The Boston
Latin School is a public exam school in Boston, Massachusetts.
Established on April 23, 1635, it is the
oldest and first public school in the United States. The
Public Latin School was a bastion for educating the sons of the Boston "Brahmin" elite, resulting in the school claiming many prominent
Bostonians, Massachusetts citizens and New Englanders as alumni. Its curriculum follows that of the 18th
century Latin-school movement, which holds the "classics"
to be the basis of an educated mind.
Four years of Latin are mandatory for all pupils who enter the
School in the 7th grade, three years for those who enter in the 9th. In 2007, the school was named one of the top
twenty high schools in the United States by U.S. News & World Report magazine. It is a part of Boston Public
Schools (BPS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Latin_School See also
Boston Latin School’s (BLS) students founded a Youth Climate Action Network (YouthCAN) that now has
30 member-groups at schools across Massachusetts. Students host a free Annual Climate Summit at MIT serving
hundreds of students and educators.
Students run an Environmental
Mentoring Program for elementary students. The energy audit assessment is a unit project
where they study electricity and then use their new understanding to conduct an
electrical analysis of their home, writing a report for their family detailing
how their family can save money. The
Boston Latin School Annual Teach-In on Sustainability has tripled demand
for environmental courses. The Zero-Sort Recycling Program cut Boston Latin School’s
trash in half, and was replicated in 50 additional schools. Read more at https://www.bls.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=203746&type=d&pREC_ID=404291
In the United States, an 1885 agricultural report
listed no fewer than 87 varieties of lettuce. Today, there are four basic types
of lettuce: butterhead, iceberg, loose
leaf, and romaine. Butterhead lettuce
includes Boston and Bibb lettuces, which are characterized by a loose head and
grass-green leaves. Both have a soft
“buttery” texture and a sweet, mild flavor.
A head of Boston lettuce resembles a flowering rose. Bibb lettuce—also called limestone—forms a
smaller, cup-shaped head. http://www.berkeleywellness.com/healthy-eating/food/article/types-lettuce John Bibb developed Bibb lettuce from Boston
lettuce.
https://cals.arizona.edu/fps/sites/cals.arizona.edu.fps/files/cotw/Butter_Lettuce.pdf See also Lettuce Varieties by Molly Watson
with interesting text (did you know you can eat young chrysanthemum
leaves?) and beautiful
pictures at https://www.thespruceeats.com/varieties-of-lettuce-4065606
New York Times best-selling author
Lewis Perdue’s twenty published books have sold
more than 4 million copies and have been translated into every major language
in the world along with more than a dozen other tongues. Of his twenty published books, fifteen are
thrillers and the remaining five cover wine, technology, and how porn has
driven the technology and business model of the World Wide Web. Perdue studied physics and biology in college
and usually works those into his books.
He received his B.S. (1972) with distinction from Cornell
University. He has served on the
faculties at UCLA and Cornell University, founded four companies including two
technology firms, a wine company and a magazine, and been a top aide to a U.S.
Senator and a state governor. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12699.Lewis_Perdue See also https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/lewis-perdue
US supreme court throws out Da Vinci suit The Da Vinci Code author, Dan Brown, and his
publisher Random House on November 13, 2006 won a legal victory against an
author who claimed that parts of Brown's global bestseller were lifted from his
own thriller. Lewis Perdue, whose book
Daughter of God was published in 2000, had claimed in a May 2003 letter to
Brown's publisher that there were similarities between the two books. The
publisher then filed a lawsuit against Perdue, seeking a "declaratory
judgment" that no copyright infringement had taken place. In response, Perdue filed a countersuit and
asked for $150m in damages. The U.S.
Supreme Court denied his writ without comment and declined to hear the
case. Perdue will not, however, have to
pay Random House's legal fees. On The Da
Vinci Crock, his blog dedicated to the case, Perdue asserts that the plot,
pacing and structure of the two books are remarkably similar: both books open
with an American mysteriously summoned to Europe to meet with the owner of a
priceless collection of art; both feature clues hidden in artworks which lead
the protagonists on their frantic, dangerous searches; and result in the
simultaneous unfolding of two storylines.
However, lawyers for Random House asserted
that the two works were radically different.
Perdue's work, said Brown's legal team, "is a 'shoot-em-up'
thriller involving Nazis and Russian mafia, where husband and wife protagonists
battle an ultranationalist Russian leader and a megalomaniacal cardinal seeking
to depose the pope". In the wake of the decision, Perdue defended his
allegations on his blog but added that "one part of me is a little
disappointed, but overall I am relieved to have this part of things
over". Michelle Pauli https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/14/danbrown.michellepauli
The spring equinox, which marks the beginning of spring,
and the final "supermoon" of the year will both occur on
Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The equinox,
which means "equal night" will mark one of two times during the year
when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting
in a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and darkness at all
latitudes, according to the National Weather Service. The equinox will
occur at 5:58 p.m. EDT and a second astronomical delight, the full
moon/supermoon, will occur less than four hours later at 9:43 p.m.
according to USA TODAY. The supermoon will be the third and final of its
kind in 2019. Supermoons happen when the
moon is a few thousand miles closer to Earth than usual. On Wednesday, the moon will be about 14,000
miles closer to Earth than average, USA TODAY said. The moon's closeness to Earth, naturally,
makes it look extra close and extra bright--up to 14 percent bigger and 30
percent brighter than a full moon at its farthest point from Earth, NASA
said.
After much social media derision that was not likely
to become part of any Hudson Yards marketing, the development said on March 18, 2019 it would be “refining the
language to be more clear.” In its terms of service, which are not posted on the property but are available
online, Hudson Yards said that it had the right to use any picture taken in the
vicinity of the art installation for commercial purposes, with no royalty fees
and no restrictions, forever. And it did. Now
visitors “retain ownership of any photographs, text, audio recordings or video
footage depicting or relating to the Vessel” that they create. But if you want to send that photo out to
your Instagram fans, you still “hereby grant to Company and its affiliates the
right to repost, share, publish, promote and distribute the Vessel Media via
such social media channel and via websites associated with the Vessel or Hudson
Yards (including my name, voice and likeness and any other aspects of my
persona as depicted in the Vessel Media), in perpetuity.” It was a slight tweak—but one that was more
similar to what most museums and other public venues currently have. “It’s the difference between use and owning
the underlying right exclusively,” New York lawyer Domenic Romano said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/arts/design/hudson-yards-vessel-instagram.html
March
20, 2019 This year’s inductees for the Library of
Congress’s National Recording Registry
include a speech from Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the educational music of
“Schoolhouse Rock!,” Jay-Z’s seminal album “The Blueprint,” soul, pop and disco
songs that became anthems for underrepresented groups, and a number of other
unique recordings. Every year, the
registry preserves 25 “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”
American recordings that are at least 10 years old. The selection process begins with public input
followed by recommendations from the board and ends with Librarian of Congress
Carla Hayden making the final cut. Travis M. Andrews
Read more, see pictures and find the complete list of inductees at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jay-z-a-speech-by-sen-robert-f-kennedy-and-schoolhouse-rock-among-recordings-deemed-classics-by-library-of-congress/2019/03/19/f7eb08ea-4a58-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?utm_term=.de438d17a5b2
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2066
March 20, 2019
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