My English teacher claimed, that if I survive the first 20
pages of any book, the reading will get much easier because the words that
occurred on those pages constitute 90% of all words in the book. The
experiment: The Secret Adversary is an average length book. It is 250 pages with exactly 75208
words. Each word in average appears 14
times, what gives us 5248 unique words in the book. You will know 90% of words after 40 pages
which are 16.00% of the book. Eve’s Diary is a short story. Its 22 pages contain only 6858 words (1104
unique). You will know 90% of them after
just 9 pages (40.91% of a book). Ulysses
is lengthy 870 pages with 261202 words.
In average words appear 11 times.
There are 23920 unique words. You
will know 90% of words after 221 pages which are 25.40% of a book. It is not 20 pages but my teacher was
somewhat right. The exact number of
pages to read may vary depending on the book length and author’s variegated
language. However, it probably won’t get
much harder then Ulysses, where you need to read 221 pages (25% of the
book). Roman Kierzkowski https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-90-of-its-words-795a405afe70
EPONYMS In Queens, the largest of the five New York City
boroughs Ascan Avenue pays tribute to Ascan Backus, whose homestead was on
the northeast corner of 69th Road and Queens Boulevard. He began
acquiring parcels of farmland in 1829 and was referred to as “The King Farmer
of Long Island.” Austin Street
was named after developer Austin Corbin, who was also a 19th century Long
Island Railroad president. Streets are
co-named periodically, as in the case of Ascan Avenue and Austin Street being
designated “Geraldine Ferraro Way.” http://queensledger.com/view/full_story/24609607/article-The-forgotten-street-names-of-Forest-Hills
Often referred to as the “world’s
borough,” Queens is the most diverse county in the world. Of the three million
immigrants living in New York City, a total of 1.06 million of them live in
Queens, making it the borough with the largest population of New Americans,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Approximately
138 languages are spoken in the borough.
http://queenstribune.com/queens-tribune-celebrates-worlds-borough/
Fresh mozzarella is a type of pulled curd or pasta filata cheese
which originated in Southern Italy. It
can be made with cow's milk, which is more common and easier to find, or water
buffalo's milk (mozzarella di bufala), which can be more expensive and
tougher to find. Fresh mozzarella has a
delicate, milky flavor and an elastic texture.
It's a fresh, semi-soft cheese.
Fresh mozzarella cheese is widely available at grocery stores and can
easily be made at home. How
To Make Homemade Fresh Mozzarella Fresh
mozzarella has a high moisture content, so it's best served soon after it's
made, though it can be stored in brine and chilled for up to a week. Burrata literally translates into
"buttered," and has a solid outer curd made from fresh mozzarella,
which is formed into a hollow pouch, then filled with a soft, stringy curd and
fresh cream. It has a milky, buttery
flavor that's rich without being too indulgent. Look for burrata in Italian markets, cheese
shops, and in the cheese section of specialty grocery stores. Burrata is typically served at room
temperature, and since it's fresh, it's best served within 48 hours of purchase. After that it's considered past its prime
(even though it's still perfectly edible).
And the real magic happens when burrata is sliced open and the creamy
insides spill out. It makes a nice
topping on a salad and is wonderful served with crusty bread. Kelli Foster
Link to recipes for mozzarella and burrata at http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-mozzarella-and-burrata-word-of-mouth-219642
incredible means unbelievable--incredulous means
unbelieving Something incredible is beyond belief, so when we experience it, we are incredulous.
Incredulous refers to a state of astonishment
or disbelief. It is not a deft synonym
for incredible. http://www.grammarbook.com/homonyms/incredible-incredulous.asp Incredible describes something
you can't believe because it's so right, like an incredible double
rainbow. Incredulous describes how you feel when you can't believe
something because it's so wrong, like when someone tells you leprechauns left
two pots of gold. Something incredible is
not credible; it's unbelievable. People,
rainbows, and other things can be described as incredible but only
people can feel incredulous, or unbelieving and a little irked. https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/incredible-incredulous/
Does the legal research platform you use matter to the
results you receive? Turns out, it very much matters. Different legal research platforms deliver
surprisingly different results. In fact,
in a comparison of six leading research providers, there was hardly any overlap
in the cases that appeared in the top-10 results returned by each
database. This startling finding is the
result of research performed by Susan Nevelow
Mart, director of the law library and associate professor at the University
of Colorado Law School, where she teaches advanced legal research and analysis
and environmental legal research. Mart
has published a draft of her research paper, The
Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal {Re} Search, and she
presented some of her findings in a program I attended at the recent annual
meeting of the American Association of
Law Libraries. Mart’s exploration of
the differences among research services was spurred in part by an email she
received from Mike Dahn, senior vice president for Westlaw product management
at Thomson Reuters, in which he noted that “all of our algorithms are created
by humans.” Why is that statement
significant? Because if search
algorithms are built by humans, then those humans made choices about how
the algorithm would work. And those
choices, Mart says, become the biases and assumptions that get coded into each
system and that have implications for the results they deliver. So Mart set out to study how hidden biases
and assumptions affect the results provided by some of the major legal research
providers. She chose six to study: Casetext, Fastcase, Google Scholar, Lexis
Advance, Ravel and Westlaw. The results,
Mart writes, “are a remarkable testament to the variability of human problem
solving.” An average of 40 percent of
the cases were unique to one database, and only about 7 percent of the cases
were returned in search results in all six databases. Robert Ambrogi Read more at http://abovethelaw.com/2017/07/legal-research-services-vary-widely-in-results-study-finds/ Thank
you, Muse reader!
July 25,
2017 "Adobe has long played a leadership role in advancing interactivity and
creative content--from video, to games and more--on the web. Where we’ve seen a
need to push content and interactivity forward, we’ve innovated to meet those
needs. Where a format didn’t exist, we invented one--such as with Flash
and Shockwave. And over time, as the web
evolved, these new formats were adopted by the community, in some cases formed
the basis for open standards, and became an essential part of the web. But as open standards like HTML5, WebGL and
WebAssembly have matured over the past several years, most now provide many of
the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a
viable alternative for content on the web. Over time, we’ve seen helper apps evolve to
become plugins, and more recently, have seen many of these plugin capabilities
get incorporated into open web standards. Today, most browser vendors are integrating
capabilities once provided by plugins directly into browsers and deprecating
plugins. Given this progress, and in
collaboration with several of our technology partners--ncluding Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla--Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and
distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators
to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats." Adobe News
Read more at
Feedback to Christopher Daly's article on
"jumping the shark": While pointing out Mr. Hinch’s incorrect use of the
shark phrase, Mr. Daly confused gibe (taunt) with jibe (agree). Thank you, Muse reader! "Jibe" is used both for
the verb meaning "to be in accord," agree"
("jibe with") and for the nautical verb and noun
("jibe the mainsail," "a risky jibe in heavy
seas"). "Gibe" is used
for the verb "to deride or tease" and the noun "a
taunting remark." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gibe
The largest associations of museums in the country have publicly pilloried a Massachusetts museum's
plan to sell off 40 valuable pieces of artwork, including two paintings gifted
to the 114-year-old institution by Norman Rockwell. "One of the most
fundamental and long-standing principles of the museum field is that a
collection is held in the public trust and must not be treated as a disposable
financial asset," the American Alliance of Museums and the Association of
Art Museum Directors said Tuesday in a joint statement concerning
Berkshire Museum's "new vision" plan. Announced July 19, 2017, the Berkshire plan
hinges upon $50 million in anticipated revenues generated
by an auction of the 40 pieces. The Rockwells in question include
"Shuffleton's Barbershop" and "Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop,"
both featured in The Saturday Evening Post. According to the museum,
Sotheby's will run the auction, anticipated to take place within the next six
months. AAM's code of ethics for
museums forbids the sale of collection items for "anything other than
acquisition or direct care of collections." The Berkshire plan proposes to use the $50
million for a renovation of the South Street building and to sock away $40
million into an endowment fund -- activities well outside the relatively narrow
scope outlined by AAM. Phil Demers
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/07/nations_largest_museum_groups.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1744
July 28, 2017 On this date in
1866, at the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the first and
youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States
government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln). On this date in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States
Constitution was certified, establishing African American citizenship and
guaranteeing due process of
law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_28
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