The first Roman amphitheaters were built in the 1st century BC from
wood and were designed by rotating and joining two theaters built back-to-back
so that they formed an oval.
Amphitheatre in fact means “double theatre”. Located in every corner of the Roman Empire,
more than 230 amphitheaters have been found, from the mighty Colosseum
(construction was started by emperor Vespasian of the Flavian dynasty in 72 AD
and was finished by his son Titus in 80 AD.) in Rome to the arena ruins of
Chester, England. See pictures and
descriptions of ten famous Roman ampitheatres at http://www.touropia.com/roman-amphitheaters/ For a list of contemporary ampitheatres, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_amphitheatres
The Latin word ambi means 'on both sides' or 'both ways'. The
Greek word amphi means the same thing.
Some words beginning with ambi: ambidextrous (adj) - able to use either hand equally well. ambiguous (adj) - having an obscure or double
meaning; difficult to classify. ambivalence (n) - coexistence in one person of
opposing feelings towards a thing or person.
amphibian (n)
- an animal that can live on land as well as water, for example, a frog. http://prefixpower.blogspot.com/2008/08/ambi-amphi-both-around.html
Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy and was named after the city
of her birth. She died on August 13,
1910, at the age of 90 after living a long, productive life in which her ideas
and contributions helped to shape the way nursing is practiced in the western
world. In the Victorian era, nursing was
considered a lowly and menial profession in England, and Florence Nightingale’s
refusal to marry at age 17 to pursue it disappointed her parents. In July 1850 Nightingale enrolled for 2 weeks
of training and enrolled again in July 1851 for 3 more months at the
Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth, Germany. There she learned basic nursing skills such as
the value of patient observation and good hospital organization. This training and later experiences helped
Nightingale form her revolutionary theories. These theories were further enhanced at
Middlesex hospital for governesses, where Nightingale worked as a
superintendent. She struggled there to
control a cholera outbreak and the unsanitary conditions that aided in the
rapid spread of the disease. She made it
her mission to improve the hygiene practices of the facility, which ended up
significantly reducing mortality at the hospital. After the Crimean War of 1853 she returned
home to a hero’s welcome and was awarded the “Nightingale Jewel,” a brooch with
an engraved dedication from Queen Victoria, for her service in the Crimea. She was also granted a prize of $250,000 from
the British government and used the money to establish St. Thomas’ Hospital and
the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. In 1859 Florence Nightingale published a 136
book page entitled Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not.
The book was meant to give hints for
thought on how to nurse a sick patient rather than to serve as a comprehensive
manual on how to become a nurse. The
book covers topics vital to nurses today such as confidentiality, cleanliness,
observation (assessment), quality and safety. The P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library owns
a copy of this book. See graphics at http://library.uthscsa.edu/2015/02/the-lady-with-the-lamp-and-her-contributions-to-modern-nursing/
The P.I. Nixon Medical Historical
Library at the University
of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio houses approximately 6,000 rare
and classic texts in the history of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and other
health care disciplines, dating from the 15th to early 20th centuries. The Nixon Library also houses the University Archives
and a small collection of local historical documents. http://library.uthscsa.edu/2011/11/nixon-library/
“We don’t have a culture for using spices” in America, says Lior Lev Sercarz, chef and owner of
New York spice store La Boite, “but, at the same time, everybody uses them, so
there is hope.” If you take his
suggestion to blend the spices in your pantry into new combinations, he says,
those blends can be used endlessly—in scrambled eggs, stir-fries, stews and
soups, sprinkled onto toast, or even infused into sparkling water. When creating blends, add varying amounts of
ingredients to a bowl, tasting every so often to adjust to your palate. Some spices— such as cumin, caraway and
mustard seeds— do well when they’ve been lightly toasted in a dry pan over low
heat or in the oven, to help release their oils. Remember to play with textures as well, which
creates layers of flavor: keep some
seeds whole; finely chop dried citrus peel, and lightly crush dried herbs. For grinding, a standard coffee grinder (it’s
best to have one dedicated for spices) will do the job well; as Sercarz notes,
a mortar and pestle looks pretty on the countertop, but it’ll take a lot longer
to grind those spices to the right consistency.
Which spices are essential to keep on hand? He suggests chile powder, paprika (he favors
smoked), cinnamon, fennel or anise, and cumin or caraway. “Add some good salt and pepper, and you’re on
your way,” he says. Kristen
Hartke Find five blend suggestions from
Sercarz’s book, “The Spice Companion: A Guide
to the World of Spices” (Clarkson Potter, 2016) at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/five-terrific-spice-blends-to-use-with----whatever/2017/05/01/d29de134-1332-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?utm_term=.1c74702d568b See also "Don’t toss those old spices
you never use. Make blends you can use
on everything" at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/dont-toss-those-old-spices-you-never-use/2017/05/01/4d8313f6-131f-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.69a109fab0f1
Pump priming
is the action taken to stimulate an economy, usually during a recessionary
period, through government spending, and interest rate and tax reductions. The term pump priming is derived from the
operation of older pumps; a suction valve had to be primed with
water so that the pump would function properly. Pump priming involves introducing relatively
small amounts of government funds into a depressed economy in order to spur
growth. This is accomplished through the
increase in purchasing power experienced by those affected by the injection of
funds, with the goal of prompting higher demand for goods and services. The increase in demand experienced through
pump priming can lead to increased profitability within the private sector,
which assists with overall economic recovery.
Pump priming relates to the Keynesian economic theory, named after noted
economist John Maynard Keynes, which states that government intervention within
the economy, aimed at increasing aggregate demand, can result in a positive
shift within the economy. This is based
on the cyclic nature of money within an economy, in which one person’s spending
directly relates to another person’s earnings, and that increase in earnings
leads to a subsequent increase in spending.
The phrase originated with President Hoover's creation of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation (RFC) in 1932, which was designed to
make loans to banks and industry. This
was taken one step further by 1933, when President Roosevelt felt that
pump-priming would be the only way for the economy to recover from the Great Depression. Read more at
"'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take
this anymore!" comes from the
1976 movie Network. Peter Finch, is a network news anchor who is going
insane—or, alternatively, the only one seeing the world clearly. This
frustration is what the Spirit Airlines passengers were feeling on May 9, 2017.
This rant is even more apropos today with people not only watching TV but
spending their lives melded into their cell phones and immersed in
Facebook. Martha, I thought you would
enjoy remembering Network in this context. What a terrific movie. A
friend lives in Bristol in the UK.
I teased her when the Scots were voting on secession, telling her that if the
resolution passed, you couldn’t call England, Wales, and Northern Ireland the
United Kingdom, as it was the union of England and Scotland that produced that
name. But you could easily rename the country by simply reversing two
letters: the Untied Kingdom. Thank you, Muse reader!
May 9, 2017 Brouhaha
Breaks Out At Spirit Airlines' Ticket Counter.
Here's The Back Story http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/09/527578187/brouhaha-breaks-out-at-spirit-airlines-ticket-counter-heres-the-backstory
May 10, 2017 Southwest
flight 2530 had traveled Sunday from Dallas and was on a short layover at
Hollywood Burbank Airport before continuing on to Oakland, California. As the plane taxied to the gate, a fistfight
broke out between two men, Burbank police said. The altercation worsened as fellow passengers
tried to get off the plane at the gate, the airline said. Cell phone video that surfaced on social
media shows two men apparently jostling for position near a row of seats. Then one man forces the other over the backs
of the seats in front of them. He then
leans over his fallen foe and unleashes a series of punches before fellow
passengers rush in to stop the pummeling.
"What is wrong with you?" a female passenger asks.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1708
May 12, 2017 On this date in 1551, National
University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru. On this date in 1926, the Italian-built
airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over
the North Pole.
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