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Our stay for this ATV adventure was in Escalante, right in the middle of Highway 12 — a top-rated byway in the country. Our ride through Horse Canyon began in Escalante as we trailered to our drop point.
After leaving town, the road passes over the Escalante River and then over what is known as the Hogback — a narrow ridge with steep drop-offs on both sides and no guard rails. My wife has to close her eyes over this section — I couldn’t do that because I was driving.
The views along this route to Boulder are amazing. The raw beauty of this area is expressed in massive rock formations of Navajo Sandstone. Fortunately, there are many pull-outs that allow stops to take more of it in.
We made our way through this incredible landscape to Boulder where we turned east on County Road 1668 — the Burr Trail. This road, now paved, took us on a hairpin turn dropping us into Long Canyon — a beautiful gorge with towering rock walls. On the north end as we came out, we stopped at an open area on the right to unload.
Our guide on this ride was Sam Steed who lives in Marysvale. Growing up in Escalante, he knows this rugged country. I learned that this area was the last to be mapped in the United States — it was easy to see why.
Beginning the ATV part of our ride, we went back out on pavement, north for about a mile before we turned east onto the Wolverine Loop Road. The first miles of the trail were unremarkable and then the high walls began to close in as we wound through the twists and turns of Horse Canyon.
At points, the walls were distant as we rode through washes displaying evidence of past flash floods. In other sections, the enormous ramparts closed in around us as we squeezed between lofty walls.
While the formations we trailered through earlier were predominately white, the walls in Horse Canyon are generally red. Many of the bulwarks were streaked with a black patina while others showed the beginnings of the formation of new arches. Still others took on an ominous and eerie appearance pocked with many holes, large and small, as though eyes were watching us as we passed.
As we rode, we encountered a strong headwind. We knew that a big storm was blowing in and we hoped to time our ride to avoid it.
Some of the sections we encountered were lined with trees and foliage displaying fall colors that stood out yellow against the beauty of the red cliffs. The sky was a cobalt blue touched with white puffy clouds that added to the colorful panorama.
While the canyon continued, we came to the end of the trail. Sam told us that the cowboys wintered their cattle here so the canyon would be the scene of large cattle drives in the spring and fall. We stopped before entering Death Hollow for obvious reasons.
He also told us to expect a cabin at the end of the trail that the cowboys used. We found the cabin, but I was surprised to find that it was not a traditional log cabin. It was a large metal box the size of a cabin with a man door. I would love to sit around a campfire and hear the stories those cowboys could tell.
This was our lunch stop and some of us took our camp chairs down into a dry creek bed against a huge rock wall. I enjoy this social part of the ride. I thought as we talked that during this pandemic, riding ATVs is one of the safest activities available.
On the return trip, Sam took us on a little side track through a tight canyon where the walls were full of holes. It was a particularly enjoyable diversion. On our return trip, we had a strong tail wind, which had us trying to ride fast enough to stay ahead of our own dust.
Sam did tell me of some cowboy folklore that I found interesting. He said the cowboys say that in this country, if you need water, dig near the sandstone cliffs.
We got back to the trucks, finishing a ride of about 39 miles. Fortunately, the storm broke after we were well on our way. When you go, take plenty of water, keep the rubber side down and if you haven’t been to Boulder, you don’t know rocks.

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SANTA CLARA — San Francisco’s most impressive win of the season came with a big cost.
The NFC-leading 49ers lost center Weston Richburg to a season-ending knee injury and key defensive players Richard Sherman and Dee Ford for multiple games with injured hamstrings in Sunday’s 48-46 victory at New Orleans.
The win did give the 49ers (11-2) a little cushion in the NFC playoff race. San Francisco has a one-game lead over Seattle in the NFC West, as well as the Saints and Green Bay Packers in the race for a first-round bye and home-field advantage.
The Niners have already beaten Green Bay and New Orleans but lost in overtime to Seattle last month. San Francisco finishes the regular season on the road against the Seahawks in a game that could determine the division champion.
San Francisco will have to navigate the next few weeks without some important players. Richburg anchored an offensive line that contributes to the league’s second-ranking rushing offense, as well as providing good protection for Jimmy Garoppolo. Ben Garland, who has started seven games since entering the NFL in 2012, will take his place.
Sherman will miss a couple of weeks but could return for the season finale after hurting his right hamstring late in the game. Emmanuel Moseley, who fared well replacing Ahkello Witherspoon at right cornerback earlier this season, will step into Sherman’s spot on the left side.
Ford re-injured his hamstring after just four plays and likely won’t be back until the playoffs.
Garoppolo had perhaps the best game of his career, throwing for 349 yards and four touchdowns. He hit several plays downfield, while posting a passer rating in excess of 110 for the fourth straight week. That’s a feat only Steve Young had ever done in San Francisco with six in a row on the way to a Super Bowl title in 1994. The biggest play of the game came on fourth-and-2 in the final minute. Garoppolo found George Kittle just at the first-down marker and the tight end ran 37 more yards even with Marcus Williams hanging onto his facemask for a penalty. That set up the game-winning field goal.
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The defense. What had been the strength of the 49ers all season struggled against Drew Brees and the Saints. The pass rush, which had been dominant all season, failed to record a sack for the first time. A secondary that went four straight games without allowing a TD pass gave up five. In all, San Francisco had season worsts by allowing 465 yards and 46 points.
RB Raheem Mostert. For the second straight week, the former special teams standout got the bulk of the work at halfback and delivered. He ran for 69 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries and also caught two passes for 40 yards and a TD. Mostert as 263 yards from scrimmage and three TDs the past two weeks.
S Marcell Harris. Harris fared well stepping in last week in Baltimore for the injured Jaquiski Tartt and delivered one of the biggest defensive plays of the game with his strip of Lamar Jackson. But Harris took a bad angle on New Orleans’ first touchdown and struggled for much of the game in coverage and in tackling.
DT D.J. Jones sprained his ankle in the game and his status is unknown. CB K’Waun Williams is in concussion protocol.
5 — Emmanuel Sanders became the fifth player since the merger to have two games with a TD catch and a TD pass. He caught a 75-yarder from Garoppolo in the second quarter and then threw the pass to Mostert later in the first half. He also had a TD pass and catch in the same game a year ago for Denver against Arizona. The others to do it twice are Odell Beckham Jr., Walter Payton, LaDainian Tomlinson and Danny White.
The Niners return home to face the struggling Atlanta Falcons. Shanahan spent two seasons as offensive coordinator in Atlanta before taking over in San Francisco, helping the Falcons reach the Super Bowl following the 2016 season.

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NITDA to develop multi-billion naira data privacy sector in 2021 –DG
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THE National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says the agency is set to develop a multi-billion naira data privacy sector for job creation in 2021.
The NITDA Director-General, Mr Kashifu Inuwa, said this on Monday in Abuja at the virtual news conference to open the 2021 National Data Privacy Week.
Data Privacy Week is a global event held every last week in January, while this year’s celebration falls between Jan. 25 and Jan. 28.
Inuwa said that boosting the data privacy sector would be through consolidated implementation of the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR).
According to him, the NDPR established in Jan. 25, 2019 by Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, is designed to guide the use of data in public places.
“It will also meet the global principles on data protection, especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),’’ the director-general said.
He said that the NDPR recorded huge success between 2019 and 2020, through sustained public awareness, training, workshops for Data Protection Compliance Organisations (DPCOs) and Data Breach Investigation Team (DBIT).
He said that other achievements were the implementation structure of NDPR that approved licences for DPCOs on data protection implementation, legal and political structure for sustainability.
“In March 2020, NITDA was selected as a member of the Technical Working Group on Data Protection Laws Harmonisation and Localisation in Africa.
“In December 2020, NITDA was appointed as full member of the Common Thread Network, a network of commonwealth nations’ data protection authorities.
“In 2021, we are working on development of sectorial implementation toolkits and the objective is to get sector stakeholders to agree on a single, workable template for compliance in their sector.
“We shall engage vigorous and experienced Nigeria-based institutions that will help us standardise and accredit data protection, information security training and certification.
“We hope to develop a multi-billion naira sector that will create thousands of jobs for trainers, content providers and other professionals.
“We are also going to re-jig our enforcement mechanism to improve compliance,” the NITDA boss said.
He further said that data privacy was challenged due to the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis which led to mental health crisis, thereby impeding compliance and enforcement of the regulation.
“We are going to redouble our efforts in the direction of enforcement and compliance as data protection has become a pivot for the continued growth of the digital economy,’’ Inuwa said.
He, however, said that the agency was going to create more awareness on the regulation, further work with the media to upscale its publicity and build capacity of officers on data protection management in collaboration with stakeholders.
“Our current effort at enforcement is salutary but not nearly enough, we are considering all options to ensure we do not kill businesses while also ensuring businesses do not kill Nigerians through wanton abuse of their data,’’ he said.
Inuwa called on all data controllers and processors to file their annual data audit report before March 15.
The D-G emphasised that non-filing of their report was a punishable offence under the NDPR and the agency was set to fully enforce the provision this year.
“Our audit reports for filed entities of 2019-2020 from some DPCOs show compliance level of financial services at 35 per cent, fast moving consumer goods at 14 per cent and energy at 10 per cent.
“The consultancy sector compliance was at nine per cent, ICT at eight per cent, transport and logistics five per cent and others at 19 per cent.
“With the direction we are moving on NDPR audit compliance filing, we are very glad that we have set out in the right way.
“Our strategy of licensing DPCOs is yielding bounteous fruits as Nigeria now has more data protection experts per capita than any other African country,” the NITDA boss said.
He further said that wealth was generated through the DPCO scheme, hence aligning with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda to diversify economy, create sustainable jobs and digitally develop the country.
Inuwa also said that strategies to implement the NDPR were helping lawmakers pass a befitting Data Protection Bill.
He outlined activities to mark the week as Privacy Tech Expo, webinars on Privacy and Public Health Management – Lessons from COVID-19 – and National Virtual Class on Data Protection for Secondary Schools.
Other activities he said would include webinar on NIN: Preserving Privacy; Promoting the Digital Economy, discussing the issues around the issuance of the National Identity Number and its implications on privacy and the digital economy.
He added that on Jan. 28, Pantami, would anchor the Global Privacy Day, National Quiz Competition and a roundtable discussion comprising African Data Protection executives.
Inuwa unveiled the official kits for the privacy week and commended their sponsors for support.
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The most obvious adage with this relationship is the fact you must be willing to change. Changing your traditions in this manner is the most suitable done piecemeal. The adjust should not only be obvious, but should also become well explained. You should also consider the result on additional practices.
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With 22 of 40 racing days in the books, all-sources handle on Saratoga races climbs; attendance and field size are fractionally down as wet weather causes 26 races to come off turf.
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I'll Have Another's owner said the Brian Meehan-trained colt will be sent to Saratoga Race Course for the Aug. 25 Travers Stakes (gr. I).
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Zayat Stables' Paynter, who was sent to an equine medical center after spiking a fever following his victory in the July 29 Haskell Invitational (gr. I), will not run in the Aug. 26 Travers Stakes (gr. I).
Monarchos, the 2001 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner, returned home Saturday, Aug. 11, to Nuckols Farm near Midway, Ky.
Five retired jockeys will ride against five of the top riders in the Arlington Park standings in the "Arlington Fab vs. Legends" turf race Aug. 17, one day before the 30th running of the Arlington Million.
The New York Racing Association has designated Friday, Aug. 17, as "Fabulous Fillies Day" at Saratoga Race Course and activities throughout the day will help support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Highlighted by the $1 million Delta Jackpot (gr. III), Delta Downs has announced a stakes schedule consisting of 32 stakes with purses totaling $4.64 million during the 2012-2013 meet.
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Doors open at 6:30 pm if you want to get an early start on registration and mingle with the nearly 30 teams that have signed up! Registration officially starts at 7 pm. and prop will be revealed at approximately 7:30. Feel free to hang around afterwards and have a few drinks – the bar will be open until 9 pm.
Team leaders, please be sure that you have at least one member of your team or a team representative in attendance to sign paperwork, go over rules and pick up the prop. Feel free to bring as many team members and friends as you like — the event is open to the public and the more the merrier! We will also have long-time super judge Chuck Duncan explain the scoring system and what judges will be looking for in your films.
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It's a myth that eating at night leads to weight gain, Palinksi-Wade points out; it's more about what you're eating at night that can be an issue when it comes to weight management. "Since most of us don’t have a salad for a midnight snack, if you find you tend to eat calorie-dense, high-sugar foods in the evening (like a bowl of ice cream) setting guidelines as to when to stop eating may help you to lose weight faster."
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Ciao! I don’t even know where to begin and I’m so behind, so I’ll just hit the highlights! The apartment we stayed in was in a fantastic location and so affordable. We stayed in Campo Di Fiori and walked everywhere except the Vatican.
(Campo Di Fiori is right around the corner from Piazza Navona!)
Note: The website I used to book all our apartments is www.airbnb.com and it’s great! You can read reviews, look at pictures, and message the hosts before you ever decide on a place. They even have city guides that can help you chose an exact location depending on your needs and you pay online in US dollars and then they convert it and pay the host. It’s so easy!
Day 1: We arrived at the Rome airport around noon and it was a 20 min. train ride into the city. Fun fact… When we were exiting the airport they didn’t make us go through customs. It was considered optional and we awkwardly hung around deciding what to do for a few minutes.
When we got to Rome we wandered around the city trying to find the Pantheon and ended up at the Roman Forum and Colosseum instead. It didn’t really matter because we were just so excited to be in Rome and every time we turned a corner we found something new. The public transportation system in Rome is not very organized and they only have two metros because every time they try and expand it a new artifact is uncovered! Luckily once you know where you’re going everything is easily within walking distance.
That evening we ate our first pizzas in Italy at a restaurant in Campo di Fiori for only 9 euro each! They were huge!! One thing I found interesting is that authentic pizza doesn’t include tomato sauce unless it is listed as an ingredient.
A few tips on dining in Rome:
1. The water is never free
2. The bread is never free
3.Check the prices on the menu at the door before you sit down.
4. Ask if service is included because usually it is! (No tip necessary!)
After dinner we wandered around our piazza for a bit and into the next one called Piazza Navona. It was there that we stumbled upon the most beautiful church I had ever seen, Sant’Agnese in Agone. The sun was setting behind the church, and as we admired from the steps bells began to ring. It felt like my own personal welcoming committee and I’ll never forget that!
We finished out the night by watching street performers and street artists in Piazza Navona. Our goal was to stay up until 9 pm, because even though we were extremely jet lagged we were determined to adjust our schedules. It doesn’t even start to get dark here until then so we figured that was an acceptable bedtime.
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THE DEBATE over what constitutes acceptable behaviour on the Net has taken a new twist thanks to the tactics of some supporters of Scientology in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. The group is the site of a long-standing row between pro and anti-Scientologists (Netropolitan, 18 March).
Not content with thrashing out their disagreements in the abstract arena of cyberspace, some of the pro-Scientologists are allowing the argument to spill over into the outside world by revealing the name, address and phone number of a critic who was posting under the pseudonym of “TarlaStar”.
This goes far beyond a mere breach of “netiquette”. It also exposes Tarla-Star to the attentions of any net-cruising lunatic who cares to pay her a visit.
But Andrew Milne, who works for the Church of Scientology, says his original posting of TarlaStar’s real name and city of residence – her full address was posted later by other Scientologists – was justified because “she had for several months been making false and often highly offensive references to my religion, while remaining anonymous – a practice I find unethical and unfair”.


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What did the liberal establishment expect George Zimmerman to do, let Trayvon Martin smash his brains out against the sidewalk?
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CUBA GOODING JR. CAST AS O.J. SIMPSON, SARAH PAULSON AS MARCIA CLARK IN AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON
Academy Award®-winning Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. to Star in the First Installment of the New Anthology Series from Prolific Award-Winning Producer Ryan Murphy and Executive Producers Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, Scott Alexander,
Larry Karaszewski and Dante Di Loreto
American Horror Story’s Sarah Paulson to Star Opposite Gooding Jr. as the Relentless Prosecutor in the High-Profile Murder Case
Written by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski and Directed by Ryan Murphy
Based on the Book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Academy Award®-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. will play football star turned murder defendant O.J. Simpson and Emmy® Award and Golden Globe® Award nominated actress Sarah Paulson will portray prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first installment of Ryan Murphy’s new anthology miniseries for FX, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.
Cuba Gooding Jr. won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Jerry Maguire in 1996 and has earned critical acclaim for his work in feature films and television. His feature credits include As Good as It Gets, Men of Honor, American Gangster, Red Tails and Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Gooding Jr. is currently appearing in theaters in Selma and is in production on The Book of Negroes. His television credits range from Hill Street Blues and MacGyver to the recent TV movie Summoned and the upcoming Comedy Central series Big Time in Hollywood, FL.
Sarah Paulson is currently starring in American Horror Story: Freak Show as “Bette Tattler/Dot Tattler.” Paulson previously starred in the third installment of the critically acclaimed series American Horror Story: Coven for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. In the anthology series’ second season, Paulson earned a Critics Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries as well as an Emmy nomination for her work as “Lana Winters.” Paulson was also nominated for an Emmy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award for HBO’s 2012 television movie Game Change, and earned a Golden Globe Award nomination in 2006 for the NBC comedy series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. On film, Paulson was last seen in director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, which was named Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and has starred in such critically acclaimed features as Mud and Martha Marcy May Marlene. She recently completed production on Todd Hayne’s latest film Carol opposite Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Murphy developed American Crime Series to focus each season on a different true crime story which made headlines and captivated the imagination of the public. The first installment, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, is based on the book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
Murphy joins Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson (The Hunger Games, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Brad Falchuk (Glee, American Horror Story, co-created with Murphy) as Executive Producers of American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, alongside Golden Globe-winning screenwriter Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Dante Di Loreto also serves as an Executive Producer, with Murphy set to direct. The first two hours of the miniseries will be written by Alexander and Karaszewski (The People vs. Larry Flynt, Ed Wood, Man on the Moon). Production begins early next year in Los Angeles. It is produced by FXP and Fox 21 Television Studios, the companies that co-produce the long-running hit series Sons of Anarchy for the network.
American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is a look at the O.J. Simpson trial told from the perspective of the lawyers that explores the chaotic behind-the-scenes dealings and maneuvering on both sides of the court, and how a combination of prosecution confidence, defense wiliness, and the LAPD’s history with the city’s African-American community gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt.
Ryan Murphy is the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning writer/producer and director of the hit series Glee (FOX) and Nip/Tuck (FX) and the miniseries American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Asylum, American Horror Story: Coven, and the newest installment, American Horror Story: Freak Show. The first three installments of the AHS franchise have scored 51 Emmy Award nominations, and have earned its star Jessica Lange two Emmys, a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe. Murphy most recently won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie for The Normal Heart (HBO), based on Larry Kramer’s award-winning play of the same title about early days of HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City’s gay community in the early 1980s.
Since its inception, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force production company has proven to be a hotbed for bringing beloved literary adaptations to the big screen. Nina Jacobson, along with her partner Brad Simpson, have been able to secure valuable partnerships with several favorite pop culture writers, including Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games trilogy), David Nicholls (One Day) and Jeff Kinney (The Wimpy Kid series). The company is currently developing several best-selling novels including Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette? with Annapurna Pictures, Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. In 2014, Color Force signed a first-look feature deal with Fox 2000. Color Force also has a first-look cable television deal with FX Productions. American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson will be the first production under this pact. Color Force’s films The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire have grossed a combined $1.5 billion worldwide. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the third film in the series, was released by Lionsgate on November 21, 2014, to be followed by the final film in the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on November 20, 2015.
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriters. They redefined the biopic genre with Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, and the upcoming Christmas Day release Big Eyes.


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Glory of Stories introduces young visitors to art and the Museum through a story reading followed by an interactive tour of relevant works of art and a studio art project. This program encourages learning through discovery, exploration, and hands-on experiences. Visit delart.org for details and a list of books.
Ages 2 and up.
Free to Members, $5 per child and one adult free for Non-Members

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The following is the technical classification for worker’s compensation classification codes as written by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI).
Last updated December 2008. All codes are subject to change. Contact your state worker’s compensation bureau for the most up to date information.
Code 2089 is not applicable in California and Montana
“PACKING HOUSE—ALL OPERATIONS”
Includes butchering or the handling of livestock. Shall not be assigned to a risk engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to 2089 are conducted as a separate and distinct business.
CROSS-REF. State Special: New Jersey—Packing House—Meat NPD—includes butchering or the handling of livestock;
This classification covers insureds engaged in the preparation of fresh meat and meat products including the handling and slaughtering of livestock. Its scope contemplates pen maintenance and killing room operations. The dressing, boning and chilling of beef, pork, sheep and calves and the processing of some cuts into meat products fall under Code 2089. Some of these processed products are cured hams, smoked tongues and bacon (including bacon slicing), pickled or preserved beef and pork cuts, frankfurters, bologna, etc. Additional operations covered under this class are rendering, lard refining, butter substitutes manufacturing, washing of casings, sausage manufacturing, salting of hides, cooking of offal, processing of the viscera and fertilizer manufacturing. Some of the prepared meats are packed in cans, bottles or jars, sealed and cooked in vats.
The following clarifies the distinctions between Codes 2081 and 2089 for classification purposes. Although both classifications contemplate butchering or slaughtering and the handling of livestock, the packing house classification, Code 2089, is applied to those insureds whose operations involve meat processing beyond the point of cutting, boning and dressing for distribution to customers such as wholesalers, retailers, restaurants and hotels. In order to qualify for Code 2089, the risk’s principal operations must be that of processing meat. Processing meat includes but is not limited to processes such as smoking or curing hams, bacon manufacturing, pickling or otherwise preserving beef or pork cuts and, in many cases, the packaging of meat products in the form that they will be subsequently sold to the consumer. Insureds that do not process meat as described above but only engage in sausage manufacturing and butchering operations that involve cutting of steaks, chops, roasts and incidental grinding of meat are assigned to Code 2081.
Oregon—Butchering, Packing House or Slaughtering—All Operations—includes butchering, the handling of livestock, preparation of dressed meat, rendering, washing the casings, salting of hides or cooking of offal.
*Special Note – Montana* – 2089 is not used in Montana. Please refer to Scopes Classification 2081 – Butchering for more information.
*Special Note – California* – 2089 is not used in California. Please call California State Compensation at 415 – 777 – 0777 for more information regarding job risk classifications.

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ATHENS, March 4 (Reuters) - Greece's international lenders insist the country's top four banks need an additional 8-8.5 billion euros in capital after stress tests, well above the needs estimated by the nation's central bank, a banking source close to the talks said.
The two sides failed to reach an agreement on the issue at a Tuesday meeting but no further meetings are planned and the Bank of Greece plans to release its report on the stress tests later this week, the source said.
The Bank of Greece estimates the four major Greek banks - who have been battered by the country's debt crisis and have been propped up by EU/IMF funds - will need about 5.8-6.2 billion euros in additional capital. (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos, Writing by Deepa Babington)

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Quilled Christmas by Alli Bartkowski
Make this holiday season merry with charming quilled projects.
Christmas is the perfect time to brighten your home and delight family and friends with handmade decorations, ornaments, stocking stuffers greeting cards, and gift packaging. In these thirty holiday-themed projects, Alli Bartkowski shows you how to roll, shape, and glue colorful paper strips into eye-catching framed art for your mantel, a handsome nutcracker figurine to display, dainty snowflake ornaments to hang on your tree, and a stunning poinsettia pin to wear at your next holiday party. Each project is designed for a specific skill level (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). Plus, you'll find an in-depth introduction, complete with step-by-step photos, to the essential techniques for making basic quilled shapes, elegant quillography, and dazzling linear art.
Paperback by Alli Bartkowski. Published by Lark Crafts. 30 paper projects for creativity and relaxation. Explains the basic tools and techniques of quilling, from curling and crimping the paper to...
Quilled Flowers: A Garden of 35 Paper Projects by Alli Bartkowski Roll, mold, and shape colorful strips of paper into a bevy of petals, blooms, and bouquets for all occasion....
by Cecilia LouieQuilled Card projects that are crafter-friendly, perfect for beginners and convenient for experienced quillers. From a thank-you note to a cheery holiday message, here's a quilled card for...


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Concert industry magazine Pollstar’s 2016 lists were recently released in their January 16th Year-End issue, and local SMG-managed buildings Van Andel Arena and DeVos Performance Hall have found a place among the top venues in the world.
Van Andel Arena celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016, and it shaped up to be a year-long celebration with some of the biggest acts in the industry. With performances from the likes of Elton John, Garth Brooks, and Paul McCartney, among several others, the arena sold enough tickets to come in at #35 among arena venues of all sizes in the United States and #69 worldwide on Pollstar’s list of Top 200 Arena Venues in 2016.
On Pollstar’s list of Top 200 Theatre Venues, DeVos Performance Hall ranked at #20 in the United States and #29 worldwide for theatre venues of all sizes. Both lists tracked reported ticket sales between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016.
“It is incredibly gratifying to see that the support we have from the community here and the Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention/Arena Authority (CAA) isn’t going unnoticed,” said SMG Regional General Manager Richard MacKeigan. “Without their loyalty and patronage, it would be very difficult to be successful, and we felt like we received plenty of both for DeVos Performance Hall and the 20th anniversary of Van Andel Arena. We are very excited that these rankings reflect that as well.”
Prior to Pollstar’s year-end lists, Van Andel Arena and DeVos Performance had already been recognized by other trade magazines as well. Venues Today showed the arena as #4 in North America and #11 worldwide on their Top Stops list for venues with a capacity between 10,001 and 15,000, and the arena also appeared at #5 among venues of the same capacity range on the magazine’s Social Media Power Poll which ranks venues by their social media presence. DeVos Performance Hall came in at #16 worldwide on Venues Today’s list of Top Stops for venues with a capacity between 2,001 and 5,000.
Van Andel Arena also came in at #3 on Billboard’s Boxscore rankings for venues in North America with a capacity between 10,001 and 15,000. The arena was #8 worldwide in the Boxscore rankings.


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Wet in Wet painting
Wet in wet painting the basics.
Wet in wet painting means what it says painting wet colour into wet colour on the paper, so once you have put some colour onto your paper you mix another colour and paint into the colour already on the paper. The consistency of the colour what is already on the paper shouldn't be a runny water colour but a colour which is steadfast (Without runs) otherwise when you drop another colour into this it will run. What we want here is two colours that go into each other in a pleasing way on the paper and that you can see both colours in or next to each other. In the same vain we shouldn't paint wet watery colour into wet colour, when you bring some colour onto your mixing area of your palette, tip your palette up on its side, the mixture shouldn't run and this is the consistency of paint that we need.
So lets try this, bring some colour into your mixing area on your palette (It doesn't matter what colour) with a good consistency so it doesn't run off your palette when turned on its side and paint this onto your paper around 2" diameter. Mix a different colour in another well of the same consistency as your first colour and drop this into your colour on your paper. You should have a nice blend of two colours which melt into each other but which aren't runny but bleed into each other nicely.
I personally don't use wet in wet that much but on occasion I do when I feel I want to use it like in a person's hair or in a tree where two colours seem to merge, it is all trial and error and as said before nothing beats practice you learn so much but only if you want to learn.
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research group engaged in research and graduate instruction in the techniques of satellite oceanography and their application to problems in physical, biological, and chemical oceanography. Dr. Evans’ focus of research is to develop quantitative methods that permit timely access to satellite remote sensing observations of transient events in the ocean, using imaging infrared sensors and multi-spectral infrared and color scanner observations. He continues evolutionary development of processing and analysis capabilities with the goal of generating long-term time-series of oceanic mesoscale variability.
Curtis Mobley is the Vice President for Science and Senior Scientist at Sequoia Scientific, Inc. Dr. Mobley has a background in physics and meteorology, but most of his career has been devoted to research in radiative transfer theory applied to problems in optical oceanography. He created the widely used HydroLight computer program and wrote the textbook Light and Water: Radiative Transfer in Natural Waters. Early in his career he was a Fulbright Fellow in Germany, and has held both regular (at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) and senior (at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) National Research Council Resident Research Associateships. He was an oceanographer with the University of Washington Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean during the 1980s. From 1989 to 1991, he was the Program Manager of the Ocean Optics (now Littoral Sciences and Optics) program at the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Mobley has been an associate professor of physics at Pacific Lutheran University and is now an Affiliate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington.
Jorge L. Sarmiento is the George J. Magee Professor of Geosciences and Geological Engineering at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University in 1978, then served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA in Princeton before joining the Princeton University faculty in 1980. He has published widely on the global carbon cycle, the use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation, and the impact of climate change on ocean biology and biogeochemistry. He has participated in the scientific planning and execution of many of the large-scale multi-institutional and international oceanographic biogeochemical and tracer programs of the past three decades. He was Director of Princeton’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program from 1980 to 1990 and 2006 to the present, and is Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science. He has served on the editorial board of multiple journals and as editor of Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Shubha Sathyendranath is a Senior Scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) and an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University (Canada). She served as Executive Director of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) until 2008 and continues to be involved in POGO, currently focusing on its capacity building efforts. She is an expert in marine optics and has several years of experience working on ocean color algorithm development and applications, and has published extensively in this field. She earned a doctorate in Optical Oceanography from the Université Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France, in 1981. Dr. Sathyendranath is a former member of the National Academies’ Committee on International Capacity Building for the Protection and Sustainable Use of Oceans and Coasts.
Carl F. Schueler retired as Chief Scientist of Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) in 2006, and was an industry remote sensing and electro-optics consultant until joining Orbital Sciences Corporation in 2008. Since the early 1980s he has led numerous sensor studies and proposals that have resulted in polar and geosynchronous Earth observation and planetary exploration instruments. He managed SBRS’s mid-1990s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Block 6 and Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) studies leading to Raytheon’s participation in the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), now the NASA/NOAA Joint Polar-orbiting Satellite System (JPSS). As Technical Director from 1996 to 2002, he led the Visible Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) design, leading to an award in 2000 following the Preliminary Design Review. From 2001 to 2006 he led SBRS’s proposal to win the NASA Glory Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) program and served as Technical Director through Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews, achieving the highest NASA quality ratings. At Orbital he authored the 2008 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) staring wide field-of-view (WFOV) Commercially Hosted InfraRed Payload (CHIRP) proposal, garnering the largest unsolicited Air Force award in history, and served as CHIRP Chief Scientist until 2010. Since then, he has developed missile warning and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) architectures. He serves on two Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) program committees and on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Systems Technical Committee (SSTC). He received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1980 under a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has published 80 papers on remote sensing and instrument design and served on five NRC committees, including the 2007 Decadal Study Weather Panel.
David A. Siegel is a Professor of Marine Science in the Geography Department and Director of the Earth Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He joined the UCSB faculty in 1990 after one year

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Exposed three “telephone terrorist” from the Odessa region
KIEV. March 20. UNN. In Odessa region exposed the three men to the message to law enforcement information about threats of a terrorist nature. It is reported by UNN with reference to press center of the security Service of Ukraine.
“Employees of security Service of Ukraine exposed the three inhabitants of Odessa region who have made false reports of threats of a terrorist nature”, – stated in the message.
So, according to intelligence agencies, in Odessa law enforcement authorities detained the man, who, with hooliganism reported about mining of administrative building of management of SBU in Odessa region.
The investigators also exposed the inhabitant of the Cherkassk area who made a phone message about the alleged bomb explosives on one of the Odessa bus station, noted in the SBU.
In addition, the inhabitant of one of settlements of Odessa region, according to intelligence agencies, in the state of alcoholic intoxication twice called the police with threats to blow up the neighbor’s house and the local club.
See ALSO: IN the capital for a day “mined” the two vessels
After the examination of these objects and adjacent areas of explosives and related compounds is not found.
“On all facts criminal proceedings under article 259 of the Criminal code of Ukraine. The sanction of article prescribes punishment in the form of deprivation of liberty for a term from two to five years. At the second call of the attacker could be sentenced from four to eight years of imprisonment. “Telephone terrorists” will also have to offset the cost of state and commercial institutions have suffered losses from their illegal actions”, – noted in SBU.
We will remind, the pensioner “mined” the city Council in Kharkiv region.

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Written by Jack Summerell & Ash Hunt
Well, it’s 2018, and another great year of film lies ahead of us. But, as it’s only January and we are still annoyingly months away from Avengers: Infinity War, the Falmouth Film Society thought we would give you our list of just 10 of the best films from the last 10 years.
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
We start off with a classic of not only the past 10 years, but arguably of film in general. With its amazing soundtrack, pacing, and of course the acting of the late great Heath Ledger, it undoubtably had to be our pick for 2008. The director Christopher Nolan has directed many amazing films, and we’d be lying if we didn’t consider his films for the rest of our list, but for variety we’ll leave him alone for now.
2. 500 Days Of Summer (2009)
On the outside, 500 Days of Summer looks like it’s one of those cheesy, light hearted rom coms, that would vacate your memory within a day or two, but what 500 Days actually delivers to us, is an unexpected, uplifting and depressing tale of the expectations of being in love. Just like any relationship, 500 Days has its highs andlows but due to its confident direction, directed by Marc Webb, excellent performances & an offbeat storyline, what separates this film from the rom-com genre, is its tenderness and intellectual view on both sides of a relationship.
3. Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010)
Our pick for 2010 features not only a great soundtrack from Nigel Godrich, the unique directing of Edgar Wright, but also some nicely done characterisation. By which we mean the characters from the original manga felt well represented and not at all forced. The momentum of the film always feels natural and well-paced, making it one of our most replayed films on our list, along with great VFX and casting, it deservedly tops 2010 for us.
4. Drive (2011)
Right from the get-go, this film slaps you in the face with stunning cinematography, a stimulating soundtrack and character with a major ‘postmodern man with no name’ vibe, thanks to the intense but brilliant performance from Ryan Gosling. With themes of loneliness and identity, Drive sends us into a sublime neon world of heists, blood, and Ryan Gosling’s incredibly smooth driving. Moody and atmospheric, slow paced, with scenes of longing and desire, this film may leave you with a dark and empty feeling.
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Based on the book of the same name, Stephen Chebosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a powerful, insightful coming-of-age story, about the darker and more mature obstacles that are dealt with in high school. This film is a perfect combination of the filmmaking elements of the likes of John Huges, Richard Linklater and Alexander Payne, it greatly benefits off of its lead performances by Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller, as well as sensitives direction and witty dialogue, Chebosky has created a rare gem in the genre of high school dramedy.
6. Her (2013)
Romantic, bitter-sweet, soulful, witty and smart, Spike Jonze uses just a dash of sci-fi to connect to us on the state of modern human relationships with technology. Vast empty spaces, warm colourful close ups, the cinematography is just one of the many things that make this film intensely beautiful. With stellar performances from SpikeJonze and a Pixar character sounding Scarlett Johannsen, Spike Jonze has quite possibly made the most aesthetically pleasing film of the 21st century.
7. Whiplash (2014)
Whiplash, despite being an all round great film, has the amazing ability to depict the dedication and great lengths someone would go to for an art, and made us question how far we would go to achieve our dreams. With its intense moments, and of course the brilliant soundtrack which couples nicely with the main theme of drumming, Whiplash creates an in-depth look into the desperation of an aspiring musician and doesn’t hold back any punches.
8. Room (2015)
Room explores the psychological effects of both a mother and a son recovering and learning to live again after a shared trauma. Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay portray their emotional range and torment, in what is probably their best performances yet. Despite the film lacking on the family dynamic, Lenny Abrahamson has managed to create an incredibly touching world, against the backdrop of a sensitive nightmare.
9. Arrival (2016)
If you think you’re not interested in sci-fi or first contact films, don’t fool yourself and miss out on this gem. It was close between Arrival and La La Land, but our choice was swayed by the nice change in concept that Arrival has compared to other sci-fi films. Its detailed story of solving the language of an alien species is not only made intriguing and enticing, but is overlaid with an even more interesting and emotional development of the protagonist, that left us in awe at the end of our viewing.
10. Logan (2017)
Logan is for us a familiar yet fresh approach to comic book heroes. From the moment it was announced to be Rated R, we were excited to see what was in store for the beloved characters of the X-Men series. Regardless to say we were blown away by it, mainly because we haven’t seen heroes in this state of deprivation, and the movie doesn’t hold back on the emotional pressure points. It’s not to say we didn’t enjoy the other films of 2017, but for us we like it when films stand out from their counterparts, and Logan definitely achieved that.
And finally, before we leave you be, here’s a bunch of films we’re looking forward to in 2018:
From the director of Ex Machina and 28 Days Later, we are excited to see what comes from this promising feature.
Isle Of Dogs
It’s been 4 years since we last saw a feature film from Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel), and 9 years since his last animated film (Fantastic Mr Fox), so it’s safe to say we are looking forward to this title.
Avengers: Infinity War
Arguably just another film to the already long-winded franchise, we are still excited to see the culmination of our favourite characters, why? Because we’re nerds.
The Incredibles 2
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In magic formula meetings two decades in the past this thirty day period, users of Congress were being briefed on what the relaxation of The usa would shortly understand: A deadly virus was spreading fast overseas and headed for the United States. Some lawmakers acted immediately—not in the public’s curiosity, but in their personal. They sold stocks weeks just before marketplaces crashed, when the scale of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus grew to become broadly recognized. A international pandemic was unfolding, and these lawmakers were fretting as considerably about the health and fitness of their money portfolios as about the well being of their constituents.
Congress thought it experienced presently mounted what appeared alarmingly like insider buying and selling by its customers. In 2012, lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to enact a bill regarded as the Stock Act, banning themselves from utilizing facts they discovered on the work for personal economic gain. The regulation required sitting members—along with their workers and community officers in other branches of the government—to make far more specific and timely disclosures about their fiscal transactions. While the legislation aided the general public location conflicts of desire, it was unable to stop them. “Members hear all forms of information that in essence may well total to insider trading, but it’s almost difficult to enforce insider trading and to establish what occurred when,” Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, a Democrat who has been pushing for decades to restrict stock investing by associates of Congress, told me.
The Justice Division investigated numerous senators for their 2020 inventory dumps but submitted no fees. The allegations of pandemic profiteering did, nonetheless, have main political repercussions and helped Democrats earn their slender Senate the vast majority final year. Among the those who located their transactions less than federal scrutiny have been both Republican senators from Ga, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler (they equally denied any wrongdoing), who misplaced in particular elections very last January. The Democrat who defeated Perdue, Senator Jon Ossoff, is now main a new drive to ban associates from buying and selling particular person shares altogether.
“There’s popular bipartisan disgust with America’s political class, and stock trading by users of Congress is egregious and offensive,” Ossoff told me previous week.
Legislation that he’s released along with Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona would demand associates of Congress, their spouses, and dependent young children to either provide their specific shares or position them in a blind belief. (A bipartisan companion monthly bill was previously unveiled in the Dwelling.)
The proposal is, not shockingly, well-known with a community that enjoys to search down on its lawmakers: Just about two-thirds of all respondents, like majorities of equally Democrats and Republicans, backed the notion of banning associates of Congress from buying and selling shares, according to a modern poll conducted by Morning Check with. But the bill is probably to be minimum common among the people today who actually have to vote on it. If Congress has struggled in the latest decades to deal with the nation’s most sophisticated difficulties, its observe history of policing alone is arguably even worse. Republicans built tiny energy to move ethics legislation when they previous ran Washington, and whilst Residence Democrats did progress a key anti-corruption invoice as portion of its initial voting-rights force previous 12 months, they quickly jettisoned its significant ethics provisions in a (so considerably unsuccessful) bid to acquire passage in the Senate.
The proposed ban on stock investing by lawmakers has upended the expected ideological divide. A co-sponsor of the Household measure is conservative Agent Chip Roy of Texas, a former top rated aide to Senator Ted Cruz. The bill has also gained the backing of two groups that normally defend unfettered accessibility to the free of charge market, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which emerged from the Obama-period Tea Party. Carrying the libertarian flag as an alternative is Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose spouse, Paul Pelosi, has created hundreds of thousands in stock trades that have come to be fodder for amateur trackers on social-media platforms these as Reddit and TikTok. “We’re a totally free-industry economy. [Members] ought to be in a position to take part in that,” Pelosi instructed reporters earlier this month, sounding extra like Ayn Rand than a San Francisco “socialist.”
The very last significant ethics legislation to very clear Congress was the Inventory Act a 10 years back. Even that invoice, having said that, handed only after party leaders watered down a more durable original proposal, and in a year of its enactment, Congress quietly acted to roll again a single of its key transparency provisions.
The require to control stock buying and selling by lawmakers is obvious to the bill’s supporters, who on this specific issue know perfectly of what they converse. Associates of Congress are privy to marketplace-going information ahead of the basic public on a near-day by day foundation. That is in particular legitimate in situations of disaster, such as a main army buildup or the onset of a world wide pandemic, when the inventory market is far more volatile and lawmakers usually get classified briefings from senior government officers. They may not be equipped to examine what they read in community, but right up until the passage of the Stock Act, it was not evidently unlawful for them to make funds off it. Property and Senate votes are by themselves sometimes marketplace-moving situations, and lawmakers are commonly the initially to know no matter whether a measure will pass or are unsuccessful. One particular of the authors of the Stock Act, previous Democratic Agent Brian Baird of Washington State, instructed me that in moments of dark humor for the duration of important ground votes, a colleague would joke to him (and he emphasized that he was in truth joking): “We could make some money off this vote, ideal?”
In 2012, the authors of the Stock Act considered an outright ban on inventory trades was “a bridge far too considerably,” Baird explained to me. But the pandemic-buying and selling scandals propelled phone calls for new laws, and more current disclosures, which includes a prolonged investigation by Business enterprise Insider, have presented the press extra momentum. So, too, has Pelosi’s brush-off, which prompted the bill’s backers to redouble their initiatives. “I fervently disagree with her,” Consultant Abigail Spanberger of Virginia explained to me. Spanberger, a Democrat, 1st released legislation with Roy much more than a calendar year and a 50 % back. “There’s several professions where by there are restrictions positioned on what someone can do financially. This necessity is an definitely reasonable a person for those people of us who pick to enter this job.”
The proposals would make it possible for associates and their people to keep handle of investments in diversified mutual or index resources, U.S. Treasuries, and bonds. Kelly advised me that in addition to blocking insider trading by lawmakers, necessitating customers to stage again from energetic control of individual shares would make sure that they aren’t using votes on laws dependent on how it would influence them monetarily.
Introducing to the force on Pelosi, House Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy has recommended that Republicans could possibly put into practice a ban if they win back again the bulk this tumble. Pelosi very last week softened her stance, telling reporters that although she remained personally opposed to the proposal, “if customers want to do that, I’m okay with that.”
The developments around the past month have developed a dynamic reminiscent of other productive drives for new congressional ethics regulations, Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Community Citizen and a longtime authorities-reform advocate, informed me. “The potential customers are incredibly good,” he stated. “Sometimes we have to embarrass Congress into performing the ideal issue, and it will work the moment the community receives involved.”
Still the supporters of a ban on lawmaker inventory investing however have a approaches to go. General public aid for a monthly bill can mask broader private opposition, and the leaders of this most the latest work are mainly users with reasonably minimal practical experience in Congress. The Inventory Act eventually passed with around-unanimous votes, but Baird instructed me that throughout the years when he was initial pitching the invoice to colleagues, a lot of took offense at the mere suggestion of impropriety. Other individuals wanted their investments to continue being private, and some just did not want the extra inconvenience of getting to disclose them. “I thought naively that this would be these types of an apparent ideal point to do that when I lifted it with men and women, they’d react, ‘Gosh, I didn’t know that. We should really deal with it,’” Baird chuckled ruefully. “Well, the reaction was nearly anything but.” Right after the Inventory Act’s passage, Baird mentioned he observed himself in an elevator with an aide to a substantial-ranking Democrat who did not know he was talking with an creator of the bill. “I gotta go property and fill out my effing paperwork for the goddamn Stock Act,” the staffer complained.
Kelly informed me he did not have a great deal sympathy for customers who opposed ethics legislation due to the fact of the trouble of complying with it. “If you really do not want the trouble, uncover something else to do,” he stated. “There are a good deal of individuals who could do this career.” His retort epitomized the challenges that Kelly and his allies face. They are inquiring their colleagues to vote for a bill that won’t require sacrifice by their constituents, only by on their own. “Frankly, I don’t intellect whose emotions I hurt when I make that case,” Ossoff claimed. “My colleagues have to have to hear it, and I think they are hearing it.”


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"Sing sing” dancers, Papua New Guinea, 1998.
Dancers at a sing sing in the highlands of Papua New Guinea take a break. There are over 800 distinct language groups on the island, and these communities have lived for hundreds of years with their unique history, knowledge and cultural practices. But they were often at war with each other, and the sing sings were organized by the government in 1957 in an attempt at pacification—with mixed results. Caution: smoking can be hazardous to your health. From my archives, photographed for a National Geographic article on beauty and what it means in various cultures around the world. @natgeo @thephotosociety #papuanewguinea #travel #culture

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LAST month a Telegraph headline said: “Government closer to selling RBS stake after bank agrees ‘milestone’ £3.6bn US fine.”
In May, the Royal Bank of Scotland agreed with the US Department of Justice to settle lawsuits accusing the bankers of selling products linked to risky mortgages in the US between 2005 and 2007.
These were the dodgy financial products at the centre of the banking crisis, so it seems RBS is admitting responsibility for an economic fraud that has caused deep misery for millions.
Now the fine is paid, the government thinks it can reprivatise the bank.
RBS chief executive Ross McEwen said: “It does help the government sell a cleaner bank.”
RBS was nationalised in 2008 — we bailed out the bank because it was crashing, following its involvement in all the dodgy banking that caused the economic crisis.
Since it became publicly owned, the bank has paid multiple fines for its misbehaviour. In February 2013 RBS paid £390m for “widespread misconduct” in rigging the “Libor” rate.
In May 2014 it was fined $664m (£502m) for rigging Forex exchange rates.
In November 2014 RBS was fined £217m in Britain and $290m (£218m) in the US for rigging Forex.
In December 2016 RBS paid £800m for settlements with shareholder groups over misleading investors.
However, now the publicly owned bank has been made “cleaner” by paying off all these fines, it will be sold off again — probably at a loss of around £26bn after the £45bn bailout of RBS during the financial crisis.
So the publicly owned bank pays all the fines. We pay for their crimes. Then they are privatised at a loss to the taxpayer. The fines have been nationalised, the profits privatised.
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First of many solutions planned include Open Network switches that are designed from the get-go to work seamlessly with OpenDaylight SDN controllers
Montreal, Canada, October 10, 2017 – Kontron, a global provider of cloud and carrier-class integrated infrastructure platforms, and Inocybe Technologies, a leading Open Networking technology provider from the data center to the network edge, today announced cooperative plans to bring fully integrated ‘out-of-the-box’ Open Networking platforms to the enterprise and service provider communities.
Both companies will be at SDN NFV World Congress 2017 in The Hague, October 9-13 to discuss the Open Networking solutions and switches they are developing in partnership.
Integration work will consist of marrying Kontron SYMKLOUD white box switching and other hardware platforms together with various software stack components that make up the Inocybe Open Networking Platform, including OpenDaylight SDN, VPP and OpenSwitch.
“Inocybe and Kontron both share a common and aligned mission to ensure that open source software is the appropriate means for CSPs to accelerate SDN and NFV production deployments,” said John Zannos, Chief Revenue Officer, Inocybe. “With the various Kontron rack-level white box switch, compute and storage hardware, we are developing a full range of Open Networking solutions that simplify SDN and NFV for our customers.
“Inocybe is clearly a strategic fit for Kontron and our line of SYMKLOUD platforms,” said Benoit Robert, VP Strategy & Marketing, Kontron. “After more than a decade of SDN development, and as a leading contributor to ODL and other networking stack pieces, Inocybe has gained tremendous market traction in providing automated and intelligent, open source networking for both enterprises and service providers.”
Kontron and Inocybe will be exhibiting at the SDN NFV World Congress 2017 at booth C14, World Forum, The Hague, Netherlands, 9-13 October 2017.
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Do you buy organic? If so, why? A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Standford University researchers may change your mind about eating organic.
Recently, a Best Food Facts reader asked us to review an article that said eating eggs is just as bad for your arteries as smoking, wondering if this is true. Considering that, on average, the American consumer eats 248 eggs each year, we thought this was a very good question.
Does cooking grass-fed meat destroy fatty acids?
Many of us see grass-fed and grain-fed labels when shopping for beef. We’ve looked at the differences between grass-fed and grain-fed, and asked experts what’s more healthy, but recently we received another question about the topic from one of our readers.
What type of foods should be eaten as part of a healthy diet and to help reduce weight?
Many of us want to lose weight - the great news is that there are certain types of food that can help us get there! Brenda Roche Wolford, M.S., R.D. - Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor at the University of California explains.
Celebrate National Lasagna Day with one of these dishes - classic lasagna, eggplant parmesan lasagna, vegetarian lasagna, apple dessert.
A national study is taking a thorough look at the well-being of not only the birds housed on these farms, but also the people who care for them.
Have you seen photos on Facebook or Twitter showing fast food that doesn't spoil?
We reached out to Dr. Sean O'Keefe, a food science professor at Virginia Tech, and asked him why fast food doesn't spoil.
People might be questioning the safety of eating chicken in light of news reports claiming a link between the E. coli that causes human urinary tract infections and E. coli that could be found on chicken products. Dr. Randall Singer, DVM, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences.
Why do our bodies need water, and how much water should we drink per day? Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a professor at PennMedicine, explains.
Recent blog posts and articles claiming that "superweeds" are getting stronger because of herbicide resistance have raised concerns amongst our readers. To help dig into the subject, we’ve enlisted the help of Dr. David Shaw from Mississippi State University.
When you think of local food, what definition do you use? Take our poll!
When you're shopping for eggs, do you look at the labels and wonder about the welfare of the hens? For example, The Mother Fitness blog examined the differences, while One Mom's World toured a modern egg farm. In thinking about the chickens who lay those eggs, which housing system does the best job of caring for the chickens?
The Best Food Facts post about hormones is one of the most visited pages on our site. It seems many readers want more information on the topic. Our experts have answered Are hormones in my milk and meat making my kids bigger? and What could be causing early puberty in girls?
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Chinese acquirers made little to no value in 60% of their outbound investments over the past decade, according to a recent report by McKinsey China. Further, as a response to the resource insecurity China faced from 1998 to 2008, with resource import prices increasing by 18% annually, Chinese firms sought out new resource investments, leading to 84% of China’s outbound resource investments – 89% in terms of deal value – losing or creating no value for their acquirers.
Natural resource deals made up 43% of China’s outbound M&A deals over the past decade, amounting to 217 deals and 56% of all outbound investment value. Unluckily for these acquirers, commodity prices peaked around the same time as the financial crisis of 2007–2008, and as 80% of these natural resource deals happened prior to the peak, these companies have lost an average of 9% on their investments. The risks were worse for larger resource deals, with US$2.000 billion (C$2.560 billion) plus deals succeeding just 9% of the time, while deals below that threshold succeeded 13% of the time.
Within specific sectors of the resource industry, only the construction and building sector saw a positive financial return on investment, at just 1%, a paltry return considering construction and building deals only totalled US$0.8 billion, or 0.3% of total Chinese outbound resource investment value. The biggest losses as a percentage were in the chemical sector, which lost 22% of its invested value of US$2.7 billion, and comprised 1.1% of the outbound resource investment mix. Oil and gas, with its US$148.4 billion invested, was the largest sector at 61.2% of the resource investment mix, but lost 8% on its investments over the decade.


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With policies and actions, the government is supporting the fisheries sector and the prospects of blue growth, such as the €11 mln Liopetri fishing shelter upgrade, said President Nicos Anastasiades.
He laid the foundation stone for the project to be completed in November.
Anastasiades urged the construction company to finish the project within the envisaged timeframe implementing “what has been a vision and a standing request by the region’s fishermen for decades.”
He noted that fishing may have a small contribution to the island’s GDP but contributes decisively to the coastal regions’ social and economic growth, offering consumers healthy and safe products.
The project features a new 112-birth harbour with upgraded surrounding areas, boasting pedestrian and cycle lanes.
“The project is expected to have direct social and economic benefit both to the fishermen themselves as well as the community of Liopetri and the inhabitants of the wider region.”
Moreover, Anastasiades said the connection with the highway, which is also under construction, will make the shelter accessible to tourists at the nearby resorts of Ayia Napa, Paralimni, and Protaras.
“The citizens will soon have at their disposal an area which constitutes a reference point for sport and leisure with an upgraded road network.”
The President said his outgoing government leaves to the next administration, which assumes power on March 1, following the February presidential elections, a legacy of over €54 mln in the programme Sea, Fisheries and Aquaculture 2021-2027, which is additional to the funds allocated in the annual budgets.


More than 100 gathered in blustery conditions in Nashua on Saturday for a rally calling for immigration reform. The rally, which was promoted by a coalition of organizations including the SEA, AFL-CIO and many others, took place at City Hall, and was followed by a march to the offices of Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, where participants posted signed letters calling for “commonsense reform.”
This effort is part of a larger one that the SEIU has undertaken, seeking reform that “provides a clear roadmap to citizenship for hardworking, tax-paying immigrants; builds the strength and unity of working people; keeps families together; and guarantees the same rights, obligations and basic fairness for all workers, no matter where they come from.”
“We have seen the politics of division at play for too long and the outcome of it hurts all of us,” said SEA President Diana Lacey.
SEA Board Member Germano Martins, who immigrated here from Brazil in the 1970s, was one of the final speakers at the rally. In his remarks, he said that we, the people, have the power to effect change.
“There is no power greater than when the people of this great nation come together to stand for what is right,” he said. “You have seen it when they said women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”
“You have seen it when they separated our children by race and color and said that ‘separate but equal’ is OK,” he said. “You said ‘nay.’ They were wrong, you were right. Now, when they say immigrant families can be separated by their immigration status and that ‘separated is still equal,’ we come together again to say that is not right, it was wrong then, it is wrong now.”
Martins said that current immigration policies tear families apart, when we should be strengthening the family unit.
“I propose to you that the test of a ‘humane and just immigration policy’ is whether it preserves the family, whether it promotes family unification, whether it keeps families together and whether it includes a path to citizenship,” he said.
In closing, he said the time for reform is now, because we can’t pass this problem down to our children.
In statements to The Telegraph, both Sens. Shaheen and Ayotte agreed that reform is needed. They may get a chance to weigh in soon, as a hearing is scheduled for next week in the U.S. Senate on the yet-to-be unveiled reform legislation.
Another rally held Tuesday in Manchester pointed to the need for reform sooner rather than later. That rally was in response to a crackdown over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement that led to the arrests of several. Maggie Fogarty of the American Friends Service Committee said immigration enforcement is broken.
“In lots of ways, it’s a very flawed system,” Fogarty told The Telegraph. “It’s all too aggressive, and the way we’re investing so much money into this makes no sense at all.
We’ll be sure to keep you updated as the reform efforts progress in Washington.


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Easy Riders: The Teutuls of "American Chopper" fame
brought one of their new designs to the stage at the opening ceremonies of
the recent SolidWorks conference.
Attendees at the recent SolidWorks Users Conference in Orlando got a treat
during the opening session. Toward the end of COO Jeff Ray's remarks, there was
a rumble off stage right that sounded suspiciously like a motorcycle. It was a
motorcycle! Amid the throaty noise and smoke, CEO John McEleney rode onto the
stage on a new red sport bike designed and manufactured by Orange County
Choppers. The crazy-like-foxes Teutuls, the father and sons team that hosts the
hit TV show American Chopper, are new SolidWorks customers, and were there to
announce their customer status and show off the new bike. The crowd roared
approval. During an exchange with McEleney on the ease of use of the company's
FEA package, COSMOSWorks, the senior Teutul said it all boiled down to "blue is
good, red is bad," referring to the color plots on FEA results. Red on the
plots, of course, indicates undue stress.
Also on the stage later in the event: Aerospace and aviation engineering pioneer Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne recently won the Ansari X-Prize. The crowd applauded as he lambasted NASA for not having concentrated on developing civilian flights to space.
As energy efficiency becomes more and more a concern for makers of electronics devices, researchers are coming up with new ways to harvest energy from sound vibration, footsteps, and even electromagnetic fields in the air.
The government wants to study your brain, and DARPA wants to use similar information to give robots true autonomy beyond any artificial intelligence developed to date. Sound like science fiction? It's not.
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is


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In 1985 back then, football violence was a widespread problem, tainting our national game. It was a social and political issue. There was an infamous riot by Millwall fans at Luton Town and the Heysel tragedy. Football’s decision makers decreed enough was enough, football had to change forever. The threat of hooliganism had to be eradicated from the game. But was it?
In May 2010, 25 years on, Luton’s Kenilworth Road stadium was in the news again. In the second leg of a play-off semi-final between Luton Town and York City, violence flared at the final whistle. York City players cowered in the back of a stand as they were pelted with missiles from rival Luton fans and fights broke out with police on the pitch. Shocking images were the lead story on Sky Sports News for 24 hours. But there was something else equally as alarming about the events at Kenilworth Road, because this was hardcore hooliganism at a NON-LEAGUE football match.
For the past two decades television has saturated the Premiership, inflating the cost of players to the clubs, and therefore ticket prices to the supporters. The casual terrace thug from the working-class culture that gave birth to the football fan has been priced out of the market. Or so it seemed. But he has simply gone elsewhere. The emphasis has shifted. Like mercury oozing across an uneven surface, football hooligans have found the cracks.
This 10 minute documentary by TopBoysTv dives into the world of football hooliganism in the lower leagues feauring lads from York Normads Society and Luton Town Migs.
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