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Welcome to the mock draft
by Bill Simmons on April 21, 2010
Of the 4,625,918 people with a sports column or sports blog, I am the only one who hasn't written an NFL mock draft before. How is that possible? I love mock drafts! What's more in my wheelhouse than a column filled with a ton of hyperbole, opinions that can't be proved and, of course, a lot of mocking? I allowed nine NFL drafts to sneak by me at ESPN.com like a hanging slider; this will not be the 10th. Let's get it on.
1. St. Louis
Sam Bradford, QB
I guess I'm confused. When Ndamukong Suh left a trail of bodies at Nebraska last season, everyone agreed, "That dude is a wrecking machine, he's definitely the No. 1 pick." Then, the season ended … and everyone started picking Suh apart. He turned 23 in January. The track record of defensive tackles going first overall isn't great. I'm not so sure Gerald McCoy isn't better. You gotta grab a franchise QB here if you can get one. As soon as Bradford's shoulder received a clean bill of health, momentum swung behind him because, you know, any time you can take someone first in a draft when everyone agrees he isn't one of the best two players, you have to do it.
There is no talking the Rams out of this one: The new owners want a poster boy for their new regime; their beaten-down fans need a Hope Vessel, and there's no better way to feed that beast than grabbing a good-looking QB with a Hollywood-ready name like "Sam Bradford." It's probably the right pick. Hit a draft-day home run with a quarterback and it's a grand slam. Hit a draft-day home run with any other position and it's a home run. I just know that three levels of "franchise quarterbacks" have been taken in the top three picks since 1998:
Level 1 (no way they were missing): Peyton Manning (1), Michael Vick (1).
Level 2 (almost definitely weren't missing): Carson Palmer (1), Eli Manning (1).
Level 3 (hopefully weren't missing): David Carr (1), Tim Couch (1), Alex Smith (1), JaMarcus Russell (1), Matthew Stafford (1), Ryan Leaf (2), Donovan McNabb (2), Akili Smith (3), Joey Harrington (3), Vince Young (3), Matt Ryan (3).
At the time, you would have bet your life on the Level 1 guys making it (barring injury). You wouldn't have bet your life on the Level 2 guys, but you would have at least asked for odds. You would not have wagered your life on any of the Level 3 guys. Three made it; seven bombed; and Young gets an incomplete. If anything, getting picked that high set those guys up for failure: Expectations skyrocketed; their teams felt obligated to play them before they were ready; and they were asked to do too much too soon. The experts believe Bradford is a Level 2 guy, although it's worth noting that he qualifies — potentially — under everything in the previous sentence.
Digging deeper, let's say the NFL pressed the reset button, made every QB a free agent, then held a QB lottery for the 32 teams. The top 12 order of preference would look something like this: Peyton Manning (picked first overall); Tom Brady (sixth round); Drew Brees (second round); Philip Rivers (fourth overall); Aaron Rodgers (24th overall); Ben Roethlisberger (11th overall); Mark Sanchez (fifth overall); Matt Ryan (third overall); Eli Manning (first overall); Tony Romo (undrafted); Joe Flacco (18th overall); Matt Schaub (third round).
Translation: Drafting QBs is a freaking crapshoot. You're throwing dice. If you miss with a top-3 pick, it's a catastrophe because of the financial hit and the seasons squandered trying to make a bad situation work. (See: Russell, JaMarcus.) The six teams that misfired on Carr, Couch, Leaf, Harrington and the Smiths failed to win a playoff game for at least SIX STRAIGHT YEARS after whiffing on those picks; all six picked in the top 3 of another draft within three years of the whiff; and the seventh team (Oakland) has missed three straight postseasons since whiffing on Russell.
So based on the last 12 years of evidence, it's just as likely that Bradford will murder the Rams as save them. Of course, you could have said the same thing about Matthew Stafford last spring … and he made it. That's why St. Louis will take Bradford. Just don't tell me it's a "safe pick" because it's not. The next guy is the safe pick.
2. Detroit
Ndamukong Suh, DT
Gives the Lions franchise guys on both sides of the ball, and that's before we get to Suh's character (Did you catch this story about his $2.6 million donation to Nebraska)? Are they definitely taking him? Of course not! They're reportedly open to trading down. Just take the dude already. We want to watch a good Detroit game on Thanksgiving before we die. By the way, my Dad would like to announce that he'll be calling this guy "Suh" on Thursday night.
3. Tampa Bay
Gerald McCoy, DT
One of those picks that makes you wish they did the NFL draft like we would — with 32 GMs crammed around a long table, magazines and cheat sheets strewn everywhere, the Bucs taking their sweet time at No. 3, and a couple of the other GMs finally getting pissed and saying, "Come on, we all know you're taking McCoy, he's the best pick by far; I don't want to be here until 2 in the morning. JUST EFFING TAKE HIM!"
4. Washington
TRADE!
Washington wants a left tackle to protect McNabb. Picking next, Kansas City doesn't need a left tackle … which means Russell Okung or Trent Williams could be there at No. 7 … a spot where Cleveland wants a playmaker on defense. Do I need to spell this out for you?
Cleveland trades No. 7, No. 85 and No. 92 to Washington for No. 4 and No. 103.
4. Cleveland
Eric Berry, S
One of many things that bugs me about the NFL draft: Everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE, agrees that Eric Berry is (A) one of four no-doubt-abouters in this draft; (B) quite possibly "The Next Ed Reed"; and (C) someone who passes the Champ Bailey Test — in other words, just glancing at his name makes you think, "That's a guy who sounds like he's gonna be good." So why wouldn't Berry go fourth? Because the moronic rookie salary structure severely overvalues the top-10 picks, so teams worry that top-5 is too expensive for a free safety.
Here's my counter: You're getting a multiyear All-Pro! Who cares??? Reed went 24th in the 2002 draft; if you did that first round over again, Dwight Freeney goes first, Julius Peppers goes second, Albert Haynesworth goes third … and Reed goes fourth. If you asked Baltimore whether Reed was worth No. 4 cap money from 2002 to 2007, I'd bet my baseball card collection the Ravens would say yes. Berry should go fourth.
5. Kansas City
Follow this formula: (No obvious pick) + (Belichick disciple Scott Pioli running the show) = a Bizarro Jeffersons move ("We're movin' on down!").
Washington trades No. 7 and No. 92 to Kansas City for No. 5.
5. Washington (via fake trade)
Trent Williams, OT
That was fun: The Redskins made two trades, jumped 18 spots in the third round and landed their tackle at a slightly lower cap spot. Williams gets the edge over Russell Okung only because he has gained momentum in the past few weeks. The good news for Okung: Even if he isn't the top tackle drafted, he still gets his own all-star team: the Russell Okung All-Stars for "Athletes who sound like they might be Asian even though they aren't."
Russell Okung, LT
On Monday's B.S. Report, Mike Lombardi compared this spot to playing pool: The Seahawks also pick 14th, so they want to make this "shot," then have the cue ball bounce to a spot where they'll have another easy shot. This analogy works splendidly unless it's 2 a.m. and you have some chain-smoking drunk dude trying to pull it off. And I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Pete Carroll might be the chain-smoking drunk dude.
I found it perplexing that Seattle handed the coaching/front-office car keys to Carroll this past winter for two reasons. First, it's always weird when NFL teams pay huge money to lure successful college coaches when the jobs are so fundamentally different. It's the distant cousin of Hollywood's allowing star actors to direct (with a similar track record of success). So you excelled at a job that's 75 percent recruiting and 25 percent strategy, you've been basically playing the "Pro" level of "Madden" and now we're asking you to jump to "All-Madden" without a safety net, and you have no feel for the other 31 NFL rosters because you haven't been following our league at all. This should work great!
Second, Carroll became the Patriots' coach the same year I launched my www.bostonsportsguy.com website. He did such a dreadful job that a reader once e-mailed me, "Pete Carroll answers the question of why Fredo was never given control of the Corleone family," followed by my immediately nicknaming Carroll "Coach Fredo" for the rest of his tenure. As it turned out, the comparison was an insult to Fredo. It took Carroll two years to destroy a Super Bowl team, and after he left, it took the Patriots two years to win a Super Bowl. You couldn't do worse. Even Fredo has "banged two cocktail waitresses" on his résumé.
Now, this was a good 10-plus years ago, and I was smoking a ton of pot back then, but I specifically remember thinking to myself in 1999, "Pete Carroll is definitely not meant to coach professional football or pick the players." I didn't think Carroll was meant to coach football, period. His USC experience revealed that he's meant to recruit 18-year-olds, hop around on the sideline, pump his fists, do the rah-rah routine, design fun defenses and give likable news conferences. We already saw this routine in the NFL: His name was Herm Edwards. It's not going to work.
Back to the billiards analogy: Seattle probably can't pass on C.J. Spiller (the only elite running back in the draft) here and get him at 14, but the Seahawks can't take him here because they'd lose out on an elite offensive lineman. I say take Okung, then move up from No. 14 for Spiller. We'll see whether Fredo has it in him. Er, Pete.
7. Kansas City (via fake trade)
Bryan Bulaga, OT
Solid pick. Although here's the hierarchy of letdown on first-round picks for fans …
A. Trading down. Like a kick in the teeth every time. It's like being super excited for a lamb stew dinner, sitting down at the table, then having your wife/mother say, "Sorry, I miscalculated, it's gonna be another hour." Such a letdown. What's funny is that, when your team trades up, it's the complete opposite and seems 10 times more exciting than it actually is. What? We traded up? We're on the clock? Who can we get? I love trading up.
B. Picking an offensive lineman who isn't a left tackle.
C. Picking a blocking tight end.
D. Picking a QB when you already have a QB.
E. Any No. 1 pick made by the Raiders if you're a Raiders fan. Which reminds me …
8. Oakland
Dan Williams, DT
The real shame: If the Raiders hadn't already dumped their 2011 No. 1 pick for Richard Seymour, they could have offered two No. 1s to Pittsburgh for Ben Roethlisberger, who immediately would have become the most perfect Raider since Ken Stabler. Oh, like the Oakland fans would have judged him? Come on. JUST WIN, BABY!
Quick tangent: I'm fascinated by the Roethlisberger situation. If anyone was ever set up to cut bait with him, it's a family-owned franchise in a blue-collar city that already rode him to two Super Bowl wins. We allegedly have a guy who sought out a drunk girl, had a bodyguard/personal assistant run interference for him, and took the girl alone into a bathroom while her friends tried to, for lack of a better word, save her because they knew she was blitzed. Now Pittsburgh fans are being asked to forgive this person even though (A) they don't know exactly how badly he behaved, and (B) they aren't sure whether this was the first time. Many are having trouble with this request.
Look, nobody wants to win THAT badly … unless you haven't won in a long time, then you can talk yourself into just about anything. Steelers fans don't need him anymore. He's like a prize camel that already walked them across the desert twice. At the same time, Pittsburgh is trying to remain competitive, so it can't trade him without a fair deal — maybe you don't have to Godfather Offer them like TBS Godfathered Conan O'Brien, but you'd better pony up something — and the Steelers would never trade him within their division or to another AFC contender.
Here's the question: What cities need a QB, have the assets for a trade and qualify for the aforementioned "nobody wants to win THAT badly … unless you haven't won in a long time, then you can talk yourself into just about anything" statement? According to my calculations, Buffalo, Kansas City, Oakland and San Francisco. That's it. I don't think San Fran and K.C. would gut their teams for him. The Bills don't work because they could never put a good enough team around him, and if he ever slipped up again, they would never recover. That leaves Oakland. We already know Al Davis is starstruck; we know he loves gunslinger QBs; we know he loves to get people talking; we know he doesn't care about the future because he died four years ago; and we know he couldn't care less about someone's background or character. In other words, he's a perfect match.
So what if Al offered Pittsburgh the No. 8 pick and a No. 1 pick in 2012? Wouldn't the Steelers have to do it? If you're Al Davis, and you died four years ago … wouldn't you have to do it? If you're Roethlisberger, wouldn't you want a fresh start somewhere else? Stay tuned. I have no inside info whatsoever, and I made this whole thing up three minutes ago, but stay tuned.
9. Buffalo
Anthony Davis, OT
Can't take Jimmy Clausen here — putting a young QB behind a bad line on a bad team in bad weather for a bad coach wouldn't be fair. I do not approve. Speaking of Buffalo, the 2010 Bills brain trust consists of a 91-year-old owner, a 70-year-old general manager who's never been a GM before and a 58-year-old coach who has only two years of NFL head coaching on his résumé. Or, as some people call it, The Dream Team!
10. Jacksonville
The Jags can absolutely talk Pete Carroll into a "Look, if you don't trade up for C.J. Spiller right now, we're trading this pick to someone who will" scenario, right? Although part of me wants Carroll to abandon the Spiller chase, trade for Matt Leinart and sign Reggie Bush, just because it would be fun to have that trio back together, only this time, Leinart and Bush would be getting paid OVER the table. (The UCLA fans are giggling right now.) Screw it, let's give Seattle Spiller.
Seattle trades No. 14, No. 60 and No. 127 to Jacksonville for No. 10, No. 74 and No. 143.
10. Seattle (via fake trade)
C.J. Spiller, RB
My only concern: It worries me whenever a draft pick (in this case, Spiller) looks so enticing partly because it's a weak year at his position. It's the distant cousin of Press Box Hot — how there can be one female reporter in a press box full of dudes, and unless she has a mustache or looks like Babe Ruth, they're always going to salivate over her. This doesn't necessarily mean she's attractive, right? As recently as last month, Mel Kiper and Todd McShay did their Mock Draft 3.0 and pegged Spiller at 19th and 14th, respectively. Now some people have him going as high as sixth — which, extending the Press Box Hot dynamic, means we have talked ourselves into thinking he was "hot" instead of "cute." He might be hot, he might be cute. I don't know. I just know that I don't totally trust this pick.
11. Denver
Rolando McClain, ILB
Thought it was funny that so many mocks had troubled receiver Dez Bryant pegged in this spot just one week after the Broncos traded Brandon Marshall. Come on. When Sandra Bullock dates again — and Lord knows if she ever will — I guarantee she won't end up with another tattooed TV star who owns a bike shop and used to be married to a porn star. That's right, I just mocked the mocks that have Bryant going here.
12. Miami
Derrick Morgan, DE
Best pass-rusher available, nice fit for their 3-4 scheme. Yup, it's super easy to sound as if you know what you're talking about in an NFL mock draft.
(Unrelated, and only because it's an easy chance to extend my "consecutive columns that reference 'Lost'" streak to six: I liked Miami's Brandon Marshall trade. He's petrifying. The thought of the Patriots playing him twice a year with our usual slew of 5-foot-6 corners makes me physically ill. At the same time, let's assume that South Beach is like the island in "Lost" and that it brings outsiders to the *island* just because it's their destiny to live there and get in trouble. Under that pretense, wouldn't South Beach rig the 2008 NBA draft lottery so the Heat would get Michael Beasley? Wouldn't it brainwash the Dolphins into giving up $47 million and two second-rounders for Brandon Marshall? And wouldn't Roethlisberger be next on deck?)
Kyle Wilson, CB
Yet another billiards pick allows the 49ers to grab the best corner now, then make another need pick at 17 and pass on Jimmy Clausen twice just one month after passing on McNabb. You know, because they're totally set at QB with Alex Smith, who ranked 29th, 24th, 28th and 25th in footballoutsiders.com's four advanced QB metrics last season. This will not end well.
We need the Jags to keep moving down so they can take Tim Tebow without everyone in the audience laughing hysterically. So …
Philly trades No. 24 and No. 70 to Jacksonville for No. 14.
14. Philadelphia (via fake trade)
Earl Thomas, S
Philly uses two of its excess picks (six in the top 105) to grab an impact player on defense, setting the Eagles up even better for the phenomenal Ewing Theory season that lies ahead. Drew Bledsoe, Tiki Barber, Donovan McNabb … these things come in threes.
15. N.Y. Giants
Mike Iupati, G
My Giants friends are freaking out that their team can't tackle anymore; all of them want the G-Men to trade up to 11 for McClain. I would urge them to calm down, remember that they won a Super Bowl two years ago because a special-teamer caught the biggest pass of the game off the top of his helmet, then remember we live in a world where Tiki Barber missed a Super Bowl ring by one year, bombed as a TV personality, dumped his pregnant wife for a college coed, had the tri-state area turn against him and is inevitably headed for a job interviewing wrestlers backstage on "Monday Night Raw." You're still playing with house money, Giants fans. Don't forget this.
(By the way, Vegas won't take odds on the words "The New York Giants select … Mike Iupati, guard, Idaho" being followed by this word: "Booooooooooooooooooooo!")
16. Tennessee
Jason Pierre-Paul, DE
Fun moment on my NFL draft preview podcast: Lombardi (the old-school former GM who studies tape) absolutely loved Pierre-Paul's potential, then Aaron Schatz (the head of www.footballoutsiders.com) came on and introduced his new SackSEER formula for evaluating speed rushers, which, of course, absolutely despised Pierre-Paul. Now I'm thinking ESPN needs a weekly show called "You Make My Skin Crawl," with old-school scouts/executives arguing with sabermetricians about a variety of sports topics and never agreeing on anything. Not only would I watch this show, I want to host it.
I want to experience the following moment in print because it's never gonna happen in real life (only because the Patriots love trading down, not up …)
New England trades No. 22, No. 117 and No. 171 to San Francisco for No. 17.
17. New England (via fake trade)
Dez Bryant, WR
Scouts Inc. gave Bryant a 4 out of 5 (with 5 the lowest grade possible) for intangibles and wrote, "The NCAA suspended Bryant for the final 10 games of the 2009 season for lying to an NCAA investigator who was looking into Bryant's offseason meeting with former NFL player Deion Sanders. Multiple NFL scouts have told us that Bryant comes from a difficult home situation and as a result comes with some emotional baggage."
And you know what? I don't care. TOM BRADY NEEDS TOYS! If the Pats grabbed Bryant here, then landed an explosive running back with one of their three Round 2 picks (Jahvid Best), I'd be doing backflips. OK, not really. I'm too old. But there definitely would be some fist pumping along the lines of the Shake Weight commercial.
18. Pittsburgh
Maurkice Pouncey, C
The Steelers nail the draft's best center and one of those guys everyone agrees will be really good and yet, by rule, can't be taken in the top 12. Huh? Next year, Pittsburgh can pick his identical twin brother and try to get a Sedin brothers type thing going. By the way, how fun would a Clausen pick be here? That would get a Hall of Fame "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" from the New York crowd, wouldn't it?
19. Atlanta
Brandon Graham, DE
The old, "Holy crap did we screw up three years ago with Jamaal Anderson, let's just take a mulligan" pick. I love those.
20. Houston
Joe Haden, CB
Followed by one of the ESPN guys saying, "When you're playing Peyton Manning twice a year, you can NEVER … have … enough … CORNERBACKS!"
21. Cincinnati
Jermaine Gresham, TE
The Bengals have needed a tight end ever since Reggie Kelly blew out his knee on "Hard Knocks." Which reminds me, I'm so excited for "Hard Knocks: The New York Jets" that I can barely stand it. Rex Ryan coming off gastric bypass surgery and saying Rex Ryan things? LaDainian Tomlinson slowly making Jets fans forget he's washed up by giving a series of intense interviews and looking good in cone drills? Santonio Holmes possibly playing the "Why did Pittsburgh get rid of me but keep Roethlisberger … is it because I'm BLACK?" card? Woody Johnson doing Woody Johnson things? Braylon Edwards dropping pass after pass as the coaches say, "It's OK, Braylon, keep your head up!" Visits from any of Antonio Cromartie's seven kids? Vernon Gholston becoming the first top-six pick to get cut during a "Hard Knocks" episode? Any shots of Mark Sanchez's girlfriend, if he has one?
(Note: In a "Which 'Hard Knocks' team would you want for 2010?" fantasy draft, my board would have looked like this: [1] Jets; [2] Redskins; [3] Vikings; [4] Seahawks. So this is good.)
22. San Francisco (via fake trade)
Charles Brown, OT
Need pick! Time for my second-to-last tangent …
I hate that Round 1 was moved to Thursday night for selfish reasons: We don't need more to watch/do on the last Thursday of April. There's NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, the end of college semesters, final exams, spring weather, baseball games, TV programming heading toward May sweeps (like "Survivor") … we already have too much going on. The NFL draft is like a killer bottle of wine. You don't want to chug it; you want to savor it. You want to swirl it around in your glass, smell it, sip it, discuss it, throw yourself into it. By putting the draft on Thursday night, now it's just another liquor option behind the bar. I think it's better than that.
So here's my suggestion: Move the draft back three weeks. Make it the first Thursday in April so it misses the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs and the Masters. We want to savor this thing. Besides, why do they wait so long to have the NFL draft? The NBA and NHL bang theirs out right after the season; really, the NFL needs three months to figure out their picks that have a 50 percent success rate no matter what happens? I vote for the first Thursday in April. Throw us a bone.
23. Green Bay
Kareem Jackson, CB
Need pick! Last tangent: I think Roger Goodell should wear a cowboy hat during Thursday's draft to officially complete his transformation into Timothy Olyphant in "Justified." Just let it go, Roger. You're feeling it. You love being the new sheriff in town and handing out vague suspensions for things like, "Even though they didn't press charges, you can't tell me that something didn't happen in that seedy bathroom with that college girl, so here's a six-game suspension and you're lucky it's not worse." Wear the cowboy hat. Send a message.
24. Jacksonville (via fake trade)
Tim Tebow, QB
And … it's time. I've never been a big "gotta take the local hero" guy. You know what sells tickets? Winning. But Tim Tebow isn't just a local hero. He's a local demigod. He's the most popular person in Florida. He would immediately transform the Jaguars from "The team that's probably moving" to "Florida's official pro football team." This has to be the move for them. It's just smart business. I mean … have you been to Jacksonville? Not a lot going on. To say the least. If the Tebow thing worked out, that saves the franchise and legitimizes the (not so fun to visit, believe me, I spent a week there once) city of Jacksonville.
In the St. Louis/Bradford section, I wrote that it's "just as likely that Bradford will murder the Rams as save them." Same goes for Tebow in Jacksonville. But here's the big difference: You're picking him 24th instead of first. Give me home run odds on a $500 craps bet (like Bradford) and I'm nervous. Give me home run odds on a $20 craps bet (like Tebow) and I'm giddy. Tim Tebow should be a Jacksonville Jaguar. Just not at No. 10. Because that would be dumb.
Zooming through the last eight picks because I'm throwing crap against the wall at this point …
25. Baltimore
Jared Odrick, DT
26. Arizona
Sergio Kindle, OLB
27. Dallas
Taylor Mays, S
Ryan Mathews, RB
29. N.Y. Jets
Jerry Hughes, OLB
30. Minnesota
Jimmy Clausen, QB
31. Indianapolis
Rodger Saffold, OT
32. New Orleans
Sean Weatherspoon, OLB
And with that, I just became the 4,625,918th person to write an NFL mock draft. Cross another one off the bucket list.
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6 October 2020 Reed Smith Client Alerts
Delaware Superior Court rules that ACE American must defend Rite Aid in prescription opioid lawsuits
Rite Aid Corp. v. ACE American Ins. Co., No. N19C-04-150 (Del. Super. Ct. Sept. 22, 2020)
Home Perspectives Delaware Superior Court rules that ACE American must defend Rite Aid in prescription opioid lawsuits
The Delaware Superior Court recently joined the growing chorus of court decisions confirming that insurance coverage is available under standard CGL policies for the defense of government entity prescription opioid claims. The Delaware Superior Court's decision marks the third decision in the past three months ruling that policyholders are entitled to a defense from their general liability insurers for these prescription opioid claims.
Authors: Courtney C. T. Horrigan Dominic Rupprecht Kateri T. Persinger
The Delaware Superior Court recently ruled that ACE American – one of Rite Aid's general liability insurers – must defend Rite Aid in hundreds of lawsuits brought against it by government agencies and political subdivisions alleging that Rite Aid improperly distributed opioids. The Delaware Superior Court's decision marks the third decision in three months confirming that general liability insurers should be defending their policyholders in prescription opioid litigation filed by government entities seeking to recover as damages the amounts that they allegedly spent to provide medical, health, emergency, and other services to citizens suffering from opioid addiction.
At issue before the Delaware Superior Court was Rite Aid's motion for partial summary judgment requesting a defense from ACE American for the hundreds of government entity prescription opioid claims that have been consolidated in the National Prescription Opiate Multidistrict Litigation, MDL 2804, pending in the Northern District of Ohio. The court granted Rite Aid's motion, and denied ACE American's cross-motion for partial summary judgment, which ACE American submitted along with certain other Chubb entities that issued general liability policies to Rite Aid during the relevant time period.
The court began by stating that it need not decide whether Pennsylvania or Delaware law governs the ACE American policy, given that the states' laws did not conflict and were not materially different with respect to the cross-motions' relevant issues. The court then went on to reject each of the four principal defenses to coverage that ACE American presented.
First, ACE American argued that the government entities' suits did not seek damages "because of bodily injury" – one of the triggers of coverage under a general liability policy – because the government entities did not themselves suffer bodily injuries. The court joined a clear, growing consensus in rejecting ACE American's argument, and held that the defense coverage was triggered because the ultimate cause of the alleged damages was bodily injuries suffered by the residents of the relevant jurisdictions. Construing the duty to defend broadly in Rite Aid's favor, the court reasoned that because at least "[s]ome of the economic losses sought by the governmental entities are arguably because of bodily injury," Rite Aid was entitled to a full defense from ACE American against those liabilities. Rite Aid, No. N19C-04-150, at p. 33.
Second, the court rejected ACE American's argument that the MDL lawsuits should be treated as multiple separate occurrences. In reaching its conclusion, the court held that there can be "multiple instances that constitute a single cause" but that in this instance, it "is not possible to identify independent damages from each respective cause of distribution and dispensing." Id. at pp. 36-37. The court therefore agreed with Rite Aid that all government entity opioid lawsuits alleging either distribution or dispensing claims should be deemed a single occurrence under the ACE American general liability policy.
Third, the court disagreed with ACE American that Pennsylvania's "first manifestation" theory should apply to these lawsuits, which states that the policies in effect when the injury first manifested are triggered. Instead, the court held that the "multiple trigger" theory applies, which provides that for latent injury cases, any insurance policies in effect at any point during the period from the initial exposure to harmful conditions through manifestation of the injury or damage must respond to the loss. The court refused to limit the scope of the multiple trigger rule to claims of asbestosis or mesothelioma, holding that "[t]he personal injury of opioid abuse and opioid use disorder would plainly fall into the category of a 'latent injury'" to which the multiple trigger rule was designed to apply.
Finally, the court dismissed ACE American's attempt to avoid its coverage obligations based on the "prior knowledge" or "known loss" defenses. The court reasoned that, at most, Rite Aid may have been aware of the risk of diversion of its products prior to 2015, but knowledge of a risk would not bar coverage under the policy's "prior knowledge" provision. Further, the court held that knowledge of opioid abuse, or the "opioid crisis" more generally, was insufficient to void coverage based on a known loss defense. The court held that knowledge of injuries was insufficient to trigger the known loss defense. The court explained that for the known loss defense to apply, the insured must have known of "a likely exposure to losses which would reach the level of coverage" prior to an insurance policy's inception date. In other words, to defeat coverage under a general liability policy based on the known loss defense, the insurer must prove that the policyholder must know not simply of an injury, but that there is a likelihood of liability for that injury. Because Rite Aid could not have known the government entities would seek to hold it liable for the claims at issue in the MDL until at least 2017, when those entities began asserting their novel theories of liability, the court held the known loss defense could not apply.
The Delaware Superior Court joins the Ohio First District Court of Appeals in Acuity v. Masters Pharmaceutical, Inc., No. C-190176 (Ohio Ct. App. 1 Dist. June 24, 2020), as well as the Ohio Court of Common Pleas in Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Discount Drug Mart, Inc., No. CV-19-913990 (Ohio Com. Pleas Sept. 9, 2020) – two other courts that have recently issued decisions finding coverage in favor of the policyholder for government entity opioid claims. Those decisions, as well as the Seventh Circuit's earlier decision in Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. H.D. Smith, L.L.C., 829 F.3d 771 (7th Cir. 2016), confirm that general liability insurance policies have an important role to play in responding to prescription opioid claims.
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Dark green leafy vegetables are nutritional powerhouses filled with vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. They are rich in chlorophyll, which alkalinizes the blood, and fiber, which keeps the colon healthy.Nutritionists recommend eating one-half cup of green leafy vegetables each day to prevent nutrient deficiencies and serious illnesses. There are many varieties of edible green leaves, and they are most nutritious when eaten raw or lightly steamed.
Now I live in New Zealand, where it is cold in the winter time. Unfortunately, chilly temps and dark days are more suited to spicy curry and soups than cold dishes filled with raw veggies. But I do not give up, It`s good reason to create new versions suitable for the cool time of the year, such as this bright green salad with creamy avocado, chewy wheat berries and lemony garlic dressing.
I used for this salad steamed vegetables – kale, spinach, broccoli and green beans. Steam cooking is not only one of the healthiest methods of preparing food, but it is also a special way of preparing it which allows the steamed products to keep their shape, color, taste and juice.
How to prepare wheat berries. Wheat berries are the whole grain form of wheat – the whole, complete grain before it has undergone any processing. They're a high-fiber whole grain that can be used much like any other whole grain.
1/2 cup of dry wheat berry soak overnight. Combine wheat berries and 2 cups of water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 40 minutes or till soft and chewy.
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The European Commission welcomes today's decision by the Council to adopt the negotiating directives for trade talks with the United States, thus continuing to deliver on the implementation of the Joint Statement agreed by Presidents Juncker and Trump in July 2018.
European Union Member States gave the Commission the green light to start formal negotiations with the U.S. on two agreements, one on conformity assessment, and the other on eliminating tariffs on industrial products. This is just three months after the European Commission had put forward the mandates and in line with the conclusions of the March European Council, during which EU leaders called for a "rapid implementation of all elements of the U.S.-EU Joint Statement of 25 July 2018".
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said: "This is a welcome decision that will help ease trade tensions. We are now ready to start formal talks for these two targeted agreements that will bring tangible benefits for people and economies on both sides of the Atlantic. I am convinced that breaking down barriers to trade between us can be win-win."
In line with the directives agreed by EU governments, the Commission will further examine the potential economic, environmental and social impacts of the agreement, taking into account the commitments of the EU in international agreements, including the Paris Agreement on climate change. This assessment, as well as the negotiating process itself, will be conducted in regular dialogue with the European Parliament, Member States, civil society and all relevant stakeholders, in line with the European Commission's commitment to transparency. As part of its engagement for an inclusive trade policy, the Commission is currently running a public consultation on voluntary regulatory cooperation.
As a direct result of President Juncker's meeting with President Trump on 25 July 2018, and the Joint Statement agreed by both sides, no new tariffs were imposed, including on cars and car parts, and the EU and the U.S. are working to eliminate all existing industrial tariffs and improve cooperation.
In January 2019, the Commission presented to Member States proposals for negotiating mandates to remove industrial tariffs and facilitate conformity assessments with the United States. Today's decision finalises this approval process.
As regards other aspects of the Joint Statement, the United States is now Europe's main soya beans supplier and will soon be able to expand its market further, following the decision by the European Commission to launch the process for authorising the use of U.S. soya beans for biofuels. The European Commission will release the latest figures tomorrow. Recent figures have also shown a steep rise in shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. in October and November 2018. The EU has also identified a number of areas where voluntary cooperation on regulatory issues with the U.S. could yield quick and substantial results.


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package org.opentosca.csarrepo.model.join;

import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Embeddable;
import javax.persistence.EmbeddedId;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.opentosca.csarrepo.model.CsarFile;
import org.opentosca.csarrepo.model.OpenToscaServer;

/**
 * Join entity of the entity Csar and OpenToscaServer
 *
 * @author Dennis Przytarski, Thomas Kosch (mail@thomaskosch.com)
 *
 */
@Entity
@Table(name = "csar_file_open_tosca_server")
public class CsarFileOpenToscaServer {

	@EmbeddedId
	private CsarFileOpenToscaServerId csarFileOpenToscaServerId;

	public CsarFileOpenToscaServer() {
	}

	public CsarFileOpenToscaServer(CsarFileOpenToscaServerId csarFileOpenToscaServerId) {
		this.csarFileOpenToscaServerId = csarFileOpenToscaServerId;
	}

	@ManyToOne
	@JoinColumn(name = "csar_file_id", insertable = false, updatable = false)
	private CsarFile csarFile;

	@ManyToOne
	@JoinColumn(name = "open_tosca_server_id", insertable = false, updatable = false)
	private OpenToscaServer openToscaServer;

	@Column(name = "location")
	private String location;

	/**
	 * @return the Csar file
	 */
	public CsarFile getCsarFile() {
		return csarFile;
	}

	/**
	 * @param csarFile
	 *            The Csar file
	 */
	public void setCsarFile(CsarFile csarFile) {
		this.csarFile = csarFile;
	}

	/**
	 * @return the OpenTosca server
	 */
	public OpenToscaServer getOpenToscaServer() {
		return openToscaServer;
	}

	/**
	 * @param openToscaServer
	 *            the OpenToscaServer
	 */
	public void setOpenToscaServer(OpenToscaServer openToscaServer) {
		this.openToscaServer = openToscaServer;
	}

	public String getLocation() {
		return location;
	}

	public void setLocation(String location) {
		this.location = location;
	}

	/**
	 * Embedded class for wrapping composite primary keys
	 *
	 * @author Dennis Przytarski, Thomas Kosch (mail@thomaskosch.com)
	 *
	 */
	@Embeddable
	public static class CsarFileOpenToscaServerId implements Serializable {

		private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

		@ManyToOne
		@JoinColumn(name = "csar_file_id")
		private CsarFile csarFile;

		@ManyToOne
		@JoinColumn(name = "open_tosca_server_id")
		private OpenToscaServer openToscaServer;

		public CsarFileOpenToscaServerId() {
		}

		public CsarFileOpenToscaServerId(CsarFile csarFile, OpenToscaServer openToscaServer) {
			this.csarFile = csarFile;
			this.openToscaServer = openToscaServer;
		}

		@Override
		public boolean equals(Object instance) {
			if (null == instance) {
				return false;
			}

			if (!(instance instanceof CsarFileOpenToscaServerId)) {
				return false;
			}

			final CsarFileOpenToscaServerId other = (CsarFileOpenToscaServerId) instance;

			if (!(csarFile.getId().equals(other.getCsarFile().getId())))
				return false;

			if (!(openToscaServer.getId().equals(other.getOpenToscaServer().getId())))
				return false;

			return true;
		}

		@Override
		public int hashCode() {
			return this.csarFile.hashCode() ^ this.openToscaServer.hashCode();
		}

		/**
		 * @return the Csar
		 */
		public CsarFile getCsarFile() {
			return csarFile;
		}

		/**
		 * @return the OpenToscaServer
		 */
		public OpenToscaServer getOpenToscaServer() {
			return openToscaServer;
		}

	}

}

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Today's guest post comes from Cambridge Ridley Lynch, a PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is currently working on a project that links American weather study with larger shifts in American science and politics.
In their recent recap of the MCEAS' "Traces of Early America" conference, Sara Damiano and Michael Blaakman spoke of the need to examine "processes, events, ideas, and dynamics that subsequent history has largely obscured, and that often pose significant evidentiary problems for those who wish to write about them." Clearly, the work presented at the conference did much to flesh out adumbrations left throughout the historical record, often by focusing on close reading of specific events, personages, and texts. But what about a factor that is so ubiquitous so as to hardly be thought of at all, one that every single person in a historical moment and place experiences at the same time, and yet goes largely unremarked upon in historical texts? Naturally, I'm talking about the weather.
The weather has become a cliché in its own right, the provenance of dullards and small talk. Even so, weather matters, especially in the largely agricultural and pre-industrial context of the Early Republic. Many scholars have already done the work of noting the influence of weather on settlement patterns, agriculture, and economy  Closely related is the concept of climates, climate change, and environmental change. But weather is not, in fact, the same thing as environment, or even climate. Weather connotes a specificity in both time and place. Weather is a microclimate in its own right, ephemeral and mobile, moving quickly and vanishing into thin air, leaving its effects behind. It is literally global even as its rationalization is intensely personal. Throughout human history people have been transfixed by its behavior: in his recent book on meteorology during the early Renaissance, Craig Martin locates weather's incredible ability to inspire human curiosity in its unpredictability, its potential for violence, and its omnipresence. Indeed, the emotions inspired by catastrophic weather events fit the very definition of Edmund Burke's concept of the sublime.
In years past there has been a cottage industry in a type of climatological determinism, one that speculates about things like how the American Revolution would have turned out under different weather conditions. It's an amusing thought exercise, but tying weather to very specific moments undercuts a larger question that must be answered: how did weather – in general – influence how early Americans viewed the natural world and their place within it? As historians who look closely at almanacs can tell you, the answer varies from person to person and place to place. Even so, I have found that it is a question that's worth asking, with interesting results. My own work, which deals in part with collective weather observation and the politics of power in Jacksonian America, uses weather as a lens through which to understand "ordinary" Americans in an turbulent age. There is much to recommend weather as a re-orienting perspective as we think about the constraints that shaped early American life. If, for example, we take seriously for the physical and emotional cost of losing a harvest to a freak hail storm, we might be more attentive to how safeguards against catastrophic weather might affect our subjects' behavior and how that translated on an economic, political, or religious level. Similarly, it is an important distinction whether early Americans ascribed weather behavior to Providential intent or plain bad luck, and how that changed over time (and why). In short, weather doesn't just affect individual lives – how it is understood is itself an artifact of broader cultural assumptions and beliefs, and historians can use that understanding as an "in" to their research.
A recent work that gets to the heart of the issues at stake is Matthew Mulcahy's Hurricanes and Society in the Greater British Caribbean In it, Mulcahy demonstrates a sensitivity to the interplay not just of climate, but of specific weather events. He recounts how the early Caribbean was punctuated by frequent destructive hurricanes, which in turn affected how planters developed the land and ordered society. "The history of hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean," he writes, "highlights several larger issues of concern to historians of early America, including shifting ideas about the natural world among colonists, the structure of political relationships within colonial society, the increasing political and economic connections between the colonies and other parts of the British Atlantic world, and the articulation of new ideas of sensibility, humanitarianism, and patriotism during the eighteenth century." A grand claim, to be sure, but his emphasis on the weather really does illuminate how the the constant presence of a wholly unpredictable factor fundamentally influenced how early Caribbean colonization progressed and how early colonists viewed the natural world. All this from an attention to the social effects of low pressure rotary wind systems that interact with bodies of warm water.
So what does this mean for readers of The Junto? I'm not calling for everyone to drop their work and start cataloguing early American weather. But if I inspire not a single history of the environment, then let's at least make sure that our history is environmental. Whether we work in political, cultural, religious, legal, or any of the myriad historical subfields, it's worth stopping to take a moment to think about the utterly unpredictable environmental factors that might be at play in our subjects' lives. If we see weather as a constant in the early Republic, then we recognize that its effects differ according to other constructs like race, gender, class, and politics. Accepting the environment as its own kind of structure of power might help us think more completely about the "full picture" of the early Republic.
 My own introduction to the concepts of weather and culture came from Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "The Puzzle of the American Climate in the Early Colonial Period," American Historical Review 87, no. 5 (1982): 1262-1289. The work of David Hackett Fischer also shows sensitivity to settlement and climate, as does that of many others.
 For a more recent addition to classics like Cronon's Changes in the Land, see Jan Golinski, "American Climate and the Civilization of Nature," in Science and Empire in the Atlantic World, eds. James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (New York: Routledge, 2008), 153-174.
 See Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, eds. James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2006), ix-xviii.
 Craig R. Martin, Renaissance Meteorology: From Pompanazzi to Descartes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), 16.
 The best example of this line of thinking can be found in the work of David M. Ludlum, who founded the magazine Weatherwise in 1947. Dr. Ludlum has done invaluable work cataloguing early weather events, but his popular books, like The Weather Factor, are light on scholarly analysis and overly geared towards trivia.
 For an excellent examination of the different registers of meteorological reportage, see Vladimir Jankovic, Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
 Matthew Mulcahy, Hurricanes and Society in the Greater British Caribbean, 1624-1783 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 5-6.
 For an analysis of how more recent Wai Chee Dimock, "World History According to Katrina," in States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies, eds. Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), 143-160.
What a wonderfully timely post! I've been surrounded by journals and only within the last week realized that I needed to give a little more attention and deeper thought to the (almost) daily weather observations…but had yet to explore what scholarship might be out there. Pretty excited about the awesome serendipity.
Thanks, though I feel honor-bound to warn you – once you start seeing weather, you see it everywhere! Happy to give any feedback about resources, etc. – feel free to send me an email anytime (contact information above).
Good catch – this is characteristic of the types of rationalization that took place as people tried to understand what caused severe weather, particularly in the 18th century. If you're interested in knowing more, definitely check out the Mulcahy. Otherwise, I'll tuck it in my files of weather references – thanks!
You're right – the Meyer is a good introduction. The only reason I hadn't mentioned it was because just the first two chapters fall under the purview of "early America," though I suppose that was a false distinction on my part. And thank you for the link!
Wonderful post and great resources. One of my favorite primary docs on early American weather is Ezra Stiles's Meterological Journals. (As long as he was journaling everything else, why not the weather?) the originals are at the Beinecke, but I think you can also get them on microfilm.
Yes! I was going through those this summer. The Meteorological Manuscripts collection at Yale (Manuscripts and Archives) is really great.
J. & H. Langley, 1842), http://books.google.com/books?id=sqo-AAAAYAAJ with lots of historic data.
http://books.google.com/books?id=e3EAAAAAMAAJ — probably more interesting to US historians.


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Pharmaceutical Entrepreneur Dr. Fred Sancilio Examines the Timeline to Approve a COVID-19 Drug
Dr. Frederick Sancilio, Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Scientist/Entrepreneur
December 07, 2020, 19:57 GMT
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA, December 7, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a recent article on True Activist, pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Frederick Sancilio, shared his expert opinion regarding the development and approval of an effective COVID-19 vaccine.
With over 45 years of expertise in the pharmaceutical industry as a scientist and entrepreneur, Fred Sancilio has dozens of patents in pharmaceutical technology issued to him and has written hundreds of articles over his career. Currently working with three drug development programs, Dr. Sancilio is actively involved with a therapeutic to treat Covid-19 infections.
While the pandemic only began heating up across North America in March, Frederick Sancilio had already been closely monitoring the events that had been unfolding in Asia and Europe months prior to the North American outbreaks.
At that time, Fred Sancilio was already receiving speculations from people believing a treatment had already been discovered — but he knew this wasn't the case.
"What I've learned in my time as a drug researcher is that treatments that appear to be miraculous are nearly always coincidental and the overnight cure is seldom a real one," said Sancilio.
He also addressed that big question that millions of people around the world have asking: Why is the COVID-19 drug taking so long to get approval?
Statistically, relevant testing protocols provide the only way to be certain a cure is a cure and not an anomaly, shared Sancilio. However, there is no exact timeline to these trials, but researchers are working hard to design reliable clinical trials until a cure is found.
For more information, please visit https://fredsancilio.com/.
About Dr. Frederick Sancilio
Dr. Fred Sancilio has spent over 45 years in the pharmaceutical industry as a scientist and entrepreneur. Fred earned a Ph.D. at Rutgers University in New Jersey and in the last couple of years in that program he also worked full time in the research center at Hoffmann-La Roche, a major drug company. In 1979, when drug companies conducted all their own research and lab work, Sancilio decided to start his own drug development company, Applied Analytical Industries (AAI), to provide contract research and laboratory analysis. Today, Sancilio works with several companies: a company that is nearing completion of an Alzheimer's medication that looks very promising, a second company which is working on a potential therapeutic for COVID-19, and third, a company that focuses on inflammatory diseases that can be alleviated by omega-3 fatty acids.
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No. 4 Virginia is back in the win column after defeating No. 8 North Carolina 69-61 Monday night in Chapel Hill, thanks to a couple clutch 3s off the hands of Kyle Guy.
In a game with four second half lead changes and three ties, Guy's back-to-back 3-pointers in the final two minutes of regulation gave the Cavaliers all the cushion they needed to avoid their first losing streak of the season.
The Cavaliers had only lost twice heading into the top-10 ACC matchup against the Tar Heels, with both defeats coming against No. 2 Duke. On Saturday, the Blue Devils handled UVA 81-71.
For brief moments in Monday's second half against the Heels, the Cavs looked like they might be in danger of a second straight loss, but, as they've done so many times this season, Virginia pulled out the win to remain tied for second in the conference standings.
An 10-0 run eight minutes into the first half put Virginia in control early in the game and helped UVA to a seven-point advantage at the end of the first half. But UNC wasted little time mounting a comeback out of the break.
Carolina came out firing in the second half behind Coby White (team-high 17 points) and Cam Johnson (16). A 15-7 run to start the frame put the Heels ahead by one at the 14:13 mark, and they would cling on to a lead until some back and forth action in the final six minutes of regulation.
That's when Virginia started to deliver its final blow.
Jay Huff's layup with 3:12 remaining gave the Cavs a two-point lead, which was followed by back-to-back 3s from Guy to essentially ice the game. UVA finished the game on a 12-2 run.
Guy and Hunter led both teams in scoring with 20 apiece. Ty Jerome notched the only double-double between the two teams with 15 points and 11 assists.
The Cavs won't have to return to North Carolina until the ACC tournament in Charlotte on March 12. In the meantime, they'll take on Notre Dame at home and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg over the course of the next seven days. North Carolina will play Wake Forest on the road before taking on the Blue Devils, the neighboring team that delivered two losses to the Cavs team that just walked away from Chapel Hill with a W.
Virginia proved why it deserves the higher ranking as the Cavs delivered UNC its first loss since Jan. 12. The Tar Heels will look to rebound in Winston-Salem on Saturday and won't have to worry about the Cavaliers again until March.


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Q: Losing variables values between form and javascript I am having a lot of trouble with form values, first I echoed out the MYSQL insert function to see what data was attempting to be put into the database and for one MYSQL insert function it was replacing most of my entered data into '' so first I thought it was my preg_replace function in the PHP part of my code but I removed this and the same thing was still happening, I am now not sure where it has gone wrong but I am guessing somewhere between the Javascript and the form. I really am lost on where to turn now. The INSERT function for the User table works perfectly fine it picks up all the entered data but with this Member table it is a different story
Javascript
     function restrict(elem){
    var tf = _(elem);
    var rx = new RegExp;
    if(elem === "email"){
        rx = /[' "]/gi;
    } else if(elem === "username"){
        rx = /[^a-z0-9]/gi;
    } else if(elem === "mobileNumber"){
            rx = /[^0-9]/gi;
        }
    tf.value = tf.value.replace(rx, "");
}
function emptyElement(x){
    _(x).innerHTML = "";
}
function checkusername(){
    var u = _("username").value;
    if(u !== ""){
        _("unamestatus").innerHTML = 'checking ...';
        var ajax = ajaxObj("POST", "signup.php");
        ajax.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if(ajaxReturn(ajax) === true) {
                _("unamestatus").innerHTML = ajax.responseText;
            }
        };
        ajax.send("usernamecheck="+u);
    }
}
function signup(){
    var u = _("username").value;
    var e = _("email").value;
        var m = _("mobileNumber").value;
    var p1 = _("pass1").value;
    var p2 = _("pass2").value;
    var ci = _("city").value;
        var pc = _("postcode").value;
        var c = _("country").value;
        var d = _("dateOfBirth").value;
    var g = _("gender").value;
        var ln = _("lastName").value;
        var fn = _("firstName").value;

    var status = _("status");
    if(u === "" || e === "" || p1 === "" || p2 === "" || c === ""
        || g === "" || m === "" || ci === "" || pc === "" || d === ""  ){
        status.innerHTML = "Fill out required fields";
    } else if(p1 !== p2){
        status.innerHTML = "Your password fields do not match";
        }else if(m.value !== 11 && isNaN(m)){
        status.innerHTML = "Please enter valid mobile number";
         }else if(d === "dd/mm/yyyy"){
        status.innerHTML = "Please enter your date of birth";

    } else {
             //ajax to send form data to php
        //hides sign button
                _("signupbtn").style.display = "none";
        status.innerHTML = 'please wait ...';
                //wait until php verifies data
        var ajax = ajaxObj("POST", "signup.php");
        ajax.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if(ajaxReturn(ajax) === true) {
           //if sign not succesful unhide button
                    if(ajax.responseText !== "signup_success"){
                    status.innerHTML = ajax.responseText;
                    _("signupbtn").style.display = "block";
                } else {
                    window.scrollTo(0,0);
                    _("signupform").innerHTML = "OK "+u+"";
                }
            }
        };
        ajax.send("u="+u+"&e="+e+"&p="+p1+"&c="+c+"&g="+g+"&ci"+ci+"&m"+m+"&pc"+pc+"&d"+d);
    }
}

Form
<form name="signupform" id="signupform" onsubmit="return false;">

Username:

    <input id="username" type="text" onblur="checkusername()" onkeyup="restrict('username')" maxlength="16">

Email Address:

    <input id="email" type="email" onfocus="emptyElement('status')" onkeyup="restrict('email')" maxlength="88">

Create Password:

    <input id="pass1" type="password" onfocus="emptyElement('status')" maxlength="16">

Confirm Password:

    <input id="pass2" type="password" onfocus="emptyElement('status')" maxlength="16">

First name:

     <input id="firstName" type="text"  />

Last name:

     <input id="lastName" type="text"   />

Mobile number*:

     <input id="mobileNumber" onfocus="emptyElement('status')" onkeyup="restrict('mobileNumber')" maxlength="16">

Gender:

    <select id="gender" onfocus="emptyElement('status')">
      <option value=""></option>
      <option value="Male">Male</option>
      <option value="Female">Female</option>
    </select>

Country:

    <select id="country" onfocus="emptyElement('status')">
      <?php include_once("country_list.php"); ?>
    </select>

City:

    <input id="city" onfocus="emptyElement('status')">

Postcode:

    <input id="postcode" onfocus="emptyElement('status')">

Relationship Status*:

    <select id="relationshipStatus" >
        <option value=""></option>
        <option value="Single">Single</option>
        <option value="Taken">Taken</option>
                </select>

Date of Birth*:

    <input id="dateOfBirth" type="text" onfocus="emptyElement('status')">
    <button id="signupbtn" onclick="signup()">Create Account</button>

  </form>

INSERT functions
 $sql = "INSERT INTO Member (`firstName`, `lastName`, `gender`, `emailAddress`,
                        `city`, `country`, `postCode`, `relationshipStatus`, `mobileNumber`, `dateOfBirth`)
                    VALUES('$fn', '$ln', '$g', '$e', '$ci', '$c', '$pc', '$rs', '$m', '$d')";
            $query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);
            $uid = mysqli_insert_id($db_conx);

            // Establish their row in the useroptions table
           $sql = "INSERT INTO User (`Userid`, `username`, `password`, `accountType`) VALUES ('$uid','$u','$p','$accountType')";
           $query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);

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Kingswood House, formerly known as King's Coppice, is a Victorian mansion in South Dulwich, at the southerly tip of the London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom. It is a Grade II listed building.

In 1811 William Vizard, the solicitor to Queen Caroline in her divorce from George IV, was granted a 63-year lease for Kingswood Lodge. When Vizard returned to his native Gloucestershire in 1831, others were granted the property leases.

From 1891 the house was owned by John Lawson Johnston (inventor of Bovril) who extended the house and remodelled the facade including adding battlements. Johnston acquired the nickname Mr Bovril and because of its castellated features Kingswood became known locally as Bovril Castle.

In the First World War Kingswood was used as a convalescence home for wounded Canadian soldiers. At this time it came to the notice of Lady Vestey who was doing social work in connection with the soldiers housed there. In 1919 her husband Sir William Vestey was granted an 80-year lease and in 1921 when he was raised to the peerage he became Baron Vestey of Kingswood in the County of Surrey. Kingswood was the Vesteys' main home until William's death.

In 1954 it was decided by the then Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell to turn the building into library and community centre, for the benefit of Kingswood Estate residents and in 1956 acquired the site by compulsory purchase. Lord Vestey's estate had by now been developed into a large residential area with the grounds occupied by houses, flats and shops. In 1965 it became the property of the London Borough of Southwark. It underwent substantial refurbishment in the 1980s and 1990s, and subsequently used for conferences, meetings, and civil marriages.

In the grounds in front of Kingswood House there are still some remains of the Pulham features. In 2011 a blue plaque was erected on the side of the building to commemorate John Lawson Johnston and his residence there.

The house is located just a few minutes walk from Sydenham Hill railway station.

Library
Since 1956 the house held a public library. An opening ceremony, hosted by actor Peter Ustinov and the then Camberwell mayor Alderman John Evans, who used the opportunity of the library to read up on Ustinov, saying "I looked up Who's Who' and anyone who wants to know something about our distinguished visitor can find it in the library".

It was remarked at the ceremony that the house was now 'as it should be', for the community and "not something reserved for one select and privileged family".

The 1960s saw the house store the then Camberwell borough's library service reserve stock collection.

In 1993 the library was threatened with closure, with the suggestion that the library could move into a space at the Seeley Drive shops. The community ran a Save The Library campaign, gathering 720 signatures in a petition.

Between 2014 and 2019 the library's funding was cut to nearly half, from £23,885 to £12,618. The library closed in 2020 at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Present day
In 2022, an organisation Kingswood Arts CIC (a subsidiary of Hartshorn Hook Enterprises) are set to take over the venue as an art centre. A click and collect service for library books is available nearby open two afternoons a week.

References

External links
 Kingswood House community website
 Kingswood Arts

Further reading
 Patrick Darby, Kingswood: A History of the House and its Estate (Dulwich Society, 1999)

Grade II listed houses in London
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Southwark
History of the London Borough of Southwark
Houses in the London Borough of Southwark
Country houses in London

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Bradley Cooper Says He Was Held at Knifepoint on NYC Subway Heading to Pick Up His Daughter Lea
Nov 29, 2021 5:28 pm·
By In Touch Staff
Bradley Cooper revealed that he narrowly escaped a harrowing incident before the pandemic began when he was held at knifepoint while riding a New York City subway on the way to pick up his daughter, Lea.
Speaking on the "Armchair Expert" podcast in an episode published Monday, November 29, the A Star Is Born actor said that he "was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick Lea downtown at Russian school, and I got held up at knifepoint."
Bradley, , revealed that he was wearing headphones at the time and said that he "used to walk around New York City all the time" listening to music with them on.
"It was pretty insane," he added of the moment he was held up. "I realized I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city. My guard was down. … I was all the way at the end of the subway. Innately, I would just go all the way down to the end. I felt somebody coming up. I thought, 'Oh they want to take a photo or something.'"
"As I turned, I'm up against the post like it's The French Connection or some s–t, and I turned. I looked down and I see a knife," he added.
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Bradley thought that the knife, which he said was around three inches long, had "some history" behind it and was a "nice knife."
"I have my headphones on the whole time. I can't hear anything. I'm just listening to music. So, it's scored, the whole thing was scored," Bradley said, before revealing he couldn't remember what song he was listening to at the time. "I look up, I see the person's eyes, and I'm taken by how young they are."
While admitting he was taught never to run away from a knife in such a situation, Bradley said he "just started booking, just started running. I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the white, tiled entrance to the subway [and] took my phone out."
Then as the culprit ran away, Bradley "took a photo of him. Then, I chased him up the stairs," eventually getting a total of three photos of his would-be assailant.
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You might get $30 from the government if you were the victim of a tech support scam
The FTC is giving scam victims money.
By Alex Perry on February 25, 2020
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Being taken for a ride by scammers isn't fun, but getting money from the government is.
The FTC announced its latest refund program for scam victims on Tuesday. Anyone who got swindled by an outfit best known as Click4Support should get a check from the government as part of a $1.7 million settlement. The refunds will average about $30 and go out to a little less than 58,000 people.
Click4Support's scam operation was devious, but not especially complicated. The original FTC lawsuit from 2015 accused the group of running pop-up ads that looked like they were from established tech brands designed to make credulous viewers call them for tech support. Anyone who called was routed to a call center controlled by the scammers.
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Someone falsely claiming to work for a company like Microsoft or Google would ask for remote access to the caller's computer and then lie about nonexistent computer viruses. This, of course, resulted in people forking over "hundreds and sometimes thousands" of dollars, according to the FTC's 2015 announcement.
Seeing as these refunds will probably average out to $30, it stands to reason some people will probably get less from the government than they gave to the scammers. The money for the refunds comes from Click4Support's assets, in case you were wondering.
Every now and then, the government reaches settlements with people who run scams or companies that mishandle customer data, among other things, which results in reimbursements like this. Just last year, the infamous Equifax data breach led many to believe they would each get $125 from the government for their troubles. That ended up not being the case because the settlement was split in too many directions.
Here's hoping everyone affected by Click4Support's scheme gets a fair payday.
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Armen Konrad Artwich
Member of Management Board of PKN ORLEN
Armen Konrad Artwich is a Member of Management Board of PKN ORLEN since September 1st 2018.
Armen Konrad Artwich is a legal counsel. He graduated with honours from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, as well as from the Warsaw School of Economics, where he majored in finance and accounting. He also studied corporate law and commercial law at the University of Sheffield, School of Law. He completed his legal counsel apprenticeship at the Warsaw Bar Association.
From January to August 2018, Armen Konrad Artwich served as Head of the Legal Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. Earlier, between 2016 and 2018, as Deputy Director of the Department for Improvement of Economic Regulations at the Ministry of Development, Armen Konrad Artwich was responsible, among others, for legislative projects in economic law and for supervision of the Central Office of Measures and the Polish Centre for Accreditation. At the same time, in 2016-2018, Armen Konrad Artwich served as member of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (a representative of the minister in charge of economy).
Between 2011 and 2016, Armen Artwich worked in the Legal Area at Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., where he was in charge of legal services for investment banking in the Global Banking & Markets Division. Armen Artwich is a graduate of the 18th School of Civil Society Leaders. For his pro publico bono activity, he received, among other distinctions, the Gold Cross of Merit and the Polcul Foundation award.
Armen Artwich also serves as Chairman of the ORLEN Group Board.