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The Adam's apple is a chunk of bony cartilage wrapped around the larynx (voice box). Both males and females have an Adam's apple.
Usually, when boys go through puberty, male hormones cause the larynx to grow rapidly, deepening their voices and causing the bulge to form. Female voices also deepen with puberty, but since their larynx is not affected by so much testosterone, they don't bulge as much.
In adult men, the Adam's apple sticks out more because of their larger voice boxes. They range in prominence from huge and obvious to practically invisible and doesn't have anything to do with the depth of the voice. Some females have larger Adam's apples than others, just like some have larger feet, hands or facial hair.
If you don't already have a visible Adam's apple, it probably won't grow bigger on testosterone.


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Overview of Clearcut Conversions Ltd
We are a family run business employing 11 people. Our campervan conversion designs have been developed over the 11 years we have been converting campervans, in that time we have become very familiar with what is practical in a small campervan. Operating from the outskirts of Barnstaple in North Devon, ideally positioned as a stepping stone for the rest of Devon and Cornwall. Many of our customers initially call in while enjoying the region as a holiday destination. Although we do sell some of our own vehicles, 90% of our work is for private individuals who have a van and would like some form of camper conversion. Typical vehicles suitable for conversion are VW Transporters, T4, T5 and T6, Mercedes Vito, Renault Trafic and Mazda Bongos.
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Archive for the 'Tea Party' Category
Election Watch Coverage Here: With Citizen WatchdogTuesday, November 6th, 2012
You can watch election coverage hosted by Tony Katz and featuring commentators and activists across the country here:
Starts at 6 pm eastern. See you then!
A Proactive Mitt VoteSunday, November 4th, 2012
When John McCain suspended his campaign after finally having some positive momentum post-Palin's electrifying RNC speech, I knew it was over. It was quite possibly the dumbest political move I had ever seen and at that point, politics had been my focus for only three years.
Disheartened and discouraged, I soldiered on because Barack Obama would be, well, what he was: Bad for the economy, bad for international relations, and generally contemptuous of anyone who did not see things his way. It's been worse than I imagined.
I joked on Twitter that I'd vote for a roasted turnip over Barack Obama.
My choice lost the GOP primary. I thought I was stuck voting for a turnip. I've been wrong. It has been a pleasant surprise.
Mitt Romney has shown himself to be an able, flexible, proactive campaigner. He's had the press nearly universally against him and cheerfully plowed forward.
Strategically, Mitt is never put off by Obama's silly mind games. The press' obsession with Romney non-gaffes over Obama's actual missteps has been … I'm at a loss for words. Put it this way: The press has so staked its existence on Barack Obama that it has decided to go down with the ship. No rats flee. No rats even attempt modest objectivity. And still, Mitt stays on his positive, pro-American message.
Policy wise, Mitt seems technocratic. That is, he doesn't dislike government, per se, he dislikes how it is managed, and by golly, he's going to do some restructuring.
Romney's urge to reorder should comfort Democrats terrified that the business of government is going away with a Republican. President Romney sees a bureaucracy worth saving. That should inspire Dems, but no.
The Democrat position seems to be "Just as I am Lord." Please, leave every bloated agency fat and inefficient. Keeping the agency and trimming the fat? Unthinkable.
Now, I go to the kill-the-agency-then-burn-it-in-a-fire school of government thought. I'm likely to be disappointed by Romney's trimming of the verge.
Still, trimming is better than growing.
Here's what's surprised me about Mitt: I thought he was more of a nobless-oblige driven blue blood like George W. Bush. Oh, I know GW is from Texas. But underneath is a north-easterner who feels, like Obama, that the little people just can't quite take care of themselves. It lead to many maddening policies.
Mitt is not that guy. Mitt's midwestern sensibilities have hung on more than I thought. In addition, choosing to be a self-made man has given him confidence not only in himself but in people.
There's an underlying lack of faith that statists have in people. They believe people incapable of self-sufficiency. Thus, laws have to be written to "protect" the citizen from himself. Mitt doesn't seem to believe that. He has a live and let-live attitude and a firm faith in people. The attitude is refreshing.
When I get discouraged at the economic misery, I remind myself that multiple states have enjoyed quiet but quite solid turn arounds with good policy. Wisconsin and Indiana come immediately to mind. Bobby Jindal has been righting the Louisiana ship. This is happening all over America and it's encouraging. California is a notable exception. Illinois seems to be a few disastrous steps behind.
Still, those turnarounds remind me that America is not lost. The situation is dire. There can be no doubt that whomever is elected faces some nearly impossibly difficult choices. My concern is that Barack Obama would just avoid them and his indecision would be a decision.
Mitt Romney will make the decisions. Some will be tough. They are bound to displease someone–all big decisions do, but what choice do we have? Doesn't it feel like time is up?
So, it was easy for me to vote for Mitt Romney. Not as a defensive position, but as a positive decision. Maybe Mitt is just the man for the season. Maybe he can manage this failing state out of its bankruptcy. I say maybe not because I doubt his abilities but because the task is so formidable.
The media, left, and poll watchers seem 84% convinced that Barack Obama is a shoe-in. Or, it's tied 48-48. 47-47. The models have Obama running away with the electoral college.
In my bones, I don't believe this. Some states are going to be lost, no doubt. But this guaranteed result? Bah.
Vote. I feel good about my Mitt vote and you should, too.
Ted Cruz Success Had A Thousand FathersWednesday, August 1st, 2012
After the amazing Ted Cruz triumph over Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, a couple political Twitterati including Rick Wilson and David Weigel mused that success has 1000 fathers . The implication, of course, that everyone wants to share in the success and no one wants to admit they were part of a losing effort.
That's true, of course. As I tweeted: Winning > Losing. And it's fun to be on the winning side.
In thinking about Ted Cruz' win, though, his success really did have a thousand fathers. More, actually.
I could probably list 100 people, easily, who put it on the line, and early, for Ted Cruz. I'll admit I came on board after Jim DeMint because of my love for both Michael Williams and Ted Cruz. Both are great conservatives. It was a matter of who could win. It didn't take long for Ted to demonstrate that he was the guy.
Jim DeMint lead the way. Mike Lee pushed everyone far and wide for Ted. But that really wasn't the beginning.
Ted Cruz spoke at Texas Americans for Prosperity events and was introduced to grassroots there. After that, Ted did the hard work of attending CPACs, multiple Tea Parties, and all sorts of conservative gatherings.
Every Texas Tea Party leader and many tea partiers themselves knew Ted personally. He and his campaign manager John Drogin gutted it up day in and day out doing the hard politicking that it takes to win when you don't have millions to burn.
Club for Growth, Freedom Works, and Sarah Palin [her analysis here], to name a few, came in and fortified and energized Cruz supporters, pushing Cruz enough to rob Dewhurst of the primary victory and forcing a run-off.
And here is why Citizen United is so very, very important: Without SuperPACs, incumbents are nearly untouchable.
How many important donors could give to these PACs and not risk the wrath of the very powerful powers-that-be? Many. Otherwise, they'd have to curry favor with someone like the Lt. Governor or sit on the sidelines for fear of losing and being punished for disloyalty.
PACS give donors both big and small the ability to fight for politicians who represent them without fear of reprisal should their fight be lost.
So, Ted Cruz success had thousands of fathers, but mostly Ted Cruz succeeded because he is a great candidate, the right man for the time, and worked his tail off doing the old fashioned work of politics — earning one vote at at time.
Ted's victory speech here.
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Blogbash At The Redstate GatheringTuesday, July 31st, 2012
Blogbash will be at the Redstate Gathering Thursday night, August 2 to kick off a weekend of fun in Jacksonville, Florida!
This little shindig will be across the street from the hotel at a bar along the river walk. Meet up at the hotel lobby around 7 pm and then come over to the bar!
Past Blog Bashes have helped launch the political careers of folks like Mike Lee and Mia Love both of Utah. The Blogbash at Redstate will be a celebration of these successes!
Join us!
Ted Cruz: Cruising To Victory? FreePAC, Teaparty, and Sarah Palin HelpMonday, July 30th, 2012
Ted Cruz looks good going into the run-off election with Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst to be the Republican nominee for the United States Senate. How did this happen?
Well, Ted is a great candidate first of all: smart, principled, and hard working. He has been working the grassroots circuit for years. I first met Ted maybe three or four years ago when he was speaking at an Americans for Prosperity event in Austin. Since then, he's faithfully attended Teaparty after Teaparty event. Ted knows every significant grassroots activist in Texas personally.
Ted's hard work gave him name recognition among the around 30% of the most faithful, devoted conservative leaning political faithful in Texas. They came through and voted for him in the primary but Dewhurst still beat him with his higher name recognition and money, but I knew pretty assuredly that if Ted got into the run-off, Team Dewhurst was in big trouble.
Why? A couple reasons:
1. Most Republican voters have already voted and won't come back out to vote.
2. The most dedicated will vote.
3. In a head-to-head, Cruz's name recognition will increase.
The Dewhurst camp made a bad decision when they went so negative on Ted Cruz: The criticism was so outrageously over-the-top that people were forced to go look up the truth. When they went to investigate, many liked what they saw. I'm not sure if the negative ads didn't help Ted Cruz.
Thursday night of last week, FreePAC, Freedom Works political action committee taught a stadium full of people how to get out the vote. [My interview with Matt Kibbe here.]
After that, there were rousing speeches from all sorts of Cruz supporters. Following the speechifying, Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul, Republican usurper Richard Mourdock of Indiana (who beat incumbent Senator Lugar), and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe gave a press conference. There were a couple reporters there and then about 20 bloggers.
[Aside: Journalists ask stupid questions. I got to roll my eyes in front of them instead of online. Example: "Do Republicans want to win the Presidency more or the Congress more?"]
The FreePAC event lasted late and so early Friday, I drove back to The Woodlands, Texas and then went to the TeaParty event where many state TeaParty leaders showed up and endorsed Ted Cruz. Also there: Senator Jim DeMint and former Alaska Governor Ted Cruz.
Combined, these events and others like them around the state have the troops riled for a big turnout tomorrow. The energy certainly seems in Ted Cruz' favor.
These folks were asked by a Texas Teaparty leader to turn toward the camera folks and show them they're not DC insiders.John Drogin, Ted Cruz' campaign manager working hard at the Teaparty event in The Woodlands, Texas.
Texas Teaparty Leaders support Ted Cruz.
#FreePac : Talking To Matt Kibbe, President of FreedomWorks About The TeapartyThursday, July 26th, 2012
At #FreePac, the inaugural educational, inspirational event sponsored by Glenn Beck and Freedomworks, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe joined me to answer a couple questions.
It seems like FreedomWorks mission has shifted. What are you guys doing?
It's a real shift away from coming up with an idea and just emailing it out to people and saying hey let's do this. Now, it's more driven from the bottom up and asking people, 'what do you guys need to do to take the next step'.
It's not a protest movement anymore. It's not a get out the vote movement. It's evolving into a real social movement.
That's what different. This is more an institution building exercise.
It's part community. It's part values. And it's part celebrating some of the elected officials that have actually stuck by their principles–guys we helped get elected in 2010.
Why are you harassing Dewhurst? [The Texas Republican in the runoff with grassroots candidate former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz]
In Texas, pretty good is not good enough. We are going need a deeper commitment to principle. Just voting right 70 or 80% of the time is not good enough.
We keep hearing that the Tea Party is dead. Is it?
A lot of it is wishful thinking. Bu I also think a lot of it is a little honest confusion about who we are today. We're not a protest movement anymore, so if you're looking for a big march on The Mall, you're not going to find it. How do you report community by community, household by household, walking precincts for Ted Cruz? We won't know until after the election.
They were shocked by Indiana. And they're like that's a one-time deal. Now they're saying, 'Of course Ted Cruz is going to win.' Well, go back and read the record, nobody, …they were laughing at us.
How do you feel about the Teaparty guys who got elected in 2010? Some folks are disappointed in their performance.
I think that as a class they've outperformed any significant Freshman class, certainly the Class of 1995 which pretty quickly crumbled.
And this is what people need to understand, it's not just about electing better people with better principles, it's about creating a constituency who creates better incentives for them to do the right thing, because once you get into the Washington Bubble, all the incentives are wrong. Everybody comes to your office–they want an earmark, they want this, they want that…if we who believe in freedom don't continue to show up and support them when they do the right thing, guess what? They're going to change. So the burden is on us.
Don't expect your Senator to do the right thing left to his own devices.
Is this the beginning of new events for FreedomWorks?
Yes. This an experiment but the key is to figure out how we can create institutions to bring people together. Can we do this on a regional basis, because Glenn [Beck] wants to do this on a regional basis, but you have got to find a way to do it that's economical because the American Airlines Center is expensive.
Third Party Rumblings: It WILL Happen IF…..Saturday, July 7th, 2012
The Republican Party gets one last chance. It is this election.
Erick Erickson talks third party here:
A Republican Party that has been unwilling to cut spending has now let go through Congress legislation to shut down lawful, legal businesses because cigarette industry lobbyists and a Senate Democrat wanted it done.
We're not ready for a third party and both this site and me will continue advocating for conservative Republicans, but if the GOP doesn't finally get a clue, I won't be surprised to see it implode. By the way, this year fewer and fewer Republican candidates are signing the tax pledge on the advice of Republican members of Congress. This is another warning sign that the Eric Cantor led Republican conference is going far afield from what those who vote Republican actually want.
The GOP better get back to its pro-liberty roots quickly.
Let me put a finer point on this: If the Republican party cannot find its spine should Mitt Romney get elected; if the Republican part has the power to enact the party planks and refuses to do so, this will be the last time people vote Republican.
I repeat: THIS IS THE LAST TIME.
Why? Because a Republican party that sends the Republic over the edge just more slowly is unacceptable.
There are many people who have had it. Count me among them.
The Republicans may scorn this. They may think this is more caterwauling from the cry baby peasants.
No. This is just the way it is now.
American cannot afford the practices Erick alluded to and Americans who care about the country aren't going to help support evil in their own name.
As it currently stands, voting for either political party means that taxpayers and their children are voting against their own interests. Between taxes, regulation, government overreach, and a generally surly attitude pointed at the common citizen, Americans are sick of being treated like servants to the government.
So, this is their last chance. I've been saying this for three years now. The Republicans are still not listening. They're unprincipled, weak, and unclear in their communications because they have no convictions.
They have one last chance at redemption. And should they fail, they will be removed from power because the Republican party will be gutted. And America will suffer for a couple decades (probably), but Americans won't care.
You know why? Because they're already suffering.
Beware those with nothing to lose but shackles. Beware those who still believe in liberty.
This combination is called a patriot. And the patriots are restless.
A Twitter bud says this:
@MelissaTweets Sorry you left out the fact that neither party wants to cut spending and which is why the one in power blames the other.
— Poetmaggie (@poetmaggie) July 7, 2012
It is the spending, stupid. I thought that went without saying, but clearly it needs to be said.
Justice Roberts Rewrites Obamacare And Turns It Into ObamataxThursday, June 28th, 2012
Chief Justice Roberts, in writing the final Obamacare opinion, made an argument for Obamacare that Obama and his minions refused to: It's a tax. So, Justice Roberts found that Obamacare wasn't okay under the Commerce clause but it was a-ok under the constitution's provision allowing Congress to levy taxes.
[PDF of findings here. Good summary by Dan McLaughlin here.]
Obamacare is, according to Justice Roberts, the biggest middle class tax hike in history and therefore, constitutional.
Leftists praise the ruling. Conservatives, many of them, are disheartened.
And then there's these guys who look admiringly at John Roberts for being politically savvy and outmaneuvering the President. You can read Tom Scocca of Slate here, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post here, and George Will here.
Ezra Klein summarizes the Evil Genius argument:
By voting with the liberals to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Roberts has put himself above partisan reproach. No one can accuse Roberts of ruling as a movement conservative. He's made himself bulletproof against insinuations that he's animated by party allegiances.
But by voting with the conservatives on every major legal question before the court, he nevertheless furthered the major conservative projects before the court — namely, imposing limits on federal power. And by securing his own reputation for impartiality, he made his own advocacy in those areas much more effective. If, in the future, Roberts leads the court in cases that more radically constrain the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce, today's decision will help insulate him from criticism. And he did it while rendering a decision that Democrats are applauding.
I am not persuaded by this thinking, more on why in a minute.
Erick Erickson had a more reasoned response to the ruling (and I have noted that many conservative lawyers are walking this line, but as I've said before, and will repeat here, lawyers don't think like normal people. They think in the constraints of the law and not in the constraints of morality — what is right and wrong — and this skewed perspective can be technocratic and miss the overarching point. I'm not sure that my conservative lawyer friends are quite missing the point, but I feel murky about this parsing). You can read Erick's nuanced view here.
One point Erick makes is that Roberts is trying to keep the Supreme Court above the partisan fray. That is all noble but is the opinion constitutional?
Sorry if this question makes me literal, but that's all I care about. The constitution being upheld is of paramount importance. By attempting to be "non-partisan", Roberts is conceding that he was influenced by President Obama and the left's fit-throwing. The toddlers won and so the finding becomes a partisan affair.
Today, Ben Domenech came on the Malcolm & Melissa podcast with Andrew and Me and he noted that if Roberts was politically influenced (and it seems he was), that the Right is going to have to reconsider its longstanding aversion to trying to bully courts into decisions the way the Left has traditionally done. He sees that outcome as profoundly troubling. [Aside: It was a great podcast and I'll link it as soon as it's produced.]
The Obamacare ruling makes the hated legislation an election and taxation issue. Some say that Roberts delivered the White House to Romney.
Highly unlikely.
Consider this: Only 47% of American workers even pay Federal Income Tax. The non-tax payers have little vested interest in caring about this tax hike. It won't affect them. As Avik Roy of Forbes pointed out, 67% of Americans already have subsidized health care. The abused American tax payer is already in the minority. The Democrats were playing the odds with this legislation and they know it. They gambled and time after time, they've won.
In addition, the Evil Genius argument not only counts on the American people and Congress to overturn Obamacare, it assumes that Congress will be bound by a tightened Commerce Clause interpretation.
When has a Democrat majority felt constrained by, well, anything? Look at how they were willing to ram Obamacare down America's throat. There is no constraining statists. The Commerce Clause won't do it, either. In addition, Roberts gives Congress essentially unchecked taxing ability.
Will a Republican Senate and White House overturn Obamacare now known as Obamatax?
If, if, IF.
From the beginning, I've felt that if Obamacare passed, repealing it would be nigh to impossible. No, this Supreme Court decision didn't surprise me.
And in this way, Justice Roberts is right: Voters should be careful about who they elect. Voters shouldn't be so cavalier about voting for big government Dems.
Voters, and Congress who represents them, need to be more circumspect and take responsibility.
Maybe that's why I'm despondent: Personal responsibility seems like a quaint, old-fashioned American notion. Trusting Congress is folly.
This video captures it: Excellent job Ben Howe:
More from Charles Krauthammer. More from Bookworm.
Ted Cruz Talks About Texas, David Dewhurst's Attacks and Money, The Tea Party & MoreThursday, May 10th, 2012
Tonight, I had the very special opportunity to talk to former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz. Ted is running for U.S. Senate but first he must win a very expensive and very challenging primary against an opponent who is spending a million dollars a week to beat him. He's still confident.
Ted received another big endorsement — this time from Governor Sarah Palin. He's also been endorsed by Rand Paul, (and just now, RON Paul!!), Mike Lee, and a bunch of other people.
What Ted needs is your vote and money.
Please go to TedCruz.org and DONATE HERE. He needs your help. He's running against a pile of money.
Have a question about Ted Cruz? He answers it here. Everything from social to fiscal to economic issues. Listen and share!
The Culture War IS The Fiscal War: Feminism And The Big Slutty LieMonday, March 5th, 2012
People like to separate fiscal conservatives from social conservatives. It's impossible to do.
The nut of Sandra Fluke's argument is this: pay for my contraception. If it doesn't work, pay for my abortion. If I decide to have the kid, but not work and do something like "community organizing" or "reproductive rights activism", pay for my lifestyle choice. [More on Sandra Fluke here.]
And herein lies the problem with a purely libertine argument: Someone has to pay for all this freedom.
True personal liberty comes with a lot of personal responsibility.
The way it stands now, though, feminists are pushing for the state to take care of everything.
At the least, a man should pony up a condom to have sex, but no. A woman is too afraid to have this discussion, evidently, and refuses to force the man to buy and wear a condom. Were she mature enough to have this conversation, her sex life would be "free" so long as the condom wasn't defective or broke.
Then, of course, whether the woman is on the pill or using condoms, there's always contraception failure. The woman will have to live with the STD or baby consequences. And again, she'll want the taxpayer to pay for that, too. Antibiotics and prenatal care aren't free, after all. Worst, she wants people of conscience to pay for her abortion. They, in turn, feel forced to pay a hitman to kill an innocent person.
A truly "free" woman would pay for her choices, but the fact is, that these choices can all be very expensive.
In the past, when sex was more the provenance of two monogamous and committed people, the man and woman would negotiate these things. And if a "mistake" did happen, the man would "do the right thing" and marry the woman.
Old fashioned? Maybe. Cost effective for the taxpayer? Absolutely. Good for the fabric of society and for that child? No question.
Barack Obama and his merry band of slutty misfits want to have all the fun and none of the responsibility of the consequences should things not go just the way they're supposed to in the sexual arena (and when do they ever?).
So, in the last year of a horribly failed presidency, President Obama wants the focus to be on "contraceptive rights" when there are no such thing. It's a great way to distract from the statist policies he's employing: He wants to diminish the role of faith in the public space, and in the place of men/husbands/fathers, he wants an all-powerful state to pay for, mold, and control the next generation. Or kill them.
If this fight feels primal and visceral, it is because it is. The cultural war that the left has started has had dire public policy consequences. The welfare state has failed.
We have a nation of fatherless children living in poverty because their mothers bought the feminist lie that having sex like a hound-dog man, outside of marriage is "empowering".
Single mothers are faced with the bitterness of powerlessness.
Defend that, liberals. Explain how living in poverty, alone, with multiple children, no education, an STD and no father is better than a two-parent family, feminists.
Answer: It isn't.
There will be no apologizing from me. The feminist movement as symbolized by the useful idiot Sandra Fluke has lied to and cursed a generation of women. Meanwhile, putting future generations of responsible tax paying men and women on the hook. [Update: Dana Loesch on faux rage.]
The culture war is a fiscal war. And America's children are the losers both ways.
Teri Cristoph of Smart Girl Politics to Women: You're Being Used. Teri says:
Knowing that women voters are leaving Obama, the left has deliberately waged a war designed to scare them into thinking their birth control will be taken from them. EMILY's List calls these disenchanted women voters "defectors" and they'll stop at nothing to get them back.
The use of the word "defector" by the left is supremely insulting. A defector is someone who switches allegiances, usually in a manner deemed to be traitorous. Got that? If you are a woman who voted for Obama in '08 but don't like what he's done as president and don't plan to vote for him again, you are considered a traitor by the left. Newsflash: Women are not born with a genetic allegiance to the Democrat party and its liberal causes. Plenty of us prefer to think for ourselves.
Democrats are running scared knowing that a significant number of women are wise to the fact that the economy has tanked, true unemployment is around 25 percent, and our president is wholly unequipped to deal with any of it. They also know that women voice their discontent at the ballot box. So they are waging this war against women. They use people like Sandra Fluke to distract from the real issues at stake this election season. They use women as pawns in their political game.
Yes, there is a war against women in 2012 and it's certainly no fluke.
What Rush Limbaugh should have done in the face of the attack by Mean Girls (emphasis on girls–women don't act irresponsibly and then want to be personally bailed out):
There are many conservatives who unfortunately allow the left to take their morality and use it to stifle their dissent. Limbaugh should have gone on the attack. He should have said "no apology" and exposed her for the partisan hack that she is. Do I care if Fluke fucks 50 guys? No, but I do care if she uses her position to gang up with other mean girls (and guys) to ram a political mandate down the throats of companies who do not believe in what she is peddling.
Standing up to mean girls is hard. I am in the process of writing a book on men's attitudes towards marriage and society and it is damn hard to get individual men to be interviewed. If I ask questions on the internet or in an anonymous setting, I am flooded with comments from men. I recently had over 3200 men answer a poll about paternity fraud, but try to get just a few men to talk in person? That's tough. And most are very concerned that their name will not be published. I don't blame them. The mean girls are out in society in full force.
If Rush Limbaugh can't stand up to the mean girls, who can?
Via Instapundit
More on Fatherhood from LaShawn Barber.


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This is the last jUCMNav tutorial in a series of five. Below are links to other articles in this series.
The above video models a simple process for a paintball location. Customers sign a waiver (limitation of liability), pay, and have fun.
This is the fourth jUCMNav tutorial in a series of five. Below are links to other articles in this series.
This is the third jUCMNav tutorial in a series of five. Below are links to other articles in this series.
This is the second jUCMNav tutorial in a series of five. Below are links to other articles in this series.
This is the first jUCMNav tutorial in a series of five. Below are links to other articles in this series.
LavaBlast is a small startup; we don't currently have dedicated salespeople. I still do most of the selling at this point – I've got a background in software engineering, not sales. That may seem crazy until you realize that we don't sell commercial-off-the-shelf software. If a prospect needs us to build custom software on top of our existing platform, the engineering team is involved in determining the scope (and therefore the cost presented in the quote). Because of the scope of the systems that we're building, we have the "luxury" to spend more time on each individual quote and learning more about the prospect's business. Adding a personalized touch in every quote gives us a competitive advantage compared to firms that pump out boilerplate text without analyzing the context. I strongly feel that, for this type of sale, understanding the customer's problems is much more important than having them understand your product. Furthermore, understanding/solving problems is definitely something software developers know how to do!
LavaBlast Software builds integrated software solutions for the franchise industry. Although the systems we build are similar because we reuse the building blocks which we've developed over the years, we understand that each franchise has different business rules. Understanding these rules before building custom software is of capital importance. This assertion holds regardless of what kind of software you're building: everyone on the team should have a clear understanding of what needs to be built. Otherwise, you build software that only partially matches your user's expectations and you need to go back to the drawing board to correct it.
Don't get us wrong; we're not fans of the Big Design Up Front (BDUF) approaches such as the waterfall software development model. We follow a more agile development methodology but there is one thing we do with each and every new franchisor client that approaches us: we model their business processes using a visual notation called the Use Case Map notation, a subset of the User Requirements Notation. This helps us understand their business and what they need built. We'll come back to this notation in a minute.
Most business processes are simple (and should be), but a few are not as straightforward. Imagine an online store that sells quilts: the customer goes to the online store, chooses a quilt or two, provides payment, and the warehouse ships them. Simple enough? Add a few requirements to make it complex:
Back in 2007, we've talked about the Use Case Map notation and jUCMNav in our initial blog post. To celebrate the release of jUCMNav version 4.2.0, we thought it would be nice to produce a series of tutorials that show you how to create your own model using jUCMNav. In case you didn't know, LavaBlast's co-founders have contributed massively to jUCMNav in the past five years. We're responsible for 60% of the code in this open source project which we started during our time as undergraduate software engineering students at the University of Ottawa.
The following is a short 90 second video that gives you an example model and a very quick overview of what can be done with the notation and the tool. Stay tuned to our next blog posts to see us build this example from the ground up. The overview and the tutorial are intended for people with a background in software development. If you wish to introduce the notation to someone outside the development community, I would recommend starting with simple screenshots instead of showing the tool (which, in the end, should only be used by developers).
We hope you found this introduction interesting and that you'll not only watch our upcoming tutorials but also download jUCMNav (an Eclipse plug-in) and play with it!
UPDATE: BlogEngine 220.127.116.11 will fix this problem
Download BlogEngine 1.6 Binary Patch (drop in your bin folder)
We recently installed an open source error logging project called Elmah on our BlogEngine.NET because we noticed that comments were broken on our blog and some people informed us of other errors.
After installing Elmah, we found out that we had a lot of exceptions like this:
The file '/post/2008/01/Attach-to-Process-with-one-shortcut.aspx' does not exist.
The file '/post/2008/01/Attach-to-Process-with-one-shortcut.aspx' does not exist.
After some investigation, we found out that a lot of the links leading to our blog were broken! This is bad news because we care about our Google rankings!
I investigated the BlogEngine.NET code a little bit because we considered this a major problem and found out that BlogEngine.NET changed the link pattern from:
http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/02/I2c-for-one2c-welcome-our-new-revision-control-overlords!.aspx (the old pattern)
http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/02/11/I2c-for-one2c-welcome-our-new-revision-control-overlords!.aspx (the new pattern)
The day is now required in the link. Otherwise, external links are redirected to an error page.
After investigating the code, I found out that the method RewritePost in the class BlogEngine.Core.Web.HttpModules.UrlRewrite was changed in svn revision 29143 from:
Post post = Post.Posts.Find(delegate(Post p)
if (date != DateTime.MinValue && (p.DateCreated.Year != date.Year || p.DateCreated.Month != date.Month))
if (p.DateCreated.Day != 1 && p.DateCreated.Day != date.Day)
return false;
return slug.Equals(Utils.RemoveIllegalCharacters(p.Slug), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
if (date != DateTime.MinValue &&
(p.DateCreated.Year != date.Year || p.DateCreated.Month != date.Month || p.DateCreated.Day != date.Day))
return false;
Days are now mandatory in the URL rewrite to lead to a valid post. Our old links that were using the yyyy/mm pattern are now returning and error page, and without installing Elmah or double-checking links, I would probably not have noticed. .
The RelativeLink property of the class Post was changed at svn revision 8906 to change the pattern from yyyy/mm to yyyy/mm/dd. This in itself was not a problem if the old links continued to work. But with this new change to the UrlRewrite class, the legacy format no longer works.
I changed the code manually to fix our problem, but this might affect other BlogEngine.NET users as well. If you have a pretty old blog where people link to your old blog posts, then you probably are affected.
After some investigation, this bug was introduced while fixing Bug 9212.
I made a temporary patch for those of you who run BlogEngine.NET 1.6 and are experiencing the same issue.
I changed the code in UrlRewrite to search posts a second time but ignoring days in the date if it didn't find the post in the first search. Here is my code:
var predicate = new Func<bool, Predicate<Post>>(includeDays =>
return new Predicate<Post>(
p =>
if (date != DateTime.MinValue &&
(p.DateCreated.Year != date.Year || p.DateCreated.Month != date.Month || (p.DateCreated.Day != date.Day && includeDays)))
return false;
return slug.Equals(Utils.RemoveIllegalCharacters(p.Slug), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
// Search all post and include days in the search
// A valid link would look like this
// http://blog.com/post/2010/02/10/slug.aspx
Post post = Post.Posts.Find(predicate(true));
// We can't find this post, try to find it but ignore days in the path
// http://blog.com/post/2010/02/slug.aspx
// Some older blogengine.net site used this link pattern
// We want to preserve links to those sites.
if (post == null)
post = Post.Posts.Find(predicate(false));
BlogEngine.NET developers are aware of this bug, but in the meantime, you can just drop this new version of BlogEngine.Core.dll in your bin folder to temporary fix the problem if you are using version 1.6 of BlogEngine.NET.
I highly recommend installing Elmah on your BlogEngine.NET to discover errors like these!
Download BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Binary Patch (drop in your bin folder)
In this simple post, I want to share a quick tip with Visual Studio. You probably encountered this problem before: you are designing an ASPX or ASCX form in Visual Studio and then for some reason an element you just added in the ASPX/ASCX is not available in the code behind.
If you are lucky you know exactly what you changed in the page to cause this problem and you fix it. However, if you're opening a file that hasn't been worked on in a long time (maybe someone else did the most recent modification), it becomes difficult to know what exactly cause the .designer.cs automatic generation fail. There are a few common scenarios for this such as invalid HTML, missing or duplicate declarations, or unresolved references. Finding the core issue by hand is difficult because the designer does not let you know what the specific issue is.
To regenerate the .designer.cs file for a ASPX/ASCX, first delete the .designer.cs file, then right click on the ASPX/ASCX and click "Convert to Web Application". This will probably give you an error message that will help you find the root of the problem. I noticed that there's a difference in the error message you might get here versus when the file is opened in Design mode in Visual Studio.
For example, we had a .ASCX file where the .designer.cs file was not being generated when we modified it. We could not figure out what the error was until we discovered this tip because Visual Studio did not give us any feedback. Once I deleted the .designer.cs and ran "Convert to Web Application" on the file, I was prompted with an error message that informed me that we had a <%@ Register /> declaration in our ASCX that was also declared in our web.config file (and this was creating a conflict even if they both pointed to the same location). Visual Studio could benefit from better error reporting for this particular scenario.
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Since my sprain left wrist ain't well yet, I need to have my 48-hour bed rest. Though I can move with my feet and other body parts, I have hard time doing hand works because it is really painful to do.
48-Hour Bed Rest (image from fanpitre.com)
Having myself a 48-hour bed rest ain't easy. So for me not to feel bored from doing nothing, I am just listening music from my iPad and sometimes from radios, online. I even tried to record one funny joke from a radio station, however, I haven't set my music recorder application up in my iPad, I missed that thing for, I guess, three times anymore.
Anyway, would you like to know what music genre I love to listen when I am alone here in my room? Believe it or not, I love rock music. Thee music genre is what I am also listening at when I am studying.
This is just the only thing I am doing today while having my 48-hour bed rest.


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Petrol supplies in danger as refinery workers strike
WORKERS at Scotland's only oil refinery will walk out in a strike that threatens to disrupt petrol supplies and cost the economy £50million a day.
Members of the Unite trade union yesterday announced a two-day stoppage later this month at the Grangemouth plant in Stirlingshire.
Employees at the site, which supplies fuel to Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-east England, have been locked in a bitter dispute with joint owner Ineos. The row centres on the treatment of Stevie Deans, a Unite convener who was embroiled in the vote-rigging row over Labour's selection of a candidate in Falkirk.
The chairman of the local constituency party in the safe Labour seat, he was suspended then reinstated by Ineos over a campaign to select Karie Murphy, Unite's candidate.
But the union claims that Ineos is using the row to implement "sweeping changes" to staff pay, pensions and working conditions. Ineos last night insisted it was doing everything it could to avoid a total shutdown and had enough fuel stocks to maintain supplies. But a strike at the site in 2008 led to panic-buying at petrol stations, and cost the UK around £50million a day.
The latest action could also threaten the BP Forties pipeline, which carries around half of North Sea oil production. A Treasury assessment has warned another two-day strike may trigger power cuts and affect long-haul flights. Despite talks to avert a walk-out at the Firth of Forth installation, Unite said its 48-hour stoppage would begin at 7am on October 20.
Unite has made every effort to pull Ineos back from the brink but at every opportunity this company has kicked our proposals for peace into touch
Pat Rafferty, the union's Scottish regional secretary, said: "Unite has made every effort to pull Ineos back from the brink but at every opportunity this company has kicked our proposals for peace into touch.
Calum MacLean, Ineos UK chairman, said: "We told Unite that we would be willing to go to ACAS at the appropriate time but rather than negotiate they prefer to strike.
"We will do all we can to minimise the harm this Unite strike does. We have high fuel stocks in the refinery and a contingency plan to use the site as an import terminal to bring additional fuel in by sea if necessary."
The Scottish Government said it was "disappointed" by the development. A spokesman added: "We will now redouble our efforts to encourage negotiation to avert a strike."


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Dr. Sumana Das Sur taught Bengali at University of North Bengal in India.
She now teaches at Rabindra Bharati. She spoke about her research and work in this interview. Dr. Sur's interest lie in Bengali literature in the Bengali diaspora.
She studied at Jadavpur University and received her Doctorate degree from there.


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Class 4 experienced two authentic Victorian days to enhance their topic during the Autumn Term.
The first was a typical school day, run in the classroom by Mrs Honey, where the children experienced what it would have been like to attend school during the Victorian period. Lessons focused on Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Religion and strict discipline was enforced. The children made a superb effort with their costumes and brought a lunch that reflected the typical diet of the period to make the day as realistic as possible.
We also visited Holdenby House in Northamptonshire where the children became Victorian servants for the day. We gained an insight into the life and times of a Victorian servant; stepping back in time in our Victorian costumes into a working class role. Upon arrival, we experienced a tour of the house and were allocated authentic jobs to carry out to perfection before being presented to Her Ladyship.
Observational drawings of Victorian artefacts.
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Ickford School has topped the league table in Buckinghamshire for 2016!
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MyMediaLite is a lightweight, multi-purpose library of recommender system algorithms. It addresses the two most common scenarios in collaborative filtering: rating prediction (e.g. on a scale of 1 to 5 stars), and item prediction from implicit feedback (e.g. from clicks or purchase actions). It contains dozens of recommender engines, including state-of-the-art matrix factorization methods. It also supports real-time updates to the recommender engines, storing engines to disk and reloading them again, and several evaluation measures to compare the accuracy of different recommender system methods. Three command-line programs that offer most of the functionality contained in the library are included.
Meta.Numerics is a Mono-compatible .NET library for scientific and numerical programming. It includes functionality for matrix algebra (including SVD, non-symmetric eigensystems, and sparse matrices), special functions of real and complex numbers (including Bessel functions and the complex error function), statistics and data analysis (including PCA, logistic and nonlinear regression, statistical tests, and nonuniform random deviates), and signal processing (including arbitrary-length FFTs).
Af-Arch is an N-tier development framework to quickly build high-quality distributed applications. It currently supports C and C# programming languages, which enables you to write client applications using them. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows, and is being used in production environments.
CVS, GIT, and Mercurial as well as other well-known version control systems cannot version directories. In other words, you cannot add empty directories. A "workaround" for this issue is to use placeholder files that are placed into empty directories. These placeholder files can then be committed into the repository and will make sure that, upon checkout, the directory tree is entirely reconstructed. The problem with using placeholder files is that you need to create them, and need to delete them if they are not necessary anymore (because sub-directories or real files were added). With big source trees, managing these placeholder files can be cumbersome and error prone. MarkEmptyDirs can manage the creation/deletion of such placeholder files automatically. It creates placeholder files in all empty "leaf" directories. If later on new files or directories are put into such directories, the placeholder files are not necessary anymore, and are removed automatically.
Zyan Communication Framework simplifies development of distributed applications. It works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android platforms via .NET or Mono runtimes. It features LINQ support for three-tier applications, full duplex TCP support, traffic, compression, and encryption, transparent support for events and EBC (event-based components), and Windows and LDAP authentication support.


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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – The pressure. It always starts with the pressure. Any success the Maryland football team's defense enjoys, it stems from those tasked with pursuing the opposing quarterback, barreling from the outside or powering through the gaps. The defensive linemen do it every snap. The edge linebackers, too. When coordinator Brian Stewart dials things back into coverage, that's the real surprise.
In last season's three-point loss to Connecticut at home, Terps quarterback Perry Hills was sacked six times, unable to generate any semblance of rhythm while lying prone on his back. In Saturday night's 32-21 Maryland win, the defense flipped the script. As Terrapins quarterback C.J. Brown remained relatively protected, sacked zero times, his defense hounded Connecticut Chandler Whitmer and dropped him five times.
"We just go out there and do our job," said linebacker Marcus Whitfield, who accounted for two of those sacks. "Our job is to get the ball into the offense's job as quick as possible, be on the field less than normal, or less than what everyone wants us to be out there for. Getting those quick three-and-outs definitely. I wouldn't say the offense struggled, every team has their ups and downs, but we definitely pulled together as a whole team and got the win."
Thirty-two points and 501 yards of total offense, on paper, doesn't seem like a rough night for Maryland's offense. But three turnovers and several dropped passes shifted the burden onto the defense. After coasting in the season opener against Florida International and crushing Old Dominion beneath its dime package in week two, the Terps returned to their core principles: apply pressure until they burst.
To wit, three straight Connecticut first-half drives ended with sacks on third down. First Whitfield dropped Whitmer for 10 yards. Then the senior, arguably Maryland's defensive MVP through three games, funneled Whitmer toward fellow outside linebacker Yannick Cudjoe-Virgil for a 13-yard loss. Finally, Whitfield's sack on third and goal from Maryland's 8-yard line snuffed out a red-zone touchdown opportunity, as the Huskies settled for a 33-yard field goal.
"It all starts with them," cornerback Will Likely said. "They make our job more easy. You just have to stay on our guy and attack the ball."
Maryland's secondary, particularly cornerback Dexter McDougle, benefited from that pressure up front. His 49-yard interception return for a touchdown in the third quarter came when defensive lineman Darius Kilgo bulldozed Whitmer into the ground, allowing McDougle to jump the underthrown ball and weave his way into the end zone.
"It's all the excitement," Whitfield said. "When you see somebody pick up the ball, Dex taking back a touchdown, you're taking another step. Shows you the defense is going to work. It's exciting to see all the other players around you do well."
"We love to do that type of stuff," linebacker Cole Farrand said.
Perhaps most importantly, Maryland's three turnovers yielded just three Connecticut points. Brown's first interception of the season turned into a three-and-out. Running back Albert Reid's bungling of a pitch became a punt. Only when Ross's fumble deep in Terps territory gave Connecticut the ball did the Huskies finally convert a 34-yard field goal.
"We were moving the ball, we weren't doing anything too stupid, just fumbles after fumbles when we're about to punch it in," Brown said. "The defense played really well today. They stepped up."
As Maryland's offensive struggles became more apparent and critical last season, the defense shouldered the load, often worn down by returning to the field with little time for breathers. But with a unit that's clocked 500 yards in three straight games and has opened the season with three double-digit victories for the first time in 18 years, the burden will lessen.
Yet there may come times, like Saturday, when the offense struggles and the defense becomes the hero. Right?
"I doubt it," Likely said. "But if they do, we're ready for it. I believe in the offense. I'm real confident in those guys. They're going to make plays."
So, he doubts any team can stop Maryland's offense?
"Yeah," he said. "I doubt it."


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Skip to comments.Herman Cain: Brief Biography and Statement of Faith
Posted on 03/18/2004 4:53:25 PM PST by NewLand
Herman Cain grew up in Georgia with wonderful parents and little else. Cain's father worked three jobs because he wanted his family to have more opportunity. As a result of his dad's encouragement, Cain earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Morehouse College in 1967. He earned a master's degree from Purdue University while working as a mathematician for the Department of the Navy. Upon graduation, he worked as a business analyst for The Coca-Cola Company. In 1968, he married Gloria Etchison; they have two grown children and one grandchild.
In 1977, Cain joined The Pillsbury Company at age 31. Within three years, he rose to the position of Vice President of Corporate Systems and Services. He resigned his senior position in 1982 to begin work at Pillsbury's Burger King Division. Using his business experience, Cain worked his way up in the organization, even flipping burgers on the grill to better understand every aspect of the industry. Nine months later, he was managing 400 Burger King units in the Philadelphia region, the company's poorest performer. Within three years, his region ranked number one.
In 1986, Cain was appointed president of then financially troubled Godfather's Pizza, Inc. chain. In 14 months, the chain regained profitability and in 1988, he led his executive team in a buyout of the company from Pillsbury.
Cain was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association (NRA) in 1988. While serving as Chairman, he developed the organization into a pro-business voice through national debates and speeches concerning healthcare reform, employment policies and taxation. Following this experience, he was appointed to serve on the Economic Growth and Tax Reform Commission. He then became a senior advisor to the 1996 Dole/Kemp presidential campaign.
While continuing as President and Chairman of Godfather's Pizza, Inc., Cain became a national keynote speaker. Using his powerful messages as the foundation, Cain created a leadership firm and he has authored three books on topics ranging from leadership to self-empowerment. In 2002, he became an Executive Lecturer for the Gallup Organization.
In 1996, Cain was elected CEO and president of the National Restaurant Association. Cain leveraged his restaurant experience with the technology market when he became CEO and president of RetailDNA, a software technology company, in 1999. Despite his global industry reach, Cain devotes time and energy to his family and indulges his passion for music and golf. Now former Chairman of the Board of Godfather's Pizza, Cain is still on the Boards of Directors of various companies. Cain also serves as an associate minister of Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta.
Herman Cain Statement of Faith
The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father's God, and I will exalt Him.
"When my father left his familys small farm at the age of 18 with just the clothes on his back, he had his belief in God, his belief in himself and his belief in the United States of America. With these beliefs he achieved all of his dreams in life.
"Using those same beliefs, I have been able to achieve many blessings in life with the strength, which comes from God. My family and friends, my church, my success and the opportunity to live in the greatest country in the world are all blessings from God.
"There is more to life than getting more. This is why my song unto Him is to use all my talents to serve my fellow man, and make a difference in the future of our Nation.
"In God we trust expressed the faith of our Founding Fathers. In God I trust is my faith."
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'ISIS is broken' Victory close after 1,000 terrorists killed in Mosul bloodbath
ISIS is close to being wiped off the map after more than 1,000 jihadis were obliterated in Mosul.
Coalition forces have captured nearly half of the terror capital in Iraq after six weeks of furious fighting.
The Iraqi military said ISIS' "spirit is broken" – with supply lines cut and few fighters remaining.
But the troops now face jihadist snipers, suicide bombers and car bombs when moving from district-to-district in a bid to rid the city of the extremist group for good.
The masked elite Iraqi troop known as the Golden Division are the only brigades to have entered Mosul from the east.
Other forces have surrounded ISIS – but progress has been slowed over concern of civilian casualties.
Special forces commander Major General Abdul Ghani al-Asadi said: "The force left in front of us is small, unable to stop our advance.
"Their spirit is broken.
"We have killed more than 992 fighters on our front – plus more wounded.
"Their supplies and communications to the outside world are cut.
"They stage fewer suicide bombings."
More than one million people are thought to be still in the battered city – and the Iraqi government has warned them to take cover during the final assault.
Defeating ISIS in Mosul – the death cult's largest city and its last bastion in Iraq – is vital to destroying the so-called "caliphate".
The group's demonic leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared his new Islamic empire from the pulpit of Mosul's Grand Mosque in July 2014.


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Interest was at full peak for the highly awaited third round clash between Spanish legend Rafael Nadal and arguably ATP's biggest teen sensation, Alexander Zverev. And boy did they deliver!
Zverev, better known as 'Sascha', put on an exhibition of prodigal shotmaking coupled with amazing mental fortitude. And, Nadal, on the other hand, answered his doubters by winning yet another epic five-setter as he reached his 10th Round of 16 at the Australian Open improving to a 48-10 W/L record there.
In what was earmarked as the Battle of the Generations, 14-time Grand Slam winner tour veteran Rafa Nadal defeated flashy teenager Alexander Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2 in 4 hours and 5 minutes.
Lead-Up To The Epic
Sascha came into the match having reached his maiden 3rd round at Melbourne Park and looked to aim for Nadal's weaknesses right from the start. Nadal was slowly getting his rhythm back, one that had eluded him for the past couple of years. It was a battle of prestige, and a re-match of the pair's 2016 Indian Wells 4th round battle, one in which the then 18 year old Zverev came within a point of beating a shaky Nadal. It was inexperience that stood in the way of Sascha and an unanticipated victory as a volleying error at the net cost him the driving seat in the match. But the young lad showed character and garnered immense praise from El Matador himself, as he did from others, with the theme being almost similar.
"He's a definite future number 1 and a potential multiple grand slam champion."
The Epic
Zverev began the match confidently, unflinching at his strides and broke Nadal in the very first game of the match. Zverev's backhand, already touted as one of the best double-handers on tour, generated raw power as he continued to play sublime tennis throughout the set and pumped his fists on winning the opening set 6-4. Nadal had no answer to Zverev's powerful and aggressive display of tennis, but owing to his massive experience, he quickly turned the momentum on his side, breaking Zverev very early in the second set. Nadal didn't commit any further errors, and ended up winning the second set.
The following sets showed exactly why Alexander is touted as the future of tennis and why counting Nadal out time and again is the biggest act of foolery one can commit. Having never played such a high quality match against a top player before, Zverev showed determination, and it was only after the longest rally of this year's Australian Open – 37 shots, which Zverev won – did his inexperience finally pave way for Rafael Nadal! And Nadal – he simply showed the world that he still believes in himself and others should too, because the shaky version of his was gone for good. In the decider, at 2-2 and deuce on Zverev's serve, they played a 37-shot rally – one that would define the match – grueling and full of class, and Zverev won the point, only to get a muscle cramp right after.
Nadal would make no mistake thereafter and grab the match with both hands, because experience leads to a proper execution of intent and makes the difference during these moments. Soon, Rafa would break and run away with yet another five-setter in what could potentially be the match of this tournament and a dejected Zverev would almost be in tears on his walk back to the locker room!
The Comments
Rafael Nadal, once again proved to be a champion both on and off the courts when he patted Zverev affectionately, visibly enthused by the NextGen frontrunner's heartening display of courage, resilience and vigour.
The world number 9 was full of praise for his young competitor who matched him toe-to-toe,
"I think everybody knows how good Alexander is. He is the future of our sport and the present too. He's able to produce great shots, already one of the best players in the world and can be even better. He can be fighting for the most important things, so I think he can do it."
And about his own victory, Rafa was rather happy to have finally won a five-setter in three years, having lost the last three,
"It's obviously an important result for me. I lost the last last couple of ones, matches in the fifth. So is important for me to win a match like this, losing two sets to one. Very happy."
While the heartbroken teen was all praise for his opponent as well and looked for positives despite the defeat,
"Rafa is a legend. His forehand is probably one of the best in the history of the game. I'm disappointed but I know this was a great match which I could have won. It's disappointing but I'm fine actually. There are a few things here and there that I could do better but I'm happy with my performance."
Mission Possible
Nadal next faces 6th seed Frenchman Gael Monfils, whom he leads 12-2 in their Head to Head encounters with Monfils' last win coming back in 2012. And with his current run of form, Nadal seems to be getting back to his best shape. His team can finally look forward to contending for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup. A win would mean a potential match-up with 3rd seed Milos Raonic who has meant business so far at the Australian Open.
Nadal believes in himself, his team believes in him, his fans believe in him. With a second Australian Open in contention, and history at stake (if he wins this week, he'll be the first person since Aussie legend Rod Laver to have completed the Grand Slam twice), all eyes will be on a resurrecting Nadal to prove his worth on the big stage, one more time.


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iUniverse blog recently congratulated one of our debut authors on being a Finalist in the very tough 2013 Indie Excellence Book Awards-Mystery Category for her book Bitter Secrets and in doing so asked her to be a guest author on the blog. This is what she said on book awards.
2013 Indie Excellence Book Awards-Mystery Category -tough!
"When I entered the contest I thought – "Oh, well, it can't hurt to try! And I was right. It sure didn't hurt. In fact, when I was notified that I was a finalist, there was no pain at all!
I do have to confess to being more than a little surprised. With all the submissions they get from everywhere, it took a while to sink in. People who really know books, people whose lives are books, people in the industry thought my story made the grade.
Now, that was food for thought. And it is for me."
iUniverse then asked about her writing inspiration
"Bitter Secrets is my first book. It started as a little blip from nowhere in my brain as I was driving home from work one afternoon
The words "I see faces" – just there, like someone opened up
my head and dropped them in. As they rolled around in there I thought, "Hmm, 'I see faces.' You could write a story around just those three words." Followed by; "Heck, You could write a whole darn book around just those three words."
So, at that point it became a mental exercise. For the next few weeks when my brain wasn't occupied with something else I was trying to come up with answers to questions like: Who are these people? How many of them are there? Where do they live? When? What in the world could have happened to them?
As I filled in the blanks, I started coming up with a real story. When I had a couple paragraphs written in my head I thought; maybe I should start writing this down. And that's how it started. With the encouragement of a good friend and author, I worked on my story for a long time until I was satisfied with it."
Next iUniverse asked about the self-publishing experience
"Choosing iUniverse was kind of a stab in the dark – I had never done this before and didn't really know what I was doing. I checked it out everywhere I could think of and finally decided to go for it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say. iUniverse had the support system I knew I needed. They were very helpful throughout the process of editing and printing.
Now I have to get serious about book marketing – not my forte – and I'm feeling my way through again. Got a long way to go!"
iUniverse blog then asked about future plans
"My sequel to Bitter Secrets, Full Circle, is all but finished. In Bitter Secrets, Molly Martindale's small town life is overwhelmed by her "faces." She looks for answers to their questions as she struggles with a painful past. Other characters surrounding Molly–some helpful, some definitely not–add depth to her story. The diary of a thirteen-year-old girl gone for forty years spurs Molly on when her energy and spirits flag. The smudged dignity of town drunk, Dennis Blankenship pulls at her heart and wheelchair bound Vietnam vet Glenn Morrison gives her fresh commitment to find the secrets about the lost Parker family she just can't forget.
In Full Circle, Molly and her new friend Dana D' Lorenzo each find love and meet surprising challenges – dangerous challenges for Molly."
Final thoughts
"Being a finalist in the Indie Excellence Book Awards is a big step for me. I'm hoping this story I call Bitter Secrets, the characters that have captivated me, will reach out to others as well.
I'm looking to iUniverse once again to help me get the most out of this new experience.
If you want to know more and see her progress visit Patty's website and finally iUniverse congratulates Patty Brant again and thanks her for her excellent article
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Byzantine empire, circa 8 – 10th century AD
A hammered shank of the ring is attached to an oval bezel shaped as a stylized quatrefoil – an ancient symbol of good luck, health, and fortune. The ring is set with a carved garnet intaglio (seal) which incorporates a star and a crescent shaped element within a palm leaf border.
A very finely crafted high carat gold medieval ring.
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Is it possible to change my iPad from Wifi version to 4G version with supplementary payment?
I have been using my new iPad for a while and found very inconvenient without the 3G or 4G network ability. I hope to change my iPad from Wifi to 4G version. I don't know whether I can do this or not?
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If you bought the wifi only version of the iPad, you cannot change it to the 4g version. the only way to get the 4g would be to buy a new iPad and sell your current iPad. If you haven't used your current iPad very much and still have all of the stuff that came with it, you can try to return it to the apple store (or where ever you bought it) or you can sell it online on Amazon or eBay.
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Alan Moore may not be too enthusiastic about Zack Snyder's "Watchmen", but I am. (Then again, besides peanut butter jelly, what does get Moore excited nowadays?) On the site's blog, director Snyder writes that they've wrapped shooting on the film, and as a going away present, gave us this groovy little image of Rorschach lighting some poor sucker on fire. Yeah, take that, Alan Moore! (Er, just kidding, Alan, don't kick my dog.)
Says Snyder on the site's official blog:
A film adaptation of Watchmen has been in the works for almost 20 years and thanks to you, it is finally in the can. It has been such a pleasure to be surrounded by a team that is so dedicated and that has given 110% each and every day. I am extremely grateful for the level of attention to detail put forth by each department to capture all of the texture that makes Watchmen the incredibly unique property that it is. Although we still have a lot of work to do in post, the shoot has been an experience I will not soon forget!
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Check out these ultra-light mullet mod canopies! I've been loving the mullet mod with the circular polarized antenna. I could slip thru a mail slot in the front door with this low profile, and my antenna seldom gets damaged or snagged on anything. The canopy itself weighs .5g. Special thanks to Chris and 100% Epic for this genius idea!!
These awesome canopies are now available in 10 colors! These are painted lightly and evenly with plastidip, and the paint job adds only .031g. I'm choosing red. Because red is faster.
These mullets are made to fit the stock frame but with come clever fanagling they can fit the black frames as well. Just don't try to use the mounting holes on the sides as if it were a stock frame, the tiny holes will rip out.
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Rooms, services The guests of Radisson Blu Hotel Mannheim may stay in 229 nicely furnished, comfortable rooms in Mannheim. You may taste delicious, fresh meals in the restaurant of the hotel every day. Car parking possibility is available nearby. A great opportunity to do sports will be provided by the local gym. The café and the bar are an ideal place to host a personal meeting or a pleasant evening talk. In the safe you can secure your valuables. In case you'd bring your laptop along, you may go online via wireless Internet connection (WiFi) available at the hotel. The exact list of services available at Radisson Blu Hotel Mannheim (including those for an extra fee) and the exact list of equipment in a room can be found on the information sheet below.
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Rooms, services The guests of BEST WESTERM WESTFIELD INN Westfield may stay in 40 nicely furnished, comfortable rooms in Westfield. You may taste delicious, fresh meals in the restaurant of the hotel every day. The local café or the bar will provide an ideal location for personal meetings and nice evening chats. The exact list of services available at BEST WESTERM WESTFIELD INN Westfield (including those for an extra fee) and the exact list of equipment in a room can be found on the information sheet below.
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"I've benefited from my local children's centre"
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Whilst on maternity leave with my little girl I've benefitted from my local children's centre and feel that more needs to be done for the continued use of these centres to continue.
I think a continued approach to mums need to be done upon first referral but then to continue with regular updates especially at baby weigh in sessions to get more families benefitting from these fantastic services. Also to continually work with local schools and their nursery children as a way to get families involved also.
Response from Debbie O'Brien, Children's Centre Co-ordinator, Sure Start Children's Centres, County Health Partnerships 2 years ago
I'm pleased to read that you have benefitted from the children's centre and hope that you continue to do so.
The Childrens Centre is always looking at ways in which we could improve on our services and the way that we promote ourselves, so would be really interested to get further feedback around your comments on the baby weigh clinics and working with the nurseries and schools. We currently do some of this, but would be very keen to explore ways in which we could imporve on this. We hold a parents forum at the centre and this would be a great opportunity for you to share any thoughts or ideas, alternatively you could speak with a member of the team.
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The Truce | 1998
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The travels of Primo Levi, a young Italian chemist who journeys through Europe at a time when it's caught between war and peace. It is the diary of his voyage that begins in the dark fogs of Auschwitz. His story continues through the black markets of Katowice, following the movement of the Red Army convoys through a devastated Russia which is, at once, both tragic and comic. Primo is from a group of Italian deportees, along with Poles, Germans, Czechs, Frenchmen, Greeks, Jews and non-Jews alike, liberated by the Russians, set out on the long march back to their homeland. Although he participates in many adventures, Primo never loses his sense of irony. Often finding himself in grotesque situations, he sees how adaptation to life's most trying circumstances can often be comic. Primo's arduous return to Italy is double-edged. Bit by bit, he begins to rediscover friendship, love and his own body. At the same time, his mind is inundated with tragic memories from the concentration camp.


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A lot of news in the papers these days about Kyoto. Jean "will he or won't he" Chretien will apparently sign Canada on this fall. If you want to know a little more about the agreement, here's a link from the National Post. The Citizen had a much better full page story about the agreement this morning by Kate Jaimet, but no link as of yet.
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