Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross.
It is the film adaptation of Robert Harling's
1987 play of the same
name. The play and film are
about the bond a group of different women share in a small-town southern
community, and how they cope with the death of one of their own. The story is based on Robert Harling's
real life and the death of his sister Susan Harling Robinson in 1985 due to
early diabetes. He changed his sister's
name in the story from Susan, to Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Magnolias
Calendar Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Nigel Cole.
Produced by Buena Vista
International and Touchstone Pictures,
it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true
story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to
raise money for Leukaemia
Research under
the auspices of the Women's Institutes in
April 1999. Starring an ensemble cast headed
by Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, with Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Geraldine James playing
key supporting roles, the film garnered generally positive reactions by film
critics, and at a budget of $10 million it became a major success, eventually grossing
$96,000,000 worldwide following its theatrical release in the United States. In
addition, the picture was awarded the British Comedy Award for
Best Comedy Film, and spawned ALFS Award Empire Award, Satellite Award and Golden Globe nominations for Mirren and Walters
respectively. In 2008 the film was
adapted into a stage play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_Girls
Use muffin tins
to make perfectly-portioned snacks, dinners and breakfasts—from savory
spaghetti and meatball nests to crunchy, fruity grab-n-go granola cups.
(1) Poach a dozen eggs at once. Fill
each muffin cup with 1 Tbsp water and crack in one egg. Bake at 350°F for 13–15 minutes or until set.
(2) Freeze stock. Fill
each cup with stock, soup or sauce, and freeze.
Transfer “pucks” into heavy-duty plastic zip-top bags to store.
(3) Make cookie bowls. Mold
refrigerated cookie dough over the underside of muffin cups and bake at 375°F
for 10–12 minutes for cookie bowls to hold ice cream or yogurt.
(4) Mise en place. That just means having all your ingredients set up
before you start cooking. Fill each cup
with measured-out chopped garlic, herbs and other ingredients.
John Palfrey,
founding president of the Digital Public Library of America and
a director of Harvard University’s Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, recently told the Deseret News that
he has “been struck by the number of times people tell [him] that they think
libraries are less important than they were before, now that we have the
Internet and Google. He says he thinks
“just the opposite: Libraries are more
important, not less important, and both as physical and virtual entities, than
they’ve been in the past.” John Palfrey,
author of the new book "BiblioTECH: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in
the Age of Google," joins Tom Williams to discuss the future of
the library on Access Utah. Listen to
interview at http://upr.org/post/future-libraries-thursdays-access-utah
53:43
They’re not quite tales as old as
time, but perhaps as
old as wheels and writing. Stories evolve.
As they are told and retold to new audiences, they accumulate changes in
plot, characters, and settings. They
behave a lot like living organisms, which build up mutations in the genes that
they pass to successive generations.
This is more than a metaphor. It
means that scientists can reconstruct the relationships between versions of a
story using the same tools that evolutionary biologists use to study
species. They can compare different
versions of the same tale and draw family trees—phylogenies—that unite
them. They can even reconstruct the last
common ancestor of a group of stories.
In 2013, Jamie Tehrani from Durham University did this for Little
Red Riding Hood, charting the relationships between 58 different versions
of the tale. In some, a huntsman rescues
the girl; in others, she does it herself.
But all these iterations could
be traced back to a single origin, 2,000 years ago, somewhere between
Europe and the Middle East. And East
Asian versions (with several girls, and a tiger or leopard in lieu of wolf)
probably derived from these European ancestors.
That project stoked Tehrani's interest, and so he teamed up with Sara Graça da Silva, who
studies intersections between evolution and literature, to piece together the
origins of a wider corpus of folktales.
The duo relied on the Aarne Thompson Uther Index—an
immense catalogue that classifies folktales into over 2,000 tiered
categories. (For example, Tales of Magic
(300-749) contains Supernatural Adversaries (300-399), which contains Little
Red Riding Hood (333), Rapunzel (310), and more amusing titles like Godfather
Death (332) and Magnet Mountain Attracts Everything (322). Ed Yong
Read much more at http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-origin-of-stories/424629/
Phrases from Devil's Trill, vol. 1 in the Daniel Jacobus series of music and
mystery by Gerald Elias: huddled masses
yearning to be tax-free; earning to
be tax-free; goose bumps blossom
The Iron Writer Challenge: 500 Words, 5
Days, 4 Elements Read about the online
writing competitions in 2015 and 2016 at http://theironwriter.com/tag/online-writing-competition/
Farina was the first genuine flour before milling
stones. Farina is a bland-tasting meal made from
cereal grains that when cooked in boiling water makes a hot breakfast cereal,
but can also be cooked like polenta.
Also sold as "Cream of Wheat," farina is made from the
endosperm of the grain, which is milled to a fine granular consistency and then
sifted. Although the bran and most of
the germ are removed, this cereal is sometimes enriched with B vitamins and
iron. Its name comes from the Latin word
for meal or flour, which in turn traces to far, the Latin name for spelt, a
type of wheat. http://www.food.com/about/farina-483 See also http://www.abreaducation.com/make-flour-at-home.php
and http://www.mitsidesgroup.com/lang/en/about-pasta-flour/about-flour/types-of-flour/
6 Fictional Languages You Can Really
Learn by Alison
Eldridge http://www.britannica.com/list/6-fictional-languages-you-can-really-learn
Under the Constitution, Justices on the Supreme Court
receive lifetime appointments. Such job
security in the government has been conferred solely on judges and, by
constitutional design, helps insure the Court’s independence from the President
and Congress. The procedure for
appointing a Justice is provided for by the Constitution in only a few words. The “Appointments Clause” (Article II, Section
2, clause 2) states that the President “shall nominate, and by and with the
Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint … Judges of the supreme Court.”
The process of appointing Justices has
undergone changes over two centuries, but its most basic feature—the sharing of
power between the President and Senate—has remained unchanged: To receive lifetime appointment to the Court,
a candidate must first be nominated by the President and then confirmed by the
Senate. Although not mentioned in the
Constitution, an important role is played midway in the process (after the
President selects, but before the Senate considers) by the Senate Judiciary
Committee.” http://www.bespacific.com/supreme-court-appointment-process-roles-of-the-president-judiciary-committee-and-senate/
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg in an
colorful statement that began like a theater review, wrote: Toward
the end of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg, tenor Scalia and soprano Ginsburg sing
a duet: "We are different, we are
one," different in our interpretation of written texts, one in our
reverence for the Constitution and the institution we serve. From our years together at the D.C. Circuit,
we were best buddies. We disagreed now
and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the
opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation. Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots—the
"applesauce" and "argle bargle"—and gave me just what I
needed to strengthen the majority opinion. He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and
wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh. The press referred to his "energetic
fervor," "astringent intellect," "peppery prose,"
"acumen," and "affability," all apt descriptions. He was eminently quotable, his pungent
opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader's
grasp. Justice Scalia once described as
the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined
two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors
performance. He was, indeed, a
magnificent performer. It was my great
good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-justice-antonin-scalia-we-were-best-n518671
38 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS
237 (2015) 239 Scalia/Ginsburg: A
(Gentle) Parody of Operatic Proportions an American comic opera in one act by
DERRICK WANG http://lawandarts.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/02/5-38.2-Wangupdated3.4.pdf
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1427
February 16, 2016 On this date in
1852, Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of
the automobile manufacturer, was established.
On this date in 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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