Altruism or selflessness is the opposite of selfishness.
The word was coined by the French philosopher Auguste Comte in French, as altruisme,
for an antonym of egoism. He derived it
from the Italian altrui, which in turn was derived from Latin alteri,
meaning "other people" or "somebody
else". Altruism in biological
organisms can be defined as an individual performing an action which is at a
cost to themselves (pleasure and quality of life, time, probability of survival
or reproduction), but benefits, either directly or indirectly, another
third-party individual, without the expectation of reciprocity or compensation
for that action. Altruism can be
distinguished from feelings of loyalty, in that whilst the latter is
predicated upon social relationships, altruism does not consider relationships. Read much more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism
“The Realities of Research Data Management is a four-part series that explores how research
universities are addressing the challenge of managing research data throughout
the research lifecycle. Research data
management (RDM) has emerged as an area of keen interest in higher education,
leading to considerable investment in services, resources and infrastructure to
support researchers’ data management needs. In this series, we examine the context,
influences and choices higher education institutions face in building or
acquiring RDM capacity—in other words, the infrastructure, services and other
resources needed to support emerging data management practices. Our findings are based on case studies of four
institutions: University of Edinburgh (UK), the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (US), Monash University(Australia) and Wageningen University &
Research (the Netherlands), in four very different national
contexts…”
https://www.bespacific.com/oclc-the-realities-of-research-data-management/ Bryant, Rebecca, Brian Lavoie and Constance
Malpas. 2017. A Tour of the Research
Data Management (RDM) Service Space. The
Realities of Research Data Management, Part 1.
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2017/oclcresearch-research-data-managementservice-space-tour-2017.pdf.
The Total Solar Eclipse 2017 seen from Madras, Oregon, on 21 August 2017, at 10:19 PDT (17:19 UTC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNe1CcdVm4 6:05
Comedian Jerry Lewis died August 20, 2017 after a brief illness. He was 91.
Lewis first gained fame for his frenzied comedy-and-music act with
singer Dean Martin. When that ended in
the mid-1950s, Lewis went solo, and by the early ’60s, he had become a top draw
in movies such as “The Bellboy,” “The Nutty Professor” and “The Patsy.” Along the way, he pioneered the use of
videotape and closed-circuit monitors in moviemaking, a now-standard technique
called video assist. He first helped
raise money for muscular dystrophy in a telethon in 1956. He was so successful,
and so devoted to the cause, that children affected by the disease became known
as “Jerry’s kids.” The telethon, long
known as “The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon,” began airing on Labor Day weekend in
1966, and Lewis served as host until 2011.
Joseph Levitch—he changed the name to
Lewis as a teenager—was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 16, 1926. Entertainment ran in the family: His father was a vaudeville performer, his
mother a piano player. Lewis
occasionally performed with his parents, and by the time he was a teenager he
had developed his own act. In 2015, the
Library of Congress announced it had acquired a huge collection of films and
documents from Lewis, including copies of his most popular films, home movies
and spoof films made by Lewis at home, which sometimes starred neighbors such
as Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. http://wqad.com/2017/08/21/jerry-lewis-comedian-dies-at-91/
Popular Whodunit Howdunit Whydunit Books https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/whodunit-howdunit-whydunit
Whodunit, Whydunit,
Howdunit: French's Dublin Murder Squad
series http://www.entomologyofabookworm.com/2015/04/whodunit-whydunit-howdunit-tana-frenchs.html
The Best Whodunits,
Howdunits, and Whydunits, a list of 21 films
WHAT A TROOPER! Does this phrase look correct to you? It’s okay if it does because using trooper instead of the correct word is a very
common mix-up. In the phrase above, you should use trouper instead of trooper. One reason for the trooper and trouper confusion
is because both words come from the same root word, troupe. The
Middle French language gave us the word troupe, which then
meant a band of people.
In the 1540s, English got troop (and
thus trooper) from this word, adapting it to mean a body of soldiers.
Then, in the 1820s, we began using troupe in English
to mean a group of performers, a member of which is a trouper. I got
this etymology information from a website I absolutely love, called Online Etymology Dictionary. If you ever are interested in learning the
history of a word, I encourage you to visit this site for a thorough and
easy-to-understand explanation. Erin
Servais https://grammarpartyblog.com/2012/10/03/trooper-vs-trouper/
Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the
Internet Be Reclaimed? by Susan
Nevelow Mart Read 31-page paper at https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv/zrh7t/
THE GREAT AMERICAN
READ (w.t.), a new eight-part television series and nationwide
campaign from PBS will launch in spring 2018 with a multi-platform digital and
social campaign leading up to a list of 100 books selected by the American
public and an advisory panel of literary professionals. Featuring
testimonials from notable figures from the entertainment, sports, news and
literary worlds, the series will end with the first-ever national vote to
choose “America’s Best-Loved Book.” http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/pbs-celebrates-the-joy-of-reading-with-the-great-american-read-wt/
List
of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award. Named for Wallace
Stevens, the award was established in 1994 by the Academy of
American Poets, to "recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the
art of poetry", and grant $100,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Wallace_Stevens_Award
The 2017 winner is Jorie Graham.
Jorie Graham
was born in New York City and raised in Rome, Italy. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in
Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she
studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa. Graham is the author of numerous collections
of poetry, most recently Fast: Poems (Ecco, 2017), From
the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco, 2015), Place: New Poems (Ecco,
2012), Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (Ecco,
2002), Swarm (Ecco, 2000), and The Dream of the
Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 (Ecco, 1997), which won the 1996
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She has
taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently the
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jorie-graham
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1758
August 22, 2017 On this date in
1717, Spanish troops landed on Sardinia. On this date in 1770, James Cook named
and landed on Possession Island, and claimed the
east coast of Australia for Britain as New
South Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_22
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