 Fun Easy English - new american english standard conversation Voice of America VOA learning English for beginners lesson 35 Let's Make Dinner! discourse.
In this lesson Anna and Marsha are planning a dinner party. But Anna comes home from the store with some unusual foods for dinner.
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Flocken är en sjö i Vetlanda kommun i Småland och ingår i . Sjön har en area på  kvadratkilometer och ligger  meter över havet. Sjön avvattnas av vattendraget Pauliströmsån.

Delavrinningsområde
Flocken ingår i det delavrinningsområde (637333-148253) som SMHI kallar för Utloppet av Flocken. Avrinningsområdets medelhöjd är  meter över havet och ytan är  kvadratkilometer. Räknas de 9 delavrinningsområdena uppströms in blir den ackumulerade arean  kvadratkilometer. Pauliströmsån som avvattnar avrinningsområdet har biflödesordning 2, vilket innebär att vattnet flödar genom totalt 2 vattendrag innan det når havet efter  kilometer. Delavrinningsområdet består mestadels av skog (69 procent) och jordbruk (12 procent). Avrinningsområdet har  kvadratkilometer vattenytor vilket ger det en sjöprocent på  procent.

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The USA's Missile Defense Advanced Technology Innovation (ATI) Program
Mar 02, 2010 10:33 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff
In February 2009, the USA's Missile Defense Agency instituted the Missile Defense Advanced Technology Innovation (ATI) Program to:
"…identify and develop innovative concepts, stimulate technology innovation, and exploit breakthroughs in science to offer robust technology improvements to all elements of the [missile defense system]… The MDA contracts with private industry, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations for research in those areas covered in this BAA… MDA does not have a specified amount of funding available for BAA awards, however, if MDA decides to pursue a concept the appropriate level of funding will be identified, and a final proposal will be requested by a MDA Contracting Officer in writing."
That was pretty vague and non-committal, but it did lay out key research areas, and invite ideas. A February 2010 update to the solicitation has added some clarification around the involvement of "foreign persons."
ATI's Research Areas
ATI has 8 key research topic areas, covering all phases of missile defense. Except for one specific area around international cooperation, however, they're looking for engineering/ R&D, not basic research:
# Radar Systems. Include but are not limited to Integrated System Concepts, Cross Sections and Signatures, Measurements (waveforms, data extraction), Transmit/Receive modules, Signal Processing, Data Visualization, Data Compression, Image Interpretation, and Passive RF Systems
# Lasers and Electro-Optical Systems. Include but are not limited to High Energy Lasers, Light Weight/Scalable Fiber, Solid State, Gas and Liquid Phase Lasers, Improved Diode Laser Arrays, Chemical Laser Improvements, High Energy Laser Power Supplies and Thermal Control Systems, Optical Beam Control and Stabilization Technologies, Large Light-weight, Space Qualifiable Optical Telescopes, Optical Beam Combining and Phased Array Concepts, Fast Beam Steering Concepts, Laser Target Acquisition, Pointing and Tracking Concepts, Light-weight LADAR Transmit/receive Subsystems including Light-weight, Efficient Laser Transmitters, Integrated LADAR Optical Systems, High Bandwidth Photon Counting Receiver Arrays and novel LADAR Signal Processing Concepts/algorithms.
# Integrated Active/Passive IR Sensor Systems. Include but are not limited to LADAR Transmit/Receive Systems, Optical Signal Processing, All Digital Signal Processing. Passive EO/IR Systems including ideas and concepts for IR materials and Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) having the following desired features: large format size, multicolor capability, manufacturability, and affordable having the capability to extend VLWIR detection at temperatures higher than 35K, Read-Out electronics. In addition, Lightweight EO/IR kill vehicle sensors and seekers with high frame rate capability, Fast Readout Large Format FPAs for Hyper spectral imaging, Non-E/O sensors for post impact warhead typing (in-situ or standoff); Hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testing of Multi-/Hyper-Spectral Sensors, HWIL testing of LADAR systems in a Thermally Controlled Vacuum Environment, test of ground, air, space, sea-based sensor system operations (all wavelengths considered).
# Computer Science, Signal and Data Processing. Include but are not limited to Digital Electronics and Signal Processing, Novel signal and guidance processing architectures for high frame rate seekers, Machine Implementation of Algorithms, Analog Circuits and Communications, Computer Vision, Distributed Computing, Decision Systems, Estimation, Prediction, Homing navigation, Data Fusion, Pattern Recognition, Identification, Discrimination, and Sensor Fusion.
# Physics, Chemistry, and Materials. Associated with missile Detection, Tracking, and Discrimination, Infrared and Optical Signatures, Energy Conversion, Rocket Plume Analysis, Spectral Imaging for Threat/Decoy Discrimination, and integration of conventional silicon technology with new nanostructures (i.e., carbon nano materials) for next generation interceptor sensors.
# Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Include but are not limited to Space Systems, Micro satellites to include: bus and payload designs, Precision Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC); Target Tracking and Prediction; subsystems, and components-such as Precision Propulsion and Constellation Networking, Missile System Aerodynamics, high maneuverability Divert/Axial Propulsion, liquid and solid Divert and Attitude Control Systems (DACS), Reentry Physics, Guidance and Control, Kill vehicle Lethality Enhancement; Materials Science to include Lightweight, Thermo-Resistant Materials for Boosters and Kill Vehicles, Lightweight Structures with Embedded Radiation Shielding, also of interest are the Prediction, Quantification, and Compensation of Aero-Optic effects of turbulence on Imaging Sensors.
# Battle Management/Command and Control. Include but are not limited to Engagement Planning, Sensor and Weapon Resource Management, Tactics, Intelligence Exploitation, Evolving Threats and Countermeasures, Target Tracking; Human in the Loop (MDA Operations) Intelligence Processing and Decision Making in Near Real Time, Information Processing and Computing Technologies, Launch platform-Interceptor communications, Interceptor-Interceptor communications, Interceptor-launch platform communications, Aircraft mountable High Bandwidth Communications (T1 minimum; T3 or greater preferred) for line of sight and over the horizon (OTH) data transfer; Lethality Assessment Technologies, non-real-time, non-tactical (not kill assessment) test applications; Discrimination and Fire Control; and distributed real-time simulations using reconfigurable objects (all digital, hardware-in-loop or live).
# International BMDS Cooperation. Proposals for this area must contain direct work relating to a foreign company or university that is either a partner or major subcontract under the proposal. This is the only area that we MDA entertain accepting basic research proposals.
BMEWS radar, Thule
Feb 17/10: The Missile Defense Agency revises solicitation #HQ0147-09-ATI-BAA. One of the key changes involves clarification around "foreign persons," which appears to offer slightly more flexibility while standardizing the process.
Under the previous H-15 clause, it said that "No foreign persons will be permitted to work on this contract without prior written approval of the Contracting Officer." The revised clause, now H-27, requires advance notification of "any lawful U.S. permanent residents and foreign nationals you expect to be involved on this project as a direct employee, subcontractor or consultant." It also requires certain documentation, and notes that the burden of compliance with ITAR weapons export laws remains on the contractor. See also Duke University Funding Opportunities.
Feb 25/09: The Missile Defense Agency issues solicitation #HQ0147-09-ATI-BAA. It's says up front that the program has no specific budget, while soliciting industry ideas for Advanced Technology Development (ATD) research in ATI's 8 research areas.
Categories: ABM, C4ISR, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, IT - Software & Integration, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, Pre-RFP, Radars, Science - Basic Research, Sensors & Guidance, University-related, USA

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Launching exclusively in Ireland at Harvey Norman, the new KitchenAid Artisan Mini Stand Mixer is for a new generation of passionate bakers challenged with limited space and 'smaller batch' lifestyles.
For the first time since the introduction of the original Tilt-Head Stand Mixer by Egmont Arens in 1936, KitchenAid is launching a mini version of this iconic culinary workhorse. With the smaller and lighter model, those with limited kitchen space will soon find their culinary partner for life.
Offering the same power and performance as its larger role model, the Mini mixer is 20% smaller and 25% lighter with a 3.3 litre bowl. With ten optimized speeds, it's powerful enough for nearly any task or recipe, whether you're stirring wet and dry ingredients together, kneading bread dough or whipping cream.
The Mini will be available in four colours – Honeydew, Matte Black, Matte Grey and Hot Sauce to complement all styles and interiors. Included is the ideal starter set featuring a flat beater, wire whip and dough hook. The mixer also accommodates all optional hub-based attachments available for the larger model, so there are endless possibilities from spiralizing and juicing to making pasta.
Harvey Norman will exclusively debut the KitchenAid Artisan Mini Stand Mixer, €549, in store and online at www.harveynorman.ie from 28th September 2016.


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Electoral College members not bound by popular vote, court says
DENVER (AP) - A U.S. appeals court in Denver said Electoral College members can vote for the presidential candidate of their choice and aren't bound by the popular vote in their states.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Colorado secretary of state violated the Constitution in 2016 when he removed an elector and nullified his vote because the elector refused to cast his ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote.
The ruling applies only to Colorado and five other states in the 10th Circuit: Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.
It could influence future cases nationwide in the unlikely event that enough Electoral College members strayed from their states' popular vote to affect the outcome of a presidential election, constitutional scholars said.
The Electoral College system is established in the Constitution. When voters cast a ballot for president, they are actually choosing members of the Electoral College, called electors, who are pledged to that presidential candidate. The electors then choose the president.
Electors almost always vote for the popular vote winner, and some states have laws requiring them to do so.
But the split decision by a three-judge panel on the Denver appeals court said the Constitution allows electors to cast their votes at their own discretion. "The state does not possess countervailing authority to remove an elector and to cancel his vote in response to the exercise of that Constitutional right," the ruling said.
The elector at the center of the case, Micheal Baca, was part of a group known as "Hamilton electors" who tried to convince electors who were pledged to Clinton or Donald Trump to unite behind a consensus candidate to deny Trump the presidency.
After a flurry of filings in state and federal courts, the electors met on Dec. 19, 2016, and Baca crossed out Clinton's name on his ballot and wrote in John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio who also ran for president.
Then-Secretary of State Wayne Williams refused to count the vote and removed Baca as an elector. He replaced him with another elector who voted for Clinton.
Colorado's current secretary of state, Jena Griswold, decried the ruling Tuesday in Colorado but did not immediately say if she would appeal.
"This court decision takes power from Colorado voters and sets a dangerous precedent," she said. "Our nation stands on the principle of one person, one vote."
Baca's attorneys said the U.S. Supreme Court will likely hear the case because it conflicts with a decision from Washington state's Supreme Court. That court said in May that electors could be fined for not casting ballots for the popular vote winner.
Constitutional scholars were skeptical, saying a conflicting opinion from a state court system has less influence on the Supreme Court than one from another federal appeals court. No other federal appeals court is believed to have ruled in a similar case.
"The court just might think this isn't something that demands our attention right now," said Michael Morley, a professor at the Florida State University College of Law.
The court ruling in Denver could be important if a future Electoral College is so closely divided that a handful of "faithless electors" change the outcome by casting a ballot contrary to the popular vote, said Ned Foley, a professor at Ohio State University's law school.
"This opinion would be taken very seriously," he said. "It would be considered judicial precedent."
But that kind of split in the Electoral College is unlikely, said Morley.
"So many individually unlikely events would have to fall in place for that," he said.
Hundreds of electors have cast votes in the history of the nation, "and only a handful have been cast by faithless electors," Morley said.


I met Hilary through the family I nanny for. I first noticed her curly hair and lovely accent. And when she invited me over for afternoon tea (with real china and cookies) telling me how much she loves writing letters; I knew we were kindred spirits! I'm thrilled to introduce to you Hilary. 1. How has Motherhood changed you as a woman?
You know I think it has. It probably has brought out particular aspects of me that I hadn't really explored before. It has given me a much greater – and a deeper appreciation – of life itself. Of its small beginnings, of its quiet growth, of the loving conditions which are necessary for it to flourish. As a woman, you get very close to this process in your own child. It's a very intimate connection, between you and someone else's growth. Of course, it brings with it a fearsome sense of responsibility, but there's also a sense of lightness, of joy in it all. You 'get' that sometimes, when you are not too tired or overwhelmed by the practical demands. 2. What is your full time occupation?
No occupation is entirely full time, happily for any of us. I do a lot of parenting and home-making – so in a sense that's full time. But I also do much free-lancing: teaching history, writing, reviewing music and dance. A potpourri of occupations, you might say.
My parents raised a family of three children. I fall in between 2 brothers. My husband also has two brothers. We ourselves have had three children to date. Margaret, our eldest, passed away at 2 days, around Christmas 2012. Cecily came next and is now almost two. Edmund arrived a few weeks ago.
You know, when you took the photos ( we had never got photos taken before as a family), I was thinking about the absence of our eldest daughter and felt sad that she wasn't there under those blooming linden trees. But you know, something quite lovely happened during the shoot, which only dawned on me after. Cecily got rather fussy during it, so I gave her my pearls to keep her happy, and you zoomed in on that, although you couldn't have known what that meant to us. Perhaps it was sheer intuition. I like to think so. You see, the name Margaret actually means pearl. So in a sense, she was there too. That's a gift you gave us by photographing the family. One day, your photos will help me to explain gently to the others about their eldest sister. 4. What is one family tradition you have raised your family with?
Many of the traditions come from the family we were raised in. Funny how one finds oneself doing the same things, more or less. That said, my mother had a dreadful fear of thunder storms so she would make us all take shelter under the dining-room table. Ha! I thought when I was young that that is what normal people did. There's one tradition I won't be carrying on. I love going out in thunder storms and getting properly soaked.
My husband and I are still in the process of talking about traditions – they will very much evolve over the years as our family grows. There are traditions of faith that we bring them up in – and that will involve feasts like Christmas and Easter. My husband likes the idea of associating particular music with big feasts – e.g. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Handel's Messiah and so forth.
Pretty keen on poetry, drama, story-telling and writing – so no doubt, we'll be hectoring them into all that, when they are at all articulate. Does that sound over-earnest? Golly. It does a bit. Determined that they will be letter-writers with their little friends who live in various countries across the world. Imagine the richness of experience that comes with being able to correspond with a child of your own age in Sweden, say, or Mexico? I suspect we will all write letters together. What fun!
A humble tote bag! If I had one of those humungous 'Mom bags', which seem to contain everything but the kitchen sink, I don't think I'd manage to get out of the house at all! Stuff is the enemy of spontaneity. A small tote bag, however, with the few essentials, does beautifully.
I like to live a bit on the hoof and that hasn't changed with parenting. And if you don't have something, it makes for an adventure. Young Cecily ended up in her father's undershirt in the airport at Baltimore after a rather difficult flight cross-country. A bit crummy I know, but there it was. Well, it was her 23rd flight, and she wasn't quite 1.
I'd rather be spontaneous and integrate children into normal life than have a perfectly planned life, and be perfectly boring. In short, life is more exciting, I find, without too many 'must-haves'. 6. What is something you are talented with or passionate about?
With my innate Irish inhibitions, I'd be embarrassed to talk about talents. Have a great love of good conversation, though. With all our gadgets and virtual realities, I hope it's not one of those dying arts. It's one of the great pleasures of life. We also delight in having house guests to stay with us, and are always persuading friends to come from here, there and everywhere. There again, one of the great pleasures. We keep a guest book religiously, and the only rule of visiting is to leave a message behind.
As regards parenting, I'm pretty keen on creating an environment where children experience beauty, creation and creativity – beauty in nature, in music, in art, in books, in people. Simple things like a walk in the rain or writing with an ink pen, or well, any number of things. 7. Any advice for new Mothers?
Sustainability. Nobody has written a book on sustainable parenting to the best of my knowledge! Keep things simple and balanced. Humanity has been bringing up children for millennia, and we are, on the whole, quite decent at it. No need to buy too much or get too faddish. Have several matriarchs in your life. Borrow ideas from different eras and cultures – it's enriching and liberating.
Also, if possible, you will have married a pediatrician. They come in useful, as I've found. No trips to the emergency room, as panicky first-time parents… 8. Where do you call home?
Wherever my family is. Because I have family ties in Ireland, America and Australia, I feel I have a 'presence' of home in all of those places. A bit of a logistic challenge – it's hard to feel dear ones are so far away. 9. What is a favorite past-time you do with your child/children?
Showing them the beauty of order in the home and in the world, helping them ground themselves in a peaceful sense of ritual. Sharing with them the name for things – flowers, trees, all sorts of things, as their curiosity develops. Listening with them to music. Letting them do things in the kitchen, baking and washing and chopping food and so forth. 10. What has motherhood taught you?
The importance of allowing a child to grow, waiting for it to happen. I'm a teacher by training so all that side of it comes naturally to me. I can give orders and lessons – I know the drill. But patiently waiting, letting someone blossom in their own way, at their own pace, that's been a very different kind of thing – a novel experience, and quite a humbling one for me, who is a natural more prone to taking action and being directive. There's a time to grow, as the bible says: we often just have to create the right environment, stand back and let it happen. 11. Do you have a favorite quote about motherhood?
It's a poem. And it's not about motherhood as such, but it is about nurture and the ardors it involves, and as such, it speaks to me. It's Seamus Heaney's St Kevin and the Blackbird. And it speaks of just what I've been talking about – that decision to allow something to grow, that imperative to care, despite the costs. The legend told about this Irish saint is that he put his hand out of his cell and a bird laid her eggs there and settled to nest. And such was his respect for growing life, that he kept his hand extended till the eggs had hatched, till the chicks could fly away. It's a very profound poem about love, I think. There's a link with what we do every day as parents.


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High principles have only to be accompanied by patience, consideration, a sense of measure and understanding for others.
— Václav Havel.
General Strike
October 28, 2019 November 29, 2011 by nuevoadministrador
Title: General Strike
Medium: Participative Mural painting
Materials: Demystified church, water painting, paintbrushes, scaffolding, audience participation, images used in political propaganda, projector, news on the General Strike, brick in a showcase, spray on canvas.
Dimensions: 82'4″x 49'7″x65′
The piece fell within the circumstances created by the call to General Strike in Spain on September 29, 2010. This was the moment in which the piece was being physically produced in the exhibition space. It began with indications to paint on the walls images of the revolutionary iconographic tradition of several leftist political cultures. The purpose is to create a space inviting the participation of the audience by inciting it to paint and create its propaganda proposals on predetermined images. The intention is to generate new images having to do with the topic of the political expression.
The artist makes two traditions of political production coincide: participation art and mural tradition as a way to social unrest. The mural's weave and the series of phases the artist expects to introduce in the painting try to absorb a temporary circumstance: the call to general strike with which, on September 2010, trade unions, citizens and activists intend to question the economic and public financial policies with which the Spanish government wanted to control the variations in the capitalist crisis. On the basis of the implementation of this mural, an attempt at inciting reflection on the political effectiveness of images in the creation of a community and in citizen participation in political processes is made. The purpose is to present a frustrated utopia in which representational art reflects a process as changing as politics and as volatile as public opinion on something as unchangeable as a visual image painted in a mural.
La Huelga General. CANNIBAL DOMINOES / PAC MURCIA 2010. Sala Verónicas. Murcia, Spain. Curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina. (book)September 29 – October 31
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Sala Verónicas, PAC 2010
Photos: La Lobera and Urroz Proyectos
Medina, Cuauhtémoc. "Tania Bruguera: Devouring the public," (illust.)
__________________. "Tania Bruguera: Devorando lo público." Exhibition's brochure, September, 2010.
__________________. "General Protest." Arte al Dia International. Online published article, September 27, 2010.
"Tania Bruguera describes "Huelga General"[General Strike] as a work "on creating community, on participation, on citizen intervention and on the frustrated utopia that art can represent a process as changing as politics and as volatile as public opinion in a fixed state (an image)." In conflating two traditions of political production generally believed to be incompatible (contemporary participative art and the tradition of protest mural that co-opted the model of renaissance art to produce the most successful idea of "public art" in the 20th century), Bruguera wants to question the widespread social skepticism towards the public relevance of art by shifting the task of its making and activation to the actual public sphere itself. In a space that will be presented in a state of process, Bruguera will proffer an overall vision of a design for murals for Sala Verónicas which will later be executed by professional painters and the general public. This shared task in the execution of the work is transference of the normally external process of the ironic Warholian model of "panting by numbers," contemplating this work implies that the beholder must finish it. The piece will not be fully observable until it is about to be finished, when its significance is perhaps already entering into a process of obsolescence, and on the point of being intervened by another initiative moving in the completely opposite direction. The connotation of the religious space in this historical weave is incorporated in the intervention. As Tania Bruguera says, "in Huelga General the work is being made as it is being represented; the sacred element is the participation of the public and the mystical dimension lies in the political action. Huelga General is otherwise an intervention bringing together the internal rules of art production and the specific circumstances of its execution in the present. Both the layout of the mural, as well as the successive phases which the artist wishes to introduce in the realization of the painting, are conceived to bookend a temporal circumstance: the announcement of a general strike in Spain for the month of September 2010 with which trade unions, citizens and activists will cross-examine the series of economic and public finance policies that the Spanish government is implementing in its bid to control the variables of the capitalist crisis. To what extent is this mural, and its process, capable of inducing a rethinking on the current moment of conflict? Working with a given circumstance, its reflective and practical effect remains in open question…"
Medina, Cuauhtémoc. "Tania Bruguera: Devouring the public," September. Murcia, Spain
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Q: How does Django rename uploaded files? If upload a file image.png from a web browser, a new file named image.png will appear in the upload directory on the server.
If I then upload another file named image.png (same name), a new file named image_aj642zm.png will appear in the upload directory on the server.
Then, if I upload another file named image.png (again the same name), a new file named image_z6z2BaQ.png will appear in the upload directory on the server.
What method does Django use to rename the uploaded file if a file with that name already exists in the upload directory?
(i.e. where does the extra _aj642zm and _z6z2BaQ come from?)
The usual set-up:
In models.py:
from django.db import models

class Image(models.Model):
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to='uploads/')

In forms.py:
from django import forms
from .models import Image

class ImageForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Image
        fields = ['image']

In views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .forms import ImageForm

def upload_image(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ImageForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('index')
        else:
            form = ImageForm()

    return render(request, 'upload_file.html', {'form': form})

A: Django default Storage class method called get_available_name
    # If the filename already exists, add an underscore and a random 7
    # character alphanumeric string (before the file extension, if one
    # exists) to the filename until the generated filename doesn't exist.
    # Truncate original name if required, so the new filename does not
    # exceed the max_length.

Django by default saves object by its name but if object with that name already exists adds up underscore and 7 random chars as quoted in code comment
Also as addition to this Django Storage class method get_valid_name parses up file name before and replaces all spaces with underscores and removes all chars that are not unicode, alpha, dash, underscore or dot
re.sub(r'(?u)[^-\w.]', '', s)

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By John Arguello 04/19/2017
Cubs' High A Myrtle Beach rotation showcases depth of pitching down on the farm
Justin Steele - Chicago Cubs 2016 spring training (Bill Mitchell)
Feature Photo: Justin Steele, LHP, Cubs
The Cubs are largely known for developing hitting prospects. Even after graduating players like 2016 N.L. MVP Kris Bryant (3B/OF) , Kyle Schwarber, (C/OF), catcher Willson Contreras and others, the Cubs' farm system is still stacked with hitters such as Eloy Jimenez (LF, High A Myrtle Beach, Carolina League), Ian Happ (2B, Triple-A Iowa, PCL), and Jeimer Candelario (3B, Triple-A Iowa, PCL).
They're not as well known for their pitching, however. Dylan Cease (RHP, Class A South Bend, Midwest League) has begun to generate some buzz, but many would have a hard time naming a Cubs' pitching prospect beyond that. One place to look is the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, home of the Cubs' High A affiliate in the Carolina League. To open the season, the Pelicans' feature a rotation of four Cubs pitching prospects, including one pitcher of whom some think may be even better than Cease.
There is also an interesting story here that goes deeper than the prospects in the Pelicans' rotation. It speaks to the creativity of the Cubs' scouting department and front office when it comes to finding pitchers. There are no first-round picks or international bonus babies in this group. All four pitchers in this group slipped through the cracks for one reason or another, but scouts saw enough in them to take a chance on them. Now, it looks like these low-risk gambles are beginning to pay off for the Cubs.
Oscar De La Cruz, RHP, Cubs (High A Myrtle Beach, Carolina League)
Ht/Wt: 6'4" / 200 B/T: R/R Age: (As of April 1, 2017): 22 yrs, 2m
De La Cruz is height and weight listings already appear out of date – he's probably closer to six-foot-six and 240 pounds presently. Looking at him now, it's hard to believe he was a shortstop as an amateur in the Dominican Republic. Other than the rather obvious projection that he would outgrow the position, the Cubs quickly converted him to a pitcher because of his arm strength. Because of that, De La Cruz was more of a project at first, and played relatively anonymously to most evaluators until the spring of 2015, when he suddenly showed up two-inches taller, and with a few more ticks on his fastball.
That fastball now reaches as high as 97 mph but De La Cruz pitches most comfortably at 92-to-94 mph, where he has much better movement and command. His ability to play shortstop before signing speaks to his athleticism, and it's an attribute that comes into play as a pitcher as well. De La Cruz has a fluid delivery that seems to require almost no effort at all. He repeats his delivery well, and that has led to good control for much of his young career. It is expected that with more experience, he'll refine his mechanics even further and perhaps pitch with above-average command later in his career.
Oscar De La Cruz, RHP, Cubs. (Photo by John Arguello)
Aside from the fastball, De La Cruz has a curveball that has plus potential as well. It's a hard curve that has good vertical and horizontal break. Just as importantly, he can throw it for strikes. The two pitches work well with his aggressive approach on the mound, as De La Cruz is not afraid to pitch inside and back a hitter off the plate than drop that curveball, which will tail down and away from right-handed hitters.
Where De La Cruz has improved most since last spring is in the development of his changeup. Last year he would tip it off by slowing his arm speed, and also have a tendency leave it up in the zone. That is not a good combination, and predictably, the pitch got hit hard. It did begin to improve late in the spring and it has now reached the point where some in the organization believe it can become an above-average to plus pitch for him.
How good can De La Cruz be? Well, there are scouts who believe it is De La Cruz who is the Cubs' best pitching prospect because of his size, stuff and potential for good command. Some see him as a number three starter with the potential to be a number two if it all comes together.
Thomas Hatch, RHP, Cubs (High A Myrtle Beach, Carolina League)
Hatch lasted until the third round of the 2016 MLB Draft in part because he was a relatively unknown commodity. Less than a year later, it is beginning to look like the Cubs may have gotten quite a steal here. Hatch had sprained his elbow ligament at Oklahoma State University and ended up redshirting, though he did not require Tommy John surgery. Hatch came back a different pitcher. He learned to pitch with a lower arm slot and went with a slider instead of a curveball. It was done in part to ease some of the strain on his elbow but there was an added benefit as well. The low-3/4's arm slot added a lot of movement to his fastball, which now features good run as well as some sink. The downside for Hatch, at the time, was that all of that injury and change might have created too much uncertainty for scouts. Cubs' scouts jumped on the opportunity when Hatch slipped to their pick. He was a pitcher they had targeted on their boards.
The Cubs did not pitch Hatch after the draft because he had compiled 130 1/3 innings in 2016, as Oklahoma State made a big run in the College World Series, relying heavily on Hatch's right arm. Hatch would reappear in the instructional league where he wowed the Cubs with his stuff and command. The fastball topped out at 96 mph and he showed good command and a polished approach on the mound.
Thomas Hatch, RHP, Cubs. (Photo by John Arguello)
Hatch continued to impress this spring. He would pitch at 94-to-96 mph early in games, and then sit in the 92-to-93 mph range in later innings. He also began working in a mid-80s changeup, which looks to be an average pitch for him. It looks like it will be enough to counter lefty bats, while his slider is beginning to look like a serious weapon versus right-handed hitters. He has pitched well in his first three starts for Myrtle Beach, though he did fade a bit late in each outing. After taking some time off last season, Hatch may just need to build up his stamina over the course of the season.
Despite the good stuff, Hatch may not put up the kind of strikeout numbers that Dylan Cease (RHP) or Oscar De La Cruz (RHP) will. His approach is to keep the ball down with his sinking fastball/slider combination and induce weak contact, particularly on the ground. Given the infield defense in Chicago, that is a formula that should fit in well with the big league club down the road.
Adbert Alzolay, RHP, Cubs (High A Myrtle Beach, Carolina League)
Perhaps one of lesser known of the Cubs' top arms, Alzolay has certainly caught the eye of the Cubs' scouting department. He was among the new front office's first international free agent signings – but certainly an unheralded one. When Alzolay turned 16 years old, his first year as an eligible international signing came and went without a contract offer. It wasn't until he turned 17 years old that the Cubs spotted the Venezuelan pitcher with the loose, athletic frame and the live arm.
One reason he may have slipped through the cracks was that at an even 6-feet-tall, his height is rather fringy for a big league right-handed starter. On top of that, he had a rather slight frame that didn't seem to bode well for much physical projection. Additionally, he needed to build stamina and strength. There were times, even as recently as last season, where he'd lose velocity as the game went on. All of those things give you the temptation to just label him a reliever. However, Alzolay seems to have matured physically since last season. He looks to have added some lean muscle that should help him go deeper into games.
Adbert Alzolay, RHP, Cubs. (Photo by John Arguello)
The Cubs are developing Alzolay as a starter, in large part, because he has a full repertoire, good command, and a good feel for pitching, but to just focus on that would sell him short. When you combine that with his less-than-ideal build, it may have you thinking that Alzolay is a soft-tossing finesse pitcher. That is not the case at all. Alzolay will throw his fastball anywhere between 92-to-96 mph and he complements that with a cutter, curveball, and changeup. It's that good stuff that has some scouts excited that he can pitch in a big league rotation. In fact, team president Theo Epstein has mentioned him along with Dylan Cease, Oscar De La Cruz, and Justin Steele as some of their best young impact starters in the minors. That's pretty good company to keep in this organization.
This will be a key season for Alzolay, because he will be eligible for the MLB Rule 5 Draft after the season. He doesn't have the pedigree of a top prospect. You'll rarely, if ever, find him on a list of the Cubs' top prospects, yet he is something of a sleeper in this organization. He'll try to prove he can stick as a starter, but if he doesn't, he can certainly have an impact out of the bullpen, where he may be able to add a tick or two to his fastball.
Justin Steele LHP, Cubs (High A Myrtle Beach, Carolina League)
Ht/Wt: 6'2" / 195 B/T: L/L Age: (As of April 1, 2017): 21 yrs, 10m
Steele dropped to the fifth round in the 2015 draft, in part, because some scouts projected him as a reliever. Like Alzolay, Steele is a good athlete but didn't have the kind of size that screamed durability. There was also the problem that he looked like he was just a one-pitch guy. The Cubs, however, did their research and learned that Steele had what was then an unknown wrist injury, which affected his ability to spin what is usually a good curveball. The prevailing thought among many in the industry was that Steele would go to college to try to raise his draft stock. Because of that, he was considered something of a tough sign. Couple that with his somewhat disappointing 2015 spring season, and you can understand why some teams didn't think he was worth the risk.
The Cubs saw enough in Steele to pay him a well-above-slot signing bonus of $1 million and it immediately looked like a good decision. Steele quickly became one of the Cubs' top prospects – and perhaps their top left-handed starting pitching prospect after the 2015 season. Expectations were high as he looked to make his full season debut in 2016 at Class A South Bend.
But Steele's 2016 season never quite got off the ground. He got off to a slow start, posting an ERA over 9.00 in April and over 6.00 at the All-Star break. The second half was better (4.04 ERA) but the season as a whole fueled some concern and Steele's prospect status took a hit. He dropped off the radar almost as quickly as he had risen through the ranks.
A closer look at Steele's 2016 season revealed what may have been a big part of the problem. Steele had two disastrous starts: a two-inning, eight-earned-run performance in April and then an even worse outing in which he gave up eight runs in just two-thirds of an inning in August. If you take out those two performances, Steele posted a very respectable 3.25 ERA for the season.
Justin Steele, LHP, Cubs. (Photo by John Arguello)
Of course, this isn't Olympic skating and you can't just remove your worst scores, but those two outings may have taught Steele more about himself than the rest of his starts combined. He is competitive on the mound, which often serves him well, but there were times when, instead of pitching his way out of trouble, it seemed as if he would overthrow. It would disrupt his mechanics and that, in turn, would lead to more walks, wild pitches, and poor location. It was something of a snowball effect.
He came in to this spring looking to pitch with a more mature approach, especially with men on base. So far the results have been good. Steele was tested right away in his first start when walks, some soft hits, and shoddy defense got him into some trouble. This time Steele was able to work his way through and it felt like something of a breakthrough for him. He was excellent in his next start, pitching five scoreless innings and allowing just two hits while walking one and striking out six.
When he is at his best, Steele will throw 90-to-94 mph with a good curveball and a solid-average changeup. He's an exceptional athlete who can repeat his delivery well and so there is a chance for him to develop good command over time. Like Adbert Alzolay, he seems to have matured physically as well, and the Cubs will keep him as a starter as long as he continues to pitch well in that role.
The Pelicans' rotation will be interesting to watch this season. It features four good athletes who have enticed with their raw talent, yet their best days are seemingly still ahead of them. The rotation is also a testament to good scouting as none of these pitchers were hyped as amateurs. Still, it wouldn't be surprising to see each of them ending the season among the Cubs's top 25 prospects. The Cubs prospect list may soon be undergoing something of a makeover. Right now it's Eloy Jimenez and Ian Happ getting all the attention, but the Cubs next wave of talent might just come from their stockpile of lower-level pitching prospects.
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In a recent article at Salon, writer Katy Read admitted something that raised some maternal eyebrows: She regrets having left a respectable job and steady paycheck to be an at-home mom to her two sons for ten years.
It's not the quality time with her children she regrets, but the financial toll she's now paying for it.
The swing set moments when I would realize, watching the boys swoop back and forth, that someday these afternoons would seem to have rushed past in nanoseconds, and I would pause, mid-push, to savor the experience while it lasted . . . . Now I lie awake at 3 a.m., terrified that as a result I am permanently financially screwed.
In the more than 200 comments her column generated, we find some defense of the value of at-home parenting along with tirades against a sexist system that forces women to choose between work and family.
What very few people note, however, is that the cause of Read's current financial strain is not really her years of at-home parenting. The cause of her crisis is her divorce.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of two teenagers must be in want of a steady paycheck and employer-sponsored health insurance.
The notion that any parent can stay home full time with children is based upon the assumption that there are, and will continue to be, two supportive parents in the household, at least one of them earning a paycheck. Whether the mother works outside the home or not, having a traditional marriage at its foundation is every family's best bet for happiness and prosperity.
Read's story reminds me of Gaby Hinsliff, a different writer-mom who earned her own set of hundreds of comments a little over a year ago when she announced a surprising decision to leave her high-profile job as political editor at the Observer in order to stay home full time with her young son.
Read and Hinsliff might have come to opposing conclusions, but they each give voice to the same universal truth. The mothers of previous generations, many of whom abandoned home life in favor of careers, had a secret they kept from us: "Having it all" comes with a price. And it's a price that some of us won't be happy to pay.
The media's notion of the "Mommy Wars," where briefcase-wielding career women face off against stroller-pushing homemakers, is largely a fabricated stereotype. Some mothers work because they want to. Some mothers work because they have to. Especially in tough economic times, though, intact families will find all kinds of creative and cooperative ways to get the bills paid without sacrificing their children's needs for hands-on parenting.
Are we working moms? Are we at-home moms? Or are we an unlabeled something in between?
I suppose that I am a working mom. Those words look odd to me on the page and feel foreign on my tongue, but they are true. I never in my lifetime planned to be a "working mom," and yet here I am . . . with a husband, eight kids, and a job that provides income my family depends upon.
I happen to be one of the lucky ones. I have a supportive husband, I enjoy what I do, and I am able to work almost exclusively from home. But still my work costs me something. It costs my family something, too.
Dinner might be more homemade, the refrigerator might be clean, and the laundry might be caught up this afternoon if I didn't have phone calls to make and a deadline to meet. At the end of most days, I do come up short on time somewhere — for sleep, for exercise, for answering emails. I make family my first priority, and I aim to make sure it's never my kids or my husband who get the short end of that stick, but I would be lying if I said they never did.
Pretending that being a working mother doesn't come with some level of compromise isn't fair — not to our families who pay part of the price, and certainly not to other women who might then enter family life or working life with unrealistic expectations.
Just like every family, there are compromises we have been willing to make. A clean refrigerator might be good for my family, but a paid gas bill and health insurance are good for them, too.
Whether we moms leave our homes every morning to earn a paycheck, stay home full time, or attempt some creative combination of the two, it's most important that we make working decisions with our eyes wide open about what they will cost us.
No one can have it all. We need to figure out what we really want.
There are no Mommy Wars. We're in this together. With God's grace, the best moms — at home, at work, and all the places in between — will win.


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package com.pengyifan.bioc.util;

import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCAnnotation;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCCollection;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCDocument;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCLocation;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCNode;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCPassage;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCRelation;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCSentence;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.BioCStructure;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.io.BioCDocumentReader;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.validation.BioCErrorHandler;
import com.pengyifan.bioc.validation.BioCValidator;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import static com.pengyifan.bioc.util.BioCLog.log;

public class BioCValidate3 implements BioCValidator {

  private BioCErrorHandlerImpl errorHandler;

  public BioCValidate3(boolean throwException) {
    this(throwException, System.err);
  }

  public BioCValidate3(boolean throwException, PrintStream ps) {
    errorHandler = new BioCErrorHandlerImpl();
    errorHandler.ps = ps;
    errorHandler.throwException = throwException;
  }

  /**
   * Checks annotations and ie.
   *
   * @param collection input collection
   */
  public void check(BioCCollection collection) {
    for (BioCDocument document : collection.getDocuments()) {
      check(document);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Checks text, annotations and relations of the document.
   *
   * @param document input document
   */
  public void check(BioCDocument document) {
    String text = checkText(document);
    check(document, 0, text);
    for (BioCPassage passage : document.getPassages()) {
      check(passage, 0, text, document);
      for (BioCSentence sentence : passage.getSentences()) {
        check(sentence, 0, text, document, passage);
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Checks text, annotations and relations of the passage.
   *
   * @param passage input passage
   */
  public void check(BioCPassage passage) {
    String text = checkText(passage);
    check(passage, passage.getOffset(), text);
    for (BioCSentence sentence : passage.getSentences()) {
      check(sentence, 0, text, passage);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Checks text, annotations and relations of the sentence.
   *
   * @param sentence input sentence
   */
  public void check(BioCSentence sentence) {
    String text = checkText(sentence);
    check(sentence, sentence.getOffset(), text);
  }

  /**
   * Check the annotation and relation in the structure.
   *
   * @param structure the specified structure
   * @param offset    the offset of this structure
   * @param text      the text that annotations should match
   * @param parents   the path from root until this structure (not included
   */
  public void check(BioCStructure structure, int offset, String text, BioCStructure... parents) {
    BioCStructure[] path = new BioCStructure[parents.length + 1];
    System.arraycopy(parents, 0, path, 0, parents.length);
    path[path.length - 1] = structure;
    String location = log(path);
    checkAnnotations(structure, offset, text, location);
    checkRelations(structure, location);
  }

  private void checkAnnotations(BioCStructure structure, int offset, String text, String location) {
    for (BioCAnnotation annotation : structure.getAnnotations()) {
      if (!annotation.getText().isPresent()) {
        errorHandler.error("The %s in %s has no text", log(annotation), location);
      }

      BioCLocation total = annotation.getTotalLocation();
      String expected = text.substring(
          total.getOffset() - offset, total.getOffset() + total.getLength() - offset);
      String actual = annotation.getText().get();
      if (!expected.equals(actual)) {
        errorHandler.error("The %s text in %s is incorrect.\n" +
                "  Expected : %s\n" +
                "  Actual   : %s",
            log(annotation), location, expected, actual);
      }
    }
  }

  private void checkRelations(BioCStructure structure, String location) {
    for (BioCRelation relation : structure.getRelations()) {
      for (BioCNode node : relation.getNodes()) {
        if (!structure.getAnnotation(node.getRefid()).isPresent()) {
          errorHandler.error("Cannot find %s in %s in %s", log(node), log(relation), location);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  public String checkText(BioCDocument document) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (BioCPassage passage : document.getPassages()) {
      if (sb.length() > passage.getOffset()) {
        haveToThrow("The %s is overlapped with previous text.", log(document, passage));
      }
      fillNewLine(sb, passage.getOffset());
      sb.append(checkText(passage));
    }
    return sb.toString();
  }

  public String checkText(BioCPassage passage) {
    if (passage.getText().isPresent() && !passage.getText().get().isEmpty()) {
      if (passage.getSentenceCount() == 0) {
        return passage.getText().get();
      } else {
        errorHandler.error("The %s contains both text and sentences.", log(passage));
      }
    }

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (BioCSentence sentence : passage.getSentences()) {
      if (passage.getOffset() + sb.length() > sentence.getOffset()) {
        haveToThrow("The %s is overlapped with previous text.", log(passage, sentence));
      }
      fillNewLine(sb, sentence.getOffset() - passage.getOffset());
      sb.append(checkText(sentence));
    }
    return sb.toString();
  }

  public String checkText(BioCSentence sentence) {
    if (!sentence.getText().isPresent()) {
      errorHandler.error("The %s has no text.", log(sentence));
    }
    return sentence.getText().get();
  }

  private StringBuilder fillNewLine(StringBuilder sb, int offset) {
    return sb.append(StringUtils.repeat('\n', offset - sb.length()));
  }

  private void haveToThrow(String format, Object... objects) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(format, objects));
  }

  public void setPrintStream(PrintStream ps) {
    errorHandler.ps = ps;
  }

  public void setThrowException(boolean throwException) {
    errorHandler.throwException = throwException;
  }

  @Override
  public void validate(File file) {
    try {
      BioCDocumentReader reader = new BioCDocumentReader(file);
      BioCDocument document = null;
      while ((document = reader.readDocument()) != null) {
        checkText(document);
      }
      reader.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      errorHandler.error(e);
    } catch (XMLStreamException e) {
      errorHandler.error(e);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public BioCErrorHandler getErrorHandler() {
    return errorHandler;
  }

  @Override
  public void setErrorHandler(BioCErrorHandler errorHandler) {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }

  private static class BioCErrorHandlerImpl implements BioCErrorHandler {

    PrintStream ps;
    boolean throwException;

    @Override
    public void error(IOException e) {
      error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void error(SAXException e) {
      error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void error(TransformerException e) {
      error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void error(XMLStreamException e) {
      error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void error(IllegalArgumentException e) {
      error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }

    private void error(String format, Object... objects) {
      if (throwException) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(format, objects));
      } else {
        ps.printf(format, objects);
        ps.println();
      }
    }
  }
}

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The dogs that defied death
In the week that a labrador survives a 200ft plunge from a cliff, we bring you other amazing tales of pets who had miraculous escapes...
By Simon Edge
00:00, Thu, May 19, 2011
Dotty fell 200ft into a flooded quarry but splashed down near a handily placed diving team
IT'S meant to be cats that have nine lives, bouncing back on to their feet from the most perilous drops. But dogs can be pretty hardy too. This week a labrador called Oscar was out for a coastal walk near Scarborough when he fell 200ft over a cliff. While his distraught 53-year-old owner was peering over the edge trying to work out how to reach his pet, a gust of wind caught him and he too was blown over. Amazingly, the man survived with only a broken leg and wrist while Oscar escaped with a broken leg, broken tooth and black eye. The man was hauled up first by an RAF search-and-rescue helicopter after his wife, who had witnessed both mishaps, called 999. Then it was Oscar's turn, winched up in a stretcher usually reserved for small children.
Vet Heather Westron, who was called to the scene, said she was not expecting to see a live dog when she got there. "Considering how far he fell it's amazing he has survived. I've never known a dog to survive a fall like this," she said. She may not have done – but as the stories on these pages show, Oscar is far from alone. A Jack Russell terrier called Sophie almost died last spring after digging for rabbits in Angus, Scotland, and getting stuck underground. Her owner Heather Harrison launched a massive search when Sophie didn't come home but eventually heard a faint yapping noise just yards from home 10 weeks later.
She enlisted the services of her sister's Jack Russell, who led them to a tree stump with a hole in it, and Sophie was inside. She was overweight when she disappeared and the extra fat may have helped her survive. Springer spaniel Poppy was out with her owners at a coastal country park in East Sussex last February when she began chasing a seagull. But as the bird flew to safety, Poppy leapt to catch it and plummeted over a 300ft cliff. Fortunately she was running so fast that she did not drop directly on to the beach below and instead splashed down in the sea. "She was a bit quiet after the accident," said owner Ben Markwick afterwards, "but now she is back to normal."
Three-year-old basset hound Harry went missing on a day out in County Donegal, Ireland, two years ago. He was discovered 48 hours later, marooned on a ledge above the Atlantic after an 80ft fall, with a further drop of about 320ft to rocks below. His ordeal ended when coastguard volunteers abseiled down and winched him to safety. A five-year-old Gordon setter called Tyler was hit by an 80mph train in Essex in May 2007. After three operations and a lot of nursing, he finally wagged his tail again three years later.
Amelie, a five-month old cocker spaniel puppy, toppled over the 300ft Fair Head, one of Northern Ireland's most dangerous cliff faces, after bounding over a heather bush two years ago. She landed on a ledge 10ft down but as owner Stuart Howard and his girlfriend's desperate rescue efforts failed she fell another 30ft and got stuck in a crevice where she seems to have knocked herself out. Coastguard rescuers couldn't see her but when she came round and started whimpering for help the next day, walkers heard her and the rescue attempt resumed. She was eventually retrieved with a dogcatcher's lasso after three days trapped on the cliff.
Rocky, a seven-week-old Jack Russell puppy, had a miraculous escape when his owner's drunken girlfriend threw him from the third-floor balcony of her flat in Leeds after an argument. He was saved from serious injury because he was in a the impact. The girlfriend, Sebrina Carty, appeared in court in March 2009 and was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work. Rocky eventually made a full recovery and was found a new home. Seven-month-old cocker spaniel Dotty was chasing a bird two years ago when she tumbled more than 200ft over a cliff in South Wales into a flooded quarry.
She bounced off the cliff face three times before hitting the icy water at 50mph and plunged 10ft under – almost on top of a sub-aqua team that was diving in the quarry and which managed to pull her to safety. They also gave her oxygen from their tanks and she was wagging her tail within moments. A golden retriever called Dingo fell 25ft from a first-floor window in Cheltenham in November 2008 and landed on a spiked railing. The six-year-old survived after a two-hour operation. His owner had left the window open when she went shopping.
Three years ago, owners Tim and Judith Brown spent 16 days searching for their border terrier Ruby including contacting vets and police and launching a poster campaign with a reward. Then they heard squeaking coming from the compost heap in their garden in West Sussex. The three-year-old had become trapped under a rock designed to prevent rabbits getting into the garden. A devoted St Bernard puppy leapt to the defence of his owner Declan Gallagher when an armed gang opened fire on him in a village in County Donegal, Ireland, in September 2008.
The gang struck as Gallagher, his girlfriend and his pet sat in their car outside their home. As bullets shattered the windows, Gallagher dived for cover and the puppy jumped in front of him. The dog was hit in the side, leaving a horrific wound. Vets who conducted a four-hour operation to save his life renamed him Bullet. Two Jack Russells were hurled on to the M25 motorway near Dartford in Kent by thugs in a car doing 80mph in May 2008. One was killed when it was hit by another car but the other – named Pip by kennels staff – survived. She had serious injuries but was taken to the RSPCA by a driver who stopped and retrieved her before she too was hit.
A border collie called Gale survived nine days in a car boot where she was accidentally locked by her owner in North Yorkshire in November 2007. Vets said she had gone into a form of hibernation, slowing her body down to preserve energy. Michelle Daley, the owner of a missing Jack Russell, scoured her neighbourhood in vain when the pet went missing four years ago. In fact six-month-old Charlie was never far away. He spent more than two weeks travelling hundreds of miles around Merseyside trapped under the bonnet of Michelle's van.
He was discovered only when Michelle's partner went to check the oil and found him sitting on the battery. A partially deaf and blind Jack Russell-collie cross called Kyle fell 50ft down a gorge at Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands in the summer of 2007 and survived. He spent three hours in the water below before being pulled out by fire and rescue crews. By coincidence, the name of the precise spot where he fell was Dog Falls. After a mongrel called Kano went missing from the cabin of his owner's motor cruiser off the west coast of Scotland in September 2006, he was feared to have drowned.
Donald McKay and his wife Sharon only realised when they docked that the dog was no longer on board. Somehow Kano managed to swim to safety, because he turned up shivering and exhausted on the Dunbartonshire shore the following day. A Jack Russell called Buster made a miraculous recovery after being hit by the propeller of a plane five years ago. The eight-year-old pet was cut open along his back by the whirling blades after scampering on to a runway at Sandown in the Isle of Wight.
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Sean Parker: Co-founder of Napster
Sean Parker is an American business visionary who is known for helping to establish Napster, a document sharing PC administration. He additionally helped to establish an online location book-Plaxo, a web based crusading stage Causes, a gathering video visit application Airtime.com, and a metro innovation stage Brigade Media. He was the principal leader of Facebook. He is the Founder and Chairman of his charitable firm, Parker Foundation. He was positioned #722 in the Forbes 2016 rundown of the world's very rich people with a total assets of $2.4 billion. As of January 2021, he has a total assets of $3 billion.
Sean Parker-Biography
Born 3 December, 1979
Birthplace Herndon, Virginia, U.S.
Age 42 (2021)
Education Oakton High School; Chantilly High School
Profession Entrepreneur; Investor
Position President of Facebook; Chairman of Parker Foundation; Managing Partner at The Founders Fund
Founder at Parker Foundation
Co-founder at Napster; Airtime; Causes; Brigade
Net worth $3 billion (January 2021)
Board member of Spotify; Yammer
Father Bruce Parker
Mother Diane Parker
Marital Status Married (2013)
Spouse Alexandra Lenas
Daughter Winter Victoria Parker
Son Zephyr Emerson Parker
Sean Parker-Personal Life
Sean Parker-Education
Sean Parker-Professional Life
Sean Parker-Co-author of Napster
Sean Parker-Co-author of Plaxo
Sean Parker-Co-author of Brigade Media
Sean Parker-Philanthropist
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Sean was destined to Diane and Bruce Parker, who was a U.S government oceanographer and Chief Scientist at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). His mom, Diane Parker was a TV publicizing representative.
He loves programming and hacking since his initial youngsters. He was once sentenced on the grounds that he attempted to hack an organization of Fortune 500 organization and F.B.I. specialists followed the 16-year-old kid through his IP address. He was condemned to local area administration attributable to his immaturity.
In 2013, he wedded Alexandra Lenas, who is an artist musician. A few has two youngsters in particular, Winter Victoria Parker and Zephyr Emerson Parker.
Sean finished his conventional training from Oakton High School, in Virginia and later from Chantilly High School. At the school, he used to invest the greater part of his energy in the PC lab and work on coding. Subsequently, he before long turned into an enthusiastic developer and used to assistant in organizations while concentrating in his secondary school.
He used to compose codes for new businesses. He filled in as an understudy for Mark Pincus for his startup FreeLoader. He further finished his graduation in 1998. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) enlisted him by seeing his triumphant potential at the Virginia state software engineering reasonable for building up a Web Crawler.
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While concentrating in his senior year of secondary school, he acquired more than $80,000 every year through temporary positions and ventures. He persuaded his folks to allow him to skip school and seek after a profession as a business person. He was an ardent peruser and trusted in self-learning.
He is perceived as a virtuoso and credits his advanced degree in the foundation of Napster, through which he in the long run got able in protected innovation law, corporate money, and business venture. He further helped to establish adventures like, Plaxo, Airtime, Brigade, and Causes. He was the primary financial backer at Facebook and turned into its leader following five years of its foundation.
He is additionally the overseeing accomplice at the Founders Fund, an investment reserve established by Peter Thiel. While working there, he made an interest in a Swedish real time music administration, Spotify to share Napster's music legitimately. He likewise settled a generous firm named, Parker Foundation.
Sean Parker-Co-originator of Napster
At age 15, Sean met a 14-year-old kid Shawn Fanning through the web. The two of them intertwined over subjects like, hypothetical physical science and hacking. Following two years, they established Napster, a free document sharing assistance for music.
Sean raised $50,000 and dispatched it in June 1999. Napster had 10 millions clients inside a year yet it was contradicted by the account names, the Recording Industry Association of America, the substantial metal band Metallica and few others.
At last, the claims from a few industry didn't permitted him to run Napster. Be that as it may, Napster is viewed as the quickest developing business ever and it changed music industry. It is accepted through certain reports that Napster is a forerunner to iTunes.
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Sean Parker-Co-originator of Plaxo
Sean dispatched an online location book and interpersonal interaction administration, Plaxo in November 2002. It was at first an informal communication instrument, which would later impact the development of organizations like, LinkedIn, Zynga and Facebook.
Plaxo developed with 20 million clients and turned into the first since forever brand to utilize viral promoting in its dispatch. In 2004, he was driven out of the organization's agents, Sequoia Capital and Ram Shriram. It is said that he made an exit for supposedly recruiting private agents to follow him.
Sean Parker-Co-organizer of Brigade Media
Sean declared of his new startup Brigade in April 2014. The stage was made with a point of municipal administration, to counter an absence of political commitment and interest in all degrees of government across America. He fills in as the Chairman of Brigade with introductory round of an individual financing of $9.3 million. Unit gained an online stage for social effect and political activism, Causes in 2014.
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Sean is a functioning Philanthropist and has steadily given to disease research, worldwide general wellbeing and metro commitment. He even swore $24 million to make the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford. He made a $10 million award to make the Sean N. Parker Autoimmune Research Laboratory at UCSF.
He set up Parker Foundation and pronounced in June 2015 to contribute $600 million to dispatch the association with an intend to way to deal with huge scope challenges, including, knowledge, capital, science and innovation, association building and public approach.
He further gave $250 million to set up Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He fills in as the Board individual from Obama Foundation, Global Citizen, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Parker Foundation and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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Even when we finally do enter into community, no matter how small the dose, we're faced with another concern. We have to understand why we're doing it. Why go to so much trouble? What's it all for? Is it just for us, so we can have better lives, so we can work out all our issues? Not at all. It's all about giving ourselves away. It's not exclusive, not self seeking but inclusive and missional. It shares in God's goal for the whole world not just for them.
One reason community is so dangerous, so risky, is because even when you actually do it you can do it wrong. If community loses sight of why it exists it can become a disaster. The theological trajectory of the Bible is all about community but it's also all about bringing existence back into harmony as it was in the beginning. Community shares the same trajectory. Essentially what you are doing in community is embracing that kind of harmony and actually living it out. Now what if we become exclusive? What if our goal is not for the world but just for ourselves? What if we live in community but seclude that community to itself? It's a lot more dangerous than you might think. We can be like the community in Laodicea; "lukewarm," motionless, and useless (Revelation 3:16). In the end community is not about picking a few people to live with but it's about partnering to change the world and to bring the entire world into the sort of honesty, simplicity, and beauty that you are trying to live out.
The only reason we live in community at all is because we are on a mission. We're on a mission together. Living in obedience, purity, and simplicity are means to an end and that end is God's end; the end that God has in mind which is actually a new beginning. Who are we to call people to a new kind of life if we are not seeking to live it ourselves?
When authentic community comes together with a mission it is powerful. It's the kind of thing that the gates of hell cannot prevail against. This is why we reveal ourselves honestly and live life in community; trusting and depending on each other. It's not just for us but for the world. We become broken before each other so that the world might be mended.


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Share this Story: Broomball players hope sport will get new life
Broomball players hope sport will get new life
Grace Protopapas
Feb 08, 2013 • February 8, 2013 • 3 minute read
Ask any child under the age of 13 what broomball is and they most likely can't answer the question. But out in the freezing cold and puffy snow the Kenora Broomball League is still hitting the ice.
"I love it," said league founder Len McInnis, "I bleed broomball, ask anybody in town."
McInnis started the Kenora Broomball League back in 1997 after a suggestion from a friend. What started as just two teams casually playing pick-up, quickly turned into a six-team league. In 2000 the men decided to move to Casey's where they built a rink behind the restaurant.
"It was great there because after we played we'd just head up to eat. We probably had 12 to 14 teams," he said.
Broomball had been steadily growing over nearly a hundred years of history. It first appeared in Canada in Saskatchewan in 1909 before it spread to Quebec and Ontario by 1911. Over the next few decades it remained a casual sport played on workers' breaks or at winter carnivals in various towns and cities.
At first, almost no equipment was used except household brooms and usually a soccer ball. The rules were, and remain to this day, very similar to hockey. Two teams play on ice trying to get the ball into the opposing team's net. The biggest differences of course are the absence of skates and the use of a broom instead of a hockey stick.
"I never played hockey and you gotta be able to skate for that so this was the next best thing," said McInnis.
Broomball continued to sweep across the country and by the early 1960s leagues were popping up all over Canada.
The Western Canadian Broomball Association Championships were introduced in the 1970-1971 season. These championships existed until the Canadian Broomball Federation National Championships emerged in 1977. By that time each province had its own board to oversee the leagues and rules of the sport.
The first Canadian Broomball Championship was organized for men and held in Calgary in April of 1977. The women's championship was brought in just one year later.
By then there was also a thriving broomball community in the United States, specifically in Minnesota. The sport spread around the world and by the 1980s there were organized leagues in Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. Broomball had hit its peak and over the next 30 years it thrived. However, after 2000 its popularity started to decline.
"Thunder Bay used to have a strong league, probably eight teams, but now they're done. Have been for four or five years," said McInnis. "People get older and there isn't enough done with the younger generation."
What was once a 14-team league in Kenora has now shrunk to five. Unfortunately, not enough is being done to attract the attention of children.
"I would like to see the schools introduce them to maybe a couple of weeks of the game in phys-ed," he said.
Despite talk of broomball one day joining the Olympics, the sport is almost completely unknown to the younger generation. Without the renewal of youth it could start to disappear.
Even with the drop in numbers, the Kenora broomball players are not discouraged. The lights at Rideout Rink still shine bright on Thursday nights as the athletes decked out in their balaclavas, kneepads, and hockey gloves take to the rink.
"It's unreal. It makes you get up off the couch in the winter and the camaraderie is awesome," said broomball goalie, Scott Green.
So for now the Kenora Broomball League will simply focus on playing the game.
"It's hit its high, it's hit its low," said McInnis. "But I think if you always keep it going it will hit its peak again."
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Just before, and during, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the USOC will send it's men's and women's swim teams (along with basketball, judo, and tennis teams) to train at Cesar Cielo's Flamengo athletic club.
The club, which has full aquatic, tennis, and gymnasium facilities, is located in the wealthy Gavea neighborhood in southern Rio. The club is roughly 15 miles from the main region of the Olympic Games where the swimming competitions will be held.
As a part of the agreement, Brazilian coaches and athletes will be able to spend time training in the United States with the only cost to them being air fare. Among the upgrades that the club plans to spend the $1 million dollars that they are receiving from the deal on is new starting blocks for the outdoor 50-meter pool.
Flamengo is the home club of some of Brazil's greatest swimmers, including World Record holder Cesar Cielo, former Michigan Wolverine Andre Schulz, Henrique Barbosa, Henrique Rodrigues, Leonardo de Deus, and Nicholas dos Santos. For those who prefer to reach a bit further back into swimming history, it is also the former club of Brazilian swimming legends Maria Lenk, Fernando Scherer, Ricardo Prado and Mariana Brochado.
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I'm a Spyper, and I'm good at it.
Seems like fun. A lot of great fan movies have come from the game.
But it's too fast paced, too cartoony, and just a bit odd you're playing against clones of your team. TF Classic was more interesting when it was a mod of Half-Life.


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