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Albert Lenart Gursky (born November 23, 1940), is a former American football linebacker who played college football for Penn State and professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants in 1963 and in the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) for the Atlantic City Senators in 1966.

Early years
Gursky was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, and attended Governor Mifflin Senior High School in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He then attended Penn State University where he played for the Nittany Lions football team from 1960 to 1962. He played defensive back for Penn State and was also a star of the Penn State baseball team.

Professional football
Gursky later played professional football in the NFL for the New York Giants in 1963. He appeared in two NFL games. After an injury to linebacker Tom Scott in the first quarter of the 1963 NFL Championship Game, Gursky entered the game as a substitute and was credited by teammate Andy Robustelli with having done "an outstanding job."

He also played in the ACFL for the Atlantic City Senators in 1966.

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Do not develop food nobody will eat. Just because you may grow one thing, doesn't mean you need to. If your kids don't like spinach now, recent spinach from the garden isn't going to vary that and much will go to waste. Take into account what you and your loved ones like to eat and then determine your garden accordingly. For indoor organic gardening, temperature management is essential in the course of the early phases. Seventy degrees Fahrenheit is the perfect temperature for most seeds to start out rising. You may achieve this temperature relatively simply by putting in heaters and putting the seeds near the vents. You may as well buy warmth mats to put below your plant containers.
There are as many kinds of gardeners as there are kinds of gardens, but it doesn't matter what your gardening type is, there are particular issues every garden has in common and sure ideas will apply to all gardening. Listed below are some suggestions which are related for all gardeners and plenty of sorts of gardens. Plan your gardening accordingly to the climate. If you happen to reside in an space where the bottom freezes in the course of the winter, don't plant anything earlier than frost is anticipated. In the event you live in a hotter space, take a break during the warmest months of summer to keep away from wasting an excessive amount of water.
When starting your personal natural backyard, you must all the time be sure to moisten your combine that's within the containers before you sow the seeds. If your mix isn't moist, it should dry out. This could cause your plant to die before it's given a chance to grow. As was mentioned at the start of this text, when you have an thought what you are trying to do, gardening will come straightforward. With stable info, like the knowledge you discovered here, you will be able to plant a master garden that will be the envy of everyone you recognize.
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When you're making an attempt to determine your plant watering schedules, be sure you are testing your soil regularly. Persistent over-watering is just as prone to kill your crops as below-watering. An easy way to examine is to put your fingertip in the soil, if it is moist, do not add water. To cut down on the time you spend pruning and pulling weeds, make it possible for all of the instruments you use are sharpened and cleaned. A uninteresting or dirty device will make basic gardening duties much more difficult, and might significantly enhance the work you must put into your garden. Caring on your instruments recurrently is more than definitely worth the effort it takes.
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"Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads."
The decision's immediate impact was to strike down the McCain-Feingold Act, the law that had banned the broadcast of "electioneering communications" paid for by corporations in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general election. It did not alter limits placed on corporate and union campaign contributions, but it did overturn parts of prior Supreme Court rulings that allowed for the regulation of independent corporate spending.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was one of the four who argued against the decision. Among many arguments in his 90-page dissent were that: (1) corporations could threaten elected officials with negative advertising to gain unprecedented leverage, (2) the public's faith in the electoral process is adversely affected by corporate independent expenditures, (3) qualities unique to corporations give them an unfair advantage in the political process, and (4) corporations can raise vast sums of money that few individuals can match, unfairly influencing elections.
In his January 2010 State of the Union Address President Barack Obama expressed his concern about the Supreme Court decision, warning that "the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests –- including foreign corporations –- to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." The President then urged Republicans and Democrats to pass a bill that "corrects some of these problems."
The longer-term effect of the ruling was the creation of 'super PACs'– independent groups that can take in unlimited donations from wealthy individuals to advocate for or against a candidate. Super Pacs were the driving force behind a 2012 election season that saw more negative TV campaign ads than any election in history. The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen reported that 85 percent of unregulated independent expenditures made by the 15 biggest outside groups in the 2012 election cycle financed negative messages. In disclosing the spending of Political Action Committees during the 2012 presidential primaries and election, the New York Times found that the overwhelming majority of funds raised by the top PACs were used for televised political attack ads.
Since the ruling many organizations, including Public Citizen, Common Cause, Free Speech is for People, Democracy 21, unPAC.org, the Move To Amend coalition, and others have supported the President and members of Congress in their effort to pass a Constitutional Ammendment to overturn the Citizens United decision.
In 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that the Citizens United ruling supercedes state laws restricting independent political expenditures in campaigns, and in response sixteen states have passed some kind of resolution in support for an ammendment overturning Citizens United, including California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massacusetts, and Montana, and many others. Resolutions are pending in a further 21 states, most of them urging Congress and the President to work to amend the Constitution to prohibit corporations (and some states add unions and other organizations) from making unlimited independent expenditures supporting or opposing candidates for public office.
Another case potentially as damaging to the federal electoral system as Citizens United is McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), which was heard by the Supreme Court in October of 2013. The Court is being asked to decide whether donors, such as GOP activist Shaun McCutcheon, should be able to give unlimited amounts of money to candidates, parties, and political organizations above current limits set by federal law in 1974. If the court decides in favor of McCutcheon, a single person contributing massive amounts of money could gain even greater influence over candidates for office.
Plan and Register an Event to either protest or celebrate the Supreme Court's decision on the McCutcheon vs. FEC case.


Chris Hamel is an infrastructure policy analyst and commentator, having retired from RBC Capital Markets after 35 years as an investment banker focused on municipal and infrastructure finance. As an active banker, he was a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, serving as chair of its Infrastructure Policy Committee. In 2013, he was named to the SIFMA Municipal Division Honor Roll.
While at RBC, Hamel led publishing efforts on several studies related to U.S. infrastructure finance and policy, including "Unlocking Value From Public Assets — Leveraging Private Sector Expertise to Generate New Public Benefits" (2017), "The Role of Design-Build Procurement" (2015) and "Caution Ahead: Overdue Investments for New York's Aging Infrastructure" (2014).
Many of its ideas reflect a growing Washington consensus that more private investment is needed.


Black Mass is an action-packed crime drama with a bleak and disturbing tone. It tells the true story of Whitey Bulger, a violent criminal living in South Boston, who was a local criminal until he became an FBI informant. He was the brother of a state senator and the childhood friend of a local rising FBI agent, who talks him into making a deal. As an informant, he gave the FBI leads on local mafia in exchange for his protected status. He was then able to commit crimes on a more national scale and rise to power. Eventually, his deeds caught up to him, but by then, he had escaped and wasn't found until much, much later in life.


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"Forced to falsify vaccine efficacy test" claim Merck Scientist
By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill
At its core, the 55-page whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia makes one stunning allegation – that pharmaceutical giant Merck traded children's health to protect monopoly profits, and engaged in a systematic, elaborate, and ongoing fraud to do so.
If the charges – which Merck denies – are true, a 12-month-old child getting a recommended shot containing the mumps vaccine at their pediatrician's office this morning would not be adequately protected from the disease, and could face serious health complications down the road as a result.
The alleged fraud: a multi-year effort to hide the fact that the mumps vaccine is no longer anywhere near as effective as Merck claims. The project was widely known and approved within the company's vaccine division and even had a name, Protocol 007, according to the two former Merck scientists who filed the suit more than two years ago under the federal whistleblower statute. Virologists Stephen A. Krahling and Joan A. Wlochowski claim they witnessed the fraud firsthand when they worked at the Merck vaccine laboratory in West Point, Pennsylvania, between 1999 and 2002, and were pressured to participate.
They describe a supervisor manually changing test results that showed the vaccine wasn't working; hurriedly destroying garbage-bags full of evidence to keep the fraud from being exposed; and lying to FDA regulators who came to the lab after being alerted by the whistleblowers. A top Merck vaccine official told Krahling the matter was a "business decision," the suit says, and he was twice told the company would make sure he went to jail if he told federal regulators the truth.
The alleged fraud occurred because, in order to maintain its license for the mumps-measles-rubella vaccine, known as the MMRII, Merck needed to show that the mumps vaccine was still as potent as when originally approved in 1967 as a single vaccine, able to induce immunity in 95 percent of those vaccinated. That number, according to vaccine authorities, is crucial because it leads to "herd immunity," protective against outbreaks even among unvaccinated people. The problem with the mumps vaccine lay in the fact that by the late 1990s, after decades of producing it with the original strain of mumps virus, the vaccine's effectiveness had steadily declined, the suit says.
Merck is the only company licensed in the United States to produce the individual mumps vaccine, as well as the MMRII and a newer shot called the MMRV or ProQuad, which also contains the chickenpox vaccine. That gives Merck an effective monopoly on the product line, which by our estimate has brought the company as much as $10 billion in business since 2000. The complaint conservatively estimates MMRII purchases by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at $750 million.
If tests showed the mumps vaccine is ineffective — or far less so than promised — the door would be opened to any number of adverse events for Merck, from federal regulators pulling the licenses for all of its mumps-vaccine-containing products, to intensified competition from other manufacturers if they became aware of the problem.
What's more, weak efficacy could be triggering real-time, real-world health problems here and abroad, where a version of the MMRII is also used. Mumps outbreaks unexpectedly occurred in the United States in 2006 and in 2009-10, reflecting the three-year cycle in which younger children become exposed. A total of 6,500 cases were reported in a highly vaccinated population in the Midwest in 2006, according to the suit, and another 5,000 cases in 2009; in the years leading up to the first outbreak, the annual average had been 265 cases.
If that pattern holds true, another outbreak might be due as early as this summer.
Additionally, poor vaccine efficacy has the effect of pushing some cases of mumps to a later age, when mumps is a more dangerous disease that can induce sterility in males. One intriguing implication is that no vaccine at all might have been better than the one Merck currently produces.
The suit claims that as a result of the fraud, the U.S. government has been cheated out of millions of dollars paid by the CDC to buy the vaccine for its immunization program. It says the agency, and other government bodies, were wrongly deprived of the knowledge they needed to make proper use of taxpayer money and sound medical decisions. (The CDC predicted several years ago that mumps would be eradicated in the United States by 2010, an outcome predicated on the idea that the vaccine worked.)
The suit describes Merck's allegedly no-holds-barred effort to protect its market position. "Merck set out to conduct testing of its mumps vaccine that would support its original efficacy finding. In performing this testing, Merck's objective was to report efficacy of 95 percent or higher regardless of the vaccine's true efficacy. The only way Merck could accomplish this was through manipulating its testing procedures and falsifying the test results. … Krahling and Wlochowski participated on the Merck team that conducted this testing and witnessed firsthand the fraud in which Merck engaged to reach its desired results. Merck internally referred to the testing as Protocol 007."
The suit says testing began in 1999, led by Senior Investigator David Krah and his second-in-command, Mary Yagodich. Merck's Executive Director of Vaccine Research, Alan Shaw, approved the testing methodology, the suit says. Krahling said he complained about the fraud to Emilio Emini, Vice President of Merck's Vaccine Research Division, and brought "actual testing samples and plaque counting sheets to demonstrate to Emini the fraudulent data that Krah was directing. Emini agreed that Krah had falsified the data," the suit said, but defended some aspects of the work.
"Emini promised to conduct an 'internal audit' of the mumps testing. … Emini ordered Krahling not to call the FDA. Immediately after the meeting [a Human Resources representative] approached Krahling and again threatened that he would be put in jail if he contacted the FDA." Shortly thereafter, Krahling was transferred to another lab, and soon left the company; Wlochowski was also transferred and left the next year. (In 2005, Emini became Executive Vice President of Vaccine Research and Development at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. He is now Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Vaccine Research at Pfizer.)
The suit describes how Merck scientists allegedly engaged in a number of techniques in order to claim that the vaccine remained effective, from essentially testing the vaccine against itself – using the weakened vaccine virus rather than the more virulent "wild" type to which children are exposed in the real world — to adding animal antibodies that increased potency in lab tests; to, when all else failed, simply changing the data accurately recorded by Krahling, Wlochowski, and other virologists.
While many of the details of the alleged fraud are technical, one internal Merck document clearly describes the nature of the mission, according to the suit. It was titled: "Objective: Identify a mumps neutralization assay format [testing procedure] that permits measurement of a greater than or equal to 95% seroconversion rate in MMRII vaccines."
Merck responded Friday that the suit is "completely without merit" and said the company will "vigorously defend" itself – presumably by quickly filing a motion to have the suit dismissed. Merck pointedly noted that, to date, the U.S. Department of Justice has not joined the suit.
Under the federal whistleblower statute, anyone can bring a whistleblower suit alleging that a business they worked for defrauded the United States government and, by extension, taxpayers. Such a suit remains sealed while the company has a chance to review it, and Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys decide whether to join as plaintiffs, throwing the government's weight behind the whistleblower's claim that it was defrauded.
In this case the DOJ did not reach its decision on whether to join as a plaintiff quickly or definitively. The lengthy period between the filing of the suit by Krah and Wlochowski, on April 27, 2010, and the department's decision not to intervene for the time being, on April 27, 2012, required the DOJ to request multiple six-month extensions, according to the civil docket for the case, filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In its statement declining to intervene, the department asked that if either side wants to settle or dismiss the case, "the court solicit the written consent of the United States before ruling or granting its approval."
The mumps component of the combination measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has long been a source of controversy. Merck was first to market in the category introducing a vaccine named MMR in 1971, using a strain of mumps taken from the throat of a Merck scientist's daughter named "Jeryl Lynn." (In 1979, Merck replaced the MMR's rubella component due to safety concerns and named the reformulated vaccine MMRII). Starting in 1986, the first serious competitors to Merck's vaccine began to emerge based on a different mumps component: the so-called Urabe strain, which was first licensed by Japan's Biken Institute in 1979. Urabe-based vaccines were licensed in countries all over the world, including Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom, to name just a few. For many years, however, Merck was able maintained its advantage in the category by outpacing the performance of Urabe-based MMR vaccines.
Merck's main advantage came from its superior safety reputation. One of the most troublesome adverse events for MMR vaccines, aseptic meningitis, is a serious and potentially fatal side effect of vaccination. According to a major textbook on vaccines, "the Urabe strain has been linked with aseptic meningitis wherever adverse reactions have been studied." By contrast, according to another review cited in the complaint, "aseptic meningitis, the Achilles heel of mumps vaccines, has never been documented to be caused by Jeryl Lynn." In country after country, introduction of Urabe-based MMR vaccines have spawned outbreaks of aseptic meningitis and prompted withdrawal of the suspect MMR vaccine. In several of these cases, Merck's MMRII has been the primary beneficiary.
Some researchers have argued, however, that the superior safety profile of MMRII comes at the expense of reduced efficacy. According to the authors above, "a mathematical model using the Urabe or Jeryl Lynn strains, suggested that … the greater apparent safety … associated with the Jeryl Lynn strain is offset by the potentially greater effectiveness associated with the Urabe strain."
In light of these competitive threats to its highly successful MMRII franchise, it's not surprising that asking Merck scientists to oversee testing of the efficacy of its own mumps vaccine would create a conflict of interest, not to mention an incentive to cheat on the test, if the underlying efficacy of the vaccine was weak.
The DOJ's decision also points to another unavoidable but potentially troubling conflict of interest – the department is part of the same Executive Branch of government as the FDA and CDC. Under the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA and CDC approve, recommend, and monitor vaccines, and they have repeatedly certified mumps-containing vaccines as effective. Allowing an alleged fraud to go on under their noses, involving a vaccine to which they are strongly committed, might not be something they would care to acknoweldge.
The fate of the lawsuit notwithstanding, serious new questions about children's health are now in the public domain. It will be worth watching whether regulators or legislators here or abroad ask Merck for convincing, current evidence that the mumps vaccine is working as promised, and that the public's health remains protected.
Dan Olmsted is Editor and Mark Blaxill is Editor at Large of AgeofAutism.com. They are co-authors of The Age of Autism – Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-made Epidemic, published in 2010 by Thomas Dunne Books.
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The Journal of Conflict Resolution has published a paper by Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin titled Preventing Coups d'état – How Counterbalancing Works on March 7. De Bruin has also recorded a podcast about the article with the journal editor.
The article analyzes how "counterbalancing" the military with other security forces prevents coups. Using new cross-national time-series data on state security forces along with evidence from 16 case studies, the article demonstrates that counterbalancing reduces the likelihood that coup attempts will succeed and that it does so primarily by creating incentives for some soldiers to resist the coup, rather than by creating barriers to coordination between forces.
Counterbalancing thus does help insulate leaders from coups by reducing the success rate of coup attempts. However, counterbalancing is not associated with fewer coup attempts. In fact, the creation of a new security force increases the odds of a coup attempt in the following year.
These findings highlight potential costs associated with counterbalancing and explain why it is not more widespread.
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Ruuhijärvi is a place only 25 km from my home, but I haven't been there yet for some reason.
I arrived to the lake around midnight and was the only one in the area. Only the beauty of the summer night surrounded me!
Same place in the morning.
I slept until very late, woke up slowly and waited a long time for the breakfast (strong wind and gas stove aren't good friends). The only person I've noticed during the whole morning was a runner, taking part in orienteering competitions. I've seed some more of them later and soon realized why – there was a competition held in that area.
The roads and trails in the area are very nice for hiking, but most of them are quite demanding for cycling. There are some very cool stretches, however.
Then I continued to the Salmijärvi area, which was also new for me. I heard about it however, because the famous "route 2000" goes through it.
The landscapes on the way from Salmijärvi to Klaukkala are just stunning! The road is quiet and nice too until Lepsämä.
Just before Klaukkala there is a possibility to turn off the main road and take a look at the Valkjärvi lake.
Why I went back to the city through Klaukkala? Well, the most obvious reason is that Vihdintie is straight and boring. But there was another consideration, related to the city planning.
There has been an idea some years ago to build a railway to Klaukkala, mostly for commuters. The mayor of Nurmijärvi (a little bit bigger town just North from Klaukkala) said then: "the train brings drugs", meaning perhaps not drugs as such, but "bad taxpayers". Since that Nurmijärvi became more than just a name of the specific town. It symbolizes the core idea of the suburban utopia – some nice-looking houses for the "good taxpayers", green lawns, 3-4 cars per family and commuting to Helsinki to work. Picking the best and avoiding all the problems.
I've been in Nurmijärvi last December and now let's see Klaukkala. A small district here, surrounded by forest. Looks pretty, right?
There is a problem, however. The town is scattered around, there is much unused space between the buildings and between the district and another. This makes distances bigger and, because there is nothing done for cycling/walking to be an attractive transportation option and because the town of such a size doesn't have an internal public transport, most people would think that they need to have a car.
What's the result? The central street looks like this – an ugly shop and a gas station.
Kids go to school by moped, while majority of them would have gone by foot, by bike or by bus with better planning (all markings, except the closest one, form a huge moped parking).
Another bizarre example – a gas station near the entrance to the supermarket. WTF is that, seriously? Shop visitors don't want this kind of "shared space"!
And of course the most sad thing is that people who live in places like Klaukkala expect to have a "red carpet" for their car anywhere else, even in the busiest areas of Helsinki.
This kind of urban design kills Finnish town and cities, creates huge expenditures and other negative impacts. It should be forgotten as a nightmare!
Fortunately, in spite of the opposition, the train is coming closer and closer to Klaukkala and Nurmijärvi. With the opening of the Helsinki Ring Rail Line, Klaukkala is now only 9.7 km away from the Kivistö station. Times are changing!
By the way, about Kivistö. I passed it on the way back home. It still looks pretty much unfinished, as it was one year ago. But it was nice to notice 2 new restaurants there, and not the "grill-kebab" stuff! One of them is "Trattoria Limone", which you can see in the picture.
The cyclist (and preferably the pedestrian too) should never be forced to cross more than one lane of the same-direction traffic. It's so common when a car stops in one lane and another car doesn't stop in the second lane. This is almost always fatal and therefore this roundabout is an example of awful design.
There are some other problems with this roundabout too. How you are supposed to cycle straight on, for example?
Then I went to some older areas of Vantaa, which are also not very good from the city planning perspective, but at least they are nice otherwise and familiar.


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Buddy, the sensational real-life hoop hound with 22,000 career baskets under his collar, stars in this hilarious and touching Disney comedy critics cheered as irresistible family entertainment! When Josh Framm, a 12-year-old boy, finds himself in a new city with no friends, he's too shy to try out for the basketball team. However, while practicing, he meets Buddy, a runaway golden retriever, who surprises him with his ability to score baskets. Josh and Buddy eventually make the school team, and the dog's extraordinary talents spark a media frenzy, one that attracts Buddy's greedy former owner (Evening Shade's Michael Jeter), who wants to cash in on the dog's notoriety. Boy and dog must keep one step ahead of the brute while at the same time rallying their school team to the state finals! Get ready to be delighted, moved and amazed by Air Bud, a timeless Disney favorite.
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Information for the public safety column comes from public records of the Lake Oswego Police Department. Authorities recently filed reports on the following incidents:
12/13 2:51 p.m. A hit-and-run accident was reported near the 1800 block of South Shore Boulevard. No one was injured.
12/15 11:02 a.m. An accident was reported near the 1300 block of Cherry Crest Avenue. An injury was reported.
12/17 8:49 a.m. An accident was reported near the 300 block of A Avenue. No one was injured.
12/17 12:11 p.m. A hit-and-run accident was reported near the 4800 block of Meadows Road. No one was injured.
12/18 3:14 p.m. A hit-and-run accident was reported near the 14800 block of Kruse Oaks Drive. No one was injured.
12/18 5:22 p.m. Multiple vehicles collided near Monroe Parkway and Boones Ferry Road. No one was injured.
12/13 8:47 a.m. An amplifier was reported stolen near the 2500 block of Country Club Road.
12/13 9:07 a.m. A lunch box was reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle near the 13500 block of Rogers Road.
12/13 4:46 p.m. A brown belt was reported to have been stolen in November at an undisclosed location.
12/14 1:36 p.m. Electronics were reported stolen from a home at an undisclosed location.
12/14 6:35 p.m. A mason jar with about $50 in change and bills was stolen from a home that was broken into at an undisclosed location.
12/17 3:04 p.m. A package valued at $198 was stolen from a porch near the 10 block of Condolea Drive.
12/17 5:19 p.m. Business papers were reported stolen near the 17400 block of Holy Names Drive.
12/18 4:04 p.m. $120 in cash was reported stolen near the 17500 block of Mesnard Street.
12/13 9:26 a.m. Fraudulent checks were printed and used with a company's name.
12/13 11:47 a.m. A purported lottery scammer tried to purchase tickets using a fraudulent credit card near the 400 block of A Avenue.12/17 10:52 a.m. An ex-employee used a company credit card for Uber charges.
12/11 5:12 p.m. A man was seen running in the middle of the road near Boones Ferry Road and Kruse Way. It appeared that he might be trying to get hit.
12/11 9:05 p.m. A caller said an ex was harassing her via text and she didn't know what steps to take next.
12/11 11:43 p.m. A woman, who was intoxicated, was upset that her husband (also drunk) would not stop talking to her when she wanted to go to bed. The husband agreed to stop talking and let her sleep.
12/12 6:38 a.m. An old shopping cart with a propane container and red lantern in it was seen near the 300 block of Cervantes.
12/12 8:41 a.m. Anonymous tips were called into someone's work about that person selling drugs and carrying weapons.
12/12 10:24 a.m. The front door to a business was damaged near the 300 block of 1st Street. It appeared to be caused by two customers opening doors at the same time.
12/12 11:29 a.m. A caller said a neighbor was "always playing his music as loud as he can" to spite her.
12/12 12:47 p.m. A resident said a neighbor's barrier wall wasn't working and there was "lots of mud and water" coming toward their house.
12/12 1:12 p.m. A suspicious looking vehicle had its driver's door open all day near the 400 block of A Avenue.
12/12 2:31 p.m. A woman had questions about putting up signs, as well as possible fines, for dogs being off-leash and pooping on her property.
12/12 2:37 p.m. A domestic incident was reported.
12/12 3:55 p.m. A caller, who was being evasive, wanted to discuss possible extortion.
12/12 3:56 p.m. A mom and child were panhandling near A Avenue and N State Street.
12/12 4:16 p.m. A woman said her ex borrowed her standalone AC unit and hadn't returned it.
12/12 9:28 p.m. A man and woman were arguing.
12/12 9:33 p.m. A suspicious looking yellow truck kept stopping in the middle of the road near Quarry Road and Country Woods Court.
12/12 10:21 p.m. Loud construction was reported near the 17000 block of Rebecca Drive.
12/13 12:41 a.m. A person was loitering on a sidewalk after being asked to leave near the 200 block of N State Street.
12/13 1:34 a.m. A suspicious looking person was wandering around near the 5000 block of Foothills Drive.
12/13 10:01 a.m. A woman wanted help getting items from an ex-boyfriend's house.
12/13 10:37 a.m. A caller said a man wanted to fight with her boss.
12/13 11:38 a.m. Two young women were seen smoking what appeared to be a bong at an undisclosed location.
12/13 11:39 a.m. 11:39 a.m. A caller said a man asked if he could help her near Bangy Road and Meadows Road.
12/13 11:58 a.m. Wood slats were removed from a picnic table near the 600 block of S State Street.
12/13 12:26 p.m. A woman had questions about identity theft.
12/13 12:52 p.m. After a woman narrowly avoided hitting a man as he crossed the street, she encountered the man in a parking lot and he began screaming at her before kicking her car.
12/13 1:51 p.m. A resident wanted to talk to an officer about a cyber bullying issue.
12/13 4:34 p.m. The back window of a car was smashed near the 40 block of Eagle Crest Drive. It was unclear if anything had been stolen.
12/13 6:04 p.m. Two people were fighting and one got punched in the face at an undisclosed location. They were arguing over the placement of a napkin.
12/13 7:06 p.m. A caller said their son was breaking things, threatening to hurt people and they found knives in the kitchen.
12/13 7:23 p.m. A man and woman were heard yelling at each other and banging things. It turned out they were yelling in frustration about their upstairs neighbors and they agreed to quiet down.
12/13 9:55 p.m. A "very loud" party was reported near the 20 block of Iron Mountain Boulevard.
12/13 10:14 p.m. A "creepy" man was seen ringing doorbells and smoking a cigarette near the 40 block of Eagle Crest Drive.
12/14 9:04 a.m. A resident believed people were pretending to deliver newspapers and possibly associated with drug activity in an undisclosed location.
12/14 9:50 a.m. A man was banging on doors, calling employees explicit names and trying to shove checks through doors near the 500 block of A Avenue.
12/14 12:45 p.m. Human feces and drug paraphernalia was found at a gazebo near the 3900 block of Carman Drive.
12/14 2:37 p.m. Upon leaving a party, a resident found her car was keyed near the 300 block of North Shore Road.
12/14 6:20 p.m. A caller was concerned about an employee who had been acting strange and didn't come to work. It turned out she was OK, but stressed and depressed about finances.
12/14 6:35 p.m. A home was broken into with a hammer at an undisclosed location; it was unclear if anything was missing.
12/14 6:38 p.m. Teens were throwing a party that seemed to be getting out of hand at an undisclosed location.
12/14 7:06 p.m. A caller believed squatters were living in an abandoned home and had stolen merchandise at an undisclosed location.
12/14 7:59 p.m. A caller remained concerned about teens throwing a party and said vehicles were parked haphazardly.
12/14 10:54 p.m. A caller said their adult son was intoxicated and had mental health issues.
12/14 10:57 p.m. A woman said she dropped her wallet while carrying packages, but then told police she found it.
12/15 12:03 a.m. A vehicle was running with its lights on near the 16000 block of Boones Ferry Road, and employees at an establishment couldn't leave until the car was gone. It turned out to be two teens talking in the car and they moved along.
12/15 12:50 a.m. About a dozen people were swearing and yelling at an undisclosed location.
12/15 1:01 a.m. For the third night this week, a woman felt that "something is not right." She was woken up by a weird, loud noise and told police that "it was just time to tell you" about what was going on in the area.
12/15 1:01 a.m. A man was seen looking in cars near Hallinan Street and Hemlock Street.
12/15 6:52 a.m. A dog was reportedly "cold and whimpering" on a deck near the 50 block of Kerr Parkway.
12/15 11:29 a.m. A suspected transient man was seen near the 5700 block of Jean Road.
12/15 2:35 p.m. A caller said someone almost stabbed a person with medical scissors at an undisclosed location.
12/15 3:43 p.m. An older man who "smelled like alcohol" fell down before getting a car and driving away near the 16100 block of Boones Ferry Road. It turned out he wasn't drunk, but his license was suspended.
12/15 4:36 p.m. A man who was suspected of being houseless was seen sleeping near the 5300 block of Meadows Road.
12/15 5:08 p.m. A resident was concerned about a child who'd been left alone.
12/15 6:32 p.m. A loud explosion was heard near the 3800 block of Rivers Edge Drive.
12/15 7:44 p.m. A suspicious looking vehicle was seen near the 5700 block of Willow Lane.
12/15 2:02 a.m. A vehicle was seen driving and stopping several times near Alder Circle and South Shore Boulevard. It was a delivery driver for The Oregonian.
12/17 8:17 a.m. A person was seen sleeping on the back porch of a vacant home at an undisclosed location.
12/17 12:17 p.m. An employee at a salon said a man kept coming in and pretending to be a new client before bullying staff members. Specifically, he would "aggressively hit on" the front desk person and threaten to put bad reviews online if she didn't go out with him. And when the front desk person left, he was waiting outside.
12/17 12:57 p.m. Two sets of Christmas lights were cut near the 700 block of North Shore Road.
12/17 1:16 p.m. A Red Box kiosk screen was smashed near the 15400 block of Boones Ferry Road.
12/17 3:31 p.m. A woman said she lived in a condo, and had found nails in her tire four or five times since September, which seemed suspicious.
12/17 4:50 p.m. A resident said a man was standing near a neighbor's garage and waved at her near the 16800 block of Inverurie Road.
12/17 5:12 p.m. A man was standing in a driveway and shining a very bright light at cars near Upper Drive and Bryant Road.
12/17 8:26 p.m. A woman was seen in the middle of the road near Pacific Highway and Brookhurst Drive.
12/17 8:50 p.m. A burglary was reported at an undisclosed location.
12/18 2:46 a.m. Refusing to give any information, a man said he wanted to talk to the law about something his sister did to him 40 years ago.
12/18 8:00 a.m. An armed robbery was reported at an undisclosed location.
12/18 8:39 a.m. A bag that was possibly filled with trash was seen near Westlake Drive and Melrose Street.
12/18 9:27 a.m. A woman was heard screaming "get out" in an apartment building. She was upset because her insurance called about a crash she was in.
12/18 9:47 a.m. Claiming his girlfriend was "not in her right mind," a man asked about the eviction process for a condo.
12/18 9:51 a.m. A door was kicked in at an undisclosed location.
12/18 10:14 a.m. A hole was punched in the back on a trunk near the 12300 block of Mt Jefferson Terrace.
12/18 11:33 a.m. A man was flying a drone and looking in people's windows near the 90 block of Oswego Summit.
12/18 1:40 p.m. An officer was flagged down to inspect a suspicious garbage bag near 35th Place and Childs Road. It was filled with Styrofoam.
12/18 2:42 p.m. A terminated employee was refusing to return work equipment.
12/18 3:31 p.m. Kids were seen breaking glass at an undisclosed location.
12/18 6:01 p.m. Someone who'd previously been squatting at a location was allowed to come back to pick up items, but took things he was specifically told not to remove while leaving items he was allowed to take.
12/18 6:50 p.m. Possible emotional and financial abuse of an elder was reported.


Sheila was found dead at home on the morning of 29th October. She may have died by suicide.
According to police, family members reported that the victim had a seizure and had been commenting for some time that she would take poison for the purpose of committing suicide.
According to police at the scene, no container or anything was found to indicate that Sheila, in fact, might have been taking venom.


We are so excited to introduce you to this labor of love, Hearts of Clay!
Please take a moment to read the rules. Then you can introduce yourself!
The forum is just getting started so there is lots of space for you to post pictures and discussion of your favorite owned or admired porcelain bjds.
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allurose, thank you so much for creating this place for everyone who loves and admires porcelain balljointed dolls. I am very excited to be here and meet people who share my love for these dolls.
I think I recognize you from other doll places too, yay!
Allurose, I'm very pleased to be here , appreciate the time and energy you've invested in creating this forum for porcelain BJD's... bound to be very exciting!
Hello Allurose, I too thank you for all your hard work. How nice to have one forum for all porcelain bjd's. Looking forward to learning about new dolls!! Can you please include the wonderful Japanese porcelain doll artist, Koitsukihime?
Welcome, Isslyn! Thank you, I hope you and everyone else likes the forum!
Merrijane, you are so welcome! Yes, it looks to me like those dolls are On Topic. I won't be attempting to create a thread for each artist myself...there are so many it would be impossible! But if you are a fan of their work, I think it would be amazing if you started the thread yourself! I'm sure there are many people like you who want to see dolls from many artists!
Thanks so much for creating this forum, and doing all your research on all these wonderful porcelain doll artists! I believe the world has needed a forum for porcelain bjd's for quite some time!
I want to thank You too for creating this forum!!!
Can you please include the wonderful Japanese porcelain doll artist, Koitsukihime?
Excellent idea! I've read once this artist is very secretive about her work; photos are not allowed when there's an exhibition for example. It could be interesting to learn more.


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On Friday, tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets to protest the shocking assassination of leftist, secular politician Chokri Belaid earlier this week. He had been the leader of a small opposition party and had been an outspoken critic both of the ruling al-Nahda Party and of the neighborhood militias that sprung up during the revolution of 2011 and many of which have never been demobilized.
Friday was marked by a general strike called for by the powerful General Union of Tunisian Workers (French acronym UGTT), the first in 35 years. (During the January, 2011, revolution, the UGTT was relatively timid and only called for a 2-hour work stoppage at one point).
One reason the UGTT called the general strike is that the religious right ruling party, al-Nahda, has since the revolution made a strong partnership with the private Tunisian business sector, and has been unsympathetic toward, and sometimes has repressed, workers' strikes and movements.
In response to this week's crisis, al-Nahda Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali proposed the formation of a government of national unity, in which he would appoint apolitical technocrats to major cabinet posts instead of prominent fundamentalist al-Nahda politicians. But the next day, his party's central committee objected to this plan.
Belaid's assassination was the most visible and prominent evidence of Tunisia's class polarization. It is three-way, with workers and intellectuals of the left opposing the new government's Neoliberal tendencies; with middle and upper classes tied to the old secular state and its institutions afraid of fundamentalism and privatization; and with the fundamentalists promoting private businessmen.
But the murder of Belaid also points to widespread security problems in the wake of the fall of the dictatorial regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali two years ago. The security problems derive from three quarters: simple criminal gangs, unruly neighborhood militias, and militant Salafi fundamentalists who act as Ku Klux Klan-style vigilantes against secularists. All three problems derive from the inability of the current government to reconstitute the security forces after the revolution. Tunisia's some 80,000 secret police were largely disbanded, and the ordinary police are poorly paid and lacking in morale, feeling that people unfairly blame them for policing during the dictatorship. The military is small (35,000 men in a country of 10.5 million) and apolitical and has not played a significant role in civil security issues.
In turn, the incompetence of the ruling al-Nahda government in restoring security is in part structural. The government is full of people who were harassed by the police and unjustly jailed during the old regime, and restoring power to the police is probably not high on their agenda.
The other problem is the way the outcome of the October 23, 2011 parliamentary elections was handled. The Muslim, religious al-Nahda party only got about 37% of the seats. Secular, leftist and center-left parties made up the rest. Moncef Marzouki, leader of the Congress for the Republic party (center-left), went into coalition with al-Nahda and with the small Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties of Mustapha Ben Jaafar. Marzouki became president and Ben Jaafar became Speaker of the parliament. But the prime ministership went to Hamadi Jebali, and old-time fundamentalist, who formed a cabinet that largely was drawn from al-Nahda, the religious right. The three of them are called the 'troika' in Tunisia.
Marzouki is erratic and quirky, and ineffectual. Parliament doesn't function all that well, and Ben Jaafar's party only got 20 seats, so he isn't powerful. Jebali and his fundamentalist cabinet have thrown their weight around even though they essentially head a minority government. Tunisian middle classes are often not just secular but militantly Voltaire-like, and they hate al-Nahda and its government.
The security problem posed by the hard line fundamentalist Salafis, who go around physically assaulting people and disrupting cultural events they don't approve of, has generally been soft-pedaled by al-Nahda. Its leaders typically won't condemn them outright, and talk about secular 'provocations' to the violence, thus blaming the victim.
The secularists go further. When I was in Tunisia last May, secularists repeatedly alleged to me that al-Nahda secretly runs the Salafis as enforcers for their own party, putting them up to their extreme actions. (In September, Salafis were bused by someone to an outer suburb of Tunis where the US embassy is located, and they attacked it).
In some ways, al-Nahda has itself to blame for the polarization and suspicion. It should have put more leftists in the cabinet (reflecting their weight in parliament), and it should have dealt more firmly with the Salafis and neighborhood militias.
Al-Nahda politicians have also sometimes deployed fiery rhetoric against secularists like Belaid.
Belaid was a critic of the neighborhood militias, of the Salafis and of al-Nahda. But his widow fingered al-Nahda as behind his murder, and this charge is widely believed in the tony neighborhoods of LaMarsa and other nothern suburbs.
If you really did believe that al-Nahda has dictatorial tendencies and has secret assassination cells, it would be alarming to have it be your government, hence the big demonstrations on Friday. But that conspiracy theory is only the expression of bigger class conflicts and anxieties. Tunisia is roiled not just by a religion/secular divide but by a Religious Right vs. Workers and peasants divide, with many middle class intellectuals siding with the latter. That is why the protests took place in hardscrabble rural towns as well as in downtown Tunis. Rural Tunisia is relatively religious, but it is also disproportionately unemployed, and al-Nahda has yet to do much for them. Indeed, where they have tried to strike and protest on labor issues, it has put them down (in a way it seems uninterested in putting down violent Salafis).
As usual, a lot of pundits are looking to use the instability in Tunisia to indict the Arab Spring. But the divisions and the structural problems in the country were largely produced by the old dictatorship, which could no longer deal with them by state coercion. Tunisia is wracked by that new phenomenon, of open political struggle. The country needs to rework it into peaceful civil politics if it is to go ahead, but the struggle itself is salutary. The old Tunisia of 80,000 secret police spying on citizens' every word and the criminalization of political speech is gone, and good riddance. People who want that back for the sake of 'stability' are being unrealistic; it is what produced the instability, because it was untenable in the long run.


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"Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen…" and so did Dottore Gianni! In fact he not only looked out, he stepped out and up, to Hradcany, the Prague Castle complex.
While I'm on it, who is St. Stephen? Well, apparently not only a saint and martyr, but the FIRST martyr, tried and stoned to death for preaching about Jesus only a year or so after the crucifixion. Several Catholic countries observe an actual holiday on 26 December in honor of this first martyr, including the Czech Republic. He is known as Istvan in this part of the world. If you remember back to my Budapest post, the beautiful St Stephen's Basilica in that city (Szent Istvan Bazilika) is named after him. Knowing that a Bohemian duke named Wenceslas was out giving alms on a cold day in December, a day holy to him and those around him (except possibly for his assassins) because it honored the first Christian martyr puts the story and the hymn in context for me – whether it does so for you or not, sorry!
Whew! I DO go on! So on the Feast of Stephen I ventured out and climbed to the castle via Mala Strana. If you start in Malastranske Namesti it's a fairly steep but manageable climb along a street filled with cafes, restaurants and more than anything else, souvenir shops, so if you get tired there are plenty of places to get your breath back again. The day was not completely clear, but enough so that once in the area of the castle it was really quite lovely. I decided to go a bit farther on, as I'd not seen the Strahov Monastery, slightly higher on the hill than the castle.
If you're ever in Prague and at Hradcany already, there are two good reasons besides seeing the monastery to go. First, the views from a terrace at the rear of the monastery the views are even more breathtaking than those from the castle.
Second (and more fun), the good monks of Strahov still brew their own beer, several variations in fact, and there's a little café next to the monastery where I had a really good chicken noodle and vegetable soup (though not so fine and like my grandmother's as I'd had in Bratislava) and a decent amount of the monks' amber ale – delicious lunch!
Thus fortified I strolled easily back to the castle, passing Loreto on the way. My mother, sister and I had visited there those several years ago when we took our trip to Prague. I didn't go in this time, but it's famous for a copy of the house in Nazareth called the Santa Casa, where the annunciation took place. It's referred to as Loreto because in the late thirteenth century a wealthy Italian family bought the house and had it brought back to their home town…Loreto. Even though the Prague Santa Casa is a mere replica, it seems the place has become a pilgrimage destination as well as a tourist attraction.
and finally went through the castle gates and into the courtyard where everyone who enters is overwhelmed by the St. Vitus Cathedral. The cathedral is overwhelming from much farther afield, in fact to my mind it is THE highlight of the view from Charles Bridge, for example, or any other place along the river where the complex is visible. Think about it for a moment. If you erased St. Vitus from the photos we all take of Hradcany, what would the view be? A group of buildings high above you, but none so distinctive, so dramatic as the cathedral, which is THE focal point. Agreed? Of course, I knew you would!
St Vitus Cathedral - flying buttresses!
The Basilica of St George, the oldest church within the castle, founded in 920, rebuilt after a fire in 1142, and Zlata Uliska (Golden Lane) filled with tiny houses dating from the fifteenth century, one of which, number 22, Franz Kafka lived in for a time. I had been to all of these before, but I wanted to stroll through each again, as who knows when, or if, I'll make it back to Prague?
Then I headed back down to Mala Strana, crossed the river one bridge north of Charles Bridge which leads directly to the Rudolfinum, an elegant neo-Renaissance structure in Stare Mesto. The Rudolfinum houses antiquities, art, and is home to concerts of classical music, as are so many public buildings in Prague. It had been a busy and relatively long day, so I headed back to Wenceslas Square, had some halusky at the Christmas Market there (potato gnocchi with bacon and cabbage – not as good as I'd hoped) then returned to the hotel where I ended up doing as I tend to do at the end of the day – dealing with photos and preparing blog posts.
My final day in Prague was a rather light one, comparatively, as I had beem active, maybe too much so, during the first three.
After another good breakfast I headed to one of my favorite places in Prague, the Mucha Museum. Alfonse Mucha was a talented artist from Bohemia, who created a sensation in Paris when he deigned a poster for Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest actress of her era. The style in which he designed it was unique, and was for a time known as the Mucha style, but later became known as Art Nouveau and grew into a popular form throughout Europe and beyond.. The museum is excellent, and at the end of your tour of it you can see a twenty-minute film on Mucha's life, very well done.
I left the happy but hungry, and found a small cafe in Stare Mesto where I had an inexpensive, delicious bowl of goulash soup, very different from that which I had had in Hungary. I then decided to walk north through the old town to Josefov, the Jewish quarter.
In this part of town I came upon a unique statue of Kafka, which I'd not seen before, as well as the Spanish and Old/New Synagogues and the graveyard next to which souvenir stands sell among many other things, books and other gifts that have to do with the Golem of Prague -- legend has it that a rabbi created this colossus out of clay to defend the Jews of the city and to prevent pogroms. The Golem became more and more violent, in one version of the story it fell in love, and ultimately the Rabbi had to de-commission his creation -- but some say it is still in the attic of the Old/New Synagogue, waiting to be re-activated if need be!
For one of my final acts in Prague I fulfilled a promise to David Agranov, who had arranged for the great room I stayed in while there: to go to U Flecku, the famed pivnice and restaurant to have one of their home-made brews.
I did, in fact I had two -- one for David, another for me. Another special Prague treat, upon entering your are seated at a long thin table packed with other tourists and regulars. A beer is brought to you on a platter with many others, a small sheet of paper is placed next to you on the table and a mark is made to signify what you owe. Glasses of the powerful Becherovka are also brought round, and of course you can order food if you like -- a warning: it's OK to smoke there and there was a lot of smoking foing on, which would probably ruin the experience for some, but it's quite the place, and their pivo is near perfect!
Then I staggered back to the hotel, made sure that the lovely and delightful young woman at reception ordered me a taxi to the airport for the next morning, and I also asked if she could print out my boarding pass, as I had been able to check in on line, but of course had no access to a printer. She jumped to the task and made my departure much easier. Then I headed out for a last meal, but I was so stuffed from Slavic food that, sacrilege of sacrileges, I ate Italian. A decent Margarita Pizza and a big salad, and a tad more red wine than I really needed.
Little more to say – I really enjoyed my trip, not just to Prague, but to Budapest and especially Bratislava. I learned a lot, I saw two great cities I'd never seen and re-visited one I love, at Christmas to boot, a decorative and celebratory time in any part of the world, but the Christmas markets and decorations these cities seemed to propel me into the holiday spirit. And maybe most importantly I was able to bid my own small adieu, with a votive candle, to a hero of mine, Vaclav Havel.
Next trip in just a few weeks, for my birthday – Bruges!


Before Glee took to the airwaves, before Pitch Perfect hit theaters, before every network had a live singing contest, there was Straight No Chaser.
The a cappella men's group made geeky cool — as well entertaining and funny. Their "12 Days of Christmas" mashup is a Holiday classic and has forever changed how fans hear that indelible 80s hit "Africa" by Toto.


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Q: FindRoot::Istol error I recently tried to find a root with FindRoot in Mathematica. I know that the problem has a solution, but when using FindRoot, this error appears :

FindRoot::lstol: The line search decreased the step size to within tolerance specified by AccuracyGoal and PrecisionGoal but was unable to find a sufficient decrease in the merit function. You may need more than 10000.` digits of working precision to meet these tolerances. >>
  t->{0.1139}

However, I get an answer, but this is not a really accurate one! Even though I changed AccuracyGoal, PrecessionGoal and WorkingPrecession, the answer didn't change. Please help me getting rid of the error.
My code is:
a1 = 0.375;
a2 = 0.175;
b1 = 0.125;
b2 = 0.325;
m1 = 0.05;
m2 = 0.5;
mh = 0.5;
l1 = a1 + b1;
l2 = a2 + b2;
λ = 0.0504;
g = 9.81;
kinetic1 =
  1/2 m1 (a1^2 Cos[q1[t]]^2 q1'[t]^2 + a1^2 Sin[q1[t]]^2 q1'[t]^2) +
  1/2 m2 ((a2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2 + (-a2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2) +
  1/2 mh ((l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    l2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2 + (-l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2) +
  1/2 m2 ((l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] + l2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    b2 Cos[q2[t]] q2'[t])^2 + (-l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] - b2 Sin[q2[t]] q2'[t])^2) +
  1/2 m1 ((l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] + l2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    l2 Cos[q2[t]] q2'[t] +
    b1 Cos[q3[t]] q3'[t])^2 + (-l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] - l2 Sin[q2[t]] q2'[t] -
    b1 Sin[q3[t]] q3'[t])^2);
potential1 =
  m1 g (a1 Cos[q1[t]]) + m2 g ((l1 + a2) Cos[q1[t]]) +
  mh g ((l1 + l2) Cos[q1[t]]) +
  m2 g ((l1 + l2) Cos[q1[t]] - b2 Cos[q2[t]]) +
  m1 g ((l1 + l2) Cos[q1[t]] - l2 Cos[q2[t]] - b1 Cos[q3[t]]);
lagrangeq11 =
  D[D[kinetic1, q1'[t]], t] - D[kinetic1, q1[t]] +
  D[potential1, q1[t]];
lagrangeq21 =
  D[D[kinetic1, q2'[t]], t] - D[kinetic1, q2[t]] +
  D[potential1, q2[t]];
lagrangeq31 =
  D[D[kinetic1, q3'[t]], t] - D[kinetic1, q3[t]] +
  D[potential1, q3[t]];
kinetic2 =
  1/2 m1 (a1^2 Cos[q1[t]]^2 q1'[t]^2 + a1^2 Sin[q1[t]]^2 q1'[t]^2) +
  1/2 m2 ((a2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2 + (-a2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2) +
  1/2 mh ((l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    l2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2 + (-l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t])^2) +
  1/2 m2 ((l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] + l2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    b2 Cos[q2[t]] q2'[t])^2 + (-l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] - b2 Sin[q2[t]] q2'[t])^2) +
  1/2 m1 ((l1 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] + l2 Cos[q1[t]] q1'[t] +
    l2 Cos[q2[t]] q2'[t] +
    b1 Cos[q2[t]] q2'[t])^2 + (-l1 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] -
    l2 Sin[q1[t]] q1'[t] - l2 Sin[q2[t]] q2'[t] -
    b1 Sin[q2[t]] q2'[t])^2);
potential1 =
  m1 g (a1 Cos[q1[t]]) + m2 g ((l1 + a2) Cos[q1[t]]) +
  mh g ((l1 + l2) Cos[q1[t]]) +
  m2 g ((l1 + l2) Cos[q1[t]] - b2 Cos[q2[t]]) +
  m1 g ((l1 + l2) Cos[q1[t]] - l2 Cos[q2[t]] - b1 Cos[q2[t]]);
lagrangeq12 =
  D[D[kinetic2, q1'[t]], t] - D[kinetic2, q1[t]] +
  D[potential2, q1[t]];
lagrangeq22 =
  D[D[kinetic2, q2'[t]], t] - D[kinetic2, q2[t]] +
  D[potential2, q2[t]];
q10 = -0.1877 - λ;
q30 = q20 = 0.2884 - λ;
q1d0 = 1.1014;
q3d0 = q2d0 = 0.0399;
beforeknee1 = {{0, q10}}; beforeknee2 = {{0, q20}}; beforeknee3 = {{0,
    q30}};
time = timep = 0;
Clear[v1];
Clear[v2];
lagrangesolveg1 =
  NDSolve[{lagrangeq11 == 0, lagrangeq21 == 0, lagrangeq31 == 0,
  q1[0] == q10, q2[0] == q20, q3[0] == q20, q1'[0] == q1d0,
  q2'[0] == q2d0, q3'[0] == q2d0}, {q1, q3, q2}, {t, 0, 1},
  MaxSteps -> 1000000];
time1 = FindRoot[(q3[t] == q2[t]) /. lagrangesolveg1, {t, 0.5, 0,
  1}]; time1 = t /. time1; time1 = SetAccuracy[time1, 5];
For[τ = 1, τ < (IntegerPart[10000 time1] + 1), τ++,
  q1t = q1[τ/10000] /. lagrangesolveg1;
  q2t = q2[τ/10000] /. lagrangesolveg1;
  q3t = q3[τ/10000] /. lagrangesolveg1;
time = N[timep + τ/10000];
beforeknee1 = Append[beforeknee1, {time, q1t[[1]]}];
beforeknee2 = Append[beforeknee2, {time, q2t[[1]]}];
beforeknee3 = Append[beforeknee3, {time, q3t[[1]]}];];
timep = time;
hh1 = q1'[time1] /. lagrangesolveg1;
hh1 = hh1[[1]];
hh2 = q2'[time1] /. lagrangesolveg1;
hh2 = hh2[[1]];
hh3 = q3'[time1] /. lagrangesolveg1;
hh3 = hh3[[1]];
hh4 = q1[time1] /. lagrangesolveg1;
hh4 = hh4[[1]];
hh5 = q3[time1] /. lagrangesolveg1;
hh5 = hh5[[1]];
kneeright1 =
  Cross[{a1 Sin[hh4], a1 Cos[hh4], 0},
  m1 {a1 Cos[hh4] v1, -a1 Sin[hh4] v1, 0}] +
  Cross[{(a2 + l1) Sin[hh4], (a2 + l1) Cos[hh4], 0},
  m2 {a2 Cos[hh4] v1 + l1 Cos[hh4] v1, -a2 Sin[hh4] v1 -
   l1 Sin[hh4] v1, 0}] +
  Cross[{(l2 + l1) Sin[hh4], (l2 + l1) Cos[hh4], 0},
  mh {l1 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh4] v1, -l1 Sin[hh4] v1 -
   l2 Sin[hh4] v1, 0}] +
  Cross[{(l2 + l1) Sin[hh4] - b2 Sin[hh5], (l2 + l1) Cos[hh4] -
   b2 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m2 {l1 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh4] v1 +
   b2 Cos[hh5] v2, -l1 Sin[hh4] v1 - l2 Sin[hh4] v1 -
   b2 Sin[hh5] v2, 0}] +
  Cross[{(l2 + l1) Sin[hh4] - l2 Sin[hh5] -
   b1 Sin[hh5], (l2 + l1) Cos[hh4] - l2 Cos[hh5] - b1 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m1 {l1 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh5] v2 +
   b1 Cos[hh5] v2, -l1 Sin[hh4] v1 - l2 Sin[hh4] v1 -
   l2 Sin[hh5] v2 - b1 Sin[hh5] v2, 0}];
kneeleftt1 =
  Cross[{a1 Sin[hh4], a1 Cos[hh4], 0},
  m1 {a1 Cos[hh4] hh1, -a1 Sin[hh4] hh1, 0}] +
  Cross[{(a2 + l1) Sin[hh4], (a2 + l1) Cos[hh4], 0},
  m2 {a2 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l1 Cos[hh4] hh1, -a2 Sin[hh4] hh1 -
   l1 Sin[hh4] hh4, 0}] +
  Cross[{(l2 + l1) Sin[hh4], (l2 + l1) Cos[hh4], 0},
  mh {l1 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh4] hh1, -l1 Sin[hh4] hh1 -
   l2 Sin[hh4] hh1, 0}] +
  Cross[{(l2 + l1) Sin[hh4] - b2 Sin[hh5], (l2 + l1) Cos[hh4] -
   b2 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m2 {l1 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh4] hh1 +
   b2 Cos[hh5] hh2, -l1 Sin[hh4] hh1 - l2 Sin[hh4] hh1 -
   b2 Sin[hh5] hh2, 0}] +
  Cross[{(l2 + l1) Sin[hh4] - l2 Sin[hh5] -
  b1 Sin[hh5], (l2 + l1) Cos[hh4] - l2 Cos[hh5] - b1 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m1 {l1 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh5] hh2 +
   b1 Cos[hh5] hh3, -l1 Sin[hh4] hh1 - l2 Sin[hh4] hh1 -
   l2 Sin[hh5] hh2 - b1 Sin[hh2] hh3, 0}];
 kneeright2 =
  Cross[{-b2 Sin[hh5], -b2 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m2 {l1 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh4] v1 +
   b2 Cos[hh5] v2, -l1 Sin[hh4] v1 - l2 Sin[hh4] v1 -
   b2 Sin[hh5] v2, 0}] +
  Cross[{-l2 Sin[hh5] - b1 Sin[hh5], -l2 Cos[hh5] - b1 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m1 {l1 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh4] v1 + l2 Cos[hh5] v2 +
   b1 Cos[hh5] v2, -l1 Sin[hh4] v1 - l2 Sin[hh4] v1 -
   l2 Sin[hh5] v2 - b1 Sin[hh5] v2, 0}];
 kneeleftt2 =
  Cross[{-b2 Sin[hh5], -b2 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m2 {l1 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh4] hh1 +
   b2 Cos[hh5] hh2, -l1 Sin[hh4] hh1 - l2 Sin[hh4] hh1 -
   b2 Sin[hh5] hh2, 0}] +
  Cross[{-l2 Sin[hh5] - b1 Sin[hh5], -l2 Cos[hh5] - b1 Cos[hh5], 0},
  m1 {l1 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh4] hh1 + l2 Cos[hh5] hh2 +
   b1 Cos[hh5] hh3, -l1 Sin[hh4] hh1 - l2 Sin[hh4] hh1 -
   l2 Sin[hh5] hh2 - b1 Sin[hh2] hh3, 0}];
 kneestrike =
  Solve[{kneeleftt1 == kneeright1, kneeleftt2 == kneeright2}, {v1,
   v2}];
{{v1, v2}} = {v1, v2} /. kneestrike;
lagrangesolveg2 =
  NDSolve[{lagrangeq12 == 0, lagrangeq22 == 0, q1[0] == hh4,
   q2[0] == hh5, q1'[0] == v1, q2'[0] == v2}, {q1, q2}, {t, 0, 1},
   MaxSteps -> 1000000];

time2 = FindRoot[(q1[t] == -q2[t]) /. lagrangesolveg2, {t, 0.5, 0, 1}]

A: There does not appear to be a solution.  FindRoot gets as close as it can.
Plot[{q1[t], -q2[t]} /. lagrangesolveg2 // Evaluate, {t, 0, 1}]

Plot[{q1[t], -q2[t]} /. lagrangesolveg2 // Evaluate, {t, 0.05, 0.2}]

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These are being held July 28/29.
For members, there is a General Meeting on Saturday!
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The Ontario Superior Court recently considered the position of a father who was appealing a final child support order on the grounds that the motion judge who had granted the order had not read all of the materials that had been filed prior to making the decision about support.
The parties at issue are the biological parents of a daughter who is now almost 20 years old. They had never lived together or gotten married. Support had been paid by the father to the mother since the child was born, including for a number of expensive extracurricular activities such as horseback riding.
The father appealed a final order concerning child support and extraordinary expenses (including the horseback riding lessons, and university and tuition fees), and raised a number of grounds for his appeal, including the claim that original motion judge had failed to read the materials filed prior to the hearing, and had therefore brought the administration of justice into disrepute.
The court noted that while this may have been the case, it was "also clear" that the motion judge had taken the opportunity to listen to the arguments made by both parents and to consider the materials that were before her. In addition, she provided the parties with a detailed endorsement which included both her decision as well as her reasoning in reaching that decision.
A judge who acknowledges that she has not had an opportunity to read all the materials does not bring the administration of justice into disrepute. There is no merit to this argument and I reject it.
The father had also claimed that the motion judge had erred in ordering him to pay $380 monthly towards the daughter's horseback riding lessons and had likewise erred in ordering him to pay university tuition and other costs.
While the father had argued that the amount he was paying for the riding lessons was disproportionately high when factoring in circumstances such as his income, and that he would suffer hardship if he had to continue making these payments, the court ultimately disagreed for a number of reasons.
Firstly, there was no basis to unilaterally reduce the amount that he was paying in extraordinary expenses. Further, he had been paying this amount prior to a temporary reduction, which indicated that this was a reasonable contribution and should continue to be. Lastly, the "undue hardship" argument is a challenging one to succeed on, with a high test to meet. In this case, the motion judge had been aware of all relevant facts, including the father's income, and concluded that the $380 was reasonable.
The father's argument to lower this payment was rejected.
the motion judge did not consider the obligation of the daughter's step-father to contribute to her support.
The step-father and the mother are no longer living together. As such, there is no separate obligation on the step-father to contribute to child support. Further, had the father wanted to pursue the step-father for contributions to the daughter's university tuition, he could have added the step-father as a party. He chose not to do so.
This ground of appeal therefore also failed.


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Q: Net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET Кто знает, что вызывает ошибку net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET ?
Данная ошибка появляется редко, но если случается - все запросы с этой вкладки заканчиваются этой ошибкой.
Хотя бы скажите, на чьей стороне эта ошибка возникает? Если на сервере, то что ее может вызывать?
P.s. Проверял в лисе и хроме. В хроме ошибка вылетает, а лиса просто молчит о невыполненных запросах
A: Ошибка возникает на сервере.
Лиса пишет:

Запрос из постороннего источника заблокирован: Политика одного источника запрещает чтение удаленного ресурса на http://.... Это может быть исправлено путем перемещения ресурса в тот же домен или включением CORS.

В PHP (у меня, по крайней мере) при проверке разрешенных доменов сайт по каким-то невероятным причинам не находит домен в списке разрешенных и не выдает заголовков Access-Control-Allow-Origin и Access-Control-Allow-Credentials.


The London Olympics presented the British Transport Police with their biggest challenge to date. One of the main concerns were pick-pockets operating on trains and stations. Because a lot of the tourists coming to the Olympics could have no or limited English language skills the animation showing what preventions to take had to be quite self explanatory. This animation was shown on big screens in some of the largest rail stations across London.


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