Cucumber Salad
Combine 1 tsp. soy sauce,
1 tbsp. white vinegar, 1 tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp. sesame seed oil, 1/4 tsp. Tabasco
and 1/2 tsp. salt. Add 2 medium
cucumbers, peeled and diced. Cover and
chill.
A backhanded (or left-handed) compliment is an ambiguous statement that seems to be or is
intended to be a compliment but is actually critical and could be seen as an
insult; an insult disguised as praise. When
someone pays you a backhanded compliment, they are actually being
condescending. Since at least the late
1800's, the term 'backhanded' has been used figuratively to mean "oblique
in meaning; indirect, devious, equivocal, ambiguous, or sarcastic. The variant left-handed compliment comes from
the use, dating from around 1600 of the word left-handed to mean
"questionable" or "doubtful." (American Heritage
Dictionary of Idioms). This
use, in turn, derived from the left long being associated with wrongness or
evil. The word sinister was the Latin
word left or "one the left side" which became through Old French, our
modern word sinister. http://www.idioms.online/backhanded-compliment
In his 47 years at the Boston Athenaeum, Stanley Cushing has handled
everything from a magnetic “Squid Book” to an autobiography bound in its
author’s skin. The Boston Athenaeum—a
211-year-old independent library
in the center of Beacon Hill—is home to about 150,000 rare books. Some are old, and some are brand new. Some are huge, and some are tiny. Some are made of lead, some are made of
shredded army uniforms, and one is, famously, made of human skin. Cushing began his career at the Athenaeum in
1970, right after he graduated from college. He ended up staying for 47 years—“longer than
anybody else in the last hundred years or so,” he says—working as a bookbinder
and conservator, then as the Chief of the Conservation Department, and finally as
the first-ever Curator of Rare Books. While in this last position, he began the
library’s artists’ books collection, and took the opportunity to scoop up everything from bark cloth catalogs
to anti-war tracts. Cushing retired in
late 2017 (he is now the Rare Books Curator Emeritus) but his legacy remains on
the Athenaeum’s shelves, in the form of the many additions he has made to
them. The Athenaeum is an unusual library in that it doesn’t
de-accession. It doesn’t de-accession by
use: If you go into the stacks, and you
see a book that hasn’t been used in a hundred years, it’s still waiting for
you. And we’re not going to get rid of
it, because somebody intelligent bought it in the past, and we think someone
intelligent will use it in the future. When
we run out of space, we have typically given whole collections to other
institutions. Our medical books, which
we used to have a lot of, we gave to the Countway Library at Harvard. We had an enormous collection of bound
newspapers, which take up a huge amount of space. We kept the ones that are of local interest,
but we gave a great number of them to the American Antiquarian Society in
Worcester, because they collect bound newspapers. Cara Giaomo
Read extensive article with many pictures at http://lisnews.org/exit_interview_i_curated_rare_books_for_a_200yearold_library
Trail mix
these days goes way beyond basic GORP (good
old raisins and peanuts). From sweet to
savory, there are thousands of combinations to appeal to any palate or snack
craving. Combine any favorite (dry)
ingredients and stash the mix in an airtight container in a cool, dry location to prevent spoilage, and you’re
good to go. Trail
mix was invented (according to legend, in 1968 by Hadley Food Orchards) to be eaten while hiking or doing
another strenuous activity. It’s
lightweight, portable, and full of energy-dense ingredients like dried fruit,
nuts, and chocolate—perfect for trailside noshing. For those same reasons, trail mix can pack
a hefty
caloric punch, especially when we mindlessly munch while sitting around at
work or home. Keep serving size to a
quarter-cup or less to keep this yummy snack from sneaking into “dangerfood”
territory. Sophia Breene
Find 12
recipes for trail mix at https://greatist.com/health/21-healthier-trail-mix-ideas
Homeric adjective
Resembling or relating to
the epic poetry of Homer. Of or
pertaining to Greece during
the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works. Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer;
epic, heroic. Wiktionary
April 15, 2018 Ray Bradbury won over generations of
readers to science fiction with "Fahrenheit 451" and other works
during a writing career that spanned much of the 20th century and produced a
mountain of manuscripts, correspondence and memorabilia. That sprawling collection, much of which
Bradbury's family donated after his death in 2012 at age 91, is now entering a
long-running preservation project at its home on the campus of Indiana
University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.
The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies , which is devoted to the study of
the science fiction-fantasy author's works, won a $50,000 grant this month from
the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin planning the giant archive's
conservation. "This is a national
treasure and we have the great, good fortune to be able to preserve his legacy
here for years to come," said Jonathan Eller, who befriended Bradbury in
the 1980s and directs the center, which he co-founded in 2007. Although Bradbury wrote his most famous
titles in the mid-20th century, including "Fahrenheit 451," a novel
about a dystopian future in which "firemen" hunt down and burn books
to keep society in a state of ignorance, Eller said many of his works remain
relevant because of their warnings about the misuse of technology and the
importance of safeguarding the human imagination. Bradbury's major works, including "The
Martian Chronicles" and "The Illustrated Man," remain in print
and HBO will next month air a version of "Fahrenheit" starring
Michael Shannon, Michael B. Jordan and Sofia Boutella. Meanwhile, the Bradbury center, which is near
downtown Indianapolis and features a replica of the basement office in Los
Angeles where the author wrote for decades, is preparing to delve into the
collection he left behind for what's expected to be a yearslong preservation
effort. http://triblive.com/aande/books/13540146-74/trove-of-author-ray-bradburys-papers-set-for-preservation
April 15, 2018 Facebook
gets some data on non-users from people on its network, such as when a user
uploads email addresses of friends. Other
information comes from “cookies,” small files stored via a browser and used by
Facebook and others to track people on the internet, sometimes to target them
with ads. “This kind of data collection
is fundamental to how the internet works,” Facebook said in a statement to
Reuters. Asked if people could opt out,
Facebook added, “There are basic things you can do to limit the use of this information
for advertising, like using browser or device settings to delete cookies. This would apply to other services beyond
Facebook because, as mentioned, it is standard to how the internet works.” Facebook often installs cookies on non-users’
browsers if they visit sites with Facebook “like” and “share” buttons, whether
or not a person pushes a button. Facebook
said it uses browsing data to create analytics reports, including about traffic
to a site. The company said it does not
use the data to target ads, except those inviting people to join Facebook. David Ingram
Read more at
The Hip-Hop Architecture Movement Michael
Ford and the Urban Arts Collective are forging a critique of Modernism, the
style of architecture that birthed a new American culture by EMILY HOOPER If challenged to list more
than six African-American architects or designers, could you do it? Of those you can name, how many of them
changed the practice of architecture or shaped a community with a revolutionary
approach If Michael Ford isn’t on your list of black designers
changing our industry, keep reading. Ford,
co-founder of the Urban Arts Collective and self-proclaimed
hip-hop architect, was born and raised in Detroit. Motown boasts architectural marvels by Daniel
Burnham, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Isamu Noguchi; it has
also groomed award-winning hip-hop artists including Eminem, Big Sean, and J
Dilla. But if you ask Ford, Detroit’s
premier hip-hop artists—or those from any American city—didn’t hone their craft
by spending time around groundbreaking architecture. Their contributions to hip-hop culture, and
the development of the cultural movement, were the results of deplorable
physical conditions that moved its inhabitants to create a new art form in
diametric response to their environment.
For Ford, and many other cultural
scholars, hip-hop isn’t an isolated musical genre, a fashion style, or a
variety of dance. “Hip-hop is a culture
curated mostly by African-American and Latino youth as a response to
challenging economic, political, and physical environments,” Ford explains. His thesis pairs these physical environments
with Robert Moses’ inverted application of Le Corbusier’s principles for the
City of Tomorrow. Instead of glass
prisms surrounded by green space for Paris, the Bronx got brick towers
in-filled with concrete, divided by the Cross Bronx Expressway that siphoned
residents from the island of Manhattan. Those
who could afford relocation—upper- and middle-class residents—fled the borough
leaving the economically disenfranchised residents in isolation. Moses’ implementation of displacement is what
Ford calls “the worst remix in history.” And so it is no coincidence that the Bronx is
the widely agreed-upon birthplace of hip-hop. Read much more and see pictures at http://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/the-hip-hop-architecture-movement_o
AIA
Toledo and Toledo-Lucas County Public Library will collaborate a Hip Hop Architecture
Camp in the main library's creativity lab July 9-14, 2018. The camp is based on "4
Cs"--creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1875
April 16, 2018 Word of the
Day sprachbund
noun A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due
to language contact rather
than cognation.
Russian linguist Nikolai Trubetzkoy,
who coined the German word Sprachbund from which the English word is derived, was born
on this day in 1890. Wiktionary
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