'Fair exchange is no
robbery' means that an exchange of two things of equal value is a reasonable
and honest trade. The proverbial saying
'fair exchange is no robbery' is first found in a place we might expect to find
it, that is, an early and comprehensive collection of English proverbs. There are a few of such but, in this case, it
is John Heywood's 1546 glossary A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in
effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue: Though chaunge be no robbry for the changed
case.
A Fair Exchange Is No
Robbery While the carriage driver is
asleep, two boys unhitch the horse and replace it with a goat. 1899 comedy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246613/
Fair Exchange,
No Robbery – (artwork by William Sidney Mount) https://wikioo.org/paintings.php?refarticle=8XXBGJ&titlepainting=Fair%20Exchange,%20No%20Robbery&artistname=William%20Sidney%20Mount
Catherine Steadman (born 8 February 1987) is an English actress and
author, best known for playing Mabel Lane Fox in series 5 (2014) of ITV drama Downton Abbey. Her debut novel, the psychological
thriller, Something in the Water was published in June 2018
by Simon & Schuster UK and Penguin Random House USA. Steadman
trained at the Oxford School of
Drama and made her screen debut playing Julia Bertram in the
ITV adaptation of Mansfield
Park opposite Billie Piper, James D'arcy, Rory Kinnear and Michelle Ryan. Since then
she has appeared in television dramas such as the CBC/Showtime co-production The Tudors playing Joan Bulmer, Holby City, Law & Order: UK, Missing, Lewis, Quirke alongside Gabriel Byrne, Fearless opposite Helen McCrory, and Victoria.
She has also appeared in several comedy series such as The Inbetweeners, Fresh Meat, Trying Again and Bucket. On stage she has appeared in the West End in
shows such as Polly Stenham's
award winning That Face opposite Matt Smith and Felicity Jones, which was nominated for a
special cast Olivier Award, the Royal
Shakespeare Company's production of Oppenheimer,
opposite John Heffernan,
for which she was nominated for a 2016 Laurence Olivier
Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and she played the
titular role in the West-end revival of Witness
for the Prosecution, opposite David Yelland,
which was nominated for a 2018 Laurence Olivier
Award for best revival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Steadman
PARAPHRASES from The Gift
of Years by Joan Chittister
Relationships are the alchemy of life . . . they turn the dross of
dailiness into gold. * After retirement, you can enrich the life of
others, be an “independent philosopher at large”, pass on insights, get to make new
friends. * You learn to trust your own insight. * You
bring a wisdom based on experience.
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In October, 1874, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow was urged to write a poem for the fiftieth anniversary
of the graduation of his college class to be held the next summer. At first he said that he could not write
the poem. He not only wrote the poem,
but what was a rare act with him, read it before the audience gathered in the
church at Brunswick on the occasion of the anniversary. The final four lines of Poem
for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College are:
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For age is opportunity
no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening
twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. https://www.bartleby.com/356/252.html
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Mark Bradford is widely
considered one of the most important and influential artists in America
today. Bradford's abstract canvases,
which often deal with complex social and political issues, hang in major
museums around the world, as well as private collections. Mark Bradford's art may look like paintings,
but there's hardly any paint on them.
They're made out of layers and layers of paper, which he tears, glues,
power washes and sands in a style all his own.
When he began making art in his 30's, Bradford couldn't afford expensive
paint, so he started experimenting with endpapers, that are used for styling
hair. He got the idea while working as a
hair stylist in his mom's beauty shop in South Los Angeles. He was broke, struggling, and didn't sell his
first painting until he was nearly 40. Link
to 14:29 video interview at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-mark-bradford-the-60-minutes-interview-2019-12-22/
The mother of a child featured
in a decades-old meme called "Success Kid" is demanding that
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) stop using the
image in his fundraising appeals on social media. BuzzFeed News reported
January 27, 2020 that attorneys for Laney Griner, whose infant son
appeared—clenching his fist in apparent triumph—in the image first posted in
2007, sent a cease-and-desist letter to King demanding that he refund any money
raised using the meme. "I recently
learned that Iowa Representative Steve King is using my copyrighted photograph
of my minor son Samuel known as 'Success Kid' to raise money in a 'Fund our
Memes' online campaign, also implying that he has some kind of ownership in
it," Griner tweeted. John Bowden https://thehill.com/homenews/house/480210-mother-of-child-in-viral-meme-sends-steve-king-cease-and-desist-for-using
The School
of Architecture at Taliesin (SoAT), which maintains campuses in
Scottsdale, Arizona and Spring Green Wisconsin, is closing down following an
88-year run as the institution tasked with carrying on the intellectual design
legacy of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
An announcement from the school states: "The School of Architecture at
Taliesin will cease operations after this semester, after a gut-wrenching
decision by its Governing Board on January 25, 2020. The School of
Architecture at Taliesin was not able to reach an agreement with the Frank
Lloyd Wright Foundation to keep the school open." The school was previously named the Frank
Lloyd Wright School of Architecture until 2017 when it adopted its current name
as part of a formal separation from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation that
allowed the school to keep its accreditation. The school was established in 1932 and has
graduated over 1,200 students during its 88-year existence. The two sites used by the school were recently included among six
other Wright-designed structures in a UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Antonio Pacheco https://archinect.com/news/article/150180958/frank-lloyd-wright-s-school-of-architecture-at-taliesin-shutters-its-doors-after-88-years
BIRTHS TO
CELEBRATE 1717 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst,
English field marshal and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d.
1797) 1737 – Thomas Paine,
prominent for publishing Common Sense (1776), which
established him as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d.
1809) 1754 – Moses Cleaveland,
American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d.
1806) 1756 – Henry Lee III,
American general and politician, 9th Governor of Virginia (d. 1818) 1761 – Albert Gallatin,
Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the
Treasury (d. 1849) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29
WORD OF THE DAY sufuria (plural sufurias) (East Africa, cooking) A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles. quotations ▼ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sufuria#English
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January 29, 2020
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