Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon
reciprocity. Attributed to C. S. Lewis.
A Google search turns up
the usual citation-less suspects. Wikiquote
doesn’t have it, even on the discussion page of disputed quotes. Searching Google Books for the entire
quotation with the author restricted to C. S. Lewis returns no hits. This is pretty telling because Google Books
can search everything C. S. Lewis wrote. Just to be sure, I tried searching for the
word reciprocity in a few books (e.g., The Four Loves, The Weight of Glory), but it’s not there. Just for
good measure, I tried searching Google Books for the whole quotation with
Lewis’s name at the end. No dice. It’s attributed in various places to Elder
Neal A. Maxwell of the Latter Days Saints (Mormons). “However, never underestimate the power of
privately extending a simple, loving, but direct challenge. Though it may not be reciprocated, such love
is never wasted.” I can see how that got
lifted out of context and meme-ified, giving the quote as we have it today. https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/love-is-never-wasted-c-s-lewis/
15-Minute Garlic Chicken Recipe for four servings uses 1and 1/2 pounds boneless,
skinless chicken breasts cut into 1/2-inch cubes. https://www.familyfoodonthetable.com/15-minute-honey-garlic-chicken/
Urban agriculture has always been a part of city life
in the United States, whether in the development of frontier towns or as a
strategy to improve urban conditions.
Depression-era relief gardens, victory gardens grown during the First
World War to augment food supply, and post-industrial community gardens are
examples. Urban agriculture includes a
range of cultivated areas, from urban farms to community gardens, and has been
cropping up in vacant land, rooftops, back yards, warehouses, and shipping
containers from Baltimore to Oakland.
Growing food in cities has been on the rise since the 1980s, when an
increase in access to urban land made it easier to establish small farms and
gardens and the social, political, and economic climate accelerated interest. In New
York City, promoters are a strategic part of the city’s parks department and
have a background in urban design. The
city is home to the largest number of urban gardens in the United States. Green Thumb, an organization that has led
efforts to develop urban agriculture in New York City since 1978, oversees more
than 550 sanctioned urban gardens in all five boroughs. The group started when activists and
volunteers cleaned up vacant lots so they could plant community gardens. Now, community gardens in New York cover 100
acres of land, primarily in low-income areas, and almost three quarters of the
gardens include an urban agriculture component that grows food. Lisa
Palmer Read more at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-017-0014-8
On June 1, 2017, the United Nations joined a growing local
trend—they installed three apiary yards, better known as beehives, on their
grounds in midtown Manhattan. The UN is
hopeful that by summer’s end, their 150 bees will turn into a thriving colony
of 250,000 bees. If this happens, the UN
bees will not be alone. There are
millions of bees buzzing around the five boroughs and not only in the backyards
of earthy residents in neighborhoods like Park Slope and Greenpoint. From the rooftops of high-rises in Manhattan
to community gardens stretching from the Bronx to Staten Island, New York City
is home to thousands of active beehives, but this wasn’t always the case. Prior to a 2010 ruling, beekeeping existed in
the five boroughs but only under the radar.
At the time, the city deemed beekeeping to be as dangerous as keeping
cobras, tarantulas, or hyenas on one’s property. Indeed, if caught, underground beekeepers
faced hefty fines of up to $2000. Since
the 2010 ruling that legalized beekeeping, both bees and beekeepers have been
on the rise citywide and so have organizations and services designed to help
residents explore apiculture. Cait
Etherington Read much more and see
pictures at https://www.6sqft.com/beekeeping-finds-a-home-throughout-nycs-five-boroughs/
"Toisan was a desperately poor city in Canton Province that
was in such a bad
way that many of its young men left in the late 1800s to
seek their fortunes
around the world.
All the Chinatowns in
America were built up by Toisan men." Snakes Can't Run, mystery by Ed Lin
Ed Lin is a Taiwanese-American writer,
actor and novelist. He is the first author
to win three Asian American Literary Awards.
His first novel, Waylaid won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian
American Literary Awards and also a Booklist Editors' Choice Award in Fiction
in 2002. Lin has written a series of
crime novels revolving around Chinese-American cop Robert Chow set in 1976 New
York City Chinatown, which begins in This Is A Bust, which won a Members'
Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards, and continues with Snakes
Can't Run and One Red Bastard. Lin is also an actor, and stars as the title character
"Norman Mao" in Derek Nguyen's The Potential Wives of Norman
Mao. He also stars alongside his
wife Cindy Cheung in a Music Video for
Magnetic North and Taiyo Na's "Home: Word" Directed by Wong Fu Productions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lin
Farro Is Not Spelt, and Spelt
Is Not Farro The misperception that these two
grains are identical in flavor and usage persists. It doesn't help that the Italians often call
them by interchangeable names. But they
are only cousins--not siblings--and they are different in gluten content,
texture, and taste. That al dente
quality of spelt is what makes us love it in grain salads, while farro is much
better for risotto-like soft hot dishes.
Faith Durand https://www.thekitchn.com/farro-is-not-spelt-and-spelt-i-71041#comments-71041
sublimate transitive verb 1a : sublime 1 b archaic : to improve or refine as if by subliming
2: to divert the
expression of (an instinctual desire or impulse) from its unacceptable form to
one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable intransitive verb : to pass directly from the solid to
the vapor state : sublime https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sublimate
subjugate transitive verb 1: to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer
Top Ten Ways to Enjoy Mangos
https://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/top-10-ways-to-enjoy-mango
Researchers exposed five young crocodiles to simple
visual and auditory stimuli by
flashing red and green visual cues at varying strengths and intervals, and by
playing random chord noises between 1,000 and 3,000 Hz. They also exposed the creatures to complex
sounds by playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, which is the same music
that was used in scans of other animals.
The scans showed greater brain response in the crocodiles' brain in the
presence of music compared to the simple sounds, with different parts of the
brain activating in response to the complex stimuli. Interestingly, the observed pattern even runs
similar to the previously observed patterns in birds and mammals. These results suggest that the functional
aspects of sensory processing were possibly conserved during the evolution of
the sauropsids, the group of land vertebrates which include all existing reptiles and birds, as well as their fossil ancestors. Researchers also consider the possibility
that such brain processes may have developed much earlier than previously
thought. Apart from the interesting
results of the MRI scan, researchers also believe that their study shows the
future possibilities of using MRI technology on creatures that have never been
investigated on such a scanner before.
The study is published in the
journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B at http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1877/20180178
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May 11, 2018 Word of the Day Feynman diagram noun A pictorial representation of the interactions of subatomic particles,
showing their paths in space and time as lines, and their interactions as points where lines meet. American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, who invented the diagram, was
born on this day a hundred years ago in 1918. Wiktionary
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