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A Book of Our Own
A new, illuminating tome chronicles the history of Barnard College
By Lois Elfman '80
In 1928, Virginia Woolf stood before audiences of female students at Girton and Newnham — the first two colleges for women at the University of Cambridge — to make the case that a woman must have a "room of one's own" to nurture her creative mind. Paying homage to Woolf's famous words (and essay), emeritus professor of history Robert McCaughey titled his new book A College of Her Own: The History of Barnard. It details Barnard College's path, from its inception to its current vibrant existence, as an institution that has provided women the space to think and create.
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. Photo Courtesy the Barnard College Archives.
Since joining the Barnard faculty in 1969, McCaughey has seen the College navigate political upheaval, the feminist movement, and the pressure to merge with Columbia College, and he carefully documents how Barnard has evolved as a women's institution with an ever-expanding mission, academic reach, and physical footprint. In particular, he showcases how the College's location makes Barnard unique when compared with the other Seven Sisters schools. McCaughey originally titled the book The Gotham Sister to reflect how the College's character has been shaped by its urban setting.
"'Gotham' struck me in trying to distinguish this particular women's college from the other women's colleges that we tend to compare it with, almost all of which are either in pretty wealthy suburbs or in small towns," McCaughey says. "[The word] suggested a kind of heterogeneity and hyperactive circumstance that I think does characterize the city and does imbue Barnard with quite a different day-to-day aura."
As a faculty member, McCaughey has worked with six Barnard presidents, and his time serving as dean of the faculty under President Ellen V. Futter gave him invaluable insight into the College's operations. He is also the author of Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004, which includes a comprehensive view of Barnard's relationship to the University.
We had the opportunity to speak with McCaughey about A College of Her Own as well as his experiences over his 51 years in Morningside Heights.
Student antiwar protesters at Commencement 1972. Photo Courtesy the Barnard College Archives.
Barnard president Millicent C. McIntosh and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Photo Courtesy the Barnard College Archives.
[Barnard still] does serve that role of opening up possibilities, exposing students to situations and opportunities that might not have been there but for this connection.
In 2014, you prepared a detailed interactive timeline for Barnard's 125th anniversary celebration. How did that propel you into this book?
Robert McCaughey: It was in the back of my mind at that point to write a history of Barnard. A couple of years later, I decided that I would see if there was interest, and indeed there was. By then, I had as good an angle on Barnard as anyone. Academic history is a fairly small field, and writing institutional histories is not a particularly favored activity among academic historians, but there's a tradition of it. … One of the ways a place sustains itself is having people have some ongoing familiarity with what had gone on before them.
In the early 1980s, Barnard not only refused to merge with Columbia but also survived the University's decision to go coed and emerged from this transition even stronger. How did that set the stage for A College of Her Own?
Barnard did emerge — with lots of credit to Ellen Futter — stronger for the unilateral move on the part of Columbia College. In this book, I certainly don't want to understate the concerns that affected Barnard by Columbia's move. It was slow coming, so there was some anticipation, but nonetheless it was pretty gloomy in 1981-83 around the Barnard campus as far as what the future looked like. That was a dicey moment, and Ellen — with others — just said, "It's going to be all right" and set about doing things that helped.
What about Barnard's location came into sharper focus for you as you wrote the book?
The origins of Barnard are late 19th century, but it was still very much a peculiarly New York undertaking, and it had to meet New York conditions. The organizers, from [co-founder] Annie Nathan Meyer to the early trustees to Virginia Gildersleeve [dean of Barnard, 1911-47], were all in one way or another — often in different ways — New Yorkers. This student body, despite efforts to make it more national, remained overwhelmingly a New York City ethnic community of kids who went to what turned out to be good public high schools where the college preparation was equal to some of the better private schools around the country.
Longtime Africana studies professor Quandra Prettyman. Photo Courtesy the Barnard College Archives.
What do you see as some of the most interesting and noteworthy events in Barnard's history?
Certainly, the response to Columbia going coeducational in 1983. That was a life-or-death situation. Connected with that was the decision the trustees made in 1985 to build Sulzberger Tower. They didn't have the money. It was questionable whether the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York was going to come up with funds. They were laying everything on the table. That was a gutsy decision. Earlier, the quiet setting aside of the admissions policies that had the effect of discriminating against Jewish applicants. That occurred in the [President Millicent] McIntosh era [and], belatedly for sure, quietly corrected a serious miscarriage in the way Barnard operated in an earlier period. Not that it didn't have lots of Jewish students, but it did operate, I think, quite consciously to limit the number. That had to be done away with if Barnard was to be a better place.
How do you hope current students will approach your book and come to appreciate Barnard on a deeper level?
Recognize that it had a past that was different and that should continue to inform its present and future. That is, it did serve as a kind of ladder to a different, better world, a better set of opportunities, a fuller life that was dramatically different by virtue of going to Barnard. I think in some sense, [it still] does serve that role of opening up possibilities, exposing students to situations and opportunities that might not have been there but for this connection. And [that is] intertwined with a faculty that by and large feels the same way about the opportunities that Barnard and New York City provide.
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Las nuevas incorporaciones son Papa Roach, Berri Txarrak, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Turbonegro, Leprous, The Baboon Show, Perturbator, Lovebites, Soufly, Brass Againt y Nothing.Nowhere.
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I'm used to having to keep the two 'parallel worlds' of the novels and the comic strips separate in my mind. Having one of the novels in comic-strip form can only make that more difficult. Strictly mind candy, it's still a fun way to fill an hour, if you are a fan.


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Crews placing grass at San Francisco 49ers' Levi's Stadium
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The Bandera Bermuda grass with perennial rye grass mixed in for color has been growing in the Central Valley town of Livingston since September. In the end, West Coast Turf says 106,325 square feet of grass will be rolled up, delivered and installed at Levi's stadium today and tomorrow. The first four trucks arrived this morning.
"We're transporting the sod from the south end of the stadium all the way to the north end zone and we've already done the north end zone and working our way out past the 10 yard line now," said Greg Dunn, West Coast Turf.
The 49ers say they picked Bandera Bermuda because it uses up to 50-percent less water than the average turf, holds its green color longer and has the quickest growth regeneration in worn areas when compared to other varieties of grass.
49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh told the media last week he's excited about the new field and can't wait to check it out.
The second delivery will start tomorrow at 5 a.m. Dunn said it will take about 60 to 90 days before the grass is ready for play.

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Joost van Loon (* 11. März 1967 in Dordrecht) ist ein niederländischer Soziologe.

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Er erwarb 1991 den Master of Arts in Soziologie an der Carleton University und 1996 den Doctor of Philosophy in Soziologie an der Lancaster University. Seit 2010 ist er Professor für Allgemeine Soziologie und Soziologische Theorie an der Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Risk and technological culture. Towards a sociology of virulence. London 2002, ISBN 0-415-22900-6.
 Deconstructing the Dutch Utopia. Sex education and teenage pregnancy in the Netherlands. London 2003, .
 Media technology. Critical perspectives. Maidenhead 2008, ISBN 0-335-21446-0.
 als Herausgeber mit Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann: Discussing new materialism. Methodological implications for the study of materialities. Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 3-658-22299-9.

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Sticky geranium, Geranium viscosissimum.
Photo by Bruce Barnes
Round leaf alumroot, Heuchera cylindrica.
Scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata.
Big head clover, Trifolium macrocephalum.
Bloomin' Blues | Ruckel Ridge one of the best spots in Oregon to see wildflowers
By Bruce Barnes For the East Oregonian
Jul 18, 2020 Updated Sep 29, 2020
All of the plants featured this week can still be found blooming along Ruckel Ridge. The ridge was once acclaimed by a botanist in Corvallis as one of the seven best places to find and view wildflowers in the state. I've tried to make the daylong trip at least once a year. Access the ridge from the Mt. Emily exit on Interstate 84, then drive north on the ridge to Highway 204, and on north to Tollgate.
Sticky geranium (Geranium viscosissimum): The first three of the plants in this article have been used by various Indian tribes for medicinal purposes. Sticky geranium gets its name from the viscus glands on the lower stems of some of the plants. It likes moist meadows and woods. The plant is a perennial that reaches about 2 feet high, with large rounded leaves up to 8 inches wide, that are deeply cleft nearly to the stem. It grows in Southwest Canada, to California and New Mexico, and in South Dakota to Nebraska.
Round leaf alumroot (Heuchera cylindrica): This plant is about a foot high, found in open, dry, rocky or gravelly sites, especially along dry road banks. It ranges from Southwest British Columbia to California, Nevada, and Wyoming. It has a crowded group of round leaves that have rounded lobes around the edges. The blossoms are small and cylindrical, borne in small clusters at the tips of the stems.
Scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata): If ever there was a plant known as "scarlet," this would be it. And nothing else looks like it, though some varieties of it have flowers with faded red color and white speckles. It is about a foot tall, and the base of the stem has branching, string-like leaves. This is another plant preferring dry, rocky soil and is easy to spot along road banks. You could say it doesn't just get your attention, it shouts at you.
Big head clover (Trifolium macrocephalum): Clover blossoms are borne in compact heads, to the extent that people tend to only see the head and miss the blossoms. Big head clover is the show-off of clover plants. Some lawn clover has heads about 2 millimeters wide, but big-head clover has spherical heads about 2 inches or more across, stuffed with reddish-pink and white flowers. And the leaves have five leaflets. They prefer flat, gravelly, dry sites where almost nothing else grows. Information regarding uses of the big-head clover was not available.
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The disclaimer clause may get the inspection company off the hook for a defect if there is no visual indication of a problem. If the inspector clearly indicated that he was not checking for that problem--many inspectors do not check for dry rot or inspect roofs--then the recourse will be limited. If negligence is involved, or if the defect should have been obvious to a professional inspector, the disclaimer is not likely to protect the inspector. If you find an undiscovered defect, discuss the matter with the inspector. Depending on the situation, the responsibility for remedying the problem may rest with you, the sellers, and/or the inspector.
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Austria-based pentesting company SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab warns of a critical vulnerability in the NetUSB technology developed by KCodes, a Taiwanese vendor of network devices and related software. NetUSB is used to implement "USB over IP" functionality in larger networks and enables workforces to access printers, external HDDs or speakers as though they were locally connected peripherals. According to SEC Consult, the vulnerability could affect routers from up to 26 manufacturers, including leading firms such as D-Link and Netgear.
More precisely, NetUSB works as follows: "USB devices [...] plugged into a Linux-based embedded system (e.g. a router, an access point or a dedicated 'USB over IP' box) are made available via the network using a Linux kernel driver that launches a server (TCP port 20005)," says the SEC Consult Blog. The "embedded system" (router or AP) then connects to a client running Windows or Mac OS X and may start to wreak havoc due to a flawed authentication process: To establish a connection the client and the server side have to undergo a mutual authentication check (with identical static AES keys on either side, which is already problematic enough). When the connection is initiated, the client tells the server its computer name – and "[b]ecause of insufficient input validation, an overly long computer name can be used to overflow the 'computer name' kernel stack buffer," writes SEC Consult analyst Stefan Viehböck in his advisory. "This results in memory corruption which can be turned into arbitrary remote code execution."
SEC Consult initially found the vulnerability in a device manufactured by Chinese router specialist TP-LINK. Upon digging deeper, Viehböck discovered that the dangerous driver – aptly dubbed NetUSB.ko – not only resides in TP-LINK's router firmware, but also in software images from D-Link, Netgear, TRENDnet, and ZyXEL. Altogether, the analyst and his team found 92 products contained the perilous NetUSB code. A detailed list can be found in the advisory linked above, which also includes the names of manufacturers whose network devices could be affected, but were not explicitly tested by SEC Consult. Meanwhile, the gap was listed in the US CERT's National Vulnerability Database. According to German IT news service heise security, TP-LINK offers patches for selected router models, and patches for another 40 products are underway. ZyXEL will start to address the problem with its next firmware updates due on June 18. Another method to mitigate the risk is to disable NetUSB via a router's web interface, but SEC Consult warns that this probably won't work with all products – Netgear in particular seems unwilling to offer any kind of workaround.


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What to expect from Huawei Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2016
The world of mobile broadband is about more than just 5G
by: Jane McCallion
Last week over breakfast, I told an industry insider that I was heading to Tokyo this week for the seventh annual Huawei Mobile Broadband Forum (MBB Forum) and we got to discussing the topics that are coming up over the course of the two-day event. In particular, we started talking about 5G.
I'm openly sceptical about 5G - it's not that I don't believe it can be done, of course, but in the UK at least there have been a lot of grand pronouncements, but very little action. 4G isn't exactly universal throughout the country, either in rural areas even 3G can be a luxury and while research into the technology is underway at several locations currently, when there will be a workable breakthrough is another matter.
My conversation partner was somewhat more upbeat than me, however, and told me that the 5G breakthrough will come sooner rather than later and in their opinion, when it does, "it will come from Huawei".
And despite my general cynicism, I think they could well be right.
Huawei has been working on interim steps, such as 4.5G, for some time and the company is both realistic about what it can do now (no one has ever tried to 'sell' 4.5G to me as 5G) and impassioned about what will be doable in the future - and when.
So what of this year's MBB Forum? Well yes, there is 5G - 5G living, how we get to 5G, what we do in the meantime - but there's a lot of other interesting topics as well.
Expect to hear plenty about the IoT and practical use cases for it (Sony, Toshiba and LG are all giving different talks on this topic), as well as collaboration, wireless working, cloud and mobility.
Digital business and digital payments are also on the agenda, which couldn't be more timely with both the rise of Apple Pay and Android pay and news that Barclays is trialling cash machines that let people withdraw money using their phone.
It's an exciting time to be in the tech industry, and mobile connectivity is at the very heart of the revolution going on all around us.
Huawei Mobile Broadband Forum 2016 runs from 24-25 November. Features editor and networking correspondent Jane McCallion will be on site throughout the event - follow her on Twitter for live updates and click here for full coverage of the event in one place.
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Q: Условие наличия галочки (DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn) Подскажите, пожалуйста, новичку в C#. Есть колонка CheckBoxColumn, в цикле пробегаю по строкам в DataGridView, как можно сделать создать условие, при котором если в CheckBoxColumn стоит галочка, то учитывать, если не стоит, то пропускать.
A: if (CheckBoxColumn.checked)
{
    // Галочка в стоит
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Q: "While not in" error - python In this example, we'll set PH[0] to 'Ten of Hearts', and guess to 'Ten'
The list 'PH' represents a Player's Hand in a card game of Go Fish. When the user guesses a card, they have to guess a card that corresponds with a card in their hand. I wrote this block of code so that if the user inputs an invalid guess (if the guess is not in PH, they will be prompted again to enter a new guess)
I feel like I am having problems with the variables in the array [guess1, guess2, guess3, guess4], but I am not too sure.
When the code is executed, the loop goes on forever. I need to be able to get out of the loop in order to return the guess so it can be entered into the next function.
If someone could please help me solve the problem I'm having.
guess = str(raw_input("Make a guess : "))

guess11 = guess, 'of Hearts'
guess1 = " ".join(guess11)

guess22 = guess, 'of Diamonds'
guess2 = " ".join(guess22)

guess33 = guess, 'of Clubs'
guess3 = " ".join(guess33)

guess44 = guess, 'of Spades'
guess4 = " ".join(guess44)

while PH[0] not in [guess1, guess2, guess3, guess4] :
    print "You do not have a card like that in your hand."
    guess = str(raw_input("Make another guess : "))

    guess11 = guess, 'of Hearts'
    guess1 = " ".join(guess11)

    guess22 = guess, 'of Diamonds'
    guess2 = " ".join(guess22)

    guess33 = guess, 'of Clubs'
    guess3 = " ".join(guess33)

    guess44 = guess, 'of Spades'
    guess4 = " ".join(guess44)

return guess

A: You are only testing if the first card in the players hand is any of he guesses. You need to test each card in the hand:
while not any(guess in PH for guess in [guess1, guess2, guess3, guess4]):

This takes each guessed card and tests that card against the hand in turn. any() stops looping over the guesses when a match is found.
A better idea still is to use set intersections:
guesses = {guess1, guess2, guess3, guess4}
while not guesses.intersection(PH):
    # ask for new guesses

You want to avoid having to type out your 'ask for a guess' code twice; start a loop with while True and use break to end the loop when a correct guess has been made:
suits = ('Hearts', 'Diamonds', 'Clubs', 'Spades')

while True:
    guess = raw_input("Make a guess:")
    guesses = {'{} of {}'.format(guess, suit) for suit in suits}
    if guesses.intersection(PH):
        # correct guess!
        break
    print "You do not have a card like that in your hand."

I used a set comprehension to build the guesses in a loop.


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Adele Adkins was showered with critical huzzahs and walked away with an armful of awards after her hit debut album 19 appeared in the summer of 2008. Adele displays a formidable talent as a vocalist, underplaying her lines with insinuating feints and seductive shadings. There are elements of acoustic folk and coffeehouse jazz as well as R&B in these tracks, heard in airy, playful numbes like "Daydreamer" and "Crazy for You." Adele's delicately girlish vocal on "First Love" contrasts with her whiskey-dipped tones on "Right as Rain." But what grabs the listener most are her soul queen moves, tossed off with a sultry flair that can be mesmerizing. The string-drenched "Cold Shoulder" and the brooding "Melt My Heart to Stone" show off her extraordinary subtlety and control. As for the ballads, they are all but impeccable — "Hometown Glory" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" ache with inner fire. A-list producers Mark Ronson and Eg White help make 19 a sonically rich and variegate experience. But in the end, it's Adele's show, and she holds the spotlight with undeniable authority.
19 (Deluxe Edition) Adele
Chasing Pavements (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Melt My Heart to Stone (Live At Hotel Cafe)
That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Crazy for You (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Right As Rain (Live At Hotel Cafe)
My Same (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Make You Feel My Love (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Daydreamer (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Hometown Glory (Live At Hotel Cafe)
Many Shades of Black
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Sounds like my 3rd gen 4Runner. 16 Years old. 195k on the clock. and zero issues (knock on wood).
Glad to see it is the same $hit going on.
+1. Is she ADD or something?
Holy crap! Haven't been on in a while so I am just reading this. I am glad your still kickin, hope the recovery is going well.


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Alexander Wiklund, född 28 december 1990 i Piteå, är en svensk ishockeyforward som spelar för IF Björklöven i Hockeyallsvenskan.

Wiklunds moderklubb är Storfors AIK, och han har även spelat juniorhockey i Piteå HC och Luleå HF.

Han har även rekordet för det snabbaste målet i en SHL-match genom tiderna. Det tog honom endast 5 sekunder att få pucken i motståndarmålet i en match för sitt Karlskrona HK mot Frölunda HC den 23 oktober 2015.

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US Court Dismisses Fraud Cases Against Hushpuppi's Friend, Woodberry
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US court has dismissed the fraud case against Olalekan Ponle, known as Mr Woodberry, who was arrested alongside Ramon Abbas, known with Hushpuppi.
Woodberry was accused of tricking a Chicago company into sending wire transfers totalling $15.2 million. Prosecutors disclosed that companies based in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New York and California were also victims of the fraud.
He was arrested in the United Arab Emirate on June 10 after a raid by operatives of the Dubai crime unit, and subsequently extradited to the U.S. on July 2.
Though Woodberry was indicted by a grand jury on an eight-count charge of wire fraud, the United States government on Monday July 20th filed a motion through its attorney John R. Lausch, requesting that the case against him be dismissed without prejudice.
Lausch said "Counsel for the government has spoken with counsel for the defendant and defendant's counsel has no objection to this motion. Respectfully submitted."
He added that the request was made in pursuant with Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 48, which states that the government may, with leave of court, dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint.
A court order issued by Judge Robert W. Gettleman on Tuesday July 21, confirmed that the government's motion to dismiss complaint without prejudice was granted.
Mr Gentleman said "Without objection the complaint against defendant Ponle is dismissed without prejudice. Motion presentment hearing set for 7/23/2020 is stricken."
Since Woodberry's case was dismissed without prejudice, it is temporal as the prosecutor can refile the case within a certain period of time.
The probable causes of dismissal range from unavailability of sufficient evidence, an improper criminal complaint or charging document, to loss of evidence necessary to prove the defendant committed the crime.
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You know how when you watch a movie you liked a lot a second time how maybe it wasn't quite as funny, or as thrilling? I first read this five years ago and called it a paradigm shifter. I had to reread it for a class and there's the "yeah, yeah, I know that already" feel.
But there's a reason for that. When I first read this, I realized that Pink packaged what I knew innately but didn't really know, and even if I did, probably couldn't articulate well with the backup to support it. To say I've embraced Motivation 3.0 might be an understatement. I've vocally supported the move away from "pay for performance" (which my employer abandoned). I've advocated continuous feedback in lieu of annual performance appraisals, losing out on that so far. But by far the most important thing I've done to foster empowerment is adopt the four most important words I know. Note, this is me, not Pink, but totally in line with his premises of intrinsic rewards and supportive of autonomy, mastery and purpose.
I can be in a design meeting and I'll ask that question around the table…even the architect intern taking notes. (A coworker noticed that I tend to sit next to the people who might be "lower on the totem pole"…I didn't even realize I was doing that!) The follow on key is to listen. I will still make the decisions, but I might go in a different direction than I might have had I been alone. I'll ask one of my staff What Do You Think…? about whatever problem arises. It's a powerful question.
I'm not going to detail this book – others have…well, and not so well… I read a lot of management and leadership books and rare is the one that makes an impact. This did. Read it if you haven't, and read it again if you have.


This wonderfully constructed little video adds a nice visual element to part of a Stephen Fry essay on language.
Fry's particular stance has always been a mix of the quite old and the very new. And in this piece on language he reveals himself as a progressive again, rallying against pedants whose love for language, he argues, is counterproductive.
They inhibit its growth by smothering it. If somebody writes something that is irregular or wrong, it is pounced upon and then held up as a horrid example by people like Lynn Truss or John Humphreys. Loving language in this way, Fry more or less claims, is like tucking a baby so tightly into its cot that it cannot move.
It's an interesting essay and one that got me thinking. Whatever Fry thinks of the pedants in Briton, he would be more annoyed by those on the continent. We don't have a Royal Academy of Language like Spain's Real Academia Española or France's L'Académie française, whose official role is to pass judgement on words like courts pass judgements on people.
The English language has always been more flexible than this. That it contains more words than most comparable languages stems from the fact that it is so lightly regulated. We're so good at stealing words from elsewhere and putting them to good use that approximately 30% of English words come from French.
Hardly anyone from my generation knows anything about English grammar and form. I remember friends in Madrid being horrified when I explained that I didn't know the rules of my own language. Apart from verbs and nouns in primary schools, the rest is left unexplained. Words ended up going together because they sounded right, not because sentences were formed correctly.
Stephen Fry is an admirable aesthete and for him anything that inhibits creativity or the construction of something beautiful is to be lamented or got rid of. It's a progressive attitude that seems to be more American than English who excel in scrutiny and scepticism. It's an attitude that I like.
But there is still something to be said for the pedants. Given that the English education system has abandoned the English language to its own fate and there's (thankfully) no formal body to moderate the use of words, then you need to have some people holding the whole thing together.
And in their assiduous, misanthropic way, that's what the pedants do.
Points to @JTownend for spotting the video in the first place.


This series consist of enrollment, distribution and testing reports produced by the Office of the Registrar. The Office of the Registrar is now known as the Office of Records and Registration.
Office of the Registrar, "W407-003 - Office of the Registrar: Enrollment, Distribution, and Testing Reports" (2015). University Archives Finding Aids. 101.


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Islamic Group Files Federal Complaint to Force Company to Accommodate Muslim Prayer in Break Policy
By Heather Clark on May 27, 2016 14 Comments
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BRILLION, Wisc. — A prominent Islamic group has filed a federal religious discrimination complaint against a Wisconsin-based lawn mower and snow blower manufacturing company in alleging that it does not provide "reasonable accommodation" for Muslim employees in its break policy.
Under the Islamic religion, Muslims are required to pray five times a day at specific times. But as previously reported, earlier this year, Ariens enforced its policy to require employees to stay on the production line at all times, except for during their two 10-minute breaks. A co-worker could fill in for them during the time that they were gone.
Ariens officials previously did not stop Muslim workers from walking away from the production line a third time during their shift to offer up prayers, but when the company saw that the third break was costing Ariens money, it put its foot down.
"On the economic hardship to the Ariens company, we've demonstrated that it's at least $1 million in line stoppage per line whenever someone takes an unscheduled break," CEO Dan Ariens told television station WLUK in February.
"We are asking employees to pray during scheduled breaks in our designated prayer rooms," he also wrote in a memo in January. "Our manufacturing environment does not allow for unscheduled breaks in production."
However, Muslims state that the policy violates their faith because they will not be able to pray at the specific times required in Islam.
"If someone tells you, 'You pray on your break,' and the break time is not the prayer time, it will be impossible to pray," Green Bay Masjid Imam Hasan Abdi explained to local television station WNCN.
"These breaks that they were taking were very similar to the type of breaks that other employees were granted for using the bathroom, and normally they would leave one person at a time, which meant the operation would continue until that person returned," also remarked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Jaylani Hussein.
According to reports, over 50 Ariens employees were affected by the decision to enforce the policy, and 32 opted to stay and comply with the rules. 14 decided to leave over the matter and seven others were reportedly fired due to noncompliance with the requirement.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) threatened in February to file a federal discrimination complaint, and this week, it followed through with its plans. It filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and also asserted an infringement of the National Labor Relations Act.
"Ariens has clearly engaged in an unlawful pattern of discriminatory conduct against charging parties because of their Islamic faith, Somali national origin and race, in violation of Title VII," a letter to the EEOC reads. "The outright refusal to entertain, discuss, or offer any reasonable religious accommodation options that would resolve the alleged workplace conflict is unacceptable and inconsistent with prevailing Title VII law and EEOC guidelines."
CAIR asserted that Ariens allows unscheduled breaks for non-religious purposes, and therefore "failed to demonstrate that accommodating and granting charging parties similar breaks for religious purposes would cause an undue hardship, beyond de minimis cost, to the operation of its business."
Ariens says that it is disappointed in the filing of the complaint as it believes it has balanced company interests with the needs of religious employees.
"We have had Muslim employees working for the company for nine years," Communications Manager Ann Stilp told Bloomberg News. "We currently have 27 Muslim employees who continue to work here, and the company continues to accommodate them with prayer rooms. We respect their faith and we respect the work they do."
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Cardano is a smart contracts platform built with a proof of stake consensus algorithm. The company was built with a focus on security and scalability. The hope is that Cardano will become the basis for individuals dealing with banks and other large institutions via blockchain. The company was founded by Charles Hoskinson (a big player in the early bitcoin community).
Consensus on Cardano is not reached through powerful mining hardware. Members staking their coins via the Cardano wallet get to verify the network. Re governance, Cardano allows voting for updates to governance protocols based on the amount of ADA a party holds. This is quite unlike EOS that relies on representatives or Ethereum which relies on influential members in the community.
Cardano's blockchain is called Ourboros. Their consensus algorithm is a proof of stake system that has peer reviewed mathematically proven randomness in choosing the stakers. This is another layer of security to ensure validators do not become malicious. Moreover, they can run their choice of validators in parallel. This allows for scalability as the network increases.
Another advantage of Ourboros advantage of this system is its modularity. This modularity allows for features such as delegation, side chains, better data structures for light clients, different forms of random number generation and even different synchronization assumptions (how all the nodes in the network decide to broadcast one block). As a network develops from having thousands to millions and even billions of users, the requirements of its consensus algorithm will also change. Thus, the team found it vital to have enough flexibility to accommodate these changes and thereby future-proof the heart of a cryptocurrency.
"The aggregation of our principled exploration of the cryptocurrency space is two collections of protocols. Respectively, a provably secure proof of stake  based cryptocurrency called the Cardano Settlement Layer (CSL) and a set of protocols called the Cardano Computation Layer (CCL).
This project deals with many of the problems in the industry in a really thoughtful way. The main questions are the same that plague most blockchain projects (implementation risks around interoperability, security, ongoing support, scalability, and emergent threats). Either way, it is one of the most de-risked platforms in the industry.


Unfortunately, hurtful jabs, hateful cyberbullying and illegal acts can be "popular".
The ban at Norwich appears to us to be mostly symbolic. According the Huffington Post article, Yik Yak will be banned on the school's computer system. Since Yik Yak is used primarily on mobile devices (phones), this ban will not effectively stop any kids who want to use it from doing so. We applaud the effort, though.
Parents can start by knowing which apps are on their kids' phones, and what they are used for. Take it from there.


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BlackBerry Overtime
Ever make a work- related call or send an email from your Smartphone when you weren't actually "on the clock"? Most people seem to be doing that these days, especially in busy Atlanta.
You may very well be entitled to overtime pay for those activities, under some circumstances, as a new term has just leaped into the legal lexicon in the last few months-"BlackBerry Overtime," currently used to describe work- related, electronic communications activities done from remote communication devices outside of official work time.
This is a very new area of the law, but it may be one that is about to get bigger. Employers often ask employees to run errands and do favors outside of regular work hours without compensation. The advent of continual emailing can only make that problem worse.
The most notable BlackBerry Overtime situation to this point concerned writers working for ABC in New York last summer.
ABC News ran into a problem with the Writers' Guild of America when the company wanted three new writers to sign a waiver saying they would not be paid for checking their company-issued BlackBerrys after normal working hours. ABC responded to the Guild's resistance to this waiver by taking away all writers' company-issued BlackBerrys.
After negotiations with their union, ABC agreed to pay overtime to writers who put in "substantial work" out of regular work hours, but not just for the occasional email or bright idea. The writers got their BlackBerrys back.
What about actually working from home? Last July, an employee working at home with a BlackBerry filed suit against Verizon Communications and a subcontractor, alleging failure to pay overtime. The plaintiff is a "personal account manager" who agreed to work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, a total of 72 hours a week. He works from home using a company-provided BlackBerry.
The case is still in litigation.
If you have any questions as to whether or not your emails and other electronic communications qualify for overtime pay, contact us.
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Review: Dawnflight by Kim Headlee
Review:Daylight on Iron Mountain by David Wingrove...
Review:The Necromancer's Grimoire by Annemarie Ban...
Arthur the Pendragon, representative of Rome in Britain, was able to lead his forces to victory against a loosely united group of Pictish clans in the battle of Aber-Glei. To their surprise Arthur imposes a rather light treaty on the defeated, hoping to win the clans to his cause. As part of this treaty Chieftainess Gyanhumara ("Gyan") nic Hymar is obligated to marry a Brytoni nobleman.She chooses Urien map Dumarec, son of her clan's worst enemy, in hopes of bringing in lasting peace to her people. However when a prophecy suggests that a Brytoni chief will cause her great joy and great sorrow and lead to her death, she begins to question. A matter not helped when she finally meets Arthur and falls in love with him.
The crux of the story, at least for me, is a coming of age tale. Gyan has been groomed to lead her people and takes this responsibility very seriously. However in a sense her upbringing has been very sheltered and events conspire to confront her with a larger world. Naturally she begins to question her place within it and to discover who she truly is and what she truly believes. I thought Headlee did an excellent job in slotting in other characters points of view to balance things out but Gyan is undoubtedly the star of the show. My only issue is that is that Urien and Arthur's sister Morghe are not given any redeeming qualities and seem a little too like cartoon villains though the main villain of the piece Cuchullain is portrayed much better.
This Arthurian tale is set across the backdrop of Britain in the fifth century and everything from the languages, cultures and religions is vividly portrayed. The various forms of foreshadowing were used to good effect and infusedthe tale with a real tension.
Overall Dawnflight does a fantastic job of combining a coming of age tale with a vivid backdrop. 8/10.
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Review:Daylight on Iron Mountain by David Wingrove
In the year 2067 the Middle East has been pacified by a nuclear strike, all that remains between Tsao Ch'un's vision of one worldwide city is the divided remnants of the United States of America. Ch'un chooses Jiang Lei, a rarity in being a genuinely honest man, to lead this campaign. Meanwhile Jake Reed has been having trouble adjusting to life inside Chun Kuo and is sure he is about to be made to 'disappear' like the other troublemakers. Unexpectedly an offer comes from GenSyn to work on creating a datascape for research purposes. However other forces have an interest in this as well. Twenty years later Tsao Ch'un decides to make war on the seven, his lead administrators, having driven them to think of deposing him through his tyrannical ways.
The novel is divided into two temporal periods set twenty years apart. There is no real flow between these periods, unlike the first novel, which gives the impression this second prequel is something of an info dump. Surprisingly the author does not go into details on any battles despite two wars taking place during these periods. Key scenes are left unwritten and the resolution to both wars remains murky. All of this makes the novel feel rushed.
On the plus side Wingrove characterisation is top notch. Even characters who only a single point of view scene are well fleshed out. The political machinations and the world-building are interesting but could have been expanded upon further.
Wingrove has created a top-notch world and interesting cast of characters but this second prequel suffers from rushed pacing and at times feels like filler. 7/10.
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Review:The Necromancer's Grimoire by Annemarie Banks
Following the recovery of the Hermetica Nadira and her companions journey with a group of Templar knights to Istanbul. The knights seek to recover a lost treasure and plan on going to Istanbul and stealing a grimoire from a necromancer who works for the sultan. The knights want to Nadira to use the book to contact a dead member of their order, in return she can use it to contact Lord Montrose's dead brother and hopefully give him the peace that he seeks, though the necromancer may not take kindly to their plans.
Nadira remains the stand out character and I enjoyed watching her grow. As her powers develop so does her self-confidence and she begins to take on more of a leadership role rather letting other people shape her life. Both Lord Motrose and William are also well fleshed out as support characters. However I did not feel that the rest of the support characters were fleshed out enough, especially the Templar knights. When things happen to them later in the book it is hard to care as we don't really know much about them.
Pacing is a very real issue in this one with everything feeling far too rushed and as a result the really big moments felt hollow. I don't know if this in reaction to a perceived slow pace in the first novel and if so I would be flabbergasted as Banks debut was well-controlled in this area. Some areas of the plot also did not make a great deal of sense, for example it is decided that Nadira will attempt to steal the grimoire when the necromancer is at the height of his sexual pleasure as for some reason he won't be able to sense Nadira taking control of it. This knowledge comes from one of the Templars but how he came by it is never revealed.
The passage of time is not something kept clear in the narrative and would like to see Banks address this in future instalments.
One improvement from her debut was the insertion of a very clear ending in this instalment.
Overall I think this book suffers from 'second book syndrome'. The lead character is well portrayed but many of the support characters can be likened to stick figures. Pacing is an area that needs some work. 6.5/10.


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GolfStream Ladies Open at Kiev Golf Club, Ukraine.
Nalini Singh Siwach finishes T22nd at the Golf Stream Ladies Open in the LET Access Series
30 May 2012, New Delhi: India's Nalini Singh Siwach managed an impressive T-22nd finish at the recently concluded € 20,000 GolfStream Ladies Open at the Kiev Golf Club, Ukraine. The tournament which is affiliated to the LET Access Series was played from the May 22nd-24th 2012 at the par-72 Kiev Golf Club, Ukraine.
Nalini who is currently ranked third in the Hero Women's Professional Golf Tour 2011-12 was participating in the tournament for the very first time. Nalinicarded a total of 20 over 236 to be tied alongside to finish T-22nd along with Galina Rotmistrova from Russia, Belgian golfer Laurence Herman, Marianne Anderssonfrom Sweden and Katy Mcnicoll from Scotland.Nalini showed consistency in her game over the three rounds carding her best (78) in the final round, on a high scoring day.
"It's been a satisfactory outing for me, however there are areas that I need to work upon and I confident of putting up a better show in the upcoming tournaments", said the Delhi based Nalini Singh Siwach.
"The course was tough and we really had to work hard; there was very little margin for error", she further added.


The U.S. has several holidays designed to promote reflection of times hard fought in the history of this country — Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, etc. But although it is not an official holiday, no single day on the American calendar brings this level of reflection as high as does September 11th. Anyone who recalls that fateful day in 2001 — a Tuesday, as it falls today as well — remembers how fraught with peril everything was then, and for weeks, months, even years after.
We are also coming up on the tenth-year anniversary of the crash of Lehman Brothers, an event that triggered a financial collapse built on fraudulent mortgage-based trading instruments that froze the markets like nothing we'd seen since September 11, 2001, and was so widespread it caused the Treasury to construct a massive bailout system of the nation's biggest banks, then the auto industry and elsewhere. To this day in certain pockets around the world (think certain suspect economies in Europe and other places), the aftershock of the U.S. economic quake are still being felt to this day.
Just one year ago, Hurricane Maria ravaged the Caribbean, including the U.S. territories of the Virgin Islands and especially Puerto Rico. Almost as devastating as that storm was was the original misdiagnosis that only 64 Puerto Ricans had lost their lives during the course of it; the eventual death toll rose to 4,600 — more than 50% higher than the death toll in the WTC of September 11.
Also last year, Hurricanes Harvey — which struck Gulf Coast Texas — and Irma — which hit Florida — contributed to the most expensive hurricane season in U.S. history. And the storms were so significant they not only caused human casualties and property damage, but caused temporary declines in a wide number of industries, including those that took a chunk out of monthly jobs numbers — about the only thing to quell the historically robust labor force growth we continue to see to this day.
Currently, people in the coastal Carolinas are evacuating their homes as their region braces for Hurricane Florence, currently a Category 4 storm expected to make landfall this week. A million Carolinians have been urged to flee this storm, which by itself will cause at very least a regional hit to industries, and for who knows how long. A quick view of modern history in the U.S. illustrates we are once again in the cyclical part of challenging, potentially dire, times.
Our track record on such challenges in this country is spotty. There are still critics of the U.S. government regarding the short shrift Puerto Ricans have received in the aftermath of Maria (reminiscent of criticism of the handling of the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans in the late summer of 2005), whereas the September 11th tragedy helped galvanize the collective spirit of Americans, if only temporarily. Once Florence hits the South Atlantic coast of the U.S. mainland, will we see a quick restoration of health and well-being, or something notably less than that? Time will tell.
Futures in the market are down again this morning, with no substantive economic data to report. Several members of the Fed will be giving speeches today and throughout this week ahead of the next FOMC meeting, which is already determined to hike interest rates another quarter-percent. Beyond this, we don't see much that might affect trading in a significant way. Unless this latest hurricane turns out to be better — or worse — than expected.


Infections remain a significant cause of death in most developing countries. Several factors will combine to make this situation worse as the planet heats up.
Malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus and other insect-borne infectious diseases are expected to increase as a result of climate change. Global warming shifts the geographical ranges of vectors and shortens the incubation time of diseases. Warmer weather and longer frost-free seasons expand the number of insects carrying disease and the period over which people are vulnerable to being bitten. Higher temperatures also help the pathogens within the carriers to multiply.
A strong link has been found between annual rainfall, the number of rainy days and the incidence of malaria in the districts of Rajasthan and Gujarat in India. The El Niño weather phenomenon, which causes increases in rain and stormy weather in central America, has also been associated with spikes in malaria.
Waterborne diseases are likely to increase as a result of climate change, too. Outbreaks of cholera and other diarrhoeal infections can be sparked by the extreme weather events associated with climate change. Hurricanes, typhoons and tornados all exacerbate the poor water and sanitation infrastructure present in much of the developing world. In cases of flooding, untreated sewage is mixed with water supplies and pathogens from sediments are re-suspended.
Populations affected by extreme weather events often migrate to displaced people's camps. Infectious diseases can thrive in these camps, where people are crammed together with poor sanitation facilities and limited access to clean water.
A prime example is the outbreak of cholera in Haiti that occurred between 2010 and 2013, which killed an estimated 8,000 people. Refugee camps also often feature high levels of sexual violence, which can lead to high infection rates for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
As the climate changes and traditional agriculture fails, more and more of the developing world's population is being driven to slum dwellings on the outskirts of cities. Here, higher population densities combined with poor levels of sanitation and health-consciousness lead to greater levels of tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS and other infections.
This resource was first published in 'Health and Climate Change' in January 2009 and reviewed and updated in June 2014.


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Bouza ("A Bouza" en gallego) es una localidad situada en la parroquia de Régoa, del municipio de Cedeira, en la provincia de La Coruña, España.

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Localidades de Cedeira
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Fashion King () is a 2014 South Korean film that comically depicts the coming of age of a high school student as he matures into adulthood and discovers a passion for fashion design.

It is a film adaptation of the popular webtoon series Fashion King written by Kian84 (whose real name is Kim Hee-min), which was published on Naver from May 5, 2011, to June 6, 2013, and received four million hits.

Plot
Woo Ki-myung, a completely ordinary high school student, has a crush on Hye-jin, the prettiest, most popular girl in class. So to win her heart, he decides to transform his image and become the coolest, best dressed person in the world. As his mentor Nam-jung introduces him to the world of fashion, Ki-myung finds himself entering into a rivalry with Won-ho, the school's toughest fighter. Meanwhile, he doesn't notice Eun-jin, who harbors a secret crush on him.

Cast
Joo Won as Woo Ki-myung
Choi Jin-ri as Kwak Eun-jin
Ahn Jae-hyun as Kim Won-ho
Park Se-young as Park Hye-jin
Kim Sung-oh as Kim Nam-jung
Lee Il-hwa as Ki-myung's mother
Shin Ju-hwan as Kim Chang-joo
Min Jin-woong as Kim Doo-chi
Kim Ian as Hyuk-soo
Park Doo-shik as Sung-chul
Woo Sang-jeon as Old monk
Lee Geung-young as Won-ho's father (cameo)
Han Hye-jin as herself, MC (cameo)
Hong Seok-cheon as himself, MC (cameo)
Kim Na-young as herself, MC (cameo)
Horan (Clazziquai) as Female assistant (cameo)
Lee Joo-young as Fashion King Korea judge (cameo)
Jung Doo-young as Fashion King Korea judge (cameo)
Oh Se-il as Fashion King Korea judge (cameo)
Ahn Sun-young as Hanbok judge (cameo)
Lee Hyo-jae as Hanbok judge (cameo)
Hwang Byung-gook as Ki-myung's homeroom teacher (cameo)
Nana as Kim Hae-na (cameo)

Reception
Film received mixed reviews.Imdb rated the film  5.3/10.

References

External links

Fashion King webtoon at Naver

South Korean coming-of-age comedy films
South Korean teen comedy films
South Korean romantic comedy films
Films about fashion
Films based on South Korean webtoons
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Blanche Edith Shannahan
~ Teacher and Historian of Pioneer Life, 1891- 1968
By Donna Perkins Wylie
Blanche Shannahan's career as a teacher along with her strong sense of family and desire to preserve the pioneer stories she heard from her family and others motivated her to contribute two valuable pieces of research material to future generations. She compiled and wrote a family journal in 1964, We Were Eight. Her niece Margaret Strum Schmidt recently donated the unpublished family book to the Monroe Historical Society. Blanche also transcribed the November 1870 through 1888 diaries of Charles Harper Stackpole, an early pioneer, and donated her transcription to the Sno-Isle Regional Library.
The photograph above is the original Shannahan cabin where Blanche Shannahan was born in 1891. The cabin is still on exhibit at the Evergreen Fairgrounds in Monroe. Courtesy Monroe Historical Society.
She was born April 11, 1891, the first of eight children, in a log cabin on the Shannahan homestead near the Snoqualmie River at Mount Forest south of Monroe. May Stackpole Bradbury, the daughter of Charles and Anna Elizabeth Stackpole, was Blanche's lifelong friend and the one who loaned Blanche the diaries of her father.
The Stackpoles lived north of the Shannahans. May told Blanche that she was welcomed into the family of John and Elizabeth Shannahan with four women assisting her birth while her father kept the fires going and the water boiling. The midwife was Auntie Stackpole, "Auntie" being her term of endearment for May's mother. Also helping were Mrs. Ella Harriman, her mother's close friend, and Mrs. E. Treen, the Shannahan's closest neighbor. A native woman, the wife of Squire Brewster, sat in a rocking chair and sang softly in her native language at Blanche's birth.
The image on the left is a 1901 photograph of the Mount Forest School. Blanche Shannahan is the second girl from the teacher and her sister Kitty is standing between her and the teacher
The Mount Forest District was south of Monroe toward Duvall on the west side of the Snoqualmie River near the King county line. [Photo reprinted from "We are Eight"]
Blanche went to school in a one-room log schoolhouse, the Mount Forest School in District 8.
Since Monroe did not have a high school at the time she lived with her grandmother so she could attend Snohomish High School. Her maternal grandparents, Robert and Louisa Smallman, had moved to Snohomish at 224 Avenue B in 1900 after living in the Tualco Valley for 30 years and her grandfather had died in February 1902.
Her mother Elizabeth Smallman Shannahan was born in a little cottage on the corner of Second and Cherry in Seattle in 1867 when Seattle was a mere village. Elizabeth's mother Louisa Spencer Morrish Nowell was born in London, England on May 31, 1839 and her father Robert Jesse Enos Smallman was born December 1, 1837 near Maidenstone Kent, England.
Blanche graduated from high school with honors in 1909 and from Bellingham State Normal School in 1923. She had over four years accredited work at the University of Washington but never graduated because her responsibility of caring for her brother, Robert, a paraplegic, kept her from fulfilling the required years of campus credit. In 1929, Robert had injured his spine in a fall at age 14 and their mother died a few months later.
Blanche's first teaching job was in a one-room schoolhouse, the Ben Howard School near Monroe. She went on to teach in elementary schools in Issaquah and then in the Seattle Public Schools. During that time she commuted from the family home just south of Monroe to Seattle so she could take care of her brother. After about 44 years of teaching she retired in 1956 and dedicated the rest of her life to preserving pioneer history.
Blanche's grandfather joined the English navy at age 16 and was sent into the waters of Puget Sound. In the spring of 1855 at age 18, Robert Smallman left the British service through the "back door" and came to Washington Territory from Victoria, British Columbia. He had a claim on the Snoqualmie prairie from 1860 until he sold it in 1865. He returned to England for a visit and on August 19,1866 he married Miss Louisa Nowell in Kent.
Her grandmother Louisa had forebears who had been a higher class than she found herself in a country with definite class distinctions so Louisa pursued her education while working in the home of Lord Rothschild and saved her money so that one day she could own land. The Smallmans emigrated from England to Seattle by way of the Isthmus of Panama on railroad in the fall of 1866. When Elizabeth was about three years old her parents took up a homestead at the Forks, also known as Qualco. The area is now known as the Tualco Valley in unincorporated Snohomish County south of Monroe.
The United States Postal Department in Washington D.C. in response to her letter of September 30, 1958 confirmed that the records of the post office in the National Archives reflected that a post office was established at Tualco, Snohomish County on August 4, 1880 and it was discontinued on July 12, 1892. It confirmed Robert Smallman was the first appointed postmaster of the Tualco Post Office. The letter also reflected that Mrs Sarah J. Evans was the next Tualco postmaster on April 12, 1888, followed by Mrs Amelia J. Austin on July 12, 1889. The Tualco Post Office was discontinued when the town of Monroe was removed to its present site, one mile east of Park Place. When Mr Smallman applied for a post office the U.S. Postal Department changed the name from Qualco to Tualco. The earlier territorial maps show the town of Qualco above the forks where the Snoqualmie and Skykomish Rivers form the Snohomish River. Early settlers had interpreted the native name for the area as "Qualco" and also referred to this area as the Forks.
Blanche's father, John Shannahan was born September 13, 1867 in Seaforth, Ontario. As a young man in 1883, he came west on the first Northern Pacific train to make an uninterrupted trip to the Pacific Coast. At age 22, he built the log cabin where Blanche was born in 1891. (The cabin was donated to the State of Washington and moved to the State Fairgrounds in Monroe where it now stands.) He married Elizabeth Smallman on December 12, 1889 at the Plaskett House in Snohomish. Blanche's father made "ship knees" (spruce ribs from selected logs) and ferried them to ship builders across Puget Sound. He was also a road and bridge builder and was active in the establishment of local schools.
Shannahan Family in 1914 Standing at back from left to right: Elizabeth, Martha, Anne, Kathryn, Blanche, and Wallace. Sitting from left to right: Elizabeth holding Robert, John (Jack), Harriette, and Louisa Smallman (Elizabeth's mother). Courtesy Monroe Historical Society #1157
Blanche gained a lot of her knowledge about such things from her father and inserted parenthetical clarifications and helpful information she learned from him and others in her Stackpole diary transcriptions. She also noted things that seemed important to her at the time such as, after Mr. Stackpole's October 13, 1871 entry about the birth of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Reeves' son that morning Blanche wrote in parentheses "first white child born at the Forks". Blanche wrote in the Preface that she hoped her transcription of the diaries and her inserts would help researchers in the future. She signed and dated the Epilogue on October 5, 1964. Blanche died August 24, 1968 at the age of 77.
"We are Eight" by Blanche Shannahan, 1964, unpublished Margaret Strum Schmidt interview
The Stackpole Diaries transcribed by Blanche Shannahan, 1964, unpublished
Preston, Ralph N. Early Washington Atlas Overland Stage Routes, Old Military Roads, Indian Battle Grounds, Old Forts, Old Gold Mines. Portland, Or: Binford & Mort, 1981.
Snohomish Historical Society. River reflections Snohomish City, 1859 to 1910 : a popular narrative history of Snohomish City. Snohomish, Wash: The Society, 1975.
© 2007 Donna Perkins Wylie, All Rights Reserved; WLP Story #47
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Collaborative Arts Project 21, known more commonly as CAP21, is a New York City professional musical theatre training conservatory and Off-Broadway theatre company. It has a core faculty with many associate faculty who are also working professionals.  The conservatory has produced many Broadway performers, as well as actors in off-Broadway, regional, and international theatre, television, film, and other performance media. Until 2012, it was in partnership with the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2014, CAP21 joined forces with Molloy University.

History
As a producing organization, CAP21 began in 1994. Its productions take place at CAP21 or at venues in New York City and around the United States. Each season, three new works are produced for a two-week "work in progress" run. In addition CAP21 works in development with twenty new musicals and plays providing public and in-house readings. CAP21's season features diverse productions of new and classic plays and musicals, drawing audiences from the greater New York metropolitan area.  Nearly 200 theatre artists are engaged each year to create and present new and classic work.

In 2012 the CAP21 Theatre Company won a GLAAD award for Outstanding New York Theatre: Off and Off-Off Broadway, for its production of the new musical Southern Comfort. The production starred Jeffrey Kuhn and Natalie Joy Johnson. Some faculty include: Lori Leshner, Lawrence Arancio, Sean Dougherty, Jillian Carucci, and Chris O'Connor the Chair of the program (https://www.molloy.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/molloy-cap21-theatre-arts-program/faculty-profiles).

Alumni
Well-known performers who have been part of the CAP21 theatre group include Lady Gaga, Maddy Apple, Alex Brightman, Adam Jacobs, Javier Muñoz, Jason Tam, Ali Stroker, Matthew Morrison, Kristen Bell and Sosie Bacon.

References

External links
Official CAP21 Website
Official Molloy College Website
Backstage Article September 2010
BroadwayWorld Article October 2013
New York Times Sweat and Sequins
Molloy College Opens New Manhattan Center May 2018
On Stage Blog Top 30 College Musical Theatre Programs 2019-2020
Musical theatre organizations
Off-Broadway theaters
Arts organizations established in 1994
1994 establishments in New York City
Performing arts education in New York (state)


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Language Lounge
A Monthly Column for Word Lovers
Help for Harried Justices
By Orin Hargraves
Though it may have gone unnoticed by you, there is a specter haunting the American court system, and that specter is the dictionary. In many respects, judges are like ordinary people in that they need to consult a dictionary from time to time in order to get a fix on what a word means. Unlike ordinary people, judges have great influence far beyond the sphere of people they talk to, and when judges cite dictionaries, especially as a way of underpinning or justifying a particular decision, the dictionary is suddenly elevated to a position of influence that it did not previously enjoy. The ways in which judges do this is increasingly the focus of scholarship, criticism, and controversy.
A 2010 article in the Duke Law Journal by Phillip A. Rubin examines the use of dictionaries by courts and argues that, without a principled approach to the use of dictionaries in courtrooms, judges leave themselves "open to criticism for, at best, using dictionaries incorrectly—and, at worst, using them to reach their preferred outcomes." Rubin spends some time talking about the opinion and the dissenting opinions in District of Columbia v. Heller, a landmark 2008 case that invalidated strict gun control laws in Washington DC. He notes:
The dispute in Heller typifies the problem . . . . The dictionary was used by both sides in the same way that Justice Scalia argues that legislative history can be incorrectly used in judicial interpretation: as an external, nonauthoritative source used to pick out a supporting argument while ignoring any contradictory information in that same source.
Three years later, in a lengthy paper in the William & Mary Law Review, James J. Brudney and Lawrence Baum make essentially the same argument, focusing on the ever-increasing use of dictionary definitions in US Supreme Court decisions, critiquing it in great detail, and concluding that "the Justices need to acknowledge that they are operating with virtually unbridled discretion in the dictionary domain."
The muddle that courts, and especially the Supreme Court, seem to be falling into is this: different textual sources must necessarily have different weights when justices consider their bearing on a case at hand.
The Constitution has a meaning, motivated by the intentions of the framers. Legislative history has a meaning, again motivated by the intentions of the legislature that promulgated antecedent legislation. And words have meanings, as recorded in dictionary definitions. But definitions and dictionaries do not have particular intentions, other than to record the prevailing understanding of words at a particular time—the "ordinary meaning," as Justices like to call it.
It is a great challenge to try to tease apart the intentions of framers of the constitution, when they are so far removed from us in time and their textual legacy is ambiguous. It is surely a greater challenge to attempt to pin down exactly what the framers meant by the use of particular words when they wrote, and the role that dictionaries might play in this process will ultimately be dubious at best.
The very notion that it is the job of courts to get into the minds of the founding fathers is an artifact of originalism, the belief that the Constitution should be interpreted in the way its authors originally intended it. And it may well be that this streak of originalism in the Court, which was championed by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, underlies the great expansion in the use of dictionary citations by the Supreme Court.
Lending some support to this view is the fact that judicial dictionary citation seems to be a mainly American phenomenon. American linguist and blogger Lynne Murphy, who lives in the UK, explored the topic a bit in a blog post a couple of years ago, where she notes that US Supreme Court opinions cite dictionary definitions in exponentially larger numbers than UK Supreme Court decisions do. In her forthcoming book about differences between British and American English, she writes:
In the first ten years of this century, the US Supreme court cited 295 dictionary definitions in 225 of its opinions. In seven years of UK Supreme Court decisions, I could find only seventeen that mentioned specific dictionary definitions—though the UK and US Supreme Courts hear similar numbers of cases per year. Legal scholars and lexicographers are concerned about American courts' willingness to employ dictionary definitions in interpreting laws, patents, and contracts. Dictionaries differ. Justices might cherry-pick definitions, using a dictionary that suits their biases, then [present] it as "objective" evidence. But in spite of those repeated objections, the Supreme Court's use of dictionaries has increased about tenfold since the 1960s.
A group of scholars is now trying to assemble a new tool for the aid of dictionary-habituated justices that, if used correctly, will take them one step beyond the digested dictionary definition and put them in the lexicographer's seat. The new tool is a corpus (collection of natural language) to be called COFEA (Corpus of Founding Era American English). COFEA will contain at least 100 million words of text written between 1760 and 1799, taken from a variety of sources.
The use of corpora by judges and justices is not new. The Supreme Court, the federal court system, and at least one state Supreme Court, have already taken advantage of corpus linguistics to determine the ordinary meaning of a word, taking advantage of publicly available corpora that VT subscribers have probably seen mentioned in various contexts over the years: COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) and COHA (Corpus of Historical American English) have both been consulted and cited by courts.
It is the hope that consultation of founding-era corpus data (instead of, or in addition to dictionary definitions) will introduce an imprimatur of authority that has been somewhat eroded by the fast and loose use of dictionary definitions that seems to have crept up on US courts. Will that happen? It is too early now to tell, but scholars are cautiously optimistic, and have already set out what they hope will be usable guidelines for corpus consultation in online legal forums, here and here. At the very least, the use of corpora in the courtroom should have the desirable effect of removing the accusation that judges and justices picked and chose among the range of dictionary definitions available to them. Everyone, from the Chief Justice to the person on the street, can study the examples of usage in a historical corpus and decide what reasonable conclusions about meaning can be drawn from it.
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Orin Hargraves is an independent lexicographer and contributor to numerous dictionaries published in the US, the UK, and Europe. He is also the author of Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions (Oxford), the definitive guide to British and American differences, and Slang Rules! (Merriam-Webster), a practical guide for English learners. In addition to writing the Language Lounge column, Orin also writes for the Macmillan Dictionary Blog. Click here to visit his website. Click here to read more articles by Orin Hargraves.
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Researchers have clarified the development of the ability to attend to a speaker in a noisy environment—a phenomenon known as the "cocktail party effect." Published in JNeurosci, the study could have implications for helping children navigate the often-noisy surroundings in which they grow and learn.
Marc Vander Ghinst and colleagues used magnetoencephalography to measure six- to nine-year-old children and adults' brain activity while listening to a recorded storyteller mixed with background conversations. The researchers found that, compared to adults, children's brains struggled to focus on the intended speaker's voice with increasing background noise levels. Children's brains also had trouble following the syllable rate regardless of the amount of background noise.
The article and study miss one important dimension, the need to learn to distinguish voices in a din of voices. It has already been established empirically that mothers, and to far lesser degree fathers, can pick out their own infant's cries among many others.
I personally became aware of the learning dimension when I went to live in the forest in an isolated tin shed for two years. At first there was a din of bird calls. Later I could easily pick out particular birds and noted that birds would call to each other, a couple of chirps near by and then a couple of chirps by the same species far off down the forest.
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Do children need to learn adult distractors?


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