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Now I can’t take credit for the correlation between oxygen masks and school safety. The analogy was made at last month’s National Summit on School Safety (NSSS) during a panel discussion consisting of individuals affected by school tragedies, including survivors, relatives of victims and school safety advocates.

“It’s snowplowable because it’s steel, so it can withstand the hits. But what happens, the freeze-thaw cracking, and if it pops out, now you’ve got a seven-pound, I believe, projectile possibly going into somebody’s windshield,” said Chevalier.

The truth is we don’t have much of a choice. Between the number of trucks needed to cover such a large area and the popularity of mounted tire programs, the economics of replacing cargo area with a machine will never add up. Commercial tire dealers need trucks that can deliver and pick up different quantities of tires while simultaneously acting as road service vehicles. It’s a totally different business over here in almost every aspect, so the manual labor component is one that will never be completely erased from the equation.

“So they come in legally. They come in through legal ports of entry. But once they’re here they realize that the employment that’s offered and the conditions that they’re working is very different than what was promised them,” Chan said. “But then at that point, they have been threatened with real force. They have been beaten, they have been threatened with deportation, their families may have been threatened with harm, and then they’re forced to stay in that situation and they don’t have means to escape.”

A veteran aviation-safety engineer who over the decades worked for long stints as a DER at Boeing and later as a Boeing AR on a variety of projects including the MAX, said there’s “nothing inherently wrong” with the FAA delegating safety certification — provided it retains oversight.

In a subsequent press release, the Préfecture reminded how important it is to comply with road safety rules, to be vigilant and limit risky behavior on the roads.

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“Main Street from Pico Boulevard to Marine Street retains an eclectic one-story character of a 1920s street though most of the buildings have been renovated … along the ground floor,” she wrote. “The proposed building’s mass and scale and its relationship to the street will be comparable to the existing Main Street fabric although the building’s appearance is modern.”

Strategically placed pockets and a low profile design makes this an ideal pant for professional or casual covert environments.

The company’s original plant at its headquarters in Chesterfield, South Carolina, has quintupled in size through the years to more than 65,000 square feet and is in the midst of another expansion, Richert says.