A fairy seed I planted, so dry and white and old;
There sprang a vine enchanted, with magic flowers of gold.
I watched it, I tended it, and truly, by and by,
It bore a jack-o-lantern, and a great Thanksgiving pie.
Author unknown

Mistakes I have seen in print
wreck havoc rather than wreak havoc
mute point rather than moot point
stick rather than schtick or shtick

Stage names
Charlton Heston (John Charles Carter), Elton John (Reginald Dwight), Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) See many more at: http://www.pubquizhelp.com/ent/names.html

While the number of miles driven by U.S. motorists over the past five years has increased just 2 percent, the number of deer-vehicle collisions in this country during that time has grown by ten times that amount. Using its claims data, State Farm®, the nation’s leading auto insurer estimates 2.3 million collisions between deer and vehicles occurred in the U.S. during the two-year period between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2010. That’s 21.1 percent more than five years earlier. To put it another way, during your reading of this paragraph, a collision between a deer and vehicle will likely have taken place (they are much more likely during the last three months of the year and in the early evening). For the fourth year in a row, West Virginia tops the list of those states where a driver is most likely to collide with a deer. Using its claims data in conjunction with state licensed driver counts from the Federal Highway Administration, State Farm calculates the chances of a West Virginia driver striking a deer over the next 12 months at 1 in 42. Iowa is second on the list. The likelihood of a licensed driver in Iowa striking a deer within the next year is 1 in 67. Michigan (1 in 70) is third. Fourth and fifth on the list are South Dakota (1 in 76) and Montana (1 in 82). Pennsylvania is sixth, followed by North Dakota and Wisconsin. Arkansas and Minnesota round out the top 10. http://www.statefarm.com/aboutus/_pressreleases/2010/deer-vehicle-collision-frequency.asp

Employer Health Reform Issues Brief: Health Savings Account Reimbursements
Source: Deloitte
Distributions from Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to pay for a medicine or drug will not be qualified medical expenses unless the medicine or drug: can be obtained only with a prescription is available without a prescription (i.e., “over-the-counter”) but the individual obtains it with a prescription, or is insulin. Any distributions from an HSA for nonqualified medical expenses are includable in the HSA beneficiary’s gross income and subject to a 20% excise tax. However, the excise tax does not apply if the HSA beneficiary is at least 65 years old. The requirement to have a prescription will apply only to medicines and drugs. As a result, medical equipment (e.g., crutches), supplies (e.g., bandages) or diagnostic tests (e.g., blood sugar test kits) can still be qualified medical expenses even if purchased without a prescription. + Full Document (PDF)
http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/61233

For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play by John Branch
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay. To those whose job is to put the moment into Major League Baseball’s new, digitized archives as soon as possible, it was a furious series of 38 mouse clicks. The play that completed the second no-hitter in postseason history was instantly tagged with various descriptions so that it could be easy retrieved in coming years. There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were “ground out,” “from knees,” “last out,” “premier plays,” “milestone call” and “hugging.” Strangely, one tag not offered was “no-hitter.” Maybe soon. This is how baseball’s archives are created now — not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of “loggers” whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/sports/baseball/13video.html

New York's Beautiful J.P. Morgan Library Gets a Facelift
The classic library has been around since 1906, was opened to the public in 1924 and recently received some refurbishment as reported by Art News. Some history: At a contentious meeting of bankers during the 1907 financial crisis, J. Pierpont Morgan locked the doors of his private library and study in New York's Murray Hill, refusing to let his fellow financiers leave until they had agreed on a national-rescue plan. In that grand but intimate building, designed by Charles Follen McKim after an Italian Renaissance palazzo, Morgan also convened meetings of the acquisitions committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was president. After Morgan's death, the building became the heart of the institution that for more than 80 years has made his collections available to the public. Now the Morgan Library & Museum is restoring and reinstalling the rooms of his domain to better tell the story of its collections and the man behind them. When the McKim building reopens on October 30, the North Room, originally the librarian's office, will be accessible to the public for the first time. Visitors will also be able to peer inside Morgan's vault. The interiors will be cleaned, the furniture restored, state-of-the-art lighting installed, and hundreds of additional objects placed on view. The refurbishment, which has closed the building since June, has cost $4.5 million.
http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=3088¤t=True