October 13, 2015 For
more than a decade, retired engineer Tom Tryniski has been digitizing
old newspapers from microfilm and
making their full text available and searchable online. Tryniski's site, which he created in his
living room in upstate New York, has grown into one of the largest historic
newspaper databases in the world, with 22 million newspaper pages. By contrast, the Library of Congress' historic
newspaper site, Chronicling America, has 5 million newspaper pages on its
site.
FROZEN PEAS and how to use them. Add them to pasta, salad, soup, mixed
vegetables. Mash them with egg yolks,
yogurt and mustard as filling for deviled eggs.
WHO IS HE? He was
born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary (now Slovakia), although his year and place of
birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City.
A talented linguist and an astute mimic, he had an ear for languages
which became apparent later in his acting career. He attended the City College of
New York as
a pre-med student, completing the four-year course in three years and winning a
scholarship to the Physicians and Surgeons College at Columbia University. He qualified for the United States fencing team prior to the 1936 Summer
Olympic Games, but quit the team just prior to the games in order to
take a role in the theater.
November 2, 2015 Harvard
University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has changed its Chilling
Effects project's name to “Lumen,” and can be found at www.lumendatabase.org.
The name borrows from the unit of
measurement for visible light, highlighting the use of data for transparency
reporting. “Since Chilling Effects was
founded in the wake of the passage of the US Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, the project has been essential to the collection and study of notices sent
to online platforms requesting the removal of content,” said Chris Bavitz,
Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center and Clinical Professor of Law at
Harvard Law School. Started in 2001 by
then-Berkman fellow Wendy Seltzer and current Berkman Faculty Director Jonathan
Zittrain, Chilling Effects was founded to provide a database of requests for
content removal, to assist scholars and others in understanding trends in
content removal demands and practices, and to facilitate research into how
online intermediaries make their content removal decisions. Over time, the project has expanded in the
types of notices it hosts, the sources they come from, and the sheer volume of
requests it receives. In addition to
DMCA notices, request types now include removal demands grounded in trademark,
patent, locally-regulated content, and private information removal claims. Companies sharing notices they receive include
Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Reddit. The number of notices collected has grown from
a few notices per week, to approximately 4,000 per day. As of July 2015, the Chilling Effects database
contains more than three million notices and is the definitive source for
online content removal requests.
Jean
Catherine Coulter (born December 26, 1942) is an American author
of romantic suspense thrillers and historical romances who currently resides in northern California. Coulter grew up on a horse ranch in Cameron County, Texas. Her grandmother, who died at the young
age of 37, was also a writer. Her father
was a painter and singer, and her mother is a retired concert pianist. Coulter wrote her first two novels, fifteen
pages each, when she was fourteen. While
a freshman at the University of Texas, Coulter wrote poetry. After earning her undergraduate degree from
the University of Texas, Coulter attended Boston
College and earned a Master's
degree in early 19th-century European history.
She took a job as a speech writer for a Wall
Street executive. One night, when she found herself in the
middle of a particularly bad romance novel she threw it across the room,
asserting that even she could do better.
When Coulter finished writing her novel she sent it to an editor at Signet. Three days later Signet offered her a
three-book contract. That first novel, The Autumn Countess, was
published by Penguin
Books in 1978. By 1982, she was earning enough to quit her
job and become a full-time writer. Since
then she has written over fifty books and has had forty-two consecutive New
York Times Bestsellers since 1988. Her
thriller The Maze was her first book to place on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list, while The Cove spent nine weeks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list and sold
over one million copies. Coulter
generally publishes one historical romance and one suspense novel each year,
and has been busily rewriting many of her earlier Regency romances to turn them
into longer historical romances. Coulter
sits down at her computer every morning at 6:30 a.m. to review her email
before beginning writing at 7:30 a.m.
She normally finishes writing by 11 a.m.
Saturday, November 7, 2015 1-4 p.m.
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
McMaster Center 325 Michigan
St. It has been 40 years since the
Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship considered
the largest, strongest and fastest vessel of its time, the "Queen of the
Great Lakes," sank in a violent storm on Lake Superior on November 10,
1975.
Thomas Walton, retired
Editor and Vice President of The Blade and a member of the Fitzgerald crew
as a young man, will present "10 November, the Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald," followed by the documentary, "The Wreck of
the Edmund Fitzgerald." The program
will also feature maritime-themed musical pieces performed by the Toledo School
for the Arts Studio Winds. This program
is FREE and open to the public. Free
on-site parking. Sponsored
by the Library Legacy Foundation
2015’s Best and Worst Cities to Retire
2015’s Best & Worst Cities to Find a Job
2015’s Best & Worst Small Cities in America
November 2015 When
Google launched Inbox,
its most recent email app from the Gmail team, it touted the app's ability to
act almost like an assistant. Now, a
year later, Google is making the app more like an aide than ever. The company will soon be rolling out a new
feature called "Smart Reply," which uses artificial intelligence to
suggest replies for your messages. The Smart Reply feature works a bit like
predictive text in keyboard apps, except that it predicts phrases you're most
likely to use when replying to messages. The feature will show up to three short
sentences based on the message and how people have responded to similar emails
in the past. Karissa Bell http://mashable.com/2015/11/03/google-inbox-smart-reply/#Dhn0qh_1j8ql
The latest
version of Mozilla Firefox browser (v42) came out on November 3, 2015 with safety upgrades to the
Web security controls and Private Browsing.
Tracking Protection in Private Browsing stops trackers that have the habit of monitoring
your searches, spamming you with ads or discreetly monitoring your online
behavior without consent. Horia
Ungureanu http://www.techtimes.com/articles/102967/20151104/mozilla-firefox-42-rolls-out-with-tracking-protection-lets-you-block-trackers-in-private-browsing.htm
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1373
November 4, 2015 On this date in
1861, the University of
Washington opened in Seattle as
the Territorial University. On this date
in 1922, in Egypt,
British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
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