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Best Tacky Overgrip
Wilson Pro overgrip was my favorite go to overgrip until early last year when they changed the formula and made it less durable thus my search begins to find a better grip.
The newly reformulate Wilson Pro overgrip lasts only half as long as the old one and they also raised their price. I really don't like how manufacturers give you less and hope you don't find out then follow that up by raising prices.
1. Original Wilson Pro Overgrip which is no longer being made. The grip lasted for at least a good 10 hours for me and offered the best tacky without hurting your hands.
2. Kirschbaum Touch - It offers a good amount of tack but durability is about the same as the current Wilson Pro overgrip. The biggest downside to this grip is there is a logo imprinted in the grip which could be an issue for some.
3. Mantis Comfort Grip - This offers a good amount of tack and has pretty good durability but this also has a logo on it which for some is a deal breaker.
4. Current Wilson Pro Overgrip - Has the same tack but the grip has poor durability. I notice the grip wrinkles when you wrap around the handle which didn't happen to the old Wilson Pro overgrip.
5. Technifibre ATP Pro Contact - This grip is really soft when you initially wrap it around your racquet and offers very comfortable feel and tack. Two hours of hitting and so far, the grip has stayed in tact and remains tacky. Will update on long term use and durability. This grip also has a logo on the grip though it isn't as obvious and you really don't feel it when you wrap your hands around the handle.
6. Volkl V-tac - I had high hopes for this grip but it turns out it's pretty bad if tack is what is needed. The grip shouldn't even be classified as a tacky grip and feels a bit slippery. Are you suppose to sweat to create tacky for those who mentioned that this is a good grip?
7. Volkl Super Grip II - Slightly better than V-tac but still doesn't offer that much tack.
Tried Pacific X Tack Pro? Don't remember if it has any logo, but has about the same tack and durability as Mantis Performa Tac and Gamma Supreme. Of these three I would say Mantis is the thinnest and Gamma the thickest.
Most people swear by Yonex Super Grap. Haven't tried it myself, but I will soon. Currently using Wilson Pro.
Try volk supergrap. It is very durable. I used to use Wilson pro but it only lasted a few days. This volk overgrip has the same tack for at least 12 hours and then it doesn't rip either so you can play with it for a while.
I've always liked tournagrip XL. I have used it on every racket since 2001 pretty much. Personally, I dislike tacky overgrips. But the best one that I've heard of is the Yonex Super Grap.
Yonex Super Grap in white. About a year-18 months ago they supposedly changed their 'formula' & it wasn't as tacky but I guess they've corrected that because I have no issues with it. Nothing compares, although I've noticed white Tournagrip actually is pretty decent. A student of mine has it on 1 of his racquets & it was terrific. Stay away from Volkl grips, they aren't even close to being durable or tacky & shred in your hands.
What is the deal with the Wilson Pro's tack lasting about 2 hours? It's incredible how quickly it goes.
Yonex supergrap is my favorite, followed by volkl supergrip or vtac.
I've come to believe that the best overgrip for humid climate is tournagrip...after the first use here in Taiwan...best grip and doesn't slip.
been using pro supex grip for a long time. Extremely tacky and durable/thick. Is there anything similar available at Tenniswarehouse?
Toalson neo quick is extremely tacky and very durable and is my first recommendation, followed by original gamma supreme from the ones I've tried. If you wan't tacky, try these.
If you like less tackiness (like the wilson pro), take a look at the yonex or volkl. I don't like the wilson pro much, because it loses tackiness so quickly the feel is constantly changing. I don't know how durable it is, because it becomes so slippery for me in a couple of hours I want to change it.
Volkl supergrip II is great alternative that I've been using lately. In the beginning it's a bit less tacky, it feels like a 15min used wilson but keeps that for hours where the wilson will continue to lose tackiness. To me it lasts a lot longer and is a lot more consistent in feel compared to wilson pro.
The tecnifibre pro contact is way better than the tecnifibre pro players overgrip. i got about 10 mins outta the pro players one before it was slipping outta my hand.
i used a solinco wonder overgrip when the brand was first getting big. i remember it bein pretty good. similar to the wilson pro. might have to try it again cuz it was quite a while ago.
my regular grip has been the super grap but been thinkin about switchin it up cuz they raised the price on those too.
anyone tried the genesis grips?
edit: i must be losing my mind cuz i just looked at the yonex grips and they're the same price they've been for a while. i was thinking they were like 5.50 for 3 or something like that
I just purchased some new grips and added my review of the Volkl products. am disappointed in what they offer and will end up using them to build up my grip size.
So far I still think Wilson Pro Overgrip offers the best tack without lost of feel but durability is just awful on the new ones.
if you can get your hands on white toalson ultra grips, they are by far the tackiest i've ever used. I've tried supergraps, pro OGs, tourna tac, none have come close to its tackiness, or its durability. it retains it's tackiness incredibly well too.
i live in Singapore which is a very humid country.
Hi Parasailing,
My vote is for best tack is Yonex SuperGrap. IMO, there are dozens of OGs with similar tack when they are dry, but many of those are a complete disaster under hot and humid conditions. There are quite a few new OGs on the market in the last couple of years, but I've posted some old polls if anybody wants to take quick look around. In the "best overall" competition, it's basically been a shootout btwn Wilson Pro, SuperGrap and good old Tourna for the last 5-10 years, with some of the newest OGs starting to draw favorable attention.
Tackiest OverGrip
Tackiest OverGrip, TW Poll : 2006, January
Tackiest OverGrip, TW Poll : 2006, August
Tackiest OverGrip, TW Poll : 2008, December
Tackiest OverGrip, TW Poll : 2011, September
Best OverGrip
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2006, August
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2006, November
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2007, May
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2008, December
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2008, July
Best Overgrip, TW Poll : 2009, January
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2009, May
Best Overgrip, TW Poll : 2009, June
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2009, August
Best OverGrip, TW Poll : 2011, June
I love how the Wilson Pro feels but now it only lasts about 1 or 2 sessions tops while the older ones you could easily get 4 to 5 sessions. I have tried the Yonex in the past and though they are tacky, they didn't have the feel the Wilson one offers.
i find pro OGs and supergraps the tack tends to disappear and the grip starts to feel chalky very quickly. didn't like the feel of that at all..
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The Counter-Life
Philip Roth is a miracle of modern medicine. Physically, he's been falling apart since the 1960s, when he collapsed at the publication party for William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and was sped into surgery for appendicitis, only to have doctors discover his stomach drowning in pus. "They stick tubes into him from top to bottom and for days he wallows in delirium," Albert Goldman recorded in his 1969 Life profile of Roth. "As he learned later, by the time they cut into him he was just two hours' walk from the grave--a shocking realization that flooded him with an awed feeling of pride and elation. He had wrestled the Malekhamoves--the angel of death--to a fall." But Malekhamoves kept coming back for more, and in the 1980s and '90s Roth took punches to the system--a nervous breakdown, an addiction to painkillers following a failed knee operation, bouts of depression, acute back pain, quintuple bypass surgery--that would have sent most men to the scrapheap. But Roth has proven as indestructible as Keith Richards, and less woozy. His writing betrays no signs of dotage, fatigue or midnight staggers; his brain still hums like a power plant; his raptor gaze remains as keen as ever. Roth's productivity over the past ten years has been phenomenal and shaming. Novel after novel fired like a series of torpedoes--Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral (which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997), I Married a Communist, The Human Stain, The Dying Animal and, now, The Plot Against America.
How has he been able to keep up this industrial output? By ruthlessly paring everything superfluous from his life, maintaining a pristine regimen in his own private Yaddo. For a New Yorker profile published in 2000, David Remnick made a pilgrimage to Roth's hideaway in rural Connecticut, a two-story clapboard house where the elusive prey lives alone, sets his own schedule and writes in a monkish cell of a studio without even a parakeet to distract him. The Cone of Silence descends and the hourless workday begins. "He stays out here all day and into the evening; no telephone, no fax. Nothing gets in." And yet, as I'm sure Remnick would agree, somehow everything does. Opting out, Roth has never been more plugged in. Unlike other writers who have thrown in their lot with the squirrels and berries, Roth hasn't gone spiritual-naturalist or solipsistic up there in Sleepy Hollow. Chosen isolation has paradoxically softened the armored egotism of much of his earlier work, fully liberating a social panoramist with Proustian recall. It's as if Roth U-Hauled the twentieth century with him up to the monastery, trying to make sense of it in light of contemporary madness.
Set in the 1940s, The Plot Against America is nevertheless pure now, the sword-flash ferocity of Sabbath's Theater, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain subsiding into deep foreboding, the taunting jack-o'-lantern grin of George W. Bush haunting the back of the mind as one consumes the pages. A cautionary tale about how easily the country could slide into fascism, slipping into it until the black waters bury our heads, the novel doesn't seem so much intricately plotted (though it is--at the end, too much so) as anxiously daydreamed into being. "Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear," strikes the opening chord of Roth's fictional childhood memoir, and in exhuming those memories The Plot Against America opens its own branch of The Twilight Zone, where everything seems familiar and humdrum on the surface, yet disquietingly off; the everyday normal has begun to warp. Even members of your own family cast a Gothic shadow.
1940. Like characters in a Neil Simon nostalgia play, Roth's autobiographical troupe--father, mother, older brother Sandy, cousin Alvin and young Phil--seem posed front and center against a slide-show backdrop of Americana. Fourth of July fireworks. Thanksgiving turkey. March of Dimes drives. The Pledge of Allegiance recited like a prayer. The Roths and their fellow Jews in Weequahic, New Jersey, feel safe and at home in their adopted land, their lives woven into the fabric of the flag, with the expectation of better days ahead after the long climb out of the Great Depression. "Then the Republicans nominated Lindbergh and everything changed." Charles Lindbergh, whose solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic to Paris in 1927 thrilled the world, becomes the surprise choice of the Republican Party to oppose the re-election of FDR. It isn't just his impressive lack of political experience--always an asset in this country--that makes him such an imposing challenger. For Lindbergh is more than a storybook hero, an American eagle in aviator goggles; he's a tragic hero, sanctified through suffering--invisibly scarred. The kidnapping-murder of the Lindbergh child imbued the father "with a pathos that transformed him into a martyred titan comparable to Lincoln." Fleeing a madhouse America, the grieving family decamps to England, where Lindbergh hops over to Nazi Germany to sample the hospitality of Air Marshal Göring, who honors him with a gold cross adorned with four swastikas. Such hobnobbing understandably unnerves most American Jews, and Lindbergh's testimonial to Hitler as "a great man" doesn't help.
But to most folks "Lucky Lindy" is a savior from above, piloting solo to and from campaign stops like Superman on his appointed rounds. (The descriptions of Lindbergh's sky-visitations recall Hitler's descent into Berlin in the visual overture to Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will.) Unlike most office-seekers, Lindbergh doesn't gasbag and gladhand. He's a laconic plank of Rugged Individualism, a Gary Cooperish man of few words upon whom hopes and subtle graces are projected. Surely no one who so looks the role of hero could do harm. He presents himself as a father-protector, a knightly shield between us and Them. A staunch isolationist, Lindbergh promises to forge an understanding with Nazi Germany to prevent the United States from being sucked into another ghastly war in Europe, sparing America untold carnage. The price of neutrality is giving Nazi Germany a green light to gobble whatever it can of the free world and unleash the mother of all pogroms.
Practically a separate character in The Plot Against America, an honorary member of the household, is the radio that anchors the living room. A master mimic, Roth has been entranced by the radio since baby teeth. In Albert Goldman's profile of him, "radio" is the open-sesame word that unlocks his impressionist id, which gets him riffing the voices from The Jack Benny Show--"smoothie Jack, fruity Dennis"--and goofing about a Jewish version of Jean Genet's The Balcony called The Terrace, about a brothel catering to nice Jewish boys that sprinkles their tushies before dressing them for dreamland in their Dr. Dentons. "Tucked into your bed, you fall asleep blissfully listening to a little radio with an orange dial. 'Wake up, dear, it's time to get up.' For that, Philip says, he'd gladly pay $50 a night." In The Plot Against America, the radio doesn't doodle away the cares of the day with the light jousting of Jack Benny and Fred Allen. It delivers a nightly diet of bad news for Jews. Families gather around the set to listen to the latest bulletins and take turns tearing out their hair. Lindbergh's acceptance speech at the Republican convention drives the Roths out of the house and into the night to vent with the neighbors.
Entire families known to me previously only fully dressed in daytime clothing were wearing pajamas and nightdresses under their bathrobes and milling around in their slippers at dawn as if driven from their homes by an earthquake. But what shocked a child most was the anger, the anger of men whom I knew as lighthearted kibbitzers or silent, dutiful breadwinners who all day long unclogged drainpipes or serviced furnaces or sold apples by the pound and then in the evening looked at the paper and listened to the radio and fell asleep in the living room chair, plain people who happened to be Jews now storming about the street and cursing with no concern for propriety, abruptly thrust back into the miserable struggle from which they had believed their families extricated by the providential migration of the generation before.


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I awoke at approximately 5:45 in the morning with some difficulty. I'd had restless nights before but for some reason this one appeared to be more restless than all the others, perhaps because I had drunk about three cups of coffee before I went to bed and any time I drink coffee I get the jitters which as a result, prevents me from sleeping. It isn't just if I drink coffee before bed it's really any time of the day. I suppose I should just lay off coffee but I've been told that it's an addiction although I don't like to buy into any of that bull. I just love coffee. The taste of it in your mouth, the amazing aroma that kidnaps your nose in the morning. It is truly one of life's little sensations. The only thing I don't like about coffee is that I always have to wait to savour it. I don't know anyone who can pour coffee at just the right temperature and nor does anyone think I can either, I've also been told. The thing is, even though I hadn't slept all night I was still going to have some coffee this morning because I need it to wake up and a cup of caffeine will probably just lead to another sleepless night but I'm used to that at this time in my life so I guess I can just forget about it and start enjoying even though I know I will never enjoy it like most people do.
I suppose the thing I miss the most about not sleeping is the dreams. You cannot dream without sleep, at least, I'm not aware of any other way although there is this one kid, Harry Denton, who once told me that if I go into a forest and look for funny coloured mushrooms and then proceed to harvest them, eventually consuming them then I would apparently dream whilst being fully aware of my sorroundings. I told him that he needed a haircut but I'm still curious so I may try it some day even though I know that sleeping when you are awake could never be as fulfilling as dreaming when you aren't because you won't have the reassurance that you will wake up if it develops into a nightmare. I miss dreams because I believe they open your mind to great ideas, they fill the mind with an extravagant sense of surrealism and they can be a delightful topic to share with acquaintances throughout the day if you are lucky enough to remember one, which I used to all the time although not lately because I haven't been sleeping – due to guzzling coffee like a vacuum cleaner and also because my mattress is lumpy. My mattress is extremely uncomfortable and I suppose even if I did get a dose of good sleep for one night, my back would pay for it the next day. I suppose that is just one of god's little ways, assuming there is one. Sleep a few hours but have a posture like the Hunchback of Notre Dame the rest of your life. And to be honest, that doesn't seem like a fair trade so I guess I am happy enough with sleepless nights.
Anyway I decided to get up. It was a big day, at least everyone kept telling me it was a big day but I just don't know why. It's just a new school year, it will be the same as last year, and the year before, and the year before that... you get the picture, it's all petty monotonous, at least I think it is but apparently no one else does and don't ask me why because I am absolutely lost on that one. It's not like I hate school, I excel thoroughly at it, but not because I want to, simply because I have too. It is just one of those things everyone has to do at least once in their life for a certain duration of time and because of that very reason I make it my mission to at least get something out of it.
I hopped of my bed which was situated quite high up in the air compared to the average bed. It didn't have a backboard and was just against the wall which I suppose is quite unorthodox but I never looked at it as a big problem because a backboard is just like a wall only somewhat smaller and your pillows just don't fit as well against them in contrast to a wall (depending on how big your pillow is – mines is quite big, cost my parents twenty quid at Ikea and it is dressed in a blue pillowcase with no designs). I walked over towards my light switch in complete darkness – well, obviously not complete darkness, otherwise I wouldn't be able to find the light switch because there would be no light to reflect off of it and project into my eyes but none the less it was still pretty dark and I struggled a little bit to hit the switch even though I managed eventually. I was suddenly struck with an extreme flash of light that almost blinded me in my sleepy state. The light was quite dull due to me having an environmentally friendly bulb that was cased inside a Chinese lantern. My eyes grew accustomed to the room and I went over to my desk on which sat; my television (quite small, only 22 inches but considering the size of my room it is quite complimentary), a set of cheap speakers which done the job, a pile of new school equipment (pens, pads etc.), my laptop (a pretty cheap acer I was happy enough with, I suppose I was just glad that it wasn't a Toshiba.) and finally a few books I had set aside for personal enjoyment. The walls in my room were smothered in a random assortment of posters, crudely stuck to the wall with swabs of blue tack that were quite clearly too big and I should have used smaller pieces because smaller pieces would have made less of a mark on my white painted walls. Quite a few of my posters had a habit of going doggy eared at the corners due to the blue tack being old and this made me extremely irate because I was constantly having to reattach them to the wall. I fell down to my knees and reached for the power switch under the desk, switching it on, powering everything that was plugged in to the extension lead on, but then I turned it off again, realising I was only going to use the television. I then proceeded to unplug every cord apart from my televisions and then toggled the power source back on again, this time only powering the TV.
The TV switched on and I got up and then fell into my desk chair, which was quite comfortable as swivel chairs go. It cost my parents fifty quid (they purchased it on the same trip they bought my pillow that sat on my bed). I grabbed the remote from a drawer that slid out quite stiffly from my desk and then I switched the television to the morning news and what I saw startled me but I guess It was coming eventually. A headline flashed across the bottom of the screen beneath two sad looking anchormen (one female, one male) The headline simply read: HUGE NEW VIRUS SPREADING ACROSS THE UK, TAKE ALL PRECAUTIONS, THOUSANDS ALREADY DEAD, A CURE IS TRYING TO BE WORKED OUT BY THE NATIONS' TOP SCIENTISTS.
I didn't know what to think for a minute. This is what the world deserves, I suppose. We as a society are constantly trying to progress, experimenting with diseases, desperately trying to cure viruses, always trying to reach the coveted goal of manufactured immortality. Then I thought that it would most likely just blow over, after all, swine flu was just here for a while and then it buggered off somewhere. I thought that it was probably just another epidemic blown way out of proportion by the maggots of the media but then I thought about the worst case scenario. What if it spreads throughout the whole country and everyone gets it? Even me. We would all die and the country would go into mass hysteria. I could just imagine the peril in a mother's eyes as she has to kill her own daughter simply because she might be a danger to her. The gruelling process of looking her in the eyes and telling her that you love her with all of your heart, telling her that there simply isn't any other way and that it isn't her fault. The split second when the shotgun blasts and her once innocent face is scattered all over your cashmere couch. The horrific task of picking up the pieces of your daughters body and burying it in the backyard somewhere, next to her favourite gerbil that died a year earlier due to the child hugging it just a little bit too hard. The regret that swims through your head causing you to blow your own head off several hours later because you can't cope any more and no one will mourn your loss because they are all too busy going through the same indiscretions in their own lives.
I thought about death for a moment and asked myself whether I was ready to face it. Was I really prepared to go? I was unsure and so I decided to ditch the whole idea and I switched the channel to some early morning cartoon that, after 10 minutes of viewing, I learned that it was apparently not OK to fart in public but rather only in the comfort of your own home and also that it is OK to share and love with someone who has farted in public (I disagreed). I decided that I have had enough involuntary education for one morning (until I got to school anyway), and so I decided that it was time to go and get dressed for school. My school uniform consisted off a pair of black trousers and black shoes (mines were polished to near perfection, I debated the day before whether they actually were perfect but then came to the pessimistic conclusion that nothing in this world we have created could possibly be perfect and so they are merely only near perfect), a white shirt, a navy jumper with blue stripes and a blue, green and navy tie. I didn't particularly like to wear a uniform, I felt too restricted. Sometimes I had these little panic attacks which I blamed on the uniform, not on my social ineptitude that everyone else said was the reason. The panic attacks happened often I supposed. I just don't cope well in normal situations. I'll give you an example. Most people would be able to look someone in the eyes when they are talking with them, but me? I look everywhere, I choose a point behind the person or just stare at the ground and If I do manage to look them in the eyes (very rarely) well then it just seems like I am staring straight into their souls trying to rip their spirit out and believe me, people don't like you looking at them like you want to gouge out their eyes from the sockets in which they are contained and play golf with them whilst using one of their legs, preferably the right, as a putter. At least not in my experience anyway. One kid, Gary Hutchinson who in my opinion, deserves to be put to death for reasons I prefer not to discuss, actually punched my nose because He thought I was coming on to him. The blood spurted like a sprinkler that day but I told him not to flatter himself and he just punched me again and this stopped the original blood but a new found blood mixed with snot leaked from my aching facial wound and I thought that I probably wouldn't have got punched twice if I just pretended to be a homosexual for a few seconds. That would have satisfied him.
I got up of off my chair and headed towards the door in my underpants, opening it and heading on to my stair landing. There were three bedrooms in my house (including mine), so the landing was quite narrow and it was fenced with a white painted banister than had flakes off corroded paint scraping off it making it look rather dingy. I headed towards the bathroom which was also on the 1st floor, right next to the three average sized bedrooms (which was handy when I needed to take a leak at night), and entered. I reached for the light switch, which was a pulley and I pulled it, too hard, in my opinion but alas I did not break it, much to my delight. To my right there was a little, hideously coloured green bath that was littered with scum around the edges, woodlice trying to crawl their way up it, next to a plughole that was filled with hairs although not clogged because the water still ran down it OK but it was probably only a matter of time before it actually did get clogged up and I was dreading the moment. At the end of the bath was a tall sink with a very similar description only the plughole of this was pretty clean, much to my surprise. Above the sink was a long vertical ledge coming from the wall which held a lot of hygiene products and a few old toothbrushes that needed replacing as the bristles were all worn down and there were bits of dried toothpaste that we impossible to scrub off. Facing the bath, on the wall to the left off it was a mirror hanging from an old rusty nail and it was cracked in the top left corner a little bit but I suppose it worked well enough as I could see myself. And what I saw I suppose I was happy enough with. I had long, thick hair, down to my waist that was of a brownish blonde colour and most people deemed it to be quite abnormal for a male but I felt comfortable with it, very bright blue eyes ( I would have preferred green but I decided long ago that it was nothing to worry about although I still do worry about it quite a lot.) I preceded to examine my face in the mirror and I couldn't help but wonder how my skin was so horrifically bad. Well, that's an exaggeration but it isn't perfect even though I make a habit of cleaning my pillow cases 3 times a week, sleeping on my back, having a strict hygiene regime and generally being moderately healthy. I detested the fact that no matter how hard I tried it didn't really matter in the end because sooner or later we are all going to die.
Anyway, in the other corner of the bathroom was quite an old toilet that had a few flies hovering around them, most likely trying to savour the stench of a bowel movement someone had the night before. Maybe it was my excretion they were ecstatic over and I didn't understand why. I know they are flies but I couldn't even think of sniffing their excretion even for a second. In a moment of weakness I thought about it and then an unwelcome shiver ran down my spine faster than that black runner I saw in the Olympics and he was the fastest runner I had ever seen so you can imagine how fast this shiver was taking me but then it was gone perhaps even faster. The toilet seat of my morning throne was clean but the toilet bowl was a completely different story. It was stained quite heavily. My toilet had racing stripes of a disgusting variety but thought to myself that I would clean them when I get the time, or my mother would, or my father would, but my sisters would definitely not because they were the laziest sons of a guns I ever saw and I loathed them for that very reason even though they were my sisters so I almost had to like them to a certain degree.
There was a bug spray sitting on the tiled floor called 'Bug Zapper.' I couldn't help but think that even I could have came up with a better product name and that I had infinitely more intelligent than the creator of this 'Bug Zapper.' I even came up with a jingled in my head that would be in the commercial.
When you have a bug on your rug that just won't budge
then call this number and ask for Doug,
if he is not in then tough luck
because you are basically ….
I decided that my product would be called Doug's Bug Zapper because I couldn't think of anything more spectacular or anything that rhymes with Doug or Bug. After settling on that unsatisfactory name, even though it was still better than bug zapper because it had my name in it, I continued to commit genocide on this little tribe of flies that were homing around my toilet like Japanese Bombers until they all fell into the toilet, some stragglers landing on the seat. I then gathered some tissue roll from the little holster wherein it sat and then wiped their teeny tiny corpses into the bowl, to be flushed with their broken comrades but not before I took my morning dump.


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Here's what to look for when the conference semifinals of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs begin this week:
Vancouver Canucks vs. Nashville Predators
Strengths: Both teams enter this series on emotional highs. The Canucks finally eliminated their playoff nemesis, the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Predators have advanced to the second round for the first time in franchise history. The normally low-scoring Predators enter this round with the second-best playoff goals-per-game average. The Canucks have a better penalty kill and more offensive star power. Both teams possess solid goaltending and considerable blue-line depth.
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Weaknesses: The Predators lack big-name scorers and could find goals tougher to come by against a deeper Canucks defense. Both teams' starting goaltenders struggled in the first round. The Sedin twins struggled offensively in the final four games against Chicago.
Players to watch: Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo and Nashville netminder Pekka Rinne were Vezina trophy nominees this season, but both were shaky in the first round. Their teams' respective postseason hopes rest upon them regaining their Vezina-worthy form.
Who will win? The teams match up well in goal and on defense, but the Canucks' offensive depth should give them the edge. Canucks in six.
Detroit Red Wings vs. San Jose Sharks
Strengths: The Red Wings possess considerably more postseason experience, they had nearly two weeks to rest and Henrik Zetterberg is expected to return from a knee injury. The Sharks have played well in the clutch in the first round, with three of their four victories coming in overtime. Both clubs have considerable scoring depth. The Sharks could possess a mental edge over the Wings, having bested the latter in the playoffs last year.
Weaknesses: The Wings are older and more banged-up than the Sharks, which could become a factor if the series goes long. Both teams have been weak in the playoffs on the penalty kill. Sharks goalie Antti Niemi struggled in the first round against the Kings.
Players to watch: Detroit's two-way forward Pavel Datsyuk remains the linchpin of the Red Wings offense and defense. Sharks forward Ryane Clowe has emerged as his team's best player in the playoffs.
Who will win? This conference semifinal rematch should be a more evenly matched and a longer series than last season's five-game triumph by the Sharks, but the end result should still be the same for San Jose. Sharks in seven.
Boston Bruins vs. Philadelphia Flyers
Strengths: Bruins goalie and Vezina nominee Tim Thomas overcame a shaky start in the first round and was key to his club's seven-game victory over Montreal. The Flyers possess considerable offensive punch, led by Daniel Briere, Claude Giroux and the emerging James van Riemsdyk. Both clubs play a physical style with a nasty edge.
Weaknesses: The Flyers played musical goalies in the first round and appear to have lost faith in once-promising Sergei Bobrovsky and 2010 playoff hero Michael Leighton. The Bruins had the worst power play of the first round, failing to score with the man advantage. The Flyers' top regular-season goal-scorer, Jeff Carter, missed the last three games of the first round because of a knee injury. Defenseman Tomas Kaberle has failed to improve the Bruins' blue-line mobility.
Players to watch: Milan Lucic was the Bruins' leading goal-scorer in the regular season but has yet to tally in this year's postseason. Flyers veteran defenseman Chris Pronger recently returned from injury, and it will be interesting to see how long it takes him to round back into all-star form.
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Who will win? While the Bruins have a definite advantage between the pipes, the Flyers appear to have the edge in overall depth at forward and defense, plus a potential psychological edge from rallying back from an 0-3 deficit to upset the Bruins last spring. Flyers in seven.
Washington Capitals vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
Strengths: Both teams possess explosive offensive punch, with the Capitals led by the two Alexanders (Ovechin and Semin) and the Lightning by Martin St. Louis and Steven Stamkos. Both were also strong on the penalty kill in the first round, and the Lightning possessed the third-best power play. The goaltenders — Tampa Bay's Dwayne Roloson, Washington's Michal Neuvirth — performed very well in the first round.
Weaknesses: The Lightning gave up the second-most shots of all teams in the first round while generating the fewest. The Capitals are under considerable pressure to atone for their recent postseason failures, and, for the second straight year, they face an underdog with nothing to lose.
Players to watch: Stamkos has had a quiet playoff so far, generating points in only two of the seven games against Pittsburgh. Capitals star center Nicklas Backstrom was even more quiet, earning only an assist in five playoff games in the first round.
Who will win? No one should make the mistake of underestimating the Lightning, but the Capitals' improved two-way play, goaltending depth and determination to silence their critics and become a true Stanley Cup contender should carry them through to victory. Capitals in six.
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NCAA: SSC, Lyceum try to snap losing spell
SAN SEBASTIAN and Lyceum try to snap out of their losing skids when they collide today in the 89th NCAA basketball tournament at Filoil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
The Stags are hoping to avoid a third straight loss in the 4 p.m. clash with the Pirates who are also coming off one of their worst performances of the season.
Emilio Aguinaldo College seeks to nail back-to-back victories for the first time this season against a sputtering Arellano squad in the 6 p.m. game.
The Generals ended a five-game slide with an 83-76 triumph over Lyceum two weeks ago with Noube Happi finally imposing his will that brought back memories of his dominant performances last season.
The Chiefs, faltering down the stretch, dropped a 62-69 decision to St. Benilde last Monday for its third straight loss.
James Forrester continued to struggle, but coach Koy Banal finally unveiled AJ Serjue who had seven points in his first game after getting sidelined by knee injury last season.
Lyceum failed to breach the 50-point mark for the first time this season in a 49-61 loss to Jose Rizal U last Thursday.
With Dexter Zamora still serving a suspension, the Pirates struggled to get going offensively. Leading scorer Shane Ko (12 ppg) groped for form, going scoreless, but coach Bonnie Tan can take heart at Jeremiah Taladua's performance after the seldom used guard finished with 12 markers.
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Quip is a modern word processor for mobile and desktop. Videep Vijay Kumar tells us about the app's advantages and uses
If you've never thought of your phone or tablet as an effective device for creating and sharing documents, think again, because, Quip, a cross-platform word processor and collaborative tool, aims to redefine mobile productivity as we know it. Created by former Facebook and Google veterans Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs, Quip will attempt to take advantage of the several hours people spend staring at their mobile devices (often rather pointlessly) every day, with the aim of converting at least a few minutes into productive ones. I can tell you that it's already succeeded, because the first paragraph of this article was typed entirely on the app on a mobile device running iOS.
But Quip is not just a glorified Notes app. Its feature set includes real-time collaborative editing, a cross-platform instant messaging tool, offline editing, folders, checklists, live tracking of document edits via a news feed (called "Diffs"), tagging users using @mentions (like Twitter), push notifications for alerts and read-receipts. On the desktop version of Quip, you can download your documents in PDF format or print them directly. You can also format your documents (basic formatting — nothing fancy), and insert images/tables into them as well. While the feature set isn't exhaustive by word processor standards, there's enough here for everyone who is looking for an app to do the basics on the go. The best part? Quip's "basic" version is entirely free — download the app on iPhone or iPad (an Android release isn't too far away), create an account, and you're set. If you're a business user, Quip "Business" will allow collaboration for up to 250 different users on your company's domain for $12 a month per user. Complementing the portable versions of the app is the desktop version. Using your Quip credentials, you can log in to your account on quip.com and continue working on the same document you created only a few minutes earlier on your iPhone thanks to the power of the cloud.
The key feature, without doubt, is collaboration. You can share documents with anyone on your contact list (on phone and tablet — you can also invite users to join Quip via e-mail), choosing to send them either an e-mail or text message alert — enable push notifications and Quip will let you know when someone sends you a message, shares a document with you or makes an edit. "Diffs" are a neat addition as well — they're the equivalent of tracking changes made to a document (as seen on MS Word or Google Docs), with the app highlighting additions made in green and deletions in red. Quip's visual cues do a great job of showing you just the right amount of information without clutter.
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Growth and cell cycle analysis following RNAi of Tb11.NT.29. (A)Tb11.NT.29 RNAi in procyclics (PC). Growth for un-induced (-tet) and induced cells (+tet) shown in log scale. The data are based on three independent experiments, and average values with standard deviations are presented. (B) Analysis of the K/N configurations after induction of Tb11.NT.29 RNAi in procyclic cells. Cells were scored as having one kinetoplast and one nucleus (1K1N), two kinetoplasts and one nucleus (2K1N), two kinetoplasts and two nuclei (2K2N), one kinetoplast and no nucleus (1K0N), one kinetoplast and two nuclei (1K2N) and more than two nuclei (>2 N). The data are based on three independent experiments and at each time point 1,000 cells were counted. (C) Accumulation of cells with altered morphology after induction of Tb11.NT.29 RNAi in procyclic cells. (D) Example images of a normal cell and cells with altered morphology. Images for DNA content (Hoechst) and DIC are displayed. At each time point 500 cells were counted. DIC, differential interference contrast.
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Police said the man, who had upper body trauma, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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How certain states' voting districts are gerrymandered into racially homogeneous zones and law suits challenging race-based legislation in the courts.
Neighborhoods matter because culture matters. Middle-class families have always known this, which is why so many parents move to the suburbs in pursuit of safer streets, better schools and shared values.
The American Friends Service Committee has been hijacked by radicals. In an essay regarding the ongoing violence in Baltimore, the group comes perilously close not only to rationalizing but also excusing violence.
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In greater Tibet, Dalai Lama's light burns bright
By Ben Blanchard
KUMBUM MONASTERY, China — Lit by flickering, sallow yak butter candles sits a small picture of a man despised in Beijing as leader of a splittist independence movement but admired by millions for his pacifism — the Dalai Lama.
And by Chinese law, it shouldn't be there, standing on an altar in a hall that's part of the Tibetan Buddhist Kumbum Monastery.
But nobody seems to mind too much, as the monastery is not in Tibet proper, but in greater Tibet — the remote, western Chinese province of Qinghai, known in Tibetan as Amdo.
"The monks all love him," shrugged tour guide Shi Beiting, a Chinese Muslim from the provincial capital, Xining, a half-hour drive up the road from Kumbum, known in Chinese as Taersi.
The framed photograph is all the more remarkable because the Nobel laureate is pictured in front of a Tibet independence flag.
Around the corner, in front of the main hall, an older monk from southeastern Qinghai, resplendent in vermilion and saffron robes, flags down a foreigner among the multitude of Chinese tourists.
Two minutes into the conversation, and after looking around to make sure no government officials are listening or spying on him, he quickly pulls down his shoulder sash to reveal a gold-colored badge of the Dalai Lama.
"It's no problem here," said the monk, who declined to give his name.
Situated hundreds of miles from Lhasa, Qinghai and parts of Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces that were historically part of the Himalayan region all enjoy greater religious freedoms than Tibet itself.
"It's less restricted in Amdo. Most of the pressure and the repression is focused on the Tibet Autonomous Region," said Yael Weisz-Rind of the Free Tibet Campaign.
"It's a symbolic issue," she said. "Many tourists who go to Tibet just go to Lhasa and Shigatse, so this is where they're trying to control any expression of independence or religious belief or national identity."
Ethnic Tibetans in Qinghai, who comprise a fifth or so of the 5 million population, remain fiercely loyal to the Dalai Lama, nearly half a century since he fled to India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
"Of course I have a picture of him at home," said Ganba, an old woman selling Tibetan prayer flags on a high mountain pass near Kumbum, her eyes lighting up when asked about the Dalai Lama. "He is our leader and always in our hearts."
A more controversial and touchy subject is the 11th Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's No. 2.
Pro-Tibet groups say Gendun Choekyi Nyima, 17, has been under house arrest since the Dalai Lama appointed him Panchen Lama in 1995.
The Dalai Lama's unilateral announcement embarrassed and enraged China's atheist communist leadership, who dropped Nyima's name from a shortlist of candidates and endorsed Gyaltsen Norbu as the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989.
China has condemned exiled Tibetans and international human rights watchdogs for calling Nyima the world's youngest political prisoner, saying their aim is to push for independence for the Himalayan region.
The sensitivity of the issue can be felt at the 10th Panchen Lama's birthplace, in Wendu, a three-hour drive south of Qinghai's provincial capital through a landscape of barren, red mountains and lush green valleys.
A monk shoos foreign visitors away from the 10th Panchen Lama's beautifully preserved, traditional Tibetan house, and local people are scared to discuss the matter.
"I can't say for certain who the real one is, but our country has laws," said Jikerdan, a day laborer. "I don't want to talk about it. There are spies."
Another monk, Ola Shige, from an eastern Qinghai monastery, was more subtle.
"It's hard to say who's the one," he said, fingering his prayer beads.
"But I think I know which one I'd support," he added with a sly smile.
Chinese tourists, who if born after the 1949 communist revolution generally know little about religion, express amazement at Tibetans' devotion to both the Dalai Lama and Buddhism.
"I don't know much about the Dalai Lama, but the Tibetans all seem really keen on him," said Liu Haiyang from the southwestern city of Chongqing. "They are a very pious people."
Not even the tour guides seem to know much about the Dalai Lama, whose name is usually only ever mentioned in China in vitriolic terms.
"That's the Dalai Lama," said one tour guide, leading a group of Chinese tourists all wearing the same red hats through the Kumbum Monastery, pointing to his picture. "He used to be in India but he's since moved to the United States."


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By Sean Ocampo: Pound for Pound King Manny Pacman Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO) successfully defended his WBO Welterweight Championship with a dominant twelve round decision victory over former IBF Welterweight Champion Joshua Grandmaster Clottey (35-4-0, 20 KO) of Accra, Ghana in front of a massive crowd of 50,994 at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The scores were 120-108, 119-109, and 119-109 all in favor of Pacquiao.
Pacquiaos work rate proved too much for Clottey for twelve rounds. Pacquiao landed 246 of 1,231 punches compared to Clotteys 108 of 399, according to CompuBox.
Pacquiao took advantage of Clotteys defensive style by ripping the Ghanaian with hard shots to the body. His sustained attack and blazing hand speed against Clottey was his key to this victory.
Clottey was on the defensive for twelve rounds by just keeping his guard high. His best round of the fight was the 6th round wherein caught Pacquiao with good counters to head and body. However, he never really got it going after that and was backed up by Pacquiao all throughout the rest of the fight.
The win over Clottey could probably set-up a match with the winner of the May 1st bout between undefeated boxing star Floyd Mayweather, Jr and WBA Welterweight Champion Sugar Shane Mosley later this year.
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aimeelove 7 years
I buy grass like that for my cat at petsmart (or petco..I always get those two confused!) Anyway, she really likes it.
dholmas 7 years
I grow grass for Kitty quite often. He loves it and thinks he is hiding behind it when my husband comes home. A thing the 2 of them play. LOL.
chatondeneige 7 years
I've tried this so many times with my kitties! They still won't eat fresh grasses or catnip. :(
lisafrank 7 years
I have allways wanted to try that, does anyone know if you can safely grow catnip?
omeletqueen 7 years
I buy wheat berries at the natural food store for pennies, grow it in dirt or even just a damp paper towel and voila! Grass. Miss Domino approves.
Quinn 7 years
I've been meaning to do that for a while so my orchids can get a break from being chewed up
beingtazim 7 years
this is a great idea and so cheap!! looks pretty too
lintacious 7 years
kiddy, i bought the sweetgrass so my cat would eat that, instead of the bad plants.
leahlarocco 7 years
$38???!!!! OMG, seriously. Go to a garden center and buy wheat grass seeds. They grow super fast and are incredibly cheap and pet edible.
emalove 7 years
I buy my cats the kitty grass they sell in pet stores sometimes...but this is so much cuter! I want it!
kiddylnd 7 years
I thought the first line was about my Cliff! He LOVES fries. Anyhow, my kitties, for as much as they love to munch on plants will NOT eat kitty grass. BOO! We can't keep any plants around at ALL. Don't even get me started on all the Poinsettias that folks give me at the Holidays! They are so lovely, but so deadly. Maybe I should keep Kitty Grass as a decorative plant since I can't have any others. :wink:
i-heart-monster 7 years
We have a seed cartridge that hooks onto the side of our Drinkwell pet fountain that grows the grass with no natural light at all, the movement of the water makes the grass grow - it's not as green as it would be if it were in a window sill, but our baby girls love it to pieces! I've often considered adding some in the window sill too, but I'm always afraid that the girls will knock it out of the window. Any tips for keeping it in and not coming home to a grand mess of dirt and roots and broken pot?
lintacious 7 years
I bought my cat some sweetgrass but we had it up with some other plants (because he was eating the other plants), and there was a lamp over them (not a lot of window light). well he jumped up on the table and burned himself from the light!! His fur was scorched but fortunately his skin was fine. He was just a bit traumatized. So I then moved the sweetgrass somewhere else. Just a heads up though!!
SummerBaby 7 years
aimeeb 7 years
My cats their own grass and love it!
millarci 7 years
Is there one for dogs?
Lovely_1 7 years
Yes, I really need to buy Baby Girls some grass to eat. Ugg this morning she was meowing liek crazy and pissed me off!!!


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CNN's results are roughly the same as two other recent polls: Rasmussen found that voters opposed Obama's policy 50% to 39%, and Pew found that voters opposed the policy 48% to 44%. A CBS/New York Times poll seems to be an outlier: It shows 61% of Americans support Obama's policy.
The Obama administration claims this policy will affect a trivial number of people, but the CNN poll found that 22% of American Catholics are morally opposed to the use of artificial birth control. That happens to be exactly the same percentage of Catholics who attend church weekly. But it really wouldn't matter if Obama were forcing a much smaller percentage of Americans to violate their consciences. As Ross Douthat wrote recently, "the argument that the state's interests can trump religious liberties so long as the group of people being asked to violate their consciences is small enough is not an argument at all. It's just a raw appeal to power."


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ESA sets its sights on harpooning space debris
By Darren Quick
June 25, 2014
In 2021, as part of its Clean Space Initiative, ESA plans to launch the e.DeOrbit mission. The aim of this mission is to clean up the important polar orbits between altitudes of 800 to 1,000 km (500 to 625 mil) that face the prospect of becoming unusable due to the increasing buildup of space debris. The ESA has now announced plans to examine the potential for the mission to use space harpoons to capture large items, such as derelict satellites and the upper stages of rockets.
The ESA has previously revealed it is considering a number of approaches to meet the challenge of capturing and securing space debris. These include snaring the debris in a net, securing it with clamping mechanisms, or grabbing hold of it using robotic arms. Another option is a tethered harpoon, which would pierce the debris with a high-energy impact before reeling it in.
Such an approach wouldn't be applicable for smaller debris, but is aimed at reeling in uncontrolled multitonne objects that threaten to fragment when colliding with other objects, resulting in debris clouds that would steadily increase in density due to the Kessler syndrome.
The ESA says the space harpoon concept has already undergone initial investigations by Airbus Defense and Space in Stevenage, UK, whose preliminary design incorporates a penetrating tip, crushable cartridge to help embed it in the target satellite structure and barbs to keep it sticking in so the satellite can then be reeled in.
The initial tests involved shooting a prototype harpoon into a satellite-like material to assess its penetration, the strength of the harpoon and tether as the target is reeled in, and the potential for the target to fragment, which would result in more debris that could threaten the e.DeOrbit satellite.
The ESA now plans to follow up these initial tests by building and testing a prototype "breadboard" version of the harpoon and its ejection system in the hope of adopting it for the e.DeOrbit mission. The project will examine the harpoon impact, target piercing and the reeling in of objects using computer models and experiments, ultimately leading up to a full hardware demonstration.
The space agency has put out the call for bidders to compete for the project contract.
Source: ESA
In theory once you harpoon a satellite and bring it to a much lower altitude you could use the tether to finish deorbiting the prey and fling the hunter back up to use an additional harpoon on further prey.Slowburn
And what happens after the satellite is captured?windykites1
The article doesn't say. I suspect that the capture craft would then have to deorbit itself and the captured sat which makes it a multi-billion dollar waste. If it can at least capture several large objects prior to deorbiting it might not be such a terrible waste.VirtualGathis
I expect the targets will be tumbling. What happens when you spear a big object tumbling? The deOrbit vehicle winds up (literally!) spinning on the end of its tether like the rock in David's sling. Now what? Maybe it's still possible to apply thrust, but I like to know how the developers intend to deal with the problem.piperTom
Instead of harpooning it, punch it out of orbit down toward the earth, let the denser air disintegrate them. If you miss, the shot would still direct earthward and also have to disintegrate.
Or maybe just the orbital tugboat approach, and nudge it towards a burn.
Either way your clean-up machine still needs to get up, and be able to move around, and maybe it can even feed off of the scrap.Bob Flint
How about micro-sats with a thick, sticky pad that can conform to the target? Give the micro-sats a control system with enough RCS fuel to aim and hold the target to point a small solid rocket motor retrograde.
Once the thing reaches the right point in orbit so it'll splash instead of crash, fire the rocket then wait.
Sticking it onto a point of balance so the rocket won't set it spinning would be a ahem sticking point.
An alternate method would be to have the sticky part on the end of a tether then unreel it prograde from the target so that when the rocket fires any twist of the target being pulled off center won't have much effect. A possible problem there would be ripping pieces off the target.
What has to be done is to just lower the perigee enough so that the atmosphere will finish the job of bringing the debris down.Gregg Eshelman
All that debris has kinetic energy. E= 0.5 m v^2 Why not harvest that too? Could speed up the catcher (higher orbit?)Rob Tillaart
@ Rob Tillaart Too avoid generating more pieces of debris you have to match the velocity of the piece you are capturing pretty closely so there won't be the energy differential to work with.Slowburn
Rather than sending stuff out of orbit piecemeal, keep the pieces together in a relatively more manageable aggregated unit that could then be de-orbited to a preassigned surface area. Should such an area be the Russian steppes, the Australian outback or USA desert, the salvage value would go considerably far in recouping the expense of the harvest. Incorporate a retro-rocket module with parachutes on a tether, and the hazard below would be diminished, not to mention how the debris could be inspected. The effort should pay off in research, that said debris would reveal the failures (or success) of the past. Beyond answering open questions about past performance, the salvaged hi-tech material would contribute to future missions.anthodyd
@ anthodyd With the exception of titanium spheres most of the stuff will burn up during reentry.Slowburn
@ Paul Anthony I think multiple harpoons would work better. Too many things to go wrong trying to reuse one.Slowburn
Can the harpoon be reusable? perhaps use retractable barbsPaul Anthony


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Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
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Me too. Ufortunately, I have already taken the other option!
Buy both?
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Originally Posted by david123
I ended up with the two OM's. I am still getting use to them, but I really
like them. I would like to get two more lenses besides the 50mm. At least
one a wide angle. Any suggestions?
I think you will fall in love with the OM's.
I would advise the 2.8/28 or even the 3.5/28 since they are really great lenses and very nicely priced.
For a longer lens, you can try the 3.5/135 or 2.8/135. Those can be found for not too much $$$
I have had an OM1 since 1975 and, not being a pro or even super advanced like a lot of guys here, I can say that I used a Zuiko 3.5/28 for years all over the world and really loved it. About 15 years ago I got a 2.8/28 and liked it even better but it seemed to flare if I didn't use the hood.
A month or so ago I finally got a 2.8/24 and it seems to have great contrast and focuses well but it vignettes with a filter and the Oly hood. So I have to choose only one. I haven't tried it with color film yet.
The 2.8/24 is also a bit spendy, typically demanding $125 usd. I don't enjoy the 24mm field of view as much as the 28.
I prefer primes but for zooms...
I like the 3.5-4.5/35-70 zoom. Don't get the f4 or the 3.5-4.8. The 3.6/35-70 is better but bigger and more $$$.
The 4/75-150 zoom is one I've always liked but gets slammed on the internet. That's good though because you can get those easily and cheap.
Originally OM Zuikos were intended to all use 49mm filters and accessories.
Personally I stay with all 49's for my set.
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I'm very happy with my standard kit - 24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/2 and 85mm f/2.
I too like my 75-150mm f/4.
Originally Posted by david123
I ended up with the two OM's. I am still getting use to them, but I really
like them.
The OM-1 is the main camera that I've ever used. To me, it is the definition of the 35mm SLR.
If they give you any trouble, I can comfortably recommend zuiko.com for service. My current camera is an eBay OM-1 that they rebuilt for me. My original (works fine, but dead meter) is waiting for the budget to send it in for the same treatment.
I like the 3.5-4.5/35-70 zoom. Don't get the f4
Well, I have the F4 35-70 and use it a lot. Considering they are half the price of the 3.5-4.5 that is supposedly the better lens, I'd give one a shot if it comes up. Mine is sharp and contrasty - I've only posted two pix in the gallery, but both taken with this lens. I know the 3.5-4.5 was the "pro" lens and the F4 was the "prosumer" version, but its still a good-un - or mine is anyway.
Originally Posted by mr rusty
Well, I have the F4 35-70 and use it a lot. Considering they are half the price of the 3.5-4.5 that is supposedly the better lens, I'd give one a shot if it comes up.
Fair point, apologies extended
I have the 75-150 f/4. Besides the others.
This may be an odd place for my first post after lurking for a couple of weeks, but this topic interested me because I've had both a K1000 and an OM-1n. The Pentax was my first 35mm camera (as a high school student in the mid-'80s, naturally) and served me well as a beginning student. It wasn't complex or particularly sophisticated, but it got the job done.
Then I saw an OM-1n, used, in a camera store and convinced my dad I had to have it. It's the second and last 35mm SLR I've ever owned, and I've had it for 24 years now. I like the compact, light design and (although some may disagree) the general ergonomics of the OM. I'd agree with the statement below:
Originally Posted by DLawson
The OM-1 is the main camera that I've ever used. To me, it is the definition of the 35mm SLR.
(Now I find myself with a Pentax 6x7, so I've contradicted myself regarding the compact, light design, but that's another story. )
I'm a fan of both Pentax and Olympus, but in the K1000/OM-1 comparison I think I'd give the edge to the OM, or look at one of the other Pentax models mentioned in this thread (I've always wanted an LX).
I know I'm being mean here:
These things rock.
When you turn your camera on, does it return the favor?
Originally Posted by david123
... I would like a manual 35mm camera. I have found a good deal on a Pentax K1000 and another one for two cameras, OM1
and OM2. Would like input from anyone who owns one of the cameras.
thanks for all response
I own a K-1000 and OM-2. Both are very good cameras, and very good systems.
The K-1000 is pretty bare-bones: no self-timer, no depth of field preview, and no exposure compensation. It takes great pictures however, and Pentax K-mount lenses are usually pretty cheap and plentiful. This is a fully mechanical camera, so the one LR-44 battery is used for the light meter only, not the shutter. Some people prefer the minimalist quality of the K-1000; no bells & whistles means less to get in the way of picture taking.
The OM-2 is also a very nice camera, and Olympus Zuiko lenses are top-notch. The OM-2 has aperture priority which I like, and is more compact than other SLRs out there. Like Pentax, there are plenty of good-priced lenses out there. The two LR-44 batteries run the meter and shutter however, so if the batteries die the mirror will lock up until you replace them. LR-44 batteries can be found just about anywhere, and cheap too
I'd say either one is a winner.
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My friend Tanushree once told me about the benefits of throwing cowpies into your latrine. Apparently they do this in Bangladesh and its helpful for something or rather... to try and figure out what that was I checked google. I typed "cowpie latrine." Much to my surprise my own livejournal entry showed up. I guess there just isn't too much literature out there on that subject.
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I saw a guy in Chinandega wearing a Stewert/Colbert for President 2008 shirt. WTF! How are his realitives in the states cooler than mine?! I want that shirt!!
I've been writing book reviews for the Peace Corps Nicaragua mag, the "Va Pue". Here are some of my fave-o-rite books reviewed for your pleasure.
Hopped on a bus at 5am to get to Managua on time for an oh so important meeting. Now mind, body and soul have glazed over from 6 hr straigt internet use. Yay! I updated pics. Can't take credit for any of them. I have Rachel to thank. She may be the only source of pictures of me in Nicaragua. Proof that I exist! Also updated Friendster only to realize that I don't have any friends on... so find me if you're out there. Not that I'll check it frequently or actually use it to network socially...but you never know.
For the first time ever I got a sunburn on Christmas. Then another 3 days later. The rivers and beaches here are a' mazing!
Merry Christmas everyone! Feliz Navidad! I hope this holiday season finds you all well. Down in Nicalandia the weather is warm and bright. We will be killing a turkey and playing secret santa. If all goes acording to plan I will make mulled tea and brownies with a candy cane crumble on top and most likely eat it all myself. Also I plan on giving out stockings to all the good little girls and boys Santa style. Im currently searching the pirated DVD stands for something other than the Grinch and Jingle all the Way (both rather vomitos). So far I´ve only found the Passion of the Christ. Hmmm... Nothing says Christmas Joy like a half naked man getting beaten.
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I´m not dead, just disconnected. I live in a rural village. I bathe from a bucket of well water. I step over cowpies everymorning on my way to the latrine. Life is simple... sometimes too simple. And wicked hot. I am constantly dripping with sweat. How´s that for a pretty picture. All and all life is good. I got involved with an econ discussion group with other volunteers and have been to atleast 5 dances in this last month and a half. The city of Leon is gorgeous and I have a place to stay there whenever I like. The rains have just started, so hopefully it will be cooler and water will be more readily accesable. Plus this month is our jornada de vacunas or vaccination campaign. We go out to every community and give injections and vitamin A drops. I get to do the latter and give a small talk on diarrea prevention and the use of oral rehydration solutions. I guess thats it for the highlights. I´d say I´ll try to write more... but we all know what a false promise that would be.4 comments | post a comment
I´m not dead, just disconnected. I live in a rural village. I bathe from a bucket. Every morning I step over cowpies to use the latrine. Life is simple... sometimes a little too simple. But so far, so good. I´m going to buy a gas tank so I can cook and I still have enough books to ocupy me.post a comment
The circus is in town! A traveling circus from Cuba has set up temporary residencey in Jinotepe!! I seem to be the only person above the age of 15 who is excited by this. Unfortunatley my host cousins have no money to attend such an event and I happen to be pretty broke at the moment aswell. Sad. I have heard it on good authority that there are several Nicaraguen Circuses... so it is possible that I will have plenty of chances to see at least one fully functional third world circus during my service. I did really want to see this one though... They are rumored to have a "dog-faced boy!" Who knew freak shows were alive and well?4 comments | post a comment
I´m moving to Santo Tómas in the department of Chinendega, Nicaragua. I´m there now, visiting and setting up basic necessities. It is hot here, even at night. The people I´m going to be working with seem really nice, as does the family I´ll be staying with. So far so good. The living standard here is definatley closer to what I had first imagined a Peace Corps experience would be like. Outhouse, bucket baths, and long distance travel to reach food and services. Luckily if there´s one thing I´ll have, its time.3 comments | post a comment
Today started out bad on paper, but good in spirit. I was late in meeting Janet and Carly in the park (by 10-15 min) and they left without me. We were going into Diriamba early to buy a present for another trainee (Marya- Happy Birthday!). So instead of going in on something with them, I had to find my own gift. It turned out good though... I got to have a some alone time, which is rare. I walked around Jinotepe for a while and eventually found a crappy doll that came in a small bag with barrets and a headband that would be far to small for anyone. I threw in some chocolate cookies and gum for good measure. Then I took a cab to Diriamba (for which I paid double because I was alone). Then I managed to spill chocolate milk on myself and make it to the musuem for our classes a 1/2 hour early. Instead of waiting around I decided to take a walk and explore a little. The sun was shining, wind was blowing, and the world had that wonderful morning newness to it. Everything felt kind of nice and peaceful. I walked past a plaque enscribed with the following:
Happy Valentine´s Day everyone!
I´ve come to realize that whenever I´m thrown into a new situation I stop thinking. That sounds bad, but what I mean is I start out by just watching and listening. Maybe its a defense mechanism, or my way of adapting- I´m not sure. But I can track this trend back to childhood. I was always pretty shy.
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No real news to report... next week we venture out into the wilds of Nicaragua to meet with volunteers in the field. We won´t know until Fri where we´ll be going on Sat. Just another part of the adventure! This weekend I´ll be going to a b-day party of another trainee, meeting with my youth group for a soccer game (no- I havn´t played before), visiting a farm, and probably making a run to Managua for a good old fashioned movie (we were going to go today- but class ran late). Oh- and I´ll probably be doing a lot of work on my charla (small teaching assignment) for Tues. I have to give an interactive, interesting, discussion on diarreah to a group of patients (all in spanish!). Wish me luck. 3 comments | post a comment
I really can´t think of anything cool to say right now... what a bummer! I´ve been in classes all day focussing on sustainable development- mainly comparing developmental philosophies and discussing positive historical lessons. It was actually really interesting, and I really want to see how the lessons play out once Im at my site. Development is one area that I think I might want to do work in once I finish this program... so its cool to get both the theoretical and real experience in it.


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|Tennessee Reports Another Minor Recruiting Violation Under Kiffin
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|Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:22
Kiffin in Trouble Again
Knoxville, TN - Tennessee will self-report another minor recruiting violation after a comment about a recruit was posted to coach Lane Kiffin's Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Kiffin's profiles on the two social media Web sites Tuesday briefly read: ``I was so excited to hear that J.C. Copeland committed to play for the Vols today!''
Posted: 5/21/09 12:25AM ET