turn turtle verb (third-person
singular simple present turns
turtle, present
participle turning turtle, simple past and past participle turned turtle);
(intransitive) Especially
of a boat or ship, or some
other vehicle:
to turn upside
down. quotations ▼; Synonym: turtle (verb); (intransitive, figuratively) To fail; to go belly up. quotations ▼; (intransitive, surfing) To roll upside
down with one's surfboard (usually a longboard)
to allow a wave,
especially a wave that has already broken,
to pass
over. quotations ▼(intransitive, historical) To capture a
turtle by turning it on to its back. quotations ▼ turtling (noun) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_turtle#English
Four decades ago, I was among the crowd jammed into
the gallery of the Virginia House of Delegates chamber as the members of that
august body refused to hold a vote on the proposed Equal Rights Amendment by Garrett Epps Conservative Republicans and Democrats had
bottled the measure up in committee; supporters sought a vote to bring it
directly to the floor. They fell short;
the ERA effort in Virginia seemed to have died.
That was a very different General Assembly and a very different
Virginia. On January 15, 2019, the
Virginia Senate voted to approve the ERA. The resolution now goes back to the House that
rejected it 40 years ago. If you’re
confused about the ERA’s status, that’s only natural. Until recently, the Equal Rights Amendment
itself—the heart of it says, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of
sex”—seemed like a dead letter. When
Congress proposed the amendment in 1972, the resolution said it would become
effective if approved by three-quarters of state legislatures “within seven years.” During the ratification of the Fourteenth
Amendment, two state legislatures rescinded previous ratifications; Congress
rejected those moves and counted the states toward ratification anyway. The idea is that Article V mentions
ratification but does not mention rescission; once a state has ratified, its
role in the process is at an end. (By
analogy, a state can’t rescind its ratification of the Constitution itself;
what’s done is done. However, a proposed
amendment hasn’t gone into effect yet. The
Constitution has.) During the extended
ratification period for the ERA, a federal district judge held that Idaho’s rescission was valid—and,
for good measure, held that the 1978 deadline extension was unconstitutional. Before the Supreme Court could hear the case,
however, the deadline passed—so the high court vacated the Idaho decision as
moot. Note that at every stage of the
amendment process, it is Congress—not the courts—that takes the leading role. The language of Article V puts Congress at the
center of the action, but it doesn’t specify exactly how Congress should
determine which amendments have been validly adopted. And Congress hasn’t covered itself with glory
in that regard. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/will-congress-ever-ratify-equal-rights-amendment/580849/
The average rainfall in Portland is one of the
necessary things that provides us with outrageously vibrant outdoor colors
throughout the year. Granted we live in
kind of a west coast rain forest without the tropical elements and our
daily view consists of lush green pines sweeping through hilly landscapes of
the most emerald green fields you could ever imagine. So we think that this more than makes up for
the amount of rain
we get in Portland. As
Portlanders we have become accustomed to the rain for the most part, but people continue to
ask how much rain does
Portland get every year.
The region has a PDX average rainfall per year of 39.14
inches. This is a statistic measured
over the last 30 years of rainfall data
for the Portland area.
But guess what? Portland area rainfall is actually less than
the nationwide average annual rainfall by about 0.03 inches. November, December and
January seem by far the months that primarily get a hard soaking. Are you surprised?
Find the benefits of Portland "liquid sunshine" and 5 key tips on how to deal with the rain in Portland at https://www.simplefloorspdx.com/blog/portland-rain-how-often-does-it-rain-in-pdx/
As the flora
and fauna of Oregon's Tillamook State Forest know, rain should be
celebrated. Read about the 2018 precipitation celebration at https://www.forestgrove-or.gov/community/page/rain-festival-tillamook-forest-center
International Day of Peace, also known as the World
Peace Day, is a day that is celebrated
on September 21st to acknowledge and show appreciation for all
of those who worked to promote peace and end conflict, whether it is in their
home country or in the world. It is also
a day in which warring factions, both of a political and a personal nature, are
supposed to put away their differences--for one day--and call a cease-fire of
hostilities. In 1981, the United
Nations’ General Assembly passed a resolution making the third Tuesday of
September each year International Day of Peace.
In 2001, the United Nations decided that International Day of Peace
should be observed on the 21st of September instead and set the observance of
that day starting the following year.
Setting this date, the U.N then decided that this day should be a global
cease-fire day. People all over the
world celebrate International Day of Peace in a variety of different ways. These include planting trees for peace,
lighting candles and holding candle light vigils, attending peace-related art
exhibits and going for peace walks.
People may also attend various public events such as public speeches and
concerts. http://www.holidayscalendar.com/event/world-peace-day/
Authors and translators the Muser is grateful
for
Gunnar Staalesen
https://www.mysterytribune.com/conversation-scandinavian-crime-fiction-legend-gunnar-staalesen/
Don Bartlett
https://elsewhereeditions.org/bartlett/
Richard Wilbur https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma164.html
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United
States Constitution designed
to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between
men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. The ERA was
originally written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. The amendment was first introduced into
Congress in December 1923. The National
Woman's Party already
had tested its approach in Wisconsin, where it won passage of the Wisconsin
Equal Rights Law in 1921. The party then took the ERA to Congress, where
U.S. Senator Charles
Curtis, a future Vice President of the United States, introduced it for the first time in
October 1921. Although the ERA was introduced in every congressional
session between 1921 and 1972, it almost never reached the floor of either the
Senate or the House for a vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment
Queen Victoria as you've never seen her before High-quality
film of Queen Victoria on her last trip to Ireland has been rediscovered. The footage was taken a year before she
died. The monarch can be seen smiling
and nodding. We can even see that she's
wearing sunglasses. The British Film
Institute has a free library of
Victorian film, and you can see more of MoMA's archives here. Thank you, Muse reader!
John
Horton Conway (born
1937) is an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial
game theory and coding theory. He has also
contributed to many branches of recreational
mathematics, notably the invention of
the cellular
automaton called the Game
of Life. Conway spent the first half of his long career
at the University
of Cambridge, in England, and the
second half at Princeton
University in New Jersey, where
he now holds the title Professor Emeritus.
Conway's career is intertwined with mathematics popularizer and Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner. When Gardner
featured Conway's Game of Life in his Mathematical
Games column in October 1970, it
became the most widely read of all his columns and made Conway an instant
celebrity. Gardner and Conway had first corresponded in the late 1950s,
and over the years Gardner had frequently written about recreational aspects of
Conway's work. For instance, he
discussed Conway's game of Sprouts (Jul 1967), Hackenbush (Jan 1972), and his angel and devil problem (Feb 1974).
In the September 1976 column he reviewed Conway's book On Numbers and Games and
introduced the public to Conway's surreal numbers. Conferences
called Gathering
4 Gardner are held every two
years to celebrate the legacy of Martin Gardner, and Conway himself has often
been a featured speaker at these events, discussing various aspects of
recreational mathematics. Read about
Conway's major areas of research, awards and publications at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
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June 3, 2019
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