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A Prime Number can be divided evenly only by 1 or itself.  And it must be a whole number greater than 1.  Find chart and calculator at:  http://www.mathsisfun.com/prime_numbers.html 

Freekeh is young green wheat that has been toasted and cracked.  Like bulgur wheat, freekeh is a whole grain, but is usually sold cracked which increases it's usability, since cooking time is reduced.  Whole freekeh (uncracked) takes about 45-50 minutes to simmer, while the cracked variety takes about 15-20 minutes to soften.  To prepare freekeh, you'll want a little bit more than a 2:1 ratio of liquid to freekeh, so about 2 1/2 cups of water or vegetable broth for every cup of freekeh.  Simmer freekeh, covered, for 15-20 minutes.  When the liquid is absorbed and the grains are soft, they're ready to be used.  Like pasta, some people prefer to cook freekeh in salted water with a bit of oil, but this is a personal preference.  If you're already used to cooking with whole grains, then you'll have plenty of ideas for using freekeh, from whole grain salads, to pilafs, stir-fries, risottos, tabboulis and soups.  If you can do it with rice, you can probably do it with freekeh.  http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/qt/freekeh-what-is-it.htm 

July 31, 2013  There’s lots of glass in the downtown headquarters of Libbey Inc.  It makes sense.  The company is, after all, one of the largest table glass manufacturers in the world.   Most of Libbey’s 180 downtown employees have moved into their new office space.  The last workers moved this week, and the company held an open house Wednesday.  Internally, Libbey called the renovation Project Clearview.  It’s easy to see why.  Gone are most of the offices, the drab furniture, and the dim lighting.  In their place are open cubicles, modern white desks, and plenty of natural light.  Executive offices, including that of Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Streeter, are all the same size, with clear glass walls.  Libbey, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary in Toledo this year, signed a 15-year lease last August to keep its corporate headquarters at the 17-story Toledo Edison Plaza at 300 Madison Ave. Work began shortly thereafter.  The backlit wall is made up of six panels of cullet, or recycled glass, from the company’s nearby Toledo plant.  It’s the sparkling backdrop for a reception desk that features layers of cullet, sand, soda ash, and limestone in the same proportions Libbey uses to make its glassware.  Tyrel Linkhorn   See open house photo gallery at:  http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2013/08/01/Libbey-redesign-aims-to-keep-its-vision-clear-Copy.html 

WILLIAM BILLINGS  (1746-1800)  The first American published composer of psalms and hymns and the inventor of “fuguing songs”, William Billings was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  Billings started music lessons as a young boy with a local choirmaster.  By the late 1760’s, he had become America’s first professional composer.  A leather tanner by trade, Billings began teaching a singing class in Stoughton, Massachusetts, which would later become the Stoughton Musical Society (America’s oldest music society and first singing school).  He organized the first church choir in America.  In 1770, Billings made history with the publication of New England Psalm-Singer, alternatively titled American Chorister. With a frontispiece engraved by his good friend Paul Revere, the songbook was the first collection of music completely written by an American and included over 120 compositions.  With the advent of the American Revolution, America’s first popular songs emerged from the Billings psalms.  A passionate advocate of the Revolution, Billings adapted many of his hymns as war songs with new lyrics.  The biggest success of Billings’ career, “Chester”, became America’s first war song and a favorite for the Patriots.  “Chester” is significant in the scope of American popular song because it marked the beginning of a new musical movement toward the military song.  http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/index.php/exhibits/bio/C188 

BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE (1764-1820) "...is generally acknowledged as the first professional architect in the United States."  Adena architect Latrobe was born in England, where he learned architecture in the firm of a noted English master.  In 1796 Latrobe immigrated to the United States, where his career blossomed.  Important commissions included the Bank of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1798), the Philadelphia waterworks (an engineering project completed in 1801), and the Baltimore Cathedral (begun 1804 and now a National Historic Landmark).  Latrobe served as Surveyor of Public Buildings in Washington, DC, from 1803-1812 and 1815-1817.  Latrobe is best remembered today for his work on the United States Capitol during this time.  The significance of Adena, the Ohio home of Thomas Worthington, is enhanced by the rarity of Latrobe residences.  Most of Latrobe's houses (and many of his other buildings) were built in or near the heart of growing cities.  City growth in the 1800s destroyed large numbers of his buildings.  Of the sixty or so houses Latrobe designed or worked on in the United States, only three remain. These are Adena, the 1817 Decatur house,  a National Historic Landmark located on Lafayette Square, across from the White House, and the 1811 Pope Villa in Lexington, Kentucky, which over the years, been remodeled, subdivided and burned.  See pictures at:  http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/exhibits/oe/adena/latrobe.shtml   

Adena Mansion was built for Thomas Worthington by Benjamin Latrobe, and was completed in 1807.  It is located on a hilltop west of downtown Chillicothe, Ohio.  The property surrounding the mansion included the location of the first mound found to belong to the Adena culture and thus the Adena mansion is the namesake for the Adena people.  Thomas Worthington recorded that he chose Adena as the name for his estate because it referred to "places remarkable for the delightfulness of their situation."  The museum at Adena has an exhibit which claims Adena is based on a Hebrew word.  Find picture and  location at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adena_(Thomas_Worthington_House) 

August 7, 2013  SKRADIN, Croatia—For generations, Alen Bibic's family has been making a traditional wine known as Prosek from grapes grown in the limestone hills surrounding this small town on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast.  When Croatia joined Europe's now 28-member common market, it was plunged into the Continent's internecine wine wars, in which countries battle to protect local producers by enforcing strict appellation rules.  Italian wine growers contend that Prosek sounds too much like Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine.  They say that if Croatia doesn't voluntarily stop using the name, they will lodge a complaint with EU authorities to force the change.  "How would you feel if you wake up one day and you can't do something that your family has been doing for centuries?" asked the sunburned Mr. Bibic, whose amber-colored Prosek has won international awards.  Croatia is discovering the hard way just how jealously EU countries guard what is known in the bloc's parlance as products with "protected designated origin" and "protected geographical indication."  That means everything from cheese to wines that is deemed under EU rules to come from a single locality.  In addition to Prosek, another local specialty, Teran, a deep red wine, is in trouble.  Neighboring Slovenia, which got into the EU in 2004, gained advantage over its Croatian competitors by winning protection for its own variety of Teran, known as Teranno, in 2009.  Now Slovenia wants Croatia to stop using the name.  "This is something we didn't expect from our colleagues in Slovenia," said Gianfranco Kozlovic, a winemaker who represents about 120 small producers of Teran on western Croatia's Istrian peninsula near the Slovenian border.  "We want respect for our variety.  It's part of our heritage and tradition."   The EU tends to be very strict on these issues.  Italy was recently barred from using the name Tocai to refer to a type of dry wine made around Venice, since the EU ruled it was too close to Hungary's protected Tokaji, a sweet dessert wine.  Margit Feher   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578636142709424404.html?mod=djemITP_h