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GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY MOVES TO GREEN PRINTINGEffective January 6, 2010, the University will institute a green printing, pay-for-print system in the libraries and the labs.Copies and prints paid for with a copy card will cost 12 cents per page.To ease the transition, the University Library is offering each student registered for the spring term in GGU non-law programs a copy card for 100 complimentary copies.*Students registered for the spring term can pick up their complimentary copy cards at the Circulation Desk beginning January 6, 2010.Copy cards may be purchased from the card dispenser on the first floor of the library.*Law students can obtain copy cards in the Law Library. -J. Carter back to top
Beginning with this issue of The Update, the Books of Interest column will be replaced by a link to a new service called LibraryThing. This attractive feature will offer the advantages of linking directly to the Library's OPAC (online catalog) to see if a book is on the shelf. The LibraryThing also provides sorting capabilities, and includes the e-book collection.The link to the LibraryThing is: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/GGULibrary&tag=november2009
If you wish to receive such book lists by RSS, please link from here: http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/GGULibrary and add this to your RSS feed reader.Thanks to Web Librarian, Margot Hanson for setting up this service.
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   FARMERS' MARKETS - On-going Year Round
(2nd Saturday of every month, 9 - 11 am)Muir Beach is a small beach located along the West Marin coast. It is a popular destination for residents and visitors alike to enjoy a range of recreational activities. Due to its popularity, there is also an on-going need to clean and steward the area. Please come out, enjoy the beach, and help to preserve and protect this treasured destination. Help keep Muir Beach clean and safe for all of us to enjoy! (website)
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January 29, 2010 - 5 - 7 pmWatch the setting sun and greet the rising moon at this wild edge of the continent.The half-mile trail is steep in places. Dress warmly and bring a flashlight. Meet park staff and docents at the Point Bonita Lighthouse trailhead. Limited to 40 people. Heavy rain cancels.
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MUIR BEACH CLEANUP & STEWARDSHIP - JANUARY 9, 2010
BIRDING IN THE HEADLANDS
BIRD WATCHING AT MLK JR. SHORELINE
Ocean Beach Cleanup & Stewardship
SUNSET/FULL MOON WALK TO THE POINT BONITA LIGHTHOUSE
VIEWING WINDER MIGRATING DUCKS
Unfortunately, it is cursed with the same weather as San Francisco: the fog is ubiquitous, especially in the summer. Best time to see it is in winter, late fall and early spring. Spring also brings a deluge of flowers. Mid January to mid March is whale-migration season. (website)
FREE WALKING TOURS of SAN FRANCISCO
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Left to right: Dian Fossey, Benjamin Franklin, James Earl Jones, Paul Cèzanne, and Federico Fellini
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Left to right: Placido Domingo, Edouard Manet, Baroness Maria von Trapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Franz Schubert
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DIAN FOSSEY (January 16, 1932 - 26 December 1985) born in San Francisco, California; American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontologist Louis Leakey. She was murdered in 1985, possibly by poachers. Her work is somewhat similar to Jane Goodall's with chimpanzees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) born in Boston, Massachusetts; one of America's most influential Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity, and as a political writer and activist, he supported the idea of an American nation. As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence of the United States possible. (Wikipedia)"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." --Benjamin Franklin
JAMES EARL JONES (January 17, 1931 - ) born in Arkabutla, Mississippi; American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is best known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and Mufasa in The Lion King; winner of two Tony awards, three Emmys, a Grammy and an Oscar nomination.
PAUL CÈZANNE (Jan. 19, 1839 - Oct. 22, 1906) born in Aix-en-Provence, France; French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism. Cézanne's art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism and eventually challenged all the conventional values of painting in the 19th century through its insistence on personal expression and on the integrity of the painting itself. He has been called the father of modern painting. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994)
  
PLÁCIDO DOMINGO (January 21, 1941 - ) born in Madrid, Spain; Spanish-born singer, conductor, and opera administrator. Over the course of an opera career that lasted more than 45 years, Domingo sang an unprecedented number of different roles - more than 120 - and he continued to learn new parts into his 60s. In addition to his singing roles, he has also taken on conducting opera and concert performances, as well as serving as the General Director of the Washington National Opera in Washington, D.C. and the Los Angeles Opera in California. His resonant, powerful tenor voice, imposing physical stature, good looks, and dramatic ability has made him one of the most popular tenors of his time. (excerpted from Wikipedia)
back to top | EDOUARD MANET (January 23, 1832 - April 30, 1883) born in Paris, France; French painter and printmaker who in his own work accomplished the transition from the realism of Gustave Courbet to Impressionism. Manet broke new ground in choosing subjects from the events and appearances of his own time and in stressing the definition of painting as the arrangement of paint areas on a canvas over and above its function as representation. Exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés, his Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass") aroused the hostility of the critics and the enthusiasm of a group of young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists. His other notable works include Olympia and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994)
   
BARONESS MARIA AUGUSTA von TRAPP (January 26, 1905 - March 28, 1987) born in Vienna, Austria; stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story and that of her family's escape from the Nazis after the Anschluss served as inspiration for the musical The Sound of Music.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791) born in Salzburg, Austria; one of the heavyweights of classical music, generally placed in the top rank of composers along with Beethoven and Bach. Many consider Mozart to be the greatest composer of all time. He was a child prodigy who wrote his first symphony at age eight, then grew into a prolific adult who wrote over 600 pieces of music. Among his most famous works are Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music, 1787) and the operas Don Giovanni (1787) and Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute, 1791). He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. (Answers.com)
FRANZ SCHUBERT (January 31, 1797 - November 19, 1828) born in Vienna, Austria; Austrian composer; wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous Unfinished Symphony), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. He is particularly noted for his original melodic and harmonic writing.Interest in Schubert's work increased dramatically in the decades following his death. Composers like Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn discovered, collected, and championed his works in the 19th century, as did musicologist Sir George Grove. Franz Schubert is now widely considered to be one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition.
BONUS VIDEO: Franz Schubert's composition Moment Musical is played on wine glasses (Benjamin Franklin's inspiration for his invention, the glass armonica), in this scene from Federico Fellini's movie, E la nave va. All three of them, Schubert, Franklin and Fellini, are featured in January's Born this Month: |
From the website of Worldwatch Institute, Vision for a Sustainable World:
How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time? Staff members at the Worldwatch Institute, a global environmental organization, share ideas on how to GO GREEN and SAVE GREEN at home and at work.
Climate change is in the news. It seems like everyone's "going green." We're glad you want to take action, too. Luckily, many of the steps we can take to stop climate change can make our lives better. Our grandchildren-and their children-will thank us for living more sustainably. Let's start now.
We've partnered with the Million Car Carbon Campaign to help you find ways to save energy and reduce your carbon footprint. This campaign is uniting conscious consumers around the world to prevent the emissions-equivalent of 1 million cars from entering the atmosphere each year.To go to the Worldwatch Institute site for 10 simple things you can do today to help reduce your environmental impact, save money, and live a happier, healthier life, click here
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JANUARY 2010, volume 5, no.1
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