Students Help Rape Victims
And of course, when you're filling up that tank tonight, you'll have your car full of people because we should be car pooling right now to cut down on vehicle emissions.
Apparently I'm not the only one who hates confusing headlines. I've never taken the time to draw sentence trees of ambiguous headline syntax, though.
That would be one of the horrible stylistic errors—along with "Oxides of Nitrogen," "Volatile Organic Compounds," and "Sunlight." Sunlight!I wasn't able to force myself to read that far. ;)
I'm not convinced that it's not a grammatical mistake.The thing is that the line was something he came up with once they'd landed. In other words, he was reciting a line, not generating spontaneous speech. If an actor forgets a word, it's an error in memory, not in grammar. Also, Armstrong has apparently admitted that he sometimes drops syllables in speech, which means it's an error in speech production, not in grammar. Either way, it's not a grammatical error.
If an actor forgets a word, it's an error in memory, not in grammar.
Also, Armstrong has apparently admitted that he sometimes drops syllables in speech, which means it's an error in speech production, not in grammar.That's a good point.
Although, I was talking about the quote as is commonly known.So was I.
Maybe you should write the copy editor.Totally. I blame them more than the writer in cases like that.
Don't open this at work or while drinking. (http://news.aol.com/strange/story/_a/butts-charged-with-stealing-toilet-paper/n20070611145009990023):drinks water:
Oh, they were talking about a chef's flare for cooking.Gotta watch out for that faulty burner!
First successful gene transplant a success[/url]
PHOTOG HERE/CREDIT HERE
BOLD INTRO: Cutline goes here.m aoiga oeg ioae goa egioae goiage ia geiae goa egioa ieg aoigeaoie goiae goia ogei.
Shark bites diver in the fjord (http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1893467.ece).Can they even print that?
o_O
. In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert, one of the most powerful hurricanes in history, set back Jamaica's economy by three years.That was in the wiki article on the Bermuda Triangle. Talk about suspending the laws of physics!
The "c" in Einstein's formula E=mc2 stands for the speed of light, which Einstein said is a constant (approximately 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum). That doesn't make sense.
I won't even mention the fact that this piece comes from the Ozark County Times. Or that the author invokes a huge freaking Godwin's Law straw man. Or that she's a complete and utter idiot.You won't? :cry:
A few years ago, PBS reported that two Germany scientists had altered the speed of light in a laboratory. The scientific community dismissed their work as bad science: it didn't fit Einstein's equation.I can alter the speed of light right here in my cubicle.
No, I won't. It just wouldn't be prudent to make jokes about ignorant hillbillies who obviously have no idea how to check their facts or construct a well-reasoned argument.QuoteI won't even mention the fact that this piece comes from the Ozark County Times. Or that the author invokes a huge freaking Godwin's Law straw man. Or that she's a complete and utter idiot.You won't? :cry:
This (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004843.html) was just posted on Language Log. Sadly, I don't know if even an audio version could've saved this headline.I agree. I only hear the difference in the two sound files' emphases when I listen very closely.
Interesting.I agree to an extent. As Porter notes, pretty much anything can be misinterpreted if you put your mind to it. Some things are obviously more problematic than others, though, and if it's no trouble to change it, then it should be changed.
I tend to think that if even one person notices that something can be misinterpreted and there's an easy way to change it, it should be changed.
This (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004843.html) was just posted on Language Log. Sadly, I don't know if even an audio version could've saved this headline.I used to work in the Linguistics Department of the University of Arizona, so it was kind of weird to suddenly come across names that I know (Heidi Harley and Andrew Carnie).
What did you do there?QuoteThis (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004843.html) was just posted on Language Log. Sadly, I don't know if even an audio version could've saved this headline.I used to work in the Linguistics Department of the University of Arizona, so it was kind of weird to suddenly come across names that I know (Heidi Harley and Andrew Carnie).
--Mel
we do utilize the AP Stylebook for all print and electronic publications, though ‘email’ has become a preferred way of stating electronic mail. Webster’s has it both ways and in this instance, we chose to not use the hyphen.
Though the quality of the writing in that quote makes me question their ability to make any stylistic decisions.
So if someone pulled out the style guide at any point while working on the project it was used for that publication. :PUtilized.
Ooops.QuoteSo if someone pulled out the style guide at any point while working on the project it was used for that publication. :PUtilized.
And that is from the HEAD of the public relations department. I'm sure her officer salary reflects her great journalistic skill.
Crowds Gather for Obscene Newspaper Editorial Hearing
Since the early 1990s, wildlife refuge managers have maintained a "rat-spill" program -- in which emergency responders prevent the spread of rats from shipwrecks -- similar to oil-spill contingency plans maintained by state and federal agencies.8:> (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071002/od_nm/alaska_rats_dc)
It's a silent but deadly source of greenhouse gases.... But livestock emissions are no joke.
The other day I saw a book titled "The Fat Burning Bible". For several seconds I tried to figure out why people would want to burn a fat bible.Bible has come to mean the opposite for me.
Does it ever bug anybody else how the word "bible" is used as a synonym for "authoritative guide"?
According to Etymonline.com, Torah is a verbal noun from horah "he taught, showed."Yep. Teacher (moreh/morah) comes from the same root.
I don't see why that's particularly sacred, but I could be missing something.I suspect it's a question of the fact that neither Tante nor I consider the word "bible" to have any inherent sanctity, regardless of word origin.
One shall not target non-combatants, that's a basic rule of humanity that ties us together across religious and national divides.
Food Network dietitian Ellie Krieger
Arena ball isn't the NFL: the field is 28 yards wide and 50 yards long, roughly half the size of an NFL field...
Size is only confusing when you're talking about 3-dimensional bodies, because it could either refer to area or volume. When it's referring to a 2-dimensional body I don't see what else it could reasonably be inferred to mean.Diameter.
You know that a football field is rectangular, right? You're saying that he might have meant diameter? Or just disputing my general statement?QuoteSize is only confusing when you're talking about 3-dimensional bodies, because it could either refer to area or volume. When it's referring to a 2-dimensional body I don't see what else it could reasonably be inferred to mean.Diameter.
That has to have been done on purpose.I agree. Headline writers have a weakness for bad puns.
Once the bane of rural Japanese villagers, a paper in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases reports on the spread of the the salmon tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense.
We want them to be skilled grammarians and wordsmiths and write bright and engaging headlines and must know Quark.Skilled wordsmiths indeed. That's some of the worst coordination I've ever seen.
Out of curiosity, I decided to see what Wikipedia said about copy editing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_editing), and I came across this gem of a quote from the cofounder of the American Copy Editors Society (an association for newspaper editors):And it's even a pretty easy edit. How about:QuoteWe want them to be skilled grammarians and wordsmiths and write bright and engaging headlines and must know Quark.Skilled wordsmiths indeed. That's some of the worst coordination I've ever seen.
Bingo!We're playing blackout this round rivka, ordinary bingos don't count.
In 1953, John J. Bennett, the chairman of the City Planning Commission, announced his desire to rid Times Square of all the flea circuses, penny arcades, freak shows, wax museums and shooting galleries — which actually sound like a lot of fun.
“We want to keep the Gay White Way gay and white . . ."
I'm quite dainty.Man, the joke I was about to make in reference to this was so inappropriate.
He was the 10th ranked player in the state of Virginia, but his All State recognition came on defense where he possessed all of the intangibles including a 4.4 forty time.
WHO thought that typeface was a good idea? (http://www.nasfaa.org/Publications/2010/Transcript/Vol21N1/pdfs/FiresofPell6to10.pdf)Someone who thinks that owning Adobe Illustrator makes him a graphic designer.
QFTQuoteWHO thought that typeface was a good idea? (http://www.nasfaa.org/Publications/2010/Transcript/Vol21N1/pdfs/FiresofPell6to10.pdf)Someone who thinks that owning Adobe Illustrator makes him a graphic designer.
Ha! Yeah, that's pretty bad. But I'm glad to know I'm not crazy or a terrible proofreader.You're the best of all of us Jon. :)
But the review by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency claimed that none of the errors effected the fundamental conclusion by U.N. panel of scientists: that global warming caused by humans already is happening and is threatening the lives and well-being of millions of people.
The beginning and end of Harris-Moore's two-year run as a wanted fugitive is the stuff of Hollywood. Indeed, one studio has optioned his story.
"I can understand on one level people being interested in his activities, but I think most thoughtful people, when they stop and think about it, realize he's a common criminal," said Bill Cummings, a sheriff who has been tracking Harris-Moore for years. "Those who see him as a folk hero aren't looking any deeper than the surface."
The strapping 6-foot, 5-inch high school dropout was raised by a single mother in a trailer on Camano Island off the rugged coast of Washington state.
As a thief, Harris-Moore started out small -- shoplifting and breaking into homes, police say.
He earned his nickname by living in the woods and leaving bare footprints at some of his alleged crime scenes. One detective called him "a feral child."
Helen Simmons, a store owner on Camano Island, told CNN affiliate KOMO what Harris-Moore allegedly stole from her: "Beef jerky, potato chips, food," she said. "Never beer, never wine, just food."
He might have remained an obscure juvenile criminal, but he gained national fame after he took to the skies, allegedly stealing and crash-landing airplanes despite never having any formal flight training.
Media and blog reports have sensationalized those concerns, with some dubbing the situation “Antennagate,” Jobs said. (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-17/apple-sets-up-cots-for-engineers-working-butts-off-on-iphone.html)
OTHER TERMS: The word temblor (not tremblor) is a synonym for earthquake.
Days from death, Fla. wildlife officials free plastic jar that was stuck on bear cub's head (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/a34947.html)
The backyard mechanic accused of being the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer pleaded not guilty Monday to murdering 10 women and trying to kill one more person over the course of two decades.
Yeah, you're right—it's not really a crash blossom. It's more than just a misplaced modifier, though. "Freed bear cub's head from plastic jar" would be not only simpler and far less clunky, but also more accurate. Was it really the jar that needed freeing?
A group of Australians said they were hanging out on the back deck of their chartered surfing vessel, anchored in a bay, when the temblor hit just before 10 p.m. It generated a wave that caused them to smash into a neighboring boat, and before they knew it, a fire was ripping through their cabin.
No, it's still there.QuoteA group of Australians said they were hanging out on the back deck of their chartered surfing vessel, anchored in a bay, when the temblor hit just before 10 p.m. It generated a wave that caused them to smash into a neighboring boat, and before they knew it, a fire was ripping through their cabin.
Rivka heard me sing the song, so she can vouch for the veracity.Uh . . .
No, no. That's not how the line (and it's well-known) goes. It's:Well how could I know this!?
Summary of (almost) every Jewish holiday:
They tried to kill us.
We survived.
Let's eat!
Wow. I've spent most of my holidays in recent years in rooms by myself so this all sounds so odd to me.Well, everthing has it's price. I love having family, but I'm contemplating buying 33 Christmas presents now, that's if my husband doesn't ask for my help with the children's presents which I really have to expect so that's 36. Oh, I guess I can subtract 5 as my children don't buy presents for themselves.
Everybody else needs to get with the program.*snort*
IBM's Watson bores as 'Jeopardy' big shot Sherlock (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20031932-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20)
I cannot parse this headline.
Are you serious that you cannot parse it, or are you just saying that it's potentially confusing?
AFAIC, being able to easily and quickly identify which articles I'm interested in reading is far and away the main purpose of a headline. Any headline that makes me stop to parse it has failed.
Are you serious that you cannot parse it, or are you just saying that it's potentially confusing?
I mean that I have no idea what "big shot Sherlock" is supposed to mean.
AFAIC, being able to easily and quickly identify which articles I'm interested in reading is far and away the main purpose of a headline. Any headline that makes me stop to parse it has failed.
Agreed.
Are you serious that you cannot parse it, or are you just saying that it's potentially confusing?
I mean that I have no idea what "big shot Sherlock" is supposed to mean.
It doesn't matter, Jonathon -- it's alliterative!
I am shocked that the church would support a bill that literally sacrifices 50,000 Utah children, who are the victims of identity theft, for the benefit of illegal aliens
Cougs go to the Big Easy...time for a primer on a New Orleans legend
A BYU music professor's research profiles some revolutionary recordings of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, a native of BYU basketball's Sweet 16 destination.
A FRIEND of Barack Obama has been arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute.
Bobby Titcomb, 49, was held by an undercover policewoman in a sting in downtown Honolulu, in Hawaii.
Today: sun followed by clouds...
Tomorrow: ...cloudy most of the time
Colon proves he can 'Phil' Hughes' shoes
Wind and current have spread the debris, but 23 packages of cocaine have been found, Garcia said. He said he could not say how much the cocaine weighs.
I guess I should've posted the actual headline, because now they've gone and revised it.No need, I saw it in time to agree with your consternation.
And Posada probably understands, deep within his heart, that for all the hits that have been springing off his bat lately, for all the swagger that lately has returned to his step, he is still just one more 1-for-20 skid away from pondering the same abyss that’s been looming in front of him since the beginning of the season.
“I’m just doing what I always said I would do,” Posada said between games, inside the cool refuse of the visitor’s clubhouse at Great American Ball Park. “I’m taking the opportunities when they come and trying to make the most of them.”
Up on the top of Kennecott's tailings pond, on a road that straddles a line between the north pond, which holds a lake of bluish-gray water, and the south pond, which looks like a native prairie with dry, blond wheat and juniper bushes dotting the fields, Paula Doughty, Kennecott tailings and water services manager, is talking about the mine's philosophy toward environmental stewardship.
Pelosi Peeved Republicans Opt Out of Rebuttal to Obama Speech (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/07/republicans-opt-not-to-give-rebuttal-to-obama-speech-ticking-off-pelosi/?test=latestnews)
Um . . .Winner!
Providing fodder for this thread?
To my ear, only the first meaning (the wrong one) is easily deciphered.
Of course, the fact that the suspected culprit (baby formula) isn't in the headline at all is a bigger issue.
Something like "Formula Suspected in Infant Infections" would have been better.Exactly. They should hire you!
I appreciate the thought, but heaven forbid I ever work in journalism.Heaven hereby forbids you to ever work in journalism!
I appreciate the thought, but heaven forbid I ever work in journalism.I hear and understand.
Lots of articles seem to make that kind of assumption.The better ones at least link to the earlier articles, but yeah, PITA.
Oklahoma baby is 3rd sickened by rare bacteria
it’s important to consider the often antagonistic skepticism that many evangelicals have of Mr. Romney’s brand of Protestantism: Mormonism.Protestantism? I have never heard of Mormonism referred to as a protestant sect. The label does not reasonably fit Mormonisms origins or doctrine.
Protestantism? I have never heard of Mormonism referred to as a protestant sect.That surprises me. Not that you disagree with the label; that you haven't heard it before.
My protestant school certainly didn't classify us under the label.Protestantism? I have never heard of Mormonism referred to as a protestant sect.That surprises me. Not that you disagree with the label; that you haven't heard it before.
I've heard it, but I disagree with the characterization.I don't agree with it either. But I'm pretty sure it was my vague understanding as a teenager -- that there's the Catholics, and everyone else is Protestants. Of the latter, lots and lots of subgroups. Mormons were in there, somewhere or other. (And the main reason I even knew about Mormons at all was OSC.)
That wasn't the only article about Mormons in the New York Times this week (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/a-new-generation-redefines-mormon-cuisine.html?_r=1&ref=dining).
The church I was raised in values unquestioning obedience over critical thinking.False. The doctrine is that critical thinking is necessary to obtaining spiritual guidance. I'm not great with scripture cites, but the one about Oliver Cowdery wanting to help translate the Book of Mormon is cited all the time. I do think people who are not intuitive decision makers can struggle with this concept. They either don't see it as a valid way to make decisions, or they may be constituting the inflexible elements in the church that alienate others.
But I struggled after realizing that Mormonism’s claims about anthropology, history and other subjects contradict reason and science.It may be that this person is just older than me, but the church does not hold to specific interpretations of such fields. This person's experience may lack the salting of fact I got as an adolescent, that archaeology seldom supports a "Panama as narrow neck of land, Missississippi as River Sidon" geography. My mother told me a few wacky things over the years, but I'm pretty grateful she majored in Anthropology while I was growing up.
It also stifles efforts to openly question church pronouncements, labeling such behavior as satanic.Uh, What? Satanic maybe in a particularly Mormon sense of just another spirit child of God who was consumed by hubris. But no, we don't think they need to be exorcised. Pfft.
Critics of Mormonism include geneticists, Egyptologists and even the Smithsonian InstitutionI'm glad to know the author still feels reverence for something in this world. I was starting to thing she was just a general purpose iconoclast.
For example, mainstream Mormons banned polygamy in 1890 to obtain Utah’s statehood, but they continue to perform temple ceremonies that “seal” one man to multiple women in the hereafter.Way to compress a very complex subject into a really misleading sentence. Case in point would be a man can be sealed to each wife he was married to in this life where a prior wife died. President Hinckley's father had 3 wives who died. All will be sealed to him. It is not the church's practice to just let me get sealed to women for the purpose of being polygamists in the afterlife. The only way this woman's nightmare scenario was likely is if she were contemplating marrying a widower, or if she is so jealous she is afraid her husband might marry someone after she herself dies. And there is a sect of Mormonism dedicated to this exact problem, so... what?
Those whose spouses leave the church are sometimes encouraged to get divorced and remarry a faithful Latter-day Saint.Wow. I'm not saying it never happened, but I think it's pretty tacky, and it goes directly against Paul's counsel.
Many gay Mormons have been driven to suicide, deeply conflicted about whether acting on their sexuality is, as the church teaches, a sin.This is sad, but it's also true of gay Catholics, Jews, Baptists, any other sect that holds to the scriptures as the word of God and believe that God has the authority to issue suggestions on moral behavior.
Mormonism needs a Luther of its own.We had one. Joseph Smith's wife Emma. The Community of Christ (formerly RLDS) already has democratic governorship and a "nuanced" relationship with the historical record (that is, their assertion that Joseph Smith never taught polygamy has not borne scrutiny, and they have gotten over it.)
Since Mormonism is highly centralized, without the local doctrinal flexibility that exists in Judaism and many Christian churches, I had no place to live a moderated, reformed existence.Also, in other churches we do not expect all members to serve as what others would call ministry. Because we only have lay ministry, all members need to have a correct understanding of Gospel Principles and an independent ability to seek inspiration and get answers to their questions. This is not a conformity enforced from on high, but a uniformity generated from the practical application of doctrines through service.
Because we only have lay ministry...
Cantor nixed a provision that would have required a burgeoning K Street industry of consultants who glean inside information about legislative proposals, then alert their clients — hedge funds and other investment houses — about the likely outcome so they can buy or sell their stakes in advance.
Overdose deaths from abuse of prescription painkillers in the U.S. now outnumber deaths involving heroin and cocaine combined, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
The poll also indicated that seven out of ten of those who attended religious services regularly were more likely to hold creationist views.
Ambitious and outgoing, Gu typified the international outlook of the second generation of China's political elite. She has even been described by some as the "Jackie Kennedy of China."And by "some" you mean the author of the article. Near as I can tell, the only similarities both women share is marriage to a politician. I've never heard her described that way by anybody. Then in the *very* next paragraph.
Gu and her husband were both descendents of China's revolutionary heros -- Gu from Major-General Gu Jingsheng, a prominent revolutionary military figure, and Bo from Bo Yibo, considered one of the "eight immortals" of the revolution that created modern China.Here's the part where you tell us how the two Kennedys or at least one of them, were descended from the American equivalent of a 'prominent revolutionary military figure'. Thus helping the nickname make sense.
"Gu told investigators everything she could remember and, as for those accusations about which she couldn't remember clearly, she asked the investigators to go ahead and write up anything they'd like to," the source told the paper.
From the front page of today's New York Times:
Human Hand Found in Drought Conditons
Eww!
I won't argue that it's not relevant. I'm bothered by the shameless bias. Journalism is supposed to be more impartial than that.Right, which is why we have opinion pieces, and articles.
If you're a MacBook Air owner, you probably don't want to clutter up your hard drive with a thousand pictures and videos and data. That's why this slim, light, well-designed external hard drive makes such a great companion.
That is weird.
That is weird.
Yeah. Maybe it's a Mac user thing.
(no commentary on why they're marketing these things to me, please)My guess, you're a mac user.
The Energy Department’s inspector general has warned that the agency has not taken sufficient steps to control the travel costs of its contractors, which account for 85 percent of the $360 million the department spent on travel over the past six years.Do tell me more about what percentage of the travel budget was taken up by traveling!
the cost-savings orders were not universally applied to contractors, the audit found. The department has a federal staff of 16,000 employees and 100,000 contractors in various department-funded labs, research centers and offices.So 84% of the people working for you are taking up 85% of the travel budget? You don't say!
I can't find a link to the story online, but the campus newspaper's current top story is "'Winter semester' lives up to its name". That's some top-notch, cutting-edge journalism there, folks. Winter semester certainly does live up to its name by starting in winter. Of course, what they really mean is that it's really cold, but that has nothing to do with the name of the season.True story. If I had read that article while I was living in Malaysia, I would have had no clue what they meant.
The 21 / 2-hour interview will be edited to 90 minutes and aired on the OWN Network at 9 p.m.So the 10.5 hour interview? Also, if they were saying 2 1/2 hour interview, is the hyphen necessary?
Feb. 15 fly-by will be the nearest recorded brush with a space rock — about the size of an office building — so large, scientists say.I know it's not grammatically incorrect, but it jars me all the same.
What exactly jars you? The awkwardly placed parenthetical set off in em dashes?Yes. I just don't see why it's necessary.
Under cross-examination by the defense, police Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha acknowledged that the witness who allegedly overheard the argument was 600 meters (yards) from Pistorius’ house, where the shooting occurred.
The U.S. Coast Guard has spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars since Sunday searching for a couple and two children who reportedly abandoned a 29-foot sailboat, saying the incident is "possibly a hoax."
Are you talking about this story (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865571076/Man-pregnant-woman-killed-when-car-slides-off-I-215-overpass.html?pg=all)? The headline is still terrible, but at least it's easier to parse.Bad headlines aside, that is incredibly tragic.
-- The "recipe" for the bombs ignited by pressure cookers can be found widely on the Internet.
-- In 2004, Homeland Security issued an advisory about pressure cooker bombs.
-- They are made by placing TNT or other explosives in a pressure cooker and attaching a blasting cap at the top, the advisory said. Pressure cooker bombs are made with readily available materials.
A beautiful example of the flexibility of the English language as is evolves over time.*snort* :D
Yeah, we get the joke. :rolleyes:
U.S. patent case climaxes with win for Canadian vibrator maker (http://news.yahoo.com/u-patent-case-climaxes-win-canadian-vibrator-maker-005603888.html)
Yes.Even if they are riding individually?
The sun in Bangkok doesn’t shine, it hates. High noon in the world’s hottest city hits like a trashcan lid in the face as heaving, pollution spewing traffic slaughters your breath. Money stays home, and people with just sense find shade. But men like Bung – a Thai street merchant with six children, overdue school payments, and one darkly mounting debt to a Thai loan shark – press into this withering heat, day after day. Driving a precariously strapped, bolted, taped, and jury-rigged motorcycle/café through Bangkok’s labyrinth of soot-covered souls, he sells coffee to survive. Most coffee sellers here worry about being hit by swerving taxis. Bung worries about being crushed by a lawsuit from Starbucks.
When Bung’s response didn’t exist, . . .
Maybe it feels a little unfair for a big, faceless corporation to go after a little street vendor, but it's not like Starbucks did anything wrong.Yup. And I agree with you on his serious mechanical flaws as well.
The labyrinthine cemetery complex stretching for kilometers (miles) underneath northern Rome is known as the "Queen of the catacombs" …
I think journalists often run a macro to find instances of "x kilometers", do a conversion, and insert "(y miles)". But obviously it wasn't written to ignore instances where "kilometers" isn't preceded by a number.
No way a conscious person went in and was like "Oh, the Americans aren't going to understand what kilometers are."
In the Wasatch County town of Wallsburg, the city employee responsible for oversight of elections brought new meaning to the job description by overlooking the election altogether.
Yeah, keyboards don't have keys for dashes. You have to use some unwieldy combination like Alt+0150 to get an en dash on a Windows machine.
Stahre has an answer to Jackman's question: The state examined the mothers' medical records, which revealed, among other things, the women's home addresses.
By the address, epidemiologists can learn a mother's water source, whether she lives near an agricultural area and whether she took folic acid early in pregnancy, which helps prevent neural tube defects.
MBI shuts down Orlando spa that sits between two churches accused of selling sex
So a neighbor outraged a taker dare get a bit of rest in her neghborhood called the police in order to have them remove the unsightly vagrant from her neghborhood. [spelling sic]
Heavy police presence in the 2900 block of I Street in Midland this morning piqued the interest of neighbors and passerbyers and it was a peek that started the whole ordeal. (http://cbs7.com/multimedia/article_7805c2dc-3888-11e4-943d-0017a43b2370.html?TNNoMobile)
Ebola Fear Stalks Home Hunt for Quarantined Now Released (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-19/ebola-fears-stymie-home-quest-for-quarantined-in-dallas)
What gives this away that it was a meth lab is the fact it's a meth lab. (http://www.ksl.com/?sid=32325686&nid=148&title=byu-student-accused-of-having-meth-lab-claims-it-was-soap&fm=home_page&s_cid=topstory)
"I know that the same chemicals used to make meth are same ones you use to crystallize these herbal extractions, which is a totally legitimate thing."
Cazier has a page on mormon.org as part of the "and I'm a Mormon" campaign
now I'm picturing a billboard with this guy standing in front of his meth lab.Someone with photophop skillz should make this happen.
Janus cats almost never survive, and most have congenital defects.
A U.S. appeals court upheld rules that make it easier for companies like Google Inc. and Apple Inc. to get rid of worrisome patent litigation on the cheap.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in an appeal involving a patent for a speed limit indicator, took its first look at reviews by the Patent and Trademark Office. The decision Wednesday may benefit many companies not directly in the case by upholding rules that patent owners say make it too easy to get their legal protections tossed and led a former judge to dub the agency board a “death squad” for patents.
Why they'd want to protest it is beyond me.
"[The boat] has little pointers at the front with electroshock. It stuns the fish. It doesn't kill them. They get stunned and they float to the surface and we can collect them," Churchill said.
In that scenario, the fish would then go to a raptor rehabilitation center as feed.
It took me a couple read-throughs to see it.I didn't even see it, having forgotten. I totally read it as "solemn event marking a passage, which may or may not be held in a house of worship."
Acronyms are becoming rapidly more popular across the digital world and, while they may initially seem harmless, can present a very real danger in the lives of today's youth.
‘We don’t want you in our yearbook’ High school student with special needs excluded from yearbook
The California Highway Patrol was chasing the suspect late Sunday night, driving down three separate highways, jeopardizing other drivers with the police chopper on his tail, but refusing to pull over. Eventually, he crashed into an SUV, injuring the other driver.
Who was doing what now? (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspect-being-chased-by-cops-calls-911-to-get-rid-of-them/)QuoteThe California Highway Patrol was chasing the suspect late Sunday night, driving down three separate highways, jeopardizing other drivers with the police chopper on his tail, but refusing to pull over. Eventually, he crashed into an SUV, injuring the other driver.
Bush appeared to come out of the shell of the tortoise he has so heartily embraced as his symbol to give voters a taste of the passion he has struggled to showcase.
QuoteBush appeared to come out of the shell of the tortoise he has so heartily embraced as his symbol to give voters a taste of the passion he has struggled to showcase.
link (http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/politics/republican-debate-winners-losers-donald-trump/index.html)
I explained it all on Twitter if you're confused (https://twitter.com/ArrantPedantry/status/644552600562503680).
If tragedy plus time equals comedy, what does Yahoo plus Time equal?
Also, you don't really need to worry about wasting new pieces of cyber-paper. We've got reams of the stuff!
They're generally pretty superficial fluff that take unoriginal insights and repackage them as if they're the most life-changing ideas ever.AMEN, SELAH.
They're really great at getting people all jazzed up about some new idea that's going to magically solve all their problems, but in my experience they're not so great as actually solving anything.
I once had some home teachers who taught me and my roommate a lesson from Who Moved My Cheese, and it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard.
The worst are the ones where the author pretends there's a book by the same title and most of the actual book is "reporting" all the wonderful things that happened to people who read the book.
The worst are the ones where the author pretends there's a book by the same title and most of the actual book is "reporting" all the wonderful things that happened to people who read the book.Oh, yeah, the "business novel." Ugh.
At our annual Christmas, excuse me, holiday, party that year, all the offices from around the country had to perform Cheese-related skits and such. My office sang "My Cheese" to the tune of "My Girl" Who's got cheddar, on a cloudy day . . .. (My boss shot down my suggestion of "Yes, I love cheeses").
I recall sitting with a colleague as we were forced to watch one presentation after another and whispering to her, "I Camembert it any longer!"
This sounds like maybe the worst thing ever.
I had to read a few of those for boards I was on.
The worst are the ones where the author pretends there's a book by the same title and most of the actual book is "reporting" all the wonderful things that happened to people who read the book.
The worst are the ones where the author pretends there's a book by the same title and most of the actual book is "reporting" all the wonderful things that happened to people who read the book.
That sounds awful. I don't think I've read one like that.
That was a dreadful way of writing a headline just to say there is no state regulation -- which is an entirely different thing than saying whether a ride is, or is not, safe.Exactly.
>_<
What a horrible way to die.
"He has been deeply unhappy for weeks," a source who agreed to speak anonymously to discuss internal discussions told NBC.
Police in Kansas say a Good Samaritan was shot multiple times when he stepped in to help a woman who was being attacked in a Wal-Mart parking lot before another Good Samaritan fatally shot the suspect.
QuotePolice in Kansas say a Good Samaritan was shot multiple times when he stepped in to help a woman who was being attacked in a Wal-Mart parking lot before another Good Samaritan fatally shot the suspect.
Is it just me, or does the second one really stretch the definition of "good Samaritan" beyond recognition? The good Samaritan didn't kill the guys who beat and robbed the man; he just went out of his way to help him.
link (https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-dead-2-injured-good-132050944.html)
After 10 years as Utah’s governor, Gary Herbert half-jokingly converted Monday into a salesman for Speedway gas stations and its parent company, Marathon Petroleum, because they are about to become the first to sell much cleaner “Tier 3” gasoline.
On Monday, after 10 years as Utah’s governor, Gary Herbert half-jokingly became a salesman for Speedway gas stations. Speedway is about to become the first line of gas stations in the state to sell much cleaner “Tier 3” gasoline.
A retired federal judge appointed to oppose the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to lying to the FBI requested on Monday a hearing for oral arguments after he briefs the court.
A retired federal judge, appointed to oppose the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to lying to the FBI, requested on Monday a hearing for oral arguments after he briefs the court.
I think the real problem, yet again, is that journalists try to pack too much information into a single sentence so that they don't have to spend a whole paragraph explaining the backstory before they get to the real news.Yeah, I hate this. :P
I'm not really familiar with the wordWhich just means you are not Jewish and were not following world news in the early-to-mid-80s. ;)
But yeah, that's really weird that it's gone from "a person who is refused permission to do something" to "a person who refuses to do something". It's basically an autoantonym.Yeah, exactly.
Which just means you are not Jewish and were not following world news in the early-to-mid-80s. ;)
It is a word I am very familiar with, and which has very strong emotional associations for me.
I know! It's full of gorgeous lines like:
“It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus”
“I thought, ‘oh crap: The DEA is going to come in here, tase me, and confiscate my flying saltshakers,’”
“Imagine if, after a lifetime underground, you only had a few glorious weeks to live in the sun, eat and mate,” she said. “And then your butt fell off.”
I know! It's full of gorgeous lines like:Yes!
“It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus”
“I thought, ‘oh crap: The DEA is going to come in here, tase me, and confiscate my flying saltshakers,’”
“Imagine if, after a lifetime underground, you only had a few glorious weeks to live in the sun, eat and mate,” she said. “And then your butt fell off.”
That's awesome.*waves back*
Also, hey, Tante. *waves*
But yeah, my money is on some kind of AI. Maybe one trained on Perd Hapley quotes.:D