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What I ate this morning...YUM
Monday, August 19, 2013
La Roseraie de Provins
What I ate this morning...YUM
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FYI: there's a little tourist bus at the train station you'll definitely need to get into town (4.50 euros RT)ReplyDelete
The gardens entry is 6.5 euros
there is MUCH, MUCH MORE to see in the medieval town of Provins...why I'm returning.
... yum, I love rose petal jam ... hard to find in the USA ... Provins looks lovely, can't wait for more pics.ReplyDelete
Hmmmm. Love all the rose products and so many things to make with them all. Lovely breakfast! You will LOVE the medieval fête. It's busy but so much fun. Looking forward to seeing your write-up.ReplyDeleteReplies
Have you made cheese Macarons?Delete
I guess Philadelphia cream cheese would work..
I think I am finally going to start a notebook jotting down your fave places..ReplyDelete
This looks so pretty and right up my allee..:)(sorry I can't copy and paste accents this AM..)
Your aquarelle is lovely..
My roses are reblooming ..their last hurrah..
I made 1 small jar of rose petal jelly a few yrs ago.
The rose sirop sounds pretty good too..La moutarde?Not sure in my palate's mind..
Hope there's a breeze next time you go..Cosmos sway beautifully.
What a peaceful respite from the noise of the city! Cosmos became my favorite flower this spring...unfortunately, they don't last long in the Texas heat.ReplyDelete
Your watercolor is just beautiful, Carol. xx Katie
Carol, I do believe that this post is one of my favorites...out of all your excursions out from Paris. What a completely charming place. It looks as if you picked a perfect time to see the roses.ReplyDelete
The upcoming medieval fete would seem to be an excellent reason to return to the scene. Actually, I could imagine returning to that garden over and over. I am smitten.
Beautiful, beautiful. We contemplated going to Provins, but couldn't find any good reason to do so. Now we know...ReplyDelete
Prettiest ice cream cone ever!Replies
Sometimes it's a good idea to just go when undecided.Delete
It usually works out to ones benefit
The countryside is so beautiful anyway
Sounds great! I thought of you this am--someone was talking about Paris Plage and I thought--wonder if Carol made it there...lovely watercolor, Carol! Glad you're getting out into nature some!ReplyDeleteReplies
I walk through the park every single day here on the way to the poolDelete
Yes I'm certainly getting more exposure to Maman Nature in Paris.
I just wish there were more bird varieties here like in your back yard.
Thanks for taking us along. Anxious to hear more next week. I would love to try the jam.ReplyDelete
This is a lovely haven! I'm afraid I would have spent a fortune in that little shop, though!ReplyDeleteReplies
I loved the color of the rose syrup and the look of the Eiffel tower liqueursDelete
OH WHAT A LOVELY POST!! Love the couple sitting on the bench.. Great photo and all the scenery & Roses... Love your painting too. I need to go back and enjoy it some more. Look forward to next weeks pix.ReplyDelete
Lovely blog post.ReplyDelete
I love everything rose. I'll have to add this to my list next time I return. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Divine, thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I hope the rosey mustard and other flavours will increase the taste and sweetness. This is easy and healthy breakfast recipes for who can eat such foods.ReplyDelete
- Sarah1:34 AM
The white flowers growing in the garden are Tall Phlox. They also come in shades of pink and lavender. They are very prolific as they are self sowing. I don't think the bouquet on the bus is the same as the foliage looks different. They might be a variety of hydrangea.ReplyDelete
Thank you for these beautiful pictures. I plan to spend a month in Paris early next summer. And as a flower lover I hope to explore many gardens while I am there.


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October 19, 2011
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October 23, 2011
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No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger News and Notes
• This Week's Charger… The No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team will race chassis PRS-639 during Sunday's Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Brad Keselowski last drove this chassis to a 15th-place finish at Daytona International Speedway in July.
• No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge in 2011... After 31 points-paying events, Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team are ranked sixth in the 2011 Chase for the Championship standings. Keselowski is just 25 points behind leader Carl Edwards following a 16th-place finish in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway last Saturday night.
• Cup and Nationwide Winner… Keselowski is one of nine drivers to win both a NASCAR Cup Series race (April 2009) and a NASCAR Nationwide Series race (April 2010) at the 2.66-mile Talladega circuit.
• In Memory Of Dan.… The featured tag line on the bumper of the "Blue Deuce" this weekend at Talladega will be "In Memory Of Dan," to honor the life and legacy of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon, who passed away last Sunday.
• Deuces Wild… When Brad wins a race during the 2011 Chase for the Championship, two lucky fans will win their own "man cave," compliments of Miller Lite. The man cave gear includes a "kegerator," dart board, Miller Lite neon sign, basketball game and pub furniture. Visit MillerLite.com/Brad to enter.
• Checkered Flag Foundation… This weekend at Talladega, the Brad Keselowski Checkered Flag Foundation, with help from Miller Lite, will host 222 wounded veterans and first-responders. The group will have a chance to hang out with their favorite driver throughout the race weekend capped off with Monday afternoon ride-a-longs with Keselowski and Parker Kligerman. For more information visit www.checkeredflagfoundation.org.
• Meet Brad… Keselowski will make an appearance at Montana's located at 75023 Hwy 77 in Lincoln, Ala. beginning at 6:00 PM CT on Friday, October 21.
• The Rest is History... In 2007, Penske Racing drivers Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman finished inside the top-10 in both races at Talladega Superspeedway, marking the first time in its history that the team achieved the feat at this track. In 85 starts at Talladega, the organization has one pole award and 10 top-five finishes.
Brad Keselowski examines the Chase for the Championship at the halfway point
"We have an exciting Chase on our hands, no doubt. This new points system is doing exactly what they hoped it would with the top-seven drivers separated by only 28 points. And now we get to go to Talladega, where anything can happen and the points could really be shaken up. The Miller Lite Dodge has been very competitive and very fast, on the restrictor-plate tracks this season but we just haven't been able to get the finishes that we probably deserve. We need to strive for more consistency over the final five races – and we need to win one or two – to get back in serious contention for the championship. I love Talladega so this would be a great place to start."
Brad Keselowski on his approach to racing at Talladega Superspeedway
"You really have to pay attention to how the race unfolds at Talladega. There are times when you need to be patient. There are times when you need to keep your head about you and race smart. But you are going to have to be aggressive at the end. Those are three elements of restrictor-plate racing that I work on throughout the race. I learned that from Dale (Earnhardt) Jr. He gets a lot of the credit for the kind of racer that I am on the plate tracks."
Crew chief Paul Wolfe on racing at Talladega Superspeedway
"All of the work for Talladega is done before the cars are loaded into the transporter. It's very hard to improve once you are at the track because handling is not a huge deal. It's all aerodynamics and motor. Attention to detail on the body and the motor is very important. Penske Racing, as a group, has been very competitive on the restrictor-plate tracks this season. I think we've learned a few things since then that will make us even more competitive this weekend. Brad really likes Talladega and when you go to a track where your driver has won before it gives you confidence that you can do it again."

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Drake led the Cougars to two wins over ranked opponents last week as she poured in 42 combined points. She filled up the stat sheet in Saint Francis' 81-66 victory over then-No. 23 Marian (Ind.) on Jan. 11, striking for 23 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals. She proceeded to drop 19 points in the Cougars' 62-56 triumph over then-No. 16 Grace (Ind.) on Jan. 14. She also added seven rebounds, three assists and six steals in the win. On the week, Drake shot 11-for-26 (.423) from the field, 5-for-10 (.500) from deep and 15-for-21 (.714) from the free throw line. She has now tallied at least 20 points in five games this season.
The 5-foot-3 junior guard from Kokomo, Ind., is averaging 19.0 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.5 steals per game while shooting 37.7 percent from beyond the arc in 10 contests this season. She has powered Saint Francis to a 13-7 overall record and 5-2 Mid-Central College Conference mark.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Jan. 24.
Nominees: Michelle Davis, Tennessee Wesleyan; Ellie Allen, Daemen (N.Y.); Sarah Beth Hock, Arizona Christian; Kristen Conahan, Concordia (Neb.); Katy Pillar, Dakota State (S.D.); Anna Jones, Iowa Wesleyan; Hailey Longtin, Mayville State (N.D.); Ashley Holmstrom, Mayville State (N.D.); Megan Groen, Mayville State (N.D.); Hannah Sabol, Concordia (Mich.); Kellie Schuneman, Jamestown (N.D.); Brett Bates, Southwestern (Kan.); Morgan Smith, College of the Ozarks (Mo.); Sandy Jenkins, Ave Maria (Fla.); Lindsey Steffen, Holy Cross (Ind.); Ariel Nickell, Alice Lloyd (Ky.); Aundrea Albright, Oregon Tech; Alexsis Brown, Cal Maritime.
2011 Composite Award Winners (Schedule)
Week 1: Lindsey Waters, Union (Ky.)
Week 2: Kendra De Jong, Northwestern (Iowa)
Week 3: Kayla Drake, Saint Francis (Ind.)


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Manchester board won't make decision on disputed alley access.By DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 27. 2013 11:34PM
MANCHESTER — There is one less party involved in a dispute over access rights to a stretch of alley running between South Elm and Willow streets.The Board of Aldermen took itself out of the decision, voting this month to dismiss petitions from a developer asking the city to shut down several small sections of streets and clear the way for a project that would add housing and new business to a commercial and industrial area south of downtown.
Some owners of properties adjacent to the parcels where Ron Dupont wants to build objected, noting some of the side streets criss-crossing the old buildings are used for parking and delivery zones.
Aldermen tabled the petitions in June, urging both sides to negotiate an arrangement that never came together before the petitions came back up before the Board at its meeting Oct. 15.
Instead of deciding for or against, a majority of the board voted to dismiss the petitions altogether because it was unclear whether the aldermen or a court was the proper authority.
"I'm not sure where we're going to go from here," Dupont said Saturday. "The decision of the board was the decision. I don't really want to comment on it one way or the other."While the decision leaves Dupont's project in a bit of limbo, it was not necessarily a setback.
His petitions filed in January had already stalled several times in the City Hall chambers. Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur, an attorney, recommended the dismissal to his colleagues during the Oct. 15 meeting, saying any decision the board made would be challenged in court anyway.
The area across Elm Street from the new Market Basket is viewed as a prime spot for redevelopment that could connect north and south blocks of Elm Street. The Elliot at River's Edge already stands at the south end and a new liquor store across the parking lot is underway.
Attorneys representing two of the neighboring properties and one on behalf of Dupont appeared before the board at the meeting.
"We want to see the city developed as well," said attorney Linda Connell, who represents neighboring property owners George and Phyllis Zioze. "We share that interest. We're really trying to relieve some complexity here."


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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Joe Rutter, updating a previous item, reports 2B Rob Mackowiak, P Jeff D'Amico and pitching coach Spin Williams were stricken with a virus that circulated throughout the clubhouse. All three had to miss Tuesday's game. Mackowiak was replaced by Jeff Reboulet; Pat Mahomes made a spot start for D'Amico.
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Paul Meyer of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the Pittsburgh Pirates have recalled infielder Jeff Reboulet from Triple-A Nashville. Reboulet will be the primary backup for second baseman Abraham Nunez, who will be the regular while Pokey Reese (thumb) is on the disabled list.
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Photo caption:. High school educators nominated by graduating seniors were honored with Clarkson University's Inspirational High School Educators Award this past weekend. David Dickson (bottom left) of Brockport, N.Y., a high school social studies, economics and U.S. history teacher at Pavilion Central School, who was nominated by Rebecca Worthington (top, second from left); John Guay (middle bottom) of Middle Grove, N.Y., a high school guidance counselor at Schuylerville Central School was nominated by Marissa Ainsworth (top, third from left); Peter Goumas (bottom right) of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., a high school U.S. history & government and business law teacher at Brewster Central School was nominated by Sarah E. Bendix (top, second from right) were honored at a special dinner on Saturday night and during Sunday's commencement. Barbara Briscese of Wolcott, N.Y., a high school English teacher at North Rose-Wolcott School who could not attend the dinner, was nominated by Melissa Randall (top right). Also honoring the awardees was Dean of Students Kurt W. Stimeling (top left). Graduating seniors are invited to nominate a secondary school educator whom they feel has had a significant effect on their lives and helped guide their higher education decisions and career pursuits. The award recognizes these educators for their influential and lasting impact on their students and in their field of education.


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The day after Valentine's Day will be a special one for Jack and Marketa Andris of Neosho – they will celebrate their 70th anniversary.
The day after Valentine's Day will be a special one for Jack and Marketa Andris of Neosho – they will celebrate their 70th anniversary.
The couple was married on Monday, Feb. 15, 1943, in Elk City, Okla.
"We grew up together at Cheyenne, Okla., that is where I went to school and Jack went," said Marketa. "We lived out in the country, but went to Cheyenne (for high school). My mother was a single parent, I lost my daddy when I was 8 years old. She was a school teacher and we moved around a lot, I went to several different schools. But Jack lived in the same area."
Jack remembered his first date with Marketa.
"We lived out in the country. We went to Elk City, I left my billfold at home," he said. "So I went to the barber shop where I got a haircut all of the time, so they cashed a check for me so we would have some money. That was our first date. I took her to the movies, that was the only thing around there."
"I remember our first kiss," she said. "It was where (my) mommy lived."
Asked if Jack asked Marketa before he kissed her, Jack laughed and said, "I slipped up on her blind side."
Jack noted he remembered how pretty she was.
"I was picking cotton… she had pretty hair, she was a nice looking little girl. I thought she was pretty, pretty, pretty," he added.
"Jack was a very good looking," said Marketa.
The couple was asked to talk about their wedding.
"I had an aunt and uncle that went with us to Elk City, picked out my dress and got my hair fixed," she said. "We were going to get married the next day. We were young then, I was 16 and Jack was 19."
"I went to the county seat, got the marriage license, came back," Jack added. "We knew the preacher at the church, he was an old farmer too, he was out in the field doing something with a team of horses. He came in, took his overalls off, put his suit on and married us."
The day after they got married, Jack gave a memorable item to her, one that she still has, along with the same box in which it was presented to her. It was a locket, with two pictures of Jack in it.
In 1944, Jack was drafted into the Army, leaving his wife and 9-month-old son, Jack, Jr., behind to serve with the 7th Army Infantry until he was honorably discharged in 1946. He served nearly two years in England, Belgium, France and Germany.
During his time in the service, Marketa and Jack, Jr., went to stay with her grandparents and she finished school.
After the service, they moved to Southwest Missouri in 1951.
"Well, we had friends who lived out by Fairview," said Jack. "Came up to see them and it looked so pretty. Out in western Oklahoma, it was dry and the wind blew. It was pretty green up here. Then we moved back home, maybe a year and then came back up here again, looking around, and bought a place out in Fairview."
In 1951, they purchased a farm and raised cattle until they sold it in 1960 and moved to Neosho. During that time, Jack was also employed as a meat cutter, retiring from that job in 1988, and selling the Neosho farm in 1992.
Currently, they live in Neosho. Jack will be 90 this year.
Asked how they will be celebrating their 70th anniversary, Marketa said, "a family dinner with our family. We are really proud of our family."
The couple have two children: son, Jack, Jr.; and daughter, Sherry Sweckard; one grandchild; and two great-granddaughters.
When asked what they would like to pass along to couples to be together for 70 years, they listed a couple of items.
"Communication is one," she said. "Determination because we worked the farm, and family, we have a wonderful grandson and his wife and two grandchildren. Our family has been very important to us."
Their son, Jack, Jr., added something about his folks.
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Is it possible that we are witnessing the beginning of a fresh explosion in the evolution of English?
I am not the most literate person around by any means, as forum 'reggulars' have kindly and frequently pointed out. I've met many extremely literate recent public school graduates. However, because of other professional anecdotal experiences and reports of standardized test scores falling for the last forty years or so, I can't help but notice an apparent decline in linguistic skill levels for the general population (particularly in the areas of listening and writing). It's not my purpose here to criticize public education or to belittle the general population; but merely to convey my opinion that there exists a marked decline in general literacy.
But, thanks to this forum, I can now see a shining silver lining in the dark cloud of declining literacy. Just as the printing press gave rise to a decelerated rate of linguistic evolution (but also facilitated increased literacy rates) in the 15th century; the 20th century electronic mass media and the Internet combined with the recent literacy decline may give rise to an accelerated rate of linguistic evolution in the 21st century.
So, I embrace the shining silver eggcorn as an emergent phenomenon embedded in linguistic entropy, even though I'm linguistically challenged and struggle with an old fashioned prescriptivist attitude. Has anybody else been thinking about why eggcorns get laid?
Off topic: ughits( reggulars ) = 18. Hmm…
I think they've probably been laid all along, but (1) more of us are talking and writing in English than ever before, including (2) many for whom English is a second language or who have learned English from non-native speakers. Also very importantly (3) the Internet and search engines let us who are interested find and document the eggcorns much more easily, and (4) the Internet also helps us find each other and share our finds.
Somehow the case of modern-day English itself, even apart from its unprecedentedly widespread use mentioned above, does seem to be somewhat special. (a) The freedom we have to verb nouns and otherwise manhandle the language is extraordinary, and (b) we have a huge stock of lexical items, especially lexicalized phrases, accumulated over centuries but preserved and re-distributed by literacy, so many that we easily just sort-of learn them. These are fertile ground in which little eggcorns can sprout and grow into mighty hoaxes.
These considerations help me understand why I find fewer bloopers of these sorts in Spanish, which I am constantly surrounded with, or Nahuatl (though in that case lesser competence is undoubtedly a factor as well). I know things of this sort get reported for French, German, Dutch and so on, but wonder if they are as common. It'd be hard to quantify, I know.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-07-21 15:00:10)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
I'm w/ David—people have been "laying" eggcorns for years.
But I think what has changed is that the Internet is both producing more writing being done, via the Internet (e-mails and forums like this) and disseminating more writing (in the form of people's church brochures, company's promotional materials, etc., being searchable or findable on the Internet).
We think the advent of the computer and the Internet has interfered w/ reading & writing, but I believe it has INCREASED it. It has also moved it—from appearing on paper (which is hard for someone else to find, and which often gets tossed) to appearing electronically in a form that is easily forwarded or easily searched.
Like DT and TootsNYC, I don't see the ubiquity of eggcorns as a sign of the decline of literacy. In fact, eggcorning seems always to have been one of the language's many pathways of lexical innovation. Today the Web allows us to witness the process in action, but it's pretty likely that people were eggcorning the Middle English word "berfry" (a wooden tower that might or might not hold bells) into "belfry" way back in the 14th century. And stubborn "berfry" users were probably shaking their heads and saying, "Man, this langage is going to the dogges." Eggcorning and linguistic doomsaying both seem to be built into our native tongue.
I've often wondered about DT's point that other languages don't seem to produce eggcorns with the frequency of English. I don't have the level of fluency in another language that I'd need to spot eggcorns there, but I've asked non-native-speaker friends about the phenomenon, and they too have generally said that the range of eggcorns on display in the Database is fairly amazing. I wish our founder Chris Waigl—who appears to have native-level fluency in a number of languages—had written more about this; I'd like to hear how she feels English compares to French and German. As DT noted, the interchangeability of many adverbs/adjectives/nouns/verbs in English must have a lot to do with it, but there are probably other factors at work, too.
Finally, I'm not convinced that literacy is in decline, and I'm not sure we could truly measure "literacy" in any case. I think Anglophones in the 15-30 age range are probably writing far more than the people in the generations that immediately preceded them. Everyone is texting and emailing all the time. And people in discussion forums like our own are not only exchanging ideas—they're also exchanging words, phrases, idioms, and clever ways of expressing things that aren't always easy to put into writing. We're all getting a lot more daily practice.
And you can't swing a dead cat on the internet these days without knocking down someone who's an active participant in a writing forum. I don't think it matters whether teenagers are writing Harry Potter fanfic or attempting to emulate Virginia Woolf or Toni Morrison or China Mieville—there's just a heck of a lot of them posting their fiction on the Web and getting instant feedback from others, and that's gotta be a good thing. Can we be sure we're not moving into a new golden age of literacy?
Another factor about English that I didn't mention is the sheer number of phonemes and phoneme combinations that we squeeze into our syllables. This means there are very many words whose sounds are very close to a number of other words. This is a factor in puns being much easier/more common in English than in, say Spanish. I grew up speaking both, and know some wonderful puns in Spanish, but not nearly as many.
(Any of you heard that when Victor Paz Estensoro was president of Bolivia, the Bolivians started calling him "El Inca"? He was of course very flattered—it would be sort of like calling a Mexican leader "El Azteca" — until someone clued him in that it was because of his apellido [(first) last name]: "El Inca Paz". Thought you'd appreciate that, Roger! [For non-speakers: "incapaz" = "klutz, doofus", literally "incapable one"])
For me all the following are English words, each pronounced differently from all the others, changing only the vowel that is between the k and the d. (The list doesn't include kide and coid, which would be perfectly good English words but which I don't happen to have meanings for:)
And of course the syllable onset could have been g or gr, or gl, or kl or kr or kʷ, or sk or skr or skʷ, and the syllable coda could have t, or rt, or rd, or dz, or rdz, or nd or nt or ….
It's somewhere between bizarre and ridiculous that a language should allow all of that!
Eggcorns are not puns, but they share with them the need for words or morphemes that sound like the appropriate part of the acorn. English provides those in abundance.
Most of you have probably heard or read some of Anguish Languish, where the rule is that you are never allowed to use the right word. E.g. the "noisier ram" Sinker Sucker Socks Pants begins (more or less):
Sinker sucker socks pants,
Apocryphal awry.
Foreign twinkey blank boards
Begged inner pyre,
Whinney pious orphaned …
You can't do that in most languages.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
I've just finished a big Tony Hillerman kick, and he makes mention of the Navajo language's ability to lend itself easily to puns, which the Navajo speakers greatly enjoy. He says. (I don't myself know a darn thing about the Navajo language or people.)
But few are probably written, and as we all know, an intentional play on words does NOT qualify for eggcorn status. It qualifies for a big grin, or a wry smile, and some genuine appreciation. But if you did it on purpose, it's not an eggcorn.
And if the selection from <i>Anguish Languish</i> amused you, check out this:
Other languages besides English do pile up the phonological distinctions till you can hardly hear them and can easily pun across them. A colleague posted a page on one of the Chinantec languages, http://www.sil.org/mexico/chinanteca/so … am-cso.htm , where you can hear 14 different ways to pronounce the syllable ta . Chinantecs do play around with tone-puns; tone is so important that they can (the men do) talk by only whistling the tones. In this particular town if you are a man and cannot whistle-talk you are subject to a fine. Just imagine what English would be like if we had all these tones on top of the complications mentioned above!
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Thank you one and all for your thoughtful replies. After a short get-a-way and lengthy consideration, I can definitely see the need to soften my stance on declining literacy levels. I guess I'm jaded from hanging in the low rent district too long. Actually, I hope to be moving soon. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, I'd like to know what you think of the position described in the following link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEno … ews&rpc=69
Please allow me to slightly sharpen my dull point comparing the introduction of the printing press to the Internet. Back when practically all written mass communication was published on paper, an extra layer of polish was provided by copy editors. Does it seem probable that in the past, a relatively small disjoint circle of copy editors, English composition instructors, administrative assistants, secretaries and the like were more privy to eggcorns than the reading public? If this is true, then there are undiscovered eggcorns archived on paper in boxes stacked in warehouses (or worse yet, strewn in landfills) far beyond the reach of Internet search engines.
Toots – I think you make an excellent point about how easy it is to loose track of paper. I just caught myself taking my computer's fast, cheap and massive filing capabilities for granted (Yep, it's time to backup that hard drive, again!).
DT – I think the four reasons you listed as to why eggcorns get laid are really good. I would like to suggest a fifth: (5) Unlike print media, the Internet facilitates unedited mass publication on a global scale. The operative word "unedited" meaning "straight from author to reader" without any of the traditional filtering benefit of human copy editors and so on. Where else can subliminally motivated subtle typos in acorns generate such interesting and colorful eggcorns that we all get to contemplate, analyze and appreciate? You've likely noticed that I especially appreciate an eggcorn that's derived via a relatively minor textual perturbation of its acorn. But, I also enjoy eggcorns generated by lexical perturbations as well.
Pat – I agree with all of your well stated points (except possibly texting, respectfully). Here is some personal anecdotal support for your thesis that (if I may liberally paraphrase) English is possibly the most fertile language on earth from which eggcorns can sprout. Like Spanish, the Czech language seems to have only a tiny amount of wiggle room for malapropisms or puns. When initially learning to speak Czech, I resorted to rote phrase memorization. Later, with a little practice, I had no trouble correctly spelling Czech words and sounding out text after I realized that Czech, like Spanish, has only five or six different vowel sounds as compared to English's relative plethora of vowel sounds, as DT kindly enumerated in his example. When listening to Czech, I payed closer attention to consonant differentiation in order to improve my aural comprehension. I'm guessing that this is also the case for other Slavic languages. Can anyone out there verify that other languages such as Russian or Polish are short on vowels and long on consonants? My Czech friends told me that I spoke with virtually no foreign accent whenever I was drunk on dobri pivo (good beer!). That surprised me because realistically, I don't consider myself to be very adept at foreign language acquisition. Many aspects of Czech syntax and grammar leave me completely baffled (even verbs can have gender!). At the same time, I can see how syntax and grammar contribute to lexical efficiency but severely limit pun possibilities (Does that make any sense?). It's kind of hard to explain because, as you pointed out, English syntax is much more flexible. Could English's wide spread borrowing from other languages be part of the reason for its relatively broad vowel sound spectrum? Like the French, Czechs seem to proudly resist borrowing from other languages.
DT – I got a big laugh out of the "El Inca Paz" pun. It hadn't occurred to me that puns in Spanish even existed. Soy poco despacio. (I'm a little slow.)
[Afterthought: Pat – Sorry, I neglected to formulate a bottom line to conclude the above collection of my disjointed anecdotal observations about Spanish and Czech. The point I was trying to make is somewhat tenuous and difficult for me to explain, since I'm a struggling novice 'linguista'. The above observations lead me to believe that English depends much more heavily on vowel sounds than most other languages. As you probably know, all vowel sounds (unlike hard consonant sounds) are confined to the lower frequency bands in the acoustic spectrum. Also, vowel sounds propagate through the air in the form of acoustic pressure waves that have lower relative kinetic energy than most consonant sounds. So, vowel sounds just don't propagate through the air as forcefully and as far as most consonant sounds in most acoustic environments. Since the physical transmission of vowel sounds is apparently less reliable than consonants, spoken English is more prone to subtle reception errors than other languages (like Spanish and Czech). It seems to me that an English listener's subliminal dot connector has to work overtime glossing over occasional gaps in an attempt to minimize cognitive dissonance. So, without even considering the the neural physiology of the human ear, spoken English acoustically lends itself to unintentional subtle misinterpretations, thus increasing the potential for malapropisms to spring forth into the listener's manifest consciousness.]
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Your point (5) is right on, Roger. It's the same sort of thing Toots was saying in the post right after my list.
I remember an excellent address by a Swedish linguist in Stockholm (ICLA VI, 1999—was it Erling Wande?) on how to read the runes, where he talked about how technology has repeatedly changed what writing is, culturally and practically. When it was runes they were either sticks chucked on the ground for divination, as ephemeral as notes passed in school, or royal boasts and records carved in stone, hence very durable, non-portable, not available to the masses, etc. With the advent of Christian missionaries with the vellum-and-ink technology, written language was portable, durable, used for documents held to be of great worth, available only to the wealthy, etc. Papyrus evolving towards paper made it a little more affordable (and a little less durable); the printing press made it much more affordable per copy, but necessitated the founding of publishing organizations to bear the high up-front costs, and they hired editors to make their products worth the investment. Libraries had to be established to get large amounts together, and access to them was of course limited in several ways—if nothing else you had to be in the right place. Anyway, he said the next revolution was underway—email and the Internet. Written language is now extremely cheap and easy to produce and publish humongously widely. It is almost as ephemeral as speech, and treated as cheaply, yet easily copied and archived by those who have no obvious connection with the communication intended by the author. As you mentioned, Roger, editing is not a high priority for such writing. Texting and so on are further developments, and for me there is no question but that there has been a very big boost in practical literacy as a result of the whole thing. Teenagers today seem to be writing a whole lot more than I did at their age, and I have always been a highly literate person (as we all are on this forum, I expect.) I wonder if speech-recognition technology will catch up (I'm doubtful) or bandwidth expand to where speaking takes the place of writing online. But anyway, for the nonce, we are experiencing a great increase in writing directly due to the electronic media available for communication.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-08-11 17:08:06)
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Another wonderful Spanish pun, since you enjoyed the last one, Roger:
President José Prado (I believe it was) of Perú was known as a bit of a dandy, as well as for his quick wit. He was at a gala party, dressed in a tuxedo (known as a "smoking" here in Mexico, as a "frac" = "frock (coat)" in much of S.A. Why do they need English words for it?) when the "golpe de estado" (coup d'etat) came. So he did what any normal president does in that circumstance: went to the airport and got on a plane for Miami. Arriving at the airport, he saw an old friend, who came up to him threw his arms around him, and said, "Ay, mi viejo amigo, ¡Qué fracaso!" (Oy, my old friend, what a fracas/terrible thing to happen!)
To which Prado, looking a bit self-consciously at his sleeves, replied, "Sí, es de sastre nacional."
(A frac-azo could be a heck of a tuxedo, and Prado's comment can mean "it's a national disaster" or "it was made by a national (Peruvian) tailor.")
I've been told by a lady who should know (she knew the man personally) that it really happened just that way.
(Checking—if it was José Prado (y Barreda), the airplane sounds fishy—he was ousted in 1919. It was someone else who told me the story was about Prado. More probably it was Manuel Prado Ugarteche.)
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Pat – Please see delayed conclusion added above in #8. The reason I'm a little skeptical about texting is that it is usually so heavily 'abrevi8d', IMHO.
Roger wrote:
[…] The above observations lead me to believe that English depends much more heavily on vowel sounds than most other languages. As you probably know, all vowel sounds (unlike hard consonant sounds) are confined to the lower frequency bands in the acoustic spectrum. Also, vowel sounds propagate through the air in the form of acoustic pressure waves that have lower relative kinetic energy than most consonant sounds. So, vowel sounds just don't propagate through the air as forcefully and as far as most consonant sounds in most acoustic environments. Since the physical transmission of vowel sounds is apparently less reliable than consonants, spoken English is more prone to subtle reception errors than other languages (like Spanish and Czech). […]
Huh?? Quite the contrary: the standard received wisdom about (almost the definition of) consonants is that they are less easy to hear than vowels (have lower acoustic energy, what have you.) Certain stops (like p, t, k) cannot be heard at all except when they are tacked onto a vowel (or a voiceless h sound or something like that.) If you just sit silently with your mouth closed you are pronouncing a p; you can do it all day and no one will ever know it.
A restricted class of consonants, the sibilants, are indeed very audible, because they produce air turbulence which gives a lot of high-frequency noise (which is why you might lisp when you want to murmur almost inaudibly to someone). But apart from the sibilants, it's generally it's the vowels that we hear, and deduce the consonants from what happens at the ends of the vocalic sounds (which way the tails of the formants head, whether there is no sound at the syllable minimum or only a little, etc.)
What makes vowels hard isn't hearing them, but hearing distinctions among them. They grade into each other articulatorily and acoustically, and the more of them you try to crowd into the limited "vowel space" defined by what shapes you can make your mouth into, the harder it will be to distinguish them. The space is defined by the three cardinal vowels: a (= aah) 'mouth wide open, tongue down'; i (= ee) 'mouth nearly closed, tongue front' and u (= oo) 'mouth nearly closed, tongue back (and lips rounded)' English fits its fifteen or so vowel sounds into this space; Spanish only has 5, and speakers can more easily keep them separate from each other.
So the problem isn't hearing the vowel sounds of e.g. kook vs. cook; it's hearing the subtle difference between them (and maintaining the subtle muscular control to pronounce them consistently so as to achieve that subtle acoustic difference.).
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
David – Thanks for shining your light on my misconceptions. Your patient tutelage is paying me dividends because I am one of those odd balls that learns best by some strange method of successive approximations (as you have probably already noticed). The vivid imagery that you created by describing the "limited vowel space" and the sibilants helped me a lot. So, now I think I understand where I went astray and can correct 'coarse'. Would it be fair to say that I reached the right conclusion for the wrong reasons? That is, does English's heavier dependence on subtle vowel sound variants ultimately set the stage for malapropisms? I think the answer is yes, but I'm still not completely certain.
Roger wrote
The reason I'm a little skeptical about texting is that it is usually so heavily 'abrevi8d', IMHO.
My inclusion of text messaging was admittedly polemical. When usage blogs start talking about the supposed declining literacy of today's youth, a mention of TM as a major cause usu. isn't far behind. But I don't buy it.
Part of the argument seems to be that people will pick up bad habits that they can't break. But as a college teacher, I don't see that. I don't believe I've ever noticed an error in a student paper that seemed related to habits learned TMing. My students are sitting there TMing as they're waiting for class to begin, and I assume their messages are full of the usual TM stuff. But they instinctively understand the concept of register, and none of that stuff makes it past their filters to me—no one ever writes that they'll add the bibliography "l8r." Of course, one could object that I'm only dealing with college students, but the important thing for me is that non-college-bound kids today are spending a lot of time with personal communication in a written medium—that wasn't true in my youth.
TMing has its own protocols. Some people are better at it than others. And there must be social incentives for being a better communicator by TM, for being funnier in TM, for learning how to sound cooler with TM. Kids learn lessons in becoming better at the form, and I'd be very surprised if some of those lessons weren't translatable to more formal registers.
Finally, people say that today's kids make lots of errors in writing, but collections of letters by famous authors of yesteryear are often eye-opening. If the editor has avoided intervention to alter spellings, etc., you sometimes realize just how much credit unsung fiction editors deserve—misspellings and oddities can be all over the place for some writers.
Today, we just get to see a lot of unedited prose. Not a source of real concern—in fact, the sheer volume is a good thing, I think. (Though I admit I worry that spellchecking does sometimes substitute for real proofreading, but students weren't good proofreaders when papers were typed, either.) I'm a pestimist in most things, but when it comes to literacy in modern society, I'm atypically an optimist. The important thing for me is that people learn to become better at employing whatever written format they choose, and I think a lot of modern developments are simultaneously making it easier for people to do that and encouraging people to do that.
Pat – thank you for your clarification. Your optimism is so contagious that I concede all of your points, especially about TMing. My remarks about TMing were somewhat tongue in cheek because TMing seems like a generational thing to me. I'm totally amazed that people actually pay extra fees for text messaging because voice traffic consumes literally a million times more network bandwidth capacity than TM data packets with the same information density. I think the providers should actually pay the users a refund every time they use TM services!
If TMing with your thumbs seems awkward, can you imagine what Morse code is like? As a geek teenager, I was a ham radio operator and we had special short-hand codes for just about everything we needed to say, starting with "CQ" for "seek you." I still don't have a mobile phone and I'm too scattered in my old age to even consider using IM.
Anyway, I agree with your point that written communication is written communication. I don't consider register swapping a problem because my professional duties included performing audience analysis on technical documentation (attempting to remove the 'F' from 'RTFM'). Back to the early days of SMTP with a 300 baud modem, I had no clue that e-mail would force me to improve my personal communication and writing skills, but it has and I guess I should be more cognizant of the social benfits. I think most folks already have enough teeth marks in their behind from careless spellchecking that it is no longer a major problem (especially with new improved grammar checkers).
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this forum has had a positive impact on my tired writing skills; possibly more than I realize. So please, don't take me too seriously because I clearly need to improve and I'm having way too much fun!
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<snip> Would it be fair to say that I reached the right conclusion for the wrong reasons? That is, does English's heavier dependence on subtle vowel sound variants ultimately set the stage for malapropisms? I think the answer is yes, but I'm still not completely certain.
Yes. But I think the same is true of the subtle consonantal differences.
btw one thing I thought might have been confusing is the idea that higher frequencies are more audible. It ain't necessarily so. It's amplitude more than frequency that governs loudness, though we aren't equally sensitive to sounds over the whole range of frequencies (pitches) we can hear. Really high (frequency) sounds we can't even hear (like a dog whistle.) Really low frequency sounds we may feel more than hear.
An interesting thing: the fundamental tone of a high female voice can be pitched higher than some of the formants we need to distinguish vowels. That's why even when a coloratura soprano enunciates exaggeratedly, her vowels sound all the same, whereas with a bass you can distinguish the vowels very clearly and easily.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Finally, people say that today's kids make lots of errors in writing, but collections of letters by famous authors of yesteryear are often eye-opening. If the editor has avoided intervention to alter spellings, etc., you sometimes realize just how much credit unsung fiction editors deserve—misspellings and oddities can be all over the place for some writers.
One of my absolute favorites came from a letter from C.S. Lewis (in his teens) to his friend Arthur Greeves. Lewis was usually near impeccable in his use of English even at that age, and of course he became known as a "middle-aged moralist" (to quote himself), which makes it even funnier:
[I am becoming more aware of my responsibility of] baring myself lovingly towards my neighbors
(Unfortunately I don't have the book to give the full context. I did note that it's on p. 368.)
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
DavidTuggy wrote:
An interesting thing: the fundamental tone of a high female voice can be pitched higher than some of the formants we need to distinguish vowels. That's why even when a coloratura soprano enunciates exaggeratedly, her vowels sound all the same, whereas with a bass you can distinguish the vowels very clearly and easily.
David: Fascinating! I never knew that, and I even studied voice for a time. Thanks for solving that mystery for me!
Feeling quite combobulated.


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Success With Scraper Planes
Understand and tune up one of the best weapons in the war against tearing.
By David Charlesworth
Pages: 42-45
From the June 2010 issue #183
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Scraper planes are some of my favorite tools, excellent for avoiding or removing tear-out whilst maintaining a flat surface. Card scrapers will remove tear-out, but there is an overwhelming tendency to concentrate on the problem areas, which will become hollow. This does not usually become apparent until the finishing stage. In contrast, the sole of a scraper plane obliges us to take sets of shavings, maintaining a flatter surface.
Scraper planes also excel at smoothing veneered surfaces if sharpened with a hook. I used a Stanley No. 80 for many years. In the beginning I thought veneered surfaces could be planed, but soon discovered the error of my ways. If you encounter a small hollow blister where the glue has not taken, a chunk of veneer will be ripped out and probably lost on the floor. This does not happen with a sharp hook on a scraper plane.
Recently I was intrigued to watch Deneb Puchalski of Lie-Nielsen Toolworks demonstrating the company's scraper planes sharpened without a hook. Shavings were produced from difficult wood, but this is not the same shaving formation that we get with a hook. If you consult Bruce Hoadley's "Understanding Wood" (Taunton Press), a hook produces "Type 2" shavings (which are sheared from the wood), while the edge without a hook conforms to his description of "Type 3" scraping action (which compresses the wood and sometimes results in fuzzy grain). I think the hook will be more successful on delicate veneered surfaces and is a true cutting edge.
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This is a lengthy story about city sales tax law, but read it anyway; it has some interesting points to make later on....
This is a lengthy story about city sales tax law, but read it anyway. It has some interesting points to make later on.
Just like you or your business, the city government has to pay a sales tax when it buys supplies.
When the Redwood Area Community Center buys a box of paper clips, for example, it pays a sales tax the same as you do.
When city hall buys a new copy machine, it pays a sales tax.
However, some people argued that was unfair to the taxpayers. The only way the city can raise the funds to pay the sales tax is to raise the annual property tax on its citizens.
Therefore, the citizens are effectively paying tax twice for the same items.
Therefore, if a city doesn't have to pay sales tax on some items it buys, it can lower its budget by that amount and pass the savings on to the citizens in terms of a lower tax levy for the following year.
Last May, the Minnesota state legislature passed a new rule exempting cities from having to pay sales tax on some items.
In theory, it's a good idea. Then reality hits the road....
"The (state) legislature passes things, and then city staff has to figure out how to implement it," said Missi Meyer, finance director for Redwood Falls, last week.
When the state passed the sales tax law, the cities affected by it have five or six months to figure out how to make it work in the real world.
Connie Bohn, of the city's finance department, summed up the new law in one sentence: "The city isn't required to pay sales tax on some items."
The key word is "some". Which items?
According to state law, the city is required to pay sales tax on items it buys for city departments that compete with other business in the area.
For example, the city streets department doesn't compete with a private business for doing street maintenance, so it doesn't have to pay sales tax on items it buys.
But the city-owned liquor store, the Liquor Lodge, does compete with privately-owned liquor stores, so it does have to pay sales tax.
Another qualification of the rule: if the city charges a fee for an item, or that department raises revenue for the city, it does have to pay sales tax.
That means the city's code enforcement doesn't have to pay sales tax, but the Aquatic Center does.
But what about all the inevitable gray areas?
Say the city buys a large shipment of toilet paper in bulk. Does the city have to pay sales tax on that toilet paper, or doesn't it?
It literally depends on which city-owned bathroom any given roll is placed in.
If a roll is placed in city hall, the city doesn't have to pay sales tax on it. The same goes if it's placed in most bathrooms in Ramsey Park.
However, if that roll of toilet paper is placed in a bathroom in the Ramsey Park campground, then the city has to pay tax on it because the city charges people a fee to use the campground.
What if a bulk order of office supplies gets divided between city hall — where those items are non-taxable — and the RACC, where they would be taxed?
Yes, the new state sales tax rules require the city to keep track of where every roll of city-bought toilet paper, where every paper clip is placed so the appropriate taxes can be paid.
Are purchases made for the RACC ice arena taxable or not taxable?
"It depends on whether there is ice on it at the time," said Meyer. "It's exempt when there's ice on it, and taxed when there is no ice on it. If we buy cleaning supplies in bulk and use some of them for the ice arena, we'll have to keep track of which days they're used when there's ice, and which days they're used when there isn't ice."
Say the fire department wants to buy new fire hose. Taxable or non-taxable?
It depends.
"If the department buys fire hose to initially equip a new truck, it's not taxable," said Bohn. "If they buy replacement hoses a few years later on, we have to pay sales tax."
How about getting a maintenance agreement on a copy machine. Taxable or non-taxable?
If the copy machine is at the community center, the maintenance agreement has to be taxed.
However, if the exact same model copier gets a maintenance agreement from the exact same vendor for the police department, the city doesn't have to pay tax on it.
Say the city decides it wants to reconstruct a street in town. Are the building supplies to construct it taxable or not?
According to state rules, the building supplies are not taxable if the city buys them directly. The supplies are taxable if they are bought by a construction company contracted by the city to do the work.
"We don't have the personnel to look after the building supplies or the space to store them," said Meyer. "That's what we hire the contractors for."
Say the city buys baseball gloves to use for the summer rec program. Sales tax or no sales tax?
"If we charge a fee for using them, we have to pay sales tax on them," said Meyers. "If we allow people to use them without paying a fee, there's no tax.
"Connie lets vendors know if an item is taxable (for the city) or not taxable. We might have to create separate taxed and non-taxed accounts with vendors (the city buys from)."
If the street department orders office supplies from, say, Office Max, the supplies would go into the non-taxed account. That's because the streets department doesn't compete with any other area businesses.
But if the city-owned Liquor Lodge also calls Office Max that same day to order the exact same supplies, they would be taxed because the Liquor Lodge competes with other liquor stores in the area.
If the city does all this paperwork perfectly, making sure every roll of toilet paper and paper clip goes to the correct department and is perfectly accounted for, how much will it save city taxpayers this year?
Approximately $64,000 out of a city annual budget of over $40 million.
"We have a real concern about how much staff time has to be spent (managing the city's sales tax)," said Meyer. "City staff will have to go over every receipt for every purchase the city makes.
"When they wrote the law, it sounded simple, but when the city owns things like a liquor store or a community center...."
Bohn said, "When the legislature passes a law they think it's a good idea, but they really have no idea of what it means for us.
"I took a workshop about this with the Department of Revenue, and they said they don't know how to enforce it either.


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On the Magnificent Mile
Located amid the upscale boutiques and restaurants that line the Magnificent Mile, Four Seasons Hotel Chicago is a 10-minute drive from downtown. The lush gardens of Millennium Park are even closer, and guests can walk 5 minutes to the Museum of Contemporary Art and the John Hancock Center.
An impressive indoor pool
A 24-hour concierge can help guests with travel arrangements, or nab that hard-to-get reservation at one of the city's hot tables. Those who prefer to stay on site can enjoy farm-to-table fare in an elegant setting at Allium Restaurant and Bar. Grand Roman columns tower over the indoor pool.
High style, free WiFi
Modern, tastefully decorated guestrooms include limestone baths, rainfall showers, and pillowtop mattresses. The rooms come with flat-screen TVs, and guests can check emails using free WiFi. Some larger suites come with kitchens equipped with convection ovens and full-size refrigerators.
Languages Spoken
- English
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Four Seasons Hotel Chicago features an indoor pool and a health club. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 5-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Victorian hotel also offers a spa tub, a sauna, and spa services. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Four Seasons Hotel Chicago is a smoke-free property.
- Express check-in
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Children's club
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Porter/bellhop
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Restaurant
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Sauna
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Children's club (free)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa services on site
- Luggage storage
- Hair salon
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 345
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 17
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour health club
- Free newspapers in lobby
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
- English
- Czech
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Russian
- Spanish
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- DVD player
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Slippers
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Allium Restaurant and Bar - Led by Executive Chef Sean Murray, the Allium Restaurant and Bar has been frequently named one of the top dining destinations in the Gold Coast.This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Late night fare is available from 24-hour room service.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
Spa Services
The Spa has 4 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, Swedish massages, and massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and reflexology.
- Number of treatment rooms 4
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Sauna in spa
- Steam room in spa
- Reflexology
- Detoxification wrap
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at 3 AM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 40.0 per stay.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 40 per pet, per day
- Up to 30 lb
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 15 and USD 35 for adults, USD 15 and USD 35 for children (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 70 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 40 per pet, per day
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 40.0 per stay
Hotel Name
- Chicago Four Seasons Hotel
- Four Seasons Chicago
- Four Seasons Hotel Chicago
- 4 Seasons Hotel Chicago
- Chicago Four Seasons
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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FBI details NY weapons linked to Alaska suspect
Crews found weapons in April
FBI details NY weapons linked to Alaska suspect
Crews found weapons in April
The FBI has released new details about the discovery of weapons and other items at an upstate New York reservoir after a man jailed in Alaska admitted to a series of killings, including an Anchorage barista and a couple from Vermont.
FBI spokesman Paul Holstein says Thursday that an April 18 search in the Adirondacks town of Parishville turned up a bucket containing a silencer, .22-caliber Ruger frame, ammunition and a flashlight, all linked to 34-year-old Israel Keyes.
Holstein says divers on April 24 found the bolt and barrel of a gun used during the 2011 killings of Bill and Lorraine Currier of Essex, Vt. Divers found a gun owned by the Curriers on June 5.
Keyes owned property in the Adirondacks. He killed himself in his cell Sunday.


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Pick a fight with Suede, you gonna pick a fight with the Suede fanbase, warned Matt Lucas on Shooting Stars in 1997.
Leave aside the fact that Lucas was then dressed as a menacing manbaby: the truly surreal thing about this pop culture nugget is its target.
Suede, suburbias moodiest, druggiest misfits, were now so mainstreamfamous that they could be knowingly mocked on primetime, thanks to their biggest album yet, the hitrammed, melodyoverloaded Coming Up.
Fifteen years later, it seems obvious that Britpops John the Baptists would rise from the grave to claim some of the rewards being lavished on lesser lights like Kula Shaker and Shed Seven, but it wasnt at the time.
Despite their punchy 1993 debut generating a whirlwind of hype, the loss of wunderkind guitarist Bernard Butler and the sprawling darkness of 1994s subsequent Dog Man Star read like a twopart commercial suicide note.
Replacing Butler with a teenage fanboy and the drummers cousin was hardly encouraging.
Yet amongst the B sides, lost songs and demos lovingly collected in this third lavish reissue from the Suede back catalogue the compilers clearly taking Matt Lucas threat seriously lies the first clue that everything was about to go magically right.
Together, a 1994 B side, was the first collaboration between Brett Anderson and new guitarist, Richard Oakes: its shamelessly poppy ebullience, fizzy guitars and breezy bubblegum vocal created a blueprint for the album which followed.
And what a dazzling, spangly pop album Coming Up, remains, made shinier still by expert remastering.
Anderson cites the surging outsiders anthem Trash as the pinnacle, but Beautiful Ones is more remarkable, the urgent, knotty wordplay of its verses giving way to an ecstatic chorus which embodies the albums title the demo fascinatingly reveals that the song began life as Beatlesy whimsy.
That these big pop beasts were interspersed with savage melodramas like She and swooning love songs like Picnic by the Motorway made Coming Up more alluring and enduring.
In retrospect, the seeds of the bands later decline were also planted here.
The blandly anthemic Saturday Night paved the way for later FM fluff, while the B sides soon plummeted from airpunching Every Monday Morning Comes to scabscratching These Are the Sad Songs.
But lets dwell on Suedes sad decay when their last two albums are reissued: for now, this fandream edition of Coming Up captures a band that still seemed capable of anything.


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Ohio commerce chief to take over development agency
By Marc Kovac
The current state commerce director is set to become the next state development director, under a leadership change announced by Gov. John Kasich on Thursday.
David Goodman's Cabinet shift comes amid continued questions about JobsOhio, which spearheads the state's economic-development efforts, and its relationship with the Development Services Agency, which apparently provided millions of dollars in funding to the private nonprofit without lawmaker review.
Goodman, who has served as head of the state commerce department since January 2011, will become DSA director Monday, replacing Christiane Schmenk. The latter was appointed by Kasich in July 2011 after serving as the agency's chief legal counsel.
In a released statement, Kasich praised Goodman for his commerce work — "David's led very capably at commerce; he has earned my confidence, and he has the right skill set to take DSA to the next level as Ohio continues to get back on its feet and create more jobs."
Kasich also praised Schmenk— "She gladly took on some tough challenges, and I appreciate her work as we transitioned Ohio to a better, more modern job- creation strategy. We're entering a new phase of that strategy with JobsOhio securing robust new funding and entering its second generation of leadership, so this hand-off to the next generation of DSA leadership dovetails with that."
The governor's administration denied any connection to Schmenk's departure and the continuing brouhaha over JobsOhio.
"This is something that's been in the works for two or three months and is part of the evolution of our economic-development efforts in the state," said Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols. He added of Goodman, "He's been a rock star for us."
Statehouse Democrats, meanwhile, redoubled their criticism of Kasich, DSA and JobsOhio and calls for the nonprofit to turn over all of its financial books to the state auditor for review.
"If there is money that is moving that has not been approved by the Legislature and potentially someone had knowledge of the fact that they were moving money from one place to another without the authority to do it and spending that money ... now you get into the potential that there could be criminal activity going on," said Rep. John Carney, a Democrat from Columbus who is among potential candidates for statewide office next year. "I think there's questions about what money was spent, how it was spent, what was the knowledge of the individuals who were signing purchase orders for things for JobsOhio."
He added, "The unwillingness to provide answers is fueling speculation that something is going on there."
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