“It's discouraging to
think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Blithe Spirit ― English dramatist,
actor and composer (1899-1973)
Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It is named after Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, a connoisseur of literature, who donated his collection of 281 books to the university at his death in 1447. Books were hand-written at the time and his legacy was considered an extraordinarily generous donation, since the university previously had only 20 books. Only three books from the original donation remain, the rest having been removed in 1550 and probably burnt during the Reformation. The library was restored and restocked by Thomas Bodley from 1598 onwards. The books in the oldest part of the library are accommodated in oak bookcases that are at right angles to the walls on either side, with integrated reading desks. The ceiling consists of panels painted with the coat of arms of the University of Oxford. See picture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Humfrey%27s_Library
LET'S TEACH CHILDREN TO BE
HAPPY, NOT PERFECT Original by: Sara Espejo--Rincón del Tibet Version: Peter Bristotte - May 29, 2019 Early ages are fundamental to all human
beings, the need for protection, dependence on their caregivers, their thirst
for love, and having their needs satisfied is what will determine, to a large
extent, how they will develop as adults.
Most cultures overlook the primary needs of children and the purpose of
life itself, to put them in a race for which they are not even prepared,
arguing for competitiveness, leadership skills, independence, encouragement,
and other attitudes and behaviors that help them to excel, overcoming the
abilities and skills of others.
Children, like good sponges, absorb everything their main sources of
influence offer them and it is those basic and constant ideas and beliefs that
will accompany them for most of their lives.
It is only when the adult questions those beliefs that they will be able
to turn them in favor. The most valuable
contribution we can give to our children is love, the respect for their times,
for their tastes, for their preferences, for the quality of the time we offer
with them, for the interest we show in their things, even if we don’t see them
as important. This is what will define
their self-confidence, their self-esteem, their sense of belonging. What is to be encouraged is their desire to
be better than themselves, for them to make themselves better on a daily basis,
no matter what their siblings, their classmates, or the neighbor's children
do. https://cdn2.sportngin.com/attachments/document/ce5b-1899376/LET_S_TEACH_CHILDREN_TO_BE_HAPPY__NOT_PERFECT.pdf
Green Eggs and Ham Mash ripe avocado, add olive oil, lemon
juice, ½ cup cooked ham (cubed), and salt and pepper. Mix well--then add six or eight hard-boiled
eggs, quartered. See also
https://eatingrichly.com/green-eggs-and-ham-recipe/
or https://www.foodandwine.com/video/how-make-green-eggs-and-ham
or https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/amy-s-green-eggs-and-ham/
Rachel Harrison (born 1966, New York) is an American visual artist who is
primarily known for her assemblage work and sculpture, but she has also
engaged in performance art and drawing, and photography. Her work
often incorporates elements of photography and found objects, sometimes
layering abstract forms with industrially manufactured elements. She lives and works in New York. In 1996 Harrison had her first
exhibition, entitled Should home windows or shutters be required to
withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four shot from a cannon
at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a
three-inch sphere?, at the Arena
Gallery in New York City founded by Art curator and
dealer Renee
Riccardo who said in an interview "No one at the time knew
what to make of Harrison’s unusual work but many major critics including Roberta Smith of the New York Times felt
compelled to write about". In this
show, Harrison established her predilection for producing sculptures that
juxtapose a unique combination of found, purchased, and received items. The title of the show was appropriated from a
photo in The New York Times about housing improvement following the hurricane
Andrew. Since then, her works have been
fabricated using a wide range of materials, such as honey, cans of peas, papier-mâché, and trash bags. By
using everyday goods and objects, Harrison frequently takes on the subject of
consumer culture. In an interview, she
writes "I want people to be real with art, to be conscious and present
with the object in order to experience it." In 2013, Harrison received her first public
art commission for the sculpture Moore to the Point in the
Dallas City Hall Plaza, part of the Nasher Sculpture
Center's Nasher XChange exhibition.
This piece points to and frames Henry Moore's sculpture, Three Forms
Vertebrae near Dallas City Hall. The
work calls attention to how people interact with works of public art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Harrison
Spitting Image is a
British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in February 1984, the series
was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television over 18
series which aired on the ITV network. The series was nominated and won numerous
awards, including ten BAFTA Television
Awards, and two Emmy Awards in 1985
and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category.
The series features puppet caricatures of contemporary celebrities and public figures,
including British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and other politicians, US
president Ronald Reagan,
and the British Royal
Family; the series was the first to caricature Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother (as an elderly gin-drinker with
a Beryl Reid voice). One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s
and early 1990s, Spitting Image satirised politics,
entertainment, sport and British popular culture of the era. At its peak it was watched by 15 million
people. The popularity of the show saw
collaborations with musicians, including Phil Collins and Sting.
The series was cancelled in 1996 after viewing figures declined. ITV had plans for a new series in 2006, but
these were scrapped after a dispute over the Ant & Dec puppets used to
host Best Ever Spitting Image, which were created against Roger
Law's wishes. In 2018, Law donated his
entire archive--including scripts, puppet moulds, drawings and
recordings--to Cambridge
University. In September
2019, Law announced the show would be returning with a new series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image
The
term 'spitting image' is an allusion to someone who is so like someone else as
to appear to have been spat from his mouth.
The concept and phrase were in circulation by 1689, when George Farquhar
used it in his play Love and a Bottle:
“Poor child! He’s as like his own
dada as if he were spit out of his mouth.”
https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/phrases/spitting-image/#.Xe0-BOhKiUk
December
29, 2019 The cave is in Indonesia—the
limestone cave of Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4, on the island of Sulawesi, to be
precise—and it was occupied, according to recent findings, more than forty
thousand years ago, by early modern humans. Inside it for all that time has been a
fourteen-and-a-half-foot-wide image, painted in dark-red pigment, depicting
about eight tiny bipedal figures, bearing what look to be spears and ropes,
bravely hunting the local wild pigs and buffalo. The discoverers of its antiquity, a team of
archeologists at Griffith University, in Australia, including Maxime Aubert,
the chief author of an article about the painting in Nature, call it “to our knowledge, currently
the oldest pictorial record of storytelling and the earliest figurative artwork
in the world.” Adam Gopnik https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/storytelling-across-the-ages?verso=true
January
3, 2020 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH
AFRICA—According to a statement released by the University of the Witwatersrand, researchers including scientists Lyn Wadley and
Christine Sievers have found evidence that early modern humans collected and
cooked starchy plant parts known as rhizomes some 170,000 years ago. The charred rhizomes were recovered from
fireplaces and ash dumps at South Africa’s Border Cave, which is located in the
Lebombo Mountains, and identified with a scanning electron microscope as Hypoxis, a plant also known as the Yellow Star flower.
Today, the plant is still valued for the
nutrition, energy, and fiber it provides. To read about starch residues that might
constitute the earliest known evidence of potato domestication in North
America, go to "World Roundup: Utah." https://www.archaeology.org/news/8334-200103-roasted-starchy-plants
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January 6, 2020
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