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I martiri del Vietnam sono un gruppo di 117 tra ecclesiastici, religiosi, missionari e laici uccisi nel corso di diverse persecuzioni in Tonchino, Cocincina e Annam tra il 1745 e il 1862.

Otto di loro erano vescovi, 50 preti e 59 laici; oltre ai vietnamiti (96), il gruppo comprende 11 domenicani spagnoli e 10 francesi della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi.

La maggior parte (75) subì la decapitazione, gli altri vennero strangolati, arsi vivi, squartati o morirono in prigionia dopo varie torture.

I martiri furono beatificati in quattro distinti riti: 64 di loro il 27 maggio 1900 da papa Leone XIII; 8 da papa Pio X il 20 maggio 1906; 20 sempre da Pio X il 2 maggio 1909 e 25 da papa Pio XII il 29 aprile 1951. Furono proclamati santi e dichiarati patroni del Vietnam da papa Giovanni Paolo II il 19 giugno 1988.

Il capofila del gruppo è ritenuto il sacerdote vietnamita Andrea Dũng Lạc, decapitato il 21 dicembre 1839; gli altri nomi evidenziati dalla formula di canonizzazione sono stati quelli del seminarista Tommaso Trần Văn Thiện, di Emmanuel Lê Văn Phụng, catechista e padre di famiglia, del vescovo domenicano spagnolo Jerónimo Hermosilla e del presbitero francese Jean-Théophane Vénard.

Secondo il Calendario romano generale, la memoria dei santi Andrea Dũng Lạc e compagni è obbligatoria e si celebra il 24 novembre.

Di seguito, le date e i luoghi del martirio e i nomi dei martiri:

 22 gennaio 1745 a Thăng Long
 Francesc Gil de Federich de Sans, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato il 14 dicembre 1702 a Tortosa
 Mateo Alonso de Leciñana y Alonso, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato il 26 novembre 1702 a Nava del Rey
 7 novembre 1773 a Ðồng Mơ
 Vinh-sơn Lê Quang Liêm, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1732 a Trà Lũ
 Jacinto Castañeda Puchasóns, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato il 13 novembre 1743 a Xàtiva
 17 settembre 1798 a Bãi Dâu
 Emmanuel Nguyễn Văn Triệu, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico di Cocincina, nato verso il 1756 a Thợ Đúc
 28 ottobre 1798 a Chợ Rạ
 Gioan Ðạt, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1765 a Đồng Chuối
 11 ottobre 1833 a Quan Ban
 Phêrô Lê Tùy, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1773 a Bằng Sơn
 17 ottobre 1833 a Bãi Dâu
 François-Isidore Gagelin, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 10 maggio 1799 a Montperreux
 23 ottobre 1833 a Thở Đuc
 Phaolô Tống Viết Bường, laico, nato verso il 1773 a Phủ Cam
 28 novembre 1835 a An Hòa
 Anrê Trần Văn Trông, laico, nato verso il 1808 a Kim Long
 30 novembre 1835 a Thở Đuc
 Joseph Marchand, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 17 agosto 1803 a Passavant
 20 settembre 1837 a Sơn Tây
 Jean-Charles Cornay, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 27 febbraio 1809 a Loudun
 20 novembre 1837 a Ô Cầu Giấy
 Phanxicô Xaviê Cần, laico, coniugato, catechista, nato verso il 1803 a Sơn Miêng
 25 giugno 1838 a Nam Định
 Domenico Henares de Zafra Cubero, domenicano, vescovo ausiliare del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino orientale, nato il 19 dicembre 1765 a Baena
 Phanxicô Ðỗ Văn Chiểu, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1797 a Trung Lễ
 30 giugno 1838 a Hải Dương
 Vihn Sơn Ðỗ Yến, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1764 a Trà Lũ
 4 luglio 1838 a Hưng Yên
 Giuse Nguyến Ðình Uyển, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1775 a Ninh Cường
 12 luglio 1838 a Nam Định
 Clemente Ignacio Delgado Cebrián, domenicano, vicario apostolico del Tonchino orientale, nato il 23 novembre 1761 a Villafeliche
 15 luglio 1838 a Nam Định
 Phêrô Nguyến Bá Tuần, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino orientale, nato il 1766 a Ngoc Ðông
 24 luglio 1838 a Nam Định
 José Fernández de Ventosa, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato il 3 settembre 1775 a Ventosa de la Cuesta
 1º agosto 1838 a Ba Tòa
 Bênađô Võ Văn Duê, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino orientale, nato nel 1755 a Quần Anh
 Ðaminh Nguyện Văn Hạnh, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato il 1772 a Năng A
 12 agosto 1838 a Bảy Mẫu
 Giacôbê Ðỗ Mai Năm, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1781 a Đông Biên
 Antôn Nguyện Ðích, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1769 a Chi Long
 Micae Nguyễn Huy Mỹ, laico, nato verso il 1804 a Kẻ Vĩnh
 21 agosto 1838 a Bảy Mẫu
 Giuse Ðặng Văn Viên, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino orientale, nato verso il 1787 a Tiên Chu
 5 settembre 1838 a Bắc Ninh Tai
 Phêrô Nguyễn Văn Tự, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1796 a Ninh Cường
 Giuse Hoàng Lương Cảnh, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1763 a Làng Văn, Bắc Giang
 21 settembre 1838 a Nhan Biều
 François Jaccard, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 16 settembre 1799 a Onnion
 Tôma Trần Văn Thiện, seminarista del vicariato apostolico di Cocincina, nato verso il 1820 a Trung Quán
 24 novembre 1838 a Ðồng Hới
 Pierre-Rose-Ursule-Dumoulin Borie, membro della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, vicario apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato il 20 febbraio 1808 a Beynat
 Phêrô Võ Ðăng Khoa, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1790 a Thuận Nghĩa
 Vinh Sơn Nguyễn Thế Ðiểm, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1761 ad An Dô
 18 dicembre 1838 a Sơn Tây
 Phaolô Nguyễn Văn Mỹ, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1798 a Kẻ Non
 Phêrô Trương Văn Ðường, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1808 a Kẻ Sở
 Phêrô Vũ Văn Truật, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1816 a Kẻ Thiếc
 2 aprile 1839 a Nam Định
 Ðaminh Tước, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1775 a Trung Lao
 12 giugno 1839 a Thừa Thiên
 Augustinô Phan Viết Huy, laico, nato verso il 1795 a Hạ Linh
 Nicolas Bùi Ðức Thể, laico, nato verso il 1792 a Kiên Trung
 18 luglio 1839 a Nam Định
 Ðaminh Ðinh Ðạt, laico, nato verso il 1803 a Phú Nhai
 26 novembre 1839 a Bảy Mẫu
 Tôma Ðinh Viết Dụ, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1783 a Phú Nhai
 Ðaminh Nguyễn Văn Xuyên, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1786 a Hưng Lập
 19 dicembre 1839 a Cổ Mễ
 Phanxicô Xaviê Hà Trọng Mậu, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1790 a Kẻ Riền
 Ðaminh Bùi Văn Úy, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1801 a Tiên Môn
 Augustinô Nguyễn Văn Mới, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1806 a Phú Trang
 Tôma Nguyễn Văn Ðệ, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1811 a Bồ Trang
 Stêphanô Nguyễn Văn Vinh, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1813 a Phú Trang
 21 dicembre 1839 a Ô Cầu Giấy
 Anrê Trần An Dũng Lạc, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1795 a Bắc Ninh
 Phêrô Trương Văn Thi, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1763 a Kẻ Sở
 28 aprile 1840 a Ninh Bình
 Phaolô Phạm Khắc Khoan, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1771 a Duyên Mậu
 Gioan Baotixta Ðinh Văn Thành, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1796 a Nôn Khê
 Phêrô Nguyễn Văn Hiển, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1783 a Ðồng Chuối
 9 maggio 1840 a Nam Định
 Giuse Hiên, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1769 a Quân Anh Ha
 5 giugno 1840 a Ô Cầu Giấy
 Luca Vŭ Bá Loan, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1756 a Trại Bút
 27 giugno 1840 a Nam Định
 Tôma Toán, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, catechista, nato verso il 1764 a Cần Phán
 10 luglio 1840 a Ðồng Hới
 Phêrô Nguyễn Khắc Tự, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1808 a Ninh Bình
 Antôn Nguyễn Hữu Quỵnh, laico, nato verso il 1768 a Mỹ Hương
 18 settembre 1840 a Bảy Mẫu
 Ðaminh Trạch Đoài, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1772 a Ngoại Vối
 8 novembre 1840 a Bảy Mẫu
 Giuse Nguyễn Ðình Nghi, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1771 a Kẻ Vồi
 Phaolô Nguyễn Ngân, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1771 a Kẻ Biên
 Martinô Tạ Ðức ThỊnh, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1760 a Kẻ Sặt
 8 novembre 1840 a Bảy Mẫu
 Martinô Thọ, laico, nato verso il 1787 a Kẻ Báng
 Gioan Baotixta Còn, laico, nato verso il 1805 a Kẻ Báng
 12 dicembre 1840 ad An Hòa
 Simon Phan Ðắc Hòa, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1787 a Mai Vinh
 12 luglio 1841 a Nam Định
 Anê Lê ThỊ Thành Bà Ðê, laica, coniugata e madre di famiglia, nata verso il 1781 a Bá Ðền
 12 luglio 1842 a Hà Tĩnh
 Phêrô Khan, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1780 a Hòa Huệ
 11 maggio 1847 a Chợ Ðŭi
 Matthêô Lê Văn Gẫm, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1813 a Gò Công
 1º maggio 1851 a Sơn Tây
 Augustin Schoeffler, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 22 novembre 1822 a Mittelbronn
 1º maggio 1852 Nam Định
 Jean-Louis Bonnard, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 1º marzo 1824 a Saint-Christo-en-Jarez
 3 luglio 1853 a Đinh Khao
 Philiphê Phan Văn Minh, sacerdote del vicariato apostolico della Cocincina occidentale, nato verso il 1815 a Cái Mơn
 2 maggio 1854 a Vĩnh Long
 Giuse Nguyễn Văn Lựu, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1790 a Cái Nhum
 15 luglio 1855 a Mỹ Tho, Tien Giang
 Anrê Nguyễn Kim Thông Năm Thuông, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1790 a Go Thị
 13 febbraio 1856 a Ninh Bình
 Laurensô Nguyễn Văn Hưởng, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1802 a Kẻ Sài
 6 aprile 1857 a Bảy Mẫu
 Phaolô Lê Bảo TỊnh, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico del Tonchino occidentale, nato verso il 1793 a Trịnh Hà
 22 maggio 1857 ad An Hòa
 Micae Hô Ðình Hy, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1808 a Như Lâm
 25 maggio 1857 a Sơn Tây
 Pherô Ðoàn Văn Vân, laico, catechista, nato verso il 1780 a Kẻ Bói
 20 luglio 1858 a Nam Định
 José María Díaz Sanjurjo, domenicano, vicario apostolico del Tonchino centrale, nato il 25 ottobre 1818 a Santa Eulalia de Suegos
 28 luglio 1858 a Nam Định
 José Melchor García-Sampedro Suárez, domenicano, vicario apostolico del Tonchino centrale, nato il 26 aprile 1821 a Cortes
 6 ottobre 1858 ad An Hòa
 Phanxicô Trần Văn Trung, laico, nato verso il 1825 a Phan Xá
 5 novembre 1858 a Hưng Yên
 Ðaminh Mầu, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1794 a Phú Nhai
 13 gennaio 1859 a Nam Định
 Ðaminh Phạm Trọng Khảm, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, coniugato, nato verso il 1780 a Quần Cống
 Giuse Phạm Trọng Tả, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, coniugato, nato verso il 1800 a Quần Cống
 Luca Phạm Trọng Thìn, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, coniugato, nato verso il 1819 a Quần Cống
 13 febbraio 1859 a Gia Định
 Phaolô Lê Văn Lộc, sacerdote del vicariato apostolico della Cocincina occidentale, nato verso il 1830 ad An Nhơn
 11 marzo 1859 a Hưng Yên
 Ðaminh Cẩm, sacerdote del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato a Cẩm Chương
 28 maggio 1859 a Saigon
 Phaolô Hạnh, laico, nato verso il 1826 a Chợ Quán
 31 luglio 1859 a Châu Ðốc
 Phêrô Ðoàn Công Quý, sacerdote del vicariato apostolico della Cocincina occidentale, nato verso il 1826 a Búng
 Emmanuel Lê Văn Phụng, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1796 a Ðầu Nước
 30 gennaio 1860 a Hưng Yên
 Tôma Khuông, sacerdote del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, nato verso il 1789 a Nam Hòa
 25 ottobre 1860 ad An Hòa
 Giuse Lê Dăng Thi, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1825 a Kẻ Văn
 3 novembre 1860 a Sơn Tây
 Pierre-François Néron, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 21 settembre 1818 a Bornay
 2 febbraio 1861 a Ô Cầu Giấy
 Jean-Théophane Vénard, sacerdote della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, nato il 21 novembre 1829 a Saint-Loup-sur-Thouet
 7 aprile 1861 a Mỹ Tho
 Phêrô Nguyễn Văn Lựu, sacerdote del vicariato apostolico della Cocincina occidentale, nato verso il 1812 a Gò Vấp
 30 aprile 1861 a Hưng Yên
 Giuse Tuân Hoan, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato verso il 1821 a Trần Xá
 26 maggio 1861 vicino a Ðồng Hới
 Gioan Ðoàn Trinh Hoan, sacerdote del clero del vicariato apostolico della Cocincina settentrionale, nato verso il 1798 a Kim Long
 Matthêô Nguyễn Văn Đắc Phượng, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1808 a Kẻ Lái
 1º novembre 1861 a Hải Dương
 Jerónimo Hermosilla Aransáez, domenicano, vicario apostolico del Tonchino orientale, nato il 30 settembre 1800 a Santo Domingo de la Calzada
 Valentín Berrio-Ochoa de Aristi, domenicano, vicario apostolico del Tonchino centrale, nato il 14 febbraio 1827 a Elorrio
 Pere Josep Almató Ribera Auras, sacerdote professo dell'ordine domenicano, nato il 1º novembre 1830 a Sant Feliu Sasserra
 14 novembre 1861 a Bình Định
 Étienne-Théodore Cuenot, membro della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi, vicario apostolico di Cocincina, nato l'8 febbraio 1802 a Le Bélieu
 6 dicembre 1861 a Hải Dương
 Giuse Nguyễn Duy Khang, laico del terz'ordine secolare domenicano, catechista, nato verso il 1832 a Trà Vinh
 22 maggio 1862 a Nam Định
 Laurensô Ngôn, laico, coniugato, nato a Lục Thủy
 1º giugno 1862 a Hoàng Xá
 Giuse Túc, laico, nato verso il 1843 a Hoàng Xá
 2 giugno 1862 ad An Triêm
 Ðaminh Ninh, laico, nato verso il 1835 a Trung Linh
 3 giugno 1862 a Nam Định
 Phaolô Vũ Văn Dương Ðổng, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1792 a Vực Ðường
 5 giugno 1862 a Nam Định
 Ðaminh Toai, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1811 a Ðong Thành
 Ðaminh Huyện, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1817 a Ðong Thành
 6 giugno 1862 a Nam Định
 Phêrô Dũng, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1800 a Đông Hào
 Phêrô Thuan, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1802 a Đông Phú
 6 giugno 1862 a Nam Định
 Vinh-sơn Dương, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1821 a Doãn Trung
 7 giugno 1862 a Nam Định
 Giuse Tuân, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1824 a Nam Điền
 16 giugno 1862 a Làng Cốc
 Anrê Tường, laico, nato verso il 1812 a Ngọc Cục
 Vinh Sơn Tường, laico, nato verso il 1814 a Ngọc Cục
 Đaminh Nguyễn Đức Mạo, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1818 a Ngọc Cục
 Đaminh Nhi, laico, nato a Ngọc Cục
 Đaminh Nguyễn, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1802 a Ngọc Cục
 17 giugno 1862 a Nam Định
 Phêrô Đa, laico, coniugato, nato verso il 1802 a Ngọc Cục

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Santi vietnamiti
Santi canonizzati da Giovanni Paolo II
Beati proclamati da Pio X
Martiri cattolici
Gruppi di santi cristiani
Santi della Società per le missioni estere di Parigi

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* Gustav Damm (1881–1949), deutsch-schweizerischer Komponist und Dirigent, siehe Wilhelm Gustav Damm
 Gustav Damm (Offizier) (1890–nach 1944), deutscher Offizier und erster Kommodore des Transportfliegergeschwaders 5 während des Zweiten Weltkrieges
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Reading: 28th May is one of the worst days for Baloch national slavery. Khalil Baloch
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28th May is one of the worst days for Baloch national slavery. Khalil Baloch
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Baloch National Movement's Chairman Khalil Baloch in his statement regarding Atomic tests of 28th May 1998 at Chaghi in Balochistan said, "28th May is one of the worst days for Baloch national slavery. In this particular day Pakistan tested Atomic bombs in Balochistan, and initiated a new series of problems for Baloch nation." He said that Pakistan while choosing Baloch land is the clear proof of its colonial mindset and acrimony towards Baloch nation."
Khalil Baloch assumed that the presence of atomic bomb with a terrorist state like Pakistan is moment of worrisome for the region as well as for the entire world. He further added that today Iran, Libya and North Korea had obtained atomic weapons because of Pakistan. Pakistan has put atomic weapons on black market and made the entire world over a heap of nuclear weapons, which is even at the reach of religious extremists, because Pakistan used religion extremism as a political tool and trained its army in very line of religious extremism.
The BNM head said, "Pakistan is a nursery and safe haven for terrorist; Pakistan and its army has created parallel sanctuaries of terrorists, by the dent of these elements Pakistan is spreading terrorism throughout the world. There is full chance that Pakistan army with its proxies put the entire world into a grave disaster."
He stressed, " the atomic tests in Balochistan are valid proof that Pakistan only needs the geography, natural resources and geopolitical importance of Balochistan, and it has nothing to do with its people, those suffered an apocalyptic disaster aftermath of atomic tests in the area. The nuclear radiation has created a calamity in Balochistan. Pakistan not only forcibly vacated the people from their ancestral lands, but tested nuclear weapons near cities and villages that left devastating impacts on human lives."
He maintained, nuclear tests (in Balochistan) and the radiations have left terrible impacts on the lives of people, ecology, agriculture and flora and fauna; people are starving to death. Aftermath impacts of Nuclear tests resulted in shape of several deadly diseases like cancer, eyesight problems, skin disease, excessive complexity in delivery cases, morbidity and hike in mortality among children are prevalent in the area; It also severely affected wildlife and the water streams have also dried up, and the worst drought of the history has already hit the area; Unfortunately, United Nation did not take notice of it.
Khalil Baloch also added, "Pakistan is economically a bankrupt state which economy solely stands on Baloch national resources: from gas to other national resources of Baloch nation are the lifeline of Pakistani economy. Similarly, Pakistan is digging up Uranium from Balochistan which is developing its atomic weaponries; despite of this, the people of Balochistan are living in the Stone Age."
He appealed to United Nations and other responsible world bodies that they must send watchdogs to investigate nuclear radiations and impacts of atomic tests in the area; while, keeping the criminal history of Pakistan in focus, its atomic weapons to be handed to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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Macerata Cathedral () is a Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the St Julian in the town of Macerata, province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.

History
The Cathedral was built in 1459-1464 to designs by Cosimo Morelli; it underwent reconstruction in 1771. The façade and the adjacent square bell tower (1478), which projects forward into the piazza, remain unfinished in brick. The tower's design is attributed to Marino di Marco Cedrino.

The interior was decorated in 1771 in neoclassical style. It is characterized by large twin columns, which divide the three naves and the cupola. The main altarpiece depicts St Julian intercedes with the Madonna and Child to ease the plague(1786) by Cristoforo Unterberger. Below the second story choir loft are canvases (1602) by Filippo Bellini. The spandrels of the apse were painted with the Religion and the Theologic virtues (1938) by Silvio Galimberti.

On the first altar on the right (erected by the Ferri family) houses a canvas depicting the Transfer of the Keys to St Peter by an anonymous Bolognese artist. The second chapel on the right has a depiction of the Madonna between Saints Sebastian and Andrea (1600) by Andrea Boscoli. In the right transept there is a mosaic depicting St Michael the Archangel (1628) made by Giambattista Calandra, originally for the St Peter's Basilica in the Vtican. Along the left transept is the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament (1932) in a neo-rococo style by Giuseppe Rossi with the dome frescoed by Pavisa. The third altar on the right (dei Compagnoni) has a canvas with a depiction of San Carlo Borromeo (1790) by Vincenzo Martini.

In the first chapel on the left there is the baptismal font, and a fragment of a large wooden model (17th century) which reproduced the project of Michelangelo for the Vatican Basilica.

The sacristy conserves a triptych of the Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony Abbot and Giuliano (1369) by Allegretto Nuzi; a Madonna in Glory between Saints Giuliano and Anthony of Padua by Vincenzo Pagani; a Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Sebastian, James the Major (1574) by Gaspare Gasparini; a Birth of Mary by Sforza Compagnoni; a Pietà by Filippo Bellini; a Miracle of St Gregory by Andrea Sacchi designed for the Gregorian chapel in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. On the altar of the chapel of San Giuliano is a canvas depicting Julian before an angel who announces his coming death (1738) by Francesco Mancini.

The organ in the right choir was built by Gaetano Callido in 1790. Below the church is a crypt with three altars. The church is custodian of the relics of St Julian.

References

Renaissance architecture in le Marche
15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1464
Cathedrals in the Marche
Roman Catholic churches in Macerata


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Jacqueline Bird (née Macpherson, born 31 July 1962) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster, best known as a former anchor of the BBC Scotland national news programme Reporting Scotland.

Early life
Jacqueline Macpherson was born on 31 July 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, the daughter of Linda and Ronnie Macpherson. Bird attended Earnock High School in Hamilton.

Career

Bird was 17 when she started work for DC Thomson in Dundee working on teenage magazines and eventually became the pop editor at Jackie magazine. Subsequently, she worked as a broadcast journalist on Radio Clyde's news team and then as a food critic for the Glasgow Evening Times. After working as a reporter for The Sun newspaper, Bird joined Television South in Maidstone as a reporter and presenter for the South East edition of regional news programme Coast to Coast.

Bird left TVS to join BBC Scotland, making her debut as a main presenter of Reporting Scotland on Monday 16 October 1989. She has also been a main presenter of key event programming for BBC Scotland, including Hogmanay Live and the Scottish Children in Need opt-outs.

Bird is also a newspaper columnist and has written and produced comedy series The Lewis Lectures and Having it All for BBC Radio Scotland.

On 13 June 2012, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D Litt) in a graduation ceremony at the University of Glasgow.

In October 2014, Bird celebrated 25 years of working on Reporting Scotland, as the programme's longest serving presenter.

On 11 April 2019, BBC Scotland announced Bird had left Reporting Scotland after nearly 30 years as a main presenter to concentrate on other projects. Bird presented her final programme the previous evening, without announcing her departure.

Other work
Bird has also toured with  Echo & the Bunnymen and worked with Paul Weller.

In November 2016, she appeared as herself in the episode, "Down and Out" in series 7 of Scottish sitcom Still Game. In 2018, Bird made a brief cameo appearance in the zombie Christmas musical film Anna and the Apocalypse.

Personal life
Bird met Bob Bird, a newspaper editor, at The Sun in Glasgow. They married and moved to London, where they had their two children, Claudia and Jacob. In 2006, the couple divorced and the following year she married Robin Weir, an investment manager, at Crutherland House Hotel in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.

In 2012 Bird had sections of her small and large intestine removed after suffering a rare bowel condition.

References

External links
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1962 births
BBC Scotland newsreaders and journalists
Living people
People from Bellshill
British women television journalists
British women radio presenters


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Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early October
October 6, 2013 May 17, 2018 admin 0 Comments Lois Tilton
In addition to some of the usual monthly and quarterly online zines, here's an anthology of fairy tales, from which I pick Nathan Ballingrud's tale for the Good Story award. Overall, best publication of the lot this time has to be the fifth anniversary double issue of BCS, with the Richard Parks story another Good Story award winner.
Publications Reviewed
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #131, October 2013
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales edited by Paula Guran
Clarkesworld, October 2013
Apex Magazine, October 2013
Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2013
Strange Horizons, Bonus Issue, Sept-Oct 2013
A fifth anniversary double issue from some of the zine's most notable authors as well as newcomers. Although it's billed as a single issue, it's being posted on two successive weeks – an annoyance. There seem to be two themes: the first, excellent, one being love; the second seems to be steampunk, broadly conceived. With one exception, the stories here are all worthy of recommendation.
"Cherry Blossoms on the River of Souls" by Richard Parks
Hiroshi is fascinated by the dry, abandoned well outside the village.
"I sit here because I like to listen. There is a sound coming from the well, from down in the darkness. It's almost as if the music is being played just for me; almost as if I've heard it before. I don't understand that, but that's how it feels."
His uncle the priest is concerned for him; malicious kami are known to inhabit such places. But Hiroshi can have no peace within himself until he seeks out the music, so he climbs down into the underworld, where he has a number of encounters with kami and other beings, all of whom tell him to go home, because he is in a place where he should not be, yet where he was called to be.
An excellent tale inspired by Japanese Buddhist mythology, of reincarnation, karma, and promises. The author's seemingly effortless mastery of this material is what makes it work so well.
"Walls of Skin, Soft as Paper" by Adam Calloway
The title is the flipside of the author's excellently enigmatic "Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin", set in his city of Ars Lacuna – an audacious move. The protagonist Tomai now works in the lampblack mine and returns home after his shift to the termite-tower slum called Bugspit, where his wife is waiting for him. I think we are to assume that his wife, now named, may be the beautiful girl from the original, but this is not certain. The final image is quite striking, a sketch of love made with admirable economy of line. There is, in this world, little to love, but the denizens only love all the more what they have.
"The Coffinmaker's Love" by Alberto Yáñez
Miss Lavinia Parrish takes an apprenticeship as a coffinmaker, an odd choice of profession for a young lady from a family of rank and wealth. But Lavinia has since the age of six been in love with Death, in the form of another young girl who claims that Lavinia should not be able to see her – an ability undoubtedly conferred by the fact that she was stillborn and revived against expectations. It becomes a lengthy courtship.
Lavinia knew that Death went to every funeral, touched every casket or urn, stood by every pyre or shallow grave. She visited each person who would die, and paid her respects after. So Lavinia knew that Death would see her work, and Lavinia knew in her heart that Death would know that it was hers.
And so the coffin was a love letter to her beloved.
A love story that readers may find heartbreaking. I particularly like the image of the coffin as marriage bed.
"Blow 'Em Down" by Rebecca Gomez Farrell
A steampunk version of Exodus, or to be more specific, the book of Joshua, in which the Hebrew brass band shatters the glass dome of Jericho. I can't be amused by the wholesale slaughter of innocents.
"On the Origin of Song" by Naim Kabir
Written as a series of archived reports from a world where civilization is based on magic in the form of Song, and Song is derived from nature. So says the Academy.
"Hypothesis speaks of a heartbeat's Song and the soul's ringing Music that flows through the veins of all men and the beasts and the trees, though hard Theory from these hundred turns show the clear lack in the sand, rock, and earth; and so our Conclusion must focus on building histoire naturelle of the moving and breathing and all the combined Musics of the beauty we call Life."
However, someone once produced golems from stone, and now a golem giant has appeared in the towns, calling himself a naturalist and investigating the nature of Song. Golems are not supposed to have souls, but the giant's activities have raised doubts, which, the Academy fears, will bring their authority into question.
A poignant account of a repressed people in search of liberation.
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales, edited by Paula Guran
Here are eighteen new tales from an encouraging table of contents. Fairy tales are a favorite with many authors as well as readers. In an anthology like this one, we're not quite sure what approaches to the material to expect, there being such a large variety of possible strategies. We might find straight retellings from a different point of view or in a different setting; original tales in the fairytale mode; original stories that incorporate traditional tropes in a contemporary mode; stories based on different traditions; subversive or deconstructive narratives. Or all of the above, as in this case.
Not all readers, therefore, will find all of these pieces equally to their taste. Some of my own favorites may not be yours. But I suspect that most readers will find some offerings here that strike them as the right thing.
"The Coin of Heart's Desire" by Yoon Ha Lee
Set in an imaginary empire based on Korean folklore. Upon the death of her mother, the young empress Tern inherits the throne and all its burdens. She knows that the great families will test her power and plot to take it from her. Thus she visits the secret underwater treasury guarded by a dragon, where she selects appropriate gifts for them. The dragon then inquires what gift she might want for herself.
The dragon's smile showed no teeth. It extended a hand with eight clawed fingers. Dangling from the smallest claw, which was still longer than Tern's hand, was a disc rather like a coin, except it was made of dull green stone with specks in it like blood clots, and the hole drilled through the center was circular rather than a square. The most interesting thing was the snake carved into the surface, with every scale polished and distinct.
With limitless wealth comes temptation. Tern is a ruler profoundly concerned with duty and justice; the ability to choose them requires wisdom. Only history can tell whether she has made the right decision. Here is beautiful prose, as one expects from this author, and a heroine who seems to have a heart and mind of stone, firm and inflexible.
"The Lenten Rose" by Genevieve Valentine
A remake of "The Snow Queen" story. The characters are told as young adults, not children, not innocent. Returning from the land of winter, Kay bears the scars. His heart is frozen. "The house is choked by roses—white, always white, nothing must be red any more." We might say he is suffering from PSTD.
The story is allusive and non-linear, shifting from Kay to Gerda's point of view, from past to present. It's full of symbolization, especially colors and flowers, red roses and white, and the hellebore, the Christmas Rose, that can bloom in the snow, so early in spring it might be said to be winter; the story seems to be suggesting that it's white, but the flowers actually bear a tinge of pink. The story makes much of its poison properties, while leaving it to the reader to guess whom Gerda meant to poison. Or whether it would have been better if she had.
"The Spinning Wheel's Tale" by Jane Yolen
Here's an interesting point of view: the Sleeping Beauty's spinning wheel, who insists, "It's not my fault." Not that I suppose anyone ever claimed it was. Very slight.
"Below the Sun Beneath" by Tanith Lee
Another retelling of one of the classics. Yannis went for a soldier when he was young and hungry; now crippled and discharged, he's aging and hungry, with rumors on the road of a king bedeviled by witchcraft. Not surprised, then, to meet up with a witch and be offered her bargain, given her gifts and secrets to ward him against the king who wants to know where his daughters have been going at night, into the underground where the sun sets.
"The soles – not of their shoes, which are pristine as when sewn for them – but the skin of their feet. That is as marked as if worn right through. Blemished, black and red, and decorated in silver and sparkle, too. As if they'd bruised and torn them, then dipped them in rivers of moonlight and rime."
Of course we know this story well, even if this version may not end exactly as we expect. The pleasure in the reading is to watch how the author creates the differences of her own variation, the treatment of the details, the images, the language. At this, Lee excels.
"Warrior Dreams" by Cinda Williams Chima
A contemporary setting along the shore of decaying Cleveland, where Russell is afflicted with both PSTD and an infestation of imps and similar wights. But his main problem, according to all the portents of doom, is Jenny Greenteeth, the storm hag of the lake. The other sprites want him to be their champion, wielding the cold iron that they can not. Russell figures, why the hell not?
This isn't a fairy tale but an urban fantasy with fairies. The storm hag is local folklore, as are several other supernatural figures who appear in the tale. But the author isn't content with them and dumps into the lake an ill-assorted mass of old-world ixies with little apparent consideration of how they got there and what business they have in the lake. The story manages to mix a pair of incompatible clichés about the contemporary wounded warrior – the self-sacrificing white knight and the homeless psycho living under the bridge.
"Born and Bread" by Kaaron Warren
"There was once a baby born so ugly her father packed his bags in fury when he saw her." Now that is a true fairytale opening. Doe is indeed not a normal human, but her mother loves her and slowly kneads her into the shape of a lovely young woman who can bake a mean loaf of bread. One day Crouch, the meanest man in the village, dies, placing a curse on his almost-as-mean wife, to lie with him in his grave. The wife refuses, despite the damage the curse inflicts on the entire town. But Crouch had loved Doe's bread, which provides her a way to end the curse.
A warmly humorous, rather unlikely sort of tale. The Doe and Crouch threads aren't strongly bound together.
"Tales that Fairies Tell" by Richard Bowes
A near-future setting wherein a young failed artist named Julian dreams of a talking cat. Then Puss shows up in real life, boots and all, with a plan to give him a Fairy Godmother and elevate his status. He's done this before and found it amusing.
Status and celebrity are what this tale is all about, it being New York, reflecting the ways of Versailles, with the subtle dance of in and out, up and down, driven by social media. The author views this ironically.
As if drawn by scent or psychic power, Julian's roommates, the waitress/composer, the pedicab driver/dancer, even the tour guide/filmmaker, had found his or her way back to the apartment. They showed him online updates.
We see Puss in this incarnation as a creature with his own motives, which are far from universally benevolent. If Julian recognizes this, he's wiser than most fifteen-minute wonders.
"The Sleeping Beauty of Elista" by Ekaterina Sedia
Reworking a classic tale as contemporary social commentary – the prick of a spindle becoming a hypodermic, the curse a disease, the witch a well-meaning but ignorant nurse. The events the author refers to actually took place, but what we have here is social commentary, not fiction, a metaphor that could have been the center of a story that wasn't written.
"The Road of Needles" by Caitlín R Kiernan
A sciencefictional setting for another classic. Nix Severn is a skycap, the sole human crewmember stationed onboard outbound space shipments in case something goes wrong. Which it has. Now she has to make her way in her red hooded jumpsuit through the series of containers on this terraforming shipment gone wild, to reach the Oma the AI and see if she can make a repair. A wolf with her lover's face accompanies her, at least the hallucination of a wolf.
The title, as well as many of the details here, comes from a less-well-known version of the tale. There's a lot of stuff going on here at once – Severn's home life, her work life, the extinction of many species on Earth, the design of the ship. It makes for a rather cluttered tale, but the elements do work together; the out-of-control terraforming modules have recreated the forest that Severn has to push through to reach "Grandmother". It's a version of the tale in which the journey means more than what happens once she arrives. The ship design is intriguing although the description is obscure; it seems to be fashioned in the manner of a train, with connected modules and an engine at one end, the whole running on some sort of rails.
"Lupine" by Nisi Shawl
Once there was a little girl whose mother hated her. The mother was not a bad woman, but she had not wanted a child, and so she put her daughter into a secret prison and pretended she did not exist.
Now that's a fairytale opening! Not content with this, Lupine's mother [whom I must think a bad woman despite the narrator's disclaimer] forced an evil potion on her that made her act hatefully toward those she loved and lovingly to those she hated. When she falls in love with an admirable young man, she runs into the forest where she can do him no harm.
What a great opening for a fairy tale! I was really anticipating the rest of it, when it stopped. Dead. Flat on its face. I have to fault the editor, who didn't send the manuscript back to the author and tell her to finish it.
"Flight" by Angela Slatter
Once there were two princesses, light and dark. They both loved the same prince, who spurned the Black Bride and chose the White. All their lives the sisters have sought revenge on each other. When the White Bride's daughter Emer is about to come of age, she is bitten by a raven and transforms into a bird who then flies straight to the throne of the Black Bride, now a powerful witch, who chains her there and tells her side of the story. Finally, after imprisoning her sister in the form of a hare, she send Emer off on a quest to retrieve a crown on a glass mountain from a giantess – which piles up a whole lot of fairytale tropes in one heap.
Plenty of worthy material here, but I it all jumbled together, with too many elements stuck onto the frame to make a pleasing whole. One problem is that Emer has been given the main billing, when hers is merely the continuation of the greater and more interesting story of the two rival sisters, that becomes much less so when we get it condensed and second-hand. Then Emer's story becomes a feminist tract about self-realization, at odds with the fairytale setting and jerking the reader's attention to contemporary issues instead.
"Egg" by Priya Sharma
The narrator, childless, is obsessed with wanting to give birth. An old hag promises her what she desires, not without plenty of warning about getting what you wish for. The gift is an egg.
. . . its speckled pattern, its curves, strange weighting, and remarkable calcium formation that's both delicate and robust. It hurts but I'm determined. The old hag promised. I put my egg inside me.
But Chick is not quite what the narrator had in mind. She has to feed her worms. Her development is retarded. Her face is beaky and she has a wishbone. The hag offers to take her back.
Another-transformation-into-bird story, a powerful tale of mother love. Plenty of fairytale precedents for this one, but a strongly unique version of it.
"Castle of Masks" by Cory Skerry
Every year, the village chooses one of its daughters by lottery to be sacrificed to the Greve in the castle, where the flayed masks of his victims are displayed on the walls. The Greve was once a hunter who was cursed because he killed the familiar of a witch. After his own sister is taken, Justus decides to take the place of the next sacrifice and slay the monster himself. One sight of the monster, however, and he begins to doubt his plan. He also starts to think the Greve might actually be a nice guy.
Twist here may take some readers by surprise. Disguise is a commonly-used trope in these tales, and the disguise is rarely penetrated in the traditional versions. This is in large part because the traditional fairy tale is told from an omniscient and usually distant point of view, with limited concern for realism. Shifting to Justus's point of view, with his constant concerns about the success of his disguise, works to increase readers' doubt that his scheme is going to work. As, we discover, it doesn't really. In the end, it's Pia's scheme that I find more unrealistic and unfairytale-like.
"The Giant in Repose" by Nathan Ballingrud
Once upon a time, in fairytale land, a prince sets out on a quest to find his six older brothers, turned to stone by a giant who can't be killed because he has hidden his heart. Ivar discovers a beautiful woman trapped by the giant, who tells him the secret of the heart; he can free her if only he can find it. But years and years pass in his search and he wearies of it. Taking passage to America, he leaves the land of Story and enters the mundane world, where he homesteads in Minnesota, marries, and begins to grow old. Until a crow, an old companion from his quest, arrives with the news that he has found where the giant's heart has been hidden. Ivar, at first, is reluctant to leave his present life, but returning to the Story, he finds his lost youth returned to him.
But Ivar had never felt stronger, or more confident in his purpose. He wanted to leap from the boat and swim the rest of the way, however far that might be, so great was his sense of strength, so great his need to spend it like an abundant coin. He wanted a foe whom he could break in his hands, he wanted a woman whose body he would open with his own. He was young and strong and the Story pulled him the way God pulls the soul.
Wonderful stuff. This is how it ought to be done. The author skillfully performs the feat of recreating the true spirit of the original, timeless tale and juxtaposing it with the world of time and mortality. Readers may guess what choice Ivar will make in the end, but I think they will still be moved by the beauty of it.
"The Hush of Feathers, the Clamor of Wings" by A C Wise
More transformed birds, another seventh son. One of the interesting things about an anthology like this one is seeing which tropes call most powerfully to the authors. Here we have the seven brothers turned into birds – in this case sordid pigeons, not glorious swans, which sets the tone of this version of the story. Lisette gives up seven years of her life sewing nettle shirts, lips sewn shut in silence, to save her selfish ungrateful brothers. The most despicable is the narrator, brother number seven, who chose his own freedom over his sister's, who chose to reject her sacrifice and choose to keep the sky. Does he feel guilty about this? Oh, yes, we know he does, because the narrator keeps telling us, over and over.
The contemporary setting adds a significant new dimension to the tale, but the way the narrator harps redundantly on the moral makes it tedious. And the brother remains despicable, after all.
"Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me" by Christopher Barzak
Laura tells the true story of the goblin market, not suitable for the children, who need the moral lesson of the bowdlerized version. The real forbidden fruit was a sister's kiss, pressed on her by Lizzie who then drew back from what she had done – "the love she said no one would call love should they ever discover it." But among the goblins, besides the sweetness of the fruit, Laura found the sweetness of that love she wanted.
The author has made some interesting choices. In large part, he employs the exact language of Rossetti's original work, yet there is the major difference that profoundly changes the meaning of everything. I note that he draws back at one point in apparent squeamishness to make Lizzie and Laura not blood sisters after all, but foster-sisters. I wish he had left it as it was. The fewer alterations from the original, aside from the crucial one, the stronger the tale.
"The Mirror Tells All" by Erzebet Yellowboy
Reinterpreting "Snow White", as the narrator, the daughter, argues against the view that it was all about mother/daughter competition and the fear of being supplanted by a younger woman. It's about a woman who can't stop looking in the mirror. Which is a fine fairytale opening line. It isn't exactly a fairy tale, though. If it were a fairy tale, the mirror would have to be magic. It would have to be a curse. There would have to be a witch – in the symbolic sense, at least. Because if the mother is the victim in the story, someone else has to be the witch.
The setting is contemporary and apparently meant to be realistic. Or so it seems. When the narrator brings her mother a comb to try to draw her attention away from the mirror, it tarnishes, untouched on the dressing table. But maybe it isn't meant to be realistic, because the narrator wonders why no one ever noticed that she had no mother. Maybe that was the magic, the curse, that only her daughter could see her in front of the mirror. Otherwise, the mother doesn't seem to eat or drink, and she doesn't seem to eliminate as she stands in front of the mirror, because surely someone would notice that. But if there is magic here, no one ever confronts it, and that isn't really like a fairy tale.
"Blanchefleur" by Theodora Goss
The miller married a fairy woman and they had a son. When the miller's wife suddenly dies, Ivan is so afflicted by her loss that he withdraws from the world, and soon everyone is calling him Idiot. But the Lady of the Forest, his aunt and godmother, sends for him. When he reaches her home, he discovers that all the servants are cats, even the Lady's daughter, Blanchefleur.
. . . scattered around the room were low cushions, on which cats sat engaged in various tasks. Some were carding wool, some were spinning it on drop spindles, some were plying the yard or winding it into skeins.
The change does Ivan a great deal of good in the way of jump-starting his brain, but his cousin the white cat Blanchefleur isn't impressed. At first.
This one is more in the homely, whimsical mode than the epic or heroic, even though Ivan ends up doing one or two deeds of heroism. Otherwise, it's much on the fairytale model, complete with three trials and appropriate transformations and boys called Idiot who end up inheriting the kingdom.
More humor here this month than usual.
"The Creature Recants" by Dale Bailey
The Creature from the Black Lagoon regrets leaving home for Hollywood, but it's too late now; he's under contract.
"Don't expect too much," Karloff had advised him over sushi not long after he'd arrived, full of ambition and optimism, and Lugosi, strung out on morphine and methadone by the time the Creature made the scene, had been even more blunt. "They vill fuck you every time," he'd said in that thick Hungarian accent.
But the Creature has fallen in love with Julie Adams and knows this will never end well.
The author succeeds in merging humor with poignancy in this Hollywood piece.
"The Symphony of Ice and Dust" by Julie Novakova
In a posthuman future, a small expedition has traveled to the distant dwarf planet Sedna to make a symphony when their ship discovers two ruined, frozen spacecraft, one of these holding two humans in cryosuspension. It seems that others had come before them, mostly lately eleven thousand years ago at Sedna's last perihelion. And they had left a message.
Most of the text follows the earlier storyline, as Theodora and Dmitri undertake an emergency voyage to investigate a report of something spotted on the planetoid. While what we apparently have is their ship's log, or parts of it, there are only short excerpts from this; most of the narrative, is summary. We learn, as the posthumans do, that their mission goes catastrophically wrong, but not before they identify the remains of the alien spacecraft from millions of years before.
Now the posthumans are left with a decision to make.
There are no surprises here. From the beginning, we are aware that the pair of humans has long been dead, and it's pretty obvious that the other ship will turn out to be alien. In consequence, there is little story tension. The aim of the piece is emotional, i.e., pathos. We are meant to be profoundly moved, to feel the hope, the despair, the heroism of the doomed couple; we are meant to wonder only how the posthuman group will respond to all this, but even in here there is little to really wonder about: they are musicians; they will make their symphony.
The thing is, while we know we are meant to be moved, while we are told the events are moving, we don't really see it all that clearly. The focus of the piece isn't clear: is it on the posthuman generation or the human one? Rather than listening to the moving last words of the doomed human couple directly through the ears of their discoverers, we get a narrator who tells us what Theodora is thinking, for example. Where does this come from? Is the narrator addressing us, the readers, or the posthuman discoverers, or is it somehow their voice, derived from information we know not?
"Bits" by Naomi Kritzer
Renee works for a sex toy company that offers products called "Squishies" and "Firmies". The real product is IntelliFlesh, sensate and attachable, that can be shaped in whatever forms the market demands – custom productions.
You're not really supposed to say, "you want what?" to customers when you're doing customer support for a sex toy shop. We are pro-sex, pro-kink, and anti-shame: there is officially no wrong way to have sex.
But there are very strange ways, as in the woman married to the alien with the eighteen-inch bifurcated penis. Turns out, though, there's a market. For sex, it seems, there's always a market.
The humor here, despite the subject matter, is more humane than outgrossing.
I'm unhappy to read in this issue's editorial that Lynne M Thomas is going to be stepping down from the helm of this ezine. Under her brief tenure, the quality of the fiction has risen noticeably.
Here are three original stories by female authors, two about love, all with female protagonists.
"Becca at the End of the World" by Shira Lipkin
Having just been bitten by a zombie, Becca has decided to record her last human hour, after which, her mother will put a bullet in her. At least, that's the plan.
This is slow, this is so slow, this is agonizing, but I cannot kill my daughter, not when she is still my daughter. Even though the grey is creeping up to her shoulder, down to her wrist. Even though she has begun to reek.
A story of mother love, taken to an unusual extreme. On the other hand, if it's the end of the world, why not? What's it going to matter? Exactly how the end of this sequence is being recorded is not clear.
"Grey in the Gauge of His Storm" by Damien Angelica Walters
In this metaphor, everyone has a fabric lining. The fabrics are different for each individual. Sometimes, they tear and need to be darned. The narrator's lining is lace; it tears easily. When her lover tears it, he stitches her back together with a strand of his own burlap.
In the dark, I run my hands across my lining. Trace one fingertip along the new stitches. A part of him, now a part of me. I wonder if there are other women with threads of him still inside them, but I push away the thought before it can take hold.
The metaphor is of course for abuse, the story of women who convince themselves that abuse is love. The metaphor is quite apt, well conceived and well executed. The substitution of storm for anger is less so, unnecessarily indirect.
"An Assault of Color" by Mari Ness
Painting spells and curses. The artist works on commission and likes doing the curses best. Her career is satisfactory until an ominous client arrives in the night, shimmering with a powerful magic that curses her to curse it.
The house seemed to shudder. The artist shut her eyes against the whirlwind of colors, the pulsing brilliance, the patterns —
She could not paint this, even if it was in her mind. She could not. From the patron, another whisper. "Because if you do not, you will die."
A work of imaginative, transformative cruelty, an assault indeed. The artist will never be the same, whether for better or for the worse, it's impossible to say. Readers may also have to wonder whether the artist can be said to deserve this unasked-for fate, whether a creator of curses can be said to be an innocent victim.
Six short stories, greatly varying in quality and content, from the overly conventional to the absurd. Only the Cole story caught my fancy.
"Mister Bob" by Dan Campbell
Aliens. Mr Bob is an investigator, "specialize[ing] in solving the unsolvable? Seeing the unseen? Knowing the unknown?" He has now been engaged by the human Gaia Corporation, terraforming a world they call Eden when a number of non-indigenous, large, vicious birds have suddenly materialized there.
Extending appendages into each wound, as well as the mouth and anus, I continued my observations, noting its last meal, blood type, mitochondrial decay, trace molecules in the lungs, and other important details. As my mantle brushed the bird's feathers, nostalgia overcame me once more. The sulphuric flavor I had associated with Eden's atmosphere was intense, concentrated in the filaments of feather.
But Mr Bob is actually more interested in where the birds might have come from, and particularly how. He wants to go home.
The humor here comes from the alien point of view and its contrast with the human. Mr Bob is not taken with the bilaterally symmetrical.
"Lightning Strikes" by Lindsey Duncan
Centauroid barbarian armies menace the city Calrhayas, and the auguries show the gods abandoning them. Diyesari is selfishly concerned only for her missing sister, held among the barbarians' prisoners, and the gods conveniently arm her.
This is the sort of fantasy that annoys me not just for its unoriginality but its distorted values. We have an entire city at the point of destruction: slaughter, pillage, arson, the works. The city has powerful gods, presumably well-propitiated, but the gods don't seem to give a damn; they obviously could save the city with a few well-placed lightning bolts, but they don't bother. They do, however, exert themselves to save one minor priestess and her sister. Why? What is so important about these two women, when the rest of the city is abandoned to its fate? Because, apparently, the author cares about them, and for no other reason. Well, I have no reason to care about them, so I'd just as soon they were carved up by the centaurs, along with the rest of the population that the gods don't care enough to save. Because what's the use of gods like that?
"Lone White Seagull" by Geoffrey W Cole
The airplane flies into a cloud and can't get out. Ergot always spends his travel time writing poetry, hoping to improve after his first million words. Now he can't stop writing. His pen doesn't run out of ink, and he covers the walls of the plane with his words.
Ergot broke open a fresh notebook and described her sleeping form in verse. The flowery smell of the dawn filled the plane but he thought he detected something else on her, a scent he couldn't place and that his mind told him was best to ignore. In his poems, she became a nymph, a goddess, a slender crane, as he worked further and further toward competency.
A neat step sidewise in reality.
"Camouflage" by Eden Roberts
Things do not seem to be going well for Wanda in Chicago, so he gets on the train and goes north, as far as he can. Things become surreal. He meets a girl named Harry and her Arctic hare in Minnesota.
"My purse likes your bag," she says. "She thinks he's cute." She holds the purse out to me. I know it's just the skin and not the whole rabbit, but it's like a little piece of Nunavut has come to me already. I pet its silky soft fur.
Things continue to warp in and out of surreality; the weirder they are, the better Wanda likes it. Is there a point to this? Not that everything needs a point, but I rather doubt it. Escape isn't so easy.
"Heart-Song" by Danielle Davis
Nycalla has been captured by humans, who killed her mate and now want to watch her fight to the death. Nycalla wants revenge. Cobra-thought.
"Nice" by Jamie Mason
Revolution against the forces of Niceness. Fred is not Nice, so he becomes a role model, against his will. I detect an ironical screed against Political Correctness.
OK, so it's SH's annual fund drive, and various pieces are posted when the contributions meet specific goals. These include two original stories, of which the Shawl was posted in two parts. Unlike the editors, I can't imagine people reading the first installment without certainty that the second would ever be posted. But it duly was.
"Teffeu: A Book from the Library at Taarona" by Rose Lemberg
A beautiful little meditation on the love of books and languages and words, and the narrator's attempt to hold fast to that love when the mundania of life intervene.
But there was another house I lived in, circular and ancient, with stucco walls painted in flowering ink that spelled itself into a thousand names for every sunset since the world was new. And I had made a library there, for all the books I'd ever want to live with me in all the languages, in all the alphabets and abjads, syllabaries and logographic scripts.
"Red Matty" by Nisi Shawl
A future that seems to be postapocalyptic, but with some animals still modified so they can broadcast their thoughts aloud to the humans in their packs. Betty the beagle is modded and Matilda the elephant is not, but Betty can sense the newcomer's intelligence. She must have lost her antenna. Or someone has taken it from her.
A heavily political, polemical work quite reminiscent of Orwell. People are Good or Evil – that is, some humans are Evil, we don't see any animals who are. There are no pigs. In which respect, Orwell was more subtle.
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John Glimmerveen is a freelance writer and author specializing in automotive, motorcycle, and motorsports subjects.
Born and educated in the United Kingdom, John has been involved with motor sport for more than 40 years. This involvement started with motorcycles, where he competed in Trials, Motor-Cross, and eventually Road Racing – both solo and in sidecars. When he retired from riding, he worked for a number of international race teams both in Europe and the United States, culminating in a period working as a race technician for Keith Huewen in the Motorcycle Grand Prix.
John has written numerous articles for the specialist racecar and motorcycle press and is currently a freelance writer and editor of About.com's classic motorcycle site.
The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineer) published a book written by John in 2004. The book, entitled "Hands-On Race Car Engineer", received critical acclaim in some of the world's most prestigious motorsports magazines including: Race Tech, Race Car Engineering, Grass Roots Motorsports, Racer, and Autosport.
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It is common knowledge that the manufacturer of a product may be held liable for injuries arising from that product's faulty design or construction. However, many are unaware the manufacturer may, in certain circumstances, be held liable for certain risks its product poses, even if the risks fall short of being a design defect. The issue of when a manufacturer needs to provide warning to a consumer was recently addressed in Trek Bicycle Corporation v. Miguelez, a recent decision from Florida's Third District Court of Appeals.
The plaintiff in this case was riding a bicycle manufactured by Trek Bicycle Corporation along the Rickenbacker Causeway in Miami when the bicycle abruptly stopped. As a result, the plaintiff was jolted onto the handlebars and then to the ground of the causeway. The plaintiff sustained various face, jaw, and shoulder injuries. An examination of the bicycle revealed that an object had become lodged in the front wheel. Consequently, the object had hit the back side of the front carbon fiber forks of the bike, which caused the wheel to stop abruptly. The plaintiff brought suit against Trek as well as the retailer from which he purchased the bike. He asserted various product liability claims, including defective manufacture and defective design of the carbon forks. In addition, he brought a negligence claim predicated on the defendants' failure to warn about the characteristics of the carbon fiber that created an added risk of wheel stoppage. The trial court granted the defendants' motion for a directed verdict on the product liability claims, but it declined to grant the motion for a directed verdict on the failure to warn claim. Following the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned a verdict in the plaintiff's favor on the failure to warn claim. The jury only found Trek liable for failure to warn and awarded 800,000 dollars in damages.
Medical malpractice litigation is not uncommon in Florida. As a result, many state courts have had the occasion to weigh in on the proper standard for medical negligence liability. Although there is harmony among state courts regarding most issues, division does occasionally arise and consequently require resolution by Florida's highest court. For instance, in one recent case, Saunders v. Dickens, the Supreme Court of Florida resolved a conflict among various state appellate courts regarding the burden of proof for negligence in a medical malpractice action.
The alleged acts of medical negligence that gave rise to Saunders started on July 7, 2003. On that day, the plaintiff visited a neurologist and described symptoms including cramping and feelings of numbness in his extremities, back pain, leg pain, and unsteadiness. After this visit, the plaintiff was admitted to a hospital, where he underwent several MRIs, which did not include an MRI of the cervical spine area. The neurologist then consulted with a neurosurgeon after receiving the results of the MRIs. The neurosurgeon recommended a lumbar decompression procedure, and the plaintiff underwent surgery. However, the plaintiff's condition failed to improve following the surgery. At this point, the plaintiff returned to the neurosurgeon, who conducted further exams and determined that the plaintiff was experiencing cervical decompression, which would require additional surgery. The surgery was never scheduled, although the plaintiff had been cleared for surgery on November 6.
However, the plaintiff experienced a deep vein thrombosis in December, which prevented the plaintiff from scheduling or undergoing surgery thereafter. The plaintiff then consulted with a different physician, who recommended a second lumbar decompression surgery as well as a cervical decompression surgery. The plaintiff underwent the lumbar surgery but never underwent the cervical surgery. The plaintiff's condition continued to deteriorate and ultimately resulted in quadriplegia. During the pendency of this appeal, the plaintiff died.


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Dangerous chemicals found in diapers
According to ANSES (National Health Safety Agency), baby diapers contain too many toxic substances, potentially threatening the health of children.
ANSES published this Wednesday its assessment of the risks related to chemicals in diapers, and it is not good. Public health experts have pointed out exceedances of health thresholds for several toxic substances. These are "perfuming substances (butylphenylmethylpropional or lilial®, hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde or lyral®), certain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), PCB-126, the sum of DL-PCBs and the sum of dioxins. , furans and DL-PCBs ".
"We can not exclude a risk"
The majority of babies in France wear disposable diapers, which represents about 4,000 diapers used in the first three years of life. As a result, toxic substances can migrate into children's urine and come into prolonged contact with their skin, causing allergies.
In order to be as realistic as possible, "a quantity absorbed as a function of the wearing time of the layer, of the number of layers carried by the babies, is calculated up to 36 months, and one compares to toxicological values of reference for each substances ", explains in LCI Gérard Lasfargues, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Sciences division for the expertise of the National Agency for Health Security. "One can not exclude a risk (...) since one observes an exceeding of the health thresholds for a certain number of substances", he adds.
Manufacturers convened at Bercy
In view of the risks that these substances may pose to the health of babies, ANSES recommends eliminating them or minimizing their presence in disposable diapers, reinforcing the control of these substances in the layers placed on the market, and put in place a more restrictive regulatory framework for these products. Directives taken by the government. "Ministers require manufacturers and distributors to make commitments to eliminate these substances in baby diapers by 15 days," an official statement said. The manufacturers were summoned Wednesday morning in Bercy.
ANSES's expertise was based on analyzes and tests conducted by the Joint Laboratory Service (SCL) and the National Institute of Consumption (INC) between 2016 and 2018 on several references of layers representative of the French market. .
Glyphosate, pesticides, VOCs
Two surveys of 60 million consumers had already shown that some brands of diapers contain baby products dangerous to health. We were talking about glyphosate, pesticides, dioxins and volatile or halogenated organic compounds (VOCs), present in 2017 in the leader of the Pampers sector, and in 2018 at Mots d'enfant, the supermarket brand E. Leclerc, Love & Green, Lotus Baby, Pommette or Lillydoo.
If the contents of undesirable substances are very low in these layers, the health risk "can not be ruled out", estimated as ANSES 60 million consumersbecause "infants are also exposed to glyphosates and VOCs from other sources".
Video: Dangerous chemicals found in disposable diapers in France - TomoNews (January 2020).
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Irma Lorraine Sosnovik, age 92, formerly of Harmony, NJ, passed away peacefully February 8, 2019.
Born January 25, 1927 in Easton, PA. Daughter of the late Arthur Cressman Foss and Augusta Courtright Foss of Stewartsville, NJ. Married Stephen J. Sosnovik at St. Mary's Catholic Church: Alpha, NJ, 1955.
Irma graduated from Phillipsburg HS and Jersey City Medical School of Nursing. She was a Cadet Nurse and worked as a Registered Nurse for several years at Jersey City Medical Center and Bath Veteran's Hospital in NY. She retired from Warren Hospital Maternity Department, Phillipsburg, NJ, after thirty plus years.
She was a gifted artist and enjoyed spending time with her family. She will be always remembered for her kindness and uncanny ability to always win at gin rummy.
Survivors include: Two sons, Theodore (Roxanne) of Watertown, NY; Edward J. of Blairstown, NJ and two daughters, Rosemarie (Bart) Krauss of Washington Crossing, PA; Maryann (Gene) Oestman of Cooperstown, NY. Ten grandchildren, John (Rick) Anderson, James (Ryan) Anderson, Marcus Oestman, Troy Sosnovik, Matthew Sosnovik, Kyle Sosnovik, Amber Sosnovik, Stephanie Sosnovik, Lauren Krauss and Michael Krauss. Nine great-grandchildren, Austin Sosnovik, Stone Sosnovik, Paige Sosnovik, Grace Sosnovik, Brynn Sosnovik, Wyatt Anderson, Julian Anderson, Abrum Gratocos, and Fox Gratocos. In addition, many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Her husband, Stephen, passed away February 5, 1987 and her only brother Lloyd Foss Sr. died June 12, 2016.
A Memorial Service will be held 1PM on Saturday, April 6th at DeVoe Funeral Home 136 West Washington Ave, Washington, NJ with an internment ceremony to follow at the Pequest Union Cemetery of Great Meadows, NJ.


With new model that originates from the carmaker Chevrolet, there is not contrition for reliable clients. New 2015 Chevrolet Camaro is best depicted as an incredible auto. More noteworthy advancements this model in the event of configuration will be with the cutting edge 2015/2016. That bringing on losing bodyweight and the huge estimations. This idea is based with the new Leader vehicles structure. With that idea it have been the auto of the season for 2013 in the Northern United States.
With respect to the inside in the car form, the open-top model will be changed by guards, updated grille and new headlights and brake lights. It will be accessible with three trim levels: LT, SS, and Zl1 continue. Under the hood, new 2015 Chevrolet Colorado will have 3.6-liter V6 motor with 323 drive and decision of six-velocity manual or programmed transmissions. Other alternative is 6.2-liter V8 motor with 426 drive( (for SS trim level) with the programmed transmission. With Zl1 trim level comes supercharged 6.2-liter V8 motor with 580 drive.
Presentation of new Camaro have been at the Frankfurt Moto Show. Concerning discharge date for new 2015 Chevrolet Camaro, it will be in late not long from now. At the cost you need to contact affirmed brokers of the Chevrolet to find out additional. In the event that you are faithful fanatic of this carmaker, there is undoubtedly it goes to the high-class and unwinding. New Chevrolet vehicle will give you significantly more than you anticipated.
Some of partners have depicted new 2015 Chevrolet Camaro like more accumulations of the autos Genesis vehicle. Inovation in exhibitions have created improving gas mileage. On along these lines, there are taking a shot at losing in measurement for the cutting edge. All parts will permit the vehicles to be more deft and better situated.


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JSW believes that employing the latest and best equipment lends a competitive edge. Which is why JSW Energy and JSW Steel entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with the renowned Toshiba Corporation of Japan to form Toshiba JSW Power System Private Limited, as early as 2008.
Its state of the art manufacturing facility at Ennore in Chennai was inaugurated in the presence of (Late) Selvi J. Jayalalithaa, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, and manufacturing commenced in 2011.
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Taking this as an open discussion, technology has gotten it way and going to greater heights. The world today cannot operate without technology. Scientist keep coming up with new inventions. Now we have robots and computer devices taking up the human role.
When we mention about the Artificial intelligence system, what come to our minds is the state of art machines. Machines or computer devices which can read and almost function like human.
With this technology can be said to have completely changed everything containing treatment and diagnosis. Medical practitioners are using new devices to diagnosis diseases and administer treatment with the results given by the machine.
This has increase the medical bill making treatment so expensive nowadays. In real sense you can never have a balance in cost and treatment on has to be high than the other.
Notably technology is gaining more in terms of the cost. But a research by the Apollo Hospital in conjunction with Microsoft. In the Indian country they are taking a study on AI powered cardiovascular disease risk score. This is basically a search to learn how risk of cardio vascular disease in the country and the world at large.
Now is technology helping in the predictive health model? Is the AI data help in mitigating the risk of cardiac attacks?
What are predictive models? This are devices which take up data to determine the future. By use of the internet you find the sites which contain different history. Data is correct from different resources the predictive model will go through the information and come up with final prediction of the future.
With new technologies and use of AI this is machine learning the human perspective a lot has been achieved. The computer devices can predict chances of an individual to get cardio attacks in future.
The models can now give results of other chronic disease. Basically we need the predictive models as they help in early preventions. Helps in changing a lifestyles and give the medical fraternity to be prepared with the right medication and solutions.
This reduce future struggles in search for medical and treatment of certain disease. Physicians are prepared in all ways to keep up with diseases. Thanks to the predictive models and technology.
Some reports from an interview with ETCIO Arvind SivaranaKrishan CHCIO, Apollo Hospital. They gave their take on the use of the AI enabled predictive models.
They feel it the best as they will use the models to prevent cardiac attacks. Using the AI algorithm they take the challenge with the help of Microsoft. The AI system works in keeping track of the patterns of the cardiac disease in the Indian country's population.
Results show some incorrect finds in the past years. However the team of medical practitioners and Microsoft are working to ensure they get positive results. The process is to give the score list of cardio vascular attacks pattern and the preventive measures to take.
This brings a glimmer of hope in the medical field and to the whole population. Predictive models are considered as life saving devices now and in future. This a relief to all the patients as they are sure they can get correct results and know their chances of cardio vascular attacks in future.


SURVIVOR. ORIGINAL FACTORY APPLIED RED PAINT STILL LOOKS GREAT AT A FEW STEPS BACK. THE ORIGINAL FACTORY RED AND WHITE VINYL INTERIOR IS IN GREAT SHAPE W/ONLY THE FRONT SEAT SHOWING WEAR---BUT IT IS NICELY COVERED W/A NICE PERIOD STYLE SEAT COVER. IT HAS THE ORIGINAL A/M RADIO THAT WORKS GREAT. THE DOOR PANELS AND VINYL FLOOR COVERINGS ARE ALL IN GREAT SHAPE---THE HEADLINER IS VERY NICE ALSO W/ONLY ONE SMALL 'L' SHAPED TEAR JUST INSIDE OF THE LEFT REAR DOOR OPENING. ALL OF THE WINDOWS CRANK UP AND DOWN W/EASE THANKS TO THE WELL PRESERVED WINDOW TRACKS AND FELTS/FUZZIES---EVEN THE TAILGATE GLASS CRANKS UP AND DOWN EASILY JUST LIKE IT DID IN 1962. THE WELL PRESERVED/LIKE NEW BACK SEAT BOTTOM FOLDS UP AND FORWARD AND THE SEAT BACK THEN FOLDS DOWN AGAINST THE BOTTOM TO MAKE A FLAT SURFACE FROM THE BACK OF THE FRONT SEATS TO THE TAILGATE. THE FLOOR PANS ARE EXCELLENT AS ARE THE ROCKER PANELS. THE WINDSHIELD IS CRACKED ---A VERTICAL CRACK JUST ABOUT IN THE MIDDLE. IT RUNS AND DRIVES NICELY...THE BRAKES WORK WELL WITH THE NEW BRAKE MASTER CYLINDER BUT THEY DO NEED BLED. THE CONDITION OF THE GAS TANK/LINES IS UNKNOWN AND RIGHT NOW THE BIG '170' CUBIC INCH INLINE 6-CYLINDER IS RUNNING VIA A (2) GALLON CANISTER OF GAS UNDER THE HOOD....BUT I FEEL THAT THE TANK AND LINES ARE IN GOOD SHAPE AND THAT THE PREVIOUS OWNER JUST NEVER TOOK THE TIME TO FINISH THE INSPECTION. IN TIME I WILL CHECK OUT THE TANK AND LINES, IF IT DOESN'T SELL FIRST.


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You take extra precautions to protect yourself and your family every time you get behind the wheel. You limit any external distractions and never drive impaired. But what happens when the drivers you share the road with aren't as responsible? The resulting accident can have devastating results, and if the other driver was driving a commercial truck, this increases the odds of you and the other car passengers suffering life-altering injuries or extensive property damage.
The average semi-truck or tractor trailer can weigh more than 80,000 lbs, compared to 4,000 lbs for the average passenger vehicle. Considering the weight and size of these vehicles, it's no small wonder why even a minor accident could have catastrophic results.
You shouldn't have to shoulder the financial burden of your medical expenses or car repairs on your own – especially if the accident happened as the result of another driver's negligence. If you've been involved in a commercial truck accident in or around Goodyear, Arizona, then an experienced lawyer can help you hold the negligent driver responsible so you can get the compensation you deserve.
Who is liable for damages after a trucking accident?
Due to the vast size and weight difference between commercial freight trucks, semi-trucks, or tractor trailers, there are both federal and state regulations that professional truck drivers must follow in addition to traditional traffic laws. If they are found to be in violation of any of these laws, then the driver, their company, or their insurance provider may be liable for any resulting damages.
While the case is more simple if the accident was caused by defective tires or brakes (the manufacturer would then be found at fault), it's a bit more difficult to determine fault when it's based on the negligence of the company or the driver. According to federal law, in most cases, the company that owns the trucking permit is responsible for all accidents, no matter if the driver is an employee or an independent contractor. This means that for your settlement or lawsuit, you'll be coming up against the company's insurance company and their corporate attorney, and it's in their best interests to prove that little or no compensation is warranted for your truck accident settlement or lawsuit.
One federal rule that all commercial truck drivers are required to follow is the Hours of Service restrictions. This law states that all truck drivers can only be on the road for a certain about of time before they are legally required to take a break. Due to this, most companies require their drivers to keep a travel log while making their deliveries. They can use this log to note how much time they've spent on and off the road.
Unfortunately, commercial truck drivers also receive a financial incentive for delivering their cargo as soon as possible. In addition to the added danger of speeding to make a delivery, without taking the federally mandated breaks, the truck driver increases their chances of falling asleep at the wheel or making poor decisions that could result in an accident.
For your truck crash settlement or lawsuit, the best decision is to hire a lawyer to thoroughly investigate the circumstances surrounding your accident. A seasoned lawyer has access to professional resources that they can use to determine if the driver was in violation of Hours of Service regulations.
In addition to federal law, commercial truck drivers delivering cargo in the state of Arizona are also required to follow all state laws and codes, as well. Arizona law dictates that no large semi-truck, 18-wheeler, or tractor trailer should drive over 65 miles per hour while on the roadway.
You may have noticed trucks driving over this speed limit all the time. Many drivers ignore this law and choose instead to match the speed of the surrounding traffic, not keeping in mind that the size and weight of their vehicle poses a great risk to the other passenger cars on the road. If the truck driver involved in your collision was speeding at the time, there are ways that your lawyer can find evidence to support your case. Video camera footage, photos of the accident, and witness statements can all be supporting documents you could use to prove that the truck driver was speeding.
In addition to laws regulating the speed limit for truck drivers, Arizona semi-truck law also has regulations that state commercial trucks should be no longer than 28 feet long if there is a single trailer attached. Commercial trucks are allowed to pull two trucks at a time, reaching a maximum length of 57 feet long. If either of these restrictions are violated, then they could be held responsible for any accidents that occur as a result of breaking these laws.
As a result of a thorough truck accident investigation, your attorney may be able to discover if the truck driver responsible for your accident was in violation of one or more of these state or federal laws.
In order to win your truck accident settlement or lawsuit, you must establish a theory of liability. For cases where there is a truck malfunction, then the judge may find the truck's manufacturer at fault. But in most cases, you'll need to assert that the truck driver neglected to follow safe driving practices and that led to the unfortunate collision. Negligence can be found on the part of the driver of the company that they're employed by.
The commercial truck company can also be found at fault if they knowingly hire a driver with a history of drug or alcohol abuse problems, or if they failed to inspect the truck when they should have, resulting in faulty lights, brakes, or other important parts of the vehicle.
Following a collision with a commercial semi-truck or tractor trailer, the driver's insurance company will start their investigation very soon in order to build evidence for their case. They'll claim that you were partially or completely at fault for the accident so that they can pay as little compensation as possible.
In order to win the settlement, you'll need a professional attorney with a full understanding of truck accident law in order to negotiate on your behalf. Nathaniel B. Preston of Warnock MacKinlay Law has years of experience representing victims of car accidents, truck accidents, and surviving family members of a wrongful death in and around Goodyear, Arizona. No matter the circumstances around your case, he can fight for you to ensure you receive the compensation you deserve.
The best way for you to win your car accident settlement and receive compensation for any medical expenses, car repairs, or long-term pain and suffering you've experienced is to provide your lawyer as much information as possible about the case. Your attorney will head their own investigation into the incident and recreate the accident based on their knowledge of the Goodyear area. They'll interview witnesses in order to take statements, check the truck driver Hour of Service logs, if available, and review photos or videos of the scene in order to uncover supporting evidence for your claim.
In addition to your lawyer's investigation, there are steps you can take prior to meeting with your attorney in order to help increase your chances of proving liability.
By providing your lawyer with images of the accident, they can more easily recreate the circumstances surrounding the collision to determine what played a factor. Depending on the damage done to your car, they may even be able to tell how fast each vehicle was going prior to impact.
The first few moments following a car accident can be very disorienting. In those split seconds leading up to or following your crash, you may miss some key factors that could explain why the incident happened in the first place. If you can gather statements from any passersby or other drivers who stopped on the road, then that could be very beneficial to your case, as well. The witnesses may be able to provide information that's paramount to determining who was at fault for the truck accident. Since they were bystanders, they may have noticed that the truck driver was talking on the phone or driving recklessly.
How fast should I agree to a truck accident settlement?
Following your accident, it's understandable to feel like you want the settlement to be over with as quickly as possible to put the entire affair behind you. And the commercial truck driver's insurance company will definitely agree. In most cases, the insurance company will be in a rush to settle your case – especially if they're willing to admit their company or the truck driver was at fault for the accident.
The driver's insurance provider will want to reach a conclusion as soon as possible to avoid having to pay for additional medical expenses you may not find out about until later on. To ensure you receive full and fair compensation, your lawyer will let you know about common injuries and medical conditions that you may suffer from following your accident. Their expertise, along with a statement from your medical professional, can be used to ensure you receive payment for any medical treatments you need now and in the future.
The majority of truck accident cases are settled by negotiating with the driver's insurance company to reach a settlement that's fair. However, the insurance company may become difficult to work with or the driver could refuse to accept fault for the accident. They may even claim that you were partially at fault for the accident in order to justify only paying for a portion of your medical bills or car repairs.
In these cases, you may have to file a personal injury, wrongful death, or car accident lawsuit in order to seek the justice you deserve. While your lawyer will be there to represent you for both a settlement and a lawsuit, you'll want to consult with them ahead of time to determine which path is right for you. In cases where fault is difficult to determine and concrete evidence is hard to come by, then your attorney may suggest bringing your case to court. With a truck accident lawsuit, your attorney will still follow the same procedures of interviewing witnesses, gathering evidence, and collecting the police report in order to build a strong enough case to present to the judge. The main difference is that the ultimate decision for how much compensation is paid is now up to a judge instead of being negotiated between two parties.
The results of an accident involving a commercial semi-truck or big rig can be devastating for the passenger drivers involved. If your accident was caused by the negligence of a reckless truck driver, you shouldn't have to shoulder the financial burden of your medical bills or car repairs on your own. Hold the reckless driver responsible for their actions and get the justice you deserve by reaching out to a truck accident lawyer. Attorney Nathaniel B. Preston of Warnock MacKinlay Law has experience serving residents of Goodyear, Arizona, and the surrounding area win both negotiated settlements and truck accident lawsuits. Find out how he can be of assistance in your truck accident, wrongful death, or personal injury case today when you contact him for a consultation. Our number is 602-652-2009.


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