Aoshima Island is one of about a dozen "cat
islands" around Japan, small places where there are significantly more
feline residents than people. In Aoshima
more than a hundred cats prowl the island, curling up in abandoned houses
or strutting about in the quiet fishing village. Cats outnumber humans six to one on the
island. Becoming popular online, tiny
Aoshima has seen a steep rise in tourist visits, overwhelming the handful
of permanent residents. Alan Taylor See many pictures of cat clowders at https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/a-visit-to-aoshima-a-cat-island-in-japan/386647/
As nouns the difference
between clowder and kindle is that clowder is
a group of cats while kindle (obsolete) is a group of kittens. http://wikidiff.com/clowder/kindle See also HOW MANY CATS DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A CLOWDER? at http://piperbasenji.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-many-cats-does-it-take-to-make.html
The Zurich James Joyce Foundation was established in 1985 with a view
to keeping alive the memory and work of the Irish writer James Joyce for the
literary world in general, and above all for Zurich, where he spent some
important creative years and where he died.
In the early seventies, Jury’s
Hotel in Dame Street, in the old part of Dublin, had to make way for civic
development and the Victorian interior of Jury’s Antique Bar was put up for
auction. Joyce had known this bar in his
youth, and it is mentioned in his works (“Barmaid in Jury’s” in Ulysses). The
interior was brought to Zurich, where it was reopened in Pelikanstrasse as the
James Joyce Pub in 1978. The
following year, it served as official meeting place for participants of
the 7th International James Joyce Symposium, thus connecting Joyce’s name once
again with the Bahnhofstrasse, which had already featured in a poem he had
written in 1918. A few years later, when
Fritz Senn’s collection of Joyceana—probably the most comprehensive of its kind
in Europe—was in danger of being scattered across the Atlantic, it became clear
that an ideal solution would be to open it to scholars and the public at large
as an active research center. Renée
Wolf, then Secretary of the UBS Jubilee Foundation, initiated the idea of a
Zurich James Joyce Foundation, and with the commitment of former UBS chairman
Dr. Robert Holzach, it was formally established in spring 1985. The former Union Bank of Switzerland provided
the necessary initial statutory capital and covered the expenses for the upkeep
of the Institute for the first six years of its existence. http://www.joycefoundation.ch/about-us/
See also ‘Best Irish Pub in the World’ competition
entry: The James Joyce, Zurich at
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/generation-emigration/best-irish-pub-in-the-world-competition-entry-the-james-joyce-zurich-1.2113928
"The theatre is a creative laboratory
where we may gather to reveal what mysteries lie in the human heart. By telling the story of our experiences, the
fragility of humanity is revealed and we understand more significantly, our
sameness. Our art forms are as old as
civilization itself. There are no
boundaries in the arts. The power of
theatre lies in its ability to transform our understanding of all human
experience." Kate Maguire, artistic
director, CEO, Berkshire Theatre Group, 2017/18 season brochure
The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park,
Central London. Comprising the Serpentine Gallery and the
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, they are within five minutes' walk of each other,
linked by the bridge over the Serpentine
Lake from which the galleries get their names. Their exhibitions, architecture, education
and public programmes attract up to 1.2 million visitors a year. Admission to both galleries is free. The Serpentine Gallery was established in
1970 and is housed in a Grade II
listed former tea pavilion built in 1933–34 by the
architect James Grey West. Notable artists whose
works have been exhibited there include Man Ray, Henry Moore, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Allan
McCollum, Anish Kapoor, Christian Boltanski, Philippe
Parreno, Richard Prince, Wolfgang
Tillmans, Gerhard
Richter, Gustav Metzger, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Marina Abramović. On the ground at the gallery's entrance is a
permanent work made by Ian Hamilton Finlay in collaboration with
Peter Coates, and dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales, the gallery's
former patron. See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_Galleries
serpentine
adjective of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement;
having a winding course, as a road; sinuous;
shrewd, wily, or cunning.
noun
device on a harquebus lock for holding the match; a cannon having any of various bore sizes, used from the 15th to the 17th century;
a school figure made by skating two figure eights that share one loop. verb (used without object), serpentined, serpentining to make or follow a winding course.
Serpentine is not a single mineral, but rather a group of related
minerals. Besides for the main members
of Antigorite and Chrysotile, a
distinction is not usually made between the individual members except under
scientific study and classification. Antigorite usually represents the more solid
forms, and Chrysotile usually represents the fibrous forms, especially asbestos. Chrysotile
is further sub-classified into four member minerals by its crystallization, and Clinochrysotile is by far the most prevalent form of
Chrysotile. In the U.S., large amounts of Serpentine come from
Fresno, Calaveras, San Benito, Mariposa, and Toulumne Cos., California; and
Gila Co., Arizona. East Coast localities
include Montville, Morris Co., New Jersey; Hoboken, Hudson Co., New Jersey;
Antwerp, Gouverneur, and Balmat; St. Lawrence Co., New York; and Staten Island
(Richmond Co.), New York. In the old
Tilly Foster Mine, Brewster, Putnam Co., New York, many minerals were replaced
by Serpentine, resulting in the Serpentine having very interesting crystal
forms. The Wood's Chrome Mine in Texas,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is a classic mine famous for both its Williamsite and a rare purple form of Antigorite that
came from there. Other important
occurrences are the Cedar Hill Quarry, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (especially
the Picrolite variety); Easton, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania;
and the Belvidere Mountain Quarries (Eden Mills), Orleans/Lamoille Counties,
Vermont. See chemical formula and
pictures at http://www.minerals.net/mineral/serpentine.aspx
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Three California residents were
sentenced July 19, 2017 to a combined 39 years in prison for their roles in a
nationwide, multi-year “home mortgage modification” fraud that scammed
thousands of vulnerable victims out of at least $11 million. Sammy Araya, 41, of Santa Ana, was sentenced
to 20 years, Michael Henderson, 49, of Costa Mesa, was sentenced to 12 years,
and Jen Seko, 36, of Anaheim, was sentenced to 7 years in prison, respectively.
All three defendants were convicted
by a federal jury on April 21, of multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud,
and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
According to court documents, from at least March 2011 through
September 2014, Araya and his co-conspirators targeted struggling homeowners
and made a series of misrepresentations to induce them to make payments of
thousands of dollars each in exchange for supposed “mortgage modification”
assistance. The conspirators lured
vulnerable victims into the scam through targeted mass mailers sent to
homeowners facing foreclosure through Seko’s company, Seko Direct Marketing. In the mailers and in subsequent phone calls,
the defendants
and their co-conspirators falsely held themselves out as a non-profit
organization or as affiliated with a real government program, the Home
Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), designed to help homeowners at risk of
foreclosure. Henderson and other
“customer service representatives” in the scam convinced victims to send
“reinstatement fees” and “trial mortgage payments” to the conspiracy, based on
the false representations that the funds would be used to modify their
mortgages. In reality, however, the
defendants did nothing to help modify any mortgages. Instead, they used the victims’ payments for
their own personal benefit and to further the fraud scheme. Araya, the ringleader of the scam, used the fraud
proceeds to purchase expensive vehicles, a racehorse, and a variety of luxury
goods, as well as to fund his personal travel and a reality television show he
produced called “Make It Rain.TV.” https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/fraudsters-sentenced-operating-nationwide-home-mortgage-scam
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1745 July 31, 2017
On this date in 1790, the first
U.S. patent was issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for
a potash process. On this date in 1948, New York International
Airport (commonly known as Idlewild,
later renamed John
F. Kennedy International Airport) was dedicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_31
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