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1915 The White Sox acquire Shoeless Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for three players and $31,500. 1920 The American Professional Football Association is formed with Jim Thorpe as president. The league would later become the NFL. 1922 The first track and field competition for women takes place at the Pershing Stadium in Paris. 1938 Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd, and final, career grand slam. 1945 At 17 years, eight months, and 14 days old, Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers becomes the youngest player in MLB history to hit a home run. 1957 White Sox starter Bob Keegan throws a no-hitter against the Washington Senators. 1974 Nolan Ryan throws the fastest pitch recorded at the time, at 100.4 MPH. 1985 Dwight Gooden becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to record 200 plus strikeouts in his first two seasons. 2000 Tiger Woods win the PGA Championship, making him the first golfer since 1953 to win three majors in one year. Hes also the first player to win consecutive PGA Championships since Denny Shute in 1936-37. 2006 Tiger Woods wins his third PGA Championship by five strokes. 2008 Usain Bolt finished his Beijing Olympic campaign with a new world record in the 200m, a 19.30.

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Former Loveland police officer Rod Bretches was sentenced to 16 months in jail followed by 15 years of probation and intensive therapy for possession of child pornography after he videotaped a woman in the shower without her consent. His sentence required he spend at least six months in county jail before he would be eligible for 10 months of work release. The judge noted that, as a former police officer, he could face harassment in jail, but that the circumstances called for more than just probation, adding that, The circumstances are, in my opinion, horrendous.

Three residents were vying for the position of Loveland mayor Cecil Gutierrez, seeking his third term, and challengers Alexi Grewal and Daryle Klassen. Also on the ticket for Loveland City Council were Irene Fortune and Troy Krenning, Ward 1; Carol Dowding and Joan Shaffer, Ward 2; Hugh McKean, Ward 3; and Dave Clark and David Hallet, Ward 4.

Sharon Olson, president of the Thompson School District Board of Education, announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer and planned to resign the board at the end of her term.

A 2-year-old black lab, named Rev, who lived in Windsor with his owner, Wes Reiff, became a YouTube sensation with a video of him howling along with Adeles Make You Feel My Love. The dog appeared to be singing in unison with the tunes rhythms and pitches. Reiff said he did not train the pup to sing, but that the dog began singing along with it after Reiff started singing the song, which was sentimental to him, to his canine friend. Reiff made a video of the dog to share with friends, one of whom posted it online, where it generated nearly 3.7 million hits.

The USA Pro Challenge cycling race sped through downtown Loveland as one stage of the race, billed as the Tour de France of the United States, went through Larimer County. The 117-mile sixth stage of a seven-stage race started at The Ranch, then headed through Windsor, looped to downtown Loveland, up the Big Thompson Canyon, into Estes Park and then to Fort Collins. Spectators lined up to watch.

A total of 35 Larimer County residents, including 14 Lovelanders, had confirmed cases of West Nile virus, a number that county health officials said they expected to climb in August. Of the total, eight cases were the most serious neuroinvasive form.

Former Loveland City Council member Willard Clark, 82, died, leaving a legacy through a decades-long career in the construction business as well as his tenure on the council. Clark moved to Loveland in 1963 and built the company, Clark Construction, gaining a reputation for hard work, honesty and integrity. His projects included local schools and an addition onto the Loveland Museum. Clark was named the first chairman for the Loveland Building Advisory Board in the 1970s and served on City Council from 1980-1984. His son, Dave Clark, who was serving on City Council at the time of his dads death, spoke of how his father was always involved in the community. He was a big reason I got involved, Dave Clark said. I saw him work on it and saw how invested and interested he was in the city.

The Loveland City Council decided to ask voters to approve two separate sales taxes 20 cents on every $100 for a new public safety building and 10 cents on every $100 for a youth athletic complex rather than lumping the two into one ballot question. I spoke to a lot of people who want the items to be separate, said Nita Starr, a council member. People said they would vote no if there was a single question, even though each item was a good idea.

Merix announced that it planned to close its Loveland plant and permanently lay off all 370 employees on Oct. 17. Production handled by the Loveland plant, which was housed on the Hewlett-Packard campus, was to be moved to the companys headquarters in Oregon. Merix had previously bought HPs printed circuit board division.

Teledyne Water Pik announced it would be cutting 25 jobs from its Loveland and Fort Collins workforces to make the business more efficient. The jobs were primarily from accounting, marketing, sales and administration.

The Loveland City Council decided not to reappoint the man who had served for 25 years as Lovelands municipal court judge. The council made the decision after a closed session but was not going to vote on the measure until December; the city announced the vote of no confidence in a press release that alluded to difference of philosophy between the council and the judge.

High school students within the Thompson School District scored higher than the previous year on the ACT test, and also beat the state and national averages in scores. The districts average score was 22.4 compared to 21.5 statewide and 21 nationally.

The Thompson Valley Rotarys team won the annual Corn Shucking Contest by filling 15 bags with 24 clean ears each during the kickoff to the Corn Roast Festival. And Ross Vogt chomped seven ears of corn in four minutes to place first in the corn eating contest later during the festival.

Loveland police blocked the intersection of Fourth Street and Lincoln Avenue for about two hours after a merchant called the Loveland Fire Department to report that someone had abandoned a small suitcase in front of a downtown store. Bomb experts carefully removed the case and remotely opened it. The mysterious, blue, hard-sided case turned out to be empty, leading officials to deem the scare unfounded but to wonder how it turned up downtown.

The Larimer County clerk determined that a citizens group had collected enough valid signatures to place a sales tax on the ballot, asking voters for the money to buy more than 200 acres in east Loveland to be future site of a new Larimer County fairgrounds. The group needed 8,119 valid signatures, and after the verification process, the clerk deemed that 8,128 of the 10,606 collected were valid.

The Loveland City Council decided to set up a committee to study what type of centennial celebration should be held in Loveland in 1976 during the nations bicentennial birthday. Officials noted that the nations 200th birthday also marked the centennial of the state and 99 years of Loveland. Planners were looking to wrap all three into a single celebration.

District Attorney Stu VanMeveren was investigating a report of a kidnapping at U.S. 34 and Interstate 25. A 20-year-old man reported to the Larimer County Sheriffs Office that he and an 18-year-old woman were walking when a car stopped to give them a ride. He said they both ran to the car, but she reached it first, and once she was in the car, the driver locked the door and drove away, leaving the man along the side of the road.

Deputies patrolling around Loveland were doing their job with the help of the Sheriffs Offices first ever trained patrol dogs. The agency had three dogs on patrol with one on duty each shift, trained in searching for suspects as well as to capture and hold suspects. The dogs were privately owned by three deputies and handled at no cost to the county. The dogs were a Doberman pinscher named Punks and two German shepherds named Mike and Brute.

A Loveland pilot lost power as his single-engine craft was approaching the Loveland airport and landed on a county road. The wing sheared electrical wiring and rammed into a utility pole, knocking out electrical service in a 25-mile area between Windsor and Greeley.

The Thompson School District determined that two of the three students involved in a May bomb hoax at Berthoud High School would be placed on home bound status for nine weeks, while the third was allowed on school grounds only during the school day during that same time. The decision came after a the parents requested a hearing, which was held before the school board in closed session. They argued that the six-month probation their students received from the juvenile court was enough punishment, but the junior high school principal thought more additional school action was required. Home bound meant that the students would be restricted to their homes for educational purposes with a visiting teacher offering instruction to each for one hour each day.

About 4,500 people attended the Fourth Annual Loveland Jaycee Air Show, which officials deemed a great success. Spectators watched air shows that featured flying routines and aerobatics, and about 67 different aircraft arrived for a Fly-In Breakfast at the airport.

The U.S. Forest Service was dropping its user fees for 33 campgrounds in the Roosevelt National Forest and 51 campgrounds in the Arapahoe National Forest after a law signed by President Richard Nixon outlined what facilities had to be present in order for the national agency to charge a fee. Forest Service officials said the change would mean a considerable drop in revenue, up to $1,800 weekly for the Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forests, money that would have been used for maintenance. Local officials said they would hope to have a substantial increase in federal support to offset the difference.

Former Loveland Police Officer Ron Metz and business partner Manard Criswell were thriving with a new business offering a unique service security patrol for both residents and businesses. The security team would check windows and doors as part of a nighttime patrol, and the business also offered the service of watching for shoplifters during business hours.

Now Comes the Great Corn Roasting read the headline on a story in the Aug. 20, 1903, Loveland Reporter about the sixth annual free corn roast in Loveland, which said arrangements have been made to turn out the largest and best affair of the kind ever produced here. Special rates were being run on the Colorado and Southern trains. No better opportunity has ever been given for seeing Loveland than this gala day will present and it is understood that excursion tickets will be good for use on the day following the performance. Every visitor is to receive a souvenir badge of the day and it is to be hoped that both business houses and residences will be decorated. Any color will do altho yellow will be the badge color the yellow signifying the corn crop.

The first annual encampment of the soldiers and sailors of Northern Colorado will be held on the Big Thompson River twelve miles west of Loveland (on the new Estes Park road) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 27, 28, 29, 1903, in the Aug. 20, 1903, Loveland Reporter said. An invitation was issued to all veterans of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.

A box of English Morello cherries, grown on the Buena Vista Fruit Farm west of Loveland, owned by C.E. Rist, were on display in the window of the Loveland Reporter office, the Aug. 20, 1903, newspaper said, adding: The scores who have seen this lot of cherries pronounce them the finest ever grown here.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, Mayor [William] ODwyer and Borough President [John] Cashmore wielded pick and shovel today in ground-breaking ceremonies for the first postwar construction on the $25,000,000 Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway. The ceremonies took place shortly after noon at Amity and Hicks Sts., launching construction on Contract 1 for the first section of the long-proposed cross-Brooklyn traffic artery. No homes are to be affected by construction of the first section, Mr. Cashmore pointed out. All structures were removed in 1941 when Hicks St. was widened to 160 feet from Hamilton Ave. to Atlantic Ave. A luncheon for the officials who took part in the ceremonies followed at the Hotel Bossert. Eventually the highway will run from the end of Gowanus Parkway at Hamilton Ave. along Hicks St. to Atlantic Ave., then swing toward the waterfront and run along a three-level structure overhanging Furman St. After skirting the Brooklyn Heights area, it will connect with Park Ave., curve through Williamsburg to Meeker Ave., and then, by viaduct, to the Kosciusko Bridge over Newtown Creek to Queens.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Eagle reported, Giant commercial airlines will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on regularly scheduled trans-ocean and cross-country flights within six weeks, it was indicated today as a formula was prepared by city and navy officials for airline use of the airport without hampering the navys expanded reserve pilot training program. Although no definite date was announced when commercial airlines would move into the field, thereby making Brooklyn a major air terminus, Mayor ODwyer, it was believed, was planning to make the transition about Oct. 1. After an hour-long conference yesterday in the airports administration building, the Mayor told reporters that the city was working toward the earliest possible date for occupancy. The conference, attended by ranking navy and city officials, set up a preliminary procedure whereby the city will have temporary use of a major part of the 1,280-acre airport to relieve the rapidly mounting congestion of commercial air traffic at LaGuardia Field. President Truman has given his blessing to the Mayors plan for acquisition of the field. The need for additional airport facilities in the New York area was emphasized today by major airlines which reported substantial increases in flight schedules. American Airlines, United Air Lines and Pennsylvania Central Air Lines announced record increases in domestic air traffic, and Air France said it would increase its New York-to-Paris service from two to three planes weekly.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1947, the Eagle reported, A plan to set up a municipal lottery expected to yield $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 a year was proposed today to Mayor ODwyer as a means of rehabilitating the citys finances and insuring retention of the 5-cent subway fare. The plan, authored by William Beckerman, Brighton Beach real estate broker, would set up an organization called the United Philanthropic Society of New York City with membership dues of $10 per year, payable quarterly. Each member would receive a certificate giving the right to participate in a drawing to be held every three months for a list of more than 1,000 prizes ranging from $25 to $10,000.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1949, the Eagle reported, WASHINGTON (U.P.) Air Force investigators who turned up two tattered disk-type airplanes in an abandoned Maryland tobacco shed hinted today the discovery may break the flying saucer mystery. They were searching for a missing inventor who built the two craft and reportedly got one of them into the air before disappearing with his wife and child about 10 years ago. It is apparent that both ships would give the appearance of flying disks, said a spokesman for Air Force investigators who have worked on the flying saucer mystery for two years with little or no tangible result. They could well be the prototype of what have been reported as flying saucers, he said. The investigators hoped to find Jonathan E. Caldwell, whose attempt to sell stock to finance production of the disk planes he invented reportedly was blocked at the time by Maryland authorities.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1953, the Eagle reported, WASHINGTON (U.P.) Official confirmation that Russia has exploded an H-bomb today swept the world into a deadly new lap of the atomic arms race and brought Congressional demands for stepped up U.S. defenses. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission announced shortly after midnight that the United States detected an atomic explosion in Russia on Aug. 12. He said subsequent information indicated the Russians had tested an H-bomb. His statement followed by less than two hours a Moscow communique which said that one of the types of the hydrogen bomb was exploded in the Soviet Union a few days ago for experimental purposes. Strauss made it clear that the United States was far ahead of Russia in developing the awesome H-bomb, which may release up to 1,000 times as much destructive force as an atomic bomb.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include former N.Y. Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles, who was born in 1944; journalist Connie Chung, who was born in 1946; Reaper star Ray Wise, who was born in 1947; Fringe star John Noble, who was born in 1948; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), who was born in 1948; Perfectly Good Guitar singer John Hiatt, who was born in 1952; Thirtysomething star Peter Horton, who was born in 1953; weather forecaster Al Roker, who was born in 1954; Pleasantville star Joan Allen, who was born in 1956; Buffy the Vampire Slayer star James Marsters, who was born in 1962; Limp Bizkit founder Fred Durst, who was born in 1970; Arrival star Amy Adams, who was born in 1974; Supernatural star Misha Collins, who was born in 1974; N.Y. Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury, who was born in 1976; wrestling commentator Byron Saxton, who was born in 1981; Hacksaw Ridge star Andrew Garfield, who was born in 1983; and Skyscraper singer Demi Lovato, who was born in 1992.

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Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

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Go back to a previous copy of your note and take advantage of version history in Google Keep.

A Google Keep notes version history will help you see your changes to a note over time. Like the nature of the simple app, Google has kept version history as uncomplicated as possible. Lets see how to find older versions of your Google Keep notes.

It takes just five steps or less to check the version history of a Google Keep note.

If you included any image files in a Google Keep note, it wont be included in the version history. You can only see and recover the text.

Right now, the feature is being rolled out worldwide and only works on the web version of Google Keep. Android and iOS support may arrive later, as Google Keep is always recommended for notetakers on the move.

Google Keeps version history feature is rudimentary at present. You cannot roll back a note to a previous version with a click. You can copy the content from a downloaded older version and paste it into the current note as a workaround. Its a bit of a speed bump to do it from a downloaded HTML file rather than having it part of the note. Also, it doesn't cover images, so if you used a photo in a note, you wouldnt be able to go back to a past version for it.

The feature is a late addition to a notetaking app with such a good track record. But we can assume its because Google Keep is seen as an uncomplicated and instant notetaking tool without frills.

The version history of a Google Keep note isnt only about keeping track of changes. If you use Google Keep for writing down ideas and collaborating with teammates, then looking back at the past versions can help you see how your notes have evolved. Shared notes or lists can be backtracked to an earlier version and checked for accuracy or any change in context. But undoing any mistake or recovering some lost information is often the most important use of version history as you can now go back in time.

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100 years ago in 1923:

Vienna welcomed hundreds back home to Homecoming Day. More than a thousand people were on the village green to witness a program of sports or in attendance at a baseball game which was to wind up the afternoons program.

The Vienna Boosters club had charge of the years Homecoming affair, which had been an annual event for some time among the loyal present and past residents there.

Every store and every house at the center of the village was decorated with flags and bunting. From telephone poles, banners bore Welcome Home! inscriptions.

A parade which was formed at the school house and traversed the village streets to the town square opened the days program, led by the Gilliland band of Warren which was to be one of the feature attractions of the day.

50 years ago in 1973:

Warren attorney George Gentithes was main speaker at the dedication of the citys new Municipal Justice Building on South SE, and took the occasion to laud the city for making progress, yet declared the $2 million structure was only a symbol and reminder of all that still needed to be done.

Gentithes said Warren must get busy in improving its streets and roads, improving services to citizens and in learning how to get along better among ourselves.

Warren has been criticized for a certain conservativeness, a certain slowness. Yet there has been a certain sureness, too, and this building is a symbol of that sureness, Gentithes said.

25 years ago in 1998:

Thirty U.S. Air Force reservists left the Youngstown Air Force Reserve station for a 15-day cargo delivery operation at the air force base in Anchorage, Alaska.

The units took turns throughout the year traveling around the world supporting other bases, helping to evacuate people in emergencies or dropping supplies and food into war torn areas.

10 years ago in 2013:

Weathersfield Township Community Leadership awards were presented to its first group of honorees. The group included four men who contributed to the community through their work and volunteering.

Those honored included assistant fire Chief Ken Boring, William Rummell, Harlan Collier and Frank Wodogaza. Their names were placed on a new marker at the main entrance of the township administration building.

Rummell, Collier and Wodogaza were honored posthumously.

Among their accomplishments: Boring has served 48 years with the fire department as captain and assistant chief; Rummell was a math teacher, baseball and basketball coach, principal and superintendent in the Mineral Ridge School District; Collier was a member and chief of the fire department and zoning board member, and a U.S. Air Force veteran; and Wodogaza was a local businessman, precinct committeeman and veteran of the Army.

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The world of Avatar: The Last Airbender is incredibly rich and detailed, with entire histories of nations being written, even if they never factor directly into the plot. It's one of the most interesting things about the series, as the world feels so real and lived-in, while still maintaining a certain fantastical element to it. A lot of the cultures of this fictional world draw inspiration from real-life Asian and Indigenous cultures, which only adds to that feeling of realness. While a lot of the lore is set up in ATLA, it's expanded upon even further in The Legend of Korra, which even delves into parts of the history such as the story of the first Avatar.

The four nations are also really important to the overall plot of the show, as the way the world is divided plays into the story a lot. One of the areas that is important to the characters in both ATLA and Korra - mainly because some of the most important characters from each series hail from this place - is the Water Tribe. There are technically two Water Tribes - the Northern and the Southern, who come from the same culture, though they developed certain differences over the years. The traditions of the Water Tribe were inspired by various Indigenous and Inuit cultures. While this nation is important to characters like Katara, Sokka, and Korra, its history is only briefly touched on in the actual show itself. How did the Water Tribe come to be, and what differentiates the Northern sect of the tribe from the Southern?

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During the time period prior to the existence of the first Avatar, the early peoples that would later make up the Water Tribe were gifted the element of water by the lion turtles, who granted them this power through energybending. These people came together as the Water Tribe after the lion turtles stepped back from being the protectors of humans, and these early Water Tribe members left the lion turtle cities and settled at the North Pole of the world. Many of the ways of life and traditions that these early settlers started became important parts of the Water Tribe culture, such as a dependence on water for sustenance, or how dome-like structures were a mainstay of their architecture. Of course, there were also some differences. There were a lot of things about early Water Tribe culture that were actually reminiscent of Fire Nation culture.

There were several independent tribes in the North at first, until they were united by a group of waterbenders who built the capital Agna Qel'a. However, this unity didn't last long, as there was a period of civil unrest within the tribe. There was a group that separated from the original tribe and moved to the South Pole to start a new sect of the tribe as they didn't agree with some of the views and cultural practices that had become normal in the North. Because of these disagreements, the two Water Tribes became distant (not just physically) and were culturally and politically divided for years.

The Northern Water Tribe thrived specifically because of its isolation, as it was not subject to the invasions that the Southern Tribe experienced, and it actually grew into a huge economic and political power after the Hundred Year War. The Northern Tribe tended to be more spiritual and conservative in their traditions than the South. For example, the Northern Water Tribe did not allow women to learn waterbending for fighting purposes and only trained them as healers. Parents also often arranged marriages for their children. There were a number of women who left the Northern Tribe to go to the Southern in order to escape these strict rules, but a lot of the rules were questioned and became more lax after the Hundred Year War. The Northern Water Tribe is led by a chief who can be male or female, and at the end of The Legend of Korra was ruled over by twins Desna and Eska, who took over for their father Unalaq after his fall from grace.

The Southern Water Tribe is actually a federation of a bunch of smaller tribes, ruled over by a Council of Elders who are also responsible for electing a chief for the tribe. The South experienced an unfortunate string of intense Fire Nation raids that decimated the tribe and resulted in most of their waterbenders being taken prisoner. The tribe was on the edge of extinction when Sokka and Katara came across Aang at the very beginning of The Last Airbender, and this discovery is what saved their nation in the end. After the Southern Tribe assisted in the Siege of the North, Master Pakku sent aid down to them to both help their redevelopment and also foster a more positive relationship between the tribes.

The Southern Tribe, though it was not entirely free of sexism, did not have the same gender equality issues that the North had, as women were allowed to be benders apart from just healing, and no one was forced into arranged marriages. The Southern Tribe was more progressive than the North, but they were still technically a confederation under the Northern Tribe's jurisdiction, at least until the Water Tribe Civil War that occurred during The Legend of Korra which led to the South's independence. After this Civil War, the Southern Tribe grew bigger and more powerful than ever, and has been in a state of prosperity since then under Chief Tonraq.

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This is the incredible story of Walter Samuel "Edy" Tavares da Veiga's journey from the small island of Maio to the dazzling heights of the NBA and beyond.

And this is how it all began.

In March 2009, a German man named Joaquin walked into the offices of CB Gran Canaria (a professional basketball team competing in Spain's Liga ACB) to meet with of Ral Rodriguez, the director of the team's youth program at the time.

Joaquin, who had been invited to the offices by a friend and colleague of Rodriguez, had an interesting proposition for the director: he wanted him to sign a teenager from Cape Verde who had never played basketball.

Normally, such a pitch would have anyone laughed out of the office of any sports professional, but Joaquin knew that the young man he had spotted had enormous potential in the sport, simply due to his sheer size. Rodriguez's curiousity was peaked, but before he would go any further, he needed some proof as to just how tall this kid was.

That was no problem for Joaquin, who ran a business selling cars on the Canary Islands and regularly visited Cape Verde, where he first spotted a towering teenager working in a convenience store. That young man was Edy Tavares, and the shop he worked in after school belonged to his grandmother. At this time, Tavares had never even touched a basketball. But the introduction of Joaquin was about to change his life forever.

Growing up in Maio, one of the smallest islands in Cape Verde, Tavares, like most kids his age, was only interested in football. But after Joaquin explained how basketball could provide a path to helping his family's standard of life, Tavares was keen to learn more.

First thing was first, though: Joaquin needed to take a picture of Tavares (who was then 2.16m (7 ft 1 in) tall) and send it to Rodriguez to prove just how tall the youngster was.

Suffice to say, the photo did the trick, as not long after it arrived on Rodriguez's desk Tavarez was meeting with the director, Alejo Melero, then-secretary of Gran Canarias youth program, and Carlos Frade, then an assistant coach for Gran Canaria's senior team in Praia, Cape Verde's capital city, on the island of Santiago.

Despite not owning a pair of basketball shoes - an issue that was only partly remedied after the Cabo Verde Basketball Federation got involved to secure a pair of size 13.5 sneakers, well under Tavares' size 17 feet the team of men who had come to evaluate Tavares quickly noticed that the teenager couldn't shoot the ball at all, but was humble, smart, and had exceptional hands that could easily snag the ball from the air.

And that was enough for Rodriguez to take a chance on him.

At 17 years old, Tavares moved to the Canary Islands, where he tried to adjust to Spanish life and culture without the support of his family. In addition to learning the basics of basketball, Tavares - who speaks both Cape Verdean Creole and Portuguese - started learning Spanish and English.

His hard work began to pay off, and by 2012, Tavares had worked his way up from Gran Canaria's youth B team to the senior squad that competes in Spain's Liga ACB arguably the second-best basketball league in the world after the NBA.

Progressing to the senior team meant that Tavares was exposed to tougher competition, but also the tutelage of coach Ato Garca Reneses, who mentored NBA stars Ricky Rubio and Pau Gasol before their moves to the USA. By the end of the 2013-14 season, Tavares, who had finished sixth in the league in rebounds (6.8 per game), was generating looks from NBA scouts for the upcoming 2014 NBA Draft. On 26 June 2014, Tavares was selected with the 43rd overall pick by the Atlanta Hawks, becoming the first Cape Verdean-born player to be drafted in the NBA.

Walter Tavares #22 of the Atlanta Hawks poses for a portrait during the 2015 NBA rookie photo shoot.

Over the course of the next nine years, Tavares, despite only playing one game for the Hawks, has built an impressive resume of accolades while positioning himself as one of the best defensive players in European basketball:

Amidst his defensive rampage of Europe, Tavares has also found the time to help Cape Verde make history.

Prior to the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers, Tavares had only donned the national jersey on a couple of occasions, including a memorable outing against Angola during AfroBasket 2021 when he recorded 20 points, 18 rebounds and 6 blocks in a shocking overtime victory over Angola. In the last minute of the game, Tavares shattered the backboard with a game-tying dunk, causing a delay to the game.

Cape Verde would finish fourth at the tournament, but the real prize came in February 2023, when Tavares helped the team qualify for its first-ever World Cup.

Considering the year Tavares has had, it should come as no shock that the big man is receiving renewed interest for a return to the NBA, with the Portland Trail Blazers reportedly presenting a multi-year offer to the center. However, Tavares has a massive buyout clause in his contract with Real Madrid, which he signed in 2019.

But before Tavares' club future can be resolved, there's the little matter of the World Cup. Cape Verde have been drawn in Group F along with Slovenia, Georgia and Venezuela, and have an outside shot of progressing to the knockout round.

Now we want to have fun at the World Cup. A reward for the country, Tavares told Revelo. The World Cup is a fitting reward for Tavares, too: 14 years after he first held a basketball,Tavares will now lead his nation on one of international basketball's biggest stages. And yes, this time the shoes will definitely fit.

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No team is immune from making trades that turn out to be stinkers and the Baltimore Orioles are no exception. In fairness, the Orioles have also been responsible from some of the best trades in league history. The trade that brought Frank Robinson to the Orioles back in 1965 still brings smiles to the faces of Orioles fans even today.

However, to gain infamy, a trade has to do more than just not work out. Lots of deals fizzle out and fans can barely remember that they even happened. There are some deals, though, that are seared into a franchise's memory as turning out so gross that even mentioning them will get a grimace from the Orioles' faithful. Those are the deals that will be talked about here.

This is purely going to be a look at the results of trades here. Hindsight is a funny thing and some of these moves had real justification back when they were made. Unfortunately, history doesn't remember a lot of that and definitely remembers when future All-Stars and Hall of Famers get shipped out of town for returns that don't move the needle. Is that entirely fair? No, but that doesn't make it any less true.

Let's take a look at 10 of the worst trades in Baltimore Orioles history.

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The once-Russian, now-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid got together to look back over the art they created as a team, the places they lived and the times they lived through. The occasion for this was a retrospective of their work held at the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University in the U.S. The show followed their path from their earliest work together in the 1970s until they stopped collaborating in 2003, along with works they each created later.

It was a wild ride. Over the years the two artists created paintings in every conceivable style and genre. They worked in photography and performance art. They created installations, sculptures, an opera, music and poetry. They made letter-writing an art form. And they collaborated with other artists as well as with creatures, great and small.

Komar and Melamid began to work together in Moscow after graduation from the Stroganov School of Art and Design in 1967. In 1972 they created Sots Art, a kind of mash-up of Soviet Socialist Realism and Western Pop Art. These were meticulously painted canvases with inappropriate images their portraits in profile, like Lenin and Stalin or familiar appeals (Our Goal is Communism) made ridiculous by the signature of the artists, or an Ideal Slogan a line of squares instead of letters followed by the obligatory exclamation mark.

That was just the beginning. The pair set out to come up with at least four original projects a year. One was a set of Biographies that included the(supposedly) first abstract paintings done by a fictional serf artist named Apelles Ziablov and dozens of sentimental images of a landscape done by the (also fictional) one-eyed artist Nikolai Buchumov, each with a bit of the artists nose in the corner (the bane of a one-eyed artists vision). These were presented deadpan, with biographical information.

They also created a groundbreaking work called Biography of Our Contemporary 197 two-inch tiles, each painted in a different style, each depicting part of life in a line from conception to emigration.

Then came Post Art art of the future including the iconic Factory for the Production of Blue Smoke. They made a series of coded works (an essential skill of Soviet people) that included the story of their lives in a language they invented (and later forgot) and a canvas with colored dots that represented letters in an excerpt from Soviet Constitution. That became particularly famous when border guards thought it was a tablecloth and let it through customs.

They also produced a series of canvases with a few tiny, brightly colored brush marks in the center, which upon closer look appear to be miniscule figures representing key moments in Russian history, such as Conference regarding the best and quickest ways to subjugate the Khazan Khanate, April 1552. Fourteen people present.

These works were created in the Soviet Union. It is no surprise that the powers-that-be in Moscow were not amused. Komar and Melamid were arrested in 1974 for an apartment performance, and their Sots Art double portrait was smashed in the so-called Bulldozer Exhibition, when the authorities destroyed an outdoor show of unofficial art.

If the Soviet authorities were displeased, the New York art world was ecstatic. In 1976 the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery in New York held a show of their works that had been smuggled out of the country by various means. The two artists were not given visas to attend. That was the pretext for another Komar and Melamid project, Trans State, the creation of a kind of sovereign nation-in-limbo complete with insignia and passports. They were finally granted permission to emigrate to Israel in 1977, and by 1978 they were working together in New York.

In the U.S. they bought and sold souls, including the soul of Andy Warhol, under the slogan No one else in the world pays cash for nothing. They joined together American advertising and Soviet propaganda posters in a series called Glories. And in 1982 they began the series Nostalgic Soviet Realism, what they called the dark paintings that seem to cast a spell on viewers. The works are very large, beautifully painted versions of socialist-realist canvases that look almost just for half a moment like works that could have been painted 60 years ago. But as you turn away you suddenly feel as if youve done something terribly shameful.

Komar and Melamid left their black magic behind and began to work in what they called Anarchistic Synthesism, something of an expansion of their work on "Biography of Our Contemporary," only now they used large blocks of various styles and genres. From there collaborations with animals, including a chimpanzee who took photographs on Red Square and elephants in Thailand who painted with various appendages. Their last collaboration was the series Peoples Choice: paintings created to represent the peoples preferences of what they like best in works of art.

And that list is not all the projects that they did or that were represented at their retrospective at the Zimmerli Art Museum. The show was curated by Julia Tulovsky, who had an eye for their best work and a magical gift of keeping the show from being overwhelming. She told The Moscow Times that she had long wanted to do a retrospective of their works, and then when the war broke out, the relevance of their art to today's world became of course much more apparent. I had to considerably rethink the concept of the show and the name. It first was called "You are feeling good!" and now it is "A Lesson in History."

Around the walls of the rooms are quotes from some of the early art critics writing in the US, most of whom seemed to see mostly satire in Komar and Melamids works. The humor and satirical elements of their art, Tulovsky said, made some critics find them superficial. But that is a misunderstanding. They introduced a new and very influential method that is widely used today, she said. They call it conceptual eclectics, which allows the inclusion of contradictory life phenomena in the same work, helping the viewer to have a new, often tongue-in-cheek perspective on politics, art and other topics. They made a very important contribution to the development of contemporary arts.

MT talked with Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid about their art, their history and the history of art. The interviews have been edited for length and clarity.

MT: Everyone struggles to describe your work. How should I describe you? What do you prefer?

Vitaly Komar (VK): I dont argue with any perception of our work. I respect the freedom of the viewer to understand it as they wish the problem is really very simple. When a person begins to talk about art when a person speaks or writes or discusses art the way we are now, they fall into the role of translator translator from one language to another. From visual language to verbal language. This is far more difficult than, say, translating verse by the Russian poet Khlebnikov into English its almost impossible because there will always be some subjective, personal understanding. There isnt an objective translation from visual into verbal language.

Alexander Melamid (AM): We have never had, and I still don't have any, let's say style. I don't understand what the style is.

We are part of the huge picture which is called art. And art consists of drawers or shelves. We're open to any interpretation There's no right interpretation. There are just different interpretations And everything is all right. There's no wrong interpretation.

Back in Russia they see us as Russian but actually they see us as Russian everywhere Once when Id been living in New York for a very long time, I met a friend, a native New Yorker, and she said, Oh, you got new shoesThey're so Russian." Come on. I bought them at the corner store, I said. She said, No, no. Only a Russian could buy these shoes." I was really amazed. I walked around and I realized that every second man on the street was wearing shoes exactly like that.

You see, if you see Russianism, you see everything as Russian. What does it mean? Why is it Russian specifically? That's the shelf or whatever, a drawer in which we were placed. And there's nothing you can do about that.

MT: Could you talk a bit about how you started out in Moscow. You were part of the underground scene, werent you?

AM: Generally speaking, yes, but not really. Nobody took us seriously. Nobody. We made our art and then we started to knock on the doors of famous underground artists just out of the blue saying, "Here we are. People accepted us, but already established figures like Ilya Kabakov or Oscar Rabin thought of us as just funny guys who made a kind of kapustnik like an amateur comedy gag. Thats how they saw us.

The underground art world was as strictly guarded as the official art world, the Union of Artists, and so on. They didn't let just anyone inthey were really very guarded all the privileges, the connections with foreigners, the possibility of sales. It was an alternative world, which was quite well off, quite prosperous, actually.

MT: Looking back, what do you think of your earliest works?

VK: [When starting out] Melamid and I did what are called polyptychs. We combined paintings of various styles depending on our mood. We combined them into something like little streets. In diptychs, triptychs and so on. This was an interesting innovation, I thought.

Picasso changed his style. But he never made diptychs or triptychs from his various styles. He didn't combine cubism and neo-classicism. Or he didnt combine, say, his blue period and rose period with cubism. Never in the form of a triptych or diptych.

I think we were the first to do that in the early 1970s. We created a work in 1973 made up of more than 100 little paintings.

AM: Andy Warhol said that every artist is famous for 15 minutes. I want to say more. Every artist is a genius for 15 minutes. I saw this when I looked more closely at some artists who I really dont like or care about. But sometimes there was something that was really amazingly good.

Thats what is represented by our very early works. Just the beginning, the first 10 years. We were geniuses then the dark paintings were the end of the period. It was, say, from the end of 1972 until 1983.

MT: Could you talk about politics and art and art today?

VK: During war, the muses fall silent. War is not a good time for art.

Its fairly new to have politics in art. One of the first to do it was Goya in the early 19th century. He was the first; he painted Napoleons troops executing Spanish patriots in The Third of May 1808.But the thing is, politics are history for an instant. It is an instant of history today, right now.

[In the arts] things are very different than they were all through history. In the past, there was always one style [per age] the style during the Renaissance, for example and then for the first time in the 20th century, or even the late 19th, there were different styles in fashion at the same time.The peaceful coexistence of many different styles had never happened before in the history of art... Eclecticism became a kind of synthesis. This is a totally new phenomenon, and it has changed the idea of progress in art history.

Today artists think less about experimentation since all the options, all the experiments, have been done, all the possibilities of visual style have been used. You wont amaze someone with abstract art or a performance.

Now the main sensation are the prices at auctions. Art journals write about that. Its the big sensation. This is the commercialization of the art world.

AM: Art is [sometimes thought of as] a sacred thing. When you talk to some people, lets say rather simple people, and they ask you, "What do you do?" I say, "I'm an artist." "Oh, oh, oh!" I cannot explain it, but they know that it's a privileged caste.

But there's now, I think, millions of artists who work around the globe There's a children's art, there's this art, that art. There are millions and millions of people involved. And you try to see more. And when you see more, each one gets smaller. Because there is only so much that we can keep in our mind. The bigger art is, the smaller the artist. And that's inevitable, I suppose. So that's how it is. That's how it works. Of course, it's not fair, but what is fairness?

The exhibition "Komar and Melamid in America" will open at the Zimmerli Art Museum on Sept. 13, 2023, and run until Feb. 4, 2024. You can read more about the exhibitionhere.

A book and catalog of the exhibition "Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History" is available here.

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INDIANAPOLIS It's move-in day for the Butler Bulldogs and this years incoming freshman class is setting major records.

With 600 Hoosiers filling the campus, this incoming class has the most in-state students Butler University has ever seen.

In addition, this year's class is the most diverse freshman class in the universitys history with 22% of students identifying as a person of color.

Jim Danko, President of Butler, says the university has been focusing on increasing the campus' diversity in recent years.

Myron Cornel Stokes Jr. is an incoming freshman from Memphis. He was a recipient of the Dr. John Morton-Finney Diversity Scholarship. He says thats a big part of what drew him to the school.

The scholarship is awarded to students who have invested time and energy into advancing diversity and inclusion in their schools or communities by community service or being involved in extra-curricular activities.

Stokes says the scholarship requires students to log a certain number of hours each week doing community work, such as tutoring or inclusion activities.

I didnt want the scholarship for just the money, but also the things they have me doing with it. I appreciate that and would like to continue, Stokes said.

Danko says this year the campus represents 38 states and over a dozen countries.

Set aside all the talk about diversity on the political side. On the educational side, there is nothing better than to have a tapestry of students that are bringing different backgrounds in, whether its social, economic, culture, color, Danko said.

Stokes says Butlers environment already makes him feel like he fits in.

From the statistics of previous years, there were maybe 157 black students. Now Ive already seen between 50 to 80. Its amazing to see, Stokes said.

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