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<?php

namespace yii\web;

use Yii;
use yii\base\Component;
use yii\base\InvalidConfigException;
use yii\base\InvalidParamException;
use yii\helpers\FileHelper;
use yii\helpers\Url;

/**
 * AssetManager manages asset bundle configuration and loading.
 *
 * AssetManager is configured as an application component in [[\yii\web\Application]] by default.
 * You can access that instance via `Yii::$app->assetManager`.
 *
 * You can modify its configuration by adding an array to your application config under `components`
 * as shown in the following example:
 *
 * ```php
 * 'assetManager' => [
 *     'bundles' => [
 *         // you can override AssetBundle configs here
 *     ],
 * ]
 * ```
 *
 * @property AssetConverterInterface $converter The asset converter. Note that the type of this property
 * differs in getter and setter. See [[getConverter()]] and [[setConverter()]] for details.
 *
 * @author Qiang Xue <qiang.xue@gmail.com>
 * @since 2.0
 */
class AssetManager extends Component
{
    /**
     * @var array|boolean list of asset bundle configurations. This property is provided to customize asset bundles.
     * When a bundle is being loaded by [[getBundle()]], if it has a corresponding configuration specified here,
     * the configuration will be applied to the bundle.
     *
     * The array keys are the asset bundle names, which typically are asset bundle class names without leading backslash.
     * The array values are the corresponding configurations. If a value is false, it means the corresponding asset
     * bundle is disabled and [[getBundle()]] should return null.
     *
     * If this property is false, it means the whole asset bundle feature is disabled and [[getBundle()]]
     * will always return null.
     *
     * The following example shows how to disable the bootstrap css file used by Bootstrap widgets
     * (because you want to use your own styles):
     *
     * ```php
     * [
     *     'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset' => [
     *         'css' => [],
     *     ],
     * ]
     * ```
     */
    public $bundles = [];
    /**
     * @var string the root directory storing the published asset files.
     */
    public $basePath = '@webroot/assets';
    /**
     * @var string the base URL through which the published asset files can be accessed.
     */
    public $baseUrl = '@web/assets';
    /**
     * @var array mapping from source asset files (keys) to target asset files (values).
     *
     * This property is provided to support fixing incorrect asset file paths in some asset bundles.
     * When an asset bundle is registered with a view, each relative asset file in its [[AssetBundle::css|css]]
     * and [[AssetBundle::js|js]] arrays will be examined against this map. If any of the keys is found
     * to be the last part of an asset file (which is prefixed with [[AssetBundle::sourcePath]] if available),
     * the corresponding value will replace the asset and be registered with the view.
     * For example, an asset file `my/path/to/jquery.js` matches a key `jquery.js`.
     *
     * Note that the target asset files should be absolute URLs, domain relative URLs (starting from '/') or paths
     * relative to [[baseUrl]] and [[basePath]].
     *
     * In the following example, any assets ending with `jquery.min.js` will be replaced with `jquery/dist/jquery.js`
     * which is relative to [[baseUrl]] and [[basePath]].
     *
     * ```php
     * [
     *     'jquery.min.js' => 'jquery/dist/jquery.js',
     * ]
     * ```
     *
     * You may also use aliases while specifying map value, for example:
     *
     * ```php
     * [
     *     'jquery.min.js' => '@web/js/jquery/jquery.js',
     * ]
     * ```
     */
    public $assetMap = [];
    /**
     * @var boolean whether to use symbolic link to publish asset files. Defaults to false, meaning
     * asset files are copied to [[basePath]]. Using symbolic links has the benefit that the published
     * assets will always be consistent with the source assets and there is no copy operation required.
     * This is especially useful during development.
     *
     * However, there are special requirements for hosting environments in order to use symbolic links.
     * In particular, symbolic links are supported only on Linux/Unix, and Windows Vista/2008 or greater.
     *
     * Moreover, some Web servers need to be properly configured so that the linked assets are accessible
     * to Web users. For example, for Apache Web server, the following configuration directive should be added
     * for the Web folder:
     *
     * ```apache
     * Options FollowSymLinks
     * ```
     */
    public $linkAssets = false;
    /**
     * @var integer the permission to be set for newly published asset files.
     * This value will be used by PHP chmod() function. No umask will be applied.
     * If not set, the permission will be determined by the current environment.
     */
    public $fileMode;
    /**
     * @var integer the permission to be set for newly generated asset directories.
     * This value will be used by PHP chmod() function. No umask will be applied.
     * Defaults to 0775, meaning the directory is read-writable by owner and group,
     * but read-only for other users.
     */
    public $dirMode = 0775;
    /**
     * @var callback a PHP callback that is called before copying each sub-directory or file.
     * This option is used only when publishing a directory. If the callback returns false, the copy
     * operation for the sub-directory or file will be cancelled.
     *
     * The signature of the callback should be: `function ($from, $to)`, where `$from` is the sub-directory or
     * file to be copied from, while `$to` is the copy target.
     *
     * This is passed as a parameter `beforeCopy` to [[\yii\helpers\FileHelper::copyDirectory()]].
     */
    public $beforeCopy;
    /**
     * @var callback a PHP callback that is called after a sub-directory or file is successfully copied.
     * This option is used only when publishing a directory. The signature of the callback is the same as
     * for [[beforeCopy]].
     * This is passed as a parameter `afterCopy` to [[\yii\helpers\FileHelper::copyDirectory()]].
     */
    public $afterCopy;
    /**
     * @var boolean whether the directory being published should be copied even if
     * it is found in the target directory. This option is used only when publishing a directory.
     * You may want to set this to be `true` during the development stage to make sure the published
     * directory is always up-to-date. Do not set this to true on production servers as it will
     * significantly degrade the performance.
     */
    public $forceCopy = false;
    /**
     * @var boolean whether to append a timestamp to the URL of every published asset. When this is true,
     * the URL of a published asset may look like `/path/to/asset?v=timestamp`, where `timestamp` is the
     * last modification time of the published asset file.
     * You normally would want to set this property to true when you have enabled HTTP caching for assets,
     * because it allows you to bust caching when the assets are updated.
     * @since 2.0.3
     */
    public $appendTimestamp = false;
    /**
     * @var callable a callback that will be called to produce hash for asset directory generation.
     * The signature of the callback should be as follows:
     *
     * ```
     * function ($path)
     * ```
     *
     * where `$path` is the asset path. Note that the `$path` can be either directory where the asset
     * files reside or a single file. For a CSS file that uses relative path in `url()`, the hash
     * implementation should use the directory path of the file instead of the file path to include
     * the relative asset files in the copying.
     *
     * If this is not set, the asset manager will use the default CRC32 and filemtime in the `hash`
     * method.
     *
     * Example of an implementation using MD4 hash:
     *
     * ```php
     * function ($path) {
     *     return hash('md4', $path);
     * }
     * ```
     *
     * @since 2.0.6
     */
    public $hashCallback;

    private $_dummyBundles = [];

    /**
     * Initializes the component.
     * @throws InvalidConfigException if [[basePath]] is invalid
     */
    public function init()
    {
        parent::init();
        $this->basePath = Yii::getAlias($this->basePath);
        if (!is_dir($this->basePath)) {
            throw new InvalidConfigException("The directory does not exist: {$this->basePath}");
        } elseif (!is_writable($this->basePath)) {
            throw new InvalidConfigException("The directory is not writable by the Web process: {$this->basePath}");
        } else {
            $this->basePath = realpath($this->basePath);
        }
        $this->baseUrl = rtrim(Yii::getAlias($this->baseUrl), '/');
    }

    /**
     * Returns the named asset bundle.
     *
     * This method will first look for the bundle in [[bundles]]. If not found,
     * it will treat `$name` as the class of the asset bundle and create a new instance of it.
     *
     * @param string $name the class name of the asset bundle (without the leading backslash)
     * @param boolean $publish whether to publish the asset files in the asset bundle before it is returned.
     * If you set this false, you must manually call `AssetBundle::publish()` to publish the asset files.
     * @return AssetBundle the asset bundle instance
     * @throws InvalidConfigException if $name does not refer to a valid asset bundle
     */
    public function getBundle($name, $publish = true)
    {
        if ($this->bundles === false) {
            return $this->loadDummyBundle($name);
        } elseif (!isset($this->bundles[$name])) {
            return $this->bundles[$name] = $this->loadBundle($name, [], $publish);
        } elseif ($this->bundles[$name] instanceof AssetBundle) {
            return $this->bundles[$name];
        } elseif (is_array($this->bundles[$name])) {
            return $this->bundles[$name] = $this->loadBundle($name, $this->bundles[$name], $publish);
        } elseif ($this->bundles[$name] === false) {
            return $this->loadDummyBundle($name);
        } else {
            throw new InvalidConfigException("Invalid asset bundle configuration: $name");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Loads asset bundle class by name
     *
     * @param string $name bundle name
     * @param array $config bundle object configuration
     * @param boolean $publish if bundle should be published
     * @return AssetBundle
     * @throws InvalidConfigException if configuration isn't valid
     */
    protected function loadBundle($name, $config = [], $publish = true)
    {
        if (!isset($config['class'])) {
            $config['class'] = $name;
        }
        /* @var $bundle AssetBundle */
        $bundle = Yii::createObject($config);
        if ($publish) {
            $bundle->publish($this);
        }
        return $bundle;
    }

    /**
     * Loads dummy bundle by name
     *
     * @param string $name
     * @return AssetBundle
     */
    protected function loadDummyBundle($name)
    {
        if (!isset($this->_dummyBundles[$name])) {
            $this->_dummyBundles[$name] = $this->loadBundle($name, [
                'sourcePath' => null,
                'js' => [],
                'css' => [],
                'depends' => [],
            ]);
        }
        return $this->_dummyBundles[$name];
    }

    /**
     * Returns the actual URL for the specified asset.
     * The actual URL is obtained by prepending either [[baseUrl]] or [[AssetManager::baseUrl]] to the given asset path.
     * @param AssetBundle $bundle the asset bundle which the asset file belongs to
     * @param string $asset the asset path. This should be one of the assets listed in [[js]] or [[css]].
     * @return string the actual URL for the specified asset.
     */
    public function getAssetUrl($bundle, $asset)
    {
        if (($actualAsset = $this->resolveAsset($bundle, $asset)) !== false) {
            if (strncmp($actualAsset, '@web/', 5) === 0) {
                $asset = substr($actualAsset, 5);
                $basePath = Yii::getAlias('@webroot');
                $baseUrl = Yii::getAlias('@web');
            } else {
                $asset = Yii::getAlias($actualAsset);
                $basePath = $this->basePath;
                $baseUrl = $this->baseUrl;
            }
        } else {
            $basePath = $bundle->basePath;
            $baseUrl = $bundle->baseUrl;
        }

        if (!Url::isRelative($asset) || strncmp($asset, '/', 1) === 0) {
            return $asset;
        }

        if ($this->appendTimestamp && ($timestamp = @filemtime("$basePath/$asset")) > 0) {
            return "$baseUrl/$asset?v=$timestamp";
        } else {
            return "$baseUrl/$asset";
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the actual file path for the specified asset.
     * @param AssetBundle $bundle the asset bundle which the asset file belongs to
     * @param string $asset the asset path. This should be one of the assets listed in [[js]] or [[css]].
     * @return string|boolean the actual file path, or false if the asset is specified as an absolute URL
     */
    public function getAssetPath($bundle, $asset)
    {
        if (($actualAsset = $this->resolveAsset($bundle, $asset)) !== false) {
            return Url::isRelative($actualAsset) ? $this->basePath . '/' . $actualAsset : false;
        } else {
            return Url::isRelative($asset) ? $bundle->basePath . '/' . $asset : false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param AssetBundle $bundle
     * @param string $asset
     * @return string|boolean
     */
    protected function resolveAsset($bundle, $asset)
    {
        if (isset($this->assetMap[$asset])) {
            return $this->assetMap[$asset];
        }
        if ($bundle->sourcePath !== null && Url::isRelative($asset)) {
            $asset = $bundle->sourcePath . '/' . $asset;
        }

        $n = mb_strlen($asset, Yii::$app->charset);
        foreach ($this->assetMap as $from => $to) {
            $n2 = mb_strlen($from, Yii::$app->charset);
            if ($n2 <= $n && substr_compare($asset, $from, $n - $n2, $n2) === 0) {
                return $to;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

    private $_converter;

    /**
     * Returns the asset converter.
     * @return AssetConverterInterface the asset converter.
     */
    public function getConverter()
    {
        if ($this->_converter === null) {
            $this->_converter = Yii::createObject(AssetConverter::className());
        } elseif (is_array($this->_converter) || is_string($this->_converter)) {
            if (is_array($this->_converter) && !isset($this->_converter['class'])) {
                $this->_converter['class'] = AssetConverter::className();
            }
            $this->_converter = Yii::createObject($this->_converter);
        }

        return $this->_converter;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the asset converter.
     * @param array|AssetConverterInterface $value the asset converter. This can be either
     * an object implementing the [[AssetConverterInterface]], or a configuration
     * array that can be used to create the asset converter object.
     */
    public function setConverter($value)
    {
        $this->_converter = $value;
    }

    /**
     * @var array published assets
     */
    private $_published = [];

    /**
     * Publishes a file or a directory.
     *
     * This method will copy the specified file or directory to [[basePath]] so that
     * it can be accessed via the Web server.
     *
     * If the asset is a file, its file modification time will be checked to avoid
     * unnecessary file copying.
     *
     * If the asset is a directory, all files and subdirectories under it will be published recursively.
     * Note, in case $forceCopy is false the method only checks the existence of the target
     * directory to avoid repetitive copying (which is very expensive).
     *
     * By default, when publishing a directory, subdirectories and files whose name starts with a dot "."
     * will NOT be published. If you want to change this behavior, you may specify the "beforeCopy" option
     * as explained in the `$options` parameter.
     *
     * Note: On rare scenario, a race condition can develop that will lead to a
     * one-time-manifestation of a non-critical problem in the creation of the directory
     * that holds the published assets. This problem can be avoided altogether by 'requesting'
     * in advance all the resources that are supposed to trigger a 'publish()' call, and doing
     * that in the application deployment phase, before system goes live. See more in the following
     * discussion: http://code.google.com/p/yii/issues/detail?id=2579
     *
     * @param string $path the asset (file or directory) to be published
     * @param array $options the options to be applied when publishing a directory.
     * The following options are supported:
     *
     * - only: array, list of patterns that the file paths should match if they want to be copied.
     * - except: array, list of patterns that the files or directories should match if they want to be excluded from being copied.
     * - caseSensitive: boolean, whether patterns specified at "only" or "except" should be case sensitive. Defaults to true.
     * - beforeCopy: callback, a PHP callback that is called before copying each sub-directory or file.
     *   This overrides [[beforeCopy]] if set.
     * - afterCopy: callback, a PHP callback that is called after a sub-directory or file is successfully copied.
     *   This overrides [[afterCopy]] if set.
     * - forceCopy: boolean, whether the directory being published should be copied even if
     *   it is found in the target directory. This option is used only when publishing a directory.
     *   This overrides [[forceCopy]] if set.
     *
     * @return array the path (directory or file path) and the URL that the asset is published as.
     * @throws InvalidParamException if the asset to be published does not exist.
     */
    public function publish($path, $options = [])
    {
        $path = Yii::getAlias($path);

        if (isset($this->_published[$path])) {
            return $this->_published[$path];
        }

        if (!is_string($path) || ($src = realpath($path)) === false) {
            throw new InvalidParamException("The file or directory to be published does not exist: $path");
        }

        if (is_file($src)) {
            return $this->_published[$path] = $this->publishFile($src);
        } else {
            return $this->_published[$path] = $this->publishDirectory($src, $options);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Publishes a file.
     * @param string $src the asset file to be published
     * @return array the path and the URL that the asset is published as.
     * @throws InvalidParamException if the asset to be published does not exist.
     */
    protected function publishFile($src)
    {
        $dir = $this->hash($src);
        $fileName = basename($src);
        $dstDir = $this->basePath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dir;
        $dstFile = $dstDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $fileName;

        if (!is_dir($dstDir)) {
            FileHelper::createDirectory($dstDir, $this->dirMode, true);
        }

        if ($this->linkAssets) {
            if (!is_file($dstFile)) {
                symlink($src, $dstFile);
            }
        } elseif (@filemtime($dstFile) < @filemtime($src)) {
            copy($src, $dstFile);
            if ($this->fileMode !== null) {
                @chmod($dstFile, $this->fileMode);
            }
        }

        return [$dstFile, $this->baseUrl . "/$dir/$fileName"];
    }

    /**
     * Publishes a directory.
     * @param string $src the asset directory to be published
     * @param array $options the options to be applied when publishing a directory.
     * The following options are supported:
     *
     * - only: array, list of patterns that the file paths should match if they want to be copied.
     * - except: array, list of patterns that the files or directories should match if they want to be excluded from being copied.
     * - caseSensitive: boolean, whether patterns specified at "only" or "except" should be case sensitive. Defaults to true.
     * - beforeCopy: callback, a PHP callback that is called before copying each sub-directory or file.
     *   This overrides [[beforeCopy]] if set.
     * - afterCopy: callback, a PHP callback that is called after a sub-directory or file is successfully copied.
     *   This overrides [[afterCopy]] if set.
     * - forceCopy: boolean, whether the directory being published should be copied even if
     *   it is found in the target directory. This option is used only when publishing a directory.
     *   This overrides [[forceCopy]] if set.
     *
     * @return array the path directory and the URL that the asset is published as.
     * @throws InvalidParamException if the asset to be published does not exist.
     */
    protected function publishDirectory($src, $options)
    {
        $dir = $this->hash($src);
        $dstDir = $this->basePath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dir;
        if ($this->linkAssets) {
            if (!is_dir($dstDir)) {
                symlink($src, $dstDir);
            }
        } elseif (!empty($options['forceCopy']) || ($this->forceCopy && !isset($options['forceCopy'])) || !is_dir($dstDir)) {
            $opts = array_merge(
                $options,
                [
                    'dirMode' => $this->dirMode,
                    'fileMode' => $this->fileMode,
                ]
            );
            if (!isset($opts['beforeCopy'])) {
                if ($this->beforeCopy !== null) {
                    $opts['beforeCopy'] = $this->beforeCopy;
                } else {
                    $opts['beforeCopy'] = function ($from, $to) {
                        return strncmp(basename($from), '.', 1) !== 0;
                    };
                }
            }
            if (!isset($opts['afterCopy']) && $this->afterCopy !== null) {
                $opts['afterCopy'] = $this->afterCopy;
            }
            FileHelper::copyDirectory($src, $dstDir, $opts);
        }

        return [$dstDir, $this->baseUrl . '/' . $dir];
    }

    /**
     * Returns the published path of a file path.
     * This method does not perform any publishing. It merely tells you
     * if the file or directory is published, where it will go.
     * @param string $path directory or file path being published
     * @return string the published file path. False if the file or directory does not exist
     */
    public function getPublishedPath($path)
    {
        $path = Yii::getAlias($path);

        if (isset($this->_published[$path])) {
            return $this->_published[$path][0];
        }
        if (is_string($path) && ($path = realpath($path)) !== false) {
            return $this->basePath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->hash($path) . (is_file($path) ? DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename($path) : '');
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the URL of a published file path.
     * This method does not perform any publishing. It merely tells you
     * if the file path is published, what the URL will be to access it.
     * @param string $path directory or file path being published
     * @return string the published URL for the file or directory. False if the file or directory does not exist.
     */
    public function getPublishedUrl($path)
    {
        $path = Yii::getAlias($path);

        if (isset($this->_published[$path])) {
            return $this->_published[$path][1];
        }
        if (is_string($path) && ($path = realpath($path)) !== false) {
            return $this->baseUrl . '/' . $this->hash($path) . (is_file($path) ? '/' . basename($path) : '');
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Generate a CRC32 hash for the directory path. Collisions are higher
     * than MD5 but generates a much smaller hash string.
     * @param string $path string to be hashed.
     * @return string hashed string.
     */
    protected function hash($path)
    {
        if (is_callable($this->hashCallback)) {
            return call_user_func($this->hashCallback, $path);
        }
        $path = (is_file($path) ? dirname($path) : $path) . filemtime($path);
        return sprintf('%x', crc32($path . Yii::getVersion()));
    }
}


It's 31 degrees in the Arctic Circle, Brussels is buzzing with people, and Theresa May thinks the EU is going to change its mind on Brexit over an aperitif in the Cote d'Azur. Welcome to your new parallel universe. Luckily, EU Confidential is here to help guide you through the mayhem.
In this week's main interview, we hear from Sue Duke, global head of public policy for LinkedIn. She explains what policymakers can learn from the firm's 167 million users in Europe.
The podcast panel of Lina Aburous and Alva Finn debate cost-shifting in Brussels. That's where the EU dumps costs onto Belgium — like €70 million for building a new school for children of EU officials — and Belgium tries to dump security screening costs for summits onto journalists.
As news filters through that EU unemployment levels are at their lowest in 10 years (6.9 percent for the EU28, but 8.3 percent for the eurozone), Sue Duke wonders if national labor markets even exist in 2018.
Duke's got the data of 167 million Europeans at her fingertips — in what LinkedIn's calls its "economic graph" — to illustrate the clunkiness of old ways of thinking about and measuring our economy.
Take entrepreneurship: "Everybody kind of thinks the startup scene is the same everywhere. You know, lots of bean bags and cool young people running around in sneakers. But actually when you dive in and take a look you realize that they're very different, often very much rooted in the history and culture of the city." There are often older entrepreneurs and innovation hubs tied to the a city's original industry, for example: What Duke calls "historical echoes" in cities such as Manchester, which was at the center of the Industrial Revolution.
Why should you care? First, Duke is helping politicians including European commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, and the mayors of cities like Stockholm, reshape their policies with her data.
"When we spoke to the city of Stockholm they were able to use the insights that we generated to go out to companies abroad and say, you know, if you want to set up a Center for Digital Design, if you want to be focused on user interface, you should come here, because look how well we compare, look what we're doing in that space," Duke said.
Duke is also European and based in Europe: a rarity for senior figures in global tech companies, who tend to treat Europe as a troublesome offshoot to be governed from California.
She was in Brussels pitching how low she can go in terms of labor market granularity, telling officials "what is happening on the ground concretely in their labor market: who's moving in and out, what new jobs are emerging, what new sectors are on the rise or indeed on the decline," she said.
Duke also had wise words for EU Confidential regarding pregnancy in the workplace: Pregnant women need lumbar support, so give them the best chair in the room (unlike EU Confidential, which gave Duke a nice looking, but not particularly supportive, chair).
Doctor Shortcut: Why get more doctors to replace those leaving the U.K. because of Brexit when you could just use liberation from the EU to let them qualify with less training. That's the idea of health minister Stephen Barclay, outlined in the Telegraph Friday.
Abduction claim: Slovak police have alleged, in Denník N and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that Robert Kaliňák, the former Slovak interior minister, is mixed up with the abduction of Vietnamese businessman Trinh Xuan Thanh. Kaliňák denies any part in the affair.
Belgium makes journalists pay €100 a year for Brussels summits: Yes, we're still banging on about it. Many believed the stories and policy were "fake news," but they're not. Journalists and unions were neither consulted nor informed of a royal decree bringing in the charge, which also applies to contractors at the European Council such as cleaners, but does not apply to national diplomats and EU officials who, unlike Belgium-based journalists, do not pay more than 50 percent of their income to the Belgian state.


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Who is Mr Summers in the lottery quizlet?
Who is Mr Summers in the lottery?
What type of person is Mr Summers?
What is the role of Mr Summers?
Why is Mr Summers chosen as the lottery official?
How is Mr Summers described in the lottery?
Is Mr Summers a flat or round character?
What is the author's characterization of Mr Summers?
What is Mr Graves role in the lottery?
The man who conducts the lottery. Mr. Summers prepares the slips of paper that go into the black box and calls the names of the people who draw the papers. The childless owner of a coal company, he is one of the village leaders.
A married, childless business owner, Mr. Summers is "jovial" and pitied by the townspeople for having a nagging wife. No one seems to question his leadership of the lottery, and it seems to have never been challenged. Perhaps he took on the role himself, or perhaps someone offered it to him.
The unofficial leader of the village and overseer of the lottery. Mr. Summers volunteers frequently in civic roles, organizing square dances, teen club, and the Halloween party. The other villagers pity him for having no children and an unkind wife.
Summer is associated with warmth and pleasant times. It is a season of celebration, holidays and fun. Ironically, Mr Summers' name is contrasted to a task that signifies exactly the opposite. It is his duty to run the annual lottery which, in the end, results in a life being sacrificed.
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Mr. Summers is described as "a roundfaced,jovial man." But as the story goes on, we see that Mr. Summers is not so jovial and not so leisurely. He is the person who keeps the lottery organized and moving along, and seems "very proper and important," as he spoke to people.
Summers nor do we know what he is thinking most of the time, therefore, making him a flat character.
Mr. Summers is described as a jovial man, who is in charge of organizing and conducting the annual lottery. Jackson writes that the villagers felt sorry for Mr. Summers because he had no children and his wife was a scold.
Mr. Graves is the postmaster of the village, a position that gives him enormous power since he controls the town's communications with the outside world.
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Xtreme PC (XPC) es fue revista de culto de los videojuegos publicada en Argentina desde 1997 hasta 2003. Fue la primera publicación especializada en consumo y desarrollo de juegos de computadora con sistema operativo Windows en ese país. Entre sus contenidos destacaban análisis y crítica de los juegos recientemente lanzados al mercado, anticipos de productos por lanzar, columnas de opinión y secciones humorísticas relacionadas con la cultura del videojuego.

Origen

Xtreme PC fue una creación original de Maximiliano Peñalver, Guillermo Belziti, Martín Varsano y Gastón Enrichetti. Fue producida en la ciudad de Buenos Aires y contaba con un formato impreso de distribución escalonada en kioscos de revistas de las principales capitales y ciudades de la Argentina. La revista, de tamaño A4, tenía entre 96 y 115 páginas a todo color, y solía ser acompañada de uno o dos CD-ROM con demos de juegos, software utilitario, fondos de pantalla, música y otros contenidos de interés para sus lectores.

La mayor parte de los integrantes del equipo original de la revista (números 1 a 51) se separó en 2001, conformando el sitio de Internet IRROMPIBLES y la revista del mismo nombre, en tanto el personal de la etapa final formó el sitio y revista Loaded.

Xtreme PC fue cancelada en 2003 con 58 números publicados.

En 2020, parte del staff de ambas revistas conformó Gnova Magazine, con Fernando Brischetto como director, incluyendo a Durgan A. Nallar, Rodolfo Laborde, Mario Marincovich e incluso con colaboraciones de Martin Varsano, y sigue su curso hoy en día.

Importancia

Xtreme PC es considerada la revista que dio el puntapié inicial para que se gestara un periodismo de videojuegos serio y profesional en la Argentina. Al momento de iniciar su publicación en noviembre de 1997, casi no había medios impresos especializados en videojuegos, y los pocos que había tenían un nivel poco profesional, apuntado a un público infantil o eran usados como un medio publicitario por empresas de distribución de consolas y videojuegos en el país.

Xtreme PC logró acaparar rápidamente la atención de los entusiastas de los videojuegos para PC, valiéndose de una identidad propia acorde al público argentino, de la cual carecían las revistas especializadas importadas del extranjero. Su éxito llevaría, al poco tiempo, a que la editorial lanzara también una revista especializada en videojuegos para consolas: Next Level.

"La hicimos porque queríamos tener material informativo y de lectura sobre nuestra pasión, los videojuegos, escrito en nuestro idioma y que no tomara a los juegos como una actividad para nenitos o descerebrados. Luego ampliamos con una revista más, centrada en consolas, Next Level. Ambas publicaciones marcaron una época, hubo toda una generación de jugadores que crecieron leyendo las revistas. Muchos la recuerdan todavía."

Tanto Xtreme PC como Next Level fueron las primeras y únicas revistas Argentinas que brindaron una cobertura presencial en eventos internacionales como E3 en Los Angeles, USA, con entrevistas y tapas exclusivas a nivel mundial, algo muy infrecuente en publicaciones de Latinoamérica, siendo nombrada la publicación más importante de la región por la empresa Interplay entre 1999 y 2000.

La influencia e importancia del periodismo de Xtreme PC también supo ser la primera en llevar noticias sobre la industria de videojuegos a una plataforma en línea de importancia como fue Datafull, perteneciente a 4 Cabezas, la empresa en ese entonces de Mario Pergolini. Cabe destacar también la cantidad de secciones y contenido original que ofrecía la revista, haciendo diferencia de publicaciones que se limitaban a tomar contenido enteramente de medios del exterior.

A través de 6 años y 58 números, Xtreme PC dejó una marca imborrable en la cultura gamer argentina que luego retomaría su influencia mediante las revistas Irrompibles y Loaded.

Editorial y personal a lo largo del tiempo
Tanto los directores como el personal y los periodistas participantes de la creación de Xtreme PC fueron variando a lo largo de los años, comenzando por la primera edición en noviembre de 1997:

Cúpula editorial

 Maximiliano Peñalver: Editor, Jefe de Redacción, Director General, Reviews, Notas Especiales y generales (1997 - 2003)
 Martin Varsano: Director de Arte, Diagramado, Corrección, Reviews, Notas Especiales y generales, Cobertura de eventos Internacional y local, Diseño Xtreme CD/Xtreme PC Online (1997 - 2002)
 Gastón Enrichetti: Director Creativo, Diagramado, Corrección, Reviews, Notas de Hardware (1997 - 2002)
 Guillermo Belziti: Redactor, Reviews, Retro (1997 - 1998)

Periodistas y personal [En editorial permanente]

 Santiago Videla: Reviews, Trucos y Soluciones, Notas Especiales, El Lado Bizarro (1998 - 2003)
 Fernando Brischetto: Prensa/P.R, Entrevistas, Cobertura de eventos Internacional y local, Xtreme CD, XPC Online/Datafull, Reviews, Retro, Fotografía, Trucos y Soluciones.(1997 - 2002)
 Durgan A. Nallar: Jefe de Redacción, Reviews, Notas Especiales y generales, El Jinete Sin Cabeza, La Zona 3D (1999 - 2002)
 Maximiliano Ferzzola: Reviews (Next Level), Notas Especiales, La Comarca (2000 -2002)
 Mauricio Urbides: Corrección (1999 - 2002)

Peridiodistas y personal [Personal externo]

 Durgan A. Nallar: Reviews, Notas Especiales (1998)
 Andrés Logercio: Producción publicitaria (1999 - 2002)
 Sebastián Di Nardo: Sección Irrompibles, Reviews, Colaborador de Arte (1997 - 2002)
 Rodrigo Peláez: Sección Irrompibles, Reviews (1999 - 2002)
 Diego Bournot: Reviews, Notas Especiales (1998 - 1999) - Jefe de Redacción (2002 - 2003)
 Máximo Frías: Reviews, Trucos y Soluciones, Notas Especiales (1998 - 2002)
 Mario Marincovich: Reviews, La Cosa Viscosa (1997 - 2002)
 José D'Angelo: Producción publicitaria (1997 - 1998)
Antonio Gimenez: Producción publicitaria (2002)
Marcelo Tracuzzi:  Producción publicitaria (2002 - 2003)

Colaboradores externos [entre 1998 y 2003]

 Daniel Herbon, Miguel Garcia, Gerardo Rossi, Daniel Del Buono, Juan Gril, Mariano Peñalver, Carlos Zota, Pablo Benveniste, Diego Rivas, Javier Peña, Jean Paul Roson, Bibiana Nieves Montero, Juan Pablo Gariglio, Hernán Saban.

Colaboradores externos [entre 2000 y 2003]

 Mariano Firpo, Diego Vitorero, Hernán Fernández, César Isola Isart, Pablo Balut, Martin Alonso, Sebastián Riveros, Pedro F. Hegoburu, Diego Estévez, Malvina Zacarías, Marcelo Manfredi, Fernando M. Coun, Erica Núñez Boess, Leonardo Panthou, Juan Ortelli, Marcelo Filgueiras.

Colaboradores externos [entre 2001 y 2003]

 Martin A. Espelosín, Lucas F. Antonelli, Guillermo Olmedo, Ariel Gentile, Marcelo Ramos, Dark Euridice, Ariel Gentile, Diego Aragunde, Francisco Raineri, Carla Callegari, Javier Paissán, Rodrigo Fernández, Patricio Land, Julian A. Callens, FIP/Floyd, Federico Bassano, Juan Cruz Bazterrica, Edgardo R. Rojas, Mariano del Olmo, Matías Zanardi.

Colaboradores externos [entre 2002 y 2003]

 Leonardo Vargas, Martin Erro, Alejandro Nigro, Manuel SIlva, Marcelo Peñalver, Andres Mikulik, Antonio Schmidel, Antonio Gimenez, Facundo Mounes.

Colaboradores externos [2003]

 Rodolfo Laborde, Armando Sal, Leandro Dias, Gonzalo Ballina, César Pereyra, Damián Silberstein,

Enlaces externos
 ¡Malditos Nerds! (ex Loaded)
 IRROMPIBLES: El gamer no muere. Respawnea.
Colección preservada en formato digital en Retromags
 Colección preservada en formato digital en Facebook
 Gnova Magazine -El universo Gamer nos une

Referencias

Revistas de Argentina
Revistas en español
Revistas mensuales

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The Minister of labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has implored the organised labour to accept a mutually agreeable new National Minimum Wage in order to avert labour crisis.
Though, the minister did not disclose the exact figure proposed, sources told THISDAY last night that the government team offered labour a new minimum wage of N20,000.
Ngige said that Nigeria could not afford rounds of labour crisis, hence, the imperative for the organised labour to accept a new National Minimum Wage figure based on the capacity and the ability of both the government and the private sector to pay in line with social dialogue and the overall interest of the nation.
In a statement issued yesterday by the Director Press in the Ministry, Samuel Olowookere, the minister made the appeal when he received the new Director General (DG) of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) Mr. Timothy Olawale and his predecessor, Mr. Olusegun Oshinowo, in his new office.
Ngige appealed to NECA to weigh its influence on the organised labour to accede to the new National Minimum Wage figure mutually agreeable to all the social partners.
"We need to arrive at a figure which the employers can afford to pay as an employee cannot fix a figure for the employer. Rather, it must be based on collective bargaining and mutual agreement by the tripartite partners. It is not a function of moving motions or voting at the National Tripartite Negotiation committee to insist that the figure must be as the organised labour appears to make it look," he said.
The minister cautioned against heating up the polity, adding that "government's proposed new minimum wage figure is clearly based on critical facts and indices incapable of causing disequilibrium in the economy or upturning the national social order".
He further charged the new NECA boss to exceed the impressive record of his predecessor.
"You have enormous task ahead of you. The need for the establishment of more NECA offices across the country cannot be over emphasised so that more employers association can register with you".
Ngige further said that the appeal was in tandem with the economic policies of the present administration.
According to the minister, the numerous private sector employers who are informal need to be brought on board the formalised private sector employers' body.
Governors of the 36 states of the federation under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum had on Wednesday declared that they were not opposed to the ongoing plans to approve a new minimum wage but that they lacked the capacity to foot the new wage bill.
The governors' position drew a sharp reaction from the organised labour, which spoke through the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, insisting that the implementation of a new minimum wage was over due.
Ngige however urged the new D-G of NECA to ensure that numerous private sector employers who are members of NECA as well as those not yet registered but are defaulting in payment of even the existing National Minimum Wage of N18, 000 are made to comply with the law.


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Senator CAMERON (New South Wales) (11:27): I was a union official for 27 years, and my day-to-day job was negotiation. Some of the negotiations that you entered into were negotiations that you did not think that you had a lot of chance of winning. But you had to work out a strategy, you had to sit down and look at what you can achieve and you had to push a little bit further than what you thought the employer was going to give you. When the employer eye-balled you and said, 'That's all we've got. If you don't accept what we are offering, you can go on strike or you can leave. You can do what you like, but we are not going to give you anymore,' that is when the tough choices had to be made. That is when you had to dig in. That is when working people dug in and said, 'We will call the bluff.' If workers and unions had behaved like the Greens have behaved in this set of negotiations, workers would still be earning very little, their penalty rates would be gone and their annual leave loading would be gone.
From time to time you actually have to show some courage and be tough in negotiations—the exact opposite to what the Greens have done in relation to these negotiations on tax avoidance and tax transparency in this country. They have just given in. They were weak in their strategic approach to the negotiations. They were incapable of understanding that what we should have achieved here was much more transparency and a much better outcome for the public purse and the national interest. The Greens did not show any courage. They did not show any negotiating skills. They did not show any capacity to actually understand the importance of this issue to the public purse. It is tragic that they would keel over so quickly to the Liberal Party and the National Party on this issue.
When you see Senator Heffernan up defending the Greens you know there is a problem. You know something has gone wrong. What has gone wrong is that Senator Di Natale did not have the capacity, did not have the courage and did not have the commitment to actually deal with this issue effectively, and I am not sure whether he had the backing of his party to do so. By simply giving in at the first sign of a bullet flying past you, by simply conceding at the first sign of the coalition eyeballing you and staring you down, demonstrates a major weakness in the Greens and a major weakness in their strategy and a major weakness in their leader's capacity to understand what is important for the Australian public.
You see, this issue now means that the political donors—the multimillionaires that are running companies around this country—who donate to the National Party and the Liberal Party, who fund their election campaigns, will now not pay their fair share of tax. They will continue to hide exactly how much tax they pay, yet ordinary workers in this country and families in this country are being told by those opposite that everything is on the table in terms of tax, including a GST. We know that a GST would leave families thousands of dollars worse off. They are maintaining a GST on the table to take more tax from ordinary working families who are battling to keep their heads above water now, battling to ensure that they can put school shoes on their kids' feet, battling to buy books for their kids to go to school and probably have not had a holiday for some years. They are the ones who are being targeted by this mob over here, while their mates who donate to them, who donate millions of dollars to the Liberal Party election coffers, are being let off scot-free. That is the problem here: if you donate to the Liberal Party and if you are a mate of the Liberal Party, then they will cover for you in terms of how much tax you pay.
The perfect example of that is 7-Eleven. The head of 7-Eleven presided over a company that ripped off migrant workers, that ripped off 457 workers and that ripped off every franchisee it could. Do they have to indicate how much tax they have paid? No, they do not, and why don't they? Because the Greens capitulated. Because the Greens did not have the courage, the capacity or the will to take on the coalition for transparency.
If you go back to the former Greens leader, the Greens were not a party that was determined to be in the mainstream. What is the mainstream for the Greens? Obviously, the mainstream for the Greens is to sit side-by-side with the coalition and their big business backers to hide what is happening in relation to tax in this country. If that is the mainstream, it is not the mainstream where the Labor Party wants to be. We do not want to be there. We want to be in the spot that makes sure that everybody pays their fair share of tax, especially the multimillionaires and especially those companies that are ripping off workers and want to get rid of their penalty rates while not paying an appropriate amount of tax in this country.
Big corporates are exploiting loopholes in our tax laws and the global nature of their business to avoid tax. That means that it is Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey's job to act now.
Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey are going to extreme lengths to defend the indefensible and protect the profits of the big end of town.
As well as increased transparency and reporting of subsidiaries, strengthening the tax act on profit shifting and properly resourcing the tax office, some further immediate steps we can take have been identified during the inquiry.
So Senator Milne kicked off the inquiry, Senator Dastyari took on that inquiry and took it to levels I do not think many other people would have taken it to in terms of exposing the rorts that were going on and exposing the unfairness of the tax system in this country. Senator Dastyari has done that and, after all that work, what do we have? We have the Greens doing a deal in return for what? In return for nothing. Did they get any deal on tax profit sharing and tax profit shifting, as their former leader wanted? No, they did not. Did they get more resources for the tax office as a result of negotiations on this bill? No, they did not. They sold out completely and utterly. Why did they sell out? Because they want to be so-called 'relevant'. They want to be in the mainstream .
My lesson for the Greens is that you do not become relevant and you do not judge the mainstream as supporting tax avoidance in this country and, if you continue to support tax avoidance in this country, what you will get is more pressure on ordinary families to give up more of their support systems from government. The coalition will continue to try to cut pensions. The coalition will continue to try to cut support from seniors. The coalition will continue to cut health in this country, to cut education funding in this country and will force the states to argue for a GST that will hit everybody and will hit the poorest hardest. That is the strategy that the coalition have set out to achieve.
I never thought for a minute that the Greens would be the ones who would not have any idea about that strategy or would capitulate to that strategy so quickly, capitulate in a way that leaves ordinary people in this country open to further attacks on their standard of living while the big end of town walks away untouched. That is what has happened with the Greens and, if that is the mainstream, the Greens should not be in the mainstream on these issues because the mainstream, according to your mates across on the bench with whom you are voting today, is about protecting the tax avoiders, protecting those who have wealth, power and privilege, making sure that inequality in this country increases because the big end of town, those who are rich, will not be paying the proper tax and ordinary battlers out there who go to work every day, battling hard to make a quid, battling hard to get food on the table for their family, they pay their mortgage or they pay their rent, they are going to have to pay more because this bill allows the tax rorters, the tax scammers and the tax avoiders to get away with it. That is what the coalition have done—backed in the avoiders, the scammers and the rorters. That is what has happened here.
… the Abbott government to immediately make public the ATO's settlement register so that everyone knows to what extent we are missing out on revenue from the big end of town.


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Of Young Pitchers, Nighttime Nick, and A Historic Pace
By Bud L. Ellis ⋅ August 9, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment
SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – This writer opined a few days ago that the Atlanta Braves rotation – ravaged by injuries and opt-outs and diminished velocity (let's hope the locusts stay away for a few more days) – would be best served by looking at a trio of long-promising starters and saying, "here's the ball."
One time through, nothing has changed my mind.
Sure, Sean Newcomb took the loss in Wednesday's 2-1 home defeat to Toronto and Kyle Wright saw a strong overall outing turn on two bad pitches in Saturday's 5-0 setback at Philadelphia. In the middle, Touki Toussaint spun a gem in Thursday's 10-1 rout of the Blue Jays, plus the bonus of a rainout Friday night in the City of Brotherly Love.
Through 25 percent of this season that borders more on the absurd with each passing day, the trio of Newcomb-Toussaint-Wright is a combined 0-3 with 27 earned runs allowed in 27 2/3 innings. But go a bit beyond the surface, and you'll see why I'm so bullish on giving each of these arms regular run through the Atlanta rotation.
Newcomb was a hard-luck loser against Toronto, coming one pitch away from getting out of the fifth inning. He walked one hitter (just two free passes over nine innings combined in his past two starts), gave up just five hits and struck out four. Two runs allowed on five hits with one walk and four strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings is something any major-league manager will take in this truncated 2020 season.
Toussaint was on from the first pitch the next night, surrendering three runs on four hits with no walks a career-high nine strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings, the best of his eight career big-league starts. Mixing in a quick-pitch delivery that reminded some of Johnny Cueto, the 24-year-old limited Toronto to one hit through the first six innings, finishing with 59 strikes in 83 pitches five days after allowing five runs in 2 2/3 innings in relief at Tampa Bay.
Wright tap-danced through trouble Sunday against the Mets, but did not allow a run despite four walks and five hits in 3 1/3 innings. Saturday was much better except for the fourth inning, when he hung a curveball that J.T. Realmuto smashed for a homer to lead off the inning. Later in the frame, after getting squeezed on what looked like a strike on the inside corner, Wright allowed a three-run shot to Jay Bruce on a hanging slider. Despite the two mistakes Wright pitched well, throwing 59 of his 91 pitches for strikes while walking three with three strikeouts in a career high-tying six innings.
There's plenty clamoring for Atlanta to make a trade (not happening, not at this point) or promote one of a promising batch of arms at the alternative training camp site. After one time through the rotation following the season-ending injury to Mike Soroka, the progress is there, even if the results aren't exactly what you want just yet. And you can't measure progress unless you let these guys keep taking the ball.
Nick at Nite Felt So Right
It wasn't Opening Day, there weren't 40,208 jammed into the ballpark, and Gabe Kapler wasn't coming out to yank Aaron Nola after 68 pitches with a five-run lead. But in a way, Thursday win felt a bit like March 29, 2018, when the Braves rallied in the season opener from a 5-0 deficit to stun the Phillies 8-5 on a walkoff homer by Nick Markakis.
Some 861 days after Markakis belted his first big-league walkoff into the Chop House and turned the ballpark then knows as SunTrust Park into delirium, the 36-year-old outfielder capped his first start since returning to the team after originally electing not to play due to COVID-19 with a solo homer in the ninth to lift Atlanta to a 4-3 victory.
In his first start since returning to the Braves, Nick Markakis called game with a solo homer in the ninth inning Thursday against Toronto.
Markakis causes plenty of debate on social media, which as I've mentioned before is so ironic because Nick Markakis and Twitter are about as similar as a lava pit and the Arctic Circle. With Ozzie Albies on the injured list with a right wrist bone contusion and Matt Adams joining him with a left hamstring strain, Markakis hitting fifth against a right-hander when Travis d'Arnaud sits is perfectly acceptable.
It also provided a pretty cool moment Thursday, regardless of how you feel about the veteran out of Woodstock (and, yes, Young Harris).
Ynoa Start? Here Ya Go, Huascar
I saw Huascar Ynoa make his big-league debut against the Phillies on June 16 last season, the hard-throwing right-hander allowing one hit with two strikeouts in two impressive innings. His lone other major-league appearance exactly one month later wasn't as smooth: six runs on five hits in one inning at Milwaukee.
Ynoa signed with Minnesota as a minor-league free agent, joining the Braves in the Jaime Garcia trade a week before the 2017 trade deadline. The 12th-ranked prospect in the Atlanta organization according to MLB Pipeline, Ynoa sits mid-90s with his fastball but touched the upper 90s during his relief appearances with the Braves a season ago. He pitched to a 5.33 ERA in 17 appearances (14 starts) at Triple-A in 2019, and Atlanta will look for him to get through the Phillies lineup at least one time to begin the first of two seven-inning contests Sunday.
Falling Off the Pace
Saturday's loss dropped the Braves to 9-6 on the season, which I'm sure is disappointing to fans. Not because Atlanta is on a .600 win pace so far (good for 97 wins in a 162-game season), but that defeat put the 2020 squad one game off the pace for best record ever by a Braves team through 15 games of a 60-game campaign.
Yep, the Braves franchise has done this before, but you have to go back … way back. All the way back to the 1878 season, when the Boston Red Stockings (they would become the Braves for the first time in 1912) went 41-19 en route to a second-consecutive National League pennant. A 1-0 victory over Indianapolis on June 13, 1878, lifted the Red Stockings to a 10-5 record, and pulled them within 1 ½ games of first place in the NL.
That victory was the fourth game of a stretch where Boston went 14-2. The Red Stockings would lead the NL by as many as 7 ½ games at the end of August before a 4-6 September resulted in a four-game cushion at the end of the season.
Far and away, there was one player who carried the lion's share of the load for the eventual pennant winners. Right-hander Tommy Bond led the NL with 40 victories, made 59 starts (yes, he started every game but one), went the distance in 57 of those assignments, pitched nine shutouts, posted a 2.06 ERA, and piled up a staggering 532 2/3 innings. He led the NL with 182 strikeouts; he also led the league in hits allowed (571) and homers surrendered (five).
Suffice to say, even if the 2020 Braves end up with a better record, those numbers won't be touched. And that 1878 campaign came one season after the Red Stockings also won the pennant with a 42-18-1 record. That one tie in the 61-game 1877 season? A 1-1 stalemate on opening day against the Hartfords of Brooklyn, who in time would become the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2020 Season Preview: Braves are Built Not Just to Survive, but Thrive, Entering Unprecedented Campaign
By Bud L. Ellis ⋅ July 23, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment
SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – Nobody could have predicted what we have been through the past few months. Nobody could imagine the impact the coronavirus would have on every single aspect of our everyday lives, on things far more serious than the doings of a baseball franchise seeking its first World Series title in a quarter-century.
Yet, in some weird way, Alex Anthopoulos built an Atlanta Braves team that seems poised to handle baseball's 60-game sprint quite well. It certainly wasn't foresight into what this 2020 baseball season would look like – one that will be as unprecedented as any baseball campaign in the history of the sport – but rather, by how the Braves general manager viewed his team after back-to-back National League East championships.
Anthopoulos felt the Braves needed depth in their bullpen. He first addressed it with three moves at last season's trade deadline, and further bolstered it by signing Will Smith in early November. There is the seemingly never-ending supply of pitching prospects gurgling in the upper levels of the minor leagues, including some arms the Braves hope are ready for prime-time duty under the bright lights of the majors.
The arrival of the designated hitter to the National League automatically lengthened Atlanta's lineup, a lineup that saw a logjam at third base with Austin Riley and Johan Camargo, plus a logjam in the outfield. Certainly, Ronald Acuna Jr. and Marcell Ozuna will be in the lineup almost every day, and even with Nick Markakis electing not to play, the Braves still have Ender Inciarte and Adam Duvall (plus Cristian Pache waiting in the wings).
Adding the designated hitter also can help these Braves address a deficiency that could be an Achilles heel – bats that mash right-handed pitching. Often those guys are left-handed hitters, and the Braves brought Matt Adams back this week hoping to see the type of power he displayed here three seasons ago. The reported and rumored signing of Yasiel Puig would have addressed that, too (the erstwhile Dodgers slugger bats right-handed, but features reverse splits). But once again, COVID-19 and 2020 reared its ugly head, Puig testing positive for the virus and announcing the news via social media just minutes after the Braves captain – Freddie Freeman – joyously trotted onto the field Friday at Truist Park, following his harrowing journey through having the virus.
Freddie Freeman has finished in the top eight in NL MVP voting four times, but the four-time All-Star found himself sick from COVID-19 in early July.
Freeman embarks on his 10th season in the majors; how has it been that long? Without question this is his team, much as Terry Pendleton led the early 90s Braves, much as Chipper Jones carried that torch for more than a decade. Thankfully, Freeman looks healthy and his swing looks great. A week ago, we all wondered what a Freeman-less Braves would look like embarking on a truncated schedule that begins with 20 games in 20 days, against plenty of great pitching.
Consider who the Braves may see in those opening 20 games: Jacob deGrom (twice) and Steven Matz of the Mets, Blake Snell and Charlie Morton of the Rays, Hyun Jin-Ryu of the Blue Jays, Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler of the Phillies, and Gerrit Cole of the Yankees. That's nine of your first 20 games against a group of pitchers who are on many people's short list of All-Star hurlers.
It's all going to be different. This isn't going to be your father's baseball season. The methodical marathon that frames our spring and summer evenings? Not this year, folks. This is a 400-yard dash for a sport accustomed to logging 26.2 miles. Teams that start quickly are going to be positioned to potentially steal playoff spots. But before crying doom and gloom if the Braves arrive at their first off day on Aug. 13 at 8-12, consider two schedule quirks across the final 40 games that might prove more important than having to start 14-6.
The middle 20 games: Atlanta faces Philadelphia and Washington 12 times. Six of the other eight are against Miami and Boston (this Red Sox team certainly is not of the ilk of the 2018 champs). Even if the Braves stumble a bit out of the gate, not only do they have an opportunity to catch up against two subpar teams in the middle part of the schedule, they also play 60 percent of their games in that stretch against the two teams I feel will challenge them for the NL East title.
The final 20 games: The Braves play 13 against the Marlins, Orioles and Red Sox. Atlanta ends the season with a seven-game homestand against Miami and Boston. The Yankees and the Rays are likely to rule the AL East, and Boston's pitching is quite suspect. Miami will be better; its young pitching is maturing, and the Marlins have a few guys who are developing into good players (they're a couple of years away from being a real problem for the NL East). If you're going to wrap up the season with a week at home, other than Baltimore, there are no two teams in the combined East you want to face than the Marlins and Red Sox.
What will it take to get to that point, 53 games in the books, one week to go, with a shot at October? The more I look at it, the more I think the Braves are built for this.
Atlanta's youthful exuberance, a hallmark of the Braves resurgence the past two seasons, remains (minus the hugs and high-fives). Acuna remains an emerging megastar. Ozzie Albies is developing into a star in his own right. The rotation is fronted by two of the better young arms in the game: Mike Soroka, the youngest pitcher in modern Braves history to earn an opening-day starting assignment, and Max Fried, who could develop into a sneaky Cy Young candidate if his change-up continues developing.
22-year-old Mike Soroka finished second in NL rookie-of-the-year voting in 2019 and sixth in Cy Young voting, providing a cool presence at the top of Atlanta's rotation entering his second full big-league season.
There are question marks. Can Cole Hamels get healthy? Can Dansby Swanson replicate his 2019 first half and postseason while staying healthy? Can Sean Newcomb and Mike Foltynewicz settle the middle of the rotation? Will Ender Inciarte start the season hitting like it's April or July? Can Smith, who is out with the virus but asymptomatic, test negative twice and get back on the mound?
We are forced to acknowledge the 50,000-pound weight hanging over all this. What happens after three weeks of play, of flying into different cities and staying in hotels then returning home, if positive tests spike and a team (be it the Braves or another team) finds itself with an outbreak? Nobody knows, and that's part of the trepidation I feel in offering a projection of where this Braves team lands when this season like no other reaches its conclusion on Sept. 27.
But we're going to hope and pray things go well – for every team in the majors – and we'll forge ahead with a best guess. And it's just that: a guess. We have no clue what's going to happen. There is no playbook, no guideposts. This is the strangest season preview I've ever authored, fitting for the strangest year of my life.
This incredibly unpredictable sprint rests on simple math. Each singular game is worth 2.7 times one regular game in a 162-game season (subscription required). If you win 37 games, that's a .616 win percentage (a 99-win pace over a full season). Win 27 games? That's a .450 win percentage (a 74-win pace).
I don't see these Braves reaching either that peak or that valley. Even with an 8-12 start, I think they're good enough – based on their depth, Freeman being ready from the jump, the young talent on the roster, and motivation after choking away what should have been the franchise's first postseason series victory in 18 years – to finish 34-26.
That's a 91-win pace over 162, and I think that's just enough to land the Braves one game ahead of Washington and two games ahead of Philadelphia. That would put Atlanta into the postseason party, and in a world where everything seems to have changed, the overarching goal has not:
Win 11 games in October and capture the World Series title. There is no telling who will do it, or what will happen along the way, but it's time to start the journey.
After all we've been through, how sweet that sounds.
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Braves Bring Pennant Fever Back Home to Atlanta
By Bud L. Ellis ⋅ August 27, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment
ATLANTA – It would've been folly back in spring to pinpoint the final Sunday of August in Miami and consider it a seminal moment, but in this 2018 Atlanta Braves season that toggles between fanciful and frightening, it makes perfect sense.
Game No. 130 on the 162-game schedule found the Braves wrapping up a seven-game road trip against the National League East cellar-dwellers, having won 12-of-21 during a hellish 22-game-in-20-day stretch that some feared would exhaust the pixie dust that seemingly has been sprinkled on this team.
And yet, there was plenty of dread entering the series finale after Atlanta scored exactly one run in its previous 22 innings, losing 1-0 and 3-1 contests to Miami as Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis – the veteran linchpins in the middle of the lineup – both fighting significant slumps at the same time. Not an optimal situation at this time of the year, especially considering the dynamic Ozzie Albies has been awful against right-handed pitching this month.
But as the case has been with this team, it's never nearly as bleak as it seems despite the constant roar on social media, a volume that surely will build as September dawns and the sprint to the finish begins.
The Braves scored four times in the final four innings Sunday, earning a 4-0 victory that sends Atlanta into its first off day since Aug. 6 with a three-game lead over Philadelphia in the NL East. When the gauntlet of games every day (including two doubleheaders) commenced Aug. 7, the Braves sat 1 ½ games in arrears of the Phillies.
Sunday concluded with the Braves owning a three-game advantage for the fifth consecutive day. No ground gained – Saturday marked an ample opportunity after the Phillies choked a five-run lead, but Atlanta only could scratch a Dansby Swanson solo homer – but overall it's still a win for the Braves, considering five days have elapsed from the calendar and the Phillies remain at arm's length.
It's a short arm, though, and seven of the final 10 games of the season loom against the lone challenger to the Braves (yes, you can administer last rites to the ghost of the Washington Nationals, who trail Atlanta by 8 ½ games and who dealt Daniel Murphy and Matt Adams in waiver-wire deals this week that signified everybody's favorite paper champion raising the white flag). It's not the time for the offense to turn south, and the Braves averaged 2.5 runs per game on the road trip while hitting .226 as a team with nearly as many strikeouts (44) as hits (45) entering Sunday.
But recall the old saying that pitching and defense wins championships. It applies here, as the Braves have been outstanding on the mound in recent days. Atlanta allowed six runs total in seven games on the swing, pitching to a 0.89 ERA as a staff with only nine extra-base hits allowed. Kevin Gausman, the Plan B after Pittsburgh overpaid grossly for Chris Archer at the trade deadline, owns a 1.69 ERA in five Atlanta starts after throwing five scoreless, one-hit innings Sunday to win his fourth consecutive decision.
Gausman's short outing Sunday can be attributed to being pinch-hit for in the sixth inning, when the Braves were trying to break through offensively nursing a 1-0 lead. It came one night after Brian Snitker left Anibal Sanchez hit for himself with runners on and two outs in a scoreless game, a decision that bit the manager when Sanchez – who is hitless on the season – struck out, then allowed the eventual game-winning run before leaving with a hamstring injury.
The Braves have been outstanding offensively for large stretches of the season, but in the past month the pitching staff – bolstered by the acquisition of Gausman and relievers Brad Brach and Jonny Venters, the steadying of Sean Newcomb and the sudden consistently good Julio Teheran – has given Atlanta a needed shot in the arm. That says nothing of the contribution by Touki Toussaint and Bryse Wilson, who excelled in winning their major-league debuts during the 22-in-20 stretch. Coupled with stellar defense – Ronald Acuna made another web-gem worthy catch Sunday, one night after Swanson made an acrobatic field-and-throw from short left field – the Braves are in a great position entering the final 32 games.
Now, it gets serious. A getaway day in Miami resulted in the perfect outcome for a team that desperately needs a day off, that only has two more the rest of the way. A surging Tampa Bay team, fresh off a sweep of Boston, arrives at SunTrust Park for two games starting Tuesday. The Cubs pop in for a makeup game, followed by three at home with the Pirates and then those aforementioned Red Sox for three games.
That precedes a seven-game road trip to Arizona and San Francisco, two locales where the Braves historically do not play well. That carries us into the next off day Sept. 13. Sixteen games in 16 days, pretty close to the grind Atlanta just concluded.
It would be nuts to suggest the Braves will gain 4 ½ games in the standings in that span, as they did during the stretch just ended. It is a brutal schedule, as the heat of the pennant race ratchets up to a temperature Braves Country has not experienced in half a decade. And once through that stretch, the final maddening sprint features series with the hottest team on the planet (St. Louis), the wounded but still dangerous corpse of the Nationals, and those seven head-to-head meetings with Philly (four in Atlanta; the final three games of the regular season on the road).
Suffice to say, if the Braves pop champagne and don celebratory T-shirts, they will have earned it. On the final Sunday of August, they found a way to grind out a much-needed victory.
They will need more of that in the final five weeks.
Braves at the Trade Deadline … Do They Have a Dance Partner?
ATLANTA — In the spring of 1986, the Atlanta Hawks were on their way to another playoff exit, the Atlanta Braves were on their way to another losing season, and I was on my way to the bustling metropolis of Macon, Ga., for the state junior beta convention.
The final night of the convention ended with a dance. I spent the majority of the evening tugging uncomfortably at my tie, filling up on snack food and talking sports with a group of fellow awkward teenagers, including a girl from my school with whom I was friends.
When the night's final song cued up, she grabbed my hand, led me on the dance floor and we slow danced. I never asked her why, I don't remember the song, I certainly didn't kiss her (I think I was paralyzed with shock) and I don't think either one of us spoke of the incident again. The only thing I could figure in the days and weeks that followed is she really wanted to dance with somebody, she seized the moment, and I was present at the right place at the right time.
Welcome to baseball's Trade Deadline, the time of year where the pressure of finding that right piece of a pennant-winning puzzle – or the opportunity to shed veteran payroll and snag future talent to accelerate a rebuild – brings together general managers and scouting directors, while 30 fanbases simultaneously salivate and shiver.
Braves General Manager John Coppolella
And tweet. Lord have mercy, do they ever.
The deadline arrives at 4 p.m. Monday and, with all apologizes to science fans anxiously counting down to the solar eclipse three weeks from now, this is the world-altering, awe-inspiring Monday on the calendar. It is circled on the calendar of every GM – real, wannabe or armchair – from coast to coast.
My Twitter feed in recent days has been fueled by almost every form of speculation possible, from the Braves acquiring a controllable ace that would vault Atlanta from the outside of the wild-card race squarely into the hunt for the World Series (or at least that's the logic applied) to the queries of whether Player X could be dealt, even though Player X probably wouldn't net more than a six-pack of Natty Light, a stale pretzel and a leftover ham sandwich.
(My apologizes to ham sandwich lovers everywhere. Cheese and mayo on toasted bread, please).
Look, here's the truth of the matter: The Braves have lost seven of their past eight games. The latest in a series of hellish road trips that has dotted the schedule finally appears to have torpedoed any fleeting glimpse of contending in the season's final two months. Even a .500 finish seems tentative at this point, but remember January and February and ask yourself if you'd be happy sitting at break-even on the evening of Oct. 1 (don't lie; you'd be thrilled).
It is a time of contrasting emotions. I get it. You love Brandon Phillips, the ATLien whose infectious smile and resurgent season has caused many of us to fall in love with the pride of Redan High. You are thrilled the Braves rescued Matt Adams from the end of the Cardinals' bench when Freddie Freeman got hurt, and Adams responded by turning the right-field seats at SunTrust Park into his own driving range.
But now that Freeman's back and Johan Camargo has emerged with a breakout season – so much so, Dansby Swanson is clean shaven and manning shortstop for Gwinnett – you want to see Phillips and Adams moved. You want Freeman, who honesty compels me to say has looked better than expected at third base, back at his natural position. You want Swanson promoted and back at shortstop as soon as he can string a couple of hits together for the G-Braves (who will be the Buttons or Sweet Teas or heaven knows what next season).
You want Ozzie Albies, who cannot legally buy alcohol but has raked Triple-A pitching, manning second base in the Northwest Atlanta suburbs and not the Northeast burbs. And with every at-bat he gets at Triple-A, 19-year-old phenom Ronald Acuna draws louder comparisons to Andruw Jones, whose 1996 season started in the low minors and ended with a World Series debut for the ages.
Knuckle-baller R.A. Dickey appears to be staying put at the non-waiver trade deadline
I get it. I feel ya. There's just one problem.
There is precious little demand for Adams, who only can play first base and who has cooled off somewhat since his white-hot start. There is not a market for Phillips, a veteran who has played only nine postseason games in his 16-year career and is a free agent come October. Whatever market for closer Jim Johnson, he of the back-to-back 50-save seasons in 2012-13 but he with the eight blown saves in 2017 and the $5 million price tag for 2018, has evaporated quicker than the hottest of hot takes burning up social media.
R.A. Dickey? He's a 42-year-old knuckleballer with an $8 million team option for next season and, to be frank, likely should be given a chance to make the Braves' roster in 2018 given the way he's pitched the past two months. Nick Markakis, who mans the position we all expect Acuna to take come April (or September, or yesterday)? That's $11 million for next season for a singles/doubles hitter with limited power.
Much like that cute gal who led me onto the dance floor so many years ago, you need a partner who wants to dance. You can offer the grandest of all packages, but if the other side says no, there is no deal.
So for all the folks with the patience of a gnat and the buildup of angst from a bad week of baseball, I say this: relax.
Yes, 4 p.m. Monday will come and go, and the world will keep spinning. The Braves will be wrapping up their road trip when the deadline passes. No matter what does or does not happen, they will fly back to Atlanta Monday evening and hit the field for Tuesday's game with the Dodgers.
Maybe John Coppolella walks across the floor and takes somebody's unsuspecting hand in the hours leading up to the deadline. You know, I know, we all know he's trying, looking to uncover every possibility and explore every scenario. The feeling here says nothing major happens, that for Braves County the deadline will pass uneventfully.
But at the same time, I had no idea I'd be on that dance floor so many years ago.
The 'Swanson Situation' Requires Patience, Long-Term View
ATLANTA — The ball leaves the pitcher's hand, takes its appointed path bending toward the outside corner of the plate, and the batter swings over the top of the sliding sphere as the ball thuds into the catcher's mitt.
The umpire cries, "strike three," the crowd groans, and the 23-year-old hitter with the boyish good looks, the gorgeous hair, the aw-sucks temperament, and the weight of a hometown team and hometown friends on his young shoulders begins the walk back to the dugout.
It is a common refrain we have seen from Dansby Swanson through the first four months of this 2017 baseball season, the first full campaign of major-league duty for Cobb County's favorite son, a locale which by coincidence also is hosting the Atlanta Braves for the first season in brand-new SunTrust Park.
Entering play Sunday, SS Dansby Swanson was batting just .210 with a .593 OPS and -0.3 WAR
Swanson was anointed by the Braves fanbase as a linchpin of the team's future, a key cog in the rebuild of the once-proud franchise that promised a return to baseball prominence while moving into a new home park. And the kid did nothing to shake that faith upon being summoned last August from Double-A Mississippi to man shortstop for his hometown team, hitting .302 across his first 38 big-league games while flashing the type of defense and leadership that led him through a successful college career at Vanderbilt before Arizona made him the top overall pick in the 2015 draft.
But the numbers in 2017 have not been kind. Entering Sunday's contest at Los Angeles, Swanson was hitting .210 with an OPS of .593 and 84 strikeouts in 319 at-bats. With Johan Camargo's emergence as an impact player in an already-crowded Braves infield, Swanson's struggles have presented Atlanta manager Brian Snitker a difficult decision every time he fills out the lineup card.
The common answer of late has been to sit Swanson, who did not start Sunday and has a scant four hits in 43 July at-bats. Camargo, by comparison, brought a .336 average entering Sunday since begin recalled from the minors June 2.
Camargo must play. Despite the numbers, Swanson has to play, too.
Were the Braves knocking on the door of a playoff spot, were this 2018 or 2019 and Atlanta was four or five years into this rebuild, this conversation takes a different turn. There is no doubt a guy batting so close to the Mendoza Line with so many strikeouts would not warrant being in the regular starting eight in the midst of a pennant race.
But a news flash to all the GMs and managers currently filling their social media accounts with the not-so-hot takes of "send Dansby to Gwinnett" … that is not the right answer. Not right now.
Rookies struggle. It has happened as long as this game has been played, and will be the case long after you and me and Swanson and Camargo and Snitker have watched our final game. Opponents are smart. They have adjusted to Swanson, who thusly has struggled with adjusting back to the new attack plan of pounding sliders low and away. Face it. It happens.
But what value is provided by sending Swanson to Triple-A, a level he skipped in getting his promotion to The Show last summer? From a confidence and attitude standpoint, there would not be any worries. Swanson has been in the spotlight since suiting up for Marietta High, a mere 10.8 miles from the new home of the Braves, a glare further enhanced by winning Most Outstanding Player while leading Vanderbilt to the 2014 College World Series title. A brief step back to collect himself would not harm a kid who has experienced so much at such a high level, whose confidence and demeanor indicate a guy who gets it, one who the Atlanta front office has placed tremendous trust in so early in his career.
Braves SS Dansby Swanson
But what would Swanson see at Triple-A that would impact his development? Short answer: very little. He needs to play every day, against major-league pitching. Yes, there invariably will be bumps in the road. Every young player experiences dry spells. David Justice, who hit .279 with 305 homers in a successful major-league career, started his big-league days by going 1-for-20. Some kids struggle out of the gate; others hit a roadblock after a few months.
The best path forward for Swanson is to be in the lineup as much as possible. With the trade deadline looming next week and the possibility Atlanta will move first baseman Matt Adams – a move that would shift Freddie Freeman back to first base permanently – and potentially veteran second baseman Brandon Phillips, the logjam in the Braves infield soon may ease.
But even if the Braves keep Adams and Phillips, they – and their fanbase – must continue to keep focus on the development of Atlanta's rebuild. There is no denying Swanson is a critical component of the retooling of this franchise. Beyond being a co-face of the franchise with Freeman, Swanson's skill sets and potential as an impactful bat and glove scream that the kid needs to play, to work through his struggles, to get better against major-league pitching in major-league games.
The Braves are not going to play in the World Series in 2017. If they did, it would be the greatest miracle since the 1991 Braves found themselves in the 10th inning of Game 7 of that season's Fall Classic. Atlanta likely is not going to make the playoffs this season. It has been awesome to see this team battle to stay on the fringes of the wild-card race, but that is not the ultimate goal.
The goal is to win championships, plural. The time for that is coming, and maybe sooner than many of us think. But to get to that level, Swanson must be productive. There is no harm in letting the kid figure it out right now. From the potential we've glimpsed of this kid and his team, the prudent move is to shove aside the "right-now" perspective and adopt the "long-term" approach.
In this era of instant gratification and wanting results yesterday, that's not an easy mindset to adopt. But the approach that keeps Swanson playing on a regular basis in the majors is the right approach.


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Morgan Evans Supports His "Homecoming Queen" In A Touching Post
Morgan Evans Supports His "Homecoming Queen" In A Touching Post
Carolyn Kruse - Midday Radio Chica	September 6th, 2019
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Singers Morgan Evans (L) and Kelsea Ballerini attend 2017 Billboard Power 100 - Inside at Cecconi's on February 9, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Billboard)
Sometimes only a few words are needed to stir up a healthy batch of emotions. Today, country star Morgan Evans, shared the most beautiful, simple and concise post on Instagram, in support of his wife, Kelsea Ballerini.
He's not just a husband, he's a fan…and it's fantastically charming!
I could rave about this, I could brag about her, but I don't need to. This song does it all. Go listen now. The first page of an incredible new chapter x
Kelsea dropped a new single today called, "Homecoming Queen?," which you've likely heard by now on Country 1025. If not, tune in and you will! It's been a minute since her last single, and fans have been clamoring for new music. The wait was worth it. This could be the song that puts Kelsea in a whole new stratosphere. It's incredibly vulnerable and exposes a more modest artist. Truths are revealed and Kelsea effectively delivers the message that it's important for people to express the imperfections of life, not just the Instagrammable ideal.
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