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6 November 2000
Happy Liberty Day - Virgin Islands
GO SAINTS!
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- smarmy
2. Graphic of the Day -- Humpback Whales
3. QOTD -- Aesop
4. HotSites -- Humpback Whales
5. Reading List -- Death by Lawyer
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1. A Word A Day
smarmy (SMAR-mee) adjective
1. Hypocritically, complacently, or effusively earnest; unctuous.
2. Sleek.
[From smarm, to smear.]
"But `weasel' lives on as a synonym for that subspecies of Hollywood
gentry, the entertainment industry executive, conjuring up a whole host
of smarmy tassel-shoe traits."
Richard Conniff, You can call him `cute' or you can call him `hungry',
Smithsonian, Feb 1997.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day
Humpback Whales lunge feeding on Stellwagen Bank
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/0010/0010hw2.htm
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3. QOTD -- Aesop
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape
A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the
charge. An Ape undertook to adjudge the matter between them.
When each had fully stated his case the Ape announced this
sentence: "I do not think you, Wolf, ever lost what you claim;
and I do believe you, Fox, to have stolen what you so stoutly
deny."
MORAL:
The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
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4. HotSites -- Humpback Whales
http://whales.magna.com.au/DISCOVER/HUMP/
http://www.zoomwhales.com/subjects/whales/species/Humpbackwhale.shtml
http://www.aqua.org/animals/species/humpwhale.html
http://www.nwf.org/wildalive/whale/sciencefacts.html
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5. Reading List - Death by Lawyer
A lawyer for a death-row inmate has
stepped forward and admitted sabotaging his client's
appeals because he didn't like the man and thought
he ought to be executed.
http://www.mojones.com/mustreads/110400.html
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From:
Mother Jones http://www.mojones.com/
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14 November 2000
Happy Birthday Prince Charles (1948)
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- perdition
2. Graphic of the Day -- Maine Coast
3. QOTD -- Booth
4. HotSites -- Human Anatomy
5. Reading List -- 13 myths about the 2000 election
6. Humor -- MiniBush
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1. A Word A Day
perdition (per-DISH-ehn) noun
1. Loss of the soul; eternal damnation. Hell.
2. Utter ruin.
[Middle English perdicion, from Old French perdicion, from Late Latin
perditio, perdition-, from Latin perditus, past participle of perdere, to
lose : per- + dare, to give.]
"`Since the courts have decided that corporations are `persons' and
possessed of the legal and constitutional rights of persons, and since
this has wreaked all sorts of havoc in the legal system, it would be
gratifying to believe that these `persons' also had souls and that the
worst of them would be damned to eternal perdition,' he (Denis Hayes)
says."
Josh Clark, Brave new work: experts agree: stable jobs are giving
way to a free-agent system, Mother Jones, Jul 17, 1997.
"With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell."
John Milton, Paradise Lost: First Book, 1667.
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From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day
Maine Coast - Acadia National Park (October 2000)
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/0010/0010mainecoast.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- Booth
Public Broadcast
Sunday, late. The winter dark already coming down.
Inside the woodshed door, an early FM tuned to Bangor.
Half as old as the backyard oak he's felled—felled,
fitted, split—an old man mad for music lugs the chunks in.
He turns the volume up, up full: an opera he never saw
rises through light snow and marshals its triumphant march.
He marches, lifting stiff knees into highstep, marking
his own bootprints, shooting his victorious fist
against a stand of second growth ranked naked
against the sky. He lets the music take him as
he assumes the music: entering the city gates
he feels the blaze of banners, the shine on breastplates
and the women's hair. He marches near the column's head,
in his just place. The sun on the lead car is hot,
the horses sweat with victory, a victory
he hasn't felt in fifty years. Measure upon measure,
the music pumps him higher. He marches, marches,
through his deep backyard. The chorus soars:
the women's voices open every street, their smiles
are wide with glory, their lips already moist.
Philip Booth
Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999
Penguin Books
Copyright © Philip Booth, 1999.
All rights reserved.
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4. HotSites -- Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy Online:
http://www.innerbody.com/
Digital Brain Atlas:
http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/atlas/text.html
Images and Animations by The Surgical Planning Laboratory:
http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/images_movies.html
Atlas of the Human Anatomy in Cross Section:
http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/HumanAnatomy/CrossSectionAtlas.html
Human Anatomy Books:
http://www.tbook.com/a/Human_Anatomy/Human_Anatomy_Books.htm
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5. Reading List - 13 myths about the 2000 election
http://cafecancun.weblogs.com/
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From:
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6. Humor - MiniBush
http://lhostelaw.com/djl/MiniBush.jpg
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20 November 2000
Happy Rights of the Child Day
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- deus ex machina
2. Graphic of the Day -- boston and beyond
3. QOTD -- Florida Statues, Title IX, Chapter 102 (in part)
4. HotSites -- Miscellany
5. Reading List -- The Million-Dollar Nose
6. Humor -- Dave Barry
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1. A Word A Day
deus ex machina (DAY-uhs eks ma-kuh-nuh, -nah, MAK-uh-nuh) noun
1. In Greek and Roman drama, a god lowered by stage machinery to resolve a plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult situation.
2. An unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a
situation or untangle a plot.
3. A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty.
[New Latin deus ex machina : deus, god + ex, from + machina, machine
(translation of Greek theos apo mekhanes).]
"In fact the duke acts as the deus ex machina of the piece, working in the background to ensure that everything turns out right and manipulating the characters' actions along the way."
Robert Nott, Lust, justice and faith, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Jun 23, 2000.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day
boston and beyond
50+ photos of Humpback Whales and fall foliage in
New England (October 2000)
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/0010/bnb.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- Florida Statues, Title IX, Chapter 102 (in part)
Florida Statues, Title IX, Chapter 102 (in part)
102.166 Protest of election returns; procedure.--
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(4)(a) Any candidate whose name appeared on the
ballot, any political committee that supports or
opposes an issue which appeared on the ballot, or any
political party whose candidates' names appeared on the
ballot may file a written request with the county
canvassing board for a manual recount. The written
request shall contain a statement of the reason the
manual recount is being requested.
(b) Such request must be filed with the canvassing
board prior to the time the canvassing board certifies
the results for the office being protested or within 72
hours after midnight of the date the election was held,
whichever occurs later.
(c) The county canvassing board may authorize a manual
recount. If a manual recount is authorized, the county
canvassing board shall make a reasonable effort to
notify each candidate whose race is being recounted of
the time and place of such recount.
(d) The manual recount must include at least three
precincts and at least 1 percent of the total votes
cast for such candidate or issue. In the event there
are less than three precincts involved in the election,
all precincts shall be counted. The person who
requested the recount shall choose three precincts to
be recounted, and, if other precincts are recounted,
the county canvassing board shall select the additional
precincts.
(5) If the manual recount indicates an error in the
vote tabulation which could affect the outcome of the
election, the county canvassing board shall:
(a) Correct the error and recount the remaining
precincts with the vote tabulation system;
(b) Request the Department of State to verify the
tabulation software; or
(c) Manually recount all ballots.
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
Guide to Meta-search Engines:
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/search/meta.html
Newsaide.com --"the news you need, when you need it."
http://www.newsaide.com/
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
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5. Reading List - The Million-Dollar Nose
by William Langewiesche
The most influential critic in the world today happens
to be a critic of wine. He is not a snob or an obvious
aesthete, as one might imagine, but an ordinary
American, a burly, awkward, hardworking guy from the
backcountry of northern Maryland, about half a step
removed from the farm. His name is Robert Parker Jr.,
Bob for short, and he has no formal training in wine.
He lives near his childhood home, among the dairies and
second-growth forests in a place called Monkton, which
has a post office but no town center.
Full Story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/12/langewiesche.htm
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From:
The Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/index.htm
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6. Humor - Dave Barry
It's almost Thanksgiving, a time for us to pause in our
busy lives and remember, as the Pilgrims did so long
ago, that an improperly cooked turkey can kill us.
Even a live turkey can be dangerous. I base this
statement on an article that I am not making up from
the March 14 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, sent in by
alert reader Dan Broucek, which begins as follows:
"A tom turkey crashed through the windshield of a dump
truck early Monday in Butler County and struck a
fighting posture with the surprised driver."
Full story:
http://www.herald.com/thispage.htm?content/archive/living/barry/content.htm
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From the Miami Herald: http://www.herald.com/
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29 November 2000
Happy Barbados Independence Day (1966)
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- polyhistor
2. Graphic of the Day -- Boy on Bike 1976
3. QOTD -- Billy Collins
4. HotSites -- Miscellany
5. Reading List -- Ahab vs. The Waco Whale
6. Obscure News -- Nowhere to hide
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1. A Word A Day
polyhistor (pol-ee-HIS-tuhr) noun
A person with broad knowledge.
[Latin Polyhistor, from Greek poluistor, very learned : polu-, poly-
+ histor, learned.]
"Since the middle of the last century, Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda, the
eighteenth century Ukrainian polyhistor, has been hailed by Russian and
Ukrainian scholars as, correspondingly, the Russian or the Ukrainian
Socrates."
John Fizer, Skovoroda's and Socrates' concepts of self-cognition: A
comparative view, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Jul 1, 1998.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day - Boy on Bike 1976
Boy on Bike 1976
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/76boyonbike.htm
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3. QOTD - Billy Collins
By a Swimming Pool outside Syracusa
All afternoon I have been struggling
to communicate in Italian
with Roberto and Giuseppe, who have begun
to resemble the two male characters
in my Italian for Beginners,
the ones who are always shopping
or inquiring about the times of trains,
and now I can hardly speak or write English.
I have made important pronouncements
in this remote limestone valley
with its trickle of a river,
stating that it seems hotter
today even than it was yesterday
and that swimming is very good for you,
very beneficial, you might say.
I also posed burning questions
about the hours of the archaeological museum
and the location of the local necropolis.
But now I am alone in the evening light
which has softened the white cliffs,
and I have had a little gin in a glass with ice
which has softened my mood or—
how would you say in English—
has allowed my thoughts to traverse my brain
with greater gentleness, shall we say,
or, to put it less literally,
this drink has extended permission
to my mind to feel—what's the word?—
a friendship with the vast sky
which is very—give me a minute—very blue
but with much great paleness
at this special time of day, or as we say in America, now.
Billy Collins
The Gettysburg Review
Volume 13, Number 3
Autumn 2000
Copyright © 2000 by The Gettysburg Review.
All rights reserved.
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4. HOTSITES - Miscellany
StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc., a collection of information
portals that are definitely resources to be bookmarked:
http://www.startspot.com/
Try out these:
LibrarySpot: http://www.libraryspot.com/
MuseumSpot: http://www.museumspot.com/
HomeworkSpot: http://www.museumspot.com/
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows, MS Word and MS Excel:
http://www.flmenterprises.com/classroom/shortcuts.htm
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Tons of information here about that pesky thing that
Rush Limbaugh says is a figment of all of these scientists'
imaginations:
US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)
http://www.gcrio.org/
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5. Reading List - Ahab vs. The Waco Whale
29 November 2000
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON — President-elect(?) Mini-Me has not yet
started gnawing on his cat, as the "Austin Powers"
Mini-Me did to the hairless Mr. Bigglesworth.
But W. is starting to weird me out.
Why is our kinda-sorta chief executive the low man on
his own totem pole?
We knew that his political nannies told him stuff only
on a need-to-know basis. But now that the guy is
seconds away from the White House, we learn that his
handlers deal with him on a needs-not-to-know basis.
Last week in Austin, our Wannabe President George Bush,
miniature clone of President George Bush, happily told
reporters that Dick Cheney had "had no heart attack."
The hospital, the Cheney family and Mr. Bush's press
aide, Karen Hughes, knew that Mr. Cheney had, that
morning, undergone a heart procedure. But Ms. Hughes
did not tell that to her boss before he spoke so rosily
and ignorantly about Mr. Cheney's condition.
When the election ended, Mini-Me was shocked that he
had not won in a landslide. His strategists had
apparently failed to inform him that things were
getting tight, just as they hadn't alerted him that he
was cratering in New Hampshire. Did they not trust him
with the information, fearing he might get cranky?
Presidents get dangerously insulated in the White
House. But this boy's in a bubble before he even gets
to the Oval bubble.
Sure, Al Gore, a k a Monsieur Tussaud, is an
insufferable maniac for detail who hates delegating and
is engineering every move in Florida. Like Ahab, he's
so consumed with absurd attempts to prove he actually
won Florida by nine votes that one friend described him
to The A.P.'s Sandra Sobieraj as a "lost soul."
But Mini-Me also seems lost, because he isn't consumed
enough with nailing down and planning his presidency.
The grown-ups keep sending him off to play. They know
he doesn't like messes, he doesn't do serious well and
he can't do follow-up answers except to refer reporters
to James Baker, his Manchurian operator.
So it's best to let him go fool around at the ranch or
go to the gym for three-hour workouts while they take
care of complicated stuff like the Supreme Court and
the trompe l'oeil transition, and while they try to
restore Poppy's White House to its original glory, as
lovingly as though it were da Vinci's "Last Supper."
"The usual case would have been for Dick Cheney to go
to all the funerals and George Bush to do all the
work," says Rahm Emanuel, a former Clinton adviser.
"But it's turning out the other way around. Cheney
needs a patients' bill of rights."
Mr. Cheney was the most reluctant of campaigners. But
now we are in the Cheney ascendancy. The Bush team
hurried him out of his hospital bed to the microphones
because they know he sounds reassuring, mature.
During the campaign, W. had a swagger, a John Wayne
gunslinger pose. But now when he comes out to face the
cameras he blinks and shrinks, looking tremulous and
frightened, dwarfed by American flags.
He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow,
trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking
as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own
speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a
production of "James and the Giant Peach." Are his
blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that
teleprompter break"?
Republicans sanguinely compare him to Ronald Reagan,
but at least President Reagan had the gift of
reassurance before the camera.
It's telling that CNN's Candy Crowley, who covers the
Texas governor, is not only better on TV, but much
harder-working and better informed than her subject.
Karen Hughes tried to make Mini-Me appear statesmanlike
by saying that, while no foreign leaders had called to
congratulate W., he had placed a call to congratulate
Vicente Fox on his upcoming unclouded inauguration as
president of Mexico. Whenever he seems callow, W.
cleaves to his friendly neighbor to the south to show
international flair.
Asked yesterday why Mini-Me had retreated yet again to
the Waco ranch, Ms. Hughes said it was "a tranquil
place where it's easy to do some thinking and
reflecting."
Nice try. Mini-Me is not Proust in the Brambles.
W. does not seem to grasp that the president can't
delegate the presidency itself. Of course, his aides
might not have told him that yet.
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6. Obscure News - Nowhere to hide
Male nude models have a special problem female
models don't: What to do if they get a woody?
Full story:
http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/11/29/posing/index.html
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From Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/
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