sidearm delivery: Ballpark Reviews
Monday, October 20th, 2008Array The teacher felt that they are not a ‘bona fide business section because FoxNews does not focus on business.’ I asked how they were different from, say, the New York Times, to which he responded that ‘The Times is different, they are a well-established source.’ I responded that I believe that FoxNews is a pretty well-established source - they have been around a number of years and are well read and watched, to which he shrugged and answered that they are not a real business source - but that it didn’t affect my grade, so I shouldn’t worry about it. The best grades I give on these reports are usually 94-95 - only if something really sticks out do I give a better grade. You can get an 89, have the lowest grade, and fail, or the highest, and get an A .) This curve allows people to look at the grades and understand who outperformed their peers, and who underperformed vs.
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I wanted to get them done before it was too hot and they were calling for rain in the afternoon.Since they helped with work yesterday, we had a fun day today. Boy was Stephen thrilled!After that we went to the zoo for a free zoo day! I had Selena keep him awake on the way home so he would eat lunch and take a nap for me.I finally put my Avon order in about 3:00 today. It was actually good that I was late putting it in because I had a call to place a 0 order from a new customer just before I put it in.Gavin & Selena were picked up early and now I need to get busy cleaning up the kitchen.
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He does think blogs are self-indulgent, but his view of self-indulgence and mine are quite different, it seems.The whole idea of self-indulgence to me is somewhat negative, and is linked with time wasting, i.e. This could be partly to do with why I haven’t told everyone I know about this blog, because I still consider that I am being self-indulgent.M sees self-indulgence far more positively and considers that having self-indulgences is a useful and healthy thing and part of life. I did a bit of a search on the LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) database and found 94 articles with the word blog* (blog, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogged..) in them. As someone who has spent years learning how to develop and maintain quality Web sites, it just peeves me a little bit that this new blogging thing is allowing more and more people into the club, regardless of the value of what they have to say!Now don’t get me wrong. Blogs like Gary Price’s ResourceShelf, Jenny Levine’s TheShiftedLibrarian, and Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff provide valuable and timely information on developments in the library and information fields that readers of Information Today and other ITI publications will (and do) certainly find worthwhile.(from his article ‘Feed(ing) frenzy’ in the September 2004 issue of the journal Information Today. I added the URLs).(For Mr Spence, self indulgence would appear to be a less-than-positive thing, too…)This sentence made me laugh: this new blogging thing is allowing more and more people into the club.
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I love anything with vinegar in it- salad dressing, pickles, ketchup, buffalo sauce, you name it. I have a little snoring problem â it wakes up the dog sometimes.7. I love to clean toilets.12. I hate practical jokes and stupid physical comedy, and donât appreciate the humor of shows like âPunkâdâ or âJackass.â I simply donât find them funny.15. I love the number 16, and NOT because itâs my birthdate.17. I get a HUGE thrill out of cleaning out my email inbox â I like to keep less than 15 emails in it at all times.22. I love bins and containers of all types, especially underbed boxes. Yes, Iâm aware that itâs bad feng shui to store things under a bed, but câmon â I live in an apartment. I secretly love listening to Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell, especially on rainy days.32. I am obsessed with Carlos Santana heels â who knew that a musician could also design kick-ass stilettos?! I love to karaoke, but wonât sing unless Iâm wasted.48. Condensation on glasses and cups bothers me â I have an absorbable stone coaster on my desk for this very purpose.51. I used to prance around in my momâs old toe shoes when I was little â I think they are the reason I began dancing.57. My favorite color is blue â esp. I detest the font âTimes New Roman,â and all of its variations â yuck.67. People who donât knock annoy me â anyone who walks into my office without announcing their presence will be ignored. I love the smell of cedar.75. I am awful at hanging mirrors & pictures â the concept of wall anchors is totally befuddling to me.78. I look best in gold jewelry, not silver- Iâm allergic to sterling silver, so if you ever want to buy me anything, go for the gold (white or yellow).81. Just because Iâm a redhead, doesnât mean Iâm Irish. I dislike leather furniture, because you canât nap on it â what if you drool? Chocolate â need I say more?87. I have a large keychain collection â I stopped actively collecting when I was about 16, but canât seem to part with it.94. I love garden accessories and shopping for plants, but am still iffy on all the effort it takes to actually grow something. I love coffee, but mostly as dessert after a long meal.96. I never get tired of walking around and pretending that Iâm going somewhere interesting and foreign.97. I never say Jane or John Doe to describe the âeverymanâ or anonymous person in a hypothetical story â I prefer to use Polly Pringle and Joe Lunchbucket.99.
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Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?24. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?44. New York or Los Angeles?46. Van Gogh or Gauguin?49. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?51. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?63. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe?81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?82. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser?87. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?95. Short novels or long ones?99. The Last Judgment or The Last Supper?Teachout’s selections are all the first entries. I think I need to educate myself about the classics more after taking this test.
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-ne A look at Connecticut minor league ballparksI’d originally written an article covering all of the Connecticut minor league teams years ago, when Brushback was an actual print magazine and not just this stupid web log. Municipal Stadium, Waterbury CT (Waterbury Spirit IND-Northeast/Northern)The stadium in the city where I was born, where I saw my first ever minor league baseball game back in 1984. the stadium sits mostly unused now, save for some amateur tournaments and the like.It was really easy to get foul balls here, because any fouls hit behind the third base side would land on an adjacent high school football field, so you were able to just run over and pick the ball up. Municipal Stadium is always very cold (even in the dog days of summer you’d want to bring a jacket to the game, and the ball never carried well so there’d usually be more triples than home runs), and to describe it as a run-down dump would be extremely generous, but it had a Frankie’s Hot Dogs restaurant behind home plate, so the concessions were way better and cheaper than any other minor league stadium in Connecticut. New Britain Stadium, New Britain CT (New Britain Rock Cats AA-Eastern)Going to New Britain Stadium gives one an obvious comparison of the upward direction Minor League Baseball facilities have taken in the past decade or so, with a lot of new stadiums being built, mostly because the old ballpark that New Britain Stadium replaced still stands right outside the new stadium: Beehive Field, former home of the Eastern League New Britain Red Sox, and now used almost exclusively by the New Britain High School team, a tiny bandbox of a stadium with mostly old style open bleacher seating (the kind where, if any change fell out of your pocket, it would drop between the floorboards and go right down to the ground).New Britain StadiumBeehive FieldBeing a newer building, New Britain Stadium has a lot of extra amenities (skyboxes, a tavern, several picnic areas, a super-wide concourse that you could drive a tractor trailer through, etc), but there’s a sterility to the place that leaves it lacking in charm somewhat. Rock Cats games have become a hot ticket over the past few seasons, so weekend games are almost always standing-room only, and you’ll probably have to walk 10 minutes from whatever hilltop or mountain goat trail they tell you to park your car on (regular weeknight games are still no problem). Yale Field, West Haven CT (New Haven County Cutters IND-CanAm)One of the oldest stadiums (1927) in the country still being used for professional baseball. So now the New Haven County Cutters of the independent CanAm league (formerly known as the Northeast League) play at Yale Field, to breathtaking indifference… The place looks more like a cruise ship than a baseball stadium, the fans are uninitiated at best, and the concession food is the worst I’ve ever eaten at a minor league park. Dodd Stadium, Norwich CT (Norwich Navigators AA-Eastern)Almost identical in structure with Harbor Yard (both stadiums were designed by the same architectural company– suprise!), but much darker in color (no all-white Love Boat look here) and much more enjoyable. I like Dodd Stadium as a building much more than either Harbor Yard or New Britain Stadium, only that it’s in the middle of nowhere, hidden away from any main roads or residential areas inside a desolate, thickly-wooded industrial park, and it’s not a convenient drive from most parts of the state. the New England Collegiate Baseball League is a wooden bat summer league for college players, along the same lines as the Cape Cod League (if you’re familiar with that).
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