The Caselaw Access Project is making all U.S. case law freely accessible
online. Our common law---the written
decisions issued by our state and federal courts--is not freely accessible
online. The Harvard Law School Library
has one of the world's largest, most comprehensive collections of court
decisions in print form. Our collection
totals over 42,000 volumes and roughly 40 million pages. Caselaw Access Project aims to transform the
official print versions of these court decisions into digital files made freely
accessible online. http://lil.law.harvard.edu/projects/caselaw-access-project/
The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) currently documents over 7,500
gardens throughout the United States.
Images in the collection, which show views from 1870s to the present,
include such features as garden furniture and ornamentation, fountains,
sculptures, fences and gates, parterres, and garden structures to name a
few. The design styles represented range
from large Italianate estates to herb and rose gardens, cottage and patio
gardens, and urban parks. Although the bulk of the Archives consists of 35mm and
glass lantern slides, photographs, negatives stereographs, and postcards, it
also includes architectural drawings, plans, and business papers. A wide range of written documentation for each
garden in the Archives is available.
Garden files may include correspondence, journal articles, brochures,
drawings, maps, pamphlets, bibliographic citations, and information forms
completed by researchers. Over 24,000
photographs from the Archives have been digitized and are publicly available
through the Smithsonian's online catalog, www.siris.si.edu.
Catalog records may also be searched in the Collections Search Center, www.collections.si.edu.
http://gardens.si.edu/collections-research/aag.html
Stuart Landsborough's
Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wanaka, New Zealand. It started out as just a single level maze in
1973, but over the years expanded to add overbridges to the maze design (thus
creating the world's first 3-D maze), a large "puzzling café" where
guests could try out several puzzles, five large rooms of optical illusions,
the Leaning Tower of Wanaka (which has a backwards clock that was started on
the eve of the new millennium) and other attractions (such as the Roman
Bathrooms) that ascribe to their theme of "puzzling
eccentricity". By 2007 Puzzling
World had been visited over 2 million times.
The optical illusion rooms include a set of rooms built at a 15 degree
angle, containing illusions such as water apparently flowing uphill, the
octagonal "Hall of Following Faces" with spot-lit hollow mask illusions on
the walls, and a perspectively confusing room with a delayed video feed where
visitors can see themselves afterwards with seemingly different heights
depending on where they were positioned in the room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzling_World
Phrases
coined in the U.S.A.mentioning living
things include cold turkey, happy as a clam, bee's knees, get your goat, go
the whole hog, and kangaroo court.
Phrases
coined in the U.S.A. mentioning food include pie in the sky, piece
of cake, take the cake, and know your onions.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/american-phrases-and-sayings.html Click on idioms to get origins of
phrases.
A Year
to Celebrate: Metroparks Toledo 2016
report 14 parks
* 4 opened in the last 2 years * 3 new playgrounds * 4.5 miles of trail added *
172 community events * 745 acres wetland restoration * "Get Outside
Yourself. Rain or shine."
The WHO
Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), published by the World Health
Organization (WHO), contains the medications
considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.
The list is frequently used by countries to help develop their own local
lists of essential medicine.
As
of 2016, more than 155 countries have created national lists of essential
medicines based on the World Health Organization's model list. This
includes countries in both the developed and developing world. The list is divided into core items and
complementary items. The core items are
deemed to be the most cost effective options
for key health problems and are usable with little additional health care
resources. The complementary items
either require additional infrastructure such as specially trained health care providers or diagnostic equipment or
have a lower cost-benefit ratio.
About
25% of items are in the complementary list. Some medications are listed as both
core and complementary. While most medications on the list
are available as generic products,
being under patent does not exclude inclusion. The first list was published in 1977 and
included 212 medications. The WHO updates the list every two years. The
20th edition is expected to be published in 2017. A separate list for children up to 12 years
of age, known as the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc),
was created in 2007 and is in its 5th edition.
Meze is a collection of finger foods. A meze is a
big part of the dining experience in Eastern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and
Arab countries. The word
"meze" means "taste" and/or "snack." The concept is very similar to the tapas of
Spain, but with different ingredients. When
served with alcohol like anise-flavored liqueurs such as arak or, ouzo, raki
(alcohol made from grape pomace,) or wine, a meze is a main meal. Without alcohol, this is called muqabbilat in Arabic and means
"starters," or appetizers. Read more and link to articles on bulgur, fatoosh and
homade pita at http://www.thekitchn.com/what-is-a-meze-94991
Neuromarketing is taking the world by storm and has
been utilized by almost every major company and university in some way or
form. Despite such a widespread
influence on the marketing world, many people do not know exactly what
neuromarketing is, or how it can be used effectively. Find 15 examples of neuromarketing, with
descriptions and pictures, at https://imotions.com/blog/neuromarketing-examples/
THE SEVENTH ART: CINEMA
“Summer Magic”, a
1963 movie, is based on the book “Mother Carey’s Chickens” by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. The film is also a remake of the non-musical
1938 film “Mother Carey’s Chickens” starring Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James
Ellison, Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler and Ralph Morgan. The movie was originally supposed to star
Annette Funicello. The song “On the
Front Porch” is songwriter Robert Sherman’s personal favorite song from his own
work, according to Sherman’s 1998 book “Walt’s Time: Before and Beyond”. Walt Disney didn’t like the song “Ugly Bug
Ball” sung by Burl Ives. Sherman
persuaded Disney to keep the song and it went on to be a popular song from the
film, according to Sherman’s book. The
youngest brother, Peter Carey, is played by Jimmy Mathers—brother to Jerry
Mather’s of “Leave It To Beaver” fame. Dorothy
McGuire’s singing is dubbed by Marilyn Hooven.
https://cometoverhollywood.com/2013/07/15/musical-monday-summer-magic-1963/
Find cast, plot and songs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Magic
THE
SEVENTH ART: CINEMA The Third and the Seventh is a 12 minute movie by Alex Roman, a
Spanish artist who began doing computer graphics work for a visual effects
company in Madrid before getting into the architectural visualization
business. Roman became frustrated with
the way that client preferences and demands colored images of completed
buildings. He took a year-long
sabbatical to create a more “pure commercial illustration” of his favorite
architectural creations from around the world. The Third and the Seventh is
the culmination of this work. The title
of the piece comes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “Lectures on the
Aesthetics” and the writings of film theorist Ricciotto Canudo. In 1818, Hegel first identified five forms of
art in ascending order: architecture,
sculpture, painting, music, and poetry.
A century later, Canudo expanded on Hegel’s classification with The
Birth of the Sixth Art, in which he argued that cinema constituted a new form
of art, “a superb conciliation of the Rhythms of Space (the Plastic Arts) and
the Rhythms of Time (Music and Poetry);” an art that incorporated aspects of
each of the five “ancient arts.” He later added dance in the sixth
position, making cinema the seventh art. Although the order is much
disputed, the “Seven Arts” are sculpture, painting, architecture, music,
poetry, dance, and cinema. Read more and see graphics at https://mapsofdeserts.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/the-third-and-the-seventh-2/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1730
June 26, 2017 On this date in
1974, the Universal Product
Code was scanned for
the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
On this date in 1977, Elvis Presley held his final concert in
Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
Word
of the Day Georgian adjective Of, from, or
characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George
III and George
IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830). George
IV of the United Kingdom died
on June 26,1830, bringing the Georgian era to an end.
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