Rafa Is Supreme, And Everyone Else Is Allowed To Wake Up Now. Perfect symmetry has been achieved Rafael Nadal won the U. S. Open. Before that, Roger Federer won Wimbledon. Before that, Nadal won the French Open. Before that, Federer beat Nadal to win the Australian Open. The two greatest players in mens tennis returned from long injury hiatus to split 2. Clean and balanced. Its a result perfectly suited to the man who symmetrically adjusts his hair before each pointas if crossing himself, and perhaps no less sacred a ritualand ensures perfect alignment of his bottles at every changeover. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Perfect symmetry has been achieved Rafael Nadal won the U. S. Open. Before that, Roger Federer won Wimbledon. Before that, Nadal won the French Open. Before that. Rachel Karen Green Jennifer Aniston is the spoiled but warmhearted and likeable daughter of a rich vascular surgeon and his wife. Rachel is introduced into the. Before I Wake Rachel Vincent Pdf' title='Before I Wake Rachel Vincent Pdf' />Lest me and everyone else peddling this narrative too quickly turn the story of one guys triumph into a story of two guys, lets appreciate the specifics of how Nadal got this one. Rafa may have receded deep in the court to return serve, but he ceded no meaningful ground, not even for a moment, while defeating world No. Kevin Anderson, 6 3, 6 3, 6 4. The 3. 1 year old South African, whose game Ive come to deeply admire, brought all available tools to bear on this match, including a departure from his stylistic comfort zone He served and volleyed, and forayed to net, where his touch is not the finest, in order to break free of the taxing baseline exchanges where Rafa has proved himself maybe the hardest ever to best. He failed, never managing a break point, but there was wisdom if not a whole lot of suspense in the attempt. Anderson might be one of the games strongest servershe held serve 8. Nadal, who broke him four times. Rafa has a way of making the difficult look inevitable. By the end of his monstrous clay court season I was already at a loss for words, struggling to conceive of how a better clay court player could be intelligently designed. By now, having seen him make three Slam finals and reclaim world No. Rafas own words from the post match interview, his trademark modesty elevated to the metaphysical level So so happy now. I just can say, 3. Life must be proud to see this guy win 1. Rogers 1. 9. And judging by the current state of the tour, both numbers seem liable to swell. Injury or hellbent Dominic Thiem notwithstanding, who can stop Rafa from chugging along in Paris Reaching double digits was an outrageous feat but never a sign to stop. Can dudes at least go through the motions of stopping them To the extent 2. Five of the top 1. Grand Slams last year Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka. If this is a parable about the grueling nature of tour schedule, hopefully it does not fall on deaf ears most sane fans would prefer less and better tennis to a year long slog with lots of dull passages. A scattering of seeds were left for dead by the end of week one. Young phenoms Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios both went cold in the first few daysneither made much headway in the majors this yearand Dominic Thiem later joined them after the best match of the tournament. In his swath to the title, Nadal never had to face a player ranked better than No. Per ATP historian Greg Sharko, dating back to 2. In the semifinal Nadal did face Juan Martin del Potro, the man who ousted Roger Federer and who is prone to play above his on paper ranking. There are still a few more stops on tour before the year is through, and after this season of pure duopoly, even a fan who came up watching both legends might feel ready for the future to assert itself. Arent you hungry to see these two tested against the best of their peer groupall currently recovering from various maladiesand the best of the junior crop, too Its no accident that some of the years most electric matches were those that pitted these two against upstarts Federer versus Nick Kyrgios in Miami, Nadal versus Denis Shapovalov in Montreal. Rachel-Vincent-Soul-Screamers.jpg' alt='Before I Wake Rachel Vincent Pdf Viewer' title='Before I Wake Rachel Vincent Pdf Viewer' />Ubers board was widely expected to be prepared for a vote finalizing its punishing search for a new CEO to replace Travis Kalanick, who resigned earlier this year. Background In adults with suspected meningitis clinicians routinely order computed tomography CT of the head before performing a lumbar puncture. Methods We. Purcell. The Fairy Queen. Glossa GCD 922702 2 CDs, September 2017. Booklet pdf. Sbastien dHrin, Les Nouveaux Caractres. Vincent Edward Scully born November 29, 1927 is a retired American sportscaster. His 67 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers started in 1950 when the franchise was. Both have remarked that younger players tend to give them their very best. Thats wonderful. Taro Daniel giving his very best might be good for scratching one set off Nadal. Zverevs or Kei Nishikoris or Grigor Dimitrovs best might actually make things a little more interesting. Before I Wake Rachel Vincent Pdf MergeOn the one hand, the transcendence of Federer and Nadal over the rest of the field should not be used to debunk or otherwise devalue their achievements. They have been that good for that long. Their greatness has effectively blotted out the sun for an entire generation of would be major title havers. On the other hand, I just want to watch some better tennis matches with a little more regularity. Granted, if they can deliver that kind of Australian Open final once a year, consider my mouth sealed shutFedal forever, until were all dust. The Ratio Is The Triple Crown Of Bad Tweets. Every bad tweet lives a life. They begin as every tweet begins in idiocy and shame, but also with hope. No tweet will ever be anything but the legible stain of a person yielding to the human impulse to transcribe the precise sound of every fart even the good tweets that exist are basically the record of your more interesting or amusing sounding farts. Some of those are worth remembering, and will be remembered, but most of them are just kind of fleetingly unpleasant. So thats Twitter, an entertaining social media platform that is jarringly popular among sociopaths, may well be doomed, and which is objectively driving people insane. I myself like the site a great deal, but I am an idiot. Maybe you spend some or even a lot of time on there, as I do. If so, you have noticed that much of being on Twitter boils down to reading bad tweets. There are, we can only assume, many thousands of insanely shitty tweets written every day, most of which pass unremarked and unmourned. This is as it should be, if only because everyone being aware of every shitty tweet that existed would be crushing servers can handle this volume of shittiness, but humans cannot. Humans break. Twitter breaks them. Again, this is a website I generally enjoy. For all the shitty tweets that we cannot and will never see, there are a great many that achieve a sort of rank antifame. Everyone hates these tweets, and because Twitter is what it is and how it is, these tweets are then shared widely specifically because of how shitty they are. The worst of these achieve a phenomenon known as The Ratio, which Luke ONeil explained as a sort of upside down version of success in which the tweets elicit an exponentially greater number of responsese. Governor Huckabee that is not even by the most generous definition of the term a jokethan retweets and likes. There is, in The Ratio, a rare example of the invisible hand of the marketplace doing what it is supposed to do. If a tweet manages to get thousands of responses and a few dozen lonely co signs, you can safely assume that the tweet in question sucks a lot. This holds true along a scaled continuum, with the worst tweets from the most prominent sources generally generating the most dramatic ratios. For instance Washington Post politics editor Philip Ruckers tweet from last week about the new Trump, for instance, got more than 1. You can see how this happens prominent figure is extremely and obnoxiously wrong about a thing that Twitter tends to get upset about, and the rocket ride to THE RATIO is on. You probably have noticed this. My goal here is to introduce you to the joys of a different type of bad tweet, that generates a different type of ratio. Here, for instance, is one of those tweets, from protein rich war advocate Eli Lake. I have oafishly circled the ratio in question, so you can see it. What you see, in this ratio, is a bad tweet from a middling Twitter personage getting a proportionally bad response. What you also see, in this ratio, are the Triple Crown stats from one of Adam Dunns more thoroughly three true outcome seasonsa. RBI. The baseball slash line ratio can be a way station for bad tweets on their way to Herculean, Rucker esque ratio annihilation. But for a certain type of tweet, it is destiny some bad tweets exist seemingly only for this purpose. Driver Mouse Micro Pack. Here, for instance, is a recent tweet from Josh Barro, who heads up coverage on the Weird Priss beat for Business Insider. These are Triple Crown stats that match perfectly with the tweets dipshittery. This is Ike Davis three seasons before he decides to reinvent himself as a pitcher. Its Yuniesky Betancourt the year before he signs with a Korean team. Its perfect. It is not always perfect, though. If a tweet is bad enough, it will eventually rocket into slash line regions unreachable by baseball players. But, if you get to this bad tweet early, you can watch it on its journey. Here, for instance, is a very bad tweet from an account called thetaclair. My apologies for the big dumb flag in the middle of it. Some of this is complicated. I am not remotely sure that Theta Clair is a real person, for one thing. Twitter says she has 1,5. Twitter. Audit only recognizes 4. Buzzfeed also did some pretty compelling work, after another widely read and widely shat upon tweet of hers, that suggests Thetaclair was created to. But lets take her at her word. So Our tweeter is a bigoted sorority member with the spirit of 1. Kappa Alpha Theta, the sorority in question, went to the trouble of determining that the account had nothing to do with them and tried unsuccessfully to get the account banned from Twitterwho never takes or posts pictures of herself. Clair is authentically popular among Indonesian Youtube aficionados with catholic tastes and Forex traders fond of inspirational quotes and other blurry avi types, and is primarily concerned with whatever it is thats currently upsetting the internets most toxic online shut ins at that moment, in precisely the way that such a shut in might wish a blonde sorority member to be concerned with those issues. Thats the complicated part. The simple part is that a lot of people hated her shitty tweet. With more than 2,7. On the Sunday of its birth, I tracked it on its journey and so can demonstrate how the slash line ratio presaged its rise. Scholars of the form would say that thetaclair went 2. Chris Carter at 6 4. I first noticed that this tweet was headed for big things At 7 5. Lyle Overbay Has Been Designated For Assignment A half hour later, shed fully gone Chris Iannetta Ninety minutes after that, shed made it, putting up a. Mike Trout would put up in a season in which he was unjustly beat out for MVP by a player with more RBI It wasnt until after midnight, when the tweet achieved the extremely purple Robinson Cano Spends An Entire Season In Double A For Some Reason slash line of. The slash line ratio can do nothing to protect you from bad tweets only logging off can do that. But it is my belief that the slash line ratio can enhance your experience of Twitter all the same. I hope that the slash line ratio, once you know to look for it, can add something to those bad tweets. It can highlight the heroic scale of their wrongness. It can add an affirming and contextualizing echo of parallel tryhard wrongheadedness to a tweet thats otherwise just a blaring cheese gust. It can add some enriching irony to a tweet that otherwise doesnt have a lot going for it. Twitter, until it goes away, is going to be what it is, and it mostly is bad. But if you have to see bad tweets, and you do, you might as well get to think of Jack Cust while youre doing it. David Roth is a writer from New Jersey who lives in New York. Hes on Twitter davidjroth.