|Publication number||US4729614 A|
|Application number||US 06/902,486|
|Publication date||Mar 8, 1988|
|Filing date||Sep 2, 1986|
|Priority date||Sep 2, 1986|
|Also published as||WO1988001675A1|
|Publication number||06902486, 902486, US 4729614 A, US 4729614A, US-A-4729614, US4729614 A, US4729614A|
|Inventors||Richard Nadler, Joseph F. Sadlow|
|Original Assignee||Secure Technologies, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (19), Classifications (8), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to covers for electronics cabinets.
Typically exposed on one side of such a cabinet are switches, disk drives, and other devices to which access must be controlled and which need to be protected from tampering and theft, while remaining accessible to authorized people.
One general feature of the invention is a cover for a cabinet of the kind having an exposed portion to which access is to be controlled; the cover has a panel to be attached to the cabinet; the panel has an opening corresponding to the exposed portion; a movable door is arranged to obstruct access to the exposed portion when the door is in a first location, and to permit access to the portion when the door is in a second location; and a locking mechanism is provided both for locking the panel to the cabinet and for locking the door in the first location.
Another general feature of the invention is a cabinet cover having a plurality of movable doors each door being arranged to obstruct access to one of a plurality of exposed portions when the door is in a first location and to permit access to said one of the exposed portions when the door is in a second location, and a locking mechanism for locking each of the doors in either the first or the second location, such that, when the locking mechanism is locked, the cover has two possible states such that in one state only one of the doors is locked in its first location and in the second state at least another door is locked in its first location.
Another general feature of the invention is a cabinet cover in which a plurality of movable doors are arranged to obstruct access to an exposed portion when the doors are in a first location and to permit access to said portion when the doors are in a second location, and when in the second location to lie in parallel planes adjacent to the panel in an area spaced away from the opening.
Preferred embodiments include the following features. The locking mechanism is arranged to lock the doors in the second location. There are a plurality of exposed portions, a plurality of openings in the panel, and a plurality of doors associated respectively with the exposed portions, and when the cover is in its second state, all of the doors are locked in the first location. When the locking mechanism is locked, the cover has two selectable states, one state in which the panel is locked to the cabinet and a second state in which the panel is locked to the cabinet and at least one door is locked in the first location. In the first state the door is locked in the second location. The exposed portion is on one side of the cabinet, and the panel is generally planar. Each door has a transparent window, and moves by sliding. The locking mechanism is a key-operated mechanical rotary lock. In some embodiments, there are three doors each having a first location and a second location, and when the cover is in one state, only one of the doors is in its first location, and in the second state at least the other two doors are locked in the first location. When the cover is in the first or the second state, the doors not locked in the first location are locked in the second location. The doors are arranged side-by-side in the first location and slide with respect to one another to reach the second location. The three doors are arranged in three quadrants of a rectangle and the area where the doors lie in the second location is the fourth quadrant of the rectangle.
Simple, easy to control access to different portions of the cabinet is provided using an easy-to-secure panel. The protected areas are easily seen even when the doors are locked. The doors are hidden when opened to provide unobstructed access. A single key controls all functions.
Other advantages and features will become apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiment, and from the claims.
We first briefly describe the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet and cover.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the internal parts of the cover of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 3, 4 are a rear view and a sectional side view (at 4--4 in FIG. 2), respectively, of the locking mechanism of the cover in a position with the cover in a first state.
FIGS. 5, 6, 7 are rear views like FIG. 3, but with the cover in second, third, and fourth states, respectively.
FIG. 8 is a rear view like FIG. 3, but with the locking mechanism in a first position.
FIG. 9 is a view of another embodiment.
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a portion of the locking mechanism of the cover of FIG. 9 in a second position with the cover in a first state.
FIG. 11 is a perspective view like FIG. 10 but with the cover in a second state.
FIG. 12 is a perspective view like FIG. 10, but with the locking mechanism in another position.
Referring to FIG. 1, one side of a Digital Equipment Corporation microVAX electronics cabinet 8 includes three bays 11, 13, 15 that normally permit access to disk drives, tape units, and various switches (e.g., restart/run and halt) mounted inside cabinet 8. Attached to cabinet 8 is a security cover 10 which includes a steel panel 12, three access openings 22, 24, 26, and three slidable transparent Lexan windows (which may also be thought of as doors) 14, 16, 18 for preventing access to the interior of cabinet 8 via openings 22, 24, 26, respectively. An additional opening 28 in cover 10 provides access to an ON/OFF power switch.
A key-operated, dual-position lock 30 controls the opening and closing of windows 14, 16, 18 and also locks cover 10 to cabinet 8. In a first, unlocked position cover 10 can be removed from cabinet 8 and the windows 14, 16, 18 can be freely opened and closed; windows 14, 16 are opened by grasping a handle 32 attached to window 14 and sliding window 14 to the right until handle 32 reaches the right edge of opening 24; at this point both window 14 and underlying window 16 may be lowered, by handle 32, behind a rectangular section 34 of panel 12. Window 18 is opened by grasping a handle 36 (attached to window 18) and sliding the window to the right behind section 34. The lower half of panel 12, which includes section 34, is deeper than the upper half in order to accommodate all three windows 14, 16, 18 behind section 34.
When lock 30 is rotated to the second, locked position, cover 10 is locked to cabinet 8 and windows 14, 16, 18 are locked in one of four possible states (the locked state being the same as the state occupied when lock 30 is rotated to its second position): in a first state, windows 18, 16, 14 are locked closed; in a second state window 18 is locked closed and windows 14, 16 are locked open; in a third state windows 14, 16 are locked closed, and window 18 is locked open; and, in a fourth state all of the windows are locked open. The key to lock 30 can be removed only when the lock is in the second position thus assuring that cover 10 is locked to cabinet 8 when the key is removed.
Referring to FIG. 2, behind panel 12 FIG. 1 cover 10 includes a frame 36 for holding and permitting operation of the windows and lock. Frame 36 includes three vertical bars 31, 33, 35 connected to two horizontal bars 37, 39. Spacers 41, 43, 45 both connect bar 39 to and space it apart from bars 31, 33, 35.
To support window 14, a horizontal bar 52 is attached to bars 31, 33 at the top of frame 36 using spacers 53, 55; a parallel horizontal bar 44 is attached to bar 31 using spacer 47 and is also attached to panel 12 (FIG. 1) using a spacer 49. To support window 14 when in the fully open location, parallel bars 54, 46 are similarly attached directly to window 16 via spacers 57, 59, 61, 63.
Window 18 is supported by bar 39 and by horizontal bars 74, 66 which are attached to bars 31, 33, 35 at the middle of frame 36 using spacers 65, 67, 69, respectively. Bar 74 is also attached to panel 12 (FIG. 1) at location 75. Spacers 67, 69 are sufficiently deep to permit window 16 and attached bars 54, 46 to move freely through a channel 71 behind bar 66. Bar 39 is spaced away from bars 31, 33, 35 sufficiently to permit window 16 and bar 46 to move freely into a channel 73 behind bar 39.
Window 14, when unlocked, slides left and right (arrows 38) in colinear grooves 40, 42 in bars 44, 46 and colinear grooves 48, 50 in bars 52, 54.
As window 14 reaches the right edge of frame 36 it passes completely from grooves 40, 48 into grooves 42, 50.
Only when window 14 reaches that point are window 16, together with window 14 (held in grooves 42, 50), free to slide up and down (arrows 73) in grooves 58, 60 of vertical bars 33, 35.
Independently of windows 14, 16, window 18, when unlocked, slides left and right (arrows 77) in grooves 68, 70, 72 in bars 74, 66, 39, respectively. Bars 74, 66, 39 are spaced away from bars 31, 33, 35 far enough so that windows 14, 16 fit behind window 18 when all three windows are open and occupy the rectangular space delineated by members 33, 35, 39, 66 corresponding to section 34 of panel 12 (FIG. 1).
Conventional push-to-fit connector prongs 80, at the four rear corners of frame 36, are pressed into receiving holes in cabinet 8 to support cover 10. In the bottom right edge of window 14, and in the top right edge of window 18 are slots 96, 100, respectively, which mate with the parts of a lock cam to be described below. A space 81 is provided between the ends of bars 66, 74, and 44, 46 to accommodate the lock and cam.
Referring to FIGS. 3, 4, lock 30 includes a shaft 90 and a cam 92 which rotate when a key is inserted in the lock and turned. Cam 92 (shown here with lock 30 in the second position with all windows locked in their closed locations and cover 10 locked to cabinet 8, i.e. in the first state) includes a finger 94 which extends into slot 96 of window 14, preventing it from sliding. Cam 92 also includes a pin 98 which extends into slot 100 in the top of window 18, also preventing it from sliding.
Cam piece 92 also has an arm 93 that fits between the upper end 104 of a bracket 106 (whose lower end is screwed to cabinet 8) and cabinet 8, thus securing cover 10 to the cabinet.
Referring to FIG. 5, when cover 10 is in the second state (with lock 30 in the second position) window 14 is open and is prevented from being slid closed (in the direction of arrow 95) by finger 94; pin 98 remains in slot 100, continuing to prevent window 18 from being opened, and arm 93 continues to lock cover 10 to cabinet 8.
While window 14 cannot be slid closed in the direction of arrow 95 it can be slid further open (in the direction of arrow 97) until handle 32 reaches the right edge of opening 24 at which point window 14 and window 16 may be lowered, together, behind section 34 (FIG. 1).
Referring to FIG. 6, when cover 10 is in the third state (again, with lock 30 in the second position) window 18 is open and is prevented from being slid closed (in the direction of arrow 99) by pin 98; finger 94 is in slot 96 of window 14, locking it closed, and arm 93 is between upper end 104 of bracket 106 and cabinet 8, thus continuing to lock cover 10 to the cabinet.
Referring to FIG. 7, when cover 10 is in the fourth state (with lock 30 in the second position) windows 14, 18 are open (and window 16 can be open or closed, as described above) and are prevented from being slid closed by finger 94 and pin 98 respectively.
Referring to FIG. 8, when cam 92 is in the first position, finger 94 no longer cooperates with end 104 to lock cover 10 to cabinet 8 and all windows are free to slide.
Other embodiments are within tne following claims.
For example, referring to FIG. 9, another cabinet cover 120 includes a panel 122, two windows 124, 126 for preventing access to the cabinet (not shown) via opening 128, and a lock 130.
In a first, unlocked position lock 130 can be removed from the cabinet and the windows 124, 126 can be freely opened and closed; the windows can be opened by grasping handle 132 and sliding window 124 downward over window 126 and then sliding both windows 124, 126 downward together. The windows continue to slide downward together until handle 132 reaches the bottom of notch 134 in panel 122, both windows then being hidden behind the bottom part of panel 122.
When lock 130 is in a second, locked position cover 120 is locked to the cabinet and windows 124, 126 are locked in either a first, closed state or a second, open state.
Referring to FIG. 10, windows 124, 126 are supported by a frame (not shown) of grooved bars.
Lock 130 includes a shaft (not shown) and a cam 136; cam 136 has an L-shaped prong 138 which, when cover 120 is in the first state (lock 130 is in the second position), extends into a notch 140 in window 124, preventing it from being opened. Cam piece 136 also extends between the interior of the cabinet and two brackets 142, 144, secured to the cabinet, to lock the cover to the cabinet.
Referring to FIG. 11, when cover 120 is in the second state (lock 130 is again in the second position) the windows are open, i.e. they can be slid down and up, but are prevented from being fully closed by prong 138.
Referring to FIG. 12, as lock 130 and cam 136 are rotated to the first position prong 138 is moved out of notch 140 and through a gap 146 between brackets 142, 144. In this position the cam is free of the brackets: cover 120 can be lifted away from the cabinet and windows 124 and 126 are free to slide up and down (arrows 141).
Referring again to FIG. 10, the windows, when open, are closed again by grasping and lifting handle 132. Window 124 will rise while window 126 remains stationary until a lip 150 on the lower edge of window 124 contacts a corresponding lip 152 on the upper edge of window 126, at which point window 126 will also begin to rise. The windows can be locked closed when handle 132 reaches the upper edge of opening 128 (FIG. 9). The interaction of lips 150, 152 also assures that when window 124 is locked, window 126 is likewise locked.
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|U.S. Classification||312/292, 312/310, 109/49.5, 70/83|
|Cooperative Classification||H05K5/0208, Y10T70/5119|
|Sep 2, 1986||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: SECURE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., DEDHAM, MA., A CORP OF
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Effective date: 19860827
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Effective date: 19870619
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|Oct 8, 1991||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
|Mar 8, 1992||LAPS||Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees|
|May 12, 1992||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
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In Minnesota, southeast deer study set for kickoff
St. Paul — The DNR in coming weeks is set to embark upon a study in the southeastern part of the state that officials hope will provide insight into deer movement on the landscape.
But the desire to learn about those patterns is far from simply academic; officials hope it will give them a better chance to disrupt or stop the movement of chronic wasting disease, which to date has been confirmed in 17 wild deer in Fillmore County.
The plan is to capture 115 deer as early as mid-February and fit them with GPS collars that allow researchers to track their movement. The animals will come from areas around Deer Permit Area 603, which is where CWD has been discovered and the DNR is working to reduce deer numbers and better understand the disease’s prevalence.
“Once we actually start getting data from these animals, it will provide information on the movement corridors on the landscape in southeastern Minnesota,” said Chris Jennelle, a research scientist with the DNR’s wildlife health program. “Our hope is it is going to be able to focus our efforts on where CWD might be spreading across the landscape. It will help us focus our management and perhaps surveillance so we can be more efficient in targeting those efforts.”
Since 2016, all of the wild deer infected with CWD have come from within the management zone in Fillmore County.
The DNR is using a grant from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund to conduct the study. The plan is to capture and collar 60 juvenile males, 30 juvenile females, and 25 adult males. Between April 1 and June 30, the collars on the juvenile deer will transmit location data 12 times per day.
“We’re expecting that (time period) to be a higher likelihood of them making longer movements,” Jennelle said. “That covers the major dispersal period when juveniles will disperse from their natal range to their adult range.”
From Sept. 1 through Nov. 30, researchers will collect location data 12 times per day from juvenile males. They’ll collect locations 12 times per day from adult males from Sept. 1 through Dec. 31, and from juvenile females from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31. For the remainder of the year for all animals they will collect six locations per day.
“Juvenile deer, especially males, disperse long distances,” Jennelle said. “They are, at first glance, a very high-risk group for CWD transmission on the landscape. That’s why we are putting most of our collars on juvenile males. We really want to know how far they’re moving because they’re really the age and sex class that’s potentially moving CWD.
“But adult males have the highest probability of having CWD, so that’s why we want to collar 25 of them,” he said.
Female deer tend not to disperse to the same extent males do.
The vast majority of the land in and around DPA 603 is privately owned, so the DNR hopes landowners will allow capture and research crews to access their land. In exchange for their cooperation, the DNR will provide landowners with updates on how deer are moving through their properties.
“We have been working on getting as much permission as we can from private landowners, but we still need more,” Jennelle said. “We have gaps.”
Landowners who are willing to help – within DPA 603 or outside of it – may contact the DNR at (507) 380-1858.

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Did you see the front page story in last Thursday’s Times showing how well we are all doing? Well, not all, but the 400 wealthiest taxpayers, anyway, which is hundreds of us. These taxpayers showed $86 million in income and capital gains for the year 2000, at the low end, and – on average – they showed $174 million. (That’s an average. Some showed more, some less.)
But it’s not all wine and roses when you’re earning $86 million a year, as those of you who are surely know. There are federal taxes (well, not on tax free bonds, but on most other forms of income) and in the worst year from 1992-2000, those federal taxes ate up nearly 30%. For the year 2000, the 400 paid the IRS, on average, 22.3% of their income, much of it realized in capital gains.
The good news is that the Bush administration, to a far greater degree than its Democratic predecessor – which actually raised taxes on the best off – is sensitive to this situation.
‘Had President Bush’s latest tax cuts been in effect in 2000,’ reported the Times, ‘the average tax bill for the top 400 would have been about $30.4 million – a savings of $8.3 million, or more than a fifth, according to an analysis of the I.R.S. data by The New York Times. That would have resulted in an average tax rate of 17.5 percent.’
The night before this story came out, Al Franken was talking to 650 Democratic donors at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. You may have seen it on C-SPAN. He said that when Democrats point out stuff like this – point out that 17.5% is less than the tax rate a factory worker pays – the Republicans cry, ‘class warfare.’
But that’s not class warfare, Al told the assembled. He had been reading Barbara Tuchman’s classic A Distant Mirror, about the calamitous Fourteenth Century, and he came upon the scene where these serfs, tired of being subservient, scale the walls of their knight’s castle, capture him, kill him, roast him on a spit, and then make his wife eat his flesh.
In front of her children.
Al – who is the author of the forthcoming, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right – took a long, deliberate pause, looked at us incredulously, and said . . . ‘Now that’s class warfare.’
So buck up, folks. The right-wing Republicans have learned to cow us by telling us to stop ‘whining.’ (Just take a moment to consider what a bullying, offensive word that is.) And they tell us to stop waging class warfare. But, as deca-billionaire Warren Buffett put it so succinctly (this should be the signature line of billions and billions of e-mails from now through next November), ‘If this is class warfare, then my class is winning.’
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Far more learned scholars than I could aspire to become have made it clear that Tolstoy's work, and this wonderful novel in particular, stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. They have pointed to his ability to take the reader into the minds of his characters, to experience not only their words and their thoughts but their very souls and in this manner allow us to see ourselves and our interactions with our fellow beings. For example I found, very late in the book, one passage which nicely sums up for me much of the interaction between characters in this novel. A major character has just had yet another argument with her lover and is reviewing the row, thinking of things he might have said to her. "All the most cruel words that a brutal man could say, he said to her in her imagination, and she could not forgive him for them, as though he had actually said them." While Tolstoy obviously wrote of what he knew, the Russian aristocracy of the 1800s, the tale remains as current and as appropriate as though it were written about ordinary blue-collar folk of Des Moines or Detroit in the 21st century. This is the true 'genius' of Tolstoy, in my view, that whatever the setting, whatever the time he manages to touch on those elements within us that are universal and timeless. To be sure Oscar Wilde sends up the idle rich smartly and satirically and with fewer words but he must needs narrow his focus to do so, leaving behind the fullness of the society in which those folks operate. Tolstoy by contrast gives us the whole. He also manages to clothe his characters without resorting to Neiman-Marcus advertising copy--one of my pet peeves with modern writers. A word of caution if I may. Finding a copy of this great novel presented just 'bare', without those ever-so-scholarly extras like an introduction, footnotes/endnotes, and so forth is next to impossible these days, so unless you're the kind of person who reads the last chapter first, or who watches a movie for the first time with the director's commentary overriding the audio, I recommend you avoid those extras until after you've enjoyed Tolstoy's own words, wallowed in the beauty of his prose. Problem is, you see, while these folks are on their way to impressing the reader with their scholarship they care not a wit about acting as spoilers for the darn good read Tolstoy created. Enjoy Anna Karenina to its fullest as Tolstoy intended, and then if you feel like being brought down off your high, read what the 'experts' think.
I enjoyed this book very much. I like how you can relate to the characters. Their problems are like many peoples problems today, even though it was written over 100 years ago. I was surprised at the ending.
My mother recommended this book as one of the best books she ever read. I guess you either love it or hate it because I thought it was not good at all. It's very slow and very long. I felt that many sections of the book could have been cut out to condense the story, which would have made it more interesting and readable. I guess Tolstoy is lucky I wasn't his editor.

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››The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality‹‹ – Jerry N. Uelsmann
››A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...(…) They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy. ‹‹ – Nan Goldin
Be it Hollywood iconography or war critique, it is hard to think of American popular or political culture without remembering certain photographs that have entered cultural collective memory. Today, were manipulation is the standard in basic picture production, documentary aspects of photographs and its political use have drastically changed, and so has the representation of the individual and society in photography.
Searching for a current visions of photography’s meaning in our postmodern techno-culture where “taking a picture” seems like nothing special any longer, we will go back to origins of American photography and follow the traces of visual history from the Daguerrian type until our current graphic Social Media Culture searching for more than first sights…
Early-bird recommendations about material are highly welcome!

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Spotify, the world’s biggest music streaming service, has been preparing for international expansion with an eye on India’s huge market for quite a while now. Most recent reports suggest that the company might have cleared the ground, inking an agreement with India’s largest record label T-Series.
The agreement is being seen as a precursor to the Sweden-based company’s India entry. Spotify customers have now access to the entire catalog of T-series including Bollywood and regional movie soundtracks, as well as non-film albums and emerging artist content.
In total, the catalog boasts more than 160,000 songs, and they’re available to stream around the world starting today, thanks to the official partnership. T-series is also one of the world’s most viewed YouTube channel, with videos that have been viewed more than 58 billion times and more than 80 million subscribers since its launch in 2006.
According to Spotify, more than 4 million users from around the globe regularly tune in to Indian music content on the service. Even in Pakistan, where Spotify isn’t still officially available, there is a huge market for Indian songs. Saavn, a direct competitor to Spotify once it launches in India, has been providing its services in Pakistan since its launch and is one of the most used streaming services in both India and Pakistan.
Spotify has been eyeing the Indian market for a while now. In June 2018, it rolled out an Indian music hub, “Desi”- which houses numerous playlists covering Bollywood, bhangra classics, sitar music, and hip-hop, among other genres. The flagship Desi Hits playlist has more than 217,000 followers to date.
Ahead of Spotify’s entry into one of the fastest growing music markets in the world right now Paul Smith, director, head of International Licensing at Spotify said, “Today’s deal with T-Series significantly strengthens our Indian music catalog, bringing Bollywood to more than 200 Million Spotify users worldwide.”
While this move further cements Spotify’s plans for an imminent launch in India, there hasn’t been any concrete news about whether or not Spotify will be launching in Pakistan too. Considering the fact that T-Series’s partnership with Spotify is for a global license, it makes sense for Spotify to tap the considerable Pakistani market too for their expansion plans. However, without any official word from Spotify regarding the availability of its services in Pakistan, we have to assume that currently, the streaming service is not planning a simultaneous launch in both Pakistan and India.


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Synedra armoricana Kützing 1844
Synedra armoricana Kützing 1844: 67, pl. 4: fig. XXIV
Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1844). Die Kieselschaligen Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. pp. [i-vii], -152, pls 1-30. Nordhausen: zu finden bei W. Köhne.
Publication date: 7-9 Nov 1844
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Nitzschia sigma var. armoricana (Kützing) Grunow 1880
Nitzschia sigmoidea var. armoricana (Kützing) Grunow 1880
Current Name at DiatomBase. - (20 Apr 2020) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda
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Type locality: Falaise [Caen-Calvado, France] (Kützing 1844: 67). Notes: Based on a specimen sent from De Brébission as Sigmatella Nitzschii.
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Officers were first alerted to firearm fiasco after receiving an “accidental gunshot wound” call from the residence, according to the police report. Upon arriving at the scene, a sheriff’s deputy encountered EMS Rivers, who was holding the unloaded handgun and a spent bullet casing in her hands.
She told the officer that Daman had blasted herself in the netherregions.
Police then conducted interviews with Daman’s three housemates, two of whom were present during the accident, to try and shed light on the alleged boudoir backfire.
Jordan Allen, the reported owner of the firearm, told officers that he was “in the kitchen walking back to the bedroom when he heard the gun go off.” Upon reaching the bedroom, Allen discovered Daman with “a small amount of blood” on her leg, at which point she reportedly informed him “that she shot herself accidentally” and apologized.
Meanwhile, a second witness named Cody Starnes told deputies that his mother Addie Ruth Johnson came into his bedroom and reported that “Daman had been shot.”
Allen revealed to officers how her inadvertent vagino-blasty allegedly transpired.
Per the report, Allen said “Daman has ‘subscribers’ on a sexual web platform called ‘Chatter’ where people pay to see her make sexual videos.” He believes “she was recording” one of said kinky clips “when the gun went off.”
However, it appears that “Chatter” is actually Chaturbate, a popular adult site where viewers pay webcam models tips in exchange for fulfilling their sexual fantasies on camera. Although it’s yet unclear whether Daman was broadcasting at the time of the mishap, or if the clip was slated to appear on the porn platform.
Immediately after the accident, Daman was rushed to the Upson County Sheriff’s Office, where a helicopter flew her to a Macon hospital. She was discharged this week.
Upson County Sheriff Dan Kilgore told the Smoking Gun that the freak accident, which his department classified said the “reckless conduct” in their report, will likely not result in criminal charges.
However, according to Kilgore, Daman provided multiple conflicting accounts of the shooting to police — at one point claiming that the weapon discharged during consensual sex with Allen.


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Seth — March 31, 2010 @ 8:50 AM
We have had some new news on the Florida Actual Innocence Commission front. We had previously discussed this idea on Plain Error a few months back here and here. The Innocence Commission got some mixed news last week.
On March 22, 2009, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince sent Senator Mike Haridopolos, the next Senate President, a letter stating:
The court is very much interested in looking at the cases of actual innocence and is considering the establishment of a commission or task force to study this issue and to make recommendations. We are most appreciative of your interest in and support of this effort, and hope that we can additionally count on the support of the Legislature during this session.
Justice Quince noted that the budget for the Gender Bias Study Commission over a three year period was $321,589, peaking at about $146,000 in fiscal year 1988. The Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Commission had a $378,350 budget over five years, with the highest yearly appropriation at $278,350 in fiscal year 1991. Of course, Justiece Quince noted, that these figures needed to be adjusted for the passage of time. This was a very positive letter.
In response to Sandy D’Alemberte’s petition to the Florida Supreme Court to create the Commission by rule, Chief Justice Quince sent Mr. D’Alemberte a separate letter stating that they were denying our petition to create the commission, BUT:
The Court, however, is very much interested in looking at the cases of actual innocence, and is considering the establishment of a commission or task force by Administrative Order,” she wrote. “As we explore the best avenue to make inquiries on this subject, we welcome any input you or your colleagues may have concerning funding sources, etc.
Since the letters, both the Daytona Beach News Journal and Jesse Diner, President of the Florida Bar have made impassioned pleas for the Supreme Court to create this Commission.
So it seems that either the court was blowing smoke or they are completely serious about implementing the Innocence Commission if they can just find the money in these tough economic times.
Well, as of this morning, we are likely going to find out the Court’s real intentions. Florida Today is reporting that Senator Mike Haridopolos is seeking to include $200,000 in THIS YEAR’s budget for the establishment of the Innocence Commission. That funding, as well as his pledge of staff support, should be enough to get this thing off the ground:
“This is really a two-way street,” Haridopolos said. “It will protect accused people who are innocent of crimes, but also give people the confidence to know that the people in prison are guilty.”
Politics is a funny business. I think it would be fair to say that Senator Haridopolos and I would agree on little in terms of the big public policy issues of the day. But he has been one of the strongest leaders on innocence issues in his time in the Senate, beginning with his sponsoring of the Dedge compensation bill, continuing with the sponsorship of the Dillon claims bill, and now his pursuit of an Innocence Commission.
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Half a million mesothelioma claim settled for Chatham dockyard asbestos victim
In this claim, we acted for the widow of David, a former ships’ fitter from the Chatham Royal Naval Dockyards.
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He had worked at the dockyards during the early 1970s, including on HMS Jaguar, Eskimo, Diomede, Bercanti, the Aurora and Dido where he was heavily exposed to asbestos dust without protection.
This was mainly from removing and installing lagging to pipework but also through exposure to asbestos dust just from walking through the ships’ corridors. It was over 40 years later that this asbestos exposure led to David developing mesothelioma, leading to his death from mesothelioma 22 months later at age 67.
We met David and his wife at their home shortly after his initial diagnosis with mesothelioma and took a full statement. Shortly afterwards his consultant advised he now doubted he had mesothelioma and so the claim was put on hold for 5 months until the diagnosis was confirmed. We obtained further evidence and sent a full letter of claim for asbestos-related disease to the Ministry of Defence. Their loss adjusters admitted liability for asbestos-related mesothelioma and paid interim compensation of £50,000. We obtained funding from them for David to have the expensive private immunotherapy treatment he wanted for his mesothelioma, which probably extended David’s life by some months. We advised David of his settlement options; to either seek an immediate settlement or to delay the process and leave his widow to settle the balance of his asbestos claim after he was gone when much greater compensation could be obtained. David chose the latter.
After he died, we met with David’s widow to take full instructions to finalise the compensation claim. We worked with our Private Client team to have David’s widow appointed as his executor and developed a good rapport with the MoD’s loss adjustors, allowing us to settle the compensation claim for a very fair and substantial figure without having to start court proceedings. We dealt with this large mesothelioma claim as experienced specialists without ever needing to involve a barrister, even to draft a complex schedule of losses and negotiate a very large settlement.
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Granby teacher helps Ecuadorian village thrive
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A world away from brightly patterned fabrics and rich hearts of the Quechua tribe in the tiny village of Malingua Pamba, retired teacher Pam Gilbert wraps a skillfully crafted white shawl around herself in her Granby home Thursday.
The shawl is special to her, made by students from the first graduating class of an Ecuadorian school Gilbert established in 2004.
Because of Gilbert’s philanthropic connections, a small agricultural community of 230 people high in the Andes has progressed in ways that generations past would never have dreamed.
Even since last year, as many as 65 homes out of 90 in Malingua Pamba and seven neighboring communities now have plumbing.
Before, villagers walked far to get potable water from mountain springs.
Engineers from the Denver Chapter of Engineers Without Borders visited Malingua Pamba upon Gilbert’s invitation to construct the plumbing systems. They also provided villagers training on how to build, maintain and repair them.
To show gratitude last April, Malingua townspeople performed an “Irrigation Dance” for Gilbert and volunteers.
Villagers theatrically grew potatoes out of concrete, aided by water through a pipe. The dance was followed by speeches.
“And this one woman gave a speech, and it had me in tears,” Gilbert said.
The woman shared how ancestors and loved ones had suffered for lack of water.
“But now because of you, we’re not suffering because of water anymore,” the woman had said.
After building the village’s first multi-room school with a library and computer classroom, largely through a nonprofit organization she established in 2006, Gilbert involved the engineers. The village now has six of its own plumbing maestros, Gilbert said, “So it’s not like we do it for them, we teach them.”
The community also developed three irrigation systems to supplement water during dry seasons.
And Gilbert’s first class to graduate is now taking local courses on agriculture and fisheries.
As many as 170 total students and staff members make up Gilbert’s Centro Educativo la Minga campus in Malingua Pamba, and many students walk up to 1.5 hours to attend school on Saturdays.
Gilbert’s foundation has been paying teachers salaries; there is hope the provincial government will take over that responsibility, Gilbert said.
“While I’m there I teach math lessons,” Gilbert said with a smile. “Oh, it’s so much fun; they’re so excited to learn, and they so put up with my accent.”
Students surprised Gilbert last November with a newly painted school in bright colors that reflect their culture. Two basketball hoops had been erected in the school’s square.
Thirteen out of 31 students who first attended Gilbert’s Centro Educativo junior high are still in school, experimenting with different farming techniques to glean more success in potato crops. Historically, extreme poverty in Maligua prevented most young people from seeking education beyond grade school.
“They have hope for their future now,” Gilbert said. “I would hope that they would choose to stay in Malingua Pamba and continue to improve the farming, improve the education, improve the life there. I would rather have them stay at home with a better life. But now they at least have a choice.”
Gilbert’s two-year “exit strategy” as she calls it, includes a small vocational school for the community, another composting toilet, one other shower facility and the possibility of delivering water to another arid high-elevation village.
And what’s her reward?
“This is my reward,” she said, referring to her white shawl. “It’s that those 13 kids are pursuing education. And when people say they’re not suffering anymore because of water, that’s reward enough for me.”
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Henry St. John Smith 'Belfield,' Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1890
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View of the Henry St. John Smith home in Cape Elizabeth. Smith was a banker and world traveler.
John Calvin Stevens designed this building around 1890 in the shingle style for which he was noted.
- Title: Henry St. John Smith 'Belfield,' Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1890
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There’s just one question: Where the ladies at?
The comedians on this year’s rankings all have their own styles of comedy, but they’ve got one thing in common: They’re all dudes, and they’ve dominated most of the list for years. Asking if women are as funny as men is a question as old as it is frustrating, but with so many female comics making news this past year, from Tig Notaro to Amy Schumer, we took a closer look at what it takes for women to earn top dollar.
Winning over guys
Comedy has a reputation for being a boy’s club, and both comedians and club owners say little has changed. Show-going audiences have been split evenly between men and women for decades, but comedian and “Queen of Mean” Lisa Lampanelli says female comics still have a hard time winning over new male crowds and finding acceptance in spaces full of male performers -- though that’s finally turning around.
“People are embracing that women can be edgy and not just talk about their periods and shopping and their husbands,” says Lampanelli, who’s well-known for her celebrity roasts and insult-comic humor. “Historically, if I’m a straight male, most of the time in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the stuff women were talking about was totally boring. Now men are starting to figure out, oh, Chelsea Handler doesn’t just talk about female stuff, but I don’t think we’ve caught up yet to where straight guys or even gay guys are totally embracing us.”
But becoming a top earner in comedy is really all about ticket sales: working your way up from clubs to selling out 4,000-seat theaters nationally. As stereotypes about female comics dissipate among ticket-buyers, they still linger in other corners of the industry, where perceptions and misconceptions about women’s ability to draw wider crowds can sometimes influence who plays where.
“Someone like Tig Notaro, who’s breaking through, may be able to play a much larger room than she’s playing,” says Michelle Barbera, a co-producer of the annual Women in Comedy Festival, which aims to close the industry’s gender gap. “But because it hasn’t been tested yet, people get anxious.”
Big screen dreams
All of the comedians on our list make much more money from live comedy than they do from television work. But without a show or comedy special to broadcast their talents, building the large following needed to become a lucrative live act is near impossible. Louis C.K.’s touring income, for example, dwarfs what he earns from his acclaimed FX show, Louie, but his concert sales jumped after Louie took off. Chelsea Handler, the last woman to appear on our list back in 2010, also benefits from the platform of her late-night show when she wants to do stand-up.
According to Lampanelli, women don’t have a harder time getting on TV, where they can stand out as a big fish in a small (male) pond, but their styles of comedy do affect their opportunities, on-screen and beyond. “If you’re super edgy like me or Amy Schumer, you might have a tougher fight to get on TV, but you also have a more diverse audience because men go, ‘She’s cool, she’s like a guy, she’ll make you laugh just like a guy can,’” Lampanelli says.
In some cases, television success can actually keep stars off our top-earning comedians list. To be considered for the rankings, a majority of a comedian’s income needs to come from concert ticket sales. But as comedians play bigger venues and start attracting TV attention, live shows become just one career option as Hollywood calls.
Ellen Degeneres kicked off her career with stand-up -- she’s even released comedy specials in recent years -- but her choice in projects places her in the personalities category of FORBES’ Celebrity 100. Melissa McCarthy, a Celebrity 100 star who also started out with stand-up, is another example of a woman in comedy who graduated from the stage to the screen.