Court Orders Halt to Sale of Spyware
"Following an EPIC complaint, a federal court has ordered CyberSpy Software to stop selling malicious computer software. In March, EPIC filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the spyware purveyor engages in unfair and deceptive practices by: (1) promoting illegal surveillance; (2) encouraging "Trojan Horse" email attacks; and (3) failing to warn customers of the legal dangers arising from misuse of the software. The federal regulators agreed, and asked the court for a permanent injunction barring sales of CyberSpy's "stalker spyware," over the counter surveillance technology sold for individuals to spy on other individuals. The court entered a temporary restraining order on November 6, 2008. Further litigation is expected before the court rules on the government's request for a permanent ban. For more information, see EPIC's Personal Surveillance Technologies page and Domestic Violence and Privacy page."

Live Piracy Map 2008
From the ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) - "the anti-crime arm of the International Chamber of Commerce": Live Piracy Map 2008 - "This map shows all the piracy incidents reported by the IMB Piracy Centre in Kuala Lumpur during 2008. Please click on the pins for more details of the specific incident or zoom in for more accurate location information."

New online encyclopedia on Ohio is evolving
You can search by category, topic or click on index for a detailed approach.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/

Floripedia is a collection of articles about Florida and Florida history
Most of the articles were written a long time ago. The original source is given at the end of each article. Notice the date when the article was written, and whether it is “promotional.” http://fcit.usf.edu/FLORIDA/docs/docs.htm

The North Carolina Encyclopedia is a work under construction
New text, additional text, and new graphics are being added as often as possible. This encyclopedia is designed to give you an overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina. The information is organized into broad information categories, and most of these categories offer an opportunity to select either more specific or additional information on a particular topic. http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/COVER.HTM

On November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln got up in front of about 15,000 people and delivered the Gettysburg Address, which begins, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." A military band played, a local preacher offered a long prayer, and the headlining orator, Edward Everett, spoke for more than two hours. When Everett was finished, Lincoln got up and pulled his speech from his coat pocket. It consisted of 10 sentences, a total of 272 words. The audience was distracted by a photographer setting up his camera, and by the time Lincoln had finished his speech and sat down the audience didn't even realize he had spoken.
There are five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address. The earliest version is the copy he gave to his private secretary, John Nicolay, and it's thought to be the version he used for the oration at Gettysburg. It is two pages long—the first page is in ink on official Executive Mansion stationary, and the second is in pencil on lined paper. This version doesn't contain the words "under God" in the phrase "this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
Lincoln made one other copy at the time, which he gave to his other private secretary, John Hay, and then he wrote out three more copies in later years one for a benefit book and two for the historian and former statesman George Bancroft. Lincoln had to copy out two because the first one was written out incorrectly—on both sides of the paper—and so wouldn't go in Bancroft's book. The second copy for Bancroft is the only one that Lincoln signed his name to. It's the copy that has been reproduced on a widespread basis in books and photographs and leaflets, and it is considered the standard version of the speech.
November 20 is the birthday of astronomer Edward Hubble, born in Marshfield, Missouri (1889). He majored in math and astronomy in college, then went to law school and started practicing as an attorney. He got bored after just a couple of years and went to get a Ph.D. in astronomy, where he focused his research on nebulae—distant objects in the sky that couldn't be categorized as stars. He moved to California to work with the world's largest telescope, which was in Pasadena. He identified a certain kind of pulsating star, a "Cepheid" in Andromeda—then considered a not-well-defined nebula of clouds of gas. At the time, scientists believed that the galaxy that Earth was in was only about 100,000 light years across. They also believed that the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the universe. Hubble's discovery of the Andromeda Cepheid and his calculation of its distance proved that the universe was billions of times larger than scientists had thought.
On November 20, 1971 a ban was placed on the use of the popular pesticide DDT. The American public's knowledge of DDT and its environmental dangers was in large part due to Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring (1962). The Writer’s Almanac

Supreme Court of the United States Blog
Find rulings, orders, commentary and cites to articles in the press. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/

ScotusWiki, companion site to ScotusUSblog.com
http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

News release: "An update of the widely-cited manufacturing “cost study” has been released by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), The Manufacturing Institute and the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI shows that U.S. manufacturing is making progress in reducing its cost disadvantage against nine major foreign competitors but that high corporate tax rates now account for more than half of the burden."
The Tide Is Turning: An Update on Structural Cost Pressures Facing U.S. Manufacturers, November 2008

Jordan's Queen Rania has received YouTube's first ever Visionary Award
The 38-year-old royal was praised for launching an interactive channel to help dismiss stereotypes and misconceptions often associated with Arabs and Muslims on the video sharing website. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013079121

Department of Labor Final Rule on Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
FR Doc. 2008-26577, Filed 11/14/2008; Publication Date: 11/17/2008: This document provides the text of final regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The final regulations also address new military family leave entitlements included in amendments to the FMLA enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008, which provide additional job-protected leave rights to eligible employees of covered employers who provide care for covered service members with a serious injury or illness and because of qualifying exigencies arising out of the fact that a covered military member is on active duty or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation.

I love words. It's something I gave up my career in software for. Every morning when I wake up I can't wait to begin exploring words and writing about them. I've been doing that for 14 years and wouldn't want to be doing anything else. Having said that, there are times when I feel I have to be ready to feed this beast -- A.Word.A.Day -- week after week after week. It opens its hungry maw every Monday and I had better be ready with another serving of juicy, delicious words. Anu Garg A.Word.A.Day

From weekly reaction to A.Word.A.Day
Miriam (miriaml savion.cc.huji.ac.il)
My favorite blended word is "huggle". When my kids were little, I always asked them if they wanted a "huggle" -- a combination of a hug and a cuddle.
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Susan L. West (westsl aol.com)
"Advertorial" elicited my coined word "gregacious" or "gregaciousness", stemming from "gregarious" and "gracious".
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James Welch (gneeby gmail.com)
"Bookazine" is another example of a portmanteau. A bookazine is in the format of a monthly magazine but focused on a single topic and is expected to have a shelf life of six months. Forbes 2009 Retirement Guide is an example of a bookazine.

November 18 is the 80th birthday of Mickey Mouse, as officially celebrated by Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse was actually "born" about six months before his official birthday, debuting in a cartoon where he played pilot Charles Lindbergh, but the cartoon failed to pick up a distributor. And so did a second cartoon, "The Gallopin' Gaucho," in which Mickey rides a rhea around Argentina, smoking, drinking, challenging men to duels, and acting like an outlaw. But in his third reincarnation, released on this day in 1928, the creators of Mickey found success, in a cartoon entitled "Steamboat Willie," shown at New York's Colony Theatre
November 18 is the birthday of novelist and poet Margaret Atwood, (books by this author) born in Ottawa, Ontario (1939). Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, came out in 1969. It's about a woman who finds that she can no longer eat after her boyfriend proposes marriage. Atwood is best known for her novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), about an imaginary America where religious fanatics have taken over the government. The book became an international best-seller. The Writer’s Almanac

Second wildfire
Thousands of people were ordered out of their homes in Sylmar, California, early Saturday, November 15 as a fast-spreading wildfire burned along on the northern boundary of Los Angeles. The flames erupted late Friday in the steep terrain of the Angeles National Forest on the outskirts of Sylmar, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. The fire covered 1,500 acres just three hours after it was first reported, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Armando Hogan. A fire official said firefighters first learned of the blaze after it was spotted by CNN affiliate KTLA-TV's helicopter crew.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/15/california.wildfires/?iref=mpstoryview

Third fire erupted suddenly in Orange County on Saturday
The flames destroyed hundreds of homes and forced more than 10,000 people along the southern coast to evacuate. The third fire began in Corona, about 50 miles inland from Los Angeles, on Saturday afternoon, forcing evacuations in Corona, Yorba Linda and Anaheim. The Corona blaze, named the Freeway Complex fire, had burned more than 2,000 acres and damaged 94 homes by Saturday night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/us/17calif.html?ref=us

Sundowner winds of Santa Barbara
Sundowners frequently occur in the late afternoon or evening hours–hence the name. Light sundowners create irregular rises in temperature downtown with gentle offshore breezes. Stronger sundowners, occurring two or three times a year, can create sharp temperature rises, local gale force winds, and significant weather-related problems. Rarely, probably about a half dozen times in a century, an “explosive” sundowner occurs.
http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/SUNDOWNER_WINDS_S_CA.pdf

Senate Banking Committee Hearing: Oversight of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: Examining Financial Institution Use of Funding Under the Capital Purchase Program, November 13, 2008
Opening Statement of Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, “Oversight of the EESA: Examining Financial Institution Use of Funding Under the Capital Purchase Program” - "...five trillion dollars have been committed in several forms, including: the guarantee of all non-interest bearing deposit accounts at federally insured banks and thrifts...The Fed alone has committed up to one trillion in tax dollars so far to the recovery effort...I think I speak for many members of the Committee and the Senate in saying that we want to see more progress from our friends in the financial sector – more progress in foreclosure mitigation, in affordable lending, and in curbing excessive compensation."
Washington Post: Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged "In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury's massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country's largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer lenders...Yet for all this activity, no formal action has been taken to fill the independent oversight posts established by Congress when it approved the bailout to prevent corruption and government waste."
Treasury news release: "Today's story in the Washington Post leaves out critical steps taken by Treasury to ensure that there is strong oversight in place as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is implemented."
Reuters, Commentary: TARP and Fed facilities unravel "The twin pillars of the rescue program are the multiplicity of liquidity and lending programs being offered by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Both programs are now in deep trouble. In fact the various rescue packages risk becoming a textbook example of how poorly designed programs can fail to achieve their objectives."
Joint Letter of Concern to Secretary Paulson After His Announcement to the Change Intent of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, November 13, 2008
Related postings on financial system

On November 13, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed lawsuits claiming that provisions in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which was sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), are unconstitutional. In a suit filed in the District of Columbia, the RNC is challenging the law's ban on the use of soft money, or campaign contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and advocacy groups that are not regulated by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) because they are not donated to a particular candidate but for "party building" activities.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013033366

Two groups of astronomers have taken the first pictures of what they say—and other astronomers agree—are most likely planets going around other stars. Christian Marois of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia is the leader of a team that recorded three planets circling a star known as HR 8799 that is 130 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The other team, led by Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley, found a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut, only 25 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/science/space/14planet.html?bl&ex=1226898000&en=034c0d653216eb42&ei=5087%0A

November 16 is the birthday of the "First Lady of Radio," mostly forgotten today, Mary Margaret McBride, born in Paris, Missouri (1899). She was one of the first radio interviewers to bring the techniques of newspaper journalism to the airwaves, and in the first 20 years of her syndicated program, she interviewed more than 30,000 guests from the world of politics, literature, arts, and entertainment. In the late 1940s, she had 6 million daily listeners. She never announced in advance the name of the guests who would appear on the show, so people tuned in each day not knowing whom to expect.
November 17 is the birthday of a young man who became a best-selling author as a teenager, Christopher Paolini, (books by this author) born in California (1983) and raised near Paradise Valley, Montana. He was homeschooled, and when he finished high school at age 15, he had a lot of time on his hands, so he decided to write a fantasy novel. He began Eragon, finished it a year later, at age 16. He spent a second year revising that draft, and then gave it to his parents. They loved it, and in 2002 Eragon was self-published through the family company. The Paolini family embarked on an exhausting tour to promote Christopher's book. They went to 135 promotional events that first year, dressed in red and black medieval costumes. Paolini got offers from both Random House and Scholastic, and in August of 2003—when Paolini was still 19—the book was published by a division of Random House/Knopf. The Writer’s Almanac

Health and the Mobile Phone Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Within the next 8 years, annual U.S. expenditure on health care is projected to reach $4 trillion/year, or 20% of the gross domestic product. Whether resource consumption of this order of magnitude is sustainable is an open question, but at the very least it suggests the need for population-level solutions for everything from the primary prevention of disease to improving end-of-life care. By June 2007 there were 239 million users of mobile phones in the U.S. or 79% of the population, and users are highly diverse. Mobile phones are beginning to replace landline telephones for some, and except for very young children, may ultimately reach an effective penetration of “one phone: one person” as is already the case in some countries such as Finland.

Global Census of Marine Life Releases Interim Report
News release: The 2,000-strong community of Census of Marine Life scientists from 82 nations has announced astonishing examples of recent new finds from the world’s ocean depths. As more than 700 delegates gather for the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (Valencia, Spain Nov. 11-15), organized by the Census’s European affiliate program on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, the report details major progress towards the first ever marine life census, for release in October, 2010.
Full Highlights Report: "Eight years into a ten-year initiative to produce the first comprehensive assessment of life in the global ocean, the Census of Marine Life has much to report. The last two years have brought many highlights as Census participants stayed the course toward discovering diversity, charting distribution, and assessing abundance of marine life throughout the world’s seas. Although inquiring waders, swimmers, fishers, and sailors have ventured into the ocean for millennia, an estimated 95 percent of the global ocean remains unexplored...During the first eight years of discovery, Census investigators have found more than 5,300 likely new species, of which at least 110 have gone through the rigorous process needed to award the title of truly “new.”

Today in legal history
On November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of President James A. Garfield. The trial of Guiteau pointed up problems with nineteenth century law's treatment of insanity; Guiteau's trial is also problematic in retrospect as Garfield's death was immediately attributable not to Guiteau, but to Garfield's doctors who--before sterilization was well understood-- probed his wound with unwashed hands while searching for an embedded bullet.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/guiteau-tried-for-assassinating.php

Keepers (books I would read again)
The Man with the Black Worrybeads by George N. Rumanes
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A Year Without Time by Cate Allen and Jen Whiting

November 14 is the birthday of cartoonist and author William Steig, (books by this author) born in New York City (1907). He's best known for his children's book Shrek! (1993), about an ugly green ogre who hears the prophecy of a witch that he will marry a princess even uglier than he. It was made into an animated movie in 2002.
The Writer’s Almanac

Let’s look at the Summum case. On November 12, lawyers went before the High Court to argue the big free speech case. In 1971, Pleasant Grove City, Utah, accepted a red granite monument featuring the Ten Commandments for placement in Pioneer Park. But in 2003, when the president of the Summum church asked the mayor of Pleasant Grove City to accept a monument inscribed with the religion’s Seven Aphorisms, the city said no thanks. The constitutional issue is whether, because Pleasant Grove City accepted the Ten Commandments monument, it must accept the Seven Aphorisms monument. Is the Ten Commandments monument speech made by a private group or citizen, making the city’s denial of the Seven Aphorisms display subject to strict constitutional scrutiny, or is it government speech, in which case the speaking government entity has greater freedom to pick and choose among messages? WSJ Law Blog November 12, 2008

Two U.S. internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper. Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels drop by 70% since McColo was taken offline on 11 November.
"It is an unprecedented drop but will be a temporary outage as the networks move from North America to places where there is less scrutiny," said Jason Steer, a spokesman for Ironport. The Washington Post has been gathering data on McColo for the past four months and passed the information to its internet service providers, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725492.stm

Founded in 1999, Operation Paperback collects gently used books and sends them to American troops deployed overseas. Over 800,000 books have been shipped since 1999. Operation Paperback is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania. As a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, your donations to our organization are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Learn More about Operation Paperback
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The novel works better than academic literature to explain global problems
Now some economists are validating that notion. “Despite the regular flow of academic studies, expert reports, and policy position papers, it is arguably novelists who do as good a job–if not a better one–of representing and communicating the realities of international development,” says Dr. Dennis Rodgers from England’s Manchester University’s Brooks World Poverty Institute. Rodgers was speaking for a team of academics from Manchester University and the London School of Economics as they presented a report called “The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as a Source of Authoritative Knowledge.”
The reason: Fiction “does not compromise on complexity, politics or readability in the way that academic literature sometimes does,” argues Dr. Rodgers. In a piece in the Telegraph last week, Rodgers goes on to cite “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga, and “Brick Lane” by Monica Ali as books that he says have done more to educate large numbers of people about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan, social injustice in India, and global development problems everywhere than any number of academic studies.
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/11/10/why-novels-are-best-at-explaining-world-problems/#more-898

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, (1858-1944) was an English composer. In 1910 Smyth joined the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant suffrage organization, giving up music for two years to devote herself to the cause. Her "The March of the Women" became the anthem of the women's suffrage movement, though suffragists most often shouted the words, by Cicely Hamilton, rather than actually singing Smyth's tune. She served two months in Holloway Prison. When Thomas Beecham went to visit her there, he found suffragettes marching in the quadrangle and singing, as Smyth leaned out a window conducting the song with a toothbrush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

On November 13, 1940 Disney released “Fantasia,” an animated film based on classical music favorites ranging from Bach to Stravinsky; Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the soundtrack, and in one famous scene Stokowski shakes hands with Mickey Mouse. Composers Datebook

Coming to Shumaker charity sale in Toledo
Persuader by Lee Child paperbound 465 pages
Book 7 in the Jack Reacher series
Risk by Dick Francis paperbound 271 pages
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/dick-francis/
“Amazing how deprivation makes the smallest extras marvelous.”
“I lived by the law, both by inclination and by choice.”
Eye of the Storm by Jack Higgins hardbound 320 pages
First book in the Sean Dillon series

Music from Oberlin Coming to Toledo
Collingwood Arts Center Chamber Music Series
Tzigane Trio
Sunday, November 16, 2008 3p.m.
Adults $5.00
Senior / Student / Child $4.00
Family $15.00
See program, picture and biographies at: http://www.collingwoodartscenter.org/public/oberlin.php

Change.gov - Office of the President Elect
Change.gov: source for news, events, and announcements in the transition period

Executive Orders from John Quincy Adams to George W. Bush
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/executive_orders.php

Executive Order 9066, 1942 establishing military districts and authorizing the removal and detention of individuals http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761593259/Executive_Order_9066.html

Discussion of 2004 Classified Order allowing military to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/washington/10military.html

Founded more than 1,500 years ago on 117 different islands, Venice is linked by a series of over 150 canals, 400 bridges and many ancient pavements. The historic city centre of Venice is divided into six quarters (sestieri) - Cannaregio, Castello, Dorsoduro, San Marco, San Polo and Santa Croce. All buildings in Venice are supported on slender oak and pine piles (posts) which are driven deep into the ground to create a solid foundation. As the soil is waterlogged, with no free oxygen, the piles remain strong and do not decay. http://www.venice.world-guides.com/
Find other destinations, including population, country dialing codes and more at: http://www.world-guides.com/

A portmanteau is a blend--a word formed by combining two (or more) words. Lewis Carroll gave this name to such a word in "Through the Looking-Glass." As Humpty Dumpty explained to Alice, "You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word." A portmanteau is a travel bag that opens into two hinged compartments. Carroll himself coined some fine portmanteaux such as chortle (chuckle + snort), and slithy (slimy + lithe). We have used this fusion technique to coin names for countries: Tanzania (Tanganyika + Zanzibar). A.Word.A.Day

November 11 is the birthday of Abigail Adams, (books by this author) wife of the second U.S. president and mother of the sixth, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1744. She opposed slavery. She also strongly advocated women's rights, especially in the areas of education and property ownership. She expressed these views freely in letters she wrote to her husband. John Adams was the second president, and she was the first First Lady to occupy the White House, parts of which were still being constructed while they lived there. The Writer’s Almanac

PBGC Announces Maximum Insurance Benefit for 2009
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced that the maximum insurance benefit for participants in underfunded pension plans terminating in 2009 is $54,000 per year for those who retire at age 65, up from $51,750 for 2008. The amount is higher for those who retire later and lower for those who retire earlier or elect survivor benefits (see chart). If a pension plan terminates in 2009 but a participant does not begin collecting benefits until a future year, the 2009 maximum insurance limits still apply. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 provides that the maximum benefit payable is determined by the legal limits in force on the date of the plan sponsor's bankruptcy and not on the date of plan termination. See also PBGC's fact sheet, Pension Guarantees

District Court Rules in Favor of Media Group in CIA FOIA Decision
News release: Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the CIA's view that it--and not journalists--has the right to determine which Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are newsworthy. Reconsidering its earlier decision deferring to the CIA's written assurances that the agency would cease illegally denying the National Security Archive's news media status, the court ordered the CIA to treat the Archive as a representative of the news media for all of its pending and future non-commercial requests. Finding that the CIA "has twice made highly misleading representations to the Archive, as well as to [the] Court," the court explained that the CIA's position "is truly hard to take seriously" and enjoined the CIA from illegally denying the Archive's news media status."

Steve Lowes is a coral farmer
He doesn’t live on an island in the Caribbean or even within spitting distance of an ocean. Rather, his farming takes place in 100-gallon saltwater tanks in the basement of his neat and tidy house the color of a warm Sargasso Sea in upstate New York. Lowes, who grew up landlocked, developed his fascination with corals by watching Jacques Cousteau documentaries as a kid. Since 2002, he’s farmed coral in his basement. There, he propagates, nurtures, and then sells his captive-raised livestock--about 50 species of coral--to aquarium supply firms and pet stores throughout the Northeast. Lowes is one of about a dozen commercial coral farmers in the United States. Captive-raising coral helps limit the amount of coral poached from wild reefs.
Lowes stands before a 125-gallon saltwater tank--his display aquarium--that holds a glorious array of coral, anemones, and colorful fish. “These are all Indo-Pacific corals--it’s illegal to take corals from American waters,” says Lowes. Lowes does not collect his own coral--that requires a license--but all the coral farmers he knows trade with one another for different species to keep stock varied. Lowes points to the top of the display tank. “Look at how that green coral is right up against the pink coral,” said Lowes. “It will eventually grow over the pink one in an effort to grab all the light.”
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/10/31/a-coral-farmer%e2%80%99s-harvest-of-%e2%80%98living-stones%e2%80%99/

Quote You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Mario Matthew Cuomo (born 1932), governor of New York from 1982 to 1994

She raised the status of chamber music, founded the Berkshire String Quartet and started the Berkshire Music Festival: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.
The most lasting memorial to Coolidge's patronage of music are the compositions which she commissioned from practically every leading composer of the early 20th century. The Shaker song, Simple Gifts, which spread quickly across the United States, was played in Appalachian Spring—one of her commissioned pieces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sprague_Coolidge

November 8 is the birthday of Indian novelist Raja Rao, (books by this author) born in Hassan, in southern India (1909). His native language was Kanarese, but he wrote all of his books in English. At the time, India was still under British colonial rule, and Rao was one of the first Indian writers to try to capture the rhythm of Indian life in English. He said: "The tempo of Indian life must be infused into our English expression, even as the tempo of American or Irish life has gone into the making of theirs. We, in India, think quickly, we talk quickly, and when we move we move quickly. We have neither punctuation nor the treacherous 'ats' and 'ons' to bother us — we tell one interminable tale. Episode follows episode, and when our thoughts stop our breath stops, and we move on to another thought. This was and still is the ordinary style of our storytelling."
The Writer’s Almanac