DONETSK, Ukraine -- The Donetsk People's Republic is starting to smell. Rotting garbage is piling up in the hallways of the government office building seized by separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Denis Pushilin, self-proclaimed leader of the insurgency that has declared an independent "people's republik" in the Donetsk region, speaks at a news conference in eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk.
Telephones ripped from the walls are piled atop broken furniture and mounds of old files.
The stench of sweat and stale cigarettes is everywhere.
The guards, slouching men with pistols shoved in their pockets or flapping loosely in holsters, look increasingly bored.
It's been six weeks since they took over the building, a week since they declared independence from Ukraine.
But the authority of the alleged nation barely extends beyond their ten-story office tower and a few heavily armed checkpoints on roads leading into this industrial city 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Russian border.
In the streets of Donetsk, the separatist leaders and their followers are increasingly derided as a collection of heavily armed, barely employed misfits.
Outside of the rebels' headquarters, it can be difficult to find anyone who agrees with their calls to secede from Ukraine and link this part of the country — with its generations of ethnic and linguistic ties to Russia — to Moscow.
"All this shouting about us being a republic. What kind of a republic is this?" asked Leonid Krivonos, a 75-year-old retired miner, angry that the separatists are refusing to allow Ukraine's upcoming presidential election.
"The young ones still have a future to look forward to, and they risk seeing that all destroyed."
The interim Ukrainian government hopes Sunday's presidential election will unite the country behind a new leader, but separatists across the east have vowed to block the vote.
Donetsk's separatist leader waves away any prospect of an election.
After all, insists Denis Pushilin, chairman of the self-declared Supreme Council, Donetsk is not in Ukraine anymore.
"How can we hold an election of a neighboring country on our territory?" said the 32-year-old Pushilin, smiling in an interview in his tenth-floor office.
If the tide of opinion has appeared to turn against the separatists recently — with Russian President Vladimir Putin supporting Ukraine's presidential election and billionaire industrialist Rinat Akhmetov calling on his 300,000 employees to stand up to the mutineers — Pushilin is unconcerned.
His movement's support is vast, he says, extending north from the Azov Sea for hundreds of miles (kilometers) in eastern Ukraine.
"It's people from different towns, from different political views, from different political organizations," he said.
His skin is pale from weeks spent living and working in the building.
But Pushilin has a talent for words.
Until recently, he was a salesman for a pyramid scheme that attracted millions of Russians and Ukrainians ("Financial pyramids are not forbidden and are not illegal," he said, explaining his involvement).
Talking points spill from him effortlessly.
"The junta in Kiev has destroyed Ukraine as a state," he said, insisting his government is supported "by all the people who live in the region."
Polling — and residents — say otherwise.
An April survey by the nonpartisan Washington-based Pew Research Center found that 77 percent of Ukrainians want the country to maintain its current borders, with the number falling to 70 percent in eastern Ukraine.
The percentage drops more among Russian-speakers but even 58 percent of them want the country to remain unified.
"Ukraine is one country, and should stay as one country," said a retired high school teacher who asked to only be identified by her first name, Lyudmila, fearful of criticizing the separatists.
She wants unity even though, like many people in the east, she detests the interim government in Kiev.
"Our natural disaster," she called them on a recent morning, working in a flower-filled garden behind her apartment building.
Distrusting politicians is second nature to many Ukrainians, frustrated by years of crippling corruption.
But those suspicions are magnified in the east, where people see a central government in Kiev dominated by Ukrainian-speaking westerners who rose to power after protests prompted President Viktor Yanukovych to flee to Russia in February.
Ukraine's complex divisions emerged from centuries of war and politics, but today's divide largely plays out between a Ukrainian-speaking west, where most people are eager to join the European Union, and a Russian-speaking east rooted in ties to the Soviet Union and Russia.
The divide was magnified a few days after Yanukovych fled, when Putin deployed soldiers in Crimea, Ukraine's Russian-speaking Black Sea peninsula.
He then annexed Crimea in March.
Soon, separatist uprisings were flaring across the Russian-speaking east, with mutineers believing they, too, would be annexed by Russia.
Donetsk, the largest city in eastern Ukraine with nearly 1 million residents, has the largest self-proclaimed government, with a cabinet, a legislature and its media-friendly leader.
It has a flag and a press department that issues credentials to reporters.
A foreign ministry office is in the works.
What it doesn't have is a country.
Except at their headquarters, the separatists are rarely seen in the city.
When they do appear in public, as they did briefly Tuesday, descending from an armored vehicle on a city street to display their weapons and insist they were keeping order, their actions seem more like intimidation than anything else.
People glance around nervously as they speak of the separatists.
Some critics have been beaten.
"They can chase you, track you down," said a local businesswoman who asked to be identified only as Angela.
A Donetsk teacher named Antonina said she and her family received death threats from the separatists because she was on the local election commission preparing for the presidential vote.
She said gunmen stormed a meeting and seized all the voting documents.
"I am really scared for my children," she said, asking that her last name not be used.
Meanwhile, in Slavyansk, a city in the Donetsk region where rebels and Ukrainian troops have been trading gunfire for weeks, an angry crowd of 200 heckled a separatist commander Tuesday, complaining that the rebels were drawing retaliatory fire toward their homes.
In Donetsk, though, life functions despite the separatists.
Schools, stores and offices are open.
The city's streets are busy.
The summer heat has come early this year and the parks are full of young couples.
The police and the city's elected officials are lying low but basic services — water, electricity, the fire department — are operating normally.
Pushilin acknowledges his movement emerged in "a chaotic way" but clearly wants it to look serious.
On Monday, the separatists called the first meeting of their Supreme Council, gathering in an auditorium in their headquarters.
About 20 percent of the group was armed, carrying everything from hunting knives to assault rifles.
A handful wore body armor.
There was an abundance of homemade tattoos, a variety of camouflage and lots of tight black T-shirts.
Few in the room, including the organizers, appeared to know what to do.
After selecting a deputy for the Supreme Council — the vote for the only candidate was unanimous — an official announced that people were needed to staff various departments.
A young man walked to the front of the auditorium, took the microphone and said he wanted a job.
"I want to do something with agriculture," he said.
His campaign speech was short: "Will you vote for me? Please support me."
A few hands went up, apparently votes in his favor, but someone else grabbed the microphone and asked the man to sit down.
Other people stood to make speeches.
An angry man wanted to discuss a possible constitution.
The new deputy speaker spoke about the need to find experts for the foreign ministry.
As the situation grew increasingly chaotic, Pushilin, facing the gathering from the stage, took the microphone.
"You are acting like you are in a kindergarten and not a Supreme Council!" he said, glaring at the room, which quickly went silent.
Many people hung their heads.
Minutes later, the session was adjourned.
There was no word if the young man's hopes for a job had materialized.


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Closing Thought–30Jun17
Spy vs Spy!
That's Bond– James Bond
Since I was a teenager I have loved me some spy novels and such….but you know real-life is just as interesting as the fiction stuff.
Remember a few years back when the US caught all those Russian sleeper agents…..one was a sexy red head that could make a dead guy write bad checks.
Then there are stories of the assassinations around the world…especially the ex-KGB guy that was poisoned in the UK with his tea…..
Then I read the report of a Brit spy that was found dead stuffed into a sports bag…..
After the dead body of an MI6 spy was found locked in a sports bag in London, police said the death was "probably an accident" – but British and American spy agencies have secret intelligence suggesting Gareth Williams may have been assassinated over highly sensitive work on Russia.
A British spy whose naked body was found decomposing in a padlocked sports bag in his bathtub is among at least 14 people suspected of having been killed by Russian assassins on British soil, BuzzFeed News can reveal.
Source: The Death Of The Spy In The Bag Is Linked To Russia By Secret Intelligence Files
See what I mean…fascinating.
My question is how does a dead guy accidentally lock himself into a sports bag?
Any answers out there?
Time to say bye for the day…..hope you will join tomorrow for more stuff…..chuq
By loboteroin News 30 June 2017 244 Words13 Comments
Mississippi–Is It 1950?
Speaking of Mississippi…….
When I write about the racial tensions that still exist in my state, Mississippi, many people think I am making it all up…..
If only they knew……
This is just one area where the racial bias is happening….but not the only area…..
For generations, black residents of Canton, Mississippi have lived under siege from a heavy-handed sheriff's department. Now the ACLU is suing the system.
The sheriff's deputy has his hand around Khadafy Manning's neck. Manning, a 35-year-old black man, is standing rod straight, or at least as straight as someone with a debilitating spinal injury can, with his hands cuffed behind his back, dressed in his underwear, asking why he is being humiliated in his own living room.
"Officer, please. Why are you handling me like this?"
"Because you ain't acting right," the deputy responds.
Source: Police Roadblocks Are Rights-Free Zones In Madison County, Mississippi – Reason.com
There should be a sign on the highways that lead into Mississippi and they should read….
"Welcome to Mississippi
Set Your clocks back 150 years."
By loboteroin Mississippi, News 30 June 2017 177 Words8 Comments
House Committee Votes to Repeal AUMF
I never thought that I would live to see the day when a GOP led House Committee voted to repeal AUMF……
House Committee Votes to Repeal AUMF, Ruled 'Out of Order'| Republican leaders argue vote cripples terror war, shouldn't count.
In a stunning move, the House Appropriations Committee today approved an amendment to the massive military spending bill offered by Rep. Barbara Lee (D – CA). The amendment, passed in a voice vote, and would repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).
Source: House Committee Votes to Repeal AUMF, Ruled 'Out of Order' – News From Antiwar.com
It is still NOT a done deal….but one helluva step forward.
By loboteroin News, Politics, Public Policy, War 30 June 2017 114 Words5 Comments
So It Is Written, So It Is Done
I seldom write about my state, Mississippi……basically nothing of interest happens too often….but I do like their politics. A Bible Belt conservative state that elects those people that do the most damage to the state……in essence a cultural wasteland.
My state has about 21.6% poverty……is 49th on the health index…..49th on the best educated index…..I could go on with the stats so let us just say Mississippi is at the bottom or near on every "good" characteristic and at the top or near on every "bad" characteristic……
I bring this up because of the laws that will go into effect on 01 July…..one would think the the reps would be addressing the economic characteristics that effect the people of this state, right?
You would be sadly mistaken!
These are the laws that will go into effect next week…..
HB 511: Ready to pass a big truck on I-55? The left lane should be free, since a new law is taking effect that outlaws "lollygagging" in the left lane on the interstate. If you're caught hogging the left lane, you could face a fine of anywhere from $25 to $50.
SB 2968: Soon, there will be more highway patrolmen on the roads with you. With this law, trooper school has been funded. Classes start in October, and by the first of the year, new troopers will be hitting the roadways.
SB 2710: Sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants has been a hot topic across the United States, but they will be outlawed in Mississippi starting July 1. The law also prohibits municipalities from prohibiting a city employee from asking a citizen about their immigration status.
SB 2689: Campaign funds will no longer be able to be used for personal use come July 1. This means any funds that were collected by any political campaign for the purpose of furthering the candidate cannot be used for personal vehicles, homes, rent, etc. If any campaign funds are left over after the fact, they will have to be returned to the donors, donated to the state, or can be donated to another political or charitable cause.
HB 1046: Students who have relied on the Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship can now continue to utilize that scholarship all the way through school. The scholarship can be used to enroll in private school, therapy programs, or purchase resources that would further the child's abilities in school.
HB 1322: Craft beer breweries in the state can now sell their products onsite. Initially, breweries could conduct tours and host events, but would have to direct customers to a nearby distributor for their beer or light wine. Here's the catch: they can sell it to you there, but you have to take it away to drink it. It'll be sealed. You won't be able to down that six-pack at the brewery itself.
There you are…..new laws…typical Repub bullshit that does NOTHING to improve the lives of the people of Mississippi.
This is why Mississippi remains at the bottom of the list of good states in which to live.
I once called the government of Mississippi as a "Moronocracy" and nothing has changed in 35 years.
By loboteroin Mississippi, News, Society 30 June 2017 525 Words13 Comments
Pointing The Way To War?
Iran has not been in the news much these day…the silly season is on the Russia thing and the new health care mash up…..but deep beneath the news these days is Iran and the direction that the president in his "wisdom" is traveling.
There has been triggers that are pointing to a coming war with Iran…..
The long-simmering conflict between the United States and Iran is fast escalating toward war. The battlefield is the desert expanse of eastern Syria where civil war has raged for the last five years. Tehran wants to keep U.S. forces out of the area, while Washington wants to use the region to wage war against Iran's ally, Syria.
After 15 years of unsuccessful war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the Trump administration is pursuing a policy of "regime change" in Iran that might lead to a third U.S. ground war in the Middle East since 2001.
Restraint is breaking down. While President Obama resisted U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war, Trump has approved it. While Obama pursued dialog with Iran, Trump has embraced the new Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who laid down his country's new, harsher line in April. 'We will not wait until the battle is in Saudi Arabia," he said, "but we will work so the battle is there in Iran."
Source: 6 Trigger Points: How the Conflict Between the United States and Iran Is Fast Escalating Toward War | Alternet
The rhetoric is picking up to the point that makes war with Iran a likelihood….the defense build-up points to something big brewing…..Afghanistan would make a good platform to launch an attack on Iran and we are slowly building the troop levels and ordinance up…..will calmer heads prevail?
Not in this admin….calm heads is the furthest thing from reality…….war is coming…..are you ready for more death and destruction?
The only nation that would benefit from such a war would be Israel….but it would only be short lived until they, Israel, can invent a new foe……a new threat.
The losers as always will be the American people and society.
By loboteroin Foreign policy, International Situations, War 30 June 2017 364 Words6 Comments
While The World Implodes
Syria is a bloody mess……Iraq likewise…Afghanistan is waiting….Balkans are verbally hot…..South China Sea is boiling……you get it! The world is far from a peaceful place and yet the man that is the most powerful person in the world spends his time bullying women on Twitter…..
Not the first time that trump has attacked a woman for a slight that he has perceived….just the most recent…..
President Trump has been going after media outlets with a renewed vengeance this week, but things got decidedly personal Thursday morning when he took aim at Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe program. "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore)," he began in a two–tweet attack. "Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" ("Psycho Joe" is a reference to Joe Scarborough.) Within a half-hour of Trump's tweets, Brzezinski fired back with a tweeted photo mocking Trump in sync with the small-hands theme.
It's not clear what set off the president, but earlier on her show, Brzezinski slammed his behavior. "Let's say someone came into NBC and took over NBC, and started tweeting wildly about people's appearances, bullying people … that person would be thrown out," she said, per Raw Story. She added that "there would be concerns that the person who runs the company is out of his mind." Before the president tweeted, Trump social media director Dan Scavino also unloaded on "DumbAsARockMika" and Scarborough, saying they were "unhinged" since Trump stopped returning their calls.
What type of person would do this? Not someone that is the president of the USA, right?
…….the White House didn't relent: "I don't think that the president's ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn't push back," said deputy press chief Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Fox News. She said Trump has been the target of an "outrageous number of personal attacks," and he's responding in kind, per Mediaite. "This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else." Elsewhere:
Criticism from GOP: "I don't see that as an appropriate comment," said Paul Ryan, per Politico. "This is not okay," tweeted Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas. "Beneath the office," wrote Sen. Lindsey Graham, a line echoed by Sen. Ben Sasse.
Why the trolling? The right-wing site Twitchy notes that when Republicans such as Sasse call out Trump, they get trolled, instead of supported, from the left. It has examples.
First lady defends: A spokeswoman for Melania Trump defended the president. "When her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder," she said, per CNN's Jeff Zeleny. People can't resist pointing out that Melania once vowed to fight social media bullying.
Background: The Washington Post traces the long, up-and-down relationship between the Morning Joe hosts and Trump. It used to be quite cozy.
From Democrats: "Monstrous," tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy. "An attack on women everywhere," says the Democratic National Committee, per the Hill.
Breitbart: Its coverage says Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough had "sneered mockingly" at Trump prior to the presidential tweet. (Brzezinski had suggested he was "out of his mind," per Raw Story.)
Network: "It's a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job," says an MSNBC statement. Mark Kornblau, a communications VP for NBC Universal, wrote: "Never imagined a day when I would think to myself, 'it is beneath my dignity to respond to the President of the United States.'"
Hannity: Fox News host Sean Hannity, one of Trump's strongest supporters, didn't retreat: "Maybe liberal Joe should stop calling the @POTUS a schmuck, a liar, a thug and mentally unhinged. Were they kissing @POTUS ass at xmas? Yes."
Are you surprised at this action? Why would you? I am not! I have come to expect this type of low class attitude from this person.
There are no consequences for his action….this will not be the last time he does this type cowardly attack….after all he is a bully and he just does what bullies do. His party will do nothing for they are cowards and this will continue followed by strong words and then back to business as usual.
He has done nothing but diminish the office of the president every time he does something as stupid as this latest attack. The actions of a petty vindictive tyrant….
He is a pathetic, disgusting little man….sadly he cannot be ignored.
By loboteroin News, Society 30 June 2017 793 Words16 Comments
Ever Heard Of USIP?
USIP is a program that was passed during the Reagan years.
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent national institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical, and essential for U.S. and global security. USIP pursues this vision on the ground in conflict zones, working with local partners to prevent conflicts from turning to bloodshed and to end it when they do. The Institute provides training, analysis, and other resources to people, organizations, and governments working to build peace.
Our generals will be the first to tell you it's cheaper to prevent a war than fight one. Lawmakers should keep this in mind as they face an unusually complex budgetary environment this year.
As Congress navigates budget caps and a White House determined to slash spending, it also must consider the turmoil and violence rocking the world.
Source: Give a Reagan-era peace institute a chance | TheHill
I know our new president is all about fighting wars but we have only so much cash to do what he wants and now he purposes even more tax cuts meaning less money yet again.
Maybe if he or his advisors like Tillerson would spend a little time doing some research then they might find that the Reagan idea does have value.
Okay I know that I am not one of Reagan's biggest fans but he did have some ideas that deserve another look see.
That is unless continuous war is the main goal of the Trump cabal.
And it is looking more and more like it is…..to the point that trump is trying to establish a new world order.
That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, we've been told, President Trump is dismantling the liberal world order created by Franklin D. Roosevelt at the end of World War II. "Present at the Destruction" is the way Foreign Affairs magazine, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, put it on its latest cover. Similar headlines can be found on the editorial pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post. But these prophecies of impending global disorder miss a crucial point: in his own quixotic way, Donald Trump is not only trying to obliterate the existing world order, but also attempting to lay the foundations for a new one, a world in which fossil-fuel powers will contend for supremacy with post-carbon, green-energy states.
Source: Is Trump launching a new world order? , by Michael T Klare (Le Monde diplomatique – English edition, June 2017)
Continuous war is looking more and more like the future for the US….that is unless someone steps up and takes a stand.
Will USIP survive in the Trump era?
By loboteroin Fiscal Policy, Foreign policy, History, International Situations, War 30 June 2017 482 Words6 Comments

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Last week, I was despairing over my inability to work. Then, this week, it occurred to me to count up the total hours I'd logged: 27. I compared it with my total hours two weeks ago: 27.5. What a relief—I didn't stop working, even though I wasn't feeling emotionally tough.
My friend The Future Doctor Gale got herself into trouble with time sheets. She made herself sign in and out of her office, and tried to force herself to work eight hours a day. This led to a lot of anxiety and guilt over "missed" work. Her acupuncturist advised her to let herself work a maximum five hours per day instead, and that system is working wonders for her quality of life and productivity level.
I know that a maximum would never work for me—I excel at quitting work early. But I don't set a minimum either.
No matter how you approach the working week, it's not good to be too rigid with yourself. In the last three weeks, I've worked between 2.5 – 9.5 hours per day. But for me, it's very reassuring to be able to look back and see that mostly I've worked between 4-6 hours per day. Then I can't make up mean lies about what a lazy good-for-nothing I am.
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Thanks a lot for this post, I find it helpful to re-read it every now and then when I find myself feeling inadequate for my inability to work efficiently more than six hours in a day. I always feel like I should be doing more regardless of my achievements, and it's good to know I'm not the only one to struggle with this!
And I feel better knowing that this post resonated with you! Thanks for commenting!


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As a drummer, composer or artist, Richard Spaven is one of the world's most exciting and genre-defying. His career has seen him play for many of music's most innovative artists both on stage and in the studio: Jose James, Flying Lotus, The Cinematic Orchestra, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Gregory Porter to name but a few.
THU 17TH OCTOBER
DENNIS ROLLINS' FUNKY-FUNK!
QUENTIN COLLINS SEXTET
As one of the hardest working and in-demand internationally renowned jazz trumpet players in the business, Quentin Collins, has formed an all-star British band for this tour which celebrates the release of this, his latest album. Brought up around the sounds of jazz by a music-loving father, Quentin is established as one of the UK's top jazz/commercial trumpeters having performed, toured and recorded with a plethora of internationally acclaimed musicians. Here at the NCEM, Quentin celebrates the release of this new collection 'Road Warrior', a musical depiction of life as a touring musician, which all of these formidable artists know only too well!
MON 28TH OCTOBER
NCEM | 7:30PM
SNAKE DAVIS
Breathtaking skill, warm co-operation and witty anarchic banter. BoP invites its audience into a world of tenderness, virtuosity and human frailty with its unique interpretations of evocative songs from Dylan to Dowland are spell-binding.
SUN 3RD NOVEMBER
In the last few years, London has become the centre of the Jazz Renaissance. A new burst of energy and attitude brought by young musicians, equally inspired by the likes of John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders or Sun Ra, as well as Madvillain, J Dilla, Flying Lotus and Floating Points, has brought a welcomed freshness to the London Scene. This exciting new environment brought a group of young musicians together, all with a mutual desire to discover a new form of expression. Together they created Cykada.


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Симфи́з (син. гемиартроз) — переходное соединение между костями скелета. Обычно это фиброзное или хрящевое соединение, внутри которого находится узкая щелевидная полость. Снаружи симфиз не покрыт капсулой, а внутренняя поверхность щели не покрыта синовиальной оболочкой. Симфиз может быть усилен межкостными связками. Соединение допускает небольшие смещения сочленяющихся костей.

В отличие от синхондрозов, симфизы с возрастом не подвергаются кальцификации и не утрачивают хрящевую прослойку.

Главное отличие симфиза от сустава в том, что у симфизов суставная щель прерывается.

Примеры
Наиболее известные примеры симфизов следующие:
 Лонное сочленение или лобковый симфиз, соединяющий вертикально верхние ветви лобковых костей;
 Симфизы между костями черепа;
 Подбородочный симфиз, который по средней линии соединяет между собой две половины нижней челюсти. В некоторых источниках это сочленение не относят к симфизам, так как оно образуется из мезодермы челюстной дуги и в раннем детстве превращается в кость.
 Межпозвоночные диски;
 Сочленение между  и телом грудины.

См. также
 Амфиартроз
 Синхондроз

Примечания

Литература
 Анатомия человека. В двух томах. Т. 1/ Под ред. М. Р. Сапина. — 5-е издание, перераб. и доп. — М.: Медицина, 2001. — 640 с.: ил. ISBN 5-225-04585-5

Ссылки

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Суставы

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package com.linkedin.thirdeye.query;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.linkedin.thirdeye.api.*;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class TestThirdEyeAggregateFunction {
  private StarTreeConfig config;
  private MetricSchema metricSchema;
  private MetricTimeSeries timeSeries;
  private ThirdEyeQuery query;

  @BeforeClass
  public void beforeClass() throws Exception {
    config = StarTreeConfig.decode(ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("test-config.yml"));
    metricSchema = new MetricSchema(ImmutableList.of("L", "D"), ImmutableList.of(MetricType.LONG, MetricType.DOUBLE));
    timeSeries = new MetricTimeSeries(metricSchema);
    for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
      timeSeries.increment(i, "L", 1);
      timeSeries.increment(i, "D", 1.0);
    }
    query = new ThirdEyeQuery();
    query.addMetricName("L");
    query.addMetricName("D");
  }

  @Test
  public void testValid_simple() {
    MetricTimeSeries derived = new ThirdEyeAggregateFunction(
        ImmutableList.of("L", "D"), new TimeGranularity(4, TimeUnit.HOURS)).apply(config, query, timeSeries);
    Assert.assertEquals(derived.getTimeWindowSet().size(), 4);

    for (long i = 0; i < 16; i += 4) {
      Assert.assertEquals(derived.get(i, "L"), 4L);
      Assert.assertEquals(derived.get(i, "D"), 4.0);
    }
  }
}

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Finches and buntings
Yellowhammer ©Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
©Fergus Gill/2020VISION
Scientific name: Emberiza citrinella
Like many of our farmland birds, the yellowhammer has declined in number in recent years. Spot this bright yellow bird singing from the top of a bush or fence, or in a mixed-species flock in winter.
Length: 16cm Wingspan: 26cm Weight: 31g Average Lifespan: 3 years
Classified in the UK as Red under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2015). Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. Priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework.
January to December
The yellowhammer is a sparrow-sized, bright yellow bird of woodland edges, hedgerows, heath and farmland that feeds on seeds and invertebrates. In the winter, it will join mixed flocks of buntings, finches and sparrows to feed on seeds on farmland. Yellowhammers are often seen perched on top of bushes singing their 'a little bit of bread and no cheese' song. The female builds a cup-shaped nest from grass and moss, laying between two and six eggs.
The male yellowhammer is a striking bird: he has a bright yellow head and belly, with an orangey chest and streaky brown back. Female buntings, including female yellowhammers and reed buntings, can be very difficult to tell apart.
During winter, yellowhammers may find it hard to find food in their open habitats because of snow cover, so they will move to more inhabited areas like farmyards and even rural gardens.
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New Pedestrian-Activated Crossing Signals Provide Safe Passage in Downtown St. Marys
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All around Valerie Joseph, there is a fleet of Uber cars rolling by on New York City streets.
But though she could really use the ride-hailing app, Ms. Joseph said she does not bother because Uber has so few wheelchair-accessible cars to dispatch. "It's plain unfair," said Ms. Joseph, 41, who relies on a wheelchair.
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Wynne Government Extends to July 31, 2017 the Deadline for Answering the Government's Education Barriers Survey and for Giving Feedback on Draft Reforms to Ontario's Transportation Accessibility Standard
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nTIDE June 2017 Jobs Report: Ongoing Job Growth Reflects Americans with Disabilities Striving to Work
As the nation implements the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014, vocational rehabilitation (VR) services are evolving to better serve people with significant disabilities.
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Microsoft's New iPhone App Narrates the World for Blind People
Microsoft has released Seeing AI a smartphone app that uses computer vision to describe the world for the visually impaired. With the app downloaded, the users can point their phone's camera at a person and it'll say who they are and how they're feeling. They can also point it at a product and it'll tell them what it is. All of this is done using artificial intelligence that runs locally on their phone.
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Accessibility News July 15,2017 Update
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Communication Support for Disabled Crime Victims 'Ignored' by Justice System, Advocates Say
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Anglicanism, Douglas LeBlanc, Evangelicals, Godbeat
A most ecumenical parting of ways
In writing a brief profile of newly approved federal judge Priscilla Owen, David Kirkpatrick of The New York Times touched on her experience at St. Barnabas the Encourager Evangelical Covenant Church:
In more recent years, Ms. Owen also became much more religious, her sister said. Republicans have lauded her role as a founding member of St. Barnabas Church, a theologically conservative congregation in Austin where she still teaches Sunday school. "On any given Sunday, you can find Justice Owen hopping on one leg, reading stories," Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas said last week.
Democrats have criticized an allusion to religion in an opinion she wrote arguing against exempting a teenager seeking an abortion from the state's parental notification law. The law's requirement of an "informed" decision, Ms. Owen argued, included an understanding "that some women have experienced severe remorse and regret" and consideration "that there are philosophic, social, moral and religious arguments" about abortion, as well.
Ms. Owen's defenders argue that she was interpreting an ambiguous law in a way consistent with its legislative history and that courts later cleared up its meaning. And her pastor, the Rev. Jeff Black, said she would never impose her religious views in a court. "If it was a believer who came to her and said, 'What should I do?' then she would say, 'Here is what the Scripture says,'" Mr. Black said. "But in a court of law, she would never do that."
Hold the phone: St. Barnabas the Encourager Evangelical Covenant Church? As the name suggests, this congregation did not begin its life within the Evangelical Covenant fold.
St. Barnabas is a religion writer's dream of a feature story with eclectic details. Black built the congregation -- as a mission of the Episcopal Church -- through meetings of the Alpha Course. But then along came the General Convention of 2003, which took the Episcopal Church in a decidedly more liberal direction on homosexuality, and St. Barnabas became one of several congregations to break from its diocese and the denomination.
As Eileen Flynn wrote in the Austin American-Statesman in late March, St. Barnabas is now a former Episcopal parish and a new member of an evangelical Protestant denomination meeting in the activity center of St. William's Roman Catholic Church:
Black and St. William's pastor, the Rev. Joel McNeil, found that they shared the same biblical view of homosexuality.
McNeil said when he heard about St. Barnabas last year, he was "impressed with the integrity of the pastor and the congregation" for determining they could not in good conscience remain in the Episcopal Church.
"There's a lot of pressure, it seems, to make the church like the world rather than evangelizing the world," McNeil said. "I admire that they have resisted those pressures and have decided to maintain the traditional Christian belief."
Word of McNeil's support traveled to Black via a St. William's parishioner visiting St. Barnabas as a photo copier salesman.
The two priests started talking and discovered they could help each other.
Founded in 1997, St. Barnabas congregants had been worshipping in rented North Austin office space and wanted a permanent home. St. William's was building a church near its present location on McNeil Road and needed to sell a 6½-acre parcel and parish center.
And it just so happened that Black's mother was the librarian at McNeil's junior high school in Rome, N.Y., in the early 1970s.
Meanwhile, the roughly 250 St. Barnabas members had decided they wanted to officially join the Chicago-based Evangelical Covenant Church, an ecumenical fellowship of churches founded by Swedish immigrants in 1885, after several months of an informal association.
The covenant offered to buy the St. William's property and closed on the $1.7 million sale with the Catholic Diocese on Friday. Black said his congregation expects to invest $400,000 in improvements to the property, including an additional building for offices and classrooms.
The two congregations will share the parish center over the next year until St. William's facility is complete.
The details are too intricate for a brief profile of Priscilla Owen, but they're fascinating nonetheless -- especially amid the now-standard accusation that any congregation breaking away from the Episcopal Church is guilty of Donatism and doomed to a lifetime of schism.
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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness (Paperback)
By Harriet A. Washington
"Fascinating...A superb book."--Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery and author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
What causes mental illness? We've long blamed stress, trauma, and brain-chemistry imbalances. But a new theory is quietly achieving critical mass. In INFECTIOUS MADNESS, award-winning science writer Harriet Washington reveals that schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's, and anorexia also may be caused by bacteria, parasites, or viruses. Weaving together cutting-edge research and case studies, INFECTIOUS MADNESS shows how strep throat can trigger rapid-onset OCD in a formerly healthy teen and how contact with cat litter elevates the risk of schizophrenia. Featuring a new afterword by the author, and rich in science, medical mysteries, cultural nuance, and evidence-based recommendations, INFECTIOUS MADNESS pulls back the curtain on a new paradigm with profound implications for us all.
Harriet A. Washington has been a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics. Ms. Washington has also held fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health, Stanford University, and DePaul University College of Law. She is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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"Your views on the causes of mental illness will be forever altered when you read this profoundly humane and transformative book."—Carl Hart, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
"Infectious Madness is a fascinating book about the role of infectious diseases in mental illness. Washington challenges us to expand our view of the causes, prevention, and treatment of emotional disorders. I highly recommend it!"
—Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
"With Infectious Madness, Harriet Washington sounds a much-needed alarm -- although not a welcome one. Turning old-fashioned germ theory inside out, she explains that we humans are the slow-moving interlopers in a world of microbes. And it's not just our health but our instincts, desires, feelings, and even our grasp on reality that are at stake."
—--Philip Alcabes, Professor of Public Health, Adelphi University, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
"In Infectious Madness, Harriet Washington confirms her position as one of our most thought-provoking medical writers. Led by Washington on a whirlwind tour of early modern medicine in the 18th century, germ theory, Western anorexia, African sleeping sickness, schizophrenia, and everywhere else, we will forever be unable to think of our microbial environment in the same way. The same, for that matter, might be said of our view of the social environment in which the collective enterprise of medicine transpires."—Samuel Roberts, PhD, Director, Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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Stitching With Attitude: June 8th - World Oceans Day !
Today is World Oceans Day. A day to bring awareness about conserving our oceans and to celebrate their beauty, their abundance of life and their essential contributions to life on our planet.
And yes, this can be textile related too in several ways but in particular, I would like to salute Paul and Luana Rubin of e-Quilter http://www.equilter.com/ who have selected Ocean Conservancy as one of their chosen charities associated with their business. 2% of all sales are dedicated to selected charities and my choice, Ocean Conservancy has been ringing up some funds from this girl's fabric purchases (-: What a win-win situation!


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Q: How to add table dynamically in javascript I want to add table row dynamically. I tried with online solution but no luck
My code:

I have added one default row in HTML and then on clicking add I want to add row as per the need.
HTML Page:

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Please let me know what is wrong in this code.

A: Change:
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Georgia Sheriff and Staff Charged With Sexual Crimes For Body Searching Entire High School
This one happened a few months ago. A Worth County Georgia Sheriff and his Deputies showed up at a local High School and proceeded to body search the entire student body – supposedly fr drugs. All 900 of the School's students were searched. No drugs were found. There was no Search Warrant, no "Probable Cause"…Just the Sheriff's desire to "lay hands" on a few High School Students.
The Sheriff and two of his Deputies have now been criminally charged.
Preventing this type of shit is why Black Lives Matter was formed. Maybe if these right-wing fascist asshles shove their figers up enough white girl's woman parts under the guise of the law, some of the racist types who lie about, and hate BLM will finally wake up. Bet you won't see mention of this on Faux News.
First, the original story –
Next – the Law finally catches up with the law –
Ga. sheriff indicted for sexual battery in high school drug search
A south Georgia grand jury indicted Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby on Tuesday for sexual battery, false imprisonment and violation of oath of office after he ordered a school-wide search of hundreds of high school students. Deputies allegedly touched girls vaginas and breasts and groped boys in their groin area during the search at the Worth County High School April 14.
Two of Hobby's deputies were also indicted Tuesday in connection with the case.
The controversial search drew national attention because of how the body search of students was conducted under the guise of a drug search, but produced no drugs or arrests.
The Worth County indictment accuses Hobby of one count of violating his oath of office and two counts of false imprisonment — all felonies charges. He was also indicted on one count of sexual battery, a misdemeanor.
Hobby's attorney Norman Crowe Jr. said the sheriff was at the school, but did not search students. He said jurors at trial will get to hear the sheriff's side of the story.
"The sheriff's position is that he's not guilty," Crowe said. "He's committed no crime."
Deputy Tyler Turner was indicted on one felony count of violation of his oath of office and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery. Deputy Deidra Whiddon was indicted for one felony count of violation of her oath of office.
District Attorney Paul Bowden said warrants had not yet been issued for the arrest of the sheriff and his deputies, but he expected that as early as Thursday. He said he is preparing a letter to Gov. Nathan Deal to outline the charges against the sheriff. Deal has authority to suspend the sheriff as he did recently with DeKalb Sheriff Jeff Mann and Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman.
Posted by btx3 on October 5, 2017 in BlackLivesMatter, High Crimes, Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks
Tags: BLM, charges, Deputies, felony crimes, georgia, High School, illegal search, NAACP, sheriff, worth county
White Wing Sheriff in Georgia Has Entire High School of Kids Physically Searched
Not sure HTF you do this without a Warrant – much less see any rational Judge granting the right for the sheriffs to do a pat-down on an entire school!
This breaks so many laws…Its ridiculous.
Local folks need to remove this dumb sucker jackass of a Sheriff.
A Georgia sheriff ordered pat-down searches for every student at a public high school. Now they're suing.
Students at Worth County High School in Sylvester, Ga., have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against their country sheriff after he ordered what the complaint describes as a schoolwide drug sweep involving pat-down searches of hundreds of teenagers.
On April 14, Sheriff Jeff Hobby and dozens of deputies came to Worth County High School searching for students in possession of illicit substances. According to the students' legal complaint, they proceeded to go to every classroom and physically search nearly every student present for drugs. The deputies, the lawsuit alleges, used "pat down" searches, with some deputies touching female students' breasts and male students' genitalia.
Tommy Coleman, a lawyer for the district, corroborated the students' account of the search. "I thought the [students'] complaint in the suit very accurately described what happened," he said. "We'd like for it to be resolved in the best interests of these kids."
The district hasn't joined the lawsuit on behalf of the students because it lacks the standing to do so, Coleman said. The lawsuit contends that the students, not the school district, were harmed by the searches.
In the aftermath of the search, the sheriff told local media that the pat-down searches of students were legal because school administrators were present. He also said he believed drugs were present at the school, and that a separate drug search performed several weeks earlier by police from the city of Sylvester had not been thorough enough.
Neither search turned up any illicit drugs, according to Coleman.
In the days after the search, the sheriff's office acknowledged in a news release that at least one deputy had touched students in an inappropriate manner.
"After the pat down was conducted it was discovered that one of the deputies had exceeded the instructions given by the Sheriff and conducted a pat down of some students that was more intrusive than instructed by the Sheriff," the statement said. "Upon discovery of the deputy's actions, the Sheriff has taken corrective action to insure that this behavior will not occur again."
The sheriff's office did not provide more detail on the "corrective action" in the release, and it did not respond to a follow-up request about what that action entailed. Hobby's office also refused multiple requests for an interview and declined to answer repeated requests from The Washington Post for more details about the school search.
The case is an extreme example of how the school system can become a battleground in the nation's war on drugs. Law enforcement officials and school administrators have occasionally brought zero-tolerance, tough-on-crime policies into the nation's classrooms, often with counterproductive results.
Meanwhile, teen drug and alcohol use is approaching historic lows. Experts cite a variety of reasons this may be the case. Lower rates of teen tobacco use may mean that fewer students go on to try harder substances. And the rise of social media means more teens are spending time with their peers online, rather than in the real world, where it may be easier to obtain drugs.
Worth County High School students are upset over their treatment by Hobby and his deputies.
J.E., one of the plaintiffs who is being identified only by his initials because he is a minor, said in an interview with The Washington Post that when deputies arrived at his 10th-grade agriculture class, they marched the students out to the hall, lining them up, girls on one side of the hallway and boys on the other.
The deputies, J.E. says, made everyone put their palms on the wall, spread their legs and take their shoes off.
J.E. says that during his search, the deputy put his hands in J.E.'s back pockets and then under his shirt. He then, J.E. says, rubbed down both of the student's legs from his thighs to his ankles, and back up between them.
"He came up under my privates and then he grabbed my testicles twice," J.E. said in an interview. "I wanted to turn around and tell him to stop touching me. I wanted it to be over and I just wanted to call my dad because I knew something wasn't right."
J.E.'s allegations of improper contact are part of a legal complaint filed jointly by nine students after outraged parents contacted Horsley Begnaud LLC, a civil rights law firm based in Atlanta.
According to the students' complaint, some of the deputies — Hobby's office brought more than two dozen, the complaint says — stuck their hands in students' bras and underwear. The complaint includes allegations that some deputies cupped the genitals of the boys and exposed the breasts of some of the girls to their classmates.
Sometimes the deputies wore gloves. Other times they didn't, according to the complaint.
Another student involved with the lawsuit was in a different class than J.E. at the time of the search but described a similar search procedure: Deputies ordered students out of his ninth-grade literature class and into the hallway, segregated them by gender, and then systematically physically searched each one.
"Some people were crying," the ninth-grader said in an interview. "Kids weren't allowed to go home; they weren't allowed to tell their parents" during the search.
The suit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. In their complaint, the students contend the "unlawful and intrusive" searches violated their rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments.
The sheriff had no warrant to perform the search, according to the complaint. Coleman, the lawyer for the school district, says the sheriff's office told school officials they suspected 13 students of possessing drugs in setting up the search. It's unclear what information formed the basis for this suspicion — lawyers for the students said in an interview they haven't seen it yet, and the sheriff's office declined to provide details to The Post.
"I'm not aware of anything like this ever happening in Georgia," Mark Begnaud, one of the students' lawyers, said in an interview. "It's obviously unconstitutional, a textbook definition of police overreach."…Read More Here…
Posted by btx3 on June 7, 2017 in BlackLivesMatter, Domestic terrorism, Second American Revolution, Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks
Tags: 4th amendment, BLM, constitution, georgia, illegal search, Lawsuit, sheriff, worth county
Out of Control Policing in South Carolina
This is incredible. SC Cops stop a couple diving legally…Because the car they are driving has temporary tags. That devolves, based solely on an Officer's belief that there "is something there" into illegal searches of the vehicle, and ultimately a roadside body cavity search.
Video shows white cops performing roadside cavity search of black man
For the past few weeks, I've been working on an investigative series about police abuse in South Carolina. I've found a dizzying number of cases, including illegal arrests, botched raids, fatal shootings and serious questions about how all those incidents are investigated. Many of these cases were previously unreported, or if they were reported, the initial reports were a far cry from what actually happened. The series will run at some point in the next week. But in the meantime, I want to share one particularly horrifying incident that I came across this week while researching the series.
According to a federal lawsuit filed by attorney Robert Phillips, what you see in the video below occurred in the town of Aiken, S.C., starting at about 12:20 p.m. on Oct. 2, 2014. The two occupants of the car are black. All the police officers are white.
See the VIdeo Here.
Here's what happened: Lakeya Hicks and Elijah Pontoon were in Hicks's car just a couple of blocks from downtown Aiken when they were pulled over by Officer Chris Medlin of the Aiken Department of Public Safety. Hicks was driving. She had recently purchased the car, so it still had temporary tags.
In the video, Medlin asks Hicks to get out, then tells her that he stopped her because of the "paper tag" on her car. This already is a problem. There's no law against temporary tags in South Carolina, so long as they haven't expired.
Medlin then asks Pontoon for identification. Since he was in the passenger seat, Pontoon wouldn't have been required to provide ID even if the stop had been legitimate. Still, he provides his driver's license to Medlin. A couple of minutes later, Medlin tells Hicks that her license and tags check out. (You can see the time stamp in the lower left corner of the video.) This should be the end of the stop — which, again, should never have happened in the first place.
Instead, Medlin orders Pontoon out of the vehicle and handcuffs him. He also orders Hicks out of the car. Pontoon then asks Medlin what's happening. Medlin ignores him. Pontoon asks again. Medlin responds that he'll "explain it all in a minute." Several minutes later, a female officers appears. Medlin then tells Pontoon, "Because of your history, I've got a dog coming in here. Gonna walk a dog around the car." About 30 seconds later, he adds, "You gonna pay for this one, boy."
Moments later, a K9 officer named Clark Smith arrives. He walks around the car with his dog. A fourth police officer then shows up. The four officers then spend the next 15 minutes conducting a thorough search of the car. Early into the search, Medlin exclaims, "Uh-huh!" as if he has found something incriminating. But nothing comes of it.
After the search of the car comes up empty, Medlin tells the female officer to "search her real good," referring to Hicks. The personal search of Hicks is conducted off camera, but according to the complaint filed by Phillips, it allegedly involved exposing Hicks's breasts on the side of the road in a populated area. The complaint also alleges that this was all done in direct view of the three male officers. That search, too, produced no contraband.
The officers then turn their attention to Pontoon. Medlin asks Pontoon to get out of the car. He cuffs him and begins to pat him down. Toward the end of the first video, at about the 12:46:30 mark, he tells Pontoon: "You've got something here right between your legs. There's something hard right there between your legs." Medlin says that he's going to "put some gloves on."
The anal probe happens out of direct view of the camera, but the audio leaves little doubt about what's happening. Pontoon at one point says that one of the officers is grabbing his hemorrhoids. Medlin appears to reply, "I've had hemorrhoids, and they ain't that hard." At about 12:47:15 in the video, the audio actually suggests that two officers may have inserted fingers into Pontoon's rectum, as one asks, "What are you talking about, right here?" The other replies, "Right straight up in there."
Pontoon then again tells the officers that they're pushing on a hemorrhoid. One officer responds, "If that's a hemorrhoid, that's a hemorrhoid, all right? But that don't feel like no hemorrhoid to me."
The officers apparently continue to search Pontoon's rectum for another three minutes. They found no contraband. At 12:50:25, Medlin tells Pontoon to turn around and explains that he suspects him because he recognized him from when he worked narcotics. "Now I know you from before, from when I worked dope. I seen you. That's why I put a dog on the car."
That was Medlin's "reasonable suspicion" to call for a drug dog — he thought he recognized Pontoon from a drug case. Medlin could well have been correct about recognizing Pontoon. He has a lengthy criminal history that includes drug charges, although his record appears to be clean since 2006, save for one arrest for "failure to comply." Of course, even if Medlin did recognize Pontoon, that in itself isn't cause to even stop him, much less search his car, or to subject him to a roadside cavity search.
With no contraband and no traffic violation to justify the stop in the first place, Medlin concluded the stop by giving Hicks a "courtesy warning," although according to the complaint, there's no indication of what the warning was actually for. Perhaps it was to warn to steer clear of police officers in Aiken….Read The Rest Here…
Posted by btx3 on April 1, 2016 in BlackLivesMatter
Tags: Aiken, BLM, illegal search, illegal stop, Lawsuit, police brutality, South Carolina, video
Judge Strikes Down Welfare Drug Testing in Florida
A Florida Republican law requiring all Welfare recipients to pass drug testing has been put on hold by a Federal Court. The law is unconstitutional, due to the fact that it violates personal protections against the government invading a citizen's privacy without reasonable evidence of wrongdoing. Statistically, Republican legislators in the state are more likely to use drugs than welfare recipients.
So… In view of the legislators ability to royally screw everything up for everyone…
Why don't they pass a law that all elected officials in the state are regularly tested?
Federal judge temporarily bars Florida's welfare drug-test law
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a controversial Florida law requiring all welfare applicants to be drug-tested.
U.S. District Court Judge Mary Scriven issued a temporary injunction Monday evening against enforcement of the law's "suspicionless drug testing" of adults seeking federal welfare.
The law went into effect July 1, but a single father and the American Civil Liberties Union contend in a lawsuit that the new law is unconstitutional and violates Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
"Perhaps no greater public interest exists than protecting a citizen's rights under the Constitution," the judge wrote, quoting a 1997 Hawaii case.
Under the law, the Florida Department of Children and Family Services requires the drug tests of adults applying to the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The aid recipients are responsible for the cost of the screening, which they recoup in their assistance if they qualify.
Those who fail the required drug testing may designate another individual to receive the benefits on behalf of their children, but they do not receive a refund for cost of the test.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has championed the law, saying it provides "personal accountability." He added it was "unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction."
Florida is not the first state to pass such legislation. Michigan passed a similar law that was found to be unconstitutional by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003 for violating the Fourth Amendment…
The GOP-controlled legislature passed the bill, and Scott signed it into law in May 2011.
"The governor obviously disagrees with the decision and he will evaluate his options regarding when to appeal," said his deputy press secretary Jackie Schutz.
Since campaigning for governor, Scott has said that the drug-testing of welfare recipients "will help to prevent misuse of Florida tax dollars" and make sure the money goes to the children.
"Research shows higher drug use among individuals receiving government assistance, and drug abuse also forces children into welfare assistance," Scott said while signing the bill into law.
The ACLU said the state's own study found that of the 2,000 people who took the state drug test, only a small percentage tested positive.
"It shows that a little bit more than 2% of the welfare applicants tested positive for drugs where it's about 8½% in the general public," said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida.
Posted by btx3 on October 26, 2011 in Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The New Jim Crow
Tags: 4th amendment, conservative fascism, court, Drug Test, drug use, fascism, Flordia, illegal search, judge, race, Racism, Republican, Unconstitutional, welfare


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Wild Boar Attacks Prompt Curfew in Seven Roman Neighborhoods
May 04, 2022 12:37PM EDT Animals
A wild boar near a trash bin in Rome. ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images
In seven districts in the north of Rome, Italy, residents no longer dare to step outdoors at night.
The reason? A spate of wild boar attacks that have left residents feeling unsafe on the city streets after dark and embracing an 8:30 p.m. curfew.
"On the [social media] chats between people in the district, and especially in group chats between people who have dogs, it is advised not to go out after 8.30 p.m.," Gianluca Sabino, who lives in Balduina, one of the seven districts, told La Repubblica newspaper, as The Guardian reported. "Because at night, if somebody falls over or is hurt and nobody is around to help, then they could remain on the ground for who knows how long."
Wild boars have one of the largest ranges of any mammal in the world, according to UPI. More than two million of them live in Italy, and as many as 20,000 in Rome. They have sharp tusks and can grow to be as heavy as 220 pounds. While they are not usually aggressive, they can pose a threat to humans when provoked.
What provokes them, director of the wild animals unit at animal-welfare organization LAV Massimo Vetturi told The Guardian, is the belief that either their young or their food source is threatened.
"These are the two critical elements that can unleash an attack, from any wild animal, not just boar," he said. "But if a boar is close to an overflowing bin and a human approaches, it will act in a way to remove the threat to its essential food source. The real problem in Rome is that there has been no management of the problem."
Wild boar attacks have been a problem in Italy's capital city for years. They have moved through some neighborhoods in packs of 30, according to UPI. The attack that prompted the curfew came on Sunday night, when a boar trampled a woman and stood on her head, The Independent reported.
"It was just before 11pm… I was carrying a bag of rubbish and by the bin I noticed boar cubs," the woman, Marta Santangelo, recalled, as The Independent reported. "The mother was fixating on me. I understood that maybe she was scared and so picked up my dog and ran for cover."
However, hiding did not work and the boar attacked. A good Samaritan later found Santangelo, and she received treatment at a hospital for minor injuries.
The event worried residents.
"This time the victim was an adult – but what if it happens to a child? With [the boars'] teeth, even just a bite to the leg is enough to jeopardise someone's life," Franco Quaranta, who leads a neighborhood group in Aurelio, said, as The Independent reported.
Quaranta said the curfew was a "self-protection" measure because city authorities had not done enough about the incidents. The city did say it would close off entrances to natural areas near the city and collect garbage more frequently.
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'The Big Bang Theory': The Real-Life Partners Of The Cast Members
Some cute couples!
Kaley Cuoco and Karl Cook
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Our favourite characters from The Big Bang Theory definitely made their love lives interesting on screen! But do you know who their partners are in real life? Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki were together off-screen for a little while even! How crazy is that?!
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It's hard to imagine that "Sheldon," "Leonard" and the gang have lives outside of The Big Bang Theory. Let us tell you that they are all really good friends still in real life but they also all have different partners than what we are used to seeing on the show. See who the real-life loves are in the video above! Trust us, you're going to want to see!
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Q: The Polar-Coordinate Form of Cauchy-Riemann
Write $f(z) = u(r, \theta) + iv(r, \theta)$; suppose that the first-order partials of $u, v$ with respect to $r, \theta$ are continuously differentiable in some neighborhood of $z$ and satisfy $ru_r = v_\theta$ and $rv_r = -u_\theta$.  Then, $f$ is differentiable at $z$.

One approach is to show that $u_x, u_y, v_x, v_y$ are continuously differentiable and satisfy $u_x = v_y$ and $-v_x = u_y$.  To that end, it is necessary to show that $\frac{\partial r}{\partial x}, \frac{\partial \theta}{\partial x} \ldots$ are continuously differentiable.  Then, via the chain rule, $u_x = u_r \frac{\partial r}{\partial x} + u_\theta \frac{\partial \theta}{\partial x} \ldots$ so on and so forth.
But if you are defining $\theta$ with $\tan^{-1}\frac{y}{x}$, then you will always have a branch cut somewhere.  So, this approach will not work when we're at the branch cut.  How do you deal with this?
Otherwise, to do it via definition of differentiability, then you need to untangle the nightmare in $\triangle z = (r + \triangle r)e^{i (\theta + \triangle \theta)} - re^{i \theta}$.


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Q: No Ethernet after hibernation I have quite a big problem. I did this:

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*I have Win 7 for quite a long time

*I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 as dual boot with Win 7

*First day (also during installation) wired internet was running.

*I have tried to hibernate Ubuntu -> Laptop was turned off
5) I turned on Laptop next day. From dual boot menu I have picked Ubuntu but there was a
prob.. just black screen

*I have done hard reset

*From that point ethernet (wired internet) is not running. In Ubuntu I have following error:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

I have no idea what to do and I cannot understand how can this effect both systems. If you have any also small hints let me know, I'm desperate.. Thx

A: From the original author
Ok these guys had the solution. The network adapter was in deep sleep, so I had to unplugged the power cable and took out battery which resets the motherboard - and the network device.
Not really much of a solution, however that seems to have fixed it for the author


Behind a white Mercedes, a hospital shrunk into the distance; white bunny having the last look. Zainab sat at the wheel looking straight ahead. The scent of violet hung in the air. Sitting beside her, Namdi remained in quiet contemplation, feeling better after putting that building behind him. Not a word had been said since they got into the car at the hospital. More than a few kilometers had speedily gone by thanks to Zainab's complete disregard of the speed limit. The cities noon day sun hung in the air, working hard to punish those who had no choice but to brave the elements. Namdi and Zainab felt none of it, cocooned in their air conditioned luxury.
Red went the traffic light, forcing Zainab to come to a complete stop. The sound of little hands hitting the passenger side window woke Namdi from his musings.
"Uncle. Uncle. Uncle. Uncle. Anything, anything..."
Unwashed, thin, battered, they crowded the window, struggling with each other to be the one in front. Beads of sweat were born on their foreheads, only to be smeared away using the dirty fabric of their sleeves or palms with finger nails more black than pink. Longingly, they looked through the slightly tinted windows, seeing an escape to the heat that mercilessly beat on their heads. The smallest of the lot hopped from one foot to the other. At first, it seemed like she too was trying to see into the car. On closer inspection, one could see her bare feet had no protection against the scalding hot asphalt of the paved road.
Namdi did not see the little girl, the ones in front were too densely packed. His eyes instead were glued to a little boy who struggled to stay in front of the pack. He was not the smallest of them but he also was not the biggest. In his eyes was a determination the others lacked. On him, he wore a shirt that was merely a step away from having more holes than shirt. Still, Namdi could just make out the picture of what must have been an animal of some sort.
Hands went to mouths, a constant motion, the universal sign of hunger (except in Italy). Unable to silently watch any longer, Namdi reached into his pocket only to meet fabric and nothing more. Looking down, he remembered Zainab had brought him a change of clothes, his wallet still in his old pair folded neatly in the trunk of her car. Turning to Zainab, he began to ask her for money but stopped himself when he saw she was looking right at him. The light turned green but she didn't move, impatient horns beginning to blare behind them. She ignored them, holding Namdi's gaze as she searched for something. Only when she was ready did she begin to move; the little hands desperately and fruitlessly trying to hold on to the smoke passing through their fingers. Left behind once again.
It was the first word any of them had uttered since they entered the car. It hung there, side by side, with the scent of violet. Namdi did not immediately reply as he thought carefully how to respond. It would not be the first time they would be down this road.