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September 25, 2014
Ed Miliband and Apprenticeships
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Labour has promised to overhaul apprenticeships –correctly arguing that compared with the demand for them, there has been nowhere near enough and that most have been low level only lasting for a year, often in low paid sectors of the service economy rather than in manufacturing, engineering and construction. Until recently also, many employers have converted existing employees into apprentices –allowing training providers to access state funding and government to meet its targets.
This is the context behind Ed Miliband's conference speech in which the Labour leader promised to increase apprentice numbers to levels equivalent to the 400 000 plus young people who start university every year. But the announcement also tallies with Labour's plans to create vocational alternatives, including a Techbacc, for the 'forgotten 50%' not going on to Higher Education.
With 200 000 apprenticeship starts by under 24 year olds in the nine months to April this year and a 10 year time span, Miliband's promise might appear quite realistic, yet barely half of these have been at Advanced Level, with just 2,300 at Higher (the equivalent level to university study). Also, only 20 000 of the Advanced starts have been in manufacturing and engineering.
Though Labour proposes to ensure that all firms in receipt of government contracts take on apprentices, ensuring real growth of high quality schemes will require much more. It will need to be part of an alternative plan for the economy and Labour isn't providing one. Instead, it's proposing an austerity plan centred on reducing the deficit, which will also have implications for apprenticeship funding.
Miliband's proposal is a step in the right direction, but without a proper plan for job creation that provides real incentives for employers to develop employee skills, it risks being another empty promise.
September 23, 2014
More young people now working. But in what and for what?
The latest labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics for May to September (www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/september-2014/statistical-bulletin.html) show significant falls in unemployment amongst 16-24 years – down to 747 000 (16.6%) from 960 000 (12%) a year ago and from 853 000 over the last quarter. Amongst those between 18-24 year who are not in full-time education, which is a more reliable indicator, as the above figures include full-time students also looking for work, an additional 165 000 have entered employment of some kind.
Though it's still twice the rate of unemployment as a whole, the dip in youth joblessness is to be welcomed, yet in the post-crash labour market, the type of employment available is as increasingly significant as the availability of employment in general. Of those 16-24 year olds not in full-time education for example, only around 15% are currently participating in apprenticeships.
As the ONS data shows, almost all of the increase in 70 000 overall increase in employment in the last quarter can be explained by the increase in part-time work; while nearly 400 000 of the 1.12 million more jobs between June 13 and June 14 have been self-employed –though this has mostly involved older workers. In addition the increase in the total number of jobs has been heavily concentrated in sectors where jobs are low skill and low paid.
Recent evidence from the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows that it is the income of young people between 22-30 that have suffered most since 2008 (www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/r96.pdf), falling by 13% compared with 6% for those 31-59. The ONS reports that of those young people under 25 who are not in full-time education in work, 19% work in 'elementary' occupations and a further 17% in 'customer service' occupations and a further 12% in 'caring and leisure' –all low paid sectors of the economy. (http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_355123.pdf). According to the TUC, the number of young people trapped in low-paid, low-skill jobs, has increased markedly over the past 20 years. The report blames the huge rise in low-skilled work on the collapse of middle-income jobs, such as administrative and plant and manufacturing jobs in recent decades.
Young women in particular are getting a lower wage return on their qualifications. Despite being better qualified than young men (www.tuc.org.uk/economic-issues/labour-market/equality-issues/gender-equality/three-times-more-young-women-are-doing), just one in a hundred young women worked in skilled trades in 2011, compared to one in five young men. And four times more young women (21 per cent) worked in personal service occupations like hairdressing, leisure and the travel industry in 2011 than young men (5 per cent). More than one in five women earning less than £7.44 per hour were educated to degree level (www.fawcettsociety.org.uk).
Traditionally , at least for many people, employment used to lead to income progression after a training period has been completed. Significantly, the IFS data shows that the income the under 30s is not rising in the way that it has traditionally done so –reflecting the increased number of young people in 'dead end' jobs where there are few prospects of progression or promotion.
Increasing spending on better education and training, is important but in itself is not enough to change this. The UK is already well on the way to becoming a 'graduate economy' but almost half of those leaving university do not go into graduate jobs, while the slow growth in apprenticeships is largely because most employers don't really need them. Improvements to young people's employment opportunities will only really take place through radical changes to the economy and to the way the labour market works.
September 19, 2014
More on Apprenticeships…….
Apprenticeship numbers continue to fall.
Postscript to Another Great Training Robbery? @ https://radicaledbks.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/postscript3.pdf
September 13, 2014
Reshuffling education policy: the new vocationalism
Patrick Ainley 11 September 2014 Open Democracy
A liberal approach in neo-liberal times means learning about work and not just learning to work. Westminster remains stuck in a rut of recycling failed ideas entirely unsuited to its economic model of low wage, low skill work.
Earlier this summer education secretary Michael Gove was pushed out of the Cabinet while universities minister David Willetts jumped. In the run up to the general election, this suggested a new Coalition approach to schools, colleges and universities that, with Labour's recent proposal for 'institutes of technical education', is now shared with the Opposition. Unfortunately for those who hold liberal aspirations in neo-liberal times, it is as illiberal as the old approach, if not more so.
The new direction was initially revealed by Matthew Hancock, former minister in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (who was later reshuffled as a fervent fracker into the Department of Energy and Climate Change). He had previously declared that, in order to 'rebalance' school-leaver destinations, 'university or apprenticeship will be the new norm' for all 18+ year-olds. With the raising of the participation age (in school, FE and training) to 18 next year, Hancock's 'new norm' presents all school-leavers with just two options – apprentice or student.
Gove and Willetts also considered these two groups needed 'rebalancing' because they thought New Labour's widening participation in HE had allowed too many youngsters into university. Gove tried to reverse this by driving a hierarchy of semi-privatised state schools to compete in delivering a grammar school curriculum that would fail all but a few. He also thought such universal academic schooling would restart social mobility.
This is an illusion because the short period of limited upward social mobility in the last century has given way to general downward mobility in this one. Especially since 2008, numbers in low-paid, insecure and often part-time jobs have ratcheted up to include perhaps half of new entrants to employment. This fuels public hysteria about academic exams that function as proxies for more or less expensively acquired cultural capital as students desperately run up a down-escalator of inflating qualifications to avoid falling into the structural insecurity beneath.
The policy and professional consensus solution is that apprenticeships should be brought back to create an economy as productive as Germany's. But this is another illusion because, such is the dominance of the UK's deregulated and semi-skilled service sector, most employers don't want or need apprentices. Thus most 18+ year olds are already overqualified for and underemployed in the jobs on offer.
This includes the graduates Willetts also intended to reduce in numbers by tripling student fees. But, rather than fewer, more school leavers took out loans for fees that added £191 billion to government debt. They did so in the hope of secure, more or less 'professional' employment rather than so-called 'apprenticeships', which, as my report with Martin Allen shows, adds up to Another Great Training Robbery like YTS in the 1980s.
Willetts tried repeatedly but failed to sell the growing mountain of student debt. He even claimed after his resignation he could sell the debt to the universities themselves. Some richer universities could then profit by selling loans to their own graduates who could be charged higher fees as they might get good enough jobs to repay them. But what of universities where many students are unemployed or in low-paid jobs after graduation?
Nearly all universities are in desperate competition to cram in students who are paying more for less. This includes widening participation that has extended to two-year degrees and other associated qualifications through training providers in partner schools and colleges, like Thatcherite revenant Kenneth Baker's University Technical Colleges (UTCs). Linked to a 14+ 'technical route' leading to 'vocational A-levels' and reinvented foundation degrees, this bipartism could replace Gove's delusions in 'grammar schools for all' – back to secondary technical schools and the polytechnics! The new Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, has already announced more UTCs to bring the total to around 50 by May 2015 but Labour wants to double this.
Indeed, Shadow Education Minister Tristram Hunt has now proposed a Technical Baccalaureate for the half of 14+ school students who don't make it onto the academic route, rebranding FE colleges as 'Institutes of Technical Education' with new part-time Technical Degrees, like the current two-year Foundation Degrees and old HNDs. This 'higher level apprenticeship' route is offered to supplement apprenticeships which Labour knows are not all they are cracked up to be – despite the expensive, glossy and misleading advertising for them.
Nor can England's 249 surviving general FE colleges that have not yet merged or closed expect to benefit by providing apprentice training to school leavers as they once did because most apprenticeships nowadays are run by training agents outside the colleges on behalf of employers. Nevertheless, in a recent paper for the Social Market Foundation, Liam Byrne, Shadow Minister for Universities, Science and Skills, hopes to 'Reboot Robbins' by replacing market-driven expansion with regional partnerships to end the 'ferocious' competition between universities, colleges and private providers.
But the problem remains that, however 'employable' schools, colleges and universities claim to make their graduates, education cannot guarantee employment. So, fundamentally the perception of 'the problem' needs to change: from being one where young people are seen as having to be prepared for 'employability' by earlier and earlier specialization for vocations that may not exist. Instead, the starting point should be a common general but not academic schooling to 18 giving entitlement to progression for citizens 'fit for a variety of labours'.
This implies confronting the possibilities of flexibility but avoiding the current situation in which there are more people in the workforce but many are paid little for unregulated employment. Of course, this would require an alternative economic framework but not necessarily 'the right to work' with which the orthodox left continues to operate in a post-war collectivised model of the labour market.
Rather, a liberal approach in neo-liberal times means learning about work and not just learning to work. Paradoxically, for universities this means refinding the vocational nature of the higher education preserved by the most prestigious subjects at the most elite institutions, as in the 'original vocations' of Law and Medicine. Importantly, this includes an academic vocation dedicated to learning critically from the past with research and scholarship enabling change in the future. Undergraduates can contribute to that continuing cultural conversation, giving them a sense that many have lost of what higher education is supposed to be about.
Byrne's proposals offer at least some possibility of HE recovering itself in connection with FE to build what has been called 'A Liberal Vocationalism' that is both theoretically informed and practically competent. But, unless this is related to economic reform to end austerity and the continued slide into low-wage, low-skill employment, these proposals risk repeating the failures to rebuild a vocational route to replace the industrial apprenticeships lost in the 1970s but this time at a tertiary level of learning. Or, worse still, they may involve forcing young people failed by an academic schooling into inferior vocational options with Chuku Umuna's shameful promise to cut Job Seekers' Allowance for under-25s 'to plug the young unemployed into the global economy'
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Tristram Hunt and 'Two Nation' Labour.
Vocational education is supposed to improve work and employment skills, but many of the vocational courses developed in schools and colleges after the collapse of industrial apprenticeships in the 1970s have not offered real opportunities for young people in the labour market. Instead, a succession of vocational courses and qualifications were introduced, lasted a few years and were then discarded in favour of new ones.
Some of these were high profile youth training schemes with new qualifications, such as the General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs) that claimed parity of esteem with A-levels. Some were expensive white elephants like the specialist diplomas championed by New Labour. The most durable were the BTEC awards. They all aimed to provide new types of 'soft skills' needed across the growing service sector.
Even though vocational qualifications offered at Advanced level provided opportunities to enter higher education, academic qualifications continued to represent 'powerful knowledge' in terms of the jobs market and access to more prestigious universities. Schools and colleges in the 1990s were encouraged by Lord Dearing's pathways approach to his review of the National Curriculum to use vocational qualifications for 'non-academic' students. The more student-friendly pedagogy and less hierarchical classroom relationships involved in these new qualifications were said to reflect the modern workplace but also provided ways for teachers and lecturers to gentle these students along a low status route.
However, the repackaging of vocational qualifications as 'applied' learning – part of New Labour's Curriculum 2000 proposals – could not widen the student base nor gather greater employer support. As a result, many teachers and educationalists continued to be suspicious of the pathways approach, seeing it as reflecting the divisions of the 1944 Act and contradicting the comprehensive principle of an inclusive and broadly balanced curriculum. More recently, the standing of vocational qualifications was reduced further as some schools entered entire cohorts for vocational 'equivalents' to improve their standing in GCSE league tables.
On coming to office, Michael Gove commissioned Professor Alison Wolf to review vocational learning. Wolf argued that students put on vocational pathways at 14 were 'short-changed' in the labour market because of the poor quality and low value of these courses. In response, Gove streamlined the number of vocational courses available at 14 and 16, but also demanded more 'rigour'. By this he meant that to qualify as one of the eight subjects on which new school league tables would be formulated, a vocational qualification had to follow certain criteria, could not count as more than one GCSE and had to have more external assessment.
But Gove's 'grammar school education for all' approach was rejected by Lord Baker, the creator of City Technology Colleges in the 1980s. Baker argued for a continuation of the Dearing approach and reintroduced University Technology Colleges to provide a vocational/technical specialism sometimes linked to a particular company or university.
Baker's approach has been adopted by Labour. The Adonis Review has called for 100 UTCs to be established by 2020 (http://feweek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Adonis-Report-Final-Doc-1-July-14.pdf), while Shadow Education Minister, Tristram Hunt, used his speech to the Microsoft Foundation to attack the 'backwardness' of Gove's deluded grammar schools for all approach. He also reaffirmed the Party's commitment to the Tech-Bacc, agreeing with Lord Baker that the main problem with the 1944 Act was the underdevelopment of technical schools which put the UK at a disadvantage in 'the global skills race' (http://press.labour.org.uk/post/95085249764/the-choice-in-education-70-years-of-the-butler).
Hunt's 'Two Nation Labour' approach also proposes the rebranding of further education colleges as 'Institutes of Technical Education' for those school leavers who have failed on the academic route and Labour has already announced new Technical Degrees (www.radicaled.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/labours-new-technical-degrees/) involving part-time/ day release study – and as with the current two-year foundation degrees likely to be be delivered through the Further Education sector.
Labour's desire to create a stronger 'technician level' route into employment is also reflected in its policies for reforming apprenticeships, where the Adonis Review correctly identifies many of their shortcomings. Firstly, apprenticeships are invariably low-level with minimal training, still predominantly for adults and mainly in low-paid service sectors like health and social care; customer service; and hospitality & catering. The Review also correctly calls for the public, rather than the private sector to play a leading role in apprenticeship creation.
Adonis, like Lord Baker, is an admirer of the success of German technical education and apprenticeships and his Review emphasises the need for a more general industrial strategy. But given the continued slide to a low-wage, economy with 'lousy' not 'lovely' jobs (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/20002/1/Lousy_and_Lovely_Jobs_the_Rising_Polarization_of_Work_in_Britain.pdf), the sort of measures proposed are far too little, too late and well short of those implemented in post-war Germany! Adonis and Labour also overestimate the extent to which the UK's industrial and technological demise can be arrested by the creation of 'high quality' vocational education and training. This would need to be linked to a massive increase of (public) investment and rigorous economic planning, hardly compatible with a UK style free market and 'flexible' economy.
In any case, the huge rise in the number of graduates means that they, rather than school leavers or apprentices, increasingly fill 'non-graduate' jobs. Surveys report between a third to half of new graduates being pushed down into jobs they are over-qualified for. Half a million applicants to higher education this year (a record number) shows that, despite debts for exorbitant fees to pay more for less at overcrowded universities, young people realise that a degree offers their best chance of the secure the professional employment they crave.
As a result, rather than trying to rebuild a vocational route, it would be better to provide a good general education for everybody with a school-leaving certificate at 18 providing entitlement to different types of learning, including learning about work as well as to work, plus major reforms to the delivery and assessment of 'academic' education to make it more relevant and accessible to all.
August 22, 2014
Book Review: The People, The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910-2010
Patrick Ainley
When Eric Hobsbawm asked in 1978 whether the forward march of labour had halted, he was calling attention to a possible political reversal, not bidding Farewell to the Working Class as Andre Gorz did two years later. More recently, Guy Standing in 2011 proposed the birth of The Precariat, a 'dangerous new class' growing alongside the dwindling proletariat, while in the same year Owen Jones suggested that the entire English working class had been turned into Chavs (2011) – read more at (http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/15909)


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By Melanie Gerlis. Web onlyPublished online: 14 August 2014
Paddle8, the online auctioneer, has joined forces with the UK's regional bricks-and-mortar auction house, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury, to host a series of four, online-only auctions that charge no buyer's premium. The move shows the extent that the internet is—finally, some might say—challenging the tried-and-tested business models of the art market, particularly for lower-priced works.
The major auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's currently charge a 25% commission to buyers of works worth up to $50,000 (or £25,000), including on transactions made online. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury usually charges 24% on works worth up to £150,000, while Paddle8 has a 15% buyer's premium. All the auction houses also charge a seller's fee, which tends to top around the 15% level, though this is discretionary and varies wildly.The first auction of the Paddle8 and Dreweatts & Bloomsbury "Unconditional" series offers 91 prints and photographs by Modern and contemporary artists. Bidding opens on Friday 15 August and runs until 31 August. Price estimates range from £500 to £40,000, with works including Roy Lichtenstein's Wallpaper with blue floor screenprint, 1992 (est £15,000-£20,000), Joan Miro's lithograph The Rustics, 1969 (est £3,500-£4,500) and Julie Mehretu's Untitled (Pulse), 2013 (lithograph, est £2,500-£3,500).Andrew Gully, a spokesman for Sotheby's, says: "This is a time of great potential and opportunity for the art market in the online world and we can expect to see many different efforts as companies experiment with ideas. Overall, it's very exciting to watch. One thing seems clear—collectors all over the world will benefit from these efforts to improve access to artwork." In July, the auction house announced a revenue-sharing partnership with the online mass-retailer eBay.Correction: Paddle8 charges a 15% buyer's premium, not 6% as was originally reported.
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Today I've been working on improving the voxel save format in Lemma.
For those who don't know, Lemma is a first-person parkour game set in a voxel universe (no, not like Minecraft). Voxels are saved to map files, and savegames are actually just the map in its current state, saved to a map file. So it's pretty clear why we'd want to optimize our save format.
Map files are in an XML format; simply a list of Entities, their Components, and their Properties. Voxels are entities with a base64-encoded string of voxel data ready to be serialized. The XML format is text-based, so it'd be a good candidate for gzipping, which we've been planning on implementing whenever we get around to it™. However, since the voxel data is really just a giant array of thousands of integers compressed into text, it's not quite so perfect.
I have experience with writing multiplayer netcode from a few projects; the largest and one I cared any real amount about was a game called Minor Destruction ("MD"). Put simply, MD was a 2D Block-based game that focused on moddability and PvP class-based action. In order to facilitate the latency demands, optimization was crucial. For this reason I spent a lot of time trying to optimize the netcode.
For Lemma, I took the same approach—every single bit is precious and must be conserved. The old format for storing voxels was approximately:
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- 4 UV ints for 6 surfaces (24 ints total)
- Array of block connection data:
- int Voxel1
- int Voxel2
In total, that's 31 integers per Block (which is the largest possible rectangle that can be built out of neighboring voxels of the same type). It's also a crapload of block connection integers, but that's not very easily estimated in this post.
This meant that our largest map currently in the game was ~8 megabytes large, including the rest of the XML. While this isn't a terrible figure, saves can be made often so we need to minimize this as much as humanly possible.
My first step was to optimize the Width, Height, Depth and ID into one integer. To do this, I pack all the bits together into one integer (32-bits), leaving 8 bits for each value. This is rather simple.
The next optimization is to pack the UV ints together as much as possible. Each UV int was estimated to have a max/min value of 10 bits, with 1 used to denote sign. While I can't guarantee these ranges, I did some testing and no map had any values that exceeded that. Originally, my plan was to pack these into two integers—using 22 bits for each integer. However, this left an ugly 10 bits that were unused and taking up space.
So I wrote a BitPacker. Essentially, all it does is takes an array of integers you want to pack and the amount of bits per integer to take from it. It then returns an array of integers that has been packed with the bits of the other integers. At most, you will only ever waste 31 bits—if the last integer in the returned array only has 1 bit in use.
This optimization means that instead of 24 integers being stored for the Surface UVs, it now uses 8.25 (really, 9) integers. Progress!
Finally, optimization of the data storing connections between blocks is needed. I simply bitpacked these integers together using 16 bits + 1 sign bit, and it automagically worked.
In total, this has over halved our final map file size. Each voxel now takes 13 integers to store, as opposed to 31. Our biggest map went from 8.3 megabytes to 3.8 megabytes. Not quite half, but other maps have much larger reductions.
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Arthur Shappey: Hielo
Hercules Shipwright: Bloodstone
Douglas Richardson: Kittenwelp
Martin Crieff: Shigeako
Pictures: pictured-nana
Oh, I'm sorry but it's quite hard not to look peculiar when you're in uniform, soaked to the skin and carrying a dead sheep!
A scene from Ottery St. Mary, requested by butt-inspector-kirby
What are… those bits?
Ha you see, skipper, if you don't mind me saying so, that question is entirely against the spirit of Surprising Rice.
inspired by this
All I want in life is to be Douglas Richardson.
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Colorectal Cancer Health Center
FDA OKs High-Tech Colon Cancer Treatment
Feb. 12, 2004 -- The FDA approved Erbitux, the very drug at the heart of the Martha Stewart stock-sale controversy. This first-of-its-kind treatment is for colon cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
Erbitux is a unique type of treatment called a monoclonal antibody and is the first such treatment for colon cancer. Antibodies are the body's natural defense against foreign substances, such as infection or cancer cells. Monoclonal antibodies are produced in a laboratory to target a very specific portion of foreign substances. Because of their precision, ideally treatment is more effective and has fewer side effects.
The FDA has approved Erbitux to treat colon cancer in combination with another colon cancer drug irinotecan, or alone if patients cannot tolerate irinotecan. Erbitux is shot into a vein.
Although treatment with Erbitux has not been shown to extend patients' lives in clinical trials, it was shown to shrink tumors in some patients and delay tumor growth, especially when used as a combination treatment.
Researchers say Erbitux works by targeting a natural protein called "epidermal growth factor receptor" (EGFR) on the surface of cancer cells, interfering with their growth.
"Erbitux is the second drug approved by the FDA that targets EGFR. The first was Iressa, approved last year for lung cancer," medical oncologist Harold Burstein, MD, PhD, tells WebMD. Burstein is a specialist on WebMD's Cancer Treatments and Advances message board and oncologist at the Breast Oncology Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
The drug has been tested in patients with tumors that contain EGFR and who failed treatment with irinotecan or other chemotherapy drugs. The combination treatment of Erbitux and irinotecan shrank tumors in 23% of patients and delayed tumor growth by approximately four months. For patients who received Erbitux alone, the tumor shrank in 11% and tumor growth was delayed by 1 1/2 months.
"While it is not clear if Erbitux helps patients live longer or better, it can shrink tumors in some patients," says Burstein.
"What is quite exciting is to see how the field of colorectal cancer treatment has evolved in recent years that clearly can provide benefit to patients. Now we need to figure out how best to use these many drugs -- alone, in combination, in sequence, and in whom. Those are good challenges to have."
The FDA first evaluated Erbitux in December 2001 after its manufacturer ImClone submitted an application for approval. The FDA rejected Erbitux in December 2001, saying that important safety and effectiveness data were missing. Prosecutors say Martha Stewart lied about unloading her ImClone shares at that time after she received inside information and then tried to obstruct an investigation.
In their new request for approval, Imclone submitted the results of a large, well-run trial that included 329 patients as well as the results of the earlier two studies. For the studies submitted in their original 2001 request for approval, ImClone successfully collected substantial amounts of missing information from hospital records and other sources.


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Coal in the world today
- A boy works at a coal depot on April 16, 2011 in Jaintia Hills, India. Some of the labor is forced, and an Indian NGO group, Impulse, estimates that 5,000 privately-owned coal mines in Jaintia Hills employed some 70,000 child miners. The government of Meghalaya refuted this figure, claiming that the mines had only 222 minor workers. Despite the ever present dangers and hardships, children, migrants and locals flock to the mines hoping to strike it rich in India's wild east. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) #
- Railway workers push a wagon loaded with coal back to its track after it derailed at Sabarmati power house in Ahmedabad, India on September 7, 2011. Four people were injured after six wagons of a goods train carrying coal got derailed due to heavy rains. (Amit Dave/Reuters) #
- A young woman stumbles as she tries to carry a large basket of coal as they illegally scavenge at an open-cast mine in the village of Bokapahari, India, where a community of coal scavengers live and work. The contrast between India old and new is nowhere more vivid than among the villages of coal scavengers in eastern India, sitting on an apocalyptic landscape of smoke and fire from decades-old underground coal fires. While India grows ever more middle-class and awash in creature comforts, these villagers risk their lives scavenging coal illegally for a few dollars a day, and come back to homes that at any moment could be swallowed by a fresh fire-induced crack in the earth. (Kevin Frayer/AP) #
- Relatives identify bodies of killed miners at the Sizhuang Coal Mine after a gas leak in Shizong county in China's Yunnan province on November 11, 2011. Hundreds of rescuers took turns descending into the illegally operated coal mine to search for miners trapped by a gas leak in the country's second deadly mining accident in less than a week. (AP)#
- A child sifts the usable residue from the ashes of coal used at a brick factory during the cold days of a harsh winter in Surkhroad, Afghanistan on January 30, 2012. (Rahmat Gul/Associated Press)#
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The parents who took this picture are the most open minded people alive. I think this is the best photograph I've seen on Tumblr in my entire time of being here. I see no problem with it at all. I love this picture. I should make it my icon. So fuck you if you hate instead of love.
ive reblogged this photo so many times, i love it
this is beautiful.
At first I didn't really understand you. I mean, I'd heard of the "pro-ana" blogs that lurked in dark corners of the internet, encouraging starvation and promoting anorexia. But thinspiration blogs are more mainstream. You show up on the Pinterest homepage in the form of "diet plans" that allow nothing but lemon water for a week. You show up on my Tumblr dashboard in the form of photos of concave stomachs and protruding rib cages, or food diaries with 500-calorie totals. The phrase "thigh gap" is actually a popular blog tag now, shorthand for pictures of skinny legs that don't touch. The gist of it? You are getting harder and harder to avoid.
I could write about how scary it is that these blogs have found such a huge audience. I could write about the flaws of our weight-obsessed culture, or the fact that the vast majority of these blogs are written by young women for young women. But mostly I want to write about how you make me incredibly sad.
I think about the girls who write blogs like this and how much they hate their bodies, how they believe their worth is tied only to their physical appearance, how their definition of beauty is so tragically narrow.
I think about the girls who repost pictures and text from these blogs and how they will never be satisfied, how they will never look down at their thighs and see strong muscles and soft skin, only dimpled fat.
I think about the girls who are actually feeling OK about themselves until a thinspiration photo or quote shows up in their orbit and tells them to reconsider.
I think about myself when I was 13, chubby and depressed, bullied at school. I used to lie in bed at night and think about cutting the fat off my stomach with scissors. Today I came across an "inspiring" photo of a girl trying to do just that. How would I have handled these messages? Would I have followed a thinspiration blog? Or worse: would I have written one?
Sometimes I click on thinspiration links to see who is posting them. Almost every time it's a teenage girl. So here is it what I want to say to you: as long as you are focused on thinspiration you will never truly know inspiration. You will never learn to delve deeper than skindeep. You will never be able to dream about anything bigger than a certain number on a scale or an exposed collarbone. Someday you will look back on your teenage self and want to protect her. Why not start now?
"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" is a huge lie. Self-love is delicious, and so is cheese and chocolate cake.
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Farmhouse, 4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, (Sleeps 6) with Detached Barn/Studio
Share the experience of an exceptionally charming 1820 farmhouse and barn surrounded by 8 private acres of lawns, shade trees, gardens, and meadows. Fully renovated, 2 bedrooms/full bath upstairs, 2 bedrooms/full bath downstairs, fully equipped eat-in kitchen with separate pantry and laundry room, living room with fireplace, cable, wi-fi. Lovely views from every window, beautiful inside and out. Enclosed outside hot water shower. The adjacent barn has been converted to a large open living space, comfortably furnished for family and social gatherings, with cable and wi-fi.
Conveniently close, Lambert's Cove (town residents only) Beach is an absolute gem, pristine, gentle and safe, great swimming, gorgeous sunsets. Terrific for families with young children. Behind the property is an ancient path for walking and biking through the woods past neighboring farms to the village grocery and post office. One of the best restaurants on the island is within walking distance.
There is much to see and do on this wonderful island, and the farm is perfectly located for access to all of it. The privacy and tranquility of the farm is unique ... West Tisbury living at its best, where all that matters is what matters to you.
Keywords: rural, historic, farm, West Tisbury, Lambert's Cove
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About The Owner
Four generations of our family have loved and enjoyed the farm. My grandchildren like to get up (very!) early, feed the ponies, pick blueberries for breakfast and help in the garden, picnic lunch at the beach, then home for a nap, a pony ride adventure, a late afternoon swim at Ice House Pond, or a trip down-island. So the days go. Before we know it, it's time for dinner, a book and bed ...
The Owner purchased this farmhouse in 1968
Why The Owner chose West Tisbury
Island living. A sense of community. The land and the sea. We wished to share with our children the experience of living in a rural farming community that has retained its 'Old Vineyard' character. Our town's rural character is complimented by its proximity to the wild and beautiful ocean that surrounds us. This unique combination of land and sea is why we chose to live on the Vineyard, and in the town of West Tisbury.
What makes this farmhouse unique
Easy access to fresh herbs and flowers from our garden, solitude, family time, long walks through beautiful surroundings, bike rides, pony rides, fishing, beaches, swimming, sailing, stargazing, birdwatching, reading and relaxing, and participating in the many, many community events that make a Vineyard summer special.


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While the unemployment rate has increased from December to January, North Carolina's unemployment funds, as of January, were nearly $2.6 billion in the hole with a reserve fund balance of about $77 million.
Randall E. Parker, an ECU economist, explained the deficit as the end result of President Barack Obama increasing the unemployment benefits through the recession. The longer the increased benefits continue to be paid out, the larger the state's debt gets, he said.
"That's a lot of money for the state of North Carolina," Parker said about the $2.6 billion deficit. "... The state's got to pay it back."
There are two ways to pay off the debt, he said. One is to cut the benefits and the other is to increase employer taxes.
In January, there were 87,974 regular initial unemployment claims made, an increase of 25,113 from December. Fifty percent of those claimants are expected to be called back to their jobs.
Unemployment insurance benefits paid out in January totaled nearly $117 million to 127,323 claimants -- an increase of 16,492 since December.
Both the state and national unemployment rate increased 0.1 percent from December to January. The state's rate rose from 9.4 percent to 9.5 percent, while the national rate increased from 7.8 percent to 7.9 percent.
The state's rate is down 0.1 percent from a year ago, while the national figure is down 0.4 percent from January 2012.
In North Carolina, the number of unemployed people increased by 6,243, or 1.4 percent, to 453,276 since December and by 2,634 from a year ago. The civilian labor force increased by 9,131, or .2 percent, to nearly 4.8 million.
This year's data is based on the 2012 estimated U.S. Census population.
The unemployment increase can occur for two reasons, Parker said.
"Unemployment could be up because more people lost jobs than found them," he said.
Parker said a second reason could be that more people re-entered the workforce. They might have given up looking for a job, and then when the economy began to look better they started looking again.
"That would be a very positive sign, in my opinion," Parker said about the second reason.
The seasonally-adjusted non-farm industry employment increased by 15,100 to more than $4 million from December and 85,700 from a year ago. The total private sector grew by 83,000, while government jobs grew by 2,700.
Leisure and hospitality jobs saw the highest employment increase. Parker said the jobs that have increased are generally the low-skill positions. Both low- and high-skilled jobs are quicker to bounce back than the mid-level skilled jobs, he said, calling it a stratified labor market.
"History is repeating itself," he said. "So that's why everyone should get some skills."
Food manufacturing jobs had the largest increase of manufacturing jobs over the month and year in January. Parker said he wasn't sure what the reason was.
Hourly earnings for manufacturing jobs are up 18 cents, but employment has decreased and weekly hours are down.
"It may be that what some factories are doing is what's called job sharing," Parker said his hypothesis is.
It could be that employers are cutting back hours instead of laying off workers.
Parker said wages have not risen much for the last 12 years because of increased employer-paid health insurance costs.
"An 18 cent increase is a positive thing," he said.
The next unemployment update with county rates will be released Friday.
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Wed - Fri 12 to 6pm, Sat 2pm to 5pm
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Tue - Sat 10am to 5pm, Fri 10am to 7pm
Group Exhibition Summer Show 2014
Oct 30 - Dec 5, 2014
This year's Summer Show 2014 features a selection of works from recently exhibited and represented artists.
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre, James Sreet Mall / +61894926600 / artgallery.wa.gov.au
Wed - Mon 10am to 5pm
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Mon - Fri 12pm to 5pm
PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
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Tue - Sun 11am to 6pm
Erin Coates KINESPHERE
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George Egerton-Warburton Administration is just Oulipian Poetry
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Administration is just Oulipian Poetry is a significant solo exhibition by WA born, Melbourne-based artist, George Egerton-Warburton.


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Elephant Woman Lyrics - Blonde Redhead
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Angel I can see myself in your eyes
Angel won't you feel for me from your heart
Do return my heart to me
No don't insist I'm already hurt
Elephant girl
It was an accident unfortunate
Angel threw me like a rubber band
Aiming for the ground
Why amuse yourself in such way
No don't insist I'm already hurt
Lay me down on the ground softly softly
Don't remove my head hurts much too much
You never return it
Well I wouldn't miss it
I shed no tears for broken me
You never know it my peace of mind
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Why amuse yourself in such a way
No don't insist I'm already hurt
If you ever return it
Will it break your wings
Will you shed no tears for broken me
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Very methodical... | Reviewer: ignatius Lopez | 6/11/2007
THis is excellent. Another route taken by BR- stylings in music taken to the classical, this is the template for others to follow.
Much creativity, brings the listener from style to style with different sounds.
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Everybody Changes Underwater Lyrics - Dannii Minogue
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It's dark and silent
Where am I?
Love surrounds my body
My eyes are closed, but I see
Colours have soothed the soul
Moving as part of this world
Taking it to ...floor
Diving deeper, backened by dolphins
They appear and dance around me
Brushing against my skin, tickling
I swim closer, speaking of thoughts ...are friendly
Where I stand
It's safe beneath the waves
Is this real
Is this real
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I come up for air
I just want to prove everything is new ...seems to cool
And fill the water to a garden
Fruit ...from the trees
I reach up and take it
It's ripe, soft, and sweet
I feel there's a long grass
I run my fingers through the blades
Umm...feel inside me
I lie back closing my eyes
The song soothes me
I begin to float, floating higher and higher
Higher and higher
There's now darkness
Looking down, the world is ...
If I fall, no one will catch me
Space, everywhere I once and ...all
Floating in the small part of the endless universe
I feel glowing starts, Poseidon and ...
Someone to ...
A finding light appears
So it's a life I recognize
You reach out your hands
And welcome me like angels
(Close your eyes, drift away...)
Is this real?
Is this real?
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Different | Reviewer: MH | 4/10/2005
I think this song is quite different from any other song I have heard. It's one of the best songs on her album "Girl". She should have released it, it would have been an interesting video to see.
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- someyoungguyy Jan 26, 2008 12:19 PM
As most coffee chains start in Seattle and move westward, I've noticed aton of Peet's all over nor/so california but nowhere else, anybody like this place??? I mean coffee is coffee right??? It's all the same kinda bean???
I am not a coffee drinker, but married to one. He only drinks Peet's. And only buys certain beans. It is all in the type of roasting. Starbucks and Peet's taste very different with the same bean. It is like Bourbon, many brands, each made their own special way. What do your taste buds want?
From coffee growing regions and their climates and varied soils, to cultivation, to harvesting, to roasting, and finally to the many varied brewing methods. It's by no means just about 'the type of roasting'. There are literally thousands of steps and man hours that go into the production of the 'brew' known as coffee and in particular specialty coffee. I've recently had the opportunity due to my BH's recent employment as a barista in an 'independent' coffee house, to view a wonderful video entitled The Passionate Harvest. It gave me a whole new understanding into ALL the factors that can infulence the taste of that wonderful liquid known as brewed coffee.
Peet's folks really know how to make a great cup of coffee! Alfred Peet started off in Berkeley, and the 3 guys who subsequently started Starbucks were his fans & worked for a short while with him before they went on to Seattle to start their own business - they used Peet's coffee beans in their first year of business.
Coffee is like wine in that there's a wide range: Two Buck Chuck to Chateau d'Yquem. Obviously, while there is an allowance for individual tastes, there is general agreement as to which of them is superior.
Espresso and espresso drinks, in addition to the quality of the roasted bean itself, depend heavily on the skill and equipment of the preparer.
They don't use a push button machine to make espresso drinks.
If you buy 1/2 lb of beans you get a free drink (you can apply the price of the drink to anything they have, actually).
The coffee is dark roast and brewed strong, but doesn't taste as burnt as Starbucks.
It started in Berkeley, as someone said. It hasn't been all that long that they've opened retail outlets in southern California.
I live in San Francisco and many Peet's followers will not drink Starbucks. Peet's is much stronger and have better baked items than Starbucks.
There are at least 4 Starbuck locations within a 2 minute drive of my house and I will drive out of my way to go to Peets. I was a very happy camper when our office switched from Starbucks to Peets.
As noted above, Starbucks tastes burnt. It seems to me that they get around that by pushing their flavored drinks more than their coffee. I mean, if I want to drink a milkshake, I'll order one.
Good things about Peets:
1. They use different roasts of beans for their espresso drinks and brewed coffee
2. They do not use cute names for their coffee
3. The drinks taste better
It is mostly the roasting and freshness of the bean that determines the taste. Certain types of bean respond better to more intense roasts, and the time after roasting can make a big difference in taste.
The only negative with Peet's is their location. They are not all over the place like Starbucks, so it is more of a challenge to seek them out. They are worth the journey!


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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) - Washington Redskins cornerback Kevin Barnes was traded to the Detroit Lions on Monday for a conditional draft pick.
The deal is contingent on whether Barnes makes Detroit's 53-man roster.
"Here's a football team that needs a corner," Washington coach Mike Shanahan said. "Here's a third-round draft pick that's got some great speed. If he makes the team, we get something in return and they get a good football player."
The Redskins were preparing to cut Barnes had they not found a trading partner. He was behind starters DeAngelo Hall and Josh Wilson on the depth chart and was a contender for playing time as a nickel back during training camp.
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Week Ahead
Interleague lowdown
Published: Jun 08, 2012
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Every major league team has an interleague series next week, but only the Reds, Mets, Astros and Giants won't play two interleague series. Every team has just six games, and 22 of the 30 teams have an off-day on Monday.
With so many holes in the schedule, one way to pick up some at-bats is to nab a player on a National League team that has road games at an American League Park. The DH will be in play in those games, so National League teams will need to get creative with their lineups.
There are plenty of potential DH options, but the biggest advantages will come from the NL teams that are on the road all week. We also looked at the flipside of the situation, checking out the AL teams that will be without the DH all week. Here's what we found:
NL teams in AL parks all week (gaining DH): ARI (@TEX, @LAA); MIL (@KC, @MIN); PHI (@MIN, @TOR); PIT (@BAL, @CLE); SD (@SEA, @OAK).
Players positively affected: Gerardo Parra, Norichika Aoki, Jim Thome, Josh Harrison, Jesus Guzman.
Analysis: The D-backs will likely go with Jason Kubel at DH, opening an outfield slot for Parra, who's a .329/.370/.500 career hitter in 76 interleague at-bats. It's a bonus that the first series is in hitter-friendly Rangers Ballpark. ... The Brewers have a logjam in their outfield, so Aoki could see more time next week, especially against lefties. Brooks Conrad and Cody Ransom could also see some DH duty in what is likely to be a rotation. ... The Phillies have the perfect guy in Thome to get the job done at DH. Too bad he just returned from a bad back and has only 19 at-bats this season. Thome could be rusty, but he is worth a shot if you are desperate for power. ... Harrison and Pedro Alvarez saw DH at-bats the last time the Pirates were involved in a road interleague series. The week at AL parks could also help Casey McGehee get more playing time. ... The Padres can hide defensive liabilities like Carlos Quentin or Yonder Alonso at DH, while they give more at-bats to guys like Guzman and Chris Denorfia.
Other notes: Expect to see Jason Giambi as the Rockies' DH when they travel to Detroit late in the week. ... Brian Bogusevic and Greg Dobbs could see a few more at-bats when the Astros and Marlins, respectively, go to AL parks, but neither is likely to help fantasy teams much. ... Scott Hairston could see more time when the Mets go to Tampa Bay early in the week. ... The Giants can turn to Brandon Belt or Aubrey Huff as a DH at Seattle. ... The Nationals can put Michael Morse at DH and open a spot in the outfield for several options, including Roger Bernadina.
AL teams in NL parks all week (losing DH): BOS (@MIA, @CHC); CHW (@STL, @LAD); NYY (@ATL, @WAS).
Players negatively affected: Daniel Nava, Marlon Byrd, Ryan Sweeney; Dayan Viciedo, Paul Konerko; Andruw Jones, Raul Ibanez.
Analysis: In their first road interleague series this season the Red Sox moved DH David Ortiz to first base and put 1B Adrian Gonzalez in right field. That cut down the opportunities for Nava, Byrd and Sweeney. ... The White Sox put Adam Dunn in the outfield and at first base in their first road interleague series this season, opting to keep his powerful bat in the lineup despite subpar defense. Konerko, who is nursing a wrist injury, could get a rest, but Viciedo stands to lose the most at-bats. ... The Yankees haven't had an interleague series on the road this season, but our guess is that they will simply rest their DHs, with Ibanez and Jones standing to lose the most.
Other notes: The Angels are pondering a move of Albert Pujols to third base in order to get Kendrys Morales on the field at first base in a series at the Dodgers. That move would end up hurting Maicer Izturis or Alberto Callaspo. ... Mark Reynolds, Chris Davis or Wilson Betemit could lose at-bats when the O's go to Atlanta late in the week. ... It will be interesting to see what the Royals do with Billy Butler in St. Louis. He can play first base, but that would ultimately be at the expense of Jarrod Dyson since the Royals have announced that they plan to use Eric Hosmer in the outfield.
Sleeper: Paul Goldschmidt, D-backs. Goldie has warmed up lately with nine hits in his past 20 at-bats, including three home runs. Arizona starts off the week with three games in hitter-friendly Rangers Ballpark, so look for Goldschmidt to continue his successful run.
Stumbler: James Loney, Dodgers. With Los Angeles expected to see three lefthanded starters in six games next week, Loney could be in trouble. He is hitting just .235 against lefties this season, compared with .266 against righthanders, and both his home runs have come against RHPs.
Sleeper: Neil Walker, Pirates. Like Goldschmidt, Walker got off to a slow start but is now starting to hit. In his past six games, he is 10-for-27 (.370) with five RBIs and four runs scored. After hitting in the middle of the lineup, Walker seems to like moving up to the No. 2 spot.
Stumbler: Mike Aviles, Red Sox. Aviles has cooled off to the tune of 12 hits in his past 52 at-bats (.231) with no homers in that span, lowering his season average to .262. On the bright side, he is 5-for-14 with three homers in his career in interleague games.
Sleeper: Mike Moustakas, Royals. We talked about the Moose in this week's Fantasy Source podcast, but here's what you need to know: He's hot right now (six hits in his past 18 at-bats), and he has a history (albeit short) of performing well in interleague (19-for-60, .317). Plus, the Royals are likely to face only one lefty in six games next week. Advantage: Moose.
Stumbler: Logan Forsythe, Padres. You might be looking at Forsythe, who came off the DL and is off to a 6-for-12 start -- including a game-winning HR against the Giants -- and saying maybe he's worth a pickup. But keep in mind he didn't hit a homer in 62 games last season and showed non-exceptional speed in the minors. Plus, San Diego is on the road in pitcher-friendly parks against the A's and Mariners next week.
Sleeper: Ryan Theriot, Giants. Look who is finally producing from the No. 2 spot in San Francisco's lineup. It's an old favorite for steals, runs and some batting average help. Of course, there's no power, but those desperate for steals can take a chance on Theriot, who has three SBs as well as 14 hits in his past 28 at-bats.
Stumbler: Erick Aybar, Angels. Aybar has just four hits in his past 21 at-bats (.190) and is hitting .219 this season. With the Angels planning to move Pujols to third base during interleague play, that could set a chain reaction in effect that leads to Aybar sharing at-bats with Maicer Izturis at shortstop, because Izturis has been playing mostly 3B.
Sleeper: Quintin Berry, Tigers. Berry is already up to seven steals and 14 runs in just 15 games. The Tigers play the Cubs and Rockies next week, who are toward the bottom of the majors in team ERA (Colorado is last in fact), so there should be more chances for Berry to run wild.
Stumbler: Drew Stubbs, Reds. Stubbs missed the past two games with a side injury. Cincinnati doesn't have any interleague games next week, so it could get by with playing Chris Heisey in center field if the plan is to let Stubbs ease back into the lineup.
Sleeper: Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Red Sox. Salty is hitting .316 with seven homers and 17 RBIs over the past month. And although he hits much better at Fenway Park, he still has enough power to get you some points in road games against the Marlins and Cubs.
Stumbler: Joe Mauer, Twins. A thumb strain has sidelined Mauer for the past three games, though the Twins are optimistic he won't need a trip to the DL. Still, Mauer owners should have added some insurance by now. On a positive note, the Twins are home all week, so the DH will be in play. That might help Mauer get back to your lineup more quickly.
Sleeper: Ivan Nova, Yankees. Only five of Nova's 11 starts this season have been quality, but he's coming off his best outing (8 IP, 1 ER, 5 Ks). He escapes the AL East and Yankee Stadium for road starts against the Braves and Nationals. He isn't without risk, but that's why he's a sleeper.
Stumbler: Randall Delgado, Braves. A high walk rate could get Delgado in trouble against the Yankees and Orioles, who are first and third, respectively, in the majors in homers. What was it that Earl Weaver used to say about those three-run homers? Delgado owners won't want to know.
Sleeper: Huston Street, Padres. San Diego has some winnable games next week against the Mariners and A's, and it's not often you can say that about the Padres. For more on why Street will be a good sleeper, check out the favorable schedule section below.
Stumbler: Sergio Romo, Giants. Santiago Casilla is back from a knee injury. Plus, Romo has a knee injury of his own. Chances are even if Romo is able to get on the mound next week he won't get save opportunities.
Check Fantasy Source's projected starters grid over the weekend, because this list is always subject to change.
Teams with seven games: None.
Basestealers: The Indians have a favorable slate against the Reds and Pirates, at least when Devin Mesoraco is catching for Cincinnati. When Ryan Hanigan is starting, the SB success rate goes way down.
Closers: It's a good week for Padres closer Huston Street to return because the A's and Mariners are in the bottom six in team batting average late in close games
Lefty/righty: Melky Cabrera is hitting .426 against lefties this year, so it's great that San Francisco will see three LHPs next week. ... With the Dodgers facing three lefties in six games next week, Jerry Hairston Jr. (.417 vs. LHP this season) should get a few more at-bats.
Ballparks: Rangers' hitters are home against the Diamondbacks and Astros. ... Blue Jays' hitters are home against the Nationals and Phillies. ... Padres' pitchers travel up the coast to Seattle and Oakland. ... Giants' pitchers are at home against the Astros before heading to Seattle.
Teams with five games: None.
Basestealers: It's a nightmare matchup for Angels speedsters as they face Miguel Montero and A.J. Ellis, two of the leaders in opponent's percentage of successful stolen bases.
Closers: Rays closer Fernando Rodney gets tough matchups this week, as he'll see two top-10 late-game offenses in the Mets and Marlins.
Lefty/righty: Seth Smith, Coco Crisp, Cliff Pennington and Brandon Inge could all suffer when the A's see three lefties in six games.
Ballparks: Nationals' pitchers go to Toronto before returning home to see the hard-hitting Yankees. ... D-backs' pitchers have a tough trip through Texas and Anaheim. ... Cubs' pitchers are at home against the Tigers and Red Sox. Let's hope the wind isn't blowing out at Wrigley.


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