Brad Meltzer: "I was tired of my kids looking at
reality stars, thinking of them as heroes." See the I Am books he wrote for his own children at http://bradmeltzer.com/TV-Kids-and-More/Kids-Books
Brad
Meltzer (born
April 1, 1970) is an American political thriller novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator
and comic book author. Meltzer
grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and then moved to South
Florida, where he graduated from North Miami Beach Senior High
School in 1988. He earned a
degree from the University of Michigan, the first in his
immediate family to attend a four-year college.
In 1993, Meltzer lived in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts with
roommate, fellow comic book writer/artist Judd
Winick, working in sales at Games magazine
by day while working on his first novel by night. Afterwards Meltzer graduated from Columbia Law School, and was selected to
the Columbia Law Review. Meltzer has had books on the bestseller list
for Fiction, Non-Fiction (History Decoded), Advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes
for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am Amelia Earhart and I
Am Abraham Lincoln) and comic books (Justice League of America), for
which he won the Eisner Award. Meltzer is also
responsible for helping find the missing 9/11 flag that the firefighters raised
at Ground Zero, making national news on the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Using his TV show, Brad Meltzer's Lost
History, he told the story of the missing flag and asked Americans for their
help in returning it. Four days later, a
former Marine walked into a fire station in Everett, Washington, said he saw
Meltzer's TV show, and now wanted to return the flag. Meltzer recently unveiled the flag at the
9/11 Museum in New York, where it is now on display. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Meltzer
Yellow rice is a traditional yellow-colored rice dish
in Spanish, Cuban, Caribbean, Afghan, Sri Lankan and Indonesian cuisines (where it known
as nasi kuning).
Yellow rice is usually made by mixing white rice and onions while annatto, saffron or turmeric is
used to give the yellow color. South
African yellow rice, with its origins in Cape Malay cuisine,
is traditionally made with raisins, sugar, and cinnamon, making a very sweet rice dish served as an
accompaniment to savoury dishes and curries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rice Find recipes for Easy Spanish Yellow Rice at http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/easy-spanish-yellow-rice-362868#activity-feed
and How to Make Perfect Yellow Rice (Arroz Amarillo) at
In ancient Rome, the festival of Cerealia was held on eight days in mid-late April, possibly
the 12th-18th, with the actual festival day on the 19th. This was the main festival for Ceres, the
Roman goddess of agriculture, grain and the harvest, associated with bread and
farming, as well as being the goddess of fertility, motherhood and women. Fields and crops were sacred to her. Ceres was also one of the patron deities of
the common people (the plebeians) of Rome
and she was worshipped in a temple which was dedicated to the cult of Ceres,
Liber and Libera in 490 BC. There was
another festival for Ceres in August.
The Cerealia in April was held to propitiate Ceres so that she would
bring a good harvest. (Read more about
Ceres and the Cerealia in The Roman goddess Ceres,
by Babette Stanley Spaeth,
1996.) The festival of
Cerealia included the Ludi Ceriales (‘games
of Ceres’) which were Ludi Circenses (circus
games). The Ludi were held in the great chariot-racing arena
of the Circus Maximus in Rome on the 19th April. The Circus Maximus was near the Temple of
Ceres which stood on the Aventine Hill and the starting-gates were, apparently,
just below the temple. According to
Ovid, the Ludi included
an element in which women, dressed in white and carrying burning torches, ran
about in the arena: this symbolised
Ceres’ search for her lost daughter Prosperpina. In Roman mythology, Prosperpina was abducted
by the god Pluto and taken to the Underworld, where Ceres found her: however, it was decreed that Prosperpina
would live in the Underworld for six months of the year and in the upper world
for the other six months, so Ceres imposed autumn and winter on the earth
during her daughter’s seasons of absence.
https://www.thecolchesterarchaeologist.co.uk/?p=26227
trilemma noun A circumstance in which a choice must be made between three options that seem equally undesirable or, put another way, in which
a choice must be made among three desirable options, only two of
which are possible at the same time.
An argument containing
three alternatives,
jointly exhaustive either
under any condition(s) or
under all condition(s) consistent with the universe of discourse of
that argument, that each imply the same conclusion.
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The idea for a national day to focus on the
environment came to Earth Day founder
Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the
ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he
realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public
consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental
protection onto the national political agenda.
Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the
environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a
conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and
recruited Denis Hayes from Harvard as national coordinator. Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote
events across the land. April 22, falling between Spring Break and Final
Exams, was selected as the date. On
April 22,1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums
to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast
rallies. Thousands of colleges and
universities organized protests against the deterioration of the
environment. Groups that had been
fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage,
toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction
of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values. Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political
alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor,
city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. By the end of that year, the first Earth Day
had led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water,
and Endangered
Species Acts. “It was a
gamble,” Gaylord recalled, “but it worked.”
https://www.earthday.org/about/the-history-of-earth-day/ Our family and friends celebrated the first
Earth Day marching in a festive parade.
Then, trying to help in a small way, I used cloth napkins instead of
paper napkins. (We had been using about
200 paper napkins a month.) In 2018,
Earth Day is April 22. See if you can
make some change in your life to be part of the effort to sustain a healthy
environment. For instance, stop using
straws.
Gary Lincoff, a self-taught mycologist whose contagious enthusiasm
turned him into a pied piper of mushrooms, died March 16, 2018 in Manhattan at
the age of 75. Mr. Lincoff, a philosophy
major and law-school dropout, wrote a field guide to North American mushrooms
that sold more than a half-million copies. He led mushroom hunts as far afield as
Siberia, India and the Amazon and as near to his home as Central Park, two
blocks away, where over the course of decades he counted more than 400 species. Mr. Lincoff taught for more than 40 years at
the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx and instructed
Martha Stewart on dredging puffballs in panko bread crumbs to bring
out their flavor. He wrote peer-reviewed
journal articles and poems
and songs about mushrooms, and helped found the countercultural
science and fun fair in Colorado known as the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He was a fungus fanatic
who championed the mushroom as food, medicine, soil decontaminator, psychotropic portal and essential link
in the eternal cycle of decay and rebirth.
Mr. Lincoff was in demand as a tour leader and headed expeditions to
more than 30 countries, on every continent except Antarctica. When he was back in New York, he served as
lecture coordinator and animating presence of the New York Mycological Society. Three years ago, he decided that unlike other
mushroom clubs, the society should hold walks year round. This past New Year’s Day, with the mercury
around 10 degrees, he led a walk in Central Park. “We walked for two hours and found almost 50
species,” said Vivien Tartter, one of Mr. Lincoff’s many acolytes. Someone
found a cluster of Eutypella
scoparia—tiny hairlike tufts too small to be seen without a loupe—growing
on a twig. “Gary was very excited.” Andy Newman https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/obituaries/gary-lincoff-75-dies-spread-the-joy-of-mushrooms-far-and-wide.html
Midway through the rally for gun control that concluded the March for Our Lives,
the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas junior Jaclyn Corin brought out a special guest,
Yolanda Renee King, the nine-year-old granddaughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and Coretta Scott King. “I have a dream
that enough is enough,” Yolanda King said, “and that this should be a gun-free
world.” And then, wearing a white coat,
with an orange ribbon pinned to it in remembrance, the miniature activist stood
before the crowd of thousands with a gap-toothed grin and led them in
call-and-response: Spread the word (“Spread the word!” The thousands gathered
shouted in response.) All across the
nation We are Going to be A great generation. Many of the students
came to Washington, D.C., with their parents. Stoneman Douglas students were met by politicians
on Capitol Hill. The Washington Wizards
invited them to basketball practice. Student
journalists held a panel at the Newseum. A concert the night before was thrown in their
honor, and Shake Shack sponsored a sign-making party. Edna Lisbeth Chavez, a seventeen-year-old
youth leader from South Los Angeles, interspersed her speech with phrases in
Spanish. She lost her brother to gun
violence, and moved the crowd to chant his name, Ricardo. Zion Kelly, seventeen, of Washington, D.C.,
spoke of his twin brother, Zaire, who was killed by an armed robber as he
walked home from school. Zaire Kelly
aspired to be a forensic scientist and wanted to attend Florida A. & M.
University. Naomi Wadler, an
eleven-year-old from Virginia, said that she was speaking for “the
African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every
national newspaper, whose stories don’t lead on the evening news.” She quoted Toni Morrison: “If there is a book that you want to read, but
it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” Christopher Underwood, of Brooklyn, lost his
fourteen-year-old brother, who was shot and killed as he walked home from a
graduation party. “I took my pain and
anger and turned it into action,” he said.
Emily Witt https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-march-for-our-lives-presents-a-radical-new-model-for-youth-protest
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March 26, 2018
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