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Louisville Zoo sued!

Injured parents and children file lawsuit against Kentucky zoo after train ride crash. Louisville, KY(JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Louisville Zoo was named by personal injury lawyers in two lawsuits after a miniature train derailment on June 1st, 2009. According to Jefferson Circuit Court documents, an 18 year-old zoo train operator, which is the minimum age to operate the […]

“Sabotage” to blame for the major German rail failure

“Sabotage” targeting communications infrastructure was responsible for the significant disruption to Germany’s rail network on Saturday, operator Deutsche Bahn said, while the government said no motive had yet been identified. “Cable sabotage” was the cause of the breakdown, which led to a three-hour interruption of train services throughout northern Germany, a company spokesman told the […]

We live in an age of global vulnerability

We live in an age of global vulnerability

[ad_1] Today’s world is like a large and fragile train. From about 1990 to 2008, as China, India, and the former Soviet bloc joined the global economy, we basically took almost every unused track out of the box and connected it all together. New expanded circuits boost global trade. From 1992 to 2008, Russian gas […]

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2022 | naked capitalism

[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente Happy Valentine’s Day, patient readers! Bird Song of the Day More wintry birds. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord “When the going […]

UPMC names CEO of its first hospital in China

[ad_1] Cleveland native Dr. Randy Jernejcic first realized his love for China at the Ohio State University School of Medicine. In the summer of 1994, he was working in a hospital in Wuhan, a city with few foreigners passing through at the time. “This started a really long history of me coming back to China […]

Column: At that time…Sardines and Olympic fish Dédé | Athletics

[ad_1] Dédé the Sardine is a big Olympic fish. “I am the master of the universe,” Dédé said a few years before his death in 2016, at the age of 97. Dédé was born in André Guelfi. His confidants in the International Olympic Committee called him a sardine, which is a tribute to their riches […]

For safety reasons, Six Flags has temporarily closed the Joker and Nitro roller coaster

[ad_1] Following the latest safety issues raised by the New Jersey Amusement Park, Six Flags Great Adventure closed The Joker and Nitro rides this week. After safety inspections by park officials and the State Department of Community Affairs, the two roller coasters resumed operation. Six Flags spokesperson Christine Fitzgerald told Voice of Philadelphia that the […]

Why Inventors Should Choose Patent Counsel Wisely

The lesson is that “going it alone” as a patent prosecution strategy is unwise, beyond this caution, not all those registered to practice before the USPTO are of equal value to a potential client.