“Alley-oop” was invented by a couple of college students at Oklahoma Baptist University.  Others say that David Thompson and his teammates Monte Tow and Tim Stoddard at North Carolina State University.  Arguably, the most famous alley-oop in basketball was North Carolina State’s last-second shot against the University of Houston.  At the end of regulation, Derek Whittenberg took a shot from the top of the key.  The shot was short, but Lorenzo Charles was already in the air.  Charles took the ball from the air and stuffed it through the net to win the game.  In the 1990’s the alley-oop became a very popular quick-score option for teams on a fast break, or for teams that can isolate on of their low-post stars on a quick roll off the defender.  The term “alley-oop” comes from a French term allez hop.  The word was used by French acrobats before they leapt into the air.  The term was actually first used in the NFL.  San Francisco 49er receiver R.C. Owens could often outjump the smaller cornerbacks he had covering him.  The jump Owens would use to catch the pass became known as an alley-oop.  Then, the term was born.  A bit later, the term started to be used exclusively for basketball moves.  Kane Pepi  https://www.business2community.com/sports/a-brief-history-of-the-alley-oop-066031 

Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association.  Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters and his storylines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy, and humor.  Alley Oop, the strip's title character, is a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo.  He rides his pet dinosaur Dinny, carries a stone axe, and wears only a fur loincloth.  Alley Oop's name was most likely derived from the French phrase allez, hop!   In the 1933 press release that accompanied the launching of the strip with its new distributor NEA, Hamlin was quoted as saying "I really can't recall just how I struck upon the name 'Alley Oop', although it might be from the fact that the name is a French term used by tumblers.  Alley Oop really is a roughhouse tumbler."  The name of Alley's girlfriend, Ooola, was a play on a different French phrase, oh là là.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop

Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.   The population was 50,474 at the 2020 census.  The relatively small city has provided a unique place for noted Modern architecture and public art, commissioning numerous works since the mid-20th century; the annual program Exhibit Columbus celebrates this legacy.  Located about 40 mi (64 km) south of Indianapolis, on the east fork of the White River, it is the state's 20th-largest city.  Columbus is the headquarters of the engine company Cummins, Inc. in 2004 the city was named as one of "The Ten Most Playful Towns" by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.  In the July 2005 edition of GQ magazine, Columbus was named as one of the "62 Reasons to Love Your Country".  Columbus won the national contest "America in Bloom" in 2006,  and in late 2008, National Geographic Traveler ranked Columbus 11th on its historic destinations list, describing the city as "authentic, unique, and unspoiled."  Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries, which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s, and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc.  After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.  It was announced in February 2011 that the company name would revert to Meritor, Inc.  Cummins, Inc. is by far the region's largest employer, and the Infotech Park in Columbus^[ accounts for a sizable number of research jobs in the city itself.  Just south of Columbus are the North American headquarters of Toyota Material  Handling, U.S.A., Inc., the world's largest material handling (forklift) manufacturer.  Other notable industries include architecture, a discipline for which Columbus is famous worldwide.  The late J. Irwin Miller (then president and chairman of Cummins Engine Company) launched the Cummins Foundation, a charitable program that helps subsidize a large number of architectural projects throughout the city by up-and-coming engineers and architects.  Early in the 20th century, Columbus also was home to a number of pioneering car manufacturers, including Reeves, which produced the unusual four-axle Octoauto and the twin rear-axle Sextoauto, both around 1911.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_Indiana 

Tom Gauld on how librarians might take over the world   See comic strip at https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2018/aug/17/tom-gauld-on-how-librarians-might-take-over-the-world-cartoon   

Richard Lee’s Cartoons:  Illustrations of Librarian Humor  Posted on January 25, 2018 by Sarah Brewer  https://www.library.illinois.edu/ala/2018/01/25/richard-lees-cartoons-illustrations-of-librarian-humor/   

As the U.S. Open gets under way, in Queens, revisit John McPhee’s classic “Levels of the Game,” which centers on the thrilling semifinal match of the 1968 Open between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner.  Its insights into the precise details of tennis are as fresh as ever—even as it offers a glimpse of a bygone era of big-time sports.  Back then, both men had day jobs:  Graebner was a paper salesman, and Ashe was a lieutenant in the Army.  First prize in the tournament was fourteen grand, which Ashe, the eventual winner, had to forego, because he was still registered as an amateur.  This year’s winner will get $2.6 million.  The New Yorker  August 29, 2022 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2558  August 31. 2022

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture through the work of the Eames Office.  They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art, and film.  Among their most recognized designs is the Eames Lounge Chair and the Eames Dining Chair.  Charles Eames secured an architecture scholarship at Washington University, but his devotion to the practices of Frank Lloyd Wright caused issues with his tutors and he left after just two years of study.  He met Ray Gayber at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940.  Charles arrived at the school on an industrial design fellowship as recommended by Eliel Saarinen, but soon became an instructor.  Ray enrolled in various courses to expand upon her previous education in abstract painting in New York City under the guidance of Hans Hofmann.  Charles entered into a furniture competition—with his “best friend” Eero Saarinen—hosted by the Museum of Modern Art.  Eames and Saarinen's goal was to mold a single piece of plywood into a chair; the Organic Chair was born out of this attempt.  The chair won first prize, but its form was unable to be successfully mass-produced.  Eames and Saarinen considered it a failure, as the tooling for molding a chair from a single piece of wood had not yet been invented.  Ray stepped in to help with the graphic design for their entry.  Eames divorced his first wife Catherine Woermann, and he and Ray married in June 1941.  Their honeymoon was a road trip to relocate to Los Angeles.  Their first home, after staying in a hotel for a few weeks, was Neutra's Strathmore Apartments in the Westwood neighborhood.  Charles and Ray began creating tooling and molding plywood into chairs in the second bedroom of the apartment, eventually finding more adequate work spaces in Venice.  Find list of works and graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames 

Pew Research Center considers anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward part of a new generation.  Generational cutoff points aren’t an exact science.  Generations are often considered by their span, but there is no agreed upon formula for how long that span should be.  At 16 years (1981 to 1996), our working definition of Millennials is equivalent in age span to their preceding generation, Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980).  By this definition, both are shorter than the span of the Baby Boomers (19 years)–the only generation officially designated by the U.S. Census Bureau, based on the famous surge in post-WWII births in 1946 and a significant decline in birthrates after 1964.   Baby Boomers grew up as television expanded dramatically, changing their lifestyles and connection to the world in fundamental ways.  Generation X grew up as the computer revolution was taking hold, and Millennials came of age during the internet explosion.  In this progression, what is unique for Generation Z is that all of the above have been part of their lives from the start.  The iPhone launched in 2007, when the oldest Gen Zers were 10.  By the time they were in their teens, the primary means by which young Americans connected with the web was through mobile devices, WiFi and high-bandwidth cellular service.  Social media, constant connectivity and on-demand entertainment and communication are innovations Millennials adapted to as they came of age.  MICHAEL DIMOCK  https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/  tory

We originated in a research project created in 1990 called the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press.  In 2004, The Pew Charitable Trusts established the Pew Research Center as a subsidiary to house its information initiatives.  Read more  https://www.pewresearch.org/about/ 

Books fall open, you fall in,
delighted where, you've never been.
Hear voices not once heard before,
Reach world through world, through door on door.
Find unexpected keys to things,
locked up beyond imaginings . . .
True books will venture, Dare you out,
Whisper secrets, Maybe shout,
across the gloom, to you in need
Who hanker for a book to read.”  David T.W. McCord  https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/44686-books-fall-open-books-fall-open-you-fall-in-delighted  Thank you, Muse reader!   

David Thompson Watson McCord (1897-1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.  See awards and works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCord   

PICKLE CUCUMBERS

White Wonder - otherwise known as Albino, Ivory King, Jack Frost, Landreths White Slicing or the long white is an heirloom variety introduced in 1893.  It's known for its clean, cool taste and crunchy texture.  Ideal for slicing into salads or pickling.  Crystal Apple - a rotund cucumber from New Zealand, that looks more like an apple.  They’re white-skinned with just the faintest hue of green.  Salt And Pepper - pale yellow, almost white with translucent seeds and a crisp, mild flavour.  Himangi  - creamy white, cylindrical, crispy and tasty.  White Angel - crisp and delicate flavour with tender less-bitter skin.  Snow Leopard - good fresh or salted.  Snow White - popular and easy to grow in greenhouses.  Thin skin and small seeds.  The Bride - more demanding to grow, but delivers excellent flavour.  Bidigo-Lungo - great for use in salads as well as eating fresh.  https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/white-cucumber-what-it-and-how-use-it  See also blonde cucumbers at https://heirloomgardener.net/2015/10/05/some-heirloom-cucumbers/ 

Just miles off of the Ohio Turnpike in Elmore, OH, Shared Legacy Farm has been providing community members locally grown produce since 2008.  Farmer Kurt and his wife Corinna, as well as their two young sons, have been committed to producing a wide variety of high quality produce for the past 10 years.  Situated behind a beautiful farmhouse, 20 acres of certified organic land yields great tasting food that people will feel good about!  This produce makes its way out into the community via Farmers’ Markets, locally owned restaurants, and most notably, their flourishing Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. https://lucas.osu.edu/news/shared-legacy-farms-farmerfocusfriday 

“Betty bought a bit of butter.  But the butter Betty bought was bitter.  So Betty bought a better butter, and it was better than the butter Betty bought before.” 

“Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.”  Morgan Cutolo  https://www.rd.com/list/toughest-tongue-twisters/ 

A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do?

Said the fly, “let us flee!”  “Let us fly!” said the flea.

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.  Ogden Nash  https://www.poeticous.com/ogden-nash/a-flea-and-a-fly-in-a-flue 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2557  August 29, 2022

 

August 7, 2022   This has been the summer of Colleen Hoover, a recent viral TikTok announced, editing together clips of young women at the beach reading books by the Texas novelist.  Furthermore, just a couple of months ago we had a Colleen Hoover spring and before that a Colleen Hoover winter and before that a Colleen Hoover fall.  On any given week for more than a year now, the 42-year-old Hoover has had three to six books on Publishers Weekly’s top 10 bestseller list.  Currently three of the top five titles on the New York Times’ combined print and e-book fiction list are Hoover’s.  The most popular of these novels, It Ends With Us, isn’t even new.  It was published six years ago.  A forthcoming sequel to that novel (or possibly a prequel, it’s not yet clear), It Starts With Us, will be published in October, its perch at the summit of both lists guaranteed.  Observers typically attribute Hoover’s success to BookTok, the segment of TikTok dedicated to authors and readers.  And Hoover—known as CoHo to her fans, who call themselves Cohorts—is indeed the queen of BookTok, an adept TikToker herself, as well as the subject of countless videos in which young women appear clutching huge stacks of candy-colored CoHo paperbacks and proceed to rank their favorites among her 24 titles.  But while Hoover might just be the ideal author to preside over TikTok, the platform is only the latest online vehicle she had ridden to fame and fortune.  She sometimes presents herself as surprised by her own virality, but Hoover has been a savvy self-promoter since 2012, when she distributed free copies of her first, self-published YA novel, Slammed, to influential book bloggers.  She was big on BookTube (the YouTube book community) and big on “Bookstagram” well before TikTok came along.  Furthermore, her story—social worker and mom transformed into blockbuster author via whatever new technology of the moment is ostensibly revolutionizing the book business (self-publishing, blogging, Instagram, TikTok)—is catnip to traditional news outlets.   LAURA MILLER  https://slate.com/culture/2022/08/colleen-hoover-books-it-ends-with-us-verity.html?utm_source 

The dog days or dog days of summer are the hot, sultry days of summer.  They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius (known colloquially as the "Dog Star"), which Hellenistic astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck.  They are now taken to be the hottest, most uncomfortable part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.  In addition to following Orion into the night sky, the Dog Star Sirius can be easily located in the heavens by following the line created by the prominent asterism Orion's Belt.  The English name is a calque of the Latin dies caniculares (lit. "the puppy days").  Sirius is by far the brightest proper star in the night sky, which caused ancient astronomers to take note of it around the world.  In Egypt, its return to the night sky became known as a precursor to the annual flooding of the Nile and was worshipped as the goddess Sopdet.  In Greece, it became known as the precursor of the unpleasantly hot phase of the summer.  Greek poets even recorded the belief that the return of the bright star was responsible for bringing heat and fever with it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days  Thank you, Muse reader!

Hedge funds are actively managed investment pools whose managers use a wide range of strategies, often including buying with borrowed money and trading esoteric assets, in an effort to beat average investment returns for their clients.  They are considered risky alternative investment choices.  Hedge funds require a high minimum investment or net worth, excluding all but wealthy clients.  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hedgefund.asp 

The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird.  The name derives from Old English sand-yrðling, "sand-ploughman".  The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.  The specific, alba, is Latin for "white".  It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia.  It is highly gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks on coastal mudflats or sandy beaches.  In spring, birds migrating north from South America consume large numbers of horseshoe crab eggs in the Delaware Bay area.  The sanderling was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas in 1764 and given the binomial name Trynga alba.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanderling 

Over the course of his storied career, Jean-Jacques Sempe became a fixture on the newsstands of New York, illustrating more than 100 covers of the prestigious New Yorker magazine.  After republishing one of those iconic covers on an inner page August 29, 2022, the magazine will reuse one of his drawings on the cover of its September 5 edition, said the periodical's art editor Francoise Mouly.  At the intersection of 47th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan stands a giant mural signed by the illustrator behind the beloved "Little Nicolas" series of children's books--a man carrying a woman on a bicycle, trailed by a boy on two wheels.  In 2009, the publisher Denoel put out a book of Sempe drawings entitled "Sempe in New York."  https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-cartoonist-sempes-spiritual-home-164739023.html 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2556  August 26, 2022

The idiom take the cake has its roots in Ancient Greece, though it did not come into common use until the 1800s.  To take the cake means to receive the top honors in a situation, though the phrase is most often used sarcastically to mean being the best at something negative or representing the apex of something negative.  The term take the cake is derived from the cakewalk.  A cakewalk was a competitive dance performed by black slaves which mocked the over-refined manners that plantation owners employed at their formal balls.  The winner or winning couple of these competitions was awarded a cake.  Plantation owners often knew about these get-togethers, and ignored them as harmless.  Whether or not the plantation owners understood that they were being mocked is unclear.  The practice of presenting a cake as a prize goes back to Ancient Greece, though the idiom take the cake doesn’t appear until the 1800s in the United States.  Related phrases are takes the cake, took the cake, taking the cake. https://grammarist.com/idiom/take-the-cake/   

How to Make Homemade Cake Flour  Sift 14 Tablespoons (110g) all-purpose flour and 2 Tablespoons (16g) cornstarch together two times.  Measure (spoon & level) 1 cup from this mixture.  You’ll have about 1 cup anyway, but sometimes sifting can produce more volume since it’s adding air.  Sally Mckenney  https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/cake-flour-substitute/

"City," a vast complex of outdoor structures and landmasses the land artist Michael Heizer began constructing in the desert of Nevada in 1970, will finally begin welcoming public visitors September 2, 2022.  "City" has been described as quite possibly the largest contemporary artwork on the planet, stretching more than a mile and a half long and half a mile wide, evoking the scale of ancient sites like Native American mounds, Mesoamerican metropolises and Egyptian devotional complexes.  It is situated in the remote Basin and Range National Monument in central eastern Nevada, within the ancestral lands of the ​​ Nuwu (Southern Paiute) and Newe (Western Shoshoni), around 160 miles north of Las Vegas.  Benjamin Sutton  See graphics at https://www.cnn.com/style/article/artist-michael-heizer-city-nevada-tan/index.html

Leonard "Lenny" Lipton (born May 18, 1940) is an American author, filmmaker, lyricist and inventor.  At age 19, Lipton wrote the poem that became the basis for the lyrics to the song "Puff the Magic Dragon".  He went on to write books on independent filmmaking and become a pioneer in the field of projected three-dimensional imagery.  His technology is used to show 3D films on more than 30,000 theater screens worldwide.  In 2021, he published The Cinema in Flux, an 800-page illustrated book on the history of cinema technology.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Lipton 

If you have ever been beachcombing for treasures along the shoreline then you may have been lucky enough to find a mermaid’s purse.  They may not look like much, but these dried-out leathery pouches are actually the used egg cases of sharks and skates, created to develop and protect their babies.  Around 43% of all Chondrichthyes species (cartilaginous fish including sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras) give birth to their offspring in these purses.  Between them they produce a diverse array of different types, sizes and colours, that eventually wash up on our beaches when they’ve been emptied.   Posted by Harry Baker  See graphics at https://marinemadness.blog/2020/04/13/a-beachcombers-guide-to-finding-and-identify-a-mermaids-purse/ 

Glop.  Mire.  Ooze.  Cohesive sediment.  Call it what you want, mud—a mixture of fine sediment and water—is one of the most common and consequential substances on Earth.  Not quite a solid, not quite a liquid, mud coats the bottoms of our lakes, rivers, and seas.  It helps form massive floodplains, river deltas, and tidal flats that store vast quantities of carbon and nutrients, and support vibrant communities of people, flora, and fauna.  But mud is also a killer:  Mudslides bury thousands of people each year.  Earth has been a muddy planet for 4 billion years, ever since water became abundant.  But how it forms and moves have changed dramatically.  About 500 million years ago, the arrival of land plants boosted the breakdown of rock into fine particles, slowed runoff, and stabilized sediments, enabling thick layers of mud to pile up in river valleys.  Tectonic shifts that gave rise to mountains, as well as climate changes that enhanced precipitation, accelerated erosion, and helped blanket sea floors with mud hundreds of meters thick.   Over time, many mud deposits hardened into mudrock, the most abundant rock in the geologic record, accounting for roughly half of all sedimentary formations.  Now, humans are a dominant force in the world of mud.  Starting about 5000 years ago, erosion rates shot up in many parts of the world as our ancestors began to clear forests and plant crops.  DAVID MALAKOFF  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.369.6506.894 

Feng shui sometimes called Chinese geomancy, is an ancient Chinese traditional practice which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment.  The term feng shui means, literally, "wind-water".  From ancient times, landscapes and bodies of water were thought to direct the flow of the universal Qi–“cosmic current” or energy–through places and structures.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui  Thank you, Muse reader!  

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2555  August 24, 2022

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a fence or defensive wall made from iron or wooden stakes, or tree trunks, and used as a defensive structure or enclosure.  Palisades can form a stockade.  Typical construction consisted of small or mid-sized tree trunks aligned vertically, with no free space in between.  The trunks were sharpened or pointed at the top, and were driven into the ground and sometimes reinforced with additional construction.  The height of a palisade ranged from around a metre to as high as 3–4 m.  As a defensive structure, palisades were often used in conjunction with earthworks.  Palisades were an excellent option for small forts or other hastily constructed fortifications.  Since they were made of wood, they could often be quickly and easily built from readily available materials.  They proved to be effective protection for short-term conflicts and were an effective deterrent against small forces.  However, because they were wooden constructions they were also vulnerable to fire and siege weapons.  Often, a palisade would be constructed around a castle as a temporary wall until a permanent stone wall could be erected.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade 

In fortification architecture, a rampart is a length of bank or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site.  It is usually broad-topped and made of excavated earth and/or masonry.  Many types of early fortification, from prehistory through to the Early Middle Ages, employed earth ramparts usually in combination with external ditches to defend the outer perimeter of a fortified site or settlement.  Hillforts, ringforts or "raths" and ringworks all made use of ditch and rampart defences, and they are the characteristic feature of circular ramparts.  The ramparts could be reinforced and raised in height by the use of palisades.  This type of arrangement was a feature of the motte and bailey castle of northern Europe in the early medieval period.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_(fortification)  

In Britain, it’s now common to hear the abbreviated forms chocka (or chocker), which are both from World War Two services’ slang, and in Australia the closely related chockers.  Chock here is the same word as in chock-full, jam-packed full or filled to overflowing.   One meaning of chock in the nineteenth century was of two things pressed so tightly against each other that they can’t move.  This led to the nautical term that’s the direct origin of the phrase.  Block refers to the pulley blocks of the tackle used for various hauling jobs on board ship.  These worked in pairs, with the ropes threaded between them.  When the men hauling tackle ropes had hoisted the load as far as it would go, the two pulley blocks touched and could move no further.  They were then said to be chock-a-block, or crammed together.  The origin of chock is complicated and not altogether understood.   It’s clear that there has been some cross-fertilisation between it and chock in the sense of a lump of wood used as a wedge to stop something moving. That’s closely enough related to our sense to make it seem as though it might be the same word.  But the experts think that chock in chock-a-block actually came from chock-full.  That has been around at least since 1400.  It comes from a different source, the verb chokken, as in the Middle English phrase chokken togeder, crammed together.  This in turn may be from an Old French verb choquier, to collide or thrust.  One of the problems of working out the origin has been that chock-full has appeared in several different spellings—including chuck-full and choke-full reflecting users’ uncertainty about where it comes from.  https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho3.htm 

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.  'Eunoia' means "beautiful thinking" or denotes a normal mental state.  https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/shortest-word-in-the-english-language-that-contains-all-five-main-vowels  See also https://www.englishbix.com/english-words-with-all-vowels/ 

A little nightly drink may help keep you healthy when it comes to bacterial pathogens.  Washing your hands also helps and, for the millions of people still at risk of cholera, clean drinking water is what is really needed.  In the modern context, clean water beats alcohol as a cure for nearly every disease alcohol might remedy.  If wine, beer, gin and other alcohols are good for pathogen prevention, their influence on the trajectory of history may have been great and varied, including but not exclusive to an effect on the origins of agriculture.  Maybe the ages of exploration would not have happened without beer, wine and other drinks.  Water on ships tended to become contaminated with pathogens.  Beer and wine, on the other hand, remained “pure.”  Perhaps those cultures that succeeded in exploration did so through the aid of alcohol.  Rob Dunn   https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/strong-medicine-drinking-wine-and-beer-can-help-save-you-from-cholera-montezumas-revenge-e-coli-and-ulcers1/ 

Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89  August 17, 2022  Cecile Pineda was born on Sept. 24, 1932, in Harlem.  Her mother was an illustrator, and her father, who had entered the United States under an assumed name at 16, was a linguist.  Despite her father’s surname, she wrote in “Entry Without Inspection,” she grew up speaking French and not Spanish in her household, along with English.  She studied theater at Barnard College, where The Barnard Bulletin praised her performances in Molière’s “The Physician in Spite of Himself” and other plays.  After she graduated in 1954, she headed to the West Coast, eventually settling in San Francisco with her husband, Felix Leneman.  A 1965 article in The San Francisco Examiner quoted her as speaking out in support of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a boundary-pushing theater company, whose performance permit had been canceled by the city after one of its shows was deemed indecent.  https://aoadailynews.com/cecile-pineda-latina-writer-known-for-a-novel-of-identity-dies-at-89/ 

"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"  "That's against the law!"  "Oh.  Of course."  -  Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 Aug 1920-2012) 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2554  August 22, 2022