Word of the day
- negotiate November 23, 2024Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 23, 2024 is: negotiate • \nih-GOH-shee-ayt\ • verb To negotiate is to discuss something formally in order to make an agreement. Negotiate can also mean, when applied to people or things in motion, "to get through, around, or over successfully." // The parties negotiated an agreement. // The […]Merriam-Webster
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On This Day
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
Aloysius Alzheimer (also known as Alois Alzheimer; /ˈɑːltshaɪmər, ˈælts-, ˈɔːlts-/;[1] German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of “presenile dementia”, which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer’s disease.[2]
Born On This Day
1919 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British novelist and philosopher (d. 1999)
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a British novelist and philosopher born in Ireland to Irish parentage. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Sea, the Sea (1978, Booker Prize), The Philosopher’s Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight (1993). In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.[1]
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FYI
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By Anthony Moore: How to Be an Irresistible Conversationalist and Make People Laugh More My speech impediment made conversations terrifying
By Al Cross: Vermont editor wins ISWNE’s Eugene Cervi Award for being a watchdog, a public servant and an exemplary journalist
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By Mark Ridolfi: Editorial decrying closure of Iowa gun-permit records, while reaching out to readers, wins top prize from ISWNE
In his 1,200-word piece, North Scott Press Assistant Editor Mark Ridolfi wrote, “Exercising the regulated right to bear and carry firearms, in my view, seems neither an embarrassment to be covered up, nor a benefit to be automatically pushed into print or online. It simply creates a publicly managed record. And publicly managed records, in my view, should be public. Those wanting secrecy say public gun records can be a road map for thieves. But the state’s new stand-your-ground law pretty much assures a grim end to crooks who use that map.”
Ridolfi recounted stories that he had done about the records, including one revealing that one in five residents of the Scott County town of McCausland had a permit to carry a concealed firearm. “Now the public records are inaccessible,” he wrote. “No one but law-enforcement professionals can look to determine if permits are being issued in accordance with the statewide standard. No one can discern why individuals have been turned down. No one will know if a thrice-denied applicant gets his or her fourth request granted.”
By Gary Price: New Research Resource: SCOTUS Watch Tracks Public Statements by Senators on How They Plan to Vote For U.S. Supreme Court Nominee
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By Gary Price: In the News: FreeLaw Project’s Collection of the Special Counsel’s Various Cases and Dockets (Full Text Court Filings)
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Ideas
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Creatively Living Hometalker Richland, WA: How I Made My Dream Coffee Bar
Katy:
L.O.V.E. IT!! What an awesome job you all did. SWEEEET! 🙂 PS I am coming to your house. .25 cents for a cup of coffee, it’s a deal.
Creatively Living:
Katy Yes, come have coffee with me…I spend most my day with 2 children 3 and under…so you can definitely have coffee with me for 25 cents if you let me talk to you for awhile 🙂
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wikimedia
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 24 November 24, 2024Picture of the day The Scroll of Eighty-Seven Immortals, drawn by an unknown painter, measuring 30cm high and 292cm wide, is a line-drawing Chinese figure painting. Drawn on a long silk scroll with lines, the painting depicts 87 taoist immortals, including three supreme gods with halo, ten divine generals, seven deities and 67 celestial maidens […]
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 23 November 23, 2024Picture of the day Rainbow yarn for knitting displayed in front of a needlework shop in Graz, Austria
Recipes
By jprussack: How to Make Italian Cheesecake
By Penolopy Bulnick: Easy Oreo Ice Cream
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