http://www.eatright.org/
This is all about eating right. Be sure to read the tip of the day and get help on reading food labels;
Submitted by Jack Batterson
The MU Libraries Creative Magazine
March 2013 MULSA Spotlight Award Winner: Stephen Stanton
Our Spotlight Award winner for March is Stephen Stanton!
Stephen Stanton is a Library Information Specialist II with the Geology Library, and has been with MU Libraries for 19-20 years, he thinks.
Stephen is originally from Texas (he declines to specify a city), and says this about his educational background: “Lots of unrelated things. History of science, geology, 19C England and America. Evolution, both the mechanics and the history. German and French. Gilded Age. What wars are really about as opposed to what people think they are about.”
The coolest place that Stephen has ever visited is the Isle of Skye. “I’ve been in a bad mood since I left the Isle of Skey in 1986.”
In a movie of his life, Eric Idle would play Stephen, and Monty Python’s Galaxy Song would be on the soundtrack. He would be thrilled to be featured in the magazine The New Yorker, and his favorite pair of shoes that he has owned was a pair of Vasques. If he could have a drink with any fictional or real person, it would be Paul Fussell. They would drink bourbon, neat (and Stephen only rarely drinks bourbon.)
Stephen’s favorite snacks and foods: “Raw onions. Hot peppers. Avocados with hot salsa and a V8. Bananas. Beans and rice and cornbread with greens and lots of fresh vegetables.”
Stephen and his family have a black lab. Stephen calls himself a “swim dad, wrestling dad, and artists’ dad” and says that he used to enjoy woodworking before he had kids. His own leisure time activities include swimming at the Rec Center, and he tries to swim every day. He also spends time maintaining his house.
Stephen says, “I really like working with the people in Geology. I like the sense of community in Columbia. I never go anywhere without seeing people I know. Columbia has been good for my family.”
Congratulations, Stephen!
Veterinary Medical Library Open House
The Zalk Veterinary Medical Library held an Open House over Spring Break 2013.
Kate Anderson sent us two PDFs full of pictures:
- Before and After Pictures (PDF) from the renovation earlier this spring: new paint, new office furniture!
- Pictures from the Open House (PDF) on March 29, 2013
The renovation pictures were on display during the open house, but if you didn’t get a chance to see them, now you can!
Take a look!
Web Tip of the Week, February 4, 2013: Radio Tower
This is free internet radio. Select your ratio station by category (classical, public, news, news talk, easy listening, world, etc.), by country or by language. Some stations require windows media player.
Submitted by Jack Batterson
Web Tip of the Week, January 28, 2013: Fine Gardening
http://www.finegardening.com/videos/
A wide range of help available here in the plant guide, in the video collection or in the discussion forums.
Submitted by Jack Batterson
Web Tip of the Week, January 21, 2013: Do Not Call
Now both landlines and cell phone numbers can be added to this Do Not Call Registry. Due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, numbers placed in this registry will remain on it permanently.
Submitted by Jack Batterson
Web Tip of the Week, January 14, 2013: Tunlr.net
This is one of several web sites that allow you to unblock streaming video or audio from U.S.-based on-demand Internet streaming media providers when outside the U.S. Tunlr lets you stream content from sites like Netflix, Hulu, MTV, CBS, ABC, Pandora and more to your Mac or PC. There’s no software to install. No password to remember.
Submitted by Jack Batterson
Recipe: Ruth’s Virgin Sangria
Ruth Feldkamp wowed many attendees at the recent retirement party for Terry Austin, which was hosted by MULSA. Ruth supplied the virgin sangria punch. She has generously supplied the recipe below.
Virgin Sangria
serves 60 people
4 bottles grape juice
2 bottles apple juice
6 cups orange juice
6 Tbsp. lemon juice
10 lemons, thinly sliced, with peel
5 limes, thinly sliced, with peel
10 medium oranges, thinly sliced, with peel
6 small apples, cored, sliced into 8ths, with peel
6 small black plums, thinly sliced, with peel
4 bottles sparkling mineral water, club soda, or lemon-lime soda, to taste
(at least 2 2.5 gallon containers are also necessary. a 4 gallon serving thermos would eliminate the need for punch bowls, but would not fit into any refrigerator I have ever met.)
The night before you intend to have your event, slice all the fruit and divide it evenly between two large containers. Over the fruit, pour 2 bottles of grape juice into either container, add 1 bottle of apple juice each, and 3 cups of orange juice to either side. The 6 tablespoons of lemon juice can be pushed up if you want a more sour note, or decreased if you want a sweeter taste. Cap the containers, refrigerate, and allow the flavors to mingle overnight.
Once at your event, add a ratio of the sparkling water or soda that suits the tastes of your guests (anywhere from 3:1 juice : soda to 1:1) and serve.
(Original recipe from ‘A Sweet Pea Chef’)
Thanks, Ruth!
December 2012 MULSA Spotlight Award Winner: James Keyzer-Andre
Our Spotlight Award winner for December 2012 is James Keyzer-Andre!
James George Keyzer-Andre is a Library Information Specialist II with the UM Libraries Depository/Access Services. He has been with MU Libraries for 16 and a half years!
James is originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he graduated from high school in 1990. He served in the U.S. Army and graduated with his bachelor’s degree from MU.
In his leisure time, James enjoys 2D and 3D graphics, building computers, writing, hiking, and photography. He and his wife, Jennifer, have a daughter named Jocelyn and three cats (Ayla, Morton, and Zoe). His favorite candies are turtles (caramel and pecan clusters covered in chocolate).
The coolest place that James has visited is East Point, Prince Edward Island in Canada.
In a movie of his life, James would like to be portrayed by the actor Jason Alexander and the soundtrack music would be “something cinematic, but entirely inappropriate for what is going on at any given time.”
If he could have a drink with any fictional or real person, who would that be and what drink?
Leslie Burke, from the book “Bridge to Terabithia”, by Katherine Paterson. A glass of water would do.
James would also like to share this: “Patience, not perfection, is where happiness lies.”
Congratulations, James!
November 2012 MULSA Spotlight Award Winner: Dorothy Carner
Our Spotlight Award winner for November 2012 is Dorothy Carner!
Dorothy Carner is the Head of the Journalism Libraries and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri- Columbia. She has been with MU in her current position for five and a half years.
Dorothy originally hails from Springfield, Missouri, where she graduated with her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Biology/Education. She completed her Master of Library and Information Science degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
I have reinvented myself a few times. I’ve been a secondary school life sciences teacher, an anatomy and physiology instructor at a parochial college and nursing school, an office manager for a financial marketing publisher, a business/reference librarian and now a journalism librarian. I loved each of these jobs, but I cannot imagine a more rewarding job than the one I now have at Mizzou.
In her leisure time, Dorothy watches college and professional sports including football, basketball, and baseball. She follows the teams from places she has worked as well as the teams with players from her children’s high school and colleges. This includes UT, UVA, USC, and MU. She is a fan of Cardinals baseball! Dorothy also enjoys reading (mostly nonfiction, but she says she splurges on good mystery now and then), listening to and playing music, walking, working with the Daniel Boone Regional Library Board, and vegging out in front of the TV with Masterpiece Theatre.
In addition to a cat named Fuzz, Dorothy has a husband and two children. Her husband, Bill, is a professor at Westminster College. Her son John (28) is in the American Film Institute’s Master of Arts program, and her daughter Kim (30) is a lawyer in the Master’s in Strategic Public Relations program at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication.
What’s the coolest place you’ve ever visited?
That’s a really hard choice, because almost every place that I’ve visited had something “cool” about it. For this moment, I’ll say Vienna because it has everything that I love in a city. Its historical treasures have been beautifully preserved. It is a classical cultural center with many wonderful art museums (home of Klimt and the Secessionists), theatres, cathedrals, palaces, Lipizzaner horses, and coffee houses serving mélange and Sacher Tortes, but it also has it’s funky side with Hundertwasserhaus and Der Weiner Prater, the park with the huge Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel). It isalso home to the United Nations’ Vienna office and the International Atomic Energy Agency. It’s both beautiful and complex.
What fictional or real person would you enjoy having a drink with, and what drink?
I would love to have a Margarita with Molly Ivins, Ann Richards and Liz Carpenter, now all deceased. These three bigger-than-life Texas women (journalists and politicians) embodied the strong, tart-tongued and humorous women who broke twentieth century glass ceilings while skewering pompous politicians with incredible humor. They were friends and contemporaries and whenever they were together incredibly funny stories would emerge.
Congratulations, Dorothy!
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