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30 Minutes
On Your Mark
Students will be able to:
- Define asthma as a condition that causes difficulty with breathing.
- Explain that asthma can be controlled to allow children to be active and healthy.
- Describe asthma as a condition that affects the airways in the lungs.
- Explain that asthma cannot be caught like a cold or infection.
- Describe the airways in the lungs as the part of the respiratory system affected by asthma.
- Describe four signs and symptoms of an asthma episode such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath, and chest tightness or chest pain.
- List four things that can make asthma worse such as exercise, cigarette or other tobacco smoke, pollens, animals, colds, flu, and cold air.
Get Set
Teacher Preparation
- Make copies of the pre/post test
- Obtain overhead equipment
- Make overhead Respiratory System and Asthma
- Make copies of What Makes Asthma Worse cards
- Make copies of Classroom Scene: Find The Things That Make Asthma Worse
- Read Resources for Teachers
- Obtain one unwrapped straw per student
- Write vocabulary words and definitions on the board before the lesson
- Vocabulary Words:
Asthma: A condition that affects the airways in the lungs causing difficulty with breathing. Asthma cannot be caught like a cold. Some people develop the symptoms of asthma when they are very young, and others do not have the signs and symptoms of asthma for many years. People can control their asthma and live active, healthy lives.
Allergies: A condition resulting in symptoms such as sneezing, itchy eyes, and stuffy nose. People with allergies react to pollens, animals, and things in dust that don't cause a reaction in most people.
Disease: A condition or illness with a specific set of physical signs and symptoms.
Episode: Any event or series of events.
Symptoms or Signs: Physical changes or feelings that show a disease or condition exists.
Asthma Episode: An event or series of asthma symptoms which may include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing.
Respiratory System: The parts of the body involved with breathing. Includes the nose, throat, airways, and the lungs.
Classroom Activity: Administer and collect Pre-test. If instructional time is limited, you may want to omit the pre/post test. Use the Check for Understanding questions in the lesson to determine if the objectives have been met. Depending on your students' reading ability, you may want to administer the test orally.
Focus the Learner
Classroom Activity: Have students hold their breath for a little while.
"What happens if you hold your breath?" or "What happens if we do not get air into our bodies?" Responses may include: "We need air so that our bodies can work" or "Without air we would die."
"When we finish this lesson, you'll be able to describe asthma. You will also be able to identify the parts of the respiratory system (or body, if you have not yet introduced body systems) affected by asthma."
Classroom Activity: Pass out one unwrapped straw to each student.
"Let's see how it might feel to have difficulty breathing. Close your lips around the straw. Slowly and quietly breathe in and out through the straw. Put your thumbs up if you think it is fairly easy to breathe this way. Put your thumbs down if you think it's difficult. Most of you students should find it easy."
"Most of the time we can breathe in and out easily because our airways are open. Now close your mouth around the straw. With your finger, pinch the straw mostly closed in the middle. Try breathing in and out again. Put your thumbs up if it's easier or about the same as before. Put your thumbs down if it's harder. Most of you students should find it more difficult."
"When you pinch the straw, it makes it harder to breathe. How would it work to breathe through a straw if it were filled with a thick liquid like a milkshake?" Responses include: "The thick liquid would make it very difficult to get air through the straw."
Classroom Activity: Display the transparency Respiratory System and Asthma.
Using the transparency, review the parts of the respiratory system, pointing out the nose, throat, and the airways in the lungs. Have students label parts on the left side of the diagram. Review the right side of the diagram, which illustrates the airways during an asthma episode. Note the difference in the swelling of the lining of the airways during an asthma episode.
"How do the airways in the lungs look different on the right side of the diagram?" Responses should include that the airways are not as big and this makes it hard to get air in or out of the airway.
"In an asthma episode--some people call it an attack--the lining of the airways in the lungs get thicker and swollen. The airways get squeezed by the muscles around the airway. This makes the airways narrower, just like the straw when you squeezed it. The airways in the lungs also get filled with a thick liquid called mucus. These changes make it difficult to breathe. The more the airways are pinched by the muscles, swollen and filled with mucus, the more difficult it is to breathe. It is something like the feeling you get when you have been running very, very hard. You have a hard time breathing in and out and feel like you cannot catch your breath."
"The straw is like the airways in our lungs. Most of the time, children with asthma can breathe easily because their airways are open. They can run and play and go to school just like other children. But sometimes, the airways in their lungs get squeezed like we did with the straw. The inside of the airways swell and get filled with a thick liquid called mucus. The child with asthma has difficulty moving the air in and out of the lungs. This is called an asthma attack or episode."
Check for Understanding
"What part of the respiratory system (or body) is affected during an asthma episode?" Response should be: the airways in the lungs.
"In what way?" Responses may include: the airways get swollen and filled with mucus, and squeezed. The narrow airways make it hard to breathe in and out.
"We've learned what asthma is and that an asthma episode makes breathing more difficult. We also have learned what parts of the respiratory system are affected by asthma."
Focus the Learner
"What might a child having an asthma episode look like or sound like?" Responses may include: "They sound like they are coughing" or "They look like they cannot catch their breath."
"In the next part of the lesson, you'll learn the signs and symptoms of asthma and what can bring on an asthma episode."
"The physical changes and feelings that show that someone has a disease or condition are called signs and symptoms. For example, how can you tell if you're getting a cold?" Responses may include coughing, sneezing, or runny nose.
"We call these the signs and symptoms of a cold. They tell us that we have a cold. Most diseases and conditions have signs and symptoms. There are also signs and symptoms for asthma. The signs and symptoms happen when the person is having an asthma episode. What is one sign or symptom of asthma?" Responses may include coughing, being short of breath, wheezing or noisy breathing, tightness or pain in the chest, gasping, trouble talking or walking because they have trouble breathing.
"The main symptoms of asthma are coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath and tightness in the chest. They do not happen all at once. Some people may have only one sign such as coughing."
"Some symptoms may not be seen by others, but the person with the asthma episode would feel them. An example is chest tightness which might feel like having a heavy weight on the chest."
"Children with asthma do not always have difficulty breathing. Some children have very mild asthma. They are only bothered every now and then, sometimes only once a week or only a few times a year. Other children have very serious asthma. They can be bothered a lot or even most of the time unless they take medicine. A few children with asthma are bothered by their asthma much of the time even when they take their medicine. But most children with asthma can play and go to school just like children without asthma if they, their family, and a doctor work together and take care of their asthma."
"How do you think people get asthma?" Possible responses might include: you have a bad gene, you catch it from someone, your lungs are hurt somehow.
"Scientist don't know exactly how people get asthma. They do know that most people with asthma were born with the chance to get it at some time in their life. Some people develop the signs and symptoms of asthma when they are very young; others do not develop symptoms until they are older. Asthma is not something that is passed from one person to another. You cannot catch it like a cold or infection. People with asthma have sensitive airways. Their airways can be very sensitive to ordinary things in the air. Have you ever walked into a room being painted? Do you remember the strong smell? Have you ever been near someone smoking? How did that feel?" Responses include: made me cough, hurt my eyes, made my chest hurt.
"People with asthma may get these feelings such as coughing and wheezing more easily than people who don't have asthma. Also, the airways in their lungs are more sensitive to some things that usually don't bother people without asthma. When they are around these things, their asthma gets worse and their airways get even more sensitive. Their airways get pinched and clogged. They have a hard time breathing in and out. Their asthma gets worse and their airways get even more sensitive. There are lots of different things that can make asthma worse."
Classroom Activity: If time allows, break into small groups at this point. Instructions to the group: "Many of you probably know someone with asthma. Think about the things that make that person have trouble with his/her asthma. In each work group, choose a recorder and brainstorm a list of things which can make asthma worse." Use the What Makes Asthma Worse cards to check the brainstorm lists.
Alternatively, continue the lesson as a teacher presentation. Use the What Makes Asthma Worse cards to illustrate the presentation.
"The ordinary things that bother most people with asthma include: dust from pillows, beds, couches, carpets; other things that bother people with asthma are cigarette smoke; allergies to furry or feathered animals such as cats, dogs, hamsters, or birds; allergies to tree and grass pollen; allergies to cockroaches; colds or flu; running or playing hard; cold air; changes in the weather; strong smells; chemical fumes; and laughing or crying hard."
Background Note: Anyone, even if they do not have asthma, may experience a very temporary shortness of breath after heavy exercise. Point out to students that this shortness of breath is different from the shortness of breath in an asthma episode. Even after heavy exercise a child without asthma recovers easily and has no other symptoms. Usually, the child with asthma will need treatment to recover from symptoms. Be sure that students understand that just because people have difficulty breathing during exercise or experience coughing does not necessarily mean that they are having an asthma episode.
Episodes can sometimes be brought on by the physical effects of strong emotions such as laughing, crying or strong emotional distress. However, it is important to know that asthma is not caused by emotional factors such as a troubled parent-child relationship. Some people think asthma is "all in one's head." This is wrong. It is a disease in the airways.
Additional Activity: Have a magazine picture hunt for things that make asthma worse. Students can work individually or in teams to identify and share pictures. Another additional activity is the Classroom Scene: Find The Things That Make Asthma Worse page. Pass the page out, have the students complete the page and then discuss it.
Classroom Activity: Divide students into small groups. Have each group brainstorm a list of things that make asthma worse. From the total group, develop a list that students can use to check at home for things that can make asthma worse. Have each student suggest "solutions" for problems they find at home.
"Today we learned: asthma is a condition that some people are born with which affects the airways in the lungs. During an asthma episode, the airways can be pinched and clogged, making it harder for a person to breathe. They have signs and symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, and tightness of the chest. We also learned that dust, cigarette smoke, exercise, cold air, colds, and allergies can bring on an asthma episode. Tomorrow you will learn what someone with asthma can do to stay healthy and how you can be helpful to someone with asthma."
Additional Language Arts Activity: Use the vocabulary words as spelling words. Have students use them in a sentence and write a story about a person with asthma using the lead phrase, "My best friend just found out he/she has asthma..."


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Mid back pain, also known as thoracic pain, is not as common as other back problems, yet it's just as uncomfortable and problematic. Most complaints are caused by soft tissue pain and inflammation, resulting from poor posture and prolonged periods of sitting. If you're one of the many people who want to get rid of mid back pain, then here are five great stretches that can eliminate the aches and improve back health immediately.
1. Upward Salute
How to do an upward salute:
Yoga is great for back pain. This is a great Yoga stretch that is great for the thoracic spine. The great thing about this stretch is that you can just about do it anywhere, even sitting down. Stand (optional) straight and keep your feet a shoulder width apart, with your toes straight forward. Slowly bring your palms together and reach up until your arms are fully extended above your head. During the same time that your arms are extending up, slowly lift your head so your head is also looking up at the same time that your arms are fully extended. Pause for a few seconds and then bring your arms and head down. Repeat this exercise 10-15 times.
If you are doing this stretch sitting down, make sure your back is straight while reaching up.
2. Standing Side Stretch
How to do a standing side stretch:
Some of the mid back muscles are located on the sides, so you need to perform the side stretch to alleviate the pain. Stand straight with your feet a shoulder width apart. Lift your arms above your head, keeping your spine straight. With the use of your right hand, hold on to your left wrist. Lean to the right side for as far as you can, keeping the position for 3 to 5 breaths. Assume your starting position, then use your left hand to hold on to your right wrist to address the left mid back muscles.
3. Wall Angels
How to do the wall angel exercise:
This is a stretch I learned from my chiropractor and it is especially efficient in getting rid of any knots you have in your mid back.
Stand straight with your feet apart shoulder level. During this exercise, your shoulder and butt should be against the wall but your low back should be slightly off the wall. Tuck your chin in. Here is a picture of a correct and incorrect wall angel posture:
Once you have the posture down, here is how you do the wall angels:
Your arms will touch the wall the whole time you are doing this exercise. Your arms will start full extended above your head. Then you will need to slowly lower the arms to your sides keeping the elbows bent at 90 degrees. As you do so you will feel a stretch on your chest and mid back area. Do this slowly; each full repetition should take approximately two to three seconds. Repeat this 15 to 20 times.
4. Child's Pose
How to do a child's pose:
This yoga position is one of the best stretches for the mid back. To perform, rest your knees on a mat and place your heels under your buttocks. Carefully thrust your torso forward. Make sure to rest on your thighs as you extend your arms in front of you. You can assume the child's pose for as long as you wish.
If you want a deeper stretch, you can rotate your body so that your torso is placed on your right leg. Stretch your arms above your head as you keep this position. Hold for a few seconds before repeating this step for the other side of your body.
5. Cat's Pose
How to do a cat pose:
The cat's pose is another Yoga stretch that can work wonders for your mid back. Get on all fours and curve your back so that it's shaped convexly. Hold this curve for 2 to 3 breaths before releasing. Next, drop your spine in such a way that your back is shaped concavely. Hold the position for 2 to 3 seconds. Do the stretches alternately for 5 to 10 times.
Mid back pain can get worse if you don't address it right away. With these stretches, you can enjoy a comfortable back no matter what you do.


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Encrypted Text: Roleplaying as a rogue {WoW}
May 16th 2008 3:44AM You might want to check out EU Argent Dawn. It's not perfect by any means, but the RP is there, and especially the racial RP (trolls spring to mind) is very strong. Feel free to look at the www.argentarchives.org , our central Roleplaying portal. I would be happy to see you there, new RPers are always welcome :)
- Chiralee
Breakfast Topic: Who should be leader of the free world (of Azeroth)? (Poll) {WoW}
Mar 10th 2008 8:15AM I'd vote for Jaina as well, as she has a very strong claim: good relations to the Night Elves and the Horde, especially the orcs, and she is the only live descendant of the three original founders of the Alliance. In a setting that is partly based on dynasties, that should not go unmentioned.
Raid Rx: Overhealing ftw? {WoW}
Jan 15th 2008 2:20PM "Also, don't forget classes with HoT's/PoM/Chain Heal. These are self-policing heals that should skew their OH numbers lower than say Paladins, since those types of spells only heal if there's healing to be done."
This is partly true, but there are several issues with this statement.
Firstly, HoT's heal for their entire duration. This means that if the first three ticks brought the target up to full health, all following ticks count as overhealing, until the target takes damage again. This is less important to know for tank healing, but it happens often that a dps is HoT-ted and another healer throws a direct heal to bring him up - which means the subsequent HoT ticks are wasted.
Secondly, PoM does not count as overheal towards the priest, since its healing counts towards the person that is healed. Even so, its potential for overheal is rather big, since it can easily heal for 2000 HP, even though the person it heals only takes 150 damage. For the purpose of this article, though, the only important thing is that it doesn't show up in any way on the statistics of the priest who casted it.
I don't know about the Chain Healing, as my main is a priest, but I can imagine that the implications are similar.
Apart from these nitpicky little comments, a very nice article :)
New loot cards? {WoW}
Nov 1st 2007 3:31AM This was missing in my comment:
That's all there is, so not a lot of new info, except that the upgrades will be purely cosmetic, so we can expect new non combat pets, nothing that influences the game play. The rest might make more sense for someone who plays the trading card game.
New loot cards? {WoW}
Nov 1st 2007 3:29AM Not a lot of more info to be had there. Roughly translated:
It is now known since quite a while that the next booster set "March of the Legion" will be released the 7th of November in 2007.
319 cards
19 cards in a booster set plus UDEPoints-card
9 different starter sets
(prebuilt 33 card deck, 3 oversize hero cards, 2 boosters, rule booklet)
Subfactions, demonic allies, new types of hero abilities / powers
3 new and exclusive loot cards (Paper Airplane, Exploding Pet Chicken, 3-D Kite)
UDEPoint-cards to redeem for new special TCG-cards, promotion material and new cosmetic upgrades for the online game.
The Light and How to Swing It: Maximizing Paladin DPS, Part 2 {WoW}
Oct 31st 2007 2:01AM Also, Spell Hit has nothing to do with resistances. To get through resistances, the required stat is Spell Penetration, which works directly against resistance. Spell Hit increases your chance to - who'd have thought - hit your enemy with spells, which means that, yes, you'll see 'resist' popping up less often. Nonetheless, the two mechanics work seperately from each other.
PTR Notes: Cheat Death insanely buffed, mobs' fear nerfed {WoW}
Oct 23rd 2007 10:52AM "NPC's with level appropriate quests will now always appear on your minimap as yellow exclamation points. NPC's that have quests that you have completed will now display as yellow question marks instead of yellow dots."
This is awful. It's been called 'WoW for preschoolers' before, and I realize that it's not supposed to be a hard game, but this change? It looks bad, it feels bad, and it's a miserable idea. Honestly, is it that hard to find quests in WoW? Please, let us turn it off at least!


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Casey of Dallas writes:
I am buying a mattress for the first time in my life. Right now, my fiance and I are sleeping on 2 futon mattresses on the floor. I just had a major surgery and demanded that we get a real bed because I just can't handle pushing myself off the floor in my recovering position.
We just got our tax returns but of course, we don't want to spend an arm and a leg for a bed.
What our plan is, is to go mattress shopping and then buy it cheaper off of Direct Buy if possible.
I'm about 200lbs and he is 160lbs. I had an accident a few years back that cause me to have back problems (pinched nerve or something. Never had it properly diagnosed, but it's that kinda feeling)
My fiance has neck pains and upper back muscle pain due to stress.
I don't want to screw up buying our first mattress. Reading the comments of the other people here, it seems like it's a huge ordeal to buy a mattress and really easy to buy a bad one. I'm just trying to do my research first.
About a year ago, I almost bought a Sealy latex mattress. I think it was called 'Natural Allure'. My fiance has a latex allergy, but he went to lay on it for a bit and didn't have any problems since the latex was inside, so I don't think we'll have any allergy issues unless latex is on the outside of the mattress.
I used to have a Sealy 'Reflections' mattress, but when I went to buy a new mattress, they said that Sealy didn't make that one anymore; that the mattress comparable to the Reflections was the Natural Allure. I loved the Reflections when I laid on it in the store for the first time, but I noticed that when I put sheets on it, I didn't sink into as much; it wasn't as soft/plush.
What is your opinion on the Sealy Allure? Is it a good mattress? I have a deep arch in my back, so I need a soft mattress with good support. However, my fiance wants a mattress that is a teensy bit more firm than the Allure.
I'm sorry to go on and on, but I wanted to make sure I could give you as many details as possible so you could give us an educated recommendation. :o) We've got one shot at finding a mattress (possibly two shots, if we get one with a return policy).
So what do you recommend?
Sincerely, Casey
Hi Casey,
If you think that it's stressful buying a mattress now, wait until you're in the position of having to make your second and final choice after having made a mistake...under the gun to correct that mistake in a very short period of time and with no real help from your salesperson. The warm and fuzzy feeling you get knowing you are able to return it, softens your resolve and leads you to pull the trigger on a mattress that some smooth talking salesman promised would be fine for you and adds, "Don't worry, if you don't like it, you can return it"....quite often omitting the cost for doing so. This comfort guarantee does much to relieve the salesperson of having to know what he's talking about or even caring about the outcome. His recommendation was commission motivated and now there's no motivation to help you figure it all out. It's like peanut butter in a mouse trap. Get me, Minnie?!
It's reasonably important to know what's wrong with you...your back, I mean...diagnosis-wise. You always need to identify a problem before you can hope to solve it.
That being said, no mattress is going to fix anything. But, better choices will help allow your body to heal, while poor choices can do much to inflame the affected areas.
I'm getting some conflicting vibes from you...in the financial end of this. You talk about buying cheap, but also talk about latex...which ain't cheap. So, which is it?
If your main concern is not pushing yourself up off the floor, you can just buy a boxspring and frame to put your futon mattresses on and solve that problem real cheap.
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Body copy Settlement of Winona by non-Native Americans started in about 1850. The next 50 years are filled with fascinating stories of people, transportation, farming and industry. Come find out more about Winonas history and hear ideas about writing your personal history from Jodi Brom, curator of collections for the Winona County Historical Society when she presents at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, in Knopp Valley at 120 Pleasant Hill Drive, September 22, starting at 1 PM. LDS Branch President Alan Neefe says that everyone interested in local history or in writing their own history is welcome.
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B. Protection of Intellectual Property Online
Scarcely a decade has passed since author William Gibson described in his acclaimed science fiction novels Neuromancer and Count Zero a fantasy world of computer-generated data matrices which had no correlation to any physical reality, but to which people could "plug in" via a "brain-computer link" and have the illusion of physically moving about to obtain information.1 Gibson dubbed this virtual world cyberspace-"the space that wasn't space."2 In Gibson's portrayal of cyberspace, inhabitants could meet, converse, carry on business and recreation, and do everything else that was possible in a physical world, including break the law.3
Today it is apparent that Gibson's vision was more than a science fiction dream. It is strikingly similar to existing information and communications networks, and the term cyberspace has even caught on as a name for the virtual space in which users interact via these networks. Politicians, the media, business leaders, and technologists have sensationalized this burgeoning information infrastructure,4 especially the "network of networks" known as the Internet, and its potential to change the way we communicate, learn, work, and play.5 Already, this "Information Superhighway" is having a phenomenal effect on the way we live. Cellular phones and fax machines, email and the World Wide Web, satellite broadcasting and cable television, video conferencing and personal communications systems are just a few of the building blocks of this Superhighway that are helping to create a society and economy in which time and geography are no longer formidable obstacles to human interaction, and information is the most valuable commodity.6
History suggests that when new technology is a catalyst for sweeping social and economic change, the law struggles to keep up.7 Thus, not surprisingly, the perceived changes produced by the proliferation of networks and digital technology have led several notable commentators to suggest that traditional legal paradigms are an uncomfortable fit in this new environment. For example, in Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte describes the law, in its struggle to adapt to digital technologies, as "behaving like an almost dead fish flopping on the dock. It is gasping for air because the digital world is a different place."8 Similarly, John Perry Barlow, noting the "problem of digitized property" and lack of physical boundaries in cyberspace, has compared our continued reliance on traditional legal models to "sailing into the future on a sinking ship . . . developed to convey forms and methods of expression entirely different from the vaporous cargo it is now being asked to carry."9 Barlow argues that instead of trying to make the old legal models work through a "grotesque expansion" of existing laws or through the "brute force" application of these laws to the digital world, we "need to develop an entirely new set of methods as befits this entirely new set of circumstances."10
Are existing legal principles and paradigms truly insufficient to address the problems presented by the new information and communications technologies? Does a special body of law need to be carved out for online issues? In Law and the Information Superhighway, Henry Perritt attempts to answer these questions.11 And from the outset his answer is clearly a resounding "No!"
Professor Perritt is eminently qualified to address the legal issues presented by new information technologies. Perritt has provided information law and policy guidance to the Clinton administration, the European Commission and other international bodies, and the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association. He has been a professor of computer and information law at Villanova University School of Law for fifteen years, and is an instrumental figure in the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy. The author of 11 books and more than 35 journal and law review articles, Perritt's works have been cited in more than 400 journal and law review articles and 30 cases.12
Perritt squarely acknowledges in the first chapter of Law and the Information Superhighway that the Information Superhighway presents several novel phenomena that call for thoughtful examination of existing legal paradigms.13 However, he asserts that these phenomena are merely "interesting," not "revolutionary," and that we do not need to scrap the traditional legal doctrines developed in other contexts. What we need, according to Perritt, is "a clear understanding of the core legal principles . . . and a clear understanding of how the various NII [National Information Infrastructure] technologies actually work," so that we can properly adapt the existing doctrines to the NII.14
Perritt provides ample support for this position throughout his text, exhibiting a keen understanding of the underlying network technology as well as a thorough knowledge of traditional American and international legal principles. He addresses an extremely broad range of issues, many of which books of this sort often omit for the sake of manageability,15 including criminal, regulatory, and international issues, as well as problems related to NII technologies other than the Internet, such as telephone and cable. Although the ambitious undertaking of analyzing the law over this wide range of topics limits his opportunity to provide detailed policy arguments in all of the areas, he effectively picks his spots, dropping suggestions where the law appears to him to be unclear or headed in the wrong direction.16 His analysis of existing case law and the extension of the principles established therein to the online context are consistently sound, which creates a convincing case for the continued use of traditional paradigms and framework to address the legal problems on the Information Superhighway.
Perritt is not the first author to utilize linguistic devices such as metaphors and analogies to facilitate understanding of the online world. A description of an abstract, non-physical entity such as cyberspace (much like the description of abstract, non-physical emotions or experiences such as anger, love, or even the creative process of writing) often requires the use of familiar language based on known, tangible things discernible by the traditional five senses.19 Thus, the cyberspace literature is rich with symbolism and comparisons to things common in real-world existence. For example, copyright law professor Paul Goldstein coined the term "Celestial Jukebox" to describe the satellite and fiber optic network that will deliver a nearly limitless selection of videos, movies, and texts to our desktop or living room.20 In Netlaw, Lance Rose examined the effectiveness of various metaphors for the Internet, including "local bar," "wild west frontier," "supermarket," and "adult bookstore."21 Some metaphors have even become an explicit part of the Internet language: for example, we can "surf" the World Wide "Web" (WWW), guided by Netscape "Navigator"(tm) software.22
While Perritt's use of the Information Superhighway metaphor is effective in calling immediate attention to his point that the development of the NII does necessitate drastic changes to the structure of the law, he wisely refrains from carrying the Superhighway metaphor too far. The mere fact that we can recognize similarities between the virtual world and something (like a highway) in the physical world does not mean prima facie that the same legal paradigms apply to both. Consequently, Perritt devotes adequate individual attention to each of the separate legal subjects,23 to determine which legal paradigms are most appropriate for that subject in the online context, and which principles are best applied to resolve the problems presented.
In addition to resolving the more straightforward problems, Perritt offers some creative applications of existing principles in analyzing the more complex problems. Without attempting to force traditional legal paradigms where they do not fit in the online context, Perritt illustrates that even the seemingly troublesome online problems can be addressed effectively within the existing legal framework, staying faithful to his premise that creating new categories for NII issues is unnecessary. While it would be impractical to summarize his treatment of each of the many issues presented in the book, an examination of the following two particular areas provides a representative example of Perritt's legal and policy analysis: (1) access rights to public information and to online networks and facilities; and (2) private intellectual property rights.
Perritt's first principle of effective information policy is sound. Anyone who has used electronic information tools realizes the electronic format has significant search and retrieval advantages, saving the user time and money.31 Thus, as a purely practical matter, supplying documents in paper form rather than electronically impairs public access to information. Perritt alertly recognizes that the inability to obtain electronic formats of information would present a problem for electronic publishers who wished to attach value-added features to the information and resell it, because electronic format greatly facilitates the addition of features like links and tags, and significantly lowers barriers to entry in the market.32 He criticizes the position taken by those who claim that mandating electronic disclosure of public records to private publishers planning to resell the records for profit constitutes the use of public funds for private purposes. Perritt argues that:
Perritt suggests several strategies that private publishers can use to protect their investments, without necessitating the reach of copyright into material belonging in the public domain. Publishers could design the product to make effective pirating difficult by using fine "granularity of information" (dividing content into many small parts to make it difficult for each individual element to be extracted and reassembled by a pirate) or utilizing a "planned obsolescence" strategy (providing frequent updates to the product and thus rendering older material worthless).37 Creative legal solutions are also possible. Perritt suggests that publishers brand electronic information products with trademarks, which prevent competitors from appropriating the name and goodwill built up by the trademark owner.38 This is an excellent suggestion, because it is difficult to effectively protect digital works, particularly works encompassing some degree of public, non-copyrightable information, solely by copyright law.39 Also, trademark infringement is sometimes easier to prove than other theories of misappropriation or infringement, as illustrated by several recent cases.40
In addition to providing some degree of protection for the information products of private publishers, Perritt indicates that trademarks can be used by public entities which directly supply information:
Perritt devotes substantial analysis to the relationships and markets of World Wide Web content providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs),46 and concludes that the wide variety of access points and paths of information flow likely precludes any online market from being characterized under antitrust law as an essential facility and, furthermore, appears to prevent the need for antitrust intervention to ensure competition in online markets.47 However, he appears to have missed the importance of the final physical "link" in the "chain" of information flow across the network from content provider to consumer: the user's desktop personal computer (PC) and modem.
Web browser software such as Microsoft(tm) Internet Explorer(tm) and Netscape Navigator(tm), running on top of the OS, currently provides the interface between the user and network. However, many industry observers agree that browser software and OS software are on an inevitable crash course-they will soon become one and the same.48 Netscape Navigator, for example, already has the capability of running "add-on" applications,49 much like an OS runs application programs. The potential problem, then, is that one company (Microsoft Corp.) already has a virtual monopoly on the OS market,50 leading one to believe that it is quite possible they could soon control the user's complete software interface with the web.51
A monopoly in the area of desktop web interface software (which, for the sake of simplicity will be referred to as OS software) could have several detrimental effects on access to public information, as well as chilling effects on the free speech rights of content providers and consumers. First, it could limit the variety of forms in which a user may receive information. The variety of available value-added features which Perritt considers so important could significantly decline in the event of a monopoly OS, because any feature not supported by that OS would not likely be developed by content providers. Second, the bottleneck at the desktop could be used by the producer of the monopoly OS to regulate the actual substance of information users are able to receive, the ease or difficulty with which it can be retrieved, and the speed with which it is accessible. In other words, the OS can be designed so that the content produced by sources favored by the OS producer-probably as part of a financial arrangement between the parties-appears more attractive, or has additional features, or is accessed faster than the content of another source.52 Not only is this harmful for public information policy in that it limits diversity of sources and channels, it also allows the OS producer to filter out specific kinds of information, giving it the power of "virtual censorship." Likewise, the OS producer could design the system to favor certain ISPs over others, thereby limiting the users' practical access to the physical network.53
There are several theories under which antitrust law could help address the problem. First, section 2 of the Sherman Act could be applied to prevent a dominant OS producer from tying other information products or services to the sale of the OS, or engaging in other anticompetitive practices.54 Presently, this theory would help to preserve competition in the market for web browsers, thereby allowing competing browsers to develop into viable competing OSs for the future. Second, vertical relationships between OSs and content providers or ISPs should be scrutinized carefully under section 1 of the Sherman Act, in order to prevent certain content providers or ISPs from gaining a favored status with the OS producer.55 Potential mergers and acquisitions of firms in other network or computing markets by the OS producer should likewise be closely scrutinized under the Sherman and Clayton Acts.56 Finally, some lawyers and economists view online markets as natural monopolies, which means that the existence of one dominant OS is actually the most market-efficient scenario.57 In that case, viewing the operating system as a bottleneck to the network, the essential facilities doctrine could be applied to ensure that all content providers have the ability to send information to users without any filtering mechanisms, or discrimination at the OS level as to how fast the file is received or the way it is displayed.58 This would alleviate potential access policy problems as well as Constitutional problems.
Thus, in light of the foregoing, it seems as if antitrust law may have a more important role in access problems than Perritt realizes, and the application of the existing antitrust doctrine to a non-physical "bottleneck" like a software interface is not really analogous to the physical examples he cites. Nevertheless, his premise that existing legal principles are sufficient to address NII problems still holds true in the area of public information and network access.
Perritt recognizes the importance of protecting intellectual property, and the gravity of the piracy problem on the Internet: "The NII can realize its potential only if it protects private property and makes it possible to offer something for sale or license in open networks like the Internet without it being misappropriated by a competitor."63 Consistent with his oft-stated premise, though, he believes that the combination of existing legal, technological, and business schemes can adequately protect property interests online, while properly balancing such private interests with the public domain.
Much literature is addressed to the problem of intellectual property protection in cyberspace. The approaches taken can be put into three general categories: (1) arguments for the creation of entirely new regime(s) to protect software or digitized property (sui generis approach); (2) arguments for rewriting the copyright laws to make them fit the digital environment; and (3) arguments for a more conservative approach, based on existing legal principles and on the promise of technology to help address the problems it created. Several notable authors have favored the first category. In A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs, Pamela Samuelson, Randall Davis, Mitchell Kapor, and J.H. Reichman argue that the unique properties of computer software-including the observation that they "behave"-make software expensive to develop and easy to imitate, an ill-suited combination for protection under traditional intellectual property regimes such as patent and copyright.64 They argue that the use of traditional regimes will lead to cycles of overprotection or underprotection of software, and outline the general principles of a sui generis, market-based approach that features a three-year "blockage period" for software clones, during which development but not distribution would be allowed.65 In a separate article, Reichman proposes another hybrid regime loosely based on antitrust and trade secret (but not property) principles that is designed to give innovators adequate lead time to recover their investment, while allowing others to build socially desirable derivatives of the innovation.66
The Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force, led by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Commissioner Bruce Lehman, favors the second category. In The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (commonly referred to as the "NII White Paper"), the Working Group outlines several proposals for revising copyright law for the digital age, including provisions clarifying that transmission of a copyrighted work is the exclusive right of a copyright holder, imposing liability on service providers for copyright infringement perpetrated via their system, and prohibiting the unauthorized removal or alteration of copyright management information.67 Some of the proposals have already been enacted into law, such as the right of performance in digital works.68
Professor Perritt, on the other hand, favors the conservative approach of the third category. He exclaims:
For example, the non-copyrightable elements of a compilation such as a database can be protected by contract law, in the form of shrinkwrap licenses. The Seventh Circuit recently upheld the enforceability of such licenses in ProCD v. Zeidenberg.73 On the web, shrinkwrap licenses (called "point-and-click," "click-on," or "click-through" licenses in that medium) arguably would have even greater enforceability, since the web site can force the user's browser to display a license before entering the site, requiring the user to take the affirmative action of clicking on a link indicating consent to the license terms.74 Perritt also suggests a "reverse passing off" theory for protection of non-copyrightable, sweat-of-the brow digital works that could otherwise be misappropriated by pirates,75 and he notes that content providers can use business strategies such as planned obsolescence, fine granularity of information, and marking and tagging to increase practical protection for digital works.76 In addition, technology such as encryption and password protection will become more effective as appropriate mechanisms are developed for their use, and trademark law will play a much greater role in the protection of works displayed by a computer, since product branding can effectively show the source of a product.77 Thus, Perritt argues, digital property rights can be protected in many ways without creating new legal doctrines.
Of the three approaches discussed, Perritt's approach is the wisest course of action, at least for the present time. The sui generis approach is attractive on some fundamental level because it attacks the problem head-on, taking a fresh look at the problems presented by digital technology and the market structures affecting incentives to produce intellectual property in the digital era. Arguably, such a fresh look will result in the most fair and efficient rules for protection. However, resorting to a sui generis approach creates the danger of an intellectual property regime consisting more of special rules for various technologies than general rules. Various pockets of specialized law have already been carved out for plants,78 semiconductor chips,79 and pharmaceuticals.80 As more and more technologies are added to the fray, such a regime may rapidly become cumbersome and impractical to work with. There likely will be technologies which straddle the line between special categories, and lawyers and courts will struggle to characterize whether a technology is more like prior technology A or prior technology B, instead of focusing on specific intellectual property doctrine. More importantly, though, the time has not yet arrived to implement a sui generis approach. Technology is just beginning to address the problem it has created, and technical solutions such as encryption and trusted systems may prove to hold an adequate solution for the easy pirating of digital products.81 Once new legal regimes are created, they are quite difficult to "undo." The approach suggested by Perritt lends itself to a continued surveillance of the issue so that, for example, the technological protection capabilities that are currently in testing and development stages in the laboratory82 will have the opportunity to be tested in the marketplace, where their strengths and weaknesses will be more readily apparent. If market failure is evident (i.e. if holes in the protection scheme continue to create a disincentive for creative and inventive works to be produced), then the more drastic measure of crafting a new regime can be undertaken.
Perritt's approach is also preferable to that suggested in the second category (a revision, expansion, and in some cases reinterpretation of the copyright law as suggested by the Working Group). The implicit difficulty in relying heavily on copyright law83 to solve the problem of pirating is doing so without also encroaching on the public's fair use rights. Collectively, the proposals set forth in the NII White Paper do not overcome this difficulty. For example, the Working Group's proposals for an exclusive "transmission right" and interpretation of a temporary RAM copy to be a "copy" for copyright purposes seem to signal the end of the "first sale doctrine" as applied to digitally transmitted documents.84 The first sale doctrine normally gives a user who lawfully purchases a copy the right to sell or dispose of that particular copy as he wishes, without liability for copyright infringement.85 However, under the Working Group's proposal, forwarding your copy of an electronic file to a friend would be an infringement in two ways: the transmission itself would be unlawful, and the temporary copy created in RAM on your computer would also be an unlawful copy. The Working Group also supports the expansion of copyright law to impose strict liability on ISPs for acts of infringement committed by its users,86 and the outlawing of decryption technology that may have substantial noninfringing uses.87 Again, these policies place unnecessary burdens on the public where none should rightfully exist.
Perritt's approach, on the other hand, balances the public interest with the rights of property owners. He urges that caching should not be considered an infringement for copyright purposes, and in the alternative, fair use should clearly apply.88 He also notes that the defense of an implied license could be utilized in the online scenario. If a content provider puts material on the World Wide Web, he is granting an implied license for the file to be cached, since it can only be viewed using web browser software, which creates cached copies of the files it accesses. As a final protection of the public domain, Perritt suggests that the "copyright misuse" doctrine, recently recognized by the 5th Circuit, can prevent copyright owners from usurping the fair use privileges of the public.89
Thus, in the vigorously debated area of online intellectual property, Perritt presents a sound argument that existing legal principles, business strategies, and developing technology strike the most appropriate balance between the rights of intellectual property owners and the rights of the public. Thus, once again, he shows that our traditional legal framework need not be discarded in evaluating online issues.
Law and the Information Superhighway may also be viewed as a paradox because, while it addresses a medium in which instant access to information and fast-paced change are obvious qualities, the book is published in slow-to-deliver and cumbersome-to-update paper form, rather than electronically. Thus, although the book will be supplemented annually via pocket parts,90 it will consistently lag behind in this rapidly changing field. One alternative would be to publish the book in digital form, with supplements available online from the publisher, which would allow the seamless integration of supplements with the original text.91 However, no matter how often the author or publisher updates a book on the subject of the Information Superhighway, whether in paper or digital form, the book will never keep up with the almost-daily developments in this field. Thus, perhaps the task of reporting on these daily changes is best left to web sites such as that of the author's own Center for Information Law and Policy.92 Certainly plenty of sources of information are available online, most of them for free.93
In the face of Professor Perritt's thorough treatment of NII legal history and case law, and convincing comparisons of NII issues to analogous legal problems in other, traditional contexts, any potential paradoxes presented by the book are mere sidebars which do little to distract the reader's attention. Law and the Information Superhighway is a comprehensive, accurate, and insightful survey of the application of law to the developing information infrastructure, and is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature in this field. Its broad coverage of all of the converging communications technologies, not only the Internet, make it a unique and valuable roadmap of the law for any lawyer or non-lawyer who may venture onto the Information Superhighway. Whether Perritt is correct in his view that existing legal categories and paradigms are adequate to resolve the problems presented by the development of the information infrastructure remains to be seen, but his clear presentation of the issues in Law and the Information Superhighway will remain useful no matter what unpredictable turns technology and the law may take.


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Grace Scott Jacobs
ARITON - Mrs. Grace Scott Jacobs, age 89, of Ariton, died Monday afternoon, June 7, 2010.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 10, 2010, in the Chapel of Holman Funeral Home in Ozark with the Reverend Harry Circle officiating. Interment will follow in Center Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery, Holman Funeral Home of Ozark directing. Flowers will be accepted.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Jacobs was born September 9, 1920 in Winchester, Georgia to the late Daniel Raymond and Annie Jane Chapman Scott. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Cicero Jacobs.
Survivors include three sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas Eugene and Betty Ann Jacobs of Bradenton, Florida, Ray D. and Betty Jacobs of Seale, Alabama, Norman Lomax and Elizabeth Jacobs of Ozark; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Annie Mary and Merle Glenn of Newton, Kathleen Cook of Ozark; one brother and sister-in-law, Dean and Barbara Scott of Ozark; five grandchildren, Michelle Jacobs, Renae Hunt, Jackie Quincey, David Jacobs, and Amanda Redding.
Sixteen great grandchildren also survive.
For more information and a guest register please visit the Holman Funeral Home website: www.holmanfuneralhome.com.


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I'm trying to grow Calla 'Edge of Night' and I've never grown callas before. Anybody got any tips to make this a pleasant experience for me and the bulb? |
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- Posted by janinecollette 6 (My Page) on Tue, May 29, 07 at 21:29
I'd love some tips too! I put some calla bulbs in and they haven't come up yet. I put them in about 3 weeks ago. |
Did you put your's in a pot or directly into the ground? Somewhere I read they could almost be a bog plant because they like lots of water. |
- Posted by garlicgrower Z5MA (My Page) on Wed, May 30, 07 at 9:59
Give them a little patience, bone meal and warm, sunny place. I've gown them for at least 7 years. They do need protection from Japanese beetles - I have hand picked the beetles, but they get ahead of me. Or cut the flowers and take inside to enjoy. You could spray with something a gardencenter reccommends, but I have not done that -yet! Good luck Maryanne in WMass |
If I grow it in a container and grow it outside for the summer, does it die down by itself when cooler weather comes? Or do I make a place for it in the house with my other houseplants? If at all possible I'd like to just deal with a bulb over winter rather than take up space that I really don't have. Does it need fertilizer AND bone meal or just bone meal? |
I grow them in a pot (as a matter of fact in THE same pot) for 4 years. Bring them outdoor, enjoy the flowers, give them some food (maybe once or twice in a season). In August start witholding the water and let them go dormant. Let foliage die and bring pot and all home before frost. Keep pot dry for as long as you wish to and if you want to force them indoor for the certain date, water thoroughly once 40-45 days before the date and let it be. You may sparsly water it in that period, but do not overwater. In 15-20 days leaves will emerge from a look like bone dry soil. Then bring them to the brightest light you have in a house and water every other day. In another 2.5-3 weeks they will be ready to bloom. Do not fertilize before bloom time, only after. That's it. Do not take them from the pot for division more often than once in a 3-4 years. They like it tight. When time for division will come you'll find at least 7-8 times more bulbs than you originally planted. At that time completely replace all soil and start all process again. Don't forget to give your friends some of the bulbs, you'll have plenty!!! |
Thanks ego45 for the details. I just got my plant in the mail on Wednesday so I haven't even put it in a container yet. Hope this works. Thanks! |
my daughter is getting married in august and wants dark purple calla lilies for her wedding. how can I keep them with flowers untill after august the 4th and where can I find dark purple, no store I have been in carries the dark purple |
I like Cala Lillies. I have about 20 plants this year, and they are of the orange type. Not sure what variety, but they are a really sweet plant. Mine tolerate drought AND love when there is lots of water. |
- Posted by jackied164 z6 MA (My Page) on Sat, Jun 9, 07 at 18:23
I have some I have been growing for 3 years now and am beginning to feel like they are actually pretty easy. I grow them in pots on my deck in part-sun, give them plenty of water and feed them and get 2 flushes of flowers (not really in August here thought so I am not sure about the wedding). When not in flower they are nice plants also. In fall I let them get killed by the first frost and then remove the tubers from the pots and store them in a cool room over the winter. I pot them up in the spring and either start them indoors or this year I put then out against a west wall that is very warm. The white ones just started flowering today. I have some deep purple ones that are lagging but looking like they will be great. These ones did kind of sit in the pots for about a month so be patient. I have had problems storing other "bulbs" like I do because of critters or fungus or drying but these ones are no-problemo for me. |
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113 Cabinet Sub-Committee on Trade and Employment Conference to Australian Delegation, Geneva
Cablegram T121 CANBERRA, 21 June 1947
Your I.T.O. 130, 134, 140 and 147.
Following are views of Cabinet Sub-Committee regarding World Conference:
1. Whilst generally we favour such conferences being held at seat of United Nations, we are prepared to leave the matter of place of Conference to your discretion.
2. The proposal of India and China for postponement of Conference till January should be supported. Committee is not impressed with the need for speed in bringing into force either the Charter or General Agreement, or for early action by U.S. Congress. The Sub- Committee wishes to avoid undue haste in the preparation of any necessary legislation for Parliamentary approval, and is not impressed very strongly by the reasons given for attempting to hold Conference in 1947. Moreover, Assembly probably would finish before end of November. The wool difficulty does not case the task of explaining undue haste.
3. Invitations should be extended to the Allied Control Authorities as such of Germany, Japan and Korea, on the grounds that these territories must eventually be brought within the general scheme of world trade. While the presence of other enemy and ex-enemy countries is not favoured you need not oppose it if other countries want it. No objections to the odds and ends.
4. No obvious interest of Australia seems to be involved in the question of whether territories enjoying commercial but not complete political autonomy should be invited and you may support the views of the United Kingdom in this regard.[1]


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NFL, refs reach deal to end lockout
The National Football League and its regular referees reached a labor agreement two days after a call on the final play of the Monday night game in Seattle cost the Green Bay Packers a victory against the Seahawks.
The New York Times
The NFL reached agreement on a new eight-year labor deal with its referees late Wednesday, ending a lockout that forced unprepared replacement referees onto the field, creating three weeks of botched calls, acute criticism, and furious coaches and players.
"Our referees will be back on the field starting tomorrow night" for the Cleveland-Baltimore game, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said late Wednesday.
The agreement came 48 hours after the nadir of the league's experiment with replacement referees, when a controversial call on the final play of the Monday night game in Seattle cost the Green Bay Packers a victory against the Seattle Seahawks.
That nationally televised debacle spurred two days of lengthy negotiations against the backdrop of immense public pressure and scorn, most of it directed at the league. Both sides were so determined to play no more games with replacements that they raced Wednesday to get referees in place to work this week's slate.
A crew of regular referees will be in Baltimore on Thursday night to work the Ravens' game against the Cleveland Browns. The 121 members of the NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) will gather in Dallas to vote on the contract Friday; if 51 percent vote for the deal, regular referees will work Sunday's games.
Negotiators began writing a formal document late Wednesday, according to several people familiar with the negotiations.
The negotiations with referees were conducted largely by Goodell and the league's top lawyer, Jeff Pash, with little of the direct owner involvement that dominated negotiations with players last year.
The lockout began in June, and while a fight over the referees' pensions was the most prominent hurdle — and the final one that the sides were working — the league also sought more control over grooming and replacing referees, in the name of improving officiating long term.
But as officiating and the control of the games deteriorated with each week, Goodell came under withering fire, which reached a peak on Tuesday morning. The uproar seemed to take some owners by surprise, but there was little question Wednesday night that it spurred them into action. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay wrote on his Twitter feed that owners were "desperately trying" to get a deal done.
"Let's be clear, when our N.F.L. Fans talk, we listen," Irsay tweeted. "if you're unhappy, we're unhappy ... we're here to serve you. Everything we do is to please you!"
First, though, the league and referees had to please each other. Early Wednesday, they reached a compromise on the hiring of additional referees to create the "bench" that the league wants to use to replace referees they believe are underperforming.
The pension proved more complicated. The referees had hoped to retain a traditional pension while the league wanted to eliminate it in favor of 401(k)s. The referees had offered a proposal to have current referees retain their pensions while new referees who are hired would be enrolled in 401(k)s. That would allow the league to get rid of the pensions by attrition, as the existing referees retired.
On Tuesday night, owners were said to have dug in and were unwilling to make any more concessions. But on Wednesday, they were believed to have agreed to a short period of several years in which current referees would retain their pensions before they are converted to a 401(k).
When they return to action, the regular referees are likely to be rusty for at least a few games; they, like the players, use preseason games to round into form. But they will have a better command of the rules than the replacements did. Even before the regular season began, referee Ed Hochuli became a self-styled headmaster of officiating boot camp during the lockout, circulating five-hour tests on rules among the 121 referees, conducting weekly conference calls to discuss rules and reviewing tape every week so that referees will be prepared to step in.
Don't think the return of the league's regular referees means the end to all criticism of the way a game is refereed. "They're still human beings so they still have that error factor," said Seattle linebacker Leroy Hill.
There were some who compared the replacement referees to substitute teachers who were being manipulated and fooled by the coaches and their players, who were getting away with infractions.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll didn't see that, though, when asked about the officiating Wednesday, hours before the lockout ended. "I'm not seeing them call less stuff," Carroll said. "I'm seeing them call more stuff."
Seattle has been penalized 32 times this season, the most of any team in the league. Fourteen of those penalties occurred in Monday night's game against Green Bay, which equaled the fourth-most called against Seattle in any single game in franchise history.
And while Carroll looked ahead to the return of the regular referees, he didn't for a minute entertain the notion that it would end the scrutiny of referees.
"When the real guys come back in," Carroll said, "they're going to be great ... but they still are going to make calls that you're going to question, you know."
Seattle Times staff reporter Danny O'Neil contributed to this report. Material from The Washington Post is included in this report.