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This little #darkeyedjunco just ran into our patio door. http://instagram.com/p/YAJTcqtbbR/

A Deaf Linguist Explores Black American Sign Language:

Well this is a fascinating read.

Many hearing people think sign language is universal, but it is not. Hill, who was born deaf, studied in Italy on a Fulbright and speaks Italian, as well as ASL, Italian SL, and Black ASL.

American Sign Language developed based on the French sign language that Thomas Gallaudet learned from Clerc, so American and French signers understand one another better than British and American signers do, for example.

…

Hill produced a chart that showed how the schools spread across the country. But the first school for black deaf children in the South… didn’t open until 1867, in North Carolina. Southern schools remained segregated until well after Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954… So it is not surprising that deaf African-Americans developed and were taught their own version of ASL.

Photos by Austin Hodges

Photo by Meredith Edlow 

Photo by Austin Hodges

Photo by Meredith Edlow

Photo by Austin Hodges

Photo by Meredith Edlow

Images courtesy Meredith Edlow and Austin Hodges. They can be found on Instragram at @medlowminus  and @austinxc04

H/T Streets Dept

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alienswithankhs:

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tymothius:

GUYS THERE’S A SERIES OF VIDEOS WHERE GORDON RAMSAY DISGUISES HIMSELF AND TAKES COOKING COURSES

"I’ve learned fuck all."

omg

PLS

HAVE YOU EVER FUCKING SEEN the Hamburger Helper? That shit is terrifying. What’s worse than that? The sodium content. Get off the salt lick and grub on some real food.

Seriously someone in HH marketing should be fired.

TUCSON TEMPEH PASTA

1 block tempeh (~8 oz.)

1 yellow onion

1 bell pepper

2 carrots

3-4 cloves of garlic

1 teaspoon olive oil

2-3 teaspoons soy sauce or tamari

2 tablespoons chili powder

2 teaspoons dried thyme

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin

1 teaspoon liquid smoke (It is near the BBQ sauce at the store I swear. You haven’t even looked yet so stop fucking complaining.)

14 ounce can of tomatoes (make sure you don’t buy some brand full of salt)

1 pound of pasta (whole wheat, rice, quinoa, whatever the fuck you want)

juice of 1 lemon

1 cup of green peas or other vegetable

Optional: add some steamed broccoli, spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, whatever you got that you need to use up.

Cook the pasta how the box tells you to. You got this.

Chop up the onion, bell pepper, and carrots. Mince the garlic cloves up nice and small. Heat up the oil over a medium heat in a big skillet or a wok. Crumble the tempeh into little pieces with your hands and toss into the skillet. Add the veggies and cook them until the onion begins to look all golden and the tempeh bits start to brown. Add the soy sauce, spices, and garlic and cook them for about a minute. Your place should smell fucking awesome by now. You’re welcome. Now add the liquid smoke and tomatoes and let the mixture start to bubble a little. Let this all stew together for a minute or two.

Add the cooked pasta, lemon juice, and any additional veggies you picked out to the tomato mixture. Mix everything together until the pasta is nice and coated. Add more spices if you think it needs it. I like to serve mine topped with red onion, jalapenos, and cilantro but you add your favorite shit.

Serves 4-6 people as a meal (or one bad mother fucker with leftovers)

Want to play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe that's genuinely challenging and hard? Try "Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe," in which each square is made up of another, smaller Tic-Tac-Toe board, and to win the square you have to win its mini-game. Ben Orlin says he discovered the game on a mathematicians' picnic, and he explains a wrinkle on the rules:

You don’t get to pick which of the nine boards to play on. That’s determined by your opponent’s previous move. Whichever square he picks, that’s the board you must play in next. (And whichever square you pick will determine which board he plays on next.)...

This lends the game a strategic element. You can’t just focus on the little board. You’ve got to consider where your move will send your opponent, and where his next move will send you, and so on.

The resulting scenarios look bizarre. Players seem to move randomly, missing easy two- and three-in-a-rows. But there’s a method to the madness – they’re thinking ahead to future moves, wary of setting up their opponent on prime real estate. It is, in short, vastly more interesting than regular tic-tac-toe.

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe (via Kottke)

You can’t fool me, Animal Crossing. I bought the original and played it, and it was fun, and then boring, so I turned it off. Then I bought the Nintendo DS version and I was like “Wait, this is the exact same game.” Then I bought the Wii version and it was also exactly the same. Maybe the animals talked more. I don’t remember. All I know is that if I want to pick fruit for hours and go in debt to buy a house I can do that in real life.

The new one supposedly has new features, which I’m guessing amount to “there’s more fruit to pick” and “if you pick fruit for 50 hours in a row you can get a new couch.”

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me…. four times… We won’t be fooled again.

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Hawk moths may be jamming bat sonar signals by rubbing their genitals.

The behaviour, reported in Biology Letters on 3 July, creates an ultrasonic noise that could be used to scare off an attacking bat and to jam the bat's sonar.

By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Nate Lanxon

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A Ladydrawers History of Women's Rights, Part VI: "The Crazy Cat Lady":

Greater Los Angeles Freeway System Map

death-by-lulz:

tastefullyoffensive:

Movies That Can Be Described With The Same Sentence

theamericankid:

This is charming, beautiful little story brought a tear to my eye. I can’t imagine a more fitting place for that brilliant man’s words.

"Facebook, Inc is adopting the 'hashtag,' one of the most recognizable features of its younger rival Twitter, in a move to position its Web service as an important complement to television, sporting events and breaking news." -Reuters, 12 June 2013

• Thanks for the birthday wishes! I'm officially the luckiest girl alive #thanks #birthday #wishes #officially #luckiest #girl #alive

• #HERE #WE #GO #BLACKHAWKS #hockey #sports #NHL #superfan #chicity #herewego

• What's up with all the new #hashtags? #Hashtags are only funny on Twitter and then only when you use them ironically. #Boo #Facebook #your #hashtags #suck

• I always wonder who's gonna really step up & be a man & make me happy & be about their shit... only God knows #independenttypeshyt #SkewlTomorrow

• M. Night Shyamalan ghostwrote She's All That. #omg #daymade #morelikeMNightOMyGodUGhostwroteShe'sAllThat

• #DCA -> #JFK -> #LHR -> #HKG -> #SYD

• There simply aren't words that adequately describe my need and desire to be out in the world again, #traveling, #participating, #doing, #creating, #healing. Now that I've reached the end of #gradschool, I'm so ready to #takealeap. This gal wasn't designed for #strictboundaries. #letsgetit #blessed

• #Great #night with #friends, good #redwine, #NinaSimone on the #stereo, #roastpork on the #grill, #caramelizedonion and #goatcheese #tartlets to #snackon while we #wait and #Amy's #famous #flourless #darkchocolate #cake

• #Roses from my #boo #roses #boo

• Up early at the parade with Cooper! He loved the #firetrucks. #kids #joy #family #beingamom #rememberhangovers?

• My #creditscore went up 27 points! Now that's something to brag about! Forget #newshoes or a #fancycar! #winning #killinit #humblebrag #orjustabragidk

• Kyle and I just finished our first #triathlon. So #dead but feeling awesome. And it's not even 10AM! Time for #brunch with my #babe.

• Picking up my #bestfriend from the airport tonight for #weddingweekend. I can't believe we are old enough to be getting married!!! It was just yesterday we were swimming in her pool, playing on her tire swing, watching #TGIF, camping out, and driving Missy's Jetta around town with the bass turned all the way up. #weddingweekend #timeflies #lovemygirls #isntitcrazyhowlike literallyeveryoneismarriednow #everyone #literally #everyone #literallyeveryone

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CRAZIEST Red Wedding Reaction EVER! (by effinfunny)

eis a diferença entre quem é fã do livro e de quem é fã apenas do seriado após o episódio dessa semana

“We took a cab to the revival theatre where the movie was playing. The film, a groundbreaker of sorts due to its mostly black, Brazilian cast, had been made in the fifties. The storyline was simple: the myth of the ill-fated lovers Orpheus and Eurydice set in the favelas of Rio during carnival, in Technicolor splendour, set against scenic green hills, the black and brown Brazilians sang and danced and strummed guitars like carefree birds in colourful plumage. About halfway through the movie I decided I’d seen enough, and turned to my mother to see if she might be ready to go. But her face, lit by the blue glow of the screen, was set in a wistful gaze. At that moment I felt as if I were being given a window into her heart, the unreflective heart of her youth. I suddenly realised that the depiction of the childlike blacks I was now seeing on the screen, the reverse image of Conrad’s dark savages, was what my mother had carried with her to Hawaii all those years before, a reflection of the simple fantasies that had been forbidden to a white, middle-class girl from Kansas, the promise of another life: warm, sensual, exotic, different.”

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Barack Obama on seeing Black Orpheus with his mother in Dreams from My Father, 123-124.

It pretty much sums up the two most common reactions to the film and what is/was at stake.

(via kgoldschmitt)

Aimee: “omigod it’s the Death Star on wheels! #share http://bit.ly/13hDSRu

End of day six: stones set (and watered) http://instagram.com/p/aOeRJiNbXv/

On June 5th, 2013 at approximately 9:55PM an armed robbery occurred at the CVS
Pharmacy in Hanover. The suspect is described as a White male
- 6'00" -- 6'02" tall
- Thin build
- Grey flannel pajama type pants
- Black "Rock Republic" hoodie with wing design on the back
- White sneakers
- Homemade black mask
- Blue medical / custodian / mechanic type gloves
- Smelled of cigarette smoke
- Appeared to be right handed If you have any information about a possible suspect in this matter or have
contact with anyone matching this description please contact Officer Ballard or
Detective Bates at (603) 643-2222.

“The source of the anonymous threat made on Bored@Baker related to Commencement
has been identified as a student. The college and authorities have taken all
appropriate and necessary actions to insure the safety of the community.”

- Dartmouth Safety and Security Alert Update - Gmail

“Dartmouth has been informed that the recent death of an upper valley resident
may have resulted from tainted heroin. We have also been informed that the
drugs involved may be linked to the Dartmouth campus. We take this opportunity
to remind the community that illicit drugs, of any kind, are prohibited at
Dartmouth and put individuals and the community at risk. Please be smart and
be safe.”

- Dartmouth Safety and Security Alert - Gmail

To the Dartmouth community, We write to inform you that divers this morning recovered from the Connecticut
River the body of the young man who had been missing. He had been in the water
with his brother, a Dartmouth graduating senior, at River Fest early Wednesday
evening. Our community is deeply saddened by the loss of this young man and we are full
of grief for his Dartmouth brother, who is experiencing deep sorrow at a time
that should fill him with joy. We continue to be in contact with their family
members to offer our support. Dean of the College staff, counselors, and the college chaplain remain
available today and tomorrow for students and others who would like to talk on
their own behalf or out of concern for someone else. In addition, those seeking
help after hours should contact Safety and Security at (603) 646-4000. Support services will be available at the following times and locations:
* Open hours at Tucker: today through 5 p.m., with chaplains
* Open hours at Counseling and Human Development: today through 4 p.m.
* Drop-in all day today at Advising Center (OPAL and Undergraduate Deans Office)
* Open hours at Residential Education: tomorrow (Friday) 9:30 a.m. to noon,
Judge 110; 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. the Choates office Sincerely, Carol Folt, Interim President
Charlotte Johnson, Dean of the College

To the Dartmouth community, We are very sad to report that the brother of a Dartmouth graduating senior is
missing after swimming in the Connecticut River early this evening. Dartmouth,
local, and state public safety officials have been working hard to locate the
missing young man without success. Their search was halted this evening and will resume in the morning. The young
man and his brother were taking part in senior week festivities at an
off-campus location. Tonight, our thoughts are with the family of the missing man and his Dartmouth
brother. We have contacted the family to express our deepest condolences and
our support. Dean of the College staff, counselors, and the college chaplain are available
now at Collis Common Ground, and will be there this evening for students and
others who would like to talk on their own behalf or out of concern for someone
else. Those wishing to speak with a chaplain or counselor at any hour should contact
Safety and Security at (603) 646-4000. Sincerely, Carol Folt, Interim President
Charlotte Johnson, Dean of the College

End of day five: flagstones in place. http://bit.ly/131L7wT

End of day four: edging and paver sand in place. Next: flagstone! http://bit.ly/13gnXo0

End of day three: crushed ledge stone tamped into place. Next comes the sand. http://instagram.com/p/Z_QnIwtbUe/

“A leap from the Kankakee Valley Theatre stage to the lead of a Hollywood movie would be an unheard of accomplishment. But, improbable as it may be, former Kankakeean Danny LaBrecque may have a shot at making that happen. And his candidacy for the lead role in the upcoming Mr. Rogers biopic was endorsed by no less an authority than the president of the Fred Rogers Company, Eliot Daley.”

- Local actor could play Mr. Rogers in upcoming film - The Daily-Journal