checked back there last year, but alas, they were gone.
Unfortunately, I can't confirm. I have just one of them in near mint condition and I haven't strung it yet.
I bought grap master and saw white txp with black cap, many of it unsold , must be too small head size, look at Prince, only couple frames left
Thank you, all the posters in this thread! Very interesting stuff. This is these boards at its best; nice and knowledgeable people sharing info and comments about a common interest. Great! :)
(I felt a need to share this with you as there is so much negativity, locked threads and trolling around...)
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