[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Daniele Watts and her boyfriend have been charged with lewd conduct, following a highly-publicised incident in which she accused a Los Angeles police officer of racism.
The Django Unchained actress and boyfriend Brian James Lucas were detained on 11 September, after a complaint alleging that the pair had been humping having sex in a car outside CBS Studios.
Watts claimed that the incident was a result of racial profiling, a view shared by her partner who alleged that police had mistaken the actress for a prostitute and he a client. "It wasn't racial profiling, yer honor! All I saw wuz the moon and one brown eye!"
She claims that she refused to produce her photo ID when asked by police, and was then handcuffed and held in a police car as the officers tried to work out who she was. She reportedly also alleged that she had cut her wrist as a result of being handled roughly by the LAPD officers.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 ||
10/23/2014 7:25 Comments ||
Top||
#2
... who alleged that police had mistaken the actress for a prostitute and he a client.
Um, that's not exactly what happened. The police officer was responding to a report / reports of car banging, so their allegation of profiling is bullshit. Other than that, the story was accurate!
#5
But I have a direct flight from Islamabad to Pyongyang for some fishing and nightlife! That's the last time I give my account and routing information to one of those pop-up email travel deals.
#2
Is there any reason a prior diagnosis of typhoid fever would rule out an Ebola infection?
If a person arrives from Liberia and shows any symptoms that might indicate Ebola what would be the rationale for not testing for Ebola?
The last unplanned entry of an Ebola patient resulted in the confirmed infection of two people. In addition hundreds of people are or were put under surveillance.
#3
And the call goes out: "The Czar signal".
From deep within the Czar cave comes a furious PR release...
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 8:33 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Is there any reason a prior diagnosis of typhoid fever would rule out an Ebola infection?
Nope, none at all. Examiner was looking for an excuse not to do the Ebola test.
If a person arrives from Liberia and shows any symptoms that might indicate Ebola what would be the rationale for not testing for Ebola?
The Obamagenda is all the rationale anyone needs. The Ebola test is a simple blood test - which is run at the local level & at the CDC level. It's not rocket surgery.
[BBC] Serum made from the blood of recovered Ebola patients could be available within weeks in Liberia, one of the countries worst hit by the virus, says the World Health Organization.
Speaking in Geneva, Dr Marie Paule Kieny said work was also advancing quickly to get drugs and a vaccine ready for January 2015.
The Ebola outbreak has already killed more than 4,500 people. Most of the deaths have been in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Dr Kieny, WHO assistant director general for health system and innovation, said: "There are partnerships which are starting to be put in place to have capacity in the three countries to safely extract plasma and make preparation that can be used for the treatment of infective patients.
"The partnership which is moving the quickest will be in Liberia where we hope that in the coming weeks there will be facilities set up to collect the blood, treat the blood and be able to process it for use."
It is still unclear how much will become available and whether it could meet demand.
In other developments:
NBC freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo - who contracted Ebola in West Africa - is declared free of the virus and will leave hospital in the US state of Nebraska
Riots break out in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich Kono district after angry youths resisted efforts to "quarantine" a house where a 90-year-old woman suspected to have Ebola lived. The youths were said to be angry because there were no treatment centres in Kono, the BBC's Umaru Fofana says. Police imposed a daytime curfew in the area
UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening visits Sierra Leone to assess the impact of the government's $200m (£125m) aid package
The US Homeland Security Department says all visitors arriving from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone will undergo enhanced screening at one of five airports
The Dominican Republic joins a group of Caribbean countries that have banned visitors from the three West African nations
Serum
If a person has successfully fought off the infection, it means their body has learned how to combat the virus and they will have antibodies in their blood that can attack Ebola.
Doctors can then take a sample of their blood and turn it into serum - by removing the red blood cells but keeping the important antibodies - which can be used to treat other patients.
The Spanish nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola outside West Africa tested negative for the virus after reportedly receiving human serum containing antibodies from Ebola survivors.
Dr Kieny said the treatment was not without risks, and WHO has already issued guidelines to ensure safety. Any donor blood will need to be screened for infections such a hepatitis and HIV, for example.
Vaccines and drugs
She said trials of two possible Ebola vaccines could produce initial results by the end of the year.
The vaccines will be tested first to see if they are safe for humans, and if they can protect people from the Ebola virus.
Once these questions have been answered, the WHO hopes to extend the trials to a much wider group of people and start giving it to Africa.
"These trials will all start in the coming two weeks... and continue for six months to a year but to have initial results about safety and immunogenicity to have a choice of a dose level by the end of this year in December."
Dr Kieny said there were a number of drugs being tested and developed in different countries.
A partnership between Oxford University and the Wellcome Trust is now visiting sites in the three affected African countries to identify which treatment centres would be adequate and willing to start testing drugs soon, she said.
#7
also think that all help from now on to any third world country anywhere in the world should come with the following strings attached:
- govt to pay a baby bonus for first two children
- govt to charge a child tax for any third or subsequent child.
- after a man has had 2 children (not before), they get $2000 cash payment to get a vasectomy if they want one
encourage people just to have 2 kids, round the world. THat way the crashing fish stocks and depleted arable land won't be a problem in future. Everyone still gets to procreate, and everyone is happy.
#8
I expect Ebola in the Hot Zone will start to diminish in intensity any week now, treatments & vaccine will be a bit late to the party. Ebola is also creating a large number of aymptomatic survivors, detectable only by seroconversion - which they may or may not be looking for in the Hot Zone.
#10
#5 If people are starving in Africa, they should move to France!
Ebolans eat cake and not fufu?
Michelle Antoinette would go cuckoo.
"Though I nosh on brioche,
For the peeps it's too posh."
Lord Maw-Maw sez, "Let them eat tofu!"
[ARABNEWS] A TV news cameraman treated for Ebola was ready to go home Wednesday, the fifth patient transported from West Africa to recover at a US hospital, as President Barack Obama Dreams of My Sainted Father... 's new Ebola "czar" got to work trying to pull together a coherent national response to the deadly disease.
Two nurses remain hospitalized after catching the virus from a Liberian man who died at a Dallas hospital. Because of their cases, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued more stringent safety guidelines this week and is working with states to spread them to health care workers across the country.
"Recovering from Ebola is a truly humbling feeling," American video journalist Ashoka Mukpo said in a statement Tuesday from the Nebraska Medical Center. "Too many are not as fortunate and lucky as I've been. I'm very happy to be alive." The virus has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, nearly all in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Mukpo got it while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC and other media outlets. He has been at the Nebraska hospital since Oct. 6, the second Ebola patient treated there.
The hospital said Tuesday that tests show Mukpo is now free of the virus and he would be allowed to leave its biocontainment unit Wednesday.
Debra Berry, the mother of Dallas nurse Amber Vinson, said Tuesday her daughter is "doing OK, just trying to get stronger" while being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Fellow Dallas nurse Nina Pham's condition has been upgraded from fair to good at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington.
At the White House, former adviser and veteran political operator Ron Klain was meeting with Obama and top aides in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon to officially start his new Ebola duties.
Obama named Klain last week to take charge of coordinating the array of federal agencies dealing with Ebola in the US and helping to tackle the crisis in West Africa.
Resisting pressure to ban travel from the Ebola-stricken countries, the B.O. regime was tightening rules in an effort to ensure that all arrivals from the three nations are screened for the disease.
Under restrictions taking effect Wednesday, air travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea must enter the United States through one of five airports doing special screenings and fever checks. A handful of people had been arriving at other airports and missing the checks.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
What are we gonna DO? I know, let's have a meeting. Everybody stop what you're doing and come to the conference room. Has anybody been working on a newsletter? Get going on it.
Where's my rolodex?
(That should pretty much take care of it...)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 8:25 Comments ||
Top||
#2
So far he's been a no-show at the two meetings he was supposed to attend.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
10/23/2014 10:38 Comments ||
Top||
#3
No need for a medical doctor, all the Champ needs is another spin doctor.
This article on USS Samuel B Roberts describes just one of the remarkable Davids vs Goliaths battle off Samar. If you don't have time to read The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, by James Hornfischer, at least go to Wikipedia on the subject.
#2
I've watched interviews of some of the crew of the Sammy B. They all should have received the Medal of Honor.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
10/23/2014 12:32 Comments ||
Top||
#3
The Samuel B. Roberts fought well that day. Those who survived the fight, their ordeal was only beginning as they had to await rescue, enduring sharks and exposure.
#4
TLSofTCS notes that in the initial confusion of the Japanese battle orders, the escort carriers were hit a number of times - but the Japanese, thinking they were the main US carriers and not escort carriers, were using AP rounds which would carry straight through the ships, causing little damage and confusing the accuracy of the Japanese gunners.
#5
... but the Japanese, thinking they were the main US carriers and not escort carriers, were using AP rounds which would carry straight through the ships....
That's odd. The first USN carriers to have an armored deck was the Midway class. The lead ship of the class, USS Midway (CV-41), was not commissioned until September 10, 1945 (8 days after the Surrender of Japan).
#6
I think it had something to do with the fuses.
Essex - 27,100 ton displace (empty) with armor ranging from 1.5" to 4"
St. Lo - 7,800 ton displace, no armor
The Japanese were sporting some large warships. The idea is to get the round to explode as far internally as possible but there was not enough resistance to activate properly; like shooting empty soda cans with a 22 compared to a full can.
Also, the opening moves of the Japanese can be generally viewed as a slug juggling salt packets, with credit going to effective smoke screening as well as good use of rain squalls, and harassment from aircraft.
#7
IIRC, the aircraft available were rigged for anti-sub and ground support, as the IJN wasn't supposed to be there, so the aircraft were ill-equipped to handle IJN heavies.
Also, IIRC, the Japanese didn't get their colors of range rounds coordinated and were dropping the same smoke, and the way the wind was blowing, also contributed to the Japanese initially misidentifying the escort carriers as the main carrier fleet.
My contributions to today's Rantburg University. My dad was in submarine school at New London when TANG was in action. I have been transcribing his letters and notes from his own submarine service. I submit this story in honor of all the men of the Silent Service.
[Dhaka Tribune] Unknown miscreants on Tuesday night rubbed out a member of murderous Moslem outfit Purba Banglar Communist Party at Charulia of Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga. The victim, Saiful Islam, 35, was a resident of Ramnagar village and son of Nazrul Islam.
Officer in-Charge of Damurhuda Model cop shoppe Kamruzzaman said, farmers had informed police seeing the body lying in a mango grove yesterday morning. Police recovered the body and sent it to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
OC further said Saiful Islam was an active member of the murderous Moslem group. There had been a number of cases against him with Damurhuda and Meherpur Mujibnagar cop shoppe. Efforts were on to arrest the perpetrators, police added.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
[TIME] The Russian intelligence jet reportedly entered NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... airspace on Tuesday
Swedish jets have intercepted a Russian aircraft that briefly entered North Atlantic Treaty Organization airspace Tuesday.
NATO and Swedish forces reportedly noticed the plane, identified as a Russian intelligence jet, traveling near NATO airspace in the Baltic Sea, Rooters reports. The plane later crossed into Estonian airspace for about a minute, and was escorted away.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Mayhaps trying to check up on a certain submarine?
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 7:33 Comments ||
Top||
[CNSNEWS] The average price for a pound of ground beef climbed to another record high--$4.096 per pound--in the United States in September, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In August, according to BLS, the average price for a pound of all types of ground beef topped $4 for the first time--hitting $4.013. In September, the average price jumped .083 cents, an increase of 2.1 percent in one month.
A year ago, in September 2013, the average price for a pound of ground beef was $3.502 per pound. Since then, it has climbed 59.4 cents--or about 17 percent in one year.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
Proving once again that the OWG Global Consensus is that there is no OWG Global Consensus is the true danger from GWCC, including "Peak Resources/Everything".
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, YA SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STOP EATING AT MCDONALD'S - ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE, DATS WHAT HAPPENED!
#5
Throm, try 'feed prices are so damn high because all the surplus corn is being made into methanol'.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 7:46 Comments ||
Top||
#6
I think the most pernicious, slow change in government has been the corruption of statistics on the economy.
They've always been fudged some but they have reached a level now where there is no relationship whatsoever between the reality of the common citizen and the picture they paint.
#7
Oh come on now
Shadow stats uses the old measure and the government use their new shiny measure of inflation and they only differ by 9%
Shadow stats says inflation is 10% and the government say it's 1%.
#12
Price has very little to due with cost, especially in housing.
Experts say that, corrected for inflation, prices are rock steady, have never changed, not a bit.
#15
I have a scheme to feed people and get rich. I want to build a facility to make pot-laced snack cakes. I'll call them "Little Doobies". People won't be able to stop eating them.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
10/23/2014 12:37 Comments ||
Top||
#18
this is supply and demand. We still don't have the herd numbers we had before the drought. It will take two more seasons before enough calves are in the pipeline to get back to the pre drought numbers. Anyway, that the way it is here in southwest Kansas.
[ARABNEWS] Microsoft Corp looks set to ditch the Nokia name from its Lumia range of smartphones just months after buying the Finnish company's handset business. "Goo-bye, Moto!"
According to a post on Nokia La Belle France's Facebook page on Tuesday, the page will change its name to Microsoft Lumia "in the coming days."
Microsoft declined comment.
Under the terms of the $7.2 billion deal -- struck in September 2013 and completed in April -- Microsoft acquired Nokia's handset business, though not the name of the company itself.
Nokia, which continues as a networks, mapping and technology licensing company, owns and manages the Nokia brand, and only licenses it to Microsoft.
New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has already begun to reduce the scale of its phone making operations.
Of the 18,000 job cuts he announced in July, about 12,500 came from the unit acquired from Nokia.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Ahh, Microsoft kills off another profitable operation...
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 7:48 Comments ||
Top||
#2
At one time, Nokia made the most popular dumb phones on the planet. Funny how things went south after they got ex-Microsoft guy Stephen Elop (famous for the "Burning Platform" memo). And now they've fallen into Microsoft's hands.
#2
The perfidious Netherworlders (or "Netherlands", as they like to call it) had indeed been in the area.
There's a reason they call them 'The Low Countries'.
(A little light snark to start out the day.)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 7:39 Comments ||
Top||
#4
I think it was claimed to be Dutch, supposedly to distract from the fact that it's Russian. I s'pose we won't know until the Swedes catch the thing... but why would the Dutch lurk in the Swedish depths without admitting it?
#5
The proper thing to do here is to call up Putin and tell him that we know his sub is in sector A and in 12 hours it will start moving out of Sweden's territory. Then call up the Swedes and tell them to immediately start searching somewhere other than sector A.
[NationalReview] The guerilla filmmaker has exposed how voter fraud is both easy and condoned in Colorado.
James O'Keefe, the guerilla filmmaker who brought down the ACORN voter-registration fraudsters in 2010 and forced the resignation of NPR executives, politely disagrees. Today, he is releasing some new undercover footage that raises disturbing questions about ballot integrity in Colorado, the site of fiercely contested races for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, and the governorship. When he raised the issue of filling out some of the unused ballots that are mailed to every household in the state this month, he was told by Meredith Hicks, the director of Work for Progress, a liberal group funded by Democratic Super PACS.: "That is not even like lying or something, if someone throws out a ballot, like if you want to fill it out you should do it." She then brazenly offered O'Keefe, disguised as a middle-aged college instructor, a job with her group.
See the entire video at the link. I wonder what will be revealed next?
[DAWN] Young engineering students in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. have found the perfect solution to run commercial vehicles without the need of expensive petrol or CNG fuel.
Students of CECOS University in Peshawar's Hayatabad area say they have built a working prototype of a solar-powered rickshaw that will not only save drivers the fuel costs, but will also be environment-friendly.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
10/23/2014 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
They're even adding Bluetooth and WiFi so you can Facebook while someone carries your lazy a$$ around.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 8:31 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Exit question: How long does said battery last? Over the long term, is a CNG engine cheaper than repeated battery replacement over the life cycle of the rickshaw.
Matte gray, with the chiseled angles of a Nighthawk stealth aircraft, Ghost doesn’t look like a boat. Its 38-foot main hull is designed to travel above the water’s surface, propped up by two narrow struts, both 12 feet long and razor-sharp at the front so they can cut through ocean debris. Underwater, each strut is attached to a 62-foot-long tube that contains a gas turbine engine. Hinges allow the struts to move up and down like wings. While parked, or traveling through shallow waters, they can be extended to the side. In deeper waters, at speeds of eight knots or higher, they can rotate downward to lift the hull into the air, eliminating the jarring impact of waves.
#1
Looks like the nextgen version of Lockheed's "Sea Shadow".
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/23/2014 7:34 Comments ||
Top||
#2
"That said, Juliet Marine faces a tough battle. "Normally, innovative ship designs stem from funded research by the Navy at one of their labs," says Schaffer. "[Juliet Marine] also has a problem with the institutional bias the Navy tends to have against small crafts like the Ghost."
We capitalist call that innovation. The Navy should relax; innovation is a good thing.
#6
He will have a tough row to hoe. My experience as a boutique defense contractor of an innovative remote weapon system was not easy. The mil does like to adopt weapon systems technology that it does not think of first. They mission and feature creep you to death.
[DailyCaller] Former director of the National Security Agency Keith Alexander terminated a deal Tuesday to employ NSA’s current chief technology officer part-time at his private company, IronNet Cybersecurity, after officials cited the deal as a possible conflict of interest. Come on lads, what did the NSA General Council tell you from the onset? Oh, you never asked for legal opinion? No hint of NSA CTO Patrick Dowd's early gov't retirement ?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Daniele Watts and her boyfriend have been charged with lewd conduct, following a highly-publicised incident in which she accused a Los Angeles police officer of racism.
[DailyMail] o Flagged passengers arrived at Newark Airport in New Jersey via Belgium and at Chicago O'Hare with origins in Liberia
[ARABNEWS] A TV news cameraman treated for Ebola was ready to go home Wednesday, the fifth patient transported from West Africa to recover at a US hospital, as President 
[Dhaka Tribune] Unknown miscreants on Tuesday night 
[ARABNEWS] Microsoft Corp looks set to ditch the Nokia name from its Lumia range of smartphones just months after buying the Finnish company's handset business.
[BBC] Sweden could use force in its search for a suspected foreign submarine, a senior Swedish naval officer has told the BBC.
