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WESTCHESTER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY et al v. THE SHAW GROUP, INC. et al
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Westchester Fire Insurance Company
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WESTCHESTER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY et al v. THE SHAW GROUP, INC. et al Complaint
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"H. There Is No Coverage Under The Westchester and North American's Policies
43. Regardless of what law applies, Westchester and North American seek a judicial determination that there is no coverage under their policies, in whole or in part, because the underlying claims fail to satisfy the insuring agreements in their policies, and the claims are otherwise limited or excluded by the terms, conditions, limitations, and exclusions contained in the policies.
44. In part, Westchester and North American contend that the underlying claims are not covered by their policies for the reasons set forth below:
(a) Shaw and/or SPF have failed to exhaust underlying insurance as required by the policies, including but not limited to the Zurich policies;(b) the underlying claims do not satisfy the definitions of "property damage" or "occurrence," as those terms are defined in the policies;
(c) the underlying claims are excluded by the "your product" exclusion in the Westchester umbrella policies, which the Westchester and North American excess policies follow-form to
(d) the underlying claims are excluded by the "impaired property" exclusion in the Westchester umbrella policies, which the Westchester and North American excess policies follow-form to; and
(e) the underlying claims are excluded by the sister ship exclusion in the Westchester umbrella policies, which the Westchester and North American excess policies follow-form to.
45. Westchester and North American further contend that the underlying claims are otherwise limited or excluded, in whole or in part, for the reasons set forth in the insurers' respective reservation of rights letters, which are attached to and incorporated into this Complaint as Exhibits B, C, D, and E.
46. Accordingly, Westchester and North American seek a judicial determination, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201, of the parties' rights, duties, and obligations vis-a-vis the Westchester and North American policies."
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Weekend roundup: Recovery, guns, power
TOPICS:escondido policegunspala racewayPalomar Medical CenterpoliceSan Pasqualsdg&eSUVweekend happenings in san diego
Kyle Hutcheson post-surgery at Palomar Medical Center.
Posted By: The Grapevine April 18, 2016
Motocrosser making progress
Motocross racer Kyle Hutcheson, 16, was recovering from serious injury and surgery at Palomar Medical Center this weekend.
A sophomore at Fountain Hills High School in suburban Phoenix, Hutcheson wiped out at the California Classic, a major amateur motocross race held at Pala raceway last weekend. He was in fifth place when the horror began.
Kyle "just landed bad and his head went straight into the ground," his father, Larry Hutcheson said. "His back took the impact and it blew his back out."
Kyle Hutcheson with his bike at an event.
Kyle broke his back and was initially paralyzed from the waist down. He was transported to Palomar Medical Center where he underwent surgery to implant 14 screws and a titanium rod in his spine.
Kyle was making progress this weekend, his father said and has been able to walk some with the aid of back brace.
Walking again at Palomar Medical Center.
The Arizona Republic reported the Hutchesons were trying to arrange medical air transport to bring Kyle home, and to Barrow Neurological Institute nearby.
Kyle's father has started a GoFundMe page to help pay for the expensive trip. The GoFundMe page at https://www.gofundme.com/kylehutcheson212 was doing well, with more than half of the requested $30,000 raised so far.
Kyle has been overwhelmed by the support he has received from the Fountain Hills community and fellow motocross racers, Hutcheson said, and was in good spirits despite the circumstances.
Guns, but no fun
Two men suspected of firing random gunshots as they drove down an Escondido street Saturday afternoon were arrested a few minutes later, police said.
Officers were investigating whether any cars or homes along South Tulip Street, near Seventh Avenue, were hit by gunfire. No people were wounded, police said.
Several areas residents called 911 about 2 p.m. to report hearing gunshots as the SUV traveled down the road. Witnesses described the vehicle to officers and a sheriff's helicopter crew helped find the SUV a few blocks away, near Ninth Avenue, police said.
Officers pulled over the driver, and he and his passenger, both age 24, were arrested. Police found a .38-caliber revolver in the vehicle.
Power be out
More than 3,300 San Diego Gas and Electric Company customers were without power in the North County Saturday afternoon, according to SDG&E.
The areas affected by the outage included Escondido, Del Dios, Lake Hodges, the west side of Rancho Bernardo and the San Pasqual area.
Crews were working to determine what caused the electricity to fail shortly after 2 p.m. Although most customers regained power by 5 p.m., outages continued at Escondido, San Pasqual and El Cajon affecting 431 customers until around 9 p.m., according to SDG&E officials.
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Death / Film / Psychology / Theology
All Aboard the Murder Train: Sigmund Freud Visits The Cabin in the Woods
by Mockingbird on Nov 20, 2012 • 1:47 pm 1 Comment
Another wonderful one from new contributor Charlotte Getz:
If you haven't seen Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods yet, then you might be like me – you don't just watch a scary movie, scream, and then roll over and go to sleep. No. You ingest it. Your skin soaks it up like toxic rays that, by the time you should have long been asleep, have charred your whole being black and left you at the mercy of the feral wilderness of your imagination… Yet…the very next night, that trailer for (another) movie featuring a nighty-clad little girl being exorcized in a barn comes on TV. And you can't help but transfix on those magic words: "Based… on …actual…events." Before you know it, it's three hours later and you're so vigorously entrenched in the bowels of googling the "actual event" that the FBI has tapped your phone line. You do all of this, even though you are all too aware of the consequences it will have on your most basic sanity. Cabin in the Woods is an interesting and, at times, hilarious commentary on our culture's obsession with death – a subject of frequent discussion on Mockingbird recently. Maybe, though, this grim passion points to something much bigger.
"The aim of all life is death." -Sigmund Freud
Narratives depicting death and destruction have engrossed mankind since its origin. The bullfighting tradition, gladiatorial battles, Alabama football (Roll Tide), violence that permeates nightly news and (on a broader scale) art, literature, and cinema all serve as evidence of this statement. Man is inexplicably, yet indisputably, drawn to this entropic sort of narrative where "there is an irreversible tendency…toward increasing disorder and inertness… [and] the final state predictable from this tendency" – death. Noel Carroll, in his book The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart, says that in the horror genre, "…emotive responses of the audience, ideally, run parallel to the emotions of characters" through camera angle, point of view, etc. If this is accurate, then the logical response to this subject matter should be to avoid it at all cost! Yet, paradoxically, we as humans seek it out, crave it, and even take pleasure from it. Why?
In his article, "Analysis: Cabin in the Woods," Paul Bullock claims that we watch movies like this to "satisfy the beast below," insinuating that our human drive towards death and violence is placated by witnessing it in a removed or fictional form. Satisfaction is nearly synonymous with pleasure. Bullock agrees that pleasure – on multiple levels, the pleasure received in the deaths – is the movie's thematic nucleus. Now, before you rush to make an appointment with your shrink, allow me to define a few theories…
According to Freud, every human is in constant search for "stasis," the state of nothingness only experienced in the womb. Freud believed that we seek to achieve stasis through death, "an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things" – the Death Instinct. The process of our passage towards death begins at birth and can be visualized in the shape of a circle, with stasis as both the preface to life and death's exuberant epilogue. The death instinct incites upon exiting the womb, and is followed by the life-long cycle of the desire for and momentum towards the end – the glad return to the womb, to nothingness. Everything in between is a futile attempt to simulate a return to that paradise. NOTE: The Death Instinct does not suggest that we are all suicidal – the notion of simulation is important.
Cabin in the Woods plot summary [SPOILERS]: five intentionally caricatured college students hop in an RV and head to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of fun. What they don't know is that government agents ("puppeteers") are manipulating them in very elaborate ways – ultimately resulting in the murder of three of the five characters (at the hands of redneck zombies). The puppeteers take pleasure in the deaths – aiming to kill off each character but the "virgin girl." Their motives are unclear until it is revealed in the end that they are performing a ritual sacrifice to ancient gods. If the gods are not sated, they will destroy the world. Ultimately the agents fail, in that another character survives along with the virgin girl. The world will thus be destroyed.
In his essay, Freud's Masterplot, Peter Brooks says, "All narration is obituary in that life acquires definable meaning only at, and through, death." In postulating the resemblance of life to a narrative, he also asserts the equivalence of death to the conclusion of that narrative. Therefore, the act of experiencing narratives in history, literature, or cinema points toward the desire of the viewer to obtain meaning. This meaning, he says, arrives from the mutual compulsion to extrapolate a shared narrative – in this case, a narrative of death – by reaching its ultimate resolution. In search for understanding, the characters in the movie make stupid decision after stupid decision (of their own free will), seeming to walk right in to their own deaths (i.e. an eerie trap door just defied gravity and flew open! Let's go down!). Is our quest for meaning, in experiencing their story, indicative of the desire for our own death?
Brooks contends that the quest for meaning, for death, by way of plot is signified in the tension between two categories – difference and resemblance – that ultimately constitute the device of a metaphor. The result of their amalgamation is transformation or, "change in a predicate term common to beginning and end." Metaphor, therefore, can be defined as transformation, "the same-but-different." Consistent with Carroll's argument regarding the parallel between character and viewer, Brooks says that metaphor brings into relation different actions and then unites them through perceived similarities, resulting in a common (shared) plot. The cliché-ness of each character in Cabin in the Woods (jock, slut, smarty, stoner, and virgin girl) leave them far enough removed, as if masks of people, but just familiar enough for us to step into their roles. For the purpose of this commentary, let's define metaphor as the unity of ourselves (the viewer) with the fictional agents (the viewer) and the characters in jeopardy. We are the same-but-different, unified by the shared motivation for transformation – a change from a beginning to an end. This is our "common plot," as experienced through the narrative of the film. And the entropic momentum to reach the final meaning of the story is diagnostic of a fierce desire for death itself.
If there is truth to these theories, then experiencing narratives of death is a part of this cycle back towards stasis. We simulate our own death by placing ourselves in the roles of the characters to "satisfy the beast." Cabin in the Woods jarringly brings our attention to this tendency, by placing the audience in juxtaposing positions of both character and witness (the agents). In typical horror movies, the viewer is placed only in the character's role – where we experience our own death. But here, we watch and experience our own death. The movie is packed with imagery involving sight – windows, two-way mirrors, television monitors, hidden cameras, eyes, etc. – all voyeuristic. We are ever reminded that we are watching others, who are watching others, who are watching others. United by this common experience, we proceed together in search for resolution. And, to return to Freudian language, the ending that the agents know will satisfy the gods and please the audience is the survival of the virgin girl – the empty womb. The end is the beginning…
As Jean-Paul Sartre compellingly argued, "Narrative must tend towards its own end, seek[ing] illumination in its own death." Perhaps we see rough symbolism of this in that zombies – the living dead – are the delegates chosen to kill the characters in Cabin in the Woods. Is living dying? Or, conversely, is dying living? Because two characters survive in the end they, along with the rest of the world, must (knowingly) die at the hands of the hungry gods. And they seem content, even impassioned, to do so.
Freud believed that there are "two kinds of instincts: those which seek to lead what is living to death, and others…which are perpetually attempting and achieving a renewal of life." The argument could be posed, therefore, that the final act of death results, paradoxically, in some unexpected condition of what our instincts (in their most primal functioning) truly desire from life – nothingness, peace, and perfection. And the suggestion of the word "renewal" is that this perfection once was.
As I try to make sense of all of this, I'm ever drawn back to the idea that perhaps what this instinct really points to is the catastrophic fall of man, and our perpetual desire ever since to reenter to the completion of heaven. If heaven – the first and final destination – is the metaphor for the womb, then it's components (the same-but-different) are God and His people, who are made in His image. The third component, and agent of our Real Death, is Jesus (the same-but-different) – simultaneously God and man – who unites us into a common shared plot of life and death and then life again. The result of this three-way-unity is transformation, "a change in a predicate term common to beginning and end." And the conclusion of His transformation from life to death (and, thus, ours) is resurrection.
Evil, death, and destruction (as Susan Sontag describes it, the feeling of "everything running down") serve as reminders of a deep wrongness in the world and so result in a need and desire for its opposite. The opposite, according to this conversation, is (paradoxically) death. As we experience horror stories – or any narrative for that matter – do we consider them as some means of personally paralleling their entropic endings? It seems morbid, but I personally can't deny some primal sense within, a hint, that something is missing. And like other human needs – food, water, air – ones that I know without question must be satisfied, I also have the sense that this formless and blurred "something" that is missing, much like Edenic paradise, can be satisfied as well; found again. It appears that the solution of death – for the time being, the simulation of death – and the possibility of some final and inexplicable peace is the only real way to achieve this satisfaction. How strange and impossible that, in search of nothingness (or stasis), the actual result seems to be some strange everything. "To live is Christ" but, as J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan says best, "To die will be an awfully big adventure."
Tags: Cabin in the Woods, Freud, Horror, Joss Whedon, Murder, Noel Carroll, Paul Bullock, Peter Brooks, Sigmund Freud, Stasis
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CCS Insight / Extended Reality Pace Slowed by Economic Woes
Extended Reality Pace Slowed by Economic Woes
Another slow year is expected for the augmented and virtual reality devices market, with unit sales of just over 11 million projected in 2023.
Sales are expected to improve from 2024 onward, and to grow to 67 million in 2026, supported by launches of consumer smart glasses from late 2023 onward.
CCS Insight remains confident of the long-term future of extended reality; it is a question of when, not if, the market will pick up.
London, 14 December 2022: Macroeconomic weakness is leaving its stamp on consumer device markets, and virtual and augmented reality devices — often referred to together as extended reality — are no exception, according to the latest research by technology market analyst firm CCS Insight. The company expects global unit sales in this segment to remain just short of 10 million in 2022, growing to 11.4 million in 2023.
"High inflation has hit consumer budgets in many major markets this year, and some people, who in better circumstances would have treated themselves to a virtual reality headset this year, have postponed their purchase", notes Marina Koytcheva, Vice President of Forecasting at CCS Insight. "We're also seeing signs of businesses being more cautious in their investment in extended reality until the economic picture becomes clearer", adds Koytcheva.
These trends are expected to continue during most of 2023, although a bright spot will be the arrival of the new Sony PlayStation VR2 headset, spurring some consumer demand.
In these circumstances, the $100 rise in retail price of the most popular virtual reality headset, the Meta Quest 2, is also hindering sales. "The price of the Quest 2 used to be very attractive, right at the sweet spot where the next generation of tech enthusiasts would consider buying one", explains Leo Gebbie, Principal Analyst for Connected Devices. "The higher price is more than what potential owners of VR devices are willing to pay, which is a problem for a segment seeking growth", he says.
Another major obstacle to the adoption of extended reality is the time needed to build light and attractive smart augmented reality glasses. "It's understandable that large technology players are being cautious: no one wants to risk disappointing buyers by bringing out a product that isn't quite ready", suggests Koytcheva. "We've been expecting smart glasses to come to market for a while now, but the technology is proving tricky to master", she states. CCS Insight's latest forecast now expects some devices to be revealed in 2023, with some sales in 2024, but only reaching more significant numbers from 2025 onward.
Because of these setbacks, CCS Insight now predicts that unit sales of extended reality devices will build up more slowly than previously projected, reaching 67 million units in 2026. Of those, 11 million, or 16%, will be sold to businesses and other organizations where extended reality technology is showing great promise for use in customer support, remote service, training, marketing and more. But the bulk of sales will be to consumers eager to get their hands on the latest technology.
"The outlook for extended reality remains positive, as the technology forms part of the metaverse vision shared by many large players in the industry", affirms Gebbie. "The vast sums that have been invested in the metaverse, despite its nebulous nature, show that there's real appetite for building immersive spatial computing experiences for all sorts of application. There's already lots of momentum behind this vision, and despite a lull in the coming years, we expect the metaverse bandwagon to keep rolling on", he concludes.
A summary of CCS Insight's new forecast is presented in the chart below.
More details of CCS Insight's extensive virtual and augmented reality research service can be found at ccsinsight.com/research-areas/virtual-and-augmented-reality
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How do we shape up? Play with the sliders, have fun
Go here: oecdbetterlifeindex.org
Pick what's important to you, and see how we do:
Australia, as seen by the OECD Better Life Index
Population 21.0 mil.
Visitors per year 5.6 mil.
Renewable energy 5.20 %
Australia performs exceptionally well in measures of well-being, as shown by the fact that it ranks among the top countries in a large number of topics in the Better Life Index.
Money, while it cannot buy happiness, is an important means to achieving higher living standards. In Australia, the average person earns 26 927 USD a year, more than the OECD average of 22 387USD a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest – the top 20% of the population earn five times as much as the bottom 20%.
In terms of employment, over 72% of people aged 15 to 64 in Australia have a paid job, above the OECD employment average of 66%. Some 79% of men are in paid work, compared with 66% of women. People in Australia work 1686 hours a year, less than most people in the OECD who work 1749 hours. Almost 14% of employees work very long hours, much higher than the OECD average of 9%, with 21% of men working very long hours compared with just 6% for women.
Having a good education is an important requisite for finding a job. In Australia, 71% of adults aged 25-64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, close to the OECD average of 74%. This is truer of men than women, as 74% of men have successfully completed high-school compared with 68% of women. This difference is higher than the OECD average and suggests women's participation in higher education could be strengthened. Australia is nonetheless a top-performing country in terms of the quality of its educational system. The average student scored 519 in reading literacy, maths and science in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This score is higher than the OECD average of 497, making Australia one of the strongest OECD countries in students' skills. On average in Australia, girls outperformed boys by 9 points, in line with the average OECD gap.
In terms of health, life expectancy at birth in Australia is almost 82 years, two years higher than the OECD average of 80 years. Life expectancy for women is 84 years, compared with 80 for men. The level of atmospheric PM10 – tiny air pollutant particles small enough to enter and cause damage to the lungs –is 14 micrograms per cubic meter, considerably lower than the OECD average of 22 micrograms per cubic meter. Australia also does well in terms of water quality, as 92% of people say they are satisfied with the quality of their water.
Concerning the public sphere, there is a strong sense of community and high levels of civic participation in Australia, where 97% of people believe that they know someone they could rely on in time of need, higher than the OECD average of 91. Voter turnout, a measure of public trust in government and of citizens' participation in the political process, was 95% during recent elections; this figure is the highest in the OECD. The average is 73%. There is little difference in voting levels across society; voter turnout for the top 20% of the population is 96% and for the bottom 20% it is 94%, much narrower than the OECD average gap of 7% and suggesting there is broad social inclusion in Australia's democratic institutions.
In general; Australians are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average, with 74% of people saying they have more positive experiences in an average day (feelings of rest, pride in accomplishment, enjoyment, etc) than negative ones (pain, worry, sadness, boredom, etc). This figure is higher than the OECD average of 72%.
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. Officially our lives are mostly better
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Night of Thunder Adds an Exciting New Event for Race Fans This May
By Josh Duke on Apr. 24, 2018
Each May, race fans become passionate about the cars that roar around the oval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and rightly so. But this year, those same fans have a new option the evening before the Indy 500. Just a few minutes and miles down U.S. 136 at Lucas Oil Raceway in Brownsburg, a Night of Thunder will arrive.
Michael Biehle will be one of the top drivers in the world putting on a show May 26 at the Lucas Oil Raceway dragstrip. (Photo courtesy of the NHRA)
I'm so excited that for the first time ever, Lucas Oil Raceway will host Night of Thunder on May 26 featuring some of the fastest Pro Mod drag racers in the world.
The track will partner with Real Pro Mod Association to showcase some of the biggest names in the sport. Racing fans and car fanatics can experience American-made cars producing more than 3,000 horsepower flying down the quarter-mile drag strip in less than six seconds at speeds exceeding 250 mph.
Kasey Coler, Lucas Oil Raceway General Manager, said they decided to try this new event as a great entry-level introduction into drag racing for those race fans who are looking for something to do the night before the 500.
For those not familiar with drag racing, I try to equate it to your senses. You not only see and hear these machines, but you can feel them, too. And unlike IndyCar, head-to-head races end every six seconds, and a ticket to the event doubles as an all-access pit pass. So, fans of every age can see the cars up close and meet the drivers.
Any vantage point is a good one at the Lucas Oil Raceway drag strip in Brownsburg.
The event will kick off Saturday morning with a special bracket race in the Pro and Super Pro categories. Qualifying for the headliner, the Pro Mods, will occur later that day. An autograph session and fan activities will begin at 5 p.m. and continue until 6:30 p.m. leading up to the 16-car shootout beginning at 7 p.m.
But there's more…the popular jet cars that usually only appear on Labor Day Weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway during the most prestigious drag racing event in the world -- the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals -- will light up the track following the shootout. Having experienced them first hand, I can tell you there is nothing like it.
A fireworks display track organizers have descibed as memorable will cap off the exciting night of action.
Coler told me they designed this event to be a night of entertainment and fun. One he and event organizers hope becomes a family tradition during Indy 500 weekend in Central Indiana.
Tickets already are on sale and start at $20 for adults and $15 for kids 12 and under. Parking is free.
If you already have that weekend blocked for racing, why not add another event to your calendar. You may just become a drag racing fan.
Categories: Central, Family Fun, Hendricks County, Motorsports, Things To Do
Tags: drag racing, Lucas Oil Raceway, Memorial Day Weekend, Night of Thunder
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Tonight, I was requested by Chef Husband to purée a basket of blueberries. Proudly, I dumped them into my Ninja blender, whirled them round and round, and poured some into my little strainer. I grabbed a teaspoon and pressed them, and scraped them, and swirled them, all to no avail. My blob of blueberries did not want to go through the strainer.
Here comes the teachable moment.
Chef Husband asks, "Have I taught you about the ladle?" My blank questioning stare was an obvious no.
Back into the blender the squished up blueberries went, this time with some water (or I could have used another liquid that was already called for, in whatever recipe they were destined for). Pulse-pulse-purée some more.
He then hands me a large Chinois China Cap Strainer (one of those commercial thingys not usually found in a home kitchen), and a long 1 oz. ladle (again, commercial).
Into the Chinois the blueberries went. All I had to do was pump the ladle up and down a little, pressing ever so slightly. Wow, the strained purée started flowing out. There was very little effort, compared to what I was first attempting, and a much better result.
And then, get this, just a few minutes later, as we were watching an episode of Iron Chef Gauntlet, I saw one of the chefs use the exact same technique! I never would have picked up on it if I hadn't just experienced it myself. Thank you babe for teaching me something cool.
So, if you want to make a purée or strain something, grab a Chinois and a ladle.


Sued by a debt collector: what is the motion to dismiss with prejudice?
Continuing our series on being sued by a debt buyer, your case is now settled and we send you a copy of a "motion to dismiss" — what does this mean?
This is where the debt collector has asked the court to get rid of the lawsuit.
A "motion" is simply where one party asks the court to do something.
Here it is to dismiss or make the lawsuit go away.
And it is with "prejudice" which means the lawsuit will be finished — done — no more lawsuits to come. In a sense it is the same as winning the lawsuit. The collector can never sue you for this debt again and can never transfer the debt to anyone else.
Once the judge grants the order (next article/video) then the lawsuit is truly over. Often this happens the same day or within a few days of the motion being filed.
You are almost there so congratulations!
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The Center for the Study of Democracy Presents a Virtual Panel on Public Health Featuring St. Mary's College of Maryland Scientists on the St. Mary's County COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group, and the St. Mary's County Health Department
Submitted by Michael Bruckler on June 09, 2020 - 3:51 pm
Center for the Study of Democracy
By Michael Bruckler
The Center for the Study of Democracy will present a virtual panel featuring St. Mary's College of Maryland scientists on the St. Mary's County COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group and the St. Mary's County Health Department to discuss public health issues including COVID-19 on Wednesday, June 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The panel is designed to highlight the role of sound, science-based leadership and decision-making in public health; discuss the importance of public partnerships in addressing public health challenges; and identify and highlight the ways in which a liberal arts educational institution like St. Mary's College can contribute in this process.
The speakers on the panel include:
Meenakshi Brewster, St. Mary's County health officer
Kevin Emerson, associate professor of biology at SMCM
Linden McBride, assistant professor of economics at SMCM
Emek Köse, associate professor of mathematics at SMCM
Troy Townsend, assistant professor of chemistry at SMCM
Jessica Malisch, assistant professor of physiology at SMCM
William (Bill) Roberts, professor of anthropology at SMCM
The panel will be moderated by Antonio Ugues Jr., associate professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary's College.
To access the panel, visit https://bit.ly/smcmphp.
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526 Cu-In Hemi Ford Maverick So fast that it closes its own door
Most of us have seen someone describe a car as so fast that it blew up the car door in the next lane. But a drag-prepaid Ford Maverick from Texas blew his own door so fast.
The footage comes from drag-obsessed 1320 videos The YouTube channel and it was shot on the Yellow Belly Strip in Dallas, Texas, one of the oldest drag strips in the United States, founded in 1955.
Yellow also has a 1950s-like attitude to visitor safety. The stands are not only unusually close to the side of the track, but participants are also allowed to stand inch by inch behind the launching vehicle, where the other strips ensure that you are kept away from the action behind the barrier.
There are some beautiful wild appliances 1320Its a film, though they should have been rebranded 660 For this episode, since the Yellow Strip is an eighth-mile (660 ft / 201 m) track, not a full quarter mile. However, it still has enough space for cars to reach some critical speeds, which means that when the 526 Q-in (8.6-liter) hemi-engine allows the Ford Maverick to go through the door, it is sent 90 degrees to the road.
Related: Drag Racing Chevy Camaro flies, lands in incredible feat of car control
Incredibly, the Maverick is not the only car that travels so fast that it closes its own doors. Earlier in the video, at the 5 minute 25 second mark, a Fox-bodied Mustang also lost its driver's door, just as it crossed the finish line in pursuit of a radically-modified fourth-generation Pontiac Firebird. More surprisingly, the organizers of the event … are happy to let the Mustang carry another strip with a new door made of duct tape.
According to Stripe's website, the Yellow Belly may have traced its origins back to the early 1950s, when children in the Grand Prairie area competed with their hot rods on the dry bed of the Trinity River. Then in 1955 a philanthropic local millionaire who owned the land created a drag strip on the site to give racers a place to play where the police could not disturb them.
It's great to see the site continue to grow, even after nearly 70 years, but we can't help but choose a few more of the world's current millionaires to be so generous to the car community.
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