Part of the National Park Service and listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark the Amana Colonies in Amana, Iowa were established in 1859.  After investigating sites in Kansas and Iowa, the True Inspirationists selected a location along the Iowa River valley about 20 miles west of Iowa City, Iowa for the relocation of their community.  This site offered extensive timberland, quarries for limestone and sandstone and long stretches of prairie filled with rich, black soil.  Construction of the first village began in the summer of 1855 and the new settlement was named "Amana," meaning "believe faithfully."  A new constitution was adopted as the Community of True Inspiration took on the legal identity of the Amana Society.  Amana villages each consisted of 40 to 100 buildings.  The barns and agricultural buildings were always clustered at the village edge.  Orchards, vineyards and gardens encircled the villages.  Typical houses were rectangular two-story buildings of wood post-and-beam construction, brick, or sandstone.  Each village had its own church, school, bakery, dairy, wine cellar, craft shops and general store.  There were also a number of communal kitchens in each village where groups of about 30-40 people ate their meals.  Read extensive article, see pictures, and link to other resources at https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/amana/communal.htm

THE LEADER’S CHALLENGE:  KNOWING WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO  posted by Keith Coats on 3rd October 2013   In the face of adaptive challenges, the place where you don’t know what to do, leaders need to know what to do.  Knowing what to do requires adaptive intelligence--something that will increasingly become the currency of effective leadership in the face of an uncertain, unpredictable and constantly changing world.  We have known for a long time that it is those who are most adaptive that will survive when things change.  I was recently asked by a CEO, “what in your opinion” he said, “will be the most important leadership trait or skill in order to navigate the future?”  It was a great question and one that without hesitation, I answered, “adaptive intelligence”.  Darwin highlighted this reality in his well-worn quote from his classic work The Origin of Species, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”.  (By the way, Darwin never said that it was “survival of the fittest”.  It’s obvious when you think about it:  it definitely is the survival of the most adaptable).  Distinguishing between technical problems and adaptive challenges is a vital skill for leaders.  Technical leadership is about using the skills and procedures that we are aware of to solve current problems and is typically accomplished by those in authority.  Adaptive leadership is having the guts and heart to learn new ways to bring needed deep transformation of culture in an organization or people and is generally done by the people with the problem and by adaptive leaders.  It is important to know the difference between these kinds of leadership because “the single most common source of leadership failure we’ve been able to identify--in politics, community life, business or the non-profit sector--is that people, especially those in positions of authority, treat adaptive challenges like technical problems” (Heifetz and Linsky, Leadership on the Line).  http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/2013/10/03/the-leaders-challenge-knowing-what-to-do-when-you-dont-know-what-to-do-2/

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From:  Bruce Floyd  Subject:  Emerson  Your quotation from Emerson-- “Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone”-- reminds me that Emerson says that each word was once a poem.  In his essay “The Poet”, Emerson says, “The poets made all the words, and therefore language is the archives of history.”  He goes on to say that even “though the origin of most words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius.”  He later says that “language is fossil poetry.” Emerson knows that our language, whether we know it or not, is full “of images, of tropes, which now . . .  have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”  As soon as humankind began to speak, metaphor came to life.  We’ve been speaking in metaphor for all our lives, though most of us don’t know it.  Every cliché was once fresh, a stroke of genius by th one who first said it.  In Moliere’s play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Monsieur Jourdain is surprised to find out he’s been speaking prose all his life.  We should be just as surprised to realize that we, more often than we think, speak poetry, hackneyed and overused, no more effective, but, nonetheless, poetry -- or what was once poetry.
From:  James Ertner  Subject:  claustrophobia  Q:  What do you call Santa’s fear of coming down a chimney?  A:  Claustrophobia.
From:  Srinivas Shastri   Subject:  claustromania  I’m reading the outlandish Great Soul of Siberia, where the author lives in a 6.5 x 6.5 x 6 feet enclosure for six months from October just to become part of the countryside and capture Siberian Tigers in their natural habitat.  Riveting!

The papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress.  The Library announced the digitization on April 17, 2018 in remembrance of the anniversary of Franklin’s death on April 17, 1790.  The Franklin papers consist of approximately 8,000 items mostly dating from the 1770s and 1780s.  These include the petition that the First Continental Congress sent to Franklin, then a colonial diplomat in London, to deliver to King George III; letterbooks Franklin kept as he negotiated the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War; drafts of the treaty; notes documenting his scientific observations, and correspondence with fellow scientists.  Read  more at https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-18-044/papers-of-benjamin-franklin-now-online/2018-04-17/

 “My grandfather taught me to grate Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese onto hot pasta before tossing it with the sauce.  The cheese sticks to the pasta and the sauce sticks to the cheese, creating a perfectly delicious bite—every bite.”  Reprinted from Giada’s Italy.  Copyright © 2018 by GDL Foods Inc.  Photographs by Aubrie Pick.  Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.  See recipe for Spicy Calabrian Shrimp at https://parade.com/650165/alison-ashton/spicy-calabrian-shrimp/

Giada Pamela De Laurentiis  (born August 22, 1970) is an Italian-born American chef, writer, and television personality.  She is the host of Food Network's Giada at Home.  She also appears regularly as a contributor and guest co-host on NBC's Today.  De Laurentiis is the founder of the catering business GDL Foods.   She is a winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host, the Gracie Award for Best Television Host, and in 2012, she was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame.  De Laurentiis was born in Rome, Italy, the eldest child of actress Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband, actor-producer Alex De Benedetti.  De Benedetti was a close associate of Giada's maternal grandfather, film producer Dino De Laurentiis.  As a child, Giada often found herself in the family's kitchen and spent a great deal of time at her grandfather's restaurant, DDL Foodshow.  Her parents were married in February 1970 but were later divorced.  After her parents' divorce, Giada and her siblings moved to Southern California, where they took their mother's surname.  After graduating from Marymount High School in Los Angeles, De Laurentiis attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning her bachelor's degree in social anthropology in 1996.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giada_De_Laurentiis

STINKY fruit has led to the evacuation of a university library in Melbourne’s CBD.  Traffic was disrupted around RMIT University on April 29, 2018 as around 600 staff and students cleared the building amid fears of a gas leak.  Almost 40 firefighters, including masked specialist crews, searched the building for the source of the smell, which turned out to be rotting durian left in a cupboard.  A Metropolitan Fire Brigade spokesman said the smell had alarmed staff and students as it permeated the airconditioning system.  Durian is a tropical fruit known for its strong smell.  It is commonly banned from hotel rooms and public transport in southeast Asia. Caitlin Guilfoyle and Ryan Tennison

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/offbeat/hundreds-evacuated-after-rotten-durian-causes-stink-at-royal-melbourne-institute-of-technology-city-campus-ng-b88821202z   

See also Why Does the Durian Smell So Terrible? at  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-does-the-durian-fruit-smell-so-terrible-149205532/

Miss the full moon on April 29, 2018?  The moon will be past full, but closer to Jupiter, on April 30.  Deborah Byrd  See photos of the "pink moon" at http://earthsky.org/todays-image/photos-full-moon-jupiter-apr-2018

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1881  April 30, 2018