Auto-antonym has Greek roots meaning a word that is the opposite of itself. They have variously been called contranyms, contronyms, antilogies, Janus words (after the two-faced Greek mythical figure, from which "January" also derives), and enantiodromes. See a list of such words at: http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html
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Our eighth president, Martin Van Buren was the first bilingual president. He was raised in a community where Dutch was more common than English reflecting New York’s beginning as a colony of Holland. As a boy he spoke Dutch at home with his parents, siblings, and throughout the Village of Kinderhook. http://www.nps.gov/mava/historyculture/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren_National_Historic_Site
Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, on December 5, 1782, approximately 25 miles south of Albany. His father, Abraham Van Buren (1737–1817) was a farmer, the owner of six slaves, and a tavern-keeper in Kinderhook. Abraham Van Buren supported the American Revolution and later the Jeffersonian Republicans. He died while Martin Van Buren was a New York state senator. Martin Van Buren's mother was Maria Van Alen (née Hoes) Van Buren (1747–1818). Van Buren was the first president born a citizen of the United States, as all previous presidents were born before the American Revolution. His great-great-great-grandfather Cornelis Maessen Van Buren had come to the New World in 1631 from the village of Buren, Gelderland, Dutch Republic, present day Netherlands. Van Buren was also the only President who spoke English as a second language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren
Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it. Borders, which employs about 10,700 people, scrapped a bankruptcy-court auction scheduled for July 19 amid the dearth of bids. It said it would ask a judge Thursday to approve a sale to liquidators led by Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers Group. The company said liquidation of its remaining 399 stores could start as soon as Friday, and it is expected to go out of business for good by the end of September. Borders filed for bankruptcy-court protection in February. It has since continued to bleed cash and has had trouble persuading publishers to ship merchandise to it on normal terms that allowed the chain to pay bills later, instead of right away. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576454353768550280.html
An exhibit, Jim Henson's Fantastic World, opened July 16 in New York. The master puppeteer and media innovator behind pop culture icons such as Kermit the Frog and Big Bird was a creative thinker who understood the opportunities that television and technology presented, said Karen Falk, archivist for The Jim Henson Co. and curator of "Jim Henson's Fantastic World." "Jim was the first one to recognize that you can use television and get these incredibly expressive and believable performances out of puppets," Falk said. "This was his innovation; he was the one who started this whole thing. This is why puppetry looks like this on television, because of this man." The touring exhibit is making its last stop of a multi-year trip at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, where it will be on display into January. The museum is near Kaufman Astoria Studios, where Sesame Street is taped.
There are sketches that show Henson's original ideas for some of his puppets, like a drawing that shows how the Big Bird puppet would be operated (with a puppeteer's arm and hand stretched upright to function as the neck and head.) There are video clips showing early incarnations of Kermit, as well as samples of the work Henson did while in college, and the commercial work he did after that. His movie efforts like "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth" also are included. And of course, there are Muppets. The museum is hosting a range of programming to go along with the exhibit. It includes screenings of Henson's short and feature-length films, workshops for children on puppet-making and sound effects, and a talk by Jane Henson, his widow. http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/N-Y-exhibit-reveals-the-man-behind-the-Muppets-1468491.php
The Toledo History Museum (THM) was founded through a governing board in 2005, incorporated on July 1, 2006; and received federal tax-exempt status in September 2007. The volunteer Board consists of four officers and nine at-large trustees who meet monthly and are elected by vote of the general membership at the November business meeting. The museum, located in the Milmine-Stewart House at 2001 Collingwood Boulevard was built in 1874. It is open weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Public programs are offered in March, May; September and November, featuring guest speakers presenting talks regarding Toledo's history. http://toledohistorymuseum.org/
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Toledo Blade outdoors editor Steve Pollick and a small team canoed 130 miles of the Maumee River from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Toledo, Ohio. The trip was 37 hours and 32 minutes of paddling in a canoe, and a descent of 190 feet in elevation along the way. The Maumee River was known as "Miami of the Lake" in 1984.
June 29 article http://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2011/06/29/Quality-of-Maumee-improved-over-years.html
June 30 article http://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2011/06/30/Generosity-abounds-on-river.html
July 1 article http://www.toledoblade.com/Amateur/2011/07/01/Hot-day-turns-into-slog.html
July 2 article http://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2011/07/02/4-day-trip-shows-why-river-is-a-treasure-to-cherish.html
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From: Cyril Duff Subject: ravel
Def: 1. To fray or to become disjoined; to untangle. 2. To entangle or to become tangled.
I was first introduced to "ravel" as a schoolboy in Dublin nearly 70 years ago by my English master. He quoted Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 2 scene 1; "The innocent sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care." I thought it was a wonderful image -- and still do.
From: Eileen Baxter Subject: ravel
Several years ago, an enterprising and clever young couple developed a website called Ravelry. It is devoted to the needle arts, primarily knitting and crocheting -- think Facebook for knitters. You can post pix of completed projects, inventory yarns and books, discuss projects, yarns and even non-yarny things. I think it's interesting since many knitters have had to unravel tangles that this is the name they came up with. Thousands of knitters revel in Ravelry, and don't know how they managed without it.
From: Sandria Parsons Subject: Avocation
Def: 1. One's regular job or occupation. 2. An activity taken up besides the regular work; a hobby.
This section of a poem by Robert Frost says it like it is for me:
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
(from Two Tramps in Mud Time)
From: Stuart Showalter Subject: Inure
Def: verb tr.: To accustom to something unpleasant . verb intr.: 1. To become beneficial. 2. To take effect.
I was glad to see that your definition of inure included the intransitive meanings: "to become beneficial" and "to take effect. I n US law an organization may qualify for tax exemption if "no part of [its] net earnings ... inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual." This provision confuses some readers because dictionaries often list only the transitive meaning ("to accustom or harden"). As my Shorter OED notes, the legal meaning more closely approximates "to accrue".
From: Christel Haag Subject: ravel
An example of confusion caused by different meanings of a word was told us last week by our travel guide in Ecuador. When, at a rafting tour, the boat had overturned and one of the tourists asked the guide what he should do, the guide answered: "Nada!". In Spanish "nada" means either "nothing" or is the imperative form of "swim".
One obvious way to eliminate unnecessary copyrights is to require authors who care about copyright to register their claims, put copyright notices on copies of their works, and/or periodically renew copyrights after a period of years instead of granting rights that attach automatically and last far beyond the commercial life of the overwhelming majority of works. Copyright lawyers speak of such requirements as “formalities,” for they make the enjoyment or exercise of copyright depend on taking some steps to signal that copyright protection is important to their creators.
While many countries abandoned formality requirements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. maintained notice-on-copies and registration-for-renewal formalities until 1989. The U.S. still requires registration of copyrights as a precondition for U.S. authors to bring infringement actions, as well as for eligibility for attorney fee and statutory damage awards. Formalities do a good job weeding out who really cares about copyrights and who doesn’t. So why did the U.S. abandon formalities? In the late 1980s, U.S. copyright industries persuaded one of their own—President Ronald Reagan—that the U.S. needed to join the Berne Convention in order to exercise influence on international copyright policy. And so in 1989, under Reagan’s leadership, the U.S. joined the Berne Convention and abandoned the notice-on-copies and registration requirements that had served the nation well since its founding. In the late 1880s when the Berne Union was first formed, each of the 10 participating countries had its own unique formality requirements for copyright protection. One of the goals of the Berne Union was to overcome obstacles
to international trade in copyrighted works such as burdens of complying with multiple formalities. The initial solution to the problem of too many formalities was a Berne Convention rule that provided if an author had complied with formalities of his/her own national copyright law, other Berne Union countries would respect that and not insist on compliance with their formality requirements. Read more at: http://0-delivery.acm.org.millennium.lib.cyut.edu.tw/10.1145/1970000/1965736/p29-samuelson.pdf?ip=163.17.17.188&CFID=34746319&CFTOKEN=58170645&__acm__=1310562112_5bc5893c4641fcb4b8bc743d7a33044e
Bath salts contain manmade chemicals like mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV, also known as substituted cathinones. Both drugs are related to khat, an organic stimulant found in Arab and East African countries that is illegal in the United States. Though they come in powder and crystal form like traditional bath salts — hence their name — they differ in one crucial way: they are used as recreational drugs. People typically snort, inject or smoke them. Poison control centers around the country received 3,470 calls about bath salts from January through June, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, up from 303 in all of 2010. “Some of these folks aren’t right for a long time,” said Karen E. Simone, director of the Northern New England Poison Center. “If you gave me a list of drugs that I wouldn’t want to touch, this would be at the top.” At least 28 states have banned bath salts, which are typically sold for $25 to $50 per 50-milligram packet at convenience stores and head shops under names like Aura, Ivory Wave, Loco-Motion and Vanilla Sky. Most of the bans are in the South and the Midwest, where the drugs have grown quickly in popularity. But states like Maine, New Jersey and New York have also outlawed them after seeing evidence that their use was spreading. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/us/17salts.html
A Michigan law school filed two lawsuits July 14 – one against a New York law firm and another against four anonymous internet commentators – accusing them of defamation. In one lawsuit, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, located in Lansing, Michigan, claims that it has been the victim of ads on Craigslist and Facebook – posted by attorneys at Kurzon Strauss LLP – seeking former Cooley law students to join in on a potential class action suit against the school. (Click here for an example.) One of Cooley’s concerns with Kurzon Strauss’ online postings regard the school’s student loan default rate, James Thelen, the school’s general counsel, told the WSJ Law Blog. For instance, the law firm allegedly claimed that there were reports of Cooley law grads “defaulting on loans at an astounding 41 percent” in various online posts, according to the papers filed by the school. Thelen claims the actual rate is 2.2 percent. In the second lawsuit, also filed July 14, the school claims that four “John Doe” defendants have been blogging and perpetuating online comments damaging to the school’s reputation, Thelen said.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/07/15/law-school-sues-new-york-law-firm-for-defamation/
Kurzon Strauss attorney David Anziska said his firm has not crossed any legal lines. "This is the most ridiculous, absurd lawsuit filed in recent history," he said one day after the suit was filed in Michigan state court. "We fully intend to countersue and hold accountable both Thomas Cooley and their lawyers at [Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone] for abusing the legal system with their blatantly idiotic lawsuit." The National Law Journal July 15, 2011
Who am I?
I was the first president born under the U.S. flag. I was the first bi-lingual president. I was the first president not of British descent, and the first president to be born an American citizen.
Answer is forthcoming.
Website of the Day Indexed thisisindexed.com
On this intriguing blog, Jessica Hagy posts a small chart, graph or Venn diagram each weekday that offers introspective and sharp conclusions on the relationships between things. From pop culture to school to politics, the insights are smart.
Number to Know 27: Years that Nelson Mandela spent in prison during apartheid.
This Day in History July 18, 1976: Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics. It happened at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Today’s Featured Birthday Nelson Mandela (93)
Daily Quote
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” Nelson Mandela
http://www.therolladailynews.com/newsnow/x401787673/Morning-Minutes-July-18
June 29 article http://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2011/06/29/Quality-of-Maumee-improved-over-years.html
June 30 article http://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2011/06/30/Generosity-abounds-on-river.html
July 1 article http://www.toledoblade.com/Amateur/2011/07/01/Hot-day-turns-into-slog.html
July 2 article http://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2011/07/02/4-day-trip-shows-why-river-is-a-treasure-to-cherish.html
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From: Cyril Duff Subject: ravel
Def: 1. To fray or to become disjoined; to untangle. 2. To entangle or to become tangled.
I was first introduced to "ravel" as a schoolboy in Dublin nearly 70 years ago by my English master. He quoted Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 2 scene 1; "The innocent sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care." I thought it was a wonderful image -- and still do.
From: Eileen Baxter Subject: ravel
Several years ago, an enterprising and clever young couple developed a website called Ravelry. It is devoted to the needle arts, primarily knitting and crocheting -- think Facebook for knitters. You can post pix of completed projects, inventory yarns and books, discuss projects, yarns and even non-yarny things. I think it's interesting since many knitters have had to unravel tangles that this is the name they came up with. Thousands of knitters revel in Ravelry, and don't know how they managed without it.
From: Sandria Parsons Subject: Avocation
Def: 1. One's regular job or occupation. 2. An activity taken up besides the regular work; a hobby.
This section of a poem by Robert Frost says it like it is for me:
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
(from Two Tramps in Mud Time)
From: Stuart Showalter Subject: Inure
Def: verb tr.: To accustom to something unpleasant . verb intr.: 1. To become beneficial. 2. To take effect.
I was glad to see that your definition of inure included the intransitive meanings: "to become beneficial" and "to take effect. I n US law an organization may qualify for tax exemption if "no part of [its] net earnings ... inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual." This provision confuses some readers because dictionaries often list only the transitive meaning ("to accustom or harden"). As my Shorter OED notes, the legal meaning more closely approximates "to accrue".
From: Christel Haag Subject: ravel
An example of confusion caused by different meanings of a word was told us last week by our travel guide in Ecuador. When, at a rafting tour, the boat had overturned and one of the tourists asked the guide what he should do, the guide answered: "Nada!". In Spanish "nada" means either "nothing" or is the imperative form of "swim".
One obvious way to eliminate unnecessary copyrights is to require authors who care about copyright to register their claims, put copyright notices on copies of their works, and/or periodically renew copyrights after a period of years instead of granting rights that attach automatically and last far beyond the commercial life of the overwhelming majority of works. Copyright lawyers speak of such requirements as “formalities,” for they make the enjoyment or exercise of copyright depend on taking some steps to signal that copyright protection is important to their creators.
While many countries abandoned formality requirements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. maintained notice-on-copies and registration-for-renewal formalities until 1989. The U.S. still requires registration of copyrights as a precondition for U.S. authors to bring infringement actions, as well as for eligibility for attorney fee and statutory damage awards. Formalities do a good job weeding out who really cares about copyrights and who doesn’t. So why did the U.S. abandon formalities? In the late 1980s, U.S. copyright industries persuaded one of their own—President Ronald Reagan—that the U.S. needed to join the Berne Convention in order to exercise influence on international copyright policy. And so in 1989, under Reagan’s leadership, the U.S. joined the Berne Convention and abandoned the notice-on-copies and registration requirements that had served the nation well since its founding. In the late 1880s when the Berne Union was first formed, each of the 10 participating countries had its own unique formality requirements for copyright protection. One of the goals of the Berne Union was to overcome obstacles
to international trade in copyrighted works such as burdens of complying with multiple formalities. The initial solution to the problem of too many formalities was a Berne Convention rule that provided if an author had complied with formalities of his/her own national copyright law, other Berne Union countries would respect that and not insist on compliance with their formality requirements. Read more at: http://0-delivery.acm.org.millennium.lib.cyut.edu.tw/10.1145/1970000/1965736/p29-samuelson.pdf?ip=163.17.17.188&CFID=34746319&CFTOKEN=58170645&__acm__=1310562112_5bc5893c4641fcb4b8bc743d7a33044e
Bath salts contain manmade chemicals like mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV, also known as substituted cathinones. Both drugs are related to khat, an organic stimulant found in Arab and East African countries that is illegal in the United States. Though they come in powder and crystal form like traditional bath salts — hence their name — they differ in one crucial way: they are used as recreational drugs. People typically snort, inject or smoke them. Poison control centers around the country received 3,470 calls about bath salts from January through June, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, up from 303 in all of 2010. “Some of these folks aren’t right for a long time,” said Karen E. Simone, director of the Northern New England Poison Center. “If you gave me a list of drugs that I wouldn’t want to touch, this would be at the top.” At least 28 states have banned bath salts, which are typically sold for $25 to $50 per 50-milligram packet at convenience stores and head shops under names like Aura, Ivory Wave, Loco-Motion and Vanilla Sky. Most of the bans are in the South and the Midwest, where the drugs have grown quickly in popularity. But states like Maine, New Jersey and New York have also outlawed them after seeing evidence that their use was spreading. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/us/17salts.html
A Michigan law school filed two lawsuits July 14 – one against a New York law firm and another against four anonymous internet commentators – accusing them of defamation. In one lawsuit, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, located in Lansing, Michigan, claims that it has been the victim of ads on Craigslist and Facebook – posted by attorneys at Kurzon Strauss LLP – seeking former Cooley law students to join in on a potential class action suit against the school. (Click here for an example.) One of Cooley’s concerns with Kurzon Strauss’ online postings regard the school’s student loan default rate, James Thelen, the school’s general counsel, told the WSJ Law Blog. For instance, the law firm allegedly claimed that there were reports of Cooley law grads “defaulting on loans at an astounding 41 percent” in various online posts, according to the papers filed by the school. Thelen claims the actual rate is 2.2 percent. In the second lawsuit, also filed July 14, the school claims that four “John Doe” defendants have been blogging and perpetuating online comments damaging to the school’s reputation, Thelen said.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/07/15/law-school-sues-new-york-law-firm-for-defamation/
Kurzon Strauss attorney David Anziska said his firm has not crossed any legal lines. "This is the most ridiculous, absurd lawsuit filed in recent history," he said one day after the suit was filed in Michigan state court. "We fully intend to countersue and hold accountable both Thomas Cooley and their lawyers at [Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone] for abusing the legal system with their blatantly idiotic lawsuit." The National Law Journal July 15, 2011
Who am I?
I was the first president born under the U.S. flag. I was the first bi-lingual president. I was the first president not of British descent, and the first president to be born an American citizen.
Answer is forthcoming.
Website of the Day Indexed thisisindexed.com
On this intriguing blog, Jessica Hagy posts a small chart, graph or Venn diagram each weekday that offers introspective and sharp conclusions on the relationships between things. From pop culture to school to politics, the insights are smart.
Number to Know 27: Years that Nelson Mandela spent in prison during apartheid.
This Day in History July 18, 1976: Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics. It happened at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Today’s Featured Birthday Nelson Mandela (93)
Daily Quote
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” Nelson Mandela
http://www.therolladailynews.com/newsnow/x401787673/Morning-Minutes-July-18
Friday, July 15, 2011
Starting this fall, the state Department of Education will no longer require Indiana’s public schools to teach cursive writing. State officials notified school leaders on April 25 that instead of cursive writing, students will be expected to become proficient in keyboard use. The Times of Munster reports the memo says schools may continue to teach cursive as a local standard, or they may decide to stop teaching cursive altogether. http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/Indiana-Schools-Ending-Cursive-Writing-Requirement-124767644.html
Ant factoids According to different estimates, ants can carry 10 - 50 times their body weight. Scientists have described over 12000 ant species. Many more have yet to be discovered, especially in the tropics. The total weight of all ants on Earth is close to that of humans. Ants communicate mainly using chemicals, which they sense with their antennae. In addition, nestmates recognize one another by chemicals on their bodies. They eat other insects, pollinate plants, disperse seeds, move soil, and circulate nutrients.
http://askabiologist.asu.edu/content/ant-factoids
Edible garden Throughout the spring and summer, visitors to the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden in The New York Botanical Garden, open daily 1:30-6 p.m. during the vegetable gardening season, will be able to see a cornucopia of fresh food growing in Mario Batali's Edible Garden display beds: oregano, onions, basil, tomatoes, eggplants, wheat, sweet peppers, and hot peppers in "The Otto Pizza Garden;" escarole, endives, radicchio, fennel, parsley, chard, rosemary, broccoli, arugala, fava beans, shallots, beets, dandelion greens, kale, lettuce, and turnips in "The Babbo Beets, Beans, Garlic, and Greens Garden;" and strawberries and a variety of raspberries in "Batali's Berry Patch." Beginning August 27, Mario Batali's Edible Garden program will allow families to enjoy daily gardening activities and cooking demonstrations that showcase kid-friendly recipes with the chance to sample and search for ingredients in the garden. See what's growing at: http://www.nybg.org/gardens/mario-batali-edible-garden.php
Japanese scientists have discovered that songbirds are using their own form of grammar. The study challenges the belief that only humans are able to use grammatical rules to process strings of sound such as sentences. The experiments, described in Nature Neuroscience in June 2011, were carried out on Bengalese finches by Kentaro Abe and Dai Watanabe of the University of Kyoto in Japan. Bird song can be thought of as being like a sentence, with the different sounds being like words. The scientists played jumbled-up bird songs to individual finches to see whether the birds responded with the usual burst of calls to the jumbled songs. To their surprise they found that there were some jumbled songs that elicited a call-burst response and some that did not. Even more surprising: all the birds responded in the same way. If one bird ignored a jumbled call, all the other birds ignored that call too. http://news.discovery.com/animals/finches-songs-grammar-110627.html
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born November 30, 1835, in Florida, MO, died April 21, 1910, in Redding, CT, and is buried in Elmira, NY. He wrote under the psudonym Mark Twain, and sometimes contributed to periodicals under pseudonyms Quentin Curtius Snodgrass, Josh, and S. L. C. Read about his career, awards, and writings at: http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/twainbio.html
Tiny Dublin, Texas Dr Pepper Bottling Co. has been selling the sweet-tasting Dr Pepper soft drink from this small town since 1891. A handful of diehard fans love the soda so much they regularly make pilgrimages to the rural community, and some buy the cane-sugar-sweetened "Dublin Dr Pepper" off the Internet. Now the world's oldest Dr Pepper bottler is locked in an escalating dispute with the owner of the Dr Pepper brand over modern-day trademark rights, Internet sales and cane sugar as it tries to extend its reach across the country. Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., which owns the brand and licenses territory to Dublin Dr Pepper, sued the bottler, with sales of $7 million a year, in late June. Dr Pepper Snapple—the third-largest U.S. soda company, with revenue of $5.6 billion last year—says Dublin Dr. Pepper is diluting the Dr Pepper brand, as well as stealing sales from other Dr Pepper bottlers by selling outside its approved territory. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Sherman, Texas, Dr Pepper Snapple Group is demanding the bottler remove "Dublin'' from its "Dr Pepper'' labels and stop selling the soda beyond a 44-mile radius around Dublin. Dublin Dr Pepper sells less than 1% of Dr Pepper's annual U.S. volume. But its sales and cachet have grown in recent years as it has promoted its status as the oldest Dr Pepper bottler and the fact that it has always used cane sugar to sweeten its soda. By contrast, most bottlers began switching to less-costly high-fructose corn syrup in the 1970s. Miles Gilman, owner of Granny Clark's, a Dublin diner, says customers start ordering the local version when he opens his doors at 6 o'clock in the morning and estimates about one-third are tourists.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576440234236392462.html
Website of the Day Cost to Drive costtodrive.com Whether you’re planning a road trip or just trying to save on gas money, this site will tell you how much it costs. Enter your route and car information, and find out approximately how much it will cost you in gas and the size of your carbon footprint.
Number to Know 3: Ranking of Canada in the State of World Liberty Index, which ranks countries according to the degree of economic and personal freedoms that their citizens enjoy. Today is Respect Canada Day.
This Day in History July 15, 1979: President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as malaise. (See below for excerpt.)
Daily Quote “I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. … I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might. The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation. …” Jimmy Carter
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/news/x2108621846/Morning-Minutes-July-15
Ant factoids According to different estimates, ants can carry 10 - 50 times their body weight. Scientists have described over 12000 ant species. Many more have yet to be discovered, especially in the tropics. The total weight of all ants on Earth is close to that of humans. Ants communicate mainly using chemicals, which they sense with their antennae. In addition, nestmates recognize one another by chemicals on their bodies. They eat other insects, pollinate plants, disperse seeds, move soil, and circulate nutrients.
http://askabiologist.asu.edu/content/ant-factoids
Edible garden Throughout the spring and summer, visitors to the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden in The New York Botanical Garden, open daily 1:30-6 p.m. during the vegetable gardening season, will be able to see a cornucopia of fresh food growing in Mario Batali's Edible Garden display beds: oregano, onions, basil, tomatoes, eggplants, wheat, sweet peppers, and hot peppers in "The Otto Pizza Garden;" escarole, endives, radicchio, fennel, parsley, chard, rosemary, broccoli, arugala, fava beans, shallots, beets, dandelion greens, kale, lettuce, and turnips in "The Babbo Beets, Beans, Garlic, and Greens Garden;" and strawberries and a variety of raspberries in "Batali's Berry Patch." Beginning August 27, Mario Batali's Edible Garden program will allow families to enjoy daily gardening activities and cooking demonstrations that showcase kid-friendly recipes with the chance to sample and search for ingredients in the garden. See what's growing at: http://www.nybg.org/gardens/mario-batali-edible-garden.php
Japanese scientists have discovered that songbirds are using their own form of grammar. The study challenges the belief that only humans are able to use grammatical rules to process strings of sound such as sentences. The experiments, described in Nature Neuroscience in June 2011, were carried out on Bengalese finches by Kentaro Abe and Dai Watanabe of the University of Kyoto in Japan. Bird song can be thought of as being like a sentence, with the different sounds being like words. The scientists played jumbled-up bird songs to individual finches to see whether the birds responded with the usual burst of calls to the jumbled songs. To their surprise they found that there were some jumbled songs that elicited a call-burst response and some that did not. Even more surprising: all the birds responded in the same way. If one bird ignored a jumbled call, all the other birds ignored that call too. http://news.discovery.com/animals/finches-songs-grammar-110627.html
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born November 30, 1835, in Florida, MO, died April 21, 1910, in Redding, CT, and is buried in Elmira, NY. He wrote under the psudonym Mark Twain, and sometimes contributed to periodicals under pseudonyms Quentin Curtius Snodgrass, Josh, and S. L. C. Read about his career, awards, and writings at: http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/twainbio.html
Tiny Dublin, Texas Dr Pepper Bottling Co. has been selling the sweet-tasting Dr Pepper soft drink from this small town since 1891. A handful of diehard fans love the soda so much they regularly make pilgrimages to the rural community, and some buy the cane-sugar-sweetened "Dublin Dr Pepper" off the Internet. Now the world's oldest Dr Pepper bottler is locked in an escalating dispute with the owner of the Dr Pepper brand over modern-day trademark rights, Internet sales and cane sugar as it tries to extend its reach across the country. Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., which owns the brand and licenses territory to Dublin Dr Pepper, sued the bottler, with sales of $7 million a year, in late June. Dr Pepper Snapple—the third-largest U.S. soda company, with revenue of $5.6 billion last year—says Dublin Dr. Pepper is diluting the Dr Pepper brand, as well as stealing sales from other Dr Pepper bottlers by selling outside its approved territory. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Sherman, Texas, Dr Pepper Snapple Group is demanding the bottler remove "Dublin'' from its "Dr Pepper'' labels and stop selling the soda beyond a 44-mile radius around Dublin. Dublin Dr Pepper sells less than 1% of Dr Pepper's annual U.S. volume. But its sales and cachet have grown in recent years as it has promoted its status as the oldest Dr Pepper bottler and the fact that it has always used cane sugar to sweeten its soda. By contrast, most bottlers began switching to less-costly high-fructose corn syrup in the 1970s. Miles Gilman, owner of Granny Clark's, a Dublin diner, says customers start ordering the local version when he opens his doors at 6 o'clock in the morning and estimates about one-third are tourists.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576440234236392462.html
Website of the Day Cost to Drive costtodrive.com Whether you’re planning a road trip or just trying to save on gas money, this site will tell you how much it costs. Enter your route and car information, and find out approximately how much it will cost you in gas and the size of your carbon footprint.
Number to Know 3: Ranking of Canada in the State of World Liberty Index, which ranks countries according to the degree of economic and personal freedoms that their citizens enjoy. Today is Respect Canada Day.
This Day in History July 15, 1979: President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as malaise. (See below for excerpt.)
Daily Quote “I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. … I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might. The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation. …” Jimmy Carter
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/news/x2108621846/Morning-Minutes-July-15
Thursday, July 14, 2011
We have returned from a 10-day vacation and enjoyed fresh country air in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts while staying in a former 1849 schoolhouse converted to a private home over a century ago. The building is near one of the entrances to the Appalachian Trail. http://www.appalachiantrail.org/about-the-trail/terrain-by-region/massachusetts We attended the 10th annual Berkshire Arts Festival in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and heard the California Guitar Trio at Infinity Music Hall & Bistro in Norfolk, Connecticut http://infinityhall.com/ We spent a few hours at The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, usually referred to simply as "The Clark," an art museum with a large and varied collection located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In June 2008 it expanded with the addition of the Stone Hill Center, a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) building designed by Tadao Ando on a nearby wooded hillside that contains exhibition space and a conservation studio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Art_Institute
The Clark http://www.clarkart.edu/museum/exhibitions-current.cfm
We began our journey in Rochester, New York and ended it in Corning. Rochester was founded in 1811 as Rochesterville, and in 1834 became known as Rochester. Some of its nicknames are Flour City (was the largest flour-producing city in the world in the 1830s), Young Lion of the West and Flower City. It's also been called Birthplace of Amateur Photography, Picture City, Kodak Town and The World's Image Centre. In the 1840s, Frederick Douglass founded a newspaper called The North Star. In 1853, John Jacob Bausch opened an optical shop; he later created with Henry Lomb the company known today as Bausch and Lomb. The Susan B. Anthony house still stands, where she was arrested for voting in 1872. http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/index.php In 1888, Kodak founder George Eastman invented a box camera and roll film. In 1921 Eastman founded the Eastman School of Music and built the Eastman Theatre. In 1928, Eastman and Thomas Edison introduced color motion pictures to the world from the Eastman estate. In 1938, Chester Carlson developed the first xerographic image.
The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York, explores every facet of glass, including art, history, culture, science and technology, craft, and design. Conceived of as an accredited educational institution and founded in 1950 by the Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated), the Museum has never been a showcase for the company or its products, but rather exists as a non-profit institution that preserves and expands the world's understanding of glass. The Museum is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass--more than 45,000 glass objects, spanning 3,500 years of glassmaking history. Visitors can also explore the science and technology of glass in a hands-on exhibit area, see live narrated glassmaking demonstrations and try their hand at glassworking in short daily workshops. When the Museum officially opened to the public in 1951, it contained a significant collection of glass and glass-related books and documents: there were 2,000 objects, two staff members, and a research library, housed in a low, glass-walled building designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. In June 1972, disaster struck as Hurricane Agnes emptied a week's worth of rain into the surrounding Chemung River Valley. On June 23rd, the Chemung River overflowed its banks and poured five feet four inches of floodwater into the Museum. When the waters receded, staff members found glass objects tumbled in their cases and crusted with mud, the library's books swollen with water. According to Martin and Edwards, 528 of the museum's 13,000 objects had sustained damage. At the time, Buechner described the flood as "possibly the greatest single catastrophe borne by an American museum." Museum staff members, under the directorship of Robert H. Brill were faced with the tremendous task of restoration: every glass object had to be meticulously cleaned and restored, while the library's contents had to be cleaned and dried page by page, slide by slide, even before being assessed for rebinding, restoration, or replacement. On August 1, 1972, the Museum reopened with restoration work still underway. By 1978, the Museum had outgrown its space. Gunnar Birkerts designed a new addition, creating a flowing series of galleries with the library at their core, linked to the old building via light-filled, windowed ramps. With memories of the hurricane still fresh, the new galleries were raised high above the flood line on concrete pillars. The new Museum opened to the public on May 28, 1980, exactly 29 years after its first opening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corning_Museum_of_Glass
At the Corning museum, we saw Sasanian glass, crystallophone, micromosaics, offhand wares, Hedwig beaker, demonstration of glass optical fiber, telescopes, lenses, and an explanation of the difference between fakes and forgeries. Fake means altered genuine object. Forgery means copy or imitation.
Sasanian Glass is the glassware produced between the 3rd and the 7th centuries AD within the limits of the Sasanian Empire, namely Northern Iraq, Iran and Central Asia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanian_glass
Libraries visited during our recent vacation:
Massachusetts: New Marlborough, Stockbridge (also houses museum and historical archives), Williamstown--library at The Clark Art Institute.
New York: Corning, Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County with two large buildings connected by an underground walkway and a secluded reading garden accessible from one of the buildings.
A battle is shaping up in California that pits two big retailers against a big insurer over who will pick up the costs of a new breed of consumer class-action litigation tied to merchants' collection of ZIP codes for credit-card purchases. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is resisting efforts by Crate & Barrel and Children's Place Retail Stores Inc. to use their liability-insurance policies to pay legal bills in defending against lawsuits alleging violation of consumers' privacy, according to court filings by Hartford. The insurer maintains that the insurance policies exclude coverage for alleged violations of certain privacy statutes. Hartford's fight against the two retailers is believed to be the first of many showdowns to come as insurers seek court rulings that their policies don't obligate them to pony up what is likely to total hundreds of millions of dollars for the costs of defending against the burgeoning number of ZIP-code lawsuits. The two retailers are among more than 100 merchants facing separate lawsuits in California courts since February. That is when the California Supreme Court ruled that ZIP codes qualify as personal-identification information under a longstanding state privacy statute. The statute prohibits merchants from requesting personal-identification information when customers pay by credit card. The court noted that ZIP codes can be used by retailers to deduce a customer's full address, which can be sold to other businesses. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576440122023916928.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
July 13, 2011 Morning Minutes
Website of the Day Artocracy www.artocracy.org
This digital marketplace for original art helps connect artists with those who are looking for original, affordable prints. Prices range from $20 to $50 for individual prints, and artists benefit from exposure and sales. Check it out; you might find something you like.
Number to Know 400 million: Estimated number of people who watched the Live Aid concert on TV on this date in 1985.
This Day in History July 13, 1923: The Hollywood sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland," but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/news/x977394258/Morning-Minutes-July-13
The Clark http://www.clarkart.edu/museum/exhibitions-current.cfm
We began our journey in Rochester, New York and ended it in Corning. Rochester was founded in 1811 as Rochesterville, and in 1834 became known as Rochester. Some of its nicknames are Flour City (was the largest flour-producing city in the world in the 1830s), Young Lion of the West and Flower City. It's also been called Birthplace of Amateur Photography, Picture City, Kodak Town and The World's Image Centre. In the 1840s, Frederick Douglass founded a newspaper called The North Star. In 1853, John Jacob Bausch opened an optical shop; he later created with Henry Lomb the company known today as Bausch and Lomb. The Susan B. Anthony house still stands, where she was arrested for voting in 1872. http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/index.php In 1888, Kodak founder George Eastman invented a box camera and roll film. In 1921 Eastman founded the Eastman School of Music and built the Eastman Theatre. In 1928, Eastman and Thomas Edison introduced color motion pictures to the world from the Eastman estate. In 1938, Chester Carlson developed the first xerographic image.
The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York, explores every facet of glass, including art, history, culture, science and technology, craft, and design. Conceived of as an accredited educational institution and founded in 1950 by the Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated), the Museum has never been a showcase for the company or its products, but rather exists as a non-profit institution that preserves and expands the world's understanding of glass. The Museum is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass--more than 45,000 glass objects, spanning 3,500 years of glassmaking history. Visitors can also explore the science and technology of glass in a hands-on exhibit area, see live narrated glassmaking demonstrations and try their hand at glassworking in short daily workshops. When the Museum officially opened to the public in 1951, it contained a significant collection of glass and glass-related books and documents: there were 2,000 objects, two staff members, and a research library, housed in a low, glass-walled building designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. In June 1972, disaster struck as Hurricane Agnes emptied a week's worth of rain into the surrounding Chemung River Valley. On June 23rd, the Chemung River overflowed its banks and poured five feet four inches of floodwater into the Museum. When the waters receded, staff members found glass objects tumbled in their cases and crusted with mud, the library's books swollen with water. According to Martin and Edwards, 528 of the museum's 13,000 objects had sustained damage. At the time, Buechner described the flood as "possibly the greatest single catastrophe borne by an American museum." Museum staff members, under the directorship of Robert H. Brill were faced with the tremendous task of restoration: every glass object had to be meticulously cleaned and restored, while the library's contents had to be cleaned and dried page by page, slide by slide, even before being assessed for rebinding, restoration, or replacement. On August 1, 1972, the Museum reopened with restoration work still underway. By 1978, the Museum had outgrown its space. Gunnar Birkerts designed a new addition, creating a flowing series of galleries with the library at their core, linked to the old building via light-filled, windowed ramps. With memories of the hurricane still fresh, the new galleries were raised high above the flood line on concrete pillars. The new Museum opened to the public on May 28, 1980, exactly 29 years after its first opening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corning_Museum_of_Glass
At the Corning museum, we saw Sasanian glass, crystallophone, micromosaics, offhand wares, Hedwig beaker, demonstration of glass optical fiber, telescopes, lenses, and an explanation of the difference between fakes and forgeries. Fake means altered genuine object. Forgery means copy or imitation.
Sasanian Glass is the glassware produced between the 3rd and the 7th centuries AD within the limits of the Sasanian Empire, namely Northern Iraq, Iran and Central Asia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanian_glass
Libraries visited during our recent vacation:
Massachusetts: New Marlborough, Stockbridge (also houses museum and historical archives), Williamstown--library at The Clark Art Institute.
New York: Corning, Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County with two large buildings connected by an underground walkway and a secluded reading garden accessible from one of the buildings.
A battle is shaping up in California that pits two big retailers against a big insurer over who will pick up the costs of a new breed of consumer class-action litigation tied to merchants' collection of ZIP codes for credit-card purchases. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is resisting efforts by Crate & Barrel and Children's Place Retail Stores Inc. to use their liability-insurance policies to pay legal bills in defending against lawsuits alleging violation of consumers' privacy, according to court filings by Hartford. The insurer maintains that the insurance policies exclude coverage for alleged violations of certain privacy statutes. Hartford's fight against the two retailers is believed to be the first of many showdowns to come as insurers seek court rulings that their policies don't obligate them to pony up what is likely to total hundreds of millions of dollars for the costs of defending against the burgeoning number of ZIP-code lawsuits. The two retailers are among more than 100 merchants facing separate lawsuits in California courts since February. That is when the California Supreme Court ruled that ZIP codes qualify as personal-identification information under a longstanding state privacy statute. The statute prohibits merchants from requesting personal-identification information when customers pay by credit card. The court noted that ZIP codes can be used by retailers to deduce a customer's full address, which can be sold to other businesses. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576440122023916928.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
July 13, 2011 Morning Minutes
Website of the Day Artocracy www.artocracy.org
This digital marketplace for original art helps connect artists with those who are looking for original, affordable prints. Prices range from $20 to $50 for individual prints, and artists benefit from exposure and sales. Check it out; you might find something you like.
Number to Know 400 million: Estimated number of people who watched the Live Aid concert on TV on this date in 1985.
This Day in History July 13, 1923: The Hollywood sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland," but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/news/x977394258/Morning-Minutes-July-13
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The term limnology was coined by François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912) who established the field with his studies of Lake Geneva. Interest in the discipline rapidly expanded, and in 1922 August Thienemann (a German zoologist) and Einar Naumann (a Swedish botanist) co-founded the International Society of Limnology (SIL, for originally Societas Internationalis Limnologiae). Forel's original definition of limnology, "the oceanography of lakes", was expanded to encompass the study of all inland waters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnology
Lake Vostok lies in the heart of the Antarctic continent hidden beneath 4 kilometers of ice. As big as Lake Ontario in North America, Lake Vostok is one of the world's biggest freshwater lakes. Lake Vostok has been covered by the vast Antarctic ice sheet for up to 25 million years. The lake was named for the Russian research station that sits above its southern tip. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/vostok.html
The Rhine River rises in two headstreams high in the Swiss Alps. The Vorderrhein emerges from Lake Toma at 7,690 feet, near the Oberalp Pass in the Central Alps, and then flows eastward past Disentis to be joined by the Hinterrhein from the south at Reichenau above Chur. (The Hinterrhein rises about five miles west of San Bernardino Pass, near the Swiss–Italian border, and is joined by the Albula River below Thusis.) Below Chur, the Rhine leaves the Alps to form the boundary first between Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein and then between Switzerland and Austria, before forming a delta as the current slackens at the entrance to Lake Constance. In this flat-floored section the Rhine has been straightened and the banks reinforced to prevent flooding. The Rhine leaves the lake via its Untersee arm. From there to its bend at Basel, the river is called the Hochrhein (“High Rhine”) http://www.history.com/topics/rhine-river
The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center officially opened its doors on Dec. 4, 1998, with students and teachers from the Bradford Academy in Montclair being the first public visitors. The YBMLC - a 501 © 3 nonprofit organization is located on the campus of Montclair State University, New Jersey’s fastest growing and second-largest university, adjacent to Yogi Berra Stadium, home of the minor-league New Jersey Jackals and Montclair State Red Hawks. http://www.yogiberramuseum.org/museum/yogi-berra-museum-history
Quotes from and about Yogi Berra
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml
Music and sports are so intertwined it's hard to imagine one without the other. Boston fans sing "Tessie" and "Sweet Caroline" to rally the Red Sox. The Alan Parsons Project greets the Bulls. "One Shining Moment" gift-wraps the Final Four. T he action on the field has a built-in sound track—a perfect score. It works the other way too: Sports is infused in music as much as music is infused in sports. Last year John Fogerty was honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame on the 25th anniversary of "Centerfield." This month singer-songwriter Terry Cashman will receive the same nod for "Talkin' Baseball." In recent years Fenway Park has been a literal bandbox, hosting shows by Springsteen and the Stones, among others; in 2005, Jimmy Buffett (a monster Cubs fan and part-owner of a minor league team) played the first concert at Wrigley Field. Joe Frazier crooned, Bernie Williams strums, Ron Artest and Kobe Bryant rap (unfortunately) and former defensive tackle Mike Reid churns out beautiful country melodies. And the list of artists with sports-themed songs spans the breadth of popular music: Bob Dylan, Jay-Z, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Common, New Order, Miles Davis, the Pogues, Snoop Dogg . . . and on and on. That is the rich vein from which Sports Illustrated has mined its first collection of Sports' Greatest Hits. See playlist of 40 songs as selected by Greg Kelly at: Sports Illustrated, July 4, 2001 issue, p. 128 or at: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1187838/index.htm
Neon lights Glass tubes are heated over a flame and bent into shapes (usually letters). After that, neon gas is injected inside the tube to give it a desired glow. In 1898, English chemist Morris Travers and Scottish chemist William Ramsey cooled a sample of the atmosphere until it became a liquid. Ramsey then captured the gases within after boiling the liquid, one of which was neon. Georges Claude invented neon tubing and applied for a patent for his invention in 1911. This led to neon tubing as a vehicle for advertising starting in the 1920s. In 1922, The Packard Agency became the first company in America to use neon lights to advertise their products. http://www.ehow.com/facts_7497836_fun-neon-lights.html
The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Within the very wide range of Eurasian decorative art that includes motifs matching this basic definition the term "arabesque" is used consistently as a technical term by art historians to describe only elements of the decoration found in two phases: Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.
See pictures at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque
In Ballet: Arabesque (ballet position), a classical ballet position
In Music: Arabesque (Turkish music), a music genre Arabesque (classical music), a kind of classical piece Arabesque (1 & 2), two impressionist pieces by Claude Debussy Arabesque (group), a 70's European disco music band Arabesque (rapper) (born 1981), hip hop artist from Toronto Arabesque, British band formed by Keith Girdler and Paul Stewart of Blueboy Arabesque, a 1999 album by Korekyojin Arabesque Records, a jazz record label Arabesque: Geçmiş, Geçmemiş Hiç..., an album by Işın Karaca
Other: Arabesque (film), a 1966 film by Stanley Donen, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren Arabesque (gay film), a 2005 pornographic film released by Raging Stallion Studios Arabesk trilogy, a series of novels by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Arabesque TV, an Arabic-language TV station Arabesque Software, the makers of Ecco Pro Arabesque, a manga series by Ryōko Yamagishi Arabesque, distributed by Big Fish Games Arabesque (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby lamb produced by Ty, Inc. Arabesques (literature), an international multilingual poetry and literary journal and publisher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque_(disambiguation)
Lake Vostok lies in the heart of the Antarctic continent hidden beneath 4 kilometers of ice. As big as Lake Ontario in North America, Lake Vostok is one of the world's biggest freshwater lakes. Lake Vostok has been covered by the vast Antarctic ice sheet for up to 25 million years. The lake was named for the Russian research station that sits above its southern tip. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/vostok.html
The Rhine River rises in two headstreams high in the Swiss Alps. The Vorderrhein emerges from Lake Toma at 7,690 feet, near the Oberalp Pass in the Central Alps, and then flows eastward past Disentis to be joined by the Hinterrhein from the south at Reichenau above Chur. (The Hinterrhein rises about five miles west of San Bernardino Pass, near the Swiss–Italian border, and is joined by the Albula River below Thusis.) Below Chur, the Rhine leaves the Alps to form the boundary first between Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein and then between Switzerland and Austria, before forming a delta as the current slackens at the entrance to Lake Constance. In this flat-floored section the Rhine has been straightened and the banks reinforced to prevent flooding. The Rhine leaves the lake via its Untersee arm. From there to its bend at Basel, the river is called the Hochrhein (“High Rhine”) http://www.history.com/topics/rhine-river
The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center officially opened its doors on Dec. 4, 1998, with students and teachers from the Bradford Academy in Montclair being the first public visitors. The YBMLC - a 501 © 3 nonprofit organization is located on the campus of Montclair State University, New Jersey’s fastest growing and second-largest university, adjacent to Yogi Berra Stadium, home of the minor-league New Jersey Jackals and Montclair State Red Hawks. http://www.yogiberramuseum.org/museum/yogi-berra-museum-history
Quotes from and about Yogi Berra
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml
Music and sports are so intertwined it's hard to imagine one without the other. Boston fans sing "Tessie" and "Sweet Caroline" to rally the Red Sox. The Alan Parsons Project greets the Bulls. "One Shining Moment" gift-wraps the Final Four. T he action on the field has a built-in sound track—a perfect score. It works the other way too: Sports is infused in music as much as music is infused in sports. Last year John Fogerty was honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame on the 25th anniversary of "Centerfield." This month singer-songwriter Terry Cashman will receive the same nod for "Talkin' Baseball." In recent years Fenway Park has been a literal bandbox, hosting shows by Springsteen and the Stones, among others; in 2005, Jimmy Buffett (a monster Cubs fan and part-owner of a minor league team) played the first concert at Wrigley Field. Joe Frazier crooned, Bernie Williams strums, Ron Artest and Kobe Bryant rap (unfortunately) and former defensive tackle Mike Reid churns out beautiful country melodies. And the list of artists with sports-themed songs spans the breadth of popular music: Bob Dylan, Jay-Z, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Common, New Order, Miles Davis, the Pogues, Snoop Dogg . . . and on and on. That is the rich vein from which Sports Illustrated has mined its first collection of Sports' Greatest Hits. See playlist of 40 songs as selected by Greg Kelly at: Sports Illustrated, July 4, 2001 issue, p. 128 or at: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1187838/index.htm
Neon lights Glass tubes are heated over a flame and bent into shapes (usually letters). After that, neon gas is injected inside the tube to give it a desired glow. In 1898, English chemist Morris Travers and Scottish chemist William Ramsey cooled a sample of the atmosphere until it became a liquid. Ramsey then captured the gases within after boiling the liquid, one of which was neon. Georges Claude invented neon tubing and applied for a patent for his invention in 1911. This led to neon tubing as a vehicle for advertising starting in the 1920s. In 1922, The Packard Agency became the first company in America to use neon lights to advertise their products. http://www.ehow.com/facts_7497836_fun-neon-lights.html
The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Within the very wide range of Eurasian decorative art that includes motifs matching this basic definition the term "arabesque" is used consistently as a technical term by art historians to describe only elements of the decoration found in two phases: Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.
See pictures at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque
In Ballet: Arabesque (ballet position), a classical ballet position
In Music: Arabesque (Turkish music), a music genre Arabesque (classical music), a kind of classical piece Arabesque (1 & 2), two impressionist pieces by Claude Debussy Arabesque (group), a 70's European disco music band Arabesque (rapper) (born 1981), hip hop artist from Toronto Arabesque, British band formed by Keith Girdler and Paul Stewart of Blueboy Arabesque, a 1999 album by Korekyojin Arabesque Records, a jazz record label Arabesque: Geçmiş, Geçmemiş Hiç..., an album by Işın Karaca
Other: Arabesque (film), a 1966 film by Stanley Donen, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren Arabesque (gay film), a 2005 pornographic film released by Raging Stallion Studios Arabesk trilogy, a series of novels by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Arabesque TV, an Arabic-language TV station Arabesque Software, the makers of Ecco Pro Arabesque, a manga series by Ryōko Yamagishi Arabesque, distributed by Big Fish Games Arabesque (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby lamb produced by Ty, Inc. Arabesques (literature), an international multilingual poetry and literary journal and publisher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque_(disambiguation)
Monday, July 11, 2011
On a recent weekend, sand creatures were sprawled across this Pacific Coast beach at Cannon Beach's 47th annual sand sculpting tournament. There were sea horses by a giant squid, with an "Attackin' Kraken" sea monster nearby, along with several pigs, some giant mice and an amputee octopus. Many of the sand sculptures had the same point of origin: They had been built by people who at one time or another were advised by Bert Adams, one of the nation's handful of professional sand-castle consultants. "He's a great mentor," says Amos Callender, an Olympia, Wash., architect who took a course—Sand 101—that Mr. Adams taught two years ago. Mr. Callender and his team took first place at Cannon Beach last year, while this year they built a sand sculpture depicting "the good life"—a wine lover sporting a beret; a mouse tucking into a giant wheel of cheese—that finished second. As this year's sand-sculpture season gets going, Mr. Adams is one of the people who have carved out a unique consulting niche on the circuit. While millions of kids will construct sand creations all summer for nothing, sand advisers have built practices charging individuals and companies for sand castle-building classes, as well as partnering with charities that sponsor sand-sculpting competitions. Just one consulting gig can garner thousands of dollars, while building a birthday sand castle in an hour can yield a fee of $300. The rise of sand-sculpting consultants comes as the sand-castle tour increasingly resembles the pro golf or tennis circuits, complete with grueling schedules. Competitions now take place everywhere from Amagansett, N.Y., which in August will hold the 20th annual East Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Competition, to San Diego, where in July the U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition will distribute $21,000 in prize money. Mr. Callender's team was paid $800 last year for wearing T-shirts at Cannon Beach emblazoned with the name of a local veterinary clinic. At another tournament in Long Beach, Wash., he and his team got $1,200 to wear T-shirts provided by a building-supplies store. Sand consultants don't have groupies though—just "gritties," jokes Mr. Adams. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304231204576404782910039182.html
What makes a password stronger Replace a letter with a numeral or a symbol. Use a capital letter for one of the letters. Add a random number (not your birthdate) to beginning or end of password. The Wall Street Journal June 23, 2011.
Paraphrases from Bossypants by Tina Fey
Always AGREE and SAY YES when you're improvising. I point my finger and say, "Freeze, I have a gun!" You say: "The gun I gave you for Christmas! You bastard!" We have agreed that my finger is a gun. Agree, and add something of your own. I say, "I can't believe it's so hot in here." You say: "Yes, this can't be good for the wax figures."
Photoshop itself is not evil. Retouching is here to stay.
A French newspaper accidentally ran a picture of Amy Poehler and me from a Katie Couric sketch on Saturday Night Live, thinking it was a picture of Couric and Sarah Palin.
Hope by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me. See discussion and links to other poems at: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/hope.html
Look up detailed information about thousands of plants using BBC Plant Finder. You will find descriptions of the plants and tips about growing them. Find answers to your gardening questions, learn about flower shows and search horticultural societies at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/
Wildlife is back in Germany The rumble of tanks and the report of heavy artillery have given way after six decades in the rolling hills east of Frankfurt to more soothing tones: the gentle neighing of wild horses. Przewalski's horses, as they are called. The last breed of horse never to have been domesticated. These horses once ranged from Southern Europe to Mongolia. Today, a herd of nine roams at Campo Pond, a 250-acre former U.S. military training ground here in western Germany. They are here only temporarily, assembled from zoos across Germany and beyond, awaiting transfer to the Asian steppe as part of an international effort to boost their remaining numbers there. Other once-vanished species regaining their footings include wolves and bears, which were hunted out of German forests centuries ago but now feast on exploding populations of deer and wild boar. But wildlife isn't flourishing just in the east and Bavarian countryside. Below the surface of the Rhine, the shipping thoroughfare that sustains Germany's industrial heartland, cleaner manufacturing methods and the fading imprint of coal mining have encouraged the return of the Atlantic salmon. Tens of billions of euros have been spent improving the water quality and building a series of fish ladders that allow the salmon to maneuver around dams to swim upstream. Making the river safe again for salmon and eels is as good for people as it is for the fish, says Ben van de Wetering, secretary general of the Cologne-based International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576315393197296476.html
From Nancy Pearl at National Public Radio My office (a spare bedroom in my house) is strewn with books that I've gotten for possible review. There are books on the bookshelves, books more or less arranged on the floor and other books stacked high, waiting to be shelved. I probably start 15 books for every book I finish. When I'm ready for my next good read, I look for a book (fiction or nonfiction) with a strong narrative voice, wonderfully drawn characters and writing that makes me stop and savor the words the author has written — all of which are present in these 10 terrific books. Find list at: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/23/137084790/nancy-pearl-presents-10-terrific-summer-reads
What makes a password stronger Replace a letter with a numeral or a symbol. Use a capital letter for one of the letters. Add a random number (not your birthdate) to beginning or end of password. The Wall Street Journal June 23, 2011.
Paraphrases from Bossypants by Tina Fey
Always AGREE and SAY YES when you're improvising. I point my finger and say, "Freeze, I have a gun!" You say: "The gun I gave you for Christmas! You bastard!" We have agreed that my finger is a gun. Agree, and add something of your own. I say, "I can't believe it's so hot in here." You say: "Yes, this can't be good for the wax figures."
Photoshop itself is not evil. Retouching is here to stay.
A French newspaper accidentally ran a picture of Amy Poehler and me from a Katie Couric sketch on Saturday Night Live, thinking it was a picture of Couric and Sarah Palin.
Hope by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me. See discussion and links to other poems at: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/hope.html
Look up detailed information about thousands of plants using BBC Plant Finder. You will find descriptions of the plants and tips about growing them. Find answers to your gardening questions, learn about flower shows and search horticultural societies at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/
Wildlife is back in Germany The rumble of tanks and the report of heavy artillery have given way after six decades in the rolling hills east of Frankfurt to more soothing tones: the gentle neighing of wild horses. Przewalski's horses, as they are called. The last breed of horse never to have been domesticated. These horses once ranged from Southern Europe to Mongolia. Today, a herd of nine roams at Campo Pond, a 250-acre former U.S. military training ground here in western Germany. They are here only temporarily, assembled from zoos across Germany and beyond, awaiting transfer to the Asian steppe as part of an international effort to boost their remaining numbers there. Other once-vanished species regaining their footings include wolves and bears, which were hunted out of German forests centuries ago but now feast on exploding populations of deer and wild boar. But wildlife isn't flourishing just in the east and Bavarian countryside. Below the surface of the Rhine, the shipping thoroughfare that sustains Germany's industrial heartland, cleaner manufacturing methods and the fading imprint of coal mining have encouraged the return of the Atlantic salmon. Tens of billions of euros have been spent improving the water quality and building a series of fish ladders that allow the salmon to maneuver around dams to swim upstream. Making the river safe again for salmon and eels is as good for people as it is for the fish, says Ben van de Wetering, secretary general of the Cologne-based International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576315393197296476.html
From Nancy Pearl at National Public Radio My office (a spare bedroom in my house) is strewn with books that I've gotten for possible review. There are books on the bookshelves, books more or less arranged on the floor and other books stacked high, waiting to be shelved. I probably start 15 books for every book I finish. When I'm ready for my next good read, I look for a book (fiction or nonfiction) with a strong narrative voice, wonderfully drawn characters and writing that makes me stop and savor the words the author has written — all of which are present in these 10 terrific books. Find list at: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/23/137084790/nancy-pearl-presents-10-terrific-summer-reads
Friday, July 1, 2011
BC (Before Computers), a bookmark was more than an electronic save of a website or page on your Kindle. And even though more and more of us are now turning to digitized editions of our favorite books, actual bookmarks (or bookmarkers) are more popular than ever among collectors. Early books were precious commodities, laboriously hand made, hand written, and hand embellished. Even after the 15th century invention of the Gutenberg printing press, conscientious readers looked upon books as valuable assets to be protected from damage. Placing an open book face down or folding a page corner to "mark" one's place could weaken or damage the book's spine or create a permanent crease in the paper. Bookmarkers were the logical solutions to the problem. Early bookmarkers were often thin ribbons permanently attached to the book itself or to an "anchor," such as a bead or other small object of wood, ivory, or silver. By the Victorian era, improvements in printing and manufacturing methods fostered an explosion in not just the number of books available at reasonable prices, but also in the variety of bookmarks. This was the era when the paper (die-cut, advertising, souvenir, etc.) and celluloid (looks like ivory, but it's not!) markers that collectors so prize today came into their own. Pagemarkers comprise a special group of Victorian markers. Readers of the period would often find that pages in their books had not been completely separated by the publishers. Pagemarkers were usually metal implements shaped like knives or letter openers that the reader could use, not only to keep his place, but to slit the pages apart. Pagemarkers were often decoratively pierced or shaped and are avidly sought by collectors. Find information on these collectibles at: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y211/m06/abu0289/s06
Today, strict regulations are enforced to ensure that the appellation "Champagne" applies only to the wines produced according to the long-established traditions in the Champagne region of France. The Appellation of Controlled Origin (AOC) oversees the stringent regulations and traditions developed over centuries of experience. These rules cover all stages of the wine's development, from vineyard cultivation to final bottling, and are enforced under France law. The appellation system is key to differentiating Champagne from sparkling wines. The unique terroir of the Champagne region and the strict regulations in place ensure only wines following the exacting standards defined over centuries are given the name "Champagne." In 1927, the vineyards of Champagne were legally defined, according to the wine producing history of the villages. Since 1927, only three grape varieties have been allowed in the production of Champagne: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. In addition, quality regulations have been enacted to limit the yields in the vineyards and in the press houses. Standards have been outlined for the pruning, the height, the spacing and the density of the vines, to ensure harvesting by hand. More recently, measures have been taken to lengthen the minimum aging time to fifteen months for Non-vintage Champagnes and to three years for Vintage Champagne. European producers have long recognized the importance of "terroir"—that wine made from grapes grown in a particular location will have a unique taste. The word "terroir" has no English translation. It means place, certainly, but also it implies soil characteristics, climate, and altitude, for example." http://www.champagne.us/index.cfm?pageName=appellation_champagne
Although the first wine-producing vineyards in Champagne appeared between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, the events of the 17th century brought the beginning of Champagne as we know it today. The vine-growers of Champagne had learned how to stabilize their wines and keep them fresh for several years. As a result of their hard work and the preciousness, the Champenois also obtained a white wine by combining both black and white grapes that had been grown in the Champagne region. By the last decades of that century, they mastered the mysteries of effervescence, which was their stroke of genius. In 1908, the appellation of Champagne was created through a decree that delimited an area within which the wines produced, and only those, would be entitled to the appellation Champagne. It was also during this period that it became clear that particular sections of land created the best grapes and that specific techniques were necessary to create Champagne. In 1927, a law was enacted that developed the limits of the vine growing region of Champagne, thus extending the Champagne appellation to include both grape and wine production. Strict rules were enacted at the same time relating to grape growing, the authorized pruning systems, harvesting and handling conditions in Champagne, as well as the method of natural fermentation in the bottle. http://www.wineorigins.com/?page_id=44
American Sparkling Wine was first introduced in 1892 by the Korbel brothers who started producing sparking wine in Sonoma Valley using the “Champagne method”. American sparkling wine is the only in the world that can be called “Champagne” other than what is produced in Champagne, France. However, U.S. regulations require that the term be used on a wine label only if it appears next to the name of the appellation (place of origin) where it is produced. An example is Gloria Ferrer Champagne Sonoma Valley. http://frenchoaktv.com/wine/sparkling/american-sparkling-wine/
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From: Lorie Vallejo Subject : babel Def: 1. A confused mixture of noises or voices. 2. A scene of noise or confusion. One of the most notable details in Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the existence of the babel fish, a small, yellow, leech-like creature, which, when a person sticks it into his ear, enables him to instantly understand everything said to him in any form of language. The babel fish is a universal translator which simultaneously translates one spoken language to another. It was not a good thing for the main character, Arthur Dent, when he had a babel fish in his ear while a Vogon recited poetry.
L'Arlésienne, L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), or Portrait of Madame Ginoux is the title given to a group of six similar paintings by Vincent van Gogh, painted in Arles, November 1888 (or later), and in Auvers, February 1890. L'Arlésienne is pronounced 'lar lay zyen'; it means literally "the woman from Arles". The subject, Marie Jullian (or Julien), was born in Arles June 8, 1848 and died there August 2, 1911. For the story by Alphonse Daudet, see L'Arlésienne (novel and play). For the opera, see L'Arlésienne (Bizet). For films derived from them, see L'Arlésienne (film). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Arl%C3%A9sienne_(painting)
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. See this and other Spanish proverbs at: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/how_beautiful_it_is_to_do_nothing-and_then_rest/196221.html
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The White Sea is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia. The Black Sea is an inland sea bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. See more plus maps at: http://geographyias.blogspot.com/2010/11/yellow-red-black-white-sea-y-r-tey.html
To Grind Nuts in a Food Processor: Add about 1/4 cup (or more) of the sugar or flour called for in the recipe; that will prevent the nuts from becoming oily. And process for 50 to 60 seconds even though you will think it is done sooner — the finer the nuts are, the better. Weeknight Kitchen June 29, 2011
Today, strict regulations are enforced to ensure that the appellation "Champagne" applies only to the wines produced according to the long-established traditions in the Champagne region of France. The Appellation of Controlled Origin (AOC) oversees the stringent regulations and traditions developed over centuries of experience. These rules cover all stages of the wine's development, from vineyard cultivation to final bottling, and are enforced under France law. The appellation system is key to differentiating Champagne from sparkling wines. The unique terroir of the Champagne region and the strict regulations in place ensure only wines following the exacting standards defined over centuries are given the name "Champagne." In 1927, the vineyards of Champagne were legally defined, according to the wine producing history of the villages. Since 1927, only three grape varieties have been allowed in the production of Champagne: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. In addition, quality regulations have been enacted to limit the yields in the vineyards and in the press houses. Standards have been outlined for the pruning, the height, the spacing and the density of the vines, to ensure harvesting by hand. More recently, measures have been taken to lengthen the minimum aging time to fifteen months for Non-vintage Champagnes and to three years for Vintage Champagne. European producers have long recognized the importance of "terroir"—that wine made from grapes grown in a particular location will have a unique taste. The word "terroir" has no English translation. It means place, certainly, but also it implies soil characteristics, climate, and altitude, for example." http://www.champagne.us/index.cfm?pageName=appellation_champagne
Although the first wine-producing vineyards in Champagne appeared between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, the events of the 17th century brought the beginning of Champagne as we know it today. The vine-growers of Champagne had learned how to stabilize their wines and keep them fresh for several years. As a result of their hard work and the preciousness, the Champenois also obtained a white wine by combining both black and white grapes that had been grown in the Champagne region. By the last decades of that century, they mastered the mysteries of effervescence, which was their stroke of genius. In 1908, the appellation of Champagne was created through a decree that delimited an area within which the wines produced, and only those, would be entitled to the appellation Champagne. It was also during this period that it became clear that particular sections of land created the best grapes and that specific techniques were necessary to create Champagne. In 1927, a law was enacted that developed the limits of the vine growing region of Champagne, thus extending the Champagne appellation to include both grape and wine production. Strict rules were enacted at the same time relating to grape growing, the authorized pruning systems, harvesting and handling conditions in Champagne, as well as the method of natural fermentation in the bottle. http://www.wineorigins.com/?page_id=44
American Sparkling Wine was first introduced in 1892 by the Korbel brothers who started producing sparking wine in Sonoma Valley using the “Champagne method”. American sparkling wine is the only in the world that can be called “Champagne” other than what is produced in Champagne, France. However, U.S. regulations require that the term be used on a wine label only if it appears next to the name of the appellation (place of origin) where it is produced. An example is Gloria Ferrer Champagne Sonoma Valley. http://frenchoaktv.com/wine/sparkling/american-sparkling-wine/
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From: Lorie Vallejo Subject : babel Def: 1. A confused mixture of noises or voices. 2. A scene of noise or confusion. One of the most notable details in Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the existence of the babel fish, a small, yellow, leech-like creature, which, when a person sticks it into his ear, enables him to instantly understand everything said to him in any form of language. The babel fish is a universal translator which simultaneously translates one spoken language to another. It was not a good thing for the main character, Arthur Dent, when he had a babel fish in his ear while a Vogon recited poetry.
L'Arlésienne, L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), or Portrait of Madame Ginoux is the title given to a group of six similar paintings by Vincent van Gogh, painted in Arles, November 1888 (or later), and in Auvers, February 1890. L'Arlésienne is pronounced 'lar lay zyen'; it means literally "the woman from Arles". The subject, Marie Jullian (or Julien), was born in Arles June 8, 1848 and died there August 2, 1911. For the story by Alphonse Daudet, see L'Arlésienne (novel and play). For the opera, see L'Arlésienne (Bizet). For films derived from them, see L'Arlésienne (film). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Arl%C3%A9sienne_(painting)
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. See this and other Spanish proverbs at: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/how_beautiful_it_is_to_do_nothing-and_then_rest/196221.html
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The White Sea is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia. The Black Sea is an inland sea bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. See more plus maps at: http://geographyias.blogspot.com/2010/11/yellow-red-black-white-sea-y-r-tey.html
To Grind Nuts in a Food Processor: Add about 1/4 cup (or more) of the sugar or flour called for in the recipe; that will prevent the nuts from becoming oily. And process for 50 to 60 seconds even though you will think it is done sooner — the finer the nuts are, the better. Weeknight Kitchen June 29, 2011
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