PEL and PULS mean PUSH
Find lists of words using these roots at http://www.resourceroom.net/Comprehension/wordparts/14pel.html
and http://www.english-for-students.com/puls.html
State of The Air 2015 from the American Lung Association http://www.stateoftheair.org/?referrer=https://www.google.com/?referrer=http://www.stateoftheair.org/
USGS Water-Quality Information
Pages http://water.usgs.gov/owq/
THICKENERS To avoid lumps, mix the starch with an equal
amount of cold liquid until it forms a paste, then whisk it into the liquid
you're trying to thicken. Once the thickener is added, cook it briefly to
remove the starchy flavor. Don't overcook--liquids thickened with some
starches will thin again if cooked too long or at too high a temperature.
Cornstarch, arrowroot, and tapioca are the most popular starch
thickeners. If you want high gloss, choose tapioca or arrowroot. If
you want low gloss, choose cornstarch. Cornstarch is the best choice
for thickening dairy-based sauces. Arrowroot becomes slimy when
mixed with milk products. Choose
arrowroot if you're thickening an acidic liquid. Cornstarch loses potency
when mixed with acids. Sauces made with
cornstarch turn spongy when they're frozen. If you plan to freeze a dish,
use tapioca starch or arrowroot as a thickener. Starch thickeners don't
add much flavor to a dish, although they can impart a starchy flavor if they're
undercooked. If you worried that your thickener will mask delicate
flavors in your dish, choose arrowroot. It's the most neutral tasting of
the starch thickeners. Tapioca starch thickens quickly, and at a
relatively low temperature. It's a good
choice if you want to correct a sauce just before serving it.
Potato starch
is most commonly called for in European recipes. It’s easy to find in the baking ingredient
aisle of East Coast markets, but in the rest of the country, look for it in the
kosher section of the store. Potato
starch thickens quickly without a pronounced flavor that needs to be cooked
off, which makes it great as a last minute fix for too-thin sauces. Arrowroot powder comes from the root of a
tropical plant of the same name. Look
for it in gourmet or health-food stores.
Arrowroot starch granules are very small and make sauces exceptionally
smooth. Like flour and cornstarch, it
can withstand long cooking and higher temperatures, and like tapioca, it is
remarkable for its clarity. It’s a great
choice for stir-fry sauces and any kind of fruit pie filling.
http://www.finecooking.com/articles/thickeners-food-science.aspx?pg=0 Potato starch is a good, powerful thickener,
but its thickening power is quickly weakened by boiling. Add at the end of cooking and avoid
boiling. In Chinese recipes, do not
substitute for cornstarch where the coating is also the thickener for the sauce
or you'll end up with far too much sauce.
Potato starch thickened sauces reheat better than cornstarch thickened,
but don't bring to a full boil. Potato
starch is preferred for baking as it withstands higher temperatures. http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/starch.html Potato starch recipes http://cooking.nytimes.com/tag/potato%20starch
Jan (pronounced Yahn) Boyer
Wahl (born April
1, 1933) is a prolific author, known primarily for his award-winning children's books, including Pleasant
Fieldmouse and Humphrey's
Bear. Wahl sometimes refers to
himself as "Dr. Mouse," a nickname given him by a young fan. Find a list of awards and selected works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wahl Wahl was never
one to allow himself to be bored as he was growing up in Ohio. He played piano on a weekly radio program, had
a traveling puppet show and shadow-play theater, and performed his own magic
act. He made his first attempt at writing literature when he was in the
fourth grade at DeVeaux School in Toledo, Ohio. Wahl sat at his worn desk trying to work on
the story that he already enjoyed a great deal. The project was an attempt to take the classic
tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and improve it. It was with this venture that Wahl fell in
love with writing. It was at this time that Wahl began collecting films,
which has become a lifelong interest. His collection now includes everything from
hand-colored films dating from 1893 to post World War II, both those in black
and white movies and those in Technicolor. Upon graduating from high school in 1950, Wahl attended Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in
1953. Wahl was an author of a play
called Paradiso! Paradiso! while he was
a student at Cornell. The play was
produced by the school in 1954. Wahl
enrolled in a creative writing class while he was at Cornell University. The professor of the course was very
encouraging. He started writing original
stories that he submitted to a number of magazines. When he graduated
from Cornell University, Wahl learned that he had been awarded the honor of
being a Fulbright fellow in the area of Folklore and Folk Literature. His new found scholastic status brought him to
the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. After completing his graduate
studies at the University of Copenhagen, Wahl worked with Danish film director
Carl T. Dreyer during the making of Dreyer's prize-winning film Ordet. In 1957, Wahl returned to Denmark to take a
position with the mystery writer Isak Dinesen, who was ill. Dinesen dictated her novel Last Tales and Wahl
recorded it for her. Upon finishing his
work with Ms. Dinesen, Wahl returned to the United States. He attended the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor to complete his Master's Degree in arts in 1958. Even with all this
experience, Wahl struggled in his early attempts to publish his children's
stories. They were repeatedly rejected
by editors until children's editor Ursula Nordstrom encouraged him.
Throughout Wahl's writing career, he has continued to concentrate the scope of
his work on children. He addresses
themes like family relationships, physical handicaps, self-reliance, tolerance,
and peace. Besides collecting old films, Wahl enjoys collecting old toys
like those relating to Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, and Betty Boop. Wahl,
who still lives in Toledo, Ohio, has published more than 100 books, many of
which have been translated into foreign languages. http://lookingglassreview.com/html/jan_wahl.html Thank
you, Muse reader!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a federal holiday observed annually on the third
Monday in January. It celebrates the
life and legacy of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in honor of his
birthday and achievements. The day is
also referred to as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday; MLK Day;
Martin Luther King Day; the King Holiday; and the King Day of Service. In 2016, this holiday is celebrated on January
18, and it marks the 30th anniversary of the first observance of King’s
birthday as a federal holiday. This guide assists congressional offices with
work related to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation making
the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday to be
observed on the third Monday of every January (P.L. 98-144). When President Bill Clinton signed the King
Holiday and Service Act on August 23, 1994 (P.L. 103-304), the holiday was
designated as a day of community service, interracial cooperation, and youth
anti-violence initiatives. Find Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Speech
Resources: Fact Sheet containing links
to legislation, CRS reports, sample speeches and remarks from the Congressional
Record, presidential proclamations and remarks, and links to additional
government web resources and selected educational, cultural, and advocacy
organizations by Valerie S. Cervantes, Digital Services Librarian at https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44339.pdf
15th anniversary of Wikipedia Ward Cunningham designed
the wiki, the first internet platform that allowed many people to work on a
document at the same time. He named it ‘wiki,’ a Hawaiian word that means ‘quick.’ Wikipedia became one of the top 10 websites
in the world in 2007. Wikipedians
(people who work on Wikipedia) keep lists of controversies andhoaxes on Wikipedia. https://15.wikipedia.org/history.html See also On Wikipedia's 15th Anniversary, A Look At The Most-Edited Entries at http://www.npr.org/2016/01/15/463224123/on-wikipedias-15th-anniversary-a-look-at-the-most-edited-entries Other areas of Wikipedia: Community
portal –
Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of
Wikipedia areas; Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia;
Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication
in languages other than English; Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians,
Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects; Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and
press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation; Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia
itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.
Follow-up to inuksuit, figures made of piled stones. Find
Dancing Man and other sculptures at
http://calvinbabich.com/Image.asp?ImageID=2005843&AKey=3SNCJGQS Thank you, Muse reader!
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1410
January 18, 2016 On this date in 1778, James Cook was the first known European to
discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the
"Sandwich Islands". On this
date in 1944, the Metropolitan
Opera House in New
York City hosted a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
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