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Rand Paul says the 'vast majority' of voting must be in person to mitigate potential for fraud
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said that the "vast majority" of voting needs to be in person to limit the potential for voter fraud in an interview Monday evening, citing a study about absentee ballots in Pennsylvania that has been flagged by statistical experts as flawed.
Appearing on "The Story" with host Martha MacCallum, Paul said the 2020 presidential election was "unprecedented" due to the high volume of mail-in votes cast because of the coronavirus pandemic. These mail-in votes, Paul claimed, are difficult to "validate."
"This was an unprecedented election," Paul said. "Normally, 99% show up in person and we can kind of police that the right people showed up because you don't have the same people showing up again and again. They sign in, they show an ID, and it's pretty easy to validate the vote."
"But now we have an election where maybe a third to a half mailed in their ballots," he added. "This has never ever happened in our history, so we have to validate, were they the right people?"
Paul cited a statistical analysis from a Williams College professor that purportedly shows more than 89,000 absentee ballots requested by Republican voters in Pennsylvania were not counted or were requested by someone other than a registered Republican. The analysis is part of a sworn affidavit from professor Steven Miller, a Yale- and Princeton-trained math expert, who used data provided by former Trump campaign data chief Matt Braynard. Braynard leads the "Voter Integrity Fund," a group led by former Trump campaign staffers and government employees that is analyzing voter data in key battle ground states looking for evidence of fraud and investigating irregularities.
Pennsylvania on Tuesday certified the results of the presidential election, which former Vice President Joe Biden won by more than 80,000 votes. Paul suggested that if the Trump campaign takes Miller's statistical analysis to court, a judge may be persuaded to order a review of absentee ballots in Pennsylvania.
"I would think that if we took this to a court, the court would then mandate that you have to look at all of the absentee votes one at a time, not count them, but verify whether or not the person who you say voted, you actually call them and ask them, 'did you vote' and 'who did you vote for' to verify the vote," Paul said.
However, the analysis cited by Paul has drawn criticism from statisticians for failing to meet basic standards of statistical analysis and been called "irresponsible" and "naive" by academic peers reviewing the study. Critics who spoke to the Berkshire Eagle say the study was wrong to separate basic mathematical analysis from questions about the validity of the data.
The Eagle reported that Miller's analysis used phone survey results from several thousand voters to draw conclusions about absentee votes in Pennsylvania:
Braynard collected the data by contracting call centers to get in touch with Republican voters across six swing states, in an apparent attempt to root out election fraud, according to reporting from several outlets. He told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that his operators were asking voters three questions: "Did a person with your name vote? Did you request a mail-in ballot? Did you return a mail-in ballot?"
In his analysis, Miller wrote that the group called 20,000 Republican voters in Pennsylvania who, according to state records, had requested but not returned ballots. In all, 2,684 agreed to answer questions, he said. Of the respondents, 463 reported that they actually had mailed in a ballot and 556 reported that they had not requested a ballot in the first place, according to the report.
Miller extrapolated from those numbers that between 44,892 and 48,522 Republican voters on the state's list of "requested but not returned" mail-in ballots had, in fact, returned their ballot, only to see it excluded from the state's final vote count. He also estimated that another 40,875 to 53,909 ballots were requested in the name of a registered Republican by another person.
Miller's colleagues have challenged the data collected by the Voter Integrity Project as "completely without merit" and criticized Miller for publishing his analysis without addressing concerns about the data.
"To apply naïve statistical formulas to biased data and publish this is both irresponsible and unethical," said Richard De Veaux, vice president of the American Statistical Association and a colleague of Miller's in the Williams College Department of Mathematics and Statistics. "It is the statistician's responsibility to verify the data, or to provide disclaimers if that can't be done."
Carina Curto, a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, said Miller's analysis is "almost surely wrong" because it assumes that the people who answered the phone were a representative sample of Pennsylvania Republican voters who requested but did not return a ballot.
"This small sample from the phone survey almost surely has large sampling biases and systematic errors," said Curto. "There is absolutely no reason to believe it is representative of the larger population."
"There's no guarantee that the people they talked to were the actual people they meant to call," added Lior Pachter, a computational biologist at the California Institute of Technology. He said the Voter Integrity Project should have also contacted Democratic voters as a control group.
"What happened here is somebody had a question, to which they had an answer they had decided on ahead of time," he said. "At a minimum, if they actually wanted to figure out if there was election fraud, they would have also polled Democrats."
Miller responded to his critics, apologizing for a "lack of clarity and due diligence" in his analysis.
"Especially as the consequences are so important, I should have made a greater effort to go deeply into and share how the data was collected and not treat this solely as an independent calculation," he told the Berkshire Eagle in a statement.
He defended the decision to do the analysis.
"I am not concluding fraud happened, or that state outcomes should be changed," Miller said. "What I said was, assuming the accuracy of these numbers, then we have a large number of people who had a ballot requested in their name but say they did not request it, and we have a large number of people who said they mailed their ballot back but it was not counted."
HIs results "should encourage more analysis of this important problem so we can see how well things worked and, if there are issues, how we can do better in future elections."
Regarding future elections, Sen. Paul told Fox News that voting in person is "the easiest way to validate an election is to vote in person."
"I'm not against voting early or having early voting, but the majority of the vote, the vast majority, needs to be in person because there are so many checkpoints," he added.
"In the future we have to go back to in-person voting. We can't just say oh, here's a ballot, we're going to mail it to anyone. I think it's ripe for fraud."
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Movie Review: Ted 2
Michael Fairbanks
For a guy who previously built his empire on cartoons with fat men fighting chickens and sexually ambiguous aliens, Seth MacFarlane really could not have asked for a better live action debut than Ted. It was a perfect meshing of his absurd humor with a storyline that had some deeply relatable themes of arrested development and friendship, it was a hit with both critics and audiences alike. Then, like many artists who storm out of the gate swinging, he face-planted with the flat A Million Ways To Die in the West. Seemingly taking that failure in stride, MacFarlane has decided to go back to his tale of a slacker and his bear, for better or worse.
Ted 2 picks up several months after the original ended, with our titular stuffed bear (Seth MacFarlane) getting married to his girlfriend Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). While Ted is dancing his night away in a Vaudevillian state of bliss, his best friend John (Mark Wahlberg) is lamenting his divorce from Mila Kunis' Lori six months prior. However, John finds himself having to put all that aside when Ted and Tami-Lynn find themselves unable to adopt a child, as Ted is not recognized by the state as a human being. Determined to sue the government for Ted's rights, they find themselves turning to lawyer Samantha Jackson (Amanda Seyfried) who to their delight turns out to be much more free spirited then your average attorney.
While he does not always succeed in his attempt, MacFarlane deserves heavy praise for making a genuine effort to craft a story for Ted and John that isn't just a re-tread of what came before, while still retaining the spirit of what made that movie work. While the first one was mainly John's story, with Ted resigned to being an entertaining obstacle for most of the story, this one really goes out of it's way to humanize Ted through this court case device, which makes his chemistry with John all the stronger. These two genuinely feel like two best friends who have hung out with each other all their lives, and the movie is at it's funniest when it simply allows them to play off each other with banter that would be funny even if one of them wasn't a talking bear. While the screenplay does have to regress John back a bit from the mature point he got to at the end of Ted, MacFarlane doesn't simply throw it away either. The explanation ultimately given for how things are now not only makes sense, but gains points for even being there in the first place. Also, while Mila Kunis certainly served her purpose very well in Ted, she dosen't exactly make for the best third stooge, making Seyfried a very welcome presence. Her easy going demeanor meshes well with that of her peers, and her character's willingness to throw herself into the boy's shenanigans makes for some very entertaining moments. Even Tami-Lynn, who was such a flat bore last time around gets something to do here, proving herself fairly likable herself as the film goes on.
The humor is looser and more absurd than in the original, which serves as both a strength and a weakness. There are plenty of moments here that are hilariously loopy stoner movie bliss, with some cameos, politically incorrect jobs and references galore, vintage MacFarlane at his most well structured and biting. However, there are still plenty of scenes that just fall flat, carrying out one joke for entirely too long before moving to something new. The movie never truly looses momentum, but it'll often alternate between something hysterical, and something lame, unlike its constantly funny predecessor. I suppose that's just the curse of being a talent who mostly writes short jokes for television. There's plenty of great material spewing out, but no real filter to buffer out the stuff that just isn't working.
Falling particularly flat is the third act, which betrays the braveness of the rest of the story by needlessly bringing back Giovanni Ribisi's Donnie, Ted's stalker. Just like in the first one, there's a big chase action sequence involving this character and although MacFarlane does have a decent knack for managing comedic chaos, it feels completely forced in just to repeat something from the original. This segment even goes as far as to essentially have the exact same two or three concluding scenes as the first film, and although this repetition is brought up and made fun of, that doesn't really excuse it. Sorry Seth, but leave the deprecating humor and repetition to the Jump Street guys.
Even if it is as not as fully developed a story as it's predecessor, Ted 2 does ultimately get the job done in the end. It delivers plenty of the raunchy humor that is expected, while balancing it out with characters that easy to care about, even going the extra mile to give a little depth to those who were underdeveloped before. However, it eventually does fall into the standard comedy sequel tropes to droning effect, loosing some of the goodwill that it stuffs into it's furry, funny little body. Even so, it's a perfectly huggable summer diversion that certainly could have worn it's premise a whole lot thinner than it does. Now let's see a good one without the bear MacFarlane.
Rating: B
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КОРОТКЕ ПОЛІТИКО-ЕКОНОМІЧНЕ ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ФАШИЗМУ
У статті вирішується проблема формування простого, зрозумілого та операбельного визначення фашизму як політико-економічного феномену. Проаналізовані методичні підходи до визначення фашизму, які були застосовані політиками, ученими, діячами культури. У рамках типології запропоновано виділяти емоційний, феноменологічний та сутнісний типи визначень фашизму. Проаналізовані переваги та недоліки визначень кожного типу. Запропоноване сутнісне визначення фашизму як феномену використання псевдосоціалістичної демагогії для захисту інтересів олігархату.
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Базилевич В.Д. Економічна наука та освіта в епоху системних трансформацій: нові виклики і запити до фундаментальної теорії / В.Д. Базилевич // Економіка України – 2016. – № 8. – C. 78–92.
Bazylevych, V.D. (2016) Ekonomichna nauka ta osvita v epokhu systemnykh transformatsij: novi vyklyky i zapyty do fundamental'noi teorii [Economic science and education in the era of systemic transformation: new challenges and requests for fundamental theory], Ekonomika Ukrainy [Economy of Ukraine], no. 8, pp. 78-92.
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Monique Hill is a Breast Cancer Survivor. She was diagnosed March, 2011, after a biopsy with Stage IV Breast Cancer in her right breast, which metastasized to both lungs. Due to the severity, a chemotherapy port was surgica lly placed for treatment. Within one week of her biopsy and port being implanted, she was referred to Cancer Specialists of North Florida for treatment. Her Oncologist quickly started chemotherapy with the total treatment lasting 12 months. During the first 4fourmonths of chemo she was severely fatigued, gained weight from the high dose of steroids, and loss both her facial hair (eyelashes and eyebrows) ,as well as her hair on her head. Six months after chemotherapy she had to make a decision regarding surgery.
The cancer tumor was smaller and the Oncologist gave her an option; lumpectoher or mastectoher. She chose the mastectoher because the breast tissue and lymph nodes were being removed, which lessened her chance of the cancer returning. Her mastectoher was October 2011, seven months after starting chemo. During the surgery, she received a device to stretch her right breast and lift her left side to prevent wearing prosthetic implants. In addition to recovering from surgery she still had five months to continue weekly treatment at the Cancer Center. The mastectoher surgery was a success but she immediately noticed extreme pain, swelling, and tightness in her right arm. After seeing a specialist, she was diagnosed with a condition called lymphedema. She was referred to Physical Therapy and Home Therapy that required me to learn exercises and massage techniques to decrease swelling and pain that allowed me use of her right arm.
One year after her mastectoher (October 2012), she was referred to a plastic surgeon at Baptist South where she began breast reconstruction. After receiving saline injections every other week for six months, an implant was surgically placed in her right breast and her left breast received a breast lift. Her total treatment was one year and six months from beginning to end. After many doctor appointments, blood work, physical therapy, chemotherapy, breast reconstruction She is thankful to have been blessed to be four years "Cancer Free". She currently takes oral chemotherapy and will continue to take it for the next five years. Her Oncologist visits and lab work has reduced from one a week to once a year. She continues to have her yearly mammogram to ensure the cancer has not returned. She will also have a PET scan every five years per her Oncologist. She urges every woman to have a yearly check-up with your OB GYN and go to a Breast Center for a screening.


When it comes to style, the measure is in the details. Manage your brand and fashion voice properly this season leaving your style impression immaculate from head down to the socks. It's all fun and games until the socks come out.


The HMRC Charter was introduced in 2009 and updated in 2016. It sets out a list of rights for you and your client and responsibilities upon you and your client. Although it does not replace existing rights and remedies, it is a useful addition particularly in complaints. More information can be found in the Charter section.


"We are proud to host Afghans," the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Hanachi as saying during the ceremony. He added that Tehran owed much of its beauty to Afghans, many of whom work as laborers and artisans across the country.
"Despite the political boundary between Iran and Afghanistan, there is no cultural border because of the common traditions between the two nations," Mohammad Reza Javadi Yeganeh, the deputy of the cultural and social affairs of the Tehran municipality, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
Yeganeh, who was present at the ceremony, said that "Afghans were talented and intelligent people," and urged state-run media to inform Iranians about the success of Afghan migrants in the country.
Iranian actor Ashkan Khatibi, who was at the ceremony, apologized for a series of recent controversies that have angered the Afghan community in Iran. "We are all human beings and we have no superiority over one another," he said.


CUT is a Wolfgang Puck restaurant located inside 45 Park Lane. It's a great place to visit if you're looking for an upscale steak experience. Service is attentive and friendly, and nothing is too much trouble for the staff. We had a lovely table which overlooked Park Lane and made for the most enjoyable dining experience.
We started our evening with an aperitif, two glasses of Laurent-Perrier Rose Brut, NV. A wonderfully elegant champagne, and a great start to our evening.
To begin we enjoyed a selection of canapes, my favourite being the Burrata Salad with Prosciutto di Parma, Poached Peach and Micro Basil, the Burrata was incredibly fresh and tasted delicious. We also enjoyed the Mini Wagyu Beef Sliders served in Crisp Brioche Buns, with Sweet Pickles and Sharp Melted Cheese. The Wagyu Beef Sliders were superb, they might be miniature burgers, but they certainly deliver big on flavour.
For our first course, I ordered Roasted Baby Beets with Dorstone Goat Cheese, Toasted Pistachios, Citrus, Micro Basil, and Mint. I have to say, the flavours in this dish complimented each other perfectly. My partner ordered the Big Eye Tuna Tartare, Wasabi Aioli, Ginger, Togarashi Crisps, and Tosa Soy. A lovely Japanese inspired dish, the Wasabi and Ginger gave this dish a subtle kick, the Tuna was well seasoned, and each mouthful was a joy.
Moving on to our main course, I ordered the South Devon Angus, this steak was a 28-day aged 6oz Petit Cut Filet Mignon, with Armagnac and Green Peppercorn Sauce. The steak was mouthwatering tasty, and the Peppercorn Sauce completed this dish wonderfully. My partner opted for the USDA Prime, 35-day aged, Creekstone Farms, Arkansas City, 10 oz Black Angus Beef New York Sirloin, with a Shallot Red Wine Bordelaise. Another exceptional dish, it's evident the chef's at CUT take their steak dishes seriously, and this results in high-quality dishes that are a joy to experience.
Moving on to dessert we decided to share the Warm Chocolate Souffle. The Souffle was incredibly fluffy, and had a deep, rich chocolate that oozes out as your enter the molten centre, a chocoholic's dream. This dessert is worth saving a little room for.
Our choice of wine for the evening was a bottle of 2011, Contra Costa County Cabernet Sauvignon, Viano Vineyards, California. A full-bodied red with black fruits, a hint of oak, and a perfect marriage with meat dishes.
The menu is superb at CUT and full of tempting choices, the steak dishes are exceptional and testament to the culinary skills of the chefs. CUT get's a firm recommendation from us, and I'm sure we will be returning in the future.


The book offers a unique inside and emotional view of two competing salespeople who faced off in the pursuit of a big opportunity. Both represent great companies. Both are highly talented and successful. One wins and one loses. Theirs is a classic competition you see every day in American business, and is what makes selling the most exciting profession in the world. The book unveils the strategies and approaches that the winner and all Profit Heroes use to achieve success.
who are the profit heroes?
Profit Heroes addresses a new "call to arms" that is transforming selling. To thrive in the future, salespeople must understand how customers are changing and what it will take to win. It is no longer about your company against mine, or your products and services against mine, or your know-how against mine. It is now all about profitability and the ability to identify it, quantify it, sell it and deliver it. To win you must be viewed by customers as more than "a vendor." You must now become "an earnings contributor".


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Madison Keys (* 17. Februar 1995 in Rock Island, Illinois) ist eine US-amerikanische Tennisspielerin.

Karriere
Keys, die am liebsten auf Hartplätzen spielt, kam im Alter von neun Jahren in die Chris Evert Academy in Boca Raton. Sie gehört zu den jüngsten Spielerinnen, die auf der WTA Tour jemals ein Match gewonnen haben. Im Alter von 14 Jahren besiegte sie bei ihrem ersten WTA-Turnier in Ponte Vedra Beach mit einer Wildcard ausgestattet Alla Kudrjawzewa, damals die Nummer 81 der Welt, glatt in zwei Sätzen, bevor sie in der zweiten Runde Nadja Petrowa unterlag. Im gleichen Jahr debütierte sie auf der ITF Women's World Tennis Tour und gewann 2010 ihren ersten Profititel. Bei den US Open ging sie im gleichen Jahr mit einer Wildcard erstmals in der Qualifikation eines Grand-Slam-Turniers an den Start und schied in der ersten Runde aus. 2011 durfte sie dann sogar im Hauptfeld antreten und zog nach einem Auftaktsieg gegen Jill Craybas auf Anhieb in die zweite Runde ein, in der sie Lucie Šafářová unterlag. 2012 gewann sie dann in Saguenay ihren ersten Titel bei einem ITF-Turnier der $50.000-Kategorie, auf den zum Saisonabschluss in Phoenix ein weiterer der $75.000-Kategorie folgte.

2013 etablierte sich Keys endgültig auf der WTA Tour. Nachdem sie in Sydney ihr erstes WTA-Viertelfinale erreichte, in dem sie Li Na unterlag, erreichte sie bei den Australian Open im Anschluss zum ersten Mal die dritte Runde eines Grand-Slam-Turniers und scheiterte dort an Angelique Kerber. In Madrid rückte sie danach als Lucky Loserin nachträglich ins Hauptfeld und schlug in der ersten Runde mit Li Na erstmals eine Spielerin aus den Top 10 der Weltrangliste. Auch in Wimbledon kam sie daraufhin in die dritte Runde und erzielte gegen Saisonende in Tokio das Achtelfinale sowie anschließend in Osaka ihr erstes WTA-Halbfinale, das sie gegen Samantha Stosur verlor. Das Jahr beendete sie anschließend erstmals unter den besten 50 im Ranking. Zum Auftakt der Saison 2014 stand Keys in Sydney ins Halbfinale, verlor dort jedoch erneut gegen Angelique Kerber. In einer ansonsten wechselhaften Saison, errang sie auf Rasen in Eastbourne nach einem Finalerfolg, wiederum gegen Kerber, ihren ersten WTA-Titel.

2015 gelang Keys zu Jahresbeginn unter ihrer neuen Trainerin Lindsay Davenport bei den Australian Open der endgültige Durchbruch auf der WTA Tour, als sie nach einem Sieg über venus Williams bis ins Halbfinale kam, in dem sie sich Serena Williams geschlagen geben musste. Auf Sandplatz erzielte sie in Charleston ihr zweites Tour-Finale, verlor dort jedoch abermals gegen Angelique Kerber. Auch in Wimbledon überzeugte Keys und rückte bis ins Viertelfinale vor, in dem sie von Agnieszka Radwańska in drei Sätzen geschlagen wurde. Nachdem sie auch bei den US Open vor heimischem Publikum ins Achtelfinale einzog, rückte sie im Ranking erstmals unter die besten 20 vor und qualifizierte sich somit erstmals für die WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai, wo sie mit einem Sieg über Zheng Saisai und einer Niederlage gegen Venus Williams in der Gruppenphase ausschied.

2016 spielte Keys dann ihre bisher mit Abstand konstanteste Saison, in der sie insgesamt sechs Siege gegen Top-10-Spielerinnen landen konnte. Nach einem weiteren Achtelfinaleinzug bei einem Grand-Slam-Turnier in Melbourne, stieß sie in Miami erstmals ins Viertelfinale vor, scheiterte dort jedoch wieder an Angelique Kerber. Im selben Monat wurde Mats Wilander als ihr neuer Trainer vorgestellt; doch nach nur acht Tagen trennte man sich wieder. Dennoch kam sie im Anschluss in Rom nach zwei Top-10-Siegen gegen Petra Kvitová in der zweiten Runde sowie Garbiñe Muguruza im Halbfinale in ihr erstes Endspiel bei einem Turnier der Premier-5-Kategorie, das sie gegen Serena Williams verlor. Sowohl bei den French Open als auch in Wimbledon erreichte sie danach die vierte Runde und feierte in Birmingham nach einem Endspielsieg über Barbora Strýcová bei ihrem zweiten Finalauftritt der Saison ihren zweiten Karrieretitel. Nach dem Einzug ins Finale des Rogers Cup in Montreal, das sie gegen Simona Halep verlor, kletterte Keys erstmals in die Top-10 der Weltrangliste. Bei den Olympischen Spielen in Rio de Janeiro erreichte sie im Anschluss im Einzelwettbewerb das Halbfinale, schied dort aber gegen Angelique Kerber aus und musste sich im darauffolgenden Spiel um Bronze Petra Kvitová geschlagen geben. Auch bei ihrem vierten Grand-Slam-Auftritt des Jahres in New York erreichte sie das Achtelfinale, auf das zum Saisonende in Wuhan ein Viertelfinale sowie nach einem Sieg über Petra Kvitová eine Halbfinalteilnahme in Peking folgten. Als Siebte der Weltrangliste, ihre bis heute höchste Platzierung im Ranking, qualifizierte sie sich erstmals für die WTA Championships 2016 in Singapur, wo sie nach einem Sieg über Dominika Cibulková und zwei Niederlagen gegen Simona Halep und Angelique Kerber in der Vorrunde ausschied.

Eine Handgelenksverletzung zwang Keys, ihre Teilnahme an den Australian Open 2017 abzusagen. Erst nach einem zweiten operativen Eingriff, spielte sie sich im Sommer wieder in Form und gewann in Stanford nach einem Finalsieg gegen Coco Vandeweghe ihren dritten WTA-Titel. Der bislang größte Erfolg ihrer Karriere gelang Keys dann bei den US Open mit dem Einzug in ihr erstes Grand-Slam-Finale, das sie in einem rein amerikanischen Finale gegen Sloane Stephens verlor. Trotz der längeren Verletzungspause, konnte Keys die Saison das dritte Jahr in Folge in den Top 20 beenden. Bei den Australian Open zu Beginn der Saison 2018 erzielte sie nach einem Erfolg über Caroline Garcia das Viertelfinale, in dem sie einmal mehr von Angelique Kerber gestoppt wurde. In einer erneut wechselhaften Saison stand Keys in Charleston dann zu Beginn der Sandplatzsaison im Halbfinale, doch ihre besten Resultate hatte sie in der Folge bei den Grand-Slam-Turnieren. So erreichte sie in Paris, wo sie wieder gegen Stephens verlor, wie auch in New York, wo sie sich schließlich Naomi Ōsaka geschlagen geben musste, das Halbfinale. Aufgrund einer Verletzung am linken Knie musste sie anschließend in Wuhan und Peking jeweils in der zweiten Runde aufgeben und ihre Teilnahme für die US-Amerikanerinnen am Finale des Fed-Cup 2018 gegen Tschechien zurückziehen. Dennoch ging sie zum Jahresabschluss bei der WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai an den Start, wo sie nach einem Sieg über Darja Kassatkina sowie einer Niederlage gegen Wang Qiang aufgrund des besseren Satzverhältnisses eigentlich ins Halbfinale einzog, dort aber aufgrund ihrer Knieverletzung nicht antreten konnte.

2019 startete Keys in Melbourne mit einem Achtelfinaleinzug in die neue Saison, bevor sie in Charleston bei ihrer zweiten Finalteilnahme nach 2015 mit einem Zweisatzerfolg im Endspiel gegen Caroline Wozniacki ihren ersten Titel errang. Bei den French Open rückte sie anschließend ins Viertelfinale vor, in dem sie erst von der späteren Siegerin Ashleigh Barty geschlagen wurde. Auf Hartplatz gelang ihr dann in Cincinnati nach einem Drittrundenerfolg gegen Simona Halep und einem Sieg im Finale über Swetlana Kusnezowa ihr bis dahin größter Karriereerfolg, auf den eine weitere Achtelfinalteilnahme in New York folgte, bei der sie gegen Elina Switolina verlor. Auch in diesem Jahr gelang Keys die Qualifikation für die WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai, wo sie nach einer Niederlage gegen Zheng Saisai und einem Sieg gegen Petra Martić in der Vorrunde scheiterte. Trotzdem überwinterte sie zum fünften Mal in Folge in den Top 20 im Ranking.

Die Saison 2020 begann Keys in Brisbane, wo sie mit einem Erfolg über Petra Kvitová ins Endspiel vorrückte, das sie aber gegen Karolína Plíšková verlor.

2014 gab Keys bei der 1:3-Niederlage gegen Italien ihren Einstand für die Fed-Cup-Mannschaft der Vereinigten Staaten. Seitdem hat sie für ihr Land zehn Begegnungen im Einzel und Doppel bestritten, von denen sie fünf gewinnen konnte (Einzelbilanz 4:4).

Erfolge

Einzel

Turniersiege

Finalteilnahmen

Doppel

Abschneiden bei Grand-Slam-Turnieren

Einzel

Doppel

Mixed

Weltranglistenpositionen am Saisonende

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website von Madison Keys

Einzelnachweise

Billie-Jean-King-Cup-Spielerin (Vereinigte Staaten)
Olympiateilnehmer (Vereinigte Staaten)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2016
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1995
Frau

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Dr Neil Cocks
Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media The world-famous MA, run by CIRCL, is the oldest accredited degree in the field in Britain, and is taught by specialists in Children's Literature, whose research is published internationally. JOIN TODAY
Dr Neil Cocks, BA (UEA), MA (Reading), PhD (Reading), PGCE (Greenwich)
Neil completed his PhD on children's literature in 2000 with a thesis on: "Reading Repetition and Difference in the Nineteenth Century Boys' School Story". During and just after his PhD studies, Neil taught as a part-time lecturer at Reading, including on the MA in Children's Literature and the (then) MA in Science Fiction Studies. In 2001, he became Head of English at South East Essex College. In October 2008, Neil was appointed as a full-time, permanent lecturer at the University of Reading. Neil's research interests are in the areas of critical theory, philosophy, pedagogy, and cultural studies, particularly with regards to ideas of childhood, and art and art-history.
Neil's books:
Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood, Palgrave Critical University Studies (Palgrave, 2017)
The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature and its Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Student Centred: Education, Freedom and the Idea of Audience
(Inkermen Press/Axis Series, 2009)
Neil's articles and chapters in the field include:
Article: 'Hunting the Animal Boy' in: Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Yearbook of English Studies on 'Children in Literature', vol. 32, 2002.
Article: 'Death and Absence in "Tim" by H. O. Sturgis' in Nineteenth Century Contexts, 26(1), 2003.
Chapter: 'Response and Responsibility: The Implied Reader in Children's Literature Criticism' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Children's Literature: New Approaches, Palgrave, 2004.
Chapter: 'On Frida Kahlo's Moustache' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, Manchester University Press, 2006.
Chapter: 'Fort/ Da: A Reading of Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 147-67.
Article: '"Scripture Its own Interpreter": Mary Martha Sherwood, The Bible and Female Autobiography', Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2011.
Article: 'The Child and Imperial Return: The Mystery of Edwin Drood', Parallax, Special Issue on 'Imperial Affect', 18:4, 2012, 54-66.
Article: 'The Child and The Letter: Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', Textual Practice, published online 13th March 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2013.767854
Neil convenes and teaches on the Nineteenth Century Children's Literature core course, as well convening and teaching the options modules on Popular Forms of Children's Fiction and Children's Film, Television and Radio.
E-mail: n.h.cocks@reading.ac.uk


The Cathedral's rich history can be missed by visitors. An ambitious plan to transform the south transept into a three-level exhibition space will greatly enhance the experience of people visiting the Cathedral. The project will relocate the Winchester Bible to the ground floor and see two new exhibitions created, 'Decoding of the Stones' about the Cathedral and its development and 'Birth of a Nation' exploring our royal and Saxon heritage.
Currently only 10% of our visitors get to see the Winchester Bible. It is our ambition to restore the ground floor of the south transept to create a suitable exhibition space with level access for the Winchester Bible and provide disabled access to the wonderful spaces on the upper levels.
Winchester Cathedral is home to a world class, illuminated 12th century bible which rivals the Book of Kells in its significance. We plan to move the four volumes of the Bible to the ground floor and create a new exhibition to help interpret it. In its new location and with contemporary graphic and audio visual displays, the Bible will be vastly more accessible, meaning all our visitors can discover it.
This exhibition will tell the story of the Cathedral itself, unlocking the mysteries of how and why it was created. It will link the modern restoration works and contemporary craftspeople with the medieval craftspeople who originally built the Cathedral. Visitors will meet important characters associated with the Cathedral's history and learn about the past in a tangible way.
From the time of Alfred the Great until after the Norman Conquest, Winchester was England's capital and the Cathedral was its royal chapel. Mortuary chests, believed to contain the remains of early English kings, queens and bishops, rest on top of the Presbytery screens and are potent relics of that era. We want to create an exhibition that brings the stories of these early monarchs vividly to life and cements Winchester as the site of the birth of the English nation.


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"… I will not cease working to recover the honor [even] of those women who have forgotten it, and perhaps I will be the catalyst for the reawakening of their intellect.
For Erculiani, women's performance in the scientific disciplines takes center stage as proof of their equality to men.
Erculiani elected to publish her Letters not in Italy (where the volume was nonetheless the subject of Inquisition scrutiny), but in Poland – a country known for its official policy of religious tolerance. Her example reflects the complexity of early modern networks of scientific knowledge, which often transcended boundaries of both geography and gender and connected men and women with one another not just throughout Italy but well into Eastern Europe.


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To Your Eternity Episode 1
By DoubleSama | April 12, 2021 | Comments 0 Comment
The Being
To Your Eternity is potentially my most awaited anime of 2021. But, it's not because I've read the manga — I haven't. The reason why I was looking forward to this series so much is that it was actually supposed to air at this time last year.
This series is one of the many that were delayed due to the pandemic. But unlike most of the others, which were pushed back by a season, To Your Eternity was delayed by an entire year. I don't know exactly why. However, I assume this extra-long delay was to avoid splitting up the cours.
As for what the series is about, it follows an immortal being that can transform into other things it comes in contact with. But as we learned at the end of the episode, there's a prerequisite for this to happen. The other thing must have stimulated the being in some way.
The boy smiling
Initially, the way this being functions is quite interesting. It transforms from a formless blob into a rock, then moss, then a wolf, and finally a human boy. But the issue is that I don't think it has anywhere to go from there.
Is it ever going to be stimulated into transforming into a non-human after this point? I doubt it. It could transform into other humans. But determining if a new human is more stimulating than the last seems a bit odd. I don't think this is going to happen.
And, another reason why I don't think the being is going to transform anymore is the promise it "made" with the boy. The boy asks for it to remember him forever. If it transforms into someone else, that would almost represent erasing the memory of the boy.
Although we're never given a name for the boy before he dies — he refers to himself as "I" the entire time — we do learn a lot of other information about him. For example, it's implied that he's lived in the village in which we first meet him his whole life.
However, it's also implied that his village didn't always appear as it does now. In this episode, it's depicted as a small village within the middle of a vast, snowy plain. But, why do I assume that the village wasn't always this way? Because he's apparently eaten vegetables before.
You could make the argument that this implies the village wasn't always located there. But then you'd have to answer the question of why a population including elderly people would move to such a place in a relatively short timespan.
The boy hugging "Joaan"
If we assume that the boy wasn't born in that spot, it would mean that his people migrated there within his short lifespan. And considering it's a barren wasteland, there's really no explanation for why they would choose there to settle.
So, we have to assume that the climate of that location was more temperate at one time — perhaps only being covered by snow and ice for a certain period of the year. And, the reason the able adults left was that they realized their village was doomed.
Now, speaking of doom, I really liked how the series used the graves of the villagers. When the boy finds the graves of those who left the village, we as the viewers know this means they all died. But, the boy doesn't see it that way — at least he tries not to.
Instead, he attempts to look at the positive side. If there are graves, that means someone survived to make them. And at the end of the episode, the boy doesn't receive a grave because he was the last one.
Based on this first episode and what we're shown in the preview for the next episode, I think I see a pattern for this show. It would seem that it's going to be relatively episodic. And with each episode, we're going to get a story about the being interacting with someone leading up to their death.
At the end of this episode, the boy died. And according to the preview for the next episode, it's about a girl who's going to be sacrificed. I don't know if she's actually going to be sacrificed, but I have a feeling it's going to end up happening.
Even if we know that the characters in each of these episodes are going to die from the start, I don't think that detracts from the story. It's about how those characters are depicted and what their final thoughts are before their deaths that matters.
They boy (dead)
For example, before watching this episode, I already knew that the boy was going to die. I don't remember if it was the trailer for the series or the synopsis, but that was effectively revealed in one of those. And yet, that didn't stop me from getting emotionally invested in him as a character.
If the rest of the episodes continue on with that kind of high-quality characterization and storytelling, I won't mind if we already know the outcome. And, even if all the supporting characters die, their deaths could still be somewhat of a twist.
Maybe at the end of the next episode, the girl decides that she's okay with being sacrificed for some reason? Perhaps she'd rather it be her than someone else. I don't know.
What do you think of the first episode of To Your Eternity? Did you know the boy was going to die? If not, at what point did you begin to suspect it? And if you read the manga, how do you feel about this adaptation so far? Let me know in the comments.
My review of Episode 2 is available.
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Brexit was not about the EU
14 January 2018 17 July 2016 by Maarten van Schie
Imprisonment is the worst criminal punishment available to a European citizen. The long-term loss of freedom is loathsome for human beings, and the incarcerated almost always long for freedom. That is why stories involving prisons so often involve prison breaks, for example in movies such as The Great Escape, The Shawshank Redemption and Alcatraz. The recent Brexit vote was also about escape. Not from the EU however, but from a more general sense of imprisonment.
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Over the past years, the demos – the people in their capacity of political participants – is experiencing a sense of encroachment on their personal space. Economic crises are forcing us to cut back: through lower income and a decreased demand for our products and services; but also through budget cuts leading to fewer jobs and worse access to healthcare and education. On top of that, many people experience ecological claims as further limitations: they are forced by these claims to consider the invisible costs of their needs and their behaviour, e.g. consumption pattern and car use. And in some cases, as with the discussions surrounding Black Pete in the Netherlands, many feel their freedom threatened in the name of political correctness, by the questioning of their cultural norms and what is experienced as an attack on their identity, an identity that in some cases still rests on a lesser image of certain 'others'.
Many do not have the means to find a good answer to these growing limitations. Even when we do understand them and their causes on a rational level, they intrude in our emotions. We feel our possibilities decreasing, and the walls closing in on us. In such a case, all human beings with some life in them want to climb those walls or break them down; with a view on broader horizons, Elysian fields through which we can stroll, run or dance and celebrate life (and as we get older, images of these broader horizons are often derived from the past, through a powerful emotional mechanism that makes us remember good memories better than bad memories).
This tearing down of walls is a powerful human drive. In our development, both as an individual and as a society, we face limitations again and again; and we grow by surmounting them. As an individual we do this by learning, training and working hard; and as a society we grow by expanding, developing new knowledge and creating new technologies. When we built rockets and developed medicines we opened the horizon of space and tore down limitations of sickness. Other limitations such as the need for food and shelter we did not overcome fully, but we did reduce them by developing new technologies as well as by organising ourselves.
Organisations set limitations and also make us to internalise them in a social structure. In such a case, as individuals, we experience the limitation as coming from other people. As a child we are limited by our parents, who keep us from running across the street without looking and from taking candy whenever we want. When we are older we find those limitations in our supervisors, tasked with achieving organisational goals with limited means; or in our government responsible for guiding a collective of people through a complex collection of international forces.
These institutions and authority figures translate external limitations, on behalf of a group such as the family, the company or the society, into internal disciplining measures. And whether or not these authorities do their work well, the force driving us to climb or destroy walls remains: it is a product of our – authentic and genuinely human – desire for Elysian freedom. It is an existential need, and the figure of authority that no longer recognises this need is not in contact with what makes us human, and fails to give other people the feeling of being recognised.
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The Brexit vote was not a vote against the EU, but a heart's cry against all the limitations people experience (but are usually unable to identify). The fact that a share of Leave-voters started googling only after the vote what the EU actually was, and the expressions of 'buyer's remorse' in the newspapers, should make clear that the Brexit vote was not just about the EU – or about the promises made by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. It was partially about the same things that drive followers and Donald Trump and people who vote for Geert Wilders' Freedom Party. They express the need people have to shape their own life without seeing options to do so.
At this moment the only way to express these emotions politically is by voting for pubescent political parties that do little more than verbally abuse the elites that translate the limitations of an increasingly complex world. It is not the elites themselves that people rail against however, but the limitations they impose on us. As of yet, there are far too few – if any – in the political arena rallying this energy for positive ends. We must recognise this emotion, not as fear (which it is commonly called), as pettiness or as stupidity, but as something innately and beautifully human. Now especially we are in need of leaders who speak to our capacity and desire to make our world better. Let's not waste our collective time and energy simultaneously building and tearing down walls when we have so many urgent problems to solve.
Ron Vokoun
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Would you eat a 3-D printed pizza?
While 3-D printers have mainly been in the news for their ability to manufacture inedible goods, they are increasingly being used for culinary endeavours.
Could you imagine serving a 3-D printed turkey for Christmas lunch? Or munching on a 3-D printed pizza for an afternoon snack?
This is not as far fetched as it sounds. While 3-D printers have mainly been in the news for their ability to manufacture inedible goods, they are increasingly being used for culinary endeavours.
3-D food printers extrude soft liquid edible matter through nozzles that build up layer by layer in patters directed by a computer program. They can pump out everything from to chocolates, confectionery, biscuits and pancakes, to pasta, pizza and other savoury snacks.
News reports and industry blogs are very positive about what 3-D food printing can offer. They have covered such events as Michelin-starred chefs experimenting with 3-D food printers in pop-up restaurants in Europe.
The media have also reported on the potential for 3-D printing to cater for astronauts, air travellers and people in emergency situations.
Nursing homes in Europe are offering 3-D printed food with jelly-like texture for residents with chewing and swallowing difficulties. Developers of 3-D food printers claim that people will soon have these devices in their kitchens, helping them prepare tasty and healthy foods at home.
A 3-D food printer was demonstrated at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in the US.
But that's not all. There's also the radical idea of using insects and laboratory-grown meat in 3-D printed food as a sustainable alternative to traditional protein sources.
Meat and Livestock Australia also recently announced that it is looking into ways to use 3-D printing to produce new meat products to extract the most value from animal carcasses.
So it is not far-fetched to imagine serving a Christmas lunch with 3-D printed food made from red meat and poultry, or decorative edible items made from fruit or vegetable purees, sugar or chocolate.
What do you think about 3-D printed food? Would you try it, or offer it to family members or guests? Despite industry enthusiasm and investment in research and development, few studies have actually asked these questions of consumers.
To investigate these issues, we conducted our own research with 30 Australians, using an online focus group. The results highlight some interesting complications in the way many people perceive 3-D printed foods, and what might tempt them to try some.
First of all, we found that none of the participants had heard of using 3-D printing technology to make food products. As 3-D printing technologies were usually associated with inedible objects made from substances such as plastic, plaster or metal, it was difficult for our participants to understand how they might work with foodstuffs.
Our participants were far more positive about 3-D printed carrots, pasta, pizza, chocolate and a meal with chicken and vegetables (made from "real" whole food purees) than they were about 3-D printed sugar confections, meat and food made from food waste and alternative food sources such as algae and insects.
They could not imagine eating them or serving them to others. These materials were considered to be inedible according to the cultural norms of our participants, no matter how they are prepared or processed. So it wasn't that they were 3-D printed per se, but what they were printed from that affected their attitude to the food.
Those participants who had ethical misgivings about eating conventionally grown meat liked the idea of 3-D printed meat products. But most of the participants considered the process to be a little too much like "Frankenfood", particularly if it involved using laboratory-cultured meat. Here it was the process of making the ingredient that was considered "unnatural".
Many participants' lack of familiarity with the 3-D printing process underpinned their reservations about the safety of using food materials that would otherwise be discarded as waste. They were unsure about how the risks of food contamination and preservation would be dealt with.
Many of them also considered the healthiness of foods to be an important factor. Our participants had no problem viewing 3-D printed sugar confections, pizza or chocolate as potentially edible. But they did express concern about the healthiness of these foods, given their ingredients and current status as junk food.
But our study shows that those wishing to promote 3-D printed food might have several challenges on their hands. First of all, they may need to familiarise the public with how this process works and reassure them that it is safe.
Then they might need to emphasise that 3-D printed food is tasty, even if it looks unusual or is made from ingredients that are not normally considered edible by cultural standards. Only then might consumers consider the possibility of including 3-D printed food as part of their lives, including at the Christmas lunch table.
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UI Symphony and Concert Bands share concert
Free Oct. 4 event is in the IMU
By: Winston Barclay | 2012.09.24 | 11:39 am
The University of Iowa Symphony Band and Concert Band will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.
Symphony Band, Richard Mark Heidel
The Concert Band, conducted by Hawkeye Marching Band Director Kevin Kastens, and featuring guest conductors Steven Riley and Kevin Kessler, will open the concert with Fanfare and Flourishes For A Festive Occasion by James Curnow, A Jubilant Overture by Alfred Reed, Sarabande and Polkaby Malcolm Arnold Yosemite Autumn by Mark Camphouse, and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine by John Philip Sousa.
Richard Mark Heidel, director of UI bands, will conduct the Symphony Band, in Procession of the Nobles and Cortege from the opera-ballet Mlada by Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov, J'ai été au bal by Donald Grantham, Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Aldridge Grainger, and From Glory to Glory by Kevin M. Walczyk.
The Concert and Symphony Bands, which are filled by audition, are open to all UI students. In addition to campus concerts, the Symphony Band also performs, on occasion, at state and national conventions.
For biographies of Kastens and Heidel, visit the UI Bands website.
The School of Music is a unit of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For accommodations at the concert contact the school at 319-335-1603. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website.
Winston Barclay, University Communication and Marketing, 319-430-1013
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Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Ukulele Tutorial
This week, we present Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child ukulele tutorial. As usual, it's complete with on screen chords and lyrics as well as strumming patterns and tabs.
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child is one of the songs from 21 Easy Ukulele Folk Songs, our newest book in the Beginning Ukulele Books series. As the title suggests, you get 21 carefully selected songs with lyrics, chords and tabs. But not only that, you get many ukulele tips. Plus you also get access to online videos that go with the book. Get a copy of the book here.
MOTHERLESS CHILD UKULELE TUTORIAL
Indeed, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child ukulele tutorial is an easy one as you need just two chords – Am and Dm. Additionally, you can follow a simple all-down strumming pattern to play the whole song. On the other hand, you can vary the strumming pattern by using a D-DU-D-DU (D-down, U-up) pattern. Finally, you can also work on playing the melody tab for the song. Or what some people refer to as solo ukulele.
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Also, don't forget to like our Facebook page so you can join Jenny's Facebook live stream for Motherless Child ukulele tutorial later this week. In case you miss the live session, just find a recording of it on the videos section of our the page.
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, which many people shorten to simply Motherless Child is a traditional song that traces its roots in the period of slavery. At that time, many African American families were separated when sold. And the song expresses the anguish of this separation and the longing for home and family. Eventually, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child developed as an African American spiritual paradigm and made its way to the folk music setting.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES OF THE SONG
Many famous personalities from different music genres have performed Motherless Child. African American luminaries Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Mahalia Jackson recorded their renditions of the song. Although Prince had not officially recorded the song, he had performed his version of it in various concerts.
Folk greats Pete Seeger and Odetta also recorded covers of the song. In addition, Richie Havens created an impromptu rendition based on the song's melody for his final performance at Woodstock in 1969. Even the king of rock and roll himself, Elvis Presley, performed the song with Darlene Love in 1968. Moreover, famed Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison recorded another version of the song. He included this recording on his Poetic Champions Compose album released in 1987.
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Mixed Fortunes for Trio of French Qualifiers @MoselleOpen
Posted by Admin on September 23, 2015
Posted in: Adam Addicott, ATP, Metz. Tagged: 2015, atp, edouard roger-vasselin, france, Kenny De Schepper, metz, Quaifying, Vincent Millot. Leave a comment
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With over half the qualifying draw consisting of French players, it was unsurprising that the majority of qualifiers for the Main draw of the Metz Open are French.
Leading them into the main draw was world number 141 Kenny De Schepper. The 28-year-old eased himself past two French players in his quarter. In the first round, he came through two close sets against Hugo Nys. Nys is ranked 439th in the world and won one Futures title in Egypt earlier this year. Following his triumph over Nys, Schepper faced fifth seed Constant Lestienne for a place in the main draw. Lestienne achieved a landmark in his career earlier this year by qualifying for his first ATP main draw at the Estoril Open in Portugal. During the 71-minute match, Schepper didn't drop his serve as he eased to the 7-5, 6-3, win.
In the main draw Schepper faced another qualifier, Édouard Roger-Vasselin. Roger-Vasselin dropped eight games to book his place in his fifth main draw at the tournament. Since 2010 he has claimed just one victory in the main draw of the tournament, which was against Federico Delbonis in 2013. Throughout qualifying he beat New Zealand's Michael Venus before crushing Enzo Couacaud in the final round. Playing 20-year-old Couacaud, Roger-Vasselin cruised to the 6-1, 6-1, win in less than an hour.
Despite the two being regulars on the tour for some time (Roger-Vasselin in 31 and Schepper in 28), this was their first meeting. With 27 places separating the two players, their first round match was a close encounter. Roger-Vasselin booked his place in the second round after edging out his countryman 6-4, 7-6(2). During the match a costly drop of service in the third game of the match resulted in Schepper losing the first set. The second set was a closer encounter with both players matching each other until 6-6. The closeness suddenly faded away at 2-2 in the tie-break when Roger-Vasselin claimed five consecutive points to take the match. This is his first main draw win in an ATP 250 event since Newport in July.
The third French qualifier was Vincent Millot. The 29-year-old won his first Challenger title in four years earlier this year in Granby. During qualifying Millot eased his way past little known player Tom Schönenberg (world No.694) to set up a showdown with countryman Maxime Teixeira. After a slow start to the match where he was trailing 1-3 in the first set, Millot clawed his way to win 7-5, 6-4.
In the main draw Millot faced another French player, 7th seed Adrian Mannarino. Mannarino is currently ranked 39th in the world and has reached the final at two ATP tournaments (Auckland and Bogota). Millot was unable to cause a shock in Metz as he lost in straight sets, 6-2,7-5.
The only exception to the French qualifier list was Germany's Mischa Zverev. In his final qualifying match he played fellow countryman Daniel Brands. Brands, who reached a ranking high of 51 in 2013, were sidelined from the tour during 2014 due to mononucleosis but has won 2 Future titles in 2015. Zverev endured tricky match against Brands as he took it 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Throughout 2015 Zverev has played the majority of matches in the qualifying stages. Prior to this week the 28-year-old has played 14 main draw matches, winning five of them. Despite this he continued his winning streak from qualifying into the main draw as he defeated Pablo Carreño Busta in the first round. The German took the match 6-2,6-7(3),6-1, to set up a second round showdown with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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It's Mailbox Monday! What Are You Reading?
by BurtonBookReview on Sunday, September 30, 2012
This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey where we keep track of what we are currently reading and plan to read.
Mailbox Monday is a meme originally from Marcia's Mailbox and can be found here for October.
In the Mail:
A Gift for My Sister by Ann Pearlman (thank you, bookish mama!!)
Ann Pearlman's The Christmas Cookie Club enthralled readers everywhere with a heartwarming and touching story about the power of female friendship. Now, in A Gift for My Sister, she once again explores the depth of the human heart, and this time it's through the eyes of two sisters. Tara and Sky share a mother, but aside from that they seem to differ in almost every way. When a series of tragedies strikes, they must somehow come together in the face of heartbreak, dashed hopes, and demons of the past. The journey they embark on forces each woman to take a walk in the other's shoes and examine what sisterhood really means to them. It's a long road to understanding, and everyone who knows them hopes these two sisters can find a way back to each other.
A Love Surrendered (Winds of Change #3) by Julie Lessman (a brand new release from Paperbackswap! What luck!)
Orphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy moves to Boston to stay with her spinster aunt. She longs for romance to fill the void left by her parents' death. But when she falls hard for Steven O'Connor, the man who broke an engagement to her sister, Annie is worried. Will he break her heart too when he discovers who she really is?
And received for a future review:
No Safe Harbor by Elizabeth Ludwig
The Thrill of Romantic Suspense Meets the Romance of 1800s America
Lured by a handful of scribbled words across a faded letter, Cara Hamilton sets off from 1896 Ireland on a quest to find the brother she'd thought dead. Her search lands her in America, amidst a houseful of strangers and one man who claims to be a friend--Rourke Walsh.
Despite her brother's warning, Cara decides to trust Rourke and reveals the truth about her purpose in America. But he is not who he claims to be, and as rumors begin to circulate about an underground group of dangerous revolutionaries, Cara's desperation grows. Her questions lead her ever closer to her brother, but they also bring her closer to destruction as Rourke's true intentions come to light.
The Forgotten Queen by D.L. Bogdan
From her earliest days, Margaret Tudor knows she will not have the luxury of choosing a husband. Her duty is to gain alliances for England. Barely out of girlhood, Margaret is married by proxy to James IV and travels to Edinburgh to become Queen of Scotland.
Despite her doubts, Margaret falls under the spell of her adopted home. But while Jamie is an affectionate husband, he is not a faithful one. And nothing can guarantee Margaret's safety when Jamie leads an army against her own brother, Henry VIII. In the wake of loss she falls prey to an ambitious earl and brings Scotland to the brink of anarchy. Beset by betrayal and secret alliances, Margaret has one aim—to preserve the crown of Scotland for her son, no matter what the cost...
What I've Read:
A Lady in The Making by Susan Page Davis.. another fun historical romance and very quick read at 320 pages.. review posts in a few days. I love this Prairie Dreams series, and I recommend reading in order. This one is my favorite out of the bunch you see below.
To Love and Cherish, book two in the Bridal Veil Series by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller. Review posted here. Can easily be read as a stand alone.
Skip Rock Shallows by Jan Watson... another series book that I jumped into with this one, and probably should have read the others first to enhance my appreciation of this one. This was a very character driven story.
Queen of the Waves by Janice Thompson
Blog tour starts tomorrow, I am the kickoff reviewer unfortunately, because I could have kicked this book all over the place. Blech. Nuff said. (Here is the review.)
I am not having good luck finding an awesome Titanic themed read. Maybe I should find that old Danielle Steel novel that I read when I was young lady..
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