To coin a word, you can postdict as well as predict.  The Double-Tongued Dictionary provides this cite:  Approximately one in five suspect identifications from sequential lineups may be wrong.  As a result, no existing eyewitness identification procedure can relieve the courts of the burden of decide after the fact (or postdicting) which eyewitness identifications are accurate versus inaccurate.  This sense seems relatively established in the literature of psychology, where its sibling term postdictor is flung about with abandon.  Postdiction is also used in a dismissive sense  to refer to "prediction after the fact" by people who are skeptical of, you know, prophecies.  Think Nostradamus.  As defined in Wikipedia, retrodiction is a way to test theories by comparing against past results in situations when comparing against future ones is impractical.  You see this in economics, when economic models are tested by running them against data from the past to see if your model can, for example, accurately predict the mortgage crisis.  Some might say that this constitutes that other, more dismissive sense of postdiction, but hey.  WordzGuy, technical writer and editor  http://evolvingenglish.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.  The New York Times described her as "far and away, [America's] best-selling poet".  Mary Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M. V. Oliver in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland.  Her father was a social studies teacher and an athletics coach in the Cleveland public schools.  She began writing poetry at the age of 14, and at 17 visited the home of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Austerlitz, upper New York state.  She and Norma, the poet's sister, became friends, and Oliver "more or less lived there for the next six or seven years, running around the 800 acres like a child, helping Norma, or at least being company to her," and assisting with organizing the late poet's papers.  http://www.poemhunter.com/mary-oliver/biography/

The West Side Tennis Club is a private tennis club located in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.  The Club has 38 tennis courts in all four surfaces (clay court, Har-Tru, grass court and hardcourt), a junior Olympic-size swimming pool and other amenities.  It is the home of the Forest Hills Stadium, a 14,000 seat outdoor tennis stadium and concert venue.  It is most notable for hosting the U.S. National Championships, renamed the US Open Tennis Championships in 1968, a total of 60 times, first from 1915 to 1920, and then again from 1924 to 1977.  In addition, the finals of the Davis Cup were held at the club 10 times, more than any other venue.  The US Pro tournament was held at the venue 11 times, and another big professional tournament, the Tournament of Champions, was held at the venue 3 times.  Currently, the stadium is used as an outdoor concert venue.  The club was founded in 1892 when 13 original members rented land on Central Park West for three clay courts and a small clubhouse.  Ten years later, the land had become too valuable, and the club moved to a site near Columbia University with room for eight courts.  In 1908, the club moved again to a property at 238th Street and Broadway.  The new site covered two city blocks and had 12 grass courts and 15 clay courts.  The club hosted the International Lawn Tennis Challenge (now known as the Davis Cup) in 1911.  With crowds in the thousands, the club leadership realized that it would need to expand to a more permanent location. In 1912, a site in Forest Hills, Queens, was purchased.  The signature Tudor-style clubhouse was built the next year.  In 1915, the United States Lawn Tennis Association National Championship, later renamed the U.S. Open, moved to West Side.  By 1923, the success of the event necessitated the construction of a 14,000-seat horseshoe-shaped stadium that still stands today.  In 1975, the tournament was switched to Har-Tru clay courts.  By 1978, the tournament had outgrown West Side, and the USTA moved the tournament to its new site in Flushing Meadows.  Following the 1978 departure of the Open the stadium fell into disrepair, by 2011 it was called a "crumbling ruin" and was denied landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The West Side Tennis Club received an offer in 2010 to raze the stadium and replace it with condominiums.  However, in mid-2013, the stadium re-opened as an outdoor concert venue with Mumford & Sons performing the inaugural concert.  Since then the Forest Hills Stadium has held a regular summer concert series featuring the likes of Santana, Zac Brown Band, D'Angelo, Van Morrison, and others.  It is also the summer home of The New York Pops.  The stadium also has a history of use as a filming location.  The Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train (1951) was filmed in part during the 1950 Davis Cup finals at the West Side Tennis Club on 25–27 August 1950.  Several scenes in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums were filmed in and around the stadium including the "Windswept Fields" meltdown of Richie Tenenbaum.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Tennis_Club

Bison in Arizona?  The story behind Grand Canyon National Park's bison bind by Ron Dungan   The Arizona herd represents an unusual chapter in the history of bison.  Biologists estimate that 30 to 60 million of the animals, also known as buffalo, once roamed North America, until their numbers were whittled down to a handful by the 1880s.  But early conservationists stepped in to save them from extinction, and in the early 1900s, a man named Charles Jesse Jones, a hunter, rancher, expert roper and former buffalo skinner who had seen the bison’s demise first hand, brought a herd of the animals to northern Arizona.  His efforts earned him the nickname Buffalo Jones, though some of his work seems puzzling by today’s standards.  Jones drove his bison to northern Arizona long before Americans talked about ecosystems or ecology.  He cross-bred them with cattle, and after a few years, abandoned the project, leaving some of the herd behind.  The bison, which retain some cattle genes, have lived in Arizona ever since.  Read extensive article and see pictures at http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/best-reads/2016/02/19/bison-grand-canyon-buffalo-jones-house-rock-valley/79884888/

June 27, 2016  Danuta Hübner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO), warned Monday that English will not be one of the European Union’s official languages after Britain leaves the EU.  English is one of the EU’s 24 official languages because the U.K. identified it as its own official language, Hübner said.  But as soon as Britain completes the process to leave the EU, English could lose its status.  “We have a regulation … where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,” Hübner said.  “The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the U.K. notifying English.”  “If we don’t have the U.K., we don’t have English,” Hübner said.  English is one of the working languages in the European institutions, Hübner said, adding:  “It’s actually the dominating language,” the one most frequently used by EU civil servants.  The regulation listing official languages of the EU would have to be changed unanimously by remaining countries if they want to keep English as an official language, Hübner said.  However, an EU source explained that the regulations governing official languages are themselves subject to more than one translation.  The 1958 regulation regarding the official languages of the EU, which was originally written in French, does not say clearly whether a member country--Ireland or Malta for instance--can have more than one official language, an EU source said.  Interpretations of the French wording tend to conclude that this might be possible, whereas the English version appears to rule this out.  Hortense Goulard  http://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-official-eu-language-after-brexit-senior-mep/

No one is flying home from Rio with more medals than the U.S. women.  The full American squad—both men and women—won the most medals overall, 121, as has often been the case in the Summer Games.  But first in London four years ago, and again in Rio, the U.S. women have captured most of those medals.  The U.S. women took 61, the men had 55, and there were five in mixed events, including equestrian and mixed-doubles tennis.  How good were the American women?  They won 27 of the 46 American golds.  This trend became clear in London, where the American women won 58 medals of all colors, compared to 45 for the U.S. men, the first time the women outpaced their male counterparts.  New Zealand and Jamaica were once again the biggest overachievers.  New Zealand, home to just 4 million, won 18 medals, up from 13 in London, and in a range of sports that included rowing, sailing, cycling, canoeing, rugby, golf and track and field.  Jamaica, with fewer than 3 million people, relied on its blazing sprinters to win 11 medals, just one short of its tally in London.  Greg Myre with Katie Daughert on research   http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/21/490818961/u-s-women-are-the-biggest-winners-in-rio-olympics

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1516  August 22, 2016  On this date in 1770, James Cook named and landed on Possession Island, and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.  On this date in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.  Quote of the Day  You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 Aug 1920-2012)