Rhubarb is technically a vegetable and is in the same family as sorrel.  Where it gets confusing is that in 1947, a New York court declared rhubarb a fruit because it’s most often cooked as one.  When raw rhubarb is thinly sliced or diced, perhaps with a little sugar to mellow out its tart bite, it can add serious crunch to a dish and a bolt of tangy flavor.  Since it’s naturally tart, it can brighten up things like braised pork chops and Southern tomato dumplings.  Rhubarb is a great source of Vitamin K (useful for blood clotting and bone health) and fiber.  Link to recipes at https://www.thekitchn.com/rhubarb-tips-257870



POE’S LITERARY LABORS AND REWARDS by John Ward Ostrom  For the April 1841 Graham’s Magazine Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” ($56) probably his best-known tale today.  For the May 1842 number he wrote “The Masque of the Red Death” ($12), one of his greatest.  He reviewed Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge for February 1842, from which he probably got his idea for “The Raven”.  By 8 March 1845 Poe become one of the editors of the Broadway Journal.  His most famous poem, “The Raven,” published in January, may have paid him $9.  Of “The Raven” and “The Gold-Bug,” Poe wrote: “The bird beat the bug, though, all hollow”.  Poe faced 1846 without a job—in fact he would never again have one.  Besides a series of articles, “The Literati” for Godey ($172), Graham bought “The Philosophy of Composition” ($8); Godey published one of Poe’s most famous tales, “The Cask of Amontillado” ($15).  In May 1849 he composed “Annabel Lee.”  He sold it for $10; it appeared after his death.   Read much more at   https://www.eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19871e.htm



A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood".  Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks.  Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction, and potboiler films may be called "popcorn movies."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potboiler



Boilerplate text, or simply boilerplate, is any written text (copy) that can be reused in new contexts or applications without significant changes to the original.  The term is used in reference to statements, contracts and computer code, and is used in the media to refer to hackneyed or unoriginal writing.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_text



There are four parts of Medicare:  Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D.  Part A provides inpatient/hospital coverage.  Part B provides outpatient/medical coverage.  Part C offers an alternate way to receive your Medicare benefits (see below for more information).  Part D provides prescription drug coverage.  Find more information at https://www.medicareinteractive.org/get-answers/medicare-basics/medicare-coverage-overview/original-medicare



Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents) or doxxing is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifying information (especially personally identifying information) about an individual or organization.  The methods employed to acquire this information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook), hacking, and social engineering.  It is closely related to Internet vigilantism and hacktivism.  Doxing may be carried out for various reasons, including to aid law enforcement, business analysis, risk analytics, extortion, coercion, inflicting harm, harassment, online shaming, and vigilante justice.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing



A circular economy (often referred to simply as "circularity") is an economic system aimed at minimising waste and making the most of resources.  In a circular system resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops; this can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling.  This regenerative approach is in contrast to the traditional linear economy, which has a 'take, make, dispose' model of production.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy



Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926–July 12, 2019) was a prominent American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems.  Corbató was born on July 1, 1926 in Oakland, California, to Hermenegildo Corbató, a Spanish literature professor from Villarreal, Spain, and Charlotte (née Carella Jensen) Corbató.  In 1930 the Corbató family moved to Los Angeles for Hermenegildo's job at UCLA.  In 1943, Corbató enrolled at UCLA, but due to World War II  he was recruited by the Navy during his first year.  During the war, Corbató "debug[ged] an incredible array of equipment", inspiring his future career.  Corbató left the Navy in 1946, enrolled at the California Institute of Technology, and received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1950.  He then earned a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.  He joined MIT's Computation Center immediately upon graduation, became a professor in 1965, and stayed at MIT until he retired.  The first time-sharing system he was associated with was known as the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), an early version of which was demonstrated in 1961.   Corbató is credited with the first use of passwords to secure access to files on a large computer system, though he now says that this rudimentary security method has proliferated and become unmanageable.  The experience with developing CTSS led to a second project, Multics, which was adopted by General Electric for its high-end computer systems (later acquired by Honeywell).  Multics pioneered many concepts now used in modern operating systems, including a hierarchical file system, ring-oriented security, access control lists, single level store, dynamic linking, and extensive on-line reconfiguration for reliable service.  Multics, while not particularly commercially successful in itself, directly inspired Ken Thompson to develop Unix, the direct descendants of which are still in extremely wide use; Unix also served as a direct model for many other subsequent operating system designs.  Among many awards, Corbató received the Turing Award in 1990, "for his pioneering work in organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems".  In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work on timesharing and the Multics operating system".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3


Margaret Hamilton (born 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner.  She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo space program.  In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The company was developed around Universal Systems Language, based on her paradigm of "Development Before the Fact" for systems and software design.  Hamilton has published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about sixty projects and six major programs.  She is one of the people credited with coining the term "software engineering".  In 2016, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo missions.  



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