TREASURES OF THE RHINE, Part One
On June 20, we traveled to EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, located in France, and serving Basel (Switzerland), Mulhouse (France), and Freiburg (Germany). Our cruise ship, Viking Sun, was supposed to be docked in Basel, but due to high water (ship was unable to get under a bridge) was actually waiting for us in Breisach, Germany, about an hour away. I will share stories of our two-week adventure in installments—and today will just relate a few encounters of human interest. We visited a cheese farm near Gouda (pronounced HOW-da in Dutch), a winery in Cochem, Germany (town floods about three times a year) where we could see vines hanging on a steep cliff behind the shop, and enjoyed Dutch singers and dancers one evening on the ship. On most days, we had lectures, demonstrations, and entertainment scheduled in addition to walking tours.
TO BE CONTINUED

Holden Caulfield Stays Young: Salinger Wins Copyright Suit
U.S. District Court judge Deborah Batts followed up on her temporary restraining order from last month, and permanently banned publication of an unauthorized sequel to J.D. Salinger's uber-famous novel, Catcher in the Rye. Click here for the NYT article; here for the opinion; here and here for previous LB coverage of the case. Judge Batts ruled that the novel, penned by an American living in Sweden who used the pseudonym J.D. California, did not fit into the fair use exception in copyright law because the book did not constitute a critical parody that “transformed” the original. The book imagines a grown up Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of the original, wandering the streets of New York after having escaped from a retirement home. WSJ Law Blog July 2, 2009

Great buildings: Desert House
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Main cloud components
Alto – high
Cirrus – lock of hair
Cumulus – heap
Nimbus – precipitation-bearing (Latin for "raincloud")
Stratus – layer (Latin for "spread out")
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On July 6, 1535 Sir Thomas More was beheaded in the Tower of London for refusing to recognize his longtime friend King Henry VIII as the head of the Church. Thomas More was a barrister, a scholar, and a writer. He was the author of Utopia (1516), a controversial novel about an imaginary island named Utopia, where society was based on equality for all people. It is from this novel that we get our word "utopia."
On July 6, 1812 Ludwig van Beethoven wrote two famous love letters to an unknown woman. Beethoven wrote the letters from the Czech resort town of Teplitz, which his physician had recommended for his health, and there he became friends with the poet Goethe. And over the course of two days, he wrote three letters to a mysterious woman who has come to be known as "the Immortal Beloved."
On July 6, 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at a church dance in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was almost 17, and Paul McCartney had just turned 15. Lennon had formed a band called the Quarrymen. They were all right, but not great, and they couldn't play at bars because they were all underage. But they got a gig playing at St. Peter's Church for the annual summer garden party, on a stage in a field behind the church, and then again that night in the dance hall at the church. Paul McCartney heard the band and thought they were pretty good—especially John Lennon. Paul went to school with one of the band members, who took him over to the band and introduced him while they were setting up for their second show. Paul said that he played guitar, and also that he knew how to tune one. No one in the band could tune their own guitars—they took them to a specialist—so they were impressed. Paul taught John how to tune, and he sang him a few recent rock songs, including a medley by Little Richard. And about a week later, John asked Paul to join the band. The Writer’s Almanac