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I confess: the only reason I signed up for the Day of Digital Humanities again this year was so I could talk about digital humanities work other people are doing and not about myself.
The inherent contradiction in this post doesn’t escape me—it’s kind of the point. Much of the digital humanities that I do these days is about other people doing digital humanities. The details of my own Day I tweeted under the #dayofDH hashtag as I found the time—just as I did last year. There are many wonderful things about enabling colleagues and collaborators but nothing is an unambiguous good so, at the end of my Day of Digital Humanities for 2013, I thought I would ponder some of these issues.
A brief acquaintance with my job titles might cause you to wonder what I could possibly be going on about. I’m an Associate Director at a well-established and productive digital humanities center—the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)—and I also work for an academic library leading work on a number of digital projects—the University of Maryland Libraries. Don’t I get to do digital humanities all the time? Yes, I do and in a library context (as I said above: wonderful things). What I’m reflecting on is how my way of doing digital humanities is different in my current position from how it was when I was a junior member of a project, or a graduate assistant, or a hired hand. It’s also different I think (though I don’t have first hand experience) from the way of doing digital humanities that many of my colleagues who came to this work as PhDs experience. (I’m a librarian with master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and Digital Humanities—and in brief one of the differences that distinction makes is one of orientation—to a whole professional field versus to an all-consuming individual research project).
That’s the crux of how my Day of Digital Humanities and my digital humanities work is not about me.
My colleague Jennifer Guiliano calls this kind of work “project development” (and see her post on the differences between project development and project management). Project development is the work of taking research questions and ideas and matching them up with one’s best knowledge of where the leading edges of the field are moving, the technical capabilities at hand, and the realities of budgets and personalities. Sometimes you might be engaged in doing this for your own personal research project but more often the project idea being developed is selected because it’s one that serves the strategic goals of the institution, or keeps the team funded and working at full tilt, or capitalizes on a serendipitous opportunity that happens to come across the radar. Those are all good reasons to develop projects. Project development is properly intellectual work not service but it can look and even feel out of place on something like the Day of Digital Humanities because it isn’t directly working with code, or building archives, or generating scholarly papers or online multimodal compositions. Lest this sound plaintive, the point is not to lobby for project development or the other new forms of scholarly work that appear in the digital humanities to be “recognized”—though that’s certainly needed. For today, the point is more descriptive—I want to lay bare more of the mechanism.
Though it only coincidentally fell on the Day of Digital Humanities, today was the kickoff meeting for the next phase of a collaboration that MITH and the University of Maryland Libraries have been pursuing under the rubric of the “Digital Humanities Incubator.” I’ve written elsewhere about the motivation and background for the Incubator. In brief, the project is intended to expand the number of librarians here at Maryland who feel confident enough to take the role of and can be credible principal investigators for digital humanities projects of their own design. The fall half of the Incubator was open to all UMD librarians, staff, and graduate assistants and consisted of a program of workshops, individual consultations, and group activities designed to introduce the process of moving from an idea to a full-fledged digital project. The process concluded with a “pitch round” in which 12 librarians or teams of librarians presented their ideas for potential projects to an audience of their colleagues and the MITH staff. After difficult deliberations, we settled on a collaboration with two of these librarian-digital-humanities-principal-investigators-to-be. This second, more intensive phase of work that will take these ideas from proposal to the next stage (somewhere between interesting experiment and early beta) kicked off this morning. For the next five months, a substantial part of doing digital humanities for me will be helping these librarians do digital humanities as part of the completion of the Incubator cycle.
Lara Otis from the University of Maryland Libraries Public Services division will be working on a project tentatively titled The American Racetracks Atlas that will be a comprehensive reference source for horse racetracks in America from the 1600s to the present including names, dates, locations, photographs, maps, and more. Doug McElrath from Special Collections will be working on an as-yet-untitled project that seeks to reveal the lives of the African American community in Bladensburg, Maryland, during the era of the War of 1812. Doug and Lara will be embedded researchers at MITH for the next five months (look for blog posts coming soon about their projects). For the MITH staff these two related works about changing American landscapes are one project, not two—a structured exploration of a new set of tools, technical design constraints, and intellectual questions.
As co-creator of the Digital Humanities Incubator (with Jen Guiliano), the design of the collaboration that will develop these two project ideas is my digital humanities work. Our colleague Matt Kirschenbaum tweeted a photo from this morning’s meeting that captures the most common experience of this kind of work (I’m at the whiteboard). It strikes me some days that doing digital humanities this way—rather than being a programmer or a designer or an author directly (all of which I also sometime am at other, often side moments)—is akin to the method of eating soup in the allegory about heaven and hell. Maybe there’s something of the same lesson to be found then, or perhaps, at this late hour in the evening, I’m falling prey to a common tendency of the field.
Our meeting was very productive: we brought everybody up to speed on the current project aims and various participants objectives, we raked up some good fodder for our project charter about expectations, we set up a Basecamp project, agreed on our basic collaboration technologies, sketched out the overall workplan, and assigned specific action steps for the near term work. Much digital humanities work was done on The American Racetracks Atlas and the unnamed Bladensburg project. And at another level, important digital humanities work was done through the fact that we had our meeting at the MITH kitchen table rather than off in the conference room, that we had programmers and historians and librarians and literature professors around the table and everyone got to express their goals and have a say in the ongoing shaping of the work, that we agreed as best we could to work both like a project with well-defined roles and inexorable deadlines, and also like a graduate seminar with discussion and mutual exchange.
None of that, of course, will make it into the final products directly but it does make up a substantial and important part of this and so many days of digital humanities.

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When I called the Village of Oakwood Hills Saturday morning, at first Deputy Village Clerk Cheryl LoSosso refused to release the names of those who have filed for Village President and Village Trustee.
I told her that Oakwood Hills was the only municipality in McHenry County that had refused to provide who was running for office.
Then I thought of the history of secrecy concerning the gas-generated electric power plant.
So I guess I should not have been surprised.
(As I write this story, I admit to having made a mistake in talking to the Deputy Clerk. The City of McHenry could not provide who was running for alderman when I called yesterday. Its Clerk had apparently locked the information in her office and no one had a key they were willing to use to retrieve the information.)
I asked LoSosso why she couldn’t read me the names of those who had filed.
“Because I don’t know where on her desk are any packets that have been [filed],” she told me.
She said that the new Village Clerk, Dina Frigo, “is expected at 11 o’clock” on Monday.”
I asked for the Clerk’s home phone number, but LoSallo said that she could not give that out.
Again it seemed to me that Oakwood Hills has a continuing transparency problem.
Then she told me a resident had just walked in the office and asked if I would I mind waiting.
That sounded reasonable, so I waitied after giving her my phone number just in case we got disconnected.
When LoSosso got back on the line, she told me that Paul Smith was running for Village President. She had found his petition on the Clerk’s desk when she looked.
A Trustee, Smith was appointed to replace Melanie Funk when she resigned.
I asked about who had filed for Trustee and she told me that she had not seen any petitions for that office on the Clerk’s desk.
“I looked on her desk and we don’t have any packets turned in today,” she told me about 9:30 Saturday morning.
LoSosso wanted to make sure people knew they could file for office through 5 PM on Monday.
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It’s really hard to believe that no one has filed for Village Trustee after all the citizen involvement over the power plant.
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Before posting this article, I reached out to some Oakwood Hills activists asking if anyone were running for Village Trustee.
One replied that the following are candidates:
- Dave Robak
- Mike Breseman
- Charlotte Kremer
- Paula Dorian Gray
- Everett Pratt
Another Trustee candidate identified by another Oakwood Hills resident is
- Mike Riley
On Tuesday, the Northwest Herald reported another Trustee candidate:
- Kristina Zahonk
Proving once again, I guess, a variation on the old line that the grapevine is more accurate that the office newsletter.
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And, looking at the Village web site, I see a typographical error.
The tab for village officials says, “Village Official’s.”
I couldn’t get the email links to work either.


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Scientists at the University of York and University College Cork have investigated how cultural records dating back 300 years could help improve understanding of the ways in which science interprets the many uses of woodland areas.
The researchers hope that the work will give a cultural narrative to environmental data collected over time, but also give new insight into the ways in which woodland management systems can be adapted to increase a sense of ownership amongst communities that live near woodland areas.
Historical evidence, gathered and analysed by the Shrawley Lime Group, a group of experts investigating the cultural and ecological history of Shrawley Woods, provided the team with new thinking on how documented woodland uses can be coloured by a cultural perception of them as either a home for various tree species; working woods; or spaces of leisure.
From researching pollen grains preserved in a waterlogged area of Shrawley Woods, the researchers were able to provide environmental data dating back to the 11th century. This was then compared with oral history records from the 18th century, which revealed the differences that occur in how the same type of tree is referenced between environmental and cultural records over time.
Researchers showed that the name of the tree related more closely to how it was used by woodland dwellers and not by its species name, a feature that becomes more common from the industrial revolution onwards.
The team found that the scientific data referenced both oak and lime species in the woods, but the historical information refers primarily to the products of the woods, such as 'poles' used for hop growing, and do not reference the species name at all. It is only when the local oral history evidence is included that historical and scientific data can be linked together and the evolution of wooded areas fully understood.
Dr Suzi Richer, from the University of York's Archaeology and Environment Departments, said: "We find that many books, television programmes, films, and art work, position woodlands as 'dangerous' or 'alien' places, where cultural norms can be broken, but archaeological and historical evidence shows that these were often working and living spaces with evidence of charcoal burning, brick kilns, and water-powered mills, which bring people and wooded areas much closer together in a working, living harmony.
"Scientific data by itself, particularly if it spans over many years, can miss out the cultural and social context of the period it represents and therefore the relationship between the environment and the people who lived there in the past. This can be crucial to help us interpret environmental records more fully."
Records show that from around the 1800s, woodlands become far less 'personal' in the way in which they are documented, but the oral history accounts demonstrate that this 'other way' of seeing trees persisted and still persists in areas of the West Midlands today.
The need to standardise resources was also consistent with the Enlightenment way of seeing the world at that time -- one which saw the natural world as 'civilised'. It is from this point onwards that names, like 'oak', are used more commonly.
Dr Ben Gearey, from the Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, said: "We often think of environmental data as giving us information on the adverse effects that human activity can have on the environment, but our research shows that it can also demonstrate how cultural perceptions of a landscape or species can shape conservation efforts.
"We hope that this work demonstrates the importance of combining information from scientific and cultural approaches, and also accounts from the local communities in which these types of studies are undertaken.
"The next stage is to look more closely at the archaeological record and how we can present combined records so that they are meaningful for policy makers and woodland managers."
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Manufacturing, which celebrates 30 years of service this year, introduces dozens of new products. Started as a grain drill company, Great Plains now offers planters, drills, sprayers, conventional tillage and vertical tillage equipment. Headquartered in Salina, KS, Great Plains products are sold across the United States through 2,000-plus independent dealers and are exported worldwide.
A 60-ft. planter, the 2425 Yield-Pro, can plant single rows in a choice of 15-, 20- or 30-in. spacing, as well as twin rows on 30-in. spacing. The planter also features a floating hitch design that provides the flexibility to meet challenging terrain, and it folds to a transport width of 14 ft. 10 in.
The new planter is equipped to handle two 82-bu. bulk poly hoppers or two bulk seed boxes. And like other Yield-Pro planters, the YP-2425 uses air to move the seed from the hopper to the singulating meters. An optional pull hitch, rated to pull a 2,000-gal. fertilizer cart, can be added to apply in-row or between-row fertilizer at planting.
The planter, available in four models, ranges in price from $125,900 to $163,000.
Great Plains offers new one-pass field tools with its 8000 series Disc-o-vator line, comprised of seven models with working widths from 26 to 52 ft. The models offer increased strength and reliability, a new frame design and increased residue flow with a four-rank, five-row Max-Mix shank pattern.
The new models feature 24Ω in. of under-frame clearance. The improved shank spacing and an added rear bar also have improved the clearance around the tires and walking beam. The Max-Mix pattern coupled with the coulter option in place of the standard disc gangs can level the ground at working speeds of 7 mph or more.
The seven models range in price from $34,186 to $76,979.
New 3000 and 4000 series disk harrows in six models range in cutting width from 23 to 36 ft. The disk harrows also feature 6-gauge disc blades with a 20° angle on the front gangs and an 18° angle on rear gangs, spring C-shank bearing standards and 23 in. of wing flex (14 in. up and 9 in. down). A full line of options allows growers to customize any model to their specific application and conditions.
The 3000 series disk harrows range in price from $31,470 to $37,482. The 4000 series models start at $39,433 and go up to $43,197.
Great Plains offers two Verti-Till models that provide one-pass seedbed preparation in a variety of situations, including corn after corn. The Verti-Till 4360 and 6360 come in working widths of 12 and 18 ft., respectively. Using a combination of coulters and chisels along with a Buster Bar and semi-mounted seedbed conditioner, the Verti-Till maintains soil density, dislodges root crowns, buries residue and leaves the surface level enough to make one pass in the spring and plant.
The Turbo coulters feature 20-in. discs on 7½-in. spacing followed by a set of parabolic shanks with 7-in. winged points on 36-in. spacing. While the winged points lift root crowns and fracture soil, a set of chisel splitter shanks start the leveling process and ensure uniform fracture below the surface.
The Buster Bar continues to level and break clods while the semi-mounted seedbed conditioner finishes the process to leave a level surface.
The company also offers independent depth control of coulters and deep shanks, as well as a pair of walking tandem wheels to maintain a constant working depth over varying field contours.
The 4360 sells for $36,301, and the 6360 sells for $45,835.
Heavy-duty grain drills in the new 10 series feature up to 500 lbs. of down force per opener for proper penetration. Each of the six different units in the 10 series lineup is built around the new 10HD opener, which combines precise seed placement with the strength to handle tough conditions. The drills feature a 15-in.-diameter, 4-millimeter-thick planter-style blade for improved trash clearance and penetration.
Opener discs are offset ½ in. to ensure proper trench formation and penetration in hard ground. Cast blade separators protect the seed tubes and provide disc stability in all conditions. The large-diameter blades, planter seed tubes and singulating meter make these row units accurate yet provide narrow row spacing only available on drills. Growers have a choice of center rib, double V or double wedge press wheels and Singulator Plus or Precision Planting finger pickup meters.
Available in planting widths of 15, 20, 30 and 40 ft., the drills offer single-row spacings of 7½ and 10 in., as well as 15-in. twin rows. Bulk seed capacity is 2.4 bu./ft. on all models.
The drill units range in price from $25,320 to $118,126.
40-ft. stack fold planter
Great Plains introduces a 40-ft. stack fold planter with the versatility of 10 different row-spacing configurations and the productivity of a bulk seed hopper. Growers have a choice of single-row spacings from 15 to 40 in., as well as twin-row configuration from 30 to 40 in.
The planter features the Yield-Pro capability of using a standard bulk seed container. The planter comes with an 82-bu. poly hopper as an alternative. Heavy-duty down-pressure springs provide up to 500 lbs./row to penetrate residue and packed soil. Hardened cast-iron blade separators and 4-millimeter offset blades aid in the accuracy and cutting ability of the planter. All models stack fold to a transport width of 25 ft.
This planter is available in 10 different model configurations. Prices range from $73,560 to $103,560.
For more information, contact Great Plains Mfg. Inc., Dept. FIN, 1525 E. North St., Salina, KS 67401, 785/823-3276, or visit www.greatplainsmfg.com.


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“When I was five years old, my father started sexually abusing me,” laments 13-year-old Anna (name changed to protect identity) from the Philippines. With the treat to life dangling over her head, Anna was left with no choice but to oblige and abstain from raising her voice.
13-year-old Chenda (name changed to protect identity), from Cambodia, confronted violence, within the four walls of her home, at a very young age. Her father’s trusted friend had brutally beaten and raped her along with attempting to strangle her very life in the family’s wood home. Chenda, after the frightful incident, was never the same again.
Living behind closed doors had become her new reality. Scared of any human interaction, Chenda sobbed every time she relived the fatal attack.
Violence knows no boundaries
Globally, six out of every ten children between the ages of two and 14 suffer from physical punishment on a regular basis, and an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked annually.
The number of working children in Asia Pacific is- by far- the most numerous in the world. In South Asia and Pacific alone 77.7 million children are subject to child labour. Roughly one out of every five boys and girls has been sexually abused and up to four out of every 10 children report some form of emotional abuse, with girls in high-income countries in East Asia the most affected. In the Philippines alone, 17% of children experienced sexual abuse while growing up. About 37% of girls in Nepal marry before the age of 18.
“The SDGs provide World Vision and its partners a historic opportunity to tip the scale definitively against silence and, in too many places, outright acceptance of violence against children,” said Leen Decadt, World Vision’s Child Protection Advisor in East Asia. “There is empirical evidence that with enough mobilization, indignation and persistent advocacy, we can swing the pendulum against social injustice. This is our moment to collectively prevent acts of violence against children – to salvage scarred childhoods,” she concluded.
It Takes a World Campaign
To significantly enhance child well-being imperatives, World Vision launches its new global campaign today, Wednesday, 1 March – ‘It takes a world to end violence against children’. To contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 16.2, our aim is to positively impact the lives of millions of the most vulnerable boys and girls by 2021.
Currently, World Vision has End Violence Against Children programmes in Cambodia, China, Laos-PRD, Mongolia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The goal is to end child trafficking, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and all other forms of violence, within supportive families and communities. World Vision continues to leverage and build upon existing strategies and policies in partnership with governments, civil societies and the private sector.
In Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Pacific-Timor Leste, World Vision has been strengthening child protection mechanisms in target communities, particularly for the most vulnerable children, and is responding to the issues of physical violence at home and in school, sexual abuse, child labour, child trafficking, and child marriage. Within the operational areas, World Vision also helps organise, child forums, local leaders, parents, educators, law enforcers, social services, and communities of various faiths to support child protection initiatives.
Thankfully, Anna and Chenda are now part of child forums, started by World Vision, in their respective communities which empower children with knowledge on child rights and child protection.
How you can help?
- Advocate for laws or policy changes to better protect children at home and overseas. This can be achieved through petitions, letters to the editor, public actions and using your own platforms (including social media) to raise awareness
- Donate to domestic and international organisations committed to protecting children
- Add your voice by sharing this release and following our campaign ‘It takes a world to end violence against children’ on social media. Instagram: @wvasia Twitter: @WV Asia-Pacific
- Remember, small acts multiplied by millions of people can transform the world -It takes all of us to end violence against children


The Queen's March comes the SCA Kingdom of CAID about heading off to the war field for CAID's Queen. It's neither my former nor my current Kingdom, but I thought it a fun in-character piece. It's sung by Dame Eilidh Swann Stralachlan (Cat Ellen), recorded March 21, 2009. She has several other songs as well. Her Caidan Kids Song is an adorable teaching song for learning the name stands for.


PCB To Reduce Number Of Players In The List Of Central Contracts
After missing out a slot in the semifinals of the tournament, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) came up with the unique concept. They want to reduce the number of players in the contracts’ list, which would help them to save money. The board would like to use the money in improving the domestic structure.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to significantly reduce the number of players. They will be giving the central contracts later this month. The PCB last year in August had given 12-month central contracts to 33 players in different categories and interestingly only 10-12 players in the existing list have played for Pakistan.
”E” category will also be removed from the central contract, sources said. They added that it is the decision to reduce the number of players. It will help to increase the stipend, which was made by the cricket board’s managing director Wasim Khan.
Performance-based contracts will be given:
Sources said the new central contract will be awarded to 15 to 17 players who play all the three formats of the game. Recently, the PCB also reduced the number of national women players. They cut short central contracts from 15 to 10 but increased their monthly salaries and match fees.
The decision was taken such that because the players in the contract list are hardly playing for the country. So, the board wants to reduce the number significantly by using limited players.
“For example batsmen, Saad Ali, Rahat Ali Rumman Raees. Sahabzada Farhan, Umaid Asif, Talat Hussain, Mir Hamza, and Usman Salahuddin hardly played a few games here and there for the national team in different formats,” one source in the PCB pointed out.
“The idea is that central contracts should be given as incentives to players. And also, it should be performance-based contracts,” the source said.
Well, it is an interesting thought from the Pakistan Cricket Board. The new idea would certainly help the board, as they can concentrate on the quality of cricket in the domestic format.
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The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) is a widely known organization that, as its name suggests, focuses on the rights of immigrants. It’s located in San Diego, California. It’s an Alliance San Diego division that was launched back in 2007. The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium is made up of legal, labor, faith and community entities that go after a number of objectives.
One objective is to endorse in-depth reform within the immigration realm. Another objective is to prevent the expansion of local concepts that zero in on and interfere with immigrants’ human and civil rights. Other objectives are to teach immigrants about all of their rights and to make sure that they are aware of any legal forms of help that are accessible to them. Read more: Jim Larkin | Twitter and Jim Larkin | Crunchbase
The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, last but not least, also works to teach members of the public about all the things immigrants have done for the well-being of society over the years. It even works to do away with any misconceptions people sometimes have about immigrants.
There are a good number of organizations that are part of the consortium. Some of these groups are the American Friends Service Committee, the California Immigrant Policy Center, the Southern California Immigration Project, the United Taxi Workers of San Diego, the North County Immigration Task Force and the Immigration Center for Women and Children.
These organizations have a wide range of diverse objectives and goals. They concentrate on matters that involve immigrant families in the state of California. They concentrate on local taxi drivers and their rights as well. Learn more about Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey: http://www.laceyandlarkinfronterafund.org/about-lacey-larkin-frontera-fund/michael-lacey/ and http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/potmsearch/detail/submission/6427818/Michael_Lacey
The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium has an advisory board that consists of some highly motivated and driven individuals who wish to promote positive change in society. Laura Moreno serves as the Chair. She’s a Santa Ana, California native who has been in San Diego since 2007. Leah Chavarria serves as a Legal Representative for the organization.
She’s had a strong zeal for immigration law since 2003. Other people who are part of the group’s advisory board are community representative Lilian Serrano, community representative Esmeralda Flores, labor representative Fernanda Flores and faith representative Imam Taha Hassane.
People can find out more about the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium and its latest happenings by paying attention to social media platforms. The group has accounts on Flickr, Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund was launched by two men called Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. They’re the brains behind both the Village Voice Media and the Phoenix New Times. They’re also a pair of hard-working journalists. Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund offers its assistance to organizations that help causes that involve civil, migrant and human rights.
Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund strongly backs groups such as the Colibri Center for Human Rights, the Phoenix Immigration Justice Project, the Center for Neighborhood Leadership, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and the Justice for Immigrants & Families Project. Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund is located in Phoenix, Arizona.
More often than less, celebrities crisscross the American landscape to sightsee and tour new places. The aim of such expeditions is usually to understand the historical progression of the American society and its culture. When faced with a national crisis in particular, Americans tend to unites regardless of their race or ethnicity. Poverty remains one of the most visible threats not only to the American society, but also to the entire human population.In a bid to highlight poverty in the American subcontinent, world-renowned artiste,
Doug Levitt recently organized an acclaimed tour, which he aptly named The Greyhound Diaries. He wanted to bring the issue of poverty to light. The reason behind undertaking the project is the fact that poverty exists throughout America in as much as it might not be as prevalent as it is in other parts of the world.
The Greyhound Diaries
The project was immensely successful due to the innovative strategies that Levitt employed to reach his audience. He embarked on a bus ride across the country, capturing the whole journey through photography works, music, and writing. His decision was based on the idea that those who tried to embark on similar projects always failed because they were out of touch with the reality. The only way of highlighting poverty to the global audience was through interactions with local communities.
Despite charting a new path altogether while undertaking his project, it was an instant success. This is owed to the fact that the message passed across resonates with most American citizens from low-income communities. This is not the first time that Doug is exploiting his artistry to highlight the plight of the less privileged. Throughout his career, he has been championing various causes.
Doug Levitt in Brief
The Cornell University and London School of Economics gave up a promising career in the field of journalism so that he could pursue his artistic interests. He hails from a political family, something that molded his activism. However, Levitt is renowned for being an award-winning singer and songwriter. His career in the music industry spans nearly 15 years. During this time, he has recorded inspirational and mind-evoking songs under the guidance of producer, David Henry.
The FOX network decided to bring in Thor Halvorssen (http://www.forbes.com/sites/thorhalvorssen/#29b821aa1e52), the founder of the Human Rights Foundation. He leans toward pro-democracy and he condemned socialist revolutionary Che Guevarra. With his background Fox News was sure that they had someone who would condemn Bernie Sanders. But the interview with film producer Thor Halvorssen completely backfired and went viral on social media. He was articulate and actually educated and informed their viewers on socialism.
In the interview, Thor Halvorssen expressed his views that democratic socialism can be a good thing but believes that such systems can easily be perverted by corrupt rulers. He said it is not the form if government, the problem lies on the dictators. Then he totally caught the host off guard and he dropped the bombshell that he is a big supporter of Bernie Sanders and his stand on Socialism and as a matter-of-fact donated the maximum amount allowable to the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Socialism is not inherently evil, he says. In fact, countries like Denmark, Norway and Sweden are shining examples of socialist governments where human rights violations do not occur. Socialism is a form of government that can do good or bad depending on who’s in charge.
Thor claims that Hillary Clinton has taken millions from oppressive dictators throughout the world. He also took a jab at Donald Trump, who is the republican presidential frontrunner, for his support of Vladimir Putin in Russia and that is unacceptable for him to endorse either of them.
Thor kept his composure cool even when she brought up his family about the imprisonment of his father by the Venezuelan government, despite the fact he was a respected diplomat protected by his position, including his mother was shot by the police as she protested against the socialist lead government.

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Making your aquarium last: tips for long term aquarium maintenance
For most aspiring fish keeping enthusiasts and beginner aquarists, just getting the aquarium to function well enough to keep your fish alive and happy in the first place is enough of a challenge, but this article will focus on how to keep it that way by applying a long term aquarium maintenance routine.
No matter how much care and effort you put into setting up your aquarium perfectly for the introduction of your first batch of fish, over time you will notice that the environment changes. Gradually, you may come to realize that the bright and colourful tank that you once enjoyed has lost its original lustre.
Applying a regular long term aquarium maintenance routine will help to ensure that your tank looks like new even years after you began keeping fish in it. Key to this is assigning some monthly and annual tasks that will keep your tank fresh and lively.
. Check your fish for signs of distress, usually if they are breathing heavier than normal or are scratching themselves on objects. Check for any spots, marks, red blemishes or fungus. Also check that all the fish are present. Sick or dead fish may be hiding. Take the appropriate action.
. For the keener aquarist, do a 10% partial water change with aged water. Check your water parameters such as ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph and hardness.
. Vacuum any accumulated fish waste on the gravel surface.
Monthly tasks for a healthy aquarium
While aquarists should be well aware of the importance of daily tasks such as maintaining the proper temperature and feeding the fish, the constantly changing conditions of an active fish tank make some monthly tasks necessary to keep the aquarium in like-new condition. Scheduling these tasks and adhering to them over time will help keep your aquarium in excellent shape.
• Partial water changes. One of the most critical elements of long term aquarium maintenance is frequent water changing. Generally, a 25% water change monthly will help maintain the proper water quality for a tank, but 10% weekly can sometimes be even more effective.
Water changes should be accompanied by a test of the water quality in order to make sure that you have not upset the necessary balance of nutrients that your fish need to survive.
• Gravel churning. If you use a gravel substrate to line the bottom of your aquarium, you should use an aquarium vacuum to clean up the rot and waste that can easily collect underneath the gravel at least once a month. You need to really dig up and disturb the gravel so that the vacuum can suck up accumulated waste.
If you are using an under-gravel filter, it is necessary to clean the gravel when you do your water changes in order to prevent waste from collecting in between the gravel and preventing effective water flow.
• Cleaning algae and dirt from the glass. Every healthy aquarium will feature algae inside of it. This is an inescapable sign of a healthy underwater environment, making regular monthly cleanings necessary.
Controlling algae as part of a long term aquarium maintenance routine is important because algae grows incredibly rapidly and can overwhelm your tank if left unchecked. One of the best ways to control algae growth is to use a specialized algae scraper once a month along the interior of the tank and on any decorations that have been consumed by algae growth. Or better still reduce the wattage of your lighting.
• Plant pruning. Any aquarium that features live plants will eventually end up with dead leaves and plant matter decaying inside the tank. This waste can quickly build up and stress the environment for your fish, so your plants should be pruned at least once a month and dead plants removed as soon as they are discovered.
• Equipment checks. Always schedule a monthly equipment check so that you can be sure that every part of your tank is functioning properly. Over time, you may notice that your tank heater does not provide as much heat as it used to, or that your air pump valves need replacement.
Catching faulty equipment before its too late can be the only way to skirt disaster, which is why effective long term aquarium maintenance is necessary. If you can catch and replace defective equipment before it affects the livelihood of your fish, you stand a good chance of keeping your aquarium in excellant condition for years to come.
• Filter cleaning. Although you spent time and energy cycling your tank so that beneficial bacteria could grow on your sponge filter, you should regularly clean off the filter so that water flow does not get obstructed. If you have this kind of filter, it is easy to clean without losing all of the helpful bacteria.
Removing your sponge filter and rinsing it in the same water you use in your tank is the best way to remove unwanted particles without harming the bacteria on the sponge. This is vastly preferable to replacing the sponge or wiping it perfectly clean, since that would require you to cycle your tank again afterwards from scratch.
The best thing to do is to schedule your filter cleaning several days apart from your tank cleaning so that there are enough beneficial bacteria present to keep your fish happy in the process. If you have a large tank with several filters, stagger your filter cleaning so that there is enough time for bacteria to grow back on the freshly cleaned filter before you clean the next one.
Annual maintenance tasks for long term aquarium maintenance
Keeping your aquarium freshly cleaned on a monthly basis can help reduce the chance of having to replace major elements of your aquarium on an annual basis, but it is important, nonetheless, to give your entire aquarium a quality once-over in order to be certain that the environment is ideal.
The following list of tasks should be exercised at least once a year, although many experienced aquarists suggest that a bi-annual check once every six months is even better for effective long term aquarium maintenance, depending on the complexity of your tank and its bio-load.
• Change your light bulbs. While it may seem like your aquarium lighting setup is working perfectly fine, you may want to change your lights at least once a year. Even if the lamps appear to be working just as well as the first day you bought them, they may not be providing the same ultraviolet frequencies as before, hindering your aquarium’s reproduction of natural daylight.
• Check your pumps and filter mechanisms. While you should be cleaning the actual filter media of your tank once a month, the mechanical elements responsible for water flow also need some regular attention. A specialised tubing brush can help you wipe away any debris that may have gotten into the motor or impeller of your setup.
Some pumps may require annual lubrication in order to work properly. If you discover that any of these parts are cracked, damaged, or otherwise working improperly, they should be replaced as soon as possible. Effective long term aquarium maintenance requires that these parts are kept in pristine working order.
• Examine your fish. Your aquarium is nothing without your fish, so it is important to give them a close visual inspection at least once a year, though preferably even more frequently. Look especially for signs of sickness in your fish. You may want to set up a hospital tank for your ill fish so that they do not infect the rest of the community.
This could also be a convenient time to exchange some fish. Unwanted residents of your tank can be sold off and replaced with different, more interesting fish that can give you a new appreciation for your aquarium.
• Close search for rot and decay. If you have been properly taking care of your monthly long term aquarium maintenance tasks, you should not have any major problems with dead plant matter or decayed fish food in your tank. However, it is important to regularly give your tank an especially close look in order to be sure.
Dead fish, of course, should be immediately removed as soon as they are discovered. The same, however, goes for any decaying or rotting material in your tank. Any of these can seriously affect the water quality if left in the tank, and lead to sick or dying fish, as well as greater long term aquarium maintenance complications later on.

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Azealia Banks Body Shames Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat
Azealia Banks is at it again.
The Harlem rapper is stirring up more controversy with her latest body shaming attacks on Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday morning (Jan. 12), the “212” hitmaker posted videos of herself watching Meg’s BET Awards performance while hurling insults at the screen.
“Look at this fat girl, heavy metal and reflective shit,” she said, commenting on Meg’s outfit. “I’m sorry, Megan Thee Stallion, you look like a fu**ing fat cow. This bullshit Kesha, Fantasea… Too much meat. Oh no, Meg, you’re getting fat.”
She continued to laugh at the screen while mocking Meg’s weight. “Fat girl with the fat shit,” she added. “No, Meg, no. Eww with that gut.”
In her caption, she spewed more vitriol at the Grammy-nominated rapper: “@theestallion you need to be stopped right in your tracks sis. You look horrible.”
In another video, Azealia commented on Doja Cat’s “cellulite” and “old white lady face.” “This bitch is disgusting,” she said while watching Doja’s “Juicy” music video. “The face look drunk and tired and lazy.”
Added Banks, “I don’t give a f**k about this body positivity bullshit. This is disgusting.”
She had even more vile things to say in her caption. “No doja cat is an actual disgusting white woman abomination,” she wrote. “If we gave tinashe are hard time to just let flabby ass pre diabetes doja cat come thru and eat the biracial beauty standards. We have to do better as a culture.”
She received backlash from her followers, who chided her for the disrespectful remarks. “You have so much potential, but body shaming and bringing other women down ain’t the moves,” wrote one fan, while another added, “Instead of focusing on your music this is the energy you are choosing as a fan your work this is disappointing.”
Azealia remains a controversial figure, having attacked many of her peers including Beyoncé, Cardi B, and Nicki Minaj.
Back in September, she had fans concerned for her well-being after sharing suicidal thoughts. “This pandemic, extreme lack of social interaction, no intimacy, combined with constant public ridicule is making life harder than its worth,” she said.

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In the Wild Card game, Belgrade SBB Vukovi have welcomed Zagreb Patriots. The game was broadcast live on regional Sport Klub television. It was a game of high stakes, because the winner advances to play in the finals on July 3 in Graz.
Consistency in the display of skill was more evident by one of the teams from the onset. In the first minute, after a 65 yard catch by Nikola Simović that ended near the Patriots’ goal line, SBB Vukovi’s quarterback John Uribe scored a rushing touchdown from the 1 yard line. Croatian international in the Belgraders’ ranks, Kresimir Gorša, took over next with a pair of rushing touchdowns, scoring from 1 and 11 yards. In the second quarter, Uribe connected with Vojin Milic for a 16 yard touchdown and a score of 28-0 at the break.
In the second half two more runs by Gorša of 1 and 18 yards finished in the end zone of the visiting team. Uribe closes the scoring for the day by adding another touchdown with an 8 yard pass to Vanja Lugonja and the final 49-0. The general consensus after this game is that SBB Vukovi’s will most certainly have a much more difficult task against Projekt Spielberg Graz Giants in CEFL Bowl XI.


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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
Spring 2024 (Volume 31, Issue 1)
In this next issue of SMART, Eileen M. Harney shares her expertise in teaching many upper-division and cross-listed English classes in which the Lucretia legend is used as a case study to adapt popular but thematically complicated legends. Stephanie L. Coker addresses teaching Joan of Arc outside the traditional classroom, sharing her experiences abroad, online during the pandemic, and in French film festivals. E Mariah Spencer provides the groundwork for teaching Beowulf to an increasing number of diverse students who encounter the text and its numerous translations, interpretations, and adaptations, and engaging them in comparative readings. Sherif Abdelkarim examines the state of Chaucer studies as a point of departure for thinking about studying premodern literature in comparative and international contexts, reporting on the experiences of scholars who have taught Chaucer in Egypt and presenting active learning methods that readers today might employ to revive the premodern text. Finally, through the Grail quest and the Arthurian legend, Ann Mcculough shares her response to students who feel that medieval texts are remote and do not have a place in their overall education, showing them that such texts can be quite impactful and an asset to their learning. The issue is rounded out by many book reviews.
EILEEN M. HARNEY Mapping Tragedy, Questioning Choices: Teaching the Legend of Lucretia
STEPHANIE L. COKER Joan of Arc as an Archetype: Teaching the Maid Abroad, Online, and in Film Festivals
E MARIAH SPENCER Grendel’s Mother: Considering Sex and Female Monstrosity in Beowulf
SHERIF ABDELKARIM Chaucer Unlimited, or Reading Chaucer Elsewhere
ANN MCCULLOUGH Teaching the Grail, or How to Speak about the Unspeakable
JENNY REBECCA RYTTING Book Review: Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages, edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen
CHRIS CRAUN Book Review: The Saxon War, by Bruno of Merseburg, translated by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach
RICHARD UTZ Book Review: Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: The 1848 Monument to Godfrey of Bouillon, by Simon John
ROY HAMMERLING Book Review: A Cultural History of the Sword: Power, Piety, and Play, by Robert W. Jones
COREY J. ZWIKSTRA Book Review: Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, by Steven J. A. Breeze
WILLIAM J. COLLINGE Book Review: Saint Thomas Aquinas: Volume 1: The Person and His Work, by Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., translated by Matthew K. Minerd and Robert Royal
MICHAEL CALABRESE Book Review: Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain’s Long Twelfth Century, by Jacqueline M. Burek
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At the other end of the extreme, cloud computing gained steam. A dozen or so mega data centers from companies such as Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Google commanded an increasing share of business and an outsized portion of the innovation in severs, switching and storage.
The big back end systems were at the receiving end of the growth in mobile and Internet data of all types. They fueled the flood with their own social networks and Instagrams. In presentation after presentation, industry observers pointed to a rising data deluge.
Facebook courted the open source movement, flinging open its doors to show the world exactly what sorts of systems it wants to buy. In reaction, Google cracked its doors slightly, but most mega data centers continued to work under the cover of NDAs as they sorted out their road maps.
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By Nigel Parry, with Helen Gerhardt
Today we saw the end of the video testimony of Dr. Fenton, the UPMC Shadyside EMT who treated Jordan a day after the assault, within a few hours of him being released from jail. Dr. Fenton confirmed multiple contusions (various levels of bruising) on Jordan’s body and face, as well as subconjuctival hematoma, bleeding in Jordan’s right eye. Dr. Fenton reported that the CT scan did not show intercranial injury or skull fracture.
Helen Gerhardt reports:
Key testimony regarding the long term impacts that Jordan has suffered was provided by Dr. Maria Twichell, Clinical Director of Treatment and Rehabilitation for UPMC’s Sports Concussion program, who also practices physiatry (a specialization in the rehabilitation of neurophysiological systems, often confused with the very distinct practice of “psychiatry”) She also serves as physiatrist for the University of Pittsburgh Physicians Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and as private consultant.
After Jordan’s attorney covered her education, experience and qualifications, Dr. Twichell began by explaining her daily work as a rehabilitation specialist focused mainly on trauma, brain injury, and concussion. She regularly examines, performs assessments and helps to develop rehabilitation plans for an average of forty to fifty patients each week. Her work often involves teaching follow-up patients how to cope with the traumas and damages caused by neurophysiological injuries and traumas so that they may regain at least partial function in whatever areas of competency have been affected.
Dr. Twichell confirmed that concussions are not usually diagnosed by emergency room physicians such as earlier medical witness, Dr. Fenton, who are tasked with detecting and treating immediately life-threatening injuries. MRIs and CT scans do not show concussion – in fact, Dr. Twichell noted that part of the diagnosis of concussion is that such scans do not show cranial fractures or hematomas.
Dr. Twichell first saw Jordan Miles for an evaluation in October of 2011, where he first summarized the history of the incident. She reported that he was quiet and polite, answered questions appropriately, and did not seem to exaggerate his account of his “altercation with police officers.” He did not remember all details of the event, but especially remembered a very hard blow to the right side of the head with a hard object, after which he became dazed. Many of the symptoms he reported that he still suffered at the time of her first examination are consonant with the long-term symptoms of concussion: headaches, dizziness, confusion, nausea, memory loss, loss of ability to concentrate, decreased ability to comprehend, mood swings, depression.
She confirmed during direct and cross-examination that some of these and other reported symptoms such as nightmares and flashbacks are subjectively reported by patients, and some are also symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.) Such overlapping symptoms also often require treatment by a psychiatrist; such care was provided for Jordan by psychiatrist, Dr. Jay Leathers, (whose later testimony is summarized here.)
However, Dr. Twichell noted objective measures of physical dysfunctions characteristic of nerve damage and post-concussive symptoms. Numbness in the face indicated damage to the maxillary branch of the trigeminal nerve, as well as damages to proprioception and the vestibular systems of balance, as measured by the Romberg Test. She also consulted with Dr. Gorski, who administered an in-depth, four-hour neuropsychological exam designed to fully evaluate the functioning of various subsets of patient cognition, neurophysiological health and integration of information.
Both during direct and cross examination, Dr. Twichell emphasized that such exams are meant to detect and counter false or exaggerated subjective reporting by patients with objective measures of neurological and physiological functioning. She stated that the symptoms reported by Jordan Miles regarding impaired cognition, memory, and integration of vision and physical balance systems were corroborated by all objective validity measures. She also stated that such damages clearly could have been caused by a hard impact to the right side of the head, such as the blow described by Jordan Miles during his testimony.
Dr. Twichell saw Jordan Miles again in March of 2012. Review of symptoms indicated that Jordan had made improvement or showed slight typical fluctuation of performance and symptoms in some areas, but, by objective measures, he was still suffering from problems with balance, proprioception, eye-focus, and integration of sensory systems. He reported continued difficulty with concentration and basic math skills, such as counting in the stock-room that he was responsible for inventorying. (The neurolpsychological exam by Dr. Gorsky had indicated that Jordan’s math skills had regressed to the fifth grade level.)
Dr. Twichell also noted worsening of such subjectively reported symptoms as anxiety, depression, and stress, partly because of the increased difficulties in functioning caused by what Dr. Twichell indicates may be long-term neurological damages of a post-concussive condition.
When Jordan’s attorney, Kerrington asked about ongoing needs for costly medical care and future impacts of these damages on the ability to complete further education, as well as on his future earnings power, Dr. Twichell replied: “We see the most improvement in the first month [after a concussive injury], then usually more slow improvement over about two years…further improvement is much slower…I would anticipate that Jordan would need ongoing psychological and psychiatric care, [as well as] vestibular and cognitive therapies…assistance with classes…job coach. [Continued experience of post concussive symptoms would] tend to be rather static given the point we are now in the trajectory of his recovery. [In the] typical course, where Jordan is now is what we can expect to see going forward.”


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Every Saturday, a different exhibition of different work by Nazir Tanbouli
Knife edge is a series of drawings inspired by native American wood curving.
In the summer of 2011 and 2012 I’ve paid many visits to the museum of anthropology in Vancouver-British Columbia .
The thing that really got my attention was the way that distinctive black lines were made.
Native Americans were not a culture of ink and paper or fine bushes, they left that to the Chinese.
Their black lines were curved.
snapped of the wood with the tension , the force and the precision of a sharp curving knife.
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In this series I tried to use my brush like if it was a knife cutting into the surface of the paper


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Crow Wing County Sees Large Increase in Land Use Permits
Just over 1,100 land use permits were issued by Crow Wing County in 2020.
According to a end-of-the-year report by the County Land Services Department, permit numbers grew by 25% compared to 2019. 890 permits were issued in 2019 compared to 843 in 2018.
Crow Wing County has an online permitting system that allows applicants to apply, pay and print out permits online.


The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new report Wednesday warning that superbugs that resist antibiotics have killed many people as thought before.
C. difficile caused nearly a quarter associated with a million hospitalizations and at least 12,800 deaths in 2017. It is one in all five antibiotic-resistant urgent threats identified in the report. Two of them were newly added since 2013. One, the fungus Candida auris, was not even on the CDC’s radar five years ago.
However, there is fantastic news among the report. Since 2013, there was an 18% drop in deaths from every type of antibiotic-resistant infections.
The overuse of antibiotics helped create these resistant bacteria. With cold and flu season around the corner, the CDC is reminding everyone that antibiotics typically are not recommended for infections as a result of the viruses, like the common cold.
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After receiving a Grammy nomination thanks to her contributions on Revenge Of The Dreamers III, Yung Baby Tate is now signed to Issa Rae’s Raedio label. She’s now released her latest project via the imprint, After The Rain.
A seven-song EP, the project chronicles a tumultuous with the Atlanta-reared artist doing some soul searching to find herself again. “I want people to feel good about themselves,” she said. “This year has been pretty rough for a lot of us, and at times, it can be very bleak. At the end of every storm, the rainbow comes back out, and this project is me becoming that musical rainbow again to remind people it’s gonna be alright.”
Led by the single “Rainbow Cadillac,” the project features the likes of 6LACK and Flo Milli. Stream it in its entirety below.


William Hague was forced to clarify the government's thinking on Afghanistan today when he declared that he would be "very surprised" if Kabul's military was unable to take the lead by 2014.
The foreign secretary spoke out as Labour accused the government of a confused approach. Twenty four hours earlier Liam Fox, the defence secretary, had warned an early withdrawal of forces would act as "a shot in the arm to jihadists" across the world.
Hague, who outlined the government's approach to foreign policy, endorsed David Cameron's declaration that British troops would return home by the time of the next election, due to take place in 2015.
"We are committed to the Afghans being able to conduct their military operations and security and that takes time," Hague told BBC Radio 4's Today programme before his speech at the Foreign Office. "But I would be very surprised if that took longer than 2014."
He clarified the government's thinking after Fox waded into a row in Washington over the withdrawal of Nato forces. In a speech to the rightwing Heritage Foundation he said an early withdrawal would risk a return to civil war and betray the sacrifices of soldiers who gave their lives.
An early draft of his speech made no mention of Cameron's declaration last week. In the final version of his text Fox endorsed Cameron's view, though he later told the BBC that British troops would be among the last to leave Afghanistan.
Some ministers believe the defence secretary, who is close to rightwing Republicans, was aligning himself with hawks in Washington who are sceptical of President Barack Obama's plan to start drawing down troops next year. General David Petraeus, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, told his Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday that the 2011 withdrawal date had not been recommended by the military.
Bob Ainsworth, the shadow defence secretary, said the British government was confused. "It is vitally important that the government speaks with one voice when it comes to Afghanistan but this week all we have seen is confusion," he said.
The contrasting signals from ministers overshadowed Hague's speech in which he outlined the government's "agile and energetic" foreign policy.
He warned that Britain's influence across the world would decline unless links with emerging countries were boosted and a "generation gap" overcome by ensuring more British officials take on senior roles in the EU.
"The world has changed, and if we do not change with it Britain's role is set to decline with all that means for our influence in world affairs, our national security and our economy," he said.
As a first priority, Britain should bolster links with emerging economies such as Brazil, India and China and "increasingly significant economies" such as Turkey and Indonesia. Emerging economies would be up to 50% larger than those of the current G7 by 2050.
"Yet we export more to Ireland than we do to India, China and Russia put together," he said.
Hague pledged to play an active role in the EU, though the government would make more of an effort to reach out to the 10 eastern European countries that have joined since 2004.
He also criticised the last government for failing to ensure that British officials were well represented in EU institutions. Britain represents 12% of the EU population but accounts for just 1.8% of staff at entry-level policy grades in the European commission.


New X-ray method uses scattering to visualize nanostructures
Details from the inner life of a tooth
In principle, X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been around since the 1960s: X-ray images are taken of an object from various directions, and a computer then uses the individual images to generate a three-dimensional image of the object. Contrast is produced by the differential absorption of X-rays in dissimilar materials. However, the new method, which was developed by Franz Pfeiffer, professor for Biomedical Physics at TUM and his team utilizes the scattering of X-rays rather than their absorption. The results have now been published in the journal Nature.
Scattering provides detailed images of nanostructures
Theoretically, X-rays act like light with a very short wavelength. This principle lies at the heart of the new method: When a light is shone on a structured object, for example a CD, the reflected light produces a characteristic rainbow pattern. Although the fine grooves in the CD cannot be seen directly, the diffraction of the light rays – known as scattering – indirectly reveals the structure of the object.
The same effect can be observed with X-rays, and it is this phenomenon that the researchers take advantage of in their new technique. The advantage of X-rays over visible light is that they are able to penetrate into materials, thus providing detailed information about the internal structure of objects. The researchers have now combined this three-dimensional information from scattered X-rays with computed tomography (CT).
Conventional CT methods calculate exactly one value, known as a voxel, for each three-dimensional image point within an object. The new technique assigns multiple values to each voxel, as the scattered light arrives from various directions. “Thanks to this additional information, we’re able to learn a great deal more about the nanostructure of an object than with conventional CT methods. By indirectly measuring scattered X-rays, we can now visualize minute structures that are too small for direct spatial resolution,” Franz Pfeiffer explains.
Internal view of a tooth
For demonstration purposes the scientists examined a piece of human tooth measuring around three millimeters. A large part of a human tooth is made from the substance dentin. It consists largely of mineralized collagen fibers whose structure is largely responsible for the mechanical properties of the tooth. The scientists have now visualized these tiny fiber networks.
A total of 1.4 million scatter images were taken, with the scattered light arriving from various directions. The individual images were then processed using a specially devised algorithm that builds up a complete reconstruction of the three-dimensional distribution of the scattered rays step by step. “Our algorithm calculates the precise direction of the scatter information for each image and then forms groups having the same scatter direction. This allows internal structures to be precisely reconstructed,” says Martin Bech, former postdoc at the TUM and now assistant professor at the University of Lund.
Using this method, it was possible to clearly view the three-dimensional orientation of the collagen fibers within a sample of this size for the first time. The results are in agreement with knowledge previously obtained about the structures from thin sections. “A sophisticated CT method is still more suitable for examining large objects. However, our new method makes it possible to visualize structures in the nanometer range in millimeter-sized objects at this level of precision for the first time,” says Florian Schaff, lead author of the paper.
Florian Schaff, Martin Bech, Paul Zaslansky, Christoph Jud, Marianne Liebi, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos und Franz Pfeiffer, Six-dimensional real and reciprocal space small-angle x-ray scattering tomography, Nature, November 19, 2015.
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How much protein do you need?
30% protein on a 2000kcal is 150g of total protein, while
30% protein on a 3000kcal diet is 225g!
Nuancies of Plant Proteins
Their amino-acid profile.
Macronutrient composition of protein rich plant and animal foods
Amino Acid Profile
|Amino Acid Score
|True protein Digestibility (%)
|Lentil: Wheat (25:75 Blend)
You will feel bloated due to all the extra fiber intake
You will have trouble eating enough for your high energy demands
You might be getting high protein, but still lack certain amino-acids to effectively build or maintain muscle mass.
Increasing plant protein intake
Make Pulses Staples of your diet
Grains Higher in Protein
High Protein Vegetables
Let’s not forget bout vegetables that are high in protein. Including some of these in your meals can boost your total protein intake but I would not replace leafy green vegetables that are nutrition powerhouses amd people already have problems eating enough of them.
Which vegetables are high in protein?
Broccoli, green peas, edamame beans, mushrooms (although not technically vegetables), spaghetti squash, corn, potatoes.
High Protein Seeds
Seeds are essential sources of fats on a plan-based diet. If you want to boost protein, choose hemp seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, and peanuts (although technically legume).
For better mineral absorption, grind the seeds before eating or grind and store in an air-tight container in a cold place for up to a week.
Other plant protein sources
Nutritional yest, vegetable burgers (read nutrition labels, some are high in fat and low protein), faux meat, spirulina. Plant protein powders can be your best friend as you can include them in cooking and baking!
Oatmeal with hemp seeds, plant milk and fruit
Split peas dhal + Rice
Hummus with vegetables
Whole-wheat bread with hummus
Bean goulash with sourdough bread
Vegetables salad with apples, legumes and quinoa
Tofu with greens and sweet potato
Whole-wheat pasta with tomato sauce and tempeh
Whole-wheat toasts with avocado and smoked tofu
Chia pudding with banana and peanuts
Whole-wheat burrito with legumes and vegetables
Oat cakes with raisins, peanuts, plant milk
High-protein Vegan Meal Plan
How are you supposed to eat all these beans and legumes without digestive issues?
Eat slowly – when we rush at a meal, we may activate our sympathetic nervous system, which induces the “fight or flight” response and can mess with digestion. By staying calm and eating slowly, we’re more likely to stay in the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state.
Add beans and legumes gradually and variety – your digestive track needs to get used to higher fiber intake. There are different strains of bacteria involved in processing different food.you might find that chickpeas are OK but beans aren’t
Consider preparation – you may find out that beans and legumes prepared in certain way are better tolerated. Rinse, soak, pressure cook for the best effect.
Digestive enzymes Alpha-galactosidase is an enzyme that helps to break down the bloat-inducing starch in beans.
Include more processed sources of plant protein. It will ease digestion, reduce fiber, and bloating and gas.
- Water – beans, lentils, and whole grains contain a lot of fiber. Fiber pulls in water and if you don’t drink enough, it will keep stuck in your digestive track.

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Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors will go down as one of the worst officiated Finals game in recent memory, and would've been the main talking point of the game had it not been for J.R. Smith's brain fade late in the fourth quarter.
Many Cavs' fans felt robbed with some of the missed reaching calls going against them, as well as the major call, the LeBron charge/block call that was reviewed and changed from a charge to a block on James, gifting Kevin Durant two free throws.
But Cleveland fans may have a bit more to be angry about, as the league has come out to announce that George Hill should've been given an extra free throw at the line, as Draymond Green committed a lane violation during the second one.
Yep, that's a definite lane violation, and in the most crucial possession of the game as well.
To be fair to the refs and Green though, the officials rarely call lane violations, if at all, and there's probably been countless times this season, in clutch time as well, where a player has stepped into the lane before the ball had been released from the hands of the player taking the free throw and not been called for it. It's just unfortunate that all eyes were on Game 1 of the Finals when it happened.
Still, the officials reffing Game 2 better make sure they're on the top of their game, as they're bound to be examined thoroughly.

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Intelligence Community Policy Guidance 704.6: Conduct of Polygraph Examinations for Personnel Security Vetting (Effective July 3, 2014, Ammended February 4, 2015) [open pdf - 3MB]
The purpose of this Policy Guidance is the following: "This Intelligence Community (IC) Policy Guidance establishes policy for the conduct of polygraph examinations supporting personnel security vetting within the IC and implements Security Executive Agent Directive 2, 'Use of Polygraph in Support of Personnel Security Determinations for Initial or Continued Eligibility for Access to Classified Information or Eligibility to Hold a Sensitive Position.'" Its applicability is the following: "(1) This Guidance applies to the IC, as defined by the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, and to such elements of any other department or agency as may be designated an element of the IC by the President, or jointly by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the head of the department or agency concerned. (2) This Guidance establishes policy and assigns responsibilities governing the use of polygraph examinations conducted by IC elements in support of personnel security vetting. Polygraph examinations conducted for any reason other than personnel security vetting, including examinations in connection with criminal law investigations or suitability determinations, are not covered by this Guidance."
ICPG 704.6; Intelligence Community Policy Guidance 704.6
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: http://www.dni.gov/


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New Books on the 7-Day Shelf this week are; “The Shop on Royal Street” by Karen White, “A Relative Murder” by Jude Deveraux, “The Match” by Harlan Coben and “A Safe House” by Stuart Woods.
Staff Pick of the Week is “The Forest of Vanishing Stars” by Kristin Harmel. From the book jacket:
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what’s happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest—and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.
Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds, and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon, The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel.
Join Indi on Facebook Live Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for the Afterschool Program. We have some craft and clay bags available for pick up at the library. The fun starts at 4:15 so check it out!
Ontario Park Passes are available for patron use at the Wawa Public Library. To checkout your Park Pass, you must have a valid library card. Lending time is for one week! For more information please contact the circulation desk at (705)-856-2244 ext 290 or stop by the library.

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Last month, Caitlyn Jenner dodged jail time by the skin of her teeth when prosecutors decided not to charge her for the fatal car accident she caused that led to the death of 69 year-old Kim Howe.
If the former Olympian thought she was off the hook, however, she was VERY wrong.
According to TMZ, the stepchildren of Howe have filed a legal document claiming that Jenner was under the influence of drugs when she caused the car accident. They are now demanding to know what medications Jenner was taking, saying that they could have impaired her ability to drive.
While Jenner was tested after the accident and authorities determined she was not under the influence, she was definitely on some heavy medications for her “transition.” These meds easily could have caused her to swerve in the road and kill Howe.
Should Jenner be exposed as being on drugs at the time of the accident, she could finally be put in jail where she belongs. You won’t be dodging jail this time, Caitlyn!

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text: Do you believe that a failure to plan is a plan to fail? I’ll admit, I’m annoyingly organized. As I sat down this morning to prepare this month’s schedule, I was most excited to see a few things on my list! Finalizing a new training guide for my clients at LifeSafety. Wrapping up a logo design for a local nonprofit that’s ready to take their branding to the next level. And putting the final touches on a promotional brochure for a local and very talented chamber music ensemble. How are your plans for August shaping up?