#Victoria McCulloch

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This first edit of old classic passing Tuesday Mary Jesus Joseph Angels in heaven Princess Pocahontas, Lallie Charles Cowell Portrait, Lou Conter, Amber Rene Hagerman, Opal Jennings, JonBenèt Ramsey, Kelly Ann Fleming, Judith and Maria Barsi, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Lucille Ricksen, Judy Garland and Terry, Dominique and Dominick Dunne, Samantha Reed Smith, Pal, Bessie Barker, Darla Jean Hood, Mona Lisa, Mary G Stinson Smith, Grigori Rasputin, Julia Ann Beauchemin Stinson, COL Thomas Nesbit Stinson, Lydia Ruth Talbot Theobald, Arthur James Talbot, Alton Elbren Theobald, George Eli Talbot Sr., Benjamin Grant “Cotton” Theobald, Crystal Theobald Whitehead, Charles Arthur Theobald, Thomas Benjamin Talbot, Margaret Alice Wiggill Talbot, Eli Wiggill, Rosanna Maria Wiggill Talbot, Isaac Wiggill, Ann Brown Hammer Wiggill, Frances Amelia Wiggill Lowe, Ailsa Georgina Booth-Jones, Edward Booth-Jones, John Percival Booth-Jones, Millichamletton Percival Booth-Jones, Jeremiah Francis “Jerry” Wiggill, Eli Francis Wiggill, Priscilla Jane Talbot Wiggill, Victoria Adelaide Wiggill McLean, John Richard Wiggill, Lavina Ruth Wiggill Ellison, Sarah Good, Salina Talbot Dutson, Charles Henry Talbot, Charles Stuart Talbot, Roseanna Maria Talbot Anderson, Ellen Graham Anderson, 1SGT William Alexander Anderson, Mary Louisa Blair Anderson, Ruth Floyd Anderson McCulloch, Anna Aylett Anderson McNulty, William Dandridge Alexander Anderson, William Dandridge Alexander “Alex” Anderson, Judith Nicoll Anderson, Henry Wayne Blair, Col William Barrett Blair, Mylinda Elizabeth “Mindy” Baker,Michael L. Baker, Carla Jean Eves Baker,Sandra Jane Burch, Patti Jo Baker, Jessie Benton Stinson, Jack Chesbro, Mabel A Shuttleworth Chesbro, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Ruth Naomi Steward, Truman Cox Steward, Alice Christine Steward Wear, Charles Corwin Steward, Helga Susanne Goebbels, Hildegard Traudel “Hilde” Goebbels, Helmut Christian Goebbels, Holdine Kathrin “Holde” Goebbels, Hedwig Johanna “Hedda” Goebbels, Heidrun Elisabeth “Heide” Goebbels, Harald Quandt, and so much more I'll add Gracie Perry Watson in the second row of edits

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Linguistics Jobs: Interview with an Artist

This month’s Linguistics Jobs interview is with Lucy Maddox, an artist based in  Melbourne, Australia. You may recognize Lucy’s work from Lingthusiasm, a podcast enthusiastic about linguistics. In this interview, Lucy shares how her training and a linguist influences her work as an artist (often in unexpected ways). You can find Lucy on Instagram at @lucymaddoxart or on her website. 

What did you study at university?  I did a Bachelor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania (graduated in 2008), then did a Master of Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne in 2014. A few years later, I went back to school, but this time to a TAFE, Australia's version of technical or vocational school, to study visual arts. I felt like the workload was much higher for my visual arts program than for my undergrad or graduate studies! What is your job?  I'm an artist, which generally means I do about 5 different jobs. To pay the bills I write visual arts curriculum for TAFE institutes in Victoria, and I also teach painting and drawing at the Victorian Artists Society. I'm an exhibiting artist so I spend time creating work for exhibitions and applying for art prizes. I also create art and illustrations on commission, such as the work I do with Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch for the Lingthusiasm range of merch! How does your linguistics training help you in your job? It's been really exciting to see how two totally different worlds - linguistics and art - actually feed into one another. In terms of my own practice, my paintings are often related to gesture, body language and hands. More generally, art is influenced by linguistic studies in terms of understanding it as a series of symbols and communication devices. Who knew semiotics could be so artsy? I've also really enjoyed getting to create work that marries my two areas of study. In addition to the work with Lingthusiasm, I've also been working with Dr. Gawne on a series of hundreds of updated gesture illustrations to accompany her work at La Trobe University. It's shocking how old-fashioned, gendered, Euro-centric and downright ugly current gesture illustrations are. (For instance, see François Caradec's 2005 "Dictionary of Gestures.")

What was the transition from university to work like for you? I graduated in 2008 which was probably the worst time to look for a job. My first job out of college was working for a medical journal reading and editing manuscripts. It was a nice first place to work but it wasn't a topic I was passionate about. I ended up moving to Seoul to teach English for a year, then moved to Australia. I taught English as a Second Language for about 10 years before moving into art. Happily, this meant that I got to use my linguistics skills in my everyday life, writing the International Phonetic Alphabet on the board and even drawing my own anatomical mouth diagrams to illustrate the differences between sounds like /r/ and /l/ to struggling students. However, eventually I realised what I really enjoyed about the job was the teaching and connecting with students, rather than English itself, and I returned to my first love: art. 

Do you have any advice you wish someone had given to you about linguistics/careers/university?

I was away from uni for about 5 years between my bachelor's and master's degrees, and it took another 5 years to go back to art school. I really think that taking time away from school to actually work in the field is so crucial, and it helps you understand exactly what you want to do (or don't want to do!). Plus, the lack of structure outside of school is a real sink-or-swim moment. Related interviews:

Interview with a Performing Artiste and Freelance Editor

Interview with an Exhibition Content Manager

Interview with a Museum Curator

Interview with a Freelance Writer!

Recent interviews:

Interview with a Research Scientist

Interview with a Language Engineer

Interview with a Natural Language Annotation Lead

Interview with an EMLS/Linguistics instructor & mother of four

Resources:

The full Linguist Jobs Interview List 

The Linguist Jobs tag for the most recent interviews

The Linguistics Jobs slide deck (overview, resources and activities)

The Linguistics Jobs Interview series is edited by Martha Tsutsui Billins. Martha is a linguist whose research focuses on the Ryukyuan language Amami Oshima, specifically honourifics and politeness strategies in the context of language endangerment. Martha runs Field Notes, a podcast about linguistic fieldwork.

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My goal for January was to read 31 books, so here is a star-based tier ranking for what I read! Goodreads link here, welcome to friend me on there, lmk your username if you do! I mostly read thrillers and romance, this is a fairly representative sample. I didn't/don't add books I DNF

five stars/faves First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket How I'll Kill You, Ren DeStefano The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket

four stars/very good or very enjoyable, but missing some jnsq for me The Twelve Days of Murder, Andreina Cordani (4.5--very fun) Thin Air, Kellie M. Parker That's Not My Name, Megan Lally The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket The Swell, Allie Reynolds The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket My Husband, Maud Ventura (4.5--mostly bc it made me Sad) The Hike, Lucy Clarke (this was like half 5 stars and half 3 stars in elements) Finding My Elf, David Valdes Midnight, Amy McCulloch (good but Breathless is God Tier) People to Follow, Olivia Worley (4.5--very fun)

three stars Lost on Oblivion, Evangeline Anderson The Christmas Appeal, Janice Hallett (not as good as The Appeal itself but enjoyable) Finders Keepers, Natalie Barelli The Favorites, Rosemary Hennigan (sad tax, 4 in quality) Liar's Beach, Katie Cotugno Choosing Theo, Victoria Aveline The Weekend Retreat, Tara Laskowski The Mother Next Door, Tara Laskowski No Accident, Laura Bates Wishful Thinking, Evangeline Anderson The Christmas Guest, Peter Swanson Leave the Lights On, Liv Andersson The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket

two stars You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight, Kaylnn Bayron (I had a trope shaped bone to pick with this one!!!!!) Her New Best Friend, Penny Batchelor

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Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (1859-1928) pintora británica.

Nació en Grove Villas, en Hammersmith, Inglaterra, en el seno de la familia formada por Thomas Rae y Anne Eliza (Graves, de soltera).

Recibió educación artística desde muy pequeña, ya que su madre esperaba de ella una carrera musical, mientras que Henrietta prefirió decantarse por la pintura.

Entre otros centros de estudios estuvo en la escuela de arte de Queen Suare, en la escuela de arte Heatherley y en el Museo Británico.

Uno de sus maestros Lawrence Alma-Tadema fue un gran inspirador de su obra, como también lo fueron William Powell Frith y Frank Dicksee. La calidad de su pintura hizo que pronto se ganara el reconocimiento, sobre todo por los temas clásicos de sus pinturas y sus significados alegóricos.

Realizó su primera exposición en 1881 en la Royal Academy of Arts con el Retrato de la Señora Warman.

En 1884 contrajo matrimonio con el artista Ernest Normand (1857-1923), padre de sus dos hijos, pero no cambió su apellido en parte para mantener la reputación que ya había adquirido como artista, de hecho en ese mismo año su obra “Lancelot y Elaine” tuvo un gran reconocimiento por parte de la Royal Academy, y en parte por ser defensora del movimiento feminista.

Tuvo algunos desencuentros con Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904), hombre al que quemó el sombrero después de que éste manchara con el dedo uno de sus cuadros. Es probable que muchos de los pintores más veteranos no estuvieran cómodos con la participación de mujeres en las exposiciones profesionales de arte, además siendo Rae una mujer que defendió públicamente el movimiento sufragista.

La nueva familia se estableció en Holland Park, Kensington, próximos al mentor y amigo de Henrietta, Sir Frederic Leighton, que llegó a ser presidente de la Royal Academy of Arts, del cual tuvo una gran influencia artística.

En 1890 la familia viaja a París donde Henrietta estudia en la Académie Julian, que admitía a mujeres.

En 1894 expuso “Psique ante el trono de Venus” en la Royal Academy, que fue considerada una obra de arte seria y acabaría siendo comprada por el coleccionista de arte George McCulloch.

En 1897 Henrietta Rae organiza una exposición exclusivamente de artistas femeninas haciéndola coincidir con el aniversario de la reina Victoria. Su marido, Ernest Normand murió en 1923.

Henrietta Rae fue respetada como pintora de retratos e imágenes de género y recibió medallas de la World's Columbian Exposition de Chicago de 1893 y de la París.

Murió en su casa de Londres.

Le ponemos cara.

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Cry of the Banshee (1970)

"My children... All my children... Why? Why? You'd better kill me too, Edward Whitman, than let me live with this memory!"

"If your sorcery was so strong, Oona, why didn't you use it to save your children, as you call them, eh?"

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a year in books: 2022 book tracking master post

january: 8 books

murder is for keeps: elizabeth j. duncan

the art of theft: sherry thomas

murder on cold street: sherry thomas

the tell tale cat: sm reine

the cure for what ales you: ellie alexander

to brew or not to brew: joyce tremel

grandmaster of demonic cultivation: mo xiang tong xiu

this poison heart: kalynn bayron

february: 11 books

cells at work: code black vol 1: shigemitsu harada

cells at work: code black vol 2: shigemitsu harada

cells at work code black vol 3: shigmeitsu harada

caught bread handed: ellie alexander

cells at work code black vol 4: shigemitsu harada

a crime of passion fruit: ellie alexander

caught bread handed: ellie alexander

a deadly edition: victoria gilbert

rocky road to ruin: meri allen

renewed for murder: victoria gilbert

meet your baker: ellie alexander

march: 8 books

a batter of life and death: ellie alexander

on thin icing: ellie alexander

fudge and jury: ellie alexander

another one bites the crust: ellie alexander

till death do us tart: ellie alexander

live and let pie: ellie alexander

a cup of holiday fear: ellie alexander

nothing bundt trouble: ellie alexander

april: 11 books

chilled to the cone ellie alexander

the deepest of secrets kelley armstong

stealing shadows kay hooper

mocha she wrote ellie alexander

bake, borrow, and steal ellie alexander

mile high with a vampire lynsay sands

out of the shadows kay hooper

slice of cherry dia reeves

cinderlla is dead kalynn bayron

immortal rising lynsay sands

the detetive's daughter erica spindler

may: 19 books

drawing dead sm reine

kill game sm reine

cashing out sm reine

suicide queen sm reine

the masque of the red cat sm reine

fall of the house of cat sm reine

the cat and the pendulum sm reine

the silence of bones june hur

the forest of stolen girls june hur

the red palace june hur

dragon pearl yoon ha lee

wicked fox kat cho

spirit hunters ellen oh

vicious spirits kat cho

aunt dimity down under nancy atherton

aunt dimity and the duke nancy atherton

aunt dimity's christmas nancy atherton

aunt dimity beats the devil nancy atherton

aunt dimity: detective nancy atherton

june: 9 books

booked for death victoria gilbert

daughter of the pirate king tricia levenseller

daughters of foxcote manor eve chase

wherever she goes kelley armstrong

when you see me lisa gardner

a good girl's guide to murder holly jackson

good girl, bad blood holly jackson

as good as dead holly jackson

something read, something dead eva gates

july: 16 books

graceling kristin cashore

bitterblue kristin cashore

fire kristin cashore

winterkeep kristin cashore

one of us is lying karen m mcmanus

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo taylor jenkins reid

one of us is next karen m mcmanus

you'll be the death of me karen m mcmanus

two can keep a secret karen m mcmanus

the cousins karen m mcmanus

murder for the modern girl kendall kulper

one for sorrow zoe sugg, amy mcculloch

a magic steeped in poison judy i lin

graceling: the graphic novel kristen cashore garreth hinds

deeper than the dead tami hoag

the inheritance games jennifer lynn barnes

august: 17 books

the hawthorne legacy jennifer lynn barnes

little girl lost cheryl bradshaw

the fixer's daughter hy conrad

this wicked fate kalynn bayron

i'm glad my mom died jennette mccurdy

the family upstairs lisa jewell

little girl lost brian mcgilloway

the girl is murder kathryn miller

the demon in me michelle rowen

a short time to die susan alice bickford

little broken things cheryl bradshaw

little lost secrets cheryl bradshaw

little white lies cheryl bradshaw

mayhem & mass olivia matthews

peril & prayer olivia matthews

learning to swim sara j. henry

the missing ones patricia gibney

september: 4 books

in the hall with the knife diana peterfreund

in the study with the wrench diana peterfreund

in the ballroom with the candlestick diana peterfreund

the death of innocents helen prejean

october: 8 books

don't kill in our names rachel king

the zig zag girl elly griffiths

smoke and mirrors elly griffiths

the blood card elly griffiths

the vanishing box elly griffiths

now you see them elly griffiths

the midnight hour elly griffiths

dead man walking helen prejean

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every book i read in 2020

books i read for school are bolded, rereads are starred

paradise rot by jenny hval 

tin man by sarah winman

we were feminists once by andi zeisler

little weirds by jenny slate 

a girl is a half formed thing by eimear mcbride 

deaf republic by ilya kaminsky

reverie by ryan la sala 

the year of magical thinking by joan didion 

on beauty by zadie smith

dark and deepest red by anna-marie mclemore 

black dog of fate by peter balakian 

the elements of style by william strunk jr & eb white

tell the wolves i’m home by carol rifka brunt

long live the tribe of fatherless girls by t kira madden 

the fact of a body by alex marzano-lesnevich 

lovely war by julie berry 

foul is fair by hannah capin 

the king of crows by libba bray

the end we start from by megan hunter

uprooted by naomi novik 

the monster hypothesis by romily bernard 

the line becomes a river by francisco cantu

the queen by josh levin 

red hood by elana k. arnold 

the lying game by ruth ware 

bunny by mona awad

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake 

citizen by claudia rankine 

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh 

the vacationers by emma straub 

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston 

the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides

*dare me by megan abbott

the water cure by sophie mackintosh 

the chronology of water by lidia yuknavitch 

the subversive copyeditor by carol fisher saller 

*on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong 

how to do nothing by jenny odell 

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski 

future home of the living god by louise erdrich 

the nightingale by kristin hannah 

*a great and terrible beauty by libba bray

*rebel angels by libba bray 

the fountains of silence by ruta sepetys 

*the sweet far thing by libba bray 

the bluest eye by toni morrison 

the paper wasp by lauren acampora 

piecing me together by renee watson 

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

you’ll miss me when i’m gone by rachel lynn solomon 

the widow of pale harbor by hester fox

passing by nella larsen

my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell 

kindred by octavia butler 

beach read by emily henry 

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson 

the guest list by lucy foley 

the magic toyshop by angela carter 

the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires by grady hendrix 

catherine house by elisabeth thomas 

home before dark by riley sager 

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert 

what we lose by zinzi clemmons 

the burning girl by claire messud

godshot by chelsea bieker 

the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield

such a fun age by kiley reid

the party upstairs by lee conell 

my education by susan choi

the city we became by nk jemisin

the lightness by emily temple 

followers by megan angelo 

temporary by hilary leichter

the kingdom of back by marie lu 

the lady’s guide to celestial mechanics by olivia waite 

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia 

the bloody chamber & other stories by angela carter 

burn our bodies down by rory power

dangerous alliance by jennieke cohen

i’m thinking of ending things by iain reid 

pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier

i’ll be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara 

the ghost map by steven johnson

luster by raven leilani

blood water paint by joy mccullough 

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

cemetery boys by aiden thomas 

madame bovary by gustave flaubert 

exciting times by naoise dolan 

blood countess by lana popović

the hazel wood by melissa albert 

jane doe by victoria helen stone

problem child by victoria helen stone 

eight perfect murders by peter swanson

heart berries by terese marie mailhot 

the austen playbook by lucy parker 

take me apart by sara sligar 

salt slow by julia armfield

the vanishing half by brit bennett

the price of salt by patricia highsmith

the last by hanna jameson

the comeback by ella berman

horrid by katrina leno

the clique by lisi harrison 

another brooklyn by jacqueline woodson

the great believers by rebecca makkai

heartburn by nora ephron

spoiler alert by olivia dade 

memorial by bryan washington 

will my cat eat my eyeballs?: big questions from tiny mortals about death by caitlin doughty

the lying life of adults by elena ferrante 

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

days of distraction by alexandra chang 

*bunheads by sophie flack

what we don’t talk about when we talk about fat by aubrey gordon 

pet by akwaeke emezi 

know my name by chanel miller 

the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel 

leave the world behind by rumaan alam 

a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers 

because internet by gretchen mcculloch 

writers & lovers by lily king 

averno by louise glück 

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Victorian Flash

A weird AU.

Location: 1860s London 

Flash #1: Jason Garrick, age 70. Born in the 1790s, has been operating as the Flash since the 1810s. (Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837, and he also lived during the reigns of William IV, George IV, and George III.) In his civilian life, he works as a scientist and as a university professor. Married to Joan Garrick (neé Williams). 

Flash #2: Bartholomew Allen, age 40. Born in the 1820s, became the Flash in the mid-1840s. Married to Iris Allen (neé West), a (in this time period rare) female journalist. Member of the City of London Police. Iris works for The London Gazette.

Flash #3: Wallace West, age 25. Born in the mid-1830s. Became Kid Flash at 10 years of age. Nephew to Bartholomew and Iris; works a variety of odd jobs. Married to Linda West (neé Park), a young Korean woman he met while traveling the world (with super speed). The two have twins, Jason and Iris West (both age 5). 

Captain Cold: Leonard Snart, age 38. Born in the 1820s in Southwark, the son of a (frequently drunken) tinker, became Captain Cold in the mid-1840s after a freak accident led to his pistol gaining the ability to shoot out beams of intense cold. Already a thief, the Captain used this power to seek greater riches….leading him into conflict with the second Flash. Cold is also the de facto leader of the Rogues, who operate out of Seven Dials. 

Golden Glider: Elizabeth Snart, age 33. Younger sister of Leonard Snart (Captain Cold); born in the early 1830s in Southwark. Elizabeth worked for a number of years as a dressmaker, but her true passion was ice skating...and through this hobby she met the love of her life, Roscoe Dillon, Esq (better known as the Top), whom she followed into a life of crime as one of London’s most notorious female criminals at the age of 26. 

The Top: Roscoe Dillon, Esq, age 36. Born in the mid-1820s, the only son of a shrewd businessman who started up his own factory, making himself thousands of dollars. Highly intelligent (an Oxford graduate), Dillon nevertheless chose to go into a life of crime in the late 1840s (for what reason, no one was quite sure), putting his not inconsiderable talents as an inventor to use in order to do so. He subsequently fell in love with Elizabeth Snart, the younger sister of his ally Captain Cold, at the age of 28, and the two claim to be engaged.

Mirror Master I: Samuel Joseph Scudder, age 36. Born in the mid-1820s to a poor widow who worked as a laundress in the Whitechapel District. By the time he was eleven, Samuel had turned to crime in an attempt to support her, and, by the time she was killed by cholera on his sixteenth birthday, he was entrenched in London’s underworld. However, what made Samuel unusual was his remarkable scientific aptitude-something that allowed him to utilize mirrors in ways undreamed of by the educational and scientific communities, and also allowed him to help form the so-called “Rogues” of London’s Seven Dials. Samuel is also quite fond of smoking cigars. 

Weather Wizard: Mark Mardon, age 37. Son of a tutor and a former governess; younger brother of Clyde Mardon, a famous scientist who was making groundbreaking work in the field of meteorology. Unlike his sibling, Mark was something of a wastrel, prone to gambling, drinking, and hanging around with unsavory people. His life probably would have gone by without him doing anything of importance had he not stumbled into his brother’s lab while fleeing his creditors. His brother had died of heart failure, but he had left behind a most remarkable invention-a wand that could control the weather. Mark decided to use the wand as a way to pay off his debts...by becoming yet another of London’s “Rogues”. 

Trickster: James Jesse (probably an alias), age unknown (but likely in his early thirties). James Jesse arrived in London with a traveling circus in the 1840s….and promptly took up a career of pestering the city’s greatest hero, the Flash, seemingly because it amused him. Not much else is known about him; though he is an expert thief and con man. He also invented shoes that use the power of steam to let him walk on air. 

Heat Wave: Michael Rory, age 42. Born to rural farmers in the late 1810s; moved to London at age 15 after the family farm burned down under mysterious circumstances. Worked for a number of years as a baker before his bakery burned down (also under mysterious circumstances) and he disappeared. He resurfaced a few years later, working with the Rogues and armed with an incredible gun that shot flames. 

Captain Boomerang: George Harkness, age 37. Born in Australia in the 1820s; joined Her Majesty’s Navy as soon as he turned 18, where he managed to earn the rank of Captain. He arrived in London in the mid-1840s after being discharged from the Navy thanks to a leg injury that left him with a permanent limp. This limp did not, however, prevent him from making the decision to embark on a life of crime. Thanks to his use of the boomerang-a weapon whose use he had learned from the native people of the island on which he had been born-the papers gave him the moniker of “Captain Boomerang”, and he eventually joined the Rogues of Seven Dials. He has a noticeable accent. 

Mirror Master II: Evan McCulloch, age 26. A native of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was born in the mid-1830s. Abandoned as an infant, McCulloch was taken in by a Mrs. McCulloch, who raised him until her death from scarlet fever. Orphaned again at the age of 16, Evan turned to a life of crime. When his crimes in Glasgow garnered too much attention, he fled to London, where he stumbled upon some of the technology that the original Mirror Master, Samuel Scudder, had abandoned. Quickly mastering its use, he was soon dubbed the second Mirror Master by the press and the police...something which brought him into conflict with the original. However, Captain Cold thought that the newcomer had potential, and invited him to join the Seven Dials’ Rogues-much to the frustration of Samuel Scudder. Has a noticeable Scottish accent. 

The Pied Piper: Sir Hartley Rathaway, son of Osgood Rathaway, an Earl, and Rachel Rathaway, his wife. 29 years old. Born into extreme wealth, Hartley Rathaway was cut off from his fortune and thrown out of his parent’s estate at the age of 18 when he told them that, when he came of age, he planned to give away most of his money to London’s poor. While wandering through the slums of London (after being mugged twice), he stumbled upon a mysterious flute...one that enabled him to control the actions of those around him. He used the flute to steal money from his parents and then proceeded to give the money to the poor. He soon became famous as a Robin Hood figure, and his fame eventually led him to become a member of the Rogues...none of whom know he is still technically in line to become an Earl. 

Axel Walker: Age 15; a native of the Seven Dials. A street urchin with sticky fingers; Axel idolizes the Trickster and wants to follow in his footsteps. Most of the Rogues find him annoying; just useful enough to bother keeping him around. His mother is alive, but is always working and seems unable to control her son, and his father is a complete mystery.

If any British people want to correct me on my geography, I would appreciate the help.

[greatearthquakestudent]

Season 7 Cast Change

Season 7 Cast

Main Cast Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/ The Flash, Harrison Sherloque Wells, Harrison "H.R." Wells, Wells the Grey, and Dr. Harrison "Harry" Wells. Candice Patton as Iris West-Allen Danielle Panabaker as Dr. Caitlin Snow and Frost Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon/Mecha-Vibe Jesse L. Martin as Captain Joe West Danielle Nicolet as Defense Attorney Cecile Horton Brandon McKnight as Chester P Runk Tom Cavanagh as Nash Wells,  Dr. Harrison Wells, Dr. Harrison "Harry" Wells, Harrison Sherloque Wells, Harrison "H.R." Wells, Harrison Orson Wells, Dr. Harrison Wells, and Professor Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash Sara Garcia as Alexa Rivera/Fuerza Ennis Esmer as Bashir Malik/Psych Christian Magby as Deon Owens/Timeless

Recurring Cast: Efrat Dor as Eva McCulloch/Mirror Monarch and Dr. Eva McCulloch Kayla Compton as Allegra Garcia Victoria Park as Kamilla Hwang Michelle Harrison as the Speed Force and Joan Williams Morena Baccarin as Gideon (voice) Carmen Moore as Kristan Kramer Teddy Sears as The Forever Force Karan Oberoi as August Heart/Godspeed Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick Jessica Parker Kennedy as Nora West-Allen/XS Jordan Fisher as Bart Allen/Impulse

Main Cast and Chester: Barry, Iris, Cisco, Caitlin/Frost, Joe, Cecile,  and Harrison Wells are already apart of main cast and Chester in the season will replace Cisco.

Allegra Garcia: Allegra Garcia is a character I do like but she didn’t do anything. She shouldn’t have been in the main cast last season. And her episode/storyline didn’t save her character. How about you to save her cousin for season 8.

Alexa, Bashir, and Deon: Alexa Rivera, Bashir Malik, and Deon Owens are very interesting but their storyline really ruined their characters. How about make them main characters so they could get more scenes with Barry and more character development if they want this whole family dynamic to work.

Mirror Mistress being a part of main cast is a joke. She not really needed as main character.

Teddy Spears/The Forever force: Yeah the guy that plays Zoom aka Hunter Zolomon. It correspond to him being the force in comic. But actor used as a disguise for forever like speedforce with Nora.

Wally West: Obviously because he didn’t appear in the Godspeed civil war.

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My Decade In Books

Hey y’all! As i was writing this post, i realized i’d like to hear about your decade in books too so i’m turning it into a tag game! The rules are: respond to the prompt “my decade in books” however you want, & then tag some ppl! I chose a book or series to define each year of the decade, some w/a little description. You can do that, or make up your own response 😊 (& please tag me if you do respond)

2010- The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester

2011- The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch

The first series i read all the way through, start to finish, and one that was so unlike anything else i’d read. I still love it & wanna reread soon

2012- Isle of Swords by Wayne Thomas Batson

2013- The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot

2014- The Spellbook of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty

I distinctly remember reading this while walking to classes & during biology, but my bio teacher was pretty much chill with me doing anything because i did well on the homeworks and exams, & this was the period where i was having trouble focusing on one thing at a time

2015- Mary Higgins Clark mysteries

2016- The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

My dad: just give it ten pages, if you dont like it you dont have to keep going

Me: 🤨 okay i guess *proceeds to read all 7 books in one semester*

2017- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver & Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

2018- Kindred by Octavia Butler

Inspired one of the best essays i’ve ever written. Octavia Butler is a fucking genius.

2019- Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

A book about internet linguistics by someone who’s partially responsible for me being an internet linguist! If it werent for the podcast Lingthusiasm with McCulloch and her cohost Lauren Gawne, i might not have taken intro ling & fallen in love with linguistics. Weird to think about since 2020 will be the year i write my thesis and graduate college.

Tagging: @thereadingchallengechallenge @myownlittlebookcorner @myvirtualbookshelf @readingaway @really-loves-books-over-here @ivona-books @bookbandit @elfspectations @libri-et-coffea @twobrokegirlswithbooks @storytime-reviews @northernreads @books-and-cookies

no pressure if you dont want to respond!! just thought it might be fun 😊

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Read in 2019 Masterpost

Italics = 7-8 out of 10; Bold = 9-10 out of 10; Struck = unreviewed; * = in home library

Fantasy

Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch * In an Absent Dream - Seanan McGuire * The Kingdom of Copper - S.A. Chakraborty The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky Treason of Hawks - Lila Bowen That Ain’t Witchcraft - Seanan McGuire * A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery - Curtis Craddock Magic For Liars - Sarah Gailey Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse Blood of Tyrants - Naomi Novik * Blood Engines - T.A. Pratt Middlegame - Seanan McGuire The October Man - Ben Aaronovitch Grave Importance - Vivian Shaw The Unkindest Tide - Seanan McGuire The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman

Rereads

Discount Armageddon, Midnight Blue-Light Special, Half-Off Ragnarok, and Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire *

Making Money, Unseen Academicals, Snuff, and Hogfather by Terry Pratchett *

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett *

Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, and The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch *

DNF The Vampire Files, Volume Five - P.N. Elrod * DNF The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow

Science Fiction

Mutiny at Vesta - R.E. Stearns Bellwether - Connie Willis * Blindsight - Peter Watts * Ringworld - Larry Niven * The Nobody People - Bob Proehl Fortuna - Kristyn Merbeth

DNF A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers DNF Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente

Young Adult

Our Dark Duet - Victoria Schwab Hello Girls - Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju The Princess and the Fangirl - Ashley Poston Night of Cake and Puppets - Laini Taylor

DNF Dread Nation - Justina Ireland

Graphic Novels

Rivers of London, Vol. 6 - Ben Aaronovitch * America, Vol. 1 - Gabby Rivera * Shades of Magic, Vol. 1 - V.E. Schwab Moonstruck, Vol. 2 - Grace Ellis West Coast Avengers, Vol. 1 - Kelly Thompson The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5 - G. Willow Wilson * The Unwritten, Vol. 7 - Mike Carey * Rivers of London, Vol. 7 - Ben Aaronovitch *

Middle Grade

From Night Owl to Dogfish - Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer The Shepherd’s Crown - Terry Pratchett *

Rereads

Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett *

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett *

Romance

A Princess in Theory - Alyssa Cole Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston A Duke by Default - Alyssa Cole Well Met - Jen DeLuca My Fake Rake - Eva Leigh Once Ghosted, Twice Shy - Alyssa Cole •

Mystery

Murder Lo Mein - Vivien Chien Wonton Terror - Viven Chien The Alienist - Caleb Carr *

Other Fiction

Aces Abroad - George R.R. Martin, ed. * The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare * The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters - Balli Kaur Jaswal The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid A Bend in the Stars - Rachel Barenbaum Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded - Ann and Jeff Vandermeer * Amberlough- Lara Elena Donnelly The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett •

Rereads

Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

DNF - City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert DNF - Donna Has Left the Building - Susan Jane Gilman DNF - Less - Andrew Sean Greer

Poetry

Monster Verse - Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust, ed. * The Complete Poems - John Donne

History

How to Be a Victorian - Ruth Goodman * How to Be a Tudor - Ruth Goodman David Bowie Made Me Gay - Darryl W. Bullock Heart of Europe - Peter H. Wilson *

True Crime

Death in the Air - Kate Winkler Dawson Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann Chase Darkness With Me - Billy Jensen The Kill Jar - J Reuben Appelman

Other Non-Fiction

Twisted Tales from Shakespeare - Richard Armour Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch The Survival Guide to British Columbia - Ian Ferguson In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond - John Zada * Giants, Cannibals and Monsters - Kathy Moskowitz Strain * The Curious Cures of Old England -Nigel Cawthorne *

Rereads - The Science of Discworld III by Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen, and Ian Stewart *

Skimmed for research

Songs of the Pacific Northwest by Jon Bartlett and Phil Thomas

Dead Horse on the Tulameen - Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat

Ask a Queer Chick - Lindsay King-Miller

Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art - Matilde Battistini

Total First Time: 75 Total Rereads: 17 Total Skimmed: 4 DNFs: 8

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Motivation, Movement & Music @ Sanderson Centre - Sept 29

Motivation, Music & Music staring Joan Minnery @ Sanderson Centre - Sept 29

Get motivated! Get moving!

Get ready for a Musical Motivational Story! Find out how one woman’s crusade to a healthier lifestyle inspired a community and transformed her personal journey into a self empowerment revolution.

Starring Joan Minnery the Inpirational Powerhouse! She’ll be taking the stage by storm with her friends and fellow artists to get you moving, grooving and hopefully making…

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ARCFIEND - 'Mortified With Hate' - 80s Metal Mayhem

ARCFIEND – ‘Mortified With Hate’ – 80s Metal Mayhem

Back in the 80s, Victoria, BC speed metal merchants Arcfiend played a number of now-legendary shows but unfortunately never released anything to the salivating masses.

Now more than 30 years later, archival label Supreme Echo brings us an extended EP of thrashing wickedness.

Started as a trio in 1985 with visionary guitar/vocalist Quin McCulloch, drummer Dave Wilson and bassist Norm Apro,…

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Lingthusiasm Episode 24: Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz

As English speakers, we take for granted that we have lots of resources available in our language, from children’s books to dictionaries to automated tools like Siri and Google Translate. But for the majority of the world’s languages, this is not the case.  

In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch interviews Dr Hilaria Cruz, a linguist and native speaker of Chatino, an Indigenous language of Mexico which is spoken by over 40,000 people. Hilaria combines her work as an Assistant Professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville with creating resources for her fellow speakers of Chatino, everything from paperback or cloth children’s books to high-tech speech recognition tools which will make it easier to create more resources like this in the future. And she’s also making these resources available for other underrepresented languages!  

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here

Announcements:

There were two big announcements at the top of the episode: 

The first is that we have a date for our liveshow in Melbourne! We will be at the State Library of Victoria on Friday the 16th of November. Tickets on sale soon through our EventBrite.

We are also thrilled to announce we’ll be doing a liveshow in Sydney! We’ll be at GiantDwarf on Monday the 12th of November. Tickets available through their website.

We also have new merch!

Thanks to Lucy Maddox for bringing Space Babies to life! Check out the art in this post. A portion of the proceeds from the Space Baby merch will be donated to the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity.

We also have new scarf colours, and t-shirts that say “I want to be the English schwa. It's never stressed.” Check out our Merch page for more details.

This month’s bonus episode was about hyperforeignisms! We take an international tour through how our minds deal with the interesting edge cases of words that are kinda-English and kinda-other-languages. Support the show on Patreon to get access to this and all 19 bonus episodes.

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

Chatino language (Wikipedia)

Lengua Chatino resources website (mostly in Spanish)

A video story told aloud in Chatino by Hilaria Cruz

Hilaria Cruz’s page at the University of Kentucky 

Hilaria Cruz’s website

Joel Sherzer

Tony Woodbury

Hilaria’s PhD thesis (Linguistic poetic and rhetoric of Eastern Chatino of San Juan Quiahije)

Automatic Speech Recognition (Wikipedia)

Alexis Michaud

Oliver Adams

Tlingit, Ojibwe, Hupa languages (Wikipedia)

Here’s a photo of the children’s books that Hilaria Cruz and her students made! Books 1-6 (from left) are in Chatino. The rightmost book is in Hupa and the second from right book is in Ojibwe. All eight books are available for purchase on Amazon. (More about the book creation process.)

From the description on the ASREL Retreat website (Automatic Speech Recognition for Endangered Languages): 

This retreat will foster a dialogue between computer scientists working on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) specifically neural networks, native speakers of endangered languages, and linguists doing research on endangered languages to address the issue of the “bottleneck” of language transcription and discuss the use of technology in the transcription of language data.

Tools and technologies to automate and expedite the transcription and translation of oral texts from endangered languages are urgently needed. Most researchers working with endangered languages process their materials manually. Some researchers estimate that it takes roughly from 1 to 50 hours to prepare one hour of spoken text manually.

ASR technologies can significantly reduce the workload of transcribing large collections of speech recordings in these lesser-studied languages. Automating the process will enable the transcriber to become more of an editor, accelerating the overall transcription process. Implementation of ASR technologies could free up time for linguists, language activists, and speakers to create materials for teaching and learning the language, rather than spending countless hours transcribing.

You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening.

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Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic.

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Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial producers are Emily Gref and A.E. Prévost, our production assistants are Celine Yoon & Fabianne Anderberg, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

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NUVO Buffalo Results 2019

Mini Solos:

1. Sofia Rosella - I Got Love (Performing Dance Arts), Daniel Tamburro - Do Re Mi (Evolution Dance Studio)

2. Malaya DiMonte - Business Of Love (Art & Soul Dance Company)

3. Mariah Sagrafena - Sing With A Swing (Little Red Dance Studio), Mya Poland - Daybreak (Performing Dance Arts)

4. London Mandell - Heaven Must Have Sent You (Art & Soul Dance Company)

5. Bree Batstone - Born To Entertain (Joanne Chapman School of Dance)

6. Luanna Di Iacovo - Big Noise (Performing Dance Arts)

7. Gianna Tucceri - Manicure (Spotlight Dance Center), Bailey Matthews - I Can Do That (Barb Denny’s Studio of Dance Arts), Hailey Vultao - Grow (Joanne Chapman School of Dance)

8. Tenley Zielinski - Spine (Dance Expressions)

9. Olivia O’Connor - Miss Otis (Art & Soul Dance Company)

10. Arianna Reynolds - Work (Spotlight Dance Center)

Junior Solos:

1. Alyssa Carpeneto - Tomorrow’s Song (Performing Dance Arts)

2. Adelaide Sebben - When She Came Back (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Colbi Meisenzahl - Bird (Little Red Dance Studio)

3. Olivia Tramonte - Your Hands (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Brianna Hicks - Hope There’s Someone (Haja Dance Company)

4. Denise Banitaghi - Elephant (Performing Dance Arts)

5. Gavin Miele - Spine (Studio L), Lorelai McCulloch - Count The Lighting (Little Red Dance Studio)

6. Jill Orluk - These I Send To You (Spezio’s Dance Dynamics), Olivia Kellner - Mama Knows Best (Art & Soul Dance Company), Curtasie Robin - Get Low (Joanne Chapman School of Dance)

7. Leyla Munoz - Somewhere In Between (Art & Soul Dance Company), Brynley Limbeck - Fight (Little Red Dance Studio)

8. Aracelys Padin - With Out The Light (Little Red Dance Studio), Ava Barbuto - Whats Up (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Camila Servin - Love On Top (Performing Dance Arts), Kate Roman - Caged Bird (Canadian Dance Company)

9. Stella Sansone - Somewhere (Premiere Dance Center)

10. Kylie Devine - Fear Of The Water (Little Red Dance Studio)

Teen Solos:

1. Murphy Lee - Am I Vital (Performing Dance Arts) DJP

2. Tristan Ianiero - Insentinence (Art & Soul Dance Company), Naomi Bowen - Above & Below (Joanne Chapman School of Dance) DJP

3. Sofia Tramonte - Ghost (Joanne Chapman School of Dance) DJP

4. Madison Spizzirri - Bored (Performing Dance Arts) DJP

5. Jezzaeyah Slack - Strand (Joanne Chapman School of Dance)

6. Savanna Wright - If You Want (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Maiya Combrest - Darling (Haja Dance Company)

7. Victoria Pileggi - My Only Fault (Art & Soul Dance Company), Suriya Allain - Drift (Little Red Dance Studio), Kaitlyn Martini - Becoming (Performing Dance Arts)

8. Andi Uebelacker - Resonate (Little Red Dance Studio), Emily Roman - Angel (Canadian Dance Company)

9. Hanna Hasnain - Your Song (Edmunds Towers School of Dance), Charlize Elliott - Woman’s Work (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Olivia Pereira - Who Are You Thinking Of? (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Alexandra Pignone - My Valentine (Loperfido Dance Academy), Jazlin Ashby - Glacier (Tawn Maries Dance Centre)

10. Tiore Hamilton - Madness (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Julia Carpeneto - Light A Fire (Performing Dance Arts), Isabella Baldino - Happy Days (Joanne Chapman School of Dance), Victoria Paggiossi - Go Quietly (Art & Soul Dance Company)