Chocolate Mountains

The Chocolate Mountains of California are located in Imperial County and Riverside County in the Colorado Desert in Southern California.  The mountains stretch more than 60 miles (100 km) in a northwest to southeast direction, and are located east of the Salton Sea and south and west of the Chuckwalla Mountains and the Colorado River.  To the northwest lie the Orocopia Mountains.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_Mountains 

The Chocolate Mountains of Arizona are located in the southwestern part of the state east of the Trigo Mountains and southwest of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.  The mountains are located about 30 miles east of the Chocolate Mountains of California, but the two ranges are not connected.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_Mountains_(Arizona) 

Lake View is more than a working cemetery - it's Cleveland's “Outdoor Museum and Arboretum.”  Thousands people, from all over the globe, visit every year to view the historical, horticultural, architectural, and geological gems that make up the 285 acres.  In addition to  president of the United States James A. Garfield, Lake View is the final resting place of John D. Rockefeller, Eliot Ness, and Carl B. Stokes; members of President Lincoln's cabinet,  Civil War generals and Revolutionary War soldiers, not to mention twenty-two Cleveland mayors.  On memorials throughout the Cemetery, names like Winton, Sherwin, Morgan, Grasselli, Hughes, Mather, Severance, Bolton, Cushing, Carabelli, Hanna, Crile, Glidden, Blossom, and Brush, all synonymous with Cleveland, can be seen.  Link to more information at:  http://www.lakeviewcemetery.com/famouspeople.php 

Lustron house comes home  A two-bedroom Westchester model was a family home in Arlington, Va. until 2006 when an owner donated it to Arlington County with the provision that it be moved.  In 2008, the house made its museum debut at New York City's Museum of Modern Art as part of Home Delivery:  Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.  Then the house was dismantled again and returned to storage in Virginia where it remained until 2011 when it was donated to the Ohio Historical Society.  It has been reconstructed inside the Ohio History Center in Columbus, the city where it was made.  Echoes  July/August 2013 

Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed legislation on May 16, 2013 establishing an object called the Adena Pipe as the official state artifact.  The prehistoric effigy pipe was linked to the ancient Adena culture and was found in 1901 in a burial mound near Chillicothe.  Students at the Columbus School for Girls fought for the measure for several years.  Fourth-graders at the school began working on the proposal in 2009.  Subsequent classes kept pushing it as they learned about the legislative process and the political system.  http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20130516/NEWS01/305160026/Adena-Pipe-named-state-artifact  NOTE that the Adena Pipe is in the exhibit Following in Ancient Footsteps at the Ohio History Center in Columbus. 

Q:  What is an artifact?  A:  While specific definitions can vary slightly from state to state, artifacts are typically any items or evidence of past human activity found on or in the ground, including structural remains.  Many people think of arrowheads, but the pieces of stone debris left as a byproduct of creating an arrowhead are also artifacts.  Some other common artifacts include pottery, stone and bone tools, and materials that have been altered by activities, like rocks heated by cooking fires.  They can also include more recently made items such as nails, bricks, glass, stoneware, and other types of human-made objects.  Find other frequently asked questions on cultural resources at:  http://www.cardnojfnew.com/culturalresources/culturalresourcesfaq.aspx 

"This is just metadata.  There is no content involved."  That was how Sen. Dianne Feinstein defended the NSA's blanket surveillance of Americans' phone records and Internet activity.  Before those revelations, not many people had heard of metadata, the term librarians and programmers use for the data that describes a particular document or record it's linked to.  It's the data you find on a card in a library catalog, or the creation date and size of a file in a folder window.  It's the penciled note on the back of a snapshot:  "Kathleen and Ashley, Lake Charles, 1963."  Or it could be the times, numbers and GPS locations attached to the calls in a phone log.  "Metadata" was bound to break out sooner or later, riding the wave of "data" in all its forms and combinations.  "Big data" and "data mining" are the reigning tech buzzwords these days, and university faculties are scrambling to meet the surge in demand for courses in the hot new field of data science.  It's as if "data" is usurping "information" as a byword.  Up to now, "data" has played a supporting role in the information age.  There's a popular definition of data as the raw material that becomes information when it's processed and made meaningful.  That puts information at the center of the modern tech world, but it isn't how anybody actually uses the two words.  When you're focused on information in that stand-alone sense, metadata plays a subordinate role.  In the old days, it was just a tool for getting to the stuff you were really interested in.  Think how much metadata you had to wade through back then to find a passage about drunkenness in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America — looking up the book in the library card catalog, writing down its call number, finding it on the shelves, searching for "drunkenness" in the index, then finally turning to the page you're after.  Now that that kind of information is online, metadata can seem almost irrelevant.  No need for catalogs or indexes:  You just enter a query, and when the book comes up, you barrel in sideways.  That's probably why Google was socareless about metadata when they digitized major library collections for Google Books. Literally millions of books are misdated or misclassified:  It's not odd to run into a Web browser manual dated 1939 that lists Sigmund Freud as its author or a copy of Madame Bovary attributed to Henry James and filed under "antiques and collectibles."  The faulty metadata prompted some grumbles from academics, and Google has been trying to fix it.  But it doesn't bother most of the people who use Google Books — they get at its information in other ways.  http://www.npr.org/2013/06/21/193578367/calling-it-metadata-doesnt-make-surveillance-less-intrusive 

Caroline Kennedy has been a lifelong advocate for reading, literacy, and libraries.  Her career has included work with the New York City Department of Education and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.  Most recently, she spoke at the 2013 American Library Association  Midwinter Meeting and served this year as honorary chair of National Library Week.  Kennedy has written or edited 10 bestselling books on American history, politics, and poetry.  Her latest work, Poems to Learn by Heart, was published in March.  American Libraries spoke with Kennedy about her work, the future of libraries, and her love of poetry.  Read her view of the library as a place of adventure that has the  power to bring communities together at:  http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/interview-caroline-kennedy 

JK Rowling has secretly written a crime novel under the guise of male debut writer Robert Galbraith.  The Harry Potter author was acclaimed for The Cuckoo's Calling, about a war veteran turned private investigator called Cormoran Strike.  The book had sold 1,500 copies before the secret emerged in the Sunday Times.  Within hours, it rose more than 5,000 places to top Amazon's sales list.  Rowling said she had "hoped to keep this secret a little longer".  The author described "being Robert Galbraith" as a "such a liberating experience".  "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name," she said in a statement.  "And to those who have asked for a sequel, Robert fully intends to keep writing the series, although he will probably continue to turn down personal appearances," she added.  A clue that Rowling was behind the novel was that she and "Galbraith" shared an agent and editor.  The book was published by Sphere, part of Little, Brown Book Group which published her foray into writing novels for adults, The Casual Vacancy.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23304181