Q.  Who is he?  First President born a citizen of the United States, rather than a British subject.  First President born in New York state.  First President born after the Declaration of Independence.  First (and, to date, only) President who spoke a language other than English as his first language.

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susurrate  (SOO-suh-rayt)  verb intr:  To make a whispering or rustling sound.  From Latin susurrare (to whisper or hum), of imitative origin.  Earliest documented use:  1623.

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From:  Oscar Romero  Subject:  susurrate  I immediately connected that word with the Spanish equivalent, “sururrar” which of course also means to whisper--and, another word; “suspirar” which means to sigh . . . two quite often used words in the Spanish language.  Sure is nice to see and to know the English cousins.

From:  Marianna Dadejova  Subject:  susurrate  I am so glad for this word.  It’s reminded me of my evening classes, Community Interpreting, where we were also talking about different types or techniques of interpreting.  Susurrate/Chuchotage  Whispered interpretation or Chuchotage is a technique where the interpreter provides interpretation simultaneously to a small audience, usually less than four people.  In this setting, the interpreter sits or stands close to the audience and whispers the interpretation into their ears.  It is used mainly in bilateral meetings and small settings.  Headsets are not needed since it is a small group and no extra time is needed to interpret because the interpretation is done while the speaker is speaking.

In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the dual graph of a plane graph G is a graph that has a vertex for each face of G.  The dual graph has an edge whenever two faces of G are separated from each other by an edge, and a self-loop when the same face appears on both sides of an edge.  The term "dual" is used because the property of being a dual graph is symmetric, meaning that if H is a dual of a connected graph G, then G is a dual of H.  When discussing the dual of a graph G, the graph G itself may be referred to as the "primal graph".  Many other graph properties and structures may be translated into other natural properties and structures of the dual.  For instance, cycles are dual to cuts, spanning treesare dual to the complements of spanning trees, and simple graphs (without parallel edges or self-loops) are dual to 3-edge-connected graphs.  Graph duality can help explain the structure of mazes and of drainage basins.  Dual graphs have also been applied in computer vision, computational geometry, mesh generation, and the design of integrated circuits.  Read more and see graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_graph

The words “today,” “tonight,” and “tomorrow” include the implied preposition “to.”  In fact, they were once written as “to day,” “to night,” and “to morrow.”  Later, hyphens were added (as in Macbeth’s “sound and fury” soliloquy), then the hyphens fell away and the words were joined.  To use the additional preposition “on” with these is redundant.  http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/02/on-to-morrow-and-to-morrow-and-to-morrow.html

A library patron wanted to know whether the toilet paper on a roll goes over or under the roll.  One answer is that if you want the paper to move quickly, put the paper to go over the roll.  If you want the paper to move slowly, put the paper to go under the roll.  See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3000828/1891-patent-perforated-toilet-paper-settles-debate-way-hang-roll.html  and see description and drawings of a toilet paper roll, Patent No. 465,588, Dec. 22, 1891 at https://www.google.com/patents/US465588

Zero Light Thirty is military slang for 12:30 PM (or 12:30 HRS).   Zero Light refers to 12 PM noon. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zero%20light%20thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow.  Zero Dark Thirty may also refer to:  Zero Dark 30, an album by Mike McClure; "Zero Dark Thirty", a song by Aesop Rock from Skelethon; or Oh dark thirty/zero dark thirty/dark thirty, American military slang for an unspecified time between midnight and sunrise.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Dark_Thirty_(disambiguation)

“Food, like music, can bring people together” -  Connie Kinnard.  Kinnard, vice president of multicultural tourism at the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau teamed up with  the school system’s Cultural Passport program and Miami Culinary Tours to take a group of children on a field trip that combined culture, history and cuisine.  Their bus rumbles out of Liberty City, east toward Little Haiti, and less than 15 minutes later, it hisses to a halt outside of Piman Bouk New Florida Bakery.  The accordion doors open and the scent of fresh-baked bread puffs inside, filling it with a mouth-watering aroma.  “What is that smell?” Rodrick Wilson, 10, says.  The aroma is new and intoxicating.  They walk around to the side of the building, next to a colorful mural of a Haitian sunset, where they meet up with Miami Culinary Tours guide Mirka Roch Harris.  The teachers open a white cardboard pastry box packed with free-form tablet cocoye, a coconut-ginger cookie that is hard to find off the island.  Harris follows the children onto the bus and sits halfway back, narrating the history of Little Haiti, from its origins as Lemon City and its citrus groves, as the bus turns south and heads toward Wynwood.  She points out a cactus in someone’s front lawn.  “They eat that kind of cactus in Mexico,” she tells them.  Some children laugh:  Eating cactus?  “They make tacos out of it,” she says.  There’s a communal ohh.  Later, Jimmy Carey, a Johnson & Wales-trained chef raised in Puerto Rico, meets them to tell them about Puerto Rican fare.  He brings with him a bucket-sized mortar and pestle used to make his mofongo, the traditional Puerto Rican plantain and pork mash that is his restaurant’s specialty.  Harris leads the children down the street to Los Pinareños fruit stand, where a clerk tells them about several Caribbean fruits, from mangoes to rambutans.  What’s a rambutan, they ask?  The clerk holds up what Deztinie later describes in her journal as a “hairy lychee.”  They pass around a bag of the freaky-looking fruits.  “What is it?  How do you open it?”  Anthony asks before learning to crack it open with his fingertips.  He eats the tender fruit inside down to the seed.  Carlos Frias  http://flcourier.com/2016/12/a-taste-of-miami-for-schoolkids/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1674  January 6, 2017  On this date in 1838, Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).  On this date in 1956,  Elizabeth Strout, American author and academic, was born.  Thoughts for Today:  "Reading is not just an escape.  It is access to a better way of life."  "Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty." - Karin Slaughter, novelist (b. 6 Jan 1971)