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SITE OF THE MONTHby Larry Burg funcheapSF.com
http://sf.funcheap.com/ Trying to save a buck or two or more on entertainment in the pricey Bay Area?Then check out http://sf.funcheap.com/ Subtitled: "fun (but affordable) things to do in the San Francisco bay area" this site describes itself as a free web calendar & and emailing list of events in the Bay Area." It features recommendations of about 50 affordable, fun and unique Bay Area events each week.Event listings are tagged with a variety of subjects, locations and event types, so you can identify, for example, events in Oakland or those that concern food or pets or the performing arts.Also see the FREE CULTURAL EVENTS and THINGS TO DO section below. back to top
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The University Library has a trial subscription to EBSCO Business Starters service until June 30, 2009. Be sure to take a moment and check it out!From EBSCO's web site:"Research Starters - Business provides business students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries."For more information about EBSCO Business Starters, see the page at:
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The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is one of our richest resources for market and country information. Never heard of it? Tried to use it but got stuck on the first page? GMID contains excellent information, but the learning curve is steep. Let a librarian walk you through the process of finding demographic information from around the world along with customizable data on consumer and industrial markets.The University Library will offer an all-online workshop on Wednesday, March 11, from 5:30-6:30 pm. This session is open to all students and faculty from the comfort of your own computer. Bring your research questions! To participate, please RSVP: 
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Author C. Michael Mellor will read from Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius, award-winning biography that includes Louis Braille's extant letters; discussion to follow
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UKRAINIAN CULTURE CELEBRATION
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
FREE DAY @ THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FIRST DAY OF SPRING
ITVS Community Cinema:
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Left to right: Frederic Chopin, Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, and Akira Kurosawa
FREDERIC CHOPIN born in Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw (March 1, 1810 - October 17, 1849); composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL born in Edinburgh, Scotland (3 March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922); eminent scientist, inventor and innovator who is widely credited with inventing the first practical telephone (Italian inventor Antonio Meucci actually invented the telephone but defaulted because of an expired patent). Many other inventions marked Bell's later life, including groundbreaking work in hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.
ALBERT EINSTEIN born in Ulm, in Württemberg (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955); German born physicist best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." (wikipedia). Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
AKIRA KUROSAWA (March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor. His first credited film (Sanshiro Sugata) was released in 1943, his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Légion d'honneur and an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. From Kurosawa's DREAMS:
ROBERT FROST born in San Francisco, CA (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963); four-time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, teacher and lecturer; wrote many popular and oft-quoted poems including After Apple-Picking, The Road Not Taken, Home Burial and Mending Wall; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime. Frost is regarded as perhaps the most popular and beloved of 20th-century American poets.
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Left to right: Robert Frost, Vincent van Gogh, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Joseph Haydn
VINCENT VAN GOGH born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890); Dutch Post-Impressionist artist; generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, though he had little success during his lifetime. Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings) during a period of only 10 years before he succumbed to mental illness and committed suicide. His fame grew rapidly after his death following a showing of 71 of his paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death. Van Gogh's influence on Expressionism, Fauvism and early abstraction was enormous, and can be seen in many other aspects of 20th-century art. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH born in Eisenach, Saxe-Eisenach (March 31, 1685 -July 28, 1750); German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Regarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician.
JOSEPH HAYDN born in Rohrau, Austria (March 31, 1732 - May 31, 1809); Austrian composer; one of the most prominent composers of the Classical period; called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet."
       Above, left to right: Starry Night; Goshs Room: The Bridge at Arles; Wheat Field with Cypress; Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer; and Irises.Left: Self-Portrait. All paintings by Vincent van Gogh. |
PICTURES ON TOP: Nemausus I Public Housing, Nimes, France; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France. On left is the Philharmonie de Paris. All works by Jean Nouvel.Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945), French architect; awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, in 2008 for his work on more than 200 projects, among them, in the words of The New York Times, the "exotically louvered" Arab World Institute, the bullet-shaped and "candy-colored" Torre Agbar in Barcelona, the "muscular" Guthrie Theater with its cantilevered bridge in Minneapolis, and in Paris, the "defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric" Musée du quai Branly (2006) and the Philharmonie de Paris. (from wikipedia)
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MARCH 2009, volume 4, no.3
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