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This site is for everyone who enjoys the wonderful hobby of gold panning. I am new to the hobby and as I learn I will post my experiences here.
There will be pictures, links, and all the other stuff you normally want to see.
I am just starting this setup and will get a better plan going as time goes by.
Good name for a song!
I have a blog on blogger.com with the same name - recreationalgoldpanning.blogspot.com - take a look and leave a comment please.
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The Detroit Tigers squeaked out a win against the Chicago White Sox yesterday with a 3-1 victory, taking them to 14-13 on the young season. The Tigers 3 runs came on homeruns by Austin Jackson (1st inning), Prince Fielder (3rd inning), and Andy Dirks (8th inning). The win came behind a great pitching performance by Rick Porcello (3-2) who went 6 1/3 innings with 5 K's and only 1 ER. Tigers closer Jose Valverde had another shaky outing, putting 2 runners on base before retiring the final out to record the save.
The Tigers batters have been heating up as of late, but this is something that we all knew would eventually happen with our potent lineup. What I question is what will be done about our pitching, more importantly our starting pitching.
The Tigers are going to be starting a 3 game set against the Seattle Mariners tomorrow and will also be getting back Doug Fister, who is coming off an injury. Will this be enough to push the Tigers over the hump and bring them back into the "elite" category they were once given in the pre season? Or are there more concerns that need to be addressed than just that?
Lets assume that Fister comes back and is just as good as he was last year (which isn't a given), the Tigers still need a solid 5th starter and for Porcello and Max Scherzer to be more consistant then they have been. We all knew going into the season that Scherzer was going to be a roller coaster on the mound, but what makes that harder to deal with is when Porcello and Papa Grande are as well.
The answer that all Tigers fans should be looking for is adding another pitcher to the rotation to solidify the staff. This should have been addressed in the off season, and it wasn't. It needs to be addressed now, the question is… will it?
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Just as its about time to pack my stuff away, wouldn't you know I'm shopping for more! Last year I saw a pheasant teapot on a hutch (by the everydaydecorator, and in our Fall inspiration album). I was lusting after that bird.
LOL. But the ones I found online have been a bit more than I wanted to pay. Around $32 plus shipping. QVC has them, and another site that carries the J.Willfred line. So I was checking eBay and one was on. NOBODY bid except me. I got it for $10, and shipping was that much. But that still made it much cheaper than the other places. Then I saw a delightful Homeco Denim Days figurine of a little boy praying for his turkey friend. I fell in love with how sweet this is. And the boy is actually the perfect size to go with my Pilgrim couple! I got the boy today and hopefully the pheasant will arrive for me to enjoy it a few days before season is over. hugs, Karen |
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- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Fri, Nov 19, 10 at 22:49
That little boy and his turkey figurine is sure cute! The pheasant teapot is sure pretty colors and very unique. So glad you got it for a bargain price. ;o) I ran by Big Lots tonight and they had all the Fall/Halloween leftovers 90% off. I got some big and small candle rings for 20/40 cents! I'll post some pics on another post. Luvs |
- Posted by purplemoon (My Page) on Fri, Nov 19, 10 at 22:57
Karen...I'm TOTALLY Green with envy over your Pheasants! I was looking too for that pheasant...and yes, ever since seeing the everydaydecorator!! I guess it was meant for you to find him on ebay..I did see the one from J.Willfred line...but didn't want to pay the price. The other two from etsy are really nice too..You've got the luck for being at the right place ..right time. I love winter cardinals, and your plates are lovely. jane |
- Posted by jeannespines (My Page) on Sat, Nov 20, 10 at 10:34
I'd say it was your lucky night on e-bay! That pheasant teapot is delightful & a good $$! Love the S&P shakers, too...your cardinal plates are stunning ... & kitty so cute (knowing your love for cats)...perfect! Won't be long & those will be out for the winter. The turkey & praying boy is sweet. Wow, you did good, girl! Jeanne S. |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Sat, Nov 20, 10 at 13:05
Karen, those plates are just so perfect for you--cats and cardinals! And you can keep those out all winter, not just for Christmas! Good shopping, Gal. ;o) Luvs |
- Posted by marlene_2008 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 20, 10 at 18:02
Okay, Karen...here's the deal. I want to be your adopted sister or something so you can share all of your stuff with me! Love the little boy figurine and the teapot and the salt and pepper shakers...you have such lovely decoratives! Just beautiful! |
Awwwww, I am so glad the little boy and his turkey found you to live with!! Of course I love the cardinals too. You had a great shopping spree and thank you so much for showing us. J |
Those are so pretty you could leave them out all year round! Good score! |
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 4:15pm
Irving — The Dallas Cowboys face an unfamiliar division opponent. The Philadelphia Eagles are not the same team they were for 14 years under Andy Reid.
The Cowboys are playing catch-up.
They spent a big chunk of the off-season dissecting Chip Kelly's schemes at Oregon. They spent part of last week watching tapes of the Eagles' first five games, according to quarterback Tony Romo.
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I have boxes and boxes of material people gave to me because I sew and they don't any more. I'd consider it vintage and wouldn't really do anything with the materials, such as recover my couch or make a dress, etc. The patterns are funky and fun, but not my taste. I thought about making and selling jewelry rolls or vintage style aprons... but what can you think of to do with all styles of fabric? |
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There is lots of vintage fabric sold on eBay. A yard is plenty to make something for a child. Throw pillow covers, doll clothes, napkins, cafe curtains, rag rugs, quilts... |
I don't want to sell the material because that would mean setting up an account and then having to mail the stuff, etc., thanks though! I was thinking in terms of fun projects with which to play. So the list so far is: jewelry roll Rag rugs and quilts don't count, because I want each project to use one yard of material. I actually found free patterns for a wrist purse (scraps) and tie bags (3/4 yard) which are really cute on Butterick. Projects which don't use any notions except thread are a plus! |
pillows pillow cases chair seat pads sit-upons to use in lawn furniture or on stadium seats car seat covers receiving blanket type covers Mother's privacy covers for breast feeding decorative table squares tote bags placemats coasters padded coathanger covers make up bags for traveling shoe covers for traveling dish towels decorative trim on bath towels toilet lid covers to match kleenex box covers to match gift bags, with ribbon ties at the top bar-b-q aprons for guys hot pads table mats for hot dishes oval hot mitts for use at the microwave scented mug mats potpourri bags sachets |
I like the vintage apron idea..with the bits do matching pot holders to use up the fabric. Look at the pillowcase dress idea as well......you could make some of those quite easily with your fabric yard. I like the idea of simple sundresses the kind that lap over the back .....for toddlers.....you could make a matching little triangle head square with a bit of the leftover and or even a sun hat and little tote for a total look..... don't forget if you made say a size 2/3 dress and had cheap little flip flops decorated with some leftover scrap (this involves tieing some precut lengths of fabric onto the strap very close together) well those would sell. find an easy few step pattern and make a few for a trial. That is what I'd do. Budster. |
- Posted by prjonastulka (My Page) on Fri, Jul 20, 07 at 17:47
Small bags. Rice socks: make a rectangle, open on one side. Fill with rice and a few drops of scented oil. Sew closed. You heat it in the microwave and it is a great pain relief thing. |
- Posted by phyllis_philodendron (My Page) on Sat, Jul 21, 07 at 0:29
children's clothing bag with elastic at both ends to hold plastic shopping bags in your closet crazy quilt |
- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 21, 07 at 13:11
I can make pillowcases in 15 minutes on my serger. You could even make some a travel pillow size and get more than one out of a yard. You can make the case a print and the border a coordinating solid. I cut my pillowcases 27" long by the width of the fabric minus cutting off the selvage edges. The border I cut 7" wide by the width of fabric (also minus the edges) and fold it in half, press, sew onto one end of the case. Then I sew the side seam and the end seam. Secure the thread ends, turn right side out, and press - you're done. Teresa |
- Posted by kathyg_in_mi (My Page) on Wed, Aug 1, 07 at 11:59
Curling iron covers! Kathy G in MI |
headbands totebags |
Wristlets (they're all the rage right now). |
Bean bags - and these might be really appreciated at your local elementary school. I use pinto beans and 6" squares of fabric. Scarves - not necessarily the kind to wear, but 18"x22" of fabric that kids can use to whirl in the air and have fun with. Both of these could be used by the local elementary Music or elementary PE teachers, or special ed teachers. DonnaR/CA |
rosewind - what is a wristlet? |
Quilter love vintage fabric. In fact, my guild has a vintage fabric bee. Try ebay if you want to sell it. If you want to donate it, try Linus (new, handmade blankets for children in the hospital or in crisis) a church group or a group that sews for our vet hospitals. Good luck, |
Make a bunch of lined bags w/inexpensive nylon handles &clean up at the next craft show in your area. Or mail to me so I can do the same! |
What CAN'T you do with a yard of material is the REAL question? Here's just a few ideas, I bet you can add to the list! FOR WOVEN FABRICS: FOR STRETCH KNIT FABRICS: CRAFTS: |
http://krafts.blogspot.com http://gemini53.typepad.com/my_weblog/ my crafts here not selling anything You can make an ironing board covers pin cushions wallets purses book covers skirts slippers |
Here is a link that might be useful: craft magazine
I don't know of any one thing you can do with a yard of fabric which would be good for all fabrics. Perhaps shopping bags for the dress and pants weight non-stretchy fabrics? Those aren't fussy about pattern and style. Our grocery store gives a five cent rebate for each shopping bag we bring in ourselves, so your one yard fabrics might save you some money if your grocery store did the same thing. Currently, I'm making shorts with chunks of one yard fabrics although soon I'll make up a few more shopping bags, too. |
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Paranormal Activity offers a surprisingly taut story
Written and directed by Oren Peli. Starring Katie Featherstone and Micah Sloat. Rated 14A. Now playing
Much like The Blair Witch Project 10 years ago, Paranormal Activity is the bargain-basement horror flick of the moment. Thanks to steady word of mouth, writer-director Oren Peli's debut feature has been awarded a major-studio release after years of bouncing around the festival circuit.
Watch the trailer for Paranormal Activity.
Using his own relatively modest house as an impromptu set, Peli made the movie for around $15,000. And what do we get? A surprisingly taut story about a young couple named Katie and Micah (Katie Featherstone and Micah Sloat) who decide to document the supernatural occurrences disrupting their home.
Katie, who's been intermittently stalked by some sort of malevolent force since the age of eight, is genuinely frightened by the increasingly strange events taking over her life. Micah is a cocky control freak who's actually a little jazzed when he discovers that his girlfriend is a walking magnet for paranormal activity. In typically male fashion, he decides to film the whole thing with his new video camera.
Peli takes a refreshingly organic approach to ratcheting up the tension. With no elaborate special effects, the resulting thrills are strictly of the mind-game variety. Our increasingly frazzled couple get used to checking out the latest demonic act while padding around the house in sweatpants or boxer shorts. Nobody can accuse the two unknown leads of being great actors, but in the age of reality television, there's something utterly convincing about the sleep-deprived Katie bickering with Micah while brushing her teeth.
And yet, despite Peli's ability to conjure up a seductive atmosphere of suspense, the ending seems both rushed and anticlimactic. After the film builds up such an exquisite head of steam, horror purists may be disappointed by the way Paranormal Activity insists on fizzling out so abruptly.
For those who haven't seen it, and still wish to: DO see it in a theatre, but wait until it's at a less-expensive theatre, offering matineés, or until it's at a second-run theatre such as The Hollywood.
I saw it with a friend who tends to be more sensitive to frightening content. She too had been hoping for a good scare, but as we left the theatre she remarked that it wasn't very scary. She didn't have any problem sleeping or nightmares.
Mike is right: the hype makes the viewer expect TOO much. I expect to be scared though, Mike. I wasn't. And therefore, the movie did not live up to it's advertised hype: "scariest movie ever" and "terrifying" .. it wasn't.


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An open letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. Obama: Congratulations, you won. Apparently Rush Limbaugh was right — we are out-numbered. There are more of you than there are of us.
So, since I like being in the majority, I have decided to join you and your acolytes. All my life, since my junior year in college, I have supported myself and been a Producer.
Starting next year I am going to join you and your followers and be Taker.
I choose not to participate in your socialist utopia as a hard-working, tax-paying Producer. Next year I'm going to be one of you; I'm joining the Takers. I'm, as they say, "going to ground."
Next year I will arrange to get myself laid off from my six-figure job, which by the way contributes a high five-figure income tax payment to the federal government.
I will live at subsistence level on what I have, and whatever federal Taker programs I can get qualified for. So the first loss to your socialist utopia is my substantial federal income tax payment.
I will no longer work and pay taxes. How stupid was I. Thank you for showing me the light.
I will now be a consumer of tax revenue at every level I can. I will endeavor to earn as little taxable money as I can, most certainly below the poverty level, and apply for as many of your wonderful assistance programs as I can.
Having been laid off from my job as a Producer, I will qualify for 99 weeks of unemployment, and as I made a good salary, I will get the maximum unemployment payment.
When that runs out, I don't plan on finding a job. Instead I will apply for Social Security Disability Benefits.
And when I am denied, I will have one of those benevolent lawyers advertising on TV to sue the federal government for my benefits.
I will apply for welfare payments, as I'm sure unemployment benefits will keep me below the poverty level.
I will of course apply for food stamps, and I can't wait to get my Obama phone. As you know the Obama phone does not pay those excise taxes and 911 user fees the rest of the Producers' phones have to pay.
I will need a housing supplement or rent subsidy, or maybe I can get some Section 8 housing with cable TV.
My healthcare will no longer be Aetna or Humana or Blue Cross, which I used to have to pay for. I will now qualify for Medicaid, which is 100 percent paid for by your utopia.
Because I've never been a Taker before, I don't even know all the programs I might qualify for, but I'm sure I'll learn.
So ... not only have you lost me as a substantial Producer and financial contributor to society, you have turned me into a net drain on society.
Think about this. Not only will I not be paying high five figures in federal income taxes, I won't be paying any state taxes and very few of the over 60 other taxes levied on American Producers. Instead I will be consuming as many or more taxes as I was paying. So the loss to society is double.
You hated me because I made too much money. Your own words to Joe the Plumber, "At some point I think you've made enough money."
Did you ever consider what I did with the money I "made"? First, before it ever touched my hands, over one-third was confiscated by the federal income tax. Another 5 percent was taken by the state. These funds supported our government, and that's important. But what I did with the rest the money is most important.
You see, I either did two things with what was left: I spent it, or I saved or invested it.
If I spent it on needed or wanted goods and services, our society benefited by someone else having a job to provide the good or service. The more I spent, the more jobs were needed. People were employed and they consumed goods and services and paid taxes.
If I saved or invested it, our society benefited by business having more capital (a terribly dirty word for you) available to expand their business and hire more workers to provide even more goods and services. Those additional workers consumed goods and services and paid taxes.
It's called capitalism, and it absolutely works.
But I see that's not what you and your followers want. My friends have told me if I do what I plan, and millions more see the light and do as I plan, the nation will collapse.
As I see it, with the Takers in the majority, the collapse of the nation is assured. Why not just get it over with? We survivors will start over.
(Post-election obituary, "... All who pass by will be appalled and say, 'Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land?' ... because they have forsaken the Lord." — 2 Chronicles 7:21-22.)
Briggs Arrington
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I want a Divorce...
Briggs Arrington, what a joker. So you would willingly give up a six figure income so you can collect free stuff from the government?
If you're smart enough to make a six figure income, you either don't appreciate what you have or you're talking about retiring and going on Social Security. Either way, someone will be more than willing to fill the position you leave behind.
The only other possibility is, you're just talking Ayn Rand gibberish! Eh?
been pal?
Working I hope to pay all those extra taxes next year. How long do you think it will take your company to outsource your job? Or how about deciding that it just doesn't work for them to provide health care benefits? Or maybe that they can do just fine with part time workers so they don't pay the health care tax? Dirty capitalists that they are, they will just look for some way to get around this mess outside the country I suppose.
Be sure to let us know when you lose your job and go on food stamps.
PTC_0, yup, still working, can't get enough of that do, ra, mi but I did suffer a major financial setback recently. Let me tell you the saga.
I was having a beer in this bar that has buckets of peanuts for thirsty patrons. As luck would have it one of the buckets was right next to my barstool. I look in the bucket and I see this one peanut. Not just any peanut! This peanut looked exactly like 'Snoopy the dog,' from the "Peanuts," comic strip. So I snatch the peanut out of the bucket, put it in my pocket as fast as I could, pay my tab, and go home.
When I got the peanut home I examined it very carefully. This wasn't some 'Nixon Potato' wanabe. This peanut was a spitting image of Snoopy. You didn't have to hold it a certain way or shine a light on it. From every angle it looked like Snoopy and I was going to cash in big time selling it on E-bay ! MmmMmm, good times coming my way.
I took some pictures of the peanut and they looked okay but it needed something more. So I cut a piece of red lining out of my wife's winter coat to make a scarf. From the finger of a brown leather glove I made a little aviators helmet. In my workshop I made a little white doghouse to set the peanut on and dress it up with the scarf and helmet.
Unfortunately I left my Snoopy peanut on the coffee table in the living room. When I went back to get it, the peanut was gone and my wife' little dog Houdini was smiling and wagging his tale.
You could see if you can start a new dog act, see if Houdini can escape from a weighted sack full of rocks from a raging river?
Just a thought.
Have a wonderful time with your finances this coming decade. Let us know if you get some of those peanuts the government will be doling out after your job is outsourced to China. Then you can concentrate on drinking and looking for food in the dumpsters behind rich people's houses. Oh wait! There won't be any rich people here we'll all be equally paying our fair share. The rich people will move to Barbados because they can be rich anywhere. Let's get the government to pass a law so they can't move and how about another law to stop outsourcing too! We can solve all our problems by just passing laws! You know fixing everything as we go. When any problem of any kind pops up we just get our government to mandate something new.
Then we can get the Houdini government to consume everything. Didn't the real Houdini use illusion? How appropriate!
PTC_0. I was fond of my Snoopy peanut and I had high hopes for its commercial possibilities but I'm not going to kill my wife's little dog because he ate a peanut.
So you think all the rich people are moving to Barbados? Nice weather. Are they moving so they can avoid a European style of socialism? Perhaps you should warn them. Barbados is Commonwealth nation and they already have government run health care, (child care too.) Sucks all the freedom out of the place doesn't it?
Perhaps these 'cut and run' rich people would be more at home in one of the pirate cities of the Caribbean. Tampa was home for Gaspar the Pirate, the Republican's had there convention there, but nowadays you have to wait eight hours just to vote! 8 - )
Anyway, have a nice Thanksgiving.
too pal, I be praying for people like you and DM.
BTW, I don't have any idea where the rich will move, but they will move because they can. Remember the Facebook guy that moved quickly to Singapore to avoid taxes in the USA? I think he took over a billion with him. Good for him but bad for people like you.
A few years "enjoying" Section 8 housing, food stamp groceries, and subsistence living on welfare will do you some good. You'll love the warm greetings you get at the County Health Department and being shunned by the private medical profession when they discover that you are on Medicaid. This will be a wonderful strategy to instill some empathy into a very arrogant heart. But please refrain from invoking Bible verses to buttress your positions. Even a cursory observation of Jesus' teachings exposes many more exhortations for social empathy than for the capitalism you worship. So that a boy; move out of your house today to enjoy double-wide living in the trailer park. Give us an update after a few years of "the good life."
Mr. Arrington, you are obviously an unrepentant racist and a complete idiot. And because you feel so free to insult so many good and decent people, I have to feel free to insult you right back. You and your unChristian rantings are a plague upon the decent people of this nation. Shame on you. If you don't like what America offers, emigrate back to the banana republic from which you obviously emerged......
Please enlighten me to how this letter to the editor was in any way "racist" or "fascist?" I must have missed how dropping-out of society denotes not only a racist viewpoint, but a fascist one also. Bizarre. Oh yeah, he's a "pig" too, nice. Great work.
I didn't think much of that letter myself...sounded like the grumblings of someone who just woke up today and realized things are screwed up and was too apathetic or intellectually lazy to not have realized that a long time ago. But to say that the opinions expressed by Mr. Arrington are "racist" or "fascist" pretty much shows you have no idea what either term means and are also a clear indication of why this country is in serious decline. When you have citizens that are semi-literate and use bumper stickers and slogans instead of having to think, you get a crawl towards a lack of intellect that is frankly appalling in 2012 and would have been decades ago. "Racism!" "Fascist!" "Bullying!"
It has become, for liberals and leftists enraged by the way Republicans never suffer the consequences for turning electoral politics into a cesspool, a kind of smoking gun. The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
Who do most envision as the 'takers'? Not so abstract anymore - and most people are tired of it.
...that the largest demographic on welfare roles were white single mothers living in rural areas. Coming from a rural, agrarian area, I could believe this as true. My wife, volunteering at a food bank, once saw two small children - there w/ their mother - rip open a box of Corn Flakes and start eating right then and there.
I believe its easier for the news/cameras to catch a group of inner-city at the social service offices than it is in rural towns.
No body ever stated that the 47% that do not pay Federal Taxes and therefore do not contribute their fair share to supporting the infrastructure of the U.S. comprised a specific demographic. That was something made up by the self-loathing hypocrites that cry racism and find 'code words' in every statement or idea that they don't agree with.
And more and more realize that to label the 'takers' as a only one group in America is not true / and are moving away from this 'strategy'. There are those who don't want to admit what you have shared as reality. Thanks for sharing.
Those that are marginal in income will follow this narrative en masse.
So we fix our eyes on what is seen, but not on what is unseen and until what is unseen becomes painful, nothing will improve. The parasites cannot survive without the producers, the ultimate outcome is 1984.
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Well no response to my 'Oct. blooming japonicas' so how 'bout fall blooming??? I realize sasanquas bloom in the fall but someone told me there are a few japonicas that bloom. Would Daikagura be considered a fall blooming japonica? Thanks. |
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White by the Gate, Christmas Beauty, High Hat and Professor Sargent, start blooming early, sometimes in November in Atlanta but it depends on the weather too. Last year, some of my Fall blooming plants started in March because of unusually warm temps thru December in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area. |
I am in zone 7b in southern New Jersey. My Spring's Promise" Camellia japonica faithfully bloomed in time for Thnksgiving each of the last 3 years. Others I know in my town do not bloom until winter or spring. Mine gets quite a bit of direct sun. This may account for my plant's late fall blooming characteristics. |
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Why do sea stars sometimes regrow 2 arms instead of just 1?
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In regeneration, there are a series of "signaling" that takes place that begins the process of growing a new arm. Simplified greatly, the remaining living cells have always had living cells boarding it and if these cells are missing or dead, the starfish DNA in the remaining cells start the series of replacment cell divisons leading to a new arm. (This process is an entire course in graduate school so this is not in detail).
Sometimes this missing arm signaling begins the process twice resulting in two arms. It is automatic and once started goes through completion.
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Thanks for the question. Seastars may regrow two arms instead of one. Here's how it could happen: Normally, one cell develops and begins growing an appendage which later becomes the arm. However, if that one cell divides (by mitosis) when it is not supposed to, there will now be two cells and each can regrow an arm. Thus, the seastar will regrow two arms instead of one.
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Jack Swarbrick referenced a quote from Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, a pretty good source for college basketball, when a recent discussion turned to the strength of hoops in the ACC.
"I think coach Krzyzewski said it well. I think this is set up to be the best basketball conference in the history of college basketball," Swarbrick, Notre Dame's athletic director, said in a phone interview Thursday.
Notre Dame officially joins the ACC in every sport but football and men's ice hockey on Monday. Syracuse and Pittsburgh are also newcomers in the conference. Maryland exits for the Big Ten in 2014, but Louisville enters in that same year.
There's been a lot of talk about how Notre Dame's conference switch affects its football scheduling. Notre Dame remains independent in football, but will play five games each year against ACC teams beginning in 2014.
But there's plenty to look forward to for all the sports across the board. Especially basketball.
"When you add Syracuse and Pittsburgh (this year), and Louisville next year, and we certainly think we bring a lot, you add that to the already great power and tradition of the ACC, I don't think college basketball has ever seen anything like it, in both men and women's," Swarbrick said.
Three of the last five NCAA men's basketball championship teams will call the ACC home by 2014.
Last season, the Big Ten received a large chunk of the hype during the men's basketball season. And rightfully so, with teams like Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State and Michigan State spending time in the top 10 of the polls and each reaching at least the Sweet 16 of the tournament. But the schools that will make up the new-look ACC had quite the tournament, as well.
Of course, it starts with Louisville. The Cardinals defeated Michigan to win the championship. And then there's Syracuse, which made the Final Four.
Duke's NCAA tournament run ended in the Elite Eight, at the hands of Louisville. Miami was a No. 2 seed in the East Region and got to the Sweet 16.
North Carolina (round of 32), North Carolina State, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame also made the tournament. It was the sixth tournament appearance in the past seven years for the Irish.
Notre Dame's women's basketball team made its third straight trip to the Final Four this season. Another future ACC team, Louisville, reached the title game.
"This is going to be one incredible women's basketball conference. Louisville and Notre Dame were of course in the Final Four last year, we've been in it three consecutive years," Swarbrick said. "Duke, Maryland, up and down this conference great women's basketball, too."
I'm really looking forward to the next few chapters of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The ACC dominated the early rounds of the men's challenge, winning the first 10 in the series. But the Big Ten has come out on top recently, taking the next three. Last year, the conferences split the Challenge, with each winning six games.
This year's schedule includes Indiana at Syracuse, Michigan at Duke and North Carolina at Michigan State. Notre Dame gets its first taste of the Challenge with a Dec. 3 game at Iowa. It's the team's first trip to Iowa since 1950.
As for conference play for the Irish, this season features home and road games against North Carolina, Virginia, Boston College and Georgia Tech. Duke pays a visit to South Bend, the first trip to Notre Dame since 1995. The dates for the games will be announced at a later time.
Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey will continue to match wits with some of the top coaches in the country. Just look at the list. Krzyzewski, Roy Williams (North Carolina), Jim Boeheim (Syracuse) and Rick Pitino (when Louisville joins), to name a few. Krzyzewski, Williams and Pitino have each led teams to multiple national championships.
The programs have plenty of tradition of winning multiple titles. North Carolina has five national titles, Duke has four. Louisville just captured its third. North Carolina State has two titles.
"There's never been a basketball conference like this," Swarbrick said.
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PUBLISHED: 28 Aug 2013 00:05:00 | UPDATED: 28 Aug 2013 12:48:11PUBLISHED: 28 Aug 2013 PRINT EDITION: 28 Aug 2013YouTube and other companies have made approaches about a government-funded digital television sports channel for lower profile sports like rowing, athletics and hockey. Photo: Helen Nezdropa
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A government-funded digital television sports channel could be established as soon as 2014 under an Australian Sports Commission plan.
The Sports Commission has received approaches from YouTube and other companies since chairman John Wylie flagged the establishment of a television channel for lower-profile sports in which Australia is successful globally.
They include hockey, netball, rowing and athletics, which are popular in a participation sense but receive little coverage on commercial television networks.
Mr Wylie saidthe commission was keen to establish the digital service should a partner be found and if it would be financially beneficial to the sports. He said he hoped the channel could be ready to launch as early as the second half of 2014.
"This is about investigating whether there are long-term commercially viable opportunities for sports that do not have regular broadcasting rights arrangements," he said.
"I think there is a real opportunity for the sports to work together to aggregate their rights across the spectrum. If they do that they can be reach a bigger audience, which can be attractive to sponsors and therefore bring in more revenue."
He believes that money could be better spent on a new channel. As well as advertising, potential funding could come from the commission's innovation funding pool, which is $1.5 million annually.
"There are more than 5 million Australians who participate in non-professional sports regularly," he said. "As a collective, this group has a large and passionate supporter base who I believe would love to see more ways of watching, experiencing and interacting with their sport."
Many of the sports that could be broadcast on the new digital service are reliant on the commission for funding. The commission provides about $120 million to the sports annually. Mr Wylie wants the sports to garner more commercial income and lessen the reliance on government funding.
On Wednesday, the commission will seek companies willing to study the feasibility of the new media strategy across different digital mediums.
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Includes: Coffee (generic), dinner roll, Roasted Turkey w/mashed potatos, gravy and mixed vegetables (generic), Cranberry sauce (generic), Butter (generic).
Cream of Wheat w/butter and watercals: 250kcal | fat: 11.00g | carbs: 19.00g | prot: 3.00g
Includes: Land O Lakes unsalted butter, Instant hot cereal (original flavor), water (added to Cream of Wheat packet).
"Cream of Wheat with butter and water added."
Denny's Flat Breadcals: 890kcal | fat: 54.00g | carbs: 53.00g | prot: 38.00g
Includes: Cheese Burger Flat Bread.
Denny's Ranchero Tilapia w/potatoscals: 850kcal | fat: 31.00g | carbs: 143.00g | prot: 60.00g
Includes: Denny's Dinner Roll, Ranchero Tilapia, Cheddar Mashed Potatos.
El Camino Real Tamales and refried beanscals: 681kcal | fat: 28.80g | carbs: 82.09g | prot: 26.06g
Includes: Refried beans, Tamale, Sprite.
"Tamale, re fried beans and Sprite"
El Sambrecals: 844kcal | fat: 42.23g | carbs: 85.99g | prot: 31.99g
Includes: Refried Beans, Tortilla Chips, Enchilada (beef), Spanish Rice, Guacamole, Sour Creme', Black Pepper, Shredded Lettuce, Queso Dip.
Fried Chicken with cooked cabbage and bread & gravycals: 754kcal | fat: 34.17g | carbs: 69.80g | prot: 40.81g
Includes: Chicken Breast, Breading for fried chicken and pork chops, etc., Sara Lee 100% whole wheat bread, Lou's white gravy, Cooked cabbage.
"Fried chicken breast, cooked cabbage, sodium free white gravy & bread."
Fried Egg sandwich w/Colby Jack Cheese and mayocals: 520kcal | fat: 33.91g | carbs: 28.99g | prot: 23.63g
Includes: eggs, black pepper, Mayonnaise, Smart Balance Light Omega 3, Land O Lakes unsalted butter, Sargento Colby-Jack, Garlic Powder, Sara Lee Whole Wheat.
"Whole wheat bread, eggs, pepper, garlic powder and Colby-Jack Cheese"
Ground Pound Tilapiacals: 1347kcal | fat: 57.61g | carbs: 151.49g | prot: 49.09g
Includes: Popcorn (generic), Rice Pilaf *generic), Chicken Tortilla soup (generic), Mango Salsa, Loaded Baked Potato (generic), Raspberry Tea (generic), Blackened Tilapia (generic).
Hamburger steak meal (generic)cals: 613kcal | fat: 29.96g | carbs: 54.47g | prot: 31.15g
Includes: Ground beef (generic), Mashed Potatoes (generic), Butter (generic), Dinner Roll (generic), Brown Gravy (generic), Green Beans (generic).
"Includes hamburger steak, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, vegetable, dinner roll and butter"
Hard Rock Cafe Fish & Chipscals: 950kcal | fat: 40.00g | carbs: 90.00g | prot: 30.00g
Includes: Fish & Chips Fish & Chips.
Hard Rock Fish & Chipscals: 950kcal | fat: 40.00g | carbs: 90.00g | prot: 30.00g
Includes: Fish & Chips Fish & Chips.
Hawaiian Pork chops with vegi mashed potatoscals: 626kcal | fat: 28.01g | carbs: 68.27g | prot: 31.94g
Includes: Hawaiian Pork Chops.
Highway Cafe (Lincoln, Mo.) scrambled egg meal (W/O salt)cals: 699kcal | fat: 31.18g | carbs: 84.93g | prot: 22.78g
Includes: Jelly (All flavors), wheat toast, scrambled eggs, Hashbrown (generic).
"Scrambled eggs (2), hash browns and wheat toast (2 slices) w/jelly. NO SALT ADDED........"
Holiday Inn Sunday breakfastcals: 760kcal | fat: 25.51g | carbs: 89.19g | prot: 30.54g
Includes: sausage gravy (generic), omelette (generic), American cheese, Coffee (generic), biscuit (generic).
Kenny D's Shrimp PorBoycals: 750kcal | fat: 40.00g | carbs: 73.00g | prot: 26.00g
Includes: Cajun Shrimp Po Boy.
La Familglia on the Harbor talipiacals: 362kcal | fat: 5.18g | carbs: 43.32g | prot: 32.86g
Includes: Baked or Broiled Fish, Fettuccine.
LaFamiliga Talipia and Pastacals: 888kcal | fat: 20.54g | carbs: 106.95g | prot: 64.07g
Includes: Olive Oil, Tilappia in Piccata Sauce, Penne, Unsweetened tea, Small Bread Loaf.
LeMaire's Catfish sandwichcals: 390kcal | fat: 17.75g | carbs: 34.40g | prot: 24.71g
Includes: tomato, onion, Hamburger Bun (generic), Catfist, breaded and fried.
"Catfish fillet on a bun with tomato and onion"
LeMaire's Catfish sandwich with French Friescals: 621kcal | fat: 30.29g | carbs: 63.14g | prot: 27.32g
Includes: French fries (generic), tomato, onion, Hamburger Bun (generic), Catfist, breaded and fried, Tarter Sauce.
"Catfish sandwich with tomato and onion and Tarter Sauce and French Fries"
LeMaire's Fish dinnercals: 527kcal | fat: 24.27g | carbs: 55.93g | prot: 22.32g
Includes: French Fries (generic), tomato, Root Beer, Catfist, breaded and fried, Kraft Tarter Sauce.
Lou's Chef Saladcals: 405kcal | fat: 21.31g | carbs: 25.60g | prot: 28.21g
Includes: tomato, lettuce, Hard Boiled Eggs, Blck Pepper, Cucumber, mushrooms, Red Pepper, Deli Ham (generic), Kraft Shredded Mild Cheddar cheese, Red Onion, Balsamic Raspberry Vinegar.
Lox and Eggscals: 864kcal | fat: 30.49g | carbs: 3.59g | prot: 43.35g
Includes: Egg, Parsley (Dried), Black Pepper, Onions, Blue Bonnet Light Soft Spread Margarine, Southwest Specialty Food, Inc Habanero Hot Sauce from Hell, Nova Lox.
"Scrambled eggs with Lox, onions, hot sauce and spices."
Meat Loafcals: 232kcal | fat: 7.95g | carbs: 18.36g | prot: 20.84g
Includes: Egg, Whole Wheat Bread, Onion, Green Pepper, Hunt's Tomato Ketchup, Walmart Ground Beef, Hunts Sauce Roasted Garlic, Best Choice Meatloaf seasoning mix.
"Assume 6 oz per serving (.10 per meatloaf/serving)"
Nova Scotia Loxcals: 733kcal | fat: 30.16g | carbs: 77.40g | prot: 38.71g
Includes: Salmon, Eggs, Home Fries (generic) , Coffee, Onions, Whole Wheat Toast, Smuckers.
Short Street Hamburger Steak entree'cals: 1156kcal | fat: 52.65g | carbs: 99.24g | prot: 68.80g
Includes: Sour Cream, Hard Boiled eggs, Baked Potato, lettuce, Onions, Ground Beef, Bacon Bits, Shredded cheddar cheese, diced ham, Onion Petals, Butter Cups, Sprite, Bleu Cheese Dressing.
Smith's Tenderloincals: 451kcal | fat: 15.48g | carbs: 26.14g | prot: 50.11g
Includes: tomato, Tomato, Mayonnaise, Breaded Pork Tenderloin, Onion, Hamburger Bun (generic).
"Tenderloin sandwich with onions, tomato and mayonnaise with french fries"
Sonic Super Burgercals: 961kcal | fat: 55.30g | carbs: 74.00g | prot: 42.00g
Includes: Sonic Tater Tots, Sonic Super Burger.
"Super Cheeseburger w/o the cheese w/tomato, onion and mayo only. Items ordered "without salt added" so sodium values may be a little high."
Stablers Cream of Wheatcals: 358kcal | fat: 2.48g | carbs: 68.69g | prot: 6.86g
Includes: Whole Wheat Toast, Grape Jam (generic), Fiber Choice, Coffee (generic), Instant hot cereal (original flavor), water (added to Cream of Wheat packet).
"Cream Of Wheat (w/water), one slice whole wheat toast (dry) w/serving jam and coffee."
Stables scrambled egg breakfastcals: 362kcal | fat: 17.69g | carbs: 34.65g | prot: 16.87g
Includes: Whole Wheat Toast, Scrambled Eggs (generic), Grape Jam (generic).
Subway Turkey (6")cals: 338kcal | fat: 11.00g | carbs: 41.00g | prot: 18.00g
Includes: 6" Turkey Breast on Flatbread w/vegetables & OO.
"Roasted turkey, wheat bread, lettuce, tomato, onion and Olive Oil"
UNO Chicago Grillcals: 995kcal | fat: 62.50g | carbs: 55.60g | prot: 53.60g
Includes: water, stuffed mushrooms (generic), UNO Chicago Grill mashed potato, UNO Chicago Grill Salmon, Haddock and Shrimp.
"Salmon, Haddock and Shrimp Dinner w/stuffed mushrooms as an appitizer"
Waffle House Breakfastcals: 925kcal | fat: 59.44g | carbs: 54.39g | prot: 35.14g
Includes: Coffee, Toasted Whole Wheat Bread (Commercial), Cajun Chef Louisiana Hot Sauce, Smucker's Concord Grape Jelly, Waffle House Hashbrowns, scrambled eggs (2), Waffle House Sausage Patties (2).
"Wheat Toast, scrambled eggs, hash browns, sausage patties and coffee"
Weis' Delicals: 271kcal | fat: 19.61g | carbs: 4.44g | prot: 18.82g
Includes: Chicken Salad, Clear American, Weis' Crunchy Vegetable salad.


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(WASHINGTON) -- These are tough times for America's coal industry, and another challenge came on Friday, when the Obama administration announced EPA requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming. The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy.
President Obama says new rules would help end "the limitless dumping of carbon pollution" from power plants. Under the proposal, new coal-powered power plants would have to install expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide and bury it underground. No coal-fired power plant has done that yet, in large part because of the cost.
The coal industry, which is struggling to compete with cheaper and cleaner natural gas, accounts for 40 percent of U.S. electricity. But coal's share is declining. The regulations have been in the works since 2011 and stem from a 1970 law passed by Congress to control air pollution. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that that law, the Clean Air Act, could be applied to heat-trapping pollution.
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In Memoriam: PETA Proposes Tribute to Mother Cows Killed in Transport
To most of us, an accident claiming the lives of nearly two dozen expectant mothers constitutes a tragedy. But to the dairy industry, these losses are just part of the "cost of doing business." That shouldn't be the case—so following the deaths of 23 pregnant cows after the truck in which they were being transported overturned near the Port of Wilmington in Delaware, PETA is asking for a memorial brick to be placed in a garden commemorating the state's crash victims. The brick will commemorate the mother cows and their unborn calves as well as remind people that the best way to try to prevent crashes like this is to go vegan so that cows don't have to make the trip to the dairy farm in the first place.
Hell on Wheels
The animals who were fatally injured or euthanized were among 42 cows traveling in the trailer that crashed on an interstate off-ramp—the driver was cited for inattentive driving. Showing once again that dairy industry folks have accountants' ledgers where their hearts should be, they wasted no time mourning their loss: The cows' remains were taken directly to a slaughterhouse to be processed into "animal byproducts."
Of course, if they had hearts, they'd have to spend all their time mourning—no cow bred by the dairy industry escapes a premature and unnatural death. On dairy factory farms, cows are treated like mechanical equipment. Repeatedly impregnated to keep their milk production going, cows have their babies torn away from them shortly after birth—the females to follow them into servitude and the males often deprived of light, movement, and nutrition to produce the white flesh desired for veal.
Eventually, they will all be crammed into trucks to be transported through all kinds of weather—and typically without food or water—to the slaughterhouse. Even when accidents don't occur en route—although they do happen frequently—many cows die during transport. The survivors are shot in the head with a captive-bolt gun, are hung up by one leg, and have their throats cut before being skinned and gutted, sometimes while still conscious.
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This article is extremely distressing! It really makes me want to try the vegan way. I'm so sad for those poor cows. At least they will be commemorated, and anyone who sees the plaque might think a bit abt it.
This is a great idea. It should be done for all animals killed in slaughterhouses each day!
i would love to go vegan but here in where i live, uruguay, south america, its really hard to find vegan cheese/milk/eggs and if we find them, they are very very expensive, its really sad. i told my family not to buy leather because many animals are skinned alive for that and they just laughed at me at asked: yeah right, and now you are becoming a vegan too?! really sad..but true.


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Subject: Pool Report #1/VP Duryea, Pa.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden visited Duryea, Pa., population, 4,917,
arriving at 9:38 a.m. with Sen. Bob Casey at Chittenden and Walnut
streets. Dressed informally and without a tie, but wearing a navy blue
blazer, the vice president met briefly with U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta,
R-11, Hazleton (Pa.), Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and state Rep.
Mike Carroll, D-118th House (Pa.). Barletta's and Carroll's districts
include Duryea.
From there, Mr. Biden rounded the corner and met Jimmy Pliska, 47, 100
Chittenden St., whose double-block family home took on five feet of
water on the first floor far worse than the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood
that is a benchmark to many Luzerne County residents. In 1972, Mr.
Pliska only had a few inches of water in the basement. This time, the
water rose to a five-foot level just below a picture of Mr. Pliska's
grandparents, who owned the home before he did. The home has been in
the family since 1914. Because of the flooding, the insides have been
stripped down to the beams with all the walls removed.
Before the vice president arrived, Mr. Pliska, an auto mechanic for
Scranton Dodge in nearby Scranton, Pa., Mr. Biden's native city, said
the family took furniture from the front family room and moved it into
the rear of the home, figuring the water might reach the front of the
house, but not the back.
The flooding was so bad he and his wife, Kathleen, have decided to
sell the house and move themselves and their children, James, 12, and
Julia, 11, elsewhere.
"We'll probably board it up and maybe a contractor will buy it and
turn into apartments," he said. Though he had flood insurance, which
would not cover all the damage, he would not rebuild because of the
cost, the possibility of a repeat and the mold could exacerbate his
daughter's asthma.
"It's going to happen again," he said. "And I'm going to be at work
and hear them say the river's rising."
When asked how tough it would be to move because of home's family
history, Mr. Pliska began to choke up. He pointed to a wallet-sized
photo lying on the kitchen counter. The photo was of his father,
Anthony, as a youth, "sitting on the stoop."
His parents discussed his decision to abandon the home.
"Him (Anthony) and my mom (Nancy) sat down and talked last night and
said, 'Can't do it, can't do it,'" said Mr. Pliska, who was born and
raised in the Minooka section of Scranton. he said.
Mr. Pliska then went outside to await Mr. Biden, who talked with him
briefly outside and relayed his visit to the region for the Agnes
flood in 1972. Most of what he said was inaudible.
Mr. Biden entered the double-block home and said, "Wow." Mayor Moss
showed him how high the water reached.
"You know when this happened I had my house struck by lightning and it
burned and what happened is ... it does a lot more damage than just
where it does the damage. It affects the whole house," Mr. Biden said.
"I know," Mr. Pliska said.
"Oh, man, I'm sorry," Mr. Biden said, putting his arm around Mr. Pliska.
Mr. Pliska showed the vice president photos of the home before the flood.
Mr. Biden relayed the story of his local ties and his
great-grandfather, state Sen. Edward F. Blewitt, who represented
Scranton between 1906-1910.
"And he was an engineer. And one of the things he worked on was
dealing with the sewer system and the flooding and all the rest," he
As Mr. Pliska began to show the photos, he started to choke up again
and the vice president embraced him with his left arm.
"You'll redo it again, man. You'll redo it again," he said. "You will
do this again, we'll help you."
"I can't come back," Mr. Pliska said.
"Yeah, you can come back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can come back," Mr.
Biden replied. "I'm telling you you could comeback," he said, as a
teary Mr. Pliska shook his head.
"We'll work with you," Mr. Moss said.
"There's a lot of help," Mr. Biden said. "So hang on. This is no time
to give up. Would he (Mr. Pliska's grandfather) give up?"
"No," Mr. Pliska replied.
"He'd be back building it so you've got to come back and build it,"
Mr. Biden said. "And besides, look at this guy, he can help you," he
said pointing to Mr. Pliska's son, James, 12.
"He can't even pull a weed," Mr. Pliska said.
"Oh sure he can, sure he can," Mr. Biden said. "His generation's even
better than ours."
They kept looking at the photo album of the home and Mr. Pliska showed
the vice president the wood features of the home.
"You don't want to move down to Delaware with me, do ya?" Mr. Biden
asked James, 12, drawing laughter. "He don't want to move, he wants to
stay here .. You did this once, you could do it again."
Later, Mr. Pliska remained doubtful at best about rebuilding.
Borys Krawczeniuk
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Scranton Times-Tribune
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Most of the Stuff You Need to Know to Edit Your Manuscript
Bill Ferris on Jun 21 2014 | Filed under: CRAFT, Humor
Look, I don't want to imply there's anything wrong with your book. I'm just saying that if your first draft was a masterpiece, your second draft will be like Wuthering Heights and The Brothers Karamazov glued together. Here's how you can turn your hunk of clay of a first draft into the Mona Lisa.
- Buy a blue pencil. You'll need it to write down the snacks you'll wanna buy for your next editing session.
- Print two hard copies of the manuscript. The first is so you can make your edits on paper like God intended. The second is for years later when the Smithsonian comes asking if you have any memorabilia they could display.
- Buy books on editing. This article makes them all obsolete, of course, but they'll look great on your bookshelf. "Ooh, this writer apparently knows a thing or two about editing!" they'll say. "Look at all those books!"
If you ask an editor if they're a scammer, legally they have to tell you or it's edtrapment.
- Trim the fat. Nobody wants to read a flabby manuscript. Take out unnecessary words, as well as all references to fried foods and soda.
- Murder your darlings. One of the most useful bits of writing advice, it's a figure of speech that means that in your novel, you must kill a beloved pet, love interest, or small child. It's hard, but I didn't make the rules.
- While you're at it, let some of your minor characters know you might bump off a few of them, too, if they don't start adding more to the story. Do this out loud.
Add a sword fight.
- Remove all instances of the following terrible words: moistened, accoutrements, tarpaulin, smelly, luncheon, dungarees, phlegm, incentivize, caulk, mouthfeel.
- Do add the word defenestration. It's a cool-sounding word, plus it's a great way to get rid of those underperforming characters who didn't heed your warning.
- Let everyone on Twitter know how much fun you're having by using the #amediting hashtag. I've talked about hashtags before, and the editing process is a great opportunity to use what you've learned. "This is so much work! #amediting" or "I can't believe I thought this was a good idea for a book #amediting" or "I'm going to stab myself in the eye with my blue pencil. #amediting"
- Cut more than you add. Remember this oft-shared piece of writerly advice: "The second draft is the first draft minus ten percent or the sum of all named characters divided by the number of mysterious red-haired women with green eyes, whichever is greater."
And if all else fails:
- Hire a professional editor. You can find hundreds of freelance editors willing to help you fix your book. But beware–there are lots of scam artists out there who charge exorbitant rates to do barely more than a spell check. Tip: If you ask an editor if they're a scammer, legally they have to tell you or it's edtrapment.
You can always make your book better. Why stop at just a second or third draft? A lot of writers grow to love their characters; once you master these techniques, you can make an infinite number of incremental changes–you and your book will be together forever!
What are your best editing techniques? Share them in the comments!
About Bill Ferris
After college, Bill Ferris left Nebraska for Florida to become a rich and famous rock star. Failing that, he picked up the pen to become a rich and famous novelist. He now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife, Jen, and his sons, Elliott and Wyatt, and he looks forward to a life of poverty and ridicule.
28 Responses to "Most of the Stuff You Need to Know to Edit Your Manuscript"
Normally I spread the manuscript out on the bedroom floor. The pages that the cats throw up on get cut. Oddly, it usually turns out to be 10% of them. Actually, I do one quick read just to make sure there's still a story in there somewhere. Then I do a line by line. I'm a plotter so I don't have to slice out entire plotlines any more. This time I'm sending it out to an editor as well. After that, the beta readers have at it. If less than 5 out of 10 of those throw up on it, it's a go.
An excellent method that I've tried myself with great success, adding the additional step of picking up the pages at random and retyping the whole manuscript in the new order. This is a sure way to improve plot development and character arc.
Ron, I love this! I'm wondering if we should lump beta readers who don't respond or "got too busy" together with those who puke on the pages? We want our beta readers to do things like text us late at night saying, "Damn you for making me stay up! I have to work tomorrow," because let's face it, as readers when we come across a book that seizes our attention, work, sleep, even family time suffers a little. Otherwise, there's danger we have something mediocre on our hands, and its time to go back to the smithy.
I'm such a rule breaker. I use green ink.
This has been super helpful. What kind of paper should I use for my snack list? Thanks Bill!
-- Arley
A red pencil! Also add this sentence in the manuscript: Ich habe ein rote bliestift.
This green-eyed redhead would like to know what the issue is with red-haired women with green eyes.
Be sure to add plenty of green haired, red eyed women to your manuscript to replace the emerald eyed gingers.
It's nothing personal, but the green-eyed women has become SUCH a cliche in novels these days, every book seems to contain one (though strangely, very few green-eyed men). It's used as a sign of attractiveness, which you may if you wish take as a compliment. When I was a teenager in the 1970s the equivalent cliche was "high cheekbones" - I don't even know what that mens, really.
laughed out loud. This was a great morning laugh to get started on writing.
Just love these funnies. I like what Hemingway said:
"The first draft of anything is shit." On a serious note, at the final read, I print it out and read the MS with a white ruler, line by line. It's the only way I can catch what I missed on the screen. Sometimes, I'll read the page from the bottom up. Of course, I hire editors: content editor, line editor, and proofreader. And I am an editor and still can't catch everything. I once wrote foul when it should have been fowl. Nobody caught it. Not even the editors where the story was published. I've decided now that there must be some kind of lesson in imperfection, since so many of us are. -
Hi Bill,
My favourite technique is using highlighter, which goes with the need to print out my manuscript. It's just not the same staring at it on a computer screen, even with the handy track changes and comments. I use an orange highlighter to circle goofs, to bracket in sections that drag, sound awkward, or don't make sense, a black pen to write over these spots if there are any notes to make (but I avoid rewriting - that can be a vicious cycle), and a yellow highlighter to underline parts that are very good - this helps me when I hit sections that are so bad the only way to get perspective on what to do is to highlight what's working, then work backwards.
Printing out my work has helped so much. It allows me to be an editor/reader, and not a writer. It also speeds me up so I don't lose the forest for the trees.
By the way, thanks for the defenestration suggestion. I was thinking of a good twist for one of the subplots in the story I'm growing right now, and, given I have a crony with a fear of heights, you've just given me the perfect idea for how he might meet his demise...
Great list, even tongue in cheek.
I got to #5 - Murder your darlings - and my brain went, Check! Check! Check! - and this is a love story.
Oh well, characters are easy come, easy go - right?
My editing style is OCD with ADHD. All over the map, but I keep track of things, and eventually check them off the list, or I'm not finished. Lots of editing books? Check!
And, for the record, even if I win the Nobel Prize for Literature, ain't nobody getting 'hold of those first drafts. Once we are set in type (or digital equivalent), our county offers industrial-size shredding equipment for residents. I am NOT going out in public with my slip showing.
Bill, you're so brilliant. These tips are right on. May I add a few from my own experience?
"She said," "he said"-- so boring, readers skim right over these. Make them stop and take notice with fancy dialogue tags like: rejoined, reposted, asserted, professed, opined, responded, expostulated. Action verbs! Pop 'em in every single time. Never assume that a reader just wants to get to the dialogue and find out what that redhaired woman with the green eyes actually said (revealed, implied, divulged, suggested). It's the mouthfeel that counts.
Ellipses everywhere! The usual three points just don't convey the mood, how 'bout seven? ....... See, isn't that better? .........!!!!! Multiple exclamation points too -- one's never enough, more makes your prose stronger.
Yes, a sword fight will unstick your plot, wherever it might be stuck. Absolutely. Keeps things sharp. En garde!!!!
Cliches exist because people like them. Don't waste time trying to come up with new stuff, it's all been said before. Just figure out how to get the beautiful woman with sparkling emerald eyes and flowing red tresses her own sword.
And if you hire an independent editor, be sure to send her your ms. two weeks late, then call every day and see how's it going, 'cuz you want it edited on time exactly. When she returns your manuscript with tons of track changes and hundreds of comments, have a fainting spell, then scream, then withhold payment. Believe me, it's standard practice. Finally, ask her to recommend the ms. to her own literary agent. Because editors are angels in human form, she won't mind, and any way, you *are* her only client.
(Okay, sarcastic, passive-aggressive editor, back in your box. Back. In the box. Back, I say!) The only true thing in all that is that independent editors are indeed angels. It's in our job description.
1) Rewrite the book in first person. It doesn't matter if you chose third person limited or whatever for a reason. First person is always better.
2) Add cliffhangers. The only universal mark of a good book is that every single scene ends with a cliffhanger. If a reader gets to the end of a chapter and the final sentence doesn't scream "DUN DUN DUUUN!", they might very well think the book is over.
If you're really ambitious, make the entire story end on a cliffhanger, too. You want readers to be left scratching their heads, asking, "WTF? Where's the ending?" That way you can be sure they'll eagerly await your next publication.
3) Kill all adverbs. First find and delete any words that end in "-ly," like "ally," "lily," "fly," and "bubbly." Then take out all of the sneaky hidden adverbs and adverbial phrases denoting time, place, etc.
Raw: "She'd gone to the beach only once before, in her childhood."
Adverb-free: "She'd gone."If you follow these three simple steps, I guarantee your manuscript will be 100% improved, and agents and editors will be cage-fighting to the death to represent you.
Fun AND informative blog. thanks!
My novel has a green-haired woman with red eyes, so I'm OK.
This next tidbit is absolutely, positively, true. I heard it from his own lips in a workshop in Freeport, Maine.
This is how Jonathan Letham edits his work: He retypes it. Twice. The whole thing. On a typewriter. Start to finish.
Ah, defenestration. I am so glad we have a special word for that.
Dude, you slay me.
I read it out loud. Where ever I stumble gets a big check mark. Sometimes I realize at that very moment what's wrong sometimes I have to read more and then go back and fix the check marked stuff. It might be as simple as OMG-this-boring. In that case the paragraph or scene goes into an x-file because placed elsewhere it might work a whole lot better. Then again, it might never see the light of day again.
I read most chapters aloud to my critique group, the DFW Writer'sWoskshop, whose members have published over 300 books. I notice some of the awkward sentences and plot holes, but they notice even more while I'm reading my 12 pages.
I always read the first three chapters outloud before sending to an editor or agent and usually reprint ten or more pages.
Carolyn Rae Williamson
Romancing the Gold, coming in the fall from MuseItUp
There IS Life After Lettuce, Eakin Press, Fort Worth, TX -
I laughed out loud - loved it.
But surely - defenestration should mean "removing windows from a building". Throwing someone out of a window ought to be "exfenestration"?
OK I admit I'm a pedant, and who said English is logical?
The one I struggle with is "Cut out more than you add." I keep thinking of extra bits to put in ....
Yes, brilliant. :)
Thanks for the laugh and the fun advice. It was just what I needed. I hope you don't mind if I reblog.
Loved the article, and I did learn a few things in between the jokes. Very well done, and I Tweeted a bunch of quotes.


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I am currently considering RCIA. I have a question regarding the deuterocanonical books.
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