There is a long history of television and film in New Jersey, which is considered the birthplace of the movie picture industry.  The roots of the industry started in Newark with Hannibal Goodwin's patent of nitrocellulose film in 1887.  Motion picture technology was invented by Thomas Edison, with early work done at his West Orange laboratory.  Edison's Black Maria, where the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States, Fred Ott's Sneeze, was shot.  The Centaur Film Company of Bayonne was the first independent movie studio in the USA.  America's first motion picture industry started in 1907 in Fort Lee and the first studio was constructed there in 1909.  The nation's first drive-in theater opened at Airport Circle in 1933.  DuMont Laboratories in Passaic, developed early sets and made the first broadcast to the private home.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_film_in_New_Jersey 

Alice Guy-Blaché:  Cinema’s First Woman Director in Newspapers  January 26, 2022 by Amber Paranick  Alice Guy-Blaché is a name you likely have never heard.  She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.  She was among the very first to use film to tell a narrative story, although for years she was largely uncredited as compared to Georges Méliès and the Lumière brothers.  Only recently, has she been acknowledged for influencing many directors that came after her.  Let’s take a look at articles on her life and career in our historic newspaper collection, Chronicling America.  “HOW A WOMAN MAKES A FORTUNE OUT OF ‘MOVIES’,” New-York Tribune (New York, NY), November 24, 1912.  Alice Ida Antoinette Guy was born in Saint-Mandé, in Paris, France on July 1, 1873, to French parents Marie and Emile Guy.  During her childhood, the Guy family moved between Chile and France.  After the family was struck by multiple tragedies in her adolescent life, Alice sought employment outside the home in order to support her family.  In 1894, she worked as a stenographer (or, secretary) to French inventor, engineer, and industrialist, Léon Gaumont.  Gaumont is considered a premier film producer who established the Gaumont Company, the first and oldest film company in the world.  Guy was inspired by the premiere of the Lumière brothers’ Cinématographe motion picture   https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/01/alice-guy-blache/ 

Oat Risotto with Peas and Pecorino  Chef Graham Elliot cooks steel-cut oats risotto-style to make a savory porridge.  For a quicker version, Grace Parisi simmers steel-cut oats risotto-style in chicken stock until they're tender, then stirs in nutty pecorino cheese and sweet baby peas.  https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/oat-risotto-with-peas-and-pecorino 

Oat Risotto With Parmesan and Peas  Steel cut oats take the place of Arborio rice in this creamy risotto-inspired dish.  It’s actually less hands on than traditional risotto.  For a different taste, try pecorino or Romano cheese in place of the parmesan.  Link to recipes such as oatmeal chocolate chip edible cookie at dough:  https://oatseveryday.com/recipes/wprm-oat-risotto-with-parmesan-and-peas/ 

Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees) found in Europe and North America.  Its common names are crab-of-the-woods, sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods.  Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tree trunks and branches.  Old fruitbodies fade to pale beige or pale grey.  The undersurface of the fruit body is made up of tubelike pores rather than gills.  Laetiporus sulphureus is a saprophyte and occasionally a weak parasite, causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood of trees on which it grows.  Unlike many bracket fungi, it is edible when young, although adverse reactions have been reported.  Laetiporus sulphureus was first described as Boletus sulphureus by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard in 1789.  It has had many synonyms and was finally given its current name in 1920 by American mycologist William Murrill.  Laetiporus means "with bright pores" and sulphureus means "the colour of sulphur".  See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus_sulphureus  

The theropod (meaning "beast-footed") dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs.  They include the largest terrestrial carnivores ever to have made the earth tremble.  What most people think of as theropods (e.g., T. rex, Deinonychus) are extinct today, but recent studies have conclusively shown that birds are actually the descendants of small nonflying theropods.  Thus when people say that dinosaurs are extinct, they are technically not correct.  See pictures at https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/theropoda.html 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2614  December 30, 2022