Tangier Island Virginia is located 12 miles west of the historical waterfront community of Onancock Virginia on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.  A different way of life; absolutely.   Tangier Island residents have no vehicles to travel about on the Island.  Transportation on the Island consists of Golf Carts and Bikes.  Visitors can rent  bikes and Gold Carts at Four Brothers Crab House & Ice Cream Deck upon arriving on the Island. 

The odd accent of Tangier Virginia (from AMERICAN TONGUES)  2:17 video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

Homemade matzohs  http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-matzos-50400000120373/

25 delicious ways to use matzoh by Rachel Sanders  http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/ways-to-use-matzoh-matzo-recipes-passover

33 reasons you're addicted to books by Isaac Fitzgerald  http://www.buzzfeed.com/isaacfitzgerald/reading-love  The pictures at these two sites are amazing. 

QUOTES

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist and pioneer of the assembly-line production method  http://thinkexist.com/quotation/don-t_find_fault-find_a_remedy-anybody_can/192970.html

The Elephant Listening Project is focused on acoustic communication because forest elephants are very difficult to observe visually everywhere except during their brief visits to forest clearings.  However, all three species of elephant (Asian, African savannah and African forest) make calls with fundamental frequencies below the lower limit of human hearing (20 Hz), in the range called infrasound.  These infrasonic calls can travel far through the environment.  Each rumble appears as a stack of crescent-shaped lines in the spectrogram.  These are called 'harmonics' and they are exact multiples of the frequency at which the vocal folds ('cords') vibrate.  At several places in this vocal exchange, the voices of the two elephants overlap. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/language.html

African elephants have the ability to distinguish between human languages, researchers have determined.  A team of researchers found that elephants in the Amboseli National Park region of Kenya have learned to differentiate between the dialect of the Maasai tribe, whose members have a history of killing elephants, and the languages of other tribes that present less of a danger to them, National Geographic magazine reported on March 10, 2014.  The researchers' findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contribute to "our growing knowledge of the discriminatory abilities of the elephant mind, and how elephants make decisions and see their world," Joyce Poole, an elephant expert with ElephantVoices in Masai Mara, Kenya, told National Geographic.  Earlier research found elephants can tell the difference between the Maasai and members of the neighboring Kamba tribe, by scent and color of their clothing, National Geographic said.  The researchers determined the elephants' language recognition ability by playing audio recordings to 47 elephant families over a two-year period and observing the animals' reactions.  They found when the matriarch of an elephant family hears a Maasai man, speak, "she instantly retreats," said Graeme Shannon, a behavioral ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.  http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/03/11/Researchers-find-elephants-can-tell-languages-apart/UPI-61311394555133/

Once you get past the drama of all the hand wringing and political scorecards about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it comes down to this:  having access to health care coverage can save lives and money.  Health insurance is an important protection for the financial and health security of America’s families.  You may visit healthcare.gov or call the toll-free ACA consumer helpline at 1-800-318-2596 to get your marketplace questions answered.  Or you can call United Way’s 211 Line to find out about enrollment assistance near you.  Through the Health Insurance Marketplace, Americans can compare and shop for health insurance.  You cannot be turned down, and you may even be able to get help paying for your new insurance.  If you or someone you know does not have health insurance, or if you are losing your coverage, or you are not eligible to be covered under an affordable, quality employer plan, you have until March 31, 2014  to sign up.  U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Ohio’s 9th Congressional District
www.kaptur.house.gov 

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist epic science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang.  The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.  A silent film, it was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by UFA.  Metropolis is regarded as a pioneer work of science fiction movies, being the first feature length movie of the genre.  Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city's ruler, and Maria, whose background is not fully explained in the film, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes of their city.  Metropolis was filmed in 1925, at a cost of approximately five million Reichsmarks.  Thus, it was the most expensive film ever released up to that point.  The film was met with a mixed response upon its initial release, with many critics praising its technical achievements and social metaphors while others derided its "simplistic and naïve" presentation.  Because of its long running-time and the inclusion of footage which censors found questionable, Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere: large portions of the film were lost over the subsequent decades.  Numerous attempts have been made to restore the film since the 1970s-80s. Giorgio Moroder, a music producer, released a version with a soundtrack by rock artists such as Freddie Mercury, Loverboy and Adam Ant in 1984.  A new reconstruction of Metropolis was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001, and the film was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in the same year, the first film thus distinguished.  In 2008, a damaged print of Lang’s original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina.  After a long restoration process, the film was 95% restored and shown on large screens in Berlin and Frankfurt simultaneously on 12 February 2010.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has used high-strength cardboard tubes to make temporary housing for victims of natural disasters and refugees fleeing conflicts, on March 24 was named the 2014 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's highest honor.  Sponsored by Chicago's billionaire Pritzker family, the annual award recognizes "consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."  Those words resonate for Ban because his simple but spirit-lifting buildings have lent shelter and dignity to people who have suffered from civil war, genocide, earthquakes and tsunamis.  He is the most socially-conscious architect ever to win the Pritzker Prize, first awarded in 1979, and the first to win largely on the basis of structures that are temporary, not permanent.  The award, which comes with $100,000 and a bronze medallion, will be presented June 13 in Amsterdam.  Ban is the seventh Japanese architect to win the prize. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, two Japanese architects who work as partners, shared it in 2010.  Blair Kamin  http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-24/entertainment/ct-shigeru-ban-pritzker-prize-20140324_1_pritzker-jury-ryue-nishizawa-denise-scott-brown

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1127  March 26, 2014  On this date in 1812, a political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coined the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.