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LeBron James Sept. 29, 2007
Meirion James Trow (born 1949) is a Welsh writer who writes under the name M.
J. Trow. Sholto Joseph Lestrade, a Scotland Yard inspector in
19th century London; Peter Maxwell, a widowed teacher and golden-hearted cynic,
in England; Kit (Christopher) Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright in his
youth, beginning in 1583 Cambridge; Captain Matthew Grand, a Union cavalry officer, and James
Batchelor, a London journalist, in the 1860s, in the Grand & Batchelor
Victorian mysteries; Justinus, Paternus, Leocadius, and Vitalis, Roman soldiers
at Hadrian's Wall in 367 Britain, in the Britannia historical thriller series
[written with Richard Denham]; non-fiction and true crime at http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/T_Authors/Trow_M-J.html
Marbury v. Madison, arguably the most important case in
Supreme Court history, was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the
principle of "judicial
review"--the power of federal
courts to void acts of Congress in conflict with the Constitution. Written in 1803 by Chief Justice John Marshall, the decision played a key role in making the Supreme
Court a separate branch of government on par with Congress and the executive. Link to
other landmark cases from "The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years" at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_marbury.html
Fold is a
suffix meaning multiplied by (a specified number) times or having (so many)
parts.
Have you ever eaten kohlrabi? These little
sputnik-shaped vegetables come in green or purple, can be eaten raw or cooked,
and taste a bit like broccoli stems, but milder and slightly
sweeter. The word kohlrabi is German for
“cabbage turnip” (kohl as in
cole-slaw, and rübe for turnip) though kohlrabi is not a
root vegetable at all. It’s a
brassica—like cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower—and those cute bulbous shapes
grow above ground, not below. We usually
eat them raw—peeled, sliced and added to a salad or used for serving with a
dip. You can also steam, boil, bake,
grill, or roast them. Just peel
away the outside thick skin first. Add
them to soups or stews. Grate them and
toss with grated carrots or apples. Boil
them and mash them with potatoes or other root vegetables. Stir-fry them with other vegetables, or
julienne them and fry them like potatoes.
Link to recipes at http://www.simplyrecipes.com/kohlrabi/
The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the
planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy—initially a BBC Radio series by Douglas Adams—who
are responsible for the destruction of
the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction
project. Vogons are described as “one of the most unpleasant races in the
galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and
callous", and having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" as
well as being the authors of "the third worst poetry in the universe". Find
examples of poetry as torture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon#Poetry
How do we ascertain truth on the web?
That’s a question being pursued by researchers at Google who have
articulated a flow of data that generates discrete statements of fact from
countless web sources, relates those statements to previously assembled stores
of knowledge, and fuses these mathematically to identify which statements may
be more “truthful” than others. They
describe this assembly of scored statements as a “Knowledge Vault.” As Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
(OCLC) works with data from library, archive and museum sources, we grapple
with the same question and similarly varying data. Though the number of statements made is
smaller and there may be fewer conflicts, we benefit by taking a closer look at
the Google Knowledge Vault idea, to see how it applies to a vault of library knowledge. http://www.bespacific.com/oclc-looking-inside-the-library-knowledge-vault/ Read about the global library cooperative
OCLC, originally named the Ohio College Library Center, at https://www.oclc.org/about.en.html
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC
"Yesterdays"
is a 1933 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Otto Harbach.
It was written for the show Roberta (1933), where it was introduced by Fay Templeton.
The song was soon picked up by jazz musicians and has since gone on to become
one of the top jazz standards.
JazzStandards.com ranks it ninth among all jazz standards, in terms of
being "included most often on currently issued CDs by the greatest number
of jazz artists." Irene Dunne performed the song in the film
version Roberta (1935). Barbra Streisand performed
the song in her TV special Color Me Barbra and
included a recording on her album Color Me Barbra (1966). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterdays_(1933_song)
"Yesterday"
is a song by English rock band The Beatles written by Paul McCartney (credited
to Lennon–McCartney)
first issued for their U.K. album Help! released August, 1965. Yesterday with B-side Act Naturally was
released as a U.S. single
September, 1965. While it topped the
American chart in 1965 the song first hit the British top 10 three months after
the release of Help! in
a cover version by Matt Monro.
The song also appeared on the U.S. album The Beatles Yesterday
and Today released
June, 1966. McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar together
with a string quartet essentially
made for the first solo performance of the band. It remains popular today with more than 2,200 cover versions and is one of the most covered
songs in the history of recorded music.
"Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a
1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners
and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling
Stone magazine
the following year. In 1997, the song
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Broadcast
Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed
over seven million times in the 20th century alone.
August 17, 2015 In the
mountains of Colorado last week, a group of library leaders were joined by
thought leaders and decision-makers from government, technology, business,
academia and philanthropy to consider and plan for the future of the public
library. Assisted by facilitators at the Aspen Institute, participants in theLeadership
Roundtable on Library Innovation, part of the Aspen
Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries and supported
by Knight Foundation, worked over three days on proposals to guide
libraries through a difficult march toward future relevance. There are about 9,500 public libraries in the
U.S., most of them serving small and medium-sized communities. Probably 8,500
of them are not interested in innovation, suggested one urban library director.
While roundtable participants
overwhelmingly agreed that the physical buildings housing libraries remain as
relevant as ever--albeit in the future as a community convening place more so
than a mere repository of books and physical media--digital connectivity to the
world of data is becoming just as important, if not more. One of the primary recommendations coming out
of Aspen is that more libraries (big and small) acquire “super connectivity,”
which means adding 10-gigabit
connectivity to the Internet.
Such a library would have massive
capacity (via fiber optic connections) for data transfer in and out of the
building. A library with super
connectivity would have the capacity for patrons to always be able to view
streaming video without today’s common glitches and delays, no matter how many
people in the library are watching video at one time, for example. Conveniently for libraries, the next few
years are the best time to make the jump to super connectivity. Even small libraries can consider it, courtesy
of the $3.9 billion Schools
and Library Program of the Universal Service Fund, known as E-Rate,
administered by the Federal Communications Commission(FCC). E-Rate offers discounted telecommunications, Internet access and internal
connections. Eligible schools and
libraries pay between 10 percent and 80 percent of the cost, with the average
cost borne around 20 percent (when state matching funds are available). E-Rate money is meant for investment rather
than to pay for services; libraries would look at building their own
connectivity infrastructure, including expanded Wi-Fi service within their
buildings. Steve Outing http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/8/17/libraries-future-super-connectivity-and-national-stature/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1344
August 26, 2015 On this date in
1791, John Fitch was
granted a United States patent for the steamboat. On this date in 1920, the 19th amendment to United States Constitution took effect, giving women the right to
vote.
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