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Home Run Derby enhanced by "ESPN True Track" sportvision technology
ESPN, in conjunction with Sportvision, has developed "ESPN True Track" -- a system which will once and for all take the guess work out of measuring home run distances. Two cameras located in the upper deck near the foul poles will be equipped with sensors and will follow the path of the ball. Data collected by the camera sensors will be fed to a software program enabling the computer to calculate the position of the ball in three-dimensional space. With two cameras on opposite sides of the field tracking a fly ball, the exact location and distance is determined. In the event of a ball hitting a foul pole, scoreboard, deck facade or other obstacle, Sportvision's technology will accurately compute how far an unimpeded ball would have traveled, taking into account trajectory, drag and gravity.
"ESPN and Sportvision have finally developed a system to accurately compute home run distances," said Jed Drake, ESPN senior vice president and executive producer. "The utilization of 'ESPN True Track' will benefit our audience's viewing experience, which is always our top priority. And while I love baseball phrases like 'it went a country mile,' we'll now know just how far a country mile really is."
Bill Squadron, Sportvision CEO, added, "Home run distance has always been fascinating to fans, from Mickey Mantle's supposed 565-foot clout to bombs from McGwire, Griffey and Sosa. We are pleased to collaborate with ESPN in pioneering a means of precisely and scientifically measuring the length of home runs, and finally answering the question of 'How far would it have gone""
ESPN will again utilize MaskCam, which provides action from the catcher's perspective, during the Derby telecast. For the first time, robotic cameras in front of home plate will be employed for close ups of the participants. Ultra Slo Mo cameras, which replay action up to five times slower than conventional Super Slo Mo cameras, will also be used.
Chris Berman, Sunday Night Baseball analyst Joe Morgan and New York Mets' All-Star catcher Mike Piazza will call the action. The two-hour telecast will feature All-Stars from both the American and National Leagues vying for the title. Cincinnati's Ken Griffey, Jr. is the defending champion. This is ESPN's third consecutive year of live Derby coverage and eighth straight year overall.
Other ESPN/ESPN2 Programming
ESPN AND ESPN2's 10 ½ hours of coverage of events surrounding the All-Star Game will begin on ESPN2 with Baseball 2Day live from Turner Field Sunday, July 9 at noon. Rich Eisen will host and will be joined by Buck Martinez, Harold Reynolds, Peter Gammons and Joe Morgan. The network's coverage will continue that day with the 2000 Future Stars Game live at 3 p.m. from Turner Field. Gary Thorne, Martinez and Gammons will work in the booth. Reynolds will report from the field. The second annual game will feature top minor league prospects as the U.S. team takes on the World team.
A special one-hour Baseball Tonight at the Home Run Derby on Monday, July 10 at 7 p.m. will preview the Home Run Derby and review the first half of the season. Host Karl Ravech will be joined by analysts Reynolds and Sutcliffe.
After the Derby winner is determined, ESPN will televise the third annual All-Star Celebrity Hitting Challenge at 10 p.m. (taped Sunday, July 9). The one-hour telecast will feature four teams consisting of one celebrity, one retired All-Star, one retired Atlanta Braves player and one member of the USA Softball National Team in a head-to-head competition. Teams will earn points based on the distance of each hit, receiving bonus points for each home run. Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe will call the event, while Harold Reynolds will serve as a reporter.
A one-hour SportsCenter at 11 p.m. will recap the day's events. On Tuesday at 1 a.m. (Monday at 10 p.m. PT), ESPN2 will present Baseball Tonight at the All-Star Gala. Ravech will host and be joined by Gammons and Tim Kurkjian.
Also on Tuesday, ESPN will have reports from Turner Field on its 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. SportsCenter shows. Berman will host and be joined by analysts Gammons and Reynolds. A special Baseball Tonight at 12:30 a.m. will conclude ESPN/ESPN2 All-Star coverage.
ESPN Radio Charley Steiner and Dave Campbell will describe all the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby action, with Joe D'Ambrosio hosting. Karl Ravech will provide player interviews during the Game while Rob Dibble will serve as the on-field reporter for the Derby. Additionally: Chuck Wilson and Chris Moore will host their 7-11 p.m. ESPN Radio GameNight show from the Gala Monday and from Turner Field Tuesday; The Dan Patrick Show with co-host Dibble will emanate from Atlanta Monday; All Night with Todd Wright (2-6 a.m.) will originate from the ESPN Atlanta Zone Monday -Wednesday. ESPN Radio can be heard locally in Atlanta on WQXI-790 AM.


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Men's Hockey: Terriers push past .500 for first time this season
by Jacob Lintner
BOSTON – In the opener of a two-game weekend series at Agganis Arena, Boston University (10-9-3, 8-5-2 HEA) coasted to a 4-2 victory over No. 17/15 Arizona State (16-10-1). The win – just BU's second out-of-conference W – pushes the red-hot Terriers to a 4-1-1 record since the beginning of 2019.
BU last played on Jan. 21, a 7-2 win against Merrimack in which the Terriers converted on three of their four power plays and tallied a shorthanded goal for a teamwide plus-four rating in special teams.
ASU entered the contest reeling from a two-game sweep at the hands of the Big Red of Cornell. The Sun Devils are in the middle of a long six-game road trip – series in Ithaca, NY, Boston and Rochester, NY, in consecutive weekends.
Fresh off their second 2,200-mile flight in two weeks, the visitors burst out of the gates with intensity. Joey Daccord, who's started all 27 games in goal for ASU, turned away a breakaway chance from Patrick Harper. The opportunistic Devils pushed the puck to the opposite end of the ice and, after briefly losing possession, used a well-executed forecheck and a slick pass from Filips Buncis to Anthony Croston at the right crease to net the game's first goal at the 5:58 mark.
The Terriers answered four minutes later with Joel Farabee's seventh goal of the season, as the freshman found space with a nifty toe drag in the low slot. With an assist on the play, Bobo Carpenter (56g, 45a) became the 83rd Terrier to record 100 career points while wearing the red and white.
"It's pretty special," Carpenter said after the game. "You don't really think about it when you first get to campus, but it makes you look back at all the players you've played with to get to that mark. But it's kind of sad too that those kinds of things come at the end, so it's almost near."
The teams went back and forth trading hits and missed opportunities with only one stoppage of play in the next nine minutes until Patrick Curry found the back of the net for the sixth time this season after being sprung free with a well-placed pass from linemate Patrick Harper. The goal came with 38 ticks left on the clock in the first period, and it gave the Terriers a lead that they would not relinquish.
The usual chants of "FAR-A-BEE" from the Dog Pound only got louder when the Philadelphia Flyers' first-round pick scored his second goal seven minutes into the second stanza. Farabee got a little help from Devil defenseman Jarrod Gourley, who unintentionally deflected the shot off his stick and past his goalie.
The goal earned Gourley some choice words from Daccord and a long stint on the bench, which gave him a great view for fellow blue-liner Brinson Pasichnuk's goal, a rocket of a slapshot from the edge of the offensive zone, two minutes later that cut the BU lead to 3-2.
The Terriers got some insurance with a goal from Chad Krys at the 12:51 mark that extended Shane Bowers' point streak to five games. The score held throughout a third period that featured two Farabee penalties and 17 saves from Jake Oettinger to give him 38 for the game.
The Terriers were outshot 40-32, and they were beaten on faceoffs 31-28, but fortunate bounces and crisp passing gave BU the win. While breaching above .500 for the first time all season always feels good, Coach Albie O'Connell would be wise to rethink his game plans for the beginnings of games.
BU hasn't scored the first goal of a game since a 5-2 win over UNH on Jan. 11, and while they've been successful in the games since, the Terriers still have another game against the Sun Devils – a team that is 13-2-1 when scoring first – this weekend , and it's not likely that a top-20 team will drop two games in a row if they're allowed to strike first blood.
Posted in Men's Ice HockeyTagged Arizona State, Bobo Carpenter, Boston University Men's Hockey, BU Men's Hockey, Jacob Lintner
Author: Jacob Lintner
Jacob was the 2017 Missouri Student Journalist of the Year and a runner up to the National Student Journalist of the Year. He currently attends Boston University and spends his time playing jazz and studying avant-garde poetry when he's not rooting on the St. Louis Cardinals and New England Patriots.	View all posts by Jacob Lintner
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Israel cleanup incoming? Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges
zerohedge Reports: The Israeli Attorney General has indicted prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges after months of uncertainty over whether Netanyahu would be able to retain his leadership of the country. Netanyahu will be charged with corruption by Israeli prosecutors, including charges of bribery and fraud, a spokesman for the country's justice ministry said. Netanyahu, a four-time premier, is to be charged with bribery in one case, and with fraud and breach of trust in all three cases in which he allegedly made illicit deals either with supporters or with local businesses, in exchange for gifts or cash.
With this everyone needs to understand first of all that Israel has a Deep State just like we have in America, and we have all been informed that Israel would be saved for last. The time has possibly come where the Jewish nation of Israel will now have a cleanup take place, as Israel's leader in Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted in Israel fro corruption charges. We are starting to see multiple indictments being handed out across the world including even in America this week, as a former Mayor of Baltimore has been indicted, the owner of Burisma Holdings has been indicted, and now Benjamin Netanyahu. This is just the beginning of indictments being handed out...More will be coming shortly.


Shanghai, China -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/06/2006 --FlashPlayerPro.com announces the release of Flash Player Pro 3.1, a handy utility for the Windows operating system that plays, downloads and manages flash movies with ease.
Nowadays, flash movies are used everywhere in the Internet. Flash player provided by Macromedia only has simple functions, it can only play flash movies. It can't download flash movies, make flash screensaver and convert flash movies between swf type and executable type.
Flash Player Pro is a handy flash tool kit designed as Macromedia flash player and manager . It has several powerful flash tools: download flash movies from the Internet, preview and browse flash movie, capture flash image and set it as wallpaper, create flash screensaver with ease, make conversion between SWF and EXE flash movies etc. All of these features will help you enhance and extend the using possibility of existing flash files. And with friendly user interface, Flash Player Pro offers you a fantastic animated flash world!
Flash Player Pro is the right choice for flash player and manager. It is both affordable to every computer user and a real value.
Flash Player Pro will run under Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 on an Intel-based 586 PC or greater. The program requires 32 MB of RAM and 2 MB disk space to install.


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from django.db import models, migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('cookie_app', '0012_auto_20141213_0735'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='Initial_Borr_List_Page',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', serialize=False, auto_created=True, primary_key=True)),
                ('BorrName', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Company Name')),
                ('BorrStreet', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Address', blank=True)),
                ('BorrState', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='City', blank=True)),
                ('BorrCity', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='State', blank=True)),
                ('BorrZip', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='ZIP Code', blank=True)),
                ('BorrCounty', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='County', blank=True)),
                ('BorrPhoneNumber', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Phone Number Combined', blank=True)),
                ('BorrWebsite', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Website', blank=True)),
                ('BorrEmployees', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Number Employee (est.)', blank=True)),
                ('BorrSales', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Sales Volume (est.)', blank=True)),
                ('BorrAge', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Years In Database', blank=True)),
                ('BorrSICName', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Line of Business', blank=True)),
                ('FindMoreData', models.BooleanField(default=False, verbose_name='Find More Information')),
                ('Created', models.ForeignKey(to='cookie_app.DateTime', null=True)),
            ],
            options={
            },
            bases=(models.Model,),
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='More_Data_Page',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', serialize=False, auto_created=True, primary_key=True)),
                ('FollowUp', models.BooleanField(default=False, verbose_name='Contact Business')),
                ('BorrYelpLink', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Yelp link', blank=True)),
                ('BorrYelpNumReviews', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Yelp # of reviews', blank=True)),
                ('BorrFacebookPage', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Facebook page', blank=True)),
                ('BorrPreviousLender', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Previous lender', blank=True)),
                ('BorrLastLoanDate', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Last loan date', blank=True)),
                ('BorrLastLoanMaturity', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Loan maturity date', blank=True)),
                ('BorrLoanType', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Loan type', blank=True)),
                ('BorrPhoneNumberVal', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Validated phone number', blank=True)),
                ('BorrLoanProb', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Likelihood of getting a loan', blank=True)),
                ('BorrEmail', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Validated email', blank=True)),
                ('BorrWebsiteVal', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Validated website', blank=True)),
                ('BorrSquareft', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Square footage', blank=True)),
                ('BorrOwnRent', models.CharField(default='0000000', max_length=150, verbose_name='Own or rent building', blank=True)),
                ('BorrName', models.ForeignKey(to='cookie_app.Initial_Borr_List_Page', null=True)),
            ],
            options={
            },
            bases=(models.Model,),
        ),
        migrations.RemoveField(
            model_name='barebones_crud',
            name='Created',
        ),
        migrations.DeleteModel(
            name='barebones_CRUD',
        ),
    ]

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January 28, 2018 Martial Arts, Muay Thai, Muay Thai, Personal Development, SportsThe Little fighter still has a big heart.
We're nearly a month into the new year and there's already been some exciting developments taking shape. It's looking like I may be back on track fighting wise over the summer and all being well they'll be a chance to clamber back onto the horse before that point too. I've always needed a goal to work towards when it comes to training. It's not the same unless I have something to point myself at. Besides, it keeps me focused and makes my heart stay big. It's a long way off yet so we'll see.
I hope that along with everything else this year I make a real success of the journey I'm on with Thai and do everything that I set out to do. Sometimes in life you set goals and it takes a little longer than anticipated to get there, but I've learnt that if you stick with it you'll produce good results as long as you put in the work.
I've found that part of succeeding with all things martial is about adopting the right attitude. I've always done my best especially when it comes to competing to step into personal doubts and fears and prove them wrong. I've never been someone who would expect myself to reach a "world class" level martially but I think at the very least I've always been someone whose done their best to draw on how the best get great at what they do and try to adopt at least some of the mentality for my own personal journey.
Life isn't about putting people on pedestals of greatness but for me rather knowing that if other people can achieve what they set out to achieve then I can too. It's better to draw inspiration from people and situations around you than to magnify those people into something they aren't. After all. The best only ever get to that level because they put in the work. If they can do it then so can you. It's your world..
The biggest frustration for me at present with training is not being able to spend as much time at the gym as I'd like as I mentioned earlier. I guess for the time being my current goal is to find ways to fill in the blanks and put in the extra work I need. Today I finally managed to nail a decent run route and I can build on that bit of home training by making sure I'm running at least 3 times a week, I'm shadow boxing at home, I'm doing free weights, sit ups and so and so forth. If I don't have as much time at the gym as I'd like at present then I need to make sure I always take it home and train as much as I can. Then when things pick up again I can make sure I hit the ground running. (no pun intended) "that's how winning is done". Right?
So in the meantime, I'm sticking to my guns and my goals and look forward to keeping on moving forward through blood, sweat and tears. As always it's a good journey to be on. The little fighter still has a big heart. "thanks for listening in." As always train hard and I'll see you on that road.


Movable Ink, the live content email marketing company, has raised $11 Million in investment funds. The New York City based company has grown tremendously in the past year. The company now has a crew of 24, expected to reach up to 60 by the end of this year, noted CEO Vivek Sharma. We interviewed Vivek back in 2011, where he detailed Movable Ink's intentions and services.
As of now, Movable Ink can't be called a startup anymore, but they are still hot. With services that are based on time, geolocation and even weather forecasts, email content is adjusted live based on those factors. The company can call big names in the industry its clients: Electronic Arts, Starbucks, Barclays, American Eagle Outfitters, Verizon and RadioShack.
Back in 2011, the team (of 5) reached revenues of just $2000 a year. They were offering their technology to startups, which either didn't have the budget to go big or saw the enormous potential of the dynamic services. Vivek and his co-founder Michael Nutt changed their prospect audience: by visiting email marketing conferences, they got in touch with CMOs of companies who did have the budget. Showing off their live content emails, they were able to sign up clients a lot faster.
Their model is based on agile marketing: rather than having static email marketing messages after being sent out, the content is dynamic in many ways.
Movable Ink's most interesting services are based on time, location and device, but as you can see in the diagram above many other parts work towards reaching that agile marketing model. Social, analytics, live content and more are involved in the process. This way, the email's content can be adjusted after sending it out: a truly innovative piece of engineering in the email marketnig industry.
If you are looking for examples of their technology at work, head over to their blog. They post campaign examples regularly, recently including Comedy Central and ESPN campaigns.


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Perfectly poised for classical ballets
SWAN Lake and Coppelia will be performed by The Russian State Ballet of Siberia when they come to The Hexagon in Reading later in February.
Formed in 1981, The Russian State Ballet of Siberia has become established as one of Russia's leading ballet companies.
Based in the city of Krasnoyarsk, in central Siberia, its dancers are highly acclaimed worldwide for their unique interpretation of both dramatic and comic roles, delivering performances of sincere emotional and dramatic integrity.
Since 2002, under the artistic directorship of Sergei Bobrov, leading dancers from across Russia have forged their skills and artistry performing an expanding repertoire of new works and exceptional productions of timeless classics.
The company comprises over 40 dancers and 30 musicians and the 2015 tour will be their thirteenth visit to the UK and according to Sergei has been over a year in the making.
"From the moment of conception of the idea to realization of the performance passes approximately one and a half year," he said.
Sergei is a former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and the bond he felt with other dancers is what he says keeps him going through his new role.
"The main remembrance – the feeling that you are part of the great mechanism bound for success. This state is always present with me when I'm working with the Siberian ballet. My favorite role is Rothbart (evil genius) in Swan Lake."
Ballet is still popular among young people today and Sergei's advice: "I wish to advise for the young ballerina to be totally focused on the profession; to work hard and try to meet and work with masters.
"And most importantly, to dance well, we should as much as possible to dance on the stage; not thinking about the material benefits in the first step of work."
The Russian State Ballet of Siberia will be at The Hexagon on February 22 with Coppelia and February 23 with Swan Lake. Visit www.readingarts.com
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