Summer time and the neighbor kids are earning ice cream money with their lemonade stand. But what if you'd like something different but still lemony?
Using Research Library at Proquest, using Advanced Search, Document type - recipes, search term lemonade, brings up a wealth of recipes.
Country Living, Mar 2006, offered this tasty dish in the article Lemon Appeal:
MAKE LEMONADE, indeed. But consider serving it hot as well as cold. Prepared with honey and spices, it tastes delicious-but because it's so rich in vitamin C, it can also serve as a home remedy for a cold. You can enjoy a constant supply of fresh juice. Simply squeeze 6 lemons to yield 1 cup. Freeze in ice trays and thaw as needed. Or cut a lemon into wedges for a welcome companion to cola, herbal tea, or beer.
TO PREPARE the soothing hot lemon beverage shown here, bring 2 cups of water, a scant ½ cup of sugar, and 4 cloves to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in ¾ cup of strained lemon juice, remove from the heat, and serve in mugs. (Remove the cloves first.) You can substitute different spices, such as a stick or two of cinnamon, whole allspice (3), or star anise (1).
Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Da Vinci revealed
Digital Da Vinci Codes : Thousands of Leonardo's Papers Go Online
"The tiny brick library in Leonardo Da Vinci's hometown is putting 3,000 pages of the genius' work online in a high-resolution, searchable archive.
The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus -- two collections of scientific and technical drawings -- available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.
The EU-financed project will also digitize the Windsor folios and 12 notebooks from the Institut de France for a total of 12,000 pages, creating the most extensive public online archive of Leonardo's codes.
It's a powerful resource for amateurs --- Renaissance groupies, crowdsourcers looking for technical solutions -- who make half of all requests to the library in the hamlet where Leonardo was born.
E-Leo won't be putting lone librarian Monica Taddei out of a job anytime soon, though.
Taddei often navigates the texts for experts in technical fields looking for sketches of things like valves or siphons. The Madrid Codices are especially fertile for designs.
Alas, e-Leo is not quite ready for Dan Brown buffs or 8th-grade homework assignments. ......"
You can finish reading the article here
"The tiny brick library in Leonardo Da Vinci's hometown is putting 3,000 pages of the genius' work online in a high-resolution, searchable archive.
The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus -- two collections of scientific and technical drawings -- available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.
The EU-financed project will also digitize the Windsor folios and 12 notebooks from the Institut de France for a total of 12,000 pages, creating the most extensive public online archive of Leonardo's codes.
It's a powerful resource for amateurs --- Renaissance groupies, crowdsourcers looking for technical solutions -- who make half of all requests to the library in the hamlet where Leonardo was born.
E-Leo won't be putting lone librarian Monica Taddei out of a job anytime soon, though.
Taddei often navigates the texts for experts in technical fields looking for sketches of things like valves or siphons. The Madrid Codices are especially fertile for designs.
Alas, e-Leo is not quite ready for Dan Brown buffs or 8th-grade homework assignments. ......"
You can finish reading the article here
A long day - in fact the longest day
Here we are at the Summer Solstice! Dancing and celebrating the day of sunlight- the most sunlight, the longest time we see the sun!
You can read more in Encyclopedia Britannica by searching for solstice (EB has created this link to allow non-subscibers to EB to read the article- nice, very nice)
You can read more in Encyclopedia Britannica by searching for solstice (EB has created this link to allow non-subscibers to EB to read the article- nice, very nice)
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Sizzle
NMTC is on break. Classes don't start again till July 9. Faculty are drifting off for vacation.
Where do you go for vacation? No matter where you are if you're outside you need to protect your skin. What do you do if you get a sunburn? Alt Health Watch, an Ebsco product, pulled up 357 articles when I searched using the term "sunburn". Aloe is one suggestion for soothing the skin that has seen just a bit too much sun.
Protect your skin so you don't need those soothing remedies.
The password for home use of the NMTC portion of GALILEO changes June 24.
Where do you go for vacation? No matter where you are if you're outside you need to protect your skin. What do you do if you get a sunburn? Alt Health Watch, an Ebsco product, pulled up 357 articles when I searched using the term "sunburn". Aloe is one suggestion for soothing the skin that has seen just a bit too much sun.
Protect your skin so you don't need those soothing remedies.
The password for home use of the NMTC portion of GALILEO changes June 24.
Who is in your class?
Day to Day, June 19, 2007 · More women apply to college than men so colleges with selective admissions hope to maintain gender balance by admitting fewer women that men. While just a few decades ago women were not even allowed to enter the nation's most prestigious universities, now collective success of women nationwide may be making women victims of their own success.
Alex Kingsbury of U.S. News & World Report talks to Anthony Brooks about the magazine's research into gender gaps in college admissions.
Listen to the whole story on NPR
Alex Kingsbury of U.S. News & World Report talks to Anthony Brooks about the magazine's research into gender gaps in college admissions.
Listen to the whole story on NPR
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of its newest site, The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery. The site represents a collaboration between the Digital Library of Georgia and the Hall County Library System as part of Georgia HomePLACE.
The project was made possible with support from federal LSTA funding administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery provides online access to a historical film depicting the extensive damage from the severe multi-funnel tornado strike that devastated Gainesville, Georgia, on April 6, 1936. The thirty-two-and-a-half minute film, probably shot for insurance purposes, focuses on the devastation of the commercial and governmental center of Gainesville, but also includes footage of damage to nearby residential areas. In particular, it features the damage to the public square, the county courthouse, the Georgia Power Company, the Cooper Pants Factory, and the First Methodist Church.
The 1936 Gainesville tornado (part of a massive tornado outbreak across the Deep South that also heavily damaged Tupelo, Mississippi) is generally regarded as the fifth deadliest in U.S. history. Extensive recovery efforts involving many local, regional, state, and national resources eventually rebuilt Gainesville, culminating in the 1938 dedication of the new city hall and county courthouse by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The interactive map interface provides intuitive geographically-based access to selected film clips for which shooting locations have been identified. In addition, links to related still images in Vanishing Georgia and the Hall County Library System Historical Photograph Collection have been provided.
Upcoming enhancements will include an online exhibit to provide additional information about the tornado event itself as well as coverage of the extensive recovery effort afterwards. The site also contains a brief history of the tornado, suggested readings, and lists of related links and archival materials.
The project was made possible with support from federal LSTA funding administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery provides online access to a historical film depicting the extensive damage from the severe multi-funnel tornado strike that devastated Gainesville, Georgia, on April 6, 1936. The thirty-two-and-a-half minute film, probably shot for insurance purposes, focuses on the devastation of the commercial and governmental center of Gainesville, but also includes footage of damage to nearby residential areas. In particular, it features the damage to the public square, the county courthouse, the Georgia Power Company, the Cooper Pants Factory, and the First Methodist Church.
The 1936 Gainesville tornado (part of a massive tornado outbreak across the Deep South that also heavily damaged Tupelo, Mississippi) is generally regarded as the fifth deadliest in U.S. history. Extensive recovery efforts involving many local, regional, state, and national resources eventually rebuilt Gainesville, culminating in the 1938 dedication of the new city hall and county courthouse by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The interactive map interface provides intuitive geographically-based access to selected film clips for which shooting locations have been identified. In addition, links to related still images in Vanishing Georgia and the Hall County Library System Historical Photograph Collection have been provided.
Upcoming enhancements will include an online exhibit to provide additional information about the tornado event itself as well as coverage of the extensive recovery effort afterwards. The site also contains a brief history of the tornado, suggested readings, and lists of related links and archival materials.
Worth its weight in Gold (in the 12th Century)
What do you use salt for? Cooking? Here are some handy tips for that now common household product.
I went to ProQuest and did an advanced search with salt as the search term,
limiting the search to text and
scrolling down to limit the document type to recipes -
over 8900 recipes were retrieved.
We use salt in a lot of cooking!
I went to ProQuest and did an advanced search with salt as the search term,
limiting the search to text and
scrolling down to limit the document type to recipes -
over 8900 recipes were retrieved.
We use salt in a lot of cooking!
Monday, June 18, 2007
326
How many graduated from North Metro Technical College on Friday June 15?
The Marietta Daily Journal headline says it all : North Metro Technical College graduates 326 in spring commencement
After balancing a job, family and schoolwork, Melissa Miller of Powder Springs proudly received a licensed practical nurse degree from North Metro Technical College during spring commencement Friday morning.
Ms. Miller, 32, was one of 326 students who earned degrees or diplomas during the ceremony held under a big tent on the college's front lawn. ....
The Marietta Daily Journal headline says it all : North Metro Technical College graduates 326 in spring commencement
After balancing a job, family and schoolwork, Melissa Miller of Powder Springs proudly received a licensed practical nurse degree from North Metro Technical College during spring commencement Friday morning.
Ms. Miller, 32, was one of 326 students who earned degrees or diplomas during the ceremony held under a big tent on the college's front lawn. ....
Christmas in July
GALILEO will be adding and deleting databases in early July.
Beginning in early July 2007 a new suite of EBSCO databases will begin appearing on GALILEO menus for the following consortia: DTAE, University System of Georgia, AMPALS, GPALS, GISA (private K-12), and Public Libraries. This new suite contains the following databases, which will replace any current counterparts:
Academic Search Complete (new to us)
Advanced Placement Source (new to us)
Agricola (new to us)
Auto Repair Reference Center This we already have
Book Collection: Nonfiction (new to us)
Business Source Complete (new to us)
Consumer Health Complete (new to us)
Environment Complete (new to us)
Fuente Academica (new to us)
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index This we already have
History Reference Center (new to us)
Hospitality & Tourism Complete ((new to us)
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (new to us)
Insurance Periodicals Index (new to us)
International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text (new to us)
Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts (new to us)
Legal Collection (new to us)
Literary Reference Center (new to us)
Medic Latina Science & > Technology Collection (new to us)
The Serials Directory (new to us)
Vocational & Career Collection (new to us)
World History Collection (new to us)
New databases for us to explore beginning in July!
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