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4 April 2000
HAPPY HUNGARIAN LIBERATION DAY!
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- The Big Apple
2. Graphic of the Day -- Johannes Vermeer
3. QOTD -- Billy Shakespeare
4. HotSites - NY Museums
5. Book Proposal - New York on a Grand a Day
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1. A Word A Day
"The Big Apple"
Used to describe New York City, the term was coined by
touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang
expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to
play New York City is to play the big time - THE BIG APPLE.
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2. Graphic of the Day
Mistress and Maid -- by Jan Vermeer
c. 1667-68 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas,
90.2 x 78.7 cm (35 1/2 x 31 in); Frick Collection, New York
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/missmaid.jpg
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,-- and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
-- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
(Suggested by Dianne Labasse and Alan Seget of N.Y., N.Y.)
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4. HotSites -- N.Y. Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/
The Frick Collection
http://www.frick.org/html/collmnf.htm
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More on Vermeer:
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer/
http://www.glyphs.com/art/vermeer/
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Jan.html
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. Book Proposal
My idea for a book: "New York on a Grand a Day"*
(*per couple)
Conducting research for the book this past weekend (does this
make it a deductible expense, I was published in a magazine once),
Denise and I failed to limbo in under the target budget unless
you count waking, packing and going to the airport to get on an
early plane "a day" in New York.
Suite at the Waldorf-Astoria: $1770
Airline Tickets: $ 440
Show Tickets (Fosse): $ 170
Opera Tickets (La Boheme): $ 350
Dinner (Le Bernardin): $ 280
Dinner (Picholine): $ 225
Dinner (cafe un deux trois): $ 120
Lunch (Met Museum - 2 salads): $ 44
Lunch (1 Appetizer & Carafe): $ 41
Breakfast (1 oatmeal; 2 coff): $ 20
Oak Bar Bloodies (1 each): $ 28
St. Regis drinks (2 each): $ 34
Museums: $ 54
Subways: $ 22
Taxis: $ 77
Misc.(tips,snacks, etc.): $ 175
TOTAL: $3550
3550/3 days = $1183.33/day
Of course, we splurged. I'm confident we could've
done it for $1000 a day, if we really tried.
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7 April 2000
HAPPY YUGOSLAVIAN REPUBLIC DAY!
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- denouement
2. Graphic of the Day -- Bayou Segnette Dawn
3. QOTD -- Floyd, Pinkerton
4. HotSites - Miscellany
5. Odd News - Oiled and Macho
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1. A Word A Day
denouement (day-noo-MAHN) noun
1. The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a
resolution or clarification takes place.
2. The outcome of a sequence of events; the end result.
[French denouement, from Old French desnouement, an untying, from desnouer,
to undo : des-, de- + nouer, to tie (from Latin nodare, from nodus, knot.]
"However, there's not much she can do to spice up Marc Lawrence's witless,
uninspired screenplay, which, despite an unpredictable denouement, fails
to captivate and leave a meaningful impression."
Tam Notosusanto, A Fling Amid Bad Weather in 'Forces of Nature',
The Jakarta Post, 8 Aug 1999.
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From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Bayou Segneet Dawn
Bayou Segneet Dawn 2000
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/bayousegnette.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- Floyd, Pinkerton
BREATHE
Breathe, breathe in the air,
don't be afraid to care.
Leave(the earth) but don't leave me.
Look around, choose your own ground.
For long you live and high you'll fly,
and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry.
But all you touch and all you see,
is all your life will ever be.
....circa 1973....Floyd, Pinkerton
(Submitted by John Nee of Aspen, Colorado.)
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
The Masters
http://www.masters.org/
Search for Adobe PDF files
http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
(submitted by Jean L'Hoste)
Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
http://www.graffiti.org/index.html
Very Cool Bugs
http://www.insects.org/
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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Odd News
Friday April 7 7:52 AM ET
'Oil Wrestlers' Do Not Want Gays Watching
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's oil wrestlers -- burly
men who cover themselves in olive oil and grapple with
each other wearing leather trousers -- are trying to
stop a group of homosexuals coming to watch.
A group calling themselves Bears of Turkey is
advertising on the Internet for a tour to watch the
639th Kirkpinar oil wrestling championships to be held
on July 1 and 2 near Turkey's northwestern city of
Edirne.
``It's immoral,'' Anatolian news agency quoted
Traditional Sports Federation Chairman Alper Yazoglu as
saying. ``We are trying every way to have this
stopped...We shall pass this matter on to the interior,
foreign and other ministries to ask for this disgusting
business to be stopped.''
The sport of oil wrestling dates back to the Turks'
exodus from Central Asia in the middle ages.
The wrestlers, their muscles rippling in olive oil
under the hot sun, try to pin each other to the ground.
Putting a hand down the opponent's trousers to get a
better grip is a common tactic.
Homosexuality is not banned in overwhelmingly Muslim
Turkey, and several big cities have thriving gay
scenes, but police harassment is frequent and the issue
is generally considered taboo.
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20 April 2000
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- fanfaronade
2. Graphic of the Day -- More Bayou Segnette
3. QOTD -- Billy Collins
4. HotSites - Miscellany
5. On This Day - Free Ride
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1. A Word A Day
fanfaronade (fan-far-uh-NAYD, -NAHD) noun
1. Bragging or blustering manner or behavior.
2. A fanfare.
[French fanfaronnade, from Spanish fanfarronada, bluster, from fanfarron,
a braggart, perhaps from Arabic farfar.]
"George Manahan made his debut this week as music director of New York
City Opera, and it is difficult to imagine someone laying claim to a
major podium with less of a fanfaronade."
Justin Davidson, A Director's Toil Pays Some Dividends, Newsday,
Sep 21, 1996.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- More Bayou Segnette
Bayou Segnette Dawn 2000 II
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/bayousegnette2.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- Billy Collins
Today
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies
seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking
a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,
releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage
so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting
into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.
Billy Collins
Poetry
Volume CLXXVI, Number 1
April 2000
Copyright © 2000 by The Modern Poetry Association.
All rights reserved.
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
Check out this cool Web site: Plug in any date
from 1900 through 1999 and it will give you
American news headlines, a listing of various
commodity prices on that date like the price of
gasoline or the average cost of a house...and
more! What was going on on the day you were
born?
http://dmarie.com/timecap/
The Ultimates is a new type of index with twenty-five
net services at your fingertips. Search resources from
all over the net like phone books, email directories,
and trip planners. The form for each resource is
integrated into the site, and Javascript copies the
information from one blank to another so you can use
everything out there with a minimum of time and effort.
http://www.theultimates.com/
Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress from 1774
to the present.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. On This Day
On this day in 1962 New Orleans Citizens Co
gave free 1-way rides to blacks to move North.
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27 April 2000
Happy Togo Independence Day!
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- valetudinarian1. A Word A Day -- valetudinarian
2. Graphic of the Day -- Buckmoth Larva
3. QOTD -- Joe Conason
4. HotSites - Private Eye Stuff
5. Weird Stuff, or QOTD II -- T H E F I S H E R M A N
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1. A Word A Day
valetudinarian (val-i-tood-NAR-ee-unn, -tyood-) noun
A sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly
concerned with his or her health.
adjective
1. Chronically ailing; sickly.
2. Constantly and morbidly concerned with one's health.
[From Latin valetudinarius, from valetudo, valetudin-, state of health,
from valere, to be strong or well.]
"But it wasn't over yet, and now this valetudinarian native son stood in
Monkey Park beside the locks shadowed with the autumn green of the banked
earth and asked himself whether all this was a justified expense of his
limited energy."
Bellow, Saul, By the St. Lawrence, Esquire, Jul 1, 1995.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Buckmoth Larva Invade N.O.
Buckmoth Caterpillars
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/buckmoths.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- Joe Conason
The Elián metaphor
If we really cared about Cuban
children, we'd end the embargo.
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By Joe Conason
When calmer voices can be heard, they will declare that
Reno acted properly and wisely to uphold the father's
right to rejoin his child. They will decry the
unreasonable conditions that the González family in
Miami tried to force on a man who, at their insistence,
had journeyed to the United States from Cuba in the
expectation of good faith from his estranged relatives.
They will note that Elián was being manipulated and
traumatized by schemers who attempted to alienate him
from his own father. They will point out that the
situation in Miami was becoming more, not less,
dangerous, both to the child and to the surrounding
community, as the exile leadership demanded an
ideological victory.
What those more restrained voices should point out as
well is that if we really cared about all the children
of Cuba, and not just a cute little refugee boy, we
would finally end the inhumane embargo and diplomatic
stalemate that have only served the interests of Castro
and his aging enemies -- while driving families like
Elián's and American democracy itself, over and over
again, to the very edge of lunacy.
Complete article:
http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2000/04/25/cuba/index.html
From: Salon http://www.salon.com/
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4. HotSites -- Private Eye Stuff
WEBGATOR SEARCH SITE!
http://www.inil.com/users/dguss/wgator.htm
ROBERT SCOTT'S BLACK BOOK 2 ONLINE
http://www.crimetime.com/online.html
Corporate Investigative Services site:
http://www.hsv.tis.net/~pvteye/source.html
Prof.TOM O'CONNER'S MEGA-CRIMMINAL JUSTICE LINKS
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/linklist.htm
Governments DownLoadable How 2 investigate:
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/soi/contents.htm
Nettrace Investigator's Guide to Internet
http://www.nettrace.com.au/
Reddy's Forensic HomePage:
http://idt.net/~nyrc/new23.htm
Technical Surveillance Counter Measures
http://www.tscm.com
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. Weird Stuff, or QOTD II
"Did you know Elian liked to lick my face?"
-- Donato Dalrymple a/k/a T H E F I S H E R M A N
(actually a house cleaner) speaking about Elián.
Complete article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21491-2000Apr26.html
From: The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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