Low carb 1-2-3

Low carb 1-2-3 The Low-Calorie, Low Carbohydrate Cookbook, by Rozanne Gold with Helen Kimmel, MS, RD.

If you’re looking for help with your low-carb diet, this book will definitely help. Each recipe is composed of just three ingredients, so it’s really simple to use. The first part of the book describes the basic pantry items needed for the book as well as basic equipment you will need to make the recipes. The first chapter offers ideas for breakfast. Eggs go well with low carb diets, and many recipes here call for them. Ham and Eggs with Red eye Gravy is a new way of preparing an originally fat laden dish. Next is the party chapter and there are some really great dips, including Cucumber-Chive Dip. There is a meat chapter, and Gold makes it clear at the beginning that even though low carb diets can include a lot of meat, it is important to be careful about fat. Braised Hoisin Pork with Scallions is an example of using the technique of searing to cook meat in a low-fat way and bump up the flavor with Hot Hoisin Sauce. The vegetable chapter is great if you’re a vegetarian. Broccoli Smothered in Wine and Olive Oil is one of the tasty offerings, as is Roasted Cauliflower with Cheddar Cheese. The last recipe chapter offers dessert recipes. Melon Balls in Lime Syrup sounds refreshing for Summer. So does Spiced Mangoes with Coconut. The book ends with a list of foods that can be part of a successful diet. Even though you may be put off by the fact that these recipes have only three ingredients, don’t let that keep you from trying this book. These recipes can be very flavorful, and that will help you -- no matter what type of diet you are on.

-- Mary Ellen, main

Internet Archive Part 4: Movies and Much More

Get ready to lose some big chunks of time. The e-texts, audiobooks and music at the Internet Archive were interesting; now how about some movies? From the home page www.archive.org click on the moving images tab.

You can spend hours watching old (and not so old) cartoons under the animation and cartoons link. Classics like Bugs Bunny in “Falling Hare” (the one with the gremlin). There are shorts featuring Woody Woodpecker, Betty Boop, Popeye…and many others. Then there is the subcategory “Brick Films” offering proof that some people have far too much time on their hands: Lego movies. This one is the first Star Wars movie…”acted” by Lego men, set to the original soundtrack.

Remember those non-fiction films they used to show in school (or the army) those are available under the Ephemeral Films link like 1947’s “Are You Popular?”: More are available under the Prelinger Archives link “Design for Dreaming” an extended General Motors car commercial is a personal favorite for the “Kitchen of Tomorrow” sequence. There are home movies, sports movies, and video game “speed runs,” where someone plays through a whole videogame as quickly as possible and records it as a digital video.

There are also nearly 3,000 full length movies available the likes of “Last Man on Earth” (1964) starring Vincent Price: based on the Richard Mathesson book “I Am Legend” or Cary Grant and Rosiland Russel in “His Girl Friday” (1940). And no such collection would be complete without “Reefer Madness.”

And again, there is a religion and spirituality section with 36,000 videos of sermons and religious services of all denominations including the adorable Buddhist children singing a favorite song in Taiping Malaysia

Happy Surfing!

Internet Archive Part 3: Sounds Abound — Amazing Assortment of Audio Content

Yes, it’s time for more online content available at the Internet Archive. This time it’s all kinds of things you can listen to. From the home page www.archive.org click on the audio tab at the top and marvel at the variety. First, of course we have to mention the over 4,000 audio books and poetry collections at: http://www.archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry Browse by collection or title.

Far more amazingly, there is a huge collection (over 66,000) of live concerts you can listen to; you can even download some of them. Try Robyn Hitchcock at the 3 Kings Pub July 1, 2007 singing songs of the Beatles and others at: http://www.archive.org/details/rh2007-07-01 Or for something to completely blow your mind Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I – IV http://www.archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV a 36 track instrumental collection FREE! And there is such an abundance of Grateful Dead material; they have their own collection at: http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead

There are radio programs some from defunct radio shows as well as those still creating new broadcasts, podcasts on topics from the religions from the ancient Mediterranean to evolution to Nintendo games.

There’s even a section of religious recordings touching on all religions. Most remarkably, there is an extensive collection of Buddhist lectures (633) from the Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies. If you enjoyed the Monks last May creating their sand mandala, listen to “What is a Buddhist” http://www.archive.org/details/Tse_Chen_Ling_Sarah_Thresher_Buddhist_20051014 or Sunday service by Ven. Geshe Ngawang Dakpa from April http://www.archive.org/details/GD_SundayService_200904

Happy Surfing!

-- Tim, Main Library

In Memoriam

Frank McCourt, best known as the author of Angela's Ashes, passed away on July 19. His other memoirs, also available at the library, are 'Tis and Teacher Man. He also wrote the novel Angela and the Baby Jesus and contributed to Yeats is Dead! A Mystery by Fifteen Irish Writers, in which a different author writes each chapter. Angela's Ashes was adapted into a movie.

-- Kristen, Main Library

Internet Archive Part 2: Bunches of Books in your Browser

Via the Internet you have access to all kinds of online and downloadable full-text books that we’ve mentioned here before (Don’t forget Dayton Metro offers a wide variety of new and classic texts in various formats on our website: overdrive.daytonmetrolibrary.org ) but you’ll be surprised at what you can find at the Internet Archive. From the homepage www.archive.org click on the tab titled “Texts” for access to over 1.5 million texts.

Libraries across the world have scanned rare and not so rare books into digital formats. You can look at the most downloaded titles on the right, look at the newest additions via the link in the center, or browse specific collections a bit lower down the page.

Read the first edition of Little Women: http://www.archive.org/details/littlewomenormeg00alcoiala online or download it in a number of formats to read on your computer or mobile device from the links in the “view the book” box at the left. This was scanned at the University of California. You can click on the author’s name or the publisher’s name to find other similar texts.

For scholars of Children’s Literature texts like Comtesse de Segur’s “Old French Fairtales” http://www.archive.org/details/oldfrenchfairyta00sgrich offered for study or leisure reading with all its illustrations intact.

You can also find some odder materials like those items in the Prelinger Library which collects and preserves ephemeral publications like this US Government pamphlet about surviving a nuclear attack from 1959: http://www.archive.org/details/falloutprotectio00unitrich

It’s addictive if you are interested, and it’s amazing what they have collected. Happy Surfing!

-- Tim, Main Library

The Internet Archive Part 1: The Beginnings of a Little Bit of Everything (Digital)

Libraries have always been about preserving materials for future generations. From the Library of Ashurbanipal, the first systematically collected library in the 7th century BC, to your very own Dayton Metro Library, Librarians have gathered items of various types in an effort to keep knowledge alive.

To a similar end, the folks at Internet Archive www.archive.org have been working to preserve Internet sites and other digital media since 1996. They are a non-profit organization in San Francisco, and their collections cover audio, video, digitized texts, and much more. Quite a bit of new information these days is being created first online (that is, without any paper copy that a traditional library would collect and preserve,) and archive.org is working to keep that type of information from being lost forever in bits and bytes. Also many cultural artifacts like pamphlets or informational movies are not being collected in their original forms; archive.org and its partners are converting those things to computer files. They are cooperating with various organizations like the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, so there are links that will take you to collections housed on other computers.

There is a lot on this site for researchers, but there is just as much for the casual browser or the Internet thrill-seeker with some time to kill. We say “Part 1” in the title above to let you know that future entries on the Internet Archive will highlight its various parts. For now, sit back in your most comfortable chair and browse their collections. There’s more there than you could ever look at or listen to in ten lifetimes. Happy Surfing!

-- Tim, Main Library

Bois de la Brigade de Marine

The above is translated "Wood of the Marine Brigade," the named bestowed by a grateful France on a mounded patch of woods barely a square mile in size located due east of Paris, but nearer to Strasbourg. It was here that the U.S. Marine Corps encountered its first heavy fighting of World War I and the bloodiest fighting in its history to that point, losing 1087 men in a single day of this month-long engagement. It came late in the war as an exhausted Germany took advantage of the Russian capitulation to shift troops against the French in the hopes of winning a decisive victory before the Americans became fully involved in the war. German forces had turned the former hunting preserve into a stronghold with more than 120 well-fortified machine gun positions while retaining the capability to direct heavy artillery fire around the woods. In multiple attacks, Marines waded through waist-high wheat in the face of withering German fire, often for hundreds of yards at a time. Combat in the wood was frequently at very close range and of a savage nature as bayonets were deployed with ferocity and more than one German machine gun crew succumbed to even the fists and feet of the Devil Dogs. It was truly "hand-to-hand" combat.

Author Alan Axelrod provides a solid overview, prologue, and reflections on the glorious battle in his engaging and balanced work
Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps. Axelrod draws effectively from firsthand accounts to create a transporting portrayal of the thoughts and feelings of the involved parties from generals to privates. He reaffirms the importance of the battle to the Allies eventual victory and reveals the central role it played in shaping the Marine Corps in years to come. A highly recommended book for those who enjoy historical nonfiction or have an interest in the subject matter.