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Architecture Archives Collections
The Architecture Archives preserves collections related to architecture, landscape architecture, design, construction, and plannning. The collections support scholarly research, historic preservation, and the education of students.
Access to these collections is provided by the alphabetically arranged list of Architecture Archives collections below. In addition, you can search guides to the collections in the department or browse certain collections that have been grouped under subject headings.
The UF Digital Collections (UFDC) provides access to digital reproductions of selected drawings, photos and other items held by the Architecture Archives.
Architecture Educational Collection, 1930-2010. This collection of architectural drawings was assembled to support education and research needs at UF. Many of the designs and plans were created or collected as part of the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) in the 1960s and 1970s. Numerous cities and counties in Florida are well represented, including St. Augustine, Pensacola, Key West, Tampa, etc. The drawings represent a large number of architects and firms, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Alfred Browning Parker, Hershel Shepard, and many others. Ms Group 273.
Turpin Chambers Bannister. Papers, 1939-1982. Bannister (1904?1982) was a leading architectural historian in the mid-20th Century, the first president of the Society of Architectural Historians, and a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida.
Guy Chandler Fulton. Papers and plans, circa 1930-1948. Fulton was the State of Florida Architect to the Board of Control from 1945 until 1956. In this position he had the responsibility both designing and supervising the construction of buildings at state education institutions during the post-World War II boom. This collection includes plans for private residences and commercial buildings in Florida. See also the Building Program Records of the Architect for the Board of Control, part of the University of Florida Archives.
Jefferson M. Hamilton Architectural Drawings and Photographs, 1926-1947. Plans, renderings, and photographs related to the architecture of Hamilton in Tampa, Florida. 1 box. Ms Group 185.
Marilyn Staton Hapsis-Hugo Design Collection, 1956-2009 (bulk: 1956-1986). Designs and a small number of photographs documenting the design work of Hapsis-Hugo for Albert Hugo Associates, as well as freelance and student work. Ms Group 286.
Hotel Ponce de Leon (St. Augustine). Architectural drawings, blueprints and related material for the Hotel Ponce de Leon (now Ponce de Leon Hall at Flagler College) in St. Augustine, Florida. The hotel was designed by the Carrère & Hastings firm for Henry M. Flagler. The collection also includes items related to other buildings constructed and operated by Henry M. Flagler and the East Coast Hotel Company.
John Howey's Sarasota School of Architecture Collection, 1926-2001. Photographs, drawings, models and research materials collected or created by John Howey during the creation of the book and exhibition entitled, The Sarasota School of Architecture, 1941-1966. The materials pertain to the numerous modern architects working in Sarasota, Florida, during that period: Carl Abbott, Bert Brosmith, Joseph Farrell, Mark Hampton, Philip Hiss, Gene Leedy, Victor Lundy, Paul Rudolph, William Rupp, Tim Seibert, Frank Folsom Smith, Ralph Twitchell, Jack West and Ralph and William Zimmerman, among others. Ms Group 274.
Memorial Presbyterian Church (St. Augustine). Architectural drawings and blueprints for the Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, Florida. The church was designed by the Carrère & Hastings firm for Henry M. Flagler.
Rufus Nims. Architectural Drawings, 1950-1992. Nims is best known for his work with the Howard Johnson hotels and restaurants and his residential work in South Florida and the Caribbean. Includes plans for residences and buildings in Florida, Louisiana, New York, Costa Rica, and several countries in the Caribbean. 19 ln.ft. MS Group 177.
Edward T. Potter, FAIA Architectural drawings, ca. early 1870s. Water color and pen and ink drawings of Potter's design for St. John's Church, Jacksonville, Florida. 15 items. Ms Group 186.
F. Blair Reeves, FAIA. Papers, 1960-1995. Reeves was a professor of architecture at the University of Florida from 1949 to 1987, and he was a leader in historical architectural preservation both in teaching and in professional organizations. The collection includes his significant work with the Historic American Building Survey (HABS).
John Ormsbee Simonds, FASLA. Collection, 1912-2005. Drawings, project files, correspondence, writings, speeches, and other papers of landscape architect and planner John Ormsbee Simonds. Ms Group 50.
Wallis Baker Associates. Thomas H. Wallis, Jr. and William H. Baker Landscape Architecture Collection, 1961-2009. Plans, photographs, project manuals, and miscellaneous materials created by the landscape architecture firm Wallis Baker Associates and its principals. MS Group 285.
Rudolph Weaver, FAIA. Architectural records, circa 1920-1940. Weaver was the State of Florida Architect to the Florida Board of Control as well as the first director of the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. Includes technical drawings, plans, photographs, and sketches of academic buildings, private residences and commercial structures. See also the Building Program Records of the Architect for the Board of Control, part of the University of Florida Archives.
Newly Acquired and Unprocessed Collections
These collections have been acquired by the Architecture Archives, but the processing of the materials has not been completed. Once all preservation, arrangement and description activities are finished, guides to the collections will be made available online. In the meantime, Archives personnel can answer questions related to these holdings.
- EDSA, Inc.
- Alfred Browning Parker, FAIA
- Kenneth Treister, FAIA
- William Morgan, FAIA
- Darrel Fleeger
- John Howey, FAIA
- Alain Huin
- Jonathon Seymour, FASLA
- Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings for the University of Florida Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity House.
- Herschel E. Shepard, Jr., FAIA
- Robert C. Broward, FAIA
- Fred B. Stresau
For further information about the Architecture Archives, please contact: John Nemmers, Archivist in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections.


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On my computer monitor at work is a saying from a fortune cookie: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."
But sometimes it's hard to imagine doing something else. I don't mean just "I am fill-in-the-blank-occupation and this is what I'll always do." I don't mean just work, and I don't mean deliberate resistance.
I mean that it can be difficult to perceive or to think in a different way from what we as individuals normally do.
And that can be a drawback, because grooves can become ruts.
My friend Anna Haynes pointed me to a New York Times article by Janet Rae-Cupree, who says, "it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you've built around yourself."
This is called the curse of knowledge. Some examples are: "It's why engineers design products ultimately useful only to other engineers. It's why managers have trouble convincing the rank and file to adopt new processes. And it's why the advertising world struggles to convey commercial messages to consumers."
I think it's good for people in general and journalists in particular to do things we don't ordinarily do, to travel outside our comfort zone, in order to broaden our exposure and stretch ourselves.
I acknowledge that I should get out more, but there are many ways to poke outside your natural self. My paper, The News & Observer, requires that all journalists have some training outside their own field every year.
But we can step outside ourselves by doing something as simple as randomly changing the radio station and listening to whatever pops up. Or for the 21st century, we can do it with random web pages.

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In Kendall South Medical Center v. Consolidated Insurance Nation, No. 3D16-926, 2017 WL 1908376, *1 (Fla. 3d DCA May 10, 2017), the Third District Court of Appeals reversed the lower court's fourth dismissal of Kendall South Medical Center's complaint for negligent procurement, holding that there may be liability for negligent procurement where an agent fails to explain to an insured a coinsurance provision that could reduce coverage to less than the amount requested by that insured.
Plaintiff Kendall South had a commercial property insurance policy with Defendant Consolidated Insurance Nation ("Insurance Nation") that provided $100,000 of coverage for the physical improvements and contents of the subject property. The subject policy also had a $1,000 deductible and a 90 percent coinsurance clause. As a general matter, a coinsurance provision divides the risk of loss between insurer and insured by penalizing the insured's loss recovery if the limit of insurance purchased by the insured is not equal to or greater than a specified percentage (here, 90 percent) of the value of the insured property. When a coinsurance provision applies, the insurer pays the amount of the loss reduced in proportion to the amount the property at issue is underinsured.
The subject policy in Kendall South was issued in August 2011—and was later renewed—after Kendall South allegedly met with Insurance Nation's agent, during which time it allegedly instructed the agent to obtain "a commercial property coverage policy of insurance in the amount of $100,000[.]00 that would cover [its] property, equipment, supplies, and improvements." Kendall South also allegedly informed the agent that it spent over $100,000 improving the medical building and had in excess of $100,000 worth of equipment in the building. In response, the agent allegedly informed Kendall South that Insurance Nation would procure a commercial policy that would satisfy Kendall South's request and would cover and protect all of the property, equipment, furnishings and improvements Kendall South described during the meeting.
On January 3, 2013, the sprinkler system in the subject property malfunctioned, causing approximately $260,000 in damage to Kendall South's building and equipment. Kendall South made a claim for $100,000 in coverage (less its $1,000 deductible), but received only $16,562.67 from Insurance Nation due to the coinsurance clause in the subject policy.
Kendall South sued Insurance Nation for negligent failure to procure the requested coverage, and asserted Insurance Nation's agent breached his duty to explain that the coinsurance policy would prevent Kendall South from obtaining $100,000 worth of coverage, despite its clear instructions that it sought a policy that provided that amount of coverage.
Defendant Insurance Nation moved to dismiss, for the fourth time, arguing Kendall South failed to state a claim. Specifically, Insurance Nation argued it explained its policy, including the coinsurance requirements, to Kendall South in the same way it always explained similar policies to its customers; Insurance Nation met its duty to Kendall South when it procured and explained the subject policy; and Kendall South's complaint was an attempt to manufacture a broker's liability claim against Insurance Nation. The trial court granted Insurance Nation's motion, but the Third District Court of Appeals reversed.
The Third District Court of Appeals held that Kendall South sufficiently stated a cause of action for negligent procurement of insurance. Because Kendall South informed the agent that (1) the physical contents of the subject property and the improvements thereon are valued in excess of $100,000, and (2) it wanted to procure just $100,000 worth of coverage for the contents and improvements, the agent had a duty to explain the coinsurance clause in the subject policy to Kendall South and to explain that different coverage was required to meet Kendall South's expectations. In its complaint, Kendall South alleged that the agent breached his duty when he failed to advise Kendall South that the procured policy was inadequate to address its expressed insurance needs.
Importantly, the court clarified that it was not holding that an agent has a duty to value the contents or improvements of the subject property or that an agent has a general duty to explain a coinsurance clause; rather, the court emphasized that there may be liability for negligent procurement when an agent fails to explain a coverage provision that may result in less coverage than the amount specifically requested by an insured.
Takeaway: When an insured alleges that it specifically informed an agent of its insurance needs, and the agent agrees to procure a policy that meets the insured's expressed needs, an agent needs to either (i) obtain a policy that meets those needs or (ii) to explain the provisions of the policy and that a different coverage might be needed if the procured policy does not meet the expressed needs. If, in such a situation, an agent fails to do both, an insured can possibly state a cause of action against their insurer for negligent procurement—this is the case even where, as here, an insured has renewed its policy and had ample opportunities to read the policy and acknowledge a potentially problematic coinsurance clause.
Alissa A. Kranz
Alissa is an Associate in the firm's Tampa office. Alissa's practice focuses on Property Insurance Disputes, including complex First-Party Coverage matters.
Alissa A. Kranz
Alissa is an Associate in the firm's Tampa office. Alissa's practice focuses on Property Insurance Disputes, including complex First-Party Coverage matters.
On September 8, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its decision in Port Consolidated, Inc. v. International Insurance Company of Hannover, PLC, 2020 WL 5372281 (11th Cir 2020) The decision is notable for two reasons...
On July 29, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Southern Owners Ins. Co. v. MAC Contractors, of Fla., LLC, --- Fed. Appx. ---, 2020 WL 4345199 (11th Cir. July 29, 2020). While purporting to follow its own precedent, which narrowly interpreted the Florida Supreme Court's decisions in United States Fire Ins. Co. v. J.S.U.B., Inc....
Mediation has always played a large role in resolving first-property property claims. Mediation offers a unique opportunity for resolution that is hard to find elsewhere in the life of a litigated case...
The standard ISO homeowners insurance policy contains an exclusion for damage caused by water which backs up through sewers or drains. While this appears to be an unambiguous exclusion, using twisted logic, the Third District Court of Appeal in Cheetham v. Southern Oak Ins. Co., 114 So. 3d 257 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) interpreted this exclusion to apply...
This notice does not impact existing policies that were submitted and approved before the COVID-19 emergency in Nevada. However, the NVDOI has requested that insurers voluntarily withdraw any such exclusions from policies submitted and approved on or after March 12, 2020.
Join attorney Shaheen Nouri as he gives three reasons why a mediator is important in a First-Party claim.
In the last 60 days, COVID-19 has affected us all. Federal and state governments have issued quarantine orders. Schools have been closed. And many businesses have been adversely affected. Although North Carolina's Federal Courts have not (yet) issued any COVID-19 related rulings, they have, in the last 60 days, issued several new coverage decisions. One of those has significantly curtailed the ability of any appraisal to proceed...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an Executive Order declaring a state of emergency due to COVID-19. Many Florida cities and counties have issued their own orders to reduce the spread of the virus. At least two of the orders contained language that was curious to those connected to the property insurance industry.
States, counties and municipalities have issued "stay at home", "shelter-in-place", and other orders relating to COVID-19. Many orders require the suspension of non-essential construction projects. The orders typically have exemptions, for projects like critical or essential infrastructure, public works, and housing. In light of these orders, construction projects around the country will be delayed...
Other states have taken even more drastic action. For example, the Mayor of Philadelphia ordered the shutdown of all nonessential businesses, followed shortly by a similar order by the Governor of Pennsylvania...
Florida courts continue to refine the roles and limitations of appraisers in Florida property claims. Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal recently held that a public adjuster cannot serve as a disinterested appraiser where the public adjuster is retained on a contingency fee basis...
Most first party property coverage policies contain an appraisal provision that allows either the insured or the insurer to make a written demand for appraisal when the parties agree that covered property was damaged by a covered cause of loss, but disagree on the value of that damaged property...
A recent ruling in a U.S. District Court in Missouri may suggest a new path for policy exclusions based on "continuous or repeated seepage or leakage of water."...
Appraisers are frequently involved in Florida property claims. Accordingly, Florida courts continue to refine the roles and limitations with respect to appraisers and the appraisal process as a whole...
Anyone who has ever watched baseball knows that umpires sometimes make an incorrect call. In appraisal of a property insurance claim, sometimes the umpire can make a mistake as well.
The Florida Legislature passed a bill that makes significant changes to the assignment of benefits ("AOB") process in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis stated he will sign the bill into law. The effective date will be July 1, 2019.
In situations where a property insurer denies coverage, the insured often complains that it is faced with a difficult dilemma – use its own money to fund repairs or avoid making repairs and risk having its recovery limited to actual cash value (ACV) if the insurer is later found liable for coverage.
Recently, Florida's First District Court of Appeal held that for purposes of determining the timeliness of a proposal for settlement, the complaint is considered served on the insurer when process is served upon the statutory agent, Florida's Chief Financial Officer, and not when process is forwarded by the Chief Financial Officer to the insurer. Markovits v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co., 235 So. 3d 1018 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018) rehr'g denied (Feb. 5, 2018).
Recent legislative and judicial developments in Puerto Rico may very well have revived thousands of claims that insurers believed to be time-barred, per the terms of the Suit Against Us provisions of their Policies. Until the February 14, 2019, ruling issued by a San Juan court, residential property damage claims that had not escalated to suit within a year of the date of loss, had been considered time-barred. It would seem that it may not be the case anymore, and insurers should be prepared for a potential flurry of new litigation, even involving prior Hurricane Irma and Maria claims.
The hurricane may trigger civil authority or ingress/egress coverage for businesses that are not directly damaged but lose income because they cannot access their operations for a period of time due to a governmental evacuation order.
Once Hurricane Florence passes through the region, insurance professionals can expect a deluge of claims activity. While both North Carolina and South Carolina have felt the effects of recent Hurricanes Irene and Matthew, for example, many insurance professionals have limited familiarity with the particularized coverage issues which may arise in both states. Navigating the laws of both states, which can be both parallel and disparate, is going to be important in Florence's aftermath.
Consent Not Fully Given: Fourth District Court of Appeal Enforces Policy Provision Requiring Consent of All Insureds and Mortgagees to Any Assignment of Benefits
The legislatures are directing the public adjuster to focus on negotiating the insurance claim as opposed to profiting from remediation or remediation efforts and to ensure that all relationships are properly disclosed to the insured. This is certainly a move in the right direction.
Increasingly, property insurers in Florida are being sued for bad faith. What accounts for this increase? Mainly, it has been driven by recent appellate court decisions that have eroded and all but eliminated any prerequisites to bad faith actions. In part one of this two-part webinar series, we will outline the legal environment created by those decisions; attempt to define "bad faith"; explore the use and abuse of the civil remedy notice of insurer violation, and; discuss some things that can be done either to avoid a bad faith lawsuit altogether or, at least, to put the file in the best posture if a bad faith lawsuit can't be avoided.
Florida first-party property insurers have seen a dramatic rise in the number of reported water loss claims over the past five years. Many insurance policies contain an exclusion for losses "caused by constant or repeated seepage or leakage of water over a period of 14 or more days." Today, one Florida appellate court ruled that "an insurance policy excluding losses caused by constant or repeated leakage or seepage over a period of fourteen days or more does not unambiguously exclude losses caused by leakage or seepage over a period of thirteen days or less."
On January 12, 2018, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill (HB 7015) that would dramatically affect the way contractors and their lawyers use assignments of benefits ("AOBs") in first-party property insurance claims and lawsuits. The biggest changes in the bill impact how AOBs must be written, new obligations on assignee contractors in the claim investigation process, limitations on when assignee contractors can file lawsuits, and how and when attorney fees are awarded (see all the details of the bill below).
Florida House Bill 911, "An Act Relating to Insurance Adjusters" became law on January 1, 2018. In large part, the new legislation deals with the internal operation of public adjusting firms. For example:
The United States Supreme Court analyzed the availability of contingency fee enhancements under fee-shifting statutes in Burlington v. Dague, 505 U.S. 557 (1992). There, the Court held that a contingency enhancement was not permitted under fee-shifting provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act and Clean Water Act. It reversed a 25% lodestar enhancement. Justice Scalia wrote the majority decision. He emphasized that fees are "certain" or "contingent." Id. at 560. A fee is certain if it is payable without regard to the outcome of the suit; it is contingent if the obligation to pay depends on a particular result obtained. Id. at 560-61.
It took years of depositions and other discovery to realize that that most of my 2004-2005 hurricane condominium association claims were much simpler to defend than I thought. The center of gravity of these claims was the proper calculation of Actual Cash Value (ACV).
Due to its holding in Macedo II, the Florida Supreme Court created a situation where, arguably, many auto policies now provide coverage for attorney's fees and expenses awarded against an insured following an adverse verdict triggering the penalties under a proposal for settlement.
On July 20, 2017, the Second District Court of Appeal issued an order that closed its books on the Sebo appeal. Mr. Sebo made a homeowner's claim to American Home contending construction deficiencies had allowed water to enter the residence at multiple points, causing, eventually, a complete destruction of the residence. The trial court ruled the concurrent cause doctrine applied, and so that the combination of covered water damage and excluded faulty, inadequate and defective construction had resulted in coverage for the loss.
The recent catastrophic ground cover collapse in Land O'Lakes attributed to a sinkhole highlights the unique aspects of Florida geology and the impact it can have on the risks faced by building owners and their insurers. In central and western Florida, the land generally consists of a layer of limestone topped by layers of clays and sands. The limestone is a vestige of the shells and skeletons of marine life deposited during prehistoric periods when that layer was at the bottom of shallow seas. Over time, limestone was formed and covered by layers of silts and sands. The limestone is slowly dissolved by groundwater, and constitutes part of the aquifer.
Four little words—a, an, any, and the—can mean a world of a difference with respect to coverage for an innocent co-insured. A federal judge (applying Florida law) recently ruled that "that the phrase 'any insured' unambiguously expresses a contractual intent to create joint obligations." Stettin v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg, PA, 2017 WL 2858768 (11th Cir., July 5, 2017) (emphasis added). The Settin Court solidified a prior U.S District Court for the Southern District of Florida case, which held that an intentional loss provision precluded coverage for even innocent co-insureds when the intentional loss provision contained language prohibiting coverage for intentional acts by any insured.
For years, courts across the country have considered whether an earth movement exclusion in a policy applies only when the earth movement losses are caused by or stem from natural causes or phenomena, or whether it applies to earth movement losses from both natural and man-made causes.
For years, when a bad faith action was brought pursuant to a jury verdict in excess of policy limits in the underlying UM claim, everyone assumed the jury verdict was binding in the bad faith action. Then, Bottini v. GEICO resulted in a $30.8 million-dollar verdict – over 600 times the policy's UM limit of $50,000! GEICO appealed, and the Second DCA concluded that even if GEICO were correct that errors affected the jury's computation of damages, any such errors were harmless in the context of this case.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in Pennsylvania recently issued a precedential decision that interpreted the definition of a "named insured" under a tax delinquency statute to encompass tenants of a property even though the property owner, not the tenant, owed the delinquent taxes.
Property policies typically provide, if there is coverage, that the insured can recover for the costs to repair or replace the property damaged by loss. But when an insured does not repair or replace the damaged property (or until such repairs are made), the insured is only entitled to the actual cash value of the property. The calculation of actual cash value varies state to state, but generally courts either define it as replacement cost less depreciation or courts use the broad evidence rule.
In the Ridgewood Group LLC v Millers Capital Insurance Company, No. 1138 EDA 2016, February 27, 2017, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania analyzed two often troublesome policy provisions, the surface water exclusion and the ensuing loss cause .
The 2017 Florida Legislative Session convened on March 7. Of particular interest to property insurers are the following bills, which we are closely watching: SB 944, proposing licensing requirements upon appraisers and appraisal umpires; SB 1038 and HB 1218, proposing a statute concerning assignments of benefits; and SB 1218, proposing licensing requirements on those who perform water damage restoration and prohibiting policy provisions that preclude post-loss assignments of benefits.
Jurisdiction gives a federal court the power to hear a case. Jurisdiction matters at the outset of a lawsuit. It matters during discovery. It even matters after summary judgment. Jurisdiction matters because federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.
Insurance coverage litigation today is often time consuming and expensive. Many cases include claims for "bad faith" damages, and some cases seek punitive damages. To support their allegations, litigants will usually seek a wide-array of documents and testimony. Accordingly, litigating such matters can also become expensive.
The state of water loss claims abuses in Florida, the water loss marketplace, and water loss damage claims on a national scale were presented by the Division of Insurance Fraud, Bureau of Property & Casualty, and the National Insurance Crime Bureau, respectively.
Policyholders who seek coverage for the monetary consequences of a violation of the statute under the "personal and advertising injury" or general liability coverage in their insurance' policies are likely to find themselves looking elsewhere for funds.
The decision offers further guidance in the somewhat inconsistent world of rescission and automobile policy statutes, which – when accounting for the application misrepresentation, policy, and statutes – can be a tricky process.
Takeda appealed the ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, but it reached a settlement in the MDL litigation in May of 2015 before appellate briefing commenced. The Actos ruling is isolated to date; no other court has applied this holding or followed its interpretation.
The court noted that Cincinnati had been defending the action since 2012, but did not file the motion until 2015 and only on the eve of trial. With regard to the damage interrogatories themselves, the parties argued that neither party's expert had broken down the damages in the manner proposed by Cincinnati.
The insured failed to articulate any type of argument that he could not obtain the substantial equivalent by other means without undue hardship. The court recognized that the insured has the opportunity to conduct bad faith discovery, which may include deposing State Farm adjusters, to obtain the substantial equivalent...
Imagine a gigantic tree limb weighing over 7,000 lbs falling onto your home. You dutifully call your insurance company to report the loss. So when the adjuster inspects your home and (verbally) tells you that debris removal is not covered by your policy and that you need to clean up the debris (glass, limbs, branches) all by yourself, you clean it up yourself, right? And when you hurt your hand in the process ...
CBI insurance provides coverage for loss of sales or revenue sustained when business is interrupted due to property damage that occurs away from the insured premises and, consequently, disrupts the flow of goods and services from/to a supplier or customer (referred to as the "dependent" or "contributing" properties). There are a limited number of cases discussing issues relating to CBI insurance; and the Fourth Circuit's ruling provides greater clarity as to what constitutes a "direct" supplier, which is a common...
Both parties cited to the SEACOR Holdings, Inc. v. Commonwealth Ins. Co., 635 F.3d 675 (5th Cir. 2011) case. The SEACOR case held that flood limits did not apply to Hurricane Katrina-generated water damage. In the SEACOR policy, there were definitions for flood, windstorm and named windstorm. The definition of windstorm and named windstorm did not include the phrase "storm surge," but the definition of flood included wind-driven water. The SEACOR court held that all damage caused by Katrina was the result of a named windstorm...
On August 21, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Shelton v. Liberty Mutual, Case number 13-15371 / D.C. Docket No. 8:12-cv-02064-JSM-AEP. This decision confirms that the statutory definitions for structural damage under the May 17, 2011 amendments to the Florida sinkhole statutes apply to property policies issued after those amendments were enacted. The court's order reversed the positions taken by the District Court that seemed bent on plotting a new course for Florida jurisprudence.
A federal judge recently ruled that an insurer was not obligated to pay $50,000 for a feng shui consultant following a fire loss in a dentist's office. Patel v. American Economy Insurance Co. et al., No. 12-cv-04719, 2014 WL 1862211 (N.D. Cal. May 8, 2014). While the cost to repair the physical damage from the fire was insured under the policy, the court found that the cost to repair damage to any invisible forces that may have been at work in the office was not.


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Astrid Tuminez at WEF-East Asia and speaking engagement on Leadership in Vietnam
WLNA Advisory Committee member and delegate Astrid Tuminez has participated in a number of key activities recently, including the World Economic Forum on East Asia, last June in Myanmar, and in Vietnam where she conducted lectures on leadership lessons at the Ho Chi Minh Academy.
Annie Koh on "Taking Myanmar to Work" at the recent WEF – East Asia
Former WLNA delegate Annie Koh participated in a panel discussion titled Taking Myanmar to Work at the recently concluded World Economic Forum on East Asia in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. In a panel comprised of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; Hiroto Arakawa, Vice-President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Subramanian Ramadorai, Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, India and Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on East Asia; and Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation, Philippines, the discussion focused on the steps that are needed in order to match the demand for skilled workforce and to foster innovation, as Myanmar opens up to new business and investment opportunities. Read more


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There may well be clients who love Windows Vista and like the beta of Windows 7. I am not one of them. It has nothing to do with being against change-it's about the technology and not taking the things we liked about XP and including them with anything new that designers want to provide in Vista or Windows 7.
The fact that tech writers and Microsoft get so caught up in their own marketing hype is a shame. If they started actually listening to XP users they would find a lot of users' comments matter and should be acted upon. If Microsoft continues to ignore XP users, the company can expect a significant backlash and even stronger resistance to change-which I expect will result in a repeat of the Vista debacle.
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Vancouver Whitecaps FC confirmed today that goalkeeper Simon Thomas and midfielder Russell Teibert have been named to the Canada's men's national team 35-man preliminary roster for the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup taking place from July 7 to 28 in the United States.
Both Thomas and Teibert are graduates of the Whitecaps FC Residency program. Joining them on the preliminary roster are three fellow Residency graduates in Adam Straith, Randy Edwini-Bonsu and Kyle Porter, as well as former Whitecaps FC men's team striker Marcus Haber.
Canada will have to trim its roster to 23 players before entering the tournament.
The team will take part in a 10-day training camp in Oxnard, California ahead of the tournament.
Canada will kick off the Gold Cup on July 7 against Martinique in Pasadena, California; will then travel to Seattle, Washington for a July 11 fixture against Mexico; and will then close-out the group stage with a match against Panama in Denver, Colorado on July 14.
The top two teams from each group; as well as the two highest-seeded third-place finishers will advance to the knockout stages.
Canada won the Gold Cup in 2000 and has since succeeded in making it to the tournament semi-finals on two other occasions (2002, 2007); and made it to the quarter-finals in 2009.
All of Canada's matches at the tournament will be broadcast on Sportsnet. CanadaSoccerTV will also be on-site at all venues providing additional coverage.
GK- Haidar Al-Shaïbani | FRA / Nîmes Olympique
GK- Milan Borjan | TUR / Sivasspor
GK- Tomer Chencinski | unattached
GK- Lars Hirschfeld | NOR / Vålerenga Fotball
GK- Simon Thomas | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC*
D- Nana Attakora | USA / San Jose Earthquakes
D- Marcel de Jong | GER / FC Augsburg
D- David Edgar | ENG / Burnley FC
D- André Hainault | unattached
D- Doneil Henry | CAN / Toronto FC
D- Ashtone Morgan | CAN / Toronto FC
D- Adam Straith | GER / FC Saarbrücken*
D/M- Nik Ledgerwood | SWE / Hammarby Fotboll
M- Fraser Aird | SCO / Rangers FC
M- Keven Aleman | ESP / Real Valladolid
M- Kyle Bekker | CAN / Toronto FC
M- Julian de Guzman | unattached
M- Daniel Haber | unattached
M- Atiba Hutchinson | unattached
M- Will Johnson | USA / Portland Timbers
M- Jonathan Osorio | CAN / Toronto FC
M- Pedro Pacheco | POR / unattached
M- Samuel Piette | GER / Fortuna Düsseldorf
M/F- Dwayne De Rosario | USA / D.C. United
M/F- Issey Nakajima-Farran | CYP / Alki Larnaca
M/F - Russell Teibert | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC
F- Lucas Cavallini | URU / Club Nacional
F- Stefan Cebara | SVN / Nogometni Klub Celje
F- Randy Edwini-Bonsu | unattached*
F- Marcus Haber | ENG / Stevenage FC
F- Simeon Jackson | unattached
F- Frank Jonke | FIN / FF Jaro
F- Kyle Porter | USA / D.C. United*
F- Tosaint Ricketts | NOR / Sandnes Ulf
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MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's next generation of engineers prepared for the future Sunday at Badgerbots.
Local high school students tested robots they designed and built themselves. The event provided practice and preparation for the upcoming regional robot tournament in Milwaukee in March.
Students said Badgerbots gives them the chance to apply engineering skills to real-life work.
"I really enjoy the building, and the idea that I can create whatever I want, and I can pitch ideas that other people will listen to, and then we can brainstorm and play off of that, and eventually we'll have a working robot," said West High freshman Jamie Frankel of Badgerbots.
Regional Director Maggie Peterman said the event isn't just about building robots, but that it also teaches students teamwork and cooperation.


text: Gallery: Reflections from northern B.C.Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun 12.12.2009Cory Millwater with pictures of her daughter, Tamara Chipman, who went missing in 2005. Her family last heard from her on Sept. 21, 2005 and they believe she may have been hitchhiking. She gave birth to her son Jaden at 19 and enjoyed being a mother.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunJessie comforts his mother, Cory Millwater, who still grieves over the disappearance of her daughter Tamara Chipman in 2005. Tamara was last seen on Sept. 21, 2005, and she is one of the 18 victims on the RCMP's Highway of Tears list.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunGladys Radek (right) and Bernie Williams, organizers of the Walk for Justice, on the outskirts of town, at the last place Radek's niece, Tamara Chipman was seen.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunA pair of running shoes used by Bernie Williams during the Walk for Justice mark the spot where Tamara Chipman was last seen in 2005 on the outskirts of Prince Rupert.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunGrainne Barthie, of the North Coast Transition Society, has been organizing the 'Take Back The Highway ' marches.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunMore questions than answers frustrate Connie Menton about the murder of her niece Alisha Germaine. Leah, as her family called her, was 15 and working the streets of Prince George when she disappeared on Dec. 9, 1994. Her body was found a few hours later near an elementary school on the outskirts of Prince George, close to Highway 16.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunVicki Hill was just six-months old when her mother was found dead along Highway 16. Thirty years later, the case remains unsolved. Vicki, now 32, is now trying to piece together what she can about the mother she never knew.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunSiblings Roddy and Winnie Sampare hold a photograph of their sister Virginia Sampare. They are still trying to piece together what happened in the mysterious disappearance of their younger sibling nearly four decades ago.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunRoland Twan's daughter Roxanne Thiara was 15 when she went missing from Prince George. Roxanne supported a drug addiction by working the streets. Her body was found one month after she disappeared in July 1994 near Burns Lake along Highway 16.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunLawyer Mavis Erickson is the Highway of Tears co-ordinator. The official list of missing or murdered young women on B.C. and Alberta highways contains 18 names.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunPaula and Jim Braem's daughter, Deena, was 16 when she went missing in 1999 from Quesnel. She was found murdered two and a half months later.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunSally Gibson's niece Lana Derrick went missing in 1995 from Thornhill. Sally says that Lana loved being outside and was planning a career in forestry at the time of her disappearance.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunHighway of Tears March organizer, Bernie Williams, comforts Vicki Hill who a baby when her mother Mary Jane Hill was found murdered. Although Vicki's mother was found dead along Highway 16, her name has not been added to the Highway of Tears list.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunRoddy and Winnie Sampare's sister Virginia went missing from Hazelton in 1971. Virginia was born in 1953, one of six kids in her family. She was a quiet girl who loved to sing teasing songs to her sisters, Winnie recalls.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunClaudia Williams was close to her younger sister, Alberta Williams, who was murdered in 1989. Alberta was last seen alive on Aug. 27, 1989 leaving Popeye's Pub in Prince Rupert.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunMatty Wilson and daughter Brenda Wilson look over some of the memories they have Ramona Wilson.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunMany women have vanished or been found murdered along the highways of B.C. and Alberta. Victims' families and women's advocates argue the official list should be much longer than 18 names, suggesting up to twice that number of girls and women have met similar violence in northern and central B.C. over the past 40 years.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunA Vancouver Sun investigation has uncovered 13 other victims who went missing or were murdered near a major roadway in B.C. or Alberta, who appear to be similar to the 18 on the official Highway of Tears list.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunMissing/murder women billboard near Prince George on Highway 16. he cases that are on the official list span Highway 16 from Prince Rupert all the way to Hinton, Alberta; Highway 97 from Prince George to Kamloops, and Highway 5, which includes Merritt.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunIn addition to the 2,000 persons of interest identified in the cases reviewed by police, there is a secondary list of 5,000 people whose names surfaced in the files for various reasons.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunSometimes she hitchhikes, sometimes she walks, Liza Nooski, 19, walks along Highway 16 between Fraser Lake and Stelaco. Transportation remains a challenge for many in northern B.C.Ian Smith / Vancouver SunVicki Hill, 32, daughter of murder victim Mary Jane Hill wears a T-shirt with a message. Hill is determined to soldier on in her search for answers, out of respect for her mother and the other missing and murdered women from Northern BC. "I want justice. And more awareness of all the missing and murdered women. They are all human. They all had heart beats."Ian Smith / Vancouver SunShareAdjustCommentPrint xShareGallery: Reflections from northern B.C. Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Linkedin


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Is the model for the church's worship today the temple or the Jewish synagogue?
Is the model for the church's worship today the temple or the Jewish synagogue?
What an excellent question. There are those who would suggest that the Bible doesn't give us a model at all, and we are therefore free to do whatever we please. Thankfully, your question—and the Bible—leaves no room for that option. So let's consider the other two.
On the opposite side of the spectrum of the "do what you want" crowd are the heirs of the Puritans who adopt what we call "the regulative principle of worship" (RPW). It takes the view that we can only do in worship what is expressly commanded in Scripture. Broadly speaking it's a wonderful affirmation and one of central importance to our Puritan fathers. Narrowly applied it can lead us into some odd places, the first of which is the Jewish synagogue.
Most churches that take a more narrow view of the RPW end up adopting worship modeled after the synagogue rather than the temple. The double irony is this. First, synagogue worship is nowhere proscribed for us in the Bible. The Bible gives no instruction whatsoever either on how to do this or even whether we are to do this. The second irony is that despite this, Jesus participated in synagogue worship. So we have friends shouting "the Bible alone," doing what the Bible doesn't say, and worshipping a Jesus who did what the Bible doesn't say.
This begins to make sense when we understand the distinction between the synagogue and the temple. The synagogue was essentially a place of teaching, basically a Bible study. (This is why hard-core RPW services often devolve into a few somewhat dreary songs followed by a footnote thick "sermon.") Now teaching and Bible study are wonderful and important things. I'm in favor of them, just like I'm in favor of evangelism. Such doesn't mean, however, that either is what we ought to be about when we gather on the Lord's Day for worship. Worship is less about winning the lost, or even informing the found, and more about renewing covenant with the great God of grace in Christ.
Worship modeled after the temple is ironically more faithful to the RPW, precisely because God gave us precise guidelines for temple worship. Now the danger on this side is that we will fall into the Galatian heresy, or the error addressed in Hebrews—that we will fall back on the shadows, forgetting the once for all sacrifice of Jesus. This we must not fall into. What we want instead then is a bloodless reflection of temple worship. What we want is to renew covenant, which is just what they did in the temple. We want to confess our sins, as our Hebrew fathers did. We want to hear God's forgiveness, as our Hebrew fathers did. We want to sing Psalms, as our Hebrew fathers did. We want to pray, as our Hebrew fathers did—their prayers symbolized in the burning of incense. And we want to feast with our Lord, as our Hebrew fathers did, at the Lord's Table. Covenant renewal worship is like temple worship sacrificial through and through. But it is bloodless through—for Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again.
We end up with synagogue style worship because we are caught in a trap. We don't want to deny that Jesus changes everything, but we want direction from the Bible. The better solution is to affirm that Jesus does change everything—removing the blood from temple worship but continuing to derive our direction not from what merely happened in the Bible (synagogue worship) but from what God commanded in the Bible (temple worship).
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Simon Cowell thinks she's about to become a big hit. Now that her contract's all ironed out, she's officially joined US X Factor in America, showing up full pop at the auditions in LA.
I can't decide if this is really stupid or actually really smart. What she's wearing, I mean.
The hair is super Country Music. The pants don't fit right. She looks like cheap, tacky hell. As though styled by Jessica Simpson. In order to appear more…relatable? Throwing down too much fashion would perhaps alienate the Audience. This lady for example, below, I'm thinking she'd much prefer Cheryl's purple pants combination over the sartorial selections of, say, Charlotte Gainsbourg, right?
I don't watch American Idol anymore, even to see JLo's amazingness, because that low singing country kid brings out a rage in me that is dangerous. That kind of rage is dangerous. I could harm someone. And, frankly, Idol isn't made for me. Idol is made for the people who keep voting for him. And, if this was indeed a savvy move, are those the people Cheryl is, presumably, dressing for?
Also, Paula Abdul is apparently a done deal too.
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New HP CEO Reverses PC Business Spin Off Decision
New HP CEO Reverses PC Business Spin Off Decision
There were many who were horrified when HP announced that they would be spinning off or selling their PC division in August. But that was when HP was led by then CEO Leo Apotheker, who tried to change the direction in which HP was heading -- out of the hardware business.
Apotheker was widely criticized for wanting to turn HP into a wholly solutions company, not unlike IBM. The chatter only got worse when critics found out they overpaid for UK software company, Autonomy.
Apotheker was removed as CEO, and Meg Whitman was placed in charged of the company. According to a report by Mashable, Whitman has decided that perhaps spinning off or selling HP's growing PC business, -- which now leads second place Lenovo and third place Dell -- isn't a move she ought to take.
HP released a press statement to inform the media that it has now decided that selling or spinning off the PC business isn't a strategy that they want to take now, and that it wouldn't be "right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees," Whitman said.
Mashable also quoted HP's PR manager of social media strategy, who mentioned on his blog that the company spent countless man hours trying to work out how removing the PC business would affect the company.
"As part of HP, PSG will continue to give customers and partners the advantages of product innovation and global scale across the industry's broadest portfolio of PCs, workstations and more," said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. "We intend to make the leading PC business in the world even better."


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Mrs. Trump has seemed at ease... She has posed for photos with babies and children, often murmuring the same things at each stop — "Beautiful!" and "Hi, guys!" — while holding their hands or waving at the cameras.... On Friday, she looked happy as she visited a red clay feeding pen for orphaned elephants at the Nairobi National Park. She administered them formula in oversized baby bottles, patted the animals on their heads and inspected their floppy ears.We're told she wore a white shirt and that the shirt did not get dirty as she fed the baby elephants.
Why does the headline say "Another White Hat"? I think it's because there was a lot of talk last April about a white hat she wore in France. See "Melania Trump, White Hat/The first lady's choice of headgear made quite a statement on the second day of the French state visit" (NYT). The NYT fashion critic struggled to find meaning:
In the iconography of the Western, the good guys wore white hats... It's possible Mrs. Trump is not aware of this.... Except she has something of a history of using white suits to send what seem like fairly pointed messages; see her decision to wear white — associated with women's rights in the form of the suffragist movement, as well as Hillary Clinton — to her husband's first State of the Union address, which happened to be her first high-profile appearance with him after the Stormy Daniels scandal broke....Whatever. We know Melania's most famous fashion message: "I really don't care. Do U?"
AND: In getting pushed around by a baby elephant, compare Ava Gardner (in "Mogambo," suggested by commenter rcocean):


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Baby boomers are becoming their parents—that is, difficult.
Despite serving a growing number of retirement income clients, financial advisors are challenged with how to effectively attract and engage with investors nearing or in retirement. Advisors also remain divided as to the best way to generate sustainable income. These are the key findings of a new research report from GDC Research and Practical Perspectives, two Boston-based independent consulting and competitive intelligence firms.
The report, titled "Retirement Income Insights 2013–Attracting and Engaging Retirement Income Clients" reveals that while retirement income clients are highly important to most financial advisors, many still do not have the skills to address basic issues such as setting realistic expectations or educating investors on what retirement really involves.
"The delivery of retirement income is full of contradictions," Howard Schneider, president of Practical Perspectives, said in a statement. "It is a critical and growing element of most advisor practices today, and many have developed some processes and tools to serve these types of clients. Yet advisors still need help with fundamental elements of retirement income support, especially with how to identify prospective clients and interact with them on key topics."
Advisors also have yet to coalesce around a "common methodology" for generating retirement income, with three core approaches prominent across the marketplace. Although most advisors are highly confident in their abilities to serve retirees, many lack capabilities to help retirees deal with common topics such as Social Security, Medicare or elder care.
"Advisors working with retirement income clients are most concerned with how economic uncertainty, rising taxes and the potential for increased inflation can undermine a plan," added GDC Research president Dennis Gallant. "Advisors are not as concerned with the possibility of rising interest rates and the threat this could pose to retirement income portfolios. While they are open to new solutions, most advisors are generally satisfied with the range of products available to help them serve retirement income clients."
Other highlights of the report include:
- More than 70% of advisors increased the number of retirement income clients they serve in the past 12 months.
- 29% of advisors expect demand for retirement income support to increase significantly in the next 12 to 24 months.
- The risk-adjusted total return approach is used to generate income by 40% of advisors, with the remainder of the users split among the pooled or time-segmented approach and the income floor methodology.
- 64% of advisors perceive that the low-interest-rate environment has impacted how they serve retirement income clients.
- Roughly 1 in 3 advisors expect to increase use of variable annuities, ETFs and alternative investments in managing retirement income assets.


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Get Going Growing Into the Greatness Within You (Student Talks)
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Stop Giving Your Life Away to Those Who Want to Waste It (Student Talks)
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Beware of those who do nothing constructive with their precious few moments on this earth, for they seek to squander your allotted time with the same reckless abandon.$0.00
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End Your Unconscious Relationship With Stress and Anxiety (Student Talks)
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Rushing to reach a moment of some imagined pleasure is like setting yourself on fire in anticipation of the relief you'll feel when you jump into a pool of water!...$0.00
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Stop Dreaming and Start Digging (Student Talks)
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Waiting for the right time to come, when you'll clean up your act and finally make some real changes in yourself, is like spending all your time complaining about the unkempt condition of your neighbor's garden while your own is overrun with weeds!...$0.00
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The Facts You Need to Walk Through This Life Without Fear (Student Talks)
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Real Freedom Requires Real Responsibility (Student Talks)
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Make Friends With What is True, and Invite Life to Befriend You (Student Talks)
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We have no greater Friend in life than that small part of us that loves what is True. The more we are able to recognize and honor the fact of this matter, the more powerfully does this interior Friend step forward... And prove to us the value of our love for it.$0.00
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Student Talks: 7/3/2020 - Key Lesson: Imagination, and the daydreams that it creates, act as a kind of a consolation, a buffer between us and the fear we feel as we try to find our way through a dark and often conflict-filled world. But, in truth, such dreams – all born of unconscious imagination – are a creation of fear...$0.00
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Which of Cheryl Burke's three former partners will hit the parquet with her again on Dancing with the Stars All-Stars?
That would be Season 3 champ Emmitt Smith.
Dancing with the Stars All-Stars cast revealed! And there's a twist!The pairing was one of five original ones that were announced Monday on Good Morning America. The other four are: Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy (Season 12), Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson (Season 4), Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas (Season 11), and Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani (Season 8).Burke's two other ex-partners, Drew Lachey and Gilles Marini, will tango with Anna Trebunskaya and reigning champ Peta Murgatroyd, respectively.
ABC announces fall premiere datesOther new partnerships: Pamela Anderson and Tristan MacManus, Helio Castroneves and Chelsie Hightower, Kelly Monaco and Val Chmerkovskiy, Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough, and Apolo Anton Ohno and Karina Smirnoff.The final pair will be revealed on Aug. 27 when the fan-voted All-Star is announced on GMA. Of the three nominees — Sabrina Bryan, Carson Kressley and Kyle Massey — only Massey can return with his old pro, Lacey Schwimmer, as Bryan and Kressley previously competed with Ballas and Trebunskaya, respectively.Check out the list below:Kirstie Alley and Maksim ChmerkovskiyPamela Anderson and Tristan MacManusHelio Castroneves and Chelsie HightowerJoey Fatone and Kym JohnsonShawn Johnson and Derek HoughDrew Lachey and Anna TrebunskayaGilles Marini and Peta MurgatroydKelly Monaco and Val ChmerkovskiyApolo Anton Ohno and Karina SmirnoffBristol Palin and Mark BallasMelissa Rycroft and Tony DovolaniEmmitt Smith and Cheryl BurkeDancing with the Stars premieres Monday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on ABC.What do you think of the pairs so far?


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Beef Products Inc. to Pay $450,000 Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations at its Waterloo, Iowa, Facility
Release Date: 04/23/2013
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(Lenexa, Kan., April 23, 2013) - Beef Products Inc. (BPI) has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of Clean Air Act regulations in Waterloo, Iowa, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
As part of a consent decree lodged today in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, BPI has agreed to conduct third-party audits of its compliance with the Clean Air Act's Risk Management Program requirements at the company's South Sioux City, Nebraska, facility. BPI will then have 90 days to submit a plan to EPA that will correct identified violations within one year.
Today's settlement stems from a 2007 incident at the now-closed Waterloo, Iowa, facility that released more than 1,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia into a production area occupied by BPI workers. The anhydrous ammonia trapped two BPI employees resulting in the permanent disability of one worker and the death of the other. During the response to the release, BPI directed its employees to enter the facility while dangerous levels of airborne anhydrous ammonia remained present.
After the 2007 incident, EPA gathered information about the release and facility operations through information requests and an inspection. Based on these activities, EPA determined that BPI did have a risk management program on paper, but failed to implement the program at the Waterloo facility, contributing to the 2007 incident.
"The implementation of a risk management program is integral to the safe operation of facilities where anhydrous ammonia is used," Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said. "The 2007 incident in Waterloo demonstrates that having a plan only on paper increases the risk of accidental exposure to both employees and first responders."
In 2005, with a goal of preventing accidents and helping regulated entities understand their obligations in accordance with environmental laws, EPA Region 7 published an Accident Prevention and Response Manual for Anhydrous Ammonia Refrigeration System Operators. That guide, now in its third edition, is available online (PDF) (80 pp, 1.56MB, About PDF).
Anhydrous ammonia is considered a poisonous gas but is commonly used in industrial refrigeration systems. Exposure to its vapors can cause temporary blindness and eye damage and irritation of the skin, mouth, throat, respiratory tract and mucous membranes. Prolonged exposure to anhydrous ammonia vapor at high concentrations can lead to serious lung damage and death.
The consent decree is subject to a 30-day public comment period and approval by the federal court. Once it is published in the Federal Register, a copy of the consent decree will be available on the Justice Department web site at www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.
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Pioneering ERS environment satellite retires
After 16 years spent gathering a wealth of data that has revolutionised our understanding of Earth, ESA's veteran ERS-2 satellite is being retired. This pioneering mission has not only advanced science, but also forged the technologies we now rely on for monitoring our planet.
ERS-2 was launched in 1995, following its sister, the first European Remote Sensing satellite, which was launched four years earlier.
Carrying suites of sophisticated instruments to study the complexities of the atmosphere, land, oceans and polar ice, these two missions were the most advanced of their time, putting Europe firmly at the forefront of Earth observation.
The twin satellites were identical, apart from ERS-2's additional instrument to monitor ozone in the atmosphere. Both exceeded their design lifetime by far, together delivering a 20-year stream of continuous data.
In 2000, ERS-1 unexpectedly stopped working and now it is time to bid farewell to ERS-2 before it succumbs to a similar fate.
To avoid ERS-2 ending up as a piece of space debris, ESA will take the satellite out of service by bringing it down to a lower orbit while there is still sufficient fuel to make the careful manoeuvres.
The decision to retire ERS-2 was not taken lightly, but after orbiting Earth almost 85 000 times – travelling 3.8 billion km – the risk that the satellite could lose power at any time is clearly high.
The deorbiting procedure will be carried out over a number of weeks by spacecraft operators and flight dynamics experts at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany.
Starting on 6 July, a series of thruster burns will gradually lower the satellite's orbit from its current altitude of 800 km to about 550 km, where the risk of collision is minimal. Eventually, ERS-2 will enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
Its destruction will occur within 25 years, in accordance with European Code of Conduct on Space Debris Mitigation.
ERS-2 has been delivering data right to the end. In one of its last operations, the satellite was placed in an orbit that allowed it to capture radar images every three days of some of Earth's most rapidly changing features.
Over their lifetimes, the missions have achieved many outstanding results. With thousands of research projects and published scientific papers based on ERS data, it is difficult to list them all.
Carrying the first spaceborne civil radar, the missions offered a new perspective of Earth.
In particular, by exploiting the process of synthetic aperture radar interferometry we have been able to monitor how the ground moves during events like the earthquake that recently devastated Japan. A similar technique is also used to generate digital elevation models.
Moreover, these data build up a long-term archive so that changes over time can be carefully monitored.
The radiometer has provided precise maps of global sea-surface temperature, leading to novel observations of the 1997 El Niňo, and the radar altimeter provided new information on sea level, a major concern linked to climate change.
In addition, the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on ERS-2 provided insight into the depletion of stratospheric ozone over Antarctica.
GOME was one of the longest serving ozone monitors in the world, with its success leading to a string of similar satellite sensors.
The continual improvement of data processing since ERS-2 was first placed in orbit has meant that a wealth of other information on atmospheric gases such as nitrogen dioxide could also be gleaned from GOME.
While the observations from ERS have been used in a multitude of application areas, they also form a valuable contribution to a long-term data archive to understand how Earth works as a system and the impact climate change is having.
It is difficult to overstate the value that the ERS missions have brought to science, but just as important has been the technological excellence the instruments have demonstrated.
These various technologies live on in successor missions such as ESA's Envisat, the Earth Explorers and the Sentinels for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, as well as in many other national satellite missions.
In essence, ERS provided the scientific and technical heritage for Europe to continue monitoring our planet from space.