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I read almost all fiction, especially historical fiction, Christian fiction or YA, so I was surprised to find myself picking up a nonfiction comedy book by Jim Gaffigan! In case you're not familiar with him, he is a terrific comedian who manages to keep his act "clean" (what a refreshing concept) while still making everyone laugh uproariously. The second season of his TV sitcom begins on Father's Day, June 19, and I can't wait! His two books are based on his two most popular comedy topics: his family (he's a happily married father of 5) and food. I've been reading Dad Is Fat, and I can't stop laughing at all of Jim's insights about parenting (I'll review it on my parenting blog, Susan Heim on Parenting, when I've finished), and I've already reserved his other book at the library. So, I will send one lucky winner a brand-new copy of one of the two books below by Jim Gaffigan (in print or Kindle, winner's choice).
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Syria 'Scud-Type' Missile Said To Kill 20 In Aleppo
A Syrian missile killed at least 20 people in a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Tuesday, opposition activists said, as the army turns to longer-range weapons after losing bases in the country's second-largest city.
The use of what opposition activists said was a large missile of the same type as Russian-made Scuds against an Aleppo residential district came after rebels overran army bases over the past two months from which troops had fired artillery.
As the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, now a civil war, nears its two-year mark, rebels also landed three mortar bombs in the rarely-used presidential palace compound in the capital Damascus, opposition activists said on Tuesday.
The United Nations estimates 70,000 people have been killed in the conflict between largely Sunni Muslim rebels and Assad's supporters among his minority Alawite sect. An international diplomatic deadlock has prevented intervention, as the war worsens sectarian tensions throughout the Middle East.
A Russian official said on Tuesday that Moscow, which is a long-time ally of Damascus, would not immediately back U.N. investigators' calls for some Syrian leaders to face the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
Moscow has blocked three U.N. Security Council resolutions that would have increased pressure on Assad.
Casualties are not only being caused directly by fighting, but also by disruption to infrastructure and Syria's economy.
An estimated 2,500 people in a rebel-held area of northeastern Deir al-Zor province have been infected with typhoid, which causes diarrhea and can be fatal, due to drinking contaminated water from the Euphrates River, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
"There is not enough fuel or electricity to run the pumps so people drink water from the Euphrates which is contaminated, probably with sewage," the WHO representative in Syria, Elisabeth Hoff, told Reuters by telephone.
The WHO had no confirmed reports of deaths so far.
In northern Aleppo, opposition activists said 25 people were missing under rubble of three buildings hit by a several-meter-long missile. They said remains of the weapon showed it to be a Scud-type missile of the type government forces increasingly use in Aleppo and in Deir a-Zor.
NATO said in December Assad's forces fired Scud-type missiles. It did not specify where they landed but said their deployment was an act of desperation.
Bodies were being gradually dug up, Mohammad Nour, an activist, said by phone from Aleppo.
"Some, including children, have died in hospitals," he said.
Video footage showed dozens of people scouring for victims and inspecting damage. A body was pulled from under collapsed concrete. At a nearby hospital, a baby said to have been dug out from wreckage was shown dying in the hands of doctors.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Opposition activists also reported fighting near the town of Nabak on the Damascus-Homs highway, another route vital for supplying forces in the capital loyal to Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since the 1960s.
Rebels moved anti-aircraft guns into the eastern Damascus district of Jobar, adjacent to the city center, as they seek to secure recent gains, an activist said.
"The rebels moved truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns to Jobar and are now firing at warplanes rocketing the district," said Damascus activist Moaz al-Shami.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told a news conference a U.N. war crimes report, which accuses military leaders and rebels of terrorizing civilians, was "not the path we should follow ... at this stage it would be untimely and unconstructive."
Syria is not party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC and the only way the court can investigate the situation is if it receives a referral from the Security Council, where Moscow is a permanent member.

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October 3, 1916 - July 12, 2013
Newburgh, NY
Evelyn Doris Barr, of Newburgh, entered into eternal rest on July 12, 2013, at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh. She was 96 years old.
The daughter of the late Daniel and Lizzie (Perry) Powell, Evelyn was born on October 3, 1916 in the Bronx, NY. Evelyn was married to Thomas Barr, who predeceased her.
Evelyn was a devoted wife, loving mother, and grandmother, and great-grandmother.
The family wishes to express their deepest gratitude to Dr. Franklin Guneratne for his compassionate and loving care given to Evelyn over the past several years. Evelyn was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church in Newburgh.
Evelyn leaves to cherish her memory her children: Dennis Barr and his wife, Mary Fran and Anastasia Clark; her grandchildren: Marcee Clark, Dane Clark, Brandon Clark, Lynn Barr, and Lori Dwyer and her husband, Scott; her great-grandchildren: Emma and Edward; her nephew, Raymond Feeney. In addition to her parents and husband, Evelyn was predeceased by her three brothers and five sisters.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, July 14th from 5 to 8 p.m. at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave, Newburgh. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, July 15th at 12 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church in Newburgh. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be made in Evelyn's name to Sacred Heart Church, 25 S. Robinson Ave., Newburgh, NY 12550.
To send a personal condolence, or for further information, please visit BrooksFH.com or call 845-561-8300.


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This year, Windermere is participating in the fourth annual Seattle Foundation GiveBIG event! The Seattle Foundation's GiveBIG is a one-day, online charitable giving event to inspire people to give generously to nonprofit organizations who make our region a healthier and more vital place to live.
On Tuesday, May 6, from 12:00 am to 12:00 pm, a portion of each donation made on behalf of the Windermere Foundation through the Seattle Foundation website will be matched, allowing your donation to go even further towards helping our neighbors in need. All the money raised through the GiveBIG program will benefit nonprofits in the King County region, with specific emphasis on providing emergency services to low-income and homeless families.
On Tuesday, May 6, click the following link and make your donation http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/WindermereFoundation.aspx
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I would like to share with you some great news. Finally it is happening.
Rob Grady is coming to town!!!
You are all invited to this special Tech day event hosted at Sprint Auto Works in San Jose.
Please make sure you RSVP well in advance. More details coming soon, for now save the day - March 12 2016.


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A semi-regular feature about some of my favorite singles from the past.
I can't claim that I'm always ahead of the trends, but I did catch on to The Go-Go's and The Stray Cats long before they achieved mass popularity. My memory is a bit clouded looking back to 1980, but I'm pretty sure I bought this import single of "Runaway Boys" after hearing it being played in Wax Trax! on Lincoln Avenue. Ah, the fond memories I have of that record store.
"Runaway Boys," along with "Rumble In Brighton," would provide a cutting edge alternative to the more playful tunes on The Stray Cats' 1982 U.S. debut LP, Built For Speed. With Lee Rocker's galloping bass playing and lines like, "Mom and Dad curse the day you were born," it was rebellious enough to appeal to the punks. As the title suggests, it's about kids running away from home and trying to get their kicks on a limited budget. An instrumental passage finds singer-guitarist Brian Setzer cutting loose on his instrument. In addition to capturing the sting of youthful alienation, "Runaway Boys" had a raw feel that made it sound like a live performance.
The B-Side was a cover of "My One Desire," written by prolific rock-a-billy songwriter Dorsey Burnette, and covered earlier by Ricky Nelson. It's a mid-tempo summer romance fantasy, and Setzer does a fine job crooning lines like, "Put your lips to mine with your kiss of fire."
Back in the early 1980s, I worked in a small Mom & Pop record store that was considerably less hip than Wax Trax! Records. We had a display of Billboard's Top 20 Albums, and if we were sold out of a particular record, we simply put a different album in its place. Being on Chicago's southwest side, we had a lot of heavy metal customers. One in particular was upset to see Built For Speed in the top seller slot, and moaned, "Don't tell me those kitty cat guys are number one!"
"No, that's just there because we sold out of the real number one," I assured him, but couldn't resist adding, "The Go-Go's have the best selling album."


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Universal Naked Driver 0.73
** Nexus 5 Support
** Nvidia Shield ADB added (ADB & Fastboot Only)
** Will update with Nvidia Shield APX asap
Universal Naked Driver 0.72
** HTC One Added (HTC phones are pretty much future proof with my driver)
** Google Nexus 4 Added
** Google Nexus 10 Added
** Google Nexus Q Added
** Google Nexus S Added
32 & 64 Bit Windows 8.1 / 7 / Vista / XP - Attached to this post!
I am happy to release my Universal Naked Driver. This is to allow ADB, Fastboot & APX interfaces to work without installing any package much less multiples packages for users with multiple devices. Yes you can just install them and uninstall right away but why bother?
I was annoyed that I couldnt use my Transformer Prime and Galaxy Nexus without having versions and packages trip over each other. My previous post for the Sensation & Galaxy Nexus was helpful so I thought I would bring to XDA the newest Android driver available from source (which they call 4.0) and make it start talking.
Warning: Uninstall any previous driver package's you may have installed and also manually remove drivers by attaching your phone and going to Windows device manager and right click the entry for your phone and select "Uninstall" on the next prompt make sure to select "Delete the driver software for this device" then hit OK and reboot before installing these drivers
Google Nexus Devices ADB & Fastboot Samsung Devices ADB & Fastboot Asus Devices ADB, Fastboot & APX HTC Devices ADB & Fastboot
Windows 8 Instructions How to Disable Driver Signature Enforcement in Windows 8: From the Metro Start Screen, open Settings (move your mouse to the bottom-right-corner of the screen and wait for the pop-out bar to appear, then click the Gear icon). Click 'More PC Settings'. Click 'General'. Scroll down, and click 'Restart now' under 'Advanced startup'. Wait a bit. Click 'Troubleshoot'. Click 'Advanced Options' Click 'Windows Startup Settings' Click Restart.


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Unfortunately it isnt just css.
In 2.1.0-b3 the dev team have added to the List class config - itemMap this has a config object that sets the minimumHeight to 47px.
Works well with your examples as thats the item height your expecting.
Doesnt work so well when you want a row height that is less like mine which is 35px.
Not sure why 47px was chosen as 44px is apples standard which the violate often
I got around this by adding to the constructor in the list.js
Code://Override item map minimum height - set by sencha to 47px me.getItemMap()._minimumHeight = 25; me.getItemMap().config.minimumHeight = 25;


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This is just a quick shout-out to you early adopters that, as of the August 22, 2012 nightly build of Firefox for Android, support for Explore By Touch, Jelly Bean style, has landed and is now working. If you use a Nexus 7 or other device that already has Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, you can explore content by dragging your finger, or go sequentially by using the swipe left and right gestures. Activate an item by first setting accessibility focus to it via one of the two means described, and then perform a double-tap anywhere on the screen.
You can get the newest version of the Firefox nightly build either through Software Update (Menu, Settings, About Nightly, Check for Updates link), or by visiting the Nightly builds download page and downloading the standard Android build from there. You will probably not want the ARM V6 build, since that is for devices with that older processor running Android 2.3 or earlier.
Have fun, and feel free to leave us feedback as usual!


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Week 6 of Kids in the Garden
I think once you get behind, it seems like it takes awhile to catch up. Well – Week 7 of Kids in the Garden is just hours away and I'm finally getting to post the pictures/notes from Week 6.
That being said, all three of my girls were in a wedding this past weekend…so that's my excuse.
Anyway – back to week 6. We had a small group this week but we still had a lot of fun!
First – we checked the rain gauge and saw that we had 2.1-inches of rain since the last week.
Next – it was out to the sunflowers to measure their growth – 54", 58" and 61".
On the walk back the kids and moms were able to enjoy some delicious raspberries. The patch is slowly starting to ripen. It will definitely be ready for pick your own when we open the week of August 15th!
Then we headed to the back garden to see how the baby tomatoes were coming along. We managed to find a few ripe ones that the kids were able to try during our snack. 2 liked them, 1 kind of liked them, and 2 did not like them.
We also checked out the cucumbers, summer squash, melons, potatoes, swiss chard, beets, carrots, lettuce and kale.
The kids helped us pick some beets, carrots and onions to use in our recipe for the day.
After the kids washed their hands it was time to try the first snack –
Raw Beet and Carrot Salad
4 or 5 medium beets, peeled
1 small onion, peeled
2 medium carrots, peeled
Shred in food processor.
Toss with:
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp dry mustard
Add minced:
It made a beautiful salad. 1 of the kids really liked it (I think he had at least 3 helpings), 4 kind of liked it and 1 did not like it.
Diane also brought some picked cauliflower that she had prepared ahead of time for the kids to try.
Refrigerator Cauliflower Pickles
Makes 1 quart
For the brine:
2 cups water
1 cup white vinegar
1 T plain salt
2 heads of fresh dill
1/2 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp mustard seed
Cauliflower – cut into bit size pieces. You can also add other vegetables – cucumbers, carrots, onions, kohlrabi – use your imagination and have fun with it!
Place 1 head of dill in the bottom of a clean quart jar. Fill with cauliflower and add another head of dill on top.
In a medium saucepan, bring water, vinegar and salt to a boil, stirring until the salt dissolves. Remove from heat. Pour into jar. Brine should completely cover cauliflower. Allow to cool, then refrigerate. Read to eat in 3 days.
1 LOVED the pickled cauliflower (Cedi), 1 kind of liked it and 4 did not like it.
After our snack the kids fed the left leaves and skins from the veggies to the goats.
Then we had to check out our jungle gym beans and north gardens of pumpkins, raspberries, and blueberries (everyone loved the blueberries).
Bob Lapacek of Lapacek's Loft releases pigeons at the orchard
We were at a beautiful family wedding this past weekend and while I was talking to Jared's Uncle Bob I realized that I posted pigeon release pictures on facebook but I didn't share them with my blog followers! So sorry for the delay everyone!
photo taken by Karmen Linder of Karmen Linder Photography
During the first weekend of Apple Blossom Days, Bob came to the orchard to release his homing pigeons. Homing pigeons is a new hobby of Bob's and he has over 100 of them. He races them with a club and last season one of his pigeons averaged 70 mph!Before he released the pigeons Bob happily answered questions for the crowd. And then he released them!It's really cool to see them all take off at once.The pigeons circle around the area they are released to find their bearings.
Once they know where they are, they head on home. There's a microchip on their leg so Bob can see how long it took them to get from their release point to their home.
At the wedding this past weekend Bob released the Pigeons – it was pretty neat!
I'm hoping Bob will come to the orchard this fall and release the pigeons again! If you would like Bob to release pigeons at any of your events, give me a call and I can get you in touch with him!
Week 5 of Kids in the Garden
I realize that week 6 of Kids in the Garden is later today and I have yet to share the blog post from the last week! So sorry about that. I'm not sure where the time has gone!
And last week was a super special week. Chef Matt from the wonderful Monty's Blue Plate Diner came visit us. He made us two special treats using produce that the kids help us grow, take care of and pick!
His first treat for us was nice refreshing, blueberry lemonade. It was perfect for the super hot day that we were 'enjoying'. Earlier that morning, my girls and I had picked the berries from our patch. Cheff Matt came with a container full of freshly squeezed lemons. After he blended the berries, a little lemonade, and some sugar together he strained the mix into the container of lemon juice. With a few tests by the Chef he found the perfect combination of juiced lemons, blueberries and sugar!
Baby Pip decided she didn't want to nap during the program this time and she enjoyed a refreshing glass of blueberry lemonade.
18 kids liked the Blueberry Lemonade, 4 not so much
Next up – pesto!Chef Matt had the kids pick a bunch of basil and mint from our herb garden. I'm not sure of his exact recipe for pesto but it looked pretty simple.Here it is all blended in the food processor.
He served it on a toasted baguette with a piece of fresh, locally made mozarella. Seriously – amazing!
12 kids liked the Pesto, 10 not so much, all the Moms LOVED both!We all loved that Chef Matt came to visit and cook with the kids! It was such a wonderful treat for all!After we had our snacks it was time to measure the sunflowers. We headed out in the heat and took three measurements – 36", 39" and 48". They're starting to get taller!We also wanted to check out how our kids vegetable garden was doing. There are some baby tomatoes growing, some of the onions are getting close and the peas are nearing their ends. Did I mention that it was hot? After our snack and checking out the gardens it was time for a water break! Many of the kids came in swim suits and I think even the mom's enjoyed a bit of a spray down.Is there anything better than drinking nice cold, well water from the hose? Tee Tee enjoyed it!
And Georgia discovered one of our newest kittens! We just got some for you all to enjoy this apple season.
With that – what a great day of Kids in the Garden! Thank you Chef Matt and Monty's Blue Plate Diner for helping make it so special!
Does this sound like fun? Bring your kiddo's to the orchard today from 2- 3:30 and enjoy some time in the gardens! ($5/kid)
Farmer's Market at Monty's Blue Plate Diner
Are you ready for Monty's first ever Farmers Market? Come join us this Sunday, July 21st and meet some of our local partners! Also, learn about the upcoming Farm Stop and Barley Pop event! Hope to see you there!
- Yelp Madison
- Locavore Roar
- Cedar Grove Cheese Inc.
- Burr Oak Gardens, LLC
- Lapacek's Orchard
- Sassy Cow Creamery
- Quince and Apple
We'll be there with our apple cider donuts!
Week 4 of Kids in the Garden
We had absolutely GORGEOUS weather for our fourth week of Kid's in the Garden. It was so nice that the humidity broke and we were able to enjoy our afternoon without being quite as uncomfortable as it had been on Monday and Tuesday.
We talked about Frank and Diane scouting for pests out in the orchard. They had spotted aphids – which eat the leaves. Frank thought that he may have to spray for that but later on their scouting journey they also saw lady bugs. We asked the kids what lady bugs eat? Aphids of course! Since the ladybugs were there to take care of the aphids we didn't have to spray for that. Frank and Diane did find apple maggot which is a gross pest and we did have to spray for that. Frank sprayed on Wednesday morning and there is a 12 hour re-entry time into the orchard after the spray is applied. Although we would have been right at the end of that re-entry time we thought it was best to not go into the orchard. We have plenty of gardens not in the orchard to look at though so we still had a great day at Kids in the Garden.
We checked the rain gauge – 1" since the last week. Such a different story than last summer – thank goodness!
The kids got to see how the back garden was doing. The baby tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, summer squash, potatoes, swiss chard, beets, carrots, lettuce, kale, snap peas, snow peas, peas, and onions are all doing pretty well – some spots better than others. We think the 'bad spots' are a result of too much water just 'sitting' and ruining the seeds.
Checking out Capri's fairy garden – it seems to change weekly…those sneaky fairies.
Diane put the kids to work and had them help with some of the hoeing in the back garden. I know Cedi's getting to be pretty good at it.
The kids collected fresh dill, onions, parsley, peas, snow peas, and snap peas to use for their fresh garden snack.Here's Georgia helping to chop up the dill weed. I had to sneak this picture in – those sneaky fairies must have planted a corn seed one night – check out that stalk!
Cedi and Georgia – patiently waiting to try their snack. To many of you this is going to sound completely ignorant but I never knew that you could eat peas raw. They were quite tasty!
The pasta salad was also a big hit! The mom's even enjoyed it! Last item on the days' agenda – poll time! 11 of the kids liked all three of the pea varieties, 3 kids liked two of the pea varieties, and 2 kids liked just one of the pea varieties. All of the kids liked at least one type of pea – I would say that's a success.
15 o the kids liked the dill dip, and just 1 did not.
Once our gardening class was done – it was time for a little play! How cute is Kelin!?
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Today's Recipes
Dill Dip
1 c sour cream
1 c mayonnaise
1/4 c chopped onion
1 T minced parsley
1 T dill weed
3/4 tsp seasoned salt
Mix all together. Serve with fresh vegetables
Fresh Vegetable Pasta Salad
Vegetables – chopped
use whatever vegetables you have fresh and available. In today's salad you could find – peas, snow peas, snap peas, celery, kohlrabi, cauliflower, onions, and dried tomatoes.
Bow Tie Pasta – use any kind (or none)
1/4 c olive oil
1/2 c red wine vinaigrette
1 T. chopped basil, oregano, parsley, chives
or use bottled ranch or Italian
Love Lock Wall at Lapacek's Orchard
Pinterest can really be an orchard owner's best friend sometimes…well…pretty much all the time other than the whole 'time suck' aspect of it. Anyway – I digress. Awhile back I was just scrolling through pinterest and images of a 'love lock wall' caught my eye.
{Photo from 'Being Half the World Away' blog post 'not all those who wander are lost'}
After doing just a bit of research I have discovered that these 'love lock walls' can be found in romantic locations all over the world. A couple either etches or writes with permanent marker (I'm thinking paint markers would work) on a lock, goes to the wall, puts their lock on it and throws away the key to signify everlasting love.
Immediately I thought – "If they do it in Paris, why not in Poynette?"
I showed Jared what I was thinking and he liked the idea and installed our very own 'Love Lock Wall'. At this moment there are just two 'love locks' on the wall – Jared and I and Frank and Diane's but hopefully you are all as excited about this as I am and by the end of apple season we'll have quite a collection that can grow each year. I currently will be offering two different locks at the store. I have quite a few of the ones seen above. These will be for sale in the orchard this fall and can be engraved to personalize it for you.
I will also have a few of these padlocks with the longer shanks for sale but only a few. I would love to strongly encourage you to find a padlock of your own you'd like to use. I'll be keeping my out for different styles as well. I think the more different locks we have on the wall the cooler it would be. There will be no charge if you bring your own padlock to add to the wall and I would be happy to take your key to use in some art projects I have in mind.
Burr Oak Gardens
Yesterday morning our 'Kids in the Garden' Group met over at Burr Oak Gardens to see how their CSA runs.
Kate, one of the owners, was our tour guide for the day and she did a great job showing us many of the various tools that they use on their organic farm. We also saw different vegetables they were growing and learned that their farm supports 250 families. Diane even saw one that she wishes she has but doesn't…yet…
After we saw the different tools and where they were used on the farm, Kate gave us a closer look at a pest on their farm – the potato bug. We saw it in different stags of its life and she even showed us how to squish them. The kids either loved it or were grossed out!
It wouldn't be a true 'Kids in the Garden' session without a snack! Kate let the kids into a portion of their strawberry patch to snack on a few delicious fresh berries. It's hard to not enjoy fresh strawberries!
And for the grand finale – Kate hopped onto a tractor and showed the kids how it helped weed between the corn rows.
I know we all had a great time and learned a lot from Kate. I'm pretty sure she enjoyed our group as well since we're already invited back for next year!


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Few people boss Apple Chief Steve Jobs around, but the iconic 56-year-old CEO has been ordered by a judge to "answer questions" in the class-action lawsuit alleging that Apple's iTunes represents a "music store monopoly." According to Bloomberg News, US Magistrate Judge Howard R. Lloyd will allow "limited questioning" of Steve Jobs, who is currently on medical leave from Apple, by legal representatives and attorneys for the group that brought the complaint.
The deposition cant exceed two hours and the only topic allowed is changes Apple made to its software in October 2004 that rendered digital music files engineered by RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK) inoperable with Apples iPod music player.
Thomas Slattery, an iTunes customer, brought suit against Apple six years ago seeking class-action status on behalf of "consumers claiming the Cupertino, California-based company illegally limited consumer choice by linking the iPod to its iTunes music store." The basis of Slattery's argument is that Apple is violating antitrust laws by encoding its digital music files with proprietary software dubbed FairPlay. As a result, music files downloaded from iTunes can only be played on sanctioned Apple devices, like the iPod.
The case is Apple iPod, iTunes Antitrust Litigation, C05- 0037JW, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).
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The Spaniard was linked with moves to Liverpool and Aston Villa but according to Whelan will stick with the Latics, having been given his chairman's word he will be backed in the transfer market.
Whelan told ESPN tonight: "Roberto is staying with us and I've agreed to his request to up our spending on youth development and training facilities."
He added: "That's going to be pretty costly as I have agreed to a full-sized indoor pitch - and that will cost £1.5million.
"Roberto's very keen on that aspect of the club. I have also agreed with him to bring in three or four new players."
Martinez, linked to Villa despite rejecting an offer to manage the midlands club at the start of last season, met Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group in America last week to discuss the current vacancy at Anfield.
However, Whelan told ESPN: "They set down their rules on how they saw the role and the way they wanted the team run and that was not the way Roberto would do it.
"Roberto has his own way of doing things but they are American owners who have their own ideas of how it should be done. They are entitled to want to do it their way and Liverpool are a big club so I can see why Brendan Rodgers has opted to go there - and good luck to him he's a fine coach."
Rodgers was reported to be on the brink of leaving Swansea for Anfield.
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This is the first in a series of blog postings from Europe at a critical time by peregrinating Ben Warwick, regular blogger for AdvisorOne and contributor to Investment Advisor. Ben is an investment advisor and author of the Searching for Alpha monthly newsletter.
LONDON—There is an old saying here that Americans don't know where another country is located until the two go to war. Greece may become the exception to this rule.
Folks here and on the Continent are becoming increasingly convinced that Greece will eventually leave the euro. Austerity measures seem all but off the table at this juncture, as the fractured government that is forming in Greece seems to be leaning toward growth strategies as a more economically tenable solution.
This latter outcome would include Greek defaulting on its debts.
JPMorgan estimates the immediate costs to the eurozone at around 400 billion euros, or $510 billion, with the bulk of that loss coming from international bailout funds. Write-offs of commercial bank loans would be about 25 billion euros of the total.
This loss is being referred to as the "first order" effect of the Greek exit. The "second order" effects, which could be much larger in scope, would come from the perception that other indebted countries may become much more willing to follow in Greece's footsteps.
I see this trade coming in two tranches. During the period of greatest uncertainty, sovereign debt will be the place to be. After the dust settles, traders will most likely prefer equities and corporate credit to lower-yielding government paper. At this point, we may witness lows in U.S. interest rates.
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In the late 1980's AMA identified its need for an adequate housing for its collection and activities. After studying various options, a project proposal was drawn up, including the acquisition and restoration of historical buildings in downtown Oranjestad.
These historical buildings were formerly the property of the Ecury family. The "Ecury Complex", is a cluster of single and two-story historic buildings, mainly Dutch colonial architecture from the late 19th and 20th century on a plot of approximately 1.700 m2.
In 1997 the Aruban Government bought the complex for the National Archaeological Museum project. In 2004 a financial agreement was signed with the European Development Fund and in 2006 restauration and construction work began on the monumental buildings and the new to build exhibition space. In December 2007 the key to the complex was delivered and the museum's employees moved to the new location. The final design for the exhibit was completed in November 2007 and the permanent exhibit, financed by the Aruban Government and the Union of Cultural Organizations (UNOCA), opened in July 2009.
At the new location the National Archaeological Museum Aruba disposes of approximately 500 m2 for its permanent exhibit. This exhibit conveys through archaeological objects and modern exhibition techniques information on the origin and culture of the first inhabitants of the island. The new permanent exhibit gives the visitor an insight into the cultures that inhabited the island in Pre-Historical and Early Historical times. The museum also hosts an attractive public program including lectures, educational projects, temporary exhibits and workshops.
Opening hours are Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. As part of the inauguration celebration, entrance will be free for the general public. The NAMA is located at Schelpstraat 42 in downtown Oranjestad.


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Rollins wasn't concerned about homer drought
NEW YORK -- It might have been a drought on paper, but it didn't feel like one. Shortstop Jimmy Rollins snapped a streak of 161 at-bats without a home run on Saturday, but he said on Sunday that he didn't really know the particulars and that he wasn't particularly relieved to have gone deep.
"I knew about it because it was in an article. Other than that I had no idea," said Rollins of snapping his homerless streak. "I don't know how to put it, but it wasn't even in my mind. I'm trying to get some doubles. That's what I'm really trying to do. It feels like I haven't doubled in a long time."
And on that count, the three-time All-Star is precisely correct. Rollins has doubled just once in July, and he didn't hit for much power in June either. He has just three doubles and the lone home run since the beginning of June, and he's slugged just .297 in his last 165 at-bats.
Rollins is back in his customary leadoff slot, but he also spent some time this season batting third. He changed roles to accommodate the team when Chase Utley was on the disabled list, and he even asked Utley for advice on hitting in the heart of the order.
Now Utley's back in the third spot, and cleanup man Ryan Howard is on the DL. All-Star Domonic Brown has moved into the cleanup slot, and Rollins is back igniting the team from the top spot. Interestingly, he said he enjoyed his time hitting third.
"When I started going back to [leadoff], they pitched me similar in some ways but different in other ways," he said. "Hitting third, I wasn't getting first-pitch fastballs. I knew they were going to tinker around, and you find yourself in a lot better hitting counts, because that's how they pitch you. When you're a leadoff guy, they're not trying to get you in hitting counts. They're trying to get you out as fast as possible and not have you on base. Being aggressive in the three-hole doesn't necessarily work."
Rollins, the National League's Most Valuable Player in 2007, is on pace for the lowest slugging percentage (.352) of his career, but he's not particularly concerned about the numbers. He knows he has a track record, and he is confident he will close strong in the season's final months.
"There are no midway reports," he said. "After the season, then we can evaluate everything."


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Iowa Park is a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas metropolitan statistical area. The population was 6,355 at the 2010 census. Iowa Park was founded in 1888 alongside the tracks of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway by D. C. and A. J. Kolp. Originally called Daggett Switch, it soon became a shipping point for cotton and wheat. Hard times came in the early 1890s when a drought hit, but by 1900, the town had a significant population.
The population fell during the early part of the century, but an oil discovery in 1918 reversed the dip. By 1926, the population was staying higher. A concrete highway connecting Iowa Park with Wichita Falls was built in 1927. In the mid-1930s, Iowa Park maintaned its population, while most other towns declined. Sheppard Air Force Base provided a minor drawback in the 1950s, but by the end of the decade, the population was still holding up. The late 1960s brought two state football championships and a 20% growth in population which continued into the '70s.[citation needed]
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1) Tell a trusted neighbor you'll be gone. If you have a house sitter lined up, make sure your neighbor knows so they're not wondering who the stranger is. It's also nice for your house sitter to know there is a neighbor to reach out to should something happen. If you don't have a house sitter, you'll want that neighbor to keep an eye on your house while you're gone. And if you've arranged for lawn care or something while you're gone, make sure that neighbor knows it's okay for those people to be on the property!
2) Make sure the bills are caught up. I get so caught up in getting ready to get away—like trying to get ahead of work or shopping for last minute items—that I sometimes forget to keep up with the regular household duties like paying the bills. Try to be mindful of anything that will be due while you're gone and take care of it ahead of time.
3) Clean out the fridge. Now we're moving into the territory that drives my husband crazy. He doesn't understand why I have to clean out the fridge before we go away. But if I don't, we risk coming home to stinky spoiled food that will have to be thrown out anyway—leaving behind a stench! Or produce that's gone slimy that I won't want to touch. Or milk that has soured. Ugh! It also helps to keep the grocery shopping to a minimum ahead of time or plan to eat up leftovers or have your own episode of "Chopped" in order to use up what you can before leaving. Even if we have a house sitter, I will toss food rather than assume they'll eat it.
4) Wash all the dishes. There are two things that can be left in the sink when we leave: a water glass and a coffee cup. Even if it's the last thing I do before walking out the door, I'm washing dishes. Otherwise I not only have stink to come home to, but the equivalent of cement to chisel out of that bowl or pot. Is that something I want to take on after a restful get away? No!
5) Take out the trash and the recycling. Like cleaning out the fridge, emptying all garbage cans and recycling bins will cut down on possible stench when you get back. Yes, recycling too, because that trace of milk in the carton or dogfood in the can will probably stink after a few days, even if you've rinsed it out. If the cans need to go to the curb while you're gone for pickup, make sure to arrange for that.
6) Run the garbage disposal. Not having a garbage disposal, I'm not sure about this one, but I have read that you should pour ½ cup of vinegar and some water into your garbage disposal and run it—again, to avoid coming home to a stinky house.
7) Do the laundry. You'll probably come home with lots of dirty laundry, so having those laundry baskets empty before you go will be much appreciated when you come home. But dirty laundry can also hide stench in the making, which is why you want it all clean ahead of time. We've had that happen with only a weekend getaway, coming home to a stinky house because of a kitchen towel used to clean up who knows what that was left sitting in the basket. Ugh!
8) This last one is optional: Clean! I don't usually have time to clean the house before we leave, but I want to, because the last thing I want to do when I come home is to tackle housework! For me, it's like giving myself a gift to clean the house before leaving so I can ease back into the daily grind rather than jump back into. But—it's optional.


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The tangible material culture surrounds every single thing we do. As a lab archaeologist, my main goal is to describe each object that comes through my lab and make that description available for study. Aspects of things we would often take for granted get described, categorized, organized. In a description, I attempt to include information that may help current and future archaeologists to study the object or a collection or even groups of collections. The information helps us to identify dates of sites, areas of activities, socioeconomics of a people and available technologies. In the future, hopefully it will help to identify aspects that I have never even dreamed.
To achieve this goal better, I was set to the task of updating our cataloging and creating a relational access database. The database not only stores our information, but allows us to analyze and study it. For the first time, I began to use a system that I had a major hand in creating. I learned that creating the method of identification and description of the details & attributes of everything anyone has ever made or altered through time is really difficult and sometimes a little messy. There is no perfect system of cataloging.
But while all of these artifacts are still located in a collection together and before time has taken even more of a toll on them, the data helps us preserve our history.
Our relational database now connects geographical space with artifact details as well as dates and other information that help us determine information about a site. Each project database can be updated in a larger database that includes other projects so that artifact information will be comparable across the county. The information in each project can also connect directly to the mapping system in GIS.
It is an ongoing process. We constantly make the system better and link to more programs. Today, as most days, I am working on and in our relational database.
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Spiritual Warfare and Sin: Self-sins
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.—Galatians 2:20
To be specific, the self-sins are self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them. They dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins—egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion—are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders, even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, for many people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the church visible. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to exite little notice….
Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. We may as well try to instruct leprosy out of our system. There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free. We must invite the cross to do its deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment. The Pursuit of God, 43-44.
"Oh Lord, do that 'work of God in destruction' within me today. I am indeed 'crucified with Christ.' I pray this morning that the cross would obliterate the self-sins in my life and let me live only for Jesus Christ and His glory. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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The sun was setting as the train reached St. Louis and began the long passage from Illinois across the Mississippi and into Missouri, where Hughes had been born. The beauty of the hour and the setting--the great muddy river glinting in the sun, the banked and tinted summer clouds, the rush of the train toward the dark, all touched an adolescent sensibility tender after the gloomy day. The sense of beauty and death, of hope and despair, fused in his imagination. A phrase came to him, then a sentence. Drawing an envelope from his pocket, he began to scribble. In a few minutes Langston had finished a poem.
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With its allusions to deep dusky rivers, the setting sun, sleep, and the soul, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is suffused with the image of death and, simultaneously, the idea of deathlessness. As in Whitman's philosophy, only the knowledge of death can bring the primal spark of poetry and life. Here Langston Hughes became "the outsetting bard," in Whitman's phrase, the poet who sings of life because at last he has known death. Balanced between the knowledge of love and of death, the poetic will gathers force. From the depths of grief the poet sweeps back to life by clinging to his greatest faith, which is in his people and his sense of kinship with them. His frail, intimidated self, as well as the image of his father, are liquidated. A man-child is born, soft-spoken, almost casual, yet noble and proud, and black as Africa. The muddy river is his race, the primal source out of which he is born anew; on that "muddy bosom" of the race as black mother, or grandmother, he rests secure forever. The angle of the sun on the muddy water is like the angle of a poet's vision, which turns mud into gold. The diction of the poem is simple and unaffected either by dialect or rhetorical excess; its eloquence is like that of the best of the black spirituals.
From Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 1988. Copyright © by Arnold Rampersad.
Onwuchekwa Jemie
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is perhaps the most profound of these poems of heritage and strength. Composed when Hughes was a mere 17 years old, and dedicated to W. E. B. DuBois, it is a sonorous evocation of transcendent essences so ancient as to appear timeless, predating human existence, longer than human memory. The rivers are part of God's body, and participate in his immortality. They are the earthly analogues of eternity: deep, continuous, mysterious. They are named in the order of their association with black history. The black man has drunk of their life-giving essences, and thereby borrowed their immortality. He and the rivers have become one. The magical transformation of the Mississippi from mud to gold by the sun's radiance is mirrored in the transformation of slaves into free men by Lincoln's Proclamation (and, in Hughes's poems, the transformation of shabby cabarets into gorgeous palaces, dancing girls into queens and priestesses by the spell of black music). As the rivers deepen with time, so does the black man's soul; as their waters ceaselessly flow, so will the black soul endure. The black man has seen the rise and fall of civilizations from the earliest times, seen the beauty and death-changes of the world over the thousands of years, and will survive even this America. The poem's meaning is related to Zora Neale Hurston's judgment of the mythic High John de Conquer, whom she held as a symbol of the triumphant spirit of black America: that John was of the "Be" class. "Be here when the ruthless man comes, and be here when he is gone." In a time and place where black life is held cheap and the days of black men appear to be numbered, the poem is a majestic reminder of the strength and fullness of history, of the source of that life which transcends even ceaseless labor and burning crosses.
From Langston Hughes: An Introduction to The Poetry. Copyright © 1976 by Columbia University Press.
Jean Wagner
Hughes's first poem, published in The Crisis in June, 1921, attracted the attention it did precisely because its author revealed the acute sensitivity to the racial past that Garvey, with his racial romanticism, was then trying to instill in the minds of all. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" heralded the existence of a mystic union of Negroes in every country and every age. It pushed their history back to the creation of the world, and credited them with possessing a wisdom no less profound than that of the greatest rivers of civilization that humanity had ever known, from the Euphrates to the Nile and from the Congo to the Mississippi. . . .
Yet unlike Countee Cullen, and perhaps because he was the only poet of the Negro Renaissance who had a direct, rather disappointing contact with Africa, Hughes rarely indulges in a gratuitous idealization of the land of his ancestors. If, in spite of everything, the exaltation of African atavism has a significant place in his poetry up to 1931, the reason is merely that he had not yet discovered a less romantic manner that would express his discomfort at not being treated in his own country as a citizen on a par with any other. If he celebrates Africa as his mother, it is not only because all the black peoples originated there but also because America, which should be his real mother, had always behaved toward him in stepmotherly fashion.
From Black Poets of the United States. Copyright © 1973 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
George Hutchinson
Hughes had come to Whitman by way of such Midwestern rebels as Carl Sandburg prior to the twenties. His was the democratic "transnational," socialist, "comradely" Whitman pushed by Horace Traubel and the Masses circle (as opposed to the Whitman of "cosmic consciousness" Toomer responded to). Nonetheless, he early sensed the affinity between the inclusive "I" of Whitman and the "I" of the spirituals, whose fusion shaped one of his first published poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" . . . .
Readers rarely notice that if the soul of the Negro in this poem goes back to the Euphrates, it goes back to a pre-"racial" dawn and a geography far from Africa that is identified with neither blackness nor whiteness--a geography at the time of Hughes's writing considered the cradle of all the world's civilizations and possibly the location of the Garden of Eden. Thus, even in this poem about the depth of the Negro's soul Hughes avoids racial essentialism while nonetheless stressing the existential, racialized conditions of black and modern identity.
From The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Copyright © 1995 by the President and Board of Fellows of Harvard College.
Joyce A. Joyce
Hughes captures the African American's historical journey to America in what is perhaps his signature poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Dedicated to W E. B. Du Bois and using water or the river as a metaphor for the source of life, the poem traces the movement of black life from the Euphrates and Nile rivers in Africa to the Mississippi. Hughes subtly couches his admonishment of slavery and racism in the refrain "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." The first time the line appears in the poem it follows the poet's assertion that he has known rivers "ancient as the world and older than the flow of / human blood in human veins." The poet here identifies himself and his blackness with the first human beings. The second and only other time the line appears in the poem occurs after the poet has made reference to Mississippi, New Orleans, and Abe Lincoln. He places the lines "My soul has grown deep like the rivers" at the end of the poem, this time suggesting that he is no longer the same man who "bathed in the Euphrates" and "built [his] hut near the Congo." He is now a black man who has experienced the pain of slavery and racism, and his soul now bears the imprint of these experiences.
From "Bantu, Nkodi, Ndungu, and Nganga: Language, Politics, Music, and Religion in African American Poetry." In The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Ed. Joanne V. Gabbins. Copyright © 1999 by the Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
Adrian Oktenberg
The identification of Hughes as a folk poet obscures the fact that he is a brilliant poet of ideas, and radical ideas at that. The concepts of negritude and soul, the politics of Black Power, the psychology of black rage, are so familiar to children of the sixties that it comes almost as a shock to realize that Hughes was presenting articulate and concrete images of them in his poetry in the twenties and thirties. While these ideas did not originate with him, he embodied them in verse of such fluency and power that it seems undated half a century later. Moreover, he consistently combined them with the basic premises of revolutionary socialism, and this sympathy is evident--hard to miss--in his work not only of the thirties but to the end of his life.
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," then, is only the beginning of a long chain of poems by Hughes which confront, distill, extend, and transform the historical experience of black people into an art both limpid and programmatic. As in all of Hughes' hallmark poems, its distillation is as extreme as any in Issa's haiku. The "I" of the poem is not that of "a" Negro but "the" Negro, suggesting the whole of the people and their history. Most of the consonants--d's, n's, l's, s'sare soft, and of the vowels, long o's reoccur, contributing by sound the effect of an ancient voice. The tone of the repeated declarative sentences is muted, lulling. Every element of the poem combines to suggest that when the Negro speaks of rivers it is with the accumulated wisdom of a sage. The function of a sage is to impart the sometimes secret but long accumulated history of a people to its younger members so that they might make the lessons of the past active in the future. This impartation occurs in the central stanza of the poem:
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom
turn all golden in the sunset.
Moving by suggestion, by naming particular rivers and particular activities performed nearby, the poem implicates the whole history of African and American slavery without ever articulating the word. "I bathed in the Euphrates" and "I built my hut near the Congo" are the normal activities of natural man performed in his natural habitat. That may be an unnecessarily anthropological way of putting it, but the lines are the equivalent of the speaker having said, "I made my life undisturbed in the place where I lived." The shift--and the lesson--occurs in the next two lines. Raising the pyramids above the Nile was the act of slaves, and if ever "Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans," it would have been in the context of American slavery and the Civil War. Implicit in the history of a people who had first been free and then enslaved is the vision of freedom regained, and therein lies the program. The final line of the poem, "My soul has grown deep like the rivers," suggests wisdom in the word "deep." The wisdom imparted by the poem, beyond the memory of the suffering of slavery, includes a more deeply embedded memory of freedom. This is perhaps the more powerful memory, or the more sustaining one, and even if deferred, will reemerge in one form or another.
From "From the Bottom Up: Three Radicals of the Thirties." In A Gift of Tongues: Critical Challenges in Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero. Copyright © 1987 by The University of Georgia Press.
R. Baxter Miller
The double identification with penetrative time and receptive timelessness appears perhaps most notably in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Crisis, June 1921), a poem dedicated to the late W. E. B. Du Bois. "Rivers" presents the narrator's skill in retracing known civilization back to the source in East Africa. Within thirteen lines and five stanzas, through the suggestion of wisdom by anagoge, we re-project ourselves into aboriginal consciousness. Then the speaker affinns the spirit distilled from human history, ranging from 3000 B.C. through the mid-nineteenth century to the author himself at the brink of the Harlem Renaissance. The powerful repetend "I've known rivers. / Ancient, dusky rivers" closes the human narrative in nearly a circle, for the verse has turned itself subtly from an external focus to a unified and internal one: "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." Except for the physical and spiritual dimensions, the subjective "I" and the "river" read the same.
When the Euphrates flows from eastern Turkey southeast and southwest into the Tigris, it recalls the rise as well as the fall of the Roman Empire. For over two thousand years the water helped delimit that domain. Less so did the Congo, which south of the Sahara demarcates the natural boundaries between white and Black Africa. The latter empties into the Atlantic ocean; the Nile flows northward from Uganda into the Mediterranean; in the United States the Mississippi River flows southeast from north central Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Whether north or south, east or west, "River" signifies the fertility as well as the dissemination of life in concentric half-circles. The liquid, as the externalized form of the contemplative imagination, has both depth and flow. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" reclaims the origins in Africa of both physical and spiritual humanity.
From The Art and Language of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1989 by The University Press of Kentucky.
Rachel Blau Duplessis
The Congo, called by Lindsay the "Mistrel River," and astir with cannibals and witch-doctors, is reinterpreted as a pastoral, nourishing, maternal setting in Hughes: "I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep." "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was composed in 1920 on the train to Mexico when Hughes was still in his teens (eighteen to be exact), and published a year later in Crisis. This poem was written as an internal dialogue with his father whose "strange dislike of his own people" baffled and disturbed Hughes, and, of course, implicated his son as object of that dislike (Hughes 1940, 54-56; Rampersand 1986, 37-40). In this poem, Hughes joins affirmative blackness to a universal human quest, by putting into a global context the racial stresses and demands of the United States.
The poem (as is well known) lists four key rivers, all "ancient as the world (Hughes 1926, 51; dedicated in Weary Blues to W. E. B. Du Bois). Three of the four flow through regions of colored peoples; they are "rivers in our past"—the word "our" is marked (Hughes 1940, 55). The fourth is a river still reverberating with the past hundred years of American history; it is the river on which, Hughes says, Lincoln "had seen slavery at its worst, and had decided within himself that it should be removed from American life (ibid.). With an "I" strongly indebted to Whitman as mediated by Sandburg, and with a diction drawn from spirituals, Hughes describes the the Mississippi down which he was traveling as he wrote the poem, as having a strong racialized meaning both by its often brown appearance ("I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset"), by the possibility of a cross-race mixing or single-race affirmation of different colors ("muddy" turns more "golden" -- a word appearing in "The Congo" as well), and by its historical meaning under slavery.
Thus Hughes journey doubles Lincoln's, and the concern with slavery, in the context of Hughes relationship with his father discloses a crisis of autonomy on a personal level, and a political rejection of a black man identifying with whites, for a white man (Lincoln) identifying with blacks. In contrast to the voyeuristic fantasies of "The Congo," this poem is a statement about vocation, an emancipation into blackness: "My soul has grown deep like the rivers" (Hughes 1926, 51).
From Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934. Ó 2001 Cambridge University Press.
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Thetford Monday Ju Jitsu Club
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16th November 2015
Event Description: The children from the Thetford Ju Jitsu Club will be presented their new belt and certificate during their normal lesson.
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With the recent flub of SimCity having to be always online there has been some big tension growing in the gamer community. Gamers everywhere have had unseen yet heated debates on the future of our beloved hobby and how the "always online" requirements will undoubtedly kill the love we share for our other lives inside the television.
Since Microsoft has given us little information regarding the new iteration of the Xbox, rumors have been abound. Will it be always on? Will we still have achievements? Can it still surpass Sony and their Playstation? Will Bill Gates finally hire me as his personal game tester? Most of these are the unanswered fears of Xbox-ians everywhere. Well, Adam Orth, a Creative Director at Microsoft decided to take to twitter to show how he feels regarding the "always online" debacle and the result was less than stellar.
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text: Kurt Weigle of the Downtown Development District spoke at the monthly lunch meeting of the Real Property Law Committee on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Mr. Weigle explored the latest campaign to attract residents, retail, and investors to the downtown area. Offering a clear vision that encourages the expansion of the bioscience, digital media, and arts based businesses, Weigle explained that New Orleans' unique identity as an authentic city is attracting more residents and businesses every year. The downtown area boasts the largest employment center in Louisiana with the expectation of more office spaced needed in the coming years.


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Recipe: Savory wheat crackers
Savory wheat crackers
Note: The dough for these irresistible crackers is made in minutes in the food processor. Here, the topping has a central Asian tang, but you can top them with hot chili powder, grated cheese, or even a sprinkling of coconut.
2 teaspoons sesame seeds
1 teaspoon anise seeds
1/2 teaspoon nigella seeds
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
About 3 cups whole-wheat flour
1 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups warm water (105 to 115 degrees)
1. Stir together the sesame, anise and nigella seeds and coarse salt; set aside.
2. In a food processor, place 3 cups flour and 1 teaspoon salt; whirl for a few seconds, just to mix. With the machine running, add water in a steady stream, processing for 10 seconds. You should have a large ball of dough. (If the dough is very sticky, add 3 to 4 tablespoons more flour and process to form a ball; if it's dry, add 2 to 3 tablespoons more water while the motor is running.) Process dough ball 1 minute more. Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface, then knead it for 30 seconds. Cover with plastic wrap; let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.
3. Position a rack in the center of the oven; preheat oven to 500 degrees. Prepare a couple of large baking sheets and a spray bottle with water.
4. Cut dough into 8 pieces. Dust a work surface with flour; lightly flour your hands. Working with one dough piece at a time (keep the rest covered), flatten it with your hands; use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a large, very thin, even rectangle. Gently roll dough around your rolling pin; unroll it onto a pan.
5. Use a pizza cutter or thin, sharp knife to cut dough into rectangles. There's no need to separate the crackers; don't worry if they're not all the same size. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon spice mix; spray lightly with water.
6. Bake the crackers for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes. As soon as the thinnest crackers start to brown, remove them with a metal spatula; continue to bake the others until golden. It is better to bake these too little than too much. Once the crackers start browning, check them every 30 seconds to avoid burning.
7. When the crackers come out of the oven, some will already be crisp; some will crisp in the air. Put the crackers in a large bowl, breaking up any that did not separate during baking. Roll, season and bake remaining dough. Store cooled crackers in tins or well-sealed plastic bags for up to 1 month.
-- Dorie Greenspan "Baking with Julia" (William Morrow, 1996)


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Does Being Overweight Lower the Risk of Getting Pregnant?
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