Horseracing and gaming are related activities that often appeal to a similar
demographic. The development and
increased legalization of casino/slots-style gaming and the establishment of
state sponsored lotteries have increased competition for gambling/gaming
dollars across the country. The
relationship between racetrack and casino/slots-style gaming and the
development of “racinos”, a hybrid of racetrack and casino, are explored in
this 35-page paper from Journal of Case Research in Business and Economics at http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/08058.pdf
German-born Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann famously said, “In nature, light creates the
color. In the picture, color creates the
light.” This idea is beautifully
manifested in the work of Stanley Whitney (b.
1946), whose compact but exhilarating survey exhibition—28 pictures on canvas
and paper from 2008 to now—is on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem through
October 25, 2015. The show’s title,
“Dance the Orange,” derives from the poetry of Rainer
Maria Rilke and
is as joyously applicable to Mr. Whitney’s paintings as are Hofmann’s words.
The exhibition’s eponymous painting from 2013 is a 4-foot-square oil-on-linen
picture—a modest size for Mr. Whitney, whose paintings range up to 8 feet on a
side. Four horizontal rows of
rectangles—one of the middle ones packed with slightly vertical, brightly
colored forms, the bottom row looking like a narrow peek into an elevator
stopped between floors—nudge one another into a casual harmony. Peter Plagens
http://www.wsj.com/articles/stanley-whitney-dance-the-orange-review-1439332061?tesla=y The Studio Museum is located at 144 W. 125th
St. in Manhattan. Phone: (212) 864-4500 See also http://www.studiomuseum.org/
The Exploratorium is
a museum in San Francisco whose
stated mission is to change the way the world learns. It has been described by the New
York Times as
the most important science museum to have opened since the mid-20th century, an
achievement attributed to "the nature of its exhibits, its wide-ranging
influence and its sophisticated teacher training program". Characterized as "a mad scientist's
penny arcade, a scientific funhouse, and an experimental laboratory all rolled
into one", the participatory nature of its exhibits and its
self-identification as a center for informal learning has led to it being cited
as the prototype for participatory museums around the world. The Exploratorium was founded by physicist
and educator Frank Oppenheimer and
opened in 1969 at the Palace of Fine Arts,
its home until January 2, 2013. On April
17, 2013, the Exploratorium reopened at Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's Embarcadero. The
Exploratorium at Pier 15 was designed by architecture firm EHDD.
The
piers had been neglected for decades leading up to the Exploratorium’s move,
and extensive renovation and repair was required. Nearly
two thirds of the pilings under Pier 15 were repaired,
including almost every piling needed to provide structural integrity, and new
pilings were sunk. The use of natural
light whenever possible challenged exhibit designers relying on carefully
controlled light levels; this was solved by using curtains and glare-reducing
paint colors. Other conflicts between
construction and energy use included the glass in the Observatory, which would
have presented a problem in cooling the building on warm days. This was overcome by adding fritted glass to
the windows in thin horizontal lines through the panes to decrease the
transparency without affecting the views.
The fritting also makes the reflective surfaces of the Bay Observatory
safe for birds. Despite being
generally thought of as a science museum, the Exploratorium has always
incorporated both science and art. As
early as 1966, Frank Oppenheimer presented a paper discussing the connections
between art and science, and the role of a museum in appealing to both casual
visitors and serious students of all ages.
The formal artist in residence program was started in 1974, but
artworks such as Bob Miller’s Sun Painting were
commissioned shortly after the museum was opened in 1969. Since
the founding of the artist in residence program, over 250 artworks in various
disciplines have been created. Each
year, the museum invites ten to twenty artists to participate in residencies
ranging from two weeks to two years.
Artists-in-residence work with staff and the visiting public to create
original installations, exhibits, or performances. Artists are given a stipend, housing, travel
expenses, and technical support, and they have at their disposal the
Exploratorium's full array of metal and woodworking shops and materials. Two artists-in-residence who went on to
become staff members have been awarded MacArthur Fellowship "genius"
grants: Walter Kitunduand Ned Kahn.
The new Embarcadero campus opened with more than 40 pieces by prominent
artists, including Douglas Hollis, Golan Levin, Lucky Dragons, Amy Balkin, and Fujiko Nakaya. The Center for Art and Inquiry,
a new project at the new location, is an initiative to catalyze and orchestrate
art across the museum. The Exploratorium
has an equally long history with musical, film and other performances. Participating artists and performers included Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Ali Akbar Khan, Trimpin, and The Mermen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratorium See also http://www.exploratorium.edu/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritted_glass
Ramesses the Great by John Ray Ramesses II fought
the Hittites and signed the world's first official peace treaty. He undertook an unparalleled building
programme, had over one hundred children and reigned for 67 years. Ramesses has gained a multimedia
afterlife: his mummy is flown from Cairo
to Paris to be exhibited and reautopsied, and a series of airportlounge bestsellers
by a French writer, Christian Jacq, gives a soapopera version of his
life. Yul Brynner captured the essence
of his personality in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, and in popular
imagination Ramesses II has become the Pharaoh of the Exodus. A form of the king's thronename passed into
Classical tradition as Ozymandias, and was immortalised as a symbol of
ostentatious tyranny by the poet Shelley. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/ramesses_01.shtml
See the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) at http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ozymandias
Dreaming of Xanadu:
A Guide to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” by Bob Holman and Margery Snyder Read about Kubla Khan and link to the poem
at http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/kublakhanguide_3.htm
See also The Abyssinian Paradise in
Coleridge and Milton at http://www.jstor.org/stable/432654?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The ketchup is a vegetable controversy refers to proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
regulations, early in the presidency of Ronald Reagan,
that intended to provide more flexibility in meal planning to local school
lunch administrators coping with National School Lunch Plan subsidy cuts
enacted by the Omnibus Regulation Acts of 1980 and 1981. The regulations allowed administrators
the opportunity to credit items not explicitly listed that met nutritional
requirements. While ketchup was not mentioned in the original regulations, pickle
relish was used as an example of an item that could count as a vegetable. A similar controversy arose in 2011
when Congress passed a bill prohibiting the USDA from increasing the amount of
tomato paste required to constitute a vegetable; the bill allowed pizza with
two tablespoons of tomato paste to qualify as a vegetable. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of
1980, signed into law by
President Jimmy Carter, reduced the Federal School
Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs budget by approximately eight percent. Building upon these reductions, the
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 (passed
as the Gramm-Latta Budget)
made further spending cuts to the Federal School Lunch Program decreasing its
fiscal year 1982 budget by 25 percent. To
administer the requirements made by both Omnibus Reconciliation Acts of 1980
and 1981, the USDA's Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS)
was tasked with proposing ways to implement the regulations while maintaining
nutritional requirements for school lunches despite the lower funding. Among the recommendations made by the Food and
Nutrition Service's September 3, 1981 regulations was a proposal to give local school
lunch administrators flexibility in accrediting substitute food items that met
FNS nutritional requirements and regulations. The report stated an item could not be counted
as a bread that was not enriched or whole-grain, "but could credit a
condiment such as pickle relish as a vegetable." While ketchup was not specifically mentioned
as a potential substitute, critics demonstrated outrage in Congress and in the
media against the Ronald Reagan administration for cutting school
lunch budgets and allowing ketchup and other condiments to count as vegetables.
The Food and Nutrition Service proposed
regulations had roots in four previous pieces of legislation: the National
School Lunch Act of
1946, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, the Omnibus Reconciliation
Act of 1980, and the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981. In 2011,
Congress passed a bill that barred the USDA from changing its nutritional
guidelines for school lunches. The
proposed changes would have limited
the amount of potatoes allowed in lunches, required more green vegetables, and
declared a half-cup of tomato paste to count as a serving of vegetables, rather than the
current standard of 2 tablespoons. The blocking
of these proposed higher standards meant that the smaller amount of tomato
paste in pizza could continue to be counted as a vegetable in school lunches. The move resulted in widespread
mockery, with headlines saying Congress had declared pizza to be a vegetable. The blocking legislation was criticized
heavily, since the change had also been lobbied for by food companies such as ConAgra, and the block was a substantial blow to efforts to
make school lunches healthier.
37 amazing images of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1338
August 14, 2015 On this date in
1888, an audio
recording of English
composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first
recordings of music ever made, was played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England. On this date in 1893, France became the first
country to introduce motor vehicle
registration.
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