Friday, January 16, 2015

Hypernym is a term for a word whose meaning includes the meanings of other words.  Flower is a hypernym of daisy and rosehttp://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/hypernym.htm  Hyponym is a specific term used to designate a member of a class.  Daisy and rose are hyponyms of flowerhttp://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/hyponymterm.htm

Bill Joy is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  Since joining KPCB in 2005, Bill helped develop KPCB’s strategy of funding game-changing technologies that broadly address the twin problems of climate change and sustainability.  Bill worked on ventures in areas such as wind, solar and thermoelectric power generation, low-cost electrical energy storage, renewable fuels and green chemicals from non-fuel sources, low-embodied-energy materials and energy-efficient electronics.  Previously, Bill was a founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems.  While at Sun, Bill was a key designer involved with a number of Sun technologies, including the Solaris operating system, the SPARC microprocessor architecture and several of its implementations, and the Java programming language.  In 1995, he installed the first city-wide WiFi network in Aspen, Colorado, where his research lab was located.  As an inventor, Bill is named on more than 40 patents.  Before co-founding Sun, he designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet.  Bill’s many industry contributions were recognized in a FORTUNE magazine cover story that called him the “Edison of the Internet.”  https://www.kpcb.com/partner/bill-joy

Technologist and futurist Bill Joy:  "What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about"  TED talk 2006  19:02 or link to transcript at http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_joy_muses_on_what_s_next?language=en  

verge  noun  the edge, brink, or margin (of something):  also used figuratively:  the verge of the forest, on the verge of hysteria; BRIT. a grassy border, as along a road; an enclosing line or border; boundary, esp. of something more or less circular (or the area so enclosed); the edge of the tiling that projects over a gable; the spindle of a balance wheel in a clock with an old-style vertical escapement; a rod or staff symbolic of an office, as that carried before a church official in processions; ENG. FEUDAL LAW a rod held in the hand by a feudal tenant as he swore fealty to his lord  http://www.yourdictionary.com/verge


With a changing employment landscape, some U.S. commuters are travelling long times and distances to get to work.  One study by Moss and Qing (2012) noted that “super” commuters are on the rise in the U.S. In their analysis, a super commuter is defined as working in the central
county of a metropolitan area, but lives beyond the boundaries of that metropolitan area, commuting long distances by air, rail, car, bus, or some combination.  This is a definition based on distance.  Extreme commuting has been increasing since at least 1990.  Extreme commuters are defined as workers who travel 90 minutes or more to work, one-way –a definition based on time (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005).  Additionally, this research defines long distance commuters as workers who travel 50 miles or more to work, one-way.  And mega commuters as those who combine these two definitions and travel 90 minutes or more and 50 miles or more to work, one-way.  See Mega Commuters in the U.S., Working Paper 2013-13 of the U.S. Census Bureau at

3 Strategies for Surviving a Long Commute

Dom Pierre Pérignon (1638–1715) was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still red.  The quote attributed to Perignon—"Come quickly, I am drinking the stars!"—is supposedly what he said when tasting the first sparkling champagne.  However, the first appearance of that quote appears to have been in a print advertisement in the late 19th century.  While the monk did work tirelessly and successfully to improve the quality and renown of the still wines of Champagne, he did not invent sparkling wine, nor was he the first to make champagne.  There is documentary evidence that sparkling wine was first intentionally produced by contemporary English scientist and physician Christopher Merret.   A major proponent of the misconceptions surrounding Dom Pérignon came from one of his successors at the Abbey of Hautvillers, Dom Groussard, who in 1821 gave an account of Dom Pérignon "inventing" Champagne.  The myths about Pérignon being the first to use corks and being able to name the precise vineyard by tasting a single grape likely originated from Groussard's account.   Prior to blending he would taste the grapes without knowing the source vineyard to avoid influencing his perceptions.  References to his "blind tasting of wine" have led to the common misconception that Dom Pérignon was blind.  Contrary to popular belief, Dom Pérignon did not introduce blending to Champagne wines but rather the innovation of blending the grapes prior to sending them to press.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_P%C3%A9rignon_%28monk%29

Sparkling wine recommendations from a wine aficionado  I personally think that the standard (yellow/orange label) Veuve Cliquot Brut is the best buy on the market, although there are several outstanding ones that cost $150 to $500 a bottle.  I actually like the (pink label) Veuve Cliquot Brut Rose best of all, but that is another $5 or so, and not everyone thinks that a pinkish sparkler can possibly be a real Champagne.  It is, but that's a matter of taste.  It is slightly fruitier, but still goes well with just about anything you could eat.  In case you are wondering, I personally think that Dom Perignon is not as good as Veuve Cliquot by quite a bit, despite the sales hype you hear.  If the price is too high, the Gruet sparkler from Albuquerque, New Mexico (really!) is an excellent choice.   It also comes in Brut and Brut Rose, although the Rose may be harder to find, and is usually $2 more.   Both usually sell for less than $20.  It is not a true Champagne, since it doesn't come from the Champagne region of France, but it is still very good. 

Lincoln:  The Constitution and the Civil War exhibition will be at the Terhune Gallery at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Owens Community College Toledo-area campus from January 21–March 4, 2015.  The National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office organized the traveling exhibition, which was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).  The exhibit, composed of informative panels featuring photographic reproductions of original documents, including a draft of Lincoln’s first inaugural speech, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center.  Find hours, map and directions at https://www.owens.edu/lincoln/


http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1244  January 16, 2014  On this date in 1964, Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.  On this date in 1970, Buckminster Fuller received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.

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