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I'm LOVING this series. Rufus Sewell is fantastic and Marley Shelton is strong and interesting as a sidekick. The new addition of Felix is great - I like how he's really sharp and efficient, and not just the usual bumbling funny turn. I think it's turning into a great team effort, and an interesting series. Hope there's more!
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m sorry but i found the titans episode of eleventh hour sooooooooo boring, plus dat fbi woman is driving me to sleep with her boring acting.
This Jerry Bruckheimer ( CSI ) produced sci-fi series on CBS is an adaptation of a British thriller of the same name. The new show is about a special science adviser to the US government who saves people from the worst abuses of science. He is accompanied by his feisty female bodyguard. CBS ordered the show to series on 12 May 2008 with a 13 episode initial order. To read up on the rest of this discussion, visit TV.com


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SEO (search engine optimization) used to be a B2B marketer's dream come true. One, it was relatively cheap and easy, compared to something more difficult and costly, such as ads in trade publications, two, you could see results (sometimes fairly quickly), and three, you could measure ROI.
Using a keyword tool, you selected the best keywords that people looking for products and services like yours were using, you used these keywords to optimize your site using specific rules, and then bingo, your page/s would begin to rank in the search engines and traffic would come to your site. Woohoo!
Then, using Web analytics, you could match up the keywords people were using to find your site with the keywords you used to optimize your site — and yay! you could see that your SEO efforts were working (or not).
Those days are disappearing rather fast.
If you haven't looked at your Web Analytics in awhile, you may be in for a surprise. In 2011, Google stopped passing on organic keyword results for searchers who were logged in to Google or who were using the Firefox search bar or the Chrome browser.
For many of the small businesses I work with — and for my own Website — "Not Provided" is the number one result in the Google Analytics keyword report. "Not Provided" can represent anywhere from 30 to 50% (or more) of your organic traffic.
Basically, you're now flying blind, so to speak.
At first, "Not Provided" sent me into a tailspin. I'm all about getting results for my clients. If I couldn't prove to them my SEO efforts were "working," how would that affect my business? As I thought it through, however, I realized that "Not Provided" is really a blessing in disguise.
Why? Because Google is forcing marketers and SEOers to wean themselves off the crutch of keyword marketing.
The main problem with keyword marketing is that nefarious SEO firms used it as a siren call for top rankings. "We'll get you top rankings — guaranteed!" these companies would call out. Over the years I've had clients email me these seductive offers to ask if they were indeed legit.
Anyone can promise top rankings — but usually for the wrong keywords. And unsuspecting small business owners, who are too busy to keep up with all of this, usually don't have a clue. (Even just a few weeks ago someone emailed to ask if a company promising top rankings through link farms was legit. Ack! Run away! Fast!)
The second big problem is the marketers and SEOers have been creating lots and lots and lots of content — all geared toward search engines. The problem, of course, is that people read and act on content, and as many of the people I talk to say, "Man, there sure is a lot of really crappy content out there!" Indeed.
With "Not Provided," you now have the opportunity to use — dare I say it? — traditional marketing practices to create great content that also helps boost targeted traffic (targeted = prospects interested in what you're offering). How so? Consider:
1. Articles in trade pubs — In the old days, you'd work hard to get an application note, info brief or feature article into a trade publication. Contrary to popular belief, trade pubs still exist and many of them still accept technical articles and the like. (See these two client examples: Lanmark Controls and Cabot Corporation.)
Trade pub articles give you some wonderful benefits, namely:
- They send prospective customers your way
- They show your industry your expertise and innovative thinking
- They give you links back to your site (the kind of links Google likes)
For more info, download my report, "Get Your Articles Published." I wrote it back in the day, but the basic principles still apply. The report includes a nice interview with a trade pub editor on how to develop your pitches.
2. Case studies, reports and white papers — I know content marketers want you to think that content marketing is the new black, but any veteran marketer will tell you that B2B companies have relied on collateral marketing for decades. (In my first job as a marcom specialist in the early 1990s, for example, I used to produce three print newsletters that were translated into numerous languages and shipped around the globe.)
And, despite all the hype, you don't have to create a lot of this type of material to be effective. For small companies with tight (or non-existent) marketing staffs, I recommend creating one case study and one white paper/report per quarter. One, this is a doable schedule and two, by the end of the year you'll have eight pieces of collateral you wouldn't have if you do nothing.
Again, the benefits are many, including:
- Providing prospects with information that helps them decide to do business with you
- Pieces you can use with other marketing tactics, such as direct mail or email
- Content that helps generate leads or inquiries
3. E-Newsletters — E-newsletters have taken a beating as they're no longer seen as "sexy" and because our email inboxes are overflowing, but for small businesses, an e-newsletter is a great way to give your customers and prospects information they can actually use in the form of news, tips and tricks, and links to the collateral you're producing.
If you produce great content, people will want your newsletter (with one of my clients, his client requested that people from his company be added to the distribution list).
You also keep your company top-of-mind with them.
If you have a blog, consider repurposing your posts and using them in your e-newsletter (the way Adam Jacobson, CEO of Red Three Consulting, does). This way you don't have to create double the amount of original content, you drive people back to your site and you get a few social media shares and maybe a comment or two.
Optimizing your Website is still a very good practice as you want people to find your content. However, relying on SEO alone is no longer enough. SEO, the big kahuna of online marketing, is now one of many tactics needed for an integrated marketing plan.
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Sefko: Too many Mavericks taking 'unofficial time off'
Mavericks beat writer Eddie Sefko answered your questions about the team in a live chat Tuesday. Here are some highlights.
Comment From Andrew B. ... Is it looking more and more like the Mavericks will stand pat at the trade deadline?
Sefko: It's had that look all the way through. They have sent the message that they are not interested in taking back any money beyond this season and unless somebody out there is dying to get Brendan Haywood, I don't see anything that will work for the Mavericks in terms of not acquiring any long-term contracts.
Comment From MFFL ... Your thoughts on the Mark Cuban gay comments?
Sefko: I thought it was much ado about nothing. The only interesting point he hit on, to me, was that everybody has some prejudices at some level. I think that's probably true, even though some of us might not even know it.
Example came when I wrote a lead paragraph last week about how, if the Mavericks were horses, they'd have a date at the glue factory waiting for them.
That got the animal rights people upset, even though I was just trying to make a point of how sickly the Mavericks are and in need of being put out of their misery.
That's not the same as a full-out bias against somebody or some group, but it was offensive to somebody out there, even though I meant nothing by it.
The point is that Cuban explained himself well. And even though I didn't think he needed to and probably brought more attention to the issue than needed, it was probably a smart thing to do.
Comment From Ed ... What does the offense need to do to get untracked?
Sefko: The ball needs to move faster and more efficiently. Lately, it's been turnovers that have bugged them. And you're right. Shot selection is bad because they end up at the end of the shot clock too often flinging up prayers.
My opinion is that they have too many players taking unofficial time off. Everybody has to start playing better and it seems like now, starting the final third of the season, is a pretty good time.
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While the Lakers have taken a commanding 3-1 lead in their first round series against the Denver Nuggets, they have had long stretches where they've struggled to find a rhythm on offense. During the regular season, Denver was the fifth worst team in the league defensively, and 11th worst in terms of defensive efficiency. With a team that boasts Andrew Bynum in the low post, Pau Gasol in the high post, and Kobe Bryant on the wing, it's inconceivable the Lakers as a team are a very average 9th in terms of offensive efficiency.
Kobe has always battled with his efficiency on offense, preferring 1 on 1 forays into the teeth of the defense over making the extra pass to a wide open teammate. This season, he has surprised me in his willingness to let the offense work more for him, by using weakside screens and letting the double team hit Andrew Bynum and waiting for the swing pass against a scrambling defense. However, old habits die hard, and Kobe still finds himself taking enough bad shots that weigh the team down, keeping an obviously inferior club closer than it should be.
The mile high altitude has clearly been taking its toll on this slowly aging Laker team, and many of the bad shots Kobe has been taking look to be as a direct result of his tired legs. No longer can he shot fake and blow by his defender, especially someone as spry as Arron Afflalo, who was instrumental in harassing Kobe into a bad shooting night. Which makes George Karl's decision to go with Galinari on Kobe a big head scratcher. It also matched up Afflalo on Pau Gasol for the crucial possession where Steve Blake hit the game clinching three pointer.
While that possession, and the game, worked out for the Lakers, the decision to ignore Gasol in the post against Afflalo should not be completely overlooked. And in future playoff series, against much better opponents, those kinds of decisions can't be left on the table, or else the Lakers will get bounced early.For the playoffs, Kobe has been most effective in the post, where he's ranked in the 94th percentile (according to Synergy Sports). That makes up 13% of his possessions, while he is using a whopping 30.4% of his possessions on isolations. Unfortunately, he's just above average at 52%, and when you see how easy the shots come for him when he cuts off of teammates and lets the ball swing around to him, it makes you want to stand up and shout for Kobe to go away from the iso, and get back to the team concept.
The bottom line is that the Lakers should be scoring much more easily against the Nuggets defense, which ranked 25th in Synergy's defensive rankings (PPP) and 19th in Hollinger's defensive efficiency. While Javale McGee has proved somewhat effective as a low post defender, Bynum and Gasol should still be the keys to get Denver's defense out of position, and that will open up shots for Kobe. Whether Kobe trusts in them and allows this to happen may mean the difference between a brief second round exit and a deep run in the playoffs.
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Troopers said a 65-year-old woman wanted to leave the apartment but her husband, Joseph Edward Setlock, 67, would not permit her to leave. Upon arrival of troopers Setlock then ordered the woman to leave and while she was retrieving clothing from an armoire, he slammed the door on the armoire pinching the woman's right arm between the doors causing bruising, troopers said.
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Hezbollah's biological threat to UN peacekeepers
Recently, 21 U.N. Disengagement Observer Force peacekeepers from the Philippines were seized in thedemilitarized zone on the Golan Heights. They were released unharmed in Jordan four days later. Perhaps a more worrying issue is the potential risk to U.N. peacekeepers posed by Hezbollah. As of Jan. 31, the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon comprised 11,026 troops, 338 international civilians and 656 local civilian staff. Thirty-eight countries contributed military personnel to UNIFIL.
UNIFIL could easily be in the crosshairs of a biological or chemical weapon attack. This type of attack is likely to come from Hezbollah, a terrorist military armed and trained mainly in the Sudan on biological and chemical weapondeployment by Iran's elite Quds forces. Particularly vulnerable are those nations that have not paid for protection from Hezbollah's intelligence section. Iran has assisted Hezbollah by providing advanced intelligence-gathering technology, such as unmanned aerial vehicles,eavesdropping equipment, and human intelligence assets. These can be used not only against Israel but against UNIFIL forces in developing targets for conventional as well as unconventional attacks.
In contrast to the Israel Defense Forces, which maintains a higher level of security, both technical and physical, UNIFIL forces generally have a lower standard of protection, exposing them to greater and differentiated risk. The immunization of UNIFIL forces would be of little use against the agents Hezbollah has at its disposal and serve only to create a false sense of security among those forces vaccinated against agents such as anthrax and smallpox.
The select agents Hezbollah could likely use in a deniable operation and in geographical zones where they would not necessarily need to worry about spread or transmission are the biological agents Cryptosporidium parvum, botulinum and anthrax, and the potent chemical agent saxitoxin. In terms of deniability, the first three all occur naturally throughout the region. Deploying them, their toxins and spores, especially versions of them modified in either Iranian or Syrian military biological weapon laboratories, would be formidable. UNIFIL forces could suffer higher death rates if genetically modified pathogens, toxins or agents were used against them in a geographic specific attack. Similar to planting an improvised explosive device, it is possible to target troops with certain types of biological weapons which would not spread outside those targeted. Advanced biological weapons specifically from Iran's biological warfarecomplex could make UNIFIL forces sitting ducks.
To give an idea of a possible deniable operation, in 2007 there was credible intelligence that Hezbollah was planning to infect the water supply of a section of Lebanon with C. parvum, a parasite contracted from contaminated water which causes diarrhea and stomach cramps. While on the surface this may appear to be a relatively low-level attack as it generally does not kill, it does cause vomiting and diarrhea for days, and is only treatable with support therapy.
This could put down an entire battalion and severely affect an operational theater. It could create a window of opportunity either to collect intelligence or engage in operations to prepare the groundwork for a second conventional strike on those forces or for a wider conflict. While UNIFIL forces generally have independent water sources, the parasite passes through all filtration methods and some forces could still be exposed if Hezbollah decided to use it.
There are several scenarios in which biological weapons could be very effectively used against UNIFIL forces.
As the UNDOF peacekeepers scramble to exit the Golan, other pathogenic agents could pose far wider threats to the global community.
Dr. Jill Bellamy van Aalst is an international expert and former consultant to NATO on biological warfare and threatreduction.


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Overuse of strong painkillers can actually be a cause of headaches
QUESTION: I attended my GP recently for a check-up. While I was there, I asked her for a prescription for Solpadeine as I take it for headaches that I suffer from. I was surprised when she said that regular painkillers might not be the best thing for my headaches, and that they could even be making them worse. How is this possible?
ANSWER: Headaches or any recurring pain can be very debilitating and disturbing. When pain strikes, the first stop for many people is their local pharmacy. There are many over the counter pain remedies available and it can be hard to decide which one to use at any particular time.
Codeine-containing compounds, such as Solpadeine, are available over the counter in Irish pharmacies, although their use has been restricted in recent years. It is for this reason that many of those who were using such remedies regularly now have to attend their GP and request a prescription for these drugs.
As a GP, I feel the regulation of the sale of codeine-containing products has been a very positive thing, as it has encouraged people to think about the painkillers they are choosing and forced them to discuss it with their pharmacist or doctor.
When it comes to pain, a step wise approach to medicine should always be used. As doctors, we refer to the analgesia ladder. Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the first steps on this ladder. These are very effective for most day to day pain. They also act to help reduce fever and are, as such, particularly good drugs to take in the case of a cold or flu.
No medicine is safe in large doses and it is important not to take more than the recommended amount. Overdose of paracetamol can cause liver failure and death.
Ibuprofen belongs to a group of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). If these drugs are overused, there is an increased risk of stomach ulcers and bleeding, kidney damage or failure, increased blood pressure and cardiovascular damage.
If paracetamol and ibuprofen don't relieve pain, then moving up the ladder is appropriate. Codeine-containing products are the third step on the ladder. In many countries, codeine is only available on prescription and many feel the same should be the case here. Used correctly, codeine can be a very effective painkiller, however, abuse of codeine-containing products is increasing and most doctors I know have come across patients who are taking these products on a regular basis.
Codeine is an opiate painkiller which means it is derived from morphine. As with all opiates, addiction and tolerance can develop if these are used regularly. Higher doses are required to have the same benefit. The extra danger lies in the fact that most over the counter codeine preparations are combined with other drugs such as paracetamol and ibuprofen and so, increasing the amount of codeine you use also leads to increasing and potentially damaging or dangerous doses of these also.
Apart from its addictive properties, codeine is a sedating painkiller and so can be especially dangerous if mixed with alcohol. Other problems associated with codeine can include nausea or chronic and sometimes severe constipation.
Regular use of painkillers for headaches can also lead to what is referred to as an analgesia overuse headache. This is a headache that occurs when painkillers are reduced or stopped. The risk is highest in those taking painkillers more than twice a week for more than three months. It is estimated that 10% of those who suffer chronic headaches are getting them due to overuse of painkillers. Ultimately, the chronic headaches are actually due to a form of withdrawal from the painkillers being used.
If medication has been used for a long time, it may be necessary to reduce it slowly to help reduce the withdrawal effects. Headaches may initially get worse as painkiller use reduces but, ultimately 70% to 80% of people who suffer analgesia overuse headaches manage to quit medication and feel better. Studies have suggested that up to one in three people aged between 18 and 24 take over the counter painkillers on a daily basis.
Many times these are being taken as a way of preventing pain or headaches which can ultimately lead to overuse. So what do doctors recommend? If you have a simple pain, consider the cause. Headaches may be due to fatigue or dehydration – getting some rest and fluids may help. For sore joints, an anti-inflammatory rub, heat or ice may help. If you need painkillers, try taking paracetamol or ibuprofen alone first. For a severe pain, occasional use of an over the counter combination codeine preparation is ok, but if you regularly need painkillers for any reason, they should be taken under a doctor's supervision and advice. It sounds like your doctor is right and she is trying to make sure you are not at risk of analgesia overuse. Codeine may occasionally be the correct drug for you, but it's not the pill for every ill.
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Why blog for PR organizations?
It is increasingly difficult nowadays to be recognized for ones expertise in Michigan public relations, hi tech companies, and communication world with the amount of information that is out there. However, there is hope, and it has been around for a while: blogging. Interactive market positioning is oftentimes key to giving people the needed information they seek. The importance of blogging rests on six principles:
First, blogs are easy to publish on the web. The ability to upload thoughts, ideas, or general information is just a few clicks away, allowing for a mass flow of information across a wide spectrum.
Second, blogs are inexpensive. Especially in today's economy, Michigan PR companies don't have to spend vast sums of money getting their names out.
Third, it is quick and efficient. There is not wait time. The information is "published" fast and allows for instant reactions. This works especially well with a public relations organization like Eiler Communications to respond to industry and client needs.
Fourth, similar to my third point, blogging grabs the attention of search engines. The more the company blogs the more hits they might get and the more attention it receives via non-paid publicity, a huge bonus for the organization.
My last two points are tied together in that it both positions the company in a favorable light in the eyes of client, industry, and public to treat them as an expert and as a result, hopefully, increases its profits and notability.
Regardless of the reason a PR organization uses blogging, it can be an extremely important tool in the sphere of high tech communicating. And what better way to prove that the company knows media and the field of communications than actually communicating!
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Vancouver 1 Toronto FC 0. Goal: Camilo 10.
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Toronto FC -- Roberts, Huezo, Emory, Green, Chapman (Hamilton, 60), Burgos, Cordon, Avila (Camargo, 76), Makubuya (Vukovic, 60), Orozco, Soolsma.
FC Dallas 1 Houston 0. Goal: Shea (pen.) 9.
FC Dallas -- Hartman, Benitez (Tulasne, 46), Pertuz, Ihemelu, Loyd, Rodriguez, Hernandez (Warshaw, 59), Jacobson (Ulloa, 59), Castillo (Wiedeman, 53), Shea (Luna, 46; Leyva, 87), Perez (Enriquez, 77).
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Olympic champions Great Britain missed out on a medal ride in the men's team pursuit on day one of the Track Cycling World Championships after a woeful performance.
Ed Clancy, twice an Olympic champion in the four-man, four-kilometre event, combined with Sam Harrison, Owain Doull and Southampton's Jon Dibben to place eighth in the event, clocking four minutes 04.419 seconds.
Britain, silver medallists in 2013, were the 12th of 13 teams to start and were expected to advance comfortably to the medal rides, yet failed dismally to do so.
Defending champions Australia were second fastest in 4mins 01.516secs and will meet fastest qualifiers Denmark (4:00.176) in the final on Wednesday evening.
The bronze medal will be contested by Russia (4:01.615) and New Zealand (4:02.056).
The World Championships are taking place in Colombia at a track exposed to the elements, with a roof but without walls.
Britain's preparations were disrupted by wind blowing in rain on Monday, but conditions were dry for the opening event of the competition.
London 2012 gold medallist Steven Burke was not selected for the qualifying ride and the British quartet, chasing a second world title since 2008, failed to fire, consistently lapping slower than the opposition.
Denmark had set a track record in the previous heat and Britain were a lowly sixth through the halfway mark, with plenty of work to do.
However, the British squad's travails continued and Harrison dropped out with 1km to go, leaving his trio of teammates to forge on alone without reward.
Britain will hope for a more fruitful evening session on the opening day.
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Call them pop's longest-running, most persistent group. Call them men, not boys. Just don't call it a comeback. "We almost named the album that," jokes Nick Carter, one-fourth of the Backstreet Boys, whose seventh studio effort, This Is Us, is slated for release on October 6th. "We're the Brett Favres of the music industry." Clearly, he and his bandmates are fed up with the public perception that they've taken an extended time out. They're not 'NSync, after all. "It does frustrate me," says Brian Littrell. "Everybody asks, 'Where have you been? What have you been doing?' When we're, like, 'We've been touring the world, and working our butts off!' "
OK, so maybe the boy-band racket isn't what it used to be. There are no million-plus first week sellers in today's music business, and so many outlets vying for your attention that it's easy to miss a respectable showing like Backstreet's 2007 album, Unbreakable. Which is one reason why A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Carter and Littrell are looking back to a proven formula with This Is Us. "The idea was going back to those great R&B ballads as well as dance songs you can shake your butt to," McLean explains. "And we were fortunate enough to work with some amazing writers and producers who got our concept and everything fit perfectly."
Among the industry heavies to lend a hand: Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Pitbull, Ryan Tedder, Max Martin, RedOne, and beatmaker Jim Johnson. "The production on this record has been pushed a little more," says McLean. "It's edgy and current but also shows our love for the pop-R&B that we grew up on." Carter interjects: "Jodeci, Boys II Men, Shai, New Edition… we had to go back and remember our influences and what taught us in the years when we were developing into a band." And Littrell adds that if you were to take away all the bells and whistles, the basics of the song with that Backstreet sweet spot is what defines their raison d'etre. "That's why Michael Jackson was a true artist," he says, "because you could take away every beat and every layer and just dance to his voice. That vocal instrument is what we've always known, and I can honestly say without this sounding egotistical: when we sing collectively, there is a magic."
Of course, they weren't always in control of their instruments. Dorough likens recording sessions in the group's early days in Florida to a "cold audition." "We were all trying to find ourselves and our sound and working with producers that didn't know any of our voices," he recalls. Says Littrell: "We'd go in the studio, sing the whole song and we wouldn't know who was singing what until we got the final mix from the label. We were kids and it was, like, 'Wow.' "
Having seen their share of highs and lows over a 17-year career, the guys say that they're now in a good place. "There's really no conflict at all," says Carter. "Our chemistry flows, we know what our strengths and weaknesses are, our goals are all the same and we work as a team." Adds Dorough, "There's no egos, no competition, we just want to make the best record we can."
And aside from Carter's brief stint as a TV star on E!'s House of Carters, the group hasn't resorted to the usual promotional ploys — not that reality shows haven't come knocking. "We had one offer to do a show about replacing Kevin [Richardson, who left the group in 2006], which we would never do," McLean scoffs. For now, Aaron Carter will keep a foot in that world by competing on Dancing With The Stars this fall. "I'm so proud of him from coming out of such lows," says the elder Carter, who's lost 56 pounds in the last two years. "I've been there — I've changed my physical appearance and done things to better myself and he's doing the same thing. I think he's going to show a large amount of people how talented he is and that he really does deserve to have a shot in this industry."
To that end, Carter and crew have some wisdom to impart on their presumptive successors, the Jonas Brothers. "Have a good balance and perspective on what you do," offers Littrell. "I call it clocking in and out — I clock in to be a Backstreet Boy and at the end of the day, I wanna clock out, go home and be a husband and father. We rode a wave for, like, 10 years straight that was just go, go, go! We knew nothing different and we were sacrificing relationships with our own families because we were working all the time." Adds Carter, "And invest your money wisely. Everybody knows you have your peaks and valleys and you need a good foundation." Litrell couldn't agree more. "Have a backup plan of who you are as a person," he says. "Because once you get to the top, there's only one way down and you have to land like a little butterfly — softly. That's what we've done."
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
why does Amazon not have a humor category?
Although after all this time, to still bother questioning Amazon...
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Humor is a subcategory under Entertainment
- Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:46:00 PM
- shalanar said...
They do, under Entertainment
- Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:07:00 PM
- moonrat said...
that's really dumb. when i think "entertainment" i think "martha stewart's christmas centerpieces."
ok, sorry. thanks, guys.
- Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:13:00 PM
- ChrisEldin said...
I didn't know Amazon had categories. Seriously.
I type in the book I want and click 'buy.' I'm still getting books from last month's extravaganza. My kids are embarrassed for me...
- Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:11:00 PM
for information, amazon uk has humour as a top level category. interesting.
- Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:22:00 AM
- Julia said...
I think that the Amazon categories are based on a combination of the big US wholesalers' stocking categories and the Dewey Decimal system.
In most of the bookstores I frequent, the humor section comes between the cookbooks and the books about TV and movies.
- Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:36:00 PM
- The Anti-Wife said...
They do have a humor section. It's full of books about politics.
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Victoria McManus, UK marketing director at Motorola said: "Since we re-imagined the iconic Razr brand, the Motorola Razr has wowed consumers across the globe by combining the pinnacle of design with mind-blowing power,"
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Question to the H. multiflora owners out there:
Does yours keep or throw the flower peduncle after the blooms faded and fell off?
My variegated multiflora until now has always "thrown" the peduncle after flowering.
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Question to the H. multiflora owners out there:
My variagated one kept the same peduncle and bloomed about 4 or 5 times out of the same one. Then it started turning yellow and fell off but is quickly growing peduncle on the next node.
The regular one has done the same, blooms several times from the same peduncle and then it yellows and fall off. At first I thought I was doing something wrong but its been doing this and the rest of the plant is fine. In my observations, I've noticed it just as the plant is starting a growth spurt.
Mine is steadily growing and has a peduncle on each new node (usually 2-3 peduncles with flowers open), yet it will throw the peduncle shortly after the first blooms fell off.
Gemila do you know the origin of your variegated one?
Mine is from Paul Shirley GPS8121.
Mine is also from Paul Shirley. I also ordered the 'speckled'(?) as part of a group order but the three cuttings we ordered were too tender to make the long trip without any moisture. None made it but I was lucky to save the variagated ones.
Yeah it's best to ask Paul to put the tender ones in ziploc bags. Worked reasonably good last year when a shipment took over 10 days to arrive.
Didn't even see the multiflora 'speckles' until now, too bad you lost yours.
I wonder why mine is throwing? Maybe it just prefers growing instead of keeping the peduncles.
I found that when I kept my multiflora's consistenly wet, they would keep their blooms. Before I started doing that, they would drop every bloom.
Patricia, I'm not talking about it blasting the flowers. It blooms happily as you can see on the attached picture.
I'm talking about it dropping the flower stalk once the flowers had bloomed and faded first time around
I first thought that it depends on possible variations of multiflora but that theory has proven as false since Gemila got hers from the same source and hers keeps the peduncle for repeated flowering.
Still want to hear from other multiflora owners (would be good if the source of it is also mentioned)
The H. multiflora clones I have (a big almost camellia type leaf and a long narrow leafed one) bloom on the same peduncles over and over. I have never noticed if they discard them after a couple of blooms or not...I will have to look :o)
Multiflora is not listed as succulent, perhaps that is why I must give it more water than the rest of my other Hoya.
LOL Norma, one look at a multiflora and one should know that it's not a succulent. Even me with a "succulent revisionist thinking" would not even remotely place it as a succulent.
Possibly my multiflora puts all energy into growing tall instead of keeping the peduncles after flowering.
I guess I finally have to get my courage together and chop the top of my 5 foot some single multiflora stem :(.
Hopefully that will give it a slap on its behind to finally branch out and keep the peduncles :).
My multiflora (from Logee's) blooms four or five times from the same peduncle before it yellows and falls off. Then a new peduncle appears. It consistently maintains two peduncles. Beautiful plant, Milan.
Milan...guess what is also screaming "Milan, Milan"? LOL
LOL soon gonna need ear plugs to sleep :)
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013
In the 10 years we've been married, we've never had a blow up like we did this week. It's nothing new and obviously we're just crazy because we keep on doing the same things and expecting new results... we all know that doesn't work.
I'd like to say first off, we never even contemplate breaking up, we're too much in love, no matter what happens.
This time though, it will take me longer to get over. It's hard when one is neglected for too long. It's not an abusive relationship, it's more of a lacking one.
He's stressed about money all the time. That translates into the bedroom and I know I'm not the only married person only getting some less than once a month. Who knew the wife could have a higher sex drive than the husband? That's never talked about, but is probably the reality of more married couples than you'd think.
So I told him to go back to college and get a higher paying job. I'm not sure why it's all on me to get the second job when he could still work toward getting a quick degree and restart his career, even at 40. It's never too late to restart your life for the better and I know of a technical college near us that would be affordable and that we can get grants with our current situation. It seems that many job openings are turning up in my inner circle, but we're just not qualified at the moment, so I'm looking into making us available to get better jobs. The commuter train station is only one city away and if my husband works toward learning how to fix trains, he could easily work there if an opening happens.
I know when he feels better about his situation as a man, he'll translate that into paying more attention to his wife (me!).
The kids are old enough that we don't have to worry about them as much. They are legally old enough to stay home alone for a half hour or so (the legalities say 20 minutes, I looked up the guidelines a few years back). That means we can do more and not worry about them getting home and having to be there for them when they do.
One thing he did bring up was to go do something this weekend. So I told him to plan it. I know we need more time together, but why it should all fall on me?
I'm tired. I'm feeling vulnerable. I'm upset. I'm stressed. I'm still feeling pretty worthless, but not as bad as yesterday.
Today will probably consist of a nap, then I'm going to start a list of things I'm good at and the things I need to refocus on to make my outlook positive for myself, regardless of my husband.
I know you all see me as being positive no matter what. Sometimes I just need to have the negativity to remind myself of why the positive is so positive. If negativity never happened, we'd never know the positive to be positive.
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We would be denying our humanity if we didn't accept the negative along with the positive. This shunning of "anything negative" is not at all sustainable for a healthy life. Of course negativity can be closely related to fear, of change, of the unknown, of our insecurities. So now it is important to keep on talking and talking and talking. Then some clarity is shed on the unknown and the more data we have the happier we are.
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You might consider the possibility that he is depressed and/or experiencing extreme anxiety. Either of these can result in the sexual problem as well as the inability to see any way out of a situation. Talk to a physician about medication or seeing a therapist. I understand that money problems are anxiety-provoking but most people can face these without crippling anxiety.
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Your husband really must be stressed out. Now he put some of the stress onto you. Sharing? It's a rocky stretch. Be loving and kind to your husband, tell him you know he is working hard for the family. Egos need a lot of attention. You know him best and what he likes. Also take care of yourself, don't neglect exercise or eating right. The days get dark faster and I think in some ways this is a time of less positive thoughts for a lot of people.
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You have a lot of good idea's going on about him finishing his college so he can find a better job. Right now it sounds like he's upset that he can't provide the kind of life he wants to for his family. I know it feels like he's taking his resentment out on you, but, actually it has more to do with him. Sometimes we forget that they need to vent too. And unfortunately, sometimes, we are the scapegoat. I believe that's where the old saying: "You always hurt the people you love the most" comes from. The only advice I can give you is: Hang in there, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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In one corner, we have Republicans saying "Hey, Thad Cochran found a way to appeal to the black vote. That's why he won. The rest of the GOP should do the same!"
In the other corner, we have Republicans saying "Democrats shouldn't decide Republican primaries. Cochran's moves were dirty!"
Both sides are right, and wrong.
Regarding Cochran's alleged appeal to black voters, he or his supporters resorted to some underhanded stuff. This mailer was being passed around Mississippi in the final days leading up to the runoff. It's a smear of the type that the NAACP regularly launches against Republicans.
It's not clear who distributed this. That's part of the beauty of it. It came and went and did its job, without leaving any fingerprints.
But any Republican who believes appeals like this will help the party stick to its principles and elect real conservatives is deluding themselves. Any Republican who believes that tactics like this will help appeal to black voters over the long haul are deluding themselves. It won't. This mailer is a scorched-earth tactic and a smear. The lies begin in the headline. The Tea Party did not intend to "prevent blacks from voting." That mailer helped a big government incumbent retain his office, on a big government theme, by turning out voters who support big government, by lying about the Tea Party. That ought to bother more self-described Republicans than it apparently does.
On the other hand, Mississippi's law allows for open primaries. Open primaries are, by and large, destructive for the GOP and conservatives. But you can't change the rules in the middle of an election. Cochran's campaign staff were savvy enough to figure out that they could buck the trend of diminishing votes in a runoff by expanding the universe of voters available to them. Perhaps if McDaniel's staff were more experienced, they would have seen this threat and accounted for it. The lack of savvy among Tea Party candidates and staff ought to bother more Tea Partiers than it apparently does.


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Discussion in 'Tennis Tips/Instruction' started by sharpy, Jan 3, 2008.
Cool fireworks in the background of the night video
he serves 125mph standing up.
You specifically pointed out that the op didn't knee bend.
Perhaps you didn't look closely in the videos? The difference between knee bends the op gets and someone like roddick gets aren't very big. It might add a little power, but its not like the op isn't bending at all, just not quite as much.
it adds a lot of power, you are wrong, op gets no knee bend, his meagre knee bend amounts to sitting down instead of leaning into the court which destroys the kinetic chain.
Is that not a knee bend? What exactly are you talking about?
Im following up relating to this 2hbh advice. Ok, trying your progressions of tracing the "u" with the hand, I find the rear arm easily straightens out. But when I try to trace "u" with elbows, rear arm doesnt straighten out at all.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vEYr-IieAX8 hard to see but rear arm doesnt straighten out, and does go across the body
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VZ47_vyy-6o older video
If you want to see how NOT to serve, watch Razzano serve.
I'm watching her play Jankovic.
She opens up early, raises her hand up by her right ear, and hits a frying pan like moonball.
Actually, that's okay. The key is that one of the arms has to be bent and the other straight at POC (unless it's a wide shot.) If the left arm is bent and the right arm is straight, you get a more driving shot (what Safin does.) If the left arm is straight and the right arm is bent, you get a very spinny shot. I should have made myself more clear, but I was writing that one quickly.
If you look at the lateral path of the ball coming at you, you want to take back the racquet in that same horizontal plane. As you take back the racquet in the U, the rear elbow moves farther away from the body. This is necessary because the body itself is rotating away from the ball in the other direction.
In doing this, the U that both elbows are tracing matches the lateral plane of the ball. Also the back shoulder stays above the front.
Heres the newest video. Im no longer supinating takeback, but still problem with trophy/wrist
For good measures, tricky heres a back view
As you can see, the shoulder does get loaded, but somehow it 'unloads' at the trophy.
I've added a nice knee bend for gorilla there also.
MUCH better!!!
Yeah, you're really close. Right now, you're still self-consciously pivoting the elbow because the elbow is staying too "high." When you set the trophy, the elbow should naturally drop, not by your own efforts, but due to the upwards lean of the body.
1) When you orient your body upwards, let your right elbow sink naturally.
2) At the same time, maintain the "high" or "loaded" position (or "raised" feeling) of the back shoulder. (Obviously, when your tossing arm goes up, your front shoulder will be above the back, but it's about mantaining the stretch on the chest/shoulder as you start establishing the trophy.)
3) At no time should the hand ever reach above the back shoulder.
It's true that knee bend is very important, otherwise you're going to be using way too much upper body throughout an entire match with your serving. Taking 12% of the work off your shoulder/arm/torso is actually quite alot of work in reality, especially if you play a long match.
However, knee bend won't really help him if he doesn't get the right timing/pronation (the main key in producing a huge serve, that and great flexibility).
Yea. I'm still struggling with the hand being too high at head height.
I've noticed that in some servers, the elbow really doesnt sink. a guy that comes to mind is safin. could you describe how his serve/pivot works? From the videos, I see he uses a pretty abbreviated takeback. He seems to kind of 'come around' with his elbow pivot.
Yeah, I've noticed that especially with the WTA players (though not the Williams sisters.)
As for Safin, because he pronates his racquet (i.e. inverts racquet) prior to windup, the hand will be higher on his trophy position, as if he was using close to an Eastern BH grip to serve. That said, his hand is still a touch lower than head height.
I relooked at the videos and had some extra notes:
1) You want to preserve the elbow bend as the forearm starts to go up. "Preserve" the elbow bend as you set up the trophy position.
As you start your takeback, you're good about preserving the elbow bend. However, as you start raising your forearm from the ground to about parallel with ground, you have a habit of extending your elbow again. Because you do that, the racquet starts to hang "down" on your wrist again. You'll also notice that any deliberate pivoting of the elbow will also prevent you from protecting that elbow bend.
Now, usually when the forearm climbs from parallel-with-ground to the trophy position, the elbow bends in more. However, "preserve elbow bend" usually doesn't interfere with that.
2) As you're settting up the trophy, remember to keep the shoulder "high" and "back." This should lead to the elbow naturally sinking, so that the hand is about head level.
Let me know how that works.
:-? Wasn't as good as expected. Hand still remaining too high. Wrist position kinda awkward? This is really very frustrating.
Hmm. That should have worked. It's very difficult to preserve the angle of the elbow bend and at the same time pivot the elbow to set up the trophy position. Either the racquet ends up way too close to your head, or your elbow straightens out, which leads to the hand being too high.
Could you get me some time-slice shots of your takeback-into-trophy position?
Arent you supposed to pivot the elbow?
Oh no no, not actively/directly. You're not supposed to directly left the forearm around the elbow in order to set up the trophy.
As you orient your body upwards, the right forearm and upper arm rotates as one unit around the right shoulder to balance the body (i.e. keep yourself from bending over and on top to the right.) The elbow actually dips a little bit on its ownm, and the elbow angle comes in. This is more apparent when the tossing arm and takeback are synced together.
In all the clips in the past week, you pivot around the elbow to set up the trophy. I've been trying to get you away from that, to find how to set up the trophy by coiling your body and lengthening the left side of your body (i.e. orienting upwards.) I guess there was a disconnect in communications.
Again, if you prevent your elbow bend from lengthening through the takeback and into the trophy, it should help.
This might help:
Take your racquet back as you normally would in a serve. Hold that takeback. Now, without *intentionally* doing ANYTHING with your right arm, lean backwards to look straight up above you. Watch what happens to your right arm.
I know what you mean, but doing it is something else.
I orientate upwards, but I feel that all of this only automatically brings the elbow pivot up to a certain extent, like say 80% automatic then it kinda feels stuck there 80% of the way and I feel like I have to manually complete it to get into the full trophy
Okay, let's run through the questions.
1) Is your wrist still staying down?
2) How does your shoulder feel as you're setting up the trophy? Is it "low" or "high" (i.e. "raised"/"stretched")?
3) Do you continue try taking your shoulder back as you're setting up the trophy?
4) Are you sure your elbow bend is not straightening?
5) Is the elbow starting to dip?
6) Does the hand never cross above the shoulders?
Yeah it's frustrating, because once you have this, you'll have a properly functioning serve with proper shoulder rotation and pronation. Power and spin should make a huge jump once this is settled.
let todays screenshots answer the questions for you, arm is remained bent, hand is high.
you know the deal... up to 7
i will upload additional if necessary later
yo sharpy, you short,
you gotta hit up and pronate,
if wanna get the proper spin rate.
At SS3, it looks like the arm stretches out. Also, it kinda looks like the thumb-wrist line, which should still be almost straight, breaks. As a result, the racquet head should be higher in SS3.
It looks like you have the right idea for SS4 and SS5 for setting up the trophy. The thumb-wrist looks off again, but that's probably due to the wrist. If there was no issue with SS3, by the end of SS5, you should be near trophy.
i agree with thumb wrist and arm stretching out, I'm assuming i got into a bad habit with arm straightening a bit, but strictly keeping the elbow bend exactly the same feels very tense
heres a back view if you can see it
I guess I never had a problem with it, since to me, it's similar to groundstrokes. It just seems counterintuitive for the thumb-wrist to go from straight to bent. But if you are bending the thumb-wrist in mid-takeback, then yes maintaining the elbow bend will feel very tense.
Both the thumb-wrist and the elbow needs to be preserved as you go into the trophy position (though of course the elbow bends in a little bit more as the trophy is set.) It should be taken back as one unit.
I'll take a look at the video clip when I get home (which will be awhile.) I'll update this post.
ok. Sounds good tricky.
I'll actually go out there now and try out the thumb wrist and strict elbow bend with each other, video some and then i'll report back depending on the results.
i've got more clips, tried the thumb wrist but still same problem. let me look carefully to see if its straightening out now
screenshots and clips in a little bit
Ok. This should really help you
http://www.geocities.com/mastamoda/serve/tr1.jpg (to 10)
Sharpy --
In T3 and T4, it looks like your wrist is breaking neutral position and is bending forward. Why does this happen for you?
Ideally, the wrist needs to be in a neutral grip position, but with the wrist slightly stretched. For example, say you were hitting a WTA-style FH where the racquet initially is pointing straight up, the wrist should be in that position.
Is it all in the wrist causing problems?? why is the hand so high at trophy??
It's just a really odd position to hold the wrist, because no stroke in tennis is like that. I guess it's again, to me, counterintuitive to try something like that.
The takeback and the trophy are eccentric/negative phases of the serve,. Meaning the muscles stretch back and away. When you have your wrist slack like between the takeback and setting up of trophy (T3/T4), the arm is less able to stretch. (You can verify this by trying the takeback with your current wrist vs. a neutral grip wrist vs. a very laid-back wrist. Not only does the neutral grip wrist enable a longer takeback, but so does the very laid-back wrist.)
Because the takeback is constricted, you end up doing some kind of raising or active pivot movement in order to set up the trophy, which in turn destroys the loading of the shoulder rotation. And any time you directly use a pivot movement, the hand will end up very high.
See if holding the racquet and setting up the trophy with just your 2nd, 4th, and 5th fingers helps improve the wrist and trophy position.
I think I get it. So right now my wrist is actually flexed forward midway between takeback? Will presetting the wrist at neutral at the beggining help? Trouble is, I'm not even aware im doing this during the motion.
Yeah, a neutral wrist position should be the default position. If you think about preserving the elbow bend, the thumb-wrist, and the natural wrist position, this is all pretty consistent with normal FH and BH technique. It's nothing new.
So, in short:
1) Keep wrist in neutral position
2) Thumb-wrist position stretched (i.e. thumb roughly parallel with forearm)
3) Preserve elbow bend through takeback and setting up trophy position
4) Right hand never above shoulder level
5) Upward orientation of body sets up the trophy.
6) Elbow will sink on its own accord as trophy is set
My hunch is that, for a long time, you kinda treated your arm as "just there for the ride." Most tennis instruction concentrates on the body twist, knee bend, arm toss, and "check points" like the trophy position and racquet drop. They kinda leave the takeback details to experimentation.
I'm kinda harpering on you with the racquet drop and takeback, because if you get that down, then you'll easily learn what "shoulder over shoulder" external rotation and pronation really feels like. Which is the whole basis of a functionally "correct" serve, regardless of other details.
Most tennis out there just sucks. Yes my coaches in real life all advocate just doing it over and over and "time time time" to get a better serve. "use your body more, legs, etc" Keep in mind, this is how he learned it. He was a former ranked 200 atp player. They just naturally discover certain techniques after hitting 10000's of balls and such. Needless to say, he quickly got frustrated with me focusing so much on technique.
Ok, tricky.
I wish I had good news to report but the serve is technically very complicated.
heres some more screenshots from today
http://geocities.com/mastamoda/r1.jpg to ten
I assure you i have been working hard on maintaining a neutral wrist.
Sharpy --
In shots R3-R5 (possibly R2), your thumb-wrist appears bent-in. By R4, your wrist is actually starting to bend in again.
It looks like the issue now is you're having problems reconciling the wrist position and the thumb-wrist. In your case, the thumb-wrist needs to stay extended (like your 2 handed BH), and your wrist needs to be probably more laid back than it is currently (though it's still relatively neutral.) I think you understand that intellectually, but you may not what is the "feeling" you're looking for.
AT the beginning of your serve, when you're kinda swinging your arm back and forth to "groove" the takeback, try to look for a "feel" where the tricep near your elbow feels most stretched. Start with the extended thumb-wrist, and then start laying your wrist back more and more for each individual "swing" until you feel that stretch. You should also feel something of an stretch on the outer part of the arm, and that your pinkie feels more "active." Then do the rest of the takeback. Also, this should encourage you to take the racquet back with your elbow and shoulder, rather than concentrating on the hand.
Basically, keep swinging back and forth, and working with the wrist until you find that feel. Once you find that, work on mantaining that feel through the trophy position.
What do you mean "bent in" at r3-5? Is the thumb wrist still incorrect/not extended?
I basically just start with the wrist neutral "extended" then kinda bring the arm in with the tossing arm to the left hip and there is a downward component to this of course (which if you do this its almost impossible to keep a straight thumb wrist), is this messing things up?
From here, i basically pull back with elbow and then initiate upwards, but magically my wrist is always "down" and the hand becomes very high.
Not sure if I follow this. Can you into this a bit more?
pretty basic stuff tricky. racket/toss arm goes together down then back up and the motion starts.
the point is: im asking, why in the world is my shoulder not loading like its supposed to? why is the wrist not neutral when I start out neutral? why is the hand so high?
Relooked at your back swing video. Okay, I understand now about the "arm in" thing and looking at the swing back and forth. I should have picked this up before, but I had thought this was solved before.
Arm (i.e. elbow) needs to move AWAY from the body when the racquet initially starts takeback (i.e. goes down.) The racquet tip should initially pointed toward the left side fence. And then, as the take back continues, the arm comes back into the body and then behind the hips. This is a natural part of the motion.
Basically, when you "groove" your swing in the beginning, it's just in the wrong direction. Again, just point ot the left side fence and follow the groove from there. You should, again, feel it in the outer part of the arm and tricep around the elbow.
This matters, because you're essentially loading the shoulder for internal rotation.
Okay, so, the issue is why does the pivot motion with the elbow get initiated (thereby causing the hand to set up high?)
From the trophy position to the racquet drop, the forearm in the forward swing deviates or hooks away from the midline of your body. Now, typically in this trophy position, the hand is about shoulder level. This forearm deviation or hook enables it to "lift" the racquet just enough, so that it can drop comfortably behind the shoulder while the shoulder rotates. Next, this same "away" forearm deviation continues and causeds the swing to go "up" while the racquet is propelled out of the racquet drop. Finally, this same motion also enables the forearm to pronate while the shoulder is rotating.
Now, in order to load the forearm, so that it deviates explosively away from the midline (thereby enabling the swing to go into racquet, go out of racquet drop, and to initiate pronation all explosively), the takeback needs the forearm/elbow to move away from the midline of the body. Meaning elbow needs to hook toward the chest, or hook toward the waistline in the takeback (which of course makes no sense for this serve.) Now, if you initiate the takeback with the elbow initially moving away from the body (and racquet tip pointing "in" or toward your body), your forearm will deviate away from the midline. In other words, you've properly loaded the forearm, so that it can do its "in/out of racquet drop and upwards swing" magic out of the "low" (hand=shoulder level) trophy position.
However, that is not what's happening in your situation. Because you start the takeback with your elbow going into the body (and racquet tip pointing out), the forearm does not deviate away from the midline. It deviates toward the midline. As a result, your takeback doesn't set up the an "automatic" mechanism, which sets the racquet drop optimally and directs the upward swing. You find that you don't even quite have a trophy position, so that when you try initiating the upward swing, the racquet drop is poor and the swing doesn't go up very much. How do you solve this? You finish setting up the trophy position by letting the hand pivoting around the elbow. In other words, you actively "lift" the forearm just high enough, so that you can have an appropriate racquet drop when the shoulder rotates externally. In effect, this is a "corrective movement" added to the core takeback.
This creates complications. First, because you did not load the forearm to deviate away from the midline, even though you initiate the racquet drop, you still have to manually "lift" the racquet arm upwards out of the drop. Also, forearm pronation has to be initiated by you. But, the most crucial problem is that, now, the shoulder has lost a lot about half of its load. The load on the shoulder from the takeback to the trophy position is no longer there. The load that you do get comes from the trophy position into the racquet drop into the upward swing, or about half of the total backswing. So, the racquet speed isn't optimal.
But without that pivot motion, a proper service swing is not even possible. It's, again, a correct step for a hitch in the mechanics. It's not necessarily that the hand being high which compromise the shoulder load. It's that the hand being high is a sign that the shoulder load (and other aspects of the service) has already been compromised during the takeback.
not quite sure what you mean in the beggining "racket tip pointed to left side fence at start"
from what i see, the racket tip is actually pointed slightly down and to the RIGHT side fence.
are you refering to how the racket face(strings) are slightly supinated/ pointed to the left side fence rather than kind of on edge like me?
goes up to 3 this time
http://geocities.com/mastamoda/l1.jpg -shows how racket "tip" is actually pointed to the right but strings are slightly supinated? (i know you said absolutely no forearm rotation but it certainly appears like their might be, look at safin's strings at start)
2- adds me on
3- racket and toss arm are now close to right hip.
Ahh, I should have clarified that. Racquet tip should be pointing toward your body or "in." This way, when you initiate the takeback, the elbow initially moves away from the body and towards the chest. It's just a way to make sure you're properly grooving the takeback. You'll find that your shoulder turns much more this way.
Basically, right now, you're going "out-to-in" in your takeback. But you want to go "in-to-out" instead. It's not easy to pick up on video.
Yeah, Safin pronates his forearm to invert his racquet, as he begins his windup. This was actually one of the things i was going to plug after this and some other issues were resolved. Roddick and I think Federer also uses it, so that they get more pronation in their serve. But, again, that comes after the foundation is set.
I still don't quite get how the elbow would move "away" from the body initially. If you pull back with the elbow, the elbow would stay in that angle as it pulls back and i think the elbow would naturally just come back in to the body
would it be too much for you to draw an example of this on paint?
That little stick picture is awesome, thanks for sharing!
I'm trying to get my serve down as well and I was having a difficult time following/understanding the terminology in the thread, the picture really helped, thanks again.
no problem, glad to help
you haven't deserted me here have you?
Haha. Nah. Image sites are blocked at work, so . . .
I guess this is my stab at annotating one of the images. And, uhm, I apologize for sucking at this.
The light blue remembers the "slot" of the takeback. In yours, you're directly pulling back or from "out to in." In the Sampras pic, he's pulling away or from "in to out." The slot is more or less set by your racquet tip angle ("in" or "out") at the beginning of the windup.
Eventually, both takebacks go back in (i.e. the Sampras one is really "in-out-in.") BUT, in the latter, the elbow/forearm also hooks toward the chest. I tried to convey the differences in path with the darker blue lines.
LOL. that is probably the cheesiest attempt ive ever seen. but credits for your effort
So with the sampras picture, the light blue is the correct path? what about the navy dark blue, is that the "bad"?
Yeah. BeHappy is Picasso compared to me.
The light blue path represents the slot itself as you initiate the takeback. Again, the arm initially goes away and upwards from the body, and the racquet tip starts "in" or slightly toward your body.
The darker blue circle describes the overall path, which is kind of a loop tilted on its side. The arm comes across your body in a longer path than what you're currently doing, and at the same time the elbow is hooking upwards toward chest level. (With the elbow bend, thumb-wrist, and wrist position all static.) And, so, prior to orienting the body upwards and setting the trophy, the arm is pulled back and the elbow is close to or at chest level.
As I see it, the only real difference is that you just change your slot so that the racquet tip is initially pointing toward your body, and then pull back the arm following that slot.
Wait is that what im doing now "incorrect"? or is that the solution?
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