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A Voice for American Consumers
Michael S. Burg February 16, 2018 2:35 PM
Trial lawyers have long served on the front lines of American justice, championing civil rights and safety regulations that have made the country fairer, the environment cleaner, and medicine safer. Their efforts have helped preserve the civil justice system and ensure accountability for American consumers—and, as attorney Michael Burg notes, they are needed now more than ever.
"The framers of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence understood the importance of the jury trial and how vital lawyers are to a civil society," says Burg, founder of the leading plaintiffs' trial firm Burg, Simpson, Eldredge, Hersh & Jardine, PC. "But many of our civil liberties are now under attack, and the only people left to fight for consumer rights are trial lawyers."
Burg has personally served as lead counsel in more than 185 jury trials, including high-profile cases against the financial industry and pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson. His lifelong battle against corporate greed and corruption is chronicled in the recent memoir, Trial by Fire: One Man's Battle to End Corporate Greed and Save Lives, which quickly became an Amazon bestseller following its release last year.
"From the start, I've been inspired by the work of other trial lawyers who have fought so hard to change the world for the better," Burg says. "So, when I look back on the cases I've handled over the years, I take pride in knowing that I've made a contribution to an incredibly important tradition."
Among his notable achievements, Burg recovered $6.4 million in a gas explosion case that prompted dramatic safety changes to a city's pipelines. More recently, he fought an eight-year battle against UBS for knowingly selling risky mortgages to investors, and he filed a sweeping action against 18 California wineries to stop them from selling toxic wine contaminated with arsenic. He is also representing the victims of a company's fraudulent scheme to illegally sell their loved ones' body parts, which were donated for medical research.
In the area of pharmaceutical multidistrict litigation, Burg has achieved many high-profile leadership appointments by federal judges throughout the country: he served as co-lead counsel in the Ortho Evra and Yaz/Yasmin litigations, which resulted in settlements of over $3 billion to more than 10,000 injured women; as a member of the state liaison committee for the Vioxx litigation; and as a member of the executive committee in the Zyprexa litigation, which received a global settlement of more than a billion dollars. He has also taken on Big Pharma in cases concerning the drugs Fen-Phen and Pradaxa.
"Part of what inspired me to become a lawyer and handle these types of cases was finding a biography of Clarence Darrow on my parents' bookshelf at a young age and reading about his contributions," Burg says. "It showed me that trial lawyers truly are protectors of the community who guard the rights of injured individuals."
In 2013, Burg was recognized as being in the same realm as his legal hero when he received the Clarence Darrow Award, one of the most prestigious awards given to trial lawyers. More recently, he has been inducted into the National Trial Lawyers' Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, whose impressive group of honorees includes such legendary trial lawyers as Darrow, Thurgood Marshall, Melvin Belli, and Johnny Cochran.
This year, Burg, along with a third of the firm's other 60-plus litigation attorneys, was named in the 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© in Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs in Denver. He was also listed as the 2018 Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" in Mass Tort Litigations / Class Actions – Plaintiffs in Denver, along with Scott Eldredge, Scott Sullan, and James Heckbert. Given this talent, it should come as no surprise that Burg Simpson has become an institution among plaintiffs' law firms, with a national footprint and a reputation for trial success.
In all, Burg Simpson has recovered more than $1 billion for its clients, including more than 100 verdicts, settlements, and judgments of $1 million or more. The firm also continues to be recognized as a national Tier 1 firm for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs by U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms."
"There aren't many plaintiffs' firms that have achieved track records comparable to ours, and a lot of that has to do with the depth of experience and expertise that we offer clients," Burg says. "People here work day and night to ensure clients receive the highest level of representation—and that is ultimately what allows us to serve as a strong voice for American consumers."
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Wem Town Hall hosts the Wem Town Market every Thursday morning from 8am, which is extended to the Town Square (next to Co-op supermarket in the main town car park). There are a wide range of traders selling fresh, tasty, local produce as well as cards, gifts, clothing, household items and more. Traders enquiries should be directed to WTH reception in the first instance.


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Artesania 18020 Red Dragon Junk Naval Modeling Kit. Build the wooden model of this Chinese boat and add an exotic touch to your modeler's collection. The modeling kit brings all the necessary parts to complete the 1:60 scale model. Enjoy a ship with more
HISTORY OF RED DRAGON CHINESE JUNK: AN EXOTIC WOODEN SHIP MODEL
Discover the Red Dragon, a wooden model ship of this Chinese junk. Still in use in many parts of Southeast Asia, these boats were used for both war and for trade. The precious junks, typical of the China Sea, were used by leaders of the time such as Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, who used them to try to conquer Japan during the 13th century.
The appearance of the junks is documented about 600 BC. The hull has no keel and has a short stern. Its sails are made of thick fabric reinforced with reeds, which provides great stability and propulsion. It was one of the most used boats by pirates off the coast of Southeast Asia.
The historian Herbert Warington Smyth recorded the great virtues of the junk, estimating that it had the most efficient naval design because it handled well with the worst weather conditions of the seas and with the difficult inland waterways.
RED DRAGON SHIP MODEL BUILDING KIT
Build your 1:60 scale model of the Red Dragon, a Chinese junk. Its construction system using false keel and frames brings the assembly of your model closer to the construction of the actual ship. Once built, the model measures 18.89'' (480mm) length, 5.11'' (130mm) width and 17.32'' (440mm) height.
Red Dragon modeling kit includes laser cut board parts, hardwood, brass, die-cast and fabric. For the assembly you can follow our complete full colour step-by-step guide in 5 languages (Spanish, English, French, German and Danish), accompanied by drawings of the ship, both of them on DVD format. The kit does not include printed instructions.

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Litton Entertainment's "Litton's Weekend Adventure," Saturdays On ABC Stations Nationwide, Adds New Series "Free Enterprise"
CHARLESTON, S.C., March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Litton Entertainment today announced the original series Free Enterprise as the newest addition to Litton's Weekend Adventure, the multiple Daytime Emmy-award winning programming block airing every Saturday morning on ABC stations nationwide. Free Enterprise, featuring one of America's foremost entrepreneurs, financial-technology (fintech) pioneer and Inmates to Entrepreneurs founder Brian Hamilton, and hosted by ABC News' and ESPN's Ryan Smith, will premiere April 3rd, 2021.
The series will share the journey of formerly incarcerated individuals who dream of starting their own businesses after struggling to find consistent employment because of their criminal records. With the help of Hamilton along with his team of fellow business experts and mentors, these entrepreneurs will work to launch businesses with low or no capital, providing viewers a real-time view into the processes of product development, pricing, marketing and customer service – and their own inspirational stories of self-reliance, hope and transformation.
"People emerging from America's correctional institutions deserve an opportunity to achieve their potential. Free Enterprise follows that journey while giving viewers access to info about starting their own business. We're proud to present this heartwarming, redemptive series that's a celebration of hard work and second chances," commented Angelica Rosas McDaniel, EVP Strategy, Litton Entertainment.
"There is no larger and more unifying proposition in our country than the idea that everyone gets a second chance. Free Enterprise demonstrates that judicially involved people can take part in a most important part of the American dream- having ownership. On the show you will see real people starting simple businesses to become part of the American tapestry," commented Brian Hamilton.
ABOUT LITTON ENTERTAINMENT
Litton Entertainment, a division of Hearst Television, is the preeminent independent producer and distributor in the U.S. television industry, creating and distributing quality programming for over 20 years including linear, cable, streamers, digital and social platforms. Producing more than 800 hours of programing a year across genres and demos, Litton talent and crews can often be found traveling the globe producing Emmy-winning, content distributed worldwide. Litton's Weekend Adventure, produced by Litton Studios, was the first program block of its kind and airs Saturdays on ABC stations nationwide. Litton Entertainment provides CBS Network with six original programs for Saturday mornings called CBS Dream Team; The CW Network with One Magnificent Morning, a three-hour destination featuring E/I programming; NBC stations with six original E/I series under the iconic brand The More You Know; and Telemundo with the three-hour Mi Telemundo block of programming. Litton's syndication and news division distributes a diverse slate of programs including Law&Crime Daily, the E/I block Go Time!, and Consumer Reports TV. For more information, visit http://www.litton.tv. Litton is majority-owned by Hearst: http://www.hearst.com.
ABOUT BRIAN HAMILTON
Brian Hamilton is a lifelong successful entrepreneur, philanthropist and leading national voice on how ownership can change lives. He founded Sageworks, one of the country's first financial technology companies, and holds several patents from products created during that time still used in most financial institutions across the country today. When Mr. Hamilton sold Sageworks, he created the Brian Hamilton Foundation to help all people realize their potential and dreams through business ownership. He also formalized his 30-year ongoing entrepreneurial training service with prison populations through the creation of Inmates to Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit organization. Today, Inmates to Entrepreneurs is the longest running program of its kind in the country. Raised in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut, Mr. Hamilton started his own landscaping business at an early age, which ultimately funded his aspiration to be the first in his family to go to college. He's a summa cum laude graduate of Sacred Heart University and also holds an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Hamilton has been widely featured in the press and is the recipient of many awards, including the George H.W. Bush Points of Light Award.
ABOUT RYAN SMITH
Ryan Smith is a host, correspondent & legal analyst for ABC News and ESPN. Smith also contributes to ESPN as a legal analyst and host of "Outside the Lines" and "E: 60." A graduate of Syracuse University and Columbia Law School, Ryan started his career practicing corporate, sports and entertainment law.
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Ahead of eclipsing a massive milestone behind the big sticks, local football umpire John Bettles acknowledged that this would be no ordinary game. The 72-year-old Bettles will goal umpire his 800th game of football on Friday afternoon as the Redan Lions take on the Ballarat Swans in round two of the BFL reserves competition at Alfredton Recreational Reserve. "It's hard to put the feelings into words," Bettles said. "I guess on one hand it is a big milestone but on the other on the field I've got to treat it like any other." This game will be a special for another reason other than Bettles milestone, as it will act as a tribute game for Ballarat Football club life member and former club games record holder Frank Segrave. Bettles was good friends with Segrave as the two would often cross paths within the football club. "I knew Frank for years and I sort of feel honoured that I've been given the opportunity to umpire on Friday," Bettles said. Bettles first began umpiring in 1993 after seeing an ad in The Courier. "I just read an ad in The Courier that said they were looking for umpires and I just thought 'I'm not doing anything in the winter, why not?' and I've been umpiring ever since." Some of the biggest changes over the years Bettles has seen haven't actually come on the field, rather they've come in his umpiring uniform department. "We used to have the wide hat and the lab-coat - I remember we had one game down at the Eastern Oval and it was of course nice and windy. "Those hats were always fairly difficult to keep on and I just remember walking out on the ground and the next thing I knew my hat flew off, rolled across the cricket pitch and when I picked it up it was black with mud," Bettles laughed. "Another time I was behind the goals on a horrendous day in another one of our many umpiring hats - this one had a blue bill. "The rain was coming down so heavily I was looking forward and blue water started dropping in front of my face, little did I know all the dye drained out of the hat and ended up on the grass in front of me." Other than the uniforms, the overall quality of the grounds teams are playing in currently were the next biggest thing Bettles has seen change. "In some of the winters I umpired in over the years, I remember some of the (football ovals) out toward the Central Highlands could turn into mud which always made for interesting footy." Getting to this milestone seemed unlikely at points for Bettles, as two years ago he was struck by a life threatening case of pneumonia. Now, Bettles biggest worry is the weather ahead of game 800. "I think it's forecasted for clear skies and a 21 degree day - I don't really have anything to complain about if that is the case," he said with a smile on his face.
WHITE FLAG: John Bettles is ready to once again wave the white flags behind the goals on Friday afternoon. Picture: Kate Healy.
Ahead of eclipsing a massive milestone behind the big sticks, local football umpire John Bettles acknowledged that this would be no ordinary game.
The 72-year-old Bettles will goal umpire his 800th game of football on Friday afternoon as the Redan Lions take on the Ballarat Swans in round two of the BFL reserves competition at Alfredton Recreational Reserve.
"It's hard to put the feelings into words," Bettles said.
"I guess on one hand it is a big milestone but on the other on the field I've got to treat it like any other."
This game will be a special for another reason other than Bettles milestone, as it will act as a tribute game for Ballarat Football club life member and former club games record holder Frank Segrave.
Bettles was good friends with Segrave as the two would often cross paths within the football club.
"I knew Frank for years and I sort of feel honoured that I've been given the opportunity to umpire on Friday," Bettles said.
Bettles first began umpiring in 1993 after seeing an ad in The Courier.
"I just read an ad in The Courier that said they were looking for umpires and I just thought 'I'm not doing anything in the winter, why not?' and I've been umpiring ever since."
Some of the biggest changes over the years Bettles has seen haven't actually come on the field, rather they've come in his umpiring uniform department.
"We used to have the wide hat and the lab-coat - I remember we had one game down at the Eastern Oval and it was of course nice and windy.
"Those hats were always fairly difficult to keep on and I just remember walking out on the ground and the next thing I knew my hat flew off, rolled across the cricket pitch and when I picked it up it was black with mud," Bettles laughed.
"Another time I was behind the goals on a horrendous day in another one of our many umpiring hats - this one had a blue bill.
"The rain was coming down so heavily I was looking forward and blue water started dropping in front of my face, little did I know all the dye drained out of the hat and ended up on the grass in front of me."
Other than the uniforms, the overall quality of the grounds teams are playing in currently were the next biggest thing Bettles has seen change.
"In some of the winters I umpired in over the years, I remember some of the (football ovals) out toward the Central Highlands could turn into mud which always made for interesting footy."
Getting to this milestone seemed unlikely at points for Bettles, as two years ago he was struck by a life threatening case of pneumonia.
Now, Bettles biggest worry is the weather ahead of game 800.
"I think it's forecasted for clear skies and a 21 degree day - I don't really have anything to complain about if that is the case," he said with a smile on his face.


"We'll sort the laundry for you."
That will be big help.
Zachary: "I was sorting laundry before you were born."
Doing the laundry is way too Complicated these days.
Cold water. Hot Water. Delicate. Dry. Don't dry. Dry Clean. Don't dry clean. Bleach. Don't bleach!!!
Good thing I have my helpers to sort it all out for me.
Zachary is a very smart dog and loves to learn, and so I taught him to empty/fill a laundry basket.
FWIW: I videoed his progresses, and you can see a young (~1.5 years old) and slender Zachary on youtube. Videos are a couple minutes apiece. The first one I had really bad camera location (my laundry room is small) but the rest are better.
He's still good at it so long as there are more clothes either on the floor (or in the dryer) or in the basket.
Once they reach equilibrium, however, all bets are off as to which way items will get moved.
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Thanks for taking the time to post the clicker training videos. It was fun & interesting to watch you work with Zachary. He's a smart boy!


Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a partnership between The New York Genome Center and the IBM Watson Group to study and develop genomic treatment alternatives for brain cancer patients, a commitment leveraged by a $55 million investment by the State in the New York Genome Center and a $50 million Buffalo Billion investment in the University at Buffalo high performance computing center.
New York States investment in cutting-edge innovative technologies such as genomic medicine is creating jobs and growing the economy in Western New York and across our state, said Governor Cuomo. This collaboration between the New York Genome Center and IBM will help make the region a new center for the fast growing bio-tech industry.
In his 2014 State of the State address, the Governor pledged more than $100 million for the Network which will link the New York City university medical community with the emerging Buffalo medical technology corridor, and this commitment was included in the Executive Budget. The NY Genomic Medicine Network seeks to capture the economic and medical gains in the emerging field of genomic medicine for New York State and to develop Upstate New York as a national center for genomic research and jobs. This network links the medical community in New York City with the computational infrastructure at the University at Buffalo and the research community at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. With its supercomputing resources and expert staff, the Buffalo institutions will provide the NY Genome Center with rapid access to computational capabilities that will increase the speed of genomic research and analysis critical to diagnosis of diseases.
Genomic medicine has the potential to reduce the cost of health care, as many drug compounds currently sitting on the shelves of pharmaceutical companies will find new uses. It is estimated that health care costs will decline by $500 million over the next five years as genomic medicine emerges as a standard of treatment.
New York State is helping breathe new life into Buffalo and showing businesses that we are serious about revitalizing, rebuilding and remaking the Western New York economy. In their recent upgrade of Buffalos General Obligation bond rating, Standard and Poors cites state-supported economic development in their rationale for the upgrade.


Classic vinyl LP's and original 45's from the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Each week we will explore popular music by year, place and style. Rock-N-Roll, Motown, country, rock, R&B, and soul - all the great music from three fantastic decades.


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Supreme court Final Judgement in EAMCET Counselling
The supreme court today announced it's final Judgement in EAMCET counselling case. The following are the Highlights of the Supreme court's verdict
A Bench of Justices S.J. Mukhopadahya and S.A. Bobde, made it clear that the counselling date cannot be extended beyond August 31. The court dismissed the Telangana Government's plea to extend the date for EAMCET counselling by 3 months.
The bench ordered the Telangana Government to complete the Counselling before August 31. Further the bench also said there could be no question of preference being given to `locals' in admission to colleges within Telangana.
The Bench told Mr. Salve(senior counsel for Telangana) that those students who took the Eamcet examination were entitled to get admission to any of the colleges of their choice and this benefit could not be denied merely because the State had been divided.
The Bench has ordered the two states (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) to finish the EAMCET counseling below August 31st preaching that the bifurcation should not affect the future of students. The court has also ordered the states to complete the admissions till September first week.
The Bench made it clear that the nativity of the Students should not be considered for the admission in Engineering and Medical colleges.
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This leaves homeschool as the last educational option to be examined. Homeschool makes sense for parents who want to provide their children with a Christian education but cannot find or afford a good Christian school. Homeschool is extremely affordable, though it requires extensive parental oversight. Homeschool is therefore usually chosen by more traditional families where the mother stays at home with the children. Homeschool directly applies the commands of Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Ephesians 6:4 for parents to teach their children and provide them with a Christian education.
The obvious alternative to public school is a private Christian school. Does a Christian school provide children with a Christian education? The answer should be yes—but it actually depends on the school. Sadly, many Christian schools are Christian in name only.
Statistics suggest that almost 90% of Americans send their children to a public school, and this includes many Christians. Let's begin by asking the question—can Christian parents provide their children with a Christian education if they place them in public school?


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We're too intelligent, at times a little too much for our own good. No wonder we live with our heads in the cloud. But god knows how to make sure your head is firmly on your shoulders… with a conscience that speaks to you at the right time. Despite that, if you fall hard on your behind, the concrete ground doesn't cushion our blows. But that conscience, which warned you in the first place does it, without saying I told you so. For me, that is my Big B. Protection isn't just safety from just the monsters outside, but also to help you control the demons and vices from within. What would I have done without you by my side? Celebrating the bond I share with first best friend, my tag team partner, my blackmail victim, my father figure and the strongest man in my life, my brother. So what if you aren't close by, we both know that distances can never be a handicap.


Best if can use apple pay to withdraw cash from ATM, that way I only need my phone, can keep my fat wallet at home. Hmm may need a mini powerbank in case phone run out of batt. They should set aside a battery reserve percentage specially for using apple pay.
yeah yeah can't wait to test it out on my apple watch too!
i am waiting for DBS, Citibank and OCBC but so far citibank and OCBC like not interested at all, no news of it. Some comment in website 9to5mac said, he already use Apple Pay in SG for months as it does work with our NFC enabled/ paywave enabled terminals that link with his UK credit card so once Visa for localise card support is switch on, i think we can use already, just like dr34mc4st3r said he tried at Mac proven working just that his a AMEX card.
SAMSUNG pay supporting OCBC though but again no news on Citibank too. I think the $100 limit is an agreement set by Master/Visa and our local banks/government when they launch that time and i don't think they will increase the limit, if only we can set ourselves like max up to $300 which i think is just nice.
Cheers Fellowes, we'll be offering both Apple Pay and Samsung Pay for our customers, look out for it.
Unable to say the date, but rest assured.. it's coming.
Yup, I know in South Korea, Samsung pay their Samsung phone and Gear S2 can use for their transport and ATM withdraw wise use phone (access Samsung Pay, choose the atm card and amount to withdraw) their atm machine also got the NFC reader then just place phone on the NFC reader and cash is withdraw!
Last edited by Fellowes; 20-04-2016 at 09:27 PM..
Debit cards surely can, if not they are missing out a lot on the millennial generation, and that's huge in SG context!
with samsung pay coming by June .. maybe launch tgt .. or earlier ..
the auntie like a sian haha. Actually its contactless, dun think you need to physically tap on the reader.
Was at Tanglin Mall Starbucks today. The staff were not aware about Apple Pay.


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Posted by: episystechpubs | January 13, 2022
Greetings, folks!
In her last post of 2021, Kara provided you with the three top words of the year. She mentioned that each dictionary has its own list, but, no surprise, most of the words had something to do with COVID-19.
I know, like me, you're all weary of focusing on the pandemic. So, when I saw this list from Merriam-Webster that presents the top ten words people searched last year (other than vaccine, which topped the list), I thought I'd share. Last year brought us so much more than just news about COVID-19. Here are Merriam-Webster's top ten words of the year:
murraya
cisgender
And here's to a happy and healthy 2022 with the hope that at the beginning of 2023, we'll look back on many more positive words and situations.
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Hello dear readers! One of you asked me if I could review the difference (if any) between the words vase (rhyming with face) and vase (pronounced vahz rhyming with schnoz).
Most articles I found focused on the pronunciation difference, but a few said they are actually different types of containers. Some say that a vase (vahz) is bigger, more expensive, fancier, and more valuable than a normal vase, but that both are containers to hold flowers.
However, most articles and blogs focused on the pronunciation. One article from Vox asked, "Do you put flowers in a vahz or a vayce?" Here was their answer:
Well, actually, a lot of us seem to care about the way we pronounce words. As study after study has confirmed, the way we speak influences the way others perceive us. Linguists sometimes refer to this phenomenon as the accent prestige theory: the belief that certain types of accents, because of their historical associations with high society, are more prestigious than others. According to this theory, we attach social judgments to people's accents. And as research shows, these judgments can influence something as superficial as how physically attractive we find someone or something more substantial like hiring practices.
The study was simple enough. Give about 1,000 people six words that are often pronounced in two different ways and ask them to attach value judgments to the different pronunciations. As the results show, language is a social indicator.
For the five other word pronunciation comparisons and their "value judgements" (foyer, roof, chaise lounge, décor, and niche), see the article here.
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Posted by: episystechpubs | January 6, 2022
Good morning. You'll want to make sure you've had your coffee or tea this morning because it's quiz day!
It's been a while since we took a quiz together. This one comes from GrammarBook.com. I've selected quiz questions that cover rules I know Kara or I have covered at some point (maybe in the distant past), but if you're a grammar glutton (like I am) and you want to test yourself on many different rules, you can find the full quiz here.
After you take the quiz, scroll down to see the answers and links to the explanations.
Disclaimer: Please be aware that you might come up with other correct ways to revise or correct some of these sentences. The links provided will explain the reasoning behind the correct answers provided by GrammarBook.com. If you do come up with a different answer, don't shoot the messenger (that's me!).
Good luck to you, ya big word nerds!
1. Wanda just bought a car [that / which] gets sixty miles per gallon.
2. Since [their / they're] last available overtime shift was [mine / mine's], let's make the next one [your's / yours] so you can earn some extra money too.
3. Change the adjective in parentheses into its proper comparative form:
Joel thinks that these instructions are (simple) than those.
4. Capitalize the following title properly:
"learning to bake like never before"
5. Does this sentence include text that can be emphasized with quotation marks? If so, place them around it. If not, identify "no quotation marks."
Samaira thinks her 4,000-square-foot house is too big.
6. Is this a compound sentence? [Yes / No]
Markus will change the headlight bulb today, and then he will replace the battery tomorrow.
7. Use proper negation to express the opposite of the following sentence.
All musicians are formally trained.
8. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the third person singular feminine personal pronouns.
_____ has been driving that make and model of car for many years. That one there is _____, and if you ask ____, ____ can tell you what ____ likes and doesn't like about it.
(Scroll down to see the answers.)
Quiz answers and links to explanations:
1. Wanda just bought a car that gets sixty miles per gallon.
Which vs. That
2. Since their last available overtime shift was mine, let's make the next one yours so you can earn some extra money too.
3. Joel thinks that these instructions are simpler (or more simple) than those.
Comparative Adjectives
4. "Learning to Bake Like Never Before"
Capitalizing Titles
5. Samaira thinks her 4,000-square-foot house is too big. "No quotation marks"
Quotation Marks for Emphasis
6. Is this a compound sentence? Yes
Compound Sentences: What Is a Compound Sentence?
7. Not all musicians are formally trained.
Negative Words
8. She has been driving that make and model of car for many years. That one there is hers, and if you ask her, she can tell you what she likes and doesn't like about it.
Happy new year, all y'all!
I was enjoying a walk and talking to my brother during the holiday, and he said after a misunderstanding with a client, he might have to "eat crow." The next thing he said was, "Ew. I wonder where that phrase came from?" Then seconds later, he switched the topic to one-legged stools that forced workers to "nap jerk" themselves awake so they wouldn't fall into fires or under horses or into other dangerous circumstances. I laughed about that, refused to buy one, and promised to look into "eating crow." (And in case you're interested in stools with one, two, three, or four legs, here's this.)
As far as figuratively eating crow, I have this from The Grammarist:
To eat crow means to admit a humiliating error one has made, to concede a humiliating defeat. Crow is an unappetizing food, even listed in the book of Leviticus in the Bible as an animal that is not to be eaten.
The phrase appears around 1850 in the United States, and is presumed to have been derived from a story that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1850, about a farmer who is challenged by his boarders to eat a crow. The original phrase was to eat boiled crow. Today the term has been streamlined to eat crow.
And with information about why literal crow-eating is so disgusting, here's a scrumptious explanation from Wikipedia:
Literally eating a crow is traditionally seen as being distasteful…. Scavenging carrion eaters have a long association with the battlefield, "They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island," says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Along with buzzards, rats, and other carrion-eating scavenging animals, there is a tradition in Western culture going back to at least the Middle Ages of seeing them as distasteful (even illegal at times) to eat, and thus naturally humiliating if forced to consume against one's will.
On that note, I wouldn't want anyone to feel so humiliated that they would eat crow; notice neither resource said anything about tasting like chicken!
Lots of people make New Year's resolutions. Gyms get busier than usual. People go on diets. They vow to save more money, or eat less, or spend more time with family. This time of year feels like a new beginning.
If you plan to make a New Year's resolution, The New York Times has some great tips on how to keep it. Here's what they have to say:
A lot of resolutions fail because they're not the right resolutions. And a resolution may be wrong for one of three main reasons:
It's a resolution created based on what someone else (or society) is telling you to change.
It's too vague.
You don't have a realistic plan for achieving your resolution.
Your goals should be smart—and SMART. That's an acronym coined in the journal Management Review in 1981 for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. It may work for management, but it can also work in setting your resolutions, too.
· Specific. Your resolution should be absolutely clear. "Making a concrete goal is really important rather than just vaguely saying "I want to lose weight." You want to have a goal: How much weight do you want to lose and at what time interval?" said Katherine L. Milkman, an associate professor of operations information and decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. "Five pounds in the next two months—that's going to be more effective."
· Measurable. This may seem obvious if your goal is a fitness or weight loss related one, but it's also important if you're trying to cut back on something, too. If, for example, you want to stop biting your nails, take pictures of your nails over time so you can track your progress in how those nails grow back out, said Jeffrey Gardere, a psychologist and professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. Logging progress into a journal or making notes on your phone or in an app designed to help you track behaviors can reinforce the progress, no matter what your resolution may be.
· Achievable. This doesn't mean that you can't have big stretch goals. But trying to take too big a step too fast can leave you frustrated, or affect other areas of your life to the point that your resolution takes over your life—and both you and your friends and family flail. So, for example, resolving to save enough money to retire in five years when you're 30 years old is probably not realistic, but saving an extra $100 a month may be. (And if that's easy, you can slide that number up to an extra $200, $300 or $400 a month).
· Relevant. Is this a goal that really matters to you, and are you making it for the right reasons? "If you do it out of the sense of self-hate or remorse or a strong passion in that moment, it doesn't usually last long," said Dr. Michael Bennett, a psychiatrist and co-author of two self-help books. "But if you build up a process where you're thinking harder about what's good for you, you're changing the structure of your life, you're bringing people into your life who will reinforce that resolution, then I think you have a fighting chance."
· Time-bound. Like "achievable," the timeline toward reaching your goal should be realistic, too. That means giving yourself enough time to do it with lots of smaller intermediate goals set up along the way. "Focus on these small wins so you can make gradual progress," Charles Duhigg, author of "The Power of Habit" and a former New York Times writer, said. "If you're building a habit, you're planning for the next decade, not the next couple of months."
If you do make a resolution this year, I wish you good luck and much fortitude. Happy New Year!
Editor's Corner: 2021 Word of the Year
Good morning! Today I have a less than traditional new year greeting for you: the word of the year! Of course, each dictionary has its own opinion on the topic, so I am delivering three different words to you. Let's see what 2021 gave us!
The first word comes from Merriam-Webster, and I have to say, their selection is not my favorite. Merriam-Webster gives us…
In 2020, the Merriam-Webster dictionary selected "pandemic" as its word of the year.
This year, like some 59% of fully inoculated Americans, it went with "vaccine." [KC – Okay, you've had two years and you give us
pandemic and vaccine. M-W, you are not invited to my parties anymore.]
The publishing company noted that the word holds particular significance both as a medical term and a vehicle for ideological conflict.
"For many, the word symbolized a possible return to the lives we led before the pandemic," it said in Monday's announcement. "But it was also at the center of debates about personal choice, political affiliation, professional regulations, school safety, healthcare inequality, and so much more."
Up next, we have something similar, but perhaps with a little more pizzazz than vaccine. From our friends across the pond, we have (courtesy of the New York Times), the pick from the Oxford English Dictionary:
"Vaccine," already a common-enough word in English, more than doubled in frequency over the past year, as vaccines against the coronavirus rolled out. But the jaunty "vax"—a word that has skulked around the margins of the language since it first appeared in the 1980s—surged dramatically, occurring more than 72 times as frequently in September 2021 as a year earlier.
And finally, Dictionary.com offers us something different:
The status or role of a person who advocates and actively works for the inclusion of a marginalized or politicized group in all areas of society, not as a member of that group but in solidarity with its struggle and point of view and under its leadership.
And while we must acknowledge that efforts at allyship are all too often insufficient and imperfect, the word nonetheless stands out for its role in the path out of the continued crises of 2020 for a better 2022.
Allyship in the dictionary, discourse, and data
The word allyship combines the noun ally, "a person who advocates for or supports a marginalized or politicized group but is not a member of the group," and –ship, a noun-forming suffix here denoting "status, condition."
This specific sense of the word ally is, notably, one we also updated this year. Developing out of the word's general meaning of "supporter," the application of ally in contexts of social justice is first evidenced as early as the 1940s in an article by Albert W. Hamilton on "allies on the front of racial justice" for Black people. The article, notably, features the term white allies, which has proliferated ever since. Another now-common term, straight allies—non-LGBTQ+ supporters of the LGBTQ+ community—dates back to at least the 1970s.
If you have followed our Business Innovation Groups (BIGs) at JHA, you have certainly learned more about allyship. To see additional information, to have a look at the BIGs, or to join any of the groups, check out BIG Conversations.
And for a more formal message to you all:
Editor's Corner: Winter Words
Happy holidays to everyone!
I have been trying to figure out what I might be able to give you that is related to our language and your holiday. Whether you celebrate Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanza, Festivus, the winter solstice, or some other event, I found this list of long-lost words that fits the bill. For the full list, see the article at Mental Floss.
That crunching sound you make walking on partially frozen snow is called crumping. [KC – Not to be confused with
krumping,
which is a type of dancing. And no, I cannot demonstrate it for you.]
HIEMATE
Hibernate is sleeping throughout the entire winter; hiemate is to spend winter somewhere.
YULE-HOLE
The yule-hole is the (usually makeshift) hole you need to move your belt to after you've eaten a massive meal.
BELLY-CHEER
Dating from the 1500s, belly-cheer or belly-timber is a brilliantly evocative word for fine food or gluttonous eating.
DONIFEROUS
If you're doniferous then you're carrying a present. The act of offering a present is called oblation, which originally was (and, in some contexts, still is) a religious term referring specifically to the presentation of money or donation of goods to the church. But since the 15th century it's been used more loosely to refer to the action of offering or presenting any gift or donation, or, in particular, a gratuity.
POURBOIRE
Speaking of gratuities, a tip or donation of cash intended to be spent on drink is a pourboire—French, literally, for "for drink." Money given in lieu of a gift, meanwhile, has been known as present-silver since the 1500s.
TOE-COVER
A cheap and totally useless present? In 1940s slang, that was a toe-cover.
SCURRYFUNGE
Probably distantly related to words like scour or scourge, scurryfunge first appeared in the late 18th century, with meanings of "to lash" or, depending on region, "to scour." By the mid-1900s, however, things had changed: perhaps in allusion to scrubbing or working hard enough to abrade a surface, scurryfunge came to mean "to hastily tidy a house" before unexpected company arrive.
CRAPULENCE
Once all the festive dust and New Year confetti has settled, here's a word for the morning after the night before: crapulence, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, is an 18th-century word for "sickness or indisposition resulting from excess in drinking or eating."
Again, happy holidays!
Editor's Corner: 'Tis the Season—Let's Have Wine
Good morning, and happy holidays!
If we're lucky, we'll have the opportunity to spend time with family and friends this holiday season. You might even be invited to someone else's home, and if you are so fortunate, you might want to take a bottle of wine. But if you're like me, someone who enjoys an occasional glass of wine, but who cannot really tell much difference between the taste of Charles Shaw ($2.00 to $3.00 per bottle) and Domaine Romanée-Conti ($19,700–$551, 314)—not that I've ever had it—you might also want to know how to pronounce the name of the kind of wine you take with you.
So, here's a short primer on how to sound like a wine expert. Let's start with the name of the person who actually is an expert on fine wine:
sommelier (sawm-uh-l-YAY)
And now for the wines themselves. Following are seventeen types of wine and a pronunciation guide. Join me in at least sounding like I know what I'm drinking. Happy holidays!
Wine Pronunciation
cabernet sauvignon CAB-er-nay soh-vin-YOH(n)
gewurztraminer geh-VERTS-truh-meen-er
grenache gruh-NOSH
montepulciano d'Abruzzo mon-TAY-pul-chee-AH-noh dah-BRUTE-so
moscato moh-SKAH-toh
muscadet moos-kah-DAY
pinot noir PEE-noh nwar
riesling REECE-ling
rioja ree-OH-hah
sangiovese san-jo-VAY-zee
sauvignon blanc SOH-vin-yoh(n) blohnk
semillon seh-mee-YHO(n)
shiraz shih-RAHZ or shih-RAHS
syrah see-RAH
tempranillo tem-prah-NEE-yoh
vinho verde VEEN-yo VAYR-deh
zinfandel ZIN-fuhn-del
Editor's Corner: Cedilla and Circumflex
Good morning, everybody!
As I prepared to write about a few more diacritical marks today, I lined up my topics: cedilla and circumflex. I was excited because I was going to rhyme cedilla with the city Sevilla, where I went to school for a short while. Well, guess what? Cedilla rhymes with chinchilla! Now the song I was going to write about the cedilla in Sevilla has to be scrapped!
Most of today's information is from an article on the Merriam-Webster web page, What is a diacritic anyway? We'll look at two more marks, where they're from, and what they mean.
Cedilla
The cedilla is the diacritical mark ( ̧ ) that is placed under the letter "c," as in the spelling of the French words façade and garçon, to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced s, rather than k. Cedilla is from the name of the obsolete Spanish letter "ç" and is a diminutive form of ceda, itself from zeda, which once denoted the letter "z."
Circumflex
Now this next one might be a little more confusing. First, I'll provide M-W's definition of this symbol.
Circumflex most commonly refers to the mark ( ˆ ), but in ancient times it designated other "bent" marks ( ⌢ or ˜ ). The name derives from a Latin verb meaning "to bend around," and it is used for the symbol placed above a long vowel to indicate a rising-falling tone in Greek and to mark length, contraction, or another particular pronunciation of a vowel in other languages, such as French—for example, the pronunciations of château (castle), crêpe, and maître d' (master of).
KC – A side note here for you language-lovers. I was taught that in French, this mark meant the letter with the circumflex used to have an "S" before it. So, château was chasel in old French, castle in English; crêpe was crespe, which meant "wrinkled pancake" in olden days; and maître was maistre, or master in English. When you see a word in French with the circumflex, try the "S" trick. It might help you remember what the word means in English!
And I'm sure many of you are asking, "Isn't that also called a caret?" This is where the trickiness comes into play. The caret and the circumflex accent are very similar looking, but they have different uses. A true caret is used in proofreading and editing (when you're doing it by hand with a red pencil). It is used (and sometimes broadened) to indicate additional material needs to be added to the text at that point.
According to Wikipedia, "there is a similar mark, ^, that has a variety of uses in programming, mathematics, and other contexts. The symbol was included in typewriters and computer printers so that circumflex accents could be overprinted on letters (as in ô or ŵ). The character became reused in computer languages for many other purposes, and over time its appearance was enlarged and lowered, making it unusable as an accent mark."
They go on to say that it is sometimes called a caret, but the true caret is the one used for proofreading. I think you'll be forgiven if you forget to call it a circumflex, though.
Cedilla the chinchilla
Editor's Corner: Title, tilde, and tittle
When I read Grammar Girl's article about Caesar and that famous phrase "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) I definitely did not expect to end up at today's destination: title, tilde, and tittle. That's the fun thing about English and traveling—you never know where exploration will lead you!
The article mentioned that Caesar annihilated King Pharnaces and his army in four hours. The words "Veni, vidi, vici" were inscribed on a large placard carried at the front of Caesar's victory parade when he returned to Rome. This placard was called a titulus. And here is where my journey began.
I started with titulus and looked for a definition. In Wikipedia, I found this:
The Latin word for "title", "label" or "inscription" (plural tituli)
A term used for the labels or captions naming figures or subjects in art, which were commonly added in classical and medieval art, and remain conventional in Eastern Orthodox icons. In particular the term describes the conventional inscriptions on stone that listed the honors of an individual or that identified boundaries in the Roman Empire. A titulus pictus is a merchant's mark or other commercial inscription.
A sign bearing the condemned person's name and crime, attached to the top of the cross. [KC – Probably the most famous of these was the
Titulus Crucis, the piece of wood that read Iesus
Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum ("Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews"), shortened to INRI.]
Here is an example of a titulus:
The next three words are all derived from the word titulus. These are their etymologies from the Online Etymology dictionary. They might be a little tough to read, but I think they give you a good history of where the words came from and how they changed here and there over the years. (I shortened them a little so as not to scare you away.)
title (n.)
c. 1300, "inscription, heading," from Old French title "title or chapter of a book; position; legal permit", and in part from Old English titul, both from Latin titulus "inscription, label, ticket, placard, heading; honorable appellation, title of honor," of unknown origin.
tilde (n.)
1864, from Spanish, metathesis of Catalan title, from vernacular form of Medieval Latin titulus "stroke over an abridged word to indicate missing letters," a specialized sense of Latin titulus, literally "inscription, heading". The mark itself represents an -n- and was used in Medieval Latin manuscripts in an abridged word over a preceding letter to indicate a missing -n- and save space.
tittle (n.)
"Small stroke or point in writing," late 14c., translating Latin apex in Late Latin sense of "accent mark over a vowel," which itself translates Greek keraia (literally "a little horn"), used by the Greek grammarians of the accents and diacritical points, in this case a Biblical translation of Hebrew qots, literally "thorn, prick," used of the little lines and projections by which the Hebrew letters of similar form differ from one another.
(This is borrowed) …from a specialized sense of Latin titulus, which was used in Medieval Latin (and in Middle English and Old French) to indicate "a stroke over an abridged word to indicate letters missing" (and compare Provençal titule "the dot over -i-").
Compare tilde, which is the Spanish form of the same word.
And there's where I ended up with these words. I hope you find the etymological tale they told as interesting as I did!


The Microsoft Windows 10 event was all about software. With the exception of its HoloLens -- a prototype product with no firm release date -- Microsoft did not show a single piece of new hardware on Wednesday.
That would not have been much of a surprise in years past, but Microsoft is increasingly a hardware company. Last quarter, for example, the company sold 10.5 million smartphones, 6.6 million game consoles, and around 1 million Surface tablets.
The lack of hardware defied a report from The Information, whose track record has been fairly solid. Allegedly, Microsoft had been slated to unveil a phone-laptop hybrid -- a device that would've uniquely capitalized on the hybrid nature of Windows 10.
That product could still be forthcoming -- Microsoft did admit that it had new, flagship phones in the works -- and if it materializes, it could serve a vital role in demonstrating the power of the new operating system.
Windows 10 is a unified platformCompared to its predecessor, Windows 10 is a far more coherent operating system. Windows 8 was widely criticized for its dual user interfaces, which excelled individually but did not work well together. Windows 10 fixes the problems most users had with its predecessor, deftly merging the traditional desktop and modern interfaces.
But more than just interfaces, Windows 10 merges multiple app stores into a single, unified Microsoft storefront. Universal apps written for the new store will work across all Windows 10-powered devices -- phones, tablets, PCs, and the Xbox One.
Microsoft management argues that a universal app store should attract greater developer interest. Global market share for Windows Phone may be in the single digits, but there are hundreds of millions of Windows PCs and an increasing number of Xbox Ones. In the past, developers have ignored Windows Phone, but with a universal app store, that might change.
It might also prompt the creation of new, radical form factors. The Windows 8 release facilitated the development of tablet hybrids and transformers -- Microsoft Surface Pro 3 being the quintessential example. Unlike the original Surface RT, the Surface Pro 3 is powered by an x86 Intel processor which allows it to run traditional Windows applications.
Microsoft Windows Phones, in contrast, remain ARM-based, limiting them to the few apps developed for the Windows Phone app store. Microsoft plans to offer a modified version of Windows 10 exclusive to these ARM-based smartphones and tablets. Those devices would have access to the newly developed apps but would still lack the ability to run traditional desktop applications.
However,Intel's recent strides in the smartphone space should make full Windows 10 smartphones possible, and by extension, allow for the creation of phone-laptop hybrid devices. The upcomingAsusZenPhone 2, for example, sports an Intel Atom Z3580 processor.Admittedly, it's just one phone among many, and Microsoft's partnership with ARM-based Qualcomm is well-established, but an Intel-powered Windows phone may be feasible.
Android OEMs have tried -- and failedThe idea of a phone-laptop hybrid is not new -- various Android OEMs have been attempting to offer such a device for years. Motorola unveiled the Atrix in 2011, while Asus launched the PadFone X last year. Despite generating some early buzz at the time of their unveiling, these devices have largely failed to catch on.
But what they lacked was Windows. The Atrix ran a goofy, modified version of Linux -- the PadFone relied on Android, an operating system ill-suited to traditional mouse and keyboard input. Where those devices failed, a full Windows 10 phone could succeed, offering users the traditional Windows desktop they're familiar with.
With less than 3% of the global smartphone market, Microsoft needs something torejuvenatethis struggling business. A phone hybrid -- paired with Windows 10 and the new app store -- might just do the trick.
The article What Microsoft Didn't Show Us Last Week Could be Huge originally appeared on Fool.com.
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