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Last week I found this chair from an antique dealer for $5. It was outside in the rain, holding up a screen door. I don't think the photos do it justice, the lines really are beautiful. It needed a bit of work though, the front horizontal piece was disconnected and the fabric smelled old and was badly stained. The frame also had stains, scratches and scuffs.
I should preface with saying that I'm no pro, if you want to see a great tutorial on redoing vintage wood Morgan has a great one right here, prompted by my vintage table. That's next on the list, still.
I sanded the whole frame down twice, wiped it off really well with a cheese cloth and then rubbed it with Teak oil. It's quite rewarding, especially after an hour of sanding! I let it dry and rubbed it down again. Seems it might still need a little bit in some of the "thirsty" spots but I think I'll take a brush to those later.
Then I recovered the seat and back. Pulling all of that nasty boucle off was a chore, let me tell you! It smelled awful and there were staples galore! I spent the better half of two nights getting them totally stripped before I was able to recover them. I chose a white linen-type woven fabric that I found for $1.50 and stretched it as taught as I could. You can see that there are a couple areas that aren't perfect. Whatever, as I said earlier, I'm no pro!
I stayed up till 1:30 last night putting it all together but it is leaps and bounds better than when I found it. I don't think the before photos depict it's true decrepid condition but you'll just have to believe me.
Now I have to find a place to put it. May be the hardest part of the whole process!
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I think it's beautiful! I love how the wood looks now, a little darker and so nourished. My parents had a set of 4 chairs at our kitchen table growing up. I always like them, but didn't really think anything of it. Now I'm seeing this style everywhere and I'm wishing I would have saved them. Alas... that's why thrifting will always be fun.ReplyDelete
looks amazing! good job!ReplyDelete
Looks great, you always find good stuff at very, very good price. Looks really beautiful.ReplyDelete
Wow...I am seriously impressed. There is no way I could have done that well. It looks fabulous!ReplyDelete
This totally inspires me! I've got 2 fantastic chairs I pulled from someones trash...yes, yes-I know ;)...but they've been in my garage for 6 months now.ReplyDelete
Perhaps we should trade knitting lessons for chair help?
Words cannot describe how happy I am to have stumbled upon your blog. Every post is AMAZING! Wow, I am in LOVE.ReplyDelete
It looks great!! So worth the work!!!ReplyDelete
Wow, it looks great! You made a great find.ReplyDelete
Looks SO great! Maybe you could put it next to a small table with some books and a cute little lamp. Good job!ReplyDelete
my gosh! i think u did a really good job!! i always wanted to refurbish an old pc of furniture, but i think most of the time, weird odour, unidentifiable stains n most of all, self-doubt, always puts me off.ReplyDelete
Clever girl! You will love this chair forever i think. DayleReplyDelete
the lines on this chair really are beautiful! great find and nice work.ReplyDelete
Oh, nice work! I just saw that you are located in Boise. We tried to get a job there, but instead we are far away in Richmond. I like to think we could have been friends. :)ReplyDelete
Ali-Yes, I believe we would have been!ReplyDelete
Too bad Boise didn't work out, maybe the boys could have played.
Hope Richmond is treating you well!
beautiful work on this ;D looks pro to me!ReplyDelete
Very elegant piece. Now.ReplyDelete
Very well done you! Yo've done a fantastic job, and it looks gorgeous. I love the shape. Great find!ReplyDelete
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I am working on making a SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) robot using the NXT, and one of the things I would like for it to have a "Fifth-Wheel Tachometer", i.e. an independent, un-powered wheel who's sole job is to measure distance. I was hoping that a fifth wheel design would be more reliable, as not only would the fifth wheel never move if the robot wasn't, but I was hoping that it might slip up differently from the powered wheels, allowing for a more precise measurement via cross comparison.
The trouble is, I can't get my third NXT motor to "coast" and let the fifth wheel turn freely. Is there a way to get it to do this, or do I need to use some other sensor for the fifth wheel (if so, which do you suggest)?

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Screw string theory and the big bang and God. I know the answer. Time travelers went back in time and created the universe. Compared to all other options its the one that makes sense.
Nah, it was a robot called Multi-VAC.
I can't believe I'm discussing this BUT:
When time travellers stepped out of their time machine, where were they?
What did they make it out of?
How did they survive long enough to make it?
and most importantly, it has been proven that time travel can only go backwards to the point where there was a "time machine" to exit from and that they would work more like portals than physical objects that transported themselves and their contents. So as a result, where was the exit portal?
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Answer to all of T-RaT's questions is:
I am not one that believes that if there was no universe there would be an emptyness we can not possibly think of. No I think it would just be empty space perhaps with the ball of concentrated matter that has existed for all time that is discussed in the big band thoery but there thoery falls apart with there "super force" that rips it apart. I suggest that time travelers just go outside the ball and pant some sort of device to rip it apart.
This is some sort of race that is able to time travel to whenever they want to without anything that we are even capable of thinking of that doesn't break any laws of physics that we can think of and perhaps breaking many of those laws that aren't as stable as we think becuase its been prooven that black holes break many of our laws of physics.
black holes dont really break any of the laws of physics. einsteins relativity equations just reach a singularity because black holes are assumed to have an infinite mass density. because we have an ambiguous knowledge of black holes doesnt disprove the laws of physics.
It's Doctor Who, not Dr. Who.
Aren't black holes and worm holes ways of patching up discrepancies in physical and mathematical law?
black holes are observed physical phenomena. wormholes are speculative theories with little mathematical basis.
it's ambiguous. no one knows exactly what happens inside a black hole because mathematics cannot solve equations with an exorbitant number of infinities involved. its a conundrum yes and it is a drawback of general relativity but it doesn't necessarily violate the laws of physics because that's how science works. every theory has certain limitations which are addressed and improved upon by succeeding theories but this doesn't mean the prior theories are invalid. for example relativity nullifies the need for newtons law of gravity but it's more complex and for objects of reasonable sizes the traditional expressions of gravity are still used. eventually th behaviour of spacetime within a black hole will be explained by a new hypothesis (i think m-theory already does but not too sure).
Basically, to make what Rayne is saying easier to understand. Black Holes are really big and we can't put a number on how big they are so we say it is infinitely big even though it blatently isn't. As a result maths doesn't work because it doesn't like infinite. Wormholes are excuses made by people who can't say what actually happens, which is why the have no real evidence about anything at all.
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
on the contrary black holes are infinitesimally small but have an assumed infinite gravity because of an assumed infinite mass which results from an assumed infinite density. infinity is mathematically defined as an arbitrarily large number but that doesnt help much with dealing with actual equations. to make matters worse in addition to the singularity, the two main theories of science: relativity (dealing with macroscopic objects with appreciable gravity) and quantum mechanics (dealing with molecular sizes and negligible gravity) are incompatible with each other and black holes are very small but also have a massive gravity so it presents another scientific conundrum.Black Holes are really big and we can't put a number on how big they are so we say it is infinitely big even though it blatently isn't.
not sure where i said this. wormholes arent an explanation to anything and dont serve as an explanation to anything; theyre just fun to think about and theoretically, according to certain theories at least, wormholes can definitely exist but so far practical evidence has not been found to support any of those theories.Wormholes are excuses made by people who can't say what actually happens, which is why the have no real evidence about anything at all.
Black holes don't have "infinite gravity" if they would then everything would be effected by every black hole and thats just not the case. They have very large gravity not infinite. And some black holes are "bigger" then others or atleast the gravitational range they have is bigger. For example the average range or a normal black hole is a solarsystem while a super massive black hole has a gravitational range of an entire galaxy.
I think you're confusing the gravitational field with the event horizon, which are considerably different.
And what I mean is it doesn't have infinite gravity or else everything would be pulled to it at a considerable... no infinite force.
No. The gravitational force of a black hole is something that can be calculated as an exact number. The only infinite thing about it is its density and size. Everything else is something tangenble or else everything would be sucked into it.
Thats like saying from looking at a vacuum that it has an infinite sucking force when you know there are things that suck harder.
I walked into that one :3.
kirby consider a stretched out blanket. when you put objects on the blanket, the blanket curves around that particular object because of its weight creating a depth. in traditional cases like stars even if they have an enormous mass, they are large enough to make the 'curve' a relatively gentle slope. thus gravitational attraction is more or less uniform. that isnt the case with black holes. because they have gigantic masses but are incredibly densely occupied into a minuscule region of space, there comes a point where the 'curve', which starts out comparable to any star, suddenly drops and tends to be nearly vertical ultimately reaching a point where volume equals zero. that region where the curve becomes extremely steep is the event horizon. you cant put a number on the gravitational force at the event horizon because it leads to a singularity. you can find out the mass, you can calculate to an arbitrary amount of accuracy the surface gravity of a black holes as compared to an object placed at infinity (which obviously lies outside the event horizon) but within the event horizon, for all intents and purposes, gravity is infinite.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
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g = m1⋅m2∕d∧2; its inversely proportional to distance and theres light years of gaps in interstellar space which is why the gravitational attraction of even the nearest extrasolar stars dont affect us


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The Type 10.30 was an early to mid-war Luftwaffe life vest. The vest was worn deflated during flight. The around the neck configuration ensured that the wearer remained face up in the water. Unfortunately, this vest did not automatically inflate when it came in contact with the water rendering the vest of no value for the unconscious pilot.
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Luftwaffe Type (Berat Nr.) 10.30 Life Vest; cotton canvas duck cloth cover rubber front inflation bladders with inflatable neck ring, cotton back panel; 2 cotton web front straps with "D" rings; lower CO2 inflation canister lower left waste; black rubber inflation hose upper front left bladder; with green trim and straps, manual inflation rubber hose; black manufacture stamp on inside back panel (see marks for full text).
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For more than three decades, brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood have been at the helm of the Meat Puppets. They got their start as a punk act in the Eighties, signing with Greg Ginn of Black Flag's SST Records and releasing a series of albums that quickly distinguished them from their punk and hardcore peers. While those and subsequent recordings – such as Meat Puppets II and Up On the Sun – delivered on the Puppets' knack for brash punk blasts, they also found the group cultivating a singular sound that embraced folk, country, psychedelia and blues-rock elements without skipping a beat. By the close of the Eighties, the Meat Puppets had found a cult following, thanks in part to popularity on college radio and the American underground scene.
After moving to major label London in the Nineties, the Meat Puppets were named as the opening act on Nirvana's In Utero tour beginning in 1993. That November, at the request of Kurt Cobain, Cris and Curt Kirkwood appeared on the taping of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, performing three Meat Puppets' songs. By the summer of 1994, the Meat Puppets single "Backwater" (from Too High to Die) had become a hit, thanks in no small part to heavy rotation on MTV and radio. Sporadic recording and touring found the brothers often in separate directions through the late Aughts, when they regrouped to release albums Rise to Your Knees (2007), Sewn Together (2009) and Lollipop (2011).
In 2013, Meat Puppets released Rat Farm, the band's 14th album and one that harkens back to some of their earliest, more raw output. On Friday, October 4, 2013, Meat Puppets perform live at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock Hall caught up with Cris and Curt in advance of the show to talk about influences, performing live, touring with Nirvana, looking back at MTV Unplugged and more.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: What was the first record/CD you ever bought and do you still listen to it?
Cris: The first record I can remember buying myself was a 7 inch single of 'We're an American Band' by Grand Funk Railroad on gold vinyl purchased at 7-11. It was lost in a house fire.
Curt: A Bobby Sherman record... Haven 't heard it in a while, "Easy Come, Easy Go." [In] grade school, the Beatles, Monkees, Johnny Cash – I thought they were all really talented and groovy.
RRHOF: What artists did you listen to when you were growing up and what about them appealed to you? Were you influenced by any Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees?
Cris: I recall being held on one hand by Mom and the other by my Grandmother and them lifting me up over the curves as we walked along singing the Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Let alone Zeppelin, Creedence, the Ramones and practically everybody else in the H.O.F.
Curt: Yeah, I would say a large percentage of the inductees were influences.
RRHOF: What do you remember about playing your first gig – how old were you, where was it, when was it, how'd it go, the crowd?
Cris: The first time I played in front of folks was at 18, in a band Curt and I were in briefly before starting the 'Pups called 'Eye' at a house party. The singer wore a lab coat and pulled all the strings off his guitar. It was Phoenix in the Seventies, so everyone was fucked up enough to at least not to be able to voice their displeasure.
Curt: I was in a disco band. We played a luau on the West side of Phoenix in '77. We all wore three-piece, powder blue suits. People seemed to like it.
RRHOF: Talk a little about first connecting then signing with SST Records – and founder Greg Ginn of Black Flag fame – and what that meant to you at the time.
Cris: The first time I saw [Black Flag] they kicked up a comparable shitstorm to the kind of noise we liked to make at the time, so it seemed fitting that we would hook up. Those guys brought together a lot of neat stuff from these little pockets of stink around the country. Fun times.
Curt: We played a show with [Black] Flag in Phoenix in '81. Greg then asked us if we wanted to make a record for SST. We thought that sounded like a good idea.
RRHOF: How would you describe your music to somebody who'd never heard it before? What song would you tell them to listen to first and why?
Cris: I would have them listen to Donny and Marie's "I'm a Little Bit Country, I'm a Little Bit Rock and Roll" then, while they are thus distracted, I would slip out the back, Jack. The Pups' are the sound of one hand booing.
Curt: I would tell them to listen to the first album and then the most recent, and then they can imagine the metamorphosis that has occurred in the time between.
RRHOF: There's been a lot of renewed interest in In Utero given its 20th anniversary and special edition release. The Meat Puppets opened for Nirvana while they were touring for In Utero. Were there any shows that stick out in your mind during that time?
Cris: After the show in Toronto, we went to a party at some friends of ours with [Nirvana bassist] Krist [Novoselic], and he wound up appropriating an Army helmet and a bowling ball. He was so happy with his new toys on the somewhat tipsy stroll back to the hotel. Be-helmeted. Be-bowling-balled. More fun times.
Curt: The first one with them in Dayton, Ohio. I'd never seen them live before. I thought they were wonderful.
RRHOF: What do you recall of Nirvana's performances then?
Cris: A great memory is of the week of practices we got to participate in with Nirvana for the Unplugged session. Hanging out, watching and playing with some guys not unlike ourselves who had gone from their bedrooms and punk rock shitholes to being the biggest band in the world. Unique. Trippy. One night Bobcat Goldthwaite stopped by and we all discussed his upcoming appearance on the Tonight Show and how he could make it novel. As I recall, he wound up lighting Jay Leno's desk on fire. Punk rock.
Curt: They were incendiary and surreal.
RRHOF: When you look back, listen to and watch Unplugged now, performing "Plateau," "Oh, Me" and "Lake of Fire," what do you think about most?
Cris: Our appearance on the Unplugged was such a gas! What a cool use of your new-found popularity: take the fucking Meat Puppets on TV and shove them down everybody's throats! My kind of art making. Huzzah! Kurt [Cobain] was so sweet, so gracious. I miss him still. But he had us be a part of their Unplugged, and it will outlast us all. Rock ever onward.
Curt: Seeing the Unplugged show I remember how much I enjoyed hanging out with those guys and how cool it was to play in an intimate setting with my new friends.
Nirvana and the Seattle scene are featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Cities and Soundsexhibit. Read more about Nirvana on the Rock Hall blog.


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Rated 5 out of 5 by katkat whimsical and warm-hearted I've been eyeing this lamp for a couple years, but then I was moving from place to place so didn't have a chance to buy this until recently. I wanted to make my desk at work more inviting and peaceful, since I spend much more time there than at home. This adorable elephant lamp is the perfect accessory. I love the crackle of the ceramic, the color is a vibrant sage green, and the daisies lend a cute touch. Some reviews complained about the lampshade so I was initially worried it would look too big. However, I like it and think it's in good proportion to the elephant (which I've named Ellie), plus the trapezoidal shape offsets the curves nicely. The lamp comes with a light bulb which is the perfect wattage for casting a warm glow. Many of my colleagues remarked how much they like the lamp too! This makes my workplace a lot more inviting now. Although I didn't get this on sale, I still think it's worth it! January 27, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bhopali So Darn Cute! I'm a huge fan of elephants and we have an "elephant inspired" theme in our living room. This lamp fit perfectly on our end table and brought a splash of color in an otherwise very dark brown room with dark floors and dark furniture. May 23, 2014
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Rated 5 out of 5 by sparklegirl Love this unique piece. I love this lamp. It's cute and a perfect match for my living room. It does lack some detail in the "daisy" design on the elephant. It's not a vivid as pictured. The lampshade is oatmeal color but as far as the size it is good! It is perfect contrast for the unique base without stealing attention from it. I wish it was a 3-way lamp, but it really is more than a lamp! I love it! February 14, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Disappointed So unique and stands out! I love this lamp. Others are disappointed with the shade, but I like it. The green elephant is what should stand out, and it does. I like how the elephant is curved but the shade is rectangled, so it has a contrast. Really love it! October 15, 2012
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Campers discover the wonders of the Great Salt Lake's unique ecosystem. Photo courtesy of Camp Great Salt Lake.
Jaimi Butler is a Utah native and Utah State University graduate in fisheries biology, so studying the state's most famous body of water, the Great Salt Lake, was a natural fit for her.
As coordinator of Camp Great Salt Lake, she's well aware the lake is known more for its stench than its fascinating eco-system. So she's changing attitudes about the lake one high schooler at a time.
Camp Great Salt Lake, run by Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College, started four years ago with a U.S. Labor Department grant to train students as high-tech workers. That doesn't sound like fun, but it is.
About 15 high school students are chosen to attend the camp each summer.
Campers live on Westminster's campus and discover the lake's ecosystem. The work they do ties directly into faculty and undergraduate research, like studying the lake's birds and collecting tiny creatures to analyze in a lab.
"Our campers measure mercury in spiders at the lake," Butler says of one project. "These spiders are gnarly. They look a lot like black widows, but are actually harmless."
You might say the camp immerses kids in the lake's rich biology and culture. "We'll visit Spiral Jetty and collect microbes from the super-saline part of the lake," Butler says. "We'll also visit Antelope Island and some of the bird refuges."
To reward campers for their research, two college credits are available.
Registration: Until camp is full. Open to all high school students.
Dates: July 15–19
Cost: $300, scholarships are available
Location: Westminster College
Contact: Jaimi Butler, 801-832-2308, westminstercollege.edu
Expand your kids brain this summer with these cool thinking camps
Pen to Paper
Kids let their imaginations loose at Write On! Workshops, writing mysteries, poetry and more. June 17–21, grades 2–7, $130, Westminster College Campus, SLC, 801-558-0300, writeonworkshops.com
Blast from the Past
Kids discover Natural History Museum of Utah's exhibits, along with places like This is the Place Heritage Park. Adventures in the Natural World camps teach kids the history behind it all. June 3–Aug. 9, grades K–8, $130 (half day), $230–$275 (full day), Natural History Museum of Utah, SLC, 801-585-3948, nhmu.utah.edu
Space Adventure
Flying a spaceship through wormholes isn't just in Star Trek. Galaxy Camp takes kids on simulated space missions and learn astronomy along the way. May 31–Aug. 14, ages 9–17, $50–$175, $200 (leadership camp), Discovery Space Center, Pleasant Grove, 801-847-7827, discoveryspacecenter.com
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Enlist your kid in the army—the Union Army. Kids learn about the Civil War and conduct a mock, full-scale military exercise at Camp Floyd State Park's history camp. June 4–6, 25–27, July 9–11 and 16–18, Aug. 6–8, ages 8–11, $95, Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum, Fairfield, 801-768-8932, stateparks.utah.gov/parks/camp-floyd
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Torak has survived the summer and his heart-stopping adventure in the Seal Islands. He and Wolf are together again. But their reunion is all too short-lived. As mid winter approaches, Torak learns the worst from the White Fox clan. The Soul-Eaters have snatched Wolf and will sacrifice him. Desperate to rescue him, Torak hatches a perilous plan, one that he must carry out alone. He will find the Soul-Eaters and infiltrate their cult.
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Haribo (rhymes with Caribou) is a German confectionery company that is the largest gummi and jelly candy manufacturer in the world. How's that for an impressive opening statement? They are most well known for their Gummi Bears, which they invented, along with many other classic favorites. Like many candies I feature here, I've only gotten familiar with them in recent years and am working my way though all their delicious confections.
Haribo Brixx caught my eye immediately because of the beautiful red package, along with how unique the candy itself is. The Brixx look like little thick rectangles, similar to licorice chunks in a way. They have a "cut" side exposed with six holes filled with a white cream and the whole thing is dusted with some sort of sugar. I've read different descriptions online saying it's either sour or fizzy, and I didn't know which to believe or expect. To keep things interesting, the Brixx also come in three colors: yellow, red and green.
After my first few pieces, I'm immediately struck by how odd the texture of these are. I expected it to be gummi like, but instead it's more chewy like licorice. It feels grainy, thick and substantial with a good chew.
Green: The flavor is very sour from the sugar coating (ah ha!) and the flavor is akin to green apple: very bright, floral and juicy. The cream here doesn't really add anything.
Red: It's hard to lay my finger on this flavor, but my best guess is strawberry. It's sweet with fruity notes that learn on the berry side. It's the least tart of the bunch, but the sour kick does work with it, even though it's an odd paring with strawberry.
Yellow: This was a surprise. It tastes like pear and this one isn't as tart as the green apple. The pear flavoring is pleasant and works well with the sour coating. I find it quite unique. On a side note: during my tastings, I got one yellow one that tasted really…off. It's flavor was of burnt plastic. I'm hoping that's a fluke.
I loved the texture of these. I didn't find that I tasted the "cream" inside, but maybe that's where that subtle sweetness resides. The sour is so strong it's hard to tell where it's coming from. The sour coating as odd though, and after a few pieces my mouth began to hurt from the sourness of it. It's a shame, cause they're so much fun to chew and the flavors are good, I just don't want to burn my mouth raw with these, cause pain and candy don't mix in my mind.
Happy I tried them, but I won't be getting them again. There's bigger and better Haribo candy to try!
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:05 am
Post subject: Is perfect text possible?
Typos (typing wrong when one knows better) are only one class of error in texts. Mental errors (mindos) are actually more likely to end up in a published book. My recent posts about errors in published books mostly discussed word-substitution errors, which I sometimes call "oops" words. "Oops" words can be typos or mindos. Another class of mindo is mistaken knowledge, where the author or editor thinks a particular word or fact is correct when it is wrong.
A 2003 category romance provides an example of a knowledge error that can be fixed by changing a single word. An early-evening scene is described with an almost-full moon in the western sky. Just change western to eastern and the astronomical glitch goes away.
I (and other people) have suggested before that publishing could benefit from a beta-testing system. If books had version numbers like a lot of software, I would say the finished manuscript (or file) from most authors is a 0.9 version and the manuscript after editing is a 1.0 version. (Some authors with good proofreading skills produce 1.0 level manuscripts, and some who need a lot of editing produce versions lower than 0.9.) It is almost impossible for a few people to spot all problems in a few readings of any large document. This is especially true for factual/historical errors, but can even apply to grammar. A small group of people (an author and one or a few editors) simply wont have as much knowledge as the eventual pool of readers of a published book. Readers with specialized knowledge will spot science errors, title errors, geography errors, climate errors, botany errors, horsemanship errors, etc. If publishers provided an easy feedback mechanism their books could benefit from the knowledge of readers. Then the publishers could release version 1.1 (or 2.0 if there are a lot of changes) of the book. This should be relatively easy with ebooks. It even happens occasionally with print publishing. Samuel R. Delanys Dhalgren and an early Eloisa James book come to mind (if Im recalling correctly). I seem to recall reading years ago that multiple rounds of corrections to Dhalgren wiped out profits from the paperback printings, but that could be an urban legend.
I have been sending the errata I notice to the editor of the Grantville Gazette ever since I was given contact info a few years ago. I also got thanked for errata I sent to the authors of a free story on an author web site, so I know that there are actually authors and publishers who will correct texts after a release.
In print, I saw the opposite of perfectibility with the Harlequin Heyer reprints of the early 2000s. The books were very nice in many ways, replacing our falling-apart older copies with more readably sized text, but they introduced dozens of NEW errors. (I checked against our older copies from other publishers.) This is an example of source-specific degradation of text.
Production (manufacturing) errors include binding errors in printed books where a signature (block of pages) is missing or misplaced. In ebooks, I have seen missing and misplaced chapters and other large blocks of misplaced text. I have also seen smaller blocks of text missing. Missing text can only be fixed if a copy of the work containing the missing part exists somewhere or the author is available to ask. I got a couple Harlequin ebooks from Kobo that had major blocks of text missing. When I contacted Harlequin, they said they had provided corrected ebooks to all sellers, but Kobo didn't correct their available downloads when I contacted them, so this is a different example of source-specific degradation of text.
I know of at least one source of ebooks that already has a system in place for readers to submit errata: Project Gutenberg. They welcome corrections, and their FAQ page describes how to submit them.
Much as I might wish to see perfected texts, I can't help thinking about practical issues.
Many textual errors are unambiguous, but there are also some that can only be resolved by asking the author what was intended. Can living authors be expected to spend much time fixing older works instead of writing new works? What do you do when the author is no longer living? Who has the legal right to say what to do with the text? If a text is in the public domain, does anyone have a moral right to change the text to fix ambiguous errors?
What about errors that require some rewriting to fix? In Heyer's set of connected Georgian/Regency books, there is a timing problem between the earlier books and An Infamous Army. The h/h of Devil's Cub are described as the grandparents of Barbara in AIA, but there aren't enough years between the stories to squeeze in an intervening generation. Changing grandparents to parents would only require a few paragraphs to be rewritten, but should it be rewritten or should a perfected text just add a footnote about the known timing problem?
Unambiguous error fixes include spelling and punctuation to form correct English sentences and word substitutions where there is a clear and obvious correction. Even these can have gray areas.
Should quoted dialogue be corrected or left untouched? Should narration in a character's (as distinct from an author's) voice be corrected or left untouched? (E.g., Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch has several me/I errors in first-person narration and one bit of text showing that the character is confused about the correct usage.)
How strictly should period language be enforced in fiction with historical settings? English has changed so much over time that for any setting more than a couple centuries from the present it is much easier to just use current English rather than try to accurately reproduce the language of the time. Where does one draw a line? How much period slang is appropriate? (Too many stories set in the English Regency have socially inappropriate use of slang and thieves' cant.) How much modern psychological jargon is acceptable? (For me, any psychobabble in dialogue set before the late 1800s is an anachronism.)
The use of "flawn" (a custard like flan or a pancake) in several Regency-set books is an interesting case. A dictionary check found "as flat as a flawn", but many books have "as fat as a flawn". I believe Heyer introduced this, but have no way of knowing if it was an error or her part or one of her deliberate traps for other authors copying from her. Should all these instances be treated as errors, or should the current frequency of the "fat" usage be treated as language evolution?
What about regional English? The largest subset of the fiction market is written in the United States for readers in the United States, but is it really appropriate to use American English in stories set in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Japan, or wherever? Equally, is it appropriate to use British English in books written outside the U.S. but set in the U.S.? I've noticed that some recent Harlequin Historical ebooks written by American authors are in British English. (See Wikipedia for examples of the differences. A few obvious ones are -ize vs. -ise, o vs. ou in several words, and vice vs. vise. I've also read that "gotten" is an Americanism.) Beyond the many versions of English around the world, should more effort be made to use regional English from different parts of the U.S.?
What about punctuation styles, such as single or double quotes? There are many "correct" or "standard" rules, but there are also many choices set in a publisher's or publication's style. Is there such a thing as a truly "standard" version that all authorities agree on for American English?
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:56 am
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In response to the question in the subject line: I don't think a perfect text is even desireable let alone possible. A perfect text, IMO, would be one in which there were no errors whatsoever, including fragments, punctuation problems, switched words, mistaken homophones--anything at all. And that kind of text, it seems to me, would probably make for a very dull style.
For some authors--Laurens, for example--sentence fragments fragments are integral to her excited, breathless, sometimes nearly inchoate style. If made perfect, the text wouldn't be Laurens' at all.
Off the top of my head, the only writer I can think of who might be able to write a perfect text in an interesting style might be Samuel Johnson, whose prose flows in Latinate splendor.
I wear a badge for the grammar police daily, but I also admire idiosyncrasies of style greatly--when they work.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:11 am
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If texts were perfect, how could we laugh at them? And if there were no errors, how could we feel superior?
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:16 am
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I don't know. Recognizing, though, that an author doesn't know the difference between objective and subjective cases usually makes me cringe for the state of the language. In an exchange on the net, I once pointed out to an author that what she called the passive voice wasn't and was roundly rebuked and told it didn't matter anyway. How dare I?
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:35 am
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Recognizing, though, that an author doesn't know the difference between objective and subjective cases usually makes me cringe for the state of the language.
That's the foundation of the sentence, which is the first step in good dialogue. When those cases are understood, usually the rest can fall into place naturally (or not). I don't know anymore. There are times when I'm posting somewhere and use incomplete sentences. Not good (see, an incomplete--or is "it is" understood?).
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:38 pm
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How to treat dialogue and narrator's language are two of the areas that I included as questions. My own preference would be to leave most dialogue lightly edited. Keep sentence fragments, since people do speak that way. Fix word substitution errors unless they are clearly intended to convey aspects of a character like Spoonerisms or Malapropisms or the me/I example I gave.
I should have clarified that for me a text would be perfect if it conveyed exactly what the author wanted to convey, with no distracting spelling, grammar, punctuation, wrong word, historical, scientific, cultural, or continuity problems.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:34 pm
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I suppose The Lord of the Rings is as close as it gets to a perfect text in terms of word usage and lack of errors (if you don't mind lots of old-fashioned phrases). But most books are not written by Oxford philologists over the course of of more than a decade.
Ironically, the first American paperback edition I bought is full of publisher's typos
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:42 am
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Perfect text is possible...depending on how much time you have. Money's another issue. I think most kinds of print publishing are under deadline pressure...or...a mistake found at a later point in the process may be let go because of costliness. Oh, and delivery deadlines factor in too.
Many years ago we let a magazine go to press with too many known errors because of delays that had been caused back then by horrendous mainframe computer problems. It was either print it and ship it, or miss on-sale altogether (and it was a time oriented magazine). It only happened once but it was huge deal for the time.
On the other hand, language is a living thing that constantly changes, and how an individual uses it is all part of communication. I have wondered, though, about all the changes in the
of communication these days and if people at some time will cease to care or care less about what's perfect or darn close.
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Based on a couple of linguistics classes and a long time spent teaching English overseas with a variety of Native English speakers from all over the globe, as well as having written a couple of novels myself, I have to say that "perfect" text is a myth, just like "correct" English. The English we feel is "correct" is the English we were taught in school, but those rules are based on societal agreement that is ever changing. That old saw about never ending a sentence with a preposition was based on the notion that Latin is a perfect language and in Latin you cannot end a sentence with a preposition. English is not Latin and over time, that rule has been discarded. The Standard American English dialect uses lay and lie incorrectly. According to the current rule, it's still wrong, but how long will it be before that rule gets eliminated? Dreamt and leapt were accepted past tense versions of their root words (along with slept and kept), but they are falling out of favor and my computer always tries to correct me when I use them. (I shudder for the day when slept gets leveled into sleeped.) Alright and all right used to have distinctly different meanings, but for some reason "alright" is now not accepted and I am forced to change it regularly. And none of this gets into South African English, Australian English, New Zealand English, Scottish English, Standard British English and all the other dialects with their dropped letters, different word orders, local word meanings and missing phonemes.
If you want to read a perfect text, you'll have to read it in a dead language because English evolves constantly and at different rates in different directions in different places. That's what makes it so fascinating.
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I agree with most of the posts- nothing will ever be perfect and as mentioned, how will we laugh at the mistakes if there are none?
I don't see however the point about correcting dialogue of a character or first person narrative. If that is how they speak, that is how they speak. If she says that she is going to "lay down" for a while - that is what all the people around her probably say. To correct her dialogue to say "I am going to lie down" would be incorrect for that character in the story. However, if the author writes that "Mary decided to lay down for a while." then we should feel free to correct the author.
Yes, English does evolve. Latin didn't and it is a dead langauge. I used to teach Spanish - a language that has a "Real Academia" that decides what is and isn't correct Spanish. This very august group of known writers and grammatists endeavors to control what is and isn't accepted as standard Spanish. After about 100 years, sometimes they let in new words and spellings (a little exagerrated). eg. they do not accept "computadora" that is used in Latin America. In Spain it is "ordinadora" A similar word exists in French as well. Also, English can take a verb and start to use it as a noun and it is accepted, and vice versa - speakers of correct Spanish do not accept that- hence you can have an "apertura" (opening) but not "aperturar." (used as in to open something or to inaugerate).
I once read that a language must open the flood gates once in a while and let in new blood to keep alive.
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Yes, languages are living, changing things, as Latin once was. But in my view, perfect text occurs when the author can clearly convey what she means to say without any typos, wrong word choices (because of exact meaning or "color" of the word) or any grammatical illiteracies for the time in which it is written. Some language usages are in flux, of course, but generally there are acceptable variations over periods of time.
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Charlotte McClain wrote:
If you want to read a perfect text, you'll have to read it in a dead language because English evolves constantly and at different rates in different directions in different places. That's what makes it so fascinating.
I've been lurking in this thread but have to give a nod of agreement here, well said.
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Yes, language grows and changes, and sometimes those changes are godawful. But, surely clarity in communicating is the most important factor to consider, and clarity in communicating is best achieved by following the "rules." Yes, we can end sentences with prepositions and the meaning isn't changed much, but logic of relationships is. For example, /that is the house which he resides in/ doesn't change the meaning much, but /that is the house in which he resides/ preserves the logic of the relationships better.
I agree that it's very unlikely that a perfect text could be created; I don't even know whether one is desirable. But I also think language is a gift of such inestimable value that we should touch it only with kindness and resist its sliding into barbarisms wherever they are encountered.
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Yes, I agree
word. And I also agree that while perfection in language (or anything) may be hard or perhaps impossible to achieve, I don't think we should ever stop trying for it. It can be so beautiful and too precious not to. And we have some previous writers of such beautiful prose and poetry to try to emulate. Why not go for it?
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dick wrote:
~ But I also think language is a gift of such inestimable value that we should touch it only with kindness and resist its sliding into barbarisms wherever they are encountered.~
What a lovely statement!
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West Side got just what the doctor ordered in Wednesday's 1A-2 South Conference showdown versus South Side Bee Branch, which entered the game undefeated against fellow Class A opponents and ranked No. 1 in at least one statewide coaches' poll. Following two disappointing league losses to Bradford and Midland, the Eagles bounced back with a vengeance by doubling up the Hornets 12-6 in Greers Ferry behind seven strong innings from pitcher Bryce Hipp, who limited South Side to five hits and only one earned run while striking out three. Hipp, a junior, also led the Eagles (10-10, 6-3) in the batter's box, where he finished 3-for-4, including a double, triple, 4 RBI, 2 runs scored and a stolen base. West Side overcame a shaky start defensively. The Eagles committed four errors in the first three frames, leading to four unearned run. "I am so proud of these guys for hanging in there today," said West Side Coach Shane Davis. "We knew we were due to bust out of it offensively and we picked a good day to do it against one of the best if not the best team in Class A. Bryce had a great individual performance both on the mound and at the plate he did a good job of pitching to contact. "After that shaky start the guys really made all the plays behind him. Hopefully we can carry this over to the postseason which starts next week and not let complacency set in, which is something you worry about with such a young team. We start three freshman and three sophomores," added Davis. Mason Treece (2-for-4), Austin Kirkland (2-for-4) and Tyler Cowley (2-for-4) each finished with two hits for West Side. Treece also collected 3 RB1, a run and a stolen base. Kirkland, Ben Hargrove (1-for-3) and Jimmy Thomas each scored 2 runs for the Eagles, while Cowley also scored a run. South Side fell to 14-6 overall and 6-1 in conference play. West Side returns to action on Monday, when they host Class 1A No. 2 ranked Midland for Senior Day. Opening pitch is set for 4 p.m.
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AG081: Take This House and Shuppet
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Take This House and Shuppet (Japanese: カゲボウズの館! The Mansion of Shuppet) is the 41st episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge.
Episode Plot
Team Rocket blasts off. However, they have unusual hair styles and land near a mansion. Everyone is beginning to argue with others and fight themselves. A Pokémon uses a move, stopping Team Rocket and calming them down. The gang is having a similar hair style, blaming Team Rocket for messing them up, well, except for Brock... They reach a fork, so Ash and May go left, since they are pretty much lost, anyway. Team Rocket is happy, even if they recall hating one another. Team Rocket breaks into the mansion for food.
They go inside, amazed by the view, but the door closes itself - creepily. Meowth scratches the door, but nothing happens. They begin to argue, but the same Pokémon calms them down with a move. They are happy again, moving on inside the mansion. A storm approaches, resolving the curly hair, but not making them go on the right path. The gang spots a mansion, so they go inside. They knock, but with no answer, suspecting it might be abandoned or even haunted. The door opens (creepily), but when the thunder strikes, they go inside. The door closes, even Ash and Brock cannot get it opened. They spot some scratches on the door, creeping May out. Max and May begin to argue whose fault it was to get them here.
May thinks if Max was so know-it-all guy, he should take care of himself, so Max goes into another room. The door locks, so Ash and Brock ask May for assistance, but she refuses to help. Max hears that, so goes away. He becomes more and more furious, but the Pokémon "steals" his anger and disappears. Max spots the Pokémon - it is a Shuppet. Max introduces himself, but Shuppet goes away and reappears in a second, teasing him. Shuppet goes, so Max goes to it, but almost falls down the stairs, but it used Psychic, saving Max. Shuppet shows Max its amusement park - a room for playing, so Max plays with it for a while. Ash, Brock and May still search for Max.
A woman arrives, trying to unlock the door, but sees it opened already, even scratched from inside. Max and Shuppet go on a ride, but it does not work, so Shuppet uses Psychic to turn it around. Max hears Brock, Ash and May looking for him, so Max hides, seeing them searching. May thinks Max will just come back crying for food, so Max decides to tease her for a while. The gang enters a room which gets its door closed by itself. They see the curtain flattering, even if the window is closed, curiously enough... May thinks it is just a crack that passes the wind through. Next, Shuppet makes the objects levitate and shake, scaring them and making them leave the room. Everything is back to place.
May bumps into the woman, so the woman accuses them of breaking in and scratching the door. Brock begins to explain her that they got in and saw the door scratched, but then begins to go with his flirting scheme, so May pulls his ear. The woman understands now, and has a similar problem - objects levitate. The woman tries to redecorate the place to turn it into a hotel. The woman recalls that she lived here as a little girl, but scary things happened. The gang needs to split up to get Max. May sends Torchic, Ash his Swellow and Brock Mudkip. Max tells Shuppet of the fun they had, but hear someone approaching, so they hide. Team Rocket enters the room and begin to argue. Torchic enters the room, so Max suspects May does care about him, but thinks it is too late now.
Team Rocket appears to capture Torchic, but Max has some second thoughts about rescuing it. Max thinks May with Torchic, but thinks what has she done to him, so makes a flashback where Max got ill and May tended to him. Max has no choice - Shuppet and him protect Torchic. James gets a card out where he scans the Pokémon - Shuppet. May overhears the fact Max protects her Torchic, "touching" her. May appears as well, protecting May from harm. Jessie sends Seviper and James his Cacnea. Seviper goes to bite, but is negated by Torchic's Quick Attack. Cacnea attacks with Pin Missile, but is foiled by Ember. Max leaves, per May's advice.
Seviper uses Poison Tail, but Torchic dodges, making a powerful blow. A drawer is falling, so May rushes to protect Max, but the drawer is pulled by Shuppet's Psychic. The rest come to them as well. Shuppet uses Psychic on objects which attack Team Rocket. The woman recalls Shuppet using same attacks, entertaining her. The woman (by the name of Emily) tries to make Shuppet remember her. Shuppet has realized that she's only older. Everyone is touched by the moment, but Team Rocket grabs the Shuppet and go away into the balloon. Swellow goes after Shuppet. Cacnea uses Pin Missile to stop it, but it misses and Swellow uses Wing Attack, freeing Shuppet. Pikachu blasts them off with Thunder, showing their curly hair.
Max and May apologize to each other for the trouble they had. At the end of the day, Emily promises to make the hotel with Shuppet and invites the gang when it is done. They leave, waving goodbye.
- Featured Pokémon: Tyrogue, Exploud, Dustox, Sealeo.
- In the beginning of the episode, a classic Pokémon identification can be seen. In this case, it is a Gastly.
- The dub title of this episode is most likely based on the phrase "Take this job and shove it."
- Despite showing interest and eagerly wanting to check out a "haunted" house in Taming of the Shroomish, May at first appeared to be troubled by the haunted house in this episode.
- Shuppet's playroom is a lot like the one Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar had in The Tower of Terror.
- This is the first episode in Hoenn that no character used a Pokédex, even if a Pokémon had its debut.
- However, this can be substituted when James pulled his card to identify Shuppet.
- This episode marks the first time May drags Brock away from a pretty woman by the ear.
- This episode is featured on the Volume 9: Ghost copy of Pokémon Elements.
- In a close-up of May during the scene when Max remembers how she took care of him when he was sick, her eyes are green instead of blue.
- During the Trainer's Choice, Sealeo is pictured where Nuzleaf's name appears.
- The Trainer's Choice claims Exploud would be a good match against Tyrogue despite Exploud being weak against Fighting-type Pokémon. The correct answer would be Dustox since it has a double resistance to Fighting-type moves.
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Surf City tax increase would pay for proposed beach nourishment project
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 10:11 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 10:11 a.m.
Note: This is a corrected version. The original misstated the amount of the tax increase being considered.
Surf City is expected to gain an extra 200 feet of beach within the next few years if residents are willing to accept a property tax rate increase of 10 cents per $100 of value. At a town council meeting Tuesday, coastal project planning consultant Peter Ravella detailed what it would take to bring the Army Corp of Engineers- designed project to Surf City dunes and beaches.
"We have listened and consulted with the people of this town to see what they suggest to raise the revenue for this project," Ravella said. "A paid parking program, increased traffic enforcement and a bridge toll were suggested. We looked into it and we don't feel it's an appropriate thing."
The total cost of the program, according to the corps, would be $132.65 million. With federal funding of beach nourishment in question, the town might have to come up with a large share of the money.
"Our judgment is that the town must temporarily but significantly increase beach fund revenues to offset the cost of the initial federal project in order to continue plans for this project," Ravella said.
Ravella projected December 2015 as the earliest time for construction, meaning that if the proposed method of revenue collection for the project is passed, residents could see the suggested 10-cent property tax rate increase for at least two years in addition to the four-year estimated time of construction.
"The lifespan of the project is 50 years. Every six years, we would have beach renourishment with tons of sand brought in to make sure that the projected 200 feet of beach keeps," Ravella said.
Without the 10-cent tax rate increase, an additional $9.2 million dollars would be needed by December 2015 to go forward with the project.
The proposal will be presented to the public Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Surf City Town Hall and 6:30 p.m. in the Surf City Community Center.
Before town council members could fully react to the tax increase proposal, Town Manager Michael Moore suggested they think about it until the project is presented to the public.
But in their closing remarks, most members stated their worry about bringing the financial burden to the people of Surf City. One councilman, Donald Helms, said, "Thank you for raising my blood pressure, Peter."
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Park City fourth grader Zia Terry has officially landed.
After posting headcam footage from her first ski jump on YouTube, the 10-year-old girl's 40-meter leap went viral with over 1.3 million views. Zia earned a name for herself online and with some of the top U.S. women ski jumpers.
The No. 1-ranked U.S. Women's Ski Jumping Team met Zia on Thursday, March 22 when they dubbed her an "Honorary Junior Team Member." They also gave her a Women's Ski Jumping USA certificate, team jacket, signed competition bib, Ready To Fly DVD and signed posters.
"We just want to thank Zia for bringing worldwide attention to girls who ski jump," said Jessica Jerome, an eight-time national champion and the ninth-ranked ski jumper in the world.
Zia was excited to meet her team. "This is so cool. I love this. I love ski jumping," said Zia. She even gave the crowd a taste of why she loves ski jumping when she explained, "Because you can fly in the air without an engine."
Zia dreams of becoming an Olympian, and she could finally get the chance in women's ski jumping. The sport used to be the only Winter Games event that did not have a Women's event. However, the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will mark that change.


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…the Pommard, a low-octane sipper made with Calvados, fresh apple cider, a touch of lemon juice and simple syrup infused with cinnamon and cardomom, made by Cody Childres, bartender at Sky Blue/Easy Street in Sky Lodge.
It was the first cocktail we tasted at the Park City Cocktail Contest on Tuesday night.
Fourteen other cocktails were presented to the six judges at Red Rock Junction in the contest, which benefits the People's Health Clinic. This was the winter version of the contest—there's also a summer event; this means that by the end of the evening, I felt like I'd smoked six clove cigarettes and drunk a gallon of apple juice. Coffee was also a favored ingredient–at least, the coffee drinks made it through several rounds which explains why, after spending several hours steadily sipping liquor, I had a little trouble sleeping that night.
But hey, it's all for the public good. The winner is the official seasonal cocktail of Park City and you'll be able to order it in bars all over town. It would, by the way, make a great Halloween party cocktail. But I'd add a strip of apple peel to the garnish.
Other concoctions, ranging from bizarre to sublime, included:
Creamy Jerry from Matt at Red Rock Junction: Sailor Jerry rum, Stoli Vanil and Red Rock Cream Soda
The Irish Red from Tyler at Bar Boheme at Sky Lodge: Jim Beam "Red Stag," Bailey's and coffee
The Snow Bunny from Michele at Grappa: Stoli Vanil, white chocolate liqueur, Frangelico and half-and-half
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The Pommard
1.5 oz Calvados
1.5 oz cinnamon simple syrup (recipe follows)
1.5 oz freshly pressed unfiltered apple juice
.5 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
Shake all ingredients together in a cocktail shaker and strain into a chilled martini glass that's been rimmed with a mixture of equal parts sugar and cinnamon. Garnish with a whole star anise.
Recipe for cinnamon simple syrup:
2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup ground cinnamon
3 tbsp ground cardamom
1 tbsp ground clove
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Modern's 5th Annual Salary Survey
Over the last five years of Modern's salary survey, the average age of the respondent has climbed predictably from 47 to 52. With experience comes better compensation. In 2009, 25% of the survey's respondents reported earning base salaries of six figures or more. In 2012, that number rose to 30%, with 8% earning $150,000 or more. Fewer employees have faced wage decreases since 2009, when one in 10 respondents saw their salaries reduced by an average of 15% year over year. However, the stakes remain high as just 4% saw decreases averaging 19% in 2012.
Those with supervisory responsibilities can expect to earn 36% more than their non-supervisor colleagues, as compared to the 28% gap between the two groups as captured in last year's results. Similarly, those with budgetary responsibilities will earn 39% more than those without. Supervisor salaries increased an average of 4.5%, whereas the average salary for a non-supervisor fell by slightly more than 1%. This results in an average base salary of $89,760 for 2012, a 12.3% increase from 2011, while the median salary fell 5.6% to $75,500.
Modern's first salary survey, published in June 2008, showed median compensation at $80,000, including base salary and bonuses. After that median number dipped as low as $78,000 in 2009 and 2010, it shot back up to $91,000 in 2011, only to settle back at $80,500 this year. The last five years have been difficult for many materials handling professionals, including Dwayne Denton, supply chain manager for Mississippi Sand, a producer and distributor of frac sand for use in the oil and gas service industry.
Denton is working on completing his MBA, as 11% of this year's survey respondents have already done. Like 77% of respondents, Denton has been with his company for more than 10 years, since before it broke off from its former owner. Back then, he was coordinating the movement of bulk items like asphalt and limestone, and the recession hit very hard. Dwayne survived three layoffs including union and non-union workers, salary reductions from workers to upper management, and a salary freeze that kept his earnings level for more than four years. He finally got a raise this year, and says it was all worth it.
"I'm still trying to recover financially, but I would not have weathered the storm if I were not very happy," says Denton. "Other than salary, I'm very satisfied. The challenge is awesome. Your customer needs material and you've got to figure out how to make it happen. It's stressful, but it's the kind of stress I like."
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At Salt Lake magazine, we love belly dancers. That's why we have made an effort to cover the annual Belly Dance Spring Fest the past few years.
This year's fest, held on March 3 at the Utah State Fair Park's Promontory Building, featured more than 100 belly dancers on stage throughout the day, a performance by the band Juana Gunai and plenty of belly dance-themed merch for sale. The event was presented by Belly Dancing by Thia and was a collaborative effort from the local belly dance community.
If you ever wanted to get into belly dancing or are already a belly dancer, this was where you wanted to be.
Our love of belly dancing (and the fact we set things up to cover it beforehand) didn't save us from some doorman resistance to letting us in though. But it worked out all the same, and we documented some of the Middle Eastern arts, culture and bellies at the fest for this post.
Check out this short clip of belly dancing group Perizada at the fest.
Belly dancers, Amaranthine
Belly dancer, Rebecca Clayton
Students from belly dance school, Shimmering Sands
And some of the merch for sale (yes, they do dance with those swords)
The dancers also posed for their glamour shots at the fest as fans looked on.
Check out the festival yourself next spring, and pencil in May 18 and 19 to see Sandstorm, a belly dance performance at the Taggart Student Center on the Utah State University campus. Click here for more info.


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My favorite (of course) is Articuno.
I also love Absol and Espon.
My favorite (of course) is Articuno.
I also love Absol and Espon.
Dragonair, Espeon, Bellossom, Arbok, Shuppet, Banette, Duskull, Ghastly, Haunter, Gengar, Articuno, Venomoth, Houndoom, Abra, Xatu, Togetic, and Persian.
My favorites are..
War turtle
think thats most of them
Normal: Togetic and Porygon-Z. Togetic is SO DAMN CUTE and Porygon-Z looks really sleek.
Fire: Ho-oh. Ho-oh's always been my favorite RSEGSC legendary and my third favorite legendary overall. It's just so hawt <3
Grass: Breloom, Turtwig and Torterra ftw. Breloom is a PUNCHING MUSHROOM and Turtwig/Torterra are GRASS TURTLES. Turtwig's my favorite starter of all time too.
Bug: VENOMOTH SCIZOR N ARYADOS HELD O PLYSE IN MI HART
Water: Seadra and Buizel.
Steel: Aggron and Scizor.
Fighting: Gallade if anything is tearing through my ranks in a vanquish of spectacular grandeur!
Flying: Too much to choose from.
Ghost: Froslass.
Ground: Flygon and Torterra.
Rock: none. x.x
Psychic: Azelf! My all time favorite <3 Lati@s too.
Dragon Latios.
Ice: Froslass again. Perhaps Glalie.
Dark: Crawdaunt is win.
Electric: Luxio and Raichu.
Poison: None...
Cool: Luxio ftwin, it's an ELECTRIC LION.
Cute: Latias
Tough: MWETOW IZ TE BEST CUZ IT CUNKERS DA WURLD!!!!!!! ... Skarmory does look pretty tough, Aggron too.
Beauty: Gardevoir is pure sexiness and if I had a poekyman wife it'd be a Gardevoir o.o
Smart: Alakazam. /bandwagonyay
Favorite Legendaries: Ho-oh, Latios, Azelf.
Favorite Starters: Turtwig and Torterra, not very fond of Grotle though.
10. Venomoth - It's hot. o.o
9. Turtwig line - New meaning of love.
8. Gardevoir - Durrh
7. Luxio - Electric lions ftw.
6. Gallade - No comment.
5. Jolteon - My favorite eeveelution <3
4. Breloom - BRELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
3. Scizor - It's got pincers.
2. Latios - I loved it since I saw Pokémon Heroes. And that's a week after it came out.
1. Azelf - Awesome in both fanboy and competitive ways, 6-0s my hotness% as well as any smogoner's team, I can affirm it's now my all-time favorite.
Copied from PUK : P
Why did you want Hicky to make you a trapinch then?
my favorite pokemon is kabuto! he is awesome!
Scyther all the way with Kingdra and Absol behind!
um no one put Krabby hehe..he rocked! lol but my favorite is Vulpix for some odd reason.. he's a pimp <3
Basically all legends EXCEPT MEWTWO, LUCARIO, THE REGIS, HEATRUN.
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I'm not dead. Just veryvery inactive nowadays.
hey aeon can you tell me how you get that avatar
dragonite, tyranitatar, charizard, swampert, infernape, feraligator, and giratina
All mine come from D/P;
Froslass, Magnezone, Dusknoir, Weavile, Garchomp, Electivire, Lucario,
Glaceon, and Rhyperior
Okay I have a couple of things to say before I list mine.
I didn't know that ppl were down on 3rd gen pokemon. why?
Why are people calling there pokemon "sexy" or "hot" it's a FUCKING POKEMON for goodness sakes.
This should be made into a poll forum.
1. Flygon
2. Metagross
3.lati*s (those are together cuz they're like exactly the same.)
4. Skarmory
6. Rayquaza
7. Altaria
8. Aggron
9. Kyogre
10. Shedinja
Obviously I'm a dragon guy but I also luv steel types specially metagross he's by far one of the greatest pokemon ever. And Shedinja just plain rocks!
I've done 100 trainers with mine in battle tower with fainting like 4 times.
mine are feraligatr, totodile, garchomp, gible, munchlax, blaziken, blastoise, and chimchar with evolutions.
also ponyta. dont ask why.
1. Azelf
2. Latios
3. Gallade/Gardevoir
4. Flygon
5. Scizor
6. Breloom
7. Luxio
8. Turtwig/Torterra. Grotle sucks
9. Jolteon
10. Venomoth/Ariados. I dunno, they're just so purple and red and stuff <3
Teh Rairai pwns. Thunder ftw
[SIZE="1"]Pairs: The Blind Eye of Deception [DSX] | The Ninjassassin [Sasuke] | The Hadouken! [The Azn Party Boy]
Hell Yes
10: Arbok
3- Glameow/Purugly
2- Seviper/Zangoose
1-Meowth/Persian <3
Honorable mentions: Snubbull, Koffing, Kakuna, Mudkip, Wobbuffet, Kangaskhan, and Blastoise
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Top five:
5. Arceus
4. Mew
3. Mudkip
2. Chimchar
1. Eevee
my top 10 pokemon are
10 cacturne
9 jigglypuff
8 mantine
7 duskull
6 natu
5 xatu
4 ponyta
3 barboach
2 cloyster
1 whiscash
too much legend diggin
if you like legendaries that means youre a glory supporter and a powerwhore. no more of it!
this is very insulting hicky.
10. Scizor
9. Buizel
8. Turtwig/Torterra
7. Breloom
6. Jolteon
5. Luxio
4. Ralts
3. Gallade/Gardevoir
2. Latios
1. Azelf
honorable mention: venonat, venomoth, crobat, ariados, aggron, froslass, glalie, ho-oh.
My favorites are Charizard, Gallade, Latios, Salamence, Munchlax, Mew, Lucario, and Garchomp.
EVERYONE likes Mew.
Though admittedly it does have appeal. It's my favorite legend...
[SIZE="1"]Pairs: The Blind Eye of Deception [DSX] | The Ninjassassin [Sasuke] | The Hadouken! [The Azn Party Boy]
okay so I totally lied. Zangoose is tied with Seviper as my second favorite pokemon right now


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Additional Background Resources on Improving the Nutritional Quality of Foods and Beverages Sold in Schools
Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories
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USDA Meal Cost Study
The School Health Index for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide
(Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A School Health Policy Guide
(Source: National Association of State Boards of Education)
Changing the Scene: Improving the School Nutrition Environment
(Source: USDA)
Liquid Candy: How Soft Drinks are Harming Americans' Health
(Source: CSPI)
State School Nutrition Surveys
Tennessee General Assembly's School Nutrition Survey Results
The Status of Vending Machines, School Stores, and Physical Activity in Kentucky Schools
2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations
(Source: Public Health Institute)
Taking the Fizz out of Soda Contracts: A Guide to Community Action
(Source: California Project LEAN and Food on the Run)
Halting the Obesity Epidemic: A Public Health Policy Approach
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U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Report to Congress on
Foods Sold in Competition with USDA School Meal Programs
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Richard 'Dick' Shyster is a lawyer at Goldberg, Ligner and Shyster along with other lawyers Tom Goldberg and Patrick Ligner. He is never seen in Grand Theft Auto IV, but a photo of him can be seen on GTA IV's official website.
According to the law firm's website, Shyster is an expert in State, National, and International Law. He constructed a case against a former Secretary General of the Civilization Committee. He is experienced in filing class action lawsuits against BAWSAQ 500 companies that weren't recycling their printer toner cartridges. He is in charge of an annual football pool and does rails of cocaine at the office.
After Goldberg's death, it's said that Shyster will take over most of Goldberg's cases, and hope he'll get a media profile as big as Goldberg's, as he dreams to eventually run for political office.


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ZF-11292: missing ability to pass encoding through highlightExtended to tokenize()
in Zend\Search\Lucene\Document\Html.php the highlightExtended method calls the default analyzer's tokenize method without an encoding (second argument). this way it's impossible to pass the encoding information as far as I can see (without creating a custom analyzer and setting that as default).
the $params argument of the highLightExtended could be used to accept encoding and pass it to the tokenize method.
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Transportation Best Practices: Intermodal looks marvelous!
The red-hot intermodal sector is "in fashion" these days as shippers opt for lower rates at near-truck service levels. Our intrepid trucking correspondent examines the factors driving this impressive growth as well as how logistics professionals are using the option as part of their 2011 transportation tool kit.
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Whether it's truck-rail for domestic freight or ocean-rail for international moves, the situation is the same no matter how you analyze the numbers: Intermodal is the hottest game in town.
At the end of this year's first quarter, intermodal freight volumes are up 10 percent from year-ago volumes—11 percent up on international moves and 9 percent up on domestic moves. That's roughly twice the rate of growth of all North American rail traffic, and three times the growth in the U.S. trucking industry.
"Intermodal is looking very strong as we roll into the middle of 2011," says Larry Gross, an intermodal expert and a consultant with FTR Associates and principal of Gross Transportation Consulting. "It's been a bang-up year."
Analysts, academics, and some industry officials have long called intermodal the "sexiest" part of freight transportation due to several factors. One is its inherent ability to take the best efficiencies from the various modes—cheap ocean transport, long-haul rail shipment, and just-in-time truck transport—and use them in one coordinated move. And then, of course, there's intermodal's "green" appeal as it reduces overall diesel fuel usage.
For various reasons, from the staggering rise in crude oil prices to shippers and manufacturers increasingly wanting to reduce their carbon footprint and "go green," analysts predict intermodal growth will continue to exceed overall freight demand as the nation ramps up from the recession.
About 45.9 percent of that is purely domestic moves with international accounting for the rest.
While IANA does not do forecasts, analysts are conservatively predicting total intermodal growth this year to rise between 5 percent and 6 percent year-over-year, more if the price of crude oil continues unabated.
And while Class I rail volumes were up 5.1 percent year-over-year for all five North American railroads (6.1 percent for the four U.S. carriers), the intermodal share at each of the five railroads was significantly higher in the first quarter of 2011. Depending on the carrier, intermodal rose between 8 percent and 10 percent year-over-year at Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific in the West as well as CSX and Norfolk Southern in the East.
Over the next few pages we'll example the factors that are driving this impressive growth as well as how shippers and carriers are best using the intermodal option in their transportation tool kit.
Under the hot lights
Shippers are being inundated right now. Fuel surcharges are rising to the point where they can be 50 percent of their bill for a long-haul truckload move.
And while this is going on, there are growing capacity concerns in the trucking industry. Because of CSA 2010 and other initiatives, truck drivers are under increased scrutiny and are in short supply.
During the recession, many large truckload carriers such as J.B. Hunt, Swift, Werner, and others parked as many as 10 percent to 15 percent of their fleets to match reduced demand levels. Some of those carriers have been slow to replace those trucks, creating spot shortages along some lanes, particularly in the Upper Midwest, parts of the Southeast, and in and out of California.
But while this was occurring, the railroads were investing billions in their infrastructure, double-tracking, and increasing capacity where needed. Burlington Northern Santa Fe, for example, bought 331 new locomotives in 2009. Union Pacific (UP) added 127.
They've also become creative in seeking out help from the government. Most recently, UP announced in April that the New Mexico legislature has granted the railroad a locomotive fuel tax deduction. That paves the way for UP to start construction on a new $400 million intermodal center near Santa Teresa, N.M., that will have an annual lift capacity of up to 250,000 intermodal containers. UP Chairman Jim Young calls the move a "strategic investment" that will improve intermodal capacity and efficiency.
Rails have also spent the better part of the past decade tightening up their service standards. Trucking companies, meanwhile, are facing ever-higher fuel costs and driver shortages. Analyst Noel Perry of FTR Associates is predicting that the trucking industry will face a shortfall of as many as 400,000 drivers as early as 2012.
Today, truckers are increasingly eying the railroads as "partners" instead of competitors and are using the rails for their line hauls, particularly over 1,500-mile lengths of haul.
"Intermodal is in fashion right now," says John Larkin, managing director of transportation equity research for Stifel, Nicolaus. "The service is as good or better than solo driver truckload both in terms of transit times and reliability. The base price is 10 percent to 15 percent below truckload, and the fuel surcharges can be half as much."
Considering all these factors, Larkin is predicting that intermodal will grow this year at about twice the rate of growth as trucking. That is as long as there's sufficient capacity both in terms of equipment and terminal capacity.
"The future is bright as long as sufficient boxes, chassis, locomotives, intermodal rail cars of the right type, and terminals capacity exists," explains Larkin. "Line capacity is less of an issue, especially as more sidings are added or extended."
Larkin noted that most intermodal loads will still go via truck as intermodal is service limited to a relative handful of lanes—Chicago to the West Coast, Chicago to Dallas, and, to a lesser extent, along the I-95 corridor in the East Coast.
Logistics Management
May 17, 2011
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Theophyllines/Disulfiram (mono deleted 09/17/2014)
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
When these two medicines are taken together, disulfiram may prevent your body from processing theophyllines properly.
What might happen:
Your blood level of theophylline may increase and cause toxic effects.
What you should do about this interaction:
If you experience abdominal pain, confusion, seizures, diarrhea, dark or bloody vomit, dizziness, fast or irregular heartbeat, or nervousness, contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist). Your doctor may want to measure the amount of theophylline in your blood and may adjust the dose.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this drug interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.Reference:1.Loi CM, Day JD, Jue SG, Bush ED, Costello P, Dewey LV, Vestal RE. Dose-dependent inhibition of theophylline metabolism by disulfiram in recovering alcoholics. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1989 May;45(5):476-86.


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Wetterstrom, Locke and Margetts head to the olympic trials this week in Omaha.
Locke is the third Cougar to qualify for the trials set for later this month.
The four honorees of the Steve Gleason Community Service Award.
Presley Wetterstrom and Hailey Johnson earn first-team honors.
The Cougars broke four school records over the course of the four days.
Cougar swimming completed in their third day at the Pac-12 Championships.
Junior Addisynn Bursch broke the WSU record in the 200 IM.
The 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay records were broken at the Pac-12 Championships.
The Cougars will face four days of competition.
WSU Swimming student-athletes are focused in the classroom and community.
The Cougars overcame a 32-point hole to win their final dual meet.
WSU faces the University of Utah on Saturday, Feb. 13.