The R. W. Lindholm Service Station is
a service station designed
by Frank Lloyd Wright and
located in Cloquet, Minnesota. Built in 1958 and still in use, it is the
only station built to a Wright design during his lifetime. It was originally part of Wright's
utopian Broadacre City plan
and is one of the few designs from that plan that was actually
implemented. The building is listed on
the National
Register of Historic Places.
Wright had designed station owner Ray Lindholm's house in 1952 and,
knowing Lindholm worked in the oil business, presented him with a proposal to
design the gas station envisioned as part of Broadacre City. Lindholm seized the opportunity to beautify
gas station design, and Wright completed his design in 1956. The station ultimately cost $20,000--roughly
four times the cost of the average filling station at the time. Its construction was only a partial success
for Wright, as his vision of the gas station as a social center never took
hold. However, Phillips 66 incorporated
several of the gas station's design elements, particularly the triangular
cantilevered canopy, in later gas stations.
The station was added to the National
Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1985, for its
architectural significance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._W._Lindholm_Service_Station Cloquet's
R.W. Lindholm Service Station, more commonly known as the Frank Lloyd Wright
Gas Station, was sold to Broadacre, LLC of Minneapolis on March 18, 2018 for
$250,000. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/real-estate/4712112-Cloquets-Frank-Lloyd-Wright-gas-station-sold-after-60-years-in-family
As a rule of thumb, good
questions: Ask ‘what, when, where, who’
to gather fact and context. Ask ‘how do
you’ to uncover processes and flows. Ask
‘how might we’ to investigate opportunities.
Ask ‘why’ to find underlying reasons and motivations. Have purpose.
Are neutral and free of bias. Are interesting, short, and can be
answered. Chris How Link to articles on good questions at https://medium.com/@chris_162/part-1-what-makes-a-good-question-477ddd4e64e3
Simon Rich (born June 5, 1984) is an American humorist,
novelist, and screenwriter. He has
published two novels and three collections of humor pieces, several of which
appeared in The New Yorker. His
novels and short stories have
been translated into over a dozen languages.
Rich was one of the youngest writers ever hired on Saturday Night Live, and
served as a staff writer for Pixar. After graduating from Harvard, Rich wrote
for Saturday Night Live for four years where the staff was
nominated for the Emmy
Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Series in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety Series in 2009 and 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rich
encumber transitive verb 1: WEIGH DOWN, BURDEN 2: to impede or hamper the function or activity of : HINDER negotiations 3: to burden with a legal claim
(such as a mortgage)
The expression “to care
(or give) a fig” dates back to the early 1600s, and “to give (or care) a hoot”
has been around since before World War I.
Both nouns—“fig” and “hoot”—have long been used figuratively for
something small and unimportant, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. So something that’s “not worth a fig (or a
hoot),” or something that you “don’t care a fig (or a hoot) about,” is
worthless or contemptible. The noun
“fig”—sometimes “a fig’s end”—was recorded in the sense of something
unimportant as early as the mid-1400s. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/11/figs-and-hoots.html
Not Worth a Fig is a 2009 Turkish drama film written
and directed by Selda Çiçek based on a true story about a woman unhappily
married to her late sister's husband.
The film, which went on nationwide release on
November 6, 2009, was selected for the 16th London Turkish
Film Festival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Worth_a_Fig
Celebrated
on March 14, National Pi Day not only commemorates a very special number, but
also celebrates the birthday of the great scientist and mathematician Albert
Einstein. Pi was first calculated by
Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the
ancient world. National Pi Day has
become a day to celebrate numbers and math, and celebrations are held across
the country in honor of this very special number. These days, all of the numerical fun is
sometimes accompanied by delicious food items such as pizza pie, fruit pie, and
even pot pies! Pi (π) is the ratio
of a circle’s circumference to its diameter—and amazingly for all circles of
any size, Pi will be always be the same. Pi is an "irrational
number," meaning its exact value is completely unknowable. Scientists have calculated billions of digits
starting with 3.14159265358979323, but no recognizable pattern ever
emerges. If you are a nerd that likes pies this holiday is pretty much
the best combination of the most interesting things in life: pie and mathematics. And of course that
means that in order to celebrate abstract mathematical items that are somewhat
irrational the obvious solution is to incorporate pie into the holiday. Pi is one of the things that links math back
to real world uses. Because Pi is linked
to circles it is also linked to cycles, things like calculating waves, ebb and
flow, the oceans tides, electromagnetic waves and much more. In addition
many natural world phenomena can be calculated with pi—like the shape of
rivers, the disc of the sun, the spiral of DNA and even the pupil of the
eye. https://nationaltoday.com/national-pi-day/
When the U.S. passport was
redesigned in 2007, a biometric chip was added.
Images were added. Ostensibly to
cut down on counterfeits, the dark images have made some stamps difficult to
read. Quotes were also added at the top
of each page. In a 52-page passport,
this included 25 patriotic quotes relating to the United States. Author Matthew
is an avid traveler who travels more than 200,000 miles each year by air. Read the 25 quotes at https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2018/07/04/us-passport-quotes/
February 27, 2020 (1) A former deputy solicitor general who served under
eight presidents, Lawrence Wallace, has died at age 88. Wallace argued more cases in the U.S. Supreme
Court than any other lawyer in the modern era.
Wallace is known for risking his career over a footnote in which he noted that
he personally disagreed with the Reagan administration’s position in a tax
exemption case. The brief he signed,
despite his noted disagreement, argued that the IRS could not revoke tax-exempt
status for private universities that discriminate. (The Washington Post via How Appealing) (2) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written
more opinions than any of her colleagues in argued cases so far this term. Ginsburg has written three majority opinions
and three dissents in 11 argued cases. (Law360) Debra Cassens Weiss https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/afternoon-briefs-doj-lawyer-who-wrote-risky-footnote-dies-chip-gaines-of-hgtv-wins-suit-dismissal
COLORFUL PROSE *
joined the chrome-surge (driving
in Los Angeles) * flash of ocular Morse code * a
low hum, deep and constant as a Gregorian chant: freeway dirge
* Time Bomb, #5 in the Alex
Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman
See Alex Delaware series order at https://www.fictiondb.com/author/jonathan-kellerman~series~alex-delaware~2024.htm
March is Women’s History
Month Born in a well-to-do
farmer family in the backward Mali community, Savitribai Phule was married off
to 13-year-old Jyotirao Phule at the tender age of nine in-keeping with the
tradition at the time of marrying off girls before they hit puberty. Jyotirao sent his wife to get trained at a
school and she passed with flying colours along with Fatima Sheikh. Jyotirao had studied the Hindu scriptures and
come to the conclusion that all humans were equal. He realized that education was the one tool
that if provided to all humans, would get rid of all social inequalities. In 1848, the emancipated husband and wife
finally established India’s first school for girls in Vishrambag Wada, Pune. Only nine girls enrolled all from different
castes. Later on, the number rose to 25.
While Savitribai became the
headmistress, she taught alongside her fellow trainee Fatima Sheikh and
Jyotirao’s emancipated aunt Sagunabai. The
first woman teacher and the first female educationist of India was also the
first female poetess. Her two books of
poetry 'Kavya Phule' (1934) and 'Bavan Kashi Subodh Ratnakar' (1982) continue
to inspire us today with their questions on caste and gender. 'Kavya
Phule' was published when Savitribai was just 23. She also wrote a poem entitled 'Go,
Get Education' which encouraged people to free themselves from oppression by
educating themselves. Roshni Chakrabarty https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/how-savitribai-phule-india-s-first-female-teacher-dealt-with-abusers-hell-bent-on-preventing-her-from-educating-girls-1633725-2020-01-03
Each
March, the Academy of
Nutrition and Dietetics celebrates National Nutrition Month®. As part of
their campaign, they invite the public to focus on the importance of making
informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.
National Nutrition Month 2020 is themed
“Eat Right, Bite by Bite” and the overall message is that quality nutrition
isn’t restrictive, but that small changes to diet can have a cumulative effect
on health over time. https://nutrition.org/national-nutrition-month-2020/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2233
March 2, 2020
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