Slow-Cooker
Asparagus-Barley Risotto
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/slow-cooker-asparagus-barley-risotto-3364380 serves 8
Use part apple cider instead of all broth if desired.
Edwin George Morgan (1920–2010) was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish
Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost
Scottish poets of the 20th century. In
1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he
was named as the first Scottish national poet: The Scots Makar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Morgan_(poet)
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure,
interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and
risk-taking. Set mainly or entirely
in outer space,
it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced
abilities, futuristic weapons, and other sophisticated technology. The term has
no relation to music, as in a traditional opera, but is instead a play on the terms "soap opera", a
melodramatic television series, and "horse opera", which was
coined during the 1930s to indicate a clichéd and formulaic Western movie. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and
continue to be produced in literature, film, comics, television, and video
games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera John Scalzi, author of the space opera The
Last Emporex, frequently sets aside books he’s not enjoying. “Life is short and there are many other
books.” The New York Times Book Review
May 17, 2020
Feedback to A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg From: Beye Fyfe
This business of nouning verbs and verbing nouns is unsettling. I just came across another example on my
doctor’s website and I don’t know quite what to do with it: “We have social distanced our waiting room.” From:
Carole Kenney I’ve been hearing
the noun “office” being used these days as a verb--ugh! In a radio ad, something like: we’re here for you, helping you to office at
home. From Saundra D’Amato Currently there is a TV ad running that
exhorts us to “brain better”. I guess
they couldn’t think of an actual verb? AWADmailissue
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The great Sam Fuller began life as a crime reporter
at the age of 17, before writing pulp novels and doing mostly uncredited work
on screenplays through the 1930s (his first credit was on 1936’s “Hats Off“). He served in World War Two, seeing action in
France, Italy and North Africa, as well as being present at (and filming) the
liberation of the concentration camp at Sokolov. By the time he came to direct in 1939—having
been inspired by his anger at what Douglas Sirk did
to his screenplay “Shockproof”—Fuller
would infuse his work with his experience as both a journalist and a
soldier. Indeed, the director once made
a parallel between moviemaking and war in a quote that served as something of a
mission statement for his career “Film is like a battleground, with love, hate,
action, violence, death . . . in one word, emotion.” Shooting with both a journalistic eye and a
heightened style, producing work that was simultaneously crass and subtle, he’s
one of the great pulp filmmakers, and a director who proved a huge influence on everyone. Jean-Luc Godard would
go as far paying him open tribute by giving him a cameo in “Pierrot Le Fou.” Wim Wenders would do the
same with Fuller’s small part in “The American Friend.” Other admirers would include Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino. Even if career problems
meant that he never became the household name he should have been (he didn’t
direct between 1972 and 1980, and the misreading of 1982’s “White Dog” saw him become a pariah in Hollywood),
Fuller’s lasting stamp on cinema is still felt today. Read much more at https://www.indiewire.com/2012/08/the-essentials-the-5-best-sam-fuller-films-107309/
Knock, knock, ginger (also known as knock down ginger, ding
dong ditch, chap door run and
numerous variants) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England. The game is played by children in many
cultures. It involves knocking on the
front door (or ringing the doorbell) of a victim, then running away before the door can
be answered. Victims of this prank are not likely to call the police, but if they decide to, the prankster can face
charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace. Find name variations for the prank at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock,_Knock,_Ginger
Theodore
Huebner Roethke (1908-1963) was born in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto
Roethke and Helen Huebner, who, along with an uncle owned a local
greenhouse. As a child, he spent much
time in the greenhouse observing nature.
Roethke grew up in Saginaw, attending Aurthur Hill High School, where he
gave a speech on the Junior Red Cross that was published in twenty six
different languages. He taught at
Lafayette College from 1931 to 1935. It
was here where Roethke began his first book, Open House. At Lafayette he met
Stanley Kunitz, who later in life, became a great support and friend. By the end of 1935 Roethke was teaching at
Michigan State College at Lansing. By
the time he was teaching at Michigan State Roethke’s reputation as a poet had
been established. In 1936 he moved his
teaching career to Pennsylvania State University, where he taught seven
years. During his time there he was published in such prestigious
journals as Poetry, the New Republic, the Saturday Review, and Sewanee
Review. His first volume of verse, Open
House, was finally published and released in 1941. https://allpoetry.com/Theodore-Roethke
Set on a beautiful 45 acre
campus with stunning architectural design and landscaping, the Packard Campus
of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility
where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the
world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television
programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. The campus has globally unprecedented
capabilities and capacities for the preservation reformatting of all
audiovisual media formats (including obsolete formats dating back 100 years)
and their long-term safekeeping in a petabyte-level digital storage
archive. In addition to preserving the
collections of the Library, the Packard Campus was also designed to provide
similar preservation services for other archives and libraries in both the
public and private sector. The physical
description of the campus is impressive enough—415,000 square feet, more than
90 miles of shelving for collections storage, 35 climate controlled vaults for
sound recording, safety film, and videotape, 124 individual vaults for more
flammable nitrate film—but it is also a "factory" for acquisitions,
preservation, access, and partnerships.
For example, the campus features an off-air recording room to enable off-broadcast,
off-cable, off-satellite capture of hundreds of channels of audiovisual
content. Although the facility is not
open for tours, the Packard Campus hosts a regular series of film and
television programming and occasional concerts in its 205 seat theater. The state-of-the-art projection booth is
capable of showing everything from nitrate film to modern digital cinema. All programs at the campus are free and open
to the public. Link to location and
other information at
Dr. Rattan Lal, native of
India and a citizen of the United States, will receive the 2020 World Food
Prize for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing
food production that restores and conserves natural resources and mitigates
climate change. Over his career spanning
more than five decades and four continents, Dr. Lal has promoted innovative
soil-saving techniques benefiting the livelihoods of more than 500 million
smallholder farmers, improving the food and nutritional security of more than
two billion people and saving hundreds of millions of hectares of natural
tropical ecosystems. Read extensive
article and see pictures at https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2020_lal/
WORD OF THE DAY FOR JUNE 15 Magna Carta proper noun (law, historical) A charter granted by King John to
the barons at Runnymede in
1215, which is one of the bases of English constitutional tradition;
a physical copy of
this charter, or a later version. Magna Carta noun (figuratively) A landmark document that
sets out rights or
important principles. King John of England granted the
Great Charter on June 15 in 1215.
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June 15, 2020
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