The Dali Museum is located in Figueres, in the province of Girona, and is about
143 km from Barcelona. The Dali Museum
is the second most visited museum in Spain, after the Prado. One can go to Figueres using the slower local
trains or to Figueres Vilafant by high-speed train + taxi/bus. The Dali Museum is very entertaining and no
one is really prepared for it because it is so very different. Dali designed it in the last years of his
life, designing every little detail. The
outside walls have small sculptures of bread buns. On top of the museum you see golden
mannequins and giant eggs. Once you enter the museum you go to a patio that has
his Cadillac, and on top of the hood of the car is a sculpture of a woman. There is a wall that contains many more gold
mannequins. Later one enters the building
and there is a large painting done by Dali. It looks like it has several
figures of Venus de Milo, but when you squint your eyes, the painting
metamorphoses into the face of Abraham Lincoln.
There are about 5 stories in the circular building, filled with Dali’s
art. There is also the Dali jewels museum just on the corner from
the museum. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g187497-c79252/Barcelona:Spain:Day.Trip.To.The.Dali.Museum.In.Figueres.html
There are over 4,000 islands and cays around Cuba, many of which are part
of archipelagos. Off the south
coast are two main archipelagos, Jardines de la
Reina and the Canarreos
Archipelago. The Sabana-Camagüey
Archipelago runs along the
northern coast and contains roughly 2,517 cays and islands. The Colorados
Archipelago is located off the
north-western coast. Find a partial list of the islands at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Cuba
Palencia is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of
the autonomous
community of Castile and León in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the provinces
of León, Cantabria, Burgos,
and Valladolid. In Palencia
large protected areas such as the Natural Park of Fuentes Carrionas and Fuente
Cobre-Montaña Palencia are located. The term historical region in
Palencia, refers to those regions created in the fourteenth century, under the
name merindades. Cantabrian Mountains
are located in the northerns parts of the province. The 8,268 feet (2,520 metres) high Curavacas
peak is located in the province.
The major commercial products produced in the province are barley,
wheat, sugar beets, hemp, linen and woolen clothes, porcelain, leather, paper,
and rugs. Food processing and metallurgy
are major industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Palencia
"Rebekah Scott, an erstwhile USA
newspaper journalist, pulled up stakes in June 2006 and moved with Paddy, her
wise-ass English husband to The Peaceable Kingdom, a farmhouse in Moratinos, a
rural pueblo in Palencia, Spain. Moratinos
is on the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route now popular with
hikers and bikers and riders of all beliefs and stripes and types, and The
Peaceable is a stopping-place for these wanderers. This is an account of their
adventures." http://moratinoslife.blogspot.com/%20%20%20
See also https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/tag/rebekah-scott/
Paddy O'Gara,
husband of journalist Rebekah Scott, is a Toledo Blade columnist. See one of his postings at
http://www.toledoblade.com/Paddy-O-Gara/2017/07/24/Emotional-pain-lingers-longer-than-physical-after-death-of-dog.html Rebekah Scott is a former religion section
editor and reporter at The Toledo Blade.
The expiration date is the final day that the manufacturer guarantees the full potency and
safety of a medication. Drug expiration
dates exist on most medication labels, including prescription, over-the-counter
(OTC) and dietary (herbal) supplements.
U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers are required by law to place
expiration dates on prescription products prior to marketing. For legal and liability reasons,
manufacturers will not make recommendations about the stability of drugs past
the original expiration date. The
expiration date of a drug is estimated using stability testing under good
manufacturing practices as determined by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA). Drug products marketed in the US
typically have an expiration that extends from 12 to 60 months from the time of
manufacturer. Once the original
container is opened, either by the patient or the health care provider who will
dispense the drug, that original expiration date on the container can no longer
be relied upon. However, the actual
shelf life of the drug may be much longer, as stability studies have shown. At the pharmacy,
"beyond-use" dates are often put on the prescription bottle label
given to the patient. These dates often
say "do not use after . . . " or "discard after . . . " and
are required by the Board of Pharmacy in many states. These dates are typically one year from the
date on the stock bottle. But why would
these expiration dates be different?
According to the manufacturer, the stability of a drug cannot be
guaranteed once the original bottle is opened.
Therefore, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), the body that sets the
standards for pharmaceutical quality in the U.S., recommends using "beyond
use" dates. The "beyond
use" date would never be later than the expiration date on the
manufacturer's bottle. https://www.drugs.com/article/drug-expiration-dates.html
See also The
Myth of Drug Expiration Dates: Hospitals
and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or
vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known
that many remain safe and potent for years longer by Marshall Allen at https://www.propublica.org/article/the-myth-of-drug-expiration-dates
How blunderful--we're
partners in error . . . took a turn for the terse . . . PARAPHRASES from Trouble, a novel by Jesse
Kellerman
See Authors Q&A: Jonathan and
Jesse Kellerman by David Martindale at
SILENCES Music and speech depend on silences to allow sounds to
have more meaning.
comfortable silence--enjoy
quiet time with friends, colleagues or family
pointed silence--give no
reply to incivility
silence culture--do not
report or testify about misdoing of people in your profession, or people or are
above you in status, or people who will do you harm
ambiguous silence--silence
may or may not mean consent
silent
treatment--pointedly ignore someone
definitive silence--avoid
controversy or agreeing with something you don't want to do
See also Silence, Please by
Amy Novotney at http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/07-08/silence.aspx
and Side Effects: When Silence Isn't
Golden by Becky Ham at http://www.cfah.org/prepared-patient/prepared-patient-articles/side-effects-when-silence-isnt-golden
Adjectives and adverbs are abundant in poetry, but prose is better if it is "spare." See how easily you can read works by Elmore
Leonard and Stephen Coonts.
Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was undoubtedly a pro at camping. The naturalist and botanical illustrator
spent the summers of her youth in the Canadian Rockies with her well-to-do
family, where she became an active mountain climber, outdoorswoman,
photographer, and started her first forays into botanical illustration. In 1914, when she was in her mid-50s,
against the objections of her father, she married the then-current
Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Walcott was still actively researching in paleontology, so she often
joined him on his trips to explore for fossil remains. “Mrs. Walcott sketching a wild flower in
water colors on a frosty morning in camp. The camp fire kept the open tent warm and
comfortable” reads the caption beneath a 1925 image of her inside her tent
that was found in the Smithsonian
Collections. Taken in
Canada's Vermilion River canyon between the Banff-Windermere motor road
and the river British Columbia, the image is part of the issue dedicated to
field-work and explorations by the Smithsonian in 1922. Her watercolors of baneberry and Rocky
Mountain cassiope, are typical of the kinds of wildflowers she encountered
while out West. They each have
accompanying text that indicate they were collected nearby. She would continue to collect and illustrate
specimens of wildflowers, both while on expeditions in the western United
States, and back in the Washington, D.C. area.
Her studies of native flowers of North America were published in a 1925
five-volume set by the Smithsonian Institution, titled North American Wild Flowers. A decade later, in 1935, she published Illustrations of North
American Pitcherplants.
Each is chock-full of beautiful plates in her distinct style. All the volumes of North American Wild Flowers and North American Pitcherplants are available
in the Smithsonian's Biodiversity Heritage Library. Walcott's life and legacy went well
beyond her illustrations, too. Besides
having a mountain named in her honor, she served on the Board of
Indian Commissioners from 1927 to 1932, and was elected as president of
the Society of Woman
Geographers in 1933. The
Smithsonian Libraries partnered with the Smithsonian Institution Press to
reprint a selection of her works in a single volume, Mary
Vaux Walcott: A Selection of her Wildflowers of North America. View works of Walcott's at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, see pictures of her held
in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives and peruse her works
in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Richard
Naples
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-wildflower-illustrious-life-naturalist-chronicled-americas-native-flora-180959343/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1750
August 8, 2017 On this date in
1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for
his mimeograph.
On this date in 1908, Wilbur Wright made his first flight at a
racecourse at Le Mans, France. It was the Wright Brothers' first public
flight.
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