Oats are the most nutritious of all the cereal plants. They contain
more protein than wheat, and more fat than any other cereal. They are also full of indigestible
beta-D-glucans, which absorb water and are often credited with lowering bad
blood cholesterol as they absorb the bad fats out of the bloodstream. Oats also contain phenolic compounds, which
are most prized as antioxidants in the human bloodstream. Oat porridge is considered one of the
cheapest, yet most nutritious meals you can have. In fact, some say the continued success of
Scottish people throughout history is all down to the porridge they eat for
breakfast. The water-absorbing
carbohydrate molecule, beta-D- glucans, is what gives porridge its thick and
creamy consistency. Learn about
overnight oats and oatcakes at https://www.mindfood.com/recipe/vote-for-oats/
Travel the world from the
comfort of your couch. See list of books for the armchair traveler
suggested by the Santa Clara County Library
District staff at https://sccl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/639057897/823795067 See also how songs trigger memories that
transport us back in time and space by Christopher
Bergland "The Athlete's Way" at
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201312/why-do-the-songs-your-past-evoke-such-vivid-memories
MORE on the September 1, 2018 closing of the
Toledo-Lucas County Public library main branch When it opens
again, Main Library will have undergone its first major renovation in 18
years. Officials said the closure
significantly reduces work time and cost for a project estimated to $12.2
million. Improvements include four new
collaboration spaces. These large areas
will serve uses such as organizational meetings, public services, and creative
design. The building will have a “Main
Street” pathway from the front door. All Main Library programs and services will continue
during the closure. A book return bin
will remain outside the building.
Business services will move to the Heatherdowns branch, and next
summer's brown bag concerts shift to Maumee branch. Patrons may access local history department
reference materials by appointment. Some
branch hours are expanding as well. Cherry
Street Mission President and CEO Dan Rogers said its Life Revitalization Center
will become like a subsidiary of the library throughout the next several
months. The library contributed a collection of books—with particular
focus on the trade careers—and computers to the center. Library staff will also help train Cherry
Street representatives in how to run a library at the center, Mr. Rogers
said. The Life Revitalization Center
will keep this equipment. It plans to
continue the program after Main Library reopens, Mr. Rogers said. http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2018/09/01/Closing-time-Main-Library-shuts-down-for-renovations/stories/20180901154
Tips from Martha Stewart Living magazine September
2018 (1)
Swap oats for breadcrumbs.
(2) Serve tinned fish on
toast. (3) Create 4-2-1 salad dressings--four parts fat
like olive oil, two parts acid like lemon juice or vinegar, one part flavor
booster like honey or herbs. (4) Cook grains ahead and freeze. Break off pieces for soup or side dishes.
September 2, 2018 There's
a new effort underway make hundreds of thousands of dried and preserved plants
collected along the East Coast available through a digital database. For centuries, explorers, scientists, and
amateur botanists scoured the country to document and preserve plant
species. Once prized like fine art, the
collections were often bequeathed to institutions that housed herbaria, or
libraries for plants. Over time these
collections became obscure, and fell out of use. Aside from the occasional researcher who had
to schedule an appointment to view the records, and often travel long
distances, these plant collections were difficult to access for most
people. Rick McCourt, botany curator at
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, helps
manage the oldest herbarium in North America.
The herbarium has an estimated one and a half million plant species in
its collection. About 35,000 plant
species were collected along the East Coast.
The new database will allow researchers to answer questions about
climate change, conservation and urbanization.
Questions like: "How has
the environment changed?" said McCourt.
"What plants occur where? Do
they occur someplace differently now than they used to? Are they vanished or gone from an
area?" He says the data contained
in that herbarium might even raise the possibility of using plant DNA to bring
back extinct species. "It's more
like a Jurassic Park dream," McCourt says.
"But DNA is DNA, who knows? Before 1952 we wouldn't have known what
DNA was, much less that you could get it out of museum specimens." At the Academy, the 1.5 million plant species
in the collection are housed in large metal cabinets, which are compressed
together in a windowless, 3rd floor room that smells pungently of herbs. The plants were dried, then sewn, glued or
taped to paper, and placed in manila folders that are stacked up inside the
cabinets. Funded by the National Science
Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project will put about
800,000 records from about a dozen herbaria online via high-resolution photos
of plant specimens that span the urbanized corridor from New York City to
Washington, D.C. At Muhlenberg College
in Allentown, plant ecologist Rich Niesenbaum has begun using the data from the
herbarium to help find out what made some of the plants in its collection go
extinct. Muhlenberg already digitized
about 50,000 specimens and added it to the Megalopolis database. Susan Phillips
Wheat germ is a good source of iron, potassium,
folic acid, magnesium, thiamin, phosphorus, and zinc as well as plant
sterols. Ten ways to use wheat
germ: in place of bread crumbs in
recipes, topping for yogurt, oatmeal, or sliced fruit, in your baking by
replacing some of the flour with it, filler in meatballs or meatloaf, crumb
topping on desserts or casseroles, bread stuffing, ready to serve cereal, eaten
both cold or hot, in smoothies, along with seasonings making a nice coating for
baked fish or chicken, or add it to your favorite soup recipe. https://www.freedieting.com/ways-to-use-wheat-germ
Wheat germ will last two weeks in
your refrigerator or two months in your freezer. You may melt butter and add wheat germ to
make a pie crust.
Plant sterols
(phytosterols, phytostanols and their fatty acid esters) are cholesterol-like
substances that occur naturally at low levels in fruits, vegetables, nuts and
cereals. Most Australians consume
between 150 and 360 milligrams of plant sterols naturally every day, depending
on their diet. When eaten in higher
amounts, between 2-3 grams per day, plant sterols can naturally reduce LDL
cholesterol. https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/healthy-eating/food-and-nutrition/fats-and-cholesterol/plant
September 4, 2018 Thirteen
years ago, a pair of ruby slippers from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz were stolen from a Minnesota
museum. Now, the FBI says the search
is over. It was a classic smash-and-grab
in August 2005: Some unknown thief or
thieves broke in through the back door of the Judy Garland Museum in Grand
Rapids, Minn., and swiped the slippers, reportedly leaving nothing but broken
glass and a single red sequin in their wake.
The missing slippers are two different sizes and may be the mates of a
mismatched pair at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, The New York Times reports. In
2016, the Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund
preservation work on the pair there. The
museum notes that five pairs of ruby slippers made for the movie are known to
have survived. Neither the Garland
museum's alarm system or video surveillance system were working at the time of
the 2005 theft, which Newsweek reported led some people to suspect it was an
inside job. A memorabilia collector
named Michael Shaw had loaned the slippers to the museum, which is located
in a house where Garland grew up--and he said he was
among those questioned by authorities.
"Other people speculated that Shaw had paid someone to steal the
shoes—perhaps replicas—so that he could collect insurance," according to
the magazine. Minnesota Public
Radio says the shoes were insured for $1 million. The insurance company sued Shaw, the museum
and its director to avoid making that payout; Newsweek reports
the parties settled in 2007, with Shaw receiving $800,000. Laurel Wamsley https://www.npr.org/2018/09/04/644548567/fbi-says-it-has-recovered-stolen-ruby-slippers-missing-for-13-years
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