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As a China filter press manufacturer, here sorry to inform: because of hot temperature and big market demand, recently our filter press delivery will be a little delay by about 1 week.
The plate frame filter press is the popular solid-liquid separation equipment, and it's widely used for many industries. And now, the many countries strongly support environmental protection, so the filter presses has great demand. SINO FILTRATION devotes to the high quality filter press and recently there are many orders are under producing. Additionally, July, the hottest month in China, the temperature has reached more than 38 centigrade. This will also cause some inconvenience on the filter press manufacturing.
Of course, we will try our best to improve the producing efficiency to catch the filter press delivery time. Here we also suggest please place the order earlier, so that we can arrange your order as early as possible. This situation will changed after middle August.

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Sunday, the 14th was Mothers' Day, and tomorrow, the 16th is Peter's Birthday. We had quite a few visitors yesterday and received congratulations and gifts. Peter's cakes were praised a lot. In the evening Caroline's future mother-in-law came to visit, and we had a very pleasant evening with her as well as Caroline and Matthew.
This time I took no pictures of any of our guests. However I took lots of pictures earlier on that Sunday morning.
The coffee cups are filled, Caroline served some fried eggs and Peter has poured the "Bubbly". We also had a lovely Vietnamese bread-roll each (warmed up in the oven) and of course some butter.
During the morning Caroline cooked some chicken soup for her Papa to enjoy during the week. She was concerned that Peter would not find the time to cook the soup for himself as he usually does. She knows that I am not so keen on cooking this soup since I do not like the smell or taste of such soup. This is very odd, I guess, that I am very sensitive to the smell of chicken. While this soup was cooking, I went for a little walk and took some pictures. I always find my walks more enjoyable when I can frequently pause to take pictures!
When I returned home later on I did some cooking for lunch: Potatoes, Sauerkohl, heated up red cabbage and Bacon Pork Chops. For desert we had vanilla ice-cream and cherries. And for drinks we had beer and/or wine.
I had already left home while Peter was getting ready for his outing. I was surprised when he passed me and could not resist to take this picture of him!
I liked it that I had time to stroll on a bit further. I ended up in a street where I had not been for a while. The above street sign is now nearly totally engulfed by this well growing palm tree.
I went along that lane walkway that is to be seen in the other picture. Next to the lane on the left side is this huge tree. I wonder, has it grown any further since I saw it last. Some time ago the man who lives on the right side of the lane talked to me about this tree. He was very concerned that one day in a storm it might fall over on his house!
Today now, I took some pictures of the presents that Peter and me received yesterday. The bottle of Greek Brandy Peter and I bought together for we do not want to give to each other any other gifts. As can be seen, we shared about half the bottle with our guests the previous night.


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Her hands were bleeding profusely. She drank from them to stay hydrated. She was so thirsty but she had to keep moving. The sun was about to set and she couldn't let herself be caught.
They would show no mercy.
It was barbed wire after barbed wire. Yet she climbed through them all. She should enter the Olympics. She would get the gold.
Her tears had an odd taste today. Was it mixed with blood? Ammonia?
Despite her stamina, she needed to rest.
Her eyes opened widely. She gasped. Her hands were still bound. The walls still white.
Categories: Culture, Health, mental health, photography, Psychology, women, writing prompt


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BBC Review
Hugely impressive debut LP from the Liverpool trio.
John Aizlewood 2012
It took The Pierces four albums to evolve from mistresses of knowing folky quirk into genuine contenders owing as much to peak-period Fleetwood Mac and The Bangles as Bat for Lashes and Kate Bush. It's taken all-female trio Stealing Sheep a couple of EPs and this debut to make a similar journey. They eschew the Pierce sisters' US west coast influences, but in one giant leap they've announced themselves as great prospects.
Stealing Sheep have been quietly building a reputation since forming in a Liverpool city centre café in 2010. Those EPs and a brace of sparkling singles whetted appetites and, with Lykke Li, Florence Welch and Regina Spektor edging into the mainstream, the musical sands have shifted their way.
Unashamedly folk-influenced, but much, much broader of palette, Stealing Sheep operate as Queen did before Innuendo, in that Becky Hawley, Emily Lansley and Lucy Mercer contribute songs separately. Then (as with Queen, but there the similarities end), the group merge in the studio to shine and polish the rough diamonds.
Their calling card is simple in theory: divine harmonies which take in Swingle Singers-like fireworks on Shut Eye; pounding, hand-clappy percussion which resembles a military tattoo on White Lies; and lavishly layered melodies, even when The Garden threatens to turn into first a madrigal and then The Pierces' Secret.
Others would leave it there and claim job done, but Stealing Sheep come back for more and it's their ear for detail that makes them so potentially special. Circles sounds threatening and cheery in the same breath, but maverick enhancements abound, be it the startling brass which cascades through White Lies, the Krautrock keyboards which infuse Gold and the whole of Rearrange, which somehow finds room for a guitar solo surely inspired by Classical Gas.
They save the best until last with the outstanding Bear Tracks, which begins sparsely with drum and Lansley's voice, before exploding into something altogether more symphonic. It factors in staggeringly beautiful, wordless harmonies, twangsome guitars, and more Can-style noodling before it pauses for breath and collapses into an Erik Satie-recalling piano coda. If they can pull this glorious folly together live, Stealing Sheep will be unstoppable.


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Jordan Crawford in 2012-13 with the Wizards: Steez-less in DC
[Wizards 2012-13 Player Reviews from the TAI crew are going down; let's reflect—index so far:
Jannero Pargo, Jason Collins, Shaun Livingston, Shelvin Mack, Cartier Martin, Earl Barron,
Jan Vesely, Chris Singleton, Trevor Booker, Garrett Temple, Emeka Okafor, Trevor Ariza,
Martell Webster, A.J. Price, Jordan Crawford, Kevin Seraphin, Bradley Beal, Nene, John Wall.]
Jordan Crawford
6-4 : Height
195 lbs. : Weight
24 : Age
3 : Years NBA Experience
3 : NBA Teams
Acquired by the Wizards along with Mike Bibby, Mo Evans and a 2011 first round pick (Chris Singleton) from the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Kirk Hinrich and Hilton Armstrong on Feb. 23, 2011
Traded by the Wizards to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Jason Collins and Leandro Barbosa on Feb. 21, 2013.
Time as a Wizard in 2012-13
43 : Games
12 : Starts
1,127 : Minutes
1.5 out of 3 stars
Average Truth About It.net DC Council Game Rating
{Crawford evaluated over 33 games}
NBA historical PER contribution equivalent:
maybe Ronald "Flip" Murray for the 2008-09 Atlanta Hawks (14.7)
maybe Charlie Bell for the 2005-06 Milwaukee Bucks (14.7),
maybe Latrell Sprewell for the 2003-04 Minnesota Timberwolves (14.7)
.058 Win Shares/48 Minutes
NBA historical WS/48 contribution equivalent:
maybe Carlos Arroyo for the 2002-03 Utah Jazz (.058),
maybe Haywoode Workman for the 1990-91 Washington Bullets (.058),
maybe John Bagley for the 1986-87 Cleveland Cavaliers (.058)
With Jordan Crawford on the Court…
The Wizards offense scored 8.4 points less per 100 possessions (OffRtg)
The Wizards defense allowed 0.2 points less per 100 possessions (DefRtg)
Plus/Minus per 48 minutes: minus-7.4
Numbers : Per 36 Minutes
18.1 : Points
4.3 : Rebounds
0.2 : Blocks
0.9 : Steals
5.0 : Assists
3.1 : Turnovers
1.9 : Fouls
Crawford had 640 offensive possessions with the Wizards that ended with a FGA, TO or FTs, and he scored 0.87 Points Per Possession (PPP) on those, ranked 279th in the NBA (via Synergy Sports Technology). Defensively, he allowed 0.87 PPP over 296 possessions, ranked 196th.
41.5% Field Goals (211-508)
34.5% 3-Pointers (59-171)
82.1% Free Throws (87-106)
[stats via NBA.com/stats and Basketball-Reference.com]
Jordan Crawford in 2012-13 with the Wizards:
Steez-less in DC
by Rashad Mobley (@Rashad20)
At the beginning of the 2011-12 lockout-shortened season, Jordan Crawford was named Washington's starting two-guard. This was mainly because Nick Young didn't accept the one-year qualifying offer until right before the second of only two preseason games. But by game three of the regular season, Young returned to the starting lineup, and Crawford did not start again until two months later when Randy Wittman decided that Young (and JaVale McGee) were not getting the job done. In mid-April, with Crawford starting and thriving after the departure of Young in late-February via trade, Washington Post writer Michael Lee asked Crawford about when he lost his starting job at the beginning of the season:
"It wasn't my job at all. I didn't get a chance to lose it. You could all kind of see that I was just holding a position. It wasn't that they really wanted me to start. That was more disappointing than anything, the fact that I came in wanting more and I was trying to show them that I can bring some winning here, too."
Three months later, before the start of the 2012-13 season, Crawford found himself in a similar situation. The Wizards drafted shooting guard Bradley Beal with the third pick in the 2012 draft with the hopes that he and Wall would share a backcourt for 10-12 years. Crawford, who had every right to be annoyed that his starting job was under siege again, handled the situation with class:
"We had to get him. I think he was the best available. He's the best player, got an NBA body and we needed a guard. We needed him. He's going to be a great addition to the team. I was definitely inspired, because you definitely want to show players why you're here, too. So I mean, it's going to be fun. I'm very excited."
Over November and December of 2012, with Wall and Nene both missing games due to injury and Beal still learning the ways of the NBA, Crawford was the go-to player for the Wizards (or as he would say, "who else gon' shoot?"). Despite starting just 12 of the first 29 games, Crawford averaged 15 points and a surprisingly high 4.8 assists a game. When A.J. Price broke his hand in early December, leaving the Wizards shorthanded at the point guard position, it was Crawford who stepped up and assumed more ball-handling duties.
His best game as the primary ball-handler came against his good friend Jeff Teague and the Atlanta Hawks. Crawford messed around and got a triple-double (27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists) and committed just one turnover in 44 minutes of play. But the Wizards lost that game and 25 of their first 29 games, and Crawford's play was one of the few bright spots. Wittman expressed admiration for his fight and competitiveness. Team owner Ted Leonsis dedicated an entire entry on his blog, Ted's Take, to Crawford's inspired play.
Washington's 30th game of the season, a loss to the Brooklyn Nets, is when Jordan Crawford's downfall began. Statistics-wise, Crawford had a decent game (23 points and six rebounds) but in the first overtime period, Crawford had defensive lapses, he held on to the ball for too long, and he missed two free throws that would have given the Wizards a three-point lead with 15 seconds left. To make matters worse, Beal, the man who took his place as the starting shooting guard, had one of his best games of the season with 24 points.
The next night against the Miami Heat, Crawford scored just two points on 1-for-7 shooting, and it was clear his confidence was shaken. Two games after that, Crawford tweaked his ankle and missed two weeks. Bradley Beal then began his ascent towards greatness, and John Wall returned from injury. The Wizards no longer needed Crawford to score and be a playmaker, they needed him to fit into the team concept with Wall, Beal and Nene—three players who were the answer to Crawford's previous question, "Who else gon' shoot?"
Crawford and his steez did have one last hurrah, when he hit this game-winning shot against the Portland Trailblazers on February 14:
But for the most part, Crawford had been phased out of the Wizards' lineup. First it was Nick Young, then it was Bradley Beal, and the final time it was due to Crawford's inability to adjust to the new team concept. He began pouting on the bench, he tweeted his December stats as a way of telling the Wizards remember me?, and he had four straight "DNP-CDs." The Wizards finally put Crawford out of his misery on February 21, 2013, and traded him to the Boston Celtics for Leandro Barbosa and Jason Collins.
Crawford went to the playoffs for the first time in his career as a member of the Celtics, but aside from this dust-up with Carmelo Anthony (which, in the least, got him on the cover of the New York Daily News), he was a non-factor and averaged just 9.1 points in 21 minutes of play. He did, however, find time to slam the Wizards' treatment of him in another interview with the Post's Michael Lee:
"If they would've accepted what I was doing, plain and simple," Crawford said, when asked what could've kept him in a Wizards uniform. "I put in the work. Nobody else doing what I'm doing. I could've won them more games and that's what they wanted from me; I think they wanted me to be Superman a little bit. But if I put up a triple-double trying to get them a win and you come in and blame the whole game on me, you know what time it is. You see what it is."
The harsh reality is that Crawford was at his best when the Wizards were shorthanded and barely staying afloat. He had the greenest of green lights to shoot, and without Wall, a healthy Nene and an experienced Bradley Beal, he thrived under low expectations. But when the team was at full strength and winning more frequently, Crawford lost his confidence, his game, and ultimately a spot on Washington's roster. It brings to mind something Dwyane Wade said about Crawford after he lit the Heat up for 39 points two years ago:
"He shot the ball well. Like I said, they were free shots. He's a scorer, he played with a lot of heart, he's a tough kid, but it's a little bit different when you're playing for something than when you're not. But he had a free mind, and he hit some good shoots, some big shots, so credit to him."
Sorry Jordan, but THAT seems to be your steez.
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S: Frankie ~ July 2011 - July 2012 | a | n | k | k
BC: Today is your day to celebrate your day to be the star so let the ones you love all cheer and say how special you are A year of fun and happiness is my birthday wish for you You are someone special and your birthday should be too!
FC: Frankie | F | July 2011 - July 2012 | r | a | n | k | i | e
2: Family Tradition in Wildwood Crest - Courier Post - | The conventional family vacation to the shore takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the Cox brood -- dozens of them -- who will visit Wildwood Crest this week. For the 30th straight year. The annual gathering started out with just a handful of family members renting out the bottom floor of a three-story home on Seaview Avenue. The South Jersey clan moved to a five-bedroom house on Louisville Street 18 years ago, and this year another four-bedroom house around the corner and motel rooms across the street are necessities. | "Now I sit and wonder," laughed Matriarch Bernice Cox Brown, after settling into the Louisville Street home Saturday afternoon. "Where did all these people come from?" The group consists of four generations, five children, 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren of Brown, who lives in Lewes, Del., and will turn 75 in August. The youngest vacationer, Baby Joey, is 6 weeks old. Upon returning to the house, Brown said, "It looks like it always does. Until we all get here. Then it gets a little hectic. But we all enjoy it, the kids really look forward to it, and it's a tradition that they'll keep on long after I'm gone." Kelly Krawchuck, Brown's granddaughter, said Friday the week is filled with various activities and traditions, such as cooking contests, Brown's spaghetti dinner today, "rides night" and trips for ice cream.
3: "One night for the rides on the boardwalk, that was always the rule," said Krawchuck, 31. "I remember that as a kid we always had to take a nap before we went. As we got older, it became a real big deal and we'd make sure we had our hair and makeup all done up." Krawchuck's mother, Colleen DeLucca, cites a "casino night" that was started a few years ago. "My sister, Karen, used to be a blackjack dealer at the casinos," said DeLucca, 55, of Blackwood. "So we decided to have a casino night. All the kids ante up their 50 cents and they can win a couple of bucks." But keeping all the kids occupied can be a struggle, DeLucca said, especially in bad weather. "I remember about 10 years ago it rained the whole week," she recalled. "We must have played about 40 games of bingo and we rented a whole lot of movies. "We still had fun, and there hasn't been a summer yet that it hasn't been an enjoyable vacation." "Gram" Brown -- or "GG" to the great-grandkids -- said despite the crowded quarters, everyone gets along. "That's what I really like," Brown mused. "Everybody loves everybody. I think it's very rare to find a family without some dissension." There are moments, however, like when her two sons stay up late on the front porch. "My bedroom is catty-corner to the porch," Brown said. "And after they've had a few beers they try to out talk each other. There's been many a time I've had to tell them to keep it down." Son Mike Cox, 45, laughs it off. "Yeah, she's always yelling at us. We just quiet down for a minute and then just wait until she goes back upstairs. We're just having fun," said the Gloucester City resident, who has made at least part of the vacation each of the 30 years. "It's great to come to the shore and be with my family." His 48-year-old brother Eric, who bragged that he won the first two cooking contests the family started five years ago, has also made it to the beach every year. "We're a real close family, and even with that many people it goes really well. It's actually pretty funny. You wake up in the morning and come downstairs and there's people all over the place -- in sleeping bags on the floor, on the couches and chairs." Eric's wife, Lyn, said she had no idea what she was getting into when she married into the large Cox family. "But the vacation's have been wonderful," she enthused. "Every year at work they laugh at me because I get happier and happier as it gets closer to vacation time." About 25 members of the family had arrived by 5 p.m. Saturday. Five of the women were at the grocery store shopping for the entire brood; a couple of the men had just returned from the liquor store. As the family showed up, Colleen DeLucca said brightly, "The party has started."
8: Life is better at the
20: Family Fun at the Phillies Game!
22: Snack Time!
23: Puppy Love!
24: Fun in the Sun
25: Happy Birthday GG!
26: The Many Faces of Frankie!
30: Yummy Yummy In My Tummy!
33: Decorating Pumpkins with Joey
34: Annual Hayrides at Uncle Frankie & Aunt NJ's
36: Happy Halloween 2011 | Trick or Treat!
40: Storybook Land
42: Frankie & Dominick with Santa
43: Dominick with Mrs. Clause
44: Helping Mommy Bake Some Cookies!
48: Christmas Morning
52: Adventure Aquarium
56: Brotherly Love!
57: Lets Go For A Walk!
58: Baking a Cake for Mommy!
59: Happy Birthday Mommy!
60: Welcome to the World Baby Dylan!
63: Happy Easter
66: Happy Mother's Day!
68: Best Friends with 15 Tyler!
70: Yummy Yummy Fruit Salad!!
72: First Surgery - Getting My Appendix Out
73: Sleeping with Daddy in the ER | 1st Room at CHOP | View from Room on 9 South | Mom & Dad got to see me in recovery right after surgery | 2nd Room at CHOP | Sleeping off the anesthesia
74: Sleeping with Daddy | Sleeping | All curled up sleeping | Watching TV, and on Mommy's Iphone trying to relax | View from main lobby up to my room | Sleeping with Mommy
75: Sitting Up in the Crib | Playing with Legos and watching TV | Trying a Popsicle | Yummy Popsicle - You ate the whole thing! | Starting to feel better - Playing with GG | GG was being so silly!!!!
76: Playing with my stuffed animals and GG | Playing with my Thomas Train | GG and Geor | Mommy and one of my nurses! | First time walking while in CHOP | Going for a walk
77: Walking with the family! | You walked all the way to the Front Lobby! | Waving Hi | Elevator ride back to the room with Aunt Kali | Mommy, Daddy and I
78: With Aunt Kali | Waving Hi with Dad | Walking with Mom and Dad | Still smiling even with all we have been through! | View from my 3rd room | Recovery after getting the PICC line in
79: Finally allowed to eat something - Yummy Cheerios! | Mommy being silly on the cot they got for her! | Drawing in the playroom | Full of smiles! | Looking out the window with Dad | Being silly with Mommy!
80: Wow, hope everything goes well, we will be thinking about you. - Mindy Whalen | Hope all will go well sending prayers for a speedy recovery. - Barbara Stroup | I'll be thinking of you all and praying things go well. Hope he is back to himself soon! - Debbie Redrow | Oh my!! Lots of hugs and kisses from me and Connor man!! - Mysti Specht | Hope he feels better soon! - Rose Funkhouser | Give Frankie a big hug for me! Hope everything goes well, keep us all updated! Love you guys! - Tara Morello | Praying Casey!! - Eric Cox Jr. | Hope he gets better fast. - Amy Fuller | Prayers and good thoughts for the little guy. - Geri Heilig | Poor little guy! Thinking of you guys - Jaime Mckinney Wells | Oh no! I'll be praying for him! Hope he gets better soon! - Lisa Davenport | Prayers! Thinking of you guys. Hope all goes smoothly. - Sara McMahon | Oh Boy, poor little man! - Aunt Jeanine | I hope he feels better. I love you guys. Wish u all the best! - Tori | Awww feel better Frankie!! - Allison Mair | Sending prayers and wishes for a quick recovery! - Stacy Smith | You and your family will be in my prayers and thoughts! - Katherine Reilly | Best wishes for a speedy recovery, so sorry! - Jenn Ward | Prays for Frankie! - Robin Geary | Thinking of you guys and praying for a speedy recovery for him! - Christie Conn | I'll be praying for him and you guys! - Tina Stowell | Oh Casey, thinking of you guys all day! You are all in my prayers! - Patti Maguire Churchill | Keeping you in my prayers!! - Melissa Riley | Love and Support From Family & Friends! | Just checking in to see how you ALL are doing. Let me know if you need anything! Sending him lots of hugs and kisses!!! - Aunt Kali | Poor Guy. When you see him let him know that we're praying for him and give him hugs n kisses! - Aunt Lyn | How's my little man? If there is anything you need, cleaning store whatever just let me know. - Aunt Jeanine | God Casey - I 'll be thinking about you guys! - Aunt Karen | How is my Pumpkin Head doing? Hopefully still getting some sleep. I'll check in with you in the morning. Call me if there are any changes. - Gammy | Hugs & Kisses and lots of Prayers - Pop | Lots of Well wishes! - Pop Pop, Pop, Me Mom, GG | Lots of Prayers, Hugs & Kisses - Aunt Kelly, Uncle Paul, Dominick, and Dylan | Sending Love your way! - Pop Pop | Watching over you from Heaven - Your Own Guardian Angel Nana | Give him lots of kisses for me and one Frankie Look!! - Aunt Glor | Thinking of you guys - Grandma Johnson
81: That has to be so scary as a mom. Good luck today, I'll be praying for you guys! - Lauren Burke | Will keep him in our prayers!! - Lyn Cox | Awww... hope everything goes smoothly! Poor little guy! - Nicole Chiaravalloti | Sending prayers his way! Hope he is feeling better soon! - Kelly-Jean Zellers | Oh no!!! Thinking about you guys this morning and hoping he feels better soon :) - Amanda Redrow | Hope he is ok Casey!!! - Jessica Butler | Oh no!!! So sorry Case, thinking of you guys! - Brittany Gafas | Oh poor baby...Praying he has a speedy recovery and all goes well! Thinking of you guys!!!! Hugs!! - Heather Picone | Wow he is young for that! Good luck and prayers for a speedy recovery! - Cyane McCorkle | Oh no! Poor little guy. - Lynn Golley | Poor baby! Let me know if you need anything. - Joy Ankine Carlin | Feel better fast little man!! - Beverly Layton-Deleandro | Aww poor baby!! Send love and hugs! - Brianna Lee | Thinking of you and keeping you all in my prayers! - Jessica Doran | We send our love to u three. Theres not a minute we don't think about u! Xoxoxoxoxo Kiera, Jayce, Isabella, Kaleena and Pop-Pop - Kaleena Conn | Casey...thoughts and prayers with you two and frankie;-) - Shannon Broome | Glad everything went well! - Lorraine Hecksher | I'm so glad he's ok! Let me know if you need anything. Tell your sister too... If she needs me to watch the kids so she can come be with you I can! - Tammy | Prayers n thoughts with you and ur little one!! - Geralyn Charli Duden | So glad to hear everything went well and he is now on a road to recovery. - Joy Ankine Carlin | Glad all went well Well be thinking of you! - Linda Troutman | I'm happy to hear everything went well and that he is doing better. Our thoughts and well wishes for a speedy recovery with lots of love! - Robert Duricko | Poor Frankie! Hoping the little guy is back to himself soon! - Casey Burns | Poor little guy!!!! hope for a speedy recovery,hope you guys are doing ok! - Dana & Rich Nicolucci | Give Frankie a big hug for me. I'm glad everything went ok. Call if you need us - Terri Piper Mair | Hope everything goes well for that lil cutie! - Marissa Wisniewski | Aww may god bless you Casey and your family!! I will be praying for you. - Roselena Guerrero | Glad he's on road 2 recovery! Ur family will b in my prayers. Xoxo - Michelle Lynn | My prayers are with you, and hope he gets well soon! - Jenn Ward | Hope recovery goes well too. Good job listening to your mommy senses! - Audrey Trader Barbera | Hope recovery goes well!! Let me know if I can do anything - Lisa Zumwalde | Prayers for you guys and your little man! hope he gets better soon. poor baby! - Jaime Mckinney Wells | You are in my heart and prayers! -Andrea McWhirt | My god nephew is one tough two year old! Hoping for the best - Let me know if there's anything we can do! - Eva Friedman
82: Oh my gosh, Poor baby. Give him hugs and kisses from us! - Uncle Mike, Aunt Jo, Jess & Michael | I feel so bad for the little guy! Glad to hear surgery went well. - Tara | Aw, Poor Baby boy! Let me know if you guys need anything!!! - Randi | How the hell does this happen to a kid this young?!?!? - Uncle Bill | Aw Case, my heart goes out to you all!! Sending positive vibes your way! He is such a trooper. Hope you are all getting some rest! - Cindy | Hugs and Kisses for you 3. Lots of prayers being said for a smooth surgery and recovery. Loves you lots!! - Katie | Hope everything goes okay with his surgery today. Hope to see you guys soon! - Cousin Brett | I am thinking about you guys!! I'm glad Frankie is doing well. Keep us updated and anything you need don't hesitate to ask. :-) - Amanda | Glad surgery went well. Sucks that it ruptured though. I feel so bad for him!! If you need anything let me know! - Jamie S | So happy Frankie is home with you and Buddy. Take it easy and get some rest! If we can do anything for you guys please let us know! - Sue | Hows lil tank? Good Momma to go with your gut feeling and take him back to the doctors. Call if theres anything you need! With JJ or whatever! Sending prayers for my lil tank! - Cousin Maria | Will be praying and thinking of you guys!!! Good call Casey -- You're a good momma! - Tammy D | What?!?!?! Mommy's know best! Good job at pushing for an answer! Poor Baby, He will finally get what he needs! We send you many hugs and kisses your way. Let me know if you need anything! - Lisa | Oh Gosh, Poor baby. How are you holding up. Of course let me know if you guys need anything! - Shippy | Good Luck today. Let me know if you need anything! - Melissa | Sending prayers his way! Hope he is feeling better soon! - Kelly-Jean Zellers | Sorry to hear about Frankie. Hope everything goes well. All my love! - Erin | Sending prayers and hope everything goes well! -Colleen Farrell | Casey, I'm so sorry! Chop is amazing. They took such great care of my Thomas. I know they'll get Frankie better fast. So sorry you're going through this. - Stefanie Davis | Aw, that little man is a trooper! When you get home let me know if you need me to pick anything up, I'd be happy to make the trip! - Lauren | I hope everything goes well! - Jaime Gladysz | Glad to hear everything went well and he is better. Margo,Caden and I send our love!!!! Get better fast lil Frankie!! - Rich Redrow
83: Frankie, You were so strong and we are so proud of you! We love you little trooper!! Love Mommy, Daddy and JJ
84: Happy Father's Day!
86: This is how I brush my teeth!
88: Happy 2nd Birthday
89: Hurray for the Red, Hurray for the Blue, Hurray for Frankie, Because today he is TWO!
92: Frankie's 2nd Birthday Party! July 7th 2012
96: Place the Nose On Elmo Game
97: Ernie's Duck Pond Game
98: Time for Dessert!


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~ Don't assume that all your friends and co-workers are straight. Someone close to you could be looking for support in their coming-out process. Not making assumptions will give them the space they need.
~ Homophobic comments and jokes are harmful. Let your friends, family and co-workers know that you find them offensive.
~ Confront your own prejudices and homophobia, even if it is uncomfortable to do so.
Homosexuality is not a choice or a "lifestyle" - it is a result of genetic expression, just like left-handedness!
How does homosexuality occur? First, one must have the genetic markers - so far, Xq28, 7q36, 8p12, and 10q26 have been identified (on both the paternal and maternal sides). Second, certain environmental conditions must be present and the timing right in order for the genes to express themselves a certain way.
The timing is at approximately 6-9 wks gestation (during the first trimester) when environmental conditions result in the overproduction of androstenedione (a stress hormone). Androstenedione mimicks testosterone, and it binds to the testosterone receptors, leaving no where for the testosterone to bind, resulting in the underproduction of testosterone. This reduction in testosterone triggers the genetic markers (noted above) to express themselves, resulting in the outcome of homosexuality.
Remember, genes give only the potential for a trait - environmental conditions and the interaction with other genes determine if that potential trait will be achieved.
It is difficult for left-handed people to live in a "right-handed" world of the majority, as it is for homosexual people to live in a "heterosexual" world of the majority. It is time for us in the majority to respect and protect those in the minority.


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I'm glad Cal Clutterbuck torched Alex Burrows on Saturday. Maybe he didn't deserve to be kicked out, but anyone in a Vancouver sweater deserves to be wacked (Mathias Ohlund deserves to have his foot sawed off for that filthy hack he put on Koivu last year, but I digress). Burrows turned his back to Cal and embelished to make sure he got the call. Quite disgraceful
I honsetly have some respect for Don Cherry for trying to support the old time hockey toughness, but I'm afraid he's using only the part of this Cal Clutterbuck fight against Toronto to make his point.
Cherry is clearly omitting the fact that people don't take their helmets off to fight Clutterbuck either. So to defend his beliefs he kind of leaves this truth out. I'm glad Cal is calling him on it.
Since the all star break, I've been happy with the harder hitting Wild. This year we really have only been able to count on Brent Burns and Clutterbuck to be consistently tough. Everyone else has looked weak (I guess Schultz still puts a good hit on once in a while). Since the all star break more people are trying to throw their bodies around and actually fight to get to the net. Hopefully this will result in more goals.
I'm happy with what I see, but I still the think the Wild find themselves on the outside this season unless this toughness is permanent.


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Green Energy Puts US in the Red
February 22, 2010
Towering hulks of rusting scrap iron. Andrew Walden of American Thinker calls them "Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills." That is all that is left of many of California's vaunted wind farms. Thousands of these wind turbines left cannibalized and abandoned after the government mandates ended and subsidies ran out. They are now nothing more than corroding monuments to California's failed experiment with wind power. And the millions of tax dollars that funded them? Ask Bob Dylan; they're Blowin' in the Wind energy.
Sunshine, on our solar panel, makes Biden happy. (My apologies to the late John Denver) The Detroit Free Press reports that Vice President Joe Biden visited a solar panel manufacturing plant in Saginaw, MI. The plant received almost $142 million in federal energy tax credits to produce the material for solar panels. "It's a wonderful day for solar energy," Biden said as he gazed at the rows and rows of solar panels. The panels produce 30 kilowatts of power (when the sun shines), enough to power the plant's administration building.
Sounds great, right? Ask yourself, "Would the plant produce the solar panels without the energy tax credits?" No; I don't know what Biden would be gazing at but it wouldn't be solar panels; perhaps something the company can make a profit on.
The Carrizo Plain in California was once home to the largest photovoltaic array (solar power plant) in the world. It was built in 1983 by ARCO and had 100,000 1' x 4' solar panels on 177 acres of land. The thought behind it was that crude oil would reach a price that would make the 5.2 peak megawatts produced profitable. That never happened and the site closed in 1994. The solar panels were sold and the concrete and steel pillars that held them were dug up.
Is this the future of ethanol? I once thought that the US fuel ethanol industry could be viable and I still, to some extent, think it could be. However, in order to do so the focus must be placed on making a profit selling ethanol not providing another market for corn.
Since ethanol is only about 70 – 75% as efficient as a motor fuel as gasoline, the ethanol industry relies on a 51 cents per gallon blenders' credit in order to make it competitive with gasoline. What happens when we can no longer afford this subsidy? We are going to see the Midwest dotted with the rusted remains of the failed US ethanol industry.
The end of subsidies will spell the eventual end of Obama's "green economy." All of these green energy technologies have to be subsidized by the Federal Government until they are viable. But they will never be viable; if they were the private sector would be pursuing them now, without any push from the government. Once the subsidies are ended, the technology will be abandoned and the hardware will be left to rot. However, Obama is right about one thing. His green energy ideas don't burn coal, oil or natural gas. Instead, they burn tax dollars.
To top all this off, we now know that impetus for Obama's green economy was a complete hoax. UK Daily Mail reports that even Professor Phil Jones, who was once perhaps the leading global warming alarmist, has admitted that there has been no "statistically significant warning" in the past fifteen years. He also said he lost all that data that was supposed to prove this fraud. Billions upon billions of dollars have been spent and are going to be spent to save us from this nonsense and he lost the data! His excuse was that he wasn't as organized as he should have been and his office wasn't very tidy. I pointed out in an earlier article that Jones received $22.6 million in grants. Seems like with that kind of money he could buy a couple of filing cabinets and hire a secretary. As it turns out, the scientific consensus on global warming was only one third right. It was a scientific con.
I am not against new technology. I am against government subsidies on any technology. But don't let me stop you. If you want to power your business with a windmill or put solar panels on your house, go right ahead. Just don't ask the rest of us to pay for it. If a technology cannot stand on its own in the private sector, it should go the way of a Democrat Senator; bye Bayh.
Humphrey Stevenson has BS degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics and an MBA and makes his home in Tulsa, OK. He is a chemist by trade, has been published in trade journals, and is a recent "tea party" participant and political writer. His inspiration, as with many conservatives, is Ronald Reagan.


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Jon Secada Readies the release of his tribute album to Beny Moré, expected to drop March 3rd under BMG and announces the release of "Como Fue"
Jon Secada will present his album on March 3rd … To Beny Moré, with Love.' The first single, 'Como Fue', is a duo with Beny Moré and one of the most recognizable classics from the Cuban songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
"We're talking about Beny Moré's most famous song, it's a bolero, it's an anthem and we worked very hard in making the duet as good as it was possible for us… it was technically a big challenge to be able to extract his voice and mix it in the right way". Jon Secada
The album, produced by Julio Bagué, pays tribute to one of the most important icons in afro-american music in collaboration with Ray Santos (Moré's original arranger), Peer Music, and the Charlie Sepúlveda Big Band. This album is a collective labor of love that came from the heart of all the parties involved in the project, from my partners, the producers, the musicians, the arrangers… Ray Santos worked with Beny Moré in the 50's, he's 88 years old and arranged this music flawlessly… It's impressive and each piece of the puzzle led to this. Everybody made an effort of genuine love to make sure the project really was what it should be, a tremendous tribute to a tremendous artist" Jon Secada
Beny Moré is a tropical music legend and has greatly influenced rhythms like mambo, son and montuno… '…To Beny Moré, with Love' was interpreted for the first time live for the recording of a Soundstage special on PBS that will broadcast in the USA during the first quarter of 2017.
"It was the first live show, we were going to follow the album's order, so when I heard Bonito Sabroso's intro, I thought Wow! "this is really happening" and since that moment on, I knew it was going to be a magical experience". Jon Secada
CAA agency is preparing a 20 city tour in the United States in which Secada will be joined by The Charlie Seúlveda Big Band, offering a show that gathers the songs from the tribute as well as many of his hits.
About Jon Secada
With a career spanning over two decades, two Grammy Awards, 20 million albums sold, and starring roles on Broadway, the acclaimed, romantic sounds of Jon Secada, have resulted in numerous hits in English and Spanish, establishing him as one of the first bilingual artists to have international crossover success. Adored by millions around the world, he is recognized as an international superstar by both fans and peers alike for his soulful and melodic voice.
Acknowledged as Humanitarian of the year in 2016 by The Muhammad Ali Foundation, Secada's career skyrocketed in 1991, with the release of his self-titled debut album Jon Secada (SBK/EMI), which sold over six million copies worldwide, was certified triple platinum in the U.S., and reached No.15 on Billboard's Pop album chart.
Beyond his own hits, Secada is widely recognized for his impeccable producing and songwriting skills. One of his first major breaks came from collaborating with Gloria Estefan in the late 1980s, which led to him co-writing her #1 hit single, "Coming Out of the Dark." Since then, Secada has gone on to pen countless popular songs for superstars such as Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin.
He's also led an ongoing effort to raise awareness for Hepatitis C by partnering with pharmaceutical giant MERCK and The American Liver Foundation. For his efforts, The Pan American Health Organization recently honored Secada with an award that acknowledged him as a leader in Hepatitis C awareness around the world.
In September 2012, Jon also headlined the "Miami Rocks The Troops" benefit concert, supporting US military veterans across the country. Throughout his career Secada has participated in various international television shows including being a celebrity judge on the international smash, "Latin American Idol," for it's entire four season run, and as a celebrity contestant on Univision's hit dance show "Mira Quien Balia" (Latin version of "Dancing with the stars") which reaches over 10 million viewers. In addition to numerous recordings such as "Same Dream" and "Classics," in the late 2000's, in 2011, Jon released his seventh Spanish album, Otra Vez (YPyramid),
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Regular attendance at school is fundamental to student learning. Every day counts; any absence from school has the potential to adversely impact student outcomes.
Supporting strategies and programs that encourage the development of health care plans, social skills, healthy living and
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Cherish all those moments.
Lock those memories in your mind.
For they've been created by you, with you, for you.
When things seem bad, look back and realize they weren't always hard, and you'll come out of whatever parenting problem you're experiencing, a better parent, and that things WILL get better.
Memories really help
Cherish all those moments.


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In accordance with EU guidelines the Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft produces annual statistics showing the number of procedures on animals in German research. This includes many types of research including basic and translations studies, animal testing for safety, and the breeding of GM mouse lines. EU guidelines demand that all vertebrates and Cephalopoda be counted, however other invertebrates, such as fruit flies or nematode worms, are not.
In 2016, there was approximately 2.19 million procedures on animals (2.13 million animals). Since 2014, the figures count the number of animal procedures completed in the current year (previously it was the number started). Since some animals may be used more than once (usually larger species), there is a difference of 1-2% between the number of procedures and number of animals.
Germany's statistical releases also include a second set of data which includes animals killed solely for tissues or organs (under §4(3) of the Animal Protection Act). Since the animals undergo no experimental procedure, they are not included in the above statistics. Prior to EU Directive 2010/63, Germany counted only numbers of animals, including those killed for tissues and organs (without other procedures); this data is still collected but is not broken down in the detail provided by the newer procedure-oriented statistics. We can see both data below.
Looking at the historical data, we see that like several other countries, the number of animal experiments increased steadily between 2000-2012. The sharp increase in 2014 followed by a decrease in 2015, reflect in part differences in the accounting procedures used between 2014 and 2015. Thus, it is too early to say whether the fall in 2015 is a one-off or a sign of a future drop-off in animal experiments. It is likely that this drop also partly reflects a decrease in funding to science during the recession and economic turmoil of the past few years.
Rodents (mainly mice and rats), fish, birds and rabbits account for 98% of the animals used in research, with mice being by far the most common species (66.5% of total procedures). Dogs, cats and primates together accounted for less than 0.4% of all animals used.
EU guidelines also demand that countries retrospectively report the suffering of animals after the procedures. The latest report (Table 5) showed that 61% of procedures were classed as mild, 23% as moderate, 5% as severe, and 11% as non-recovery, where an animal is anaesthetised for surgery, and then not woken up afterward.
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Does the memory of the independent-minded, hearing-impaired, liberally leftist, reliably humorous, ever quizzical and wonderfully prolific journalist I. F. Stone have anything to offer to us today? Myra MacPherson has written a biography under the Stone-quoting title " 'All Governments Lie,' " in order to demonstrate that Stone and his journalistic achievements do have something to offer, and Karl Weber and the publisher Peter Osnos have brought out an anthology of 65 articles called "The Best of I. F. Stone" in order to demonstrate that MacPherson is right. And it is easy to see what the biographer and the anthologists have in mind.
Stone, born in Philadelphia in 1907, came of age in the 1920's and 30's writing for the daily newspapers of New Jersey and Philadelphia, then moved on to The New York Post in its golden age of liberal glory and to still other newspapers like the now-forgotten P.M., a much-read daily on the liberal left in its time. But in the end, he secured his place in the history of journalism by publishing his own newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly, from 1953 to 1971, followed by a steady drizzle of still more writings, until his death in 1989, for The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Village Voice and a few other journals. He wrote easily and in a personable tone, as if confiding thoughts to his fondest friends. And in this fashion, he offered insights into a three-cornered reality that consisted of
A) American foreign policy; B) the government's justification for American foreign policy; and C) the mainstream press's method of reporting A and B. He became something of a legend during the Vietnam War because, week after week, he succeeded in revealing that America's policy was disastrous; the justifications, mendacious; and the press, deluded.
He was especially shrewd at explaining how the government, by playing to the vanity of individual journalists, was able to manipulate the news. MacPherson, who used to work at The Washington Post (and has written a book on the Vietnam War), quotes him saying, "Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you're sunk" — which may not be true of every reporter who ever lived, but does point to a recognizable human frailty.
And the relevance to our own time is hard to escape, given our own recent experiences with disastrous policies, official mendacities and a sometimes error-prone and manipulated press. To read Stone's description of clueless Americans wandering around Saigon in 1966, reprinted in "The Best of I. F. Stone," is to plunge into glum reflections on the Green Zone of Baghdad, 40 years later.
But Stone's career does have its oddities, and, by unhappy coincidence, one of those oddities bears on that same vexed question of journalism and lunch. MacPherson reminds us that in 1992, three years after Stone's death, a high officer of the former Soviet Union's former spy service, the K.G.B., revealed that from time to time in the 1960's, Stone did accept luncheon invitations, and the K.G.B. picked up the tab. The K.G.B. agent was Oleg Kalugin, and, in recalling those lunches, he left the impression that Stone might have been a Soviet operative. Stone's enemies in the United States, in a delirium of joy, responded to Kalugin's remarks by leveling some very serious posthumous accusations at Stone, and they have kept on doing so, as anyone could have predicted.
Eventually, however, Kalugin clarified his remarks. MacPherson has tracked him down to confirm his clarifications, and she concludes emphatically that Stone was not, in fact, a Soviet spy, nor did Kalugin ever mean to suggest otherwise. MacPherson is scathing about the accusations. The attacks, "as tawdry as they are untruthful," she writes, have been made by those with "a vested interest in portraying Stone as a paid Kremlin stooge because he remains an icon to those who despise all that the far right espoused." She goes on in this irate vein — which would be fair enough, except that carried away perhaps by her own polemical fury, she seems not to notice that in her ardor to rescue Stone from his enemies, she has yanked the rope a little too firmly and has accidentally hanged the man.
MacPherson informs us that Kalugin, having specified that Stone was never on the Soviet payroll, described Stone as a "fellow traveler" — meaning a friendly supporter of the Soviet cause, though not a disciplined member of any Communist organization. Kalugin explained (in words no admirer of I. F. Stone will want to read) that Stone "began his cooperation with the Soviet intelligence long before me, based entirely on his view of the world." Stone was "willing to perform tasks." He would "find out what the views of someone in the government were or some senator on such and such an issue."
MacPherson beams a benign light on those remarks. She observes that, first, there is a world of difference between merely cooperating with the K.G.B. and actively serving as an espionage agent; and, second, any proper journalist would leap at the opportunity to chat with well-connected functionaries of a foreign power; and, third, many a Washington big shot has conducted back-channel conversations with foreign governments. And so forth, one exculpatory point after another, each of which seems reasonable enough, except that, when you add them up, the sundry points seem to have missed the point. Stone, after all, has been extolled as a god, or, at least, an inspiring model for the journalists of today, and while it is good to distinguish between cooperation and espionage, and excellent to learn that Stone sought out acquaintances in many a dark corner, something about his willingness "to perform tasks" as part of his longtime "cooperation with Soviet intelligence" is bound to make us wonder, What on earth was that about?
MacPherson acknowledges that sometimes a slant or bias did creep into Stone's journalism — a "double standard," as she describes it, which tended to favor the Soviet Union and, in later years, other left-wing dictatorships. Osnos, the publisher of "The Best of I. F. Stone," worked for Stone as an assistant in the 1960's and boasts of this in his introduction; and Weber, a freelance writer who edited the anthology, makes plain that he, too, stands solidly in Stone's corner. Yet even their book sometimes demonstrates, if only inadvertently, the slant or bias in his work — for instance, his commentary on the death of Stalin in 1953, with its ringing homage: "Magnanimous salute was called for on such an occasion." For that matter, even Stone's Vietnam journalism, as presented both in MacPherson's biography and in the anthology, looks only halfway prescient today. Stone foresaw that America would lose the war, and he was admirably shrewd about this. But, from reading his articles, you would never have guessed what the consequences of Communism's victory would be — the forced labor camps, the flight of the boat people into the South China Sea, the massacre of huge portions of the population of Cambodia and so forth: topics on which he was not so prescient.
MacPherson, in her attempt to explain these several peculiarities, paints the political landscape in which Stone came of age, and she puts a lot of emphasis on the anti-Semitism and general horribleness of the old Russian empire of the czars, which Stone's immigrant parents remembered, and on the scary nature of sundry right-wing movements in the United States during the 1920's and 30's — all of which, the Old World Jewish memories mixed with the New World observations, prepared the young Stone to look with genuine and realistic fear on the rise of European fascism. He was never any kind of Communist, not even in a freelance, unaffiliated way, except for a fleeting and probably whimsical moment at the start of the Great Depression. His political principles were insistently liberal, and when he was seized by a more radical or utopian impulse, he liked to invoke the lofty ideals of Peter Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist. But he did come to regard Communists and the Soviet Union as fascism's most reliable enemies, therefore deserving of special sympathy. That is MacPherson's explanation. A lot of people in the 1930's and 40's would have made the same argument and would have added, besides, that Communism was progressive, even if it wasn't perfect. But something must be missing from this explanation.
The organized left was pretty big in New York and elsewhere in the United States in those years, but the largest and most powerful institutions of the left, far from being Communist, were some of the Jewish social democratic trade unions and the Yiddish-language Forward and a few other journals, nestled on what might be described as the more conservative or social democratic wing of the socialist movement; and the people who ran those social democratic organizations were, from the very start, more consistently hostile to fascism than America's Communists ever managed to be, even if the Communists were noisier. But those same social democrats who stood up against fascism also managed to be remarkably well informed and undeluded about the realities of Soviet life. This was chiefly because American social democrats paid respectful attention to their own oppressed comrades from Russia, the Mensheviks, some of whom fled into American exile with hair-raising reports about Bolshevism and its deeds. If only Stone had likewise listened to those Menshevik stories, he might have learned a thing or two. For that matter, he could have listened to the Russian anarchists in exile, the followers of Kropotkin, who, having fled the Soviet Union, struck up an alliance with the American social democrats and were likewise eloquent about Communist repression. But he didn't listen, or rather, he listened only for what he wanted to hear. And why was that?
Very likely it was because, in his own, unorganized, pro-Communist wing of the left, the fashion was to demonize and dismiss the Mensheviks as ghastly reactionaries and counterrevolutionaries, embittered to the point of insanity by their political failure in Russia. An example of this sort of demonizing crops up in an article of Stone's from as late as 1951, reprinted in "The Best of I. F. Stone," in which he allows himself to sneer a bit at someone described as "a bitterly anti-Communist writer, who himself advocates American aid to counterrevolutionary movements within the Soviet Union." And yet this person, who sounds frightfully right wing, practically czarist, in Stone's description, was in fact a scion of the Mensheviks in America, Boris Shub, who advocated American aid to the struggling and forlorn democrats of the Soviet Union — aid to the very kinds of people, the champions of human rights and labor unions, who eventually did overthrow Communism. It depresses me to see this sort of sneering in Stone's journalism — it reminds me of the ways in which liberal exiles from countries like Iraq and Iran, the Mensheviks of our own time, are sneered at today as tools of imperialism and people without principles.
From time to time, though, Stone alternated his defenses of Communism with criticisms, and some of these were admirably sharp. He wrote a ferocious denunciation of Stalin in 1956, which you can likewise find in "The Best of I. F. Stone," a very fine piece, even if he did follow it up in the years to come by putting his faith in still other Communist megalomaniacs — in Fidel Castro at the start of the Cuban revolution (until Stone recognized with dismay that Castro, too, was a tyrant), and in Ho Chi Minh. Anyway, in his last years, Stone seemed to learn from these repeated mistakes. One of the bravest things he ever did was to sign an open letter in 1979 written by Joan Baez, protesting the "totalitarian" policies of the Vietnamese Communists. For some reason, MacPherson fails to mention this letter, although you can find a mention of it in an earlier and still valuable biography of Stone by Robert C. Cottrell, "Izzy," which came out in 1992. But that letter has always seemed to me rather impressive. Signing it was brave because Stone had to know that a good many of his own admirers on the pro-Communist side of the American left were going to denounce the letter (which they did with a full-page ad in The New York Times). But signing the letter was brave mostly because, by acknowledging the repressive nature of Vietnamese Communism, Stone risked making some of his own journalism from the war look, in retrospect, less than astute. At minimum, he made himself look inconsistent. But then inconsistency may have been what made him great.
It's not easy to explain a political personality like I. F. Stone's. The 20th century produced a brilliant literature of fanaticism — a literature by and about hard-line Communists who became maniacs of their own dogmas and then turned the other way, in some cases to become authentic liberals, in other cases to become maniacs of anti-Communism. But a literature that adequately accounts for the people who never did become fanatics, a literature about the non-maniacs, about the people who remained liberals at heart yet, even so, kept applauding one left-wing tyranny after another — a convincing and thorough literature about these people is harder to find. MacPherson's biography, for all its landscape-painting of the left-wing past, seems to me not up to the task (and, in any case, the book contains too many small errors of fact: her assertion that Kropotkin abandoned pacifism only during his old age in World War I, when, in reality, the young Kropotkin was craftily ambiguous about revolutionary violence; her assertion that Communists in 1933 ran the garment workers' union in New York, which in fact was run by the hardest of hard-line social democrats; her assertion that a famous anti-totalitarian manifesto in New York in 1939 was signed by many Trotskyists, when the manifesto was in fact produced and dominated by Sidney Hook's non-Trotskyist circle of social democrats and liberal academics — and so on). I can think of only one genuinely great biography of a fellow traveler written in our own anti-totalitarian age, though the biography happens to be of such a person in France and not in America. This book is Bernard-Henri Lévy's "Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century," which came out in the United States in 2003 and attracted very little attention.
To cite a book on Sartre in connection to Stone might seem a stretch, but these two men, it seems to me, lived parallel lives — Stone, the political journalist who dabbled in philosophy ("The Trial of Socrates" was his old-age best-seller) and published his own magazine; and Sartre, the philosopher who dabbled in political journalism and likewise published his own magazine. The two men were of the same generation, and had the same political instincts. Stone boasted of his anarchist impulses, and so did Sartre; and at the height of the cold war, neither man was thereby inhibited from siding with the Stalinists. Stone read Sartre and cited him with admiration — notably on the topic of Israel and the Arabs. Sartre, for his part, published Stone's articles in France. Stone and his family lived in France for a short while during the early 1950's, and Sartre paid him a visit, which was a singular honor. And in Lévy's book I think we can find the explanation for this kind of political personality.
Sartre, as Lévy describes him, was, in his own extremely idiosyncratic fashion, a totalitarian — someone who got swept up in the craziness of the 20th century because he wanted to subsume himself into a mass movement, and who therefore ended up taking a sort of masochistic pleasure in distorting his own best thoughts and intuitions. But Sartre was, at the same time, not a totalitarian. Sartre was a lover of freedom, who felt a positive aversion to the idea of submitting his own thoughts to anyone else at all. Sartre was a paradox. He did not add up, and that was his attraction. This has got to be the explanation for Stone as well. Those years of doing favors for the K.G.B. do suggest that Stone, too, was, in his own fashion, willy-nilly a totalitarian — at least, sometimes. He wrote journalism he knew to be untrue. That was why, in a rueful moment, he spoke about "the morass into which one wanders when one begins to withhold the truth."
But Stone was also not a totalitarian. He was a lover of freedom. A part of him always rebelled against the culture of mendacity he helped to foster in his own corner of the American left. He was a paradox. He did not add up. In our own hair-raising era today, a good many people naturally want to rummage through the past in a search for heroes, and some people will keenly hope that in I. F. Stone they have found their man. His charming and humorous prose style, his amiable personality on the page, his incontestable bravery, the quality in him that, in spite of everything, was never petty or contemptible — all this is hugely attractive, or would be, if only you could separate out the other aspects. "All governments lie," Stone's maxim, ought to be plastered across every journalist's desk. But the lesson Stone can offer us today is, I would say, mostly a reminder that we will have to rise to our own occasion, and not expect heroes from the past to guide our faltering steps. A useful reminder, unfortunately. In any case, a truth.


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Brexit latest. UK Election called for 12th December.Read more
In July 2015, UK Prime Minister David Cameron set out plans to force UK firms to publish their gender pay gap and in so doing positioned the UK as one of the first countries to make gender pay reporting mandatory. Similar policies have recently been introduced in Germany and Austria.
A gender pay gap refers to the difference in average pay between men and women, with women's average pay expressed as a percentage of men's, as shown:
For example, if the average pay of employees in a firm is £35 per hour for men, and £25 per hour for women, then the pay gap is:
The phrase 'pay gap' is, by default, expressed in terms of men being paid more than women - when women earn more than men, the difference is referred to as a 'negative' or 'inverse' gap.
The underlying assumption behind the initiative is that a pay gap based on gender is inefficient and represents a significant opportunity cost to an economy in terms of lower national productivity and international competitiveness. According to research by McKinsey (2016, The Power of Parity: Advancing women's equality in the United Kingdom), eliminating the gender pay gap could add as much as £150bn to the UK national income by 2025.
Building a body of evidence on pay is designed to help government (and firms) analyse the causes of pay disparities as well as help formulate policies to deal with the pay gap. Tracking changes in data will also help assess the possible impact of policy changes on the gap.
All employers with a headcount of 250 employees or more must publish their figures, with the deadline of March 31st (2018) for public sector employers and April 5th for private sector employers. This will involve around 35% of all UK firms.
Collection of the data is aimed at building an 'evidence base' to enable government to raise awareness of the current and changing gender pay gap. While the requirement aims to discover more about the gender pay gap, it does not focus on differences in rates of pay for comparable jobs, which is the focus of the equal pay legislation.
Firms must publish six calculations:
Results must be published on the firm's website and the relevant government website, as well as being confirmed by an 'appropriate' person.
Firms may offer a comment on the figures they upload, identifying any reasons why the gap exists along with any policies and plans to reduce the gap.
Each year since 1997 the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published results of its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
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The ONS uses median, rather than mean, earnings as its 'headline' measure, given that the median is unaffected by very extreme values, which can skew the mean and distort the analysis. However, figures measuring the mean average are widely considered to be more useful as they highlight the impact of the 'crowding' effect, with the highest paid jobs favouring men, which drags up the mean average for men, while leaving the median largely unaffected.
For example, the TUC looked at the top 10% of earners and found that (see analysis of official statistics) the highest paid men are paid 54.9 per cent more than their female colleagues.
While many of the causes of the gender pay gap relate to employment itself, and to the nature of work and working patterns, many other factors originate outside the workplace, and are derived from stereotyped gender roles and cultural prejudices regarding the role of men and women.
The most recent ONS survey, published in October 2017, identified the following workplace-related factors which are included in their statistical models.
There was a gender pay gap for full-time workers in favour of men for all nine major occupational groups, but this gap narrows in those industries where equal numbers of men and women are employed. According to the ONS, occupation makes the single biggest contribution to the gender pay gap (at 23%) with occupational 'crowding' commonly found.
The gender gap gets wider the older the age group considered. In fact, at the very youngest end of the labour market, there is a gap in favour of women (a negative pay gap), but this declines with age and by 40 onwards the gap accelerates, and peaks between 50 and 59.
While pay grows throughout a working life, it grows at a slower rate for women, and stops growing at an earlier age for women.
Different working patterns, such as full-time and part-time and flexi-work, contribute some 9% of the difference between men and women.
The latest ONS figures highlight the significance of full-time vs part-time remuneration, with 42 per cent of women working part-time and only 12 per cent of men. This is significant in that hourly earnings of full-time workers tend to be higher than part-time workers. The number of hours worked has a clear impact on the average hourly rate (and not just the total pay received). Where the length of hours worked is low (between 10 and 30 hours) the gap is actually in favour of women.
If we just consider part-time work in isolation, there is an inverse gap in favour of women. If we exclude part-time work completely, then the gender gap is much smaller.
Clearly, more men are crowded into employment which is both full-time and typically higher paid.
The evidence clearly lends some support to the 'dual labour market' hypothesis, which considers how a labour market may be segmented into a 'primary' element, involving full-time, permanent work which is relatively secure and better paid, with a clear career progression, and a 'secondary' element, in which workers are employed on a part-time basis, with less security, lower unionisation, and is less well paid. The tendency is for more men to be employed in the 'primary' sector, with more women in the 'secondary' sector.
The hypothesis suggests that, once a worker has joined a given segment of the labour market they tend to stay there for a large part of their working life.
The ONS concluded that around two-thirds of the possible causes of the pay gap fell outside of their model and as such were 'unexplained'.
The unexplained employment-related factors appear to be mainly associated with education, career breaks and family structures. For example, the number of children, the age of children, whether parents are being cared for, years spent in school and the level of qualifications are all possible factors, but not currently analysed or understood by the ONS.
In addition, the independent Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service - ACAS) has identified a number of social and psychological factors that can help explain the gender pay gap. These factors include constrained individual choice, unconscious bias and discrimination.
In terms of choice it is not easy to establish the relative impact of personal choice and choice which is constrained by a lack of opportunity and discriminatory employment practices. While women may be keen to seek promotion to senior roles they are either discouraged from seeking promotion or not encouraged to seek promotion as a result of a lack of senior female role models, an absence of mentoring and sponsorship, few networking opportunities, and assumptions that mothers might not accept promotional opportunities.
The imposition of a mandatory requirement to disclose the level of the gender pay gap is expected to raise awareness of the significance of the gap in terms of efficiency and productivity and help firms and policy makers better understand the gap, why it should be closed, and how to close it.
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UK economy contracts by 0.2% in 2nd quarter of 2019.Read more
Regulators find leading model agencies guilty of price fixing.Read more
Costs and benefits of customs unions.Read more
Savings ratio falls to lowest level on record.Read more


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Ivan, DBS Slash Mediacom Subs
Basic-subscriber losses grew at Mediacom Communications Corp. in the third quarter, driven by Hurricane Ivan-related damage and local-into-local launches by direct-broadcast satellite competitors.
Mediacom lost about 30,000 basic customers in the period, about 8,000 related to damage caused by Hurricane Ivan. The hurricane -- which struck Mediacom markets in Florida and Alabama -- also affected revenue and cash-flow growth.
Third-quarter revenue increased 3.9% to $261 million, and operating income before depreciation and amortization declined 2.6%. Without the impact from the hurricane, Mediacom would have had a revenue increase of 5.1% and OIBDA would have risen 1.3%.
In a conference call with analysts, Mediacom chairman and CEO Rocco Commisso said that although basic-customer losses were lower than in the previous quarter -- when they topped 40,000 -- they were "still unacceptably high."
But Commisso added that as the level of new local-into-local launches subsides -- about 91% of Mediacom's footprint has local-into-local DBS service -- Mediacom should be able to win back some of those customers.
Commisso said Mediacom will fight back with a robust bundle of digital video, video-on-demand, digital-video recorders and telephony.
Digital customers increased by 9,000 in the period to 382,000 and high-speed-data subscribers rose 89,000 to 350,000.
Mediacom already offers VOD in about 56% of its digital base, and DVRs are available in almost all of its markets. Telephone service, through a relationship with Sprint Corp., should begin in the first half of 2005.
Commisso said lower-end customers -- those who spend about $40 per month -- made up the bulk of basic-subscriber losses. And Mediacom is targeting those customers with lower-priced digital and data packages.
Mediacom already has a $9.95-per-month low-end digital offering, and it is experimenting with a 56-kilobit-per-second data service aimed at basic-only subscribers.
On the conference call, chief financial officer Mark Stephan said the 56-kbps service is being tested in a handful of markets and no final decision has been made on whether or not to offer it.


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Dressing Room Diaries – Spring Old Navy Dresses
We are going on a cruise soon and I was on the hunt for two things – white shorts and dresses I could just throw on and go. Well, technically I guess dresses plural would be wanted more than one 🙂
When I got the Old Navy 40% off with your card email on Friday, I had to go check out their selection. Sometimes it is hit or miss for me there, so I was hoping this trip would be a big hit.
This midi floral dress is a big reason I wanted to go into the store instead of just ordering online. The top looked like it may be on the tighter side with the type of fabric and construction. I loved it on…but there definitely is no stretch. Luckily with the adjustable straps, I could lengthen them and make the top loosen up on me. Please don't mind the socks…y'all know how Old Navy dressing rooms can be 😉 (Wearing a size small)
A great back detail for this jersey-knit dress. It's a fit and flare…and if you follow the blog at all, you know that's my favorite fit. The reviews online for this dress say the arm holes are huge. Uh, not they aren't. I have on a small and it fit me perfectly fine. This dress is so soft! Would even be good as a bathing suit cover up. (Wearing a size small)
I gravitated toward this dress for the super cute print. This printed pintuck dress was just fun, and the pin tucks at the top give it a little unexpected detail. (Wearing a size small)
This striped rib-knit swing dress is ridiculously comfortable. And it's exactly what I was looking for – something super easy to throw on and go. The navy and white stripes are even nautical for the trip. (Wearing a size small)
My white shorts from last year shrunk literally two sizes after I put them in the wash…so I was on the hunt for a new pair. I really don't like to wear shorts, but I have a couple of cute tops that look so good with white shorts. I like the 5″ inseam on these; I'm not one to want to wear dazey dukes. (Wearing a size 6)
I love the off the shoulder look, but know I probably won't wear that style of shirt a ton. That's one reason to love Old Navy…wearing trends at an affordable price. I did do an arm test in the dressing room…moving my arms up and down, stretching my arms out to the side, etc. The top did a great job of staying in place. A similar one is online. (Wearing a size small)
I did see a ton of cute tops and accessories. I highly suggest making a trip to your local Old Navy. You can always find stuff on sale!
Spring is Here
Last week, the temps in the ATL were amazing. I think I wore a skirt or dress almost every day – and even one was sleeveless! I won't forget to mention wearing open toed shoes, too. Yahoooooooo! I took full advantage of the weather.
I love stripes. I snatched up this adorable skirt via Haute Look. Not only is it striped, but it has pockets! I love combining green and blue. It makes me happy. And your clothes should make you happy.
T-shirt – The Loft; Skirt – Nanette Lepore via Haute Look; Shoes – Charles by Charles David; Bracelet – Banana Republic; Watch – Michael Kors


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BTCCNY EW Analysis - wave C Ending Diagonal
BTCCHINA:BTCCNY Bitcoin / Chinese Yuan
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From the base of wave B of the reaction from lows we had an abc . This could only be the beginning of two things, a triangle, or an ending diagonal , both 3-3-3-3-3 formations. the difference is that a flat, a 3-3-5 formation ending in a 3-3-3-3-3 Ending diagonal may be either wave B or II, where a triangle formation, 3-3-3-3-3 can only be a a terminal move. As the price has moved higher, the elimination of a triangle possibility means that we may target yearly lows from this point.
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Good and clear at, but I don't think we'll see last zigzag to 1600cny.
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might not quite reach 1600, its looking weak
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What's your opinion on the latest spike? You think this is a good selling opportunity?
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Yea, all good, but play it safe, draw a lower trend line and short the breakdown, dont expect any pull back. A full retrace of 1450 should follow swiftly in the case of ED.


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The Trade Secrets of Corn Prices in Ethanol Production
By Todd
Interesting reporting from The Sioux Falls Argus Leader regarding a new employee defection matter. Seems a Sioux Falls based ethanol producer has sued a former employee named Jodi Heath alleging misappropriation of trade secrets regarding corn purchase pricing strategies for Poet.
Heath was commodities manager for Poet's plant in North Manchester, Ind., from 2008 through August, when she allegedly took knowledge of the company's customers and pricing strategies to work for Interstate Commodities, Inc.
Poet's lawsuit says Heath e-mailed herself information about production costs at the plant and used it to calculate the maximum amount the plant would pay for corn at any given time.
Within days of her resignation, the lawsuit says, she was buying from the same farmers she did during her tenure at Poet.
Within days of her resignation, the lawsuit says, she was buying from the same farmers she did during her tenure at Poet.
"Shortly after Heath went to work for Interstate, Poet Risk Management was forced to instruct all Poet plants, including Poet North Manchester, to refrain from entering any forward contracts with Interstate because it was taking contract positions around the Poet plants and driving up the corn price," the lawsuit says.
Poet wants an injunction issued against Heath that would force her out of her job at Interstate. The lawsuit also seeks $25,000 for each breach of contract.
We've always said that the story regarding how trade secrets were allegedly misappropriated plays a major role in deciding these cases. If the evidence supports Poet's allegation regarding the surreptitious e-mailing of data to Ms. Heath's personal e-mail account, this may be a tough case in which she defends her pre-departure and post-departure activities.
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Interior architecture and kinetic installation for fashion store in Paris.
"Location: In the 1950's the courtyard, just off the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. Hidden behind red painted aluminium doors that slide crisply and silently open for visitors crossing an electronic threshold in the outside courtyard, the sleek, slightly reflective walls are Ferrari red fibreglass... You can't see the shop behind the sliding doors until they open. There, behind an adjacent second set of doors, is a pavilion. Also fitted out in red, and entirely empty except for low red fibreglass cubes that magically move back and forth apparently entirely of their own volition. it's uncompromising design, neither out-and-out architecture, nor quite an installation, but one that leaves its options open." -- Extract from Domus magazine (June 2001) by Lucy Bullivant.
Shona Kitchen and Ab Rogers(Kitchen Rogers Design) with Dominic Robson (programming), Asmech Systems (mechanical engineering), Logical Ltd (fibreglass). Photographs by Dan Stevens.


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Reading Recap - August & September
Anywho, here are some of my reads from the past couple of months. I've had some good and bad, but you'll only see the good here. If you want to see the bad (maybe you'll like them...) you can follow me on Goodreads by clicking here.
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