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FEATURE: 25 Essential Jade Tree Records Releases (Redux)
by Half Cloth · March 2, 2015
For a good span of the 90s and early 2000s, fans of indie rock, emo, punk, and post-hardcore could set their watch by Jade Tree Records. The limited economy of afterschool grocery store jobs and summer paper routes had to be committed wisely, and Jade Tree's distinctive logo – a wood-cut icon of the titular tree and the label's name in block font – was more or less the punk rock version of a seal of approval. Like Vagrant and Polyvinyl Records, you could count on Jade Tree's wholly diverse yet somehow signature discography of melodic punk, expansive hardcore, and avant-garde indie.
We originally ran our list of 20 Essential Jade Tree Records releases when the label put up their impressive, wide-ranging, and deeply influential catalogue up for streaming on Bandcamp. Since then Jade Tree has marked its comeback with releases from You Blew It!, Spraynard, and Direct Effect, and celebrated a 25th Anniversary. To mark the occasion, we're expanding our original piece to an apt 25 Essential Jade Tree Records releases. Enjoy!
25.) You Blew It! Pioneer of Nothing (2015) /
The Loved Ones The Loved Ones (2005)
With a discography that includes Nothing Feels Good, Jersey's Best Dancers, Control, and Analphabetapolothology it can be hard to truly capture Jade Tree Records' monumental catalog while just sticking to full-length albums, let alone delving into the label's many shorter releases. But attention must be paid to the gorgeously ruminative indie-rock of You Blew It!'s recent 7" Pioneer of Nothing and the irrepressible melodic punk of The Loved Ones' 2005 self-titled EP. The former stands as the opening release of Jade Tree's welcome return and a compelling statement of maturity for a swiftly-evolving band, the latter is one of the label's many underappreciated diamonds in the rough (with a stunning opening track in the bursting, hyper-melodic "100K"), and both are eminently deserving of your time.
24.) Kid Dynamite Shorter, Faster, Louder (2000)
The tendency might be to define Jade Tree's house aesthetic as some combination of warmly melodic, cerebral emo (The Promise Ring, Jets To Brazil, Pedro the Lion) and taut, angular post-hardcore (These Arms Are Snakes, Milemarker), but a considerable portion of the label's catalogue is made up of bands like Philadelphia melodic hardcore quartet Kid Dynamite – relentlessly youthful, blindingly quick, and explosively energetic. Shorter, Faster, Louder, the band's final LP, earns its name with a collection of 18 songs that manage to clock in at under 25 minutes (only a single song breaks the two minute mark – several barely break 60 seconds). It's music defined almost purely by velocity and walloping impact, but there's nevertheless a serious sense of craft in the nimble call-and-response of "Pits & Poisoned Apples" or the archetypal pop-punk abandon of "S.O.S".
23.) Cloak/Dagger We Are CLOAK/DAGGER (2007)
Frequently sounding like Hot Snakes played at double-speed (which is impressive considering how often Hot Snakes sounds like Hot Snakes played at double-speed) Cloak/Dagger's 2007 debut LP We Are CLOAK/DAGGER is a sharp, brainy funnel cloud of Nuggets-era garage rock, post-hardcore, and wiry art punk. The LP is typified by bracingly infectious workouts like album-opener "Bended Knee" and the side-winding math-punk burst "Last Call" – an electric blend of brains and acceleration. In some ways the LP plays like a prototype for modern post-everything punk bands like Greys and Direct Effect, the latter of which recently signed with – you guessed it: Jade Tree Records.
22.) Alkaline Trio / Hot Water Music Split (2002)
In 2002 Alkaline Trio had just released their magnum opus, the characteristically macabre-titled From Here To Infirmary. Hot Water Music was finishing up their best album, 2002's Caution. Split, released almost exactly between those two red-letter LPs finds two modern-day punk greats at the absolute apex of their game. Alkaline Trio would lend two of their finest songs, the richly melodic, sweepingly plaintive "Queen of Pain" and the buoyant, rumbling "While You're Waiting" – both archetypal examples of Matt Skiba's gift for noir-ish guitar pop. Hot Water Music for their part, presaged the tuneful evolution of Caution with "God Deciding", which whittled the band's earlier, more gruff post-hardcore into more effervescent shape.
21.) These Arms Are Snakes Easter (2006)
Following up a debut as impressive and immediately transfixing as These Arms Are Snake's 2004 freshman release Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home is a tall order. And while Easter didn't have the element of surprise in its favor (few bands came out of left field so compellingly as These Arms Are Snakes), it nevertheless remains a deeply gripping record, expanding the tense, cutting post-punk of Oxeneers with richer sounds (the sculpted noise of "Mescaline Eyes" remains electrifying), more complex compositions, and longer runtimes. But the real beauty of Easter is the rare feat it manages in growing the volatile aesthetic of These Arms Are Snakes' debut without sacrificing one scrap of the band's finely-tuned bombast.
20.) Pedro The Lion Achilles Heel (2004)
Released between the stormy, acerbic Control and the affecting rumination of David Bazan's first post-Pedro solo album, Curse Your Branches, 2004's Achilles Heel only sounds like a relatively calm forty minutes of reedy indie pop. In reality the record contains an almost haunting anxiety, obsessed with motion, change, and Old Testament trepidation. In some ways the album foreshadows the difficult soul-searching of Curse ("I Do", "Discretion"), as well as that album's spacious, finely-crafted sound. Yet the album's most memorable track just might be the one that most recalls Control – the trickling slow-core opener "Bands With Managers," which, like "Magazine" plumbs the cynicism of the indie rock culture industry with remarkable alacrity and deceptive bite.
19.) Turning Point Discography (2000)
As Jade Tree themselves put it: "Turning Point were probably your favorite band's favorite band at one point." That was back in 2000, and nowadays it might be more accurate to call Turning Point your favorite band's favorite band's favorite band (fellow Jade Tree signees Cap'n Jazz taking the former spot), yet Discography (like similar collections from fellow mid-Atlantic early-90s post-hardcore greats Moss Icon and The Honor Role) does offer a remarkable Rosetta Stone for modern indie, emo, and post-hardcore. The nerve-addled funk of Dismemberment Plan? The controlled chaos of Cap'n Jazz? The angularity of modern hardcore's more cerebral experimenters? You can find pieces of all of it somewhere on Discography.
18.) Denali The Instinct (2003)
A striking forty minutes of exquisitely produced indie-rock wrapped around the bell-clear high alto of Maura Davis, The Instinct is criminally underrated. Anxious yet tuneful, angular yet wholly melody-rich, the concluding album from the Virginia quartet is beautifully unclassifiable. As composed and catchy as the guitar pop golden age during which it was released, as oblique and sharp as the post-hardcore that defined Jade Tree to that point, Denali's final album was a tour de force of expansive indie-rock.
17.) Joan of Arc A Portable Model Of (1997)
A Portable Model Of, Joan of Arc's first full-length, is also its most legible, its most melodic, and its most lovely. Pairing the curling acoustic guitars more readily associated with Tim Kinsella's brother Mike and his long-running project, Owen, with the abstract noise and off-kilter structures that would come to define Joan of Arc, A Portable Model Of finds the former Cap'n Jazz singer turning post-modernist exploration into beautifully compelling pop music. Case-in-point: "The Hands", which bounces and sparkles like a vintage Shins song, yet is flecked with odd-ball keyboards and regular left turns into noise and chaos.
16.) Railhed Tarentella (1993)
As the resurgence of emo continues to blossom, its archeology of forgotten greats from the genre's first and second waves carries on in kind. Hopefully that wave of rediscovery will extend to Railhed, one of Jade Tree's earliest signings (and one fronted by label co-founder Darren Walters) and a fascinating example of a band pairing hardcore monoliths to college rock melodies way, way before its time. Anticipating Samiam, Lifetime, and even Sunny Day Real Estate (whose landmark Diary would be released almost a whole year after Tarentella), songs like "Incision" and "Lather" pair barbed guitars and agile pop melodies, offering an early glimpse at emo's second wave in the process.
15.) Cub Country High Uinta High (2002)
Released in 2002, during a renaissance of indie-rock infused alt-country (see also: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Beachwood Sparks, Cold Roses, and The Elected's Me First), High Uinta High, the debut album from Jets to Brazil bassist Jeremy Chatelain, was a gorgeously bronzed dispatch of weary, bucolic melody set to dusty emo-folk arrangements. Warmly-regarded but never as beloved as the band deserved (a story that would also apply to Chatelain's day job, Jets to Brazil), listening to Cub Country's debut album in 2014 is intangibly poignant, a record that was nostalgic from the word "go" a decade back, and has now seemingly faded into its own sepia melodies and charmingly tired front-porch reveries.
14.) Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
Arriving as the world's first reunion with Blake Schwarzenbach after the break-up of the beloved emo-punk trio Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil's Orange Rhyming Dictionary had a tough row to hoe. Never as absolute in its emo-core signifiers, never as brittle in its poetry, Jets to Brazil would ask the punk scene to grow with them – and would frequently be rebuffed. But the reward for those who gave Schwarzenbach's new band a chance was three near-perfect albums, beginning with the acidic guitar pop of Orange Rhyming Dictionary, a fascinating mélange of biting, impressionist narratives and taut, cascading college rock arrangements. If Jets to Brazil were never as quick or caustic as Jawbreaker, it's nevertheless impossible to imagine passing up something as bright, angular, and effervescent as "Morning New Disease".
13.) Owls Owls (2001)
More or less Cap'n Jazz 2.0 for a post-Fugazi world, Owls re-assembled the basement-emo band (formed by brothers and post-hardcore godfathers Tim and Mike Kinsella) under a new moniker and with a new focus on abstraction, cerebral rhythmic constructs, and opaque narrative labyrinths. If Analphabetapolothology was the sound of high-school kids getting their music theory textbooks mixed up with their calculus homework, then Owls is the sound of those same young men finding their minds blown by Intro to Philosophy and one too many lectures on abstract expressionism. Yet, as has always been the case no matter how esoteric Tim Kinsella manages to range, Owls' debut album is also uncannily catchy (after all, as the band puts it "Anyone Can Have A Good Time"), a collection of pop songs shredded into post-modernist confetti.
12.) Jets to Brazil Four Cornered Night (2000)
Something of a liminal work between the sharp-edged Orange Rhyming Dictionary and the magisterial Perfecting Loneliness, 2000's Four Cornered Night might be Jets to Brazil getting it just right. Deeply melodic, variably punchy or agreeably plush, the album is difficult to tag but easy to love. Indeed, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy fans with a little imagination could have an easy time embracing the serrated bounce of "You're Having The Time Of My Life" and "Your X-Ray Results Have Come Back From The Doctor And We Think We Know What The Problem Is" (there's a streak of song-title weirdness running through this record). Elsewhere, the cycling grooves of "One Summer Last Fall" and "Mid-Day Anonymous" manages to boil down American Analog Set and Big Star into a whip-smart stretches of philosophical guitar pop. Finally, there are the ballads, deeply moving numbers like "All Things Good And Nice" and "In The Summer's When You Really Know" that would foreshadow the even more pensive, touching songs to be found on Jets to Brazil's final album.
11.) The Promise Ring 30° Everywhere (1996)
Both a thrilling sign of things to come and a minor masterpiece in its own right, The Promise Ring's debut full-length might tend to be overshadowed by its big brother, Nothing Feels Good, but is entirely worth revisiting. Swing by for the scuffed, churning pop of songs like "Everywhere in Denver" (an early presage of singer/songwriter Davey Von Bohlen's obsession with American geography) and "Between Pacific Coasts", stick around for the delicate minimalism of "Picture Postcard," a song that eschews the thick painterly strums that would define Promise Ring's aesthetic for a precise landscape of needle-and-thread guitars and open spaces. Indeed, as often as 30° Everywhere seems to presage later triumphs it also displays alternative histories of early ideas to which the band would never quite return. 30° Everywhere might often register as the prototype to a later breakthrough, but few are the albums that manage to sound so whole while also sounding so prescient.
10.) Milemarker Anaesthetic (2001)
A nervy, stylish forty minutes of neon post-punk, Milemarker's second album for Jade Tree is a beautifully anxious dispatch from an era when indie rock was at its most polychromatic, its most rhythmically creative, its most conceptually expansive. One of Jade Tree's most adventurous releases, the album helped to stretch expectations for the label, and for the genres associated with it. Built from the guitar shards of post-hardcore and the gloaming synthesizers that were similarly en vogue amongst contemporaries like The Faint and The Anniversary, there is nevertheless nothing that really sounds like Anaesthetic, then or now. There are also few album openers as essential as "Shrink to Fit", a swirling, taut run of post-apocalyptic disco that quickly summarizes the albums electrifying digital collage of post-hardcore, left-field punk, dance music, and emo.
9.) Joan of Arc How Memory Works (1998)
Already slightly more off-kilter and opaque compared to the soft focus watercolors of A Portable Model Of, How Memory Works, Joan of Arc's sophomore LP, is also its finest, perhaps due in part to the balance found between spectral emo and cerebral experimentation. Take for instance "This Life Cumulative" which pairs an utterly infectious sing-song melody and a radiant swath of guitar to burbling, free-form keyboard noises and an outro of ponderous studio sounds. That synthesis of pop and progress defines the record and makes it a fascinating example of a singular artist finding ways to make challenging art that also embraces tunefulness and connectivity. Joan of Arc would soon grow more aggressively conceptual as Tim Kinsella's ideas became more willfully difficult, but as a signpost for possibilities at emo's far edges, there are few records as inspiring and intoxicating as How Memory Works.
8.) Lifetime Hello Bastards (1995)
As the old cliché, once applied to Velvet Underground, goes: 10,000 people heard Lifetime's Hello Bastards, and they all formed bands. It just so happens that those bands include Saves The Day, Brand New, and Texas Is The Reason. But Hello Bastards remains a second wave emo favorite not only for its family tree stature but also for the band's agile sense of tunefulness, its soda-fizz energy, its surprisingly affecting and brainy narratives. While much of the album sounds like the manic pop punk equivalent of junior high school, the best moments of Lifetime's breakthrough LP are those where the band paces itself with more spacious interludes, such as the airy bridge of "Anchor" or the swooning slow-core minimalism of "I'm Not Calling You" (in which the title is intoned over and over like a bratty mantra). That said, there remains an evergreen glee in the sugar-highs of songs like "I Like You Ok", calorie dense pop-hardcore whose pleasures are elemental.
7.) These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home (2004)
A quintessential example of the arty, sidewinding post-hardcore that was Jade Tree's initial stock-and-trade, Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home, the debut album from Seattle math punks These Arms Are Snakes is a modern classic and a near-perfect example of fearless punk ingenuity. Synthesizing the barbed tension of Drive Like Jehu, the explosive hardcore of Botch, and the unnerving sing-song melodies of Hot Snakes with widened palettes of synthesizers, computerized bass, and post-bop rhythmic patterns, Oxeneers is the aural equivalent of two decades of expansive, concept-heavy art punk reverse engineered into dense, compact bursts. Songs like "Angela's Secret," which sounds like Guy Picciotto preaching over a Suicide/Refused mash-up haven't lost one iota of their thrilling punch. If anything they've only grown more compelling, more easily marveled at as an example of a band hitting their stride almost immediately.
6.) Pedro the Lion Control (2002)
Perhaps the most bitter, satiric, and quietly angry album of emo's diverse second wave, Pedro the Lion's Control is a harrowing dark night of the soul, set to David Bazan's signature reedy slow-core indie and his languorous pop melodies. Consider this aside from the album-opening "Options": ""I could never divorce you without a good reason / And though I may never have to, it's good to have options / But for now I need you." Yikes. That such sentiments are set to gorgeously placid beds of spangling Telecasters and plush organs only raises the sense of cognitive dissonance that defines the album's complex interrogation of love, anger, honesty, success, and endeavor. Even better is "Magazine", one of Bazan's finest and an absolute masterpiece of tension and construction, quiet verses of electric piano and pitch-perfect melody sliding into a toothy, acerbic hook as thorny and biting ("Wouldn't you love to be on the cover of a magazine?") as anything on offer from Jade Tree's more obviously aggressive post-hardcore signees. Control is kind of album that finds some of its best melodies draped over missives like "Oh my god, what have I done?"; the record is an unsettling but masterful exploration of humanity, for better and worse.
5.) The Promise Ring Very Emergency (1999)
Taking the power-pop leanings of the band's monumental Nothing Feels Good and giving them a glossier sheen for a punchier set of songs, The Promise Ring's 1999 album Very Emergency is a gleefully hook-filled album, the sound of a band with seemingly little interest in anything that wasn't either a chorus or a pre-chorus. Almost as iconic as the highlights of its predecessor, "Happiness Is All The Rage" is a funny, effervescent, playful three minutes of pop-emo, and one that has a little fun at the genre's dourness, just for good measure. Elsewhere, "Happy Hour" takes the cruise-control strums of Nothing Feels Good and funnels them into an enormous chorus. There is also an increased sense of craft and detail to Very Emergency (note the tinkling xylophone that begins "Arms and Danger" or the swinging Weezer-esque swoons of "Living Around") that anticipates the more gentle, pensive Wood/Water. While never as lauded as the album it followed (I always find myself wondering whether the difference in album covers has something to do with it), Very Emergency is nevertheless an almost perfect collection of witty, affable guitar pop, the final chapter in the Promise Ring/Jade Tree trilogy.
4.) Jets To Brazil Perfecting Loneliness (2002)
As perfect an orchestral indie-pop album as any other release in a decade full of them (More Adventurous, Lifted, The Life Pursuit, Night Falls Over Kortedala, etc… etc…), Jets To Brazil's final album, the aptly titled Perfecting Loneliness, proved to be their masterpiece. The album is a twilit collection of ruminations on love ("Cat Heaven"), aging ("Wish List"), and, appropriately enough, "Loneliness." One even senses, on the album's title track, Blake Schwarzenbach swinging back at the cynicism and snide apathy of a punk scene that couldn't be bothered to give Jets to Brazil a chance: "The radio is playing our tune / I love it could you turn it down?". Elsewhere, the silky emo-pop of "You're The One I Want" pairs one of the punk legend's most indelible melodies to a gorgeous swoon of strings and sentiment. Ultimately, the album is defined by a sweet sadness, paired with gorgeous, painterly landscapes of pianos, strings, and brushed snares. Indeed, given the ways in which Schwarzenbach has always been a genius of the economic, moving phrase, it's entirely fitting that Jets to Brazil's final album contains two of his finest: "The birds fly south, the summer sets, the lights go out", and perhaps even more elementally: "What can I do? / I'm in love with you, and it won't stop."
3.) Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers (1996)
The difference between Jersey's Best Dancers and Hello Bastards, Lifetime's first album for Jade Tree, is mainly one of subtle improvements and honed directions. Jersey's Best Dancers simply benefits from coming along after the New Jersey emo-core quintet had worn in the grooves on their athletic, combustible pop hardcore aesthetic. As such, there's added velocity to the way in which album-opener "Turnpike Gates" interrupts its found-sound intro with bursting guitars and that familiar galloping churn of drums. It also means that the band's more spacious, pensive passages – the ones that would really make their mark on the next generation of emo bands – are that much more striking. One finds examples of the shift on songs like "Young, Loud And Scotty" and "Hey Catrine," tracks that found a new kind of mid-Atlantic Romanticism in slower paces and more expansive constructions – recalling Bivouac as it presaged Through Being Cool. Choosing between the band's two full-length Jade Tree releases is a coin-toss, but Jersey's Best Dancers offers an interesting facet in the glimpse it gives us of a young, ambitious hardcore band finding new spaces, moods, and ideas.
2.) Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology (1995)
If Hello Bastards was the Big Bang for the millennial generation of emo bands, then Analphabetapolothology, the double-disc anthology of Midwestern emo trailblazers Cap'n Jazz, is more or less at the center of contemporary emo's Venn diagram. Founded by brothers Mike and Tim Kinsella, who together would be responsible for an entire generation's emo "How To" guide through bands like American Football, Owen, Joan of Arc, and The One Up Downstairs (not to mention the band's later recruiting of Davey Von Bohlen, who would go on to found The Promise Ring), Cap'n Jazz combined a prankish approach to narratives and song structure while also evincing a very serious commitment to cerebral, complex, energized exploration of the far limits of punk, hardcore, indie, jazz, and pop. Some of what Cap'n Jazz created during their afterschool practices and summer tours (the band was in high school for its entire existence) now sounds like Emo 101, especially the twinkling jaggedness of "Little League," "In the Clear," and "Puddle Splashers". But there's also a whole lot of stuff on Analphabetapolothology that has never really been metabolized by emo, indie-rock, or anyone else, sounding now like fascinating alternate routes. Indeed, brainy oddities like "Bluegrassish" and "Tokyo" are more or less singular – the sound of a quartet of high school kids who looked at chipped-up guitars and drums and saw nothing but possibility.
1.) The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good (1997)
Nothing Feels Good, the flawless, buoyant sophomore album from Milwaukee emo greats The Promise Ring, is somehow both the definitive emo album and the definitive Jade Tree release. Indeed, for many, seeing the label's distinctive monochromatic tree logo summons up surrounding images of pop-art color dots and an autumnal amusement park, the goofy kitsch of a midway ride with bear-shaped cars. In some ways, the sheer perfection of Nothing Feels Good, and its status as one of emo's warmest, most finely crafted records, partly explains the small risk that an entire generation of punk and indie youngsters gladly took each time they came across a new album with the Jade Tree imprint. Nothing Feels Good built that kind of good will. I can still remember the record store where I bought it, and I can still remember each trip afterwards to grab Perfecting Loneliness or Four Cornered Night or Jersey's Best Dancers. If one wants to think of the excellent discography of Jade Tree as a world, then think of The Promise Ring's iconic 1997 album as a way in, a welcoming thirty minutes of Technicolor guitar pop and affably goofy narratives that offered an ideal entre for the more difficult, expansive, and challenging works of art that constituted the label's outer orbits. Ever notice how "Is This Thing On?" starts the way your heart will sometimes skip a beat? Or how "Forget Me" has the quality of light filtered through overhead leaves? Or the consonance between "Raspberry Rush" and a particularly slow-running stream? How about the instinct for tangibility and the pointillism of emotional sense-memory displayed by "Red and Blue Jeans" and "Pink Chimneys"? Nothing Feels Good is emo's greatest achievement because if emo is supposed to be shaped to your life, then no album is more finely whittled to those dimensions. And, at least in part, we have Jade Tree to thank for that.
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The entire 2014-15 NHL preseason schedule
Just a quick reminder: The Rangers actually have some home preseason games for the first time in four years.
The entire 2014-15 NHL preseason schedule Just a quick reminder: The Rangers actually have some home preseason games for the first time in four years. Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/VDc8IS
Rick Carpiniello, rcarpini@lohud.com Published 2:00 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2014
Just a quick reminder: The Rangers actually have some home preseason games for the first time in four years. They report for physicals Sept. 18, are on the ice for training camp Sept. 19 (one month from today), and begin the preseason at home against the Devils Sept. 22.
From the NHL:
2014 NHL PRESEASON BEGINS SUNDAY, SEPT. 21
NEW YORK (August 19, 2014) --The National Hockey League announced today the composite schedule for the 2014 preseason, which opens on Sunday, Sept. 21.
Highlighting the 15-day, 105-game slate is the 2014 Kraft Hockeyville game from Sylvan Lake, Alta., on Wednesday, Sept. 24. The people of Sylvan Lake, winners of the Canada-wide Kraft Hockeyville competition, will celebrate the grand prize when the Arizona Coyotes and Calgary Flames visit their community and face off at the Sylvan Lake Multiplex. The game will be broadcast live on CBC in Canada and NHL Network in the United States at 7 p.m., ET/5 p.m., MT.
Preseason games also are scheduled in Bridgeport, Conn. (Boston vs. NY Islanders, Oct. 3); Brooklyn, N.Y. (New Jersey vs. NY Islanders, Sept. 26); Colorado Springs, Colo. (Colorado vs. Los Angeles, Oct. 2); Kansas City, Mo. (Dallas vs. St. Louis, Sept. 27); Las Vegas, Nev. (Colorado vs. Los Angeles, Oct. 4); London, Ont. (Philadelphia vs. Toronto, Sept. 22); Quebec City, Que. (Colorado vs. Montreal, Sept. 26); St. John's, Nfld. (NY Islanders vs. Ottawa split-squad doubleheader, Sept. 22); Saskatoon, Sask. (Chicago vs. Edmonton, Sept. 28) and Stockton, Calif. (San Jose vs. Vancouver, Sept. 23).
The 2014-15 NHL regular season opens Wednesday, Oct. 8.
2014 NHL PRESEASON SCHEDULE (all times Eastern)
Columbus (split squad) at Carolina, 1:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Washington, 5 p.m.
St. Louis at Columbus (split squad), 6 p.m.
Calgary (split squad) at Edmonton (split squad), 8 p.m.
Edmonton (split squad) at Calgary (split squad), 8 p.m.
NY Islanders vs. Ottawa, at St. John's, Nfld. (Mile One Centre, split-squad doubleheader), 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
New Jersey at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia (split-squad), 7 p.m.
Philadelphia (split squad) vs. Toronto, at London, Ont. (Budweiser Gardens), 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
St. Louis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Anaheim (split squad) at Colorado (split squad), 9 p.m.
Colorado (split squad) at Anaheim (split squad), 10 p.m.
Los Angeles (split squad) at Arizona (split squad), 10 p.m.
Arizona (split squad) at Los Angeles (split squad), 10:30 p.m.
Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Boston at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
San Jose (split squad) at Vancouver (split squad), 9 p.m.
Arizona at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
San Jose (split squad) vs. Vancouver (split squad), at Stockton, Calif. (Stockton Arena), 10:30 p.m.
Washington at Boston, 7 p.m.
Carolina at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.
Arizona vs. Calgary, at Sylvan Lake, Alta. (Sylvan Lake Multiplex), 7 p.m.
Ottawa (split squad) at Toronto (split squad), 7:30 p.m.
Toronto (split squad) at Ottawa (split squad), 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
New Jersey at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Columbus at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Boston at Washington, 7 p.m.
Colorado vs. Montreal, at Quebec City, Que. (Colisée Pepsi), 7 p.m.
New Jersey vs. NY Islanders, at Brooklyn, N.Y. (Barclays Center), 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
NY Rangers at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Arizona at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Columbus at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
Boston at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Dallas vs. St. Louis, at Kansas City, Mo. (Sprint Center), 8 p.m.
Winnipeg at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Anaheim at San Jose, 8 p.m.
Florida at Nashville (split-squad doubleheader), 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Chicago vs. Edmonton, at Saskatoon, Sask. (Credit Union Centre), 6 p.m.
Washington at Montreal, 6 p.m.
Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
MONDAY, SEPT. 29
Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Columbus at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Florida at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Arizona at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
NY Islanders at Boston, 7 p.m.
NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Carolina at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Colorado at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1
Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Montreal at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Arizona at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCT. 2
Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.
NY Islanders at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Minnesota at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Winnipeg at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Vancouver at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Colorado vs. Los Angeles, at Colorado Springs, Colo. (Broadmoor World Arena), 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCT. 3
Buffalo at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Chicago at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Boston vs. NY Islanders, at Bridgeport, Conn. (Webster Bank Arena), 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 4
Detroit at Boston, 5:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.
NY Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Florida at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Columbus, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Calgary at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
San Jose at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Colorado vs. Los Angeles, at Las Vegas, Nev. (MGM Grand Garden Arena), 10 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCT. 5
Carolina at Washington, 3 p.m.
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I thought I remember seeing how to add a piece of code into the embed code for a custom thank you confirmation message that pops up upon a form submission in 2.0 Forms. But I don't see it now. I don't want to direct people to a different landing page, or to have the form disappear with no message. I have my form in a lightbox, and i would like a confirmation message in a lightbox once the Submit button is clicked.
Does anyone know what this piece of code is and where it needs to be placed? Thanks!
You need to use the forms 2.0 API to block the display of the follow-up page and unhide a confirmation message that you had set and hidden in the page.
There's no one "piece of code" because there are several different methods for replacing HTML content. You really should search the Community more deeply so we don't have to repeat a/the solution again.
Instead of setting textContent, you could set innerHTML. Or, far more elegantly, you can reveal a previously hidden HTML container in the lightbox. This container could itself be stored in a Rich Text field on the form (which is nice for maintenance). Like I said, there's no one answer.
It's not easy to find in the community. You're comment is a bit crass and unhelpful.
My first comment contains working code and guidance for alternate approaches; in my follow-up. I rewrote and fixed Anastasia's code in my own sandbox. I feel certain that once you have you have contributed as much code as I have, you will be similarly frustrated at duplicating the same steps in multiple threads.
Sanford, I did get Marketo creative services to help me with the previous piece of code. I tuned out very complicating.
Now I am struggling with a different code where I also need a message to pop up. But the suggestions from your links didn't work for me.
I am not displaying it on a Marketo landing page, but the main website.
This is a step-by-step solution for same-page Thank You text. It uses my own particular style -- not the only way, but a reliable and manageable take on the task.
Thanks for your reply. I really don't have any code knowledge and the article doesn't explain where the code is supposed to go within the original form embed code.
The suggested code doesn't have any info on the munchkin code and the form ID. For users like me, it is not helpful.
The extended form behavior code doesn't go within the form embed code, it goes after the standard form embed code.
So there's no need to specify the Munchkin ID nor the Form ID, since it works with whatever form(s) you have embedded on the page.
If you're not comfortable with the structure of an HTML doc (i.e. where to place <script> elements vs other HTML elements) you'd probably benefit from engaging a developer for this very small project. It doesn't require a coder per se but you need to know how pages are laid out in general.
Ok I see what you mean. So this code would be a layer on top of the form on the Marketo landing page, right?
I sent the request to our web developers, as the form need to live out our company website. I assume they shouldn't have an issue with figuring out layers there.
I'm hesitant to use terms like "layer" or "on top of" since scripts aren't part of the visible layout. But I'm sure they'll know what to do.
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John IV de SUTTON [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 6 6 Dec 1361 in Coleshill, Warwickshire, England. He died 7 10 Mar 1396 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England. John married Joan on 1379 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England.
Joan 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 1363 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England. She died 5 Apr 1408 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England. Joan married John IV de SUTTON on 1379 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England.
They had the following children:
M i Sir John V de SUTTON Knight was born 1380 and died 3 Sep 1406.
Sir Rhys GRIFFITH Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1335 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England. He died May 1380 in Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Rhys married Margaret ZOUCHE on 1373 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England.
Other marriages:
STACKPOLE, Isabel de
Margaret ZOUCHE 1, 2 was born 1353 in Codnor, Derbyshire, England. She married Sir Rhys GRIFFITH Knight on 1373 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England.
M i John GRIFFITH 1 was born 1374 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England.
M ii Sir Thomas GRIFFITH Knight was born 1377 and died 1431.
Gilbert II de GANT Earl of Lincoln [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 was born 1118 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. He died 1156 in Bridlington, East Riding, Yorkshire, England. Gilbert married 10 Rohese de CLARE on 1143 in Bridlington, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.
Rohese de CLARE [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. She married 6 Gilbert II de GANT Earl of Lincoln on 1143 in Bridlington, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.
FITZ ROBERT, Robert
F i Alice de GANT was born 1145 and died 1185.
Sir Mark HUSEE Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1315 in Hascombe, Surrey, England. He died Feb 1346 in Hascombe, Surrey, England. Mark married Margaret de VERDUN on Oct 1338 in Hascombe, Surrey, England.
Margaret de VERDUN [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 was born 10 Aug 1310 in Alton Castle, Staffordshire, England. She died Oct 1363 in Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, England. Margaret married Sir Mark HUSEE Knight on Oct 1338 in Hascombe, Surrey, England.
BLOUNT, William le Knight
CROPHULL, John de Knight
Sir John de CROPHULL Knight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1312 in Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, England. He died 3 Jul 1383 in Bosworth, Leicestershire, England. John married Margaret de VERDUN on 1348 in Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, England.
, Joan
Margaret de VERDUN [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 was born 10 Aug 1310 in Alton Castle, Staffordshire, England. She died Oct 1363 in Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, England. Margaret married Sir John de CROPHULL Knight on 1348 in Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, England.
HUSEE, Mark Knight
M i Sir Thomas de CROPHULL Knight was born 1350 and died 18 Nov 1381.
Phillip GOSS 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 1650 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He died 28 May 1698 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. Phillip married Mary PRESCOTT on 29 Mar 1690 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Mary PRESCOTT [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 20 Feb 1670 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died 1719 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mary married Phillip GOSS on 29 Mar 1690 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
HOUGHTON, John
Lieutenant John HOUGHTON [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 13 Feb 1673 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died Apr 1724 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. John married Mary PRESCOTT on 20 Nov 1698 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
GULLIVER, Sarah
Mary PRESCOTT [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 20 Feb 1670 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died 1719 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mary married Lieutenant John HOUGHTON on 20 Nov 1698 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
GOSS, Phillip
Lieutenant John HOUGHTON [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 13 Feb 1673 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died Apr 1724 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. John married Sarah GULLIVER on 7 Jan 1720 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts.
PRESCOTT, Mary
Sarah GULLIVER 1, 2 was born 26 Oct 1691 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts. She died after 5 Apr 1724. Sarah married Lieutenant John HOUGHTON on 7 Jan 1720 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Ebenezer PRESCOTT [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 6 Jul 1682 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. He married 4 Ruth HOBART on 5 Dec 1711 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Ruth HOBART 1, 2 was born 1690 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She married 3 Ebenezer PRESCOTT on 5 Dec 1711 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Sir Edmund de STAFFORD Earl of Stafford [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 was born 2 Mar 1378 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. He died 21 Jul 1403 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Edmund married Anne of GLOUCESTER Countess of Stafford on Jun 1398 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
Anne of GLOUCESTER Countess of Stafford [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 was born May 1383 in Pleshey, Essex, England. She died 16 Oct 1438 in Little Easton, Essex, England. Anne married Sir Edmund de STAFFORD Earl of Stafford on Jun 1398 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
STAFFORD, Thomas de Earl of Stafford
BOURCHIER, William Count of Eu
F i Philippe STAFFORD 1 was born 1399 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
F ii Anne STAFFORD was born 1400 and died 24 Sep 1432.
M iii Sir Humphrey STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham was born 15 Aug 1402 and died 10 Jul 1460.
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Fogelman Partnerships acquire apartment communities in Greenville, SC and Overland Park, KS totaling 700 units
Memphis-based Fogelman Properties announced today the acquisition of Polos at Hudson Corner Apartments in Greenville, SC and Cambridge Square Apartments in Overland Park, KS.
Polos at Hudson Corner is a 292 unit community built in 1998 and offers one, two and three bedroom apartment homes, with rental rates ranging from $740 – $1,169 per month. The property benefits from a highly desirable residential location in Northeast Greenville, with strong surrounding corporate employers such as Michelin's North America Headquarters and BMW's largest Us manufacturing facility.
Cambridge Square is a 408 unit community built in 2001 and offers one, two and three bedroom apartment homes, with rental rates ranging from $935 – $1,525 per month. The property features a premier infill location in Overland Park adjacent to class A office and retail development, and locaed I close proximity to the 4.7m square foot Cerner Campus and $100m University of Kansas hospital.
Fogelman acquired Polos at Hudson Corner in a joint venture with Dallas-based Thackeray Partners and marks the 4th multi-family acquisition by the Fogelman/Thackeray partnership, while Cambridge Square was acquired in a joint venture with San Francisco-based Bridge Partners and marks the 3rd multi-family acquisition by the Fogelman/Bridge partnership. Commenting on the two recent acquisitions, Rick Fogelman said "We are extremely excited about both of these new communities as we were able to expand our presence Kansas and South Carolina by purchasing two quality assets in very strong locations surrounding by stable and growing corporate employers.
Additionally, comprehensive improvements we have planned at both properties should further cement each properties' market position."
Fogelman Management Group will manage the newly acquired properties. Founded in 1963 and headquarters in Memphis, TN, the firm presently manages 84 apartment communities totally more than 25,000 apartment homes throughout the Southeast, Southwest and Midwest. The company has more than 600 full time associates.


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Designing of drainage systems for prevention or liquidation of waterlogging must meet the requirements of the Construction Standards and Regulations SNiP 2.06.14-85 and SNiP II-52-74. At that, drainage systems with gravity water diversion are more preferable. Drainage systems with pumped water evacuation will require additional expenditure.
Depending on hydrogeological conditions, horizontal, vertical and combined drainages are laid.
Construction of horizontal drainage by the surface trench and trenchless way is dictated by financial viability.
In all cases of use of vertical drainage its water intake section needs to be placed in highly permeable soils.
In closed drainage systems, sand & gravel, claydite, clinker, polymeric and other materials are used as filter and filter package. The thickness and grading of sand and gravel is selected according to the requirements of the Construction Standards and Regulations SNiP 2.06.14-85. Filters in the form of sand-gravel packages or covers made from artificial fiber materials should be provided for around drainage pipes.
When constructing any type of drainage, the following primary and secondary processes and procedures are to be carried out. For horizontal subsurface drainage, the primary processes include the following: installation of a trench or a slit trench of target depth and designed slope gradient; installation of drainage pipes; arrangement of filter protective layer; connection of the drains with a collector; primary padding of drainage pipes; and control of the quality of the construction works. Secondary production processes can be divided into preparatory and final ones. Preparatory processes include setting out of drainage system components; preparation of building easements; and delivery of construction equipment and required materials. At the final stage of construction, the following works are carried out: refilling of trenches; restoring of topsoil on the building easement and its leveling; building of surface inlets; installation of drains. Under high groundwater level, additional measures for lowering it in the zone of laying of drainage pipes often needs to be implemented. It can be a preliminary lowering of groundwater levels by using a system of open canals, pilot drains; unwatering installations of different types. Light and vacuum wellpoint systems are applied with required water lowering depth up to 5.5 m. Ejector wellpoint sytems can help performing preparatory lowering of groundwater levels down to 10-20 m, which allows addressing almost all the problems occurring at industrial and urban construction in areas requiring protection against waterlogging.
Horizontal subsurface drainage can be built by wide-trench, trench, narrow-trench and trenchless methods.
Wide-trench method of construction is applied with high groundwater level. A trench of compound trapezoidal form with stick is dug by single-bucket excavators. Pipes depending on diameter are laid manually or by means of hoisting cranes. Such a scheme does not require preliminary water lowering. Groundwater accumulates in a trench situated lower than flange and flows towards the outfall drain.
Trench method consists in excavation of a trench with bottom width of 0.5 m and more, into which pipes or tubes of any suitable material can be laid by specialized layers or manually.
With narrow-trench method they arrange a trench 25-40 cm wide, which much reduces the volume of excavated ground, but makes impossible for workers to descend into the trench and requires use of special drain-laying excavators.
•	machines that lay factory-built pipes into a slit trench; •	machines that pull factory-built pipes into "mole's cavity"; •	machines that lay pipes formed during building of drainage belts into a slit trench; •	machines that make pipes during building process by means of delivering different materials forming hard permeable structure into "mole's cavity".
Machines of the first and third groups are the most capable. Machines of the second group are not reliable enough because pipes get damaged by stone and other inclusions and the water intakes holes of the pipes get closed. Machines of the fourth group have not become widespread because of technical difficulties with even feed of the material from which pipe is formed and its compaction in "mole's cavity".
When laying a factory-built drainage pipe, it is laid on the bottom of the slit trench cut by a drainage machine from above through a skid conveyor (or pipe). When the pipe end is fastened in drain opening, working motion of the machine starts for laying a drainage line.
To connect a drain with closed drainage collector, an outside drainage pit is made, into which the movable object of an excavator-drainage machine is brought down together with a bunker of sand and gravel mixture. In the collector pipe, a hole is made, through which water is received through drains. The drain pipe is fastened in lead-in outside drainage pit with a hold-down fork. If the collecting drain flows into an open collector, there is no need for a lead-in outside drainage pit, because the movable object of the excavator-drainage machine can be descended directly into a canal. During cutting-pass of the excavator-drainage machine a pipe goes down from a reel stand, comes through the bunker by guiding devices to the slit trench cut by the movable object of the machine and is descended to the bottom packed by a layer of protective filtering material, which pours out through the hole of the bunker. The drainage pipeline source is formed till rising of the drainage machine's movable object. The pipe is cut and shut by a solid plug. The process of drain building by the narrow-trench method is executed in similar manner.
The building is to be carried out beginning from collectors and high-order drains. Trenching and laying of drainage pipes should be carried out from the outlet to the head (from the bottom upwards).
Refilling of the drainage trenches should be carried out in two stages: padding of drains and final filling. Padding of drains is to be implemented mechanically immediately after laying the pipes. The padding material must not contain stones more than 5 cm in diameter and frozen soil clods more than 10 cm in diameter. Final refilling of the drainage trench is to be carried out by bulldozer when it moves along the trench center line or at an angle of 30° at most. Refilling is to be carried out from its head to outlet. When drain laying by trenchless drainage machine is over, the slit trench is to be closed up. Drainage outlets and wells are to be installed simultaneously with laying of drainage pipes.
In the course of the in-process inspection of the quality of the works being performed, it is necessary to examine for compliance with the design and requirements these regulations: position of drain center lines; thickness of topsoil stripping (when digging a trench by a single- bucket excavator); slope of a drainage trench; elevation of outside drainage pit for embedding of trenchless drainage machine's movable object; diameter of drainage pipes and their protection by filtering material.


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Lithuania officially becomes the 36th OECD member
Lithuania has completed the three year-long process and has officially become the 36th member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), following the deposit of the ratification instrument of the accession to the OECD Convention with the French government on Thursday morning.
It is only symbolic that, at the same time in Vilnius, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has met with OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría and thanked him for supporting Lithuania's accession to the OECD as well as for the constructive cooperation with the OECD Secretariat throughout the Lithuania's accession process.
'We are excited, and at the same time we are proud of our country's progress and international recognition. We have succeeded to become a member of this reputed organisation in a record time', said the Prime Minister.
Angel Gurría welcomed the completed structural reforms and the six ones currently in the pipeline. In his words, this is real progress for the country. The OECD leader introduced the 2018 economic survey of Lithuania. The OECD's assessments and trends in economic development are similarly seen by the Government. Government-initiated structural reforms in the fields of taxation, pensions, education, health, innovation, shadow reduction are in line with most of the OECD recommendations. The population will get the real feel of the benefits of the reforms already in 2019, which are expected to further improve in the future.
Saulius Skvernelis has emphasised that Lithuania's strategic goal is to become the most competitive country in the region as regards investment attraction, labour taxation and quality of life, and it will continue to seek to actively cooperate with the OECD in the implementation of the reforms. Lithuania is eager to take on board the expertise and experience provided by this organisation.
'As a member of the OECD, Lithuania will have the opportunity, together with other advanced countries in the world, to find the most effective ways of addressing problems and challenges, to be a part of the 'home to best practice'. We are ready to contribute to the strengthening of the OECD and taking an active part in the work of the OECD', said the Prime Minister.
Lithuania completed its accession negotiations back in April this year. Our OECD membership will increase foreign direct investment, contribute to a more favourable credit-rating, reduce borrowing costs, and facilitate access to international financial markets. Joining the so-called club of successful economies, Lithuania will raise its international political profile. Not only does the OECD promote economic reforms but it also shapes a global vision on how to respond to global challenges. Therefore, Lithuania's participation in yet another influential world organisation will strengthen the national security of the country, will give an opportunity to express its opinion and be heard on the issues of international agenda that are relevant to us.
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Q: Calculate a p-value for SVM-plots on Iris dataset (2D-data) I analyzed the Iris dataset by using the Python libraries: Matplotlib, seaborn, sklearn and mlxtend. An example of a plot is shown :

and my code is :
def create_svm_plot(value1, value2, shape):

    from sklearn import svm
    from mlxtend.plotting import plot_decision_regions
    # First, we'll import pandas, a data processing and CSV file I/O library
    import pandas as pd
    # We'll also import seaborn, a Python graphing library
    import warnings # current version of seaborn generates a bunch of
    warnings that we'll ignore
    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
    import seaborn as sns
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    X = iris[[value1, value2]]
    y = iris['SpecieID']

    plt.figure(figsize=(16,8))

    if shape == "round":
        clf = svm.SVC(decision_function_shape = 'ovo')
    elif shape == "linear":
        clf = svm.SVC(C=0.5, kernel='linear')
    else:
        raise NameError('Shape must be round of linear')
    clf.fit(X.values, y.values)

    # Plot Decision Region using mlxtend's awesome plotting function
    plot_decision_regions(X=X.values,
                          y=y.values,
                          clf=clf)

    # Update plot object with X/Y axis labels and Figure Title
    plt.xlabel(X.columns[0], size=14)
    plt.ylabel(X.columns[1], size=14)
    plt.title('SVM Decision Region Boundary : ' + value1 + " and " + value2, size=16)

    legend = plt.legend()
    legend.get_texts()[0].set_text('Iris-setosa')
    legend.get_texts()[1].set_text('Iris-versicolor')
    legend.get_texts()[2].set_text('Iris-virginica')

create_svm_plot('SepalLengthCm', 'SepalWidthCm', "linear")

My question is : is there any way to calculate a p-value for this plots?
I also made a 1D SVM plot and I used an ANOVA test to calculate the p-value of the three groups. But in this case the data is 2D and divided in three groups, so I am trying to find a way to calculate the p-value for this data.

A: SVM from sklearn has an additional input argument: probability=True:
probability : boolean, optional (default=False)
Whether to enable probability estimates. This must be enabled prior to calling fit, and will slow down that method.
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.svm.SVC.html
Note that the interpretation of these probabilities differs from that of  frequentist statistics (p-values). The returned probabilities are estimates of posterior probabilities, i.e. probabilities for a particular iris species given the features (e.g. sepal widths and lengths).

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Ugh. And I was lamenting on our blog today about losing out on $80 that I lost due to pre-paying. $4500? That hurts.
ouch. That really burns. I can't believe the management would let that spiral so hard.
In retrospect, I was lucky with pre-payment. I pre-paid the majority of our wedding expenses (pretty much everything but the venue) because it was simpler to not have to bring checks day-of. I would have been fairly SOL had any of those fallen through.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that– you're good if you prepay with credit card.
Yikes! I am so sorry that you got ripped off to such an extent. I pay for my daycare one month at a time just because I don't want to forget to pay on Fridays. Is there any way that you could sue in small claims court or anything?
Only if it doesn't go out of business. If it goes out of business then we do a bankruptcy claim, and we're last on the list to be paid.
Oh criminy, how awful for you! What's your backup childcare plan now?
DC1's private school has 4 slots in their age-appropriate preschool room, so ze'll start there tomorrow. It isn't as great quality (the place that just shut down was truly wonderful developmentally), but it's also not bad quality either. And it's very convenient– just one stop.
I will miss my 14 month old cleaning up after hirself (Montessori training in action). But at 18 mo, ze can go to another Montessori in town where it turns out that one of DC1's favorite teachers from back when ze was at the old daycare now works. I'll be happy to see Miz R too– I really liked her!
And we can afford the 4.5K, but man, it hurts. I had to finally bite the bullet and stop extra 403(b) payments, something I'd been hoping to avoid. So, "first world problems". Contrast that with our depressing update on the lower income relatives this Wednesday. They're grateful for an anonymous $200 donation to help with gas and food.
My worst experience is when I pre-payed a vacation rental and it wasn't until after the full payment that the owner send me a multipage one sided contract (that was very different from the one pager he had previously sent me). Signature was mandatory or keys would not be issued. He had my money, what do you do now? Anyway, I won't do that again despite the fact that I had previous rental experiences that were very positive.
I also paid a contractor for plumbing supplies for a bathroom remodel and then he gambled the cash away at Foxwoods. He eventually did do the work because he was recommended by a slum lord friend who kept him employed, so she helped remedy the situation. When I called her, she was like..what, you gave him cash..never give him cash..buy the stuff yourself and don't pay him anything til the job is complete. Oops. How was I supposed to know he had a gambling problem?
All in all, I didn't have too many issues.
Oh, wow, that's horrible! You've lost the money and you've lost the school, too. A school with great training and a reasonable director. Ugh!
And there were no signs of problems at all! So now I'm rationalizing that my insurance company and that my gym are chains, so I'm probably still safe. Even though I do like to learn the easy way. Cognitive dissonance!
And also, I'm wondering how much you saved over the years (~$888/year?) and so if you really stand to lose less than the $4500 you mentioned, but if you paid in May, that implies you've only gotten a few months of service and so you may have already taken that into account.
Good luck getting this money back and finding a new place.
Yeah, we prepaid about 8K. And DC2 is only 14 months, so we don't have years worth of savings!
Oh yuck, I'm sorry. The preschool DS no longer went to (just because he had started K, no problems) had somewhat similar problems (embezzlement, maybe, or perhaps a variant thereof e.g. one person grabbing operating-budget money and hanging onto it until some interpersonal dispute was resolved? I don't know details) and I was glad not to get entangled, though my understanding is that it all eventually got satisfactorily resolved at least from the perspective of parents using the school (i.e. it still exists, people still like it).
No misadventures here are springing to mind. I try whenever an expense is more than trivial (say, over $50) to prepay using a credit card, if possible, because I then get some protection from the card's protections — but of course those are limited in duration, and only work if a vendor accepts credit card payments on a same-as-cash basis (I am not typically willing to pay a 3-5% surcharge just to use a card…).
Wow that's a lot. We have been burned, but not too badly as we have already gotten our money back.
Yikes! That is terrible. But please also be careful with the non-profit school as well. I think you're placing your confidence in that school for the wrong reason – in other words, continue to pre-pay (if you're confident) because the likelihood that this situation will recur is highly unlikely, not because it is a non-profit. As a fundraiser for an education institution, I can tell you that donations come in good times, not bad. As soon as it looks like there is mismanagement or that things are shaky for any reason, the donations will dry up. Who wants to give to a losing institution? People give so that they can support non-profits that will fulfill their mission, not ones that they fear will take their money and fold.
Oh, the non-profit thing is more for charity and tax aspects– if we lose money we can at least write it off as a donation.
Well, that plus they went through something way worse and raised 500K in a single year already and DH is on the finance committee and we know the finances of the school pretty well. (We have actually donated more money to the private school over the past 2 years than what the Montessori needed to pay off all its outstanding debts. Nobody is going to do that for a for-profit) I can dig up the link to that stressful time during a break.
It's not really stable, but it is able to do amazing amounts of fundraising and the current management is very good, unlike the previous management. So our prepayment there was partly a political vote of confidence in the change in management. Again, we make different decisions for non-profits.
Oh my goodness – that sounds awful. I would freak out.
Just wow. I'm not set up to prepay but that makes me consider not doing so. Ouch.
Yuck, sorry to hear that happened. Not just for the cash (which is bad enough) but for the trauma when you lose a good childcare situation suddenly. Thank goodness you had a back-up option you could start immediately.
Sometimes you get the black swan event. Unfortunately, with small businesses it can take surprisingly little mismanagement to sink the company in a shockingly short time.


To speed the wound healing process, you need to understand what is involved in wound healing. There are three phases: the inflammatory, proliferative, and remodeling phases. What happens in the healing process is a growth of millions of tiny blood vessels producing new capillaries. Wound edges are then pulled together and in the last phase, new collagen forms.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which strengthens us and helps our body fight diseases. A mixture of lemon juice, honey and warm water taken daily in the morning detoxifies our system and improves our immunity.
Metronidazole has also been used to fight odor; when used topically it can eradicate the anaerobes that cause odor. It is easy and convenient, and using Metronidazole topically does not cause the same side effects as using the drug orally can. Several studies have found topical Metronidazole to be an effective odor destroyer.
Calendula Officinalis is a remarkable healing agent, applied locally it is useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. It promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing. For all wounds, the greatest healing agent."
On the other hand exudate from a chronic wound has different composition from an acute wound. Studies show that this exudate shows decreased cellular mitogenic activity in the chronic wound bed.
Hypericum perf. is used for puncture wounds to areas that have a high concentration of nerves like the hands, feet or head. It is specified to nerve pain.
Most wound programs combine traditional medical and surgical care in addition to advanced wound care technologies including but not limited to dressing materials of bioengineered tissue and hyperbaric medicine.
A Home Health agency can regularly clean and treat your wound to help it heal. This can include establishing a program for evidence based topical therapy, such as wound VAC therapy or conservative sharp debridement when ordered and indicated. Sometimes, cauterization hypertrophic granulations tissue and closed wound edges is also ordered and indicated.
Use honey as a first-aid dressing material where there could be time for infection to set in before medical treatment is obtained.


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Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns.
Possessive adjectives don't need apostrophes.
Use the comparative form when comparing two things.
Use the superlative when comparing three or more things.
When numbers are used as adjectives write it as a word, not a numeral.
Never use a pronoun in place of an adjective:
eg. Look at them flowers. 👎 "them" = pronoun
Look at those flowers. 👍 "those"= adjective.
Me or I
How do you know whether to use 'me' or 'I'.
My mother and I talked about my sister and me.
I'll tell you a trick about this
Take the first part of the sentence - My Mother and I , drop the words 'My Mother' and then use it with the verb 'talked'
Which sounds correct 'me talked' or 'I talked' ? Obviously 'I talked' so you go for 'My Mother and I'. Then let's look at the second part of the sentence- 'about my sister and me' . Now drop the words 'my sister and' and look at the sentence
'My Mother and I talked about me',
now check it out with 'I'
'My Mother and I talked about I'
'I' sounds distinctively out of place here.
That's how you can decide and you will never go wrong.
This word is defined as a distinctive way of pronouncing a language , especially one associated with a particular country , area or social class. When you learn a language , the muscles of your tongue learn to say the words of that particular language.
When they learn another language, the muscles of your tongue do not completely erase this 'muscle memory' and that is where an accent develops.
Generally, when one uses this new language often it also has an effect on the language that you learnt earlier, but that is to a lesser extent.
Accents have both positive and negative reactions; on the one hand they make it difficult for a listener to immediately understand what you are saying, but on the other hand it is useful for the listener to recognise the place from where you originated.
Usually, a listener can understand you when you speak repeatedly with them but till the time that they get used to your accent you can achieve concept communication by speaking slowly and clearly as possible .
Funny childhood thoughts
This is from an actual compilation:
" I was three when my mother taught me the song 'Silent Night', with the line 'Sleep in heavenly peace'. I thought that when you went to heaven, you slept on a bed of peas, and if you got hungry, you could eat them. Peas were my favourite vegetable, so heaven sounded really good - Gigi"
Proper Adjectives
Okay, so what is this ? Does it mean that there are improper adjectives also? Of course, there are a multitude of them! Every abuse is one! In this case, we are referring to something quite different- we are referring to adjectives that refer to:-
a person's name,
a specific place or countries,
company names,
brands,
titles of books , movies, songs or other creative works,
names of religions,
nationalities,
months,
days of the week and holidays.
e.g. Their Malaysian neighbour owned an Alfa-Romeo Sports car .
Borborygmus
Relative of a Gorilla? No, it's the rumble in your abdomen. So when you hear your stomach grumble what you are hearing are boborygmi! ( The plural). Children love this word, when they are introduced to it, because of the onomatopoeic nature of this word!.
Mnemonics for 'h' , 'i' and 'j'.
Handkerchief: Hand the chief a handkerchief.
Hoarse: When you are hoarse, you feel as if you have oars in your throat.
Indispensable: That sable coat is indispensable.
Irate: I was rated so low that I was irate.
Jalopy: Lop off those bushes and load them in the jalopy
Jesuit: Can you imagine Jesus in a suit?
Aphilophrenia
WHAT'S THAT??? Aphilophrenia is a feeling of being unloved. It is usually a fleeting feeling that does not last, but that is the word that describes it. It has Greek origins, 'a-philo' meaning not loved, and 'phrenia' meaning mental disorder
Flizzen
This word describes a manner of laughter, where the person laughs using every facial muscle. Frankly, I can't say that I have seen this happening because I don't even know how many facial muscles are there to check and tick off the boxes about how many muscles are being used! I know that I have laughed heartily at many a joke and even at the movies, where a particular scene is hilarious - remembering Mr Bean (Mr Rowan Atkinson)!
Shoeflower
Have you ever wondered why a Shoeflower is called so? It does not look like a shoe, nor does it have the colour of a shoe. I did and so researched this, and this is what I found: The shoe flower was used to polish shoes at one time. That is why it is called a Shoeflower.
When I was young I believed that windmills in farmers' fields were used to keep the cows cool.
Mnemonics for words beginning with 'e', 'f' and 'g'
environment: "Lots of iron is in the environment."
escape: "It's essential to escape."
especially: "I especially enjoy ESP."
exceed: "Don't exceed the speed limit."
expensive: "Those pens were expensive."
familiar: "That liar looks familiar."
February: "Brr, it's cold in February."
generally: "The general is your ally."
grammar: "Bad grammar will mar your chances for a good job."
SImilé
No, that is not French for 'smile' - it is a Figure of Speech! Often when we make comparisons between two things of a different nature, to describe something, perhaps a person, a situation or an object.
For example, we could say, while describing a fight, " Henry fought like a tiger".
Another example would be "P.T. Usha ran like a gazelle"
These figures of speech are introduced in a sentence by the adverbs: like, so, as, as...as. These similés, aid the readers' imagination and every author of repute has used them at some time or the other.
Today, I came across a new meaning for the word 'spindle', in the latest National Geographic August 2018 edition. There was this article on 'Sleep- Inside the new Science of Slumber' and it described an activity of our brains, which takes place in the cerebral cortex. This is the part of the brain that we use for thinking, language and generally of consciousness. These are half-second bursts of electrical activity that signify that we have entered the second phase of sleep.
Traditionally, spindles are "a straight spike usually made from wood in order to spin textile fibre into thread. There are parts of machines also called spindles.
Quotation marks
Quotation marks were invented by a librarian in the great library of Alexandria, called Aristarchus of Samothrace (born 217 BB - died 145 BC), the sixth Librarian of that wonderful institution, when editing some of its works, placing the "diples" to indicate that he thought the work was extraordinary
These are conjunctions that introduce subordinate clauses into a complex sentence: Some examples are:-
although
as though
in order that
so... that
whilst
Strange words
Clinomania: Excessive desire to stay in bed.
Euneirophrenia: The peace of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams.
Basorexia: The overwhelming desire to kiss.
Querencia: A place from which one's strength is drawn, where one feels at home; the place where one can be oneself
Tsundoku: buying books and not reading them
The endings -ion, sion and -tion
These suffixes mean 'a state of', 'act of' and 'result of':-
celebration: The act of honouring a particular event
incarceration: The state of being imprisoned.
infection: the result of exposure to germs.
I cannot watch TV and write a blog at the same time, multi-tasking is not my strength! Anyway, I am reading a book by Tim Allen, titled " I'm not really here". It is hilarious, and it makes me wonder how people can be so funny!
It starts, I suppose, by seeing the world is a different way that most of us see it. I am amazed at how Mr Allen sees the world in such a humourous way. I almost considered spelling 'humourous' in the American way, as Grammarly is trying to get me to do, but just because I'm writing about an American does not mean I should use their spellings too, does it?
Funny stuff is the same in any language, and everybody enjoys humour, but not everyone has that funny bone tickling all the time. I think of George Mikes, to whom I was first exposed to when got a book written by him as a prize from the South Indian Education Society College of Arts and Science. I had read other funny books, but this book gave me a fuller appreciation of Humour as Literature.
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Crutch words
I never knew what term to use for words used ad nauseum by teenagers and some post-teenagers these days. Yes, I am referring to the word 'like'. Listen to any teenage conversation and it goes "I'm like, I don't want to go for this movie", "I'm like, noooo, please don't call me for this".
Now, I've finally found out what such words are called; they are Crutch words!! Not Crotch words, Crutch words.
Spoken by those with a reported speech deficiency, these words are used like a filler ad and are equally annoying!
Writing and penmanship
The former deals with the skill of written communication while the latter is about scripting manually in a certain manner, better or worse. Today the latter does not give me much heartache, but once my penmanship was akin to the marks made by a spider that accidentally jumped into a bottle of ink and ran across a page.
The computer has almost killed penmanship but has given a great fillip to writing! You can correct spelling errors, rearrange trains of thought, check grammar and even check for plagiarism.
Alas, you have to learn to type and He of the Fat Fingers, struggles...
'Much'
This is an interesting quantifier in that it is largely used with uncountable nouns.
I didn't use much dye.
I used much of the memory.
I didn't take much of it.
I didn't eat much.
It tends to be used more in general statements like:
Much nonsense has been propagated through superstition.
We have much to be annoyed about.
it is often used with negative word or question
Peter never had much success in his medical practice.
Do you do much directing these days?
KINDS OF ADJECTIVES
Adjectives can broadly be classified as gradable or non-gradable. What does this mean?
1) Gradable adjectives can form comparatives and superlatives. They can be used with words that intensify their meaning like 'very' or moderate their meaning like 'fairly'.
2) Non-gradable adjectives don't for comparative and superlatives. They can be used with words that emphasize the nature like 'fairly'.
This phrase means several things:
1) to include: The German Chancellor took in several Islamic migrants.
2) to deceive: Religious radicals don't take rational people in.
3) to make smaller: When my weight dropped, I had to take in my dresses.
English words of Russian origin
Agitprop: This word means the use of political propaganda in literature, art, music, drama etc and is derived partly from the Russian word 'agitatsiya', as per the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Disinformation: Derived from the Russian word 'dezinformatsiya', used in Russian since the 1930's, meaning what we call 'fake news' today.
Czar: Meaning King/Emperor.
Intelligentsia: referring to the class of intelligent people of a population.
Words of Hebrew Origin
Ruthless: Okay this word is based on a Moabite Princess, Ruth, whose life was all about kindness and giving, lavishing care on her mother-in-law and everyone else. So one who is ruthless is the opposite of this.
Leviathan: This comes from the Hebrew word for whale, leviaton.
Abracadabra: Derived from the Hebrew words a'bra and k'dabra which means I will create as I speak!
Camel: This is derived from the 3rd letter Hebrew alphabet, called gimmel, which looks like a camel. This got corrupted to Gamal and then to 'camel'.
Sapphire: This is derived from the Hebrew word, sappir which means as blue as the skies.
The origin of the word Admiral
This word is derived from the Arabic word 'Amir'- in 1072 the Romans defeated Arabs on the island of Sicily, where the Arab nobles were called amirs, (emirs in current Arabic). Arabs had been ruling Sicily for about 300 years, so they gave their new governor the name 'Amir ' with the Latin grammar suffix -atus, to for the word 'Amiratus' and he was in charge of the navy of the island. This was the start of the title representing 'commander of the seas'. The insertion of the 'd' came later as a variation of the verb 'admire' and the title admiral was created
English words from the Caribbean
Barbecue: Originally Barbacoa, this got altered to barbecue
Canoe: Originally canoa, in Spanish this got modified to canoe.
Guava: Originally Guyaba a Spanish corruption of the Arawak name wayaba.
Hammocks: Originally hamaka in Taino, a Caribbean language.
Maize: Originally Mahios in Taino.
Tobacco: Originally tabaco a Taino word for a pipe.
Okay, half a dozen is enough for now!
Acronyms are pronounceable words that are made from the initial letters or parts of words.
Some words that you may not recognise as acronyms are given below:
Nazi = actually an acronym for Nationalsozialist Party
Nato = an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Aids = an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Care = it is also an acronym for Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe
Swat = Special Weapons And Tactics
Who wouldn't like to have lots of them? Did you know that the word Dollar came from the German word 'Thaler', which is an abbreviation of the word 'Joachimsthaler', which is because the metal for the coin came from a town called Jachymov, currently in the Czech Republic!
called The study of the history or the origin of words is called Etymology.
Let's get this show on the road!
This is about some idioms:
let's get this show on the road = let's get this project started.
Don't be a wet blanket = Don't be someone who kills enthusiasm with pessimism.
Show ...... the ropes = teach someone how to do something.
Talking through your hat = Talking about a subject that you are not thorough with.
Show one's true colours = Letting someone know who you really are.
The prefix In-
Consider the words below:
You can change the entire meaning of the word to its antonym by using this prefix
The _ ic suffix
Consider the following words
These nouns can be converted to adjectives using the suffix -ic
cosmos becomes cosmic
karma becomes karmic
german becomes germanic
mania becomes manic
idiot becomes idiotic
Words that English has borrowed from Afrikaans
Just in case you don't know Afrikaans is the language the people of European Origin spoke in South Africa. It sort of sounds like Dutch, because most of these people were Dutch, to begin with!😀
Apartheid - which is the most common one, and literally means 'being apart'
bergwind - a warm wind blowing from the plateau to the coast
biltong - a dried strip of beef, just like jerky
Boer - which literally means farmer
highveld - a plateau
kraal - a village within a stockade
rooibos - a tea made from a plant, literally this word means red bush
trek - which originally meant 'to haul'
A metaphor is an implied simile.
Hugh was a tiger in the fight for the castle.
She was fishing for compliments.
The curtain of night falls upon us.
Success has a thousand fathers, but Failure is an orphan.
What is a Dutch clock? a bedpan
What does being in Carey street mean? bankrupt
What is meant by 'a medal showing?' a button of the fly of your trousers being undone.
Why are articles necessary?
Articles are necessary to let the person reading or listening to us know which things or p[eople we are referring to. The article, definite or indefinite as the case may be, lets the reader/listener know which particular or general class of things or people we are discussing. Therefore articles fall into the calss of words called determiners.
As a general rule countable nouns need articles for this purpose.
A person lives in a house, a rabbit lives in a burrow.
Consider the sentence without the articles
Person lives in house, rabbit lives in burrow.
See the effect?
Prepositions that go with 'Favour'
The proposition sets that go with 'Favour' are:
1) in .... of -We are in favour of greater investment
2) with - The president looked upon our proposal with favour.
Ellipsis is when there is an omission of some words that are superfluous or that can be understood from the context.
Where's my pen? On the table!
How did you do in your test today? Passed.
Alice wasn't there for ballet class today and nor was Sally.
Jenny promised to bring the food for the picnic and I the drinks.
These are conjunctions that are commonly used together:
Not only ... but also, e.g. Not only was he stupid but also arrogant.
Neither ... nor, e.g. That is neither here nor there.
Either ... or, e.g. They are either very gifted or very well trained.
Both ... and, e.g. Peter was both excited and delighted.
That the word Nicotine is derived from the name of the French diplomat, Mr Jean Nicot, who introduced tobacco to France?
That the concept of the Teddy bear came about after President Theodore Roosevelt spared the life of a young bear while hunting?
That the guillotine was invented by Joseph Guillotin?
The snack Sandwich was created by the Earl Of Sandwich?
The common thread in these tidbits is that they are EPONYMOUS- they are named after a person connected with them.
Egyptian words used in English
There are several words from Ancient Egyptian that are used in English:
1) Egypt: A corruption of Hikuptah, which itself is a corruption of Hwt-ka-Ptah. Now Ptah happens to be one of their gods.
2) Pharaoh: comes from a modification of the Hebrew word, paroh which is derived from the Egyptian Pra-a, meaning palace.
3) Gum: came from the Egyptian word qym.t.
4) Desert: comes from the word deshret, which means barren.
5) Sphinx: derived from the word Sheshpankh. which means living image
Avoiding Chinglish
Henry has started the School yesterday.
Henry started school yesterday.
Edison discovered many machines
Edison invented many machines
Susan, can you borrow me your book?
Susan, can you lend me your book?
Karl never listens his parents.
Karl never listens to his parents.
My legs are painful.
My legs are paining.
Euphemisms 2
Phrase Meaning
catch a cold - with a zip undone
campaign wife - a mistress
Derbyshire neck - a goitre
fraternal assistance - an invasion
The difference between forego and forgo
Forego is something that happens before, e.g. It is a foregone conclusion that a patriarch will clash with a rebel.
Forgo is to sacrifice, e.g. I must forgo dessert to lose weight.
Awhile , A while
The two words do not mean the same thing:
awhile means for a short time,
e.g. Let's wait awhile
a while means for some time
e.g. She's been gone a while.
What is a busman's holiday? It is to spend a holiday doing what you usually do at work
What are Rag-tag and Bobtail? Everyday commonplace things
To keep one's breath to cool ones porridge? To not argue when it useless to do so.
The prefix cata
catabasis
worsening of something , e.g. health
catachresis
mixed metaphor
a flood
underground graveyard
catafalque
a platform for a coffin
catagenesis
reverse evolution
the most familiar word here; chemical that starts a reaction
waterfall or clouded lens of the eye
catakinesis
state of low energy
state of nervous rigidity
a device for propelling stones
catastasis
catatonia
a kind of mental illness
The prefix 'Cata' means a lowered state.
The importance of Proofreading
In 1631, a Bible was published that listed the Seventh Commandment in Exodus 20:14 as "Thou shalt commit adultery", mistakenly having omitted the word 'not' in the commandment. Naturally, the Church was not amused and fined the publishers severely!
Proofread at least twice, especially if it is a legal document or a document that will be read by the public to avoid extreme embarrassment, if not a lot of money too.
A Euphemism is a figure of speech which describes an unpalatable situation in a palatable way. Some of them are given below in no particular order:
Above your ceiling - Promoted to a level beyond your abilities
Brick short of a load - Of below average intelligence
Costume wedding - Mariage of a pregnant bride
Dark moon - A wife's secret savings
Hang in the bell-ropes - To be dumped
Redundant Phrases 2
Continuing with more redundancies:
Cash money - Cash is always money, delete any one of the words.
close proximity - Ever heard of far proximity? Drop close.
closed fist - A fist is always closed, if not it is a palm. Drop closed.
combined together - What's combined must be together. Get rid of together.
completely unanimous - Wonder what partly unanimous would be? Drop completely.
Cooperate together - Can you cooperate separately? Drop together.
What does this mean exactly? You see this word often in Newspapers and magazines these days reporting some celebrities words, usually when there is some error in the speech/quote.
It means 'in these exact words' and by putting this word in the journalist absolves him/herself from the atrocity committed on the English language, transferring the blame to the celebrity.
That 'vermicelli' is Italian for 'little worms'?
That 'spaghetti' is Italian for 'little strings"?
Crossing of the Bar
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Tennyson has been a favourite of mine, and the Poem above beautifully captures the practicality of the English culture of that age, a stoic and fearless acceptance of Death.
Sometimes, we use phrases that are redundant without realising it.
Some examples are :
advance planning - Planning is always in advance, drop the 'advance'.
and also - only one word is necessary, not both.
as an added bonus- if something is a bonus, it must be added; delete 'added'.
ask the question - You can't ask anything other than a question; drop 'question'.
ATM machine - The M in ATM is fo machine, drop 'machine'.
basic essentials - If they are essentials, they have to be basic. Drop 'basic".
This is a word for a comic icon, an unscrupulous and unreliable valet to a clown, popularised in English in Punch and Judy shows, where Scaramouche is the valet of Punch.
It originated from an Italian performer, Tiberio Fiorillo, who played Scaramouche in another Italian theatre comedy, who had a long moustache and a goatee beard.
The word has become so much of a tradition that it has become an icon, just like Houdini, Casanova, etc. Do you know any scaramouches?
What is a Knob Kerrie?
Is it a town in Ireland?
a term used by builders?
a round-headed stick used as a club and a missile?
Send us your answers to info@theenglishlearningchannel for a prize!
I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west:
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small-
She keeps ten million serving men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes-
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!
From the "The Elephant's Child" by Rudyard Kipling
My note: These men are of the Grammatical species 'Adverbs'
Grammar is a word of Greek origins and is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses. phrases and words in any given natural language. Why Grammar? It is necessary to have these rules to understand the meaning of what is being communicated. Take for example the sentences below:
Boy the green shirt wearing is a.
The boy is wearing a green shirt.
Both sentences have the same words. The second sentence makes it clear that the boy is the one wearing the green shirt, while the first seems to indicate that the green shirt is male if anything at all.
Very different meanings!
An appositive phrase is one that is used just for description and is usually set off by commas.
Example: "The Dead Sea Scrolls, written by an ancient people called the Essenes, shed an interesting light on early Christianity."
Mnemonics for spelling words that begin with 'b', 'c' and 'd'
These are some mnemonics for words that begin with the alphabets beginning with - 'b', 'c' and 'd'.
believe: "Don't believe a lie."
business: "I often take the bus in my business."
calendar: "January is the first month of the calendar."
cemetery: "Epitaphs are found in a cemetery."
defendant: "At a picnic, it would be hard to defend an ant."
dilemma: "Emma faced a dilemma."
doctor: "Get me to a Doctor or else!"
I know this is particularly difficult in English as many words are derived from the languages of the various conquerors of the British Isles, the Saxons, the Vikings, the Angles (yes, there were a people called that and I'm not sure if they were very geometric!😀), the Normans, the Romans and that is why you will often find several words that mean the same thing.
What is a cliché?
A cliche is a clever turn of phrase that has become so familiar that it does not seem so clever any more.
Examples of clichés are :
Slippery as an eel
Happy as a lark
Sharp as a tack
Blind as a bat
Most grammar authors advise you to avoid them, especially in academic writing; but in business writing, they do not seem to mind as long as the meaning conveyed is clear.
A common fault: using adjectives instead of adverbs.
Do not use adjectives where adverbs are needed.
These sentences are wrong:
The contractor worked real quick.
She painted good.
The clock struck loud.
They should be:
The contractor worked really quickly.
She painted well.
The clock struck loudly.
Spelling Mnemonics for words beginning with 'a'
abundance: Is it -ance or -ence? Remember "An abundance of people can dance."
ache: Remember the first letter of each word of this sentence,"Aches Can Hurt Everywhere".
acquire: Most misspellings miss the c. Remember: " I want to ACquire AirConditioning".
across: One c or two? Remember: "Walk across a cross walk"
address: One d or two? Remember: "I'll add you to my address book"
aisle: Remember the first letter of each word of this sentence: "Athletics In Stadiums Looks Easy"
The prefix 'AMBI'
The prefix AMB or AMBI means 'around', 'about', 'both'.It comes from the Latin ambo, ambio, ambitio. This last is the basis for the words ambition and ambitious, especially for candidates seeking election.
AMB le v.
Walk leisurely about
AMBI dexter n.
One who uses both hands adeptly
AMBI dextrous adj.
Using both hands adeptly or skillfully
AMBI tion n.
AMBI tious adj.
Desirous to achieve
AMBI guity n.
Uncertainty of meaning, position
AMBI guous adj.
Where the meaning is uncertain
ambiparous
AMBI parous adj.
that has both leaves and flowers
AMBI t n.
Boundaries of a place or subject
AMBI ent adj.
Surroundings, moving around
ambilateral
AMBI lateral adj.
Relating to both sides
ambivalence
AMBI valence n.
Simultaneous attraction & repulsion
AMBI valent adj.
Being simultaneously attracted & repelled
AMBI vert adj.
One who is both an introvert & extrovert
ambisinister
AMBI sinister adj.
Clumsy with both hands
ambitendency
AMBI tendency n.
Having both tendency and counter-tendency
amburbia
AMBI urbial adj.
Related to circuit of a city
per AMB ulator n.
Wanderer, baby carriage
AMB ulance n.
Vehicle to transport the sick and injured
Mnemonics for spelling words that begin with 'b', ...


Sonoma LAFCO is responsible for establishing, amending, and updating spheres of influence for all cities and special districts within Sonoma County. A Sphere of Influence is defined as the probable physical boundary and service area of a local agency. Territory must be within a city or district's sphere of influence to be considered for annexation to that city or district.
State law requires LAFCOs to, as necessary, review and update spheres every five years. Any interested party may request Sonoma LAFCO consider a sphere of influence amendment during, or in advance of, its regular review and update schedule.