In 1966,
Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National
Historic Preservation Act, a law that made preserving historic,
architectural and archaeological resources whenever possible a policy of the
federal government. Since 1966, Ohio,
the 36th-largest state geographically, has become the third-highest number of
National Register listings: more than
3800. Echoes, v. 55, Sept./Oct.
2016 Find National Historic
Preservation Act of 1966 at https://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/nhpa1966.htm
and literary landmarks by state at http://www.ala.org/united/products_services/literarylandmarks/landmarksbystate/landmarksbystate
The color amber is a pure chroma color,
located on the color wheel midway between the colors of gold and orange. The color name is derived from the material
also known as amber, which is commonly found
in a range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color amber can refer to a range of yellow-orange
colors. In English the
first recorded use of the term as a color name, rather than a reference to the
specific substance, was in 1500. Amber
is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal
lamps. In North America, SAE standard
J578 governs the colorimetry of vehicle lights, while
outside North America the internationalized European ECE regulations hold force. Both
standards designate a range of orange-yellow hues in the CIE color space as "amber".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(color)
While it doesn't quite
roll off the tongue the way "cronut" does, and isn't as photogenic as the rainbow bagel, the mufgel
is the new hybrid pastry on the block.
The mufgel is part bagel, part muffin and is the Franken-carb du jour at
Williamsburg's The Bagel Store, the world's most viral bagel purveyor. It was released on July 23rd, 2016 and while
some genius is crafted over many years, owner Scot Rossillo was inspired by a Quick Draw radio commercial which made fun of food crazes in New
York City. He quickly came up with the
recipe and started with two flavors:
carrot cake and chocolate chip crumb.
Currently the bakery makes 42 mufgels each day and sells out by close,
says manager Scarlen Espinal. "The
rainbow bagel started just like that as well," she said. "They were selling very few a day and
now all of a sudden we bake thousands of rainbow bagels a day." Emily Siegel http://gothamist.com/2016/07/28/mufgel_williamsburg_gimmicks.php
July 14, 2016 Suzanne
Corkin, who has died aged 79, was a neuroscientist who, for almost 50
years, worked with and cared for Henry Molaison, the most-studied patient in
the history of brain science. “Patient
HM”, as he was known in the medical literature, had undergone an experimental
operation to cure his epilepsy in 1953, when he was 27. A hole had been drilled in the front of his
skull and much of his hippocampus and amygdala removed. The result was a profound amnesia, which
caused Henry to forget all his post-operative experiences after just 30
seconds. Despite this, he remained lucid and able to participate in hundreds of
studies. Assessing him in 1962 with her
supervisor, Dr Brenda Milner, at McGill University in Montreal, Suzanne Corkin
found that he had an above-average IQ and well-developed verbal skills, as well
as a keen sense of humour. At that time
little was known about the nature of memory, which was assumed to be a global
neurological process. Through a series
of experiments involving Henry, Dr Milner was able to cast light on the
particular role of the hippocampus in retrieving and storing memories. After 1966 Dr Corkin carried on her mentor’s
work from the psychology department at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. She was born Suzanne
Hammond on May 18 1937 and grew up in West Hartford. After graduating with a degree in Psychology
from Smith College in Massachusetts, she moved to Montreal and Dr Milner’s
laboratory. In all she published more
than 100 research papers on subjects such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s
and the neurological processes of healthy ageing. Her longest working relationship, however,
was with Henry Molaison--even if Henry never recognised it as such. After his death in 2008 Dr Corkin’s study of
his neuroanatomy continued. His
post-mortem scans were “beautiful . . . much clearer than what you could see in
a living person, partly because we scanned him for so long”. Henry’s
brain was then sent to a lab in San Diego and sliced into 2,401 sections for
further study. Then, and only then, was
his full name revealed to the public. In
Permanent Present Tense: The
Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, HM (2013), Dr Corkin spoke of her
decades-long mission to protect Henry as a person in his own right, rather than
as a series of “anonymous descriptions in textbooks”. “His story is not just a medical
curiosity,” she wrote. “It is a
testament to the impact that a single subject can have.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/14/suzanne-corkin-neuroscientist-who-did-groundbreaking-work-on-amn/
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg Each of this
week’s words has two opposite meanings.
dabster (DAB-stuhr) noun
1. An expert. 2. A
bungler.
salad days (SAL-uhd dayz)
noun 1. A period of youthful innocence and inexperience. 2.
period of great success: heyday.
depthless (DEPTH-les)
adjective 1. Immeasurably deep. 2.
Shallow; superficial.
Feedback to A.Word.A.Day
From: Anthony
Vazquez Subject:
Contranyms I always enjoyed the
riddle: The name of which US state is
made of two antonyms separated by the letter ‘i’? Connect-i-cut is the only state that cleaves
to the rule and is cleft with an ‘i’.
From: Sue
Goldstein Subject:
Contranyms I was quite pleased to
see this week’s theme. I have a list at
my desk of antagonyms , which is a synonym for contranyms. My favorites are “sanction”, “splice”, and
“cleave”. Also on the list are “hulled”,
“seeded”, and “shelled”. I was once
asked to write something that sanctioned a particular activity, so I had to ask
whether the person wanted to prohibit or permit the activity. This was an important question since I am a
nonpartisan legislative bill drafter.
From: David
Housden Subject:
dabster Here in the UK these days
one is likely to observe that someone is a “dab hand"--in fact an
expert. However, people can be
“dabbling” at something, in other words, they are unfamiliar with the task at
hand--in fact an amateur.
From: JB Bryant Subject: depthless When I was in elementary school (centuries
ago), my mother was going to be one of the parent drivers for our class field
trip. One of the other boys asked me,
“Is your mom a reckless driver?” When I
answered “Yes,” he surprised me by saying he wasn’t going to ride with
her. I had never heard the word
“reckless” before that, but it seemed obvious to me that it meant “without a
wreck” just as penniless means without a penny.
September is the ninth month of the year in the modern day Gregorian
calendar and its predecessor,
the Julian calendar.
The month kept its original name from
the Roman calendar in which septem means “seven” in Latin marking it as
the seventh month. September was named
during a time when the calendar year began with March, which is why its name no
longer corresponds with its placement in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. September was
the seventh month that had a length of 30 days in the Roman calendar. It became the ninth month with a length of 29
days when King Numa Pompilius reformed the calendar and added the months of
January and February around 700 BCE. Julius
Caesar added one day to the month making it 30 days long during the Julian calendar reform. Its
birth flowers are the forget-me-not, morning glory and aster. The birthstone for September is the sapphire
which means clear thinking. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/months/september.html
National anthem and sports
The first documented example was
in May 1862, when Brooklyn inaugurated its first professional baseball field. The "Star-Spangled Banner" was
played during a pregame ceremony, and again "at intervals throughout the
contest," the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported. http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/451673/1862brooklyn_daily_eaglefirst_ssb_in/
In the decades that followed, the
song resurfaced at baseball and college football games, usually during times of
war and social upheaval. The trend
continued after Congress made the song the national anthem in 1931, and through
World War II, when patriotic fervor, along with the development of modern
public address systems, made the song part of the everyday routine. By the 1970s, television and big-money sports
turned the pre-game national anthem into an event unto itself, with popular
musicians performing it to huge crowds.
Jon Schuppe Read more and see
pictures at http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/history-behind-kaepernick-protest-sports-dissent-star-spangled-banner-n640256
The Olympics Games has its own flag and “hymn”, used when the Olympic flag is raised,
usually during the opening and closing ceremonies. The Olympic Hymn first appeared at the first
Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, Greece. The lyrics were written in Greek by Greece’s
national poet, Kostis Palamas and set to music by Spyros Samaras for the 1896
Games. The hymn was not used again, nor
was it officially adopted, for several decades; until the 1960 Games, each
country would commission local composers to compose an Olympic hymn for that
particular Games. A hymn was officially
adopted in 1954 and used in the 1956 Games, which was intended to be the
Olympic hymn, but due to disputes, the original Olympic hymn was unanimously
adopted as the official Olympic Hymn at the 1958 IOC meeting. Written in Greek, the IOC’s preference is that
the Olympic Hymn be performed in either English or Greek. If it is to be performed in the local
language, it is to be translated from the original Greek, rather than the
English. Starting with the 1924 Games,
the winner’s national anthem for each event is played as their flag is hoisted
in celebration. Also, according to
Olympic rules, national anthems cannot be longer than 80 seconds in length,
causing some countries to create a shortened version of their anthem to be
played at the Games in the event that their participant wins. Also, a nation may choose to have another
anthem played instead of their national one if they so choose; for example, at
the 1992 Games, the former Soviet republics united under a team known as the
“Unified Team”, whenever a member of this team won their event, they chose the
song “Ode to Joy” to be played. During the 1980 Games in Moscow, several
non-Communist countries that were participating chose to have the Olympic Hymn
played rather than their own anthem when they won their event. Also, because of conflicts with China, Taiwan
has a special song which they use for such events known as the “Flag Raising Song”.
http://www.nationalanthems.info/oly.htm
212 musicians voice support for 'Blurred Lines' appeal--Artists like Rivers Cuomo, Jennifer Hudson, Hans
Zimmer, Jason Mraz, and more support Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke's
appeal by Jessica Goodman In December
2015, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams filed an appeal against the verdict that ordered them to pay Marvin Gaye’s family more than $5
million for copyright infringement when a judge determined “Blurred Lines” had
copied from Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.” http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/10/blurred-lines-trial-robin-thicke-pharrell.
On August 24, 2016 more than 200 artists
and musicians have backed Thicke and Williams’ appeal in an amicus brief filed
with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to support the bid. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/31/blurred-lines-appeal-artists-support-amicus-brief The pop stars' challenge follows a
blockbuster trial in March 2015 that ended with a jury verdict that “Blurred
Lines”—the best-selling single in the world in 2013—lifted key elements from
Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up.” A judge
ordered the pair to pay $5.4 million and ongoing royalties to Gaye’s heirs. http://www.law360.com/articles/780736/blurred-lines-verdict-will-chill-musical-creativity-9th-circ-told
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1521
September 2. 2016 On this date in
1661, Georg Böhm, German organist and composer, was born. On this date in 1919, Marge Champion, American actress, dancer,
and choreographer, was born.
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