Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor who performed late-term abortions, has been found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder and one for involuntary manslaughter. At his sentencing, Gosnell could receive the death penalty. Ray Suarez talks with Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press.
The Philadelphia doctor who performed late-term abortions was found guilty on murder charges today. His case and the six-week trial prompted strong reaction on both sides of the abortion debate.
Ray Suarez has more on the verdict.
After 10 days of deliberations, the jury convicted Dr. Kermit Gosnell on three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said Gosnell delivered fetuses that were alive, and then snipped their spines with scissors at his West Philadelphia office. One fetus was said to be nearly 30 weeks along.
Gosnell, seen here after the verdict, also was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of a patient. The jury acquitted him of a fourth count of murder. And the judge threw out three other murder charges after the prosecution rested its case. Gosnell could face the death penalty.
Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press covered the trial. She joins us now.
Was the jury out for a long time, Maryclaire?
The jury was out for 10 days, which given the nature of the charges and the number of charges alone, wasn't really that long. Some people thought it was.
But when you think about it, there were five murder charges sent to the jury. And it wasn't like there was one gunman with five — who killed five people right away. They were five distinct sets of facts in each of the deaths. And then there were more than 200 abortion law violations, as well as racketeering and other charges. So the jury worked long and hard.
But their verdict today shows that they looked at each count specifically. They threw out a few of the abortion law violations and really worked hard and did throw out one of the murder charges, as well as coming back with involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death.
So they clearly looked at the facts of each case separately and did not just come up with a generalized, one way up or down on the verdict.
After the judge threw out the charges in deaths of other babies, he was finally charged with causing the deaths of people called for the purposes of this trial babies A, C, D and E. Were the circumstances similar in all those cases?
All four babies were allegedly snipped with scissors after they were born alive. But the jury came back and said that — but the evidence in each case was different. Gosnell was only said to have performed two of those deaths. And other staff members have already pleaded guilty and admitted that they killed two of the other babies.
The jury again acquitted Gosnell of one of the counts. It was a baby that a staff member said they heard whine from a room, but didn't — and then they saw Gosnell go into the room. But nobody testified to being an eyewitness to seeing the doctor allegedly cut that baby. So, again, the jury did acquit on that case, while coming back with verdicts of first-degree guilt in the other three deaths, where again either staffers or — that were instructed by Gosnell or Gosnell were seen to have cut the babies.
Women who sought these late-term abortions submitted themselves to Dr. Gosnell for this care. Were they in any legal jeopardy themselves, in violation of Pennsylvania's law? And did they testify against Dr. Gosnell?
Two did testify, one of whom was then a 15-year-old — I'm sorry — a 17-year-old girl. No, they were not in any legal jeopardy.
They were — I don't know if they were given immunity, but I believe possibly the statute would have run anyway. So there were — we only heard from two abortion patients. Again, one was the 17-year-old who ended up getting an infection. She was the one who — her baby was estimated to be perhaps 30 weeks old.
Staffers were so surprised at the size that they took cell phone pictures afterward. And that, once the FBI recovered the pictures, became some of the prime evidence and most disturbing evidence in the case. That woman testified that she ended up with sepsis afterward and was hospitalized for two weeks.
So, that sort of went to the idea that not only did Gosnell perform late-term abortions and kill babies afterward, but that he did not provide very good care of the women themselves.
Dr. Gosnell didn't take the stand in his own defense, but he has spoken of over time his motivations and his actions at the clinic. How did he explain what he did?
He sees himself as something of a medical pioneer and also an advocate for inner-city women who lack medical care or can't access it.
He has been providing medical services and abortions in the inner city for 30 or 40 years, until his clinic was shut down in 2010. Again, he sees these women as desperate and believes that they are — that he is perhaps helping them get on with their lives and that they're in difficult situations.
He says that he thought some — he has said that he thought some of them were the victims of abuse or neglect and that he therefore kept DNA samples of the fetuses in case there were court cases over the pregnancies. Disturbingly, how he kept that DNA evidence was by severing the feet of some of the fetuses. And so that was quite a disturbing feature of the trial.
But we expect that we well might hear from him as he prepares next week to fight to avoid the death penalty in the case.
Both supporters and opponents of continued legal abortion in the United States had reactions. Quickly, what are they saying in the hours since the verdict?
Well, it might be one of the few points on which both sides agree.
They — most of the groups I have heard from are, of course, endorsing the verdict. People who are believers in legalized abortions say that the case really demonstrates the need for more access to legal, safe abortions, just the kind that Gosnell wasn't providing, while people who are opposed to legal abortions say that the case and the very graphic nature of the evidence show that these babies suffer whether the abortions are done in utero or whether they are killed after the fact, after they're born.
They believe that the case clearly shows that these babies are alive, you know, feel pain, and are most often viable, at least after 25 weeks or so.
Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press, thanks for joining us.


This dolmen is built into a roadside boundary. It is almost completely covered with greenery and close to the rear is a large storage tank. This makes close examination very difficult. A very large irregularly shaped capstone is supported by two portal stones about 1m high. There are two sidestones and possibly a backstone. There is some rubble lying within the chamber.


Established in 1997 to promote and support local artists, the Milton Art Gallery has built a sound reputation for exhibiting an eclectic mix of medium, style and price providing something for all tastes and budgets. A constantly changing collection from their established artists (including Francis Boag, Kanita Sim, Peter Goodfellow, Iain Carby, Debbie Neill, Beverley Black, Sandie Youngson, Kathleen Bremner, Deborah Phillips and others) is complimented by regular exhibitions.
The gallery's riverside location within a renovated farm steading in the heart of Royal Deeside, provides an attractive and ambient destination for a day out. On site there is also a locally acclaimed restaurant, clothes and gift shop, craft workshop, interior design shop, children's play area and the Visitor Centre for the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society where short train rides are available.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (25 October 1714 – 26 May 1799) was an eccentric Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 1767 he became a judge in the Court of Session and adopted an honorary title based on his father's estate, Monboddo House.
Monboddo was one of a number of scholars involved at the time in the development of early concepts of evolution. Some credit him with anticipating in principle the idea of natural selection that was developed into a scientific theory by Charles Darwin almost 100 year later.
The valuable contribution that this man made to philosophy and science in the 18th century had been all but forgotten until recently with the theatrical retelling of his life story.
Lord Monboddo – the Musical, sponsored by Lord Monboddo's descendant and namesake James Burnett of Leys received a first run at the Aberdeen Arts Centre in September 2010.


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Imagine being trapped in an enormous spider web that's much larger than the Milky Way. What's even scarier is that at the center of this web is a black hole. This is the haunting reality being faced by a newly-discovered group of galaxies!
An Enormous Web and A Lurking Monster
With the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
The galaxies are all lying in a cosmic "spider's web" of gas extending to over 300 times the size of the Milky Way.
This is the first time such a close grouping of galaxies has been seen so soon after the Big Bang. This discovery is helping us to better understand how really big black holes, known as supermassive black holes, formed and grew to their enormous sizes so quickly.
A Surprising Growth Spurt
The very first black holes are believed to have formed when the Universe's first stars collapsed and died. This also means they must have grown very fast.
But, astronomers have struggled to explain how large amounts of black hole "food" could have been around in the early Universe to feed these giant monsters.
The new-found spider web structure and the galaxies within it likely contained enough gas to grow to its supermassive size. Astronomers also think the mysterious dark matter was another source of food in the giant spider web to help the black hole grow.
Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada
Cool Fact
Our own Milky Way galaxy also hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. But don't worry, it's not close to us! In fact, it's 26,000 light-years away from our Solar System. It's also believed to be over 4 million times more massive than our Sun!
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J.C. Lester introduces himself and his political philosophy.
Hello, I am Jan Clifford Lester (usually published as "J. C. Lester"). I am a philosopher specializing in libertarianism. Apart from articles and book chapters, I am the author of Escape from Leviathan (hardback 2000, paperback due out soon), Arguments for Liberty (2011), The Dictionary of Anti-Politics (forthcoming), and two philosophical dialogues: The Philosophical Genie, and The Naked Politician (both forthcoming in book form but also available online now).
1) I am a critical-rationalist libertarian. Following Karl Popper, I think it is epistemologically impossible to justify theories. One can only admit that libertarianism is a conjecture and deal with criticisms of it.
2) I have a pre-propertarian theory (including pre-self-ownership) of interpersonal liberty as the absence of proactively imposed costs. I attempt to deduce libertarian solutions to problems using this.
3) I advocate a (refined, extreme, and value-free) version of what I call the classical-liberal compatibility thesis: there are no systematic theoretical or practical clashes among the most relevant and plausible conceptions of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy. The most significant consequence of this is that we do not need to strike a balance between interpersonal liberty and human welfare.
Put simply and starkly, critical rationalism is the view that absolutely all alleged knowledge is ultimately only fallible theory: mere guesses that we can test but which never become more probable by passing those tests. No truth is ever established to any degree at all. What follows can only outline an explanation of this counterintuitive view.
I encourage you to read the rest of the essay and then come back here to discuss it. I'm happy to take any criticisms, comments, questions, etc., based on the above, and let one topic lead to another (with me posting some short writings where it seems relevant).
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Shades of Black: This is not a New Year's resolution.
School's out! W00t! Note to self...do not wait until finals week to start your 10+ page philosophy papers. Those last couple of weeks almost took me back to my days of pulling all-nighters as an undergrad. Yeah, you can't do that when you have to work 40 hours a week. This is where I pledge to manage my time more effectively next semester...and then end up failing horribly again. Speaking of next semester, I'm switching to 2 math classes and 1 philosophy class (after Boeing made some massive changes to their tuition reimbursement program...but that's a topic I'm probably better off not blogging about).
I have a puzzle that's been sitting in the same state (only the border is complete) on one of the desks in my home office for the past year. I haven't gotten around to filing the CDs that are sitting around my living room since I moved into my house 2 years and 7 months ago. Nor have I put up the artwork that I bought right before that time. In the last year, I've almost bought as many books, intending to read them all, as the number of pages that I've so far read in all of them combined.


There have been a lot of comings and goings in the past few weeks, which have permitted little time to compose new posts, but there will be much forthcoming!
Upcoming interactive lists! Just imagine JetsetBF now, but with more lists! — Lists of our historic sound-scape song selections with audio and video clips! Lists of recommended summer book reads and tales of our history through the pages of our favorite shared authors! Intercontinental to-do lists with larger than life deadlines and line-items! More tripartite self-reflective lists, of course! And, perhaps, a few city reviews in lists!
A Day in the Life Photo Journals! We'll select a random day of the week and will photograph the tiny moments of our days in each of our respective cities and lives, and will share these through Jetsetbf in a globally juxtaposed swap!
Diatribes, polemics, digressions, and general posts on the intimate nature of our lives, thoughts, dreams, hopes, fears, and consumption of all things tasty!
Reviews and lists! Yes, music reviews, Netflix lists, and more more more!
Be patient. All of these things and more shall begin to arrive shortly, but, in the present, we have one last day to commingle in Baltimore and there is much that needs to be done! Deadlines to be set, last thoughts to be shared, presents to be gifted, and warm kisses to be had!


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Онлайн оценяване е измерване и оценяване на постиженията на обучаеми посредством различните начини и средства, които предлагат мрежовите технологии, като например интранет или Интернет.

Принципите за ефективно оценяване на обучаемите при традиционното преподаване могат да бъдат приложени и при онлайн оценяването. Това включва централната роля на обучаемия при оценяването под ръководството на преподавателя, извличането на взаимни ползи за обучаемите и преподавателя относно преподаването.

Условия за ефективно онлайн оценяване са:
 курсът да бъде проектиран с ясни цели и указания;
 заданията да бъдат смислени както за контекста на учебния предмет, така и за самите обучаеми – да са свързани с решаването на житейски проблеми;
 обучаемите да имат ясна представа за това какво се очаква от тях.

Аспекти на онлайн оценяването
 Непрекъснато оценяване по време на обучението (курса);
 Използване на различни качествени и количествени методи за оценяване;
 Използване на разнообразни средства и инструменти за оценяване;
 Осигуряване на подходящи механизми за навременна обратна връзка, както и оценяване между самите обучаеми;
 Ефикасно управление на текущото и крайно оценяване;
 Автентичност/достоверност – използване на задачи с отворен отговор, които "симулират" житейски проблеми, както и количествени задачи;
 Сътрудничество – възможност за взаимодействие между обучаемите чрез използването на подходящи средства за комуникация;
 Достъпност на онлайн ресурсите – в рамките на курса, както и в Интернет;
 Отговорност на обучаемия – осигуряване на възможност за отговорност в рамките на оценяването.

Основните пречки за прилагането на онлайн оценяването
 Технически – включват ограничения относно преноса на информация (скорост на Интернет връзката), хардуерни и софтуерни стандарти, нивото на техническите знания и умения на преподавателите;
 Установяване самоличността на обучаемите – съществува възможност друго лице да изпълнява заданията, възложени на даден учащ;
 Използване на чужди материали (плагиатство);
 Традициите в обучението, свързани с физическото присъствие на обучаемите и преподавателя на едно място по време на оценяване.

Днес онлайн оценяването е приложимо във все повече онлайн курсове и онлайн обучаващи се системи. С развитието на технологиите, системите за онлайн обучение и оценяване се развиват също и се прилагат в повече фирми при провеждане на техните курсове за професионално обучение например.

Вижте също
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 Обучение посредством компютър

Източници
 Glossary of e-Learning Terms /English – Bulgarian/ базиран на Glossary on e-learning от книгата: Som Naidu (2006). E-Learning: A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices

Външни препратки
 Уеб сайт с информация за онлайн оценяването в австралийските университети (кога е подходящо да се използва такова оценяване, стратегии за разработване на качествени онлайн задания за оценяване)
 Информация за онлайн оценяването и различните начини, средства и инструменти за неговото прилагане
 Стратегии за онлайн оценяване

Електронно обучение
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With its heavily wooded lots bordering on the Cleveland Metroparks, Ledgewood offers its residents a truly unique secluded woodland setting while providing convenient access to shopping, restaurants, the library, recreation center, the Ohio Turnpike and Interstate 71.
The Board would like to remind residents that they can not store anything in the front yard or side of house that can be seen from the street. No BBQ grills, Patio Furniture or trash receptacles. BBQ Gas canisters should not be stored in your garage.
Residents are responsible for making sure that the light in their lamp post is working properly.
If you need to replace the globe on your post light, they are available at the maintenance garage. Remember, the globe is a Ledgewood standard and the Architectural Review board has a zero tolerance policy on deviations and burned out bulbs.
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Home > The Forums > Electronic Music Instruments and Electronic Music Production SP-1200 Emulator?
I'm not really obsessed with the pitching of the SP-1200 or chasing some older myth / record / whatever. It just sounds amazing as a sampler. Strong, powerful, dry drums that don't need any further processing. It definitely is noticeable to my ears, and the sound (not workflow obv) is preferential to software in my opinion.
I received a track to remix the other day and I said to myself "Those are definitely SP-1200 drums". I read an interview with the artist later, and I was right. So it def. has an identifiable sound.
I'd just like something that emulates the grungy re-pitching sound. Maybe even making it even more extreme.
It just sounds amazing as a sampler. Strong, powerful, dry drums that don't need any further processing.
This. The thing just bangs.
Anyone know the E-mu Emulator IV?


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Q: Customizing SiteMapPath like Bootstrap Breadcrumb In a Asp.Net website, we can simply add the breadcrumb by using the SiteMap and SiteMapPath. But the SiteMapPath adds a very simple breadcrumb on the website.
I want to customize the SiteMapPath on my website to contain icons from FontAwesome for each node present in the SiteMapPath. Also I want to design my SiteMapPath similar to the snippet that I have added below.

.breadcrumb-SiteMaster {
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
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.breadcrumbSM li {
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.breadcrumbSM li a {
    color: #FFF;
    display: block;
    background: #3498db;
    text-decoration: none;
    position: relative;
    height: 40px;
    line-height: 40px;
    padding: 0 10px 0 5px;
    text-align: center;
    margin-right: 23px;
}

.breadcrumbSM li:nth-child(even) a {
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.breadcrumbSM li:nth-child(even) a:before {
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}

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I tried using the CSS in the SiteMapPath but it didn't worked.

A: Found the answer to the problem. Did some searching on google and found out that by using the ControlAdapter and BrowserFile I can edit the SiteMapPath to be similar to the Bootstrap Breadcrumb.
First you need to add a class named SiteMapPathControlAdapter which will inherit the WebControlAdapter and then in there you can edit the layout for the SiteMapPath
public class SiteMapPathControlAdapter : WebControlAdapter
{
    public virtual string LinkCssClass
    { get; set; }
    protected override void RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteLine();
        writer.WriteBeginTag("div");
        writer.WriteAttribute("class", ((System.Web.UI.WebControls.SiteMapPath)(Control)).CssClass);
        writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);
        writer.WriteBeginTag("ul");
        writer.WriteAttribute("class", "breadcrumbSM");
        writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);
    }
    protected override void RenderEndTag(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteEndTag("ul");
        writer.WriteEndTag("div");
        writer.WriteLine();
    }
    protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        writer.Indent++;
        SiteMapPath item = (SiteMapPath)Control;
        SiteMapProvider Provider = ((System.Web.UI.WebControls.SiteMapPath)(Control)).Provider;
        SiteMapNodeCollection collection = new SiteMapNodeCollection();
        SiteMapNode node = Provider.CurrentNode;
        if (node != null)
        {

            collection.Add(node);
            while (node != Provider.CurrentNode.RootNode)
            {
                node = node.ParentNode;
                collection.Add(node);
            }

        }
        BuildItems(collection, true, writer);
        writer.Indent--;
        writer.WriteLine();
    }
    private void BuildItems(SiteMapNodeCollection items, bool isRoot, HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        if (items.Count > 0)
        {
            writer.WriteLine();

            writer.Indent++;
            for (int i = items.Count - 1; i > -1; i--)
            {
                BuildItem(items[i], writer);
            }
            writer.Indent--;
            writer.WriteLine();
        }
    }
    private void BuildItem(SiteMapNode item, HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        if ((item != null) && (writer != null))
        {
            if (item.Url.Length > 0)
            {
                writer.WriteLine();
                writer.WriteBeginTag("li");
                writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);

                writer.WriteBeginTag("a");
                writer.WriteAttribute("href", Page.ResolveUrl(item.Url));
                writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);

                writer.WriteBeginTag("span");
                writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);

                writer.WriteBeginTag("i");
                writer.WriteAttribute("class", string.Format("fa fa-{0}", item.Description));
                writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);
                writer.WriteEndTag("i");

                writer.WriteEndTag("span");

                if (item.Title == "Home")
                {
                    writer.Write("");
                }
                else
                {
                    writer.Write(string.Format(" {0}", item.Title));

                    writer.WriteEndTag("a");

                    writer.WriteEndTag("li");

                    writer.WriteLine();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

}
After this add a BrowserFile to your project and link it to the ControlAdapter class that was added recently in your project by adding the following lines in the BrowserFile.
<browser refID="Default">
    <controlAdapters>
       <adapter controlType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.SiteMapPath" adapterType="SiteMapPathControlAdapter" />
    </controlAdapters>
</browser>

Then all you need to do is add the SiteMapPath in the Site.Master to be available on all the pages and set the CssClass to breadcrumb-SiteMaster and you are good to go.

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(NaturalNews) There is some confusion surrounding laetrile or B17 for curing cancer. Laetrile was banned by the FDA in 1971 despite its proven efficacy. But the source of laetrile or B17, which are both the same, is legally available. That natural substance source is amygdalin. Unfortunately, many falsely believe this poses a serious cyanide poisoning threat.
As of that publication, Paul Reid was still on his organic diet, consuming a small amount of apricot kernels daily for maintenance. Any alternative cancer healing protocol requires radical dietary improvement, which includes abstaining from sugar. His cancer curing protocol consisted of consuming 30 apricot kernels per day.
Despite official warnings regarding cyanide poisoning from amygdalin, Reid did not suffer cyanide poisoning eating 30 kernels a day!
One needs to be on a good organic diet while avoiding all processed foods when treating cancer. Sugar is an absolute no-no for any cancer treatment. It just feeds the cancer cells. Sugar can allow cancer cells to thrive while ignoring amygdalin`s poisons, leaving too many healthy cells with the burden of avoiding any incidental cyanide breakdowns from abundant amygdalin.
This burden and extreme apricot kernel consumption could leak some cyanide into healthy cells. But the warning signs are early and clear. Any nausea, dizziness, or headaches indicate it`s time to slow down the amygdalin dosage, or cut the sugar.
It`s generally advised that a do-it-yourself cancer treatment should be combined with one or two other protocols. The Budwig diet, which will not permit synthetically derived laetrile or B17 tablets, allows natural amygdalin from consuming apricot kernels.


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Advantis Projects delivers large Tunnel Boring Machines
Advantis Projects, a company dealing in project logistics and heavy cargo transportation, and a subsidiary of Hayleys Advantis Limited, is moving ahead with the delivery of two of the largest Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) ever to be deployed in the island.
This operation will help expedite the progress of one of the nation's most ambitious modern irrigation development projects: the North Central Province Canal Project (NCPCP).
Also known as the Upper Elahera Canal project, the development envisions the construction of an underground tunnel to transfer water between the Kalu Ganga Reservoir and the Moragahakanda Reservoir, as well as the construction of the Upper Elehera Canal to connect the Moragahakanda Reservoir to the Huruluwewa, Manakattiya, Eruwewa, and Mahakanadarawa reservoirs.
Upon completion, the project will provide clean drinking water to over 25,000 families in 13 Divisional Secretariats across Sri Lanka's water-stressed North Central Province. The project will also provide critical support to national efforts to enhance food security by providing new life to Sri Lanka's agriculture sector through the irrigation of over 43,000 hectares of essential cultivations.
The two TBMs delivered by Advantis Projects will be used to drill a 28 km tunnel that will supply water to a series of small tanks used for agricultural irrigation – just in time for the next Yala and Maha seasons. With the first unit having already reached its destination, Advantis Projects is now in the process of delivering the second unit to its construction site in Attanakadawela.
While providing support for the construction of large-scale projects as the NCPCP, the Company was faced with complex and challenging obstacles, such as the transportation of the TBMs and its supplementary components, which collectively weighed 3,000 Tonnes. The machinery was unloaded off cargo ships at the Trincomalee Port and transported in multiple consignments in under 50 days, across narrow, winding roads to remote construction sites, covering an overall distance of 25,000 KM.
"Transporting the two largest TBMs ever attempted in Sri Lanka is a highly complex and challenging task. Given the significance of this movement nationally, we considered this project extremely high value, ensuring that safe and timely delivery was met. We are proud to note that Advantis Projects successfully leveraged their wealth of advanced technical expertise and best-in-class technology to deliver logistics solutions that support our nation," said Group Director of Hayleys Advantis Limited, Janitha Jayanetti.
Given that the transportation of these units may damage road networks or cause undue inconvenience to the general public, Advantis Projects was conscious of undertaking the end-to-end responsibility of an exhaustive list of supporting functions.
As part of the overall delivery, Advantis Projects also undertook the widening of numerous roads leading up to the delivery site, in addition to strengthening and reinforcing several smaller bridges along the route to the construction site.
This in turn required the Company to coordinate and work in close collaboration with Government authorities such as the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, Road Development Authority, Urban Development Authority, Sri Lanka Police, Sri Lanka Navy and other connected state institutions and local authorities.
Director and CEO of Advantis Projects, Shadil Rizan said, "Prior to the cargo reaching the port, we conducted multiple inspections of the route that the TBMs would travel. This included ensuring that all roads, bridges and tunnels were in good condition to accommodate our specialised multi-axel trailers.
"We also used advanced 3D computer simulations of the entire route down to the last inch, as well as multiple real-world test-runs to ensure that we plan with accuracy for every possible eventuality," he said.
Remarkably, the entire project was undertaken only about 60 employees, including in-house engineers, project managers, operations executives and other skilled staff, who committed over 35,000 man-hours.


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Joe Van Gogh Cuts All Ties With Duke University
By WUNC Staff • May 11, 2018
A screengrab of a story in Indy Week that reported that a Duke University administrator complained about a rap song being played in the coffee shop on campus. It eventually led to two Joe Van Gogh employees being fired. On Friday, May 11, 2018, the coffee company announced it had cut all ties with the university.
The Hillsborough-based coffee shop Joe Van Gogh has cut all ties with Duke University.
In a statement, owner Robbie Roberts said he believes "it's the right thing to do to preserve Joe Van Gogh's brand independence without conditions."
"I have extended jobs to our entire team at our Duke on-campus store, either at one of our off-campus locations or at our production offices," Roberts said in the statement. "And, I have reached out to our two baristas who were provided severance so that they may either re-join Joe Van Gogh or secure employment elsewhere if they like."
Earlier this week, Indy Week reported that a Duke University administrator complained about a rap song being played in the coffee shop on campus. It eventually led to two Joe Van Gogh employees being fired.
Duke University officials did not immediately respond to the latest development.
Joe Van Gogh


Home / Articles / 2008 / What are safety audits and why conduct them?
By Paul A. Esposito, CIH, CSP, CPEA, Vice President of ESIS Global Risk Control Services, ACE INA Insurance Co.
Safety audits (assessments) can rate an organization's total safety and health program, identify its strengths and weaknesses, show where improvements are needed and create a process and procedure by which problems can be corrected. In addition to assessing safety violations and work conditions, some audits assess senior management's philosophy and attitude towards safety. The three types of safety audits that evaluate these practices are referred to as compliance, programs and management system audits.
Both the compliance and program audit are useful snapshots to indicate potential exposures and risks. The value of these audits is to find the safety gaps so they can be closed. Another value is to verify if people are really following established safety guidelines. But an audit that is conducted only once a year is limited if there is no ongoing process by which to measure peoples' performance — how often and how well are employees using and following safety programs.
First, determine your safety requirements and expectations, be they regulatory, program, organizational or cultural. Some of this information can be obtained from industry publications, OSHA, other business's benchmarks, industry associations, professional conferences or by hiring a consultant.
The process by which the audit is conducted is best written down so it can be duplicated each time. Create a check list that is referred to at every audit — if the methodology for conducting the audit is different each time, how will you know if your safety standards and practices are improving?
There are many different ways to measure audit outcomes. Some type of scoring process is typically developed to be able to compare status and evaluate progress. Remember, auditing is not a one time process. Each type of audit should be conducted at least annually but it helps to know what's going on between the audits.
Given that there are over 100 different OSHA regulations, different items within those regulations and 20 to 30 programs to implement the regulations, it takes time to conduct an audit. An audit will probably take a minimum of two to three days to conduct if a company employs less than 100 people, longer if it's the first audit. And if it is the first audit and the company is starting from scratch, it will probably take longer to develop the methodology for conducting the audit than to conduct the actual audit.
It can take a significant investment to make an assessment of your safety programs and the pay off or return on investment is determined by management's commitment to address the findings. If you do not establish a method to analyze trend data and track recommendations and follow-through, than a safety audit will not be as good a return on investment. Companies who buy-in to wanting to know where there are gaps and weaknesses will find audits a valuable exercise worth the investment.
The type of audit you choose may depend on your corporate culture and what the company is most worried about. If it is liability, do a compliance audit. If the company is more worried about implementation gaps do a program assessment. If the company wants to know about effectiveness gaps, a management systems audit is in order.
There are pros and cons to all three types of safety audits. A compliance audit alone may uncover a potential liability or OSHA citation but it won't necessarily help you learn how to avoid the problem in the future. A management systems audit identifies these gaps as symptoms of deeper seated organizational or cultural shortcomings rather than listing the specific findings. It may not inventory all of your risks as a program or compliance audit will, but rather give you a better picture of how to prevent these risks and liabilities.
For this reason, many companies do all three types of audits in various stages and mixes. There are as many different implementation strategies for safety audits as there are companies. Some companies choose to do a hybrid of all three types of safety audits depending on where that company is in terms of its maturity as each type of audit requires an increasing level of business maturity (compliance being the most basic).
Once this maturation strategy has been determined and a company is able to progress successively from one type of audit to the other, the more basic audits, compliance and then program audits, require less effort and eventually a company can wean down the compliance and program audits until they are far less intensive. But, when all is said and done, an organization should never really stop constantly assessing its total safety and health efforts.


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Home » News » WWE News, WWE Rumors and Spoilers » Sasha Banks Knew She Had To Take A Break From WWE After Feeling "Numb" At WrestleMania 35: "Best Decision I Ever Made"
Sasha Banks Knew She Had To Take A Break From WWE After Feeling "Numb" At WrestleMania 35: "Best Decision I Ever Made"
WWE superstar and former multi-time women's champion Sasha Banks recently spoke with BT Sport's Ariel Helwani about a number of pro-wrestling related topics, most notably how The Boss needed to take a break from WWE after describing her WrestleMania 35 experience as numbing. Highlights from the interview are below.
How she knew she had to take a break after WrestleMania 35 because she felt nothing performing at it:
"Maybe, yeah 2019 I was at that WrestleMania when I was just like, 'Woah, I'm not nervous. I don't feel anything and this is Wrestle freaking Mania. I couldn't believe it. The biggest fan, the girl that wanted this her entire life didn't feel anything at the biggest show ever? I mean, this is every wrestler's dream to be here, and at that very moment I knew that I needed to take a break and I was like, 'Alright, I gotta go find myself.' And I did and it's the best decision that I ever made and I'm so thankful that I did."
Describes the feeling as numbness:
"It's the energy that you feel. It's the feeling, the numbness that you feel of going out there and not feeling the crowd the same way that you used to and not feeling that energy from them. If you go out there feeling numb and there's no light in your eyes, if you can't perform at your highest good, even though I did go out there and I put 110 percent, I was not loving it. There was no light behind my eyes and I wanted to find that again because this was my everything. This has been my life since I was 10 years old and I wasn't gonna let it kill me. So, I was gonna find my light with it again. So, I took my break and it's the best, best, best decision I ever made. It's the best I've ever been."
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Kofi Kingston Gives His Opinion On Mustafa Ali: "He Has A Great Mind For The Business"
Deonna Purrazzo Talks Working With Matt Rehwoldt, Hopes To Be Paired With Steve Maclin At Some Point
Update On Ticket Sales For Wednesday's AEW Dynamite
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Indigenous Experiences / LGBTQIA+
Can I be Māori and Queer?
"The idea that I have to hide such an important aspect of myself, yet my heterosexual relatives are able to flaunt their new relationships, without fear of backlash, is disgusting."
Salty HQ August 24, 2020 August 24, 2020
Written by Catalina Benjamin.
Art by Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho.
Growing up in Aotearoa (New Zealand), I was immersed in Māori culture and ideals. Most of the people within Māori culture, similar to other BIPOC communities, find gender and sexuality, taboo. I believed, like the majority of others in NZ, that heterosexuality and being cisgender were the norm and that they were the only correct way to live.
During pre-colonial times, Māori society held particularly open-minded views in regard to sexual fluidity.
When I was 12, I discovered the terms Lesbian, Queer and Gay and I thought "what do those words even mean?" so, I started to research. I learned about the infinite types of sexualities and genders that exist. Surely if they existed this meant they were real and valid? I began to question whether or not I was a member of the LGBTQ+ community, one thing I knew for sure is that I was different. I just had no clue in what way. I went straight to my mother to attempt to find the answers to the questions I so desperately had. She told me that it was normal to question my sexuality, but I was too young to know and that I should wait until I was older and had more life experience to discover what my sexuality was. She was not alone in being sceptical about sexuality, as it is common across Māori culture to be ignorant of and repelled by sexualities and genders that deviate from what society believes to be the norm. But Māori have not always held this position. During pre-colonial times, Māori society held particularly open-minded views in regard to sexual fluidity. The concept of Takatāpui (devoted partner of the same sex) was widely practised and accepted across the various iwi (tribes) in Aotearoa. This term has since been reclaimed in the 1980s by Māori members of the LGBTQ+ community. There are people who strongly believe that Māori sexual fluidity did not exist prior to the colonisation of Aotearoa by the British. Though it is clear that the arrival of the British in New Zealand led to the change in sexual and general behaviour amongst Māori and propelled Takatāpui into a negative and deviant light. This was mainly due to the pressure of Christianity and Western views that accompanied the European settlers. This has resulted in many Māori holding similar views about sexuality that are customary in Christianity.
After confiding in certain people, who I thought were more accepting of me, I was outed. I was fifteen at the time and I thought my life was over.
Over the course of the next year, my questions subsided and were pushed further down as I struggled to be ordinary. At thirteen, I attended a Māori and Catholic Boarding School and sexual fluidity continued to be taboo, which strengthened the internalised homophobia within me. Before I had discovered who, I was, girls at school had already decided that I was a lesbian and was obsessed with vaginas. I was bullied because of this assumption and constantly spent my school days reinforcing that I was not a lesbian and how disgusting that was. I did not consider myself a lesbian but that did not matter to anyone. They assumed and therefore I was. With the constant bullying, the questions I had been ignoring began to resurface, and I realised after a long time of deliberation within myself that I was a member of the LGBTQ+ community. I knew I was not a lesbian because I still liked boys and assumed that I was bisexual. After confiding in certain people, who I thought were more accepting of me, I was outed. I was fifteen at the time and I thought my life was over. Everything changed at school and life got a little weird. Some of the girls would just stare and whisper about me behind my back. This hurt more than the teasing because it meant they didn't respect me enough to be upfront with me. The ideas about sexuality that are held by the Māori and Catholic communities had helped create the views within those who bullied me and within myself to believe that I was not normal and deserved mistreatment.
The idea that I have to hide such an important aspect of myself, yet my heterosexual relatives are able to flaunt their new relationships, without fear of backlash, is disgusting.
The pain and torment that I received all those years has shaped who I am. It has helped me to discover that I am Queer. My sexuality is fluid and I am who I am regardless of what other people believe to be valid. I still struggle with my sexuality occasionally due to the conflicting views between myself and my culture. My extended family tend to have modern Māori views on sexual fluidity and hold a heteronormative outlook on life. While my mother supports me as much as she can, she believes that I should keep my sexuality a secret until I am in a serious relationship, in a bid to protect me from the predominantly homophobic values of my relatives. The idea that I have to hide such an important aspect of myself, yet my heterosexual relatives are able to flaunt their new relationships, without fear of backlash, is disgusting. It is almost as if I have two versions of myself, which I think I uphold more so for the sake of my mother. The Catalina in Australia who is out and proud about her Queer identity and the Catalina at home in Aotearoa who is quiet about her sexuality and everyone questions if she is a lesbian behind her back. I have been blessed with a loving and accepting mother who has taught me that who I am is valid and that I have the right to be happy regardless of what anyone else believes. I try to educate my family as much as I can that sexuality and gender is not a choice, and that everyone deserves to live as their true selves.
The views of a person who is Māori and LGBTQ+ may conflict with the views of their culture in postcolonial times, but it is important that we remember that the views that our ancestors held during pre-colonial times were more accepting of our Takatāpui ways than the views held by Modern Māori. Therefore, these should be the views of which we aspire to, rather than the views of the colonisers of Aotearoa. My experience of discovering who I am within the LGBTQ+ community and the wider Māori societal context, may not be the same for everyone. It may differ from the experience of those living as LGBTQ+ in other BIPOC communities across the world, but we all have one thing in common. That we must persevere through the homophobia, the conflicting views and the ignorance of others in terms of LGBTQ+ sexuality.
He ūri ahau nō Ngāti Maniapoto me Ngāpuhi.
I am a descendant of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāpuhi.
Catalina Benjamin is a Melbourne based musician and is currently working towards her BA with a double major in History and Classical Studies. She is of mixed Māori, Swiss and English descent. Catalina is passionate about working towards the removal of the taboo surrounding sexuality, gender and sexual abuse within BIPOC communities, through the education of the people living within these communities.
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The 28 political parties in the Free State that have registered to contest the 2019 provincial and national elections, have signed the Code of Conduct.
Bloem Show, in partnership with eModels, presents the 2019 Bloem Show beauty pageant, which will open the annual consumer event.
The Kidz Care Trust has organised a 2 km fun run and aerobics session for adults and children in Bloemfontein on Saturday (20/04).
The South Africa Social Security Agency (Sassa) in the Free State says about 5 000 social grant beneficiaries are yet to collect new gold cards past the deadline of November 2018.
Bloemfontein Celtic faces harsh punishment by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) after another rampage by unruly supporters.
The Free State police have assured the public that security will be tight during the elections on 8 May.
Two Express readers, Simei Jacobs and Aristides Tsalm, are the winners of the Express Superhero competition.
Blind athlete Danie Breitenbach feels awe about his achievement of improving his two national records.
Students at the University of the Free State's (UFS) School of Accountancy came out top in the Initial Test of Competence (ITC) examination.
A challenge to determine who can walk the furthest in eight weeks, is what four university teams have dedicated themselves to.
The Windmill Casino in Bloemfontein presents Jazz on the Lawn on 28 April with three dynamic jazz artists sharing the stage.
It is a great opportunity to share my view on the importance of self-love with women.
Proper financial planning and decision-making for retirement is of the utmost importance.
The Central University of Technology (CUT), Free State could benefit financially from the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (Thrip).
The Free State Symphony Orchestra (FSSO) will commemorate the passion of Christ with a performance of J.S. Bach's Easter Oratorio on Good Friday (19/04).
A new weekly 5 km running event, hosted by CityRun, will be launched on 27 April in Bloemfontein.
World Asthma Day 2019 will take place on 7 May under the theme "Stop for Asthma".
Andile Mgoduka (18), a learner of the Pholoho Special School in Bloemfontein, is the SuperSport Let's Play Sports Star of the month for Express.
Budding local visual artists are encouraged to enter the New Breed Art Competition 2019, in which notable prizes can be won.


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Liability Risks and Litigation Defenses for COVID-19 Tests: Five Lessons from Past Product Misdiagnosis Cases
By Jordan Lipp
Part II reviews some lessons learned as we try to predict the trajectory and defenses to COVID-19 test cases.
As companies, their insurers and their attorneys look at liability exposure and risks from COVID-19 testing, lessons from the past can help guide risk management decisions and the defense of these lawsuits. Part one of this two-part series looked at likely claims and defenses in product liability lawsuits involving COVID-19 tests.
This second part of the two-part series will examine past diagnostic equipment cases. There have been a number of cases involving allegedly defective diagnostic tests in the past, and the lessons from these cases are instructive as we try to predict the trajectory and defenses to COVID-19 test cases. As Mark Twain purportedly once said, "History does not repeat, but it does rhyme." So let us take a look at past product liability cases and the lessons they teach us for today.
Lesson 1: An Allegedly Defective Test Can Spawn Nationwide Litigation
Probably the largest product liability litigation arising from a diagnostic product's alleged failure is Abbott's hCG test kit. By way of background on hCG tests, a typical method of testing for pregnancy is testing a female patient's human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) levels. However, if a patient has elevated hCG levels and is not pregnant, the elevated levels are a sign of either ectopic pregnancy or a deadly form of cancer called trophoblastic disease.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were a series of lawsuits filed against Abbott by patients alleging that its hCG test was producing false positives. The various plaintiffs claimed that after being falsely diagnosed with high hCG levels by the test, and not being pregnant, they had undergone aggressive cancer treatment for trophoblastic disease, in spite of the fact that they did not have trophoblastic disease.1
Abbott had some success getting some of the claims within these lawsuits dismissed. However, the majority of claims moved forwards against Abbott, and the company was hit with a large jury verdict in one of these cases.2
Fortunately, in spite of attempts by the plaintiffs' bar to bring these claims as nationwide or statewide class action, the class action claims did not survive.3 This raises an interesting, but not terribly surprising, point. Class actions tend not to be a preferred method of resolving disputes against diagnostic equipment manufacturers. By way of another example, in litigation against a manufacturer of allegedly defective electronic testing devices helping patients monitor their blood clotting times at home, a court similarly denied the plaintiff's motion for class certification.4
Lesson 2: Damages Can Be Large
Large verdicts in product liability cases against diagnostic equipment manufacturers for failures of the devices to provide accurate test results are not uncommon. By way of example, in one of the hCG cases, described above, a false high reading of hCG levels resulted in a plaintiff needlessly undergoing chemotherapy, a hysterectomy, and having part of her lung removed. A jury awarded the plaintiff $16 million, half of which was allocated to the defendant manufacturer.2
By way of another example, a case went to a jury trial in which a monitoring device malfunctioned and thus failed to stop a catheter from heating up and destroying the plaintiff's heart. The jury awarded the plaintiff $40 million against the device monitor's manufacturer.5
These sorts of verdicts are nothing new. Back in the mid-1970s, a blood glucose test gave false positives, which caused physicians to overprescribe insulin to the plaintiff, leading to the plaintiff's brain damage. The jury in that case awarded the plaintiff the (then very large) sum of $750,000 against the blood glucose test manufacturer.6 In short, large verdicts are not uncommon.
Lesson 3: False Positive Cases Can be as Serious as False Negative Cases
At first blush, one might think that a diagnostic test that is more likely to provide a false negative (i.e., that the patient doesn't have the disease) will open its manufacturer up to greater liability exposure than if the diagnostic test is more likely to provide a false positive. And, this could well turn out to be true for COVID-19 tests.
Indeed, there are a number of lawsuits that have been filed in the past that involve false negatives. For example, there have been multiple cases involving fetal monitors that reported that a fetus was doing well when it was not, causing physicians to delay more emergent measures to protect the fetus's health.7 Of particular interest in the COVID-19 context is an HIV test case, as like COVID-19 it deals with an infectious disease epidemic and the rush to create a reliable test. In this HIV case, the plaintiff contracted HIV in 1986 as a result of blood transfusion, which had incorrectly tested negative for HIV.8 After a five-week jury trial, the jury reached a verdict in favor of the manufacturer of the test. After a tortuous appellate history, the New Jersey Supreme Court ultimately affirmed the jury verdict, holding that the FDA's extensive involvement in the development of the HIV test, as well as its involvement in the tests' warnings and sensitivity, meant that the claim was impliedly preempted.8
Perhaps more surprisingly, however, is that there are as many examples of false positive cases as false negative cases. As noted above, the largest set of litigation involving the failure of a test to work properly occurred in the context of false positives (i.e., the litigation involving the hCG tests). But this is not the only example. There have been multiple cases where plaintiffs have alleged that blood glucose tests gave falsely high readings, which resulted in unnecessary and dangerous medical treatment.9
And, for what it is worth, two of the three big verdicts discussed in the previous section came from false positives as opposed to false negative test results.10 Simply, litigation arises both from false negatives and false positives.
Lesson 4: It's All About the Experts
Most drug and device product liability litigation is expert intensive. Cases often fail or succeed based upon the availability and skill of the experts on each side. Cases involving diagnostic and monitoring equipment are no exception to this rule.
For example, in a case where a medical monitoring device allegedly failed to sound an alarm when an infant stopped breathing, the fact that plaintiffs' expert testimony was not reliable resulted in the defendant manufacturer obtaining summary judgment. Plaintiff's experts simply could not reliably show what the software defect was in the device, and if the device was actually defective.11 For another example, summary judgment for the manufacturer of a home blood pressure monitor was appropriate as the plaintiff did not have expert evidence to support his allegations that the monitor gave him inaccurately low blood pressure readings, which prompted him to stop taking blood pressure medication leading to a stroke.12
Experts are every bit as important in diagnostic testing cases as they are in other drug and device cases.
Lesson 5: Causation is Key
A major factor in drug and device litigation is whether the alleged defect actually caused the plaintiff's damages. Unsurprisingly, this causation element is particularly applicable in cases involving diagnostic medical equipment. One can imagine these issues cropping up everywhere in future hypothetical COVID-19 claims. For example, if a plaintiff alleges after a negative test that he or she did not go to the doctor for another two days, can the plaintiff show that this caused a worse outcome? Or on the flip side, if the plaintiff got a false positive test and isolated, did that cause him or her any real damages?13
Again, it is instructive to look to past diagnostic test cases. For example, a plaintiff could not survive summary judgment when he could not show his diabetes was exacerbated by the alleged mistakenly low reading from the blood glucose test.14 Causation is key.
An interesting twist for COVID-19 testing claims may be who brings the claims. In the nearly 100 product liability diagnoses and monitoring equipment cases reviewed for this article, virtually every lawsuit was brought by the patient tested (or occasionally the healthcare provider harmed while performing the test). However, it doesn't take much imagination to picture a plaintiff attorney taking a case where someone alleges that he or she contracted COVID-19 from another person who tested falsely negative, and was at work or socialized as a result of that false negative. In such cases, causation becomes an even bigger question, as how does the plaintiff prove that he or she got COVID-19 from the person who was tested, that the person who was tested would have behaved differently with a different test result, and that the exposure occurred after the false negative test result? Nevertheless, creative plaintiff attorneys may well push these claims.
While there are many open questions on how courts and juries will view COVID-19 product liability claims against COVID-19 test manufacturers, as discussed in part one of this series, the PREP Act and common law defenses provide some comfort for test manufacturers, though liability questions remain. And, as discussed in this second part of the two-part series, historical precedent from other diagnostic test cases shed light on the likely claims and defenses of these lawsuits.
E.g., Goldman v. Abbott Labs., Inc., 2001 WL 1558281 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 5, 2001); accord Gibbs v. Abbott Labs., Inc., 2001 WL 1558279 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 5, 2001); Hofmann v. Abbott Labs., Inc., 2001 WL 1558299 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 5, 2001); Block v. Abbott Labs., 2002 WL 485364 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 29, 2002); Rufer v. Abbott Labs., 114 P.3d 1182 (Wash. 2005).
Rufer v. Abbott Labs., 114 P.3d 1182 (Wash. 2005); see also Block v. Abbott Labs., 2002 WL 485364, at *8 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 29, 2002) (discussing Rufer case).
Block v. Abbott Labs., 2002 WL 485364 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 29, 2002).
Andren v. Alere, Inc., 2017 WL 6509550 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 20, 2017).
Singh v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp., 210 P.3d 337 (Wash. App. 2009).
Kincl v. Hycel, Inc., 372 N.E.2d 385 (Ill. App. 1977).
E.g., Sheehan v. Corometric Med. Sys., Inc., 1993 WL 23715 (D. Mass. Jan. 28, 1993); McGee v. Corometrics Med. Sys., Inc., 487 So. 2d 886 (Ala. 1986).
R.F. v. Abbott Labs., 745 A.2d 1174 (N.J. 2000).
Gill-Samuel v. Nova Biomedical Corp., 298 F.R.D. 693, 695 (S.D. Fla. 2014); Kincl v. Hycel, Inc., 372 N.E.2d 385 (Ill. App. 1977).
Rufer v. Abbott Labs., 114 P.3d 1182 (Wash. 2005); Kincl v. Hycel, Inc., 372 N.E.2d 385 (Ill. App. 1977).
Graves v. CAS Med. Sys., Inc., 735 S.E.2d 650 (S.C. 2012).
Roberts v. Albertson's LLC, 464 F. App'x 605 (9th Cir. 2011).
As an aside, there are many cases holding that fear of contracting an infectious disease is insufficient to be actionable. E.g., Burk v. Sage Prod., Inc., 747 F. Supp. 285, 286 (E.D. Pa. 1990); Palmer v. Nan King Rest., Inc., 798 A.2d 583 (N.H. 2002); Seimon v. Becton Dickinson & Co., 632 N.E.2d 603 (Ohio App. 1993); but see Civitello v. Burger King Corp., 2002 WL 241491 (Conn. Super. Ct. Feb. 5, 2002).
McEvily v. Medisense, Inc., 2002 WL 1402242 (S.D.N.Y. June 28, 2002).
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Jordan Lipp is a partner at the law firm of Childs McCune, LLC in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of the book Product Liability Law & Procedure in Colorado, 2nd Ed. (2019), and he is also an adjunct law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.


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Starts: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:00 PM
Registration: Pre-registration is optional, but requested (so we know how many maps to print) by Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:01 AM
Start Type: Interval (runners start at 1 minute intervals)
Map: Stonehurst
Organizer: Sanna Sevanto
This event is part of the Boston Park Series 2005
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From Boston : Take route 20W through Watertown Square on Main Street to Waltham. Turn right, heading north onto Lyman Street. Proceed straight through the rotary to Beaver Street heading northeast. Approximately 100 yards from the rotary, turn left at the sign for Stonehurst, and follow the driveway for about 1/4 mile to a parking area on the right.
From Route 128 north or south: Take the Totten Pond Road/Waltham Exit (27A) and follow the signs to Totten Pond Road in Waltham. At the end of the road, turn right at the lights onto Lexington Street. Proceed about 100 yards, and take the first left at the traffic light onto Beaver Street. Follow Beaver Street to a rotary and continue on Beaver Street, which is the second right off the rotary. Approximately 100 yards from the rotary, turn left at the sign for Stonehurst, and follow the driveway for about 1/4 mile to a parking area on the right.
There are a number of ways to get to Waltham center. See http://www.mbta.com One way is the 70/70A bus every 10 minutes from Central Square (behind star market). Get off at Lyman St (two traffic lights after the bus crosses the commuter rail tracks and meets MA-60 entering on the right - if you reach Waltham center you've gone too far), and follow the driving directions for Lyman St above. It's about 0.85 miles from the bus stop to the parking area.
Another possibility is the Fitchburg/Acton commuter rail, which leaves from North Station on the Green and Orange Lines and goes through Porter Square on the Red Line. Stonehurst is about 1 mile from the train station in Waltham center. Either walk east along Main St to Lyman St and follow directions above, or take the 554 bus (infrequent) from the center to the Bentley College stop. Walk west on Beaver Street (toward Waltham) for 1/4 a mile, and turn right onto Robert Treat Paine Drive at the sign for Stonehurst. Stonehurst is 1/4 mile up the drive.
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MANKATO — If the Rocori softball team is going to do damage in the Class 3A state tournament, it is going to have to get through the defending state champions to begin.
The Spartans (21-4) play Winona (17-5) at 11 a.m. Thursday in the state quarterfinals at Caswell Park in North Mankato. Winona is making its third straight state tournament appearance. Rocori is making its eighth state tournament appearance and its first since 2013.
"We know very little about them and we're trying to get a look at some of their stats," said Rocori Coach Brian Athmann, who is making his fourth state tournament appearance. "But when you get to this point, everybody has good pitching, good defense, can hit and bunt. The key for us will be playing relaxed."
Athmann said he has not decided which of his top two pitchers will start against Winona. Junior McKenzie Dufner (10-3, 2.02 ERA, 99 strikeouts, 86 innings pitched) is more of a control pitcher, while junior Caitlin Heinen (10-1, 0.71 ERA, 74 strikeouts, 69 innings pitched) is the harder thrower of the two.
"We're possibly going to be using both pitchers in games to keep the hitters off balance," Athmann said.
The projected starting lineup for the Spartans will be senior shortstop Abby Anderson (.346), junior catcher Shelby Gately (.384, 2 home runs), senior center fielder Rachel Neugart (.418, 9 HR), Dufner (.471), Heinen (.400, 1 HR), senior second baseman Amy Schlangen (.244), senior left fielder Ashley Haus (.414, 3 HR), senior third baseman Brianna Fuglesten (.320) and senior right fielder Hannah Voigt (.237).
If Dufner is pitching, Heinen will play first base and vice versa.
"We've got over 15 home runs as a team and we like to run," Athmann said.
Rocori is hitting .348 as a team. Winona has won nine straight going into the state tournament.
The Spartans had to get through the loser's bracket in the section playoffs and beat Willmar twice to get back to state. Athmann said that a 4-3 win over Becker in 12 innings in an elimination game in sections was big.
"We beat an all-state pitcher and I saw it in their eyes that when they went up against Willmar, they went into the day planning to play two," he said. "That did a good job of preparing this group for this weekend."
Win or lose, the Spartans play again at 5 p.m. Thursday. On Friday, the consolation championship will be at 9 a.m., the third-place game at 11 a.m. and the championship game at 1:30 p.m.


JOYO DC-30 30W Digital Guitar Amplifier with Delay Reverb Effect 36 Pattern DrumMachine / Metronome. JOYO Amps from JOYO Audio UK - Manchester! JOYO DC-30 30W Digital Guitar Amplifier. JOYO's versatile 30W practice amp with a full palette of tone options giving you complete control of your effects and EQ. From the nicest cleans to the heaviest of metal tones this amp delivers. Add the plethora of inbuilt effects and this is the perfect home or jam amp. On top of all that you have the built in drum machine with 36 patterns, making this an amazingly good practice tool, no more boring metronome, as you have your own drummer, with its own volume control and tempo!
Ideal for practice and jamming. Features 8 amplifier simulation effects: 1-Roland Jazz Chorus 2-Wave-X C-Clean 3-Ibanez TS9 4-Boss SD-1 5-MI Audio Crunch Box 6-Wave-X Power Drive - Lead 7-Wave-X Power Drive - Rhythm 8-Boss MT-2. 3 Band EQ : Treble, Mid, and Bass Four modulation effects: 1Chorus 2Flanger 3Phaser 4Tremolo. Two spacial effects: 1Delay 2Reverb.
36-pattern drum machine with tempo and volume control. The Ideal Practice Amp The JOYO DC-30 is a Digital Guitar Amplifier, suitable for beginners to professionals.
The amp features gain and volume controls, plus a 3 band EQ and Presence control, to get that ideal guitar sound. The DC-30 also includes a drum machine with over 30 presets, and 8 different selectable amp tones to choose from. The JOYO DC-30 is the perfect amp for any beginner looking to learn, or for any professional looking for a portable, fun guitar amp.
Eight Selectable Amp Tones, Six Effects to choose from The DC-30 comes with an in-built digital effects unit, plus 8 digitally modeled amp sounds to switch through, all based off classic guitar amplifier tones. The 6 effects are grouped into two controls for ease of use, one containing Delay and Reverb, the other with modulation. The JOYO DC-30's selectable amp section includes. Full 3-Band EQ Unlike the smaller DC-15, the DC-30 includes a full 3 band EQ, commonly found on most medium sized guitar amps.
The controls include bass, mid, and treble, as well as a presence control, to give that high-end an extra boost. Inbuilt Drum Machine with over 30 Presets The JOYO DC-30 features a drum machine containing 36 preset rhythms and beats.
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Switching off the whole amp does not save which drum pattern you were up to. Play Along with your Own Music Included with the DC-30 is an auxiliary input, located on the back of the amp. The headphone input cancels out the speaker, and is perfect for when practicing quiet is required. 3 band EQ: Bass, Mid, Treble + Presence. 36 Preset drum rhythms and beats.
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Home / smartphones / Amazing Smartphones Accessories You Should Be Using.
We all love accessories. Don't we? Our smartphones are lovers of accessories as well.
That's why manufacturers are making more and more accessories every day. But how do you pick the right one for your device from the millions of accessories available for your use?
Worry no more, this post will show some of the best mobile accessories you should be using to add to the beauty, convenience, and effectiveness of your smartphone.
This is for those that are not camera shy and the snapshot lovers. You no longer have to subject your hands to unnecessary strain to capture those beautiful moments in your selfie or bothfie.
You have the JETech Battery Free Selfie Stick to thanks for that, as it enables you to capture and record every moment in a bigger picture with the click of a button.
All you need to do is to download "Camera 360" app. It is compatible with both Android and IOS smartphones. JETech selfie stick securely clamps your phone tightly and allowing random rotation of shooting angle.
As the name implies, battery-free, simply plug to the 3.5mm audio cable and capture every moment. It extends up to 28.7 inches making the perfect fit for capturing group pictures as well as panoramas.
No doubt, most household wall chargers come with the one USB port. Although that allows for simplicity as it is just you, your phone and the charger rocking the world.
, power banks, MP3 player, cameras, Bluetooth headphones- and you need to charge them at once. That's exactly when the Skiva 84W 7-Port USB Charging Station comes in handy. Yes, it comes with a total of 7 USB-A ports on the charging station.
Skiva 84W 7-Port USB Charging Station weighs about 1.4 Ounces and a length and width of 7.5 inches & 5.5 inches respectively with 0.75 inch spacing between each charging port.
It has impressive charging juice with each port having an output of 5V/2.4A and with the press of a button, you are ready to power up all your devices.
No jokes here, the UE(Ultimate Ears) Boom 2 is still booming with 15 hours of playback, brilliant display, waterproof and more robust feature set. UE Boom 2 is, without doubt, an improvement to its predecessor UE Boom.
UE Boom sound is omnidirectional, that is, it emits sound equally good in all directions.
It comes in 10 colours, while the volume up and volume down button are visibly the biggest buttons. It has remarkably simple controls, though this time the makers-UE- omitted the Bluetooth logo. The robust feature set will require the UE Boom app to unlock them. You can also use the app to set alarms.
Impressively, the UE Boom 2 has a feature that allows two people, of course nearby, to connect to it through Bluetooth and play music. However, the owner has the authority to kick any of the wannabes DJ if their music is not up to his taste.
While it is not safe to press your while driving, it is well okay to pass some juice to your phone through your car while driving. Investing in a car charger will be a great idea. RAVPower dual-port charger is a good one to start with, a dual-port with 2.4A outputs each.
Do you think you have heard all? Think again, the dual-Port Car Charger is smart enough to adjust voltage coming from the vehicle to deliver a consistent a charge and you get all these for less than $10 dollar.
But to imagine that car chargers are solely for car owners is wrong. Having one handy can be crucial at any time not only for the sake of your phone but those weird moments you have when the power of your phone is completely down. Your Uber or Lyft driver should be kind enough to allow you to charge your phones.
From the company that ships out probably the best portable chargers, Anker provides us with the massive 20,100mAh power bank to have phones and tablets charged all day. As at the time of writing this, it has 12,404 reviews on Amazon with 4.6 rating. Trust me, not many products can beat that.
PowerCore Power Bank has a long, narrow and slim design making it very portable, smaller than most power banks and a good quality build.
It comes with high-speed charging if your devices use PowerIQ or Voltage boost. The power bank also recharges in less than 5hours.
6) 1More Triple Driver In-Ear Headphone.
Three drivers, yes instead of using the conventional one driver to do all the work, 1More, a San Diego based company, uses two balanced armature and a separate dynamic driver making it three drivers to do all the heavy lifting.
The headphones work well with both IOS and Android with a three-button remote, something not very common with headphones, the sound quality of 1More is a standout quality, excellent design and creating a nice seal to help seal out the noise.
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Truck Maker Hino Sets Opening for W.Va. Assembly Plant
By Associated Press • Jun 19, 2019
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Japanese truck maker Hino Motors Manufacturing is set to open its new West Virginia assembly plant this summer.
Hino Motors has scheduled an Aug. 21 grand opening for the facility in Mineral Wells. The company is moving about 20 miles to a larger location at a former retail distribution center.
Hino Motors currently assembles medium-duty trucks at a 245,000-square-foot facility that opened in 2007 in the Wood County community of Williamstown.
Company President Takashi Ono has said the $100 million investment could create up to 250 new jobs.
Hino Motors is owned by the Toyota Group and its American headquarters are in Novi, Michigan.
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Buzzy films usually generate the heat at the Cannes Film Festival, but on Tuesday festival-goers and users were boiling on social media over a strictly enforced dress-code policy — one requiring women attending gala screenings at the Grand Palais to wear high heels.
Festival director Thierry Fremaux denied that there was any dress code on the red carpet, tweeting, "The rumor that the Festival requires high heels for women on the steps is unfounded." Twitter wasn't really having it. The resulting revolt saw women and men half-outraged, half-amused.
"Emily Blunt wore heels but as a feminist film lover myself, I wore FLATS to the Palais tonight #cannes2015 #flatgate," wrote Wendy Mitchell, the former editor-in-chief of Screen International and current film program manager for the British Film Council.
"Women should boycott #Cannes next year. Heel mandate is offensive," wrote @Tmtweets.
At a press conference for drug cartel drama "Sicario," star Emily Blunt addressed the policy: ""I think everyone should wear flats, to be honest. We shouldn't wear high heels anymore." Rumor spread that her director, Denis Villeneuve, and costars Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro would hit the Palais carpet in high heels to support her.
Just got kicked out of Cannes for not wearing high heels.