A logo is a perspicuous glyph or
symbolic, identifying mark that
conveys origin, identity, or ownership. The main function is to elicit
recognition. The object of a logo is to act as a mnemonic device and
identifier, to communicate a desired thought or feeling, and to generate a
desired emotional response. There are
three basic types of logos: (1) Iconic/Symbolic Icons and symbols are compelling yet
uncomplicated images that are emblematic of a particular company or
product. (2) Logotype/Wordmark A logotype, commonly known in the design industry as a
"word mark", incorporates your company or brand name into a uniquely
styled type font treatment. (3) Combination Marks Combination Marks are graphics with both text
and a symbol/icon that signifies the brand image that you wish to project for
your company or organization. Concise
text can complement an icon or symbol, providing supplemental clarity as to
what your enterprise is all about. See
examples at: http://www.logodesignsource.com/types.html
“The National Park libraries,” says Nancy Hori,
supervisory librarian at the National Park Service (NPS) Pacific West Regional
Library in Seattle, “are in some of the most beautiful and sacred areas of the
United States. The remote locations,
often in historical buildings without climate control, present many challenges
for keeping materials safe and secure.” As part of the NPS, they are government and
public libraries, house special collections, and in many cases serve as museum
libraries. See information on five such
libraries at: http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/greetings-america%E2%80%99s-national-park-libraries
June 20, 2013 The food stamp program is now formally known as the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. The name “food stamps” was
dropped after the government replaced the paper stamps with a plastic
Electronic Benefits Transfer card that is refilled every month. Retailers that accept SNAP benefits must sell
foods from the four staple food groups; the benefits cannot be used for
beer, wine, liquor or tobacco products. The most recent
monthly USDA statistics show that the number of food stamp recipients has
topped 47 million, an increase of nearly 70
percent since 2008. The average
monthly benefit for one person is $133.44, which is where the $4.50 a day
figure comes from. But note that the
name of the program refers to “supplemental” assistance. SNAP is not intended to be the only source of
income for food. According to the USDA,
about 75 percent of SNAP participants use their own money, in addition to SNAP benefits, to buy
food. USDA data show that only 20 percent of SNAP participants
have no income, while the rest either earn wages or receive government
assistance. (The SNAP benefits are
reduced according to a formula that lowers the maximum benefit by 30 percent of
net income; about 32 percent of households with children receive the maximum
benefit.) The data also show that SNAP
recipients spend a larger share of their overall income on food than
nonparticipants with a similar income. Moreover,
the maximum monthly benefits can quickly climb as the size of
the household grows. A family of four,
for instance, could receive as much as $668 a month for food. Indeed, households with children receive 71 percent of all SNAP benefits. Judging from the lawmakers’ tweets, some are assuming the $4.50 means
that just $1.50 can be spent per meal. That certainly might be difficult with
take-out food, but SNAP generally is intended to be used to buy food for
home-cooked meals. The USDA has created official food plans that represent what it describes as “a
nutritious diet at four different cost levels.”
The maximum SNAP benefit is intended to cover nearly 114 percent of the
“Thrifty plan,” the lowest-cost option, which for a family of four would cost
between $551 and $632 a month. The three
other plans cost progressively more. USDA
also publishes an extensice list of recipes
http://recipefinder.nal.usda.gov/
that can be used to produce a
healthy low-cost meal. A search for dishes costing
$4.50 or less turned up 444 options, many of which were for eight or more
servings. Dishes costing less
than $1.50 produced 116 results. Glenn
Kessler http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-snap-challenge-the-claim-that-food-stamp-recipients-get-by-on-450-a-day/2013/06/19/110f6b14-d925-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_blog.html?hpid=z4
The very least you can do in your life is figure out
what you hope for.
What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road
you're on and the fact you know how to drive.
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Animal
Dreams was awarded
the Pen/USA West Fiction Award and the Edward Abbey Award for Ecofiction, and
it was named an American Library Association Notable Book, the Arizona Library
Association Book of the Year, and a New York Times Notable Book. Find links to essays and reviews at: http://www.kpl.gov/reading-together/2008/book.aspx
North America, the planet’s 3rd largest continent, includes 23
countries and dozens of possessions and territories. It contains all Caribbean and Central America
countries, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, the United States of America, as well as
Greenland--the world’s largest island. Read more and see graphics at: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/na.htm
Hawaii is approximately 2,550 miles southwest of Los Angeles, in the middle of
the North Pacific Ocean. Politically it
is part of the United States in North America, but geographically because of
its isolated location it is not considered part of any continent. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/namera.htm
In computing, a mouse is a pointing
device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its
supporting surface. Physically, a mouse
consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more
buttons. The trackball, a
related pointing device, was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon
Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in
1952. It used a standard Canadian five-pin
bowling ball. It was not patented,
as it was a secret military project. Independently,
Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research
Institute (now SRI International) invented the first mouse
prototype in 1963, with the assistance of his lead engineer Bill English. They christened the device the mouse as
early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the device looking like a
tail and generally resembling the common mouse. Engelbart never received any royalties for it,
as his employer SRI held the patent, which ran out before it became widely used
in personal computers. The invention of
the mouse was just a small part of Engelbart's much larger project, aimed at
augmenting human intellect via the Augmentation Research Center. The earliest known publication of the term mouse
as a computer pointing device is in Bill English's 1965 publication
"Computer-Aided Display Control".
The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the
plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small
computer connected device is either mice or mouses. The term mice was seen in print in "The Computer as a Communication
Device", written by J. C. R. Licklider in 1968. The fourth edition of The American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses computer mice
as the correct plural forms for computer mouse. Some authors of technical documents may prefer
either mouse devices or the more generic pointing devices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(computing)
See a history in photos of Doug Engelbart's work
at: http://www.dougengelbart.org/history/pix.html
Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 25, 1925 in
Portland, Oregon and died July 2, 2013 in Atherton, California) read an article
"As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush in a library towards the end of World
War II, and it set him on his life's work.
The idea of a pointing device that would roll on a desk occurred to him
while attending a computer graphics conference in 1964. In 1968 he set the computing world on fire
when he demonstrated a mouse before more than a thousand computer scientists at
a conference in San Francisco. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
As We May Think,
article by Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic, July 1, 1945
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