Who said:  "I do not like this kind of hope, and we won’t take it, nope, nope, nope."  Find out at
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Atropa belladonna or Atropa bella-donna, commonly known as Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia.  The foliage and berries are extremely toxic, containing tropane alkaloids.  These toxins include scopolamine and hyoscyamine, which cause a bizarre delirium and hallucinations, and are also used as pharmaceutical anticholinergics.  The drug atropine is derived from the plant.  It has a long history of use as a medicine, cosmetic, and poison.  Before the Middle Ages, it was used as an anesthetic for surgery; the ancient Romans used it as a poison (the wife of Emperor Augustus and the wife of Claudius both were rumored to have used it for murder); and, predating this, it was used to make poison-tipped arrows.  The genus name Atropa comes from Atropos, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology, and the name "bella donna" is derived from Italian and means "beautiful woman" because the herb was used in eye-drops by women to dilate the pupils of the eyes to make them appear seductive.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna

Holly Hunt, the contemporary-design impresario who bought her first showroom in Chicago in 1983.  The biggest decorating challenge is dealing with poor interior architecture—furniture doesn't really help.  It's like putting on perfume when you need a shower. There's nothing
worse than drywall and carpet.  You need wood, stone, metal and plaster.  My design pet peeve is: overhead lighting.  It creates circles on the wall and on your head.  A great alternative is Jonathan Browning's bronze Pentagone Chandelier. And I love Alison Berger's lighting.  She's an architect, so the scale and proportions are rather perfect.  Too much color in a room is confusing—when there's a red sofa, green walls, a purple whatever. I don't mind purple used in a minimal way.  My favorite paint color is: something neutral, which gives a room an elegant, welcoming background.  I like two colors from Benjamin Moore: OC 51 Intense White, which has a stone cast, and AF 100 Pashmina, a taupe that looks dark when you first put it on, but, trust me, it's warm and beautiful.  The most versatile sofa is: the classic Jean-Michel Frank club design, the basis for all modern sofas.  People today are looking for curves, sectionals and more interesting shapes, but straight sofas with rectangular proportions, 3- to 5-inch-wide arms and three cushions on the seat and back will always work.  The best upholstery fabric is: low-pile like mohair or cotton velvet.  It's easy to sit on and keep clean.  A great bedroom needs tranquillity and a great mattress.  When traveling, I've been most inspired by: buildings by Tadao Ando in Japan.  I like the monumental-ness of stone. You don't understand when you look in a book how large his buildings are, how light transforms the space.  The world's most beautiful hotel is: the Como Shambhala in Bali.  It's by the Malaysian architect Cheong Yew Kuan and is absolutely fabulous—four individual buildings set under a roof, around a pool.  The quickest way to transform a room is: to take everything out and paint it.  Then don't put everything back in exactly the same place.  Even moving around the same furniture changes the room's energy.  Edited from an interview by David A. Keeps

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Photos:  28 beautiful castles from around the world  http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-castles-20140306,0,2374012.photogallery

Marcus Tullius Cicero  (born 106 , Arpinum, Latiumdied Dec. 7, 43 , Formiae) Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer.  Born to a wealthy family, he quickly established a brilliant career in law and plunged into politics, then rife with factionalism and conspiracy. Cicero was elected consul in 63.  Of his speeches, perhaps the best known are those he made against Catiline, whose uprising he foiled.  He vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic.   http://www.answers.com/topic/cicero  

QUOTES:   I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.   If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.  It has been revised and expanded through 23 major editions, the latest issued in 2011, and has grown from a four-page pamphlet in 1876 with less than one thousand classes to a four volume set.  It is also available in an abridged version suitable for smaller libraries.  It is currently maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a library research center. OCLC licenses access to an online version, WebDewey, for catalogers, and has an experimental linked data version on the Web with open access.  http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey.en.html  The Decimal Classification introduced the concepts of relative location and relative index which allow new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject.  The classification system is used in 200,000 libraries in at least 135 countries.  One of the innovations of the Dewey Decimal system was that of positioning books on the shelves in relation to other books on similar topics.  When the system was first introduced, most libraries in the US used fixed positioning: each book was assigned a permanent shelf position based on the book's height and date of acquisition.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification  NOTE that in small private libraries, books are often placed by color, size, or format for a desired look.

Jan. 9, 2014  There are currently over 300 living resident library cats throughout the world today, 200+ of which are in the US according to the Library Cat Map.   Library cats have been welcomed as rodent-killers since the early 19th century in Europe and even dating back to ancient times in Egypt in the libraries of temples. Ellyssa Kroski   Read about six famous library cats, find a library cat job description and link to resources at http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/quick-guide-library-cats/  NOTE that OEDb (Open Education Database) is a comprehensive online education directory for both free and for-credit learning options.  http://oedb.org/

March 18, 2014 — The health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for centuries, but the exact reason has remained a mystery — until now.  Researchers reported here today that certain bacteria in the stomach gobble the chocolate and ferment it into anti-inflammatory compounds that are good for the heart.  Their findings were unveiled at the 247^th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society.  “We found that there are two kinds of microbes in the gut: the ‘good’ ones and the ‘bad’ ones,” explained Maria Moore, an undergraduate student and one of the study’s researchers.  “The good microbes, such as Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria, feast on chocolate,” she said.  “When you eat dark chocolate, they grow and ferment it, producing compounds that are anti-inflammatory.”   http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2014/march/the-precise-reason-for-the-health-benefits-of-dark-chocolate-mystery-solved.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1125  March 21, 2014  On this date in 1904, Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.  In 1970, the first Earth Day proclamation was issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.  In 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.