Month: May 2020

Watched "The Good Fight" Day 464 from CBS
Directed by Michael Zinberg. A Russian student asks Diane to protect her from deportation, claiming she was one of the women filmed with President Trump in the alleged "Golden Shower" tape. Meanwhile, Maia and Lucca suggest an unconventional lawyer to represent Jay's friend Craig Savador at his upcoming appeal and Colin meets with the Cook County Democratic Committee. Margo Martindale, Jane Lynch, Michael Ian Black and ...
Watched "The Good Fight" Day 478 from CBS
Directed by Brooke Kennedy. Heated debates occur at the firm when Liz and Maia represent a well-known photographer, Ron Williams, suing a woman who provided an account of their relationship to a website. Jay continues to investigate possible suspects in Adrian's shooting while Diane receives surprising news from her accountant. Becky Ann Baker, Anthony Rapp and Gary Cole guest star.
Watched "The Good Fight" Day 478 from CBS
Directed by Brooke Kennedy. Heated debates occur at the firm when Liz and Maia represent a well-known photographer, Ron Williams, suing a woman who provided an account of their relationship to a website. Jay continues to investigate possible suspects in Adrian's shooting while Diane receives surprising news from her accountant. Becky Ann Baker, Anthony Rapp and Gary Cole guest star.
Read Book review: The Art of Recollection and Renaissance Memory by Asaph Ben-Tov (H-Net Reviews)
Donald Beecher, Grant Williams, eds. Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture. Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 440 pp. $37.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7727-2048-1.
Reviewed by Asaph Ben-Tov (Minerva Foundation / Forschungszentrum Gotha)
Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher
Read - Want to Read: The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 by Mary Carruthers
A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The study emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental "pictures" for thinking and composing.
Read Lewis Carroll's Memory Techniques (Art of Memory Blog)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) practiced memory techniques. His memory system has some similarities with the Major System but seems more complicated in its letter choices: 1. “b” and “c,” the first two consonants in the alphabet. 2. “d” from “duo,” “w” from “two.” 3. “t” from “tres,” the other may wait awhile.
Bookmarked Nightingale (WordPress.org)
Theme for NHS organisations based on the NHS Digital frontend framework. Highly customisable for all types of NHS organisations, from campaign sites to primary care providers to arms length bodies to community practices. This can also be used for non NHS organisations.
via Kevin Marks, who asks if we could add microformats to it, from 

RSVPed Attending WordCamp Kent 2020
On May 30-31, 2020, the northeast Ohio WordPress community will come together online for the sixth consecutive year in Kent, Ohio for WordCamp Kent. This year, the organizers promise an exciting WordCamp Kent, featuring distinguished speakers and a variety of interesting topics touching on blogging, business, design and programming on the WordPress platform.
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