Monday, March 4, 2019


Livestream is a video live streaming platform that allows customers to broadcast live video content using a camera and a computer through the Internet, and viewers to play the content via the web, iOSAndroidRoku, and the Apple TV.  Livestream requires a paid subscription for content providers to use; it formerly offered a free ad-supported service but no longer does so as of 2016.   
Livestream was founded as Mogulus in 2007 by Max Haot, Dayananda Nanjundappa, Phil Worthington, and Mark Kornfilt, and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Zaporizhia and Bangalore.  It launched with a free streaming service, and introduced its white label “pro” service in April 2008 with Gannett as its first customer.  In July 2008, Gannett invested in Mogulus with $10 million in funding.  In May 2009, Mogulus re-branded as Livestream.  On September 26, 2017, Livestream was acquired by IAC via subsidiary Vimeo.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestream

The Trump Organization is the collective name for a group of approximately 500 business entities of which Donald Trump, the current U.S. President, is the sole or principal owner.   Approximately 250 entities use the Trump name.  Donald Trump's grandmother Elizabeth Christ Trump and father Fred Trump founded the organization in 1923 as E. Trump & Son, and it was led from 1971 to 2017 by Donald Trump, who renamed the company around 1973.  The Trump Organization, through its various constituent companies and partnerships, has or has had interests in real estate development, investing, brokerage, sales and marketing, and property management.  Trump Organization entities own, operate, invest in, and develop residential real estate, hotels, resortsresidential towers, and golf courses in various countries.  They also operate or have operated in construction, hospitality, casinos, entertainment, book and magazine publishing, broadcast media, model management, retail, financial services, food and beverages, business education, online travel, commercial and private aviation and beauty pageants.  Trump Organization entities also own a New York television production company that produced the reality television franchise The Apprentice.  Retail operations include or have included fashion apparel, jewelry and accessories, books, home furnishings, lighting products, bath textiles and accessories, bedding, home fragrance products, small leather goods, barware, steaks, chocolate bars, and bottled spring water.  After September 2016, Trump Organization entities began to develop properties under the name Scion Hotels, which are lower-priced than other Trump Organization hotels and are marketed toward younger customers.  Both the financial statements of the Trump Organization's holdings and Donald Trump's personal tax returns are private. 

At the Toledo Museum of Art, visual literacy is defined as being able to read, comprehend, and write visual language.  Link to 15:29 video at https://www.toledomuseum.org/education/visual-literacy/why-visual-literacy

Situated where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea, Stockholm is a city surrounded by gorgeous scenery.  Because Sweden remained neutral, during World War II, Stockholm--the country's capital--was not damaged and its old architecture remains intact.  Water is a leading feature of Stockholm.  While the city itself is built on fourteen islands--giving rise to its description as a "floating city"--the capital is just a small part of a much larger archipelago which covers about 24,000 islands.  The old part of town--called Gamla Stan--plays a key role in Stieg Larsson's stories about Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.  https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Stockholm-Sweden-s-Capital-and-Its-Fourteen-Islands    See also http://raredelights.com/stockholm-fourteen-islands-one-city/  and https://www.globotreks.com/destinations/sweden/island-hopping-stockholm-by-foot/  Stockholm is one of various cities called "Venice of the North."

Ruth Beebe Hill was born April 26, 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Western Reserve University (now Case) with a B.A. in 1935.  In 1951, she began work on a novel about the Native American experience.  After thirty years of research in public libraries and at Indian reservations, and after studying Native American music and learning the ancient Dakotah language, Hill published Hanta Yo, a “documented novel,” in 1979.  The novel, whose title means “clear the way,” tells the story of a tribe of Teton Sioux Indians living between 1750 and 1834 who managed to resist the Caucasian influence sweeping across North America.  The novel earned a spot on the New York Times bestseller list for nine months and won its author a Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. Hill edited manuscripts and books, wrote blurbs for major publishing houses and taught college courses in writing and Native American culture.  Ruth Beebe Hill died on May 28, 2015 at her home on San Juan Island, Washington.  https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/2017/12/06/hill-ruth-beebe/

Hanta Yo is a mammoth simulation of a Plains Indian culture (from 1793 to 1835) of a people who had no words for sin, guilt, or forgive.  The book was many years in the making; Ruth Beebe Hill translated her manuscript into the Dakotah/Lakotah language and back to English, in order to catch the flavor of an alien idiom and a mode of thought.  This is the story of the Mahto band--their seasonal migrations; warriors galloping home with scalps, horses, and captive women; ceremonies of grief and celebration; scalp-dances with trilling women and kill-tales; men and their women in sexual initiations; and the lonely quests of the seer.  https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ruth-beebe-hill/hanta-yo/

Multi-level marketing is a strategy some direct-sales companies use to encourage their existing distributors to recruit new distributors by paying the existing distributors a percentage of their recruits' sales.  The recruits are the distributor's "downline."  All distributors also make money through direct sales of products to customers.  Amway is an example of a well-known direct-sales company that uses multi-level marketing.  Multi-level marketing is a legitimate business strategy, though it is controversial.  One problem is pyramid schemes, which use money from new recruits to pay the people at the top, often take advantage of people by pretending to be engaged in legitimate multi-level marketing.  You can spot pyramid schemes by their greater focus on recruitment than on product sales.  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/multi-level-marketing.asp

Kevin Roche, the Dublin-born American architect whose modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, gave striking new identities to corporations, museums and institutions around the world, died March 1, 2019 at his home in Guilford, Conn.  He was 96.  He created such distinctive works as the Ford Foundation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, an elegant palazzo of dark metal and glass built around a garden atrium and finished in 1967; the Oakland Museum of California (1968), a museum whose terraced roof functions as a public park; the General Foods headquarters in Rye Brook, N.Y. (1982), a glass version of a grand classical villa; the sprawling headquarters of Union Carbide in Danbury, Conn. (1982), a futuristic machine for parking and working; and the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan Bank on Wall Street (1990), a skyscraper in the form of a classical column.  And he put an indelible stamp on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Mr. Roche was hired by Eero Saarinen in 1950, and before long he became the architect’s chief design associate, working on projects like the CBS Building in New York (known as Black Rock); the TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport; Dulles International Airport, outside Washington; and the Ingalls Skating Rink at Yale University.  When Saarinen died suddenly in 1961 at 51, it fell to Mr. Roche and John Dinkeloo, another Saarinen lieutenant, to keep the office going and complete Saarinen’s numerous unfinished works.  As they began to take on new projects of their own, the Saarinen office transitioned into Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and AssociatesMr. Dinkeloo died in 1981at 63, after which Mr. Roche headed the office himself.  Paul Goldberger  Read more and see many pictures at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/arts/kevin-roche-dead-architect.html

Pączki Day celebrates pączki, which are filled Polish doughnuts.  They are made of deep-fried dough, which consists of eggs, fats, sugar, yeast, and sometimes milk.  Fillings often include fruit or cream.  Two traditional fillings are powidl  (jam-like plum spread) and rose hip jam.  They are often covered with powdered  sugar, glaze, icing, or dried orange zest.  Pączki have been eaten in Poland since at least the Middle Ages. The singular word for them is pączek, but most English speakers use "pączki" for both singular and plural.  In English the word is often pronounced as PUUNCH-kee, PUUNSH-kee, PUNCH-kee or PAWNCH-kee—the last of which is closest to the Polish pronunciation.  In Poland they are often eaten on Fat Thursday, the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday.  Pączki were traditionally made at this time to use up foods that were forbidden from being eaten during Lent, such as lard, sugar, eggs, and fruit.  Pączki Day is celebrated in North America, especially in cities with large Polish communities, such as Chicago and Detroit, and other large cities in the Northeast and Midwest.  It takes place on the same date as, and as part of, the other pre-Lenten traditions of Fat Tuesday and International Pancake Day.  In some cities the day is so popular that people stand in long lines for pączki, and there are parades and pączki eating contests.  Pączki Day is observed next on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019.  It has always been observed 47 days before Easter.  https://www.checkiday.com/95cbc1c1945d5bb1e3ebf42e6bed315e/paczki-day
                                           
"Helping others is the primary act of  love."  Chip Hedler, words spoken at the celebration of life ceremony on March 2, 2019 for his mother, Doris Hedler

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2055  March 4, 2019

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