Long before he was a
household name, Mario Batali was a
philanthropist. Since 2003, Mario has
served on the board of The Food Bank For New York City, playing an integral part
in the organization’s various achievements and events. Each spring, Mario and his wife, Susan Cahn,
organize and execute the Can Do Awards Gala.
Thanks to Mario and Susan’s efforts, the Can Do awards consistently
raise over $1 million annually. Mario also works with Citymeals-on-Wheels and City
Harvest, organizations devoted to hunger relief both city and nationwide. Mario is also a founding member of the Feeding America Entertainment
Council, previously America’s Second Harvest. Mario has had the privilege and honor of
being a wish-granter for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. In addition, Mario is a proud supporter of
the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation. For years Mario
has participated in the organization’s annual Kids for Kids Family Carnival,
raising money to support the foundation’s critical research, training, and
advocacy programs. Mario sits on the
Board of Directors of the Emeril Lagasse Foundation whose mission is to create new
opportunities for children, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances,
to realize their full potential as productive and creative individuals. In his capacity as a board member of the Lunchbox Fund, Mario was integral in launching Feedie,
a mobile app designed to enable those who share photos of food into providing
actual food for children in need in South African townships. As a board member of the New York Botanical Garden, Mario creates
the “Mario Batali Kitchen Gardens.” The Edible Garden is an interactive space filled with
beds of vegetables and herbs where visitors can pick up recipes for his popular
dishes, and learn how to create fresh, seasonal family meals. Mario also sits
on the board of the Washington Square Park
Conservancy. Link to
"where funds go," including Books for Kids, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and National Multiple Sclerosis Society at
Sloppy Moussakas http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/recipe/12804_Sloppy_Moussakas/
Cider Scalloped Potatoes http://www.denverpost.com/ci_19133930
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while
away. It is older and more logical than wile away. But
because the second phrase occurs so frequently, it is now included in many
dictionaries and is rarely considered incorrect. The OED has instances of while away going back to the early 18th
century. The phrase employs a now
archaic sense of while—namely, to fill up the time.
Today, while is used only as a noun or conjunction (except in while away), and because
21st-century English speakers not used to seeing while as a verb, it’s easy to assume that wile away is the correct phrase. But wile is mainly a noun—meaning
(1) trickery, cunning;
(2) a disarming or seductive manner; (3) or a trick intended to deceive—and
it’s occasionally used as a verb meaning to
influence by wile. None of these
definitions has anything to do with idly passing time, so wile away doesn’t make logical
sense. Again, however, it is now a
conventionalized misspelling, and only the most persnickety readers will think
it wrong.
The backslash (\) is a typographical mark (glyph) used mainly in computing and
is the mirror image of the common slash (/). It is
sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, backslant, downhill, backwhack, and in rare occasions, bash, reverse slant, and reversed virgule. In
Unicode, it is encoded at U+005C \ reverse solidus (HTML
\).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash
The virgule punctuation mark, sometimes
called a slash or a forward slash, has a few
standard uses in English, plus many other common uses that aren’t considered
standard by English grammar authorities. The established uses of virgules
include the following: web addresses and
file paths, to separate lines of poetry quoted without line breaks, and to
separate the numerator and the denominator in a fraction (e.g., ¾). But the virgule appears in many additional,
informal uses, including the following: It’s
often used to mean per—for
example, 99 miles/hour. It’s
often used to mean and/or (as in and/or itself). http://grammarist.com/grammar/virgule/
116th Christmas Bird Count Set to Start on December 16 by Molly Solana
Here’s good news for birdwatchers and nature-lovers as it's time for the
Christmas Bird Count (CBC), a nationwide tally of birds. The event takes place in December and early
January in all cities and many municipal areas.
The event started 115 years ago on Christmas when ornithologist Frank
Chapman organized groups of birders to see who could identify, count, and
record the most species. As per experts,
conservation of wildlife was not given much importance at that point of time,
but slowly scientists and the general public started to notice and worry about
declining bird populations. The CBC
emerged as one such step to involve public in conservation of wildlife. Since then CBC has become the longest running
citizen science program in the world. It
will be not wrong to say that CBC has marked the beginning of modern wildlife
conservation. http://wtexas.com/content/15124985-116th-christmas-bird-count-set-start-december-16
Halloumi cheese
originated in Cyprus and was initially made during the Medieval Byzantine period (AD 395 – 1191), by
the local Greek population, subsequently gaining popularity throughout the Middle East region. The cheese is white, with a distinctive
layered texture, similar to mozzarella and has a salty flavour. It is stored in its natural juices with
salt-water and can keep for up to a year if frozen below −18 °C
(0 °F) and defrosted to +4 °C (39 °F) before sale. It is often garnished with mint to add to the taste. Traditionally, the mint leaves were used as a
preservative, this practice arising from the serendipitous discovery that
halloumi kept better and was fresher and more flavoursome when wrapped with
mint leaves. In accordance with this
tradition, many packages of halloumi contain fragments of mint leaves on the
surface of the cheese. The cheese is often used in cooking and can be fried
until brown without melting, owing to its higher-than-normal melting
point. This makes it an excellent cheese
for frying or grilling (e.g.
in saganaki) or
fried and served with vegetables, or as an ingredient in salads. See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloumi
Camaraderie is the warm feelings of friendship, closeness and
loyalty shared among a group of people or a team of people. Camaraderie is a relatively new English word,
added in 1840. It comes from the French
word, camaraderie, meaning a convivial feeling among comrades.
Comradery means the warm feelings of friendship, closeness and
loyalty shared among a group or people or a team of people. Comradery is a nativization of camaraderie. It appears in 1879, derived from comrade+ery. Comradery is a North American iteration of the
word camaraderie, notice
that the spelling as well as the pronunciation drops a syllable from the middle
of the word camaraderie. http://grammarist.com/spelling/camaraderie-vs-comradery/
Carole King, George
Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa, Cicely Tyson Receive 38th Annual Kennedy
Center Honors December 6, 2015 Gala will be broadcast on CBS on December 29, 2015 at 9:00 p.m., ET/PT. "Quite
simply," said Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein, "our
Honorees represent the voices, soundtracks, and stories of our personal lives
and memories." http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1390
December 9, 2015 On this date in
1793, New York City's first daily newspaper, the American
Minerva, was established by Noah Webster.
On this date in 1962, the Petrified
Forest National Park was established in Arizona.
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