6 Things Every Tennis Player Gets Way Too Excited For (As Told By GIFs)

Don’t lie, we all know you get a little too excited every time one of these things happens.

6. Creating the perfect tennis ball pyramid on your racket

It’s not as easy as you’d think.

5. A pro’s basket of new tennis balls

Who doesn’t get a twinkle in their eyes and an extra bounce in their step?

4. A newly gripped racket

It’s just so clean and grippy. It even glows a little.

3. The sense of accomplishment when breaking a string

Right before you remember you have to pay to get it restrung.

2. The *pop pshhhh* sound when opening a new can of balls

Weirdly satisfying.

1. The amazing smell of a new can of balls

Breathe it all in!

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Latest on Miami Sea Level Rise ... by gimleteye

Last week, Jim Murley was appointed to a new Miami-Dade position and a $190,000 salary by Mayor Carlos Gimenez. As described by the Miami Herald, Murley will be the county's Chief Resilience Officer, a new post created after citizens clamored at a recent budget hearing about the failure of Mayor Gimenez to take climate change issues seriously.

“The people’s voices were heard,” Gimenez spokesman Michael Hernández told the Miami Herald. He might have added the mayor also heard challengers promising to do a better job for people in the 2016 election cycle.

Mayor Gimenez noted Mr. Murley is a "veteran planner", a planner like Jack Osterholt, the deputy mayor who oversees the county’s climate-change and environmental functions.

Planners populate governmental task forces, commissions, and committees. They understand their roles to be assessing and analyzing information, but also to straddle the divide between stakeholders with competing interests; pro's and anti's, those for and those against any particular action being planned.

Anyone who has observed or participated in government commissions or committees understands how the end product of planning, studies and recommendations and planning documents, often diffuse, delay and soften the imperative to action. Moving roads, building new suburbs or extending old ones, the normal exchanges of planning -- one purpose against another -- is often designed to put people to sleep so what special interests want eventually gets done, one way or another.

Sea level rise is, as a middle school teacher of mine used to call a problem; "a horse of a different color".

Jim Murley is not going to be asked to "do" or to "act" or even to interpret the intent of Mayor Gimenez who may or may not be convinced there is anything for him to "do" about climate change. Why should the mayor, when there is the example of leaders like Florida Senator Marco Rubio whose response to pressure to act on global warming is to shrug; "we are not a planet".

In the context of climate change, the "we are not a planet" comment by Senator Rubio wraps up a couple of conservative ideas: 1) that the United States can act, but our actions will have no impact because India and China aren't keeping pace with necessary changes, 2) that the planet will do what it will, with or without us.

Mayor Gimenez' recent county budget proposal, pre- appointment of Jim Murley, more or less cozied up to Rubio's view, "Yeah we got lots of low-lying land, but what are we going to do about rising seas? If the seas go up, so what?"

It is not exactly a secret that big campaign contributors have the last word on policies implemented by government and how they are funded by taxpayers. For planners, whole careers are made from muddling through, otherwise called mastering "the art of the possible".

"While Mr. Murley’s credentials are impressive, it is his proven track record as a collaborative regional planner that makes him the perfect candidate for the job of CRO," Gimenez wrote in the memo. What a great success regional planning has been. (Not.) To our readers, it should go without saying that under Gov. Rick Scott, decades of purpose-driving state planning was thrown under the bus.

Maggie Fernandez, a Miami-Dade activist and president of Sustainable Miami told the Miami Herald that Gimenez’s pick was “disheartening” because of Murley’s planning background. "Is he the dynamic leader I was hoping for? I don’t think so,” she said. “I envisioned someone with fresh ideas."

In the scheme of politics, it doesn't matter if Citizen Maggie Fernandez is right, Mayor Carlos Gimenez has more right to be wrong. That's the privilege of high office in South Florida.

The problem for taxpayers is that planning processes end up acquiring a life and momentum of their own, and all participants become wholly vested in staking out positions that lead to no change or improvement or accountability for solving what they came together to plan in the first place.

If you've read this far, read what all the fuss about sea level rise, here:

Dr. Harold Wanless Sept. 2015

FIRST LOOK: Nautilus hotel to reopen in Miami Beach after two years of renovations

After more than two years of top-to-bottom renovations, meticulous restorations and a management change, Nautilus South Beach reopens to guests on Oct. 15. Sixty Hotels owner Jason Pomeranc, whose company manages the hotel at 1825 Collins Ave., told the Business Journal that the multimillion-dollar improvements have elevated the property to its 1950s grandeur after it fell into disarray over decades. The 250-room hotel was designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus, and key elements of the original…

Royal Palms apartments in Broward sold for $12M

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Al Jazeera America feature on Madison, Wisconsin homelessness

A friend of mine had shared this story on facebook and I idly clicked it not knowing what I was in for. I saw the string of cars and vans along a curved street and thought, “Hey. That looks sorta like that area by Milwaukee Street.” Oh. That *IS* that area by Milwaukee Street. The more »

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Al Jazeera America feature on Madison, Wisconsin homelessness

A friend of mine had shared this story on facebook and I idly clicked it not knowing what I was in for. I saw the string of cars and vans along a curved street and thought, “Hey. That looks sorta like that area by Milwaukee Street.” Oh. That *IS* that area by Milwaukee Street. The more »

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Mana proposes 11M-square-foot project in Miami’s Wynwood

Moishe Mana plans to infuse Miami’s hot Wynwood neighborhood with his vision for arts, culture and entertainment in a dense environment, one totaling 11 million square feet of development. The project would have space for artists, educational programs and young residents, said Dylan Finger, the managing director for Mana’s Florida properties. Some buildings would be as tall as 24 stories, he said. It would feature residences, hotel rooms, retail, restaurants, offices, and performance spaces.…