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GALVESTON — A deliveryman is suing Eighteen Seventy Strand Corp., which does business as the Hotel Galvez, alleging he was severely injured after stepping in a bucket of acid on the premises.

Jason Velez Roman filed a complaint on March 6 in the Galveston County District Court against Eighteen Seventy Strand Corp., alleging that the property owner failed to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition and free of hazards.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff was delivering goods to the defendant's property, at 2024 Seawall Blvd. in Galveston, on July 30, 2015, when he stepped on a bucket that contained acid. The bucket broke as his foot went through the bucket, the complaint said. He sustained severe injuries and damages, medical expenses, loss of earning capacity, pain and suffering and mental anguish. The plaintiff holds Eighteen Seventy Strand Corp. responsible because the defendant allegedly failed to correct the unreasonably dangerous condition.

The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks monetary relief of more than $1 million and for such further relief to which he may be entitled. He is represented by Jorge L. Gomez of the Gomez Law Firm in Houston.

Galveston County District Court Case number 17-cv-0267

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Beyond Boiler-Plate

  At Victory Energy, every boiler is a custom boiler. There is no standardized, off-the-shelf model, no “fudging to fit.” We design, draw and build your boiler for your exact needs and conditions.

  We start by developing the thermal design and boiler size, incorporating the job-specific requirements for steam capacity, pressure and temperature, fuels available, emission limitations, physical space limitations, and any additional requirements. Next, we execute General Arrangement drawings showing the equipment dimensions and layout, customer tie-in locations and details, and design data. Finally, we create the detailed fabrication drawings that will be used throughout the manufacturing process.

  To accomplish this, Engineering draws on a diverse background of subspecialties. Our Engineering “Steam Team” has extensive experience with packaged direct-fired and heat-recovery watertube and firetube industrial boilers, field-erected utility boilers, boiler burners, control systems, economizers, direct-fired heaters, structural steel and ductwork.

  At Victory Energy, you’ll never hear the phrase, “That’s just the way we always do it.” We thrive on an atmosphere of innovative thinking and breakthrough methodology. We carry this attitude forward as we work closely with Victory fabrication personnel and field technicians. Sometimes a minor change can mean a major improvement in productivity, output or safety.

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Open Rights Group International: Virgin and Sky blindly blocking innocent sites

As reported by PC Pro, the systems implemented by both Virgin and Sky to stop access to websites blocked by the courts appear to be blocking innocent third-party sites with apparently little or no human oversight.�� For example the website http://radiotimes.com was reported to have been blocked.

In order to understand why this specific issue happened, you need to be familiar with a quirk in how DNS is commonly used in third-party load-balanced site deployments.

Many third-party load balanced systems, for example those using Amazon's AWS infrastructure, are enabled by pointing CNAME records at names controlled by those third-party systems. For example www.example.com may be pointed at loadbalancer.example.net.  However, "example.com" usually cannot be directly given a CNAME record (CNAME records cannot be mixed with the other record types needed such as those pointing to nameservers and mailservers). A common approach is to point "example.com" to a server that merely redirects all requests to "www.example.com".

From forum posts we can see that it's this redirection system, in this specific case an A record used for "http-redirection-a.dnsmadeeasy.com", that has been blocked by the ISPs - probably a court-order-blocked site is also using the service - making numerous sites unavailable for any request made without the "www" prefix.

These incidents strongly suggest that the opaque approach to website blocking by ISPs, and the apparent lack of oversight, has the potential to be hugely damaging to the internet. Open Rights Group calls for greater transparency in this area, beginning with making the court orders available for public inspection.

Source: Open Rights Associates