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Box Office Preview – Is GEMINI MAN’s two Will Smiths enough to dethrone one Joaquin JOKER?

THE ADDAMS FAMILY will so far better than Adam Devine's JEXI.

Box Office Preview – Is GEMINI MAN’s two Will Smiths enough to dethrone one Joaquin JOKER?

Welcome back to the Beat’s weekly Box Office Preview!

With Joker opening so well this past weekend, there’s really only the chance of one movie possibly taking over the #1 spot, but honestly, I don’t see it happening.

GEMINI MAN (Paramount)

Paramount Pictures

Cast: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge
Directed By: Ang Lee (Life of PI, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Hulk and lots more)
MPAA Rating: PG-13

This new action sci-fi thriller that teams box office superstar Will Smith with two-time Oscar winner Ang Lee will be doing its very best this weekend to take business away from Joker. Frankly, you’ll REALLY have to be a Will Smith fan for this one, cause there are two of him. You see, in this one, Smith plays an aging hitman who has to kill a younger clone of himself, and it’s probably more in Smith’s fieldhouse than Lee’s.

Smith is coming off the biggest hit of his entire career with Disney’s Aladdin’s billion dollar worldwide gross. Gemini Man is a very different movie, more in the vein of Smith’s sci-fi action thrillers from the past like 1996’s Independence Day and 2004’s I, Robot, both which opened over $50 million. Then again, it could be viewed as something in the vein of 2013’s dog After Earth, which only grossed $60.5 million after an opening of $27.5 million. That one was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, although that fact was kept on the down low.

Smith and Lee have some able support in Gemini Man from Mary Elizabeth Winstead (the Huntress in next year’s Birds of Prey), Clive Owen and Benedict Wong from Doctor Strange, but this movie is really about whether the partnering of Smith with an Oscar-winning filmmaker like Lee can keep his latest run at the box office going.

Like Lee’s last film, an adaptation of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, this one is relying heavily on the technology not just that used to create a younger version of Smith, but also the higher frame rate which presumably can convince moviegoers to pay the higher ticket prices to see it that way. (Honestly, it didn’t really work with Billy Lynn’s which was a huge bomb for Sony.)

Like After Earth, this one has gotten pretty rotten reviews, which makes one wonder why Paramount let film critics release their thoughts so far in advance? Heck, they didn’t even screen the alligator film Crawl for critics

With such mediocre reviews, one expects that the primary audience for the movie i.e. dudes from 15 to 30 or so might be dubious of spending their money on this one, although that would just keep it under $30 million and in second place against Joker in weekend two.

U.A. Releasing

Voice Cast: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Tituss Burgess, Elsie Fischer
Directed By: Greg Tiernan (Sausage Party), Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party, Monsters vs. Aliens, Shrek 2, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted)
MPAA Rating: PG

The Addams Family is a tougher one to predict only because there’s a lot going for it in terms of being based on popular comic, TV and movie characters first created by Charles Addams for a successful series of New Yorker cartoons, leading to an even more successful ‘60s television sitcom that aired on ABC around the same period as CBS’ The Munsters. They were both were strange and weird families made up of monsters that American families immediately related to.

Unlike The Munsters, the ‘60s Addams Family remained so popular in reruns in the ‘70s  and ‘80s that director Barry Sonnenfeld and Paramount were able to turn it into two highly-successful ‘90s movies starring Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams, Raul Juliaas Gomez, Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester and made a star out of Christina Riccias Wednesday Addams. The first movie made $113 million in 1991 after a $24.2 million Thanksgiving opening, although its 1993 sequel bombed with just $48.9 million

The voice cast for this movie is absolutely insane, as you can imagine, because most of the actors probably grew up on some of the Addams Family stuff mentioned above.   Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron are probably the biggest stars, voicing Morticia and Gomez, but there’s an abundance of riches with Finn Wolfhard (star of the biggest hit and the biggest bomb of September), Nick Kroll, Bette Midler,Allison Janney and lots more. That should add to a very funny movie, especially with the directors of Seth Rogen’s hit animated film Sausage Partyat the helm.

This is the second animated film of the year for U.A. Releasing who released LAIKA’s Missing Link, featuring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Zach Gallifianakis and Zoe Saldana, and it became the stop-motion animation studio’s biggest bomb to date with just $16.6 million in April. That’s rather daunting for a studio that’s trying to succeed with another animated movie that granted, is based on a much-better known IP (intellectual property).

It will be interesting to see how this does, because animated movies not produced or released by Disney just haven’t been doing very well this year as seen by the recent DreamWorks Animation flop Abominable that is struggling to make $100 million.

Like Jexi below, I really haven’t seen very much advertising for this movie and U.A. Releasing hasn’t made it that easy for critics to see and review it – reviews are embargoed until Thursday afternoon — so basically the studio is in the same boat as Abominable where it has to rely on kids having seen the trailer in front of one of the summer family movies.

I actually think the brand name of The Addams Family might help convince parents that remember the TV show and original movie fondly to bring their kids to see the movie, so maybe this will be the Hotel Transylvania fall family hit that we’ve been waiting for. Opening in nearly 4,000 theaters, this should be able to match the opening of Abominable with $20 million or more, but that would actually be a strong showing for U.A., which has yet to open a movie over $15 million. Having schools out on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day (formerly Columbus Day) should definitely help the movie hold its business through the weekend. (There is some thought that this might beat the Will Smith this weekend for second place, but I just don’t think there’s enough awareness to make that happen.)

My Review of The Addams Family

JEXI (CBS Films)

CBS Films

Cast: Adam Devine, Rose Byrne, Justin Hartley, Michael Peña, Charlyne Yi, Wanda Sykes, Alexandra Shipp
Written and directed by: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (Bad Moms, Bad Moms Christmas, 21 & Over)
MPAA Rating: R

The odd man out for the weekend is this tech rom-com starring Adam Devine from Comedy Central’s Workaholics and the Pitch Perfect movies, a movie that really doesn’t seem to be getting much promotion. Honestly, I might not know this movie existed if I didn’t see the trailer in front of some movie I saw in theaters over the summer but otherwise? NADA. Apparently, it’s a raunchier version of Spike Jonez’ Herwhere Devine falls in love with his smartphone’s Siri-like helper, or vice versa.

This is an R-rated comedy from the filmmakers behind Bad Momsand its sequel, both which were pretty defining hits for STXfilms, but this is for CBS Films, who haven’t had nearly as much success with comedies. Even saying that, CBS’ highest grossing film was the comedy Last Vegas, but that had a primo cast of acting vets where this basically has Devine and a couple decent supporting cast in Rose Byrne from Bridesmaids and Michael Peńa from Ant-Man.

In fact, I’d probably see the movie for the latter two, more than for the premise or for Devine, but CBS Films, maybe wisely, have decided not to screen this one for critics at all. That actually might hurt the movie more than help since often reviews will help with

At one point, I thought Jexic ould find enough of an audience to make $10 million or more, but I’ve seen almost nothing on the movie other than that one trailer, which makes me think it’s being dumped into a weekend where it doesn’t stand a chance of making an impact. It probably will end up making closer to $5 million, more or less, which means it might lose fourth place to Abominable, but I doubt this will make more than $20 million.

It’s pretty obvious that Joker will remain #1 this weekend, because I don’t see any of the three new movies opening with more than $40 million (or even $30 million), but we’ll have to see if it has a bigger than usual drop or holds up well.

This Week’s Box Office Predictions:

  1. Joker (Warner Bros.) – $42.5 million -56%
  2. Gemini Man (Paramount) – $26.3 million N/A
  3. The Addams Family (U.A. Releasing) – $24.5 million N/A (up $1.5 million)*
  4. Abominable (DreamWorks/Universal) – $6.5 million -45% (down .5 million)*
  5. Jexi (CBS Films) – $5.6 million N/A
  6. Downton Abbey (Focus Features) – $4.6 million -43%
  7. Hustlers (STXfilms) – $3.6 million -45%  (down .4 million)*
  8. Judy (Roadside Attractions) – $3 million -35%
  9. It: Chapter Two (New Line/WB) – $2.4 million -53% (down .1 million)*
  10. Ad Astra (20thCentury Fox) – $1.9 million -55% (down .3 million)*

*UPDATE: Quite a few theater counts have changed since earlier in the week with most of the returning movies losing more theaters than I expected, and The Addams Family opening in just over 4,000 theaters, which has to be a new high for U.A. Releasing.

Some decent limited releases this weekend, including Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which has been playing a number of festivals and receiving raving reviews for the past few months. Animal Kingdomdirector David Michôd’s new film The King, is an adaptation of some of Shakespeare’s King Henry plays, starring Timothee Chalamet as Henry the 5th as well as co-writer Joel Edgerton as his trusty battle companion and Robert Pattinson in one of his best (or at least craziest) roles of the year.

Also, if you’re lucky enough to live in a city where Vince Gilligan’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie will be screened, you can watch it with other Breaking Bad fans. Otherwise, you’ll just be watching it on Netflix where it’s also streaming Friday.

Next week, Angelina Jolie is back as Sleeping Beauty’s arch-nemesis in Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, plus my most anticipated sequel in ten years, Zombieland Double Tap!

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WHOA. Marvel has just announced that they will accept trade-ins of retailers’ unsold copies of Blackest Night tie-ins for copies of a Siege variant edition.

You read that right. Marvel will give you a copy of their event comics for the covers of unsold copies of DC’s event comics.

The DC comics involved were all part of DC’s Lantern ring promotion — retailers had to order Blackest Night tie-in books at high levels in order to get collectible Lantern rings. Some folks thought the levels were too high.

Our email and AIM are already lighting up with “WTF??!!??”

PR below:

In an effort to provide assistance to comic retailers in 2010, Marvel is offering retailers an opportunity to turn unsold comics into an extremely rare Siege #3 Deadpool Variant!

Retailers – for every 50 stripped covers of the following comics sent to Marvel, you will qualify to receive one FREE Siege #3 Deadpool Variant. The 50 stripped covers can be any combination of the comics listed below and all submissions need to be received at the Marvel office at the address below by Tuesday 2/16/2010. Also included with the stripped covers must be your store contact information including Diamond Account # and email address.

Stripped Covers To Be Sent:
Adventure Comics #4
Booster Gold #26
Doom Patrol #4
Justice League Of America #39
Outsiders #24.
R.E.B.E.L.S #10

Address To Send Submission:

James Nausedas
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
417 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Information To Be Included With Submission:
Store Name
Store Address
Contact Person
Email Address
Phone Number
Diamond Account #
List of stripped covers being returned and their quantities

All the directions above must be adhered to in order to receive the free Siege #3 Deadpool Variants and the submissions must be received by Tuesday 2/16/2010 in order to qualify.

Please note that this is not a Diamond-affiliated promotion and Diamond should not be contacted. Retailers will be contacted via email once Marvel receives the submissions. Retailer with further questions should contact [email protected]

  1. Hmm, at first I was like “WOW! That’s ballsy!” but then I started thinking, retailers have to rip the covers off of (at least) $150. worth of product they paid for – even if they only sold those copies in the $1.00 bins (still $50.) – in order to get ONE Deadpool (pause for effect there. DEADPOOL. Yes, he’s popular right now. but DEADPOOL) variant cover to Siege #3.

    I’m really curious if this does what Marvel is hoping it does? Keep us posted! (And just in case, I’m going to go double board my possibly soon-to-be-rarer Doom Patrol #4 now. LOL)

  2. As a joke aimed at DC, the gimmick makes some sense, but it doesn’t make business sense. How intelligent is it to take 50 potentially salable comics, make them unsalable, and pay (cost of mailing, time, etc.) to get one copy of a potentially salable comic? The stores which have that many unsold copies of the DC tie-ins will probably have unsold copies of the Marvel tie-ins and SIEGE, too.

  3. Now, now marvel you don’t have to overcompensate cuz YOU are now part of a huge coporate conglomerate. We still think youre bad ass! (even after that lame attempt to trump up the ‘controversy’ surrounding nemesis. I’m not a dc moonie btw, I love marvel!)

  4. Stupid question–does “stripped” mean cut or ripped off the front of the comic?

    Back when comics were returnable they usually weren’t returned in full, but the top part of the cover (showing the title and issue number) would be torn off each copy, saving effort and return shipping. Hence the line they used to have in the indicia saying “this publication cannot be sold with any part of its cover missing.”

  5. What an absolute dick move by Marvel. This does NOTHING for the medium, other than promote more petty bullshit between the big two. Disgusting. I’m not shocked at all that Dick Johnson is a fan. He’s the biggest Marvel shill/sycophant/kiss ass of all.

  6. Of course, if it fails, Marvel gets embarrassed. If it succeeds…think how rare those DC tie-ins will be, and how happy their owners will be.

  7. It’s juvenile bullshit on so many levels, especially with the “rules” of their game. By bypassing Diamond or any third party, there’s no one to verify how many covers they receive. They’ll totally fabricate whatever “participation level” suits their hype objectives. In a word, “Goofy.”

  8. never fails to amaze how the big two always uses the retailers to promote and market with very little effort on their part , but expect tons of effort on the retailers part. as far as the big two are concerned the only beeyotches around are the retailers as they try to use them against their rivals.

  9. Wait, wait…lemme see if I have this right…Marvel will take returns of DC books, but they won’t do returns on their own books. Does this sound messed up to anyone else?

  10. This just in: Marvel will turn around and resell these stripped covers for $3.99 a piece. No backup stories or extra pages included.

  11. Every retailer takes a gamble when they order event books in quantity. A lot of times they end up sitting on them, feeling lucky to unload them at a loss in the 25, 50cent, dollar bins. I’m sure that some (not all) retailers would welcome the chance to trade in on some of these gambles that went south. I mean, what retailer doesn’t remember Sovereign Seven cluttering up their stock rooms, while other people shouted about what a hit it was, ignoring the fact that it was the retailer’s money that payed for them? Is it a “dick move by Marvel?” I don’t think so. I think that someone at Disney understands that retailers might warm to the idea, that a comic book company knows who’s really paying the bills. It’s a competitive strategy. Something seldom seen since Diamond became the only distributor that stores could get big two books from. Competition breeds creative thinking. Creative thinking is always a good thing. Your move DC.

  12. Okay… What are the ICV2 numbers for the strippable titles?

    Smart (and possibly speculative) retailers ordered the books, then sold the rings (Midtown had them for sale online) for extra profit.

    Then you turn around and wait for Siege to take off. It’s been out a week or two. If it’s big (the previous two events haven’t been), then send in the covers, collect signatures on the variant, slap it, and sell the variant for $100+ (to cover the wholesale cost of the DC covers).

    Smart retailers ordered conservatively on the Ring comics. speculative retailers didn’t. So Marvel is rewarding the speculators, while punishing the more responsible retailers.

    Hey… Marvel didn’t say anything about NEWSSTAND covers, which I don’t think are different than DM covers. A newsstand distributor employee could strip the covers, conspire with a comics shop, and
    split the profits. These titles were published in November?, so they could already be sitting in warehouses, already returned from retailers..

    A guttsier move, and it’s coming, would have a publisher offer Marvel’s plan to COLLECTORS. “Rip off the covers, mail to us, and get a special premium.” In other words, treat the covers as box tops.

    Or have a scratch-off game on the cover. Did you win? Great! You didn’t? Too bad, it’s no longer mint…

    Heh… what if retailers protested crappy titles by mailing in stripped covers of crap they can’t sell?

    Yes! A new protest movement! Don’t like the comic you paid good money for? Tear off the cover and send it back to the publisher! Post the stripped comic to a central website. Maybe make something creative from the comic, like origami or papier mache! Keep track of which issues get “beheaded”.

  13. A lot of “smart” retailers probably ordered the books, and told their customers that if you wanted the rings, you had to buy the books. It was a promotion after all.

  14. @Chris Moonlight
    There’s no move for DC to make, if this was Chess, Marvel already lost. DC already make their late / solicitation changed / creator changed titles returnable. Marvel are the ones playing catchup, and this tiny little attempt at a gambit doesn’t begin to cover it. You can’t embarrass a company that already shows more retailer / flexibility than you do.

  15. It’d be nice if Marvel just concentrated and put this sort of energy into getting their titles out on time instead of resorting to these type of stunts and cooking up yet another unattainable variant.

  16. “You can’t embarrass a company that already shows more retailer / flexibility than you do.”

    Normally I’d agree, but it’s a brand new day at Marv-ney. Plus, Marvel has the edge as far as product goes, which I think is what they’re really trying to tell people with this move, above all else. Their printing is nicer and their art and story telling approach is far more contemporary. From where I’m standing (and all due respect) DC is the one with a lot of catching up to do. If that’s not so, then why is the WB moving their people in? The game hasn’t even begun to change.

  17. Doesn’t seem like a leadership strategy designed to grow the industry or help retailers. DC’s ring promo was fun, upbeat and fresh. This feels like just the opposite.

  18. Todd said:

    “Now if it were stripped copies of Final Crisis: Aftermath books, _then_ it would be funny…”

    No. if Marvel said they’d accept returns for the nine Deadpool titles they intend to flood the market with in March, then it would be funny.

    Personally, I think this is Marvel attempting to be subversive, but for me it comes across as tawdry and squalid, and another nail in the coffin that is being constructed, by themselves, for DC and Marvel.

  19. As a comic fan one of the worst scenes I could see is a comic stripped-out of its cover. I know the concerned Blackest Night tie-ins will bring more in the one dollar pin. I think it would have been wiser for Marvel to come-up with more interesting ideas and more creative projects (similar to what DC planned for 2010) instead of this move which only reflects hate and envy.

  20. I just love seeing all the trumped-up ‘outrage’ by fanboys and numerous DC apologists over this stunt. Because Marvel’s marketing department just punk’d you, guys. The fact that nearly every DC-centric message board and blog is now talking about Marvel instead, after nearly a week a ‘big DC announcements’? The value of an ambush promotion like that is PRICELESS.

  21. I agree that on the surface, it is a brilliant PR move for Marvel, in that it trumps Dc announcements and insinuates that DC comics are unsalable and worthless.

    BUT, comics is a small industry, and mostly caters now to fans who purchase their thin little $4 comic books from direct market stores. SO, first, Marvel is insulting the retailer, who sells comics from BOTH companies, and who needs to do all this stripping work.

    AND this all harkens back to the bad old days when comics as a whole were considered down market shipping ballast for distribution companies; periodicals intended to fill quiet hours on Charlton presses. Published by cigar smoking megalomaniacs and sold to slow and semi-illiterate juvenile delinquents.

    Cover stripping? Man. Old school, wasteful and disrespectful.

  22. Dear Zodcplmpex (I think the name says it all),

    Clever calling me Dick Johnson (like I haven’t heard that before). As a former VP of DC Comics – yes I do like an admire Marvel and I admire DC. The reason I said this was brilliant is because it’s funny and in the end harmless. And it did what it was meant to do – attract attention to Marvel and their comics. And really how many retailers are going to go to the trouble of doing this? In the end is it really worth it?

  23. This would be the move of a desperate or envious company if that company hadn’t captured almost half the market in December.

    Am I wrong in thinking this is a win for retailers – if they bought the right amount of books, then they don’t participate. If they bought too many (either by overestimating the appeal of the ring trinkets or because of DC’s minimum order requirement), they can convert merchandise that is unlikely to sell into something that might.

    As for the aesthetics of tearing the covers off books, the retailers should be allowed to do what they want with books they purchased (in the same way I am allowed to poorly store the ones I bought). But if it bothers you, then organize a movement to buy all the surplus issues – retails would make even more money and you would be putting your money towards the preservation cause. Win-Win.

  24. ok..had overnight to think about this…

    now, if retailers have over ordered these books and they arent selling them…and they can trade them in for a book they can make money on maybe…well..is that such a bad thing? think about it…

    because marvel is offering this using dc books for the idea it comes off a bit different, but the idea is the same.

    but that said, what if each company did this with their own books?

    It’s not a bad idea if you take the idea to tour won company. maybe I am wrong?

  25. “BUT, comics is a small industry, and mostly caters now to fans who purchase their thin little $4 comic books from direct market stores. SO, first, Marvel is insulting the retailer, who sells comics from BOTH companies, and who needs to do all this stripping work.”

    Guess again, fanboy. Cover stripping is a widely-accepted practice in the publishing industry. Why would retailers feel insulted when someone is actually offering to take DEAD STOCK off of their hands in a trade?

    And the idea of ‘comics being such a small industry’ is a joke, considering how many comic creators these days are mostly writing pilots for bigger media (TV, movies) with their comic book work. Some folks need to get out in the sunshine once in a while.

  26. If I was a retailer, I would just have any customers interested in this variant buy the equivalent amount of DC books to the variant, and then just give them the variant minus shipping and handling charges once it comes in. Then, they have guaranteed money for items already not-returnable and bought, and aren’t inevitably stuck with a variant that won’t be worth anything a year from now anyhow. And then my Blackest Night copies all go up in value too.

  27. KET, hilarious to have you label me as a fanboy. Nothing could be further.
    And as far as the comic industry being small, well, put it this way, I never have to wait in line at the comic shop to buy a comic. The store is usually empty of customers even on Wednesdays.

    However, yes, I have seen the local newsstand employees stripping covers off their magazines and dumping the remaining magazine into the recycling bin. They do it right at the main cash register.

    But with the retail price of a non returnable comic at $4US, 50 covers are retail valued at $200. Are times so tough that retailers will toss out 50 recent back issue comics and mail away the strips for one comic variant?

    I just think it’s the wrong message and can backfire when the retailers go the next logical step, and start to question whether they can send overstocked Marvel comics back to Marvel each month for credit, stripped or not stripped.

  28. There are a lot of things that could go on here, and some of them are kind of funny.

    If there truly is a bad taste in the mouth of many store owners over the number of issues they needed to order to get the rings, than this is a great PR move by Marvel to say “We are on your side and want to work with you.”

    It’s also possible that many people will see this as a “d*ck move” by “evil Disney empire”.

    One funny thing that might happen is further speculation. Someone above noted that some retailers were being speculative and looking to sell the rings, expecting them to be of very high value. Now there is an idea floating out there that Blackest Night tie ins may be getting destroyed en-mass. As someone who was reading/collecting books back during the comics bubble of the late 80s/early 90’s, I can just imagine the people out there that are thinking about this. I promise you that right now there are people that think this will increase the value of the tie ins by making them rare, which could actually drive the sales up for the Blackest Night issues.

    So is it a possible win/win for Marvel. Are they scoring a PR win by showing they are on the side of the retailer? Are they “helping out” the retailer by generating demand for the competitors product? Are they just trying to drum up demand for their own Deadpool product?

    Is Marvel an evil genius….?

    Prob not, it’s prob just a d*ck move.

  29. Here’s some ancient history – back in 1994-1995 Malibu Comics ran a similar program called Glutbusters. For a certain number of copies (I think it was 100, but I could be wrong) of Valiant, Dark Horse, Image titles that a retailer sent in (at their expense), the retailer would get 1 Ultraverse hologram comic in return (sent at Malibu’s expense). Malibu was overwhelmed – each retailer who participated sent in between 300-400 comics and thousands of comics came into the office. I’m sure many saw it as a dick move at the time, but the retailers who participated got a kick out of it and the hologram comics did have brief (oh so brief) value. The returned comics were driven down to San Diego where they were donated to the California prison system which was the only large scale organization that would accept them, and only if any adults only or “inappropriate” titles had been culled. I know, it’s prison, go figure.

  30. @Blacaucasian

    That’s genius.

    I don’t think normal fans would go for it but I am sure their are enough speculators still out there that would buy 50 books to get one rare comic, that comic shops can turn that off

  31. Marvel have had their shorts in a knot about Blackest Night ever since it started. I am not sure why though. Why is this event any different from Identity Crisis, Final Crisis or any of the other books that end in Crisis that DC has been putting out for the last 5 years?

    The sport equivalent of this would be the ice hockey where a team that is leading 9 – 0 late in the third period sends their goons out on the ice when the other team scores to make it 9 – 1. Marvel leads DC in pretty much every category. Why are they acting like douches about Blackest Night.

  32. A gimmick to get a gimmick? Everyone who participates gets what they deserve. Marvel, promote your underselling books that need the push: X-Factor, Spiderwoman and Incredible Hercules. Well, maybe Siege needs a push from what I’m reading in the reviews. If DC is reading, I’ve got a few Bendis books I wouldn’t mind destroying. I AM XORN!

  33. @Owen

    I’m one of the people who buys super expensive sketch variant covers. I am relatively new to comics but have been collecting since Captain America #25. That was the first comic I purchased. I did purchase all the variant covers from Marvel events from 2006 until now. Dark Reign for me was the final straw. So many variants and minis that it was hard to keep up. I decided I would collect all Dark Reign and then that would be it as far as events go. I collect for fun mostly and I like to read then secondly for an investment for my kid. I personally feel like I couldn’t have gotten out at a better time from the investing point of view. I could not afford to keep up with The Siege variants like 1:200 or 1:300 or now this ultra rare bs.


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As I mentioned in another aquaponics post, I am planning to put together my own small aquaponics system for fun, and of course to see if I can get it to work properly. I’ve always been fascinated with both hydroponics and aquatic biology – among numerous other related topics – so it’s only natural (no pun intended – haha) that I would gravitate towards aquaponics.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, aquaponics is simply a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics. Water is pumped from fish tanks to grow beds where plants (typically some sort of edible produce) take advantage of the nutrient rich water. The plants and gravel (or whatever growth media you use) serve to filter the water before it eventually ends up back in the fish tanks. Alternatively, you can also grow plants directly in the fish tanks using floating rafts of some sort.

For my experimental system I will simply be periodically pumping water from a small aquarium into a homemade grow bed, then allowing it to drain back into the fish tank – something similar to my ‘artist’s rendtion’ up above.

I’m going to make the grow bed using some PVC piping and some basic hydroponics supplies, namely small grow baskets and gravel. I’ll cut holes specifically sized for the baskets so that they can sit snugly in place.

I have ordered some small submersible pumps and tubing so I’ll be able to pump the water up to the grow bed. I have also been growing basil seedlings in preparation for setting this sytem up. We love fresh basil (and pay a decent amount in order to have a constant supply on-hand in the winter), so it seemed like a natural choice. It is also a good choice since it relies mostly on vegetative growth, unlike a crop like tomatoes which would be more complicated due to flowering requirements etc.

Anyway, I think its going to be a lot of fun! Hopefully I’ll be able to create what I have in my head – or at least something similar. I’m not known for my DIY skills, so this will be good practice.

As per usual, I will keep everyone posted on my progress!

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#1. February 19th, 2008, at 6:52 PM.

This looks awesome. I might be able to set up something similar. I’m looking forward to updates. 🙂 Thanks!

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#2. August 18th, 2008, at 1:02 PM.

If you do this, do be sure to draw the water for the hydroponic tray from the bottom of the fish tank, ideally setting up a raised tray on the bottom under gravel with the pump intake below it. This will help keep your fish alive.

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#3. October 20th, 2008, at 5:42 PM.

It’s been a while since you have written about aquaponics, did you ever set something up?

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#4. October 29th, 2009, at 3:07 PM.

I have fish breeding system and want to corporate aquaponics with pvc piping. what did you use for your grow bed to give the plants support?

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#5. October 31st, 2009, at 1:16 AM.

Sorry Folks – unfortunately this was a project idea that kinda fell by the wayside (and this website itself has suffered from its fair share of neglect!) So many ideas – only so much time.

Hoping to try this out at some point. May start with an outdoor garbage can system though.

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#6. October 1st, 2010, at 4:32 AM.

Aquaponics: I ran across this article and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Aquarium Aquaponics I've use my siphoned…

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#7. July 27th, 2011, at 4:34 PM.

If you do ever come back to this idea you will need to have some kind of solids removal before the water goes into your NFT tube (and back into the fish tank. The fish poo will build up on the roots and they will probably rot. Also, what doesn’t got caught on the roots will go right back into the fish tank. Additionally, you will need some kind of media for nitrifying bacteria to grow on, to convert the fish waste ammonia to nitrates the plants can absorb. One solution would be to set the fish tank up like a “normal” aquarium, with gravel on the bottom (which you will have to vacuum) and a filter of some kind, with the outflow plumbed into your NFT.

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#8. May 25th, 2012, at 9:09 PM.

does this thing work good or it needs some things added to it

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The capital’s fintechs continue to attract large volumes of venture capital funds despite the global economic slowdown

Only San Francisco’s fintechs have attracted more venture capitalist funds than London’s so far this year, with the most deals done in the UK capital.

According to data from London & Partners, part of the London mayor’s office, and Dealroom, London fintechs received $3.6bn (£2.8bn) between January and September.

The Covid-19 pandemic has driven increased use of digital banking services, which has made fintechs more attractive to investors. During the first nine months of the year, San Francisco attracted $5.1bn and New York $2.2bn.

In terms of the number of venture capital deals with fintechs, London had the most with 169 completed, compared with 107 in San Francisco, although the value was much higher in the US city.

London’s closest European rival in terms of the number of deals was Paris, which saw 40 during the period covered by the data.

Global investment flows are less than last year, but London has already attracted more than it did in the whole of last year, when $2.3bn was invested.

The data also revealed that London fintechs claimed 57% of European venture capital in the first half of this year.

Laura Citron, CEO at London & Partners, said the fintechs that were created in London during the financial crisis of 2008 are applying their expertise in response to the changes in demand brought by the pandemic. “These new investment figures show London is a well-established global fintech capital and I am confident we will continue to see growth in the city’s biggest tech sector,” she said.

“The UK capital is a natural home for fintech because it combines the power of global financial markets with a deep tech talent pool, supportive regulation and an early-adopting customer base.”

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London now hosts 17 of the UK’s 23 fintech unicorns – privately held startups with a value of more than $1bn., which enables cross-border payments through technology, is one of the UK’s fintech unicorns.

Bradley Riss, chief commercial officer at, said: “ has thrived globally from London. Over the last eight years, we’ve maintained consistent profitability and organically grown to a team of 750 people across 14 offices worldwide.

“We are ambitious about powering even more businesses around the world as the pandemic accelerates existing trends to online and London is the ideal hub to bring connected payments and local expertise to global merchants.”

Despite the economic slowdown, there is confidence in the fintech sector. Commentators expect the post-Covid-19 world to see fintech flourish, with consumers becoming accustomed to digital financial services after being forced to use them because of restrictions during lockdowns.

Investors appear to agree. Santander recently announced that it is doubling the amount of money it invests in fintech startups after the success of its funding arm, which was established in 2014.

The Spanish bank is allocating $400m to invest in fintech startups. Ana Botín, Santander executive chairman, said: “The creation of our fintech venture capital fund in 2014 has allowed Santander to lead the industry in implementing new technologies, including blockchain, offering better services to our customers as a result.”

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Study puts cost on broadband divide: $7,700

A lot of people in Washington, D.C., talk about the cost of the digital divide, but the Internet Innovation Alliance has assigned an actual number to the value of a broadband subscription: about $7,700 a year.

The average U.S. household can save more than $7,700 each year by bargain hunting online with a broadband connection, broadband advocacy group the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) said in a study released this week.

"Broadband is a great investment for penny-pinchers," said Bruce Mehlman, cochairman of the IIA.

The average U.S. family can save more than $2,700 a year in entertainment and more than $1,500 in travel through broadband, according to the study. A household can also save nearly $1,000 a year in housing when looking for rental listings online and more than $950 in groceries by shopping online, according to the study, authored by Nicholas Delgado, a financial planner and principal of Chicago-based financial advisory firm Dignitas.

All this for the cost of a $490-a-year broadband connection. And that's not even factoring in more intangible benefits of broadband, including information on jobs, better communication with friends and family, easier access to health-care information, and applications to help households save energy, Mehlman said.

"We're certainly at a time in the global and national economy when there's a lot of focus on saving time and saving money," Mehlman added. "Ways to use information technology to save money seems like a very timely topic to us."

Delgado looked at the average costs of items offline and compared them to the costs of the same items offered on websites or discounts offered by sites such as To determine an annual cost savings of more than $2,700 for entertainment, he looked at sites such as, and to find savings for activities including concert tickets, sporting events and restaurant dining.

Beyond the large-ticket items, broadband can save Web users about $95 a year on gasoline, $76 on nonprescription drugs and $193 on newspaper subscriptions, with most newspapers offering free news online. The numbers are based on an average U.S. household income of $63,000.

This week, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a report saying that 36% of U.S. residents don't subscribe to broadband at home. Only 4% of the nonsubscribers said they didn't buy broadband because it wasn't available to them.

IIA commissioned the study because the people there had an intuitive sense that "bargain shoppers willing to put in the time" could save significant money online, Mehlman said. "This information offers you a compelling reason that going online can save you money," he added.

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Our first speaker today was Dr. Dorothy Parrott of Behavioral Vision Care in Lakewood, Colorado. Today Dorothy wanted to talk to us about a equilibrium research study that has been done, in which is has been discovered that your vision and inner ear are one functioning system that deals with balance The vestibulo-ocular reflex is the reflex eye movement that works with filaments in the inner ear to stabilize images on the retina during head movement by producing an eye movement in the direction opposite to head movement, thus preserving the image on the center of the visual field. Since our heads move all the time, the vestibulo-ocular reflex is very important for stabilizing our vision: in patients whose vestibulo-ocular reflex has been impaired find it difficult to read print, because they cannot stabilize the eyes during normal small head tremors. Dr. Parrott stated that children whom have rapid random eye movements can often be diagnosed as having a problem with their vestibulo-ocular reflex. One test that she uses both with children and adults in her office, to identify those with this impairment is to have them stand on a couch cushion. Dr. Parrott uses visual training and works with glasses that have prisms built into the lens that can improve stabilization in her patients. These prisms are used to rehabilitate the vestibulo-ocular reflex and are not a permanent fix. They are used to help the patient through their daily life and while they are going through visual training to repair the impairment. She then passed around a variety of prisms for us to try on, they were entertaining to try on, some where very awkward to keep on.Suzanne with Prisms on.Cindi with prisms on

If you need glasses, vision testing or visual training give Dr. Dorothy Parrott a call and  set an appointment today!

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Today’s second speaker was Denise Wing from Academy National Mortgage in Lakewood, Colorado. Today Denise wanted to share with use these two list of documents that you should know where they are:

  • W-2’s 1-2 most recent years –varies by lender & loan type
  • Federal Tax returns 1-2 most recent years (varies by lender & loan type) Lender will pull transcripts from IRS-verify for un-reimbursed business expenses or side businesses.
  • Bank statements – (ckg, sav., CDs, etc) most recent within 30 days along with proof of any deposits made that are not from employment
  • IRA/401K statements – most recent within 30 days unless cycle quarterly.
  • Pay check stubs – 30 days worth & all within the past 30 days
  • Liabilities – statements for all debts – needed for acct #s, balance & required payments
  • List of real estate owned
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This is a list of documents and information that husband, wife and another party should know about. This is true if you are 20 years old or 100 years old.

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  • Credit cards, numbers, copies of front & back so you know where to call in case lost or stolen, passwords (LOCKED UP)
  • Bank accounts & statements – acct. numbers, phone numbers, passwords
  • Life insurance policies, company name, phone numbers, policy numbers, beneficiaries?
  • Tax returns & W-2’s
  • Will – do you have one, where is it, who are the beneficiaries?
  • Trusts – Medical, living? Do you have them? Where are they kept? Who knows about them?
  • Power of Attorney – General, medical, durable? Do you have them? Where are they? Who knows about them?
  • Safety Deposit box – where is it, what is the box #, where is the key, who is authorized to open,
  • Are there safes at home – where, where is the key, who has access, does anyone know about this?
  • What debts do you have – mortgage, cars, credit cards, student loans, department stores, life insurance loans, 401K loans, etc.
  • Appliance manuals & warranties
  • Do you have medical issues that someone should be aware of – current & past?
  • Medications and dosages that you are taking – who knows or should know? Especially important for elderly, when someone is admitted to the hospital & general doctor appointments
  • Doctors’ name & number. – Release form giving permission – who is authorized to speak to Dr and receive information?
  • Are you an organ donor? Who knows? Is it on your DL?
  • Do you own burial plots? Where are they? Are they paid for? Who knows about these?
  • Who are your trusted advisors – Real Estate agent, Accountant, financial advisor, insurance agents, friends & relatives that can help in time of need?
  • Passports
  • Some of these documents should be kept offsite of the home – in case of fire, etc.
  • Information for all this should be kept offsite as well
  • If you tell someone where all this information is and you move it – you need to tell that someone where you moved it to.

All of these documents and information are very important, someone should know where they are in case something happens to you. If you are looking to get a home or want to re-finance your current residence Denise Wing of Academy National Mortgage will take care of all those financing needs for you!

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Identification of vectors transmitting viruses in tomatoIdentification of vectors transmitting viruses in tomato in Uganda

A project assessing the prevalence of viruses which destroy Ugandan tomato crops

Tomato is an important cash crop for commercial and small-scale farmers in Uganda. Insects cause severe crop losses by directly feeding on the plants, and by transmitting viruses which cause plant disease.

In tackling this, it is essential to identify the insect vectors and the viruses they transmit, in order to develop sustainable management strategies for tomato crops

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  • Tomato mosaic virus
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This project is sampling both insect vectors and tomato plants to assess the current prevalence of these viruses and other as yet unidentified viruses.

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Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History

Palmer, Bryan D.; Heroux, Gaetan
Publisher:  Between the Lines, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  2916   First Published:  2016
Pages:  526pp   ISBN:  978-1-77113-281-7
Library of Congress Number:  HV4050.T6P34 2016   Dewey:  305.5'6909713541
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX20149

Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Introduction: The Long History of Toronto's Poor: Conceptualizing the Dispossessed
Capitalism, Crisis, and Class: Why Have the Poor Always Been With Us?
Dispossession: The Nursery of Class Struggle
Capitalist Crises: Class Conflict From Above and Below
Toronto: A Locale Within the Global
Class Struggle in Our Times: Bringing the Dispossessed into the Picture
Class Politics and Dispossession: The Left and the Wageless

Part 2 "Cracking the Stone": The Origins of Toronto’s Dispossessed, 1830–1928
Land and Labour in Old Ontario
Toronto's House of Industry
In the Era of Confederation: Capitalist State Formation and the Poor
The Underside of the Great Upheaval, 1873–1896
Protesting "Labour Tests"
The Black Flag Remembered; The Tramp Reviled
Capitalist Consolidation and the Left-Led Unemployed Movement in Pre-Second World War Toronto
The Left and the Toronto Jobless Before the Great Depression, 1915–1925

Part 3 "United We Eat; Divided We Starve": The Toronto Unemployed Movement, 1929–1939
Reds and the Unemployed in Canada’s Great Depression: From Third Period to Popular Front
The Single Unemployed and Toronto's Communist Battle for the Streets: Heroes 1914–Bums 1933
The Single Unemployed: Bound for Anything But Glory
Laver vs. The Lodge: The Voucher War of 1932–1933 and the Consolidation of a Regulatory Order
On the Trail of Harvey Jackson, William M. McKnight, Clifford Mashery, and George Haig: The Single Unemployed Present at Their Own Remaking
Marginalizing the Marginal: Single Unemployed Women
Toronto Trekkers
Depression's Denouement: The Winding Down of the Struggles of Single Unemployed Men, 1937–1939
Crisis of Unemployment = Housing Crisis
Evictions: "They Shall Not Pass"
The Jobless Take Job Action: Early Relief Strikes, 1932–1933
A “Red” Among Relief Recipients: Long Branch’s Ernest Lawrie
Reds, Riots, and Raising the Relief Rates: March–May 1935
Upping the Ante: The Hepburn Offensive and the Militancy of the Unemployed, 1936
Lakeview Militancy and a Hepburn Ambush, 1938
Closing Out the Decade: Relief Strikes and the Call to Abolish Relief Work

Part 4 "A Hopeless Failure": The Limitations and Erosion of the Modern Welfare State, 1940–2015
The Uneven Origins of an Incomplete Welfare State
In the Shadow of the Great Depression, War, and the Emerging Welfare State: Episodic Struggle in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s
A Sixties Turn: The Just Society, the New Left, and the "Discovery" of the Poor, 1965–1975
Hard Times: Capitalist Crises, Ideological Initiative, and the State Assault on the Dispossessed, 1973–2015

Part 5 "Fight to Win!": The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and the Return/Revenge of the Dispossessed, 1985–2015
Marauding Through the 1980s and into the 1990s: The Many-Sided Attack on the Poor
Mobilizing Against the Marauders: The Revival of Poor People’s Agitations in the 1980s
Marching to Mobilization: The Beginnings of OCAP
Mulroneyville, NDP Welfare Cheats, and Operation Desert Gypsy
Revolution from Above, Against Those Below: The Poor Fight Back
Homelessness and the Freezing Deaths Inquest, 1995–1996
Squats and NIMBYs: OCAP Escalates the Struggle
More Deaths, More Protests, More Complacency (And Worse)
Squeegees, Soliciting, and the Safe Streets Act: OCAP Continues to Counter
Ottawa Bound and Bringing the War Against Poverty Back Home to Queen’s Park
"The Long Retreat is Over": Common Fronts -- Evicting Flaherty, Snake Walking Through Toronto's Financial District, and Squatting for Affordable Housing
Squatting With the Pope and the Tenants of Tent City
Miller Time: Streets to Homes and the Death of Paul Croutch -- Two Faces of Social Cleansing
A Women's Squat
Raise the Rates! The Special Diet Supplement
Turning on the TAP: Toronto Against Poverty
Another Demolition Job: The Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit
Hostels Under Attack: OCAP Fights Back

Part 6: Conclusion "Bread I Want, And Bread I Will Have"

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I have a bit in common with apricots. I can be a bit dull and uninteresting, often outshone by others. However, like apricots, if I’m pickled in brandy for long enough, I too am transformed into a thing of glorious beauty and attractiveness. Perhaps I might abandon the analogy at this stage as this personal transformation only goes on in my head, the effects don’t last and the memory tends to make me shudder with guilt and remorse.

Duck with apricot and ginger sauce (1 of 8)There is a little bit of a back story to this post. The back story revolves around the plated shot and the arrival of winter. Having been in France in the holliers earlier in the year, I decided that I should do something with duck. The duck we get in Ireland is very different to the delicious, fatty, plump birds one encounters in La Belle F. However, I was not going to be put off by that. Nor was I going to be put off by the second class apricots we get here on this rain sodden outpost. No, I was going to do a great job with reasonably good ingredients. In fairness the duck here is very good, just not as great as that available over there. The apricots though, needed a bit of help. However, I digress….

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Let’s face facts, many of the burgers one encounters in the big, bad world, are pretty bloody awful. Most of you see the sun come out, rush to the convenience store and buy a box of frozen patties (Who is Pattie and what did she do to deserve this treatment?). Then it’s home to the garden, to wipe the cobwebs off the barbecue. Then you take the wire brush to the grill. Next you fire it up and burn off last season’s leftovers. You throw the frozen patties on the grill along with some jumbo sausages, ribs, bacon, cofti, chicken wings and pork chops. You take pictures of the whole lot burning on the too-hot grill and share it to your social media. You swill a few cans of beer, over-eat, get the “meat sweats” and retire to snore through the worst excesses of your piggery. But….., there is a better way. Better for you and better for small producers creating great product sold through independent butchers who know their trade. The way forward is the Way of the Wagyu.

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Colorful rice sensory bin with abc activity with title "Using Sensory Bins Without Losing Your Mind"

Sensory bins! Does anyone else CRINGE when hearing that word in the classroom? The first image that used to come to my mind was colored pasta scattered all over the floor and sand thrown at friends from across the table. It sounded like a messy nightmare.

I'm happy to report, this is not the case... not if you do it the right way! After giving sensory bins a chance and lots of trial and error, I’ve figured out what works for me and my kiddos, and I am sharing my tips with others.

Why We Use Sensory Bins

First, let’s understand why we should be using sensory bins in the early primary classrooms. There's a reason you'll find them in most preschool classrooms. Sensory bins offer plenty of open- ended opportunities for age- appropriate skill development. Some of the benefits of sensory bins include:

  • Expansion of vocabulary and language skills
  • Stimulation of multiple senses at once
  • Opportunities to learn through play
  • Peer interaction and social skill development
  • Can be linked to just about any learning objective
  • Fine motor skill development
  • Increased student engagement
When multiple senses are engaged, learning happens. Hands- on activities can be some of the most memorable experiences for children. Get kids involved in first hand learning whenever you can and keep it fun! Sensory bins are a perfect way to do exactly that. Read on for tips on how to use sensory bins in your classroom.

3 TIPS FOR USING SENSORY BINS (Without Losing Your Mind)

So now that you know the benefits of sensory bins, here are some tips for using them in the classroom.

Colored rice sensory bin with title "Using Sensory Bins Without Losing Your Mind". sensory bin tips 1.  Use Larger Fillers (especially when first introducing sensory bins).
Sensory bins don’t need to consist of rice and sand. Fillers can be large and easy to manage and clean up. Some examples of less messy fillers are:

These items are just as engaging as the smaller fillers like sand and rice! They're a great way to start off with sensory bins. Add smaller fillers when you feel your students are ready and understand how to use the bins.

 2. Model & Practice
Ok, this one is a biggie! Children need direct modeling and practice to understand and learn routines and expectations. Just like other classroom routines and procedures, model and practice your sensory bin expectations until you feel confident that the children understand what to do (and what not to do).

And even when you feel that the kiddos are doing well, be sure to keep an eye or sit nearby to be sure they continue following through with your expectations. Remind children of your sensory bin rules, such as keeping the filler in the bins, no throwing, and never putting the bin items in their mouths.

 3. Incorporate Activities You're Already Using
Don’t invent new activities and spend tons of time preparing anything special for the bin. Use what you already have! This makes implementation for both the teacher and students SO much more simple. It's less work for you and is a nice familiar item for them to work with. They're already familiar with it so they know how to use it.

Those shapes manipulatives you used for math this morning? Throw them in a bin with some beans. Let students find them in the filler and identify them. If you have a memory game, add those cards to a shredded paper sensory bin and have students play memory by choosing the cards from the bin. Or if you like to “write the room,” hide the cards in a rice bin rather than around the room. Students find the cards in the bin and write them on their recording sheet. Add your magnetic letters to bin filled with elbow noodles. Put your base ten blocks in a bin filled with pom poms and add them up.

You get the idea. Take what you have and plop it into the bin for a fun twist on a regular center activity. Almost ANY activity can be added into the sensory bin for an extra boost of engagement and learning. Try it with whatever you have on hand!

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See, sensory bins really aren’t that bad. Actually, there are so many benefits to using sensory bins in the classroom. And these sensory bin tips aren't just for the classroom... They can be beneficial for kids at home too. Homeschool teachers and parents can implement sensory bins with their children.

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