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The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 1, September 2007 Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte Johnson & Wales University ScholarsArchive@JWU JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus University Libraries 9-2007 The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 1, September 2007 Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/clt_newsletter Repository Citation Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte, "The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 1, September 2007" (2007). JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus. 28. https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/clt_newsletter/28 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Libraries at ScholarsArchive@JWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus by an authorized administrator of ScholarsArchive@JWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. It’sIt’s Time Time For... For…. The Queen City Brew Volume 4, Issue 1 September 2007 2007 Yiasou Not a Book Lover? Official Newsletter of Johnson & Wales Or, maybe you like books but just don’t have time to Greek Festival read? That doesn’t mean you can’t find entertain- University’s Go Greek this September. ment at the library. These books are short on text, Charlotte Campus but big on entertainment! Library The Yiasou Greek Festival sponsored by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral Here are two books to Check-out! Inside this issue: at 600 East Blvd. provides the opportunity to experience Hellenic cultural exhibits and PostSecret, 2007 Yiasou 1 authentic Greek cuisine along by Frank Warren Greek Festival Percolator: with pastries, entertainment N71.W355 2005 Not A Book Lover? 1 and shopping. Festival hours are: CQ Researcher 1 And 11 am until 8 pm Thurs, Sept 6; J & W Charlotte Library 2 11 am to 10 pm Fri and Sat, Pride of Baghdad, Sept 7 and 8; and by Brian K. Vaughan and Profile of Alice Waters 3 Niko Hernrichon 12 pm to 8 pm on Sun, Sept 9. Percolator: Caroline Cake Show 3 PN6728.P75 V38 2006 Admission is $2.00. How To Start Well and 4 >>Continued on page 2 Finish Well? >>Continued on page 5 Warren Buffett Reads! 6-7 CQ Researcher New Books and Videos 7-15 New/Old Database: CQ Researcher We are happy to announce the return of CQ Researcher to our list of library databases this year. CQ Researcher provides students with a great place to start when researching a wide variety of topics. It particularly excels at controversial issues. One Special points of can access the information in different ways such as keyword searches or by browsing. The browsing feature, for example, allows one to select Energy, Renewable Energy interest: Resources and Alternative Fuels, and then be able to choose from the following reports: • Greek Festival • Energy Efficiency September 6th - 9th • Alternative Fuels • Alice Waters’ Visit • Energy Security September 26th & 27th • Nuclear Waste >Continued on page 2 Volume 4, Issue 1 Page 2 CQ Researcher (cont’d from page 1) • Renewable Energy • Nuclear Fusion Each of these comes in a relatively standard- ized format which contains an overview of the topic along with background information and the current situation and outlook. Each report also contains pro and con essays from noted experts on the topic and a helpful chronology page. The chronology page (such as the one seen below) helps one to organize a paper along a chronological timeline (not the only way but a very common way to organize a re- quired report). When doing a report on a topic and utilizing the CQ Researcher database it is important to note that other sources should be used as well, however, CQ is a great place to start. One last piece of advice when using CQ… If you print, it is best to pull up the .pdf version (by clicking on that option in the upper right hand corner of the screen). This will give you a much clearer copy of the material.. Dr. Richard Moniz email me at [email protected] Regular Library Hours Mon-Wed 8:00 am-10:00 pm Friday 8:00 am-4:00 pm Thursday 8:00 am-9:00 pm Saturday 12:00 pm-4:00 pm Sunday 1:00 pm-8:00 pm Yiasou Greek Festival (cont’d from page 1) Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral - 600 East Blvd., Charlotte, NC Be sure to check out the marketplace with a variety of vendors where you can purchase jewelry, crafts, and gifts. However, the best part of the Greek festival is the food. Enjoy roasted lamb, Grecian baked chicken, spanakopita, Greek salads, baklava, gyro and souvlaki sandwiches. While you enjoy your meal, you can watch youth and adults from Holy Trinity dancing in traditional Greek costumes. There are games and activities for children as well. Before you leave, stop by the cathedral to learn more about the Greek Orthodox religion and to see the beautiful iconography. Tours of the cathedral are conducted on the hour throughout the festival. To learn more about the festival and to get a sneak peek at the menus, go to http://wlww.yiasoufestival.org. Jean Moats Volume 4, Issue 1 Page 3 Profile of Alice Waters Alice Waters, chef, business owner, writer, and slow food advocate is coming to Charlotte in September for two days. Her visit is sponsored by both Charlotte Shout and Slow Food Charlotte. She will be speaking here at Johnson & Wales University. Watch the Campus Update for the date, time, and place. Waters owns Chez Panisse, Chez Panisse Café and Café Fanny in Berkeley, California. The cuisine at Chez Panisse is credited with changing the eating habits of people since it’s opening in 1973. Here the diner finds local ingredients being used in the menus. As a chef and business owner, Waters seeks to be in relationship with the people who supply the restaurant’s food. Waters is the author and co-author of numerous books including Chez Panisse Cooking and Chez Panisse Café Cookbook. The books offer the best recipes from the restaurants, using locally grown food. A new book, The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution, is scheduled to be published later this year. Today, Waters’ interests include the Edible Schoolyard and the Slow Food program. The Edible Schoolyard is a campaign to get local foods into schools and to use the gardens at the schools to teach children. Slow Food is an international organization that supports artisan food makers. Waters has also been a strong advocate for farmer’s markets. To learn more about Alice Waters, check-out the book, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, by Thomas McNamee along with her numerous titles. These titles are available in the Charlotte campus library: Chez Panisse Café Cookbook Chez Panisse Cooking Chez Panisse Fruit The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza & Calzone Chez Panisse Vegetables Jean Moats 2007 Carolina Cake Show & Competition Enter and attend the 2007 Carolina Cake Show & Competition sponsored by the North Carolina Chapter of the International Cake Exploration Societe ́ (ICES). The show and competition will be Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 10 am to 5 pm at Carolina Place Mall, 11025 Carolina Place Parkway, Pineville, NC. Divisions include youth, beginner, culinary student, adult advanced, professional, wedding cakes and special techniques not on a cake. Advance registration must be postmarked by September 15, 2007. There will be an awards ceremony with great prizes. On-going demonstrations of many cake decorating skills will be held during the day on the mall stage. The show is open to the public. For more information and registration forms, go to http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/ncices/. The 2007 Carolina Cake Show & Competition is an official Charlotte Shout! Event Jean Moats Volume 4, Issue 1 Page 4 How to Start well and Finish well? what are we about during all the the book down, and ponder each gift. ordinary everyday happenings which Two presidents, a king, a civil war take place between beginnings and general, a navigator, and a German- endings? Jewish teenager gave me hope that my life would change this year. You Andy Andrews, author of The Trav- will find hope too if you pick up The eler’s Gift, made me take another Traveler’s Gift and take some time look at what it means to succeed. I to go on a journey – actually 7 want to start this year out with high journeys. hopes; but even more I don’t want those hopes to disappear into thin If you have a something you use to air. I want to end the year having get you going when times get hard, learned something new by taking then you also have a gift! Between some chances and making some beginnings and endings, when you What makes the ordinary everyday changes. Reading The Traveler’s are faced with various trials, what special? At the beginning of this Gift helped me see that it would do keeps your hope alive and new school year, a book I just reread me good to have some new tools for helps you start again? has made me think about this keeping hope alive everyday. I could Would you let me know so question in new ways. I have a lot benefit with ways to began anew I can share your gift in one of things I tell myself when I get more often. of the next issues of “The stuck in the reality of everyday, that The Travelers’ Gift introduces a man Queen City Brew?” All of us can time when hours are long, energy called David Ponder who has lost use a bit of encouragement and this wanes, and frustration builds.
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