A Franklin Lakes resident, Taylor Hallman’s profession involves assisting clients with preparing business continuation plans in case their businesses are closed because of some event. While at home in Franklin Lakes, Taylor Hallman enjoys studying time and how timepieces are made.Horology, or the study or time and making clocks, has its origins in ancient Sumeria, where it is believed time tracking began, but the first actual record was in ancient Egypt. Today's digitized timepieces that track time to the nanosecond are a major evolution to ancient timepieces that are great records of history but are very antiquated in their function.Historians mark 1450 BC as the first time that Egyptians used the Earth’s natural circadian rhythms to denote time. The Egyptians used this method to devise a day that would be divided into two 12-hour intervals.Egyptians contributed significantly to the field of horology. Egyptians invented water clocks used in the Precinct of Amen-Re, which the Ancient Greeks then later adopted. The Egyptians also created the sundial, also known as shadow clocks. These clocks divided time into two ten-hour intervals and two twilight hours.The entire world, at some point, devised some method for keeping track of time. Ancient civilizations in China, Japan, and England used candle pieces to denote time. India and Tibet used the hourglass and the time stick. Finally, Mayan civilizations used large stone constructions and pyramids to track the equinox and solstice.
Based in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Taylor Hallman has spent nearly eight years as a business continuation associate with Newark’s Prudential Financial. Taylor Hallman achieved his business continuation certification in 2015. An avid tennis player and former country club instructor, the Franklin Lakes native is an active member of the NYC Tennis League.The nature of the tennis scoring system means players must hold their serves to win a set. If a player’s serve is not broken, they cannot lose the match. When it comes to diversifying serving strategy, players should review the common types of tennis serves, evaluating both their strengths and deficiencies.For power players with big serves, the flat serve represents an important weapon. These serves are delivered with as little spin as possible, resulting in a relatively flat trajectory at high speed. Placed correctly, a well struck flat serve is often impossible to return. Of course, the speed and lack of spin makes a flat serve a much riskier prospect than other serves, with serves potentially going long, wide, or into the net.Slice serves are a safer strategy, while the lack of speed along with considerable spin can still be used to offensive ends: when a right-handed player serves to the deuce court, or a left-handed player serves to the ad court, slice serves swing wide and pull the returner off the court. This opens the entire court for servers to hit a likely winner. Of course, a poorly placed or predictable slice serve is essentially a sitting duck for a competent returner.Finally, the kick serve represents an effective blend of flat and slice serves. Unlike the flat serve, kick serves make use of large amounts of top spin, giving the serve greater margin for error. That said, these serves maintain more pace than slice serves and can also “jump” high off the court, making it difficult to return the ball. Like the slice serve, however, the kick serve is best utilized as a surprise tactic.
