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South Carolina helmet law
The law in South Carolina is apparent that helmets are only mandatory for those under 21. Section 56-5-3660 of the South Carolina Code requires helmets to be worn by everyone who operates or rides a two-wheeled automobile.
Punishment for violators
If an individual is under 21 and is found to possess violated the law, they will be fined and potentially jailed for violating the mandatory helmet law. For those 21 and over, there’s no legal or criminal punishment for being caught riding without a helmet.
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Though we explained that for those over 21 years old, there are no criminal consequences for riding a bike without a helmet in South Carolina, that doesn’t mean that the choice won’t impact you in other ways. One example is that an option not to wear a helmet may reduce recovery in an exceedingly subsequent personal injury lawsuit. Now let’s discuss why that’s.
Why would damages be reduced?
Though you are still allowed to bring a suit, the fact is that failing to wear a helmet can reduce the quantity of cash someone recovers in an exceedingly South Carolina personal injury case. The explanation is that if the shortage of the helmet made your injuries worse than they’d otherwise are, the at-fault party can argue that you just must be held partially answerable for the accident and the result.
How much could the damages be lowered?
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The independent over-the-counter markets data provider, ICAP’s Information Services division, which operates benchmarks for the financial services industry announced today that it has voluntarily adopted the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks which are likely to form the basis of impending European legislation.
These principles were developed by the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Task Force on Financial Market Benchmarks. IOSCO created the task force following the worldwide investigations and enforcement actions over the alleged manipulation of major interest rate benchmarks. The organization was concerned that the revelations from the investigations and the news of severe enforcement actions raised doubts over the fragility of benchmarks, in terms of their integrity, and could potentially undermine market confidence.
IOSCO is the international body that brings together the world’s securities regulators. IOSCO develops, implements and promotes adherence to recognized standards for securities regulation, and is working intensively with the G20 and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on the global regulatory reform agenda. IOSCO’s members include over 120 securities regulators overseeing more than 95% of the world’s securities markets.
The major interest reference rates (such as LIBOR and EURIBOR) are widely used in the global system as benchmarks for a broad range of financial products and contracts. The cases of attempted market manipulation and false reporting of reference rates have undermined confidence in the reliability and robustness of existing interbank benchmark interest rates. The FSB warned that uncertainty surrounding the integrity of these reference rates represents a potentially serious source of vulnerability and systemic risk. Against this background, the G20 asked the FSB to undertake a fundamental review of major interest rate benchmarks and plans for reform to ensure that interest rate benchmarks are robust.
The IOSCO principles, which were the result of the review, are not mandatory in any jurisdiction yet, but regulations based on them are assumed to be so in the future as part of the reforms. ICAP’s Information Services division has implemented the principles without legislation, whether to preempt the need to do it later or for brand purposes, as they used the “adhere to the IOSCO” label today when launching Repo Funds Rate Euro, a new daily repo index for Eurozone sovereign bonds. The principles seem reasonable to demand of a benchmark and the main benefit is the apparent transparency that will arise.
List of IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks:
1. Overall Responsibility of the Administrator – The Administrator should retain primary responsibility for all aspects of the Benchmark determination process.
2. Oversight of Third Parties -Where activities relating to the Benchmark determination process are undertaken by third parties, for example collection of inputs, publication or where a third party acts as Calculation Agent, the Administrator should maintain appropriate oversight of such third parties.
3. Conflicts of Interest for Administrators – To protect the integrity and independence of Benchmark determinations, Administrators should document, implement and enforce policies and procedures for the identification, disclosure, management, mitigation or avoidance of conflicts of interest. Administrators should review and update their policies and procedures as appropriate. Administrators should disclose any material conflicts of interest to their users and any relevant Regulatory Authority, if any.
4. Control Framework for Administrators– An Administrator should implement an appropriate control framework for the process of determining and distributing the Benchmark. The control framework should be appropriately tailored to the materiality of the potential or existing conflicts of interest identified, the extent of the use of discretion in the Benchmark setting process and to the nature of Benchmark inputs and outputs. The control framework should be documented and available to relevant Regulatory Authorities, if any. A summary of its main features should be Published or Made Available to Stakeholders.
5. Internal Oversight– Administrators should establish an oversight function to review and provide challenge on all aspects of the Benchmark determination process. This should include consideration of the features and intended, expected or known usage of the Benchmark and the materiality of existing or potential conflicts of interest identified.
The oversight function should be carried out either by a separate committee, or other appropriate governance arrangements. The oversight function and its composition should be appropriate to provide effective scrutiny of the Administrator. Such oversight function could consider groups of Benchmarks by type or asset class, provided that it otherwise complies with this Principle.
6. Benchmark Design– The design of the Benchmark should seek to achieve, and result in an accurate and reliable representation of the economic realities of the Interest it seeks to measure, and eliminate factors that might result in a distortion of the price, rate, index or value of the Benchmark.
7. Data Sufficiency– The data used to construct a Benchmark determination should be sufficient to accurately and reliably represent the Interest measured by the Benchmark and should be based on prices, rates, indices or values that have been formed by the competitive forces of supply and demand in order to provide confidence that the price discovery system is reliable; and be anchored by observable transactions entered into at arm’s length between buyers and sellers in the market for the Interest the Benchmark measures in order for it to function as a credible indicator of prices, rates, indices or values.
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8. Hierarchy of Data Inputs– An Administrator should establish and Publish or Make Available clear guidelines regarding the hierarchy of data inputs and exercise of Expert Judgment used for the determination of Benchmarks.
9. Transparency of Benchmark Determinations– The Administrator should describe and publish with each Benchmark determination, to the extent reasonable without delaying an Administrator publication deadline.
10. Periodic Review– The Administrator should periodically review the conditions in the underlying Interest that the Benchmark measures to determine whether the Interest has undergone structural changes that might require changes to the design of the Methodology. The Administrator also should periodically review whether the Interest has diminished or is non-functioning such that it can no longer function as the basis for a credible Benchmark.
11. Content of the Methodology– The Administrator should document and Publish or Make Available the Methodology used to make Benchmark determinations. The Administrator should provide the rationale for adopting a particular Methodology. The Published Methodology should provide sufficient detail to allow Stakeholders to understand how the Benchmark is derived and to assess its representativeness, its relevance to particular Stakeholders, and its appropriateness as a reference for financial instruments.
12. Changes to the Methodology– An Administrator should Publish or Make Available the rationale of any proposed material change in its Methodology, and procedures for making such changes. These procedures should clearly define what constitutes a material change, and the method and timing for consulting or notifying Subscribers (and other Stakeholders where appropriate, taking into account the breadth and depth of the Benchmark’s use) of changes.
13. Transition-Administrators should have clear written policies and procedures, to address the need for possible cessation of a Benchmark, due to market structure change, product definition change, or any other condition which makes the Benchmark no longer representative of its intended Interest. These policies and procedures should be proportionate to the estimated breadth and depth of contracts and financial instruments that reference a Benchmark and the economic and financial stability impact that might result from the cessation of the Benchmark. The Administrator should take into account the views of Stakeholders and any relevant Regulatory and National Authorities in determining what policies and procedures are appropriate for a particular Benchmark.
14. Submitter Code of Conduct– The Administrator should develop guidelines for Submitters(“Submitter Code of Conduct”), which should be available to any relevant Regulatory Authorities, if any and Published or Made Available to Stakeholders.
15. Internal Controls over Data Collection– When an Administrator collects data from any external source the Administrator should ensure that there are appropriate internal controls over its data collection and transmission processes. These controls should address the process for selecting the source, collecting the data and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of the data. Where Administrators receive data from employees of the Front Office Function, the Administrator should seek corroborating data from other sources.
16. Complaints Procedures– The Administrator should establish and Publish or Make Available a written complaints procedures policy, by which Stakeholders may submit complaints including concerning whether a specific Benchmark determination is representative of the underlying Interest it seeks to measure, applications of the Methodology in relation to a specific Benchmark determination(s) and other Administrator decisions in relation to a Benchmark determination.
17. Audits– The Administrator should appoint an independent internal or external auditor with appropriate experience and capability to periodically review and report on the Administrator’s adherence to its stated criteria and with the Principles. The frequency of audits should be proportionate to the size and complexity of the Administrator’s operations.
18. Audit Trail– Written records should be retained by the Administrator for five years, subject to applicable national legal or regulatory requirements
19. Cooperation with Regulatory Authorities– Relevant documents, Audit Trails and other documents subject to these Principles shall be made readily available by the relevant parties to the relevant Regulatory Authorities in carrying out their regulatory or supervisory duties and handed over promptly upon request.


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Courtesy of Bank of America You will need at least a credit score of 600 to qualify for a Bank of America FHA loan, but once you do, you’ll only have to put three percent down. While the company only offers its financial products, its rates are generally very competitive, though it always pays to shop around.
Bank of America Mortgate Rates | [Full Review Here] – The Bank of America mortgage website is incredibly useful for consumers, featuring several calculators that allow people to check what estimated monthly payment could be, as well as how much they could afford to borrow. A wealth of helpful articles are available which provide much information on mortgages, especially for first-time buyers.
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Federal Housing Administration – Mortgage America – The FHA can also permit the financing of portions of closing costs and allow for refinances without appraisal. Mortgage America can tailor FHA plans to meet the specific needs of each individual borrower, and in some cases, borrowers can even avoid costly monthly private mortgage insurance (pmi) by paying an affordable, one-time mortgage insurance premium.
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#Nassau, Bahamas – March 19, 2020 — The Minister of Education, the Hon. Jeffrey Lloyd, urged Bahamians to participate consciously, patiently and with keen alertness to the changing demands that may come as a result of COVID-19 (Corona Virus).
In a Communication to Parliament, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, Minister Lloyd provided an update for the public and persons connected to education including leaders, superintendents, principals, administrators, teachers, students, other staff, parents and stakeholders.
“The reality is that we are in a National Public Health Crisis, evolving as we speak. The Bahamas has never been here before. Each day, the Science Community is learning more and more about the Corona Virus, which means that each day our response will have to adjust to conform to the new realities,” he said.
He acknowledged the stakeholders for their understanding, wisdom, patience and cooperation and expressed the leadership’s care for each member of the team.
Minister Lloyd also announced the following:
- A rotation system is to be put in place for janitorial and clerical staff. The janitorial staff is to thoroughly clean all campuses using the protective equipment that will be provided.
- All security officers are to report to work each day for their entire shift. Security officers that have large amounts of vacation time and or holiday days that they may have accumulated are advised to apply to take those days at this time.
- Teachers are to continue to engage students through the media they have established. Where that has not been done, they are directed to attend school, maintaining social distance, and secure the register of their students, while also utilizing sources for educational materials
- Beginning March 30, 2020, the “live” instruction will be provided by teachers.
- The Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Virtual School Platform is being upgraded and will be ready Monday, March 23, 2020. Fifty teachers have been trained for this platform which accommodates up to 100,000 students.
- Over 500 devices have been given to students and teachers to access this program. Students can access this platform with any device that has internet connectivity such as cell phones, laptops, and tablets, etc.
- The Ministry has approximately 1800 tablets for teachers and 2500 Amazon Fire 7 for students left to be distributed. It also has approximately 10,000 Amazon Fire 7 tablets that are in schools.
- One-on-One ONLINE learning for after school and weekend personalized sessions are also being expanded which will be ready by Monday, March 23rd, 2020. Teachers will be allowed to use their personal devices for instructions or go to the campus and use those available there.
- Remote conferencing capability is now being installed so that MOE leaders can communicate with all superintendents and principals in order to disseminate and receive information remotely.
- By Friday, March 20, 2020, the Home Schooling Unit will be providing tips for parents working with their children at home and a list of educational links. The MOE will publish consistently and frequently Public Service Announcements, send out messages through WhatsApp, Facebook and the Ministry’s web site.
• Utilize existing resources that currently meet quality standards
• Create instructional resource kits (digital, hard copies, etc.)
• Publish list of topics in sequence by subject and grade level on MOE Website
• Produce specific review package for National Examination candidates. To date, 1650 students have been engaged through our virtual learning platforms.
- 19,829 Primary school students will participate in a one-hour daily live session as parents/guardians will be encouraged to follow the posted learning plans to support their children at home.
- The MOE will also be airing content via Our TV, ZNS, and radio.
Meal vouchers will be provided for two weeks. Parents will be required to collect and confirm the receipt of vouchers for their child/children. MOE will engage a number of eateries whereby students could be provided a meal.
Guidance Counsellors will be provided with cell phones so that psycho-social support could be given 8 to 4 for non-academic and psychiatric support.
Security officers are also maintaining vigilance regarding persons accessing the building who are presenting with flu-like symptoms, and bringing such persons to management’s attention for further attention. It is anticipated that satellite offices will follow suit in these practices
The Toll-Free numbers below would be available by this Friday:
Proposed Revised Examination Dates
Considerations are now being made to extend the Examination timetable. More information will be provided at a later date.
Students have already received Individual timetables, however the large display timetables have not been printed as yet. It is proposed that the new dates, if agreed upon, will appear on the large/display timetables as well as placed in the media and on social media.
To assist students with final preparations for examinations administrators, parents, guardians and other caregivers will be advised to:
- Eliminate all non-instructional or non-essential observances in school e.g. Fun Day, field trips, special assemblies, sports days;
- Provide opportunities for after-school instruction once students return to campus.
University of The Bahamas
- Effective Monday, March 16, 2020, UB campuses, centres and business operations including the Oakes Field Campus, Grosvenor Close Centre, and UB-North operations in Grand Bahama will transition to remote operations until further notice.
- Additionally, Chapter One Bookstore will be closed until further notice. All events scheduled for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester are cancelled or postponed until further notice. This includes Spring 2020 Commencement. A further announcement will be made about Commencement at a later date.
- Remote instruction and communications will commence on Monday, March 16, 2020 using online applications including MOODLE and Zoom.
- Faculty and student communications on course content will continue via online channels. A decision will be communicated by Friday, March 20, 2020 regarding laboratory and practicum classes.
- Teaching practice, kitchen classes and internships are suspended until further notice.
- Students and faculty needing assistance with remote instruction should contact the IT Helpdesk at 302-4588 or email@example.com. Academic Affairs faculty and staff will be permitted to access their offices on Monday, March 16, 2020 to secure their offices.
- Students who are residing in university dorms are advised to gather their belongings and initiate arrangements to leave the dorms and return home effective immediately. Students who are not in a position to do so, should contact the Director of Residential Life and Housing at 422-6429 and Dean of Students at 424-8559 for further instructions and assistance
- Staff are advised that although they are to work remotely, effective Monday, March 16, 2020 they should remain in contact with their supervisors. Staff members who provide essential services including Security, Physical Plant, Information Technology, and Business Office, are advised that they will receive further instructions from their department heads.
- The public is advised to use all available online resources to complete business transactions where possible during this interim period.
Bahamas Technical Vocational Institute
- Effective Monday, March 16, 2020 all face-to-face classes at BTVI have been cancelled until Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Only limited services are available on campus. Updates on the services available are posted on social media and the BTVI website. Many classes have been and are being moved to an online format. Training on the use of online has been made available to faculty. In particular, BTVI will use technology to enhance course content until the end of the term.
- A series of free online training programs/courses are available to faculty which can assist them in improving their teaching capabilities.
- Finally, plans are being prepared to properly manage end of term issues such as exams.
National Accreditation and Equivalency Council of The Bahamas
As of March 2020, NAECOB will recognize all online programmes completed at institutions that have been accredited by agencies acknowledged by NAECOB.
- Programmes completed by Institutions not recognized by NAECOB prior to March 2020, will not be accepted.


ASIA/INDIA - Girl converted to Christianity thrown out of her house and beaten by Hindu extremists
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - Rekha is a girl who a few months ago discovered the message of Jesus Christ and embraced him in her life. Her conversion, however, was not accepted by her parents, of Hindu faith, and other members of the community of her village, Nutangram, near Calcutta, Indian state of West Bengal. And so, inform local sources of Fides, on 12 March Rekha was beaten and thrown out of her home and the village only because of the Christian faith. According to the story refered to Fides, a few months ago Rekha attended a liturgical celebration at the "Khodaejamat Church," the Protestant Christian community, and her heart was touched by grace and faith. Since then she attended religious services regularly, and her love for Jesus grew. The fact was criticized by family members who scolded and beat her, however, unable to dissuade her. Rekha found "the precious pearl " and refused to yield to pressure. That is why she was thrown out, and now she has found refuge with a Christian family.
"The story is symptomatic of how the conversions to Christianity are frowned upon and even prevented in Indian society", notes a source of Fides in India. Incidents involving the sensitive key of "conversion" continue to occur: on March 4, in Karnataka, the police arrested a Baptist Pastor, K. Manohar, after some Hindu extremists had burst into a meeting of worship, beating the faithful and accusing them of "forced and fraudulent conversions." The Pastor was beaten and taken to the police station in Ankola. After hours, he was released because he was found innocent. (SD-PA) (Agenzia Fides 14/3/2012)
- 2015-02-27 - New episodes of violence against Christian churches
- 2015-02-25 - Release of kidnapped priest: the Church thanks the Prime Minister
- 2015-02-24 - The government of India does not intend to pass any anti-conversion law
- 2015-02-20 - ASIA/INDIA – Local Church tells government: stop discrimination against Dalit Christians
- 2015-02-18 - Prime Minister promises protection for minorities, bishops call for “concrete action”
- 2015-02-12 - Blasphemy against the Christian faith
- 2015-02-10 - Elections in Delhi: nationalists collapse, for the Church it is "a new beginning"
- 2015-02-09 - Bishops of Latin rite: "We urgently need to respect the rule of law, peace and harmony"
- 2015-02-06 - Attacks on churches: Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, promises security to churches
- 2015-01-30 - Bishops to the government: "To support a secular India and respectful of the rights"


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It’s blueberry season in Michigan. Berry farms across the state are opening farm stands and inviting passerby to stop and pick. Farmers markets feature flats of these delightful berries, both sweet and tart, plump and juicy. Bakers are happily braving the heat to make pies and cobblers, served with a scoop of cold ice cream, of course.
We dream of the first truly fresh blueberries of the season, and when they’re here, we eat them by the handfuls. The chefs of our Lansing Michigan fine dining restaurant create blueberry-inspired desserts. All seems right in the world.
Here are several places guests of our Lansing Bed and Breakfast may find blueberries:
- Get an early start and head to Dexter Blueberry Farm in Dexter, where you can pick your own berries. They are open as of today, July 20, 2011.
- Visit the East Lansing Farmer’s Market on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; there are blueberries, blueberry jam, and blueberry baked goods.
- Try the Blueberry Wine at Burgdorf Winery. Enjoy it with pork or sip it while sitting in the shade on a hot afternoon.

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Fifty years ago on Sunday, Lyndon Baines Johnson died. He was 64, and had been out of power since stepping down as president in 1969, in the shadow of the Vietnam war. Forty-five years later, in 2018, the Guardian marked the anniversary of his death. The headline: “Why Lyndon Johnson, a truly awful man, is my political hero.”
Mark Lawrence laughs.
“I think I read that one,” he says.
It seems likely. Lawrence, a distinguished Vietnam scholar, is director of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
Johnson was a Texas Democrat who rose through Congress to be vice-president to John F Kennedy, then assumed the presidency when Kennedy was killed. From 1963 to 1969, Johnson presided over great social reform at home and gathering disaster abroad. His legacy has never been less than complex, his place in American culture attracting historians by the hundred and big-name actors in droves. Bryan Cranston, Brian Cox and Woody Harrelson have recently played LBJ.
Lawrence continues: “One of the ideas that an awful lot of people hold about LBJ, and I think it’s not wholly incorrect, but it’s problematic, is that he was this vulgar, crude man who used four-letter words and demeaned his subordinates and threw temper tantrums.
“There’s no question that Caro” – Robert Caro’s biographical masterwork – “is the go-to source for the uglier parts of his personal style. But I think you can also make an argument, and Caro I think comes around to this view in the later books, that LBJ managed to combine whatever elements of that old caricature hold up with a genuine sense of compassion for ordinary people.
“Many biographers see the link between his own hardscrabble youth and the struggles of his family and a peculiar sensitivity to the plight of the downtrodden, which certainly affected his view of racial discrimination. The sensitivity to poverty, whether it affected Black, brown or white, came from his own experience.
“My writing about LBJ has largely been critical, but I don’t have any difficulty saying this was a man with a genuine sense of compassion.”
Lawrence is speaking to mark the half-century since the 36th president died. LBJ is in the news anyway. He was the architect of the Great Society, overseeing the passage of civil rights protections and a welfare system now under renewed attack. Joe Biden often compares his post-Covid presidency to that of Franklin D Roosevelt amid the Great Depression, but comparisons to Johnson are ready to hand.
Lawrence says: “The points of similarity are remarkable. The guy with long service in the Senate” – Johnson from Texas, 1949-1961, Biden from Delaware, 1973-2009 – “the guy who could cross the aisle, the guy who spoke in pragmatic, bipartisan terms. Both of these guys became vice-president to a younger, less experienced but much more charismatic person” – Biden to Barack Obama – “and that was kind of their ticket to the presidency.
“But I think some of these comparisons are ultimately unfair to Biden, because the political context is just so different. My own view is, sure, LBJ deserves credit for being this enormously persuasive, forceful guy who knew how to bend people to his will. But at the end of the day, LBJ was pushing an open door.
“Even the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, these great achievements, they passed by big margins. There were bipartisan coalitions. LBJ deserves credit for his ability to put those coalitions together. But … I think it’s possible to exaggerate LBJ’s importance and to forget the importance of Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits and Everett Dirksen, all key players as well.”
Bipartisan players, too. Humphrey was LBJ’s vice-president, Javits a Republican senator from New York, Dirksen, of Illinois, Republican Senate minority leader.
“I think that’s precisely what’s lacking now. The situation is so polarised that you could bring LBJ back from the dead and he’d be an utter failure in this political context, because his skills would have been meaningless in the context of 2023.”
Biden passed a coronavirus rescue package, an infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, all meant to help the US recover from Covid, with razor-thin margins in Congress and against Republicans gone to extremes. LBJ’s shadow may be long – at a shade over 6ft 3in he is the second-tallest president, after Abraham Lincoln – but Biden does not necessarily labour within it.
So how might progressives see Johnson? If they read Caro, they will learn how he came from a world of Texas populism, tinged with socialism, that now seems far gone indeed.
“At least by the standards of the era,” Lawrence sees in LBJ “a genuine willingness to think hard about poverty and how to insulate people against economic forces over which individuals had no control whatsoever.”
Whether teaching in a dirt-poor school in Cotulla in 1928 or working “for the National Youth Administration in the 1930s, LBJ shows glimmers of his willingness to cross racial lines and to think seriously about the situation of African Americans and Mexican Americans”.
To Lawrence, the Texas years “indicate that LBJ was an unusual person, for a southern white man who came of age in the 1920s and 30s.”
In the 1950s, when Johnson led the Senate, he defended white supremacy. As president, he oversaw the Vietnam disaster. But Charles Kaiser, a Guardian contributor and author of 1968 in America and The Gay Metropolis, also sees the bigger picture.
“In 1968, I hated Lyndon Johnson with all my heart, because I was 17 – and lived in fear of being drafted. Fifty years later, it is clear three other things about his presidency were much more important than the war that destroyed him.
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 made him the most courageous president since Lincoln. Johnson may or may not have said ‘We have lost the south for a generation’ after he signed the 1964 law, but he certainly knew that was true. By fighting for those two laws, he did more to redeem the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation than any president before him.
“Medicare is the third prong of a noble legacy. It did more to improve the lives of senior citizens than anything else except Franklin Roosevelt’s social security. A hundred years from now, I think Johnson will be considered one of our greatest presidents.”
To Lawrence, Johnson’s reputation is “mixed. But I think the mix of impressions is quite different from what it was certainly 30 years ago.
“When he died, and for many years thereafter, Vietnam hung so heavily over LBJ that he was a little bit radioactive … it was something conservatives and the left could agree on. Vietnam was a debacle and LBJ bore principal responsibility for it. But I think in the last decade and a half, there’s been a gradual reappraisal.
“The level of dysfunction and partisanship in Washington has led people to take another look at LBJ and how he was able to work across the aisle and achieve so much. There’s a kind of longing, I think, for that kind of political effectiveness.
“So many of the issues that LBJ worked on are back with us, and I think this has led at least parts of the political spectrum to have a new appreciation for him.
“In a period when immigration and the environment and voting rights are under threat in a profound way, people are rediscovering LBJ as someone who maybe didn’t have perfect answers but worked very effectively, at least by the standards of recent decades, and achieved real results.”

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Categorization and analysis of all forms of rock art with respect to past cultures.
Photographs of rock art of the Anasazi and other pueblo dwelling early inhabitants of the Four Corners Region of the United States.
Photos of Anasazi Indian rock art, otherwise known as petroglyphs. These pictorial stories were chipped out of the desert varnish in Entrada sandstone about 600 years ago.
Rock art discussion list.
Society for investigation and recording of rock paintings and petroglyphs, protection and conservation of rock art sites, as well as publication of scientific reports and education of the general public.
The Bradshaw Paintings are incredibly sophisticated, as you will see from the 32 pictures in the Paintings Section, yet they are not recent creations but originate from an unknown past period which some suggest could have been 50,000 years ago.
Archaeologists in Zambia uncover evidence that early humans used paint for aesthetic purposes far earlier than previously thought.
Federation of national and regional organizations promoting the study of rock art and cognitive archaeology. Features news, reports, information on conferences, and contact details.
University of New Mexico computerized database system for the storage and analysis of rock art data being developed with the support of the National Park Service, the Sandia Pueblo and the Chamisa Foundation.
Article on the sentencing of Arizona residents convicted of removing and selling petroglyphs from a national forest.
Photographs by Brian and Dave Lee of petroglyphs, pictographs, cave paintings, mostly Archaic styles of the Southwestern U.S.
Introduction to prehistoric art with an emphasis on the southwest and western United States. Dating, interpretive theories, image database, and conservation.
Essays on rock art dating and the rational for rock art conservation. History of and continuing rock art destruction is discussed.
Data collection and analysis of the prehistoric pictographs of the Blood of the Ancestors Grotto, Saline County, Illinois.
A series of articles by James Q. Jacobs on the rock art of the American Southwest. Illustrated with photographs, ink renditions and background graphics. Includes free educational materials and desktop patterns.
Focuses on the research interests of Reinaldo Morales including rock art of the Americas, photographs of prehistoric art, and links of interest to students of art history.
Database of over 10,000 citations to the world's rock art literature, with an emphasis on English language and North American citations. Compiled by M. Leigh Marymor and hosted by the Bancroft Library, Berkley.
Includes a worldwide database of rock art links.
Organization dedicated to the education about and preservation of Native American rock art. Annual symposium information, membership, publications, gallery of rock art.
Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us

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Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail
What happened to the $18 billion invested by the international community to help rebuild Afghanistan, develop schools and hospitals and to eradicate the opium trade? In 2009 journalist Paul Moreira visited Kabul to find out. Remarkably, he discovers that, eight years after the fall of the Talibans, no schools had been built and the hospital is falling apart. In the district of Shirpour, the poor have been expropriated to make way for sumptuous palaces. Corrupt government officials benefit from the heroin trade, which continues to flourish. All this feeds the Taliban propaganda and significantly boosts the spread of insurgency.
“Afghanistan: on the dollar trail” selected for “The Investigative Film Week” festival. Paul Moreira’s enquiry into Afghanistan’s corruption was selected by the Center for Investigative Journalism in 2010. It was screened along with five other films in the Oliver Thompson Theatre at London’s City University. The CIJ is a foundation dedicated to Anglo-American investigative journalism. Advisers include American Lowell Bergman of PBS, John Pilger or Michael Gavshon of CBS’s 60 Minutes. The first edition of the festival chose six films from all of those produced around the world to highlight each in their own way an example of film investigation.
“Afghanistan, on the dollar trail” won the Investigation Prize, at FIGRA 2010, the International Festival for General News Reporting and Social Documentaries.

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ESPN’s Fandom Tour Features a Sports Dream Machine
To promote the expansion and relaunch of espn360.com and to make Verizon broadband and FiOS customers aware that the site is free for them, ESPN kicked off the King of Fandom promotional tour. Consumers competed daily in a sports trivia contest on verizonsurround.com and the sports fan with the highest total score was awarded the King of Fandom vehicle—a tricked out sports fan’s dream machine—and $25,000 in cash to tailgate at the sporting events of their choice. The truck was custom-built and automatically lifted up and down to reveal dropdown plasma screens which could connect to espn360.com, play one of ESPN’s many sports networks on satellite TV or be used to play onboard video games—all controlled in the cab with a simple touch screen interface player that operated everything on board.
The interior seats were made of baseball glove leather, a custom locker room was loaded with the winner’s favorite team gear and a sound system allowed friends and nearby tailgaters to listen in to play-by-plays, highlights and live game coverage. A real-time ESPN sports ticker on the vehicle exterior kept everyone informed of the latest scores at other games.
The winner could fire up the grill attached to the truck’s tailgate and cool down with their beverage of choice from the bar/cooler station. All items folded-up and were designed to be easily stored in the truck’s bed for a smooth transition to the next big game.
The King of Fandom was the most successful sports promotion in the history of verizonsurround.com, generating a 240 percent increase in traffic to the Verizon Surround sports site and contributing to a 40 percent increase in month-to-month traffic to espn360.com among Verizon subscribers.

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We support and manage the County’s wide area network focusing on providing secure and reliable wired and wireless access for voice, data, and video technologies. This includes providing the required infrastructure into all county-owned or leased buildings and data centers to meet industry codes and standards.
RCIT supports and maintains the data center and associated compute, storage, and data backup hardware, cloud, e-mail, active directory, identity management, help desk, and desktop support services across the County.
We develop, implement, and maintain enterprise and business line information systems for county customers and provide tools that enable the public to discover, interact, and participate with their government
We provide 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, compliance, and risk management to protect County information and technology assets against insider, third-party, and cyber-based threats.


Importance of the H1 in SEO
What is H1 and how does it impact your page?
When you see a large header on the top of a page, you assume that this is the title of the page, either it’s an article or something else like “About Us” or simply “Services”. The best example I can give you is this article you’re reading right now – it has a heading and it’s called “Importance of the H1 in SEO”.
You as a human being you might ask yourself “isn’t that obvious what the heading is—it’s right there!”. But the main question is, would Google know? We all know that Google is extremely smart when reading and interpreting content—so you would assume that Google would exactly understand it, because the title is usually bigger and it’s on the top of the web page, right?
Unfortunately, that assumption is wrong.
It’s not about Google being smart or not. Google simply doesn’t want to bother with your page much, if you can make Google’s life easier. That’s why Google’s Guideline are here for, and if you don’t follow them, Google is reluctant to rank you well. The conclusio is: play by Google’s book or get lost (in the SERP).
The Title Tag
As web design is not an analogue medium like a newspaper and a book, it doesn’t follow simple rules such as “if it’s on the top, it’s a title” or “if it’s big, it must be important”. Web designers use a huge variety of design elements, thus not following certain rules. Creating a website is a creative process and as we all know, art is not bond to default rules. But Google is, bummer!
And that’s why also Google doesn’t want to interpret automatically which sentence of your content is the heading. Long story short—if you don’t tell Google exactly what the heading of the page is, it actually won’t care—and eventually your page will most likely not be shown on top of the search results. Why should it— you’re paying attention to Google’s guidelines.
Google is a machine, and SEOs have to make sure that everything on a page is machine readable. For that reason, Google has been releasing an enormous amount of SEO guidelines—so SEOs can create pages that can be understood by Google.
H1 is one of those things. If you have a heading for your content, you also to tell Google by classifying it as H1 in the HTML code on your web page.
It sounds easy, but often web designers don’t pay attention to such detail as their not SEO savvy. Basically, your page may look great from a user’s perspective, but Google might just not understand it if you miss to use the H1 correctly.
How to Use the H1 Tag
Every page has to have one H1—and only one! If you use more than one H1s, then Google will take the one it likes the most or not take your page serious, And think of it—why should you be taken seriously by Google, when they are millions of other web sites following Google guidelines correctly, and have similar content?
How to not Use the H1 Tag
Multiple H1s on will spoil the broth. It’s clear that H1 should be used only once on a page. But many websites don’t necessarily pay attention to this. That happens quite too often: for example, pages that have a long article and use H1s for every chapter—or sometimes people have page with many different sections and all section headers have H1s in them—then you’re doing it wrong. As H1 is the most important HTML-Tag for defining the topic of a page, you should utilize it only once.
H1 vs H2
For all other chapters, sections or whatsoever, just use H2s or H3s. H2 can be used multiple times and won’t confuse Google.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tao Te Ching Chapter 25-3 No sounds
No sounds. No forms. (Ch.25)
There is neither sound nor form in Tao.
Some readers may want to interpret Tao as a kind of field, where the transmission of energy takes place in a form of wave.
This idea will help you to abandon the concept that the world is concrete.
Nevertheless, it is not ideal to think of Tao this way because it may give you the idea that Tao has time and space.
Time and space belong to your hologram and Tao doesn't have them.
Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.
-Before heaven 25-2
-No sounds 25-3
-Go around 25-5
-Mother of heaven and earth 25-6
-Don't know the name 25-7
-Go away 25-10
-Far away 25-11
-All are Big 25-13
-Four Bigs 25-14
-King is Big 25-15
-Man's model 25-16
-Earth's model 25-17
-Heaven's model 25-18
-Tao's model 25-19
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 25 This chapter is very useful to comprehend Tao and holography, especially when you feel unsatisfied with the explanation in What's a hologram.
What is read in the video is about the manifestation of Tao.
The chapter's entire English translation and Rapid Decoded are also listed at Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 25.
Everyday a new entry!
Previous video / Ch.25 text / Next video

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Opinion | Speak Your Mind
Focus: Positive discrimination
Women are vastly underrepresented whether it be a parliament or a regular office. Is the best way to end the gender bias introducing steps of positive discrimination? Join the debate.
- Gulf News
- Published: 12:32 January 4, 2013
Popular in Opinion
Gulf News reader is shocked to see street lights on during day time and urged the authorities to tackle the issue
Youth environmentalists come together to clean garbage and litter in UAE
Children make more than 200 candle holders for Diwali
Reader raises concern over the issue of motorists using two spaces in mall parkings.


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It seemed to take everyone by surprise. On July 1, Minnesotans could suddenly buy delta-9 and other hemp-derived THC edibles, thanks to HF 3595. Gov. Tim Walz signed the act back in May.
What the hemp happened?
We looked to a local cannabis store to give us some answers.
Hemp House, a cannabis store in the Wedge neighborhood, has been selling hemp-derived THC products like delta-8 since it opened last summer. Now it’s stocking its shelves with delta-9, THC-0, delta-10 and HHC products, too. These hemp-derived products purport to give users a similar high to ingesting THC from the marijuana plant.
Hemp House was running low on their stock of all of their products on July 3, just two days after the Minnesota law went into effect.
The process of creating these THC products goes beyond growing a plant. It’s a chemical process that uses CBD, which is a common, legal hemp product sold at places like The Wedge Coop.
How the CBD goes from a salve sold at the coop to something that can make you stoned is beyond our journalism degrees. What we do know is that it’s legal and it’s done at the molecular level. You can’t grow delta-9–you have to make it. Users of delta-9 report having a very similar experience to using THC found in marijuana, hence its current popularity.
Hemp-derived THC products are legal because the hemp plant contains less than .3% of THC. In Minnesota, marijuana products are illegal because that plant contains more than .3% THC.
The 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp production in the United States, spurring sales of largely unregulated hemp products including CBD and delta-8. Marijuana is still illegal in Minnesota outside of approved medical purposes.
The Minnesota law that went into effect on July 1 limits any hemp-derived product to be capped at ten 5mg servings per package and can only be sold to people 21 and older. CBD products are also now restricted to people 21 years and older.Any hemp-derived product, including delta-8, THC-0, and delta-10, that are currently dosed at more than 5 mg per serving need to be off the shelves by August 1.
A popular delta-8 product currently sold at Hemp House that needs to be off the shelves by August 1 because the serving size is 25 mg. All THC products need to be sold as 5 mg servings with a max amount of 100 mg per package.
When Hemp House co-owner Dawit Alene heard about Thursday’s legislation from another CBD shop owner who had been lobbying the legislature to protect delta-8, he was worried that the state would ban the cannabinoid.
“I was pretty scared at first about what this could mean for the business,” he said. “That’s why we were all unprepared too, because we were literally trying to get rid of all of our delta-8 so we can become compliant.”
Dawit Alene started making delta-8 products in January of 2021 before opening his storefront the following July.
Since the law went into effect on July 1, Hemp House has sold out of much of their delta-9 products and Alene is thinking about opening new shops and expanding Hemp House’s delivery service. The 26th Street shop opened last July after Alene and his co-owner, Imran Manjlai, struggled to find a leasing agent who would lease to them.
“They were pretty hesitant to let us lease from them just because it was more of a gray area,” Alene said. “It wasn’t necessarily that they disapproved of it, it was like ‘you could go out of business next week.’”
Alene said that they would focus on restocking delta-9 edibles, since those seem to be the most popular.
He and his employees make hemp products in the back of their shop with ingredients they source from other states, including Colorado. The hemp-derived products come in gummies, oils, cartridges, joints and other forms.
Hemp House employees help customers decide which form to buy, and Dawit said that he always recommends that beginners start with a small amount of whichever product they use.
“You can always take more, but you can’t ever take less,” he said.
Consuming too much hemp-derived THC can cause nausea, vomiting and other adverse side effects.
Minnesota’s law also bans marketing delta-9 products to children and will be regulated by the Board of Pharmacy.
In 2020, 39 people were serving time at a Minnesota Department of Corrections facility on charges related to marijuana.


Right now, nothing seems to be going the Chicago Wolves’ way. On breast cancer awareness night Saturday at Allstate Arena, the Wolves suffered a 3-2 defeat to the Grand Rapids Griffins, their fourth loss over their last five games.
The Wolves were in no shortage of chances, but could not find a way to get the job done. Chicago had four clear-cut opportunities to tie the game, but failed to find the back of the net.
“Four breakaways and we don’t score on any, that’s the difference in the game,” Wolves coach John Anderson said. “If we finish on some of our chances, the whole complexion of the game changes.”
Cory Emmerton opened up the scoring midway through the first period for Grand Rapids when he took a pass from Teemu Pulkkinen off a defensive zone turnover by Chicago and rifled it right past Wolves goalie Matt Climie. The goal was Emmerton’s third of the season.
Chicago’s leading scorer Corey Locke scored his third goal of the season as well late in the first period with a nifty move and quick wrist shot past Griffins goalie Tom McCollum.
Both goalies had to be on their feet early as the teams combined for 24 shots in the opening period. The Wolves (3-4-0-1) seemed to play very aggressive early on, creating some solid chances. However, multiple failed centering attempts in front of the net limited them to single-shot offensive rushes. Grand Rapids (3-2-1-1) on the other hand, played a more controlled game with excellent spacing.
In the second period, penalties were the theme, as Chicago went on the man advantage four times in the period while Grand Rapids did so twice. However, the Wolves only converted once on their four power plays, and were just one-for-five on the game.
Brent Regner’s power play goal off an offensive zone draw flew by McCollum, giving the Wolves a 2-1 lead. But just ten seconds later, the Griffins came right back. Tomas Jurco won a battle along the boards and fed Calle Jarnkrok right in front of the net. Jarnkrok’s shot squeezed just inside the right goalpost to tie the game at 2-2.
Climie came up big for Chicago with 4:45 to play in the second period when he stuffed a penalty shot by the Griffins’ Martin Frk, who was awarded the shot thanks to a penalty inside the crease on Mark Mancari for an illegal use of the hands.
Just forty seconds until the end of the period, Jurco whiffed on a wide open opportunity in front of the Chicago net, but made up for it later on the power play when he scored the game-winning goal off a big rebound from Climie. It has been a struggle for Climie this season, who has dropped his first three decisions and sits with a goals-against-average of 3.73.
In the final period, the Wolves outshot Grand Rapids 8-6, but could not find the equalizer despite a dominant time of possession and three breakaway chances.
“It’s frustrating,” Wolves center Keith Aucoin said. “We have the talent and skill to get the job done, we just have to find out a way to do it. It’s still early, but pretty soon you can’t say it’s too early.”


Rapper Theophilus London reported missing in Los Angeles, police urge public for help
Los Angeles police are asking for the public’s help in finding rapper Theophilus London, who has been missing since October, LAPD. announced in a department news release Wednesday.
According to police, the 35-year-old rapper’s family “lost all contact with him” in October and the last known sighting of London was around 12pm local time on October 25 in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
“The reporting person and family members of Theophilus lost all contact with him in October 2022. London has not been seen since and his family is concerned,” the LAPD said.
London has black hair and brown eyes, is about 6 feet tall and weighs approximately 175 pounds, authorities said, and has a birthmark near his left eyebrow.
London’s cousin, Mikhail Noel, shared a message on his Instagram account, asking anyone with information on London’s whereabouts to come forward.
“Theo, we will find you. Your family and friends love you, we need you. We want you here with us in our presence. We ask that we bring you home,” he wrote.
“For anyone who knows anything, please contact me via DM or contact the LAPD. Any information is appreciated to help us find our boyfriend, Theo,” he continued.
London, who has more than 227,000 followers on Instagram, has been active on the platform but does not appear to have posted since July.
The family released a statement through Secretly, a label that worked with London, saying they have been trying to find him for the past few weeks and filed a police report earlier this week, according to The Associated Press.
An LAPD spokesman confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday that a police report had been filed.
“Theo, your father loves you, son,” London’s father, Lary Moses London, said in a family statement obtained by the AP. “We miss you. And all your friends and relatives are looking for you. Wherever you are send us a signal. No matter what we’ll come get you, son.”
ABC News has reached out to London’s family for comment.
London was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and later moved to Brooklyn in New York City with his family.
In an interview with ABC News in 2013, London reflected on how he got into music and shared his emotions before a show in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in the neighborhood where he grew up.
“I grew up in this park. So to come and play now as an adult, it’s like a dream come true for me to express my creative self in Prospect Park in front of my friends and family tonight,” London said at the time.
London has released three studio albums and is known for collaborating with artists such as Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. He was nominated during the 58th Grammy Awards in 2016 for a Grammy for Best Rap Performance for his feature on West’s “All Day”, which also featured Allan Kingdom and Paul McCartney.
His first studio album, Timez Are Weird These Days, was released in 2011 by Reprise Records, while his second album, Vibes, was released by Warner Bros. He later founded his own label and released his latest album, Bebey, in 2020, which featured artists such as Lil Yachty and Raekwon.
Police asked the public to contact the LAPD Missing Persons Unit at 213-996-1800 with any information regarding London’s whereabouts.
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Mallinder’s men shipped five tries as they were trounced 41-7 in the Champions Cup clash at Stade Pierre Antoine.
They are bottom of Pool 4 after winning one of their opening two matches, but they are only two points behind Leinster, who occupy top spot.
And Saints will now look to kick-start their stuttering Aviva Premiership campaign, with the men from Franklin’s Gardens currently sitting ninth in the standings.
They have won just twice in six Premiership matches, and Mallinder knows they must earn a victory when the Cherry and Whites come calling at the Gardens this week.
“We’ve got a massive league game this week,” the Saints boss said.
“It (the defeat at Castres) doesn’t mean we’re out of the Champions Cup.
“It’s a massive disappointment to come here and get nothing, but we won our home game (against Montpellier) so we’re still in with a chance.
“But now we’ve got to really quickly refocus and with Gloucester at home on Friday, a short turnaround, it is a very big game for us.
“It (a poor performance) happens and it’s happened too many times this season, that’s the worrying thing, but we’ve shown that as quickly as we can have a bad game, we’ve had a good game.
“That’s what we need to do on Friday.”


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Retain state Commission on the Status of Women
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The war against women continues nationally and in California the challenges grow.
During the first week of January, Gov. Jerry Brown announced his 2012-13 proposed budget, recommending the elimination of the California Commission on the Status of Women. The commission is scheduled to shut down in April.
The proposed state budget is $137 billion. The required $265,000 to maintain the commission is hardly noticeable in the overall expenditures planned for the state. In his budget message, the governor acknowledges there are "important issues" affecting women, but he does not bother to say who will address them.
There are few voices for California women in the public arena. Research has shown that unless women take up issues of concern to women, no one will. So it matters that California has a commission.
Commissions on the status of women were conceived as advocates for women within the halls of government. These commissions originated during the Kennedy administration in 1963. The California commission was founded in 1965 during Gov. Pat Brown's tenure.
Throughout California, and in other states, local commissions work directly with their constituents: lobbying their governmental agencies and in some areas providing direct services. They listen to the needs of women and serve as their advocates.
At one time, there were more than 200 such commissions nationally. In the '80s and '90s, local commissions, including the Los Angeles city commission for which I served as executive director, held public hearings, sponsored conferences and issued publications. The Los Angeles commission focused on the needs of working women and their families, crafted policy on child care and sexual harassment, and celebrated the accomplishments of women.
Today California has about 28 local commissions that have few, if any, staff members and are mostly run by volunteers.
The state commission focuses on the Legislature. With a constituent base of more than 18 million women, the state commission cannot carry out direct services, but it does make a difference in the lives of women.
The commission periodically holds statewide public hearings to assess the needs of women, communicates those concerns to the governor and Legislature, and follows up by endorsing or sponsoring legislation that will improve the lives of women and their families. Staff provide briefings for lawmakers and monitor proposals.
Since 1999, the California commission has successfully advocated for legislation on health insurance coverage for maternity care, protection for victims of domestic violence, child custody proceedings and a gender-based master plan for women in prison. No other organization or local commission has been able to focus on such a broad range of issues.
The California Budget Project reports that the recession has had a greater impact on women than men. The governor's proposed budget will cut deeply into services women rely on, including education, child care, welfare and health care.
From issues of growing poverty to increasing domestic violence to the lack of equal representation in elected office, the women of California need the commission more than ever.
The California Commission on the Status of Women has as its motto: "No Woman Forgotten." Let's make sure that happens.

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Like cracked recitations of knots and small puffs of air it snuggles along the new album from Mark Solborg.
The improvisations of five musicians – the presence of five human beings, create an organic body of sound.
With this album guitarist and facilitator, Mark Solborg, lifts himself up in the tallest of trees.
He has found allies in the English veteran of avant-garde, sax-player Even Parker, and American trumpet-player, Herb Robertson.
In the trio bass player, Mats Eilertsen, and drummer, Peter Bruun, are the perfect partners in a project which demands something extra ordinary from its musicians.
It’s quiet music which weaves in and out. Volume rises and then suddenly we’re somewhere else. Solborg himself talks about this project as an absolute highlight in his work with improvised music. I won’t hesitate in calling it a highlight in the history of Danish improvised jazz.
The Trees is the finest of all 12 albums which Solborg has recorded. It is music with its very own spirit – it becomes a living body in which wonder and joy keeps on flowing.
My soul, how can you ask for more?
Review: Niels Overgård. Translation: DSI Swinging Europe.


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Mayor Rob Ford is facing a rare and aggressive type of cancer: a pleomorphic liposarcoma.
The Star spoke to several cancer experts unrelated to Ford’s case for insight on the cancer itself — how it forms, and what this diagnosis could mean.
Q: What is a pleomorphic liposarcoma?
A: It’s a fast-growing cancerous tumour that develops in connective soft tissues.
Dr. Howard Bailey, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, has seen hundreds of pleomorphic liposarcoma cases over the last two decades.
He said sarcomas form throughout the human body in connective tissues like bone, fat and muscle. Liposarcomas specifically come from fat cells.
“Pleomorphic” is a term meaning all the cancer cells within the tumour look different under a microscope — as in, different sizes and shapes of cells within the same tumour.
Q: How common are pleomorphic liposarcomas?
A: Dr. Nathan Pennell, medical oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said sarcomas in general are quite rare — around 1 per cent of all cancers.
“In the U.S. there’s probably about 20,000 sarcoma cases a year — and at most a few thousand every year of liposarcomas,” said Bailey.
The pleomorphic liposarcoma variation Ford has is the rarest of the four types of liposarcoma.
Q: What are the survival rates?
A: The five-year survival rate for pleomorphic liposarcoma is 56 per cent, according to the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative based in Ossining, N.Y. This drops to 39 per cent at the 10-year mark.
“If they can get all the disease out surgically . . . he’ll have about a 50/50 chance of beating it,” said Dr. Walter Longo, chief of gastrointestinal surgery at Yale University.
However, Bailey stressed that the likelihood for a cure is lower for advanced liposarcomas that have spread to different areas. The longest he’s seen a patient live with advanced pleomorphic liposarcomas is five to 10 years.
He added the mass in Ford’s abdomen coupled with a nodule in his buttock region is a “very poor sign.”
Dr. Zane Cohen, Ford’s physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, used the word “optimistic” when referring to Ford’s treatment plan at Wednesday’s press conference.
Bailey called that “doctor speak” — and said advanced cases are often not curable. He would not speculate on Ford’s prognosis.
“Can people prove the books wrong? Absolutely,” he added.
Q: Are there challenges to treating this kind of cancer?
A: In Ford’s case, he has three strikes against him: A tumour in his abdomen is harder to treat than one in, say, his arm or leg. Its large size is harder to treat than a smaller tumour. And the specific type of liposarcoma, pleomorphic, is most likely to spread — and come back, the experts said.
Q: Ford had a CT scan in 2011. Why wasn’t the tumour found then?
A: It’s a fast-growing type of cancer, so it could feasibly have grown over the past few years.
“From a biology standpoint of disease, was this cancer there in 2011? The overwhelming likelihood is yes — but too small to be detected,” Bailey said.
Pennell said these tumours can get extremely large by the time they’re found if the patient isn’t feeling any pain.
Q: What role does lifestyle play in developing this type of cancer?
A: It doesn’t, as far as we know, and scientists don’t yet know the cause.
“There’s no data I’m aware of that links liposarcomas to alcohol, tobacco, anything,” said Bailey. Obesity isn’t a known risk factor either.


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Happy April Fools Day Everyone!
Tim and I have arrived safe and sound in Barcelona.
The reason I say it took years is that we have had to cancel three previous attempts to get here. The first was right after 9/11. We were scheduled to leave just a few days after, and chose to stay home. Most air service was cancelled during that time anyway.
The second time we made it to Spain, visited the Andalusia area, but could not swing taking the extra time off to add-on Barcelona.
The third time we were booked on a cruise that departed from Barcelona, but that too had to be cancelled due to illness.
On this trip, we took the SLOW route to get here, but it worked out fine. Leaving Delhi in the middle of the night, we flew first to Doha, Qatar and from there (after a 19 hour lay-over) flew 6.5 more hours arriving at 8:00 this morning.
We have rented a small one bedroom apartment in the Barri Gothic section of the city through Homeaway. It was less expensive than renting a hotel room, has more space, came with a small kitchen area, washer/dryer, microwave and refrigerator. Here are some pictures to show you are new “home”.
The Gothic Quarter (Barri Gotic)
After meeting with the apartment representative, we got unpacked and went out to explore our new neighborhood. I am thrilled with the location. We are in the center of the old section of Barcelona, surrounded by quaint neighborhoods, mostly pedestrian narrow streets, small shops, restaurants, fruits and vegetable store a couple of doors down, and close to the metro and several interesting sites.
There is a small bakery with fresh bread, pastries and delicious coffee right across the street.
On top of that we have FREE and FAST Internet service. I am a happy camper!
I am in a sleep deprived fog, so only snapped a couple of shots while walking around but this will at least give you a slight taste of our area.
The Barcelona Cathedral is two blocks away.
GRATITUDE MOMENT: Today I am grateful to have finally arrived in Barcelona after several previous attempts. I think I am going to love it here!


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2. Keep an eye on portion sizes
It’s hard to know exactly how to manage portions. When faced with a delicious meal, the temptation to pile your plate high is a feeling that can be hard to ignore. But by maintaining portions, you can control your intake of food and make sure you get the right vitamins and nutrients, without filling up on the bad stuff.
Proper portion sizes depend on many things like gender, age, weight, and health. But generally, you can control your portions by doing things like downsizing your plates, bowls, and cutlery. This lowers the risk of overfilling your plate and eating too much. And if you find you’re still hungry, you can go back for seconds. When filling your plate, make sure you follow some basic guidelines like filling half of your plate with vegetables, one-quarter with healthy carbohydrates like potato, whole grain pasta or quinoa, and the other quarter with a lean meat like fish or chicken.
Another trick is to avoid eating snacks straight out of the package. Dividing them out into individual portion sizes will help you avoid eating the whole package. Or better yet, go for healthy snacks like a piece of fruit, some yogurt, or wholegrain crackers with a healthy spread like avocado or hummus. Also, learn to read the labels on food. This will help you understand the correct servings, as well as any hidden fats and sugars.
And it’s not just foods you need to keep an eye on. Beverages like alcohol and soda are usually full of sugars and empty calories and can add to weight gain. Alcoholic drinks especially should be enjoyed in moderation, as too much can begin to severely affect your liver and cause further weight gain.


February 24, 2018, 7:43 pmMario HezonjaSG/SF, Orlando Magic
Mario Hezonja scored 13 points off the bench on Saturday, hitting 4-of-10 shots (including a three) with two rebounds, two assists, three steals and a block in 25 minutes.
Hezonja hit all four of his freebies and has put up some truly unsustainable numbers, returning top-25 value over the last month on the back of 15.8 points, 1.9 treys, 5.1 boards, 1.8 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.8 blocks per game. He’s shooting nearly 50 percent from the field and 90 percent from the foul line. He will cool off and how good he can be is in question, but he appears to be a lock for must-own value the rest of the way.


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Eagles' Matt Jones: Returns to practice
Jones (leg) participated in Saturday's practice, Jeff McLane of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Jones has been sidelined for a little over a week with the leg injury and was forced to miss the team's preseason opener as a result. With his return to practice, Jones should be in good shape to play in Thursday's preseason game against the Patriots.
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Dr Tom Howseman describes how to implement the first NICE guidance on challenging behaviour and learning disabilities. The module outlines what’s new in the guidance, what to do differently in your practice, how to help identify the risk factors and causes of challenging behaviour in patients with learning disabilities, and some useful management strategies.
Guidance: NICE guidance NG11. Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities. May 2015.


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REGINA – Scott Moe and his Sask. Party government missed the opportunity to use today’s provincial budget to finally give Saskatchewan workers a real raise.
“Saskatchewan workers are being overwhelmed by a cost-of-living crisis,” said Lori Johb, president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL), “but Scott Moe chose not to give workers a real raise, despite raking in billions of extra dollars due to high oil prices,” she added.
To further put money in the pockets of all Saskatchewan workers, Scott Moe and his Sask. Party government could have rolled back their unfair utility rate hikes and substantially increased the minimum wage.
“Scott Moe and his Sask. Party government continue to make life more expensive by hiking utility rates, increasing fees and taxes, and allowing corporates to gouge Saskatchewan people,” said Johb. “I am disappointed that Scott Moe did not use the budget to right those wrongs.”.
In addition to not giving Saskatchewan workers a real raise, Scott Moe’s budget did not:
- Roll back unfair utility rate hikes;
- Increase the minimum wage;
- Stop all forms of privatization and sell-offs;
- Fix the healthcare crisis, or;
- Invest more into safe workplaces and eliminating workplace violence.
“Scott Moe’s provincial budget misses the mark – it does not invest in the workers that power our economy and provide our public services,” said Johb. “Scott Moe has been directed by his rich friends for far too long. By listening to Alberta corporations, Scott Moe has ignored Saskatchewan workers and lost his way.”


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Bryaninops amplus, Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Photo: Andrew Green
Bryaninops amplus, Great Barrier Reef, Cardwell, Qld, Photo: Andrew Green
Bryaninops amplus, Photo: Rick Stuart-Smith
Translucent with reddish-brown blotches on the side which tend to fuse, sometimes forming a stripe below the spine. Head broad. Live exclusively on or in close association with gorgonian seawhips.
Max Size: 5 cm
Sea Temperature Range: 22.2-30.9°C
Habitat: Coral Reef
Habitat Generalisation Index: 0.7
Also referred to as the SGI (Species generalisation index), this describes the habitat niche breadth of the species.
Species with values less than 15 are found in a relatively narrow range of reef habitat types (specialists), while those over 25 may be found on most
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IUCN Threat Status: Least Concern
Occurrence: Infrequent (3% of sites)
Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution.
It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
Abundance: Several (6 per transect)
Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.

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Investigator: William F. Tracy, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin,
Project locations: Wisconsin, Minnesota
Participatory plant breeding to improve sweet corn for organic farmers
In the upper Midwest, fresh market sweet corn is an important part of many diversified organic vegetable operations. Many organic farmers consider sweet corn crucial for attracting customers to their market stands or to their CSAs.
In this project, we worked within a participatory plant breeding model. This enables researchers and farmers to work together to develop varieties that exhibit specific traits identified and selected for by the growers. We worked with three experienced organic sweet corn farmers to grow two sweet corn breeding populations in their fields. Selections of corn rows within each population were made based on the ratings the farmers gave for the traits they valued most. Seed saved from the same ears that planted those selected rows were planted in a winter nursery and inter-mated to form the next cycle of selection.
This novel methodology allows the farmers to have complete control over the selection process, while removing the logistical challenges of pollinating and seed saving. It also speeds up the process by allowing a breeding cycle to be completed in one year.
There are four primary objectives related to this long-term project. Conclusive results have not yet been obtained, as this project has four more years before completion. Funding provided by the Organic Farming Research Foundation played a crucial role in initiating this work which has as its main goals:
Develop improved sweet corn germplasm for organic farmers in the upper Midwest.
Our objective is to obtain an open-pollinated sweet corn with early vigor, high percent germination under cool soil conditions, good eating quality, disease resistance, ear worm resistance, and productivity. Within four years, we aim to see an open-pollinated population that is comparable to the commercially available open-pollinated varieties in our farmer’s fields. Eventually, our goal is to produce open-pollinated varieties that will outperform the best commercial hybrids when grown in organic conditions in the upper Midwest.
Evaluate a novel methodology for participatory plant breeding.
Participatory plant breeding requires a high degree of farmer involvement, direction and control in the breeding process. When breeding out-crossing species such as corn, substantial effort must be taken in the middle of the growing season to ensure that only desirable pollinations occur. Through on-going interviews with our farmer collaborators, we are able to determine the strengths and weaknesses of this system. By creating a way to easily breed out-crossing crops on working organic farms, we hope to expand the breeding efforts for organics, giving us more and better crop varieties for organic farmers.
The three producers engaging in on-farm breeding are gaining the skills and confidence to initiate and manage on-farm breeding projects. They are sharing this knowledge with other growers through annual organic breeding workshops. This project demonstrates to farmers the possibilities of breeding at the farm level.
Train graduate students in participatory plant breeding for organic systems.
Graduate students working at the University of Wisconsin with Dr. Tracy are coordinating this project. They are actively involved in planning the breeding methodology, collaborating with growers, and communicating the results. The future success of organic agriculture depends on such breeders, who will work to develop new varieties for organic and low-external-input systems.

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Phlegma and Stagnant Waters bring you an amazing split EP, “Sea of Abandoned Polaroids“. Now you may be asking yourself, “Who are these bands? How come I’ve never heard of them before and yet they are so good!” Well that’s because the guys from each of those bands are now doing Smohalla together!
Let’s take it back a bit. Slo was doing a project before Smohalla entitled Slore. A great number of songs were written during this period but two of them ended up being far too different from the rest of the stuff. They were put aside as Phlegma. Since 2003, these gems have been unreleased and unheard! In 2007, Camille, who was was taking a break from composing Smohalla material, created some totally different material. He named it “Stagnant Water” (in the singular form). The first two demos that were written and recorded in 2007 are the ones which we are presenting to you on this split EP. Later, Camille was joined by Aymeric and renamed the band “Stagnant Waters” (in plural form). Stagnant Waters are currently writing a full-length to be released either on Paradigms Recordings or on Abridged Pause Recordings.
You can download the split for free on our Myspace page.


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BillionaireTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long talked about opening a restaurant/diner chain, and it looks like now his plans are beginning to solidify with a patent lodged with the US Trademark Office.
The application was made to the United States Patent and Trademark Office under the category 'Restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services, take-out restaurant services'. It includes a signature 'T' logo, 'Tesla', and a version of the brand name for use in the food industry.
It means that Musk was serious when he spoke about Tesla offering entertainment and hospitality services at their charging centres around the US. He has previously posted about opening a retro-style diner – ““old-school drive-in, roller skates and rock restaurant at one of the new supercharger locations in Los Angeles”. Tesla has experimented with self-service food and beverage stations as well as rest and lounge areas at their charging centres.
There are no details on the type of food that the Tesla restaurants might offer. Elon’s brother, Kimbal Musk, who sits on Tesla’s board of directors and is a chef, restauranteur and entrepreneur, owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group and a whole slew of community and gardening focused non-profits. He is also the fifth-largest shareholder of his brother’s company.
It is not yet known if you will be able to pay for your burgers with Bitcoin.
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