The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics celebrates National Nutrition Month in March.  This year’s theme, "Go Further with Food,” encourages us to find ways to reduce food loss and waste.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that Americans throw away 90 billion pounds of food annually, costing consumers about $370 per person each year.  The Academy offers several helpful tips:  Plan meals around foods you already have on hand.  Search your refrigerator, freezer, and pantry for items that need to be used up.  Roasting vegetables is a great way to use ones that still taste great, but are a bit visually unappealing.  Cut up leftover vegetables and lean meats and add to hearty soups, salads, and sandwiches.  Also, day-old cooked rice and pasta adds a wonderful heartiness to soups and chili.  Scale back your grocery list and buy only the amount of food that can be eaten or frozen within a few days.  In the refrigerator, place foods that spoil quickly in front and always label and date foods that are packaged for freezer storage.  Darlene Zimmerman  https://www.freep.com/story/life/food/recipes/2018/03/03/save-money-food-waste/386085002/ 

March 2018 Toledo Museum of Art Program Highlights  http://www.toledomuseum.org/2018/02/12/march-2018-toledo-museum-of-art-program-highlights/ 

The City of London evolved into the piece of land we know today during the Saxon and Norman periods.  There is no evidence that the land was occupied before the coming of the Romans who were the first people to found a township on the site.  There were probably three main reasons for establishing Londinium on the chosen site.  (1)  Because of the need to be situated beside a large river--to allow large ships from Italy to bring goods to Londinium--it was essential to find a suitable site.  (2)  It is believed that the Romans also wanted a site where the Thames could be bridged--so as to link both shores.  (3)  Much of the land beside the Thames was very marshy.  Locations we now know as Plumstead, Woolwich, Greenwich, Deptford, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey (on the south side) were unsuitable.  Similarly, East Ham, West Ham, Isle of Dogs and Stepney could not be considered either.  (4)  The site of the City of London is on two very small adjacent hills--Ludgate Hill and Cornhill.  The land does not rise very much but compared with the place names just mentioned it is much better drained.  Beside the two hills--Cornhill and Ludgate Hill--flowed the small River Walbrook.  In Roman times and up to the days of the Normans it flowed above ground.  Today it flows entirely below ground.  To the west of Ludgate Hill is a dip in the land which then rises very gently--now covered by streets we know as Fleet Street and Holborn.  In that dip was a much longer stream, rising at Hampstead and flowing along the dip just mentioned  before it joined the Thames.  It was the River Fleet whose name derives from the old English word ‘fleot’ meaning inlet or creek.  Strangely, Fleet Street runs at 90 degrees to the course of the river and does not follow the line of the stream.  As with the River Walbrook, the River Fleet is now underground flowing mainly through the large sewer pipes.  Because it passed the sites of several well-known wells in medieval times it was often called the ‘River of Wells’.  The water power was also used to drive several mills and was therefore also referred to as ’Turnmill Brook’.  The River Fleet is the largest of London’s subterranean rivers.  https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/fleet-river/

See also London's Lost Rivers by Paul Talling at http://www.londonslostrivers.com/river-fleet.html

Homer nods  phrase  Alternative form of even Homer nods (“not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error”).  Wiktionary

Morton's fork (plural Morton's forks)  A false dilemma in which contradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion.  Said to have originated with the collecting of taxes by John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th century, who held that a man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes, whereas one living extravagantly was obviously rich and could still afford them.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Morton%27s_fork

An example of Pavlovian response is when classical music is played to an audience that is likely to buy something or donate to a cause when hearing it.

Once upon a time, the only way to do legal research was to pore through books of cases.  That all started to change in the late 1970s and early 1980s as two pioneering firms, LexisNexis and Westlaw (part of Thomson Reuters since 1996), compiled their databases of legal information, developed indexing, search and retrieval algorithms and provided access via dial-up or hard-wired terminals.  Fast forward 30 years and the internet.  The two continued to dominate the legal information research and retrieval market without any serious challengers until Bloomberg Law launched in 2010.  According to ALM’s (American Lawyer Media) Annual Survey on Law Libraries, released mid-2017, respondents cited these three as the top legal research platforms, with Westlaw taking the lead at 89% followed close behind by Lexis with 84% and Bloomberg’s BLAW trailing at 68%.  While Westlaw and Lexis continue to be at the top, their grip on market dominance has continued to loosen with the entrance of technology startups that are both well-funded and agile.  Relatively recent market entrants, such as Casetext, FastCase and ROSS Intelligence are rapidly applying concepts like machine learning and natural language processing to the search and retrieval experience.  They cite a common goal of democratizing legal research—essentially making it possible for anyone to find legal data through federated databases and simplified queries.  Read extensive article (starting with a curious pie chart having sections adding up to 241% rather than 100%) at https://lac-group.com/lexisnexis-versus-westlaw-revisited/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lacgroupblog+%28LAC+Group+Blog%29  Thank you, Muse reader!

Visit your local public library today and you may find rows of kids playing computer games, or even a couple of Xboxes.  That might seem like evidence that libraries have drifted from a pure focus on the printed word.  But, as gaming scholar Scott Nicholson finds, gaming at the library is a tradition that goes back to the 1850s.  In mid-nineteenth century Great Britain, the pattern of the industrial workday—solid hours of intense work followed by leisure time—meant many men spent their off-hours gambling and playing games in public houses.  Social reformers responded by creating game rooms and billiard parlors at libraries, considered a more respectable setting for recreation.  In the United States, meanwhile, the idea of using libraries for recreation—even in the form of recreational reading—was a controversial idea.  Some of the founders of the Boston Public Library, which opened in 1854, argued that it was inappropriate to buy popular fiction books.  (They ended up losing that debate.)  But, Nicholson writes, even then games were part of some U.S. libraries.  For one example, the Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco, founded in 1854 to serve the city’s growing population in the gold rush years, housed a chess room from the start.  Nicholson notes that the library is the home of the oldest chess club still existing in the U.S.  https://daily.jstor.org/the-grand-old-tradition-of-gaming-at-the-library/

Unmasked:  A Memoir by Andrew Lloyd Webber  Lloyd Webber’s successes are now well known:  his musicals, which include Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Starlight Express and Cats, have been staged the world over, and he is the only person to have equalled the record set by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway shows running concurrently.  Lloyd Webber isn’t known for hiding his light under a bushel.  As well as reinforcing his position as the leading light of musical theatre, Unmasked cements his status as king of the humblebrag.  He warms up early as he recollects building theatres out of play bricks as a young child, one of which had a revolving stage inspired by TV’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium, prompting the reflection:  “I have to pinch myself every morning knowing that today I own the theatre that turned me on to theatre.”  At 17 he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, to read history but blew his first year by spending too much time on music.  No matter, since his career was already on its way.  By this time he had met his first writing partner Tim Rice, with whom he wrote a “pop cantata” in 1968 that would form the basis of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/28/unmasked-a-memoir-by-andrew-lloyd-webber-review

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1852   March 5, 2018  Find events, births and deaths on this date at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5