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Freeway Sniper Suspect Arrested
San Diego police Tuesday night were questioning a man in connection with a report that someone was shooting at cars at the interchange of Interstate 805 and California 52.
Lt. Michael Blakely said police took the man into custody after they found spent shells in his pocket and a loaded .22-caliber pump-action rifle in his car, which was parked near ball fields at Convoy Court and Shawline Street. They also found spent .22-caliber shells on a hill overlooking the freeway interchange, Blakely said.
Blakely said police were alerted to the shootings at 7:15 p.m. by an anonymous caller, who complained that a man with a rifle had been firing on cars traveling through the interchange. The caller gave a detailed description of the gunman, Blakely said.
Deputies in the San Diego County sheriff's helicopter spotted a man matching the description as he approached the parked car, Blakely said. The department received no other calls about the alleged gunman.
Blakely said police had not decided by late Tuesday whether to charge the man with possessing a loaded firearm, a misdemeanor, or the more serious felony of shooting at an occupied vehicle. The man's identity was not released.

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Here's Karl having fun at the Vallures show/house party.
...maybe too much fun, eh?
He didn't put his helmet on when it was time to ride- please don't make that mistake! Even those this happened on the street instead of the polo court the result could've been exactly the same.
Luckily our polo circle counts among it both an EMT and a Registered Nurse.
Still, one trip to the hospital later..
lol that kid is wearing the same shirt in all those photos!
yeah, I didn't bother to change after I got home from the ER 'cause I had to do some stuff before the tourney started.
I do have a helmet, I just never wear it.


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Q: Why is my CALayer shadow blurry on retina displays when using shadowPath with shadowRadius set to 0? I have a button which I'm adding a shadow to like this:
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b.layer.cornerRadius = 3;
b.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(2, 2);
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That works great:

If I use shadow path like so:
b.layer.shadowPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:b.bounds cornerRadius:b.layer.cornerRadius].CGPath;

The shadow is blurry on retina devices:

It's fine on non retina devices and seems to work correctly if shadowRadius isn't zero. I've tried setting contentsScale and rasterizationScale to 2 but it doesn't affect the shadow.
Any other ideas?

A: As of iOS 9.0 the contentsScale property of CALayer will also affect the rasterization scale of shadowPath. In other words, setting layer's contentsScale to screen scale will fix your issue.

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Art, Photography, and the power of the medium
August 20, 2019 | Author: Abhishek Poddar, Founder and Trustee of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)
"My people are not the rich and the famous. They are the simple, ordinary folk. They do not hit the headlines, yet my people are people who matter."
— T S Satyan, Reaching Out from his book In Love with Life
When the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bangalore was first ideated, we sat together and wanted to ensure that photography played a pivotal role in the design and future of the museum.
The camera phone has literally turned everyone into photographers – quality notwithstanding – people are often unknowingly recording their daily lives, documenting personal histories and setting up a narrative that will be decoded by future generations. Why then, should a museum give so much importance to a medium that has now been adopted en masse? Aren't museums places where gallery spaces are reserved for the best in arts and culture for people to admire for centuries?
Women working at the Indian Telephone Industries factory in Bangalore, T. S. Satyan (1923-2009), Date: Undated, Medium: Silver gelatin print, Region: Bangalore, India
Photographs challenge old perspectives
The advance of digital technology has made photography a prolific medium through which people create 'art' – whether that is through capturing a definitive moment or working and re-working an image using post-production processes. This new media is where people are at. It is where social media is at. By being at the forefront of it, MAP hopes to question the dialogue between 'high art' and 'low art'; 'pure art', 'real art' and encourage an art space that is inclusive.
Photographs are powerful
Beyond the binaries, however, there is also the sheer power of the visual.
A photograph sometimes has the ability to get governments to sit up and take notice – I'm thinking of Nick Ut's photograph of the Napalm girl when I say this. This photograph of a terrified nine-year-old girl, burnt to her skin running towards the camera became the defining image of the conflict in Vietnam And just one year after that photograph, the United States and North Vietnam signed a ceasefire bringing an end to the war. That one stark image collectively screamed the stories of hundreds of journalists who filed daily reports from the war front.
Photographs are experiences
On the flip side, today the sheer volume of images jostling for mind space also means there we have become desensitized to tragedy. A bombed Syria, drowning refugees, babies even – nothing moves us beyond liking a post or sharing an image. The repeated viewing of a viral image instead of propelling us towards action has actually dulled our senses, which is why I think photographers are looking at newer ways to engage people and turn a simple viewing into an experience.
A collage of people's interactions with Georges Rousse's works at the MAP Project Space in Kochi.
Last December, MAP invited French artist Georges Rousse to respond to an 18-Century Dutch warehouse in Kochi, Kerala, India. Rousse's epic installations combine mathematics and architecture which at first glance, may seem disjointed until the mise-en-scène is released from a single perspective and then photographed – at which point the work is deemed complete. However, in our experience, visitors to the Kochi Muziris-Biennale, in which MAP was part of the Collateral, added their own dramatic flair to the image, posting and sharing their creations on social media, making the site one of the most visited and photographed in the Biennale.
With India's museums often seen as some of the most empty spaces in her crowded cities, it is critical that MAP engages with newer and younger audiences. And at this point in time photography is possibly the tool that can initiate a wider exposure to our visual heritage.
Bride in full regalia at a South Indian wedding, T. S. Satyan (1923-2009), Date: 1980, Medium: Silver gelatin print, Region: Karnataka, India.
MAP's photography holdings remain one of our most important and we have been the recipient of a number of donations by key photographers like T S Satyan, Jyoti Bhatt, Deepak Puri amongst others. Do visit our website, www.map-india.org to view portions of these collections.
Abhishek Poddar is the founder and trustee of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) an upcoming museum in Bangalore, India that is set to open its doors to the public in the latter end of 2020. Designed as a 44,000 square foot facility in the heart of the city, it will be spread across five floors and will house multiple galleries, an auditorium, a research library, a conservation lab, classrooms, a museum store and cafe. MAP has a growing collection that includes over 18,000 works of art, predominantly from the subcontinent, ranging across mediums and time periods (from the 12th century to the present). These are organised into six key areas: Pre-Modern Art; Modern & Contemporary Art; Photography; Folk & Tribal Art; Popular Culture; Textiles, Craft & Design. Motivated by the belief that museums should play a positive role in society, MAP's vision is to serve as a catalyst of change in the sector and to facilitate greater public exposure to the important cultural history of the visual arts in India.
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The name of the breed covers two varieties of the same breed, the only difference being the waby the dogs carry their ears. apillon is a French term meaning "butterfly", and the ears of the papillon actually resemble the wings of a butterfly. The Phalène , on the other hand, has hanging ears resembling the wings of a moth, which is at the same time the origin of its name. The origin of the dogs is Italy, but today they are counted among the French/Belgian breeds.
They have a long history that dates back to the 16th century when they were discovered by the French king Henri III. For about 250 years, they were very popular at the royal court and shown on many paintings, especially portraits of queens and noble ladies. Normally the phalène was shown on the paintings. The French Revolution, however, nearly put an end to these lively, silk-haired escorts of the noble ladies and children.
At the beginning of the 20th century, breeders in France and Belgium dedicated their efforts to revitalizing the breed and promoted pure breeding, and therefore France and Belgium are today considered as the countries of origin. The papillon variety with the erect ears quickly became very popular. Today, the papillon is more frequent than the phalène that is found only rarely. The two breeds exist in all parts of the world.
The miniature spaniels have normal proportions like large dogs. They are small dogs but not an extreme miniature breed. They have an easy-to-groom half-length coat that is left in its natural condition. They have tough legs that enable them to cover the same daily distance as a human.


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Utter, utter CAPS
There are two documents that are worth at least glancing at before reading this blog. The first is the Pedal on Parliament manifesto. You'll find it here. In summary it asks for:
1) Proper funding for cycling.
2) Design cycling into Scotland's roads.
3) Safer speeds where people live, work and play
4) Integrate cycling into local transport strategies
5) Sensible road traffic law and enforcement
6) Reduce the risk of HGVs to cyclists and pedestrians
7) A strategic and joined-up programme of road user training
8) Solid research on cycling to support policy-making
The second document is the government's new Cycling Action Plan for Scotland (CAPS 2013). It can be found here. If we compare this latest 'vision' document from the Scottish government, the document that sets out the governments ACTION PLAN for Scotland here is how it compares to our manifesto:
1) Absolutely no commitment whatsoever to any funding at all. The councils can do it.
2)Design cycling?! Not our job. The councils can do it.
3) Safer speeds?! Not our job. The councils can do it.
4) Ah now this is one the councils can do.
5) Strict liability? Not our job, not the councils job....Westminster's job!
6) HGV's drive in council areas don't they...?
7) Mmm. Maybe we can do this one. Tell people that it's safe, as the councils are sorting it.
8) Hmmm..suppose the transport minister can chat to the councils once in a while. That's research isn't it?
The above might be funny if in fact, it wasn't entirely true. CAPS 2013 is in no way whatsoever a step forward from the original CAPS. In fact it is a step back. Not only is it further suggesting that the original CAPS target wasn't in fact a target after all, it's a vision, but it is also changing the wording surrounding that target.....sorry vision... in such a way to provide wriggle room.
'10% of all trips to be made by bike by 2020' has been changed to '10% of everyday journeys taken in Scotland will be by bike'
What does that actually mean? What is the definition of an everyday journey? I suspect that there isn't one, and that is exactly what the government is depending on. They now have a wishy-washy vision to reach a wishy-washy type of a wishy-washy amount of bike trips.
You'd almost be forgiven for thinking that the government has given up on it's commitments (assuming they ever cared in the first place) and are now planning ways to avoid an embarrassing face plant. t would appear that they are in the process of building a nice wishy-washy temperature controlled swimming pool to fall into and they are already wearing their Speedo trunks.
The government have absolutely no intention of modernising Scotland.
But wait! The government are doing something aren't they? Lest we forget the £54m figure that they continually like to mention. The £54 that is spread over several years, does not all go on cycling and of that that does, some of it is squandered on advertising campaigns telling us:
No! You're wrong! Cycling is great on Scotland's roads. We just need to ask Mr Driver to be a wee bit nicer to us and we will hit 40% modal cycling in no time! Oh and don't forget to cycle with your arms outstretched at all times so drivers can aim for your finger-tips.
It gets worse though. I can reveal that the government are in fact annoyed at us for not being more appreciative. Seriously! At the recent POP meeting with Keith Brown (Transport Minister), Mr Brown started the meeting off quite aggressively. He was annoyed with us for not congratulating him on the good work that he is doing to make Scotland a cycle friendly nation.Yes that's right. He's doing good work. Apparently.
I suppose we have to be fair though, and my blog does need some balance. Surely something good has come of all this, In fact as part of the launch for CAPS there was also a press release, and the government and Keith have in fact made an announcement of more money for cycling. Brilliant! Well done Keith! Well....not quite. In fact, not at all. Mr Brown and his colleagues have seen fit to find an extra £79,000. Yes that's right a whopping £79k. Now remember that we are asking for a minimum of £100m to be spent on cycling per annum if we are to have any chance of reaching 10% by 2020. Being generous, the current funding is sitting at £20m per annum, so this extra takes us 0.079% closer to the absolute minimum required.
That isn't funding, it's a slap in the face.
As pointed out in this thread, that represents 0.000013% of the cost of dualling the A9. There can be absolutely no doubt whatsoever what the current governments vision of a modern Scotland is. More roads to help more people drive more cars to more places, faster.
So in effect, we have a cycling action plan that has no plan and no interim targets, and therefore will result in no significant action.
So it's goodbye 'cycle friendly nation'.
Scotland, the cyclists dismount nation.
Keith is typical of the brainless oafs, so common in this country, whose sole perspective on the world is through the windscreen of a car. I am not at all surprised to hear that he was aggressive - all committed Motorists are. The best that can be said about him is that he'll be gone soon because transport is a revolving door.
I'm beginning to form the opinion that there is no hope of mass cycling under an SNP administration. Nor is there a hope of it under any of the other mainstream parties: Labour, Tory, and Lib Dem councils and governments past and present could have done something but chose not to because they are all stuffed full of fossil fuel addicts.
I'm not sure what campaigning avenues are left open to us. I wonder what property prices in Amsterdam are like.
Dave H 19 June 2013 at 23:20
Well to draw from Ghandhi perhaps we are past the phase of being ignored and these sops are an indicatio anywhere with n of them fighting us, before we eventually win.
i don't think we will get anywhere with official grand schemes, but the velorution will be as silent as the cycling it will deliver. 4000+ for POP2 well just let that grow insidiously through people discovering and doing because it works better, faster & cheaper. Some of the best deliveries have caught the 'them brigade' completely by surprise, and provided the embarrassment of a wee, event that was just a bit bigger than expected.
We just need to keep the fresh and fired up with inspiration and optimism (and Pandas)
Oh and i realise there might have been a typo perhaps it is a Cycling Regulation Action Plan for Scotland
Andrew Abbess 20 June 2013 at 17:26
You ask what the change from '10% of all trips to be made by bike by 2020' to '10% of everyday journeys taken in Scotland will be by bike' means.
I thought the change was explained on page 8 of the CAPS review, where it explains that CAPS is primarily about functional cycling - cycling for everyday travel (utiltiy cycling - ride to work, to school,to run your messages...) rather than about sport cycling.
Restricting the 10% target vision to functional journies rather than including all the charity bike rides, sportiefs and Bike Club weekend rides and chaingangs will make it a harder target to reach as all those leasure/sporting journies will not count. It is thus more about making Scotland a place where the bike is a tool to get about rather than a toy to go out and play. They cant achieve thair target by giving Sport Scotland a pile of cash and getting them to organise loads of sportief ride. (speaking as one who enjoys both functional/utility cycling and playing/leasure/sport).
However as you say without the budget to achieve 10% of "functional journies" will they achieve it ?
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Dubbed the "Gore, Core, Metal & More Tour", the pair will be receiving support on the trek from RINGWORM, MISS MAY I, and AMERICAN SHARKS. These shows begin October 7th in Buffalo, NY and run through October 28th in Peoria, IA.
Yet, this is only the beginning of live road activities from RVA's filthiest of space scum, as GWAR will then kick off a headline run. It is one that sees them stopping in New York City on Halloween and continuing their aural devastation of the nation through November 19th.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 20th. You can find an itinerary for all upcoming GWAR live atrocities below.
GWAR recently wrapped up two successful legs of its 20th anniversary tour, as well as several dates on the final cross-country edition of Warped Tour. They continue to support their latest Metal Blade Records release, "The Blood Of Gods".
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RPG is experiencing an extreme boom on Steam
The launch of Cyberpunk 2077 Calling last year controversial would probably only be the tip of the iceberg. Because after countless postponements, the PC version received quite a few positive ratings, but the console versions looked like one Total failure and Removal from the PlayStation Store.
Now, almost a year after its release, the role-playing game is a little better off, even if the developers of CD Projekt Red far from the end of their journey arrived. There shouldn't be any more updates this year, but the next year is already fully planned for. In the past, support was also obtained from the modding community and responded to fan criticism of the mini DLCs.
Where did Cyberpunk 2077's sudden boom come from?
That the Strategies from CD Projekt Red Seems to be bearing fruit, proves a look at Steam. Cyberpunk recorded there in 2077 (buy now € 46.99) namely not just one at the moment enormous influx of new players, but also numerous positive reviews. The game's Quest Director, Paweł Sasko, already shared his delight on twitter:
"In the past few days, Cyberpunk 2077 has seen a spate of positive reviews from new players on Steam. You can't imagine how much that means to me. Over 15,000 very positive reviews in the past few days, during both Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 Sit on the global list of Steam's best-selling games. Thank you very much! "
In addition to the So far, bug fixes and new content have taken place This upswing is likely to result primarily from the Steam Autumn Sale, where the role-playing game is currently reduced by a whopping 50% is and thus only 29.99 euros costs. Since the PC version has been by far the most convincing variant since its launch, many players certainly took the tempting offer as an opportunity to look past the problems that still existed.
CD Projekt Red is confident about the future of Cyberpunk 2077
In an interview with the Polish magazine Republic (via VGC) spoke Adam Kiciński, CEO of CD Projekt Red, also about the Future of cyberpunk 2077that he looks confidently towards: "We believe Cyberpunk 2077 will be considered a very good game in the long run and just like our other titles will sell for years – especially as hardware gets stronger and we improve the game."
"We are constantly working on updates and also on the version for the latest generation of consoles. Of course, the original release taught us a lot. It gave us the kick and motivated us to make the changes that will make us a better studio in the future will do."
Of course, only the future can tell whether Kiciński's predictions will come true current situation on Steam however, seems to be a good reason for his self-esteem. On Reddit however, one showed oneself still very skeptical and responded to the CEO's statements with cynicism. "Everyone's talking about the bugs, but let's not forget the many features that were advertised and then weren't there", writes a user.
Sources: Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam / Paweł Sasko auf Twitter / VGC / Republic
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The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu has urged Nigerians to face the challenges posed by recession and make the best of it in 2017, observing that the recession has brought out the ingenuity in Nigerians to look within.According to the Minister who spoke at a musical event which took place at his residence at Onicha-Ugbo, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State as part of celebration for the yuletide, "we must make sense out of our situation".
"Everywhere I go, opportunities abound, the difficulties of today, should challenge us for a better tomorrow," he said, observing that God has endowed Nigeria with a lot of gifts that should be tapped to make the country greater in 2017.
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, was among dignitaries that graced the 'Night of Soulful Music' organised by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu.
In a brief sermon at the event which was spiced up by renowned gospel musicians, Rev. Fr. Peter Mobuogwu of the Catholic Diocese of Issele-Uku disclosed that Christmas is about celebrating the love of God.
He sued for peace among Nigerians, asserting, "what we desire now is the peace that comes with Christmas, we are celebrating the great love of God and there is hope that life will continue after now because, God stooped down to take the form of man for our sake".


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Blackberry Smoke Show: Jannus Live, Saturday, September 9
Gail Gerdes
Posted On Monday, 04 September 2017 01:00
Sharing the stage several times this August with Gov't Mule, and starting their Fall "Sinners & Sanctified" Tour with Aaron Lewis in October, Blackberry Smoke was able to take a short interlude to visit Florida to perform alongside the Chris Robinson Brotherhood for three shows; Jannus Live on September 9th being one of them. Jannus will be rockin that Saturday evening with this 'daring duo of bands' line up. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Charlie Starr (lead vocal and guitar) of Blackberry Smoke about the band, the music and their future projects.
Charlie Starr is one of the most down-to-earth, kind-hearted and humble guys that I have had the pleasure to speak to. He took time out of his incredibly busy schedule to share some insight with me.
The first question I had for him was one that had been on my mind since the day I fell in love with Blackberry Smoke's music. I wanted to know where they came up with their name. Interestingly, longtime friend Chris Robinson, who happens to be sharing the stage with BBS at Jannus, coined the name Blackberry Smoke and it just stuck, now becoming a familiar name to many.
The guys in BBS have been together 16-17 years. That's a long time for the same group of guys to be together in a band. I asked Charlie how they managed to stay together, since that is no small feat. He attributed their longevity to strong friendships and "a lot of time in a van together". BBS had a modest start. Charlie explains, "We weren't a group of guys who were hand-picked and thrown together to be a 'super band'." They put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into the band. There was a lot of windshield time, a lot of shows, a lot of road food and a lot of time away from home.
The band has never shied away from hard work. They play more than 250 shows a year touring the US, Europe and now even Australia was added to their docket in 2016. "It's also been a slow process building a fan base", Charlie adds. Their ever-expanding audience has been built on the strength of their live shows.
Blackberry Smoke is so multi-dimensional, it's impossible to pigeon-hole them into a musical classification box; and that's the way they like it. They are everything but common. They are unconventional and original. Charlie expressed, "We're all liked minded in that we all want to explore", and the diversity in their music is proof. Even their No.1 CD Like an Arrow, released Oct. 2016, presents several different 'flavors' of music, although there is definitely a taste of their southern rock roots, which was reinforced with the closing track "Free on the Wing" featuring special guest, Gregg Allman. Charlie spoke of his immeasurable respect for Gregg. He reveals how "humbled and honored (he) felt that Gregg agreed to be a part of their CD". Charlie shared with me that he had no idea that Greg was so sick and that "Free on the Wing" would end up being one of the last songs that Gregg would record. Charlie said that he will always treasure that time with Gregg Allman.
Almost 'tongue in cheek', I asked Charlie if another CD was in the works. After all, how could they possibly have the time to write and collaborate another CD when they have been constantly on the road, touring. To my surprise, Charlie said that they already have all the written material for the next CD and that they hope to make time to record before the end of the year! So, keep your finger on the pulse of BBS because there is so much more to still come in the near future.
Blackberry Smoke is the real deal. There is nothing but love in their hearts and magic in their music, and the most important thing to them is to share it with all of us. If you haven't seen BBS yet, a trip to Jannus on Sept. 9th will definitely get you hooked. If you have seen BBS before, I'll see you there! Our family of BBS fans is growing with each live show; and it's a grand family to be a part of.
For more information and tickets to this show go to: www.blackberrysmoke.com
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The waiting game continues for Gio Gonzalez, Mike Rizzo and the Nationals.
With pitchers and catchers arriving in Viera, Fla., the inevitable questions were asked to Gonzalez about his connection to the Biogenesis clinic in South Florida, which allegedly distributed performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players.
"I feel very confident," the left-hander said. "At the end of the day, I've never taken performance-enhancing drugs, and I never will. I'm actually pretty excited about this year."
The Washington Post also reported that Gonzalez had urine and blood samples taken two days following the release of the Miami New Times' story about the South Florida clinic. The results had yet to be announced, and a player is only notified if he fails the test.
General manager Rizzo confirmed at spring training that the Nationals have no contingency plan in place to sign a free agent pitcher, such as former Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse, if Gonzalez is suspended for any amount of time.
"We're always looking to get ourselves better and deeper, and if there's something to be done that makes sense for us, we'll certainly be doing it," Rizzo said.
Rizzo said he has complete confidence that Gonzalez did nothing wrong, and he expects to put the left-hander on the mound every fifth day.
Manager Davey Johnson also believes that Gonzalez is clean.
"I have gotten to know him real well, and I know he's very conscious of taking care of himself," Johnson said at spring training. "I'm sure he wouldn't do anything that he knew was breaking the rules."
Gonzalez also will pitch for Team USA in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
--RHP Stephen Strasburg threw 37 pitches in his first bullpen session of spring training. He threw mostly fastballs with some changeups. The Nationals will have no innings limit on Strasburg this season. Strasburg was shut down the first week of September in 2012 when he reached his team-prescribed innings limit of 160 following his recovery from Tommy John surgery. Strasburg told the Washington Post he was "100 percent over" the disappointment of not being able to pitch in the playoffs last season.
--LHP Will Ohman signed a minor league deal to join the Nationals. The veteran could add left-handed depth to the bullpen. Ohman, 35, spent the past two years with the White Sox, going 0-2 with a 6.41 ERA last season. He has a 4.28 career ERA in 10 major league seasons.
--2B Danny Espinosa has fully recovered from a torn left rotator cuff that did not require surgery. Espinosa played with pain last season, and he led the NL with 189 strikeouts. Manager Davey Johnson said he thinks Espinosa "looks (to be) in great shape. He's always strong. He feels like he did enough peripherally around the shoulder so it's not going to be a problem. He said he's been swinging a lot, he feels great."
--RHP Rafael Soriano's arrival to spring training was delayed because of a visa issue. Soriano dealt with a similar delay at the Braves' camp in 2007. Soriano earned 42 saves and posted a 2.26 ERA for the Yankees last season.
--LHP Zach Duke may take a considerable amount of the left-handed matchups this season, and manager Davey Johnson is fine with that. "There is a good chance I might lean heavily on him and not just out of the bullpen as a long man, but also if something happened, he'd probably be my first candidate to come into the rotation," Johnson told reporters.
BY THE NUMBERS: 4 -- Left-handers currently on the 40-man roster: Ross Detwiler, Zach Duke, Gio Gonzalez and Matt Purke.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "The perfect spot for the kid is left field because he hasn't hit a cut-off man in two years." -- Manager Davey Johnson, repeating what Jayson Werth said regarding the decision to move Bryce Harper to left field with the arrival of Denard Span. Werth will remain in right field.
This could very well be the best rotation in baseball. The Nationals are loaded with power pitchers who have great control and can get batters out a number of different ways.
They might have tired a bit at the end of last year, and not having Strasburg for the playoffs really hurt. But Strasburg is back, and you can bet he'll be ready to go if the Nationals qualify for postseason play.
The bullpen was already strong, but the addition of Soriano makes it a even better. The Nationals now have a veteran closer at the back end, something that's good for any team. Soriano will let guys like Storen and Clippard develop even faster and take pressure off them.
Count RHP Henry Rodriguez in the mix here in some form, too. He should be ready to go after elbow surgery to remove a bone spur last summer.
Span will solidify the lineup, even though it didn't need a whole lot of help. He's a very tough leadoff hitter, and that lets Werth move back down to second, fifth or sixth, natural spots for him.
The bottom of the lineup struggled at times last year. Espinosa had strikeout problems, and Suzuki needed to adjust to the National League. If they can do better, there won't be many weak links with this group.
TOP ROOKIES: RHP Christian Garcia likely will have a role either in the bullpen or the rotation this year. He went 2-1 with an 0.86 ERA between Class AA and Coass AAA last year, and he helped the Nats in September and the playoffs.
Manager Davey Johnson also has talked about stretching Guzman out and maybe making him a starting pitcher, but that's going to depend on injuries and if there's problems in the rotation. Rookies won't do much for Washington this year, as the roster is pretty much set.
--C Wilson Ramos (right knee surgeries in June 2012 and July 2012) could be slowed at the start of spring training. He likely will compete for a backup spot.
--2B Danny Espinosa (torn rotator cuff, left shoulder) didn't have surgery to fix this, rehabilitated it and said recently that he should be fine.
--RHP Henry Rodriguez (right elbow surgery in August 2012) had a bone spur removed, but he should be ready to go this season.
--3B Ryan Zimmerman (arthroscopic right shoulder surgery in October 2012) is expected to be fine for spring training.
--INF Chad Tracy (arthroscopic left knee surgery in October 2012) should be ready to go in camp.


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Amazon Urges Rethink On JEDI Contract Award
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Amazon claims Microsoft cloud contract award was down to political interference, but Microsoft alleges that Amazon retrospectively adjusted its bid pricing
Amazon continues to protest the decision by the US Department of Defence to award a cloud contract to Amazon.
According to Reuters, a court filing unsealed on Tuesday revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit has urged a US judge to toss out the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract award to the bitter rival of AWS.
The Pentagon had in October 2019 officially awarded the JEDI contract to Microsoft, despite Amazon's AWS cloud division being widely regarded as favourite to win the contract.
JEDI background
Straight away Amazon protested, with AWS CEO Andy Jassy saying that he believed the decision was not adjudicated fairly and called for the whole Jedi decision process to be reviewed.
AWS in November 2019 filed a complaint with the US Court of Federal Claims contesting that decision.
Amazon has essentially argued that politics got in the way of a fair contracting process, and in December 2019 Amazon officially named President Trump in its court complaint, and accused him of exerting "improper pressure" and bias.
Then in January this year Amazon filed a temporary restraining order with a US court to demand that Microsoft halt work on the US Department of Defense cloud contract.
In February a US judge granted Amazon's request to temporarily halt the DoD and Microsoft from moving forward on the up-to-$10 billion cloud computing deal.
That court order remains in place.
In April this year, the US Department of Defense Office of Inspector General was unable to rule out if President Trump's White House had influenced the decision.
But in September 2020 the Pentagon concluded that Microsoft was the best value for money for the contract – a decision that AWS lambasted and promised at the time that it would "continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award."
But Reuters reported this week that AWS in a redacted 23 October court filing unsealed on Tuesday said that the award to Microsoft must "be invalidated because it is the product of systematic bias, bad faith, and undue influence exerted by President Trump to steer the award away from" the company.
It also called it a "flawed and politically corrupted decision."
The White House declined to comment, referring questions to the Justice Department, Reuters reported.
AWS was quoted by Reuters as saying in a statement Tuesday that as a result of the Pentagon revision in September "the pricing differential swung substantially, with AWS now the lowest-priced bid by tens of millions of dollars."
Microsoft response
Microsoft however told Silicon UK that Amazon had only lowered its pricing when it had realised it had bid too high.
"Amazon seems to be saying the only way they can ever lose is if the procurement isn't fair," said Frank X. Shaw, CVP at Microsoft Communications. "But every month, the market tells them that's not true. Large and sophisticated customers regularly choose Microsoft over AWS. They do this because of the strength of our technology, our understanding of complex projects, and our overall value."
"As the losing bidder, Amazon was informed of our pricing and they realised they'd originally bid too high, "Shaw told Silicon UK. "They then amended aspects of their bid to achieve a lower price. However, when looking at all the criteria together, the career procurement officials at the DoD decided that given the superior technical advantages and overall value, we continued to offer the best solution. We also know what it takes to serve the DoD having worked with them for more than forty years."
"The DOD's independent IG report found there was no evidence of actual procurement interference so it is time we moved on and got this technology in the hands of those who urgently need it: the women and men who protect our nation," Shaw concluded.
The court is reportedly considering motions to dismiss Amazon's amended complaint that have been filed by the government and Microsoft.
The motions have not been made public and it is not clear when the judge might rule.


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Trump Is Laughing All The Way To The Bank — And Liberals Are Irate
Liberals can barely conceal their rage as Former President Donald Trump outsells every unfairly biased and critical hit piece against him with the release of his forthcoming book.
Supporters and fans of former President Donald Trump scooped up over 70,000 copies of his new, and pricey, book Our Journey Together in its first week, and his publisher expects to sell out the first run of 100,000 by the week's end.
In just the first day, the coffee table-style book of 300 photos and handwritten captions describing his four impactful years in office made $1 million, and Barnes and Noble has declared it one of their bestsellers.
The sales figures dwarfed a competing political book from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, which sold a reported 2,289 in the first week, prompting Trump to declare the sales "paltry."
Also, by comparison, Trump's book beat one of his chief critics, ABC's Jonathan Karl, whose book sold 24,000 in the first week.
Donald Trump Jr., who formed Winning Team Publishing with family adviser Sergio Gor to get his father's book out, told Secrets, "We're crushing it."
He added, "I think it would easily qualify to be a New York Times No. 1 bestseller. And we're doing it ourselves, taking on a big old industry. It's been pretty awesome."
Much smaller sales numbers often reach the New York Times' No. 1 slot, and Trump's is priced at $74.99. Signed copies sell for $229.99.
As Trump continues his upward rise, the Former President has without a doubt solidified himself in American history as the single greatest countercultural figure ever.
Those of us who enjoy the muckraking, the bulldozing of insidious institutions, and the exposing of corporate media operations have enjoyed Trump and his administration since the beginning — and this book illustrates all of it.
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John James Chilton (* 16. Juli 1932 in London; † 25. Februar 2016) war ein englischer Jazz-Autor und Jazz-Trompeter.

Leben und Wirken
Chilton stammte aus der Arbeiterklasse. Sein Vater war Komiker in einer Music-Hall. Mit 12 Jahren begann er Kornett zu spielen und mit 17 Trompete. Nach zwei Jahren bei der RAF gründete er Anfang der 1950er Jahre eine eigene Band, mit der er in einem der "Butlin's"-Freizeitparks in Skegness spielte, u. a. mit dem Komödianten Dave Allen. Von 1958 bis 1963 spielte er in Bruce Turner's Jump Band, über die Jack Gold 1961 den Film "Living Jazz" drehte. In den 1960er Jahren spielte er in den Big Bands von Mike Daniels und Alex Welsh, spielte mit Pop-Bands wie den "Swinging Blue Jeans" und gründete gegen Ende des Jahrzehnts seine eigene Band "Swing Kings", mit der er u. a. durchreisende amerikanische Jazzmusiker wie Buck Clayton, Ben Webster, Bill Coleman und Charlie Shavers begleitete.

Anfang 1974 gründete er die "Feetwarmers", in der auch der Jazz-Sänger (und Satiriker) George Melly sowie der Klarinettist (und Cartoonist) Wally Fawkes spielten. Mit den Feetwarmers, die bis 2003 bestanden, unternahm Chilton weltweite Tourneen, trat häufig im Fernsehen auf und hatte sogar 1983/84 eine eigene BBC-Serie ("Good Time George"). Daneben schrieb er eine Reihe von gut recherchierten Jazz-Biographien und zwei "Who's who of Jazz" (einmal für traditionellen US-amerikanischen Jazz und einmal für britischen Jazz) sowie 2007 eine Autobiographie. Für seine Biographien von Louis Jordan und Coleman Hawkins erhielt er Preise der "American Association of Recorded Sound Collections". Für seine Biographien von Sidney Bechet und Louis Armstrong erhielt er die Ehrenbürgerschaft von New Orleans. Für "Liner Notes" zum Album "Bunny Berigan" (Time Life Records 1982, in der Reihe "Jazz Giants") erhielt er 1983 einen Grammy. Chilton war auch Komponist und Songwriter.

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Bücher
 mit Max Jones: "Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story", da Capo Paperback 1988 (zuerst London 1971), ISBN 0-306-80324-0, deutsch "Die Louis Armstrong Story", Herder 1972
 "Ride Red Ride – the Life of Henry Red Allen", Continuum International Publishing Group 2000, ISBN 0-8264-4744-9
 "Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant", Continuum International Publishing Group 2003, ISBN 0-8264-6535-8
 "McKinney's Music – A bio-discography of McKinney's Cotton Pickers", Bloomsbury Bookshop 1978
 "A Jazz Nursery – The Story of the Jenkins' Orphanage Bands in Charleston, South Carolina", Bloomsbury Bookshop 1980
 "Teach Yourself Jazz", Hodder and Stoughton 1979, ISBN 0-340-23847-X (sowie Random House)
 "Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Story of Bob Crosby's Bob Cats", Jazz Book Service 1983, ISBN 0-9501290-3-8
 "Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan", University of Michigan Press 1997, ISBN 0-472-08478-X
 "Billie's Blues – A survey of Billie Holiday's Career", Stein and Day Publishing 1975, da Capo 1989 ISBN 0-306-80363-1
 "The Song of the Hawk – The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins", University of Michigan Press 1990, ISBN 0-472-08201-9
 "Sidney Bechet – the Wizard of Jazz", da Capo 1996, ISBN 0-306-80678-9 (zuerst MacMillan 1987)
 "Who's Who of Jazz – Storyville to Swing Street", da Capo, 4. Auflage 1985, ISBN 0-306-80243-0 (zuerst Bloomsbury Bookshop 1970)
 "Who's Who of British Jazz", Continuum International Publishing Group 2004, ISBN 0-8264-7234-6
 "Hot Jazz, Warm Feet" (Autobiografie), London, Northway Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9550908-3-7.

Tonträger
 Nuts (1972)
 Son of Nuts (1973)
 It's George (1974)
 Making Whoopee (1982)
 Best of Live (1995)
 Anything Goes (1996)
 Goodtime George
 The Ultimate Melly (2006, mit Van Morrison)

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Biografie
Autobiografie
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Grammy-Preisträger
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Argentina's star is rising
From a reputation in the biomedical sciences that grew from three Nobel prizes, to new prominence in the study of astroparticles, modern-day Argentina is an appealing place to be a scientist.
By strongly supporting its public universities and institutions, the country has built a scientific framework for research in biomedicine, agrotechnology, physics, space sciences, climatology and Earth sciences. Now, the nation, featured prominently in the latest edition of the TWAS Newsletter, is a model for scientific growth in the developing world.
The central piece of Argentina's scientific framework is CONICET, the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, established in 1958, which supports thousands of scientists and their research. The Argentinian daily newspaper La Nacion said recently that CONICET financially supports 6,000 researchers, 2,500 technicians and 8,500 fellows at institutions and colleges. Further demonstrating the importance of science to its agenda, the Argentinian government appointed chemist Lino Barañao its first-ever minister of science, technology and productive innovation in 2007.
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A lively place for life sciences
Argentina has a longstanding tradition in the biological sciences, including three Nobel Prize winners: Bernardo Houssay, Luis Federico Leloir and César Milstein. Leloir's work allowed Argentina to set initiatives and found institutes on molecular biology in the early 1980s. Leloir and his fellow laureates' accomplishments served as an inspiration for Argentines everywhere, including for Alberto Kornblihtt, a molecular biologist with the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET. Kornblihtt is a 2011 TWAS Prize winner in the medical sciences and one of Argentina's six foreign associates with the US National Academy of Sciences.
"Undoubtedly I am a product of the Leloir school", said Kornblihtt. "I did my PhD with Héctor Torres who had done his PhD with Leloir, who in turn had done his PhD with Houssay, and my postdoc with TWAS member Tito Baralle, who in turn had been formed in the Leloir school. In that school I learnt a love for experiments and the importance of commitment and rigorousness."
He credited Argentina's public education system for the country's strength in biochemistry and medical sciences. "Our university system is an open one", he said. "There are no fees for students; all throughout there is a principle that it's open to everybody." It also helps that Argentina has been a free society without intellectual repression for 30 years. "We've had democracy since the end of 1983", Kornblihtt noted.
There are several research teams working on important problems in biology at the moment, Kornblihtt noted. Hugo Daniel Luján's research team at Catholic University of Cordoba and CONICET has done landmark work on controlling human parasites, such as the single-celled giardia that wreaks havoc on the human digestive system. Andrea Gamarnik, an independent researcher for the Argentinian Council of Investigation, discovered a method the deadly Dengue virus uses to reproduce. Alejandro Schinder, at the Leloir Institute in Buenos Aires, is one of Argentina's leading neuroscientists, and demonstrated that neurons created in the adult brain function in a fundamentally different way from other neurons. Cancer researcher and 2010 TWAS Prize winner Gabriel Rabinovic has published important contributions on the biology of malignant cells in Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology and Cancer Cell. Kornblihtt's lab at the University of Buenos Aires has been recognized for its work in gene expression and how a single gene can generate multiple proteins – the molecules that travel between genes and other biological structures, with papers in Cell, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology and Molecular Cell.
Argentinian scientists also have an important part in science institutions around the world.
"The Howard Hughes Medical Institute had grant programme many years ago for Canada and certain countries in Latin America, including Argentina", said Kornblihtt. "Those programmes were five-year grants – very competitive. For years, Argentina had almost as many resident scholars as Canada." Today Schinder and Kornblihtt are two of the 13 senior international scholars of the institute.
Some major findings in agricultural technology have also been made through Argentinian science. A study by biologist José Estévez of the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET on how sugars affect plant growth was published by Science in 2011. Also, Raquel Chan's team at the Agrobiotechnology Institute of the Universidad del Litoral last year was able to use genes from sunflowers, one of Argentina's major crops, to make a more resilient strain of corn. Argentina is also home to Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), a government agency founded in 1956 that is dedicated to agricultural technology research, studying a range of plants from crops to forest trees. In an interview with the Argentinian journal Revista de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Barañao called INTA "one of the pillars of scientific and technological activity in our country" that carries out good basic research combined with "irreplaceable outreach activities".
Reaching for the sky
Argentina also holds a prominent place in the physical and space sciences. Argentina is part of the six-nation consortium behind the Gemini Project, which is building, installing, commissioning and operating two new 8.1 metre diametre optical and infrared telescopes, one in Hawaii, the other in Chile. Argentinian astronomers involved with Gemini receive 2.5% of the observation time available for their own studies, said Federico Sánchez of the Institute of Technology in Detection and Astroparticles (ITeDA).
But that's just a small element of the space science in Argentina – the country is also home to the Pierre Auger Observatory, the world's largest cosmic ray observatory, aiming to discover the origin of the most energetic particles in the universe so far observed from Earth.
Cosmic rays are mostly protons and more complex atomic nuclei that hail from deep space and largely originate either from supermassive black holes at the centres of distant galaxies or stars that died in huge explosions. They travel near the speed of light to the Earth and produce cascades of other particles when entering the atmosphere. One cosmic ray can produce millions of those other particles spanning several kilometres on the Earth's surface.
In 1992, American nuclear physicist James Cronin and British astrophysicist Alan Watson wanted to build the best cosmic ray observatory ever conceived, Sánchez said. The Southern Hemisphere happens to present the best view of the Galactic centre – the rotational centre of the Milky Way. The observatory's planners also needed enough space, over 3,000 square kilometres over a large flat area for cosmic ray detectors. Finally, they needed the sky above to contain few clouds and a quiet atmosphere. Several workshops later, there were three candidates for host countries, Australia, South Africa and Argentina – and an international panel selected Malargüe, Argentina.
Since then, the Pierre Auger Observatory has produced standout results in the study of cosmic rays. Today the Observatory has more than 490 scientists from all over the world and about 30 Argentinian scientists are members of the collaboration.
"The success of the Pierre Auger Observatory demonstrated that Argentina was a country trustable to host large scientific astrophysical projects", said Sánchez. "In this sense, it opened the door to other proposals to consider Argentina as a host country."
Some of these new projects, such as the European Space Agency's Deep Space Antenna, are already built and installed in Argentina. Argentina is also in the running for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the location for which will be decided by November 2013.
The conditions for science in Argentina improved quite substantially over the decades, said Juan Pablo Paz, a quantum physicist with the University of Buenos Aires who won last year's TWAS Prize in physics for his work on the loss of quantum information into its environment. "People are going abroad for postdocs and are returning back to work here. The number of students graduating increased substantially. There is zero unemployment in physics nowadays, and there is more money flowing into science."
Physics became a major field in Argentina in the 1950s, Paz said. At the time, the government had developed the National Atomic Energy Commission in a push to develop nuclear power. Now, there are more than 10 universities where people can get a degree in physics in Argentina, and most have a PhD programme. The largest universities are Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Plata and the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche. In Buenos Aires, which has the largest physics department in Argentina, more than 20 PhD students graduate with a physics degree every year.
"There are about 1,500 physicists working at the moment in the country and they work at a number of institutions, mostly owned by the state", said Paz. "Research in private companies does exist but is not the main player here. Research in universities suffered a lot during military dictatorships as it was viewed as dangerous to mix scientists with students and politics. But that past seems to be over and, especially during the last 10 years, there are rather good conditions for science in universities."
Many physicists were involved in the development of the Argentinian company INVAP in the 1970s, noted Paz. INVAP recently designed and built a satellite called SAC-D that launched in 2011 and carried NASA equipment called Aquarius, which measures global ocean salinity. INVAP, Paz noted, also builds high-tech radars and exports nuclear reactors.
Down to Earth science
Earth scientists from Argentina have contributed in three major issues during recent decades, including leading research on the tectonic evolution of the Andes, which are still growing from the effects of the tectonic interaction along South America's west coast.
The Earth science field also has economic use, said Victor Alberto Ramos, a geologist with the University of Buenos Aires who studies Andes formation. "The study of the Andes fuels the finding and mining of giant copper and gold mines of Argentina and Chile, as well as the oil fields all along the Andean foothills from Colombia to Patagonia", said Ramos.
"The Earth Sciences, mainly geology, was one of the first disciplines taught in the School of Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, as early as 1865", said Ramos. There are 14 geology departments in Argentina, including large ones in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Córdoba, Salta and Tucumán. These departments, he said, have staffs of over 40 people.
Argentina also has a long history of natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes and has developed several institutes to monitor them. The recent 2011 Maule mega-earthquake shook and moved the city of Buenos Aires 3 to 4 centimetres in a few hours, Ramos noted. "Based on more than hundred years of experience, our scientists and technicians have developed networks of seismic detection as well as volcanological observatories to mitigate those natural disasters", he said.
Argentina is also keeping on top of atmospheric, oceanic, and climate sciences through Argentinian organizations, the Research Centre of the Sea and Atmosphere (CIMA) and the French-Argentinian Institute for Climate Studies and its Impacts (UMI-IFAECI).
"Climate-related investigations have remarkably grown worldwide and in particular in Argentina during the past decades", said Carolina Vera, an atmospheric scientist and director of both CIMA and UMI-IFAECI. "It is now possible for climate scientists to monitor, simulate and project global climate with unprecedented accuracy so that climate information can be used for decision-making."
CIMA researches how to numerically simulate and predict atmospheric and ocean processes. Since 2010, CIMA became a part of UMI-IFAECI, an international unit jointly sponsored by Centre national de la recherché scientifique (CNRS) of France, CONICET and the University of Buenos Aires. The French-Argentinian Institute works to simulate and predict climate variability and change, as well as their impacts in southern South
America and surrounding oceans. It also fosters studies on how climate variability and change will impact population, biodiversity, production and vulnerability.
Argentina has good reason to have a stake in climate science, said Vera. More warm-season rainfall in the central lowlands of Argentina has partly led to agricultural regions shifting from grazing animals to farmland in the 20th century, and modern climate models are projecting those regions will have increasingly wetter summers, which will continue to influence agricultural trends. Meanwhile, in the southern-most region of Argentina, projections expect a warmer, drier climate, which could cause glaciers to further retreat in the region, affecting an important source of fresh water in the country.
The Institute's staff includes 47 researchers with positions. In the last four years, 14 postdocs performed research at the unit, 76 PhD students performed their thesis work, and 35 master-level students have also done their theses in climate science. Between 2010 and 2013, a total of 254 articles were published in refereed journals. UMI-IFAECI researchers also have leadership roles in international panels and programmes like International Panel on Climate Change. "UMI-IFAECI (is) a very powerful research pole not only of relevance in Argentina, but also at the international level," Vera said.
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2002 Bassmaster Classic
Classic XXXII - July 25-27, 2002
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Jay Yelas put together one of the most dominating Bassmaster Classic performances ever on Alabama's Lay Lake, leading wire-to-wire and claiming big bass honors each day en route to professional fishing's world championship.
Yelas became the first angler to claim the big bass on each day of Classic competition.
"This is just the thrill of a lifetime for me," said Yelas. "I can't tell you how much this means to my career and to me personally.
"Winning the Classic makes your career as a professional fisherman. The Bassmaster Classic is the pinnacle of bass tournament fishing."
Yelas secured a victory lap in the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Arena before a standing-room-only crowd by bringing in four bass weighing 10-11 on the final day to boost his three day total to 45-13.
"I think this was a really unique Classic because I don't think anyone has ever won it fishing a tailrace," he said. "It was a struggle today before they started generating water. I only had one small fish, but once the current started, I knew I was in pretty good shape."
• 2002 marked the first Classic without Rick Clunn since the 1973 event.
• In 2002, Danny Correia returned to the Classic for the first time since his second-place finish in 1986 — a 16-year gap.
Top 6 finishers
1. Jay Yelas Tyler, Texas 45-13
2. Aaron Martens Castaic, Calif. 39-09
3. David Walker Sevierville, Tenn. 35-13
4. O. T. Fears III Sallisaw, Okla. 31-06
5. Larry Nixon Bee Branch, Ark. 31-03
6. Ken Christ Kansas City, Mo. 31-01
Video: 2002 Bassmaster Classic
Watch as Jay Yelas is crowned Classic champ at the 2002 Bassmaster Classic.
David Walker takes third at 2002 Classic
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Home About Us Learn More Blog Musicians Behind the Scenes: Marc Rovetti
Musicians Behind the Scenes: Marc Rovetti
Where were you born? I was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
What piece of music could you play over and over again? Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
What's your favorite Philadelphia restaurant? The best meal of my life was several years ago at Le Bec Fin. I still think about that experience to this day. It was very sad when they closed.
Tell us about your instrument. I'm very fortunate to play on a beautiful violin by Francesco Ruggieri made in 1682. It once belonged to Albert Barnes of the Barnes Foundation, who owned it from 1916 until his death in 1951. After his death it was donated to the Orchestra.
What's in your instrument case? Two bows, a shoulder rest, extra strings, rosin, pencils, handkerchiefs, and nail clippers.
If you could ask one composer one question what would it be? I would ask Bach how he managed his time. With such a huge family and numerous professional obligations, it's truly astonishing how he was able to compose some of the greatest music ever conceived.
What piece of music never fails to move you? Strauss's Four Last Songs.
When did you join the Orchestra? In 2007.
Do you play any other instruments? No, but I have some serious cello envy. After the violin it's been my favorite instrument since I was a kid.
What's your favorite type of food? My father was Italian so I grew up on risotto and fresh pasta. It's the ultimate comfort food for me.
What books are on your nightstand? Before bed I tend to read baking cookbooks. I'm always on the lookout for new techniques or flavor combinations.
Do you speak any other languages? No.
Do you follow any blogs? David Lebovitz is a charming writer who used to work as a pastry chef. As an American living in Paris he shares the wonderful and sometimes quirky things about living in France.
Do you have any hobbies? Baking. I'm very popular around here.
Is there a piece of music that isn't in the standard orchestral repertoire that should be? Prokofiev's Scythian Suite.
What's the last recording you purchased? CD or download? Otto Klemperer's complete Brahms recordings. I'm old school so I listen to CDs and LPs for classical recordings.
What's on your iPod? Electronic and indie pop music. It's great for exercising and driving.
When was the first time you heard The Philadelphia Orchestra? My mother grew up going to Philadelphia Orchestra concerts quite often, so we listened to a lot of recordings when I was young.
Other than Verizon Hall, where is your favorite place to perform? Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. Both places are magical.


Welcome to The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game.
The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game is a new paradigm of Open World 2.5D game making software. That allows you to make the content of your game while you are playing it! The entire software is designed around allowing you to make and share worlds, share tools, and levels. All in real time. Its streamlined to build bueatiful landscapes. One click 2.5D placement makes placing down parallaxes as easy as ever, to placing down Dialogue trees with visualisations that allow you to create complex dialogue systems. Place down sounds and create dynamic rich soundscapes. Place down platforms into the work and immediately jump onto or off them.
The Unfolding Engine provides all the assets needed to build all of the graphics and music you would need to be finally be able to build your openworld 2.5D dream game, and for those who are wanting more, the software allows for content to be added in easily.
Steam Workshop implementation of assets and worlds.
A Demo World including Developers Commentary.
The Mossgrown Asset Kit containing an array of landscapes and vegetation.
For those in Modding communities, the software and the works from it are designed to be modded by communities of people.
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, or later.


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Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. Unfolding in a chorus of multiracial voices - from the police to the media to the victim and her family - which gather to reach a tense crescendo at the novel's climax, THE SACRIFICE offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution - and the primal decisions we make to protect those we love. A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes, THE SACRIFICE is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
Unfolding in a chorus of multiracial voices - from the police to the media to the victim and her family - which gather to reach a tense crescendo at the novel's climax, THE SACRIFICE offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution - and the primal decisions we make to protect those we love.
A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes, THE SACRIFICE is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there are inevitably things lost--innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a place transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes what--and who--the "sacrifice" actually is, and what consequences these kinds of events hold for us all.


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Home Iz minuta u minut Gymnastics Federation president defends presence of Russian officials at Congress
Gymnastics Federation president defends presence of Russian officials at Congress
Morinari Watanabe insisted that the FIG must uphold the Olympic movement
The president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), Morinari Watanabe, has opened the body's 84th FIG Congress in Istanbul, Türkiye by defending the presence of Russian and Belarusian officials.
The federations of various European countries – Ukraine, Estonia, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland – have boycotted the congress due to the presence of the officials.
Watanabe said he respects the position of the absentees, but insisted that the FIG must "follow the decisions and recommendations of the IOC in its activities as mentioned in the Olympic Charter," as reported by Inside the Games.
"The FIG is [an] international sport organization, it should be neutral and must contribute to peace through Olympism," he said.
Russia has been banned from a number of sporting events and federations around the world, including gymnastics, since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a recommendation to do so after the conflict with Ukraine began.
Watanabe referred to this, but pointed out that the "the party who started this war is not the Russian people, the Russian athletes, the Russian Olympic Committee, or the Russian IOC members."
"The intention is not to eliminate the athletes from Russia and Belarus" he said, adding that "unnecessary punishments create new hatred."
"I want to avoid more hate that may remain after the war. I think we should avoid leaving hatred in the future for the gymnastics family."
Watanabe pointed to Russian and Belarusian delegations also being able to attend a General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees in Seoul last month.
"Based on these actions and advice from the IOC, the FIG Executive Committee has taken four decisions," Watanabe said.
"The first one being that the FIG and the gymnastics family will continue to support the Ukrainian gymnastics family. The second one is that the FIG does not allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in the FIG events.
"The third one is that the FIG will allow FIG officials from Russia and Belarus elected by the FIG Congress to attend the events. The fourth one is that the FIG should monitor if the athletes or the officials are making statements or actions in support of this war and should impose strict punishment against those who do so."
Watanabe highlighted that the actions are "in line with the IOC's guidance and recommendations."
"From this point of view, the FIG allows its member federations of Russia and Belarus to participate in the Congress. The reason is that we have a duty to share our opinions with Russia and Belarus.
"In addition, as an international organization, we have a duty to hear their opinions. If we cut off the communication pipeline we cannot contribute to peace," Watanabe said.


Valentines is a day to have fun together with just the two of you making small Lover's Lane heart-shaped pizzas. These pizzas are similar to pizza margheritas, a popular Italian pizza, except these are made in a heart shape. They have a simple topping of crushed tomato, cherry tomato halves, topped with small balls of mozzarella bocconcini and parsley pesto. The best part of the pizza is baking it on a hot pizza stone. I love my Emile Henry's lightweight stone that comes in different colours and is available at J.D. Adam Kitchen Co. 795 Bank St., in Ottawa. Cost is $49.95. The preheated stone cooks either in the oven or backyard grill resulting in an even crisp or soft crust and can withstand temperatures up to 700ºF (370ºC). The stone heats up quickly and has a non-stick glaze with handles to make it easy to lift.
1. In mixing bowl, use wooden spoon to combine the yeast, sugar and water and leave to dissolve 2 minutes. Stir in the flour, salt and olive oil and knead for several minutes. Enclose bowl in a plastic bag and leave dough to rest one-hour in a warm area to rise. Dough can be refrigerated for several hours or overnight if not needed immediately. If dough is chilled, allow it to come back to room temperature in a warm area.
2.;Preheat oven to 490ºF (250ºC) and preheat pizza stone (it takes 15 minutes to be hot enough). To make pizzas, turn dough onto a lightly floured work surface. For each dough piece, use your hands or a rolling pin to stretch the dough into a heart shape. Coat each pizza with the crushed tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt and thyme. Place the cherry tomato halves around the heart. Sprinkle on the bocconcini. Add 4 – 5 small spoonfuls of the parsley pesto on each pizza. Drizzle olive oil over each pizza.
3. Carefully transfer the hot pizza stone to a heatproof surface. Quickly but carefully transfer the three hearts on to the stone and return it to the oven. Bake the pizza about 15 minutes or until the crust is cooked and the cheese is bubbling.
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Point Alison is a summer village in Alberta, Canada. It is located on the northern shore of Wabamun Lake, and south of the Village of Wabamun.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Point Alison had a population of 18 living in 10 of its 31 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 10. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Point Alison had a population of 10 living in 6 of its 31 total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of 15. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

The Summer Village of Point Alison's 2013 municipal census counted a population of 10, a  change from its 2010 municipal census population of 6.

See also
List of communities in Alberta
List of summer villages in Alberta
List of resort villages in Saskatchewan

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1950 establishments in Alberta
Edmonton Metropolitan Region
Summer villages in Alberta


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The Prep for Prep Strategic Plan charts the course for our organization for the next three years. The outcome of a year's work by Prep for Prep staff, trustees, alumni, current families, and independent school partners, it enhances the core work of our organization and enables us to focus our time, energy, and resources on the areas most impactful to the community, as determined by the community. By having a specific plan, we are able to maximize opportunities and determine funding for Prep for Prep students by employing strategies that support goal-specific recommendations.
We are committed to the work that is required to make actionable, transparent, and measurable progress toward achieving three strategic impact goals.
View the Strategic Plan 2022-2025
Strategic Impact Goal One: Amplify Our Value Proposition Alongside Our Community Stakeholders
Objective 1: Clarify and promote Prep for Prep's differentiators to strengthen our position in the field
With greater clarity about what makes Prep for Prep a standout in educational access, all employees will be able to leverage a common understanding of the organization and its benefits to raise awareness among external audiences, including prospective families, donors, corporate partners, and alumni.
Objective 2: Update external messaging to reflect our internal ethos
Under the guidance of an expanded communications department and in partnership with advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, we will ensure the messaging used to promote our program accurately reflects our updated vision and mission, resonates with prospective students and their families, and showcases our position as a leader
in inclusive education.
Objective 3: Embrace Prep for Prep's authority to hold school partners accountable
To ensure the best independent school experience possible for our students, we will clearly communicate our expectation that our partner schools offer a truly inclusive environment and coach schools on best practices in educating students of color. We will keep a keen eye on how schools engage with our students and families.
Objective 4: Deepen mutually beneficial partnerships with schools, alumni, and funders
By nurturing our relationships with independent partner school colleagues, including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion representatives, we will be able to assist schools in creating intentionally inclusive environments that support Prep students' personal and academic success. Enhanced connections with Prep alumni will bolster their relationships with current Prep students and with each other, while stronger alliances with corporate partners will result in increased internship opportunities
for our students.
Strategic Impact Goal Two: Nurture Our Students Through a Whole-Person Approach
Objective 1: Promote a breadth of student-success definitions, outcomes, and career options
By embracing expanded definitions of success and opportunity and leveraging alumni mentorship opportunities, Prep for Prep students will have access to even more college and career opportunities. While we will continue to support our students' interests in traditional fields like education, law, finance, and medicine, Prep will also support new opportunities for students to thrive in technology, the arts, and entrepreneurship.
Objective 2: Integrate social-emotional learning support for students
Prep for Prep students will have proactive and reactive mental wellness support woven throughout their program experience, from Preparatory to undergrad. This includes access to a newly created team at Prep that includes a Director of Mental Wellness and clinical social workers, an expanded near-peer mentorship program for college students, and new proactive wellness programming that gives students tools to thrive in any setting.
Objective 3: Nurture a whole-person approach with Prep for Prep students
In addition to honing their academic abilities, Prep for Prep students will be able to nurture their whole selves by participating in affinity groups, and by developing relationships across their contingent, with peers at their independent schools, and with alumni who are a part of their advocacy team. As a result of this support, students will experience greater feelings of belonging at their independent school.
Strategic Impact Goal Three: Elevate Our Leadership Role to Influence Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education
Objective 1: Increase Prep for Prep's national thought leadership through sharing its expertise
Informed by more than 40 years of experience engaging with students of color and independent schools, and the data gleaned from this work, Prep for Prep will use its position as a thought leader to elevate the national conversation about educational
equity and access.
Objective 2: Convene peers and work collectively towards heightened inclusion across sectors
Through our work with peer organizations and partner schools, we will develop an aligned definition of inclusion and determine the types of supports and resources schools need to become more inclusive.
Objective 3: Engage other educational organizations by disseminating best practices, data, and training models
By sharing research findings, publishing articles, and offering professional development, Prep for Prep will become the go-to resource for educational access programs and independent schools seeking best practices, data, and training models for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our re-energized Smart Connections initiative will provide consulting and technical assistance, networking opportunities, and professional conferences for academic enrichment programs and charter schools, resulting in improved life prospects for students in the United States and around the world.


I'm just thinking of life..., again!
Have you ever wonder how much we have. Everything that we've received in our life, the things that we've done and gain should make us more happy than ever.
Just the thing that I write this post is a prove for my freedom, for my dream to show some of my talents, to sing and dance, as I sing in "Dance With Me". I've been thinking lately how much God has given me.. from my birth to the present. This is a Gift, the most incredible gift. I want to live healthy with my family, friends, fans and loves.


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Over the past few weeks a number of people have asked about legal and sustainable alternatives to the "Gifting Circle." I have been hearing rumors about new "circles" that are "less illegal" and offer a lower entry fee. Yet, these are still based on exponential growth through recruitment of new members and promise a profitable return . . . which still makes them illegal investment pyramids and financially unsustainable.
Two children died on the street near my apartment the day before I left Quito, Ecuador in late December 2001. One was five and the other was seven. The newspaper reported them as "un-identified." I had seen them for weeks, begging for money and food near the bus stop. Numb to the vast numbers of homeless beggars that surrounded me, I often ignored their pleas, but once in a while I gave them my food. It never occurred to me that these two innocent children would actually die from being ignored. I assumed that someone (their families, the government, etc.) would take care of the children. But nobody took care of them. Cold and starving, these two nameless children had been left alone on the street to die. In a world that produces so much excess, I couldn't understand how children could be left without care.
Awareness is one of the greatest agents for change. In bringing true awareness to something, we see the illusions we have created to justify our worldview, actions and habits. In illuminating that which we don't want to see, we are forced to awaken and eventually change. I believe that in truly looking at money, seeing the light and shadow aspects, we can awaken to true abundance.
I recently posted a presentation about Women's Gifting Circles. In just a few weeks, the presentation was viewed over 30,000 times. The feedback and response has been overwhelming. The vast majority has been very positive and supportive. The primary critiques of my presentation have targeted my credibility by suggesting that I "don't understand the benefits of women's circles" or that I have been "brainwashed by a patriarchal system." So I have decided to tell the story that can't be conveyed in a presentation.
What is the True Cost of a McDonald's Value Meal?
Why should we care about the True Cost of a Value Meal?
Obesity and the American Diet have received plenty of attention for the corollary relationship between high consumption of sugars and saturated fats and the alarming rates of obesity and obesity related diseases. According to the World Health Organization, in 2007, the obesity rate in USA was 31%. For comparison, the obesity rate in Japan was 3% (OECD Health Data, 2010). Additionally, the cost of health care associated with obesity is 43% more (Reinberg, 2009). The US pays three times more for health care than Japan (United Nations Development Programme). With policy makers arguing over the US health care system overhaul and ways to fund it, perhaps they should take a systems view and look at the "American Diet" as a leverage point in changing our health care crisis.
As I explore ideas and models for my next venture, I decided to re-read Ray Anderson's book, Mid-Course Correction. The first time I read it, I was inspired. But now I truly see how visionary he was.
When I first read Mid-Course Correction, I was excited to see that Ray Anderson was setting an example for sustainable business. As I read his words "This really cannot go on indefinitely . . . my company's technologies and those of every other company I know of anywhere, in their present forms, are plundering the earth," I thought to my self: "he got it." Anderson not only understood Hawken's message in Ecology of Commerce, but he absorbed it, taking action on it and calling others towards action as well. Interface is a great example of a company taking leadership in sustainability in an obviously non-sustainable industry.
Company (and organizational) culture is one of the most critical elements of marketing today because employees are not only brand ambassadors, but also the key to driving innovation and performance. Zappos (11th on greatplacestowork.com) is a good example of a corporation that has succeeded partially due to its corporate culture. Zappos is well known for its highly touted10 core values (found here: http://about.zappos.com/our-unique-culture/zappos-core-values).


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