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Afri-CAN By Alexander PinceCharmer Brown

There?s no right. There?s no wrong.
There?s no weak. There?s no strong.
There?s but one reality that we?re all yet to find.
That is the fact that the world is in your mind.
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There?s no lie. There?s no truth.
There?s some doubt. And there?s faith.
There?s more life in front than there is behind.
That?s belief without sight. The world?s in your mind.
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There?s no rich. There?s no poor.
There?s only getting tired of what we have and who we are.
But?wake up! Open your eyes! Don?t be blind!
You need to realize. The damned world?s in your mind.
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There?s no black. There?s no white.
We?ve all got grey matter. Isn?t that right?
There?s no luck. Good or bad. It?s all psyche-bind
Yes. Color?s outside. But the world?s in your mind.
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There?s no heroes. There?s no bad guys.
There?s only us?and a type who compromise.
Once you fall into the trap, you can?t rewind.
You?re good. You?re bad. But?The world?s in your mind.
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There?s no failures. There?s no greatest.
There?s no such idiocracy as an impossible test.
If someone did it, you too can. You?re just as good a kind.
Yes. You can?Say it?The world?s in your mind.
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There?s no borrowers. There?s no owners.
There?s no need for losers and winners.
With the thoughts in your head, your world you?ve defined.
As strong or as weak as you think. So you shall be. The world?s in your mind.
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There?s no me reciting this poem.
There?s no sound of my voice. There?s no poet by my name.
But listen?This day?s in your head?You can date success if you make up your mind.
Yes?You can?It starts with telling yourself that the world?s in your mind.
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Can? Did I say you ?can???No?.You?
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afri-CAN
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Your skin?s dark. But not your mind
Here?Come see yourself through my eyes. You?re wonderfully designed.
Industrious men and beautiful women.
You?re not just black. You?re afri-CAN
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You?re a product of natural beauty and pure richness.
Why then, should poverty your lips confess?
Don?t let them say you can?t when you can.
You can, and not just ?can.? You afri-CAN
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Strong willed. Hard working. You?re a child of Africa.
Macho. Hour-glass shaped. You?re more than you think you are.
You?re meant for greatness if you can withstand that much pain.
You?re meant to do it. Your meant to succeed. You Afri-CAN.
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Scratch those who say you can?t.
You?re afri-CAN. Not africant.
It?s from your mind that success or failure, you gain.
Say you can. Yes you. You afri-CAN
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You afri-CAN make it!
You afri-CAN prove it!
You afri-CAN be whatever you want to.
Yes, you. You afri-CAN you.
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You afri-CAN succeed
You afri-CAN get whatever you need
Look around. If he can-
Then we all can. We afri-CAN.
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You afri-CAN get through school!
You afri-CAN be successful!
You afri-CAN get that job.
If you afri-CAN stop being a slob.
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You afri-CAN get that chick.
You afri-CAN stop being socially pathetic.
You afri-CAN be the person you wish to see in the mirror.
Wipe out the can?t from your face, so you afri-CAN see clearer.
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Wake up! Stand on your two feet!
Make a name. You afri-CAN do it.
Quit following! Some can?t tweet. Think original. Think you can.
Yes. Because you can. You freaking can. You afri-CAN.
Keep Smiling
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LAU TAU by Isunge Mwangase
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Remember how i?d call on you
During hours enveloped by night?
Remember how I was your beau,
How our love was true but not right?
I admit- we did not care,
Happiness is never wrong,
It mattered not who would stare
Because together we were strong,
You used to call me Lau Tau,
A pet name I cherish still,
Hidden in scripts of the tao-
A passion always at its fill.
Heaven n earth I think of no other,
My thoughts of you are endless,
Even though we are not together,
My love for you is timeless.
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DESIRE (A LYRICAL SONNET) By Mufumbi John Mulenga III
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In far-off time, when the days expire
I still will live on, still will inspire.
And I?ll know you then, my unforgotten Desire
When your love for me sets your eyes on fire.
And I?ll breathe you in, I will inspire
The grace in you to make me entire.
You?ll walk with me, neither halt nor tire,
I?ll soar with you, fly with you still higher.
You?re all my dreams, you?re all I aspire
And I?ll love you then, my unforgiven Desire
When you breathe into me a kiss like a fire.
You?re all of me, you?re all I require
We?ll fulfill eternity?s graceful desire
And live on for all the world to admire.?
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FILE - In this May 15, 2012, file photo, ice covered hockey pucks are shown at the New Jersey Devils practice rink in Newark, N.J. The NHL said Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, that it has canceled the hockey season through Oct. 24, a total of 82 games, because of the ongoing lockout. The NHL and the players' union are unable to decide how to divide $3 billion in hockey-related revenues. There have been negotiations in recent days, but the sides have not gotten any closer to an agreement on core economic issues.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
FILE - In this May 15, 2012, file photo, ice covered hockey pucks are shown at the New Jersey Devils practice rink in Newark, N.J. The NHL said Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, that it has canceled the hockey season through Oct. 24, a total of 82 games, because of the ongoing lockout. The NHL and the players' union are unable to decide how to divide $3 billion in hockey-related revenues. There have been negotiations in recent days, but the sides have not gotten any closer to an agreement on core economic issues.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? What seemed inevitable for the NHL has become reality. The league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season on Thursday, the second time games have been lost because of a lockout in seven years.
The announcement was made in a two-paragraph statement. It isn't clear if those games will be made up, allowing for a complete 82-game regular season, if a deal can be struck soon with the locked-out players.
Unable to work out how to split up $3 billion in hockey-related revenues with the players' association, the NHL wiped out 82 games from Oct. 11-24 ? beginning with four next Thursday, which would have been the league's opening night.
"We were extremely disappointed to have to make today's announcement," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement. "The game deserves better, the fans deserve better, and the people who derive income from their connection to the NHL deserve better.
"We remain committed to doing everything in our power to forge an agreement that is fair to the players, fair to the teams, and good for our fans. This is not about 'winning' or 'losing' a negotiation. This is about finding a solution that preserves the long-term health and stability of the league and the game. We are committed to getting this done."
The union countered Thursday by saying the NHL forced the lockout onto the players instead of letting the season go on as planned.
"The decision to cancel the first two weeks of the NHL season is the unilateral choice of the NHL owners," NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr said in a statement. "If the owners truly cared about the game and the fans, they would lift the lockout and allow the season to begin on time while negotiations continue.
"A lockout should be the last resort in bargaining, not the strategy of first resort," he added. "For nearly 20 years, the owners have elected to lock out the players in an effort to secure massive concessions. Nevertheless, the players remain committed to playing hockey while the parties work to reach a deal that is fair for both sides. We hope we will soon have a willing negotiating partner."
Although there have been negotiations between the league and players in recent days ? unlike a three-month break at the start of the 2004-05 lockout that forced the cancellation of the entire season ? the two sides haven't gotten any closer to a deal on core economic issues.
"Obviously, (cancellations) might have been expected but it's also disappointing because we set out to negotiate," New York Rangers goalie Martin Biron said in a telephone interview. "We wanted to get a deal and wanted to avoid a work stoppage or any cancellations.
"We're still working hard to find a solution and find a way to get the core economic stuff figured out with the league and getting a deal that is fair for everybody and lasts."
In the previous lockout, the NHL and the union didn't get together between early September and early December.
Back then, the key words in the negotiations were salary cap, linkage and cost certainty. Commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners were committed to getting a deal that linked team costs to revenues, so each club would know exactly how much it had to spend on payroll and what number it couldn't exceed.
Thus a salary cap was born for the first time in NHL history. The league produced record revenue during the seven years of that deal, which turned out much better for the players than expected.
There are no major philosophical issues this time as there were with the salary cap fight, but the sides are far apart in financial figures. Players received 57 percent of hockey-related revenue in the deal that expired Sept. 15, and the NHL wants to bring that number below 50 percent ? perhaps as low as 47 percent.
The players' association, led by Fehr ? the former baseball union chief ? has rejected that idea.
"The leadership that we have with Don and his team is really trying to look at the big picture and not just a number," Biron said. "We understand that there is some tweaking and some things that have to be fixed in our proposal, but it seems that the owners are on a one-way mission to cut salaries."
The NHL claims the union hasn't done near enough to try to get closer to the league's proposal and appears willing to wait for the NHLPA to come around.
Daly said the league had already lost $100 million in revenues from canceled preseason games. The players will begin feeling the real sting when they don't get their first paychecks of the season on Oct. 15.
During the last lockout, Bettman followed through on his vow to cancel the season if a deal wasn't reached by a February deadline. A new collective bargaining agreement wasn't completed until July, long after major damage had been done. It marked the first time a North American professional sport lost an entire season to a labor dispute.
In 2004, Daly announced Sept. 29 that there wouldn't be any hockey in October. New proposals and negotiations in December and January did little to push the sides toward a settlement, and Bettman announced Feb. 16 that the season had been lost. It marked the first time since a flu epidemic in 1919 that the Stanley Cup wasn't awarded.
Earlier this week, U.S. Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey sent a letter to Bettman and Fehr, urging them to consider the economic impact on their state if the dispute isn't resolved.
The letter warned that the absence of New Jersey Devils' games in Newark could mean millions of dollars in lost economic activity and jobs in especially tough economic times. The Devils advanced to the Stanley Cup finals last season, creating a financial boost to the city just five months ago.
Now, the lockout comes on the heels of the NBA's Nets moving from Newark to Brooklyn, N.Y.
Lautenberg renewed his call for a settlement after the games were called off Thursday.
"This cancellation of regular-season hockey games is a blow to businesses and workers in Newark and in hockey towns across the country," he said in a statement. "Local jobs and millions of dollars of economic activity are being placed at risk every day that this dispute continues.
"The NHL should keep in mind communities, workers, and families that are being hurt by its decision to pursue a lockout and cancel these games. Owners and players must find a way to start the season before the economies in Newark and other communities are further damaged."
Fehr responded in a letter Tuesday, and offered to meet with the senators in New Jersey.
"As you observed, far too many people in Newark and other NHL cities will suffer as a result of this decision, including players," Fehr said in his letter, regarding the lockout. "We are currently working with players to identify small business owners who will be affected to see what we can do during this period.
"Unfortunately, the lockout was no surprise. Months ago, the owners made public their intention to lock out the players, and they did so the first chance they legally could. There was nothing the players could have done to prevent it ? other than to agree to the enormous concessions the owners demand."
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The fungus blamed for causing a meningitis outbreak in several states is mostly everywhere. It floats in the air, indoors and outdoors ? and only very rarely makes people sick.
People inhale Aspergillus fungus spores all the time without any problem. It's nearly impossible to avoid, found in such places as decaying leaves, trees, grain, soil, household dust, heating ducts and building materials. The fungus can also cause skin infections if it enters a break in the skin.
It's being blamed for meningitis that occurred after a steroid contaminated with it was injected into the spinal column of some patients getting pain treatments. That provides a rapid way for the fungus to cause a serious infection. It's not clear how the fungus got into the medication which was made by a specialty pharmacy.
Usually, after somebody inhales Aspergillus spores, they're destroyed by the body. But people with cystic fibrosis or asthma may have problems with it, wheezing and coughing. A more severe infection can arise in people with weakened immune systems, like those who've had transplant surgery or are getting chemotherapy for cancer. This invasive infection can cause fever, chest pain and shortness of breath.
Neither condition spreads from person to person. It's hard to tell exactly how common Aspergillus infections are, but one study suggests it may affect just 1 or 2 people per 100,000 every year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty years after John Lennon's harmonica heralded the first entry of the Beatles into the charts, fans came together in the Fab Four's home town of Liverpool in northern England on Friday to deliver a record-breaking rendition of their debut single.
Aficionados poured in from as far afield as Peru and Tokyo for a weekend of live music and Beatlemania, which kicked off with 1,631 people singing "Love Me Do" outside the city's central Liver Building.
Local choirs, school groups and lunching office workers joined in, breaking the previous record for singing "in the round" - where two groups sing exactly the same melody, beginning at different times - to break the previous record of 897, according to Guinness World Records.
"The demographics here today are interesting - it goes from people in their 70s to school kids," said Dave Jones, who runs Liverpool's famous Cavern Club where the Beatles were the house band between 1961 and 1963 and which is staging a weekend-long extravaganza of their music.
"We're trying to recreate the atmosphere of those glory days in the 60s," Jones told Reuters. "It's generation after generation enjoying the music."
The 50th birthday of Love Me Do is also the anniversary of a lucky break for the band.
Beatles producer George Martin told the BBC the song was the "best of a bad bunch". The broadcaster plans to air a documentary this weekend containing claims that the band's manager bought thousands of copies to help the record get to number 17 in the UK charts.
Auction house Sotheby's is marking the anniversary by selling the original collage used for the insert of the 1967 Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sotheby's expects it to sell for 50,000-80,000 pounds ($81,000-$129,500).
(Additional reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/beatles-fans-come-together-set-anniversary-record-162746330.html
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Teens who have a hard time sleeping through the night may also have a higher risk of developing heart disease later on, a new Canadian Medical Association Journal study suggests.
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Canada found that sleep disturbances were linked with higher cholesterol levels, blood pressure levels and body mass index in teens -- all factors that can raise the risk of heart disease later on.
"These findings are important, given that sleep disturbance is highly prevalent in adolescence and that cardiovascular disease risk factors track from childhood into adulthood," study researcher Dr. Indra Narang, director of sleep medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children, said in a statement.
Narang and her colleagues examined the sleep of 4,104 teens who were part of the Health Heart Schools' Program in Ontario. On average, the teens slept 7.9 hours on schoolnights and 9.4 hours on the weekends, they found.
However, poor sleep during weeknights was reported by nearly 20 percent of the students in the study, and poor sleep during the weekends was reported by 10 percent.
Not only did researchers find that sleep quality was linked with increased blood pressure, cholesterol and BMI in the teens, but they also found that sleep quality was linked with eating junk food and leading a sedentary lifestyle.
Teens who didn't get a lot of sleep each night were also more likely to have a higher BMI than teens who got a lot of sleep each night, but sleep duration did not seem to have a connection with blood pressure or cholesterol, researchers found.
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Apparently sexting isn?t the only heart-pounding activity young adults are getting into on their mobile devices. According to a survey from free texting app textPlus, half of young adults surveyed (ages 18-24) say they?ve discussed the upcoming election on their mobile devices via text message. More than half (56 percent) say they?ve specifically chatted about the presidential candidates.
The survey of 764 young people showed overall that they want to participate in voting and plan to use text messaging as the main mode of communicating about it.
With an estimated 16.8 million teens and young adults becoming eligible to vote this year, textPlus was wise to partner with Rock the Vote ? which has been encouraging young people to vote for 20 years. Rock the Vote?s ads will appear within the textPlus app; users can click on the ads and will be redirected to Rock the Vote?s website where they can register to vote.
With the textPlus app (similar to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger), users can chat in-app for free. And, if you?re like about half of the young people surveyed, when you chat with your friends you?ll be encouraging them to vote.
Have you discussed the election via text message? How about on Facebook or Twitter? Tell us in the comments.
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/10/03/young-adults-election-text/
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Residents of the Turkish border town of?Ak?akale buried their dead and blamed their government in Ankara for not acting sooner to stop Syrian shelling.
People mourn after they buried the mortar attack victims in Ak?akale, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 4. Turkey fired on Syrian targets for a second day Thursday, but said it has no intention of declaring war, despite tensions after deadly shelling from Syria killed five civilians in a Turkish border town.
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EnlargeResidents in the Turkish border town at the center of rising military tensions between Turkey and Syria blamed their government in Ankara for not acting to forestall a fatal mortar strike that killed five people here yesterday and left 11 wounded.
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Early this morning in Ak?akale, relatives of the Ozer and Timucin families buried their dead: 8-year-old Zeynep Timucin, her older sisters Aysegul and Fatos, their mother Zeliha, and aunt Gulsen Ozer.
?Why didn?t the government protect us before they died?? asks Ali Sonis, Mrs. Ozer?s brother, at a community center acting as a house of condolence. ?The bombing has been going on for a month?. They wait for someone to die, and then they act."
?The first fault is our government because they chose the side of the?rebels," he adds. "We?support AKP [the Turkish ruling party], but after this situation we will think twice to support?them or not.?
Other residents said shells and stray gunfire had started falling in and around the town 15 days earlier, when rebels opposing President Bashar al-Assad seized control of the adjacent Syrian border post of Tal al-Abyad, making it a target for the regime.
Today, Turkey?s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted his country did not want war, but was "capable of defending its citizens and borders" after the Turkish parliament authorized cross-border raids into Syria. ?Nobody should try and test our determination on this subject," he said.
Akcakale?s mayor, Abdulhakim Ayhan, says Prime Minister Erdogan has telephoned him twice since the fatal mortar strike.
?He told me that whatever you need to do here just do it without looking at costs or anything, in order to protect people and whatever needs to be done for security and for families,? he says.?
?I haven't slept for 30 hours,? he adds. ?We have extreme pain here. Five people died and four from the same family. Four are my relatives.?
According to Akcakale residents, Turkish forces began shelling Syrian positions across the border at around 6 pm yesterday, about two hours after the deadly mortar strike that hit the town. The Syrian shelling ended immediately, they said. The Turks ended their own shelling at around 6 am this morning.
?It is strange that for the first time in weeks the town is silent,? says Halil Cakmak, an official at the town?s municipality. Meanwhile, the Monitor saw police knocking on doors in neighborhoods closest to the border; residents say police were advising them to leave.
Mortar rounds had struck the town several times before, says Mr. Cakmak, but had caused no injuries. ?We were waiting for it to happen?. If they had responded just one day before ? [these deaths] ? would not have happened.?
The bill passed by the Turkish parliament has opened the way for unilateral action by Turkey's armed forces inside Syria for a year. At the same time, Turkey approved a similar provision used to attack suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq.
At an emergency session in Brussels, NATO condemned the attack on Turkey, demanding "the immediate cessation of such aggressive acts against an ally" and urged the Syrian regime to "put an end to flagrant violations of international law."
Most people who spoke to the Monitor support the government?s retaliatory strikes, but insist that they do not want war.
Outside the courtyard where the Ozer and Timucin families had gathered on Monday afternoon, the walls were pitted with shrapnel holes and flecked with dry blood.
Here, some neighbors expressed anger at being caught in a war they do not regard as their own.
?Before this happened they just told us to be careful, but how could we be careful?"?says Ibrahim Ciftci, a farmer.??The government is telling us to leave but where can we go???
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