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On Politics: Images of Missiles Prompted Debate Over Iran Threat
Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.
• New intelligence on Iran that has alarmed the White House, but divided government officials and foreign allies over its actual threat, was compiled from photos of missiles aboard small boats in the Persian Gulf — some of which were loaded by Iranian paramilitary forces.
• The State Department has ordered "nonemergency United States government employees" to leave Iraq, responding to what the Trump administration said was a threat linked to Iran. But to the people on Baghdad's streets, American warnings parallel those before the invasion of Iraq.
• Few issues have defined Donald Trump's presidency more than his love for tariffs, rooted in his economic and real-estate battles with Japan in the 1980s. Since entering the White House, tariffs have emerged as perhaps the purest policy expression of his 2016 campaign themes and economic agenda.
• A new plan by the Trump administration to overhaul parts of the nation's immigration system would impose new security measures at the border and vastly scale back family-based immigration and increase education and skill requirements.
• The Department of Homeland Security has reassigned federal agents from airports and legal border crossings to the southwestern border to grapple with a surge of incoming migrants. Coast Guard teams and I.C.E. agents who are typically tasked with criminal investigations have also been diverted.
• States across the country are passing some of the most restrictive abortion legislation in decades, setting up momentous court battles. The latest law, passed in Alabama, effectively outlaws abortion and was widely condemned by various Democratic presidential candidates.
• With more states challenging access to abortion, will the Supreme Court use Alabama's abortion law to strike down Roe v. Wade? The court's conservatives may prefer to chip away at it instead.
• The Senate reached another milestone in its judicial renaissance under the Trump administration, confirming Kenneth Lee as its 40th lifetime appointment to circuit courts. But the confirmation has occurred amid growing criticism of the Senate's lack of legislative agenda.
• The White House rejected another round of document requests from the House, expanding on its assertions that Democrats in Congress lacked a legitimate legislative purpose for the demands and were inappropriately replicating the work of the special counsel.
• The president issued an order to ban American telecommunications firms from installing foreign-made equipment that could pose a threat to national security, escalating a battle against China by effectively barring sales by Huawei, the country's leading networking company.
• As the United States and China openly contemplate how to inflict economic pain on each other, the rest of the world now frets about becoming collateral damage in a trade war.
• Clasped hands, gripped arms and "God love ya." While campaigning in New Hampshire, Joe Biden made clear that he is relying on a set of old-school retail politicking skills to connect with voters.
Today's On Politics briefing was compiled by Margaret Kramer in New York.
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Partition Debian disks with PXE and shell script instead of complex
preseed templates.

Advanced partitioning of Debian boxes with preseed templates can be a
challange.  `remote-script-partitioner` makes it easy to bypass the
built-in templates and write a shell script to partition your disks.

This package disables `partman` in the Debian installer, downloads
your `partitioner` script via TFTP and executes it.

### Building

Packages are built with Jordan Sissel's `fpm` so install it first,
e.g. `gem install fpm`.

```bash
make udeb
```

### Configuration

The partitioner expects `tftp_server` to be set on the kernel
command line.  It downloads and executes a script named
`partitioner` from the root of the TFTP server.

```bash
$ cat /proc/cmdline
[..] tftp_server=192.168.56.1
```

Example from `debian-preseed`:

<https://github.com/bfritz/debian-preseed/blob/scripted-partitioning/config/preseed.cfg.in#L4>

The partitioner package can be downloaded and run from
`preseed/early_command`, e.g.:

```bash
d-i preseed/early_command string \
  tftp -g 192.168.56.1 -r remote-script-partitioner_0.0.1_all.udeb -l /tmp/partitioner.udeb \
  && udpkg --unpack /tmp/partitioner.udeb
```

Example from `debian-preseed`:

<https://github.com/bfritz/debian-preseed/blob/scripted-partitioning/config/vbox.conf#L21>

### Script Example

Below is an example script for GPT + dm-crypt + LVM.  This script:

* partitions the first disk with a GUID Partition Table (GPT)
* creates a small `biosboot` partition, 500MB `boot` partition
  and uses the rest of the first disk for an encrypted partition
* encrypts the large patition with `cryptsetup`
* adds the encrypted partition to a LVM volume group
* creates 1G `/` and 2G `/home` volumes with ext4 partitions

**CAUTION**: If you use this script as-is, change the encryption key
afterward, e.g.  `cryptsetup luksChangeKey /dev/sda3 --verify-passphrase`!

```bash
#!/bin/sh

set -e

PV_NAME=vg0
FS=ext4
BOOT_SIZE=500MB
ROOT_SIZE=1G
HOME_SIZE=2G
PASSPHRASE=t0ps3cr3t

BOOT_PART_N=2
CRYPT_PART_N=3

# TAG variable is exported from `postinst.sh` in package before
# executing this script.

FIRST_DISK=$(list-devices disk | head -n1)
logger -t "$TAG" "FIRST_DISK: $FIRST_DISK"

BOOT_DEV=$FIRST_DISK$BOOT_PART_N
logger -t "$TAG" "BOOT_DEV: $BOOT_DEV"

# partition $FIRST_DISK with GUID partition table
anna-install parted-udeb

dd if=/dev/zero of=$FIRST_DISK bs=1M count=1

logger -t "$TAG" "Cleared old partition table by writing zeros to start of $FIRST_DISK ."

logger -t "$TAG" "Partitioning $FIRST_DISK ."
log-output -t "$TAG" parted                -- $FIRST_DISK mklabel gpt
log-output -t "$TAG" parted                -- $FIRST_DISK mkpart biosboot 8192s 16383s
log-output -t "$TAG" parted                -- $FIRST_DISK set 1 bios_grub on

log-output -t "$TAG" parted --align=opt    -- $FIRST_DISK mkpart boot 16384s $BOOT_SIZE
log-output -t "$TAG" parted                -- $FIRST_DISK set 2 boot on

log-output -t "$TAG" parted --align=opt -s -- $FIRST_DISK mkpart pv_$PV_NAME $BOOT_SIZE -1

log-output -t "$TAG" parted                -- $FIRST_DISK print

# install cryptsetup and necessary crypto modules
anna-install crypto-modules crypto-dm-modules cryptsetup-udeb

depmod -ae
modprobe dm-mod
modprobe dm-crypt
modprobe aes

DEV="$FIRST_DISK$CRYPT_PART_N"
CRYPT_NAME=`echo $DEV | cut -d/ -f3`_crypt
KEYFILE=/tmp/keyfile

if [ ! -b "$DEV" ]; then
    error "$DEV is not a block special device, refusing to encrypt it."
    exit 1
fi

logger -t "$TAG" "Making $DEV an encrypted partition"
if [ ! -e "$KEYFILE" ]; then
    echo -n "$PASSPHRASE" > "$KEYFILE"
    logger -t "$TAG" 'Using WEAK PASSPHRASE!!! Change key after installation finishes!'
fi

#logger -t "$TAG" "Zeroing $DEV prior to setting up LUKS encryption."
#log-output -t "$TAG" dd if=/dev/zero of="$DEV" bs=1M

echo YES | log-output -t "$TAG" cryptsetup -d "$KEYFILE" luksFormat "$DEV"

log-output -t "$TAG" cryptsetup -d "$KEYFILE" luksOpen "$DEV" $CRYPT_NAME

# install LVM tools and create volume groups
anna-install lvm2-udeb

log-output -t "$TAG" pvcreate /dev/mapper/$CRYPT_NAME
log-output -t "$TAG" vgcreate $PV_NAME /dev/mapper/$CRYPT_NAME

log-output -t "$TAG" lvcreate -n root -L $ROOT_SIZE $PV_NAME
log-output -t "$TAG" lvcreate -n home -L $HOME_SIZE $PV_NAME

# partition /boot and LVM volumes
log-output -t "$TAG" mkfs.$FS -L boot $BOOT_DEV

for F in root home; do
    log-output -t "$TAG" mkfs.$FS -L $F /dev/mapper/${PV_NAME}-$F
done

# Debian installer expects partitions mounted at /target
mkdir -p /target
mount -t $FS /dev/mapper/${PV_NAME}-root /target

mkdir /target/boot
mount -t $FS $BOOT_DEV /target/boot

for F in home; do
    mkdir /target/$F
    mount -t $FS /dev/mapper/${PV_NAME}-$F /target/$F
done

eval `blkid -o udev $BOOT_DEV`
logger -t "$TAG" "UUID of boot device ($BOOT_DEV) is $ID_FS_UUID"

logger -t "$TAG" "Preparing /etc/fstab"
mkdir /target/etc
cat <<EOF > /target/etc/fstab
/dev/mapper/${PV_NAME}-root /     $FS defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=$ID_FS_UUID  /boot $FS defaults,ro      0 1
EOF

for F in home; do
    echo "/dev/mapper/${PV_NAME}-$F /$F $FS defaults,noatime 0 2" >> /target/etc/fstab
done

CRYPT_DEV_UUID=`cryptsetup luksUUID "$DEV"`
logger -t "$TAG" "UUID of encrypted device ($DEV) is $CRYPT_DEV_UUID"
echo "$CRYPT_NAME UUID=$CRYPT_DEV_UUID none luks" > /target/etc/crypttab

logger -t "$TAG" "Installing cryptsetup and lvm2 packages to target system."
log-output -t "$TAG" apt-install cryptsetup || true
log-output -t "$TAG" apt-install lvm2 || true

debconf-set grub-installer/bootdev $FIRST_DISK

# long sleep can be handy for debugging, e.g. to inspect /var/log/syslog
# sleep 180
```

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![GitHub language count](https://img.shields.io/github/languages/count/coinapi/coinapi-sdk)

Welcome to the CoinAPI SDK. This repository contain SDK for our API documented at https://docs.coinapi.io/

## Repository organization

Directory | Description |
--- | --- |
data-api | SDK for CoinAPI Market Data API
ems-cloud-mgmt-sdk | SDK for CoinAPI Execution Management System Managed Cloud REST API
ems-gateway-rest-sdk | SDK for CoinAPI Execution Management System REST API
ems-gateway-fix | SDK for CoinAPI Execution Management System FIX API
cryptotick-samples | Examples related to processing CryptoTick GZIP+CSV flat files

## Package managers coverage

Language | Package manager | Protocol | Package name | Version/Link |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
C# | NuGet | REST | CoinAPI.REST.V1 | ![Nuget](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/CoinAPI.REST.v1) |
C# | NuGet | WebSocket | CoinAPI.WebSocket.V1 | ![Nuget](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/CoinAPI.WebSocket.v1) |
Java | Maven
(GitHub Packages) | REST | io.coinapi.rest.v1 | https://github.com/coinapi/coinapi-sdk/packages/397337 |
Java | Maven
(GitHub Packages) | WebSocket | io.coinapi.websocket.v1 | https://github.com/coinapi/coinapi-sdk/packages/397352 |
Python3 | PyPI | REST | coinapi.rest.v1 | ![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/coinapi.rest.v1) |

## Language coverage

In this repository you can find libraries that will help you use our API with minimal development effort from languages like:
 * Python
 * R
 * Matlab
 * C#
 * C++
 * .NET
 * Java
 * Ruby
 * Go
 * JavaScript
 * TypeScript
 * Node.js
 * PHP
 * Haskell
 * Objective-C
 * Swift

Feel free to make Pull Request with proposed changes or create an Issue on which we respond as soon as possible.


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La ville de Corfou (en grec :   ) est la capitale de l'île grecque de Corfou. Elle se situe sur la côte est de l'île, à flanc de collines, et possède un port qui permet de relier les villes de Brindisi (Italie), Saranda (Albanie), Patras et Igoumenitsa. La ville est également le siège du dème de Corfou-Centre et des îles Diapontiques depuis 2019.

Climat
Située sur la côte est de l'île de Corfou, en Méditerranée, la ville jouit d'un climat méditerranéen. Les étés sont chauds et secs, et les hivers doux, mais avec de la pluie en moyenne un jour sur deux. L'ensoleillement annuel est d'environ . Les orages éclatent surtout en automne (vers octobre et novembre) et, occasionnellement, en été. La pluie tombe surtout en hiver de novembre à mars. La pluviométrie annuelle est d'environ  (les trois quarts en hiver). La température moyenne annuelle est de .

Histoire

 Vers 590 av. J.-C. est érigé le temple d'Artémis, dont peu de vestiges subsistent, dans l'antique Corcyre.
 La ville de Corfou est la première ville grecque soumise par les Romains, en 229 av. J.-C.
 Corfou fait partie de la république de Venise de 1204 à 1210 puis de 1386 à 1797.
 En 1716 la ville est assiégée par les troupes ottomanes, mais, défendue par Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, elle ne se rend pas.
 En 1797, Corfou devient le chef-lieu du département français de Corcyre puis, deux ans plus tard, de la république des Sept-Îles sous protectorat russe. Elle redevient française de 1807 à 1814.
 En 1815, Corfou devient la capitale de la république des îles Ioniennes sous protectorat britannique.
 En 1864 l'île de Corfou est rattachée à la Grèce.
 En 2011, la ville devient la capitale de la périphérie des îles Ioniennes.

Monuments
 L' : cette église, dans la ville de Corfou, est dédiée à saint Spyridon, saint patron de Corfou. L'église accueille le corps embaumé du saint dans un cercueil en argent, des offrandes votives en or et en argent, ainsi que beaucoup d'icônes anciennes.
 La cathédrale Saint-Jacques et Saint-Christophe : cathédrale de style néoclassique, elle est le centre de la vie chrétienne catholique de l'île.
 La citadelle : se situant dans la ville de Corfou, cette citadelle a été fortifiée, par les Byzantins et par les Vénitiens.  Une partie de l'enceinte date du , tandis que, entre les deux attaques turques de 1537 et 1571, ont été érigées deux autres parties reliant le Fort Neuf et le Vieux Fort.  Trois autres forts complétaient cette défense. Aujourd'hui, deux d'entre eux (le troisième n'a pas subsisté) ont été reconvertis : le fort d'Abram en maison de retraite et le fort du Sauveur en prison de la ville.
 L'église Antivouniotissa : cette église qui est une des plus anciennes de la ville de Corfou a été fondée au . On y trouve le musée d'art byzantin Antivouniotissa, qui présente des icônes, des tableaux réalisés entre le  et des œuvres d'artistes crétois qui vinrent s'installer à Corfou.
 Le Musée archéologique de la ville de Corfou.
 Le palais de Saint-Michel et Saint-Georges : construit en 1815 par Thomas Maitland, il abrite depuis 1927 le musée d'art asiatique.

Économie
Corfou possède un aéroport (code AITA : CFU). Elle est équipée d'un système de vélos en libre-service sous le nom d'.

Sports
 Football: PAE Kerkyra

Images

Références

Liens externes

Localité à Corfou
Ville en Grèce
Ville portuaire en Grèce
Patrimoine mondial en Grèce

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By Paul Daquilante • Staff Writer • June 16, 2019
Bodies of Karissa Fretwell, her son located west of Yamhill
Marcus Larson / News-Register## Yamhill County District Attorney Brad Berry holds a press conference to discuss to location the bodies of Karissa and Billy Fretwell were found, about 10 miles west of the town of Yamhill.
File photo##Karissa and William Fretwell were reported missing in May from their Salem home.
UPDATED, Monday, June 17:
Karissa Fretwell, a 25-year-old single mother from Salem, and her three-year-old son, William "Billy" Fretwell II, had been missing for about two weeks when Yamhill County District Attorney Brad Berry said they had been murdered, based on evidence gathered to that point.
Their bodies were found Saturday in a heavily wooded remote area about 10 miles northwest of Yamhill, Berry said during a Monday morning press briefing. They were partially covered by debris on Weyerhaeuser property off a spur road.
Michael Wolfe, 52, of Gaston has been charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of both and is lodged in local custody without bail. He is William's biological father.
Ongoing and exhaustive investigative efforts by detectives from the sheriff's office and Salem Police Department led searchers from multiple agencies to where Fretwell and Billy were located.
"This has been a relentless investigation," said Berry, who was joined by Salem Police Chief Jerry Moore, members of his department and Yamhill County Sheriff Tim Svenson. "It's been a collaborative effort. This is how it should work. Crime doesn't stop at a county line. Detectives have been working 24/7 (on the case and in an effort to locate the pair)."
The site was searched by members of the Yamhill County Search and Rescue Team and sheriff's office in addition to the McMinnville Fire Department, Mountain Wave Search and Rescue, North Oregon Search and Rescue, Oregon State Police, Salem police, Washington County Search and Rescue and Yamhill police.
McMinnville Fire Department personnel made the discovery, according to Berry.
"This case has been tough on investigators and it was a hard discovery," he said.
Between 40 and 50 individuals searched for about two hours before locating the bodies. Assisting at that point was the OSP Crime Lab, at which time the bodies were transported to the state Medical Examiner's Office in Clackamas.
An area close to where Fretwell and Billy were found had been previously searched, according to Berry and Svenson.
No one tip or piece of information led searchers back to the general area on Saturday. He called it "good detective work" that convinced investigators to send searchers back to the area that Wolfe was familiar with. It's a place where he would go to recreate, Berry said.
Fretwell and Billy were positively identified Sunday. Fretwell's cause of death was determined to be from a single gunshot to the head. Manner of death has been determined to be homicide. The cause and manner of the death of Billy have not been determined, pending additional testing.
The investigation is continuing. Berry said Fretwell and her son were kidnapped either late Monday, May 13, or early the following day. He said investigators believe they were dead by Thursday, May 16.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Salem police by leaving information on the agency's tip line at 503-588-6050.
Wolfe, who was arrested Friday, May 24, has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of aggravated murder — one of which constitutes domestic violence — and two counts of first-degree kidnapping. He is scheduled to be arraigned by video on the indictment at 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 21.
Thirteen individuals testified before the grand jury. Eight have a connection to law enforcement, including Salem police Detective Anthony VanDekoppel.
He wrote in a probable cause affidavit that only Wolfe stood to benefit from the "disappearance or criminal homicide" of Fretwell and Billy. Berry concurred, saying no one but Wolfe stood to gain from the death of the two.
His wife is neither a suspect nor a person of interest at this time, according to Berry.
Portland attorney Patrick Sweeney is handling Wolfe's defense.
Aggravated murder is an unclassified felony and potential death penalty charge. However, in November 2011, Gov. John Kitzhaber announced a moratorium on executions in Oregon, canceling a planned execution and ordering a review of the death penalty system in the state. His successor, Kate Brown, affirmed her commitment to the moratorium.
Oregon has executed just two individuals since the death penalty was reinstated. Both inmates waived all their appeals. One Yamhill County inmate, 63-year-old Jeffrey Dana Sparks, sits on death row. He was sentenced to death in May 1999 for sexually assaulting and killing 12-year-old Lacey Robancho in Lafayette in 1998. Berry was the DA at the time.
First-degree kidnapping is a Class A felony and Measure 11 charge, punishable by a mandatory minimum prison sentence.
The district attorney's "information," which outlines the foundation for the charges, alleges Wolfe, on or about Monday, May 13, did "unlawfully and intentionally" cause the deaths of Fretwell and her son.
A GoFundMe account — Justice for Karissa and Billy — has been established. In part, it shares the following messages from Nyla Bales:
"We appreciate the fact that he (Wolfe) is in jail but leaves all of us and her friends and others with more questions than answers. We want Karissa and her little 3-year-old William to come home so we can put this horrible kidnapping and presumed murder behind us and find closure in our hearts.
"She worked hard to provide for her son and get her education. She described herself as a 'big dreamer.' All money raised here will cover all final expenses and funeral costs. Any remaining money will be used as a scholarship to a student that dreams as she did to be a high school English teacher."
"It is with great sadness that I have to add that Karissa and Williams bodies have been found. The police have worked very hard to follow all leads that led to this fact. They have always communicated with us very well during this process.
"I appreciate all of them and the victims advocates that have worked tirelessly with us to find answers.I also want to tell you as friends, family and those we do not know that we appreciate all of the support that you are providing to assist with all of the extra expenses that this heartache has brought to our family.
The fund page can be accessed at www.gofundme.com/justice-for-karissa-and-billy. Upwards of $8,500 has been raised as of Tuesday, June 18.
sisinmac
At least there is closure for the family. I just hope the justice system does right by the family of these 2 innocent young people.
myopinion
All this over child support. I am curious if the wife knew anything, I read somewhere she was threatening to help her husband get custody of the child.I'm so sorry for Karissa's family.
Tragic.
Senseless.
Closure is a word with no significance in this case.

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It is thought that the captain of Los Blancos received a negative reception due to his challenge on Liverpool's Mohamed Salah during last season's Champions League Final as the fallout from that game continues to rumble on.
The Spanish defender won his twentieth major honour with ?Real Madrid on Saturday as the reigning Champions League holders comfortably beat their opponents 4-1.
Goals from Ballon d'Or winner ?Luka Modric and Marcos Llorente gave Los Blancos a 2-0 lead before ?Ramos thundered in a trademark header, moving his scoring tally in cup finals to eight.
A late consolation for Al Ain was followed by a late own goal from their midfielder Yahia Nader which ensured that Madrid would take home their third-successive Club World Cup title to the Spanish capital.
Despite winning yet another trophy with his club, Ramos was quick to express his disappointment at the treatment he received during the match from the supporters at the Zayed Sports City Stadium.
Speaking to Television Espanola as quoted by the ?Daily Express, the 32-year-old said: "The whistles are inexplicable.
Saturday's triumph marked a first success under interim manager Santiago Solari who took over in November after Julien Lopetegui was sacked due to a poor start to this year's ?La Liga campaign.
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Solari's side are currently fourth in the standings, eight points behind leaders ?Barcelona having played one game less than their bitter rivals.


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Tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims are now descending on Allahabad, India, joining an estimated 8 million already there for the Maha Kumbh Mela. Held every 12 years at one of four places in India, the Kumbh Mela lasts nearly two months and is considered to be an especially auspicious time to bathe in the holy river for purification from sin. In 2001, the last time the festival took place, more than 40 million people gathered in an area smaller than 20 sq km (7.7 sq mi). This year, the predicted number of visitors tops 100 million. Collected here are images from the preparation and first days of the Maha Kumbh Mela, with possibly more to come in the next few weeks.


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A: You can try to delete setup class and see if there will be any error. So you will now then if config.xml is OK.
Also check in database the core_resoruce table or something like that. Maybe it's already installed and this is why it can't run again.
Also delete cache.
What server do you use ? ngnix or apache? Because I had a client that has the first one and there was some permission problem and because of that extensions didn't install.


Vinyl's resurgence continued unabated in 2014 with more than 8.1 million new records sold in the United States alone; the U.K. passed 1 million units for the first time in recent memory, with retailers and pressing plants struggling to keep up with demand. Not only has the format's breathing tube been removed, but labels are now struggling with what to release as the backlog is growing at plants due to the demand for both new releases and reissues of classic albums. Reissues, however, have not always proven to be better than original pressings, and with prices hovering between $30-$50 for specific releases, music lovers have every reason to be more circumspect when it comes time to pull the trigger.
ORG Music is one label that is trying hard to buck that trend and from what we've heard so far, their reissues are certainly well worth the money. ORG Music (which should not be confused with Original Recordings Group) has a rather interesting mix of jazz, rock, country, and alternative reissues from Thelonious Monk, Nirvana, Roy Orbison, Ornette Coleman, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, and Duke Ellington. ORG Music also offers some great new music from local L.A. bands such as Yellow Red Sparks, and Dot Hacker.
ORG Music's vinyl reissues are mastered (in almost all cases) from the original analog tapes; one exception would be the forthcoming "With His Hot and Blue Guitar" from the Johnny Cash catalog which was mastered from a high resolution digital master provided by Sun Records.
One of the premier jazz releases for ORG Music in late-2014 was the reissue of Thelonious Monk's iconic, Solo Monk, and the repressing does not disappoint in any way. One of the founders of Modern Jazz, Monk can be decidedly hit-or-miss for some listeners who find his technique confusing; is his clunky style on purpose and a display of true originality, or is he just all over the place. For the most part, Monk is on a different level from even his most accomplished peers with a pianistic technique that displays genuine originality and control.
Solo Monk was recorded over a period of four months in 1965 and this 40-minute collection of original tracks and covers of a number of pop music standards. It's hard to listen to tracks such as "Dinah," "I Should Care," and the adventurous "Ruby, My Dear" (which Monk composed as a teenager) and not get the sense that we're in the presence of a genius; a madman who is as crafty with each note, as he is with the silence between them.
The ORG Music reissue is a wonderful tribute to this fine recording; wonderfully clean pressing with great presence and detail. The piano is a remarkably difficult instrument to recreate for even the best of audio systems and when it is done well with a great recording, you get a glimpse for even the shortest amount of time of what the artist originally intended. Solo Monk achieves a level of creativity that defined Monk as one of the best of his generation and this reissue makes it abundantly clear just how misunderstood he really was. Highly recommended.


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Disney World Fans Are Waiting in Line for Hours for a Popcorn Bucket
By Christian Hoffer - January 14, 2022 06:48 pm EST
Disney World fans are waiting six or more hours for a limited edition popcorn bucket featuring a character popular to park-goers. Today is the start of the International Festival of the Arts, one of several annual festivals that take place at EPCOT. While the festival features a ton of pop-up art displays and new culinary treats, one unexpected piece of merchandise has taken center stage at the limited time event. Park goers stood in line for hours today for a limited edition popcorn bucket shaped like Figment. The popcorn bucket only costs $25 but was only being sold at one location, the Pop Eats booth at the festival, which led to the extremely long line that stretched across the bottom half of Epcot and even doubled up on itself.
Figment is a character that originally debuted at EPCOT back in 1982 and serves as an unofficial mascot for the theme park. The magical dragon appears in the Journey Into Imagination ride, which has received multiple updates over the course of the park's history. While not as well-known as many Disney movie characters, Figment has a strong fan following due to its unique connection to the park. In fact, Figment's exclusion in the second version of Journey Into Imagination led to Disney shutting down the ride and revamping it so that Figment played a much bigger role in the attraction, which remains open to this day. Figment has also appeared in two comics series published by Disney.
While the popcorn bucket only costs $25, demand for the limited edition souvenir has caused a secondary market to quickly explode on eBay and other websites. Listings for Figment popcorn buckets are regularly appearing for $100 or more, and there's even several listings for "bad drawings" of the popcorn buckets posted to either catch potential shoppers unaware or simply to build into the hype.
The popcorn bucket is a limited edition item, but Disney should have the bucket at least through the end of the Festival of the Arts, which runs through February 21st.


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Lt Col SS Hasabnis (Photo credits: Hasabnis Family)
A Tribute To The Original Hero Of Galwan
January 12, 2022 ; By: Nitin A. Gokhale
Some soldiers do fade away unnoticed even in today's world. Last Sunday, one such quiet warrior—one can even call him the original hero of Galwan– gently eased into the next world.
Lt Col Shrikant Sitaram Hasabnis, VSM, 90, passed away in Pune on 9 January 2022 after a long battle with heart and lung infections.
Many in the military circles, not to speak of civilians, may not have heard of Lt Col Hasabnis. After all, he had taken voluntary retirement in 1977.
However, anyone who has studied and written about the 1962 war with China, would have come across his name. Or at least his unfortunate unit's plight on the first day of the war on 20th October 1962.
For those who perhaps don't know, it is worth recalling the events nearly 60 years ago.
Lt Col & Mrs SS Hasabnis in front of Baglihar Dam
In early 1962, Lt Col Hasabnis, then a Major, was tasked by the Commanding Officer of 5 Jat, to lead a company of the battalion at the isolated post at Galwan—surrounded from all sides by the numerically and better-armed Chinese. The Jats were the first plains troops to be inducted into the super high altitude area in 1962. Till then units that had soldiers from hills were deployed in Ladakh.
From the start, Major Hasabnis' task was hopeless. To begin with, like him, the Jat troops were pure vegetarians. However, at 17000 plus feet altitude, it was not possible to cook meals in those times. They had to eat tinned, non-veg food. Maj Hasabnis, much against his own instincts led by example and started eating the tinned rations. But that was the least of his problems.
The Company that he was leading, was not full-strength. Barely 60 soldiers were with him (normally, a company has 100 plus men). The state of arms with the troops was pitiful. Nearly 20 of his men did not even have weapons. They did not have appropriate clothing for survival in these extremely cold conditions. Ammunition with them was just adequate to last a few minutes of battle, a fight that they were repeatedly assured was not going to happen.
The Chinese were using their Hindi translators to tell the Indian troops who were at places within a few meters of the Chinese to go back, as they were not against the poor Indian troops but the bourgeois Indian Government! As the company of Jats landed by helicopters in Galwan they saw that the post was surrounded from all sides by hundreds of Chinese soldiers. The Chinese had the latest rifles, mortars and artillery which they were deliberately showing to the troops to demoralise them. Although the men saw this and told Maj Hasabnis that they felt like goats in a slaughterhouse, none of them ever showed any desire to flee or go back because they were prepared to face any adversity as long as their company commander was with them. That was the level of trust and faith Maj Hasabnis inspired in his men. Even as the tension between India and China mounted, the company held on tenaciously, fighting the elements and the psychological warfare by the Chinese.
The inevitable happened on the morning of 20 October 1962.
Without any warning, the Galwan post held by the Company of 5 Jat was attacked by the Chinese using artillery, mortars and heavy automatic weapons fire. The Jats fought fiercely till literally their last round. Thirty soldiers made the supreme sacrifice while the rest including Maj Hasabnis were taken, prisoners. They were the first PoWs from Ladakh although many more were captured by the Chinese in NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh). Maj Hasabnis and his men stayed in China as POWs for seven months and were repatriated to India on 7 May 1963.
Maj Hasabnis resumed his military service on repatriation. He was named, superseding many other senior officers available, to raise 16 Jat battalion. He raised and nursed it even more lovingly than probably he raised his children. Incidentally, two of his sons followed him in the Army. One of them Sudarshan Shrikant Hasabnis rose to become a Lt General and Deputy Chief of the Indian Army, retiring in 2020.
Lt Gen Sudarshan Shrikant Hasabnis
The senior Hasabnis continued to inspire men both in and out of uniform. After returning from China, he had a chance to prove his leadership qualities once again in the counter-insurgency operations in Mizoram in the late 1960s. He turned around the fortunes of 16 Jat when it was on the verge of being disbanded for poor performance, but Lt Col Hasabnis, who had returned to the battalion after a stint on a staff appointment, sought and got a three-month reprieve from his bosses. Within that time, he inspired the men of 16 Jat to outperform themselves and proved to the higher-ups that their plan to disband the battalion was rather premature. Lt Col Hasabnis received a Vishist Seva Medal for his efforts.
In the 1971 war too, 16 Jat performed creditably under his command. After taking voluntary retirement in 1977, Lt Col Hasabnis along with his wife became dedicated volunteers for a revered annual pilgrimage to Pandharpur, one of the holy sites in Maharashtra and also took on a very challenging task of running a commercial operation to dig bore wells in far-flung and difficult areas in Western India.
Lt Col Hasabnis in conversation with Nitin A Gokhale
On a personal note, I was fortunate to have met and interviewed Lt Col Hasabnis exactly a decade ago while making a short 20-minute film for NDTV on 50 years of the 1962 war. Even five decades later, I could detect pain and regret in Lt Col Hasabnis' voice over the humiliation the soldiers suffered in 1962 and how they felt let down at that time.
"Memories are very deep. I don't think they will be erased from my memory at all", the veteran said to me in that chat – the documentary I did for NDTV (https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/india-matters/recalling-1962-50-years-on-251438. Look for his interview from 2.10 onwards)
Clearly, the 1962 war had left a scar for a long time on those who had to fight unprepared and without much planning against a numerically superior adversary. The stoic Lt Col Hasabnis however had no bitterness.
His passing away has broken perhaps the last known link to Galwan from 1962.
Thank you for your service and contribution, Sir.
(This obituary is written with a lot of inputs from the Hasabnis family)
Nitin A Gokhale
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In a large bowl, fold together the crabmeat, bell pepper, mayonnaise, mustard, Old Bay seasoning, lemon zest, black pepper, scallions and celery. Sandwich about 1/4 cup crab mixture between 2 slices of the bread. Repeat with the remaining crab mixture and bread slices. Brush both sides of each sandwich with olive oil.
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There is no better way to garner attention for a new crypto token than to give it away. The Team at the Tron Foundation are experts at marketing and have widely promoted the BitTorrent token and a series of airdrops, the first of which has just been completed.
The official announcement said that TRX held on supporting exchanges and cold wallets would be legible to receive BTT. The ratio of BTT airdropped is 1 TRX = 0.1097681177 BTT, with 1.1% of the total supply to be distributed. A further 990,000,000 BTT will be airdropped on March 11 and an incrementally increasing amount on the eleventh of every month until 2025.
According to Coinmarketcap BTT has jumped 11% on the day in USD terms and 12% against Bitcoin. It is currently trading at 26 satoshis, 73% higher than what it was at inception. Binance has over 50% of the total trade but Upbit is currently the top fiat exchange with 35% of the daily volume as Koreans load up in KRW.
Tron however has taken the opposite path and fallen back dropping 4.7% on the day as crypto markets pull back from their weekend pump. TRX is currently trading at $0.024 (673 satoshis), which is down 8% on the week but 30% higher than it was at the beginning of the year. Tron has been one of 2019's top performing crypto assets alongside Litecoin and Binance Coin. It has held on to eighth place with a market cap of $1.6 billion, $400 million behind Tether.
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SBU News > Academics > College of Arts & Sciences > Bonita London and Toni Sperzel Receive 2017 Public Service Award for Dedication to Civil Rights
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Bonita London and Toni Sperzel Receive 2017 Public Service Award for Dedication to Civil Rights
For more than 22 years, the Suffolk County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission has maintained a commitment to promoting the principles and philosophies of Dr. King. This year, the Commission recognized Dr. Bonita London, Department of Psychology, and Toni Sperzel, Center for Inclusive Education (CIE), as recipients of the 2017 Public Service Award based on their demonstrated record of dedication to civil rights. The two were honored at a luncheon held on Friday, January 13, 2017 at The UpSky Long Island Hotel.
Toni Sperzel (left) and Bonita London were awarded for their continued commitment to civil rights.
Dr. London, a social and personality psychologist, has dedicated her research and scholarship over the past 10 years to studying the psychosocial mechanisms that can either impede or promote success among historically underrepresented groups (on the basis of gender, race, and sexual orientation). Her research explores the impact of identity, motivation, and institutional messages of inclusion on students' success and achievement at the undergraduate, graduate, and pre-professional levels, and has been used as a foundation for innovations in many colleges and universities.
She partnered with CIE to use social science research to help identify and address issues of student engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.
"Dr. London has played a pivotal role in the development of a new and extremely important field of applied research: STEM identity and academic success," said Charles Taber, Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education. "In a strong and consistent set of studies, Bonita and her colleagues have found that the academic success of women and underrepresented minority students in STEM fields is powerfully influenced by whether they feel they belong as scientists in their fields. This fundamental finding is important for our basic understanding of the interactions between social identity and context, but it is critical to our applied understanding of how to design interventions to diversify the academy."
Beyond the classroom, Dr. London serves as faculty advisor for the undergraduate Psychology Student Alliance, an organization that promotes underrepresented student engagement in the field of Psychology at Stony Brook. She has mentored many undergraduate and graduate students who have pursued and completed graduate degrees.
Dr. London also contributes to various committees within the University that are aimed at addressing diversity and inclusion needs across the campus, promoting STEM education, and addressing challenges to degree completion among undergraduates.
"Bonita is one of Stony Brook University's heroes," said Nina Maung-Gaona, Associate Vice President for Research and Co-Investigator of NSF AGEP (former Assistant Dean for Diversity and former Director of the Center for Inclusive Education). "She has a clear vision for what access to opportunities in STEM could mean for a diverse society rooted in equality and the critical role that top research universities like Stony Brook must play toward making that vision a reality."
Currently the Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the Graduate School and Director of CIE, Toni Sperzel joined CIE in 2007 as Program Coordinator, and later Program Manager, of the Dr. W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship program. A unit within the Graduate School, CIE is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion in graduate education, academia and the scientific workforce through recruitment, retention, professional development and community building efforts.
"Toni possess core values that are critical for the kind of transformation that diversity initiatives work tirelessly to achieve," said Maung-Gaona. "For one, she really listens carefully to what people are saying or trying to say. She is a staunch believer of, and advocate for, equity. And most importantly, she will roll up her sleeves and work in the trenches, or stand at a podium and engender trust and excitement for the task at hand."
In addition to her work as Manager of the Turner Program, from 2010-2016 Toni also served as manager of Stony Brook's participation in the National GEM Consortium, a fellowship program that enhances the value of the nation's human capital by increasing the participation of underrepresented groups at the master's and doctoral levels in engineering and science. She played a key role in the proposal submission that brought the GEM fellowship to Stony Brook University. Since that time, she has supported the writing and development of several winning National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Department of Education grant proposals submitted by the CIE and other Stony Brook departments focused on supporting the successful advancement of underrepresented scholars in graduate education and postdoctoral training.
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Q: akka stream alpakka csv: skip exception and parse next rows I`m using Alpakka for parsing csv files. version "com.lightbend.akka" %% "akka-stream-alpakka-csv" % 0.20
I have csv file with unclosed quote.
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I want to skip bad rows and go next, but my stream is falling.
I`m using supervisionStrategy Supervision.Resume, but it is not working.
The stream fail when find unclosed quote.
Is there any way to fix that?
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implicit val system = ActorSystem("QuickStart")
implicit val materializer = ActorMaterializer()

def hdfsSource(csv: String): Source[ByteString, Future[IOResult]] =
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val csv = """email,country,name
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            |test,test,test
            |test,test,test
            |""".stripMargin

val source = hdfsSource(csv)

val decider: Supervision.Decider = {
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}

val result = source
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  .via(CsvToMap.toMapAsStrings())
  .withAttributes(ActorAttributes.supervisionStrategy(decider))
  .runForeach(println)

A: Currently CsvParsing.lineScanner() does not support supervision strategies. You can choose another symbol as a quote character for the line scanner CsvParsing.lineScanner(quoteChar = '\''). Then you will get the unclosed double quote as part of parsed results:

Map(email -> "test, country -> test, name -> test)
Map(email -> test, country -> test, name -> test)
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ATP 1000 Toronto Masters Preview
Due to the Olympics, Toronto has suffered a big number of withdrawals including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer. The field still does contain three of the four semi finalists though, with Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin Del Potro scheduled to play at the time of writing.
Favourites – With such a depleted field in terms of the top players, the two big favourites are clear. Defending champion Novak Djokovic has not quite been showing his 2011 form with two recent semi final exits on the grass but is still a huge danger. The Australian Open champ has only lost twice on hard courts this year to Andy Murray and John Isner, both of which reside in the other half of the draw.
Andy Murray will be big on confidence after taking the Gold Medal and defeating Roger Federer with such ease. Murray did not take a hard court title post-Australian Open but was twice a finalist losing to Federer and Djokovic in Doha and Miami respectively. The draw appears to favour Murray, with the top seeds in his half being an out-of-form Tomas Berdych, Juan Monaco and John Isner – who Murray always performs well against.
While both players fitness is in question after record breaking matches at the Olympics, Juan Martin Del Potro (match length in minutes) and Milos Raonic (match length in games) are dark horses for this tournament. Raonic will be hoping for an excellent tournament in his home country, and has a nice route to the final if he can defeat the No.2 seed Andy Murray in a potential Round 3 clash. While Murray has dealt with big servers well in the past, Raonic will take heart from his victory on the clay in Barcelona earlier this year. Raonic has some extraordinary serving stats this year, topping the aces count as well as winning the highest percentage of service games this year.
Meanwhile, Juan Martin Del Potro looks somewhat back to his best after an excellent Olympics in which he picked up the bronze medal after defeating Novak Djokovic in straights. While often thought of as just a forehand, the tall Argentinian showcased it all in the latter stages as possibly should have beat Roger Federer in the semi final. After a long time out with injury, Del Potro finally looks like he is ready to take on the top players again.
Canadian number two Vasek Pospisil is one of three home players to receieve a wildcard. The 22 year old reached his career high of 85th in the world after taking the title in Granby Challenger, his second of the year. Pospisil will most likely float between low level ATP tournaments and North American challengers this year but does have a win over No. 8 seed John Isner to his name. He faces a tough tie in Round 1 taking on the Italian Andreas Seppi
The last eight Toronto Masters titles have been shared equally by the top four players – Roger Federer (04,06), Novak Djokovic (07,11), Rafael Nadal (05,08) and Andy Murray (09,10).
Novak Djokovic has winning records against all of the other top 8 seeds – though John Isner, Juan Martin Del Potro, Janko Tipsarevic and Andy Murray have all defeated him in their last encounters.
Finals Prediction – Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic in three sets
For a more detailed preview of the tournament check out the write up I did for Stevegtennis here.
Filed under ATP World Tour, Previews Tagged with Andy Murray, ATP World Tour, Juan Martin Del Potro, Masters 1000, Mens Tennis, Milos Raonic, Novak Djokovic, Preview, Rogers Cup, Toronto, Vasek Pospisil
July 9th-16th Previews
With Wimbledon over, the ATP and WTA tours have a hefty schedule this week with six tournaments over three surfaces and two continents. From the hard courts in Stanford to the clay courts of Umag and Palermo and even the continuation of the Grass season in Newport, there is plenty to look forward to this week.
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Newport – 250
Often seen as an afterthought in the short grass season, Newport was always likely to generate more interest this year with the chance to provide extra practice for the Olympic Games. Kei Nishikori, Milos Raonic and John Isner top a fairly strong field.
Favourite – With John Isner's decidedly dicey form over the last few months, it is fair to say that Milos Raonic is the favourite to win the tournament. Raonic is topping many of the service stats on the tour this year and the surface will suit the young Canadian's game.
Outsider – Showing signs of the form before his injury is Sam Querrey, the former finalist is unseeded here but can go far – he is in what many would perceive to be the favourable side of the draw away from John Isner, Milos Raonic and Gilles Muller.
One to Watch – Another returning from injury is US Open Mixed Doubles Champion Jack Sock, the 19 year-old has been handed a wildcard and will face Igor Kunitsyn in the first round.
Bastad – 250
With two other European clay tournaments to compete with, Bastad looks to have suffered the most competition wise with 8th seed Ungur being ranked only 81st, however David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro ensure there is some top level quality at the Swedish tournament. The currently inactive Robin Soderling is unable to defend his crown here.
Favourite – Arguably one of the best clay courters outside of his fellow countryman Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer looks certain to take this, he possesses a 10-0 head to head record over Nicolas Almagro.
Outsider – Grigor Dimitrov is another who has promised so much in his early years but as of yet has failed to deliver. A generous draw could see him making the Semi-Finals here where he would expect to face No.1 seed David Ferrer.
One to Watch – Tommy Robredo is back after a long spell out with injury, and full of confidence after taking Milan challenger a few weeks ago. However, he did withdraw from Braunschweig last week but hopefully it was just for precautionary measures than anything serious.
Stuttgart – 250
Stuttgart possesses a slightly stronger field led by the likes of Janko Tipsarevic and Juan Monaco as well as two former top 5 players in Tommy Haas and Nikolay Davydenko.
Favourite – Juan Monaco is another who looks at his best on clay with 2 titles to his name this year and despite not being No.1 seed is in my view the best player in the tournament with a great chance to make it three tournament victories for the year.
Outsider – Tommy Haas has found a new lease of life recently taking the Halle title and beating Roger Federer to go with it. The former World No.2 can definitely still be a threat in a three set format but has not won a clay title since 2004.
One to Watch – It will be interesting to see how Lukas Rosol fares the week after his giant-killing of Rafael Nadal. Many expect to see him revert to the form that sees him around No. 100 in the world but perhaps the victory will give him newly found confidence.
Umag – 250
Perhaps one of the most picturesque stops on the tour, the Croatian town is a favourite for tourists and fans alike. The field is led by Spaniards Fernando Verdasco, Marcel Granollers and former World No.1 Juan Carlos Ferrero while home hopes will be held by No.2 seed Marin Cilic
Favourite – No.1 seed Fernando Verdasco has gone two years without a title now but has a good chance to end that here. He was unfortunate enough to bump into David Ferrer in his last clay-court final but will not be so unlucky here. The Spaniard has obvious talent as shown by his recent victory over Rafael Nadal but mental issues often hold him back.
Outsider – Carlos Berlocq has shown great improvement over the past year, including reaching a personal high of No.37 in the rankings, only one spot above his current position. A regular winner on the Challenger Tour last year, Berlocq has made the step up and was unfortunate to suffer defeat in his only tour final to date in Vina del Mar.
One to Watch – Aljaz Bedene of Slovakia has been slowly making a name for himself on the Challenger Tour picking up three titles on clay this year but as of yet, has been unable to make the step up to the main tour.
Stanford (Premier)
Hosted at the University of Stanford's tennis complex, the Bank of the West Classic is the oldest women-only event on the tour. The outdoor hard court tournament is also the first tournament in the US Open Series and the field is led by Serena Williams with Jelena Jankovic and Marion Bartoli amongst the big names.
Favourite – If her exploits at Wimbledon do not lead to a withdrawal, then it is incredibly difficult to see past Serena Williams defending her title. She is serving incredibly well and in this form will be hard to break, never mind defeat over a three set match.
Outsider – Marion Bartoli made the final here last year and looks the superior player in the bottom half of the draw. Any slip up from Serena and she will be sure to take advantage.
One to Watch – Nicole Gibbs is a decorated athlete at college level with numerous NCAA awards as well as being the 2012 Womens' Champion while representing Stanford. She can earn a second round tie with Serena Williams if she defeats Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in the first round here.
Palermo (International)
New no.2 Agnieszka Radwanska withdrew from Palermo after making the Wimbledon final making Sara Errani the top seed above compatriot Roberta Vinci. Defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues also appears in the draw and is seeded No. 4.
Favourite – Sara Errani is an excellent clay court player and against all but the elite achieves very good results as shown by picking up tournaments in Barcelona, Budapest and Acapulco before her shock final appearance at Roland Garros.
Outsider – A five time winner of the tournament, it is hard to rule out Anabel Medina Garrigues, results indicate that she enjoys it a lot here and will likely go far again with an expected semi final between herself and Errani where I would think the winner would go on to become champion.
One to Watch – Yulia Putintseva is a promising Kazakh prospect, but will be disappointed at her recent result in nearby Biella where she was disposed of easily by Barbara Zahlavova-Strycova in straight sets. In less recent form, she did pick up an ITF 100k title in May which led her to her highest ranking of 122. If not for the tennis, she will be one to watch here for her famous tantrums!
Filed under ATP World Tour, Previews, WTA Tour Tagged with Aljaz Bedene, Anabel Medina Garrigues, ATP Tour, Bastad, Carlos Berlocq, Clay, David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Grass, Grigor Dimitrov, Hard Court, Jack Sock, Juan Monaco, Lukas Rosol, Marion Bartoli, Milos Raonic, Newport, Nicole Gibbs, Palermo, Preview, Sam Querrey, Sara Errani, Serena Williams, Stanford, Stuttgart, Tommy Haas, Tommy Robredo, Umag, WTA Tour, Yulia Putintseva
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The first week of the ATP and WTA seasons have been concluded with many of this year's featured players performing well.
Tournaments in Brisbane, Auckland, Chennai and Doha boasted a number of high-profile names while the Hopman Cup also panned out Down Under in Perth.
With many ranking points to save early on this year, Milos Raonic got off to the best possible start by winning the second ATP World Tour title of his career in Chennai. The 21-year-old Canadian beat Janko Tipsarevic 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-4) in a final which didn't feature any breaks.
Andy Murray took no time to claim his first title of the year and 22nd ATP World Tour crown of his career as the world number four went all the way at the Brisbane International. Not only was it the maiden event of 2012 for the Brit but also the first with new coach Ivan Lendl.
The eight-time Grand Slam winner has been installed to take Murray to the next level by claiming a major title himself. Lendl watched from the stands as his pupil dispatched of Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-1, 6-3 and, with improved movement on the court, he will be a serious title threat again at the Australian Open.
Murray had beaten Dolgopolov in last year's Aussie Open quarter-final when the Ukrainian emerged as a main player on the tour. The 23-year-old's chances of jumping another step and making the top 10 this year look to be on the right track.
At 19, home favourite Bernard Tomic is set for big things. After breaking the top 50 last year he's backed that up with a semi-final berth already.
There was less joy for Kei Nishikori though, as he fell in the second round despite being seeded fifth. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and Ryan Harrison both crashed out in the first round but young Aussie James Duckworth took full advantage of his wildcard by beating Nicolas Mahut in the opening round.
For the ladies at Brisbane there were less positives. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova went out in the second round along with Bojana Jovanovski but they had some saving grace as they were beaten by eventual champion Kaia Kanepi and multiple Grand Slam winner Serena Williams respectively.
Things didn't improve in Auckland. Top seed Sabine Lisicki made the last eight but had to retire in her quarter-final match due to an abdominal injury. She'll be hoping it doesn't prove too serious and won't keep her out of the first major of the year next week.
Elsewhere, Rebecca Marino lost her first match of 2012 in straight sets but teenage Czech Karolina Pliskova came through qualifying to make the main draw.
At the Hopman Cup, Petra Kvitova and Tomas Berdych took the main prize for the Czech Republic but Grigor Dimitrov put some impressive displays in for Bulgaria including a 6-2, 6-1 win over top 10 player Mardy Fish.
Filed under ATP World Tour, WTA Tour Tagged with Alexandr Dolgopolov, Andy Murray, Bernard Tomic, Grigor Dimitrov, Hopman Cup 2012, Milos Raonic, Sabine Lisicki
Raonic Award
Milos Raonic has been named the 2011 ATP World Tour Newcomer of the Year. It comes with the Canadian placed at number 31 in the world after starting the year at #156. The 20-year-old's highlights include a fourth round appearance at the Australian Open and winning his country's first tour title for 16 years in San Jose.
Filed under ATP World Tour, Quick Updates Tagged with Canada, Milos Raonic, Newcomer of the Year
Last week at the Aegon Classic in Birmingham I reluctantly purchased a programme for £5 to pile on top of the expenses of my four-day Parisian venture.
Maria Sharapova and Marion Bartoli were featured inside despite not partaking in the tournament whilst Ana Ivanovic wasn't despite making the semi-finals. The joys of an ever-changing sporting landscape.
Luckily the advertisement-filled glossy proved a decent buy thanks to a three-page section entitled "The Next Generation". You can see why it would be of some interest.
In it, there were six players (three from either sex) whom we are told to "keep an eye on".
I arrogantly told my accompanying friend I'd been tracking Bojana Jovanovski, Heather Watson and Milos Raonic since the early days of this blog and had also covered Alexandr Dolgopolov and Christina McHale in some capacity too. But the one I hadn't mentioned at all on here was Grigor Dimitrov.
This is how they described the Bulgarian:
Sees himself as a future world no.1 and believes he has no weaknesses. Former coach Peter Lundgren, who helped Roger Federer to his first Grand Slam title, has said that Dimitrov is a better player as a teenager than the Swiss was in his teens.
Without wanting to reach cocky-level again, I did know of Dimitrov before but thought against writing a post or checking his progress at Grand Slams or on tour.
Yet he's being compared to Roger Federer? A closer inspection, therefore, is a must.
So far Dimitrov has reached a peak of #63 (on his 20th birthday no less) and hasn't moved much from that position achieved a month ago, dropping just one place.
He's quite a tall player at 6'2" and possesses the element that draws the Federer comparisons, the one-handed backhand.
His best achievements have been the boys' singles titles at Wimbledon and the US Open which led to his junior world ranking of number one. Federer didn't succeed with the middle of these three triumphs but did reach the final at Flushing Meadows losing to David Nalbandian.
And this is where the career paths begin to shift in opposite directions. Dimitrov has yet to win an ATP World Tour title or make a mark on the Grand Slam stage at senior level.
Comparing him to the greatest player of all time is daunting. Looking at his chances compared to his fellow prospects shows he's still in with a chance of making it, albeit not to Federer's level.
Also featured next to Dimitrov were Raonic and Dolgopolov. The former just turned 20 when he made it to the fourth round of the Australian Open before going on to win his first ATP World Tour title in San Jose whilst the latter made it to the last eight in Melbourne as a 21-year-old.
Therefore the next few months are going to be critical for Dimitrov. Raonic and Dolgopolov are now established top 50 players and earning seeding positions.
If Dimitrov is to make half as much impact as Federer he'll have to catch up with the aforementioned duo rapidly. With the grass court season upon us, he may just do that but improving his return of serve is critical having only won 18% of 154 return games played this year.
Certainly, I'll be looking out for him more in the next 12 months. The Federer backhand is the most wonderful stroke in the sport and to see it executed for another ten years at the top of the game via the hands of Dimitrov would be a delight.
Filed under ATP World Tour Tagged with Alexandr Dolgopolov, Grigor Dimitrov, Milos Raonic, Roger Federer, Wimbledon
French Open 2011 – Ranking Review
With the second Grand Slam of the year completed the ranking changes this week will feature significant drops and encouraging highs as the points gained or lost are at their highest values.
Therefore it seems an appropriate time to assess how the ATP and WTA tour rankings look heading into the grass court season and how some of the players being tracked on this website are progressing.
The biggest news, and the main brunt of it in all honesty, comes from the WTA tour.
Heather Watson's five match winning run which saw her through qualifying and into the second round of the main draw has been rewarded with a top 100 place.
It's the first time the 19-year-old has been in the top 100 and she has a great chance of getting higher this year as she's entered the Aegon Classic and Wimbledon should give her a wildcard if she can't qualify automatically.
Another big mover is Caroline Garcia. The 17-year-old almost pulled off the shock of the tournament after being two games away from beating Maria Sharapova in front of her home crowd but her first round win, with some help from her own wildcard, entry means she's risen 38 places to #150.
Other young players who've made big strides are American Christina McHale, Canada's Rebecca Marino and Romanian Sorana Cirstea.
Sabine Lisicki is back in the top 100 having made the third round and Vania King has reached #85 which is an increase of 30 places.
In terms of the top 10, there is good news for Petra Kvitova who's at a career high world number eight whilst the chasing pack of Andrea Petkovic, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Julia Goerges have nudged ever closer to the next level.
Strangely enough it's China's Li Na who's become a superstar at the age of 29 after becoming the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam title. Not many put that bet on two weeks ago but then again the same could be said of last year's winner and her opponent in the final Francesca Schiavone.
A similar scenario is emerging in the ATP tour in that the titles are being won by older players. There really isn't a new generation coming through yet in the men's game with Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and now Novak Djokovic favourites to win every major, masters series and world championship final.
Two of the above are undoubtedly modern-day legends and until they either retire or become awful then the sport will continue to be dominated by them.
Looking to break the dynasty are the likes of Milos Raonic and Alexandr Dolgopolov, who have dropped a place and gained one respectively. They seem to be the only young players with top 10 potential at the present time.
Marin Cilic and Ernests Gulbis had that at one point but the former has gone down six places over the two weeks and 13 places in total from the start of the year. Gulbis, incidentally, has actually gone up five places.
There are other ways of becoming a tennis superstar though. Just making the top 50 these days gets you noticed whilst you can still be big in your home country or continent, which Li Na has proven and Kei Nishikori is still striving for.
The Japanese 22-year-old is down a place but is still up 38 from the start of January. The American situation is also intriguing with their supposed lack of depth but Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick have both returned to the top 10 but youngster Ryan Harrison has moved down three places to #122.
The men's tour is interesting. It seems to be in different leagues right now. But still, the young players, and even some old where warranted, will continue to be charted here whether that be in the top 10, top 100 or number one in Kazakhstan.
Filed under ATP World Tour, Ranking Review, WTA Tour Tagged with Alexandr Dolgopolov, Caroline Garcia, French Open 2011, Heather Watson, Milos Raonic, Rankings
Over the last few days I don't think I've ever wrote as much Italian before in my life, so I'm taking a break from Milan's Trofeo Bonfiglio and looking towards the slightly wider covered French Open in Paris.
Qualifying has already finished and today the main draw was decided with help from current and former champion Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanovic.
My blog will cover the junior tournament most prominently but with that not scheduled to start until 30th May I will pay attention to the young players coming through who have been seen here previously and even some new faces.
The thing about a Grand Slam is one good run and you're in the top 10 or 20 in the world when before no one had heard of you unless they were the die-hard sitting-in-the-rain-for-10-hours-to-get-in-court-18 kind of fans. Petra Kvitova and Tsvetana Pironkova will testify to that.
News, so far, is good for Heather Watson and Sloane Stephens, two players who have had a mention on Ace of Baseline before and whom I track frequently.
American Stephens is a particular surprise after overcoming the top seed Anastasia Pivovarova in the last round of qualifying 6-3, 6-4.
Watson didn't drop a set in making the main draw and joins fellow British players Elena Baltacha and Anne Keothavong who qualified outright based on their ranking positions.
In the men's qualifying, Ryan Harrison lost to another youngster in Spaniard Javier Marti. The 19-year-old won the third round match 6-2, 7-5 and will face fellow countryman and qualifier Albert Ramos in the main draw.
Elsewhere in the main draw match-ups, I may have to cut down my coverage of Milos Raonic as the Canadian looks like he's made it. Seeded 26th, he'll face Michael Berrer in the first round and could face Andy Murray in the last 16 should all go to plan. The next step is asserting a top 10 position.
Other noteworthy matches are wildcard Bernard Tomic vs. Carlos Berlocq, Kei Nishikori vs. Lu Yen-Hsun and in the women's draw the youngsters have it tough with Maria Kirilenko vs. Coco Vandeweghe, Andrea Petkovic vs. Bojana Jovanovski and Francesca Schiavone vs. Melanie Oudin.
For the full qualifying results and more, check out the Roland Garros website where the main draws for the men's singles and women's singles are also available.
Filed under Previews Tagged with French Open 2011, Heather Watson, Javier Marti, Milos Raonic, Qualifying, Roland Garros, Ryan Harrison, Sloane Stephens
Sweet Victory
Ryan Sweeting beat Kei Nishikori 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) at the US Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston to lift the first ATP Tour title of his career.
Upon winning, the American jumped into a pool and he'll be looking to make more of a splash on the tour now as well (insert groan here).
On his way to the final he defeated fellow American and second seed Sam Querrey as well as former top 15 player Ivo Karlovic.
After losing the first set without gaining a break of serve, Nishikori will be ruing the three set points he missed at 5-4 up in the second as he fell in exactly two hours at the ATP 250 event.
As the name suggests, Sweeting will now gain 250 ranking points to push him to a career high position somewhere in the 70's. It's also the first time a wildcard has won the event since Mardy Fish in 2006. Since then Fish has gone on to become the USA's number one player so this victory is a great boost for Sweeting and American tennis.
At the age of 23, he's still got time to improve but any chance of a major title win during his career is unlikely. Still, a resurgence for Fish and Sweeting as well as the progression of teenager Ryan Harrison should increase the level of support for tennis fans in the US.
There's also some good news for the beaten finalist, a prospect covered on here in the past. Despite the defeat, Nishikori is projected to be in the world's top 50 once the rankings are out, almost matching the highest ever position of a Japanese player.
That's currently held by Shuzo Matsuoka who reached #46 in 1992. Nishikori has every chance of breaking that record in the near future to slightly brighten the mood of a country surrounded by devastation following the tsunami last month.
Sweeting became the fifth newest player to win an ATP title this year joining Pablo Andujar who claimed the Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca and Milos Raonic amongst others.
Canadian Raonic managed to beat Michael Llondra in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters and his progress at that tournament shall be watched with an eagle eye over the coming week.
Elsewhere in Monaco, Bernard Tomic lost out in qualification to Julien Benneteau while Ernests Gulbis saw off Alexandr Dolgopolov, a player only just coming to fruition after a fine run in the Australian Open this year.
Gulbis, 22, is a great clay court player looking to recapture the promise he showed last year when he beat Roger Federer on the surface. The Latvian's next match versus Raonic is set to be a cracker of a second round tie.
Filed under ATP World Tour Tagged with Alexandr Dolgopolov, Bernard Tomic, Ernests Gulbis, Final, Grand Prix Hassan II, Japan, Kei Nishikori, Milos Raonic, Monte Carlo Masters, Pablo Andujar, Ryan Sweeting, US Men's Clay Court Championships, USA
Canadian Revolution
Canadians are taking over the world right now.
Justin Bieber is the most famous teenager on the planet (possibly contested with Rebecca Black), Arcade Fire won a Brit and Grammy award recently and they also have rapper Drake.
That's all coming from the music industry though. When it comes to sport, other than ice hockey and 'Owen Hargreaves', they are a bit light on top-class competitors. Luckily, Milos Raonic has stormed the ATP Tour this year and he's also been joined by Rebecca Marino.
The WTA's world number 58 is a French-speaking 20-year-old residing in Vancouver. Like her male counterpart she's already been seen on Ace of Baseline before but only briefly.
She's reached her highest ranking to date thanks to a final appearance in Memphis last month where she retired against Magdalena Rybarikova due to an abdominal injury picked up in the semi-finals.
Since then Marino has fallen at the first round stage of the BNP Paribas Open and the first qualifying round of the Sony Ericsson Open and with the oncoming clay court season we'll have to wait and see if she can keep her progress going.
A regular tweeter and a devoutly proud Canadian her Twitter profile has her location down as "i'm oot and aboot, eh?".
She's yet to reach Wimbledon or Roland Garros' main draw which is no doubt something she will aim to achieve come the end of spring.
She has however had experience at Fed Cup level and with herself and Raonic being the top Canadians out there there is a great future for their Hopman Cup team.
It's helped also by strength in depth. Eugenie Bouchard is currently 374th in the world which is pretty good for a recently turned 17-year-old.
And remember the days when you couldn't distinguish between Aleksandra Wozniak and Caroline Wozniacki? Well the former has dropped from no.21 to outside the top 100 whilst you may be able to guess where the latter currently situates.
Wozniak is the number two in Canada now and her predecessor has to make sure she doesn't suffer a similar fate.
Marino doesn't quite have as many followers as the Bieber yet but if she can recreate half of his success then she'll be doing Canada even more proud.
Two 17-year-old Canadians… Can Eugenie Bouchard also put her country on the map?
Filed under WTA Tour Tagged with Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, Eugenie Bouchard, Fed Cup, Hopman Cup, Justin Bieber, Milos Raonic, Rebecca Marino, Tennis
Well, Well, Wells
The quarter-final line-up for the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells has been decided and for some of the up and coming tennis stars it's been a very productive tournament.
Ryan Harrison impressed the most after reaching the fourth round as a wildcard entry. En route he beat top 50 Frenchman Jeremy Chardy and 22nd seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez before Roger Federer dispatched of the American in straight sets.
It was far from an easy ride for the 16-time Grand Slam winner though as Harrison took the first set to a tiebreak which the former world number one edged 7-4 before securing the second with a more comfortable 6-3 scoreline.
In the previous round Harrison had met another young prodigy in Milos Raonic. The 20-year-old Canadian defeated home favourite Mardy Fish to reach the third round but lacked the same sharpness which earned him his first ATP Tour title last month.
However, 17 aces as well as some great baseline work from Raonic showed the class he possesses and he's now flown out to Miami in preparation for the Sony Ericsson Open.
Ernests Gulbis had looked in good form going into his third round tie with Serbian Novak Djokovic after beating Taiwan no.1 Yen-Hsun Lu but this year's Australian Open winner kept his 2011 unbeaten streak intact with a 6-0, 6-1 blitz.
Elsewhere Aussie Bernard Tomic reached the second round whilst further American success came from Ryan Sweeting, Donald Young and Sloane Stephens from the women's draw.
Kim Clijsters has already declared she's a fan of 17-year-old Stephens who lost to world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the second round.
Certainly the experience gained as well as the ranking points earned from the combined ATP Masters 1000 and WTA Premier event will aid all the successful young players with Harrison already carving a name for himself.
Indian Wells Masters in California is considered the biggest tournament outside the four Slams
Filed under ATP World Tour Tagged with Bernard Tomic, BNP Paribas Open, Ernests Gulbis, Indian Wells, Masters, Milos Raonic, Ryan Harrison, Sloane Stephens, Tennis, USA


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by Bezalel Stern	Read author interview March 24, 2014
art by Carrie Wells
There once was a man who all he could eat was sparks. He would run after cars, hoping they would backfire. He would shake people's hands after rubbing his hair or a sweater, hoping for a connection. He was almost always hungry.
One day the man who all he could eat was sparks met a woman who could eat nothing but tadpoles. The woman was a vegetarian, and so subsisted only on tadpoles made from soy. This was unhealthy, and the woman was gaunt. The man, who had been waiting for hours beside an open electrical socket on the sidewalk, hoping for a buzz, was almost as thin.
The man and the woman barely acknowledged one another before the man went back to staring at the electrical socket and the woman went back to thinking about how righteous she was, only eating soy tadpoles, even though tadpoles were the only things she could survive on.
They never spoke, but even if they had, their conversation would not have had much of import. They were both too hungry to think about ideas, politics, philosophy.
Despite his hunger, one day the man who only ate sparks had the bright idea to visit the science museum on the edge of town. In the science museum there was an exhibit, and the exhibit created constant, ribbed, speckled sparks.
The man heard of the exhibit from a laptop he was about to throw to the ground, hoping sparks would fly from the computer at the moment of impact. In his excitement, the man who only could eat sparks forgot about trying to obtain sparks from the laptop (which did, in fact, make a smallish, almost invisible spark before shattering into electric oblivion) and hitched a ride on the nearest ferry to the museum at the edge of town.
When he got to the museum, the man, practically beside himself with hunger and excitement, happily paid the seven dollar and fifty cents admission and ran into the main hall. Quickly, he found the exhibit room. And there it was. A smallish, almost invisible globe, emanating constant, ribbed, speckled sparks.
The man quickly broke the glass between himself and the globe. He sucked down those sparks, and he could feel his hunger quenching, but the sparks kept coming, and the man continued to eat. If the woman who only ate soy tadpoles because she could only eat tadpoles could see him now, she wouldn't have recognized him, even if she had noticed him when he was as gaunt as she was.
He had grown so fat.
At the end of the day, the museum was ready to close. All of the exhibits shut down, and the sparks stopped flowing. The man, who had been celebrating an orgiastic feast, woke to his surroundings. He was surrounded by a quiet room, a quiet world.
Everything was dark, and the man who could only eat sparks should have been satisfied, the man who could only eat sparks should have been happy. And, for a brief, unrequited moment, he was. Then he wondered if there were more sparks to be had, and, given that the lever to turn on the lights of the museum and all of the museum's exhibits was secured behind lock and key, the man decided to give the globe a try. It was a small thing, a little, puny thing, the globe. A brief, celestial being. It felt puny in his hand, and parts of it were wet. The ribbed, speckled sparks that had been flowing from the globe had ceased, and the man, as he pocketed the globe and prepared to leave the museum to hitch a ferry back to the center of town, dreamed of living in the earth he had pilfered, an earth filled with undetectable sparks, there even when the lights of the museum were shut, even when the last, sad employee had made his way home, sparks that could never, really disappear. A world where he would never be hungry.
Bezalel Stern is currently an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction in New York. His work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney's, Contrary Magazine, The New Yorker, Wigleaf, Revolution House, kill author, The Jerusalem Post, City Journal, Identity Theory, Untoward Magazine, Lacuna, The Rumpus, The Second Pass, and The Millions. He is inordinately fond of cheese.
Carrie Wells is an artist working in the mediums of photography and sculpture. She earned her BFA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin and continues to live and work in Austin, Texas.
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