The term "bezel" comes from the jewelry industry, in which case a
bezel is a groove that holds a gemstone or watch crystal in place. The term is also used to describe the rim
around gauges, such as the speedometer in a car. In the computer industry, a bezel may refer
to either the edge around a monitor or the
front of a desktop computer case. A monitor bezel, or screen bezel, is the area
of a display that surrounds the screen.
Thinner bezels help maximize the screen real estate of a laptops and
make multiple desktop displays look more like a single screen when placed side
by side. A computer bezel is the front
face of a system unit or "tower." Most PC bezels include have openings for one
or more drive bays. These slots allow you to add devices such as an optical drive or
an additional internal hard drive. When
extra drives are not installed, these bays are usually covered by plates that
are the same color as the bezel, but are not technically part of the
bezel. https://techterms.com/definition/bezel See also What is a Bezel? And What Does
Bezel-less Mean? by Daniel Nations at https://www.lifewire.com/bezel-4155199
The federal government recommends about half a cup a
day of beans, counting them as both a
protein and a vegetable since they have the best of both worlds. Beans are excellent sources of fiber and
folate, and they are good sources of plant protein, plant iron, vitamin B1, and
minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and copper, all while being
naturally low in sodium. And beans may
increase our lifespans and may reduce our risk of breast cancer and increase
our survival (see Increased Lifespan From Beans, BRCA Breast Cancer Genes and Soy
at
Beans and the Second Meal Effect at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans-and-the-second-meal-effect/ Yet Americans don't know
beans. Ninety-six percent of Americans don't even make the
measly minimum recommended intake of beans, chickpeas, split peas, or
lentils. The same percentage of
Americans don’t eat their greens every day.
Two of the healthiest foods on the planet are greens and beans, but
hardly anyone even consumes the minimum recommended amount. As you might
have noticed, canned beans cost about 3 times more than dried beans, but dried
beans can take hours to cook, so my family just goes wild and splurges on
canned beans, paying that extra 20 cents a serving. Nutrition-wise, cooked and canned are about
the same, but the sodium content of canned beans can be 100 times that of
cooked. Draining and rinsing the canned
beans can get rid of about half the sodium, but you're also draining and
rinsing away some of the nutrition. I
recommend when buying canned beans to instead get the no-salt added varieties,
and to keep and use the bean juice.
Michael Greger https://apple.news/AG29hPfaPT6GR4PpMVoGN3A Thank you, Muse reader!
You'll be getting more of those
familiar, piquant radishes that you've been using ins soups, salads, and stir
frys. Don't forget that radish greens can
be used in all the same things that the root is used for. Radishes are high
in sodium, foliate, calcium, potassium, Vitamin C and dietary fiber. One cup of sliced radishes will put 3, 6, 3,
5, 25, and 4 percent of the recommended daily amount of each nutrient in your
body. Radishes can be stored in a on the
counter, in the pantry, or in the refrigerator.
Refrigeration is best if the vegetables will not be used for a few
days. Place them in a bag with holes or
wrap them in a towel for the longest shelf life. To freeze radishes, begin by thoroughly
washing the vegetables. Next, remove the
greens from the radish and set them aside--they will undergo a different
process than the vegetables. Slice (but
do not skin) the radishes into medallions, this will protect the texture of the
vegetable when the cells undergo freezing.
Blanch the medallions for 2-3 minutes and then submerge in ice
water. Drain well, package in an air
tight, air free container or bag, and then freeze. Now take your radish greens and blanch for
ten seconds, drain well, package, and freeze.
More information on food storage is available from the National Center
for Home Food Preservation www.uga.edu.
FOLLOW-UP to Moxie story September 1,
2018 Fans
of Maine's state drink, a quirky soda called Moxie, are absorbing the news that
it could be headed for the big time.
This week, the Coca-Cola corporation announced it bought the rights to
Moxie. Some Moxie fans have expressed
concern that Coke might tweak the soda's legendary recipe. In a statement, the company says it's
committed to ensuring that Moxie stays true to its northeastern
roots. Jay Field https://www.npr.org/2018/09/01/643922040/coca-cola-buys-moxie-soda
Thank you, Muse reader! Moxie
was invented and patented by Moxie Nerve Food back in 1885—a year before Coca-Cola was launched in 1886. It was actually the first bottled, carbonated
drink in the U.S. https://www.today.com/food/what-s-moxie-why-coca-cola-newest-soda-classic-maine-t136853
A U.S. postage stamp commemorating John Lennon's legacy was unveiled at a September 7, 2018
ceremony at New York’s Central Park, with the late Beatles legend’s widow Yoko
Ono and son Sean Lennon in attendance. “I
know that my father would have been really thrilled to be accepted, officially
in this way, on a stamp,” Sean Lennon said at the event. “About as official as it gets, I think.” John Lennon was a noted philatelist: In 2016, Lennon’s personal collection of stamps,
which he started as a child, displayed at the World Stamp Show in New York City
following a residency at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Lennon’s own U.S. postage stamp uses the same
Bob Gruen-shot photographed from the Walls and Bridges photo
session in 1974. The “Forever” stamp is
also designed to look like a 45″ vinyl single as a record peeking out of a
sleeve is featured at the top of the 16-stamp sheet. Daniel Kreps
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-postage-stamp-720890/
JOHN LENNON: THE GREEN ALBUM September
7, 2018-February 3, 2019 John
Lennon’s boyhood stamp album—including 565 stamps on more than 150 pages is on
display at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. The exhibition coincides with the U.S. Postal
Service’s issuance of the John Lennon Forever stamp, honoring the legendary
singer and songwriter. The stamp is part
of the USPS’ Music Icons series. Lennon's
older cousin, Stanley Parkes, inspired the future Beatle's interest in stamp
collecting and gave him the album. Lennon
rubbed out Parkes’s name and address on the album’s flyleaf, replacing it with
his own signature and the address at Mendips, the home he shared with his aunt
Mary (“Mimi”) Smith and her husband George. Already a budding artist, Lennon sketched
beards and mustaches in blue ink of the likenesses of Queen Victoria and King
George VI on the album's title page. Lennon
continued to collect and trade stamps for several years after receiving this
album. According to Parkes, Lennon began
collecting at about age 9 and actively collected stamps for several years. There is evidence throughout the album that
Lennon added and removed stamps. Lennon’s handwritten notes on the flyleaf
indicate the album may have contained as many as 800 stamps at some point.
Currently, the album contains 565 stamps.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/current/index.html The National Postal Museum is located at 2
Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC.
When the drought in Cape Town, South Africa, was worsening in
late 2017, one of the country's leading insurance companies, Sanlam, wanted to
help get the word out that people needed to save water. Sanlam's idea was to make a billboard telling
people to cut down on water use. But
that seemed boring to copywriter Susan van Rooyen and art director Moe Kekana. They're with the King James Group, the
communications firm that Sanlam pitched.
So van Rooyen and Kekana started brainstorming. Cape Town's government
was asking people to save water by taking showers that lasted two minutes or
less. Inspiration struck soon enough. "What
do people do in the shower?" says 30-year-old van Rooyen. "They sing." She and Kekana, 28, came up with something of
a musical challenge: the 2-Minute Shower Songs campaign.
The team asked South Africa's biggest
pop stars to record new, shortened versions of their most famous songs. Link
to ten shower songs at https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/644918801/singing-in-the-shower-to-help-save-cape-towns-water
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest of the five
offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world’s oceans. It is located halfway between Hawaii and
California. https://www.theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/
The Ocean Cleanup set sail September
8, 2018 with its nearly 2,000-foot boom, and will collect ocean plastics from the gigantic
garbage gyre over the next year. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/09/ocean-cleanup-plastic-pacific-garbage-patch-news/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1949
September 10, 2018
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