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Washington University Law Review
THE SUPREME COURT ACKNOWLEDGES CONGRESS' AUTHORITY TO CONFER INFORMATIONAL STANDING IN SPOKEO, INC. V. ROBINS.
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Author: Mank, Bradford C.
The Supreme Court 's 2016 decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins does not fully resolve when an intangible injury such as a defendant's misreporting of a plaintiff's personal information is sufficient to constitute a "concrete injury" for Article III standing. However, the Spokeo decision makes clear that Congress has a significant role in defining intangible injuries for Article III standing beyond what was considered an injury under the American or English common law. Some commentators had thought Spokeo might overrule the Court's prior decisions in Akins and Public Citizen, which both held that a plaintiff may have standing based solely upon his statutory right to information. Instead, the Court in Spokeo reaffirmed its informational standing decisions in Akins and Public Citizen.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. ARTICLE III CONSTITUTIONAL STANDING II. INFORMATIONAL STANDING: PUBLIC CITIZEN AND AKINS A. Public Citizen v. United States Department of Justice B. Akins III. DOUBTS ABOUT INFORMATIONAL STANDING AND SPOKEO'S REASSURANCE OF INFORMATIONAL STANDING A. Some Commentators Question Informational Standing B. Spokeo Reaffirms Informational Standing CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION
In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, a 6-2 decision by Justice Samuel Alito, recognized the significant authority of Congress to define intangible injuries such as a statutory right to information for the purposes of Article III standing to sue in federal courts. (1) However, the Court emphasized that a plaintiff must prove a concrete injury and, therefore, a procedural statutory violation may not automatically establish standing. (2) The Court remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit because the court of appeals had found that the plaintiff had suffered an individualized injury from defendant Spokeo, Inc.'s alleged misreporting of his personal information, but failed to address whether the alleged injury was sufficiently concrete to confer informational standing. (3)
While the Spokeo case was pending before the Court, some commentators feared that the Court might require plaintiffs to prove a supplementary personal harm in addition to a statutory right to information and thus limit the ability of citizens to gain access to information from the government. (4) However, the majority opinion observed that a plaintiff enforcing a statutory right "need not allege any additional harm beyond the one Congress has identified." (5) The Court cited two prior decisions, Federal Election Commission v. Akins (6) and Public Citizen v. Department of Justice, (7) which both held the government's refusal to provide information for which Congress has created a statutory right to access constituted a sufficient informational injury for Article III standing. (8) The Court's refusal of an additional harm standard likely means that any plaintiff seeking information pursuant to a federal statute that explicitly grants the right to certain information, such as the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), (9) may have standing based solely upon his statutory right to information without alleging that he will suffer additional harms if he does not obtain that information. (10) The Court's previous decisions in Akins and Public Citizen concluded that Congress may explicitly establish a statutory right to information," while Spokeo dispelled concerns that the Court might limit or overrule prior decisions recognizing informational standing. (12) The Spokeo decision explicitly recognized that "because Congress is well positioned to identify intangible harms that meet minimum Article III requirements, its judgment is also instructive and important" beyond how the English and American common law defined such injuries. (13)
Part I provides an introduction to standing doctrine. Part II discusses the Supreme Court's informational standing decisions in Public Citizen and Akins. Part III discusses how some commentators have raised doubts about informational standing, but argues that the Spokeo decision reaffirms the validity of informational standing without proof of additional harm.
ARTICLE III CONSTITUTIONAL STANDING (14)
While the Constitution does not explicitly mandate that plaintiffs have standing to file suit in federal courts, the Supreme Court has inferred limitations on justiciability from the Constitution's Article III restriction of judicial decisions to "Cases" and "Controversies" to ensure that the plaintiff has a genuine interest and stake in a case. (15) The Court's three-part standing test requires a plaintiff to show that: (1) she has "suffered an injury-in-fact," which is (a) "concrete and particularized" and (b) "actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical"; (2) "there must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of--the injury has to be fairly ... trace[able] to the challenged action of the defendant, and not ... th[e] result [of] the independent action of some third party not before the court"; and 16 (3) "it must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision." (16) A plaintiff has the burden of establishing all three prongs of the standing test for each form of relief sought. (17) A federal court must dismiss a case without deciding the merits if the plaintiff fails to meet the constitutional standing test. (18)
Standing requirements are related to broader constitutional principles. Standing doctrine prohibits unconstitutional advisory opinions. (19) Additionally, standing requirements support separation of powers principles defining the division of powers between the judiciary and political branches of government so that the "Federal Judiciary respects 'the proper--and properly limited--role of the courts in a democratic society.'" (20) The Court's standing decisions, however, are complicated and arguably inconsistent in defining to what extent separation of powers principles limit the standing of suits challenging alleged executive branch under-enforcement or non-enforcement of congressional requirements mandated in a statute. (21)
For example, in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (22) the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Scalia, interpreted the Court's standing doctrine to require a plaintiff to show that she has "suffered an injury-in-fact," which is "concrete and particularized" and "actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical." (23) Justice Scalia's Lujan opinion suggested that allowing a plaintiff who has not suffered a concrete injury to sue the U.S. Government to challenge its alleged failure to enforce the law would improperly interfere with both Article III standing principles and the President's Article II constitutional authority to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." (24)
Some commentators have contended that Justice Scalia's restrictive approach to standing hinders the role of Congress in permitting judicial oversight to guarantee that the executive branch obeys enacted laws. (25) Nevertheless, Justice Scalia in Lujan acknowledged that Congress may "elevat[e] to the status of legally cognizable injuries concrete, de facto injuries that were previously inadequate in law." (26) Furthermore, in footnote seven of Lujan, the Court created an exception to its otherwise narrow approach to standing by observing that plaintiffs who may suffer a concrete injury resulting from a procedural violation by the government are entitled to a more relaxed application of both the imminent injury and the redressability standing requirements to sue in federal court. (27)
In his concurring opinion in Lujan, Justice Anthony...


Benedikt: met with Liz last week. Concluded it may be useful to ask for white papers. Not at scale as HSF before, but people writing down their thoughts. Then come to a common denominator view.
Torre: back to talking and not doing? Is this well justified? Where does this come from?
Benedikt: needed to get Fermilab, Brett, others on board.
Pere: better to get something done and get reaction to it.
Benedikt: yes, this is why we tried in the first place to make a quick start with repos etc.
Torre: yes that seemed a good approach.
Benedikt: several share a common view, many from CERN. Others are asking for a re-think.
Torre, Pere: please reconsider the re-think.
Liz: white papers are already written. One for Dune from last fall. A FNAL one also from last fall. Trying to get them shared among us.
Torre: need to be careful how we describe this then. Not going back to drawing board for another round of white papers.
Pere: if we can't agree on things, it isn't guaranteed that this revisiting process will solve that. Just doing something and getting reaction to it can be the best start.
Benedikt: maybe limit the process to a quick one page taxonomy.
Liz: concern from Fermilab management that things are being imposed without not enough input. Doing this round in as short as possible time is the most important metric. Group will meet next week, hear what statements come out, we will get a feel for how much collaboration we have.
Pere: have a guinea pig project from AIDA to test the guidelines. Proving useful to improve the guidelines.
Dario: circulated a white paper today, emphasizing it is time to act. Publish existing material, creating index/knowledge base. Went around the web and came to the conclusions found in the paper. Not much available especially for C++, at least for our purposes, bridging from university courses to our coding. Looked at Yelp idea, a long way to go. Need more volunteers. Best to start with something concrete. Post what's available. Put material on WikiFM since the platform is there and help is available to use it. Focus is on the material, not the platform. Try to get some momentum behind really doing something. Dario is volunteering to contribute C++ course material based on courses he gives, will add it over next few days.
Torre: great, sounds like a good approach to me.
Graeme: agree, looks nice, will try to give feedback over next couple of days.
Dario: suggest the training WG start meeting regularly soon.
Graeme: agree, in 2 weeks or so? With some material for people to look at and mull over. Circa end May.
Dario: OK will start gathering material on WikiFM.
Dario: also, WikiFM has built-in coding/compiling/running for C++ integrated in the platform, nice for interactive real time training.
Torre: reviewed the drupal schema, can see how to extract info if/when we are ready to do so.
Pere: scalability concern, when entering software, full list of packages is presented (twice). Will grow linearly.
Torre: agree, could be improved (e.g. by using command completion) with customization work… hard to motivate for a little-used system… Catch 22 again.
Gave Julius the green light to go ahead with the social media setup he's been doing, and he agreed to have a look at twitter/drupal integration to allow website members to post to a common twitter feed.


FAMILY, friends, fellow Rotarians and former colleagues from the Met Office were among the crowd who gathered in Scalloway Church of Scotland last Thursday to say farewell to a man who'd earned their admiration, respect and love.
Harry Tait was born in Lerwick 70 years ago. A lively little boy, one of his memories of primary school was having his copy of the "Magnet" comic confiscated by his teacher Bernice Blance in her efforts to demonstrate that the classroom was for work not play. When his widowed mother married again, they moved to Burra and he attended school in Hamnavoe. He went to the Central School in Lerwick when he reached secondary school age, then to the Anderson Educational Institute.
In the 1950s there weren't many jobs available and Harry was glad of the opportunity of employment with the Met Office at the Lerwick Observatory. It suited him well – he joined in 1958 and retired as superintendent in 1996. While he enjoyed his job, it was only part of a rich, fulfilling life.
Harry and his wife Christian started courting when they were in the same class at secondary school, even doing their homework together. They married on a snowy day in 1961 and went on to have two daughters, Denise and Rhona.
In 1975, they were able to move into the house that Harry had designed and built on his father's croft in Trondra. It was, as Christian recalls, a "dream" home because when she was 16 and Harry 17 they had rowed across to the island and he had shown her the site, telling her that was where he wanted them to live one day.
Making things was what Harry did. From turning fish boxes into fishing boats when he was peerie, to building his own house or inventing some labour-saving device as an adult, Harry used his problem-solving skills and imagination not just to make things but to make things work.
It's no wonder he found himself as squad leader when it came to Up Helly A'. Organised, unflappable and so good with his hands, he was an asset to his squad. The guisers appreciated Harry's talents and he, in turn, had great affection for "da Squad boys". He also enjoyed taking part in the Jarl's squad in Lerwick where his craftsmanship was valued. He'd just lately been discussing designs for his nephew's year in 2010.
His organisational skills, his attention to detail and patience were all necessary in his working life at the Observatory. He started work in the days when measurements were recorded first in pencil, then in pen before being calculated on an adding machine. Whole days could be spent adding columns of figures. From thunderstorm recording to ozone layer measurement and launching weather balloons, tasks were carried out at precise times every day. They were a close-knit group, the Met Office staff in Lerwick, with camaraderie, fun and friendship the order of the day, and when Harry was promoted he was well regarded. "My best boss", one man remarked.
It was through the ozone layer that I met Harry when I persuaded him to talk to me about it in an interview for Radio Scotland. I was impressed by his ability to explain it in simple terms. He was a natural communicator and that's what made him so very much a "people" person.
He was really pleased to get the opportunity to go round schools in Shetland with the local Rotary Club to demonstrate the Shelter Boxes for which they were raising funds. He thoroughly enjoyed showing the bairns how they worked. Harry was president of the Shetland Rotary Club this year, the second time he'd held the post. It was a role which he enjoyed.
When Harry retired from the Met Office 12 years ago, a new career blossomed as his hobby of working with stained glass developed into a business. In his workshop, he created beautiful windows, inspired by the world around him. He once said: "I don't have a natural artistic flair – I have to work hard on design." The hard work certainly paid off as we can see in public buildings such as Lerwick Town Hall, Holmsgarth ferry terminal, Weisdale Kirk, St John's Kirk in Baltasound and the St Magnus Bay Hotel in Hillswick as well as in private homes. Harry had also been teaching classes, keen to pass on the skills he'd learned, and his pupils found him a gifted teacher.
Harry was a man you instinctively felt you could trust. He was an active, busy person, always occupied with some ploy or other, but there was also a stillness and tranquillity about him. He didn't jump to conclusions, he considered things. He was a listener. He liked to relax in company and swap yarns.
Harry and Christian were a team. He always said that her imagination and his common sense were a good combination. Their life together was enriched by their family which now includes four grown up grandchildren who will all miss him. His presence will be all around them, in the house and in the garden which he and Christian created together, he providing the hard labour, turning her ideas into reality.
At the funeral, after hearing Christian pay a heartfelt tribute to Harry, the congregation burst into applause, a rare thing at such a time and place. It felt as though we were all at that moment giving our blessing to her request that we "focus on the joy he took from the world and the joy he gave us all … to celebrate a life well lived, to treasure our memories and to take comfort from them." Another Met man, Cavy Johnson, wrote of another person at another time that "… He took dee i da hairst o life / Bit du sood a hed dy Yule". That sentiment applies to Harry Tait too.


University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, sponsored by both the Society of Jesus and the Religious Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., is the president. Founded in 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university in Michigan. It has three campuses, where it offers more than a hundred academic degrees and programs of study in liberal arts, clinical psychology, business, dentistry, education, law, engineering, architecture, nursing and allied health professions.
Detroit Mercy was ranked in the top tier of Midwestern regional universities in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News & World Report "Best Colleges" rankings[ and has been for over a decade. In athletics, the University sponsors 19 NCAA Division I level varsity sports for men and women, and is a member of the Horizon League. Detroit Mercy is one of the 28 members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, which represents Jesuit institutions in the United States.
The following is the list of scholars from University of Detroit Mercy who currently serve as editors for one or more SciTechnol journals.
The following is the list of articles by scholars from University of Detroit Mercy that are published in SciTechnol journals.


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D&O Policy Does Not Cover SEC or Internal Investigation Costs Merely Because They Benefit Defense of Covered Lawsuits
Clarifying an October 15, 2010 order granting summary judgment to insurers, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has determined that, under Florida law, an office supply company's D&O policies did not afford coverage for costs incurred in responding to a Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation or conducting an internal investigation after the commencement of covered securities litigation despite the insured's contention that such costs related to and purportedly benefitted the defense of the litigation. Office Depot, Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., No. 09-80544-CIV (S.D. Fla. Oct. 27, 2010). Wiley Rein LLP represents the first-layer excess insurer in the case.
The insured sought coverage under its D&O policy for costs incurred in connection with numerous matters: securities and derivative lawsuits against the company and insured directors and officers; an SEC investigation against the company itself; voluntary responses by directors, officers and employees to the SEC requests for documents and testimony; responses by insured persons to subpoenas and "Wells notices" issued by the SEC; and an internal investigation conducted by the audit committee of the insured's board of directors arising from an internal whistleblower complaint. In its October 15 order, the court rejected the insured's contentions that (1) the SEC investigation constituted a covered "Securities Claim" against the insured company and (2) all of the matters "related back" to a notice of circumstances provided before the SEC began its inquiry and that the costs incurred in connection with the matters therefore constituted covered "Defense Costs" starting on the date of the notice of circumstances. Office Depot, Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins.Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., 2010 WL 4065416 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 15, 2010).
Following the court's order, the insured sought clarification regarding whether amounts incurred in connection with the SEC's investigation of the company were covered after the filing of the covered securities lawsuits. The insured also questioned whether the court's prior ruling construed the policy to cover costs incurred on behalf of insured persons in response to the SEC after the securities lawsuits had been filed but before such insured persons received subpoenas.
The court granted the insured's motion for clarification but rejected its contentions as to the scope of coverage. The court made clear that the insured company's SEC investigation costs were not covered either before or after securities lawsuits were filed, stating that "[a]lthough these costs may have followed the securities lawsuits in time, they did not 'grow from' or 'flow from' the subject securities lawsuits, and therefore did not 'arise from' those Securities Claims or Claims within the meaning of the [policy]. Thus, by definition, these costs did not 'result solely from' the investigation or defense of the securities lawsuits within the meaning of 'defense costs.'" The court stated further that the fact that the insured continued to incur voluntary SEC response costs after the securities lawsuits were filed "does not transform the post-suit SEC response suits into covered 'Loss' under the policy, even though some of those response costs may have related to or had utility in [the insured]'s defense of the securities lawsuits."
Accordingly, the court granted the insured's motion for clarification, but reaffirmed that the policy covered only costs "arising from" and "resulting solely from" the securities lawsuits and SEC subpoenas and Wells notices issued to insured persons. Under the ruling, such amounts do not include voluntary SEC response costs whether incurred on behalf of the insured company or insured persons and whether incurred before or after the filing of the covered securities lawsuits, regardless of any purported benefit such activity may have for the defense of the litigation.

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They run large. My mediums fit like a large.
Do yours keep you pretty dry? How long have you had them? Are they worth what I'll pay for them, FF?
I looked at them yesterday on the Frogg Toggs site.I think they are the same a my Toggs but not 100% sure. If so, they are great. Mine lasted for about 4 years but all the duct tape is starting to get out of hand. I think I'll go with the DriDucks next time but I'm gonna go stand in the rain with my new duct tape patch job first.
They have kept me dry once but I try to avoid camping/hiking in the rain.
They are also real nice in the morning or after you stop hiking in the evening. Over your thermals they add that extra bit off warmth you need.
I remember hearing somewhere that they are the same material as frogg toggs, just with one less layer. You might want to check this out. I decided long ago that I am too hard and use my rain jacket too much to use these.
Have them use them like them.
That said they are not equal to a nice shell type water jacket. However they do work and are cheap and you will get wet anyway, from sweat or water eventually.
Dri ducks are fully waterproof and are inexpensive. However they are not very durable. Their low wt. and price is partly achieved by being a no-frills type rain jacket. They have no hand pockets or direct mechanical ways(back vents, pit zips, etc.) of venting interior moisture other than a full length chest zip. Keep these factors in mind if u get them.


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Caselette limita amb els següents municipis: Almese, Alpignano, Avigliana, Buttigliera Alta, Rivoli, Rosta i Val della Torre.

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Last month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard gave low marks to just about every agency surveyed.
But officials say it is part of the process of getting better.
"I want to stress [that] all the data that we used in the scorecards were provided by the agencies," said Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), chairman of the committee's IT Subcommittee, at a Dec. 16 event hosted by Nextgov. He added that the "shocking" low scores were a matter of fact, not subjective judgment.
"I got three Fs and a C, so maybe I should start," Transportation Department CIO Richard McKinney quipped. "I didn't do too good."
DOT received a D overall. No agency earned an A, and only two earned overall Bs.
But McKinney, who has recently attracted attention for freezing his department's IT spending until he receives plans from DOT's component agencies, said he opted not to argue with the low scores because the central point -- that there's plenty of work to be done -- would still stand.
Quibbling over grades would amount to asking, "Are we 500 miles from where we need to be or 400 miles from where we need to be?" McKinney said.
"I accept the scorecard in the spirit with which it was put together," he said, adding that it is more of a baseline than a condemnation.
Dave Powner, director of IT management issues at the Government Accountability Office, characterized DOT's data center consolidation score as "a good F," McKinney said, because it illustrated the fact that DOT had not met a savings estimation that his predecessor had set somewhat arbitrarily, and it highlighted a broader financial reporting problem.
As a CIO, "I don't know my unit cost," he said. "When we're asked to make projections or report savings, I feel like I don't have a good way to be honest."
He advocated standardizing financial reporting to better enable longitudinal analysis of spending and savings.
"If I don't get anything else done with FITARA, I want to get that done," McKinney said. "I want to get to where the Department of Transportation really understands how it spends its money. I really want to be honest about it. I'm not trying to run away from the data."
FITARA might be helpful, but "even full empowerment of the CIO is not enough," said Paul Tibbits, deputy CIO for architecture, strategy and design in the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA scored a C overall on the FITARA scorecard.
"Empowering the CIOs so they have all the authorities still leaves you with this enormous cultural problem underneath to fix -- the knowledge, skills and abilities problem," Tibbits said.
"We've made some spotty progress here and there, but...we can't tell you today that we've identified all of our critical points of failure," Tibbits said, blaming an accumulation of legacy systems. "That doesn't just evaporate overnight because of FITARA or empowering the CIO."
However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel thanks to cloud technology, he added, saying such approaches could help agencies modernize their systems.
But on other technologies, he was less bullish. Telemedicine, for instance, could be great, but if it is done poorly, it could simply give everybody "faster access to badly organized health care," he said.


Shell-boring species Polydora brevipalpa Zachs, 1933 is redescribed based on morphological observations and molecular approach for future unambiguous identification. Genetic distance analyses showed that the interspecific polydorid variation (16.7%–25.6%) was at least 15 times higher than the intraspecific one (0.2%–0.9%) based on the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (CO1) gene sequences of polydorids. However, 18S rDNA variation pattern demonstrated a rather narrow barcoding gap, with the interspecific polydorid variation (0.5%–5.6%) being very close to the intraspecific one (0.0%–0.4%). As such, the CO1 gene exhibited better DNA barcode for identification of polydorids than the 18S rDNA gene because of the sufficiently large barcoding gaps. Analysis of molecular variance results based on CO1 gene sequences showed that most variations in sequences (97.79%) lay within groups of adult worms and egg capsules rather than between them. This indicated that egg capsules from Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) in Ningbo and Nantong were related to the adult worms from Patinopecten yessoensis (Jay, 1857) in Dalian, and both of them belonged to P. brevipalpa. This result was further supported by parsimony network analysis, which showed that egg capsules collected from different localities and adult worms shared a single haplotype. This study was the first to report both P. brevipalpa infestation on C. gigas and to utilise the known CO1 sequences of the adult polydorids to validate morphologically unidentified egg capsules or early larvae. P. brevipalpa was most possibly brought to Chinese waters through transportation of Pa. yessoensis brood stock from Japan.
We are very grateful to Prof. JI Hongjiu (Institution of Oceanology and Marine Fisery, Jiangsu) and Prof. YAN Xiwu (Dalian Ocean University) for their assistance in the collection of samples. Special thanks are extended to two anonymous reviewers, who give us many constructive suggestions and critical comments, and spend a lot of energy to polish our manuscript.


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April 27, 2019 August 28, 2022 queerthling
Moments from Earth: Perfect
[a cute, colored, cartoony illustration in the floral section of a craft store, with fake flowers and vases and a sign for 40% off arrangements. A woman with pink pigtails in a Hawaiian shirt is blushing, with an excited little heart coming out of her head as she points something out. A non-binary person holding a basket has very short hair, and is wearing a medical mask with a bear face. The latter is side-eying a conservatively-dressed gray-haired person, who is glaring really hard at her.]
cw: D/s, consensual ownership talk, mention of chemo, mention of kink honorifics including 'daddy,' craft stores
Update to this post: My partner now uses they/them pronouns.
I love the idea of wearing a plug. It appeals to every submissive little bone in my body. I have a mighty kink for feeling (consensually) owned. The idea that my asexual-but-kinky partner could lay a claim to me sexually without even touching me is incredibly appealing. I never really planned to wear one out anywhere, though some of our text roleplay sessions and the erotic writings that we share featured scenarios like that. I just wanted one in for spanking sessions, for hanging around the house, for masturbation.
My first plug could not have possibly fulfilled that, as it couldn't stay in place. My second plug, a white-label silicone princess plug from a now-defunct online store (but looks more or less like this), was also uncomfortable for wearing for any length of time due to the shape of the base. I had a few plugs I'd thought about buying, ones that might solve the issue, but I can't take very large toys, and my bank account can't take very large purchases if I don't know that they'll work for me.
However, there was one I was deliberating over buying, as my sex toy budget's gotten a little bit less restrictive. As I was deliberating, a Twitter friend asked if anyone would be interested in buying some sanitized second-hand toys that she didn't really like. And there it was, the exact toy I'd been Googling and debating. It was like fate, except it involved my butt. Butt-fate. I purchased it almost immediately, sending money with no hesitation. As I told her, if you can't trust strangers selling second-hand sex toys on the Internet, who can you trust?
The Perfect Plug by Tantus is a small, narrow plug, comparable in size to The Li'l End but with considerable and important differences. Instead of a slim tapered piece, the Perfect Plug has a wasp-waisted shape that adds some interesting sensation upon insertion. There's an actual distinction between the size of the insertable shaft and the neck that connects the base. The base itself is very narrow, but sturdy. The silicone is velvety, but still very smooth, and like the other Tantus toy I have, a little lube seems to go a long way, rather than getting sucked into the silicone, never to be seen again.
[The Perfect Plug by Tantus in purple, surrounded by purple nail polish and purple toe-separators.]
When it arrives early one morning, I know I have a busy day ahead, so I expect to admire it for a moment, then put it aside until I can test it properly. Sometime soon I'll masturbate with it, and then maybe keep it in for a few minutes to see what I think.
Damien, however, has other ideas. She looks it over, then hands it to me. "Go try it out," she says. "Put it in, then sit down and have the rest of your coffee."
I'm an obedient girl, particularly when it's something I actively want to do.
The tip is very small, and even the widest portion of the shaft is less than an inch wide, but I'm still surprised when my finicky ass accepts it so easily. The base fits between my butt cheeks, rather than jamming uncomfortably into them like all of my previous plugs. I can't even feel the base once it's in place.
I can, however, feel the rest of it. It doesn't jab or stab, and there's no discomfort. But it moves when I move, and never allows me to ignore it.
I go back into the living room and sit down for the rest of my coffee. I report my thoughts so far, and she gives me the knee-melting dominant smirk. "Sounds like fun," she says. I wear it until I've finished coffee, maybe 15 minutes, and then take it out to go about my day. Every now and again, I think of the plug again, and wonder when I'll try it again.
That night we talk about our day and our plans for the next, flirting and joking the whole time, as we usually do. I joke about wearing the plug out in public sometime—a half-joke, the kind of joke meant for testing the waters.
"We have to go to Hobby Lobby tomorrow morning," she says, without hesitation. "Wear it then."
She drives the long way there.
[The Perfect Plug standing on its base on top of a plastic paint palette, surrounded by craft supplies, including a fabric measuring tape, a paintbrush, washi tape, lace ribbon, and some tubs of acrylic paint.]
Our D/s dynamic is 24/7, but in public we tone it down. I might ask to be excused, but I word it like I'm making sure she doesn't mind being alone, not like I'm asking permission. I might call her 'ma'am' quietly in the grocery store, because it's the South and no one blinks at that sort of thing, but I'm certainly not going to call her 'Daddy.' But the dynamic is always there, hovering at the edges, flavoring our conversation. The knowledge soothes me when I'm anxious; it reminds her when she's worried that there's at least one thing in her life that she can control. Still, it slips, a little, when we're out and we're tired, sometimes pretending we're not even dating. And that's fine. Even in a dynamic like ours, you can't be on all the time, and we both know that.
But with the plug in, I cannot forget. It's a constant presence even when I'm sitting still, a cool object inside of me that reminds me, she told me to wear this, and I obeyed. And when I'm moving, it moves, just a little. It doesn't quite feel like it's fucking me, and I'd never come from the plug alone, but the sensations are relentless. Though it's in my ass, my vagina is hyper aware as well. I've been horny in public before, but this is different. This can't be ignored. She told me to wear this.
We walk around Hobby Lobby. She wears a face mask as a precaution, because her chemo can affect her immune system, and her words are slightly muffled but still audible. Instrumental versions of the hymns I grew up with play in the background, piety through Muzak. We pick out some silver lamé for another toy's photoshoot, and we look at some wood she needs for one of her projects. We go through the framed décor of watercolor llamas and cursive Bible verses. She gets a dirty look from some Boomer for her shaven (but not yet bald) head and the bear mouth printed on her mask. I'm ignored. And at no point throughout any of this do I forget that the plug is there. The vases and furniture feel like a dream. The plug and her ownership are the reality. She told me to wear this.
We don't have a traditional sex life, but I still belong to her sexually, because we'd agreed that was the case. At the moment, I feel owned, completely. By the time we get back to the car, I'm flustered, and I feel halfway to something like subspace, and she hasn't even touched me. Only now, after an hour of wearing it, is it starting to get uncomfortable, with the very slightest ache from something unfamiliar inside of me for so long.
We drive home, and I take it out, sanitize it, and put it away. We have more errands that can't be put off, and I suggest skipping aftercare because I feel fine, but she won't hear of it, even on the go—she gets me a snack and some water, and we speak quietly in the car. Later, she insists we get some ice cream, and while I know it's just to make sure I'm okay, it feels like a reward for being such a good girl. For being her good girl.
[The Perfect Plug surrounded by pink and purple makeup, including a purple highlight pan, some purple lipsticks, rainbow-chrome tweezers, and a purple tray full of eyeshadow containers.]
This posts began life as a review, so let me note a few things. The Perfect Plug isn't (despite the name) entirely perfect. The person who sold it to me didn't like the small size. My partner, when she tried it, wasn't sure she liked the sensations it gave. Also, unlike some of my butt toys, even after a brief usage the silicone blend seems to cling to smells unless I take extra cleaning steps (which does take some of the romance out, I'll admit). But for me? It's exactly what I need, and the cleaning isn't annoying enough to detract from that. It's small enough for me to handle, and I can wear it for a long while like in this adventure, or for a few minutes while masturbating or getting spanked. For anyone who wants a wearable, small plug, whether for anal training or just for fun, this is probably a good choice to try. Buy in purple or black from SheVibe or buy directly from Tantus.
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Sara Testarossa says:
This is a great post!! I cracked up at "butt-fate". I'm so glad it works not just as a plug for general use, but also as an accomplice to discreet public D/s. That's awesome. Your description of the ownership feels made me feel all mushy and happy for y'all XD (secondhand happiness for someone else's D/s dynamic = cool in a different way from secondhand sex toys?)
Also that illustration is so cute!!


The Oakland County Fair began Friday and runs through July 15. The event in Davisburg features a new dinosaur attraction among daily events.
Jailyn Minda jumped up and down, cheering on the running pigs as they barreled toward the home stretch of Pork Chop Downs, the pig racetrack at the Oakland County Fair.
The pig 8-year-old Jailyn was rooting for didn't win, but she still enjoyed the swine stampede.
"I like that they're really chubby," Jailyn said.
The Oakland County Fair began Friday and runs through July 15. The annual event at Springfield Oaks park in Davisburg features livestock showcases, carnival rides and various daily events. Parking is $12, which covers general admission for all passengers. Carnival rides cost extra.
New this year is "Walking with Giants," a dinosaur and dragon attraction with 8-foot-tall, 16-foot-long creatures that wander the crowds with "incredibly realistic eye blinking, tail swooshing and a mighty roaring sound," according to a news release.
L.C. Scramlin, the fair's general manager says excitement about the fair remains high every year. The fair's opening day drew about 13,000 people, he said.
Scramlin recalled doubts about the fair's future three decades ago when he helped build the livestock barn.
During one livestock competition today, children took turns "walking" pigs. Contestants direct pigs to walk in a certain direction by tapping the pigs' midsections with a switch called a showing stick.
Braylen Naves, 11, was tending to his two pigs in a barn stall after a competition Saturday. A 4-H member for three years, Braylen held three ribbons, one for third place and two for fourth place.
"I just love pigs," said Braylen, of Grand Blanc.
Braylen said there are more competitions Tuesday, and he's hoping to earn first place.
Between visits with pigs, goats and other animals, fair-goers have their pick of different drinks and munchies: Elephant ears, fiesta chips, Wisconsin cheese bites, limeade, lemonade and chicken on a stick, to name some.
Scramlin, the fair's general manager, said the event has a dual purpose.


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Solid solutions of barium cerate and zirconate have been widely studied because they represent a compromise between the relatively high proton conductivity of cerate and the chemical/mechanical stability of zirconate [1-2]. But the very high sintering temperatures required limit their use from an economic but also practical point of view. Indeed, in case of anode supported cells, potential electrode materials can't resist these high temperatures. Doping with transition metals has been shown to promote sintering, for example, a 400°C decrease of the sintering temperature for Zn doped barium zirconate [3-4].
In this study, nickel and cobalt doping (from 1 to 5% of the B-site) is studied with two compositions: BaZr0.9Y0.1O3-δ (BZY10) and BaCe0.2Zr0.7Y0.1O3-δ (BCZY27). The powders were synthesized by a solid state reaction at 1400°C and pellets sintered in air at temperature between 1350°C and 1450°C. Density percentages of about 95% could have been achieved for doped samples, compared to only 80% for the undoped ones. The conductivity of the samples has been determined using impedance spectroscopy. Measurement of the conductivity isotope effect by exchange with heavy water vapour has been used to identify the protonic component of the ionic conductivity.


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Bobbi Kristina Brown: Attorneys for Nick Gordon Claim He Tried to "Save Her Life"
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Bobbi Kristina Brown's autopsy report has many speculating that Nick Gordon is now off the hook for taking her life, while others cling to the authorities' report that the investigation into her death isn't over.
Meanwhile, according to attorneys for Nick Gordon, he loved Bobbi Kristina Brown, and tried to "save her life."
Nick Gordon's Team Speaks Out, After Release of Bobbi Kristina's Autopsy: https://t.co/CYjf0NWTQI pic.twitter.com/7wjNkHAadP
— ExtraTV (@extratv) March 8, 2016
"The truth is that Nick tried to save Bobbi Kristina's life. The truth is that Nick cooperated with law enforcement since day one. The truth is that no one loved Bobbi Kristina more than Nick and no one has suffered more as a result of her death than Nick," a statement from Jose Baez and Joe S. Habachy to People magazine reads.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unconscious in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia home back on January 30, 2015. She died the following July, having never regained consciousness.
Nick Gordon challenges DA to drop investigation of Bobbi Kristina's death https://t.co/hlfCWwD0LB (Photo: FilmMagic) pic.twitter.com/vbWXJFKb2i
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 8, 2016
"Nick Gordon's life has been tumultuous since January of 2015 when he lost the love of his life," Baez and Habachy say in the statment. "On top of being prohibited from visiting Bobbi Kristina at the hospital for the last six months of her life, Nick has been publicly humiliated for more than a year.
"Throughout that time," the statement continues, "the Fulton County District Attorney's office has tried to make Nick a murderer despite having clear and convincing evidence that Bobbi Kristina's death was nothing more than a tragic accident, evidence that the District Attorney's office fought to seal and conceal from the public rather than allowing her fans to know the truth."
On Friday, attorneys for Bobbi Kristina Brown's father, Bobby Brown, released a statement, saying, "We will continue in our efforts in the civil lawsuit and the criminal investigation."
A conservator for Bobbi Kristina Brown filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Nick Gordon a few months ago.
Nick Gordon's lawyers attest he "tried to save Bobbi Kristina's life." https://t.co/JfJSyclBkG pic.twitter.com/hkzoW0GDE1
— E! Online (@eonline) March 8, 2016
Lawyers for Nick Gordon don't explain in their statement to People magazine exactly how Nick Gordon tried to save Bobbi Kristina Brown's life. Do you expect that means he tried to prevent her from using drugs? That doesn't seem likely. Perhaps they mean he attempted to revive her when she was discovered unconscious in her bathtub in January of 2015.
Do you think Nick Gordon played a role in the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown? If so, what do you think that role might have been?
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Advertising automation platform Klaviyo scores $200M Collection C on $4.15B valuation
Boston-based advertising and marketing automation agency Klaviyo needs to vary the way in which entrepreneurs work together with knowledge, giving them direct entry to their knowledge and their prospects. It believes that makes it simpler to customise the messages and produce higher outcomes. Buyers apparently agree, awarding the corporate a $200 million Collection C on a hefty $4.15 billion valuation right now.
The spherical was led by Accel with assist from Summit Companions. It comes on the heels of final yr's $150 million Collection B, and brings the full raised to $385.5 million, in accordance the corporate. Accel's Ping Li can even be becoming a member of the corporate board beneath the phrases of right now's announcement.
Advertising automation and communication takes on a particular significance as we discover ourselves within the midst of this pandemic and corporations want to seek out methods to speak in significant methods with prospects who can't come into brick and mortar institutions. Firm CEO and co-founder Andrew Bialecki says that his firm's distinctive use of knowledge helps on this regard.
"I think our success is because we are a hybrid customer data and marketing platform. We think about what it takes to create these owned experiences. They're very contextual and you need all of that customer data, not some of it, all of it, and you need that to be tightly coupled with how you're building customer experiences," Bialecki defined.
He believes that by offering a platform of this scope that mixes the information, the power to customise messages and using machine studying to maintain bettering that, it should assist them compete with the most important platforms. In reality his aim is to assist corporations perceive that they don't have to surrender their buyer knowledge to Amazon, Google and Fb.
"The flip side of that is growing through Amazon where you give up all your customer data, or Facebook or Google where you kind of are delegated to wherever their algorithms decide where you get to show up," he stated. With Klaviyo, the corporate retains its personal knowledge, and Ping Li, who's main the funding at Accel says that it the place the e-commerce market goes.
"So the question is, is there a tool that allows you to do that as easily as going on Facebook and Google, and I think that's the vision and the promise that Klaviyo is delivering on," Li stated. He believes that it will enable their prospects to really construct that form of constancy with their prospects by going on to them, as an alternative of by a third-party middleman.
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Gary Meyers: FPGAs versus ASICs
The principle subject of the DVCon 2009 Executive Panel in San Jose in February was "EDA: Dead or Alive?"
The seven speakers on the panel were unequivocal in the answer: EDA is definitely alive, because it's the single most important pre-requsitive for progress in electronics. The electronics industry will never die and, therefore, neither will EDA.
In the weeks after the event, I spoke at length with all seven panelists individually to follow up on various topics discussed at DVCon. This article recaps my conversation with Synopsys executive, Gary Meyers. Links to the rest of the conversations in the series can be found at the end of this article.
FPGAs versus ASICs ...
Q – Can you distinguish between an FPGA and an ASIC?
Gary Meyers – An FPGA is field programmable, as the name implies. Customers can buy the product off the shelf and program it on their own premises, where as an ASIC is manufactured to a customer's specification. The distinction has not changed since the dawn of both industries.
I come at this from the perspective that there's room for both technologies. If you look at the FPGA industry, it represents 15% of the ASIC industry in terms of size and semiconductor revenue. It's certainly a good business, but considerably smaller than the ASIC industry.
From a growth rate point of view, FPGAs are set to grow slightly faster than ASIC revenue. Even if you were to project that forward, it's still hard to project a scenario where FPGAs would overtake ASICs. Due to the architecture of FPGAs versus ASICs, in an FPGA you're giving up efficiency for programmability.
ASICs still offer higher performance, higher capacity, lower power, mixed-signal integration, and more efficiency. Most importantly, they offers lower unit cost over volume than an FPGA.
If you look at low power, there's a huge disparity between FPGAs and ASICs. Certainly there are now some very small FPGAs manufactured with much lower power, but there are no large, complex FPGAs that would, in fact, displace ASICs in volume – particularly in consumer applications where power is paramount.
I can't see a time where an SoC in a cell phone is displaced by the equivalent FPGA.
Q – So, it's the power issue?
Gary Meyers – Yes, but there's also the efficiency of the architecture. The massive routing grids in FPGAs present an area penalty. FPGAs, even manufactured in volume, can be considerably more expensive for large designers. If you try to look several generations ahead, you could possibly see a cost equivalent, but that's not really a fair comparison.
So, cost, power and performance are all issues. You have devices and PCs running at several Gigaherz, but FPGAs run in the low Megaherz, and part of that is power related. Part is, the fabric in FPGAs prevents them from getting the performance of an ASIC device.
It's an interesting discussion to compare the two technologies, but truly it's the application that is the final [differentiator].
Q – Does a generic hardware platform need to be an ASIC?
Gary Meyers – Yes. There's more differentiation in the software, which is why we see so much growth in rapid prototyping solutions. But hardware can also be a source of differentiation.
Let's not forget that companies develop custom chips for a reason, so to say that everything is a standard chip and the differentiation is in the software, is too extreme a viewpoint. Companies are realizing that a balance is important. Some features are in the software and some in the hardware.
Q – Have you found the growth of the FGPA market to be remarkable?
Gary Meyers – I always thought FPGAs would be very viable, and I saw terrific opportunities for EDA tools to be sold into the FPGA industry. Every generation, more applications that "couldn't be in an FPGA" move to an FPGA, nonetheless. But they are still at modest, modest volumes and have not moved the revenue needle that much.
It's about 5% annual growth for FGPAs, and 2% for ASICS, so from a revenue perspective, there's not that much difference going forward. You might say there are more designs being down in FPGAs, but there will still be markets where FPGAs can't penetrate and those are the markets with the bulk of the semiconductor revenue. It's been the history of FPGAs that as newer generations of the technology come out and get bigger, it becomes attractive to larger segments. But the largest markets still stay unavailable to FPGAs.
From my perspective, I just don't see FPGAs taking over volume markets.
Q – How have the two worlds blended with the Synplicity/Synopsys acquisition, the FPGA world of Synplicity and the ASIC world of Synopsys? Particularly given the historical difference in price between FPGA design tools, including the free tools from Xilinx et al, and ASIC design tools.
Gary Meyers – There has been a blending of the two attitudes. There is an opportunity for FPGAs tools that are free, provided by the FPGA vendors, but there's increasing demand for the kinds of tools that EDA providers produce – low-power, IP, synthesis tools. These are all increasingly important to the FPGA industry.
At Synplicity, we built a profitable public company based on FPGA technology, but I still don't buy the premise that the tools are free.
There is an opportunity now for both technologies to thrive. Synopsys saw that opportunity, and not just to strengthen their FPGA business, but to tackle rapid prototyping in the ASIC market, as well. This is not an either/or proposition, FPGAs or ASICs. Synopsys is the leader in ASIC design and verification, and now we are the leader in FPGAs as well.
Q – Sill, I wonder why Xilinx didn't buy Synplicity. Seems like a better fit than with Synopsys.
Gary Meyers – I disagree, and so does Synopsys. They were interested in our core business, and the opportunity for rapid prototyping – platform plus tools. To develop a really strong prototyping platform, you need both the hardware and the software.
Q – Do you promote the use of FPGAs in end products?
Gary Meyers – We have a good business in FPGA tools for those who use FPGAs for production purposes, vendor independent tools which are important for a large number of companies. We continue to see growth in this segment every year.
That's the principle benefit of our merger with Synopsys. They were always connected to the ASIC customers, and Synplicity was always connected to the system houses. Over time, as FPGAs have gotten bigger and more capable as platforms for ASIC customers – in particular, with the growth of embedded software and rapid prototyping – we now have the advantage of being part of the substantial Synopsys sales channel. We see the merger as being greater than just 1+1, greater than 2, the sum of the parts.
Q – What constitutes your principle bucket of customers?
Gary Meyers – It's a split. We address both the FPGA product companies – communication accounts and mil/aero – and IC companies doing prototyping. By being part of Synopsys, the part that sells to the IC houses will grow faster. Of course, we continue to focus on production FGPA customers, and virtual platforms on FPGAs. By connecting our tools with the existing tools at Synopsys, we can provide a more complete solution.
Another example – with Synopsys VCS, we're now connecting that into our prototyping offering. This is an opportunity for us to provide more solutions to our customers.
Q – Do you think the trajectory of the ASIC/FPGA paradigm has changed due to the merger?
Gary Meyers – Clearly there is now a recognition that FPGA platforms are essential to modern ASIC design. However, the fundamentals haven't changed. It's a rare case when a design manager struggles between implementing on an ASIC versus an FPGA. When it's about cost and volume, the choice is always the ASIC. And yes, these days it's not uncommon to hear FPGA executives say that more and more designs are being implemented in FPGAs. That's definitely been the trend for 10 years now, but it still hasn't moved the revenue needle in the overall semiconductor industry.
Q – Has the merger been a smooth one between Synplicity and Synopsys?
Gary Meyers – It's been very smooth. Synopsys has been very welcoming, and we continue to invest in both FPGA and rapid prototyping tools. This year, we'll have 40-nanometer FPGAs that can support several million ASIC gates. The same old challenges exist here, but we have an opportunity to meet those challenges with new technologies.
Q – Do you consider the Synplicity Business Unit to be an EDA supplier?
Gary Meyers – Absolutely, we are an EDA provider! EDA is all about electronic design automation. We just happen to be focused on a different segment of the semiconductor market. But, we provide tools that help designers get their jobs done more quickly and with better results. We've always been focused on that. The fact that we are now art of Synopsys does not change that focus at all. Rapid prototyping is now part of EDA.
Bio ...
Gary Meyers is currently Vice President & General Manager of the Synplicity Business Unit within Synopsys. Meyers joined Synopsys in May 2008 with the acquisition of Synplicity and is currently the Vice President and General Manager of the Synplicity Business Group, where he is responsible for FPGA implementation and DSP synthesis tools, and the Confirma rapid prototyping solution. Prior to Synopsys, he served as President and CEO of Synplicity and held senior sales and marketing management roles at LSI Logic Corp. after having started his EDA career as an ASIC designer at TRW, Inc. .
The DVCon 2009 Panel Series
* Atrenta's Ajoy Bose & Mike Gianfagna:
Recrafting the concept of EDA
* Javelin Design's Diana Feng Raggett:
Government funding for R&D in EDA
* Synopsys' Gary Meyers:
FPGAs versus ASICs
* EVE's Lauro Rizzatti:
EDA in Europe
* Berkeley Design Automation's Ravi Subramanian:
Setting the EDA roadmap
* SpringSoft's Scott Sandler:
EDA dead or alive?
* Calypto's Tom Sandoval:
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Q: Compiling GWT with ANT Good Morning to every one.
I have a GWT application thath uses ANT for compile.
I am trying to configure the APP on a Jenkins server, but when I start the ANT task to compile, I receive this error:
 [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
 [java] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
 [java]     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
 [java]     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 [java]     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
 [java]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
 [java]     at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
 [java]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
 [java] Could not find the main class: .  Program will exit.
  [antcall] Exiting /var/quark/repositories/jenkins/workspace/AMSSISAL-NEW_CLS_FRONTEND/build.xml.

In my local PC, I can compile with no problems.
The most strange thing, is on the error, I can't see the ClassName. Normally in this kind of errors you can see "Could not find the main class: packageName/ClassName.  Program will exit." but in the log I only see a WhiteSpace instead of the Class name. Anybody knows why this can happen?
EDIT: This is my ANT Task for compile  :
<target name="gwtc"depends="javac"description="GWT compile to JavaScript">
<parallel threadsperprocessor="1">
    <java failonerror="true"fork="true"classname="com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler">
        <classpath>
            <pathelementlocation="src"/>
            <pathrefid="project.class.path"/>
        </classpath>
        <jvmarg value="-Xms5120M"/>
        <jvmarg value="-Xmx10240M"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:PermSize=128m"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=80"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=95"/>
        <jvmarg value="-verbose:gc"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+UseCompressedOops"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+UseParNewGC"/>
        <jvmarg value="-XX:+AggressiveOpts"/>
        <jvmarg value="-server"/>
        <arg value="-logLevel"/>
        <arg value="ERROR"/>
        <arg value="-style"/>
        <arg value="OBF"/>
        <arg value="-optimize"/>
        <arg value="9"/>
        <arg value="-localWorkers"/>
        <arg value="4"/>
        <arg value="my.GWT.module"/>
    </java>
</parallel>

A: Checking the ANT log I see that one of the <jvmarg> are a empty string.
This provoke that between two of the parameters are two blank spaces.
On windows there is no problem with this, but on linux (With Open JDK and Oracle JDK) the params are cutted in the double space and the rest of the command is ignored after the spaces.
So, the class is not passed as a param, this is the reason of the "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException" don't print the class name, beacuse really, ant are trying to load and empty class in the classloader:
ClassLoader.loadClass("");

This provokes the
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:

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Q: Option Shift word selection doesn't work in Visual Studio Code on Mac OS Big Sur I can't exectly say when this started, but from some version of Visual Studio Code Option + Shift + Right Arrow/Left Arrow selection stopped working. Currently I use macOS Big Sur, but I am almost sure that this started before upgrading to Big Sur. Can anyone help me to fix this?
UPDATE: I use macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 and VS Code 1.53.2.

UPDATE 2: OPTION + SHIFT + UP/DOWN Arrow works for me, actually this shortcut adds one more cursor to other line.

UPDATE 3: This is not shortcut probelm:

A: Solved! The problem was in Visual Studio keymap, which I occasionally installed and forgot about it. After deletion of this keymap, everything works as expected.

A: The fact that opt+shift+up/down work seems to suggest that this is an keybinding issue.
Under your VSCode keybindings, check to see if the keybinding cursorWordLeftSelect and the corresponding right select ones are active. If they are active, check to see if any other extensions override these shortcuts (by searching for the keybind: opt+shift+left).

Hopefully this fixes the issue.


Perfectly positioned outdoor lighting accentuates this pool house and casts an inviting glow against the night sky.
Rain or shine, a day spent at this luxurious pool is a day that will long be remembered. Built for year round use, this outdoor living space in Murrysville has been lavished with state-of-the-art amenities and top of the line design. The homeowners love to entertain, so they created their own personal oasis that could also be enjoyed in the winter months when the pool was closed.
Equipped with a full kitchen, bathroom, laundry room and bar, the owners didn't want their guests to have to run back to the main house, once they had set up camp for the day. "We have every amenity so that when we are down here, we can enjoy ourselves as host and hostess," says the owner.
Having worked with the couple before, designer Elise Denver was brought in to design the pool house and achieve the couple's overall vision. The bathroom/ changing room is wall to wall chic. In an effort to create an upscale spa like feel, stylish European faucets and fixtures were selected in bright chrome. A custom vessel sink bowl is made of stone with a mosaic sun pattern in metallic gold. Tiles in the shower appear like grasscloth, giving the room an organic earthy feel. Additionally, glass tile accents were interspersed to loan a touch of bling that the client desired.
Dark wood cabinetry, which includes lockers for guests, is a great contrast to the lighter tile colors. Timber frame construction gives the pool house a lodge feel, while a Feng Shui layout creates a soothing atmosphere.
Although Feng Shui wasn't in the designer's mind at the onset of the project, the elements were all present, and it eventually evolved into that. "All of the materials that we used indoors are with respect to water," explains Denver. "The floor is stained concrete, the baseboards are ceramic, and even the walls are made with a product that is impervious to water." Floor drains were added to allow for a quick hose-down and cleaning.
A concrete hearth adds to the upscale spa feel, and the legs on the fireplace, mantle, and kitchen cabinets were constructed of zebrawood.
The pool incorporates both a lap-pool and a wading area where water gradually deepens, much like at the beach. Dyed concrete was poured around the pool, and then scored to make it look like giant, 24-inch tiles. Walls on the outside of the pool house are also poured concrete. "This place is built like a fortress," laughs the owner. All systems are computerized and can be operated electronically from any location.
Instead of patio doors, the couple installed glass Nana walls that, in the warm weather, open up to connect the inside and outside. They were carefully designed with a threshold that blends into the concrete, catching all water deposits, and eliminating any sort of tripping hazard. There is forced heat and air-conditioning, and floors have radiant heat to keep feet warm after a dip in the pool.
The owner loves grilling, and gives his Kalamazoo gourmet grill a good workout, all year long. Although he's not known for being much of a swimmer, he is known for being an impeccable host. "He is one of these guys that wants to see everyone have a good time," smiles his wife. "Even when he's off in a corner smoking a cigar, if everyone is enjoying themselves then he's happy." With beautiful steaks sizzling, fine wines flowing, and torches blazing, this is indeed a happy place to be.


SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Mutual-fund giant MFS Investment Management late Monday announced three senior management changes to its research unit. Chief Equity Officer David Antonelli has been named chief investment officer for the Boston-based firm's non-U.S. and global stock investments and will continue managing MFS International New Discovery Fund MIDAX, +0.09% Michael Roberge, chief fixed income officer and director of fixed income research, will be the firm's chief investment officer for U.S. investments. Together they will serve as co-directors of global research, MFS added. Roberge will continue in his current roles, supported by Donald Mykrantz, director of global trading, who has been named head of the firm's fixed-income portfolio management team. Separately, the company said David Sette-Ducati, manager of MFS Emerging Growth MFEGX, +0.53% and Mid-Cap Growth funds OTCAX, -0.37% would leave the firm as of June 30.


Quinacridone Red is a vivid mid-red colour. It is a transparent pigment which was first introduced by Winsor & Newton in the 1950s.
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Q: Como debo instalar el plugin en eslint Quiero instalar el eslint-plugin-jsx-ally pero me sale este error
> eslint-plugin-jsx-ally@6.0.3 postinstall

que debo hacer

A: Es (lamentablemente) común que en el registro de npm algunas personas publiquen paquetes con nombres parecidos a uno existente para que alguien los instale sin querer (y son paquetes potencialmente dañinos).
Otras veces alguien despublica un paquete y rápidamente otro desarrollador publica un paquete con el nombre que se acaba de liberar, capturando a los que tienen ese paquete entre sus dependencias.
Aparentemente tu caso es simplemente que el paquete eslint-plugin-jsx-ally no es el correcto, sino que debes instalar eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y.
Para asegurarse de que nadie instalara el primero, su autor puso a propósito un error en el hook postinstall.
Revisando:
npm view eslint-plugin-jsx-ally

el hook postinstall llama explícitamente a node ./postinstall.js cuyo contenido es justamente
throw new Error('This is the wrong package! Please install eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y')


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Ortiz comes off bench, picks up RBI
By Rick Eymer
SAN FRANCISCO -- David Ortiz was held out of the starting lineup in the Red Sox's 5-3 win against the Giants on Tuesday night at AT&T Park to rest, but the slugger came off the bench in the seventh inning and picked up an RBI on a groundout to tie
SAN FRANCISCO -- David Ortiz was held out of the starting lineup in the Red Sox's 5-3 win against the Giants on Tuesday night at AT&T Park to rest, but the slugger came off the bench in the seventh inning and picked up an RBI on a groundout to tie the game at 3.
"He's been on the bases a lot," manager John Farrell said prior to the game starting. "He tags up from second, goes first-to-third, runs hard. It's best served for him to be a pinch-hitter here."
At age 40, Ortiz is enjoying one of his finest seasons. He leads the Majors with 54 RBIs, 26 doubles, 43 extra-base hits and is fourth with a .340 batting average. He entered Tuesday's game on a 13-game hitting streak.
"I don't want to risk losing him," Farrell said. "There's maintenance to consider with his legs and heels. I don't think you could have planned for the amount of baserunning he's done this year. Hopefully he will have an opportunity late in the game to have an impact."
Former Red Sox teammates Javier Lopez and Jake Peavy joined Hall of Famer Willie McCovey in a brief pregame ceremony celebrating Ortiz's career.
"I appreciate the fact they take the time to do things like that," said Ortiz.
McCovey helped honor Ortiz, who was presented with a bell from a cable car, since both are considered two of the most feared left-handed hitters to have played the game.
Ortiz, who has 519 homers, was honored to meet McCovey, who went deep 521 times in his career.
"That was great," said Ortiz. "He's legendary."
Rick Eymer is a contributor to MLB.com and covered the Red Sox on Tuesday.


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Peter Rockwell (September 16, 1936 – February 6, 2020) was an American sculptor, and the author of several books about stone carving. He was associated with the Norman Rockwell Museum, named for his father.

Early life
Rockwell was born on September 16, 1936, in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Mary Barstow and painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell. Rockwell grew up in Vermont, where he was educated at The Putney School. He graduated from Haverford College in 1958, and he later attended the  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Career
Rockwell became a sculptor in Rome, Italy, where he spent most of his adult life. His father was initially reluctant to see his son pursue sculpture as a profession. Rockwell left Rome after the death of his wife in 2013 and produced sculptures at the Clay Dreaming Pottery Studio in Beverly, Massachusetts. He authored several books about stone carving.

Rockwell was associated with the Norman Rockwell Museum, named for his father, where he exhibited his work. His work was also examined in The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stoneworking in the Roman World, a research project at King's College London.

His sculptures can be seen in the United States at the National Portrait Gallery, the Washington National Cathedral, Boston College, the Cathedral of the Pines. They are also held in a convent in Chioggia, Italy and at the headquarters of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Rome.

Personal life and death
Rockwell married Cynthia Ide, and they had four children. He died on February 6, 2020, in Danvers, Massachusetts. During the final years of his life, he lived in Beverly, Massachusetts and attended St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Beverly. In 2018, Peter had the Norman Rockwell Museum hang his Stations of the Cross woodcuts in the church for a temporary exhibition during Lent and Easter. The church hosted an opening reception and Peter gave an artist's talk to the assembled crowd. His Memorial Eucharist was held at St. Paul's Within the Walls, the American Episcopal church in Rome on May 4, 2022; the service had been delayed two years by the Covid19 pandemic. Peter faithfully attended that church during his many years in Rome, even served as Senior Warden. Peter created many sculptures for the church, including a crucifix that hangs in the nave, a series of striking woodcuts of the Stations of the cross, also installed in the nave. Many unique stone sculptures that he created can be seen in the church's garden. At his urging, the church became a place for artists to display their work.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
People from New Rochelle, New York
People from Beverly, Massachusetts
American expatriates in Italy
American male sculptors
Haverford College alumni
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It's An Open Secret Why Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Care Much About Hollywood's Misogyny
By: Warren Henry
This month's New York magazine profile of late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel focuses on his forays into political commentary and fawningly (and ironically) compares him to Walter Cronkite speaking out against the Vietnam War. A close reading suggests Kimmel is less of a progressive truth-teller than remarkably shrewd about not only the role politics has come to play on his program, but also the potential impact the Harvey Weinstein scandal may have on his career.
When Kimmel is asked whether he has alienated people on the Right, he responds: "I think I've alienated more people than I've brought onboard. But what I thought was important was telling the truth." Yet when the interviewer later reminds Kimmel that his ratings are up, he is forced to agree, but adds: "Eighty percent of late-night-television success is how well your network is doing at ten o'clock."
There is an element of truth here, but as Kimmel himself acknowledges elsewhere in the interview, controversy also can drive an audience: "there's absolutely nothing better for ratings than a sh-tstorm." He said this in discussing "The Man Show," which Kimmel co-created and co-hosted at the turn of the century. The comic is carefully and subtly rewriting this chapter in his career.
No More 'Man Show'
For those unfamiliar with it, "The Man Show" was inspired by a producer's comment that Kimmel would never appeal to women. Kimmel decided he would create a show appealing to men. The resulting program's signature segment featured women bouncing on trampolines. As "The Man Show" broke for commercials, viewers were treated to performances by the Juggy Dance Squad, a group of buxom women shimmying in skimpy outfits.
During the run-up to the launch of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the comedian was willing to tell The New York Times magazine: "That is definitely one element of my persona. If I'm out drinking with my buddies, that's when it comes out. But I'll be totally different at other times, depending on the situation. 'The Man Show'– I knew what that was. I gave them what they wanted.''
One cannot know whether his persona retains that element. In any event, while Kimmel insists to New York magazine that a reboot of "The Man Show" would do well, he must realize it would never be greenlit in the current post-Weinsteingate environment.
Accordingly, Kimmel is careful now to highlight and frame the program as quasi-satirical: "We always said The Man Show's audience was divided between people who thought it was funny and understood we were joking and other people who really thought we had some kind of an agenda." But where is the line between winking satire and kidding on the square?
The interviewer, to his credit, pressed Kimmel on this point, asking whether he cringed at "The Man Show." Kimmel evaded: "I look back at every show I've ever done and cringe. My vision of hell is a bunch of monitors with my old shows running on them. But yes, of course, and not necessarily for the reasons you think. I just think, Oh, we could've done that better. It was a show people loved, and I got to work with Adam [Carolla], which was a dream at the time, and we did a lot of funny stuff. We also did a lot of stupid stuff."
But People Like Objectification
"Stupid" is pretty mild self-criticism, especially in the field of comedy. Indeed, at another point, Kimmel suggests having co-created and co-hosted "The Man Show" gives him credibility to pitch progressive commentary to the less enlightened. This despite his later admission he doubts he could ever win back former viewers on the Right.
Kimmel was similarly defensive and evasive when asked how he has addressed Weinsteingate and might tackle it in the future. For example, when asked about the criticism that he initially avoided commenting on the scandal, Kimmel replied that the story did not break until shortly before show time on a Thursday and that his Friday program was a rerun. In reality, late-night shows have skewered President Trump based on late-breaking news—and Kimmel supposedly does not tape his show in the afternoon, as his competitors do.
When asked whether Weinsteingate will change things in Hollywood, Kimmel responded: "I hope so. I definitely think it will make the guys who do this kind of thing think twice. But it's silly to point at Hollywood specifically. Hollywood's not so different than any other business."
While sexual harassment is a general societal problem, most other businesses do not rely significantly on the sexual objectification of attractive people. You know, like "The Man Show."
Jimmy Kimmel's Big 'Man Show' Problem
The interviewer then suggested Hollywood is also different because it is seen as a progressive industry, raising the charge of hypocrisy on workplace misogyny. Kimmel replied: "I don't know. I mean, I remember hearing one story about Harvey, but it seemed designed to tarnish an actress. It was about some actress trading a sexual favor to get into a movie, and I always just assumed that it was probably untrue, and it was none of my business either way."
This answer takes a page from George Clooney's playbook and is clever both as text and subtext. As text, Kimmel signaled that his dismissal of this apparently open secret was due to his respect for the actress involved. As subtext, he reinforced for the reader the notion that there may be sexual predators in show business, but there are also actresses offering sex for career advancement, so why would he be concerned?
Lastly, when asked whether he might joke about Weinstein when hosting the Oscars in 2018, Kimmel initially said he probably would, but then seemed to reconsider in the moment: "It's not really a laughing matter. There'll be a lot of people in that room who maybe have been through experiences with him, and that's not something I want them to relive on the night they get their Oscar."
That's not an unfair concern. However, as with his dismissal of the Weinstein rumor, it seems as though Kimmel always has a reason to not discuss the issue, except under the glare of public criticism for remaining silent.
Of course, Kimmel's reason for avoiding the subject of sexism in Hollywood is even more of an open secret than Weinstein's alleged assaults and harassment. He co-hosted "The Man Show" from 1994 until 2003. He may claim that the election of Donald Trump made him woke, but he obviously recognizes that taking the lead on the debate over showbiz misogyny would subject him to precisely the charge of hypocrisy the interviewer raised.
Jimmy Kimmel is no fool; he just plays one on TV.
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Classical Music Home > Frederico de Freitas
FREDERICO DE FREITAS
Frederico de Freitas (Lisbon 1902–1980) was one of Portugal's most prolific composers and conductors, equally at home in the popular musical field as he was in the symphonic concert world. His music owes a lot to Portuguese folklore, especially in a series of highly successful ballets. He was also very active as a conductor, having been the deputy music director of the National Radio Symphony in Lisbon for 34 years, and music director of the Oporto Symphony between 1949 and 1952.
De Freitas studied piano, violin and composition at Lisbon's Conservatory from which he graduated, and while still a student he won the National Prize for Composition. He was the first Portuguese composer to explore bi-tonality, and was greatly interested in the Portuguese musical heritage, both popular and classical. His oeuvre encompasses a large range of forms and styles, and he was as much at home in the symphonic field as in that of chamber music or film scores. In addition to his work as a composer and conductor, he founded the Lisbon Choral Society—which premièred his Missa solemnis—and taught at the Centre for Gregorian Studies in Lisbon.
© Naxos Rights US, Inc. — Álvaro Cassuto (FREITAS The Silly Girl's Dance, The Wall of Love, Medieval Suite, Ribatejo / Naxos 8.573095)
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FREITAS BRANCO, L. de / BRAGA SANTOS, J.: Trios / DELGADO, A.: Trio Camoniano (Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 2) (Trio Pangea) Naxos
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FREITAS, F. de: Silly Girl's Dance (The) / The Wall of Love / Suite medieval / Ribatejo (Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Cassuto) Naxos
PORTUGAL Amalia Rodrigues: The Queen of Fado II ARC
PORTUGAL RosaNegra: Fado Ladino ARC
VIANNA DA MOTTA, J.: Symphony, "À Pátria" / Inês de Castro / Impromptus (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, A. Cassuto) Naxos


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Effect of prolactin-release inhibition on milk production and mammary gland involution at drying-off in cows
Ollier, S., Zhao, X., Lacasse, P. (2013). Effect of prolactin-release inhibition on milk production and mammary gland involution at drying-off in cows, 96(1), 335-343. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2012-5955
The end of each lactation is a challenging period for high-yielding cows as they are often dried off while still producing significant quantities of milk and, consequently, are highly susceptible to new intramammary infections. Once involution is complete, the mammary gland becomes much more resistant to infection. Therefore, it is critically important to develop strategies aimed at reducing milk production before drying-off and to accelerate mammary gland involution. This study assessed the effect of inhibition of the lactogenic signal driven by prolactin (PRL) on milk production and concentrations of involution markers in mammary secretions. Sixteen Holstein cows in late lactation were assigned to treatments based on milk yield, somatic cell count, and parity. Of those cows, 8 received twice-daily intramuscular injections (2. mg per injection) of quinagolide, a specific inhibitor of PRL release, from 4. d before drying-off to 3. d after (Quin). The other 8 cows received injections of the solvent (water, control). Blood and milk (mammary secretion) samples were collected on the last 5. d before and on d 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 14 after the last milking. Additionally, on the day preceding the first injection and on the following day, several blood samples were collected around milking time. Quinagolide reduced basal serum PRL concentrations on all injection days as well as PRL released in blood during milking. The PRL inhibitor decreased milk production before drying-off, which averaged, over the last 3. d of lactation, 19.3 and 15.5. kg/d for the control and Quin cows, respectively. Quinagolide had no significant effect on milk citrate:lactoferrin and Na:K ratios, which decreased and increased, respectively, during the first 2. wk of the dry period. Nevertheless, the increases in the number of somatic cells and bovine serum albumin concentration during early involution were greater and matrix metalloproteinase-2 activity tended to be greater in mammary secretions of the Quin cows compared with the control cows. This experiment shows that inhibition of PRL release decreases milk production of cows in late lactation. Changes in the composition of mammary secretions suggest that this approach also hastens mammary gland involution. © 2013 American Dairy Science Association.


She had no vision for her future, outside of being a good caregiver for her family.
When I first started serving in Eastern Europe, I lived in Sunjen's* home for a few months, and we became good friends. Not long after my arrival, I began offering occupational therapy (OT) services. I invited Sunjen to help me, since all of my clients were children and I needed the extra pair of hands. We worked side by side.
Several years into our working relationship, Sunjen shared with me that she wanted to become an occupational therapist. She was eager to learn and wanted to understand everything I did, but I didn't have the time to train her. We started seeking formal training for her.
By cultural standards, Sunjen was too old to enroll in the state-funded university, so her options were limited. She had no vision for her future, outside of being a good caregiver for her family.
The closest OT program we could find was almost 12 hours away in another country. She knew the language, but because she was her family's primary caregiver, she didn't want to live that far from them. We prayed that God would help us find a more viable alternative.
Shortly after, we learned that a private college was starting an OT program in Sunjen's language. It was only 50 minutes from her home. I started working for the school, and Sunjen joined the 12 students who applied for the first year.
In February 2018, Sunjen received her OT license from the Ministry of Health. She is currently working in the OT department at my clinic and is preparing to open her own.
Sunjen hasn't committed to follow the Messiah. She is afraid to break away from her mother's faith. She reads the Bible story at our women's discipleship group and asks questions—she even believes that He is the Son of God. But she still identifies with the majority religion of the Middle East.
Sunjen's life has been changed, and she recognizes that the Lord has been at the center of the whole process. Pray that she will continue to see God's faithfulness in her life and make the final step in her surrender to her Savior.


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The 2002-03 West Coast Hockey League season was the eighth and last season of the West Coast Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Six teams participated in the regular season, and the San Diego Gulls were the league champions.

Regular season

Taylor Cup-Playoffs

External links
 Season 2002/03 on hockeydb.com

West Coast Hockey League seasons
WCHL


Power tools make tough jobs easier for everyone from professional construction workers to avid do-it-yourselfers. Despite their many benefits, power tools can be extremely dangerous. In fact, they send more than 900,000 people to the emergency room with injuries each year, according to a hazard screening report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
When power tools malfunction or are handled carelessly, the injuries that occur can be serious, debilitating, disabling, life-threatening, or even fatal. Power tool accidents can deal a significant financial blow to victims, as they often face outrageous medical bills and are usually required to take time off of work to recover from their injuries.
Fortunately, the victims of power tool accidents have multiple avenues they can pursue for compensation. If you were injured in a power tool accident caused by a malfunctioning tool or negligent third-party, here's what you need to know.
Lacerations: These injuries can be caused by a number of different power tools and can range in severity from minor scratches to deep gashes.
Puncture wounds: These wounds can also range from minor to severe, and are often caused by tools such as power drills, nail guns, and electric staplers.
Amputations: Fingers—specifically the middle and index fingers—are the most common form of amputation injuries associated with power tool accidents. These injuries are often caused by chain saws, table saws, and circular saws.
Electrocutions: Power tool electrocution injuries can be caused by tools with frayed cords, or those that are accidentally immersed in water while plugged in and powered on.
Eye injuries: These injuries are particularly common among do-it-yourselfers, due to the wood shavings and other debris that can be generated during home improvement projects.
Trip-and-fall accidents: Tripping and falling may not sound like such a big deal, but it can be when power tools are present. These accidents can result in head injuries, broken bones, amputations, or even impalement.
Wear goggles to protect the eyes from wood and metal shavings.
Never use power tools when fatigued or taking sedating prescription medications.
When using a power saw, use a clamp—rather than a hand—to hold the project in place.
Never disable the safety or remove the safety guards on power tools; they are there for a reason.
If you or a loved one were injured in a power tool accident that wasn't your fault, you may be eligible for compensation—either through workers' compensation insurance or a personal injury lawsuit. The experienced attorneys with the Morris James Personal Injury Group can help you explore all your legal options. Call today to schedule a free initial case review.