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(Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia will be blogging for WEEI.com throughout the World Baseball Classic. His first entry comes after Team USA clinched a berth in the next round having beaten Canada and Venezuela at the Rogers Centre.)
TORONTO — First things first … this is a great experience.
It started Saturday when we walked into play Canada before 42,000 people and a crazy atmosphere. The first thing I think: "Am I ready for this?" I hadn't seen many pitches and really hadn't had a whole lot of at-bats. I turned to Youk and said, 'This is for real!' It was playoff atmosphere right away. It became clear in a hurry that I had to find a way to get it going.
The whole day was like a circus. Obviously, I'll remember winning, but there were also moments like the ones where every time they flashed up my 'MLB '09: The Show' commercial on the huge screen everybody booed. And then Justin Morneau would be announced and everybody would cheer. (In case you forgot, Morneau finished right behind me in the American League MVP voting.) That was funny, but I wasn't really prepared for them to play the commercial like four times.
As for playing, I'm hoping this environment is going to help me get locked in quicker. It's tough, though. I think Jake Peavy said he threw off a mound like twice, and the same with Roy Oswalt. You're trying to win and locate pitches as a pitcher, and for the hitters you're trying to have good at-bats when your timing is off. You have really got to grind it out, and fortunately a lot of guys on this team know how to do that.
Even after that first game I felt a little out of sync. That carried over for the first four at-bats of Sunday night's game, even on the last of those when I hit a double down the left-field line. But then in my last two at-bats I started feeling better. I crushed a ball to the right field fence. Now, a couple of things about that fly ball …
The first is that during the season I would have definitely had an idea if that ball was gone or not. But in this case I thought it was over the fence. Just another part of the game you have to slowly get used to.
Second, it is a little known fact that I have never hit an opposite field home run in my life. Not one. So when the ball left the bat not only did I think it was a home run, but I also immediately thought that I was in the process of making my own personal history with my first opposite field bomb. I thought, 'There it is!' Then Bobby Abreu catches it at the wall … shoot!
There were other memorable moments from Sunday night, such a group of fans in center field who were yelling the whole game. At the end they started chanting Derek Jeter's name, like they do at Yankee Stadium, which gets an acknowledgement from Derek with a wave of the glove. If you're a Yankee you're used to it. But then they start chanting my name. I didn't know what to do. I just turned around a little bit and smiled. I was like, 'Damn, dudes. It's late.' Evidently it was enough because they moved on to the next players.
Now we've got two more days before playing again, but it's important to stay on a schedule. This time of year you have to get in as much hitting as possible, which is why I'll be back for the optional workout Monday, lifting, hitting and taking some grounders. I'm also going online a lot to see how the guys are doing back in Fort Myers, along with texting Tito each day with updates on how I'm progressing.
But, again, this whole experience has really been a blast, and winning, of course, doesn't hurt, either.
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- Kane is backstage with Daniel Bryan. Bryan says he heard Kane wanted to say something. Kane heard the same thing about Bryan. Dr. Shelby, the anger management teacher, appears and then AJ walks in. AJ and the instructor got together and brought them here. Shelby has something planned that might save Kane and Bryan or ruin them. We go back to commercial.
- Back from the break and Heath Slater is in the ring talking about Zack Ryder. Slater wants his rematch. Ryder appears on the big screen and introduces Slater's opponent.
Ryback vs. Heath Slater
Ryback makes his way out to the ring as Slater looks on.
The bell rings and Ryback sends Slater out to the floor. Slater comes back in and gets shoved to the mat. Slater with a right hand but Ryback responds with a bigger right hand. Slater fights back and tries for a weak pin attempt. Slater with kicks that just upset Ryback. Another pin attempt by Slater. Slater talks trash and Ryback runs over him with a clothesline. Ryback hits the front slam and then the powerbomb before Shellshocked for the win.
Winner: Ryback
- AJ has called Darren Young and Titus O'Neil into her office. She says there's been a mistake - they aren't the #1 contenders to the tag team titles. AJ says they haven't beaten every team but they will get a chance to tonight. The new team is Kane and Daniel Bryan. Back to commercial.
Kane and Daniel Bryan vs. Titus O'Neil and Darren Young
We go to the ring and out first comes Daniel Bryan. Kane is out next followed by their opponents, Titus O'Neil and Darren Young.
Kane and Bryan argue to start the match but Kane starts off with Titus. Titus goes in but Kane clotheslines him and takes it to the corner. Kane tags in Bryan. Bryan with kicks to Titus in the corner. Bryan ducks a clothesline and goes for a roll up but it's blocked. Young tags himself in and drops Bryan for two pin attempts in a row. Titus tags back in and they double team Bryan for another pin attempt. Titus scoop slams Bryan and works him over some more.
They keep Bryan in their corner with more double teaming and 2 counts. Titus tags in and suplexes Young onto Bryan. Titus taunts Kane and chokes Bryan on the ropes. Bryan fights back with kicks and an uppercut. Titus cuts him off with a backbreaker for a 2 count. Titus yells at Bryan to get up but stomps away some more. Titus with a headlock now. Young comes back in and goes at it with Bryan. Bryan tries for a comeback but Young takes him back to the mat with a headlock. Young with a knee drop and another headlock. Bryan finally fights out with kicks and suplexes Young.
Bryan goes to the top for a headbutt but misses. Young takes Bryan back to the mat. Something has been going on at ringside. Jerry Lawler is no longer on commentary and the fans were distracted for several minutes. Cole was also quiet for a minute or two. The match goes on and Kane ends up chokeslamming Bryan on top of Young for the win.
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:) I hate having to bump a post to keep it on the first page where people can see it. LOL
I haven't joined the FB group and have no desire to. I like just popping back here, even though I don't post too much. Usually because B man is crawling all over me. lol
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Ditto!! Seems like a lot of the drama is gone for the most part.
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Yeah, I kind of don't mind it. Its more like stopping in for a drink at the local pub where you know you'll find a neighbor or two, rather than hitting the latest trendy hot spot.
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These days, that store is nearly the same as it was those many years ago, a classic setting serving up fabulous scooped ice cream to hordes of hungry customers.
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The intelligent, efficient perfectionist: Kate Middleton would have made a 'great teacher' says leading handwriting expert
The Duchess of Cambridge certainly earned top marks on her recent royal tour, but according to one character analysis expert, Miss Middleton may have missed her vocation.
A leading graphologist's study of the Duchess' handwriting has shown that her pedantry for time keeping, intelligence and efficiency would make her the perfect school teacher.
Former chairman of the British Institute for Graphologist, Elaine Quigley, studied a letter penned by Kate over a year before she became a member of the Royal Family in April.
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'Punctual, open, good at explaining things clearly': A handwriting expert claims the right-slanting cursive of the then
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'Looking at the letter, the endings of words are rather short, it shows her use of time is efficient. She doesn't prolong something that can be dealt with promptly.
'It is clear that she likes to move to the next thing without a lot of fuss or extended leave taking.
'She clearly believes time-keeping should be taken seriously and, as a bit of a perfectionist, she will prefer to be ready early rather than rushing at the last minute.
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Quigley said the ease with which Kate interacts with normal people is not surprising given the clues in her script.
She said: 'Her signature is readable and flowing, which denotes the fact that she is up-front and natural in her way of dealing with people.
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Compassionate: Graphologist Elaine Quigley, one of the leading handwriting analysts in the country, says Catherine is an honest, strong person with a talent for 'reaching out' to others
Despite being the new darling of the Royal Family however, Quigley warned of a serious and businesslike edge to Kate's writing, something she said will stand her in good stead for her life of duty alongside William.
On the Canadian tour, the eldest Middleton showed her competitive spirit by taking on the future king in a Canadian Dragon boat race.
Despite coming in second best, Quigley said that fierce independence and a determination to do well is something we can expect to see more of from Kate.
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A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", subtitled "A Pure Woman", is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. Based on the three-volume first edition that shocked readers when first published in 1891, this edition includes as appendices: Hardy's Prefaces, the "Landscapes of Tess", episodes originally censored from the Graphic periodical version and a selection of the Graphic illustrations. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), born Higher Brockhampton, near Dorchester, originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet, Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels: "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886), "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1891), "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874), and "Jude the Obscure" (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by "Jude the Obscure", he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, "The Dynasts". If you enjoyed "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", you might like Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders", also available in "Penguin Classics". "The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists". (Virginia Woolf).
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A road sign in the line of sight of drivers pulling out of Waitomo Caves Rd onto State Highway 3 could have contributed to the latest smash at the killer intersection.
Two American tourists became the latest North Americans to fall foul of the Hangitiki intersection of SH3 and SH37 about 5pm on Wednesday.
They received minor injuries when their rental car turned right from Waitomo on SH37 onto SH3, to head south towards Te Kuiti, and was struck by an oncoming northbound car driven by a Te Awamutu resident.
Ross O'Halloran, who uses the intersection nearly every day, said the sign would have contributed to the accident.
"[It] blocks your view as you're coming out of Waitomo onto the state highway. To see past it, you need to pull forward. It's OK if you're in a truck, but in a low car it impedes your vision to the right," Mr O'Halloran said.
As a Waitomo Caves tour guide, Mr O'Halloran said he tried to warn every visitor he met of the dangers of the intersection.
Wednesday's accident was the third involving North American tourists in the three years since the NZ Transport Agency altered the road layout in 2011.
Kallan Stithem died in a crash there in September 2012, while on his honeymoon. Seven months earlier, Canadian tourist Michele Smith was killed in her campervan at the intersection.
Mr O'Halloran said the "temporary" measures to slow traffic introduced after Mr Stithem's death were not working.
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Join us in supporting the children of St Bede's School in Savusavi, Fiji in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Savusavu
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LOGAN, Utah - Utah State (17-24, 5-7 MW) returns home for a busy six-game week beginning with a three-game series with former Western Athletic Conference foe Boise State (23-19, 8-7 MW), beginning with a doubleheader on Tuesday, April 22 at 1 p.m. The mid-week series concludes on Wednesday, April 23 with a single game, beginning at 1 p.m. The Aggies then hit the road for three games in Albuquerque, N.M., against the Lobos of New Mexico, April 25-27.
Freshman third baseman Victoria Saucedo is having a stellar rookie campaign. She is one of only three Aggies who have started all 41 games this season along with junior shortstop Jolene Koons and senior second baseman Allison Lenzora. Saucedo is hitting .366 overall to lead the Aggies. She is also first in hits with 48. In league games, she is hitting .447 in 12 games. She is 17-of-38 with three home runs in conference games. The third baseman has also been solid in the field with only one error in conference games for a .960 fielding percentage.
Boise State (23-19, 8-7 MW) is 9-3 overall against the Utah State. The teams were 1-1 in games played last season. In the first meeting, the Boncos defeated the Aggies 2-0 in San Diego. USU bounced back with a 5-3 in the first-ever game played at Dona Larsen Park on March 15. The two teams first met in 2009 when both squads were in the Western Athletic Conference. Boise State took two of three against San José State in Boise last weekend. The Broncos have won five of their last five six games.
Mackenzie Whyte is eighth in the Mountain West in hitting with a .376 batting average. Tara Glover is third in the league runs scored with 35. Glover is second in the MW in hits with 54. In the circle, Rebecca Patton is the only pitcher to have thrown more innings this season than Noelle Johnson. Patton has thrown 193.0 innings this season, while Johnson is second with 181.2. Patton is second in the MW in wins with 19.
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IOWA Testing at Spring Garden
While the majority of the assessments at Spring Garden Waldorf school are done through observation and without formal testing, we do administer the IOWA Test of Basic Skills once a year, to 4th through 8th graders, for specific academic feedback.
The unique unfolding of the Waldorf curriculum through the grades creates some discrepancies between the areas being measured on the tests and our learning goals, so we give the students only sections applicable by grade level.
- We do not test children before Grade Four.
- 4th Grade students will take the Language Arts and Mathematics sections of the test. The students in 4th grade are not timed while taking the tests.
- 5th & 6th Grade students will take the Language Arts, and Mathematics sections of the test with timing parameters to increase the validity of the data received as well as to provide the students with exposure to this kind of experience.
- 7th & 8th Grade students will take all sections of the test and follow the required time limits.
We do not use the testing scores for evaluations of teachers or students, but do use them to compare individual and class progress from year to year as we move through our Waldorf curriculum. We also have, in years past, used IOWA test scores for our own research and study purposes.
Last year we completed an independent five-year study of SGWS students' IOWA test scores. The analysis, conducted by the University of Akron Business Analytics department, found that test scores at Spring Garden rose as students rose in grade level, and that student's national percentile ranks also increased as they moved through the grades.
Impressively, by Grade Eight, SGWS students well outperformed their same-age and same-grade peers nationally who took the IOWA tests.
- 50% of SGWS Grade Eight students tested at a 13th grade equivalency, the grade level at which the IOWA test is capped.
- 75% of SGWS Grade Eight students performed significantly above 10th grade equivalency.
- Also notable… there were no significant differences in the performance of male vs. female students at Spring Garden Waldorf School.
This year, students will be given the IOWA test during between February 29th and March 4th. Parents are encouraged to let their children know that this is just another experience for them and that they need not be concerned about outcome.
Expanded Parent Council Meeting
Many schools have a PTA or PTO, and here at Spring Garden we have Parent Council. The Parent Council serves as the voice of parents at our school and promotes community enrichment and communication between the faculty, Board, and the parent body at large.
While parents are always welcome to attend any Parent Council meeting, we wanted to extend a special invitation for the meeting next Thursday, February 18, at 6:00 p.m.
As the school prepares for our next round of strategic planning later this year, the Board and administration are seeking as much feedback as possible from parents to inform and guide our work. This Parent Council meeting will give you the opportunity to provide us with valuable input.
Please click here to sign up so that we have a sense of how many people to expect to plan for space. Hope to see you there!
Book Sale February 9-11
Paperbacks are a buck, hard-covers are two dollars, and specialty and coffee-table books are three dollars. CDs and DVDs will be priced between $1.00 and $5.00.
We will continue to accept your donations of books, CDs, and DVDs in the School Store throughout the sale, so if you've got an overflowing bookshelf you're eager to clean out, now is the time!
On The Matter of Mud – Why Waldorf Kids Get Dirty
"We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous." – David Suzuki
The National Wildlife Federation has essentially created a whitepaper on dirt to explain and encourage mud play among children. There's an International Mud Day in June. And Immunologist, Mary Ruebush, has written a whole book about it: Why Dirt Is Good: 5 Ways to Make Germs Your Friends.
We know playing outdoors, in general, has a myriad of proven health and learning benefits. And sensory play is also essential for developing skills, especially in younger children.
But why is mud, specifically, so good for children?
First, there is the issue of children's immune systems. As Ruebush says, "Let your child be a child. Dirt is good. If your child isn't coming in dirty every day, they're not doing their job. They're not building their immunological army. So it's terribly important."
In fact, there are many ways in which dirt's microscopic bacteria benefit children's bodies and minds. One in particular, Mycobacterium vaccae, had been found to increase the levels of serotonin in our brains, which boosts mood and relieves anxiety.
Researchers at The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York also wondered whether, in addition to its antidepressant effect, M. vaccae may also have an effect on schoolwork.
"Since serotonin plays a role in learning, we wondered if live M. vaccae could improve learning in mice," says Dr. Dorothy Matthews, who co-authored the study. "We found that mice that were fed live M. vaccae navigated the maze twice as fast and with less demonstrated anxiety behaviors as control mice."
Turns out there are great body benefits, too. In addition to being good for the immune system, experts at the University of California at San Diego have found that mud play combats inflammation while improving wound healing. The researchers studied both mice and human cells in their lab and found that common bacteria, called staphylococci, can reduce inflammation after injury when they are present on the skin's surface.
But most importantly, the kids love it because it's fun to get dirty, fun to play outside, and fun to be with friends and have unrestricted playtime in nature. So let the kids be kids.
As American botanist Luther Burbank once said, "Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade…bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes and hornets; any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of…education."
Auction Ticket Raffle
Win a free ticket to the auction! This upcoming Friday Morning, January 29th, enter for a chance to win a free ticket to this year's Benefit Auction, valued at $75.
Raffle tickets are $1 each and will be on sale Friday morning from 8:20 – until the start of the Assembly. After that time, tickets can be purchased in the office until the end of the school day on Monday January 31st. The drawing will take place Tuesday, Feb. 1st.
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Chalk Drawings in the Waldorf Classroom
Enter a Waldorf school for a tour and you may be immediately struck by the beauty within the classroom. Within that beauty, your eye will no doubt settle at the chalkboard, where the children look daily, to behold a colorful and beautiful piece of hand crafted artwork — the chalk drawing. All Waldorf teachers do these amazing chalkboard drawings, but why? Rudolf Steiner made no specific mention of teachers drawing elaborate and gorgeous art with chalk.
Yet the trend, as it were, is rooted in Steiner's belief that learning must invoke, "The True, the Beautiful, and the Good." He believed these three great ideals tapped into, "the sublime nature and lofty goal of all human endeavor."
As Artist Kate Walter, says in her website, Living Traditional Arts, "One of the rewards found teaching in a Waldorf school is the required opportunity to work with colored chalk on the blackboard. In the Waldorf classroom, we put drawings on the board to create mood and atmosphere in the classroom and to be an artful aid to the students, encouraging them to enter their lessons imaginatively."
We like this further elaboration from Chapter 6 of the book, A Passionate Schooling, by Alduino Mazzone, PhD: "In a world where so many children are cut off from the beauty of nature, from forests and bird song and even blue skies, where contemporary youth culture can be even deliberately ugly, it is important that, in the school, children are surrounded by beauty, in the physical and human environment, and have all around them models which demonstrate and encourage the value of creativity and imagination."
For more about Waldorf Chalk Drawings, visit ChalkboardDrawings.org, a definitive resource from this lovely paper from Catie Johnson at Antioch University.
Here are some of the recent Chalk Drawings seen at Spring Garden Waldorf School:
Coffee and Conversation: Parent Teacher Relationships
Join us at a new date To Be Determined, for Coffee and Conversation regarding parent-teacher relationships. Parents will view a webinar together, ""The Human Encounter: Parent-Teacher Relationships in a Waldorf School," followed by a question/answer/discussion period with Royse Crall and other experienced Waldorf teachers.
The relationships between our teachers and our parents represent the health and warmth of our school community. And, like all relationships, consideration, respect, and commitment to enhance the connection is essential in growing the well being of the personal kinship within the community, the success of our children, and the health of our school.
In this webinar, Dr. Torin Finser, Chair of the Education Department at Antioch University New England, explores parent and teacher relations using architectural images to represent the social architecture of communities and how they operate.
Among other things, he encourages us to remember that the relationship between teachers and parents is, "not a matter of technique. It's a matter of learning to work together in the human encounter."
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The legacy of former Augusta commissioner and one-time interim Mayor Willie Mays already has a permanent place in the history books. Back in 1979, Willie Mays decided to run for his mother's former city council seat. Carry Mays was a trailblazer and widely respected in Augusta, particularly among city employees who felt they did not […]
Willie Mays
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