Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, together with New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, today announced that three men and one woman have been indicted in connection with operating a cocaine delivery service in Downtown Brooklyn. It is alleged that customers called a shared cell phone to place an order for cocaine or crack cocaine, which was then delivered to the buyer at an agreed upon location in exchange for cash.
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It is alleged that customers placed orders for cocaine and crack cocaine over the shared cell phone and whoever was on call answered the phone and drove the Toyota Prius to deliver the order. The ring allegedly filled about 25 orders a day, 365 days a year, between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m., to more than 100 repeat customers.
I was tripping over a crack in the sidewalk in front of Spyhouse Coffee on a squally and petulant Thursday evening when I saw the t-shirt. My concentration on trying not to smash my head on the pavement as I fell prevented me from seeing the face of its wearer, but I got a clear enough view of the shirt itself through the fogged up glass.
I attended on horseback the chaise which conveyed Mary, and the young lady, her companion, to London. Having fixed her there, I was obliged to set out on an excursion of a few weeks into Wales, to inspect some affairs which required my presence. It was on the twentieth of September that the Macneils sailed from England; and the weather had proved squally and uncertain almost from the hour we parted. On that day week from the time we quitted Falmouth, I slept at Shrewsbury; and never in my life do I recollect a night so tremendously stormy. My thoughts were of course wholly on the Romney, the vessel on board which these dear friends were embarked. I could not refrain from anticipating every thing dreadful. How curiously is the human mind affected by circumstances! I have often listened to a storm, without almost recollecting that the globe of earth contained the element of water within its frame; I have felt entranced with the hollow sound, and the furious blasts, that sung round and shook the roof that sheltered me; I have got astride in imagination upon the horses of the element, and plunged with fearful delight into the vast abyss. Now every blast of wind went to my soul. Every thought was crowded with dismal images of piercing shrieks, of cracking masts, of the last despair, of dying clasps, and a watery grave. It is in vain to endeavour to give an idea of what this night I endured. It was not fancy or loose conjecture; it was firm persuasion; I saw my friends perish; when the morning dawned, I rose with a perfect conviction that they were no more.
At first she had conceived of a voyage at sea no otherwise, than of a journey by land; her father had been a great traveller; her mother had been in Italy; yet tempests and shipwrecks had made no part of the little histories she had heard them relate of their past adventures. The ocean occupied no distinct region of her fancy; she had devoted no part of her thoughts to meditate the natural history of the world of waters. In the past years of her life she had had no interest, giving to her ideas that particular direction; she had committed no rich freightage to the mercy of the unfaithful element. Now the case was altered. She had parted with her friends in a gentle and prosperous gale; but the late squally weather had given being and substance in her mind to the phenomena of the sea. What occupied her thoughts became the theme of her tongue; but she soon found that her fashionable friend lent an idle ear to the monotonous topic. Miss Matilda Rancliffe was what is well expressed by the phrase, a fair-weather friend; she loved no dismals; her step was airy; the tone of her voice was frolic and cheerful; and she owned that her sensibilities were so overpowering, as to make the impulse in her to fly from the presence of distress irresistible.
The 2001 Nisqually earthquake shook western Washington state on February 28. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake caused billions of dollars in damage. Remembering the Nisqually earthquake 20 years later is an important reminder to the Pacific Northwest that this region is a part of earthquake country.
Because of its depth, the Nisqually quake caused less-severe shaking intensity than a shallow magnitude 6.8 would have. By comparison, the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994, which occurred at a depth of 11 miles, caused 57 deaths and $20 billion dollars of losses.
The Pacific Northwest can experience much larger earthquakes than Nisqually. The offshore Cascadia Subduction Zone can create earthquakes up to magnitude 9. This is where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is sliding under the North American plate at about 3.5 to 4.5 centimeters per year. The Cascadia Subduction Zone places western Washington under increasing pressure for earthquakes and is also responsible for the chain of volcanoes known as the Cascade Range.
The lieutenant that Davis sent to Boston, James Cooper, better known as "Pep", followed the YBI blueprint and what he learned from his mentors, Dwyane Davis, Raymond Peoples, and Butch Jones in Detroit. He and his crew eventually took over the vast majority of that city's heroin trade. Pep came back to Detroit after Davis' death and took over what was left of Y.B.I. They operated for about another six years, taking the group to another level until crack cocaine quickly surpassed heroin as the inner-city drug of choice.
The Nisqually not only need salmon; the United States government owes it to them, a promise made in exchange for the land where we now stand. But their situation is familiar to other Indigenous communities in Salmon Nation, the world that today encompasses the northwest of the United States, British Columbia, and Alaska.
As far back as the 1870s, cracks were already appearing in some of the legendary fish runs that range from Northern California to Alaska. Salmon be damned, it was boom time for mining, logging, fishing, farming, ranching, and, of course, damming rivers for power. And damned the fish were.
The start line on Friday 12th July was a busy one with many competitors scheduled to begin that day. There are three start days for various classes, each starting on a different day and the faster boats departing on the final start on Saturday 13th July. For us it was a poor start and we then sailed upwind round the North of Catalina Island avoiding the light winds at the tip. Then we cracked sheets and sailed a wider angle heading around 230. Slowly the wind freed and we changed sails from a head sail to a reaching sail.
"Between 4 & 5 p. m. S. S. Levenpool while shifting berths collided with S. S. Willowpool damaging stem post & indenting moulding & top plate on starboard bow & breaking away cement in waterway. Strong S E wind & squally weather.
The Willowpool put into Louisburg (Cape Breton) for an additional supply of coal and arrived at Portland, Me., on February 7. After discharging approximately one-half of her cargo, the forepeak tank was filled with sea water and she proceeded to Philadelphia, where, upon her arrival, it was found that water had leaked through the bulkhead between the forepeak tank and No. 1 hold and damaged the cargo of china clay and ball clay, the title to which had meanwhile passed to the libelant. The forepeak tank was thereupon tested by filling it with water. Two cracks were found in the collision bulkhead, one on each side of the vessel. They were V-d out, welded, and the bulkhead again tested, when two smaller leaks were found, one on each side lower down than the previous ones. These were repaired in the same manner, the tank again filled with water, and found water-tight.
It is specifically urged by the respondents that the cracks in the bulkhead were caused by severe weather conditions encountered amounting to "perils of the sea," thus excusing the ship and her owner under the charter party and bill of lading which incorporates the British Carriage by Sea Act of 1924 and the rules scheduled to and applied thereby.
The credible evidence in this case convincingly establishes that the impact from the collision between the Willowpool and the Levenpool in the harbor at Fowey, England, was the competent producing cause of the cracks in the collision bulkhead of the Willowpool through which the water put into her forepeak tank for ballast at Portland, Me., leaked into No. 1 hold and damaged libelant's cargo en route to Philadelphia. 2ff7e9595c
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