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Reward Refuseniks with Responsibility A whole new take on the "Three R's": why rewarding "refusinks with responsibility may be just what they need to thrive - and just what you need to survive. |
Rookie Mistakes You Shouldn't Make Attention New Teachers! Just when you think you can't make it through another day...you CAN! And this educator's tips will guide you with some survival scenarios you may have never considered before. |
Recharge Your Batteries for Second Semester An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as the saying goes. See how one educator proves it every year so your classroom can ring in the New Year and leave the "holiday blahs "behind. |
Redirecting Students' Negative Behavior Disruptive students don't always have to hold everyone else back. See how one educator turns bad behavior into positive purpose. |
Rah-Rah Erasers Karla K's tip is something to cheer about: a unique paper-saving idea that elementary students really love. |
Random Coded Homework Check This random homework check gives everyone a chance to get a good homework grade. Conscientious students are always rewards, and struggling students are encouraged to keep trying. |
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Rekindle Your Passion for the Profession Has teaching to the test eroded your passion for the profession? Nancy has a small challenge, and a unique suggestion, to help you get excited about what you're teaching and to infect your students with the same Passion Fever! |
Read Aloud Commandments Ms. Cashell reads aloud to her class on a daily basis and encourages parents to continue reading with their children even after they learn to read independently. She shares Read-Aloud Commandments from Mem Fox. |
Reenergize Students' Bodies and Minds When Ms. Ryan notices students beginning to stare off into space, she has a variety of strategies to help get her class back on track. She has physical activities that reenergize their bodies and pedagogical strategies that jolt their intellects. |
Repeat Expectations The best strategy I have found for students who always have to have the last word is the Broken Record Technique. |
Record & Track Behavior with Masking Tape Ms. Ortiz has a nifty way of tracking and recording student behavior. Using her own shorthand and a bit of masking tape, she's able to record accurately all the data she needs to make proper evaluations. |
Recycled Waste Paper Project This fun spring project gives students real experience with recycling and reusing common classroom waste and helps them understand the importance of keeping the environment clean and safe. |
Relevant Science When I was the science lab teacher, I wanted to make science relevant to the daily lives of my students. I created a large display in the hallway called... |
Recess IEP When I taught preschoolers with disabilities, I did indoor recess once a week in order to focus on specific IEP objectives. Here are a few ideas which could work with other student populations as well. |
Rigorous Exploration As a proponent of assessment for learning, I do not give extra credit because that gives students and parents the wrong message. |
Reader Response Blogs In order to encourage additional reading outside of class, the 6th grade English teachers at my school post a weekly reading assignment on a class blog... |
Realia Connects Students with History Whenever I am teaching about a bygone era, I try to have things from that time period in the classroom. The term for this kind of stuff is called realia. |
Reading Stamina In my school, we use stories and passages to prepare for our state test. When the stories are long... |
Reading Aloud Guidelines The following guidelines will create a safe environment for students to read aloud... |
Re-establishing Routines When the school year began, our new principal and a committee of teachers came up with procedures for the hallway, lunchroom, bathroom... |
Read and Ride Our school started a new 'Kids Read and Ride' program this year for students to ride exercise bikes while reading fun magazines and books... |
Rules for Success Along with the help of the school counselor, I created Rules for Success for two difficult children I had in my class. |
Read to Myself I adapted what I learned in "The Daily Five," by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. |
Recommended Read: "Nineteen Minutes" I recommend the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. |
Relating to the Text Sometimes small connections can make a world of difference in gaining students' interest. |
Reusable Flashcards I make reusable flashcards by laminating blank index cards and then writing on them with dry erase markers... |
RAT Short Answers "Recently, one of my colleagues remembered a neat way to help students understand how to write a short answer. |
Read, Write and Think "My students absolutely loved a lesson on Shape poems using the Shape Poem tool that is on the readwritethink.org Web site. |
Raining Management In my class, there are many activities, projects and lessons going on all at once. In order to allow each student the freedom to move about as needed... |
Random Index Cards I read in NEA Today to use Popsicle sticks to randomly call on students. As a high school teacher with over 100 students, I use index cards instead. I have the students put their name and something un... |
Random Volunteers I have come up with a system that is random and eliminates the idea of a teacher's pet or favoring boys over girls, etc. |
Rating Participation I design rating scales based on positive participation criteria that I think is important, but difficult to grade. Each nine weeks, students complete a self assessment in one ink color and I use a dif... |
Read Share Pairs One of the ways I get my students to enjoy reading independently is by having an activity I call Read Share Pairs. I ask each student to give me the names of five other kids in the class (at least one... |
Read To Lead Here's a new way to pick classroom helpers. I read stories to my students everyday. Each morning I write several sentences on the board from the stories I read to the class the previous week. I random... |
Reading Across America In addition to the many school wide activities for Dr. Seuss's birthday last year, my classroom was cleared of all the furniture and we made a colored masking tape outline of America on the carpet. St... |
Reading Buddies Our K-2 teachers have a reading buddy program with our sixth grade classes in which a younger student is paired up with an older one. |
Reading and Baseball Our middle school participates in the Kane County Cougars' Ozzie's Club, which is a reading incentive program sponsored by the Class A, minor league baseball team Kane County (Illinois) Cougars that r... |
Reading and Spelling Station One of the stations I use during reading has markers, colored sentence strips, scissors and the students' current reading book. On Mondays, I select spelling words from the coming week's reading mat... |
Reading and Writing Site I just found this website, www.nwrel.org/eval/index.html, and it's spectacular! This web site has prompts, rubrics for writing, reading and oral communication, as well as a load of research about teac... |
Reading Assignment Accountability In elementary school when students are learning to read, the more practice they can get, the better. I give a nightly reading assignment and provide a parent sign-off sheet in their homework folder in... |
Reading Calendar I give each of my students a calendar to be taken home nightly and returned daily. The parents record and initial the title of the story or book their child reads each night. I also note children's bi... |
Reading Comfortably We are involved in a reading program that gives the classroom teacher a t-shirt when their class becomes a model or master classroom. What do you do with all of those teacher t-shirts that you have? M... |
Reading Discussions Students in my first and second grade literacy groups enjoy discussions about the books they've taken home and read. A reader shares his/her story. Peers are given 'question bubbles' with the words - ... |
Reading Festival I have seen reading festivals done in two different ways. First teachers volunteer to read a story to a group of students and their parents. They read to the students in their own classroom and after ... |
Reading in the Halls For Read Across America, we took time at the end of the day and every single student and teacher sat in the hallway and read for thirty minutes. It was awesome! Our principal feels that we should do t... |
Reading Month Guests During reading month (January), we invite guest readers to read to each class. We invite local politicians, the fire chief, police chief, school administrators, local merchants - anyone I can think of... |
Reading on Tape As a student teacher, many years ago, I had to figure out a way to deliver the content of social studies and science to all kids, including the non-readers. My solution was to tape record someone narr... |
Reading Packets I have my students make a packet with four sections called predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing to use as we read novels. One day I might have them make a prediction and the next day, ... |
Reading Partners When I teach older students, I pair them as strong and weak readers. Then I teach them three types of paired reading. The first type is called 911 in which help is given to the partner only when asked... |
Reading to High Schoolers I like to chose a selection from one of my 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books to read aloud to my junior/senior high students. I wear my tall striped 'Dr. Suess' hat, and then one of the students gets ... |
Reading to Students Any down-time in my classroom generally turns into chaos. I have solved this problem by reading to the kids each day when the lesson is completed. This also gives me the option of always having someth... |
Reading Race To foster a love of reading, I made a large race track out of bulletin board paper and had the kids color in race cars that I printed from the Internet... |
Breakfast Club When approaching test preparation, Ms. Dekmar keeps in mind that good study habits must be learned and practiced. So she created a Breakfast Club, where students can study together and learn from each other under her guidance. |
Real Life Math I have a math activity that I just started and it's been very successful so far. I recently had to purchase a major appliance, so I did some comparison-shopping. I talked to my class about this, and w... |
Recess First, Then Lunch I was involved in a study at my school two years ago. We researched and studied the lunch plan. We discovered (American Dietetic Association Magazine, September 1996) that children eat more lunch when... |
Recess Passes I like to go around and check my students' progress as they're working. So I could remember which students were done enough for recess time, I made up bookmark-size laminated passes, which I hand out ... |
Recognition of Achievement As a first grade teacher I was in a great position to see my students succeed as they progressed through school. I kept my class list each year and as I read or heard about any achievement a child mad... |
Recognizing Quality Writing I use a banner screen saver message on our classroom computers to recognize quality writing. They are easy to change so whenever one of the resident users of a computer does something outstanding, I c... |
Recommended Books for Language Arts Teachers My suggestion is to invest in two books. They are In the Middle and Lessons that Change Writers. Both are by Nancie Atwell who is a very thoughtful, well prepared teacher who used reading and writing ... |
Recommended Reading for Student Council Advisors I took a leadership class from Lois F. Roets and received two books from her that I think would help anyone who plans to help organize a student council at their school. One is was written by Dr. Roet... |
Recommending Classroom Books to Other Teachers As you prepare to present information about your literature book, you might consider the positives, minuses, and interesting or PMI model. Your presentation would include all the positives or areas of... |
Recorded Reading Some of my parents do not have the time to ensure that their children read nightly so I send home a mini tape recorder Monday through Thursday. My students return it in the morning with 20 minutes of ... |
Recorded Spelling "I have a non-English speaking student from Bangladesh and a Spanish student with non-English speaking parents. |
Recording Completed Assignments I have found a great way to keep kids on task and to record completed assignments. I give my students 3x5 note cards on which they write their names and class period. As I teach, I walk around the cla... |
Recycled Paint Trays I encourage my students to recycle and as part of a real world application, I use recycled items in my classroom. I take the cup holder trays I get from McDonalds and place yogurt containers in them. ... |
Recycled Transparencies If your school is lucky enough to have its own laminating machine, then collect the ends of the laminate to reuse on the overhead projector. Recycling the laminate saves on the cost of blank overhead ... |
Recycling Books Secondhand book stores will issue credit for books that you give them. I ask parents to donate their used books and I trade them at the used bookstore. The bookstore issues me credit to obtain paperba... |
Recycling for Art Activities Take advantage of your school's recycling program for free art supplies -- cardboard, plastic bottles, boxes, and, of course, paper. Pick a topic (statues, bridges, diorama based on favorite book, mob... |
Recycling Lamination Used laminating film makes great overhead sheets. I simply go into a copy store and inform them that... |
Recycling Paper Our school's recycling program (funded by the sale of aluminum and used printer cartridges) provided inexpensive green wastebaskets with swinging lids for each classroom in our district that agreed to... |
Recycling Paper Egg Cartons It's easy to recycle paper egg cartons. In the spring, cut the egg container apart into separate cups and clip them all until they have four points. Have the children paint them, put a pipe cleaner... |
Recycling School Supplies Many students do not want to save their old school supplies such as crayons, colored pencils, rulers, erasers, pencils, paper, and other items at the end of the year. In many cases, these items just g... |
Recycling Student Supplies When my students clean out their lockers at the end of the year, I roll a cart up and down the halls behind them. I ask them in advance to donate any usable supplies. I collect half-used spirals, some... |
Red Ribbon Collection During Red Ribbon Week, our district holds a district wide canned food drive that's aimed at getting 100% participation from the staff and students. Our theme is 'I Can Be Drug Free'. The food is coll... |
Red Ribbon Week Here are some ideas of activities to do during Red Ribbon Week which is a 'Just Say No To Drugs' program during the last week of October: 1) Have the students trace one of their feet on red paper, cut... |
Reducing Zeros I developed a strategy to reduce the number of zeros in my gradebook from students choosing not to do assignments. Every three weeks, I print progress reports for students to take home to parents to s... |
Reeling In Student Work The last time I dragged tables around my room in order climb up and hang student art projects from the ceiling, I remembered the pictures of the old tenement buildings with clotheslines suspended acro... |
Reflections on the Quarter Past When report card time approaches, I ask my students, without submitting their names, to reflect and write short notes on what to change, delete and add to the class. Sometimes students have insight th... |
Relating Rules to Children's Reality Year after year students hear and see posted the classroom standards (rules of proper behavior) their teachers require. I have achieved far more compliance to rules since I started relating them to wh... |
Releasing Tension Due to Violence This is a way of putting the recent shooting in Colorado into perspective for young children who often feel that what they see on TV will happen to them next. Our classroom walls are covered with pegb... |
Relieving Teacher Stress Three years ago I worked for an awesome principal! A week before testing, she scheduled a masseuse to come and work the neck and shoulder areas. She set up a small room in the school with candles, sma... |
Remembering Names A colleague shared this great idea with me. When former students come back for a visit, those of us with muddled memories often have difficulty remembering their names. My friend suggested getting (or... |
Remembering the Daily Objective When students get home from school, their parents are likely to ask them what they learned in school that day. So, everyday I write, Today I learned... on the board. I complete the sentence with one i... |
Reminder Board At my middle school, students receive either a progress report or a report card every four weeks. At the end of each cycle, I look at the list of students who have had to be 'reminded' about a class r... |
Reminder Board/Time Monitor I was always forgetting meetings, assemblies, etc. until I started using my 'Reminder Board.' It's a great way to inform students of the day's special events and keep us on schedule. The 'Reminder Boa... |
Removing Temptation My students work in groups of four and during test times there is quite a temptation for eyes to wander. I make my students responsible for keeping their papers covered. Whenever I see answers uncover... |
Removing Transparency Ink The best way to clean overhead transparency ink off your hands is to use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with a cloth or paper towel. |
Renaissance Club How about getting some kind of Renaissance program started? I think it's a national program, perhaps just for high school, but something similar could be done locally. At my high school, our group cal... |
Repeated Readings I have a communication system that works well for children who are experiencing reading difficulties. I present a short book to the student, have the student read it to me, and then send it home in a... |
Repeating Directions I've struggled with students being confused after I give directions for independent work. Many of the students get right to work on an assignment, but some sit in their seats and do nothing. I race ar... |
Respond Signals Instead of having students raise their hands to answer questions, I use other signals. Using thumbs up or down, response cards, fingers to signal an answer with choices or heads up/heads down allows a... |
Responsibility Grade Many of the same students were forgetting their materials for class so I implemented a responsibility grade. Each student starts with 100 points at the beginning of the six weeks. They loose 3 points ... |
Responsibility Grades An approach I use when I have a particularly unruly group is something I learned from my cooperating teacher when I was student teaching. Students earn a responsibility grade each day in class. They s... |
Responsibility in Drama Class Ms. McElroy has a unique way of addressing special needs students in her theater class, using a variety of tasks that contribute to class productions, and help students feel important, achieve success, and behave well in the classroom. |
Responsibility Rests with Students In my classroom I have 3 plastic file boxes labeled 'Spanish 1,' 'Spanish 2' and 'Spanish 3-4' (my classes). Each file box has separate slots and contains a file folder for each day of the week, label... |
Restroom Breaks My kindergarten children are learning to raise their hands to speak, so I wanted a different, yet quiet, signal for those who need to use the restroom. My children now raise their hand with the pointe... |
Restroom Sign-Up Ms. Lee uses a whiteboard to track the comings and goings of students leaving the classroom on bathroom breaks. This open and transparent system allows students monitor themselves, and it everyone knows when it is their turn. |
Return Papers to Student Mailboxes One thing that has really helped me organize papers and things to go home is to have student mailboxes. The ones I have are old drawers that were once used for storage at our school office. Toward the... |
Returning Library Books To help my kindergarten and first grade students remember to bring back their library books, when they forget them on 'library day,' I... |
Reusing Transparencies When using the same overhead material for several classes, I use a blank sheet on top of the original to write answers. That way I won't have to rewrite the original. |
Reviving Dried Out Markers How many times do you end up throwing out markers because a student left the cap off? Ms. Ritzman has a special trick to revive dried out markers without diluting the color. Read about her 30 second solution. |
Reviving Dry Erase Markers Ever have one of your dry erase markers dry out? Just use a pair of pliers to remove the tip and turn it around. You are good for another round of teaching. |
Reviving Old Paint As an elementary art teacher, I am frequently moved to a new building. I inherit a collection of old tempera paint every time I move. To manage the paint, I purchased a quart sized freezer storage con... |
Reward System At the beginning of the year I hang small paper bags on a side bulletin board, one for each period, block, or subject. Each time I grade papers I put my initials in the upper corner of any paper recei... |
Rewarding Good Behavior Ms. Hubbard distributes her very own currency, which she calls the denominations Hubbucks, to students each quarter. Being unprepared for class or breaking rules can be costly, but accruing spare Hubbucks can be rewarding in more ways than one. |
Rewarding Good Grades Our school is in an area of low socio-economic status. A small reward can sometimes pay large dividends for students who don't have much. For example: If a student makes the honor roll (As and Bs) in ... |
Rewarding Positive Behavior I reward the students who ARE complying instead of punishing those who are not. I keep a running tally of... |
Rewards, Special Stickers and Incentives I buy blank address labels and print them on my computer to use as rewards, special stickers and incentives. Print Artist, Print Shop and other good graphic programs allow me to make wonderful sticker... |
Right Side of Paper To help students learn which side of the paper to use, I stick white (loose leaf notebook) reinforcement stickers on student desks. Then, if holes in student papers match up with the stickers they kno... |
Ringing in the New Year In order to maintain effective classroom management upon returning to school after winter recess, I review and discuss school and classroom rules and behavior expectations. |
Road to Good Talking At the beginning of each school year, I put up a bulletin board that is essentially a road with sign posts or stopping points along the way. |
Rolling Carts At my school, we are expected to clear our entire classroom at the end of the year. This can be a pain since we may have to change classrooms and find a new nook for regular items such as pens/pencils... |
Round Robin Review Students of all ages love to practice in round robin form. I have a set of note cards with a multiplication answer on the top and a question with the next problem on the bottom. For example, one card ... |
Rounding Up with Meter Sticks This week I was trying to help my students understand rounding to the nearest ten. I noticed they kept looking up to the number line I have on the wall. Then I got the idea to give each pair of studen... |
Rubric for Grading Notebooks I used to spend days grading my students' notebooks. A few years ago, I designed a rubric, which breaks down the notebook grade into classifications and specifies the maximum number of points each cla... |
Rubric Labels I use address labels for self-assessing rubrics. I set up a simple 1-5 scale and then list the skills or ideas to be graded for the assignment. For example, a writing assignment rubric might look like... |
Rules on Video My drama class is producing a video tape of class rules and behavior. I assigned a different rule to a group of two or three students. They have to write, practice, and perform a skit demonstrating ap... |


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DePuy has issued a recall for its ASR hip implants that will affect thousands of patients. If you've been harmed by a DePuy ASR metal hip replacement, filing a defective device lawsuit to seek compensation for your injuries is your legal right.
ASR hip replacement systems are the subject of a recall by manufacturer DePuy Orthopedics, a subsidiary of medical industry giant Johnson & Johnson. DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip replacements have had an unusually high failure rate, and many people who have received the devices have had to undergo multiple, painful surgeries to revise, replace, or remove the defective hip implant.
Multiple patients have also developed symptoms of cobalt toxicity from the metal in the implant flaking off and entering the bloodstream, causing neuropathy and other damage to the nervous system. As a result, hip replacement patients may be experiencing symptoms which they may not even suspect are related to their DePuy hip replacement - such as vision impairment or hearing loss.
DePuy hip implant lawsuits have been consolidated into what's known as multidistrict litigation, In Re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. ASR Hip Implant Products, MDL Docket No. 1:10 md 2197. MDL 2197 was consolidated before Judge Katz in the United States Court for the Northern District of Ohio. One feature of an MDL is a Plaintiffs' Steering Committee. The Plaintiffs' Steering Committee leads the litigation on behalf of all participants, handling discovery, hearings, trial preparation, and procedural motions on issues common to all plaintiffs. Ed Blizzard, Partner at Blizzard & Nabers, serves on the DePuy Hip Replacement MDL Steering Committee.
What Should I Know Before I Have my Defective Implant Removed?
If you know that you have a defective DePuy hip implant and are intending to have it operated on, there are two very important things to know before having it removed:
- Don't let yourself be intimidated by DePuy.
DePuy has been acting aggressively to protect its interests, approaching patients with recalled hip replacements and attempting to persuade them to forego lawsuits in exchange for payment of their medical expenses. DePuy is acting solely in their best interests, not yours. To protect yourself, do not speak with a DePuy representative without an attorney present. - Your implant is evidence, do not allow DePuy to take it.
Your hip implant is an important piece of evidence. It's also your property. A representative from DePuy may attempt to obtain your defective hip implant after its removal. Before you undergo subsequent hip replacement surgery, be sure to notify both the surgeon and the hospital that the removed implant is to be properly preserved for you, not given to DePuy. - Do not allow DePuy to take photographs during the surgery.
A DePuy representative may attempt to be present during the implant removal surgery itself. Be sure to ask your surgeon if the DePuy representative's presence is absolutely necessary. You also have the right to request that the representative not be allowed to take photographs or videos during the surgery.
What should I do if I receive a letter from Broadspire?
In October 2010, Johnson & Johnson and Depuy Orthopaedics announced the retainer of Broadspire, a subsidiary of Crawford & Crawford, to administer funds to patients implanted with the recalled DePuy ASR to cover their out-of-pocket expenses and lost wages. Broadspire has contacted thousands of ASR hip implant victims requesting that they sign medical authorization forms to obtain medical records that may then be turned over to DePuy.
If you receive a letter from Broadspire, it is imperative that you contact an experienced hip implant attorney and that you not sign any documents. By signing a medical authorization, you are allowing Broadspire and DePuy to have access to all your medical records and waiving your right to medical privacy. Any medical records released to DePuy may be utilized during trial. If you are represented by an attorney, DePuy may only access your medical records through your attorney.
If you have already signed a medical authorization from Broadspire, you should contact an attorney immediately to ensure that your right to medical privacy is preserved. An experienced DePuy hip implant attorney can make certain that all communication with Broadspire is conducted through the attorney.
Hiring an attorney will not reduce the amount of damages that you may be entitled to as an ASR hip implant victim. In fact, by hiring an attorney to negotiate on your behalf, you will very likely obtain greater compensation.
If you have received a defective DePuy ASR hip replacement, the law firm of Blizzard & Nabers can help you file a lawsuit to seek compensation for your injuries. For more than 30 years, our attorneys have successfully represented our clients and stood up for the rights of people harmed by defective medical devices. Our firm has successfully handled cases across the country. We handle all hip replacement related injury cases on a contingency basis. To learn more, or for a free consultation with an experienced hip replacement attorney, please contact us by email or call us at 1-800-349-0127.

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A cup of tea... soles of feet... a window...
Image by GailHoffman
The Patience of Ordinary Things
by Pat Schneider
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they're supposed to be.
I've been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?
"The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider
from Another River: New and Selected Poems.
8 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Beautiful poem. Beautiful painting. Love the simplicity of both.
ReplyDelete It's a nice thought. But I disagree with the poem. It's not a kind of "love". These things mentioned can't "feel". Therefore, it's not a kind of "love". Love feels and sometimes grows impatient. Love, unanswered in life and prayers, sometimes brings heartache, confusion, uncertainty, many tears, and yes; ... impatience. Impatience for prayers so long prayed for ... yet continually go unanswered.
ReplyDeleteBut, well... it's a poem.
And the poet only said these things were "a kind" of love - not exactly love - but a kind of love.
Imagine the embrace, the intimacy, the shared warmth, the sensuous coupling of cup and tea...
I don't have to imagine, I know how much I need sturdy, foursquare support in my life, in my heart - support I can lean on, stand on, fall into when my weaknesses no longer allow me to stand up straight myself... something like a chair...
And, oh the feeling of an old comfortable pair of shoes of slippers - like an old friend whose company I slip into, no pinching, no tightness, just a perfect fit of foot with shoes, planted on the floor, the path where my friend and I have walked before...
I could go on about clothes and closets, soap in dishes - and thirsty towels caressing the center of my back, a place seldom touched and beyond my own reach...
And the stairs, like a giant keyboard ready to play my ups and downs and beautiful even when silent...
Can a window be generous? Only if it gives me sun and light all day and moon and stars all night... Only if it allows me to look out from inside, without requiring me to go out, allowing me to stay within when going out may be more than I can bear... Only if it delivers the sweet smell of wet grass, a cooling breeze on a day in July, the sound of crickets under a night sky, the chance to reach out and touch the rain and snow - or keep me dry and safe from the elements when storms approach...
If any such patience of ordinary things would hold me like a cup holds tea - I would count myself blessed for eternity...
You see, it's "a kind" of love, and it's a poem...joey: Amazing, isn't it, how "just" a word can change meaning so much.
I didn't say it was "just" a poem as if poems were disposable or unnecessary or not worth attention.
Nor would I say a bad day was "just" a bad day or a dream was "just" a dream, much less that life is "just" life...
Bad days can hurt too much, dreams can be our only hope on some bad days and life, even on bad days and when dreams don't come true, life is the greatest gift we might ever hope to have...
The poem at hand may not be the poem you want or need to read today
but this poem might be the words, the dream, of someone whose life has seen many bad days...- AnonymousOctober 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Yes, Joey ... it's just life. Poems, what is real, and what we imagine ... it's all just "life". To be continued, after our bodies wear out.


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Madden 13 has record 1.65M sales in first week, 31 percent increase in online play
Virtual Marshawn is a guarantee to play for your team. (EASports.com) |
The NFL continues to surge towards record heights in popularity. And, according to EA Sports, so too does the virtual version of football, as Madden 13 sold a record 1.65 million copies in its first week on the shelves.
The latest rendition of Madden, featuring Lions receiver Calvin Johnson on the cover, already set a record for first-day sales, and the one-week sales gives EA a seven-percent increase year-over-year.
"We're thrilled to see the great momentum continuing on Madden NFL 13," Andrew Wilson, of EA Sports Executive VP said. "The overwhelming feedback is that this is the best Madden NFL game in a generation. Fans are competing in record numbers, and we expect those numbers to only grow as fans connect with their favorite NFL teams and players through our game."
Online gameplay is up big too: EA announced a 31-percent increase in online games played over 2011, with fans playing a ridiculous 24 million games during the first week of the game hitting the market.
Per EA, that's the equivalent of 47,000 (!) regular-season NFL games played in just about seven days. And the company says that 3,000 games of Madden were started every minute on Labor Day alone.
That's a ridiculous number of online NFL gaming, and it speaks to the popularity of professional football, real or virtual.
(Ed. Note: This post previously said 1.31 million. That's on me for a lack of comprehensive reading skills. Apologies.)
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The Message of You: Turn Your Life Story Into a Money-Making Speaking Career
A step-by-step handbook that teaches readers to find the extraordinary stories tucked deep within them to make a difference in the lives of others--and to get paid--as a motivational speaker
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Thanks for warning, archie. Sadly it seems to be the only one on Walsh. To stay at fastbowling which one about Hadlee is worth buying?
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You've got a choice of Hadlee from 1981, At the Double from 1987, Rhythm and Swing from 1989 and Changing Pace from 2003 - the third one is the bulkiest, but tbh although all four are sat on my shelves I've not read any of them, but if I was going to I'd start with the last one
Thank you very much for the input! First feeling was to go with the Smith and Greig books. Think I'll go with those this month, and if the Pollocks' book is still available, will buy that one next.
Thanks also for the warning on the Ranji one, will definitely be skipping that one!
If you want to read a really good cricket book (and yes I am biased) written by a cricketer then I would recommend getting All Round View by Imran Khan. Fred or Archie have read many more books so I'll defer to their judgment but I thought it was a really good book.
that would be great....do let me know what you think of it when you get a chance to read it
Does anyone know of any good encyclopedia style books on cricket? With player biographies etc. I remember reading such a book in my younger days and it was just amazing for me.
Barclay's World of Cricket is delightfully pointless (it was fairly pointless back in the day, now it is totally pointless). Yet I love it, for all its anachronisms. I even wrote about a while ago (mainly because I had a great title: The Silly Mid Off: E.W. Swanton and the joy of text)
From cover to cover not that many - 15% ish, which, when there was a Mrs Fertang, made it difficult to justify carrying on buying them, but one of the positives from writing features for CW is that I use them more and I must have consulted at some point or other about 75% of them now, so I can now satisfy myself that they are a necessary expenditure - of course the problem is that the ****ing bitch has all the cash now so I have to be careful, but hey ho such is life, and at least I don't have to put up with her evil scowl anymore, and I have managed to set aside sufficient funds to have a good day at Hove next Sunday where there is to be a gathering of cricket book dealers selling their wares at the County Ground
from Hove it reminds me. Get some Imran memorabilia :ph34r:
Has anyone read Malcolm Marshall's autobiography "Marshall Arts" is it worth....was thinking about buying it from ebay.
Besides Marshall are there any good books from other West Indian quickies like Holdings, Garner, Roberts, Wes Hall, have read " No Holding Back" found it disappointing.
Would appreciate if anyone can recommend good ones related to the West Indian domination of late 70's & 80's.


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I know people are going to say, or have said, just stop. They don't understand what it's like. The best thing to do is find something that distracts you. I doodle/make friendship bracelets. Im fidgety, so i need to do something with my hands a lot. I play music, so when I'm at home i play my guitar when i feel like I'm going to do something. I know people are also going to say talk to someone, but people who haven't done it will freak out and be like OH MY GOD. I have talked to my friends and it turns out they have done it too. They best people to talk to are people who have been in your shoes and who have quit.
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i will take ur advice in findin something to distract myself wid. But to make things worse i've lost my best friend and all my other friends after tellin them soo im basically alone now excludin my supportive boyfriend. But once again thank you for your advice
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How could u say that u r alone?
in this life, if u feel everything with you.
If really you feel alone, go with books. Because in this life books are very closed friends of us i think.
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By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES - Michael Eisner, the longtime CEO of The Walt Disney Co., will step down a year earlier than expected, handing over the reins to Robert Iger and ending a tumultuous stint atop the entertainment giant.
Disney shares edged up 9 cents to $27.68 in morning trading Monday in a muted response to Sunday's announcement. Its shares have trdaed in a range of $20.88 and $29.99 over the past 52 weeks.
Iger, 54, the firm's current president and chief operating officer, was named to succeed Eisner as chief executive. He will assume his new role Oct. 1. and will co-lead the company with Eisner during the transition, Disney's board said.
He inherits the company as it continues an earnings recovery, opens a new theme park in Hong Kong, enjoys a ratings boost at its ailing ABC network and builds on success of its dominant ESPN cable network.
"This is not a broken company. If things go right for Bob, it could be a phenomenal performer in the next few years," said Larry Haverty, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Asset Management.
Iger will face many challenges, however, including repairing some of the relationships damaged by Eisner, negotiating broadcast rights with the NFL, expanding Disney into China and India, protecting its content from piracy while embracing new technology, and warding off another shareholder challenge from disgruntled ex-directors Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold.
Eisner, who said he would step down in 2006, will end his tenure at the company after serving 21 years. Iger will become only the sixth leader of Disney in its history.
Iger is seen as less polarizing that Eisner, a trait that might give Disney another chance to cut a new deal with longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios, the makers of such hits as this year's Oscar-winning "The Incredibles."
"I think probably Bob has better success doing something that could benefit the Disney shareholders," Haverty said.
Pixar CEO Steve Jobs (news - web sites) has said he would wait before talking to other studios about distributing his films until after Disney choose Eisner's successor. Pixar has one more film to deliver under its current Disney deal.
Iger, who was named president in 2000, has already won praise from Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein.
Eisner has repeatedly clashed with brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein since Disney bought the independent studio in 1993. Disney is close to ending its 12-year relationship with the Weinsteins in a deal that will see Disney keep the Miramax name and library while the Weinsteins leave to form their own company.
On Sunday, Harvey Weinstein praised Iger's choice, though it will not change the outcome of the talks. "I've had a great working relationship with Bob Iger and think he's a terrific choice," Weinstein said.
Iger's people skills will be tested when it comes to dissident shareholders Roy Disney and Gold. The two criticized Disney's board Sunday and hinted they might lead another shareholder revolt.
"We find it incomprehensible that the board of directors of Disney failed to find a single external candidate interested in the job and thus handed Bob Iger the job by default," the two men said in a statement. "The need for the Walt Disney Company to have a clean break from the prior regime and to change the leadership culture has been glaringly obvious to everyone except this board."
But Disney board chairman George Mitchell said Iger's choice came after a "lengthy, thorough and professional selection process" that included serious consideration of outside candidates.
He declined to be more specific, but an EBay Inc. spokesman confirmed Sunday that the online auction company's CEO Meg Whitman had withdrawn her application for the job Friday after being interviewed.
"We believe Bob Iger represents the right blend of continuity, of very successful performance, particularly over the past two years in which Bob had played a major role... and a recognition of needed change" in the areas of new technology and expanding the company's business in Asia, Mitchell said.
He added that drastic changes in the company are not needed.
"If you are a major investor and the company has produced a 60 percent increase in earnings, has just increased its dividend 14 percent, has record cash flow and a substantial increase in return of invested capital, you don't encourage major change," Mitchell said.


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Ever heard the local band Greyskull? No? Dude, they rock. Or so Nokia thinks, anyway: Says here that the band's been tapped to provide the soundtrack for a series of ads promoting the company's new Nseries phones -- specifically, the new N93i video phone. Only, you won't get to see the spots: Whilst the band may indeed be the oh-face of Nokia, it ain't in this country. Seems Nokia will be exporting Greyskull to Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Because Greyskull kills in Singapore. Not kidding.
Says the release, five songs off the band's CD Pretty in Ink -- and, damn it, that's kinda funny -- will be featured in some Nokia contest called You Make it Reel. From the sound of it, Nokia's looking for "Asia's best video director," and I guess aspirants have to pick one of the five songs and shoot a video using the N93i. Winner gets $10,000 -- which translates into 160,170,000 Vietnamese dong. Not kidding. --Robert Wilonsky
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Chicago's DIY Trunk Show (PHOTOS)
Posted: November 25, 2009 Filed under: Chicago, Style | Tags: Artist, Chicago, Chicago Craft Mafia, Clothing, Craft, DIY movement, DIY Trunk Show, Do it yourself, Knits, Pulaski Park, Shopping, Stuffed toy, Textile, Wicker Park Leave a commentThe Chicago Craft Mafia held its 7th annual DIY Trunk Show in Pulaski Park's field house on Saturday. With 95 vendors participating, it was a hippy-hipster wet dream.
Rose Lannin of Wonder Wheel makes necklaces with antique train tokens as pendants. Lannin buys the tokens for her pendants from collectors on ebay who view the tokens as worthless. The coins have no value since "they've been handled by a million people" but to Lannin, that makes them even more appealing. A number of tokens even have inscriptions explaining the metal used is from parts of the train, doubling the recycled value of her necklaces.
Christina Ward was hesitant at first to let me photograph her Creatures, and my subsequent conversation with her confirmed my suspicions about some trunk show goers coming to scope out the merchandise so they can make their own at home. Ward explained why she is protective of her creations since her craft is like a "full-time job in hours, but not in pay". Besides stuffed animals, Ward also makes quilts and rugs, anything to "get her creative ya-ya's out". This is Ward's first year at the DIY Trunk Show.
Leah Parkhurst of Rustbelt Fiberwerks observed the shopping patterns of the day, saying "everyone's been taking their time, making conscientious choices, which is a good thing". Amanda Shell of Whirleygirl Designs seconded the notion, explaining that while people aren't buying as much as she'd like, she has received "a lot of custom orders". This is Shell's first experience at the DIY Trunk Show: "It's been fun. I will definitely come back next year." Amanda Shell is also a mural artist and has worked with Chicago Cares.
Amy Carlton, a DIY Trunk Show co-founder, believes that this year was their biggest turn-out. Carlton explained via e-mail that the CCM receives a couple hundred applications for the 95 booth slots at the DIY Trunk Show, so each application faces a jury in order to ensure there isn't too much of the same thing.
…we always reserve a percentage of all the spaces for crafters who are new to selling — DIY is some vendors' first or second show. It's really important to us to encourage new craft businesses and get more people involved in the handmade revolution. We keep our vendor fees low for the same reason.
-Amy Carlton
Laurie Freivogel of Kiku says the DIY trunk show is "one of my favorite shows" and this is her 6th time. "There's a nice craft community in Chicago, people really know each other and support each other" Freivogel adds. Lydia Krupinski of Pierogi Picnic elaborated: "The DIY movement is intense and I'm excited to be a part of it. The Green movement and the crafters are codependent and intertwined and in the last 2 years it's exploded here in Chicago." Krupinski was also a DIY Trunk show virgin, but has been making her own clothes for "a long time".
Toys by Steff Bomb, Dog Sweaters by Lucky Penny Hand Made, Edgewater Soaps by David Melis, Rings by Blue Lala, hats & knits by Enjolive + LBO Studio, Feltmates by Yoko Nomura, Reuseful Objects, prints, paper by laurageorge, artwork by Emily K Berman, Bobby-Jean of Kitty Grrlz, Christina Ward Creatures, artwork by octophant.us, cloth products by Qylaar, knits by Girl With a Hook, Circa Ceramics
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Jonathan Safran Foer forgets his wealth
Posted: November 18, 2009 Filed under: Chicago | Tags: Agriculture, Eating Animals, Factory farming, Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman, Organic farming, Sustainable agriculture 6 CommentsJonathan Safran Foer will be reading and discussing his new book, "Eating Animals", at the Harold Washington Library tonight. Foer has been on a media blitz lately, from appearing on Ellen, to writing a piece in the Washington Post about eating dogs, to name a few. "Eating Animals" is solidly pro-vegetarian, and rehashes the well-known evils of factory farming:
The treatment of animals in today's factory-farm system is so horrifying, it's enough simply to know it exists to want it to end. Fittingly, long stretches the book chronicle the unhappy lives of chickens, unable to walk, unable to fly, unable even to reproduce; pigs — intelligent creatures — confined, beaten, and slaughtered; fish gaffed in the eye or the side, writhing gills slit. Vast fields of pig manure seeping into the water table. A million different viral threads stuck in the sick bodies of doped-up chickens just waiting to make the species jump.
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While it's all well and good that Foer wants animals to be treated more ethically, he doesn't seem to offer a solution to feed the poor and hungry that consume these factory farm meats. When asked on Ellen how he would respond to families struggling to put food on their tables, who resort to buying chicken nuggets off the dollar meal at McDonald's, these very families who can't afford to eat any other way, Foer responded with "We can't afford to eat this way". Great. Has Foer lost touch with reality? Natalie Portman wrote a piece on the Huffington Post about "Eating Animals" and how reading it converted her into a vegan, and she opens her post stating she hates when people criticize each others choices. I love you Natalie Portman, and you may deny the ivy tower you live in all you want, but please keep in mind that you are far removed from the stink of every day living, of the foreclosures, lay-offs, and lack of health insurance. Not eating meat is the last thing people are worried about right now.
Foer does make some good points, like how the American dream of what a farm looks like in our minds is far removed from reality, that factory farming is a main contributor to global warming, our drugs aren't as effective now that our meat is injected with anti-bodies, and H1N1 is the result of factory farming. And it is a tragedy that Americans are so disconnected from their food. When I visit my family overseas, I feed the rabbit I will eat later, I collect eggs from a chicken coup, and I cuddle both animals. I tend to think they live a nice life with my Hungarian relatives, and it's depressing that eating meat has different "consequences" in America.
Jonathan Safran Foer's highlighting of America's problem with meat could be called noble, but this is a problem that will take years to rectify. Everyone knows we should be driving fuel efficient electric cars, but we're not. Electric cars are not able to serve the needs of all or the majority of consumers, and the same applies to organic and sustainable farming. Until someone who is earning minimum wage can afford the products from these organic farms, we really haven't done anything of consequence. The goal of these organic sustainable farms should be to lower their prices and make themselves accessible to the general public. Not everyone has access to land and the time to tend to their chickens and rabbits, nor do they have the time to go to the "organic" farms highlighted on Foer's website.
But yeah, go hear Foer read and lecture at the Harold Washington Library tonight, to heckle him, be converted into a vegan, or to get a copy of one of his other books signed.
Citizens step up as budget cuts kill community centers
Posted: November 16, 2009 Filed under: Chicago, Crime | Tags: afterschool programs, Albany Park, Albany Park Community Center, Albany Park Neighborhood Council, b boy, Chicago, Eric Criniere, gang violence, Graffiti, Juan Cruz, Michelle Fleming, Non-profit organization, Our Lady of Mercy, youth programs, youth violence Leave a commentThree teenagers were shot in the last 10 days in Albany Park. While the state slashes funding for various programs, including youth services, the local community is left to pick up the pieces. Our Lady of Mercy Church, The Albany Park Neighborhood Council and life-long resident Eric Criniere are leading the pack.
Hungarian Rhapsody: my family's escape from Communism
Posted: November 9, 2009 Filed under: Chicago, Politics | Tags: Austria, berlin wall, Budapest, Cold War, Communism, Eastern Europe, fall of communism, Germany, History, hungarian communist youth league, Hungary, Iron Curtain, Italy, KISZ, latina, lost luggage, new york city, Pan Am, refugee, refugee camp, Sopron Picnic, Twentieth Century, UNICEF, United States, venice, vienna, West Germany 7 CommentsToday is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a historic occasion the West marks as the collapse of communism. Months before the wall came down, Hungary had opened its own "Iron Curtain" of guard towers, mines, and electric fences that lined the border between Austria and Hungary. A family friend Lajos used to have the job of patrolling this border, and told me the story of how one day he threw off his body armor and gun, and told his fellow patrol guard and good friend that he couldn't do it anymore. He ran for the border, and told his friend he could shoot him if he wanted. Needless to say, Lajos wasn't shot, but he never saw his friend again.
Communism was never a natural fit for Hungary. The country's aristocratic past, as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, never dimmed from memory. After the 1956 uprising, Goulash Communism was instated to appease the populace. It was because of this little bit of capitalism that my mother was able to open a flower shop in Budapest. Still, the relationship with Hungary's Communist leaders remained strained.
When the border between Austria and Hungary was opened in May 1989 (some say the Sopron Picnic in August was the official opening), many Eastern Germans used this route through Hungary to get to Austria and back to West Germany.
I thought I would throw other Eastern-European nations into the media mix today by sharing the story of my Hungarian -American exodus.
Local Chicagoan wants to dance on your enemy's grave for money
Posted: November 8, 2009 Filed under: Chicago, Strange | Tags: Chicago, craigslist, Dance, dance on your enemy's grave, grave dancer, irish jig, Louis CK, smite your enemy 3 CommentsSo I came across this gem today: a craigslist ad offering their dancing expertise, be it an Irish jig or some theatrical production complete with costumes, to smite your enemies by dancing on their grave. Each dance comes with a photo to prove that your money is being well spent. The poster offers different prices under the $50 range, with options including video footage if you so desire.
This service is available for those of you who have been wronged by the dead and need to (sic) some sort of satisfaction in knowing that they are getting what they deserve.
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The craigslist user draws the line at doing lewd acts or desecrating the grave. This poster also claims to know people all over the US who would be willing to do this. I think this person might be taking the expression "dancing on someone's grave" literally, and for those who would believe in that sort of thing, wouldn't you want to dance on your enemy's grave yourself?
This post has inspired me to come up with a bunch of small business ideas, most of which include a "chopper" and stealing ice cream from your enemy's children.
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The Flip Bike Trick
Posted: November 3, 2009 Filed under: Chicago | Tags: bike parkour, Biking, Chicago, Flip Bike Trick, Recreation, Society and Culture, Travis, ukranian village, Urban Exploration, West Town Bikes, Wicker Park 1 CommentThis is Travis. He rides a bike with a roll-bar welded to the frame which allows it to do a complete flip when he hits the brake.
Travis has no last name on the internet, built his own bike with the help of West Town Bikes, and has a couple of videos on youtube (the most recent below). It looks like he began his bike flip-trickery 2 years ago.
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Iain Duncan Smith photographed outside the store where he will work
LONDON – England – The former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, who was unceremoniously sacked from his post on Friday, will start a new scheme that he helped set up during his tenure in the Cabinet.
"I have joined the Back-to-Work programme that I started and ran for a couple of years. I will be stacking shelves in my local Poundland shop for £2.23 an hour and gaining valuable work experience for my effort," Mr Duncan Smith told the Daily Mail.
Prime Minister David Cameron sacked Mr Duncan Smith on Friday because "it just was not working out" he said.
There is still no mention of a replacement for Iain Duncan Smith but the Cabinet post will possibly be filled by the end of this week.
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Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2013
Special Issue: Commercialization of Knowledge in Sub-National Regional Economies: New Perspectives
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Introduction: commercialization of knowledge in a regional context: new perspectives
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Bridging knowledge to commercialization: the good, the bad, and the challenging
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Technology commercialization on campus: twentieth century frameworks and twenty-first century blind spots
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Tough Marketing Mix Faces Eight in Beverly D.
Glen Hill Farm's hard-knocking Marketing Mix will take on eight top fillies and mares from America and Europe in the $750,000 Beverly D Stakes (gr. IT) Aug. 17 at Arlington Park.
Glen Hill Farm's hard-knocking Marketing Mix will take on eight top fillies and mares from America and Europe in the $750,000 Beverly D Stakes (gr. IT) Aug. 17 at Arlington Park.
Shadwell Farm's 4-year-old homebred filly Ausus snapped a four-race losing streak and earned her first black-type victory when she charged to the front in the stretch and pulled away to a 2 1/4-length advantage.
Eight fillies and mares will take to the Arlington Park turf July 13 for the $200,000 Modesty Handicap (gr. IIIT). Graded stakes winners and maiden winners alike will contest the 1 3/16-mile turf trial.
A resolute Ice Cream Silence withstood pace pressure throughout to prevail by a neck over Sisterhood for jockey Rosie Napravnik in the Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare Stakes (gr. III) at Keeneland April 19.
Donver Stable's Inglorious, winner of the 2011 Queen's Plate against males, heads a field of eight entered for the $100,000 Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare Stakes (gr. III) April 19 at Keeneland.
Trainer Mike Maker was represented by his 1,000th career winner March 16 when Magical Season won the third race at Fair Grounds.
James Miller's Daisy Devine will make her 2013 debut in the $75,000 Marie G. Krantz Memorial Handicap at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Jan. 26, and she's ready to roll despite a one-week postponement of the race.
Frank L. Jones Jr's Tapitsfly, who has started four times this year in graded events and has won or placed in all of them, will carry top weight of 121 pounds in the Early Times Mint Julep Handicap at Churchill Downs.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's big year of big love
Deck the halls, then book several: Plural marriage is now legal in Utah, just in time for the holidays. We have the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark same-sex marriage decision to thank for it.
Yes, the same Supreme Court that struck down the most important provision of the Voting Rights Act in the year's other landmark case. And that retrospectively gutted the universal coverage promised by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. So is the Supreme Court of 2013 radically liberal or radically conservative?
The answer, it turns out, is both. A review of the current court's year confirms that it is the most activist since the 1920s, with plenty for both sides of the partisan aisle to hate and plenty for each to love. Because the court is a composite body in which all votes count equally, no individual today determines its overall strategy. But hidden in the confusion of divergent opinions lies a pattern that might be described as Chief Justice John Roberts' message to the Republican Party about its future.
The Roberts paradigm runs something like this: Lose gracefully on sex and personal autonomy; win on race, class and social welfare, with a pinpoint strategy on targeted killings and drone strikes. Remarkably, by following this plan, the Roberts court has turned into the most politically sophisticated wing of the Republican Party. Put another way, "John Roberts for President."
Start with the sex stuff. Liberals' favorite civil rights case of the year is U.S. vs. Windsor, which struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act as a violation of the status and dignity of same-sex couples. By leaving in place state bans on gay marriage, the decision created a potential mess for couples married in the eyes of the federal government but not their own states.
When the Supreme Court decided earlier gay-rights cases, such as 2003's Lawrence vs. Texas, which struck down anti-sodomy laws, the conservatives, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, went a bit berserk. In his Lawrence dissent, Scalia fulminated that the decision effectively gutted state laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality and obscenity.
In 1996, dissenting in Romer vs. Evans, the first important gay rights case, Scalia accused the majority of having "mistaken a Kulturkampf" — German for culture war — "for a fit of spite."
In 2013, things were different. Scalia still dissented, but instead of invoking a culture war that his side had already lost, he criticized the majority's legal craft, characterizing its rationale as "rootless and shifting." Then, in defensive mode, he insisted that the supporters of traditional marriage would never want to "degrade, demean and humiliate gay people."
Roberts joined the dissent, which was so different from the earlier Scalia efforts as to almost seem written by a different hand. It was as if this new Scalia, guided by the graceful Roberts, wanted to avoid the screaming headlines that his invective once seemed designed to elicit. The message to the Republican Party was fairly clear: Gay marriage is a losing issue, so let's go gentle into that good night of defeat and take our victories where we can get them.
The court saved its powder for Shelby County vs. Holder, which struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. That law, the heart of the electoral side of the civil rights movement, required formerly discriminatory districts to preclear any districting changes with the Justice Department and a special three-judge court.
Technical and ill-understood except by experts in voting, the law was the perfect target for a Roberts special-forces operation. His opinion emphasized that the law was perfectly terrific when passed in 1965 to fight racism. He added almost diffidently that it was now based on "decades-old data and eradicated practices." Racism was over because, well, um...Barack Obama was elected president, wasn't he?
No summary of the most important Supreme Court events of 2013 would be complete without mentioning the sleeper cell that Roberts brilliantly planted in his 2012 opinion in National Federation of Independent Business vs. Sebelius, upholding the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The headlines said Roberts had broken ranks with conservatives and showed extraordinary judicial restraint. Less noticed was his holding that the states could not be pressured to extend Medicaid to the poorest uninsured Americans — a holding joined by liberal pragmatist justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. Only this year did it become clear that roughly half the states would not join Obamacare. Roberts the tactician had won a major victory without anybody noticing.
Rank-and-file Republicans and their political leaders may not be noticing the Roberts paradigm, but they should. Lose gracefully where you must; win quietly where you can.
Noah Feldman, a law professor at Harvard University and author of "Cool War: The Future of Global Competition," is a Bloomberg View columnist. Twitter: @NoahRFeldman
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Abraxo cleaner (Fallout 3)
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Abraxo cleaner is a pre-War cleaning agent produced by Abraxodyne Chemical. It can still be found throughout the Capital Wasteland and the Mojave Wasteland 200 years after the Great War.
This item is used in the construction of the Nuka-grenade in Fallout 3. It can also can be used as ammunition for the Rock-It Launcher. In the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money, you gain the ability to use it to craft clean knife spears, Cloud Kiss, and the clean cosmic knife. In the add-on Gun Runners' Arsenal, it again can be used for crafting the Nuka-grenade.
Abraxo cleaner is located throughout the Capital Wasteland and the Mojave Wasteland:
Fallout 3Edit
- The Takoma Industrial plant contains the largest amount of Abraxo cleaner of all locations in Fallout 3, at 81 boxes.
- 18 can be found in a line of dominoes along with a large amount of detergent boxes and Sugar Bombs inside Gold Ribbon Grocers.
- Quite a few can also be found in the Old Olney underground.
- Six can be found in Gallo's storage closet, along with a large number of other workbench items.
- A decent amount can usually be found in any bathroom or kitchen location.
- Two can be found in the office North-West of Greener Pastures Disposal Site.
- One can be found in the suitcase next to the work bench in Craterside Supply located in Megaton.
- Four can be found in the cupboards at the Meresti raider's dock.
Fallout: New VegasEdit
- 20 in the REPCONN test site's facility and 18 in the basement.
- 16 can be found throughout Nipton in the Mojave Wasteland.
- 13 can be found in the Nellis hangars, along with 3 more in the Nellis schoolhouse.
- It can also be found in homes and other buildings around the Mojave Wasteland.
- 3 can be found inside the shack at Southern Nevada Wind Farm
- 3 can be found inside Harper's shack
- Can be dropped from lobotomites in Big MT
- Paladin Vargas has found another practical use for it: mixing it with water cleans super mutant blood off power armor.
- This item is also used in the construction of Ultrajet, explaining why Murphy has such high amounts of it.
Behind the scenesEdit
Abraxo cleaner is a reference to both the real-life scouring powder called Boraxo and the ancient Gnostic charm word Abraxas.


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comments included. hope this helps, - james "Carreira, Jason" wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Todd [mailto:email@example.com] > > > > i echo. well stated. i did not draw "protocols" supported but > > i kind of assumed when one was interacting with a jsp and/or > > servlet interface it was understood that it was over http and > > as such the client could be impelmented in any flavor. rmi is > > more java-centric but could possibly be wrapped with an orb > > (or the underling objects) to play in an open object request > > scenario. jndi is indeed a java play. are there other "service > > protocols" that should be considered? > > > > Perhaps, since there is a general feeling that this config service not only > needs to be accessed by apps in other languages, but also needs to be > implementable in other languages, we should first work on a CORBA IDL for > the config API, then work out a reference implementation of the API in java. > To the reference impl we could add RMI and JNDI hooks that would be outside > the scope of the API (which would be the IDL) but put there to hook more > easily into java clients/tools... There could also be a separate API for > http/s clients/tools to interface with the config service that would also be > back-end-implementation independent, although I'm not sure how such can be > codified... agreed. if the boundaries (client, service, data) are endorsed then i think we should start fleshing out the api protocols and message formats. i feel the "path of least resistence" may be: http/s interface to cgi compliant service serving up ascii text a "possible" implemenation of this is: servlet responding to stateful (eg cookies, session) requests for configuration data which is served as xml format a bit more coupled (and this is not to say that it is necessarily bad) is, as you have stated, a corba interface to which a possible implemenation could be an rmi service interacting with, possibly, some of the same config processing logic as the afore mentioned http/cgi methodology. there are many more options which may or may not be attractive but are none the less viable, as i see it, and should therefore be addressed ... but i think some baselines should be drawn. at this point it looks to be: http/s to cgi compliant service corba (i claim ignorance on this one) i do see an implemenation where by these protocol handlers could attach to a single config manager layer. to me, this looks attractive. > > This would allow us to build the implementation without worries about Apache > standalone users not wanting to start up a JVM for the config service... it > could be implemented in C/C++ if necessary... yep. btw, the other day someone mentioned that a jvm may not present on many target platforms. if we go with http/s to cgi compliant service then perhaps this concern can be addressed. i'd also like to offer that tomcat runs on the following development platforms: solaris (sparc, intel) win (9x, nt) apple (?8?) linux (?) although i'm not sure of the os version/jdk specifics. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com | |
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"Stop using your heels to ride! Would you like to know which part of your leg you should be using to communicate to your horse or how to teach it to your riders? Now you can discover new ways to fix this common riding challenge in yourself or your riders with these proven techniques"
Some riders have been taught or have gotten into the habit of using their heels to get a horse to move forward or sideways. If you are using spurs, you might also have gotten into the habit of using your spurs instead of your lower leg. What can you do to fix this common riding challenge?"
The facts are, when a rider uses their heels, they often are riding on their toes, their heels come up and their entire leg rolls off the saddle from the thigh down as the rider uses the back of their leg instead of the inside. When this happens, it is impossible for the riders to keep a secure, anchored lower leg position.
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Lot 134: Southern coin silver flatware, Radcliffe & Guignard and W. Gregg (4pcs)
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17 November 2016
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Southern coin silver flatware, Radcliffe & Guignard and W. Gregg Columbia, South Carolina, wk c.1855-58 and 1824-34,
pair Radcliffe & Guignard forks, initials WTC, L8"
pair William Gregg spoons, initials CW, L7 1/2"
Total 6.6ozT (4pcs)
Provenance: Rev. English Hopkins Weston Estate
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Jimmy Lee Rec ballfields, Como Pool to reopen
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Forget the Ritalin. Parents of hyperactive children will soon have two old-yet-new places to drop off their frenzied offspring.
The Jimmy Lee athletic fields at the Oxford Community Center have new artificial turf, the city's response to environmental clean-up there that had the fields offline for many months.
Believe it or not, the city's tongue-in-cheek YouTube video about the soil contamination is here.
The grand re-opening celebration is scheduled for May 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with free swimming, a cookout, alumni games, a climbing wall, a drill team and other fun.
Speaking of re-openings, the restored Como Pool will host its own grand re-opening celebration on June 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., with free swimming, games and prizes.
The pool, which closed for repair after the 2008 season, actually reopens before then. Como Pool will host pre-season weekend hours on Memorial Day Weekend and June 2-3. Full season hours begin June 9.
The revamped pool now features a Zip Line, Lazy River, lap pool, children's splash pool and new locker rooms.
The St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department will have more on both reopenings on its Facebook page.