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Showtime's Homeland has already shown how they're relating the show to the Trump administration this season. Now they've show their true colors by finally reaching the end goal: invoking the 25th Amendment. Yes, I'm sure that forcibly removing the first female president will definitely show President Trump a thing or two.
The April 15 episode "Clarity" comes after a continuous investigation into Russian interference within the nation, which likely includes a member of Congress. Because President Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) is becoming more and more paranoid in silencing her opposition, some members of Congress and even her own Cabinet begin drafting an invocation of the 25th Amendment to officially take her out of power.
In her paranoid state, Keane worsens her image by planning to fire almost a third of her Cabinet for being disloyal to her in a move her advisors call constitutional but "unprecedented," mirroring the media's reactions to Trump's actions with his Cabinet.
From this conflict, Keane's vice president Warner (Beau Bridges) meets with her saying he won't sign the 25th Amendment document if she restrains her behavior.
Warner: Power without authority is tyranny. That's the line I'm trying to keep you from crossing.
Keane: What assurance can you give me that if I rescind the firings, you won't just go ahead and sign the document anyway?
Warner: I guess you'll just have to trust me.
Keane: When you're one signature away from sitting at this desk? After you ignored my phone calls knowing full well -what I was going through?
Warner: I needed the time, I needed - time, I knew you wouldn't allow without browbeating me somehow into pledging my loyalty.
Keane: Which, now, all of a sudden, you're willing to do.
Warner: In good faith, as long as you do the right thing.
Keane: I don't like being dictated to.
Warner: I'm defining the limits of my support. There's a difference.
Keane: Without a majority of the Cabinet, which you do not have, as of now, that document is invalid. You are pointing an empty gun at my head.
Warner: Before I came here, I spoke to three separate lawyers. Each one confirmed that firing close to a third of your Cabinet under these circumstances is probably unconstitutional.
Keane: The White House counsel doesn't share their opinion.
Keane: The answer is no.
Warner: Then you leave me no choice but to deliver to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House a document declaring you unfit for the Office of the Presidency.
I'm sure that Homeland wants to seem so insightful with the line "power without authority is tyranny," but there are several holes in this plot. The more we keep going with this season, the more it seems like the show wants to play things both ways. They want to show the first female president saddled as the victim of a Russian plot, but they also want to see a tyrannical Trump-like figure be punished for being a fascist. The show's desire to take down Trump is so strong that they'd risk impeaching their pseudo-Hillary Clinton.
This isn't even the first show this year to depict the use of the 25th Amendment to oust a democratically-elected president, it wasn't even the first show of the day to have fantasies of removing Trump from office. Hollywood seems to believe that if it can repeat an idea long enough, it will come true in real life. Trump Derangement Syndrome has grown so unstable that it's hard for them to deal with reality, they have to make things up in their little progressive bubble. It must be torturous being a liberal.


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When you are working as an AIMMS developer, one of the tools you have for this is the AIMMS profiler. This profiler will provide you with information about how long each statement in an execution took, as well as how long the evaluation of the definition of a parameter took. More information about the profiler can be found in the chapter "Debugging and Profiling an AIMMS Model" in the AIMMS User's Guide.
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Italian government announces 'brave and responsible' budget plan
Published Fri, Oct 5 2018 4:24 AM EDT Updated Fri, Oct 5 2018 6:07 AM EDT
Silvia Amaro @Silvia_Amaro
On Thursday, Rome cut this year's growth forecast to 1.2 percent from a previous estimate of 1.5 percent.
Investors are concerned that a growth rate around 1 percent and higher spending will put Italy at risk.
Italy has the second largest debt pile in Europe and, in such conditions, it could find itself in a crisis mode all of a sudden.
ROME, ITALY - OCTOBER 02: Minister Luigi Di Maio during the Press conference of Movimento 5 Stelle and Lega for the presentation of proposals for constitutional reform and decrease in the number of parliamentarians on October 2, 2018 in Rome, Italy.
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Italy's anti-establishment government has announced its new strategy to financial policy: a "brave and responsible" initiative, but the European Union and the markets are yet to accept it.
Italy has put forward its final budget targets for the coming years on Thursday evening, ending weeks of speculation about its spending plans. The government cut growth forecasts and went ahead with higher spending, despite some backlash from European officials. The populist cabinet made it clear however that the expenses would not only involve social measures but also with investments.
"As stated on several occasions, the budget manoeuvre that this Government is preparing to launch is brave and responsible, focusing on the growth and well-being of citizens," the Italian finance minister Giovanni Tria said Thursday in a letter to the European Commission.
On Thursday, Rome cut this year's growth forecast to 1.2 percent from a previous estimate of 1.5 percent. Due to planned "public and private investments, lower tax burden on small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed workers", the growth rate is expected to be 1.5 percent in 2019, followed by 1.6 percent in 2020 and 1.4 percent in 2021.
Analyst: Little contagion from Italian market stress
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The lower growth forecasts sent Italy's main stock index lower on Friday morning and pushed Italy's borrowing costs slightly higher too. Investors are concerned that a growth rate around 1 percent and higher spending will put Italy at risk. Italy has the second largest debt pile in Europe and in such conditions, it could find itself in a crisis mode out of the sudden.
Italy also confirmed a deficit target of 2.4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 and cut its target to 2.1 percent in 2020 and 1.8 percent in 2021.
The populist government also set a debt-to-GDP target of 130 percent for 2018, 130 percent in 2019, 128.1 percent in 2020 and 126/7 percent in 2021.
Time for 'confrontation'
With the budget ready, it is time for Brussels to analyse and give its opinion before the end of November.
George Saravelos, global co-head of FX research at Deutsche Bank, told CNBC's "Street Signs" that what matters for markets is the relationship between Rome and Brussels.
"There's been a lot of noise around Italy, but I think the key question to focus on is not the rounding around the budget numbers that they are predicting or forecasting, but more this perception of whether the relationship with Europe is cooperative or whether it is disruptive," he said.
A spokesperson for the European Commission told CNBC on Friday morning that it received the letter from Italy's Finance Minister Tria and that it will reply in "the coming days, taking note of the government's intention and recalling the requirements set out in the council recommendation to Italy of July 13, 2018." The latter point refers to a meeting between the European finance ministers, when Italy was told it should adjust its revenues and expenses by 0.6 percent.
There's a risk Italy's finance minister will resign over budget: Pro
Squawk Box Europe
Some European officials have outlined their reservations regarding Italy's spending plans, which for 2019 are three times higher than those that the previous government had planned. European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said that the budget seems to be "beyond the limits" of European fiscal rules.
Meanwhile, according to a Reuters report, citing a source, the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned the Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday about the impact of a negative market reaction on the back of Italy's 2019 budget. The European Central Bank could not provide any comment when contacted by CNBC.
Luigi di Maio, Italy's deputy prime minister and leader of the leftist Five Star Movement, said Friday that he would rather protect the Italian people than to bow to financial markets. Matteo Salvini, Italy's other deputy prime minister and leader of the right-wing Lega party, said Friday that people like the European Commission President and Commissioner Moscovici "have ruined" Europe and Italy.
"Now the confrontation phase opens with the European Commission, which will be able to assess the well-founded reasons for the Government's growth strategy outlined by the maneuver," Tria said Thursday, hoping for an "open and constructive" discussion.

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The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly
Buy The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com
Reviewer: Lesley Mason
Summary: A sharply observed collection of short stories about the Nepalese people at home and abroad, that might just challenge a preconception or two. And they're a pleasure to read too.
Pages: 280 Date: January 2013
Publisher: Quercus
Parajuly is the son of an Indian father and Nepalese mother hailing from Gangtok in the Indian Himalayas, but spending most of his time somewhere between New York and Oxford. His insight is therefore something we should probably trust.
Trust.
It's an interesting word to use in the introduction to a review of a collection of short stories, but I think it matters. It matters because of one story in particular.
There are eight tales in all, centred on the Nepalese diaspora. All of the central characters are Nepali, but only three of the stories are set in the country itself. One of the others is in New York and the remainder in that swathe of northern India that provides an unexpected buffer zone between Nepal and Bhutan.
It would be an injustice to the writing to tell you too much of each tale, so I'll restrict myself to snippets only.
The Cleft sees a disfigured servant girl plotting her escape from Nepal with dreams of Bollywood while her mistress heads across country for her mother-in-law's funeral.
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie has a Muslim shopkeeper in Kalimpong pondering what do to about a petty thief, whilst also unsure about his burqa-wearing wife's new found liberalism.
A Father's Journey is a bittersweet tale of a father-daughter relationship through the rites of passage of the daughter's growing up.
Missed Blessing tells of the poor relations being expected to host their relatives for a local festival, while the dutiful son considers his Hindu obligations in the face of a no-conversion-intended-guarantee invitation to read the New Testament.
The title piece The Gurkha's Daughter is again something of a father-daughter story, but this time from the eyes of a child, who struggles to understand the adult world from the snatches of overheard conversation. Of course the injustice of our treatment of our Gurkha regiments lurks behind this one, and the anger is allowed free rein.
All of them are tales of domesticity, rife with class and caste conflict. Ethnicity comes into play in one or two, but mostly it's the artificial barriers we create within our own circles that provide the dramas. Pride and conspicuous wealth (always a relative thing) underpin many of the problems, and all of the dreams are of escape: to Bollywood, to England, to America. Far-flung places where life will be so much better. Passing Fancy alludes to the potential hollowness of the dream and its reality is brought into much sharper focus in the final The Immigrants . This last takes us to Manhattan where a young IT professional finds himself giving English lessons to a maid. It is a sharply observed snapshot of life in the Big Apple with unexpected bigotry, laced as ever with the pernicious impact of financial wealth. There's a delicious up-ending of the social norms in terms of citizenship and the sense of entitlement. Naturally it's a love-story-in-the-making and it deals the book a suitably ambiguous closing.
That is the other thread that meanders through all of the other stories. Familial love, for the most part, but also occasionally the settled spousal love that lingers in long-term partnerships after the passion and romance has evaporated. Duty rears its ugly head occasionally, but is generally beaten down with humour or with that love that makes it bearable.
I enjoyed all of these stories. Each was a pleasure to read. All of them finely judged in length to require time to be set aside for them, not to be rushed on the bus to work, but to be savoured at the end of the day. But short enough to make you think, ah, I'll just squeeze in one more.
Collections aren't made to be read at a sitting, but if they hold together this well, more than one instalment feels more like a two-course meal than an ill-judged all-you-eat. They're light, but not frothy. There's a wry humour and dry wit, that doesn't overwhelm. Characters evoke affection and exasperation in equal measure.
And then, there is the story at the core of the book.
No Land Is Her Land is almost certainly titled in rebuke to the Woodie Guthrie hymn which has America as the home of the free. Nepal and Bhutan still live in the western consciousness as Shangri-La. I have been to both and whilst the poverty is inescapable, and in parts of Nepal you are advised to ask the Maoist bandits for a receipt, nothing that I saw in either place dissuaded the hippy vision that it is still possible to hold to traditional values, to put peaceful existence above politics, yes, to consider Gross National Happiness as a worthy aim. Of course, I hadn't stopped long enough to ponder the fact that Gross National Happiness might be the result of an equation that has some fairly horrible entries in the debit column.
I bought in to the image. Traditions valued and respected.
This is where I now have to trust the author. That some of those respected and loved traditions are being imposed. That Bhutan ejected unwelcome Nepali people from within its borders. That there are refugee camps housing people who, though they speak Nepali, consider themselves Bhutanese.
When did this happen? And why don't we know about it?
Anamiki Chettri's story of survival in the camp, her unfortunate marriages and endeavours to protect her children by deserting each husband in turn, her dreams of passing the US interview, was intriguing, but told as just another everyday tale of life in the hardship zones where survival and moral values conflict on a daily basis. Yet it is its setting: that the camp exists at all, that shocked me to the core.
In that Parajuly has met the duty of the great story-teller. He snook into a simple tale, a hidden truth.
I long to go back to both Nepal and Bhutan… but maybe I need to do a bit more research before I do so.
In the meantime, thanks to Prajwal Parajuly for shedding a little light, and a lot of pleasure through these tales.
Definitely worth picking up.
(A note on spelling: Gurkha isn't the usual English spelling of the word, nor my preferred rendition, but it's the one the author and publisher have chosen so I've gone with it for this review.)
You can read more book reviews or buy The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly at Amazon.co.uk
You can read more book reviews or buy The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly at Amazon.com.
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Der Rhein Von Mainz Bis Coln.
[Koln, Germany: 1900.]. 4to., Oblong. Two Folded Full Color Maps, Folded Description in German, English and French, Good with covers detached with small losses, toning, tears and edge wear; maps with small tears, particularly along spine. Panoramic Leporello Maps with beautiful cityscapes and attractions following the Rhine from Mainz to...	More about Der Rhein Von Mainz Bis Coln
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A Map of that Part of Westphalia in which the French Army was defeated Aug 1, 1759. (Map).
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[London]: D. Henry and R. Cave, [1759]. 5 x 8 inches. Very Good. 18th Century map originally published in The Gentleman's Magazine. Map depicts army line positions and direction of advancement at Thornhausen, on the plain of Minden, Westphalia during the Seven Years War, August 1, 1759, where the Allied...	More about Plan of the Battle of Thornhausen from the Original Published at Hanover by Order of the Regency....
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A General Map of the Roman Empire Shewing the Situation of all its Provinces and ye Seats of ye Barbarous Nations on their Frontiers. (18th Century Map of Roman Empire).
[London]: 18th Century European Publisher, [1700s]. 12 x 20 inches. Very Good. 18th Century, uncolored, folded map of Rome. Scarce.	More about A General Map of the Roman Empire Shewing the Situation of all its Provinces and ye Seats of ye...
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A New Chart of the Mediterranean Sea from the best Authorities (19th Century Map).
London: L. Stockdale, [1812]. 9 x 12 inches. Very Good. Watermarked, 19th Century B&W map. Taped on verso along folds. Scarce.	More about A New Chart of the Mediterranean Sea from the best Authorities (19th Century Map
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Gotha, Germany: Justus Perthes Geographische Anstalt, [1850]. 14 x 17 inches. Very Good. 19th Century folded map, printed in color, with hand colored borders. From Stieler's Hand-Atlas (No. 16b). Text in German. Scarce.Johann Georg Justus Perthes (11 September 1749, Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - 2 May 1816, Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) was a German...	More about Daenemark (19th Century map of Denmark
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Gotha, Germany: Justus Perthes Geographische Anstalt, [1850]. 14 x 17 inches. Very Good. 19th Century folded map, printed in color, with hand colored borders. From Stieler's Hand-Atlas (No. 29). Text in German. Scarce.Johann Georg Justus Perthes (11 September 1749, Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - 2 May 1816, Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) was a German...	More about Niederlande Belgien Luxemburg (19th Century map of Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg
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Hispaniola. Modern Reproduction of a hand-colored miniature map of Haiti & the Dominican Republic embellished with ships and monsters, originally published in Amsterdam, 1616.
[ca. 1980?]. Color Map on Wood Board with Picture Hanger Mounted on verso, 8.5" x 10.5" Very Good.	More about Hispaniola. Modern Reproduction of a hand-colored miniature map of Haiti & the Dominican...
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Prussia. (19th Century Map).
Cheapside: T. Tegg, [1800s]. 12 x 10 inches. Very Good. Minor soiling. Fold at bottom edge starting. 19th Century, folded map, printed in color. Scarce.	More about Prussia. (19th Century Map
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So pirates are definitely better than ninjas. In fact, I argue that they are way cooler. Frankly, the only cool ninjas I have ever seen are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And I only found them cool when I was 10.
Pirates are mysterious, ambitious, and clever and some of them are super attractive (see: Johnny Depp).On the other hand, Ninjas are lame, wimpy, and uninspiring (see: 3 Ninjas).
Pirate haters, otherwise known as ninja apologists, will argue that pirates are "evil and commit violent crimes." But it is clear that pirates are only stealing gold and treasures from the other greedy people of the sea. In other words, pirates are making things fair and balanced.
I can go on and on, but I think it is clear ninjas are better than pirates.


Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. says Mayor Barrett is 'cherry-picking data' to further his anti-gun agenda.
The city of Milwaukee suffered through a long, violent winter that has now spilled into an equally bloody spring.
There have been 43 murders so far this year, more than double the number of killings reported for the same period a year ago.
Nearly a dozen have lost their lives in just the past week.
After a particularly bloody Sunday in which three more people were killed in a single incident, Mayor Tom Barrett took to his bully pulpit. He called a press conference Monday and lashed out at Gov. Scott Walker and the state Assembly for "putting more guns on the streets," reported Fox 6 Now.
"I do want to lock up more people who do get involved in gun fights in parks, in streets, outside taverns because black lives matter," Barrett said.
Barrett says homicides are up 160 percent in Milwaukee this year, and he's pointing an angry finger at state lawmakers in Madison who sponsored and voted for a concealed carry law.
"This community has to face the reality that the gun laws this state has put forward over the last few years, as proud as it makes the governor and the legislature feel, have resulted in more guns on the streets of the city of Milwaukee," Barrett said.
It's not the first time Barrett has gone on an anti-gun rant, and it likely won't be the last. He was one of the founding members of Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who sponsored the concealed carry law, dismissed Barrett's comments as "hyperbole" not backed up by facts.
The latest diatribe from the Democrat mayor wasn't much different from previous tirades that reveal a "blame guns first" approach to solving Milwaukee's festering crime problem, says one of America's most well-known sheriffs, David Clarke Jr., who spent 24 years working for the Milwaukee Police Department before he became sheriff of Milwaukee County.
Clarke, who still lives in the city, points out that while the number of homicides in Milwaukee has shot up this year over last, one must look at a larger sample of data, not just this year over last, to get an accurate picture. That's because last year was a particularly safe year in Milwaukee. Homicides were down 14 percent from the year before.
"Mayor Barrett was one of the founding members of Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against [Illegal] Guns. Ed Flynn just comes along in tow, so he's got to sing from the same sheet of music as his boss," Clarke said.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is a member of Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun mayor's group.
One of Flynn's major "crime-fighting" projects was to "set up a straw man," Clarke says.
Flynn placed a lot of the blame for "gun violence" on Badger Guns and Ammo, a gun store that operated on South 43rd Street. The rap on Badger Guns was that it was making so-called straw purchases to relatives or friends of people who were not qualified to own guns due to prior criminal records.
"That's not the fault of the store. Part of the gun investigation in any crime is that they should have gone back and found out who the original purchaser was and how did he get the gun," Clarke said.
So Badger forfeited its license and gave up its general retail business. It only sells guns to members of its shooting range now.
"They don't sell guns anymore, so what happens? The violence goes up," Clarke said.
He said the story of the gun store was just another example of Barrett and Flynn cherry-picking both anecdotal evidence and crime data to wage their war against guns.
Rather than blame guns, Clarke said, something needs to be done to shore up black families, both economically and morally.
He said most legal gun owners in the greater metropolitan area live outside the city of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee is among the 20 most violent cities in the country. By far, the largest number of homicides in Milwaukee occurs in one zip code, 53206.
Clarke said poverty is a risk factor that contributes to crime, but poverty itself does not cause crime.
Clarke said the "overwhelming majority" of poor blacks in Milwaukee don't commit violent crime. But they often end up being the victims of black-on-black crime.
Instead, Barret returns to his favorite tactic of blaming a tool – the firearm – for the crimes, rather than those who misuse the tool, and often don't even own it legally.
"It's easier to just go back to old reliable and blame it on the gun," Clarke said.
In fact, the city's murder rate, while up from last year, is down substantially from the 1990s. The city had 155 murders in 1990 and reached a peak of 163 in 1991 before falling 25 percent to 122 by 1997, according to the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance.
For most of the 2000s, the city has averaged about 90 killings per year.
As far back as 1991, the Office of Justice Assistance reported that Milwaukee's black community was a growing area of concern for the state. The proportion of the state's homicides occurring in Milwaukee escalated from 40 percent in 1984 to 70 percent in 1990.
How to explain a broader drop in homicides?
So the data would appear to support Clarke's thesis that the cause of any recent blip in violent crime is more complex than the availability of guns.
Beside the breakdown of the family and cultural values, Clarke believes some of Chicago's crime problems have spilled over into Milwaukee.
Chicago has one of the strictest gun-control laws and yet one of highest rates of murder.


Some impact weapons offer more reach than others. Sure a flashlight can be used as a bludgeon but it requires getting much closer in on an assailant than a baseball bat or baton that can keep harm literally at arms length!
An electrical energy weapon is one that relies on electricity to incapacitate a perpetrator. These weapons are very inexpensive now. You need to be sure to exercise some caution to avoid shicking yourself. Using these near someone's heart can be dangerous.
If you have ever been shocked by an electric fence then you know it is not pleasant. Energy weapons are extremely painful. The ones available to the public often require you being very close to someone in order to use it.
Electric batons or cattle prods are good if you want a shocking weapon that keeps attackers further away from you. Having some extra reach could save your life if someone has a lethal weapon.
I kind of love this design. Enter the game changer in hand to hand combat! While this requires getting more up close and personal it definitely will make any blows you have to throw stunning to say the least. At under $30 this is budget friendly and it also doubles as a LED flashlight.
For those that want a very discreet stun gun, this is about as low profile as you are going to get. Just make contact and squeeze and then get away! A lot of attackers will never see it coming due top the slim profile and how well your hand covers most of the housing. The battery is totally rechargeable with a standard wall outlet. A convenient carry case helps keep it discreet.
An impact weapon, flashlight, and stun gun all in one is kind of impressive. No one will even know that you have anything but a common flashlight unless they look very close.
You have to admit that this solid built aluminum alloy flashlight offers a lot in a lightweight package. A belt holster makes it easy to remember to carry when needed while a charging cable saves money on batteries.
The heavy-duty aluminum body of this baton makes a great bludgeon while the end of the baton packs a 9,000,000 volt stun that will incapacitate attackers. I like that this weapon combines two defenses into one. The wrist strap is a nice touch that helps you stay in control during a combative situation. This baton is also a 3 watt LED flashlight with 5 different lighting modes.
You are allowed to carry tools in case of a flat tire. This is one of the best weapons that a lot of us have in our vehicle. A metal pipe can be a lethal weapon when used in a specific way.
For many generations, cast iron frying pans have been looked at in two ways. One is a symbol of delicious food where the other is as a bone-shaking clobbering device. I am going to tell you a story that was passed down among my very Southern family.
My Great Uncle Garrison has a daughter and back in the 50s, she found out her husband was being unfaithful and laying out drunk all hours of the night. Well, one morning she had enough but she had a plan. She was as sweet as could be and made him a big old breakfast of cathead biscuits, gravy, side meat, eggs, you name it.
He was settling in she came over to serve him and poured that whole cast iron pan of gravy right on his head and then clobbered him with it. She knocked him out and they were divorced soon after. She is lucky she did not kill him to tell you the truth.
A cast iron pan weighs a lot if properly made. I have a Lodge frying pan that weighs 10 lbs easy. I recommend the standard 10" Lodge frying pan for maximum impact without being so heavy you can't swing it or bring it down properly.
While your keys themselves can be a weapon, there are some neat keychains that double as weapons. I kind of think the "My Kitty" is about as cute as a weapon can get and no one is going to think it is a weapon! You can get a bulldog version if cat's are not your thing!
The screwdriver is a good weapon for pretty obvious reasons. It is essentially a shiv and those can actually be deadly. Like any weapon how it is used and where it is used is critical between lethal and non-lethal defense. A screwdriver only costs a few dollars and you very well might have an extra one anyway.
Having a glass soda bottle is not anything anyone will question. There has been at least once that I can remember buying and drinking a Coke in a big glass bottle just in case. I have to say that you need to realize that bottles are harder to break than you think.
A bottle can be used to smash at someone but it can also be broken and the jagged end used as a more lethal weapon if the situation becomes too dire. Cuts from bottles are horrible. Don't underestimate the potential of a mere bottle.
With so many people eating away from home, a fork is not considered a weapon at all but it can be formidable. You can use it to scratch and jab. My husband was told this by a man that had been homeless and did not want to get hassled for carrying a weapon if the police if questioned for anything at all.
There are a lot of flashlights out there that are made with self-defense in mind. These flashlights come in all different price points with plenty of very good ones being no more than what you would pay for a flashlight at Wal-Mart.
Some lights have oddly shaped barbs on the end but also have very bright lighting features like a strobe function that can help incapacitate someone if shown into their eyes.
I think the tactical end of this flashlight has a lot to be said for it. The shape goes a bit beyond the typical end with the double layer design. It is rechargeable which comes in handy. The included plug-ins allow for standard wall outlet charging or the use of a 12 volt or car system. It is super bright and you can zoom the light in or out.
For those that want a professional grade tactical flashlight, there is this. I like the size of this flashlight. As a woman with big hands sometimes the smaller tactical flashlights don't feel substantial enough to feel solid in my hand.
This flashlight has a large bright beam and a tactical end to match! This one is also rechargeable. Aviation strength aluminum offers strength and durability. It is waterproof and the included battery pack can be recharged 500 times. The LED bulbs are rated to 50,000 hours.
When people think of non-lethal weapons, pepper spray or mace as it is sometimes called is one of the first things that comes to mind. It is easy to conceal, can be bought with ease, and it is very effective when used appropriately.
One thing that you have to remember is that pepper spray can backfire on you if you don't think things through a bit. If outdoors the direction of the wind at the time you spray may cause some to get in your eyes. Pepper spray guns allow you more distance but you need to be able to hit your target.
Those that are not the best at shooting should probably stick to the standard bottled pepper spray. State laws can vary but I believe you can also buy mace when you are 18 so it is an effective weapon if you are too young to have a handgun.
This is an affordable can of pepper spray made in the United States. 25 bursts is a lot of spray in a small package. This is so inexpensive you may want to buy two to have a spare or one to stash in your vehicle.
This pepper spray gun comes in at under $50 and is refillable. With a range of 20 feet, it offers some comfort distance. There are pepper spray guns that will shoot a greater distance but they cost more.
Pepper gel has some advantages over traditional mace because it doesn't disperse in a mist that can go everywhere. This gel is easy to deploy and it dyes an attackers skin with UV reactive dye that can help law enforcement find the person.
For a very budget friendly solution to personal self-defense, it is hard to beat this spray. Keep one in your car, in a bag, and stash one in the all-important bug out bag.
I found a lot of different variations of canes that could be used for self-defense. I am hesitant to recommend them to the general public because they draw a lot of attention. If you normally use a cane then I think you should consider one for self-defense.
There was a time when men in London would carry canes because it was fashionable and made it easy to have a weapon without breaking the law. This is part of the culture that made sword canes an in-demand item. It goes to show that where there is a will there is a way when it comes to weaponry.
Just because something is outlawed or becomes hard to find doesn't mean that people won't find a way to have a weapon. We have got quite good at it over the years.
This is kind of a neat looking walking stick but it is also a weapon that I would not want to be anywhere near. The clawhammer style head and the heavy duty materials mean that this is going to last.
The stainless steel body and fiberglass reinforced handle combine durability and performance under trying circumstances. United Cutlery is a well known and trusted brand with a loyal customer base.
Ah – the multi-purpose cane. This cane has a built-in LED flashlight and the ability to release 1,000,000 volts of stunning power. This sturdy cane is made to support users up to 250 lbs. A built-in rechargeable battery pack charges off a standard household outlet so you can keep your cane topped off and ready to go.
A lot of people think about guns or maybe knives being the only weapons you can get in trouble for concealing but that is not true. Having a collapsible baton concealed in your car but within reaching distance while you are driving could be considered a concealed weapon whereas having a tire iron or jack handle, or screwdriver would be overlooked because they are technical tools that could be part of your car kit.
Plenty of people keep a few tools in their vehicle because it is the smart thing to do. Tasers and other weapons could also be considered concealed. It is important to realize the laws and rules that the state imposes so you can know where the line is drawn and how to avoid the wrath of the state.
There is no one perfect weapon for every situation. There will always be disadvantages and advantages to any weapon. You may find that you want a combination of different non-lethal weapons distributed throughout your life.
A defensive keychain, tactical pen, or tool based weapon may be fine for work or going to town but you might want a more serious or larger weapon for keeping near the door to your home or in your bedroom. At least if you feel you need more than one, there are very affordable and quality choices.
I am sure that I am missing a lot of other weapons that would be effective and good for the average person to consider. Please feel free to add any that you know of in the comments below! It would also be good to hear any lessons learned from anyone that has been in a situation where they needed to use significant non-lethal force.
Yet another great article Samantha! I like having alternatives other than lethal force.
Road flares. Specifically the type that are made to be held, similar to a hand held marine signal flare. You can have it in your car with no questions. A 4000 degree chunk of burning magnesium that lasts for 10 minutes will stop a determined dog or other interloper.
We are a Deep South family and talking about Cathead biscuits makes me very hungry.
The Cold Steel baseball bat is a great idea. I'd like to see a less aggressive name than "Brooklyn Smasher", though. Perhaps "Home Run Hero". Always carry a ball and glove next to it. In Switzerland it is illegal to carry a bat in your car unless you are a registered member of a baseball team. How many of those could there be in Switzerland? Unless you had the pepper spray in your hand, I'd think it would be awkward to draw and aim under pressure. The pepper guns would seem to be a better idea, but they are not that common. As for tire irons and the like, aren't those usually kept in the trunk, out of reach? In most places the authorities are negatively disposed toward self defense, and would not look to favorably upon a claw hammer sitting on the passenger's seat.
In the small car, we carry a jack handle for F5/F16. Not easy to find as built; but easy to replicate: it is 4130 seamless extruded tubing. Ductile yet with high tensile strength; very light,and handy, it travels enveloped around the breaker bar we use for a lug wrench…a completely legitimate tool…not a weapon. So if needed; I can fill both hands…one legitimate tool in each…and yes, I've never had to do violence of that type and hope never to have to…but that 4130 just doesn't tear apart. You could shatter an ash baseball bat with it and it would just dent.
As a life-long martial artist and street kid I have advised the following for years: you are in town being followed and under threat. You are unarmed. Enter a hardware store or home despot. Now you are armed, on camera, with witnesses. They will wait for you outside. Someone with this new thing they call a phone will call the police for you. They will scatter. Or not. You emerge from the store with twin drywall saws; one in each hand. That's twin spring-steel 7 inch blades with jagged teeth and a sharp tip. Does the theoretical thug have a fancy knife? Would be really and truly like to dance?
So it is illegal to spray someone in the face with wasp spray? It is also illegal to crush their skull in with a baseball bat. Besides I prefer hair spray – and a bic lighter.
I have given a woman friend of mine a 5 D-cell Mag-light for her car. This is a very useful size flashlight to use in shelf defense. The LED light is very bright and blinding in the dark and the body of the flashlight is long enough and heavy enough to deliver a good impact.
Never forget an ordinary walking cane. It can be taken anywhere whereas many of the mentioned items cannot.


Biogas is an alternative and renewable energy that can be produced by the anaerobic (absence of oxygen) decomposition of organic matter. Biogas is typically consisting of 60% of Methane and 40% of CO2. It also contains trace amount of other gases like Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Hydrogen Sulphide.
1. Hydrolysis: This is the first step where particulate materials get converted to soluble compounds suitable for further breakdown in the next step.
2. Fermentation: The second step of degradation is known as fermentation or acidogenesis where the products of hydrolysis such as simple sugars, amino acids, fatty acids etc. break down further and produce final products of fermentation such as H2, CO2 and acetate.
3. Methanogenesis: The third and final step of anaerobic degradation is known as methanogenesis. In this process, one group of microorganism known as aceticlastic methanogens, converts acetate into H2 and CO2. Then a second group of microorganism referred as as Hydrogen-utilizing methanogens combined H2 and CO2 into methane (CH4). The end product of methanogenesis is biogas, a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide.
For more detail information refers to the anaerobic process schematic diagram.
In Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology, organic materials are let decomposed and broken down by anaerobic microorganisms by creating optimum environment for them to work. Anaerobic digestion take place generally in an enclosed vessel known as anaerobic digester with or without mixing, and the process can be perform either in Batch, semi-continuous or in continuous mode. This almost 200 years old technology has evolved over the year and exists from its very basic to most advanced form.
Most Recent Advances in Anaerobic Digestion Inside One Document!
This waste category include separately collected kitchen waste like fruit and vegetable waste, food waste, coffee and tea filters and other organic leftovers.
Yard or plant waste include leaves; garden wastes likes flowers, plants, vegetables; branches and tree trimmings, grass clippings etc.
The publicly treated wastewater treatment plants produced sewage sludge and that is also a suitable substrate for biogas production. Although due to its limited potential for biogas production it is not treated as a high quality substrate.
Solid or liquid manure produced from animal in the farms (cow, pig, chicken etc.) is one of the main substrate for biogas production.
Energy crops are plants suitable for producing biogas and other renewable energy and are referred to corn, Sudan grass, maize, millet, white sweet clover etc.
Industrial food wastes are mainly come from food and meat production sites like slaughter house waste, whey, potato mash, brewer grains etc. In addition food waste can be collected from restaurants, grocery stores, and other food handling facilities and used as high potential biogas producing substrates.
Anaerobic Digestion technology can provide a complete solution to organic waste management. As discussed in the earlier section various types of organic material, waste or substrate can be used as a feed in the anaerobic digestion technology. The end product of the anaerobic digestion is Biogas and digestate (left over of the feed after the anaerobic fermentation and degradation). Biogas generated through the process can be converted to electricity or heating through Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation unit. Biogas can also be further refined to pipeline-quality gas (comparable to natural gas, which is 97% methane) and used as fuel to run public transportation or waste collection vehicles. Thus producing biogas from local organic waste can provide a stable, local supply of renewable energy.
1. AD can provide an alternative energy source which is promising in the midst of energy scarcity and rising oil price.
2. AD can convert waste to bioenergy, renewable fules and valuable resources thus divert waste from landfill and reduce green house gas emission.


The train Hazur Sahib Nanded - Tirupati (via Vijayawada) Special Fare Special starts journey from NANDED station and stops at TIRUPATI. It's number is 7607 and it stops at 17 stations between the first and last stations. This train runs on Tuesday. If you've booked a ticket on Hazur Sahib Nanded - Tirupati (via Vijayawada) Special Fare Special, you can check your PNR status here. It travels 1014 kilometre to reach its final destination. Hazur Sahib Nanded - Tirupati (via Vijayawada) Special Fare Special (7607) departs from its first station at 18:45:00 and reaches its last station at 14:00:00. Also see the complete list of trains in India.


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Q: no module named multiarray python ImportError ImportError: No module named multiarray
I keep getting the above error while running my script.I removed a different version of python which was installed under cygwin, but it doesn't work. not even from the command line. copying the multiarray.pyd file into the DLLs folder(C:\Users\myname\Anaconda\DLls) didn't work. what can I do to solve this problem?
environment:
    windows7 64-bit
    Anaconda installed
    python2.7.4
    pyDev (Eclipse)
path to numpy:
C:\Users\myname\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.pyc
path to numpy.core :
C:\Users\myname\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.pyc
path to numpy.core.multiarray :
C:\Users\myname\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\multiarray.pyd

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Since 2012, three Husband Schools in Sierra Leone have taken on the struggle against domestic violence by teaching men about women's health, gender issues and how to be a better husband. Pidia Joseph Allieu is one of the men leading these classes for men in rural Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio is fervently leading the country's anti-corruption drive. Bio launched three Commissions of Inquiry, investigating malpractice in the government between 2000 to 2018 when former President Ernest Bai Koroma was in office. Bio pledged to support the Anti Corruption Commission, giving assurances that it will operate independently.
Are politicians and parliamentarians across Africa cut from the same cloth? Sierra Leone's MPs are pushing for a 300% salary increase, reinforcing the statement, join African politics if you want to be wealthy without much effort.
The Sierra Leonean government has cancelled its contract with China to build a new airport, Mamamah International. The government cited the "socio-economic viability" of the airport while an older airport was under-utilised. Sierra Leone will renovate its only international instead.
Senegalese-American singer and philanthropist Aliaume Damala Badara, aka Akon, has promised 5 000 solar-powered streetlights and 2 500 traffic lights to support Sierra Leone's electrification agenda.
Authorities in Tanzania recently arrested five pregnant schoolgirls and their parents on the directives of a local district commissioner, reinforcing the President's schoolgirl pregnancy ban. In Sierra Leone a U.S. based organisation, Equality Now (EN), and its partners are challenging a government ban on pregnant schoolgirls returning to the classroom after delivery.


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Q: Twitter Framework for iOS - Why does TWrequest.h import ? Inside of TWRequest.h that's inside of the Twitter Framework, there it imports this
#import <Social/SLRequest.h>

But TWRequest was built for iOS 5, so why would it import the Social Framework's file since those are for iOS 6?
I'm getting this error..
'Social/SLRequest.h' file not found

Of course it's not found because I didn't add in the Social Framework because I want to use the Twitter Framework. I can't simply remove it because that file is referencing from the Social framework, how can I fix this? Thanks

A: In iOS 6 the Twitter framework methods are deprecated. Instead you should use the Social.framework. Which includes sharing both Twitter and Facebook.
The sample code checks what the OS version is running and what framework classes are available whether it iOS 5 - Twitter.framework or 6 - Social.framework
#import <Twitter/Twitter.h>
#import <Social/Social.h>

- (void) postTweet {
NSString *someTweet = @"someTweet";

// running on iOS5
if (NSClassFromString(@"TWTweetComposeViewController") && [TWTweetComposeViewController canSendTweet]) {

    TWTweetComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [[TWTweetComposeViewController alloc] init];

    [tweetSheet setInitialText:someTweet];
    [self presentModalViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES];

    // running on iOS6
} else if ( NSClassFromString(@"SLComposeViewController") && [SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter] ) {

    SLComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];

    [tweetSheet setInitialText:someTweet];
    [self presentViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES completion:NULL];
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Vieja zonata és una espècie de peix de la família dels cíclids i de l'ordre dels perciformes.

Morfologia
Els mascles poden assolir els 25 cm de longitud total.

Distribució geogràfica
Es troba a l'Amèrica Central: conca del riu Tehuantepec.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Axelrod, H. R., 1993. The most complete colored lexicon of cichlids. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City (Estats Units).
 Conkel, D., 1993. Cichlids of North and Central America. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Estats Units.
 Fernández-Yépez, A. 1969. Contribución al conocimiento de los cichlidos. Evencias Núm. 22: 7 unnum. pp., Pls. 1-10.

 Kullander, S.O., 2003. Cichlidae (Cichlids). p. 605-654. A R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander i C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (editors) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
 Meek, S. E. 1905. A collection of fishes from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. v. 18: 243-246.

 Römer U.: Cichliden Atlas, Bd. 1. Melle. 1311 p. Any 1998.

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Home Culture Pomplas shows NY/Sligo sensibility
Pomplas shows NY/Sligo sensibility
Culture April 22, 2020 by Daniel Neely
Jayne Pomplas's releases of February and March are digital-only releases exclusive to Bandcamp.
By Daniel Neely
This week my focus will be on not one, but two recently released albums by fiddle player Jayne Pomplas. Pomplas, who hails from upstate New York but seems to find herself away in Ireland most of the time, is a great player well known to New York traditional music fans, as she has been part of the scene since she was very, very young. She's got a couple albums to her credit ("Traditional Irish Music on Fiddle" [2015] and "My Mind Will Never Be Easy" with Luke Deaton [2018]) and these two new additions are very welcome, indeed.
In early February, she released "John Byrne's Disco" (which includes contributions from Eoghan Scott, Conor Lyons, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Alex Borwick and Joey Doyle) and then, at the end of March, she was out with "Lost & Found" joined by Jos Kelly and Darren Roche from the band Moxie. Both releases are digital-only releases exclusive to Bandcamp. (By the way: I love this method of release because it's good for the artist and a convenient way of finding new music. However, artists releasing on platforms like Bandcamp often eschew liner note information, as is the case here. That's a practice that should change. It's nice to know – at the very least – who plays what, who produced/engineered/etc.) What's most interesting about these releases is not just Pomplas's playing, but the difference in the two approaches the albums show.
To me, on "Lost & Found" Pomplas brings a very strong "New York Sligo" sensibility, which is not particularly surprising given she was a student of both Tony DeMarco and Brian Conway. However, the addition of Kelly (keyboard) and Roche (bodhrán) give that approach a more contemporary feel by adding a modern drive. Great examples of this include "Lord Macdonald / The Maids of Mount Cisco / The Maid Behind the Bar" and "The Beare Island Reel / Doctor Gilbert's," two tracks that are dripping with style. Pomplas's attack here is brilliant, giving both a very incisive feel. She's also blazing fire on "Martin Wynne's No.4 / The Jolly Tinker," a track that flashes a different sort of bounce and a slightly more relaxed danceability. She shifts gears on "The Frost is All Over / The Apple in Winter / Tatter Jack Walsh," a set of jigs that starts out a bit more relaxed before the intensity ramps up. Speaking of an intense shift of gears, "The Segoiner Polka" has an alluring "gypsy jazz" feel that suits her fiddle playing quite well, while "Marino Waltz" adds danceable depth and a nice respite from the hard drive of the other tracks.
"John Byrne's Disco" is, of course, a different album but here Pomplas takes a slightly different stylistic approach. Sure, some of the tracks, like "Farewell to Lisheen / Cape Breton Fiddlers Welcome to the Shetland Island / The Sligo Maid" and "In Memory Of Michael Coleman / Colonel Fraser" have the mad, uncontainable energy that seems characteristic of her playing, but other tracks like the jigs "The Pipe On The Hob / The Rambling Pitchfork" and "Lots of Drops of Brandy / Ballyfin Polka" (a jig into a polka) have a more carefully hewn approach. "Josephine's Waltz" has a different energy all together – the playing there is beautiful, enhanced by a great arrangement. Thrown into the mix are sounds that take from their surroundings, giving them the effect of having been recorded "en plein air." The album's openers, for example, with the sounds of a dockyard before the tunes start. Later on, the track "Imigraden / …" opens with the sounds of outdoors, suggesting it was recorded in Pomplas's garden. One can still hear the New York Sligo imprint in all of this, but the results are different from those on "Lost & Found" and rewarding all the same.
It needs to be noted that although "Disco" is a "Jayne Pomplas album," she shares the spotlight to very strong effect on a couple of vocal tracks. Eoghan Ó'Ceannabháin's take on "The Green Fields of Canada" is absolutely stellar – a real standout. Joey Doyle's version "You Rambling Boys Of Pleasure" is lovely as well. And Pomplas herself gets in on the singing angle with "Blues Run The Game" (featuring Joey Doyle), an often covered song from 1965 by Jackson C. Frank. The results are charming and her delivery is such that it sounds almost like a confessional.
Pomplas is an outstanding fiddle player with frenetic, seemingly boundless energy and great technical prowess, elements these album have in spades. "Lost & Found" is the more modern rocking of the two albums, with "John Byrne's Disco" having more of what I would call a throwback feel. Pick your poison – both are great and and recommended for anyone into fabulous, expressive fiddle playing. Have a listen and a download over at jaynepomplas.bandcamp.com.


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Time's up, tax dodgers: Multinational tech firms may soon pay their dues
Multinational tech and digital services firms may no longer have a free tax pass to operate in New Zealand. Yesterday the Government announced a review of the income tax system that allows multinationals to operate in New Zealand without paying tax – something that Finance Minister Grant Robinson says is 'not fair'.
As a result, Cabinet will issue a discussion document that looks at ways New Zealand can adjust its income tax framework to make the system fairer.
According to Robertson, the cross-border digital services market in New Zealand is worth around $2.7 billion. A revamp to the digital services tax system could bring in between $30 million to $80 million in revenue.
He notes that 'highly digitalised companies' such as social media networks, online advertising, and trading platforms earn money off Kiwis without having to pay income tax – and that needs to change.
"That is not fair, and we are determined to do something about it," says Robertson.
Amongst other large digital corporates such as Facebook and Google, Apple is one tech firm that has been outed for not paying taxes in New Zealand. While that is not illegal, new tax changes would mean that Apple will finally have to support New Zealand fair and square.
"The current tax rules also provide a competitive advantage to foreign companies in the digital services field compared to local companies who offer e-commerce, online advertising, and social networking services."
International tax systems have been slow to keep up with modern business, particularly with technology and digital services rising to become large empires quickly. That lack of pace is costing revenue and fairness in the tax system.
Revenue Minister Stuart Nash adds that New Zealand is working within the OECD to find an internationally-agreed way to include the digital economy in tax frameworks.
"Our preference is to continue working within the OECD, which was also recommended last year by the interim report of the Tax Working Group. However, we believe we need to move ahead with our own work so that we can proceed with our own form of a digital services tax, as an interim measure, until the OECD reaches agreement."
Australia is using a similar approach to introduce a digital services tax. It released a discussion document last year.
"The OECD has also released a discussion document on its proposals. Officials will now finalise the New Zealand document which is likely to be publicly released by May 2019," says Nash.
"The document will make it clear we are determined that multinational companies pay their fair share of tax. We are committed to finding an international solution within the OECD but would also consider an interim option till the OECD finalises a position."
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Acts of terrorism represent a serious threat to the lives and safety of people, and a profound security challenge for states. At the same time, counter-terrorism legislation, policies and other measures can entail, directly or indirectly, serious limitations to fundamental rights, and can adversely affect individuals, groups and society as a whole. This summary presents FRA's main findings from its report on Directive (EU) 2017/541 on combating terrorism, the main criminal law instrument at EU level in the field of counter-terrorism.
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This report examines the EU's main criminal law instrument in the field of counter-terrorism, Directive (EU) 2017/541. Specifically, it considers how the directive engages issues of fundamental rights, affecting individuals, groups and society as a whole.
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Crime, safety and victims' rights – Fundamental Rights Survey
This is the second main report from FRA's Fundamental Rights Survey, which collected data from 35,000 people on a range of issues. This report focuses on respondents' experiences as victims of selected types of crime, including violence, harassment, and property crime. The report also examines how often these crimes are reported to the police, and presents further details relating to harassment and violence, such as the perpetrators and where the incidents took place.
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The EU is founded on the values of democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights. Yet these values, and discussions on fundamental rights at the EU and Member State level, can seem remote in people's daily lives. With this in mind, FRA explored what people understand, know and experience with respect to their fundamental rights in practice. The resulting data provide comprehensive and comparable evidence on these aspects.
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FRA's Fundamental Rights Survey collected data from 35,000 people about their experiences, perceptions and opinions on a range of issues that are variously encompassed by human rights. This report presents a small selection of the survey results. It focuses on findings with respect to respondents' opinions about human – or fundamental rights; their views and perceptions on the functioning of democratic societies – as a pillar on which human rights can flourish; and on their thoughts on and engagement with public services that have a duty to enforce human rights law and to protect people's rights.
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Across the EU, people of African descent face widespread and entrenched prejudice and exclusion. Racial discrimination and harassment are commonplace. Experiences with racist violence vary, but reach as high as 14 %. Discriminatory profiling by the police is a common reality. Hurdles to inclusion are multi-faceted, particularly when it comes to looking for jobs and housing.
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Muslims living in the EU face discrimination in a broad range of settings – and particularly when looking for work, on the job, and when trying to access public or private services. The report examines how characteristics – such as an individual's first and last name, skin colour and the wearing of visible religious symbols like a headscarf, for example – may trigger discriminatory treatment and harassment.
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I recently discovered Haskell School of Music. It's a book about algorithmic music, which is awesome because: a) I've been obsessed with procedural generation for years and b) I like music as much as I like programming. So you can imagine my excitement when I discovered that someone had written a textbook combining my favorite areas of study.
Haskell School of Music is aimed at intermediate-level CS students, so it covers a lot of the basics of functional programming. It aims to be an introduction to the Haskell programming language while also thoroughly examining computer music. It starts simply by defining the data structures that represent music, and progresses to functional programming concepts, procedurally generating music, and doing signal processing and MIDI interfacing to actually play the songs.
I like Haskell, but I want to write music in Clojure. Why? First of all, because it's the One True Language (it's fine if you disagree with me – your opinion is valid even if it's objectively incorrect). But more importantly, Clojure excels as an environment for writing domain-specific languages (DSLs). And as it turns out, writing algorithmic music using a DSL is a major win. Not only are DSLs expressive enough to portray creative expression, but DSLs written in Lisps are inherently extensible – whereas Haskell's static typing adds barriers to extensibility. There's also an excellent music synthesis library for Clojure, Overtone, that I want to be able to take advantage of.
Before we can explore what a DSL for music would look like, we need to understand how HSoM represents music as data.
Many of these type declarations are straightfoward, but a couple bear further discussion. A PitchClass is an algebraic data type representing all of the pitches: C#, Ab, F, and so on. By pairing a pitch class with an octave, we get a Pitch, which represents a specific note (for instance, middle C would be (C, 4). A Primitive is a basic music building block, either a note or a rest. Note that it is polymorphic: this is so that we can define types like Note Duration Pitch but also types like Note Duration (Pitch, Loudness) so that we can attach additional data to a primitive if we need to. A control represents the concept of making a modification to some music by changing the tempo, transposing it, or otherwise changing the output while keeping the underlying notes the same.
The Music type is where things get really interesting. It's an algebraic data type representing the concept of music in general. In fact, it's powerful enough to fully represent any piece of music, from Hozier to Bach. A Music value is one of four possible types: a Prim, which is either a note or a rest; a Modify, which takes another Music as an argument and modifies it in some way; the :+: infix constructor, which represents two separate Music values played sequentially; and the :=: infix constructor, which represents two separate Music values played simultaneously.
The Music type has some important properties. First, it's polymorphic for the same reason that the Primitive type is. This allows us to attach any type of data we want to music primitives, letting us express any musical concept (volume, gain, you name it).
Second, three out of its four constructors are recursive – they take other Music values as arguments. This is the key that makes the data model so powerful. It allows you to model arbitrary configurations of notes, e.g. Note 1/4 (C 4) :=: Note 1/4 (E 4) :=: Note 1/4 (G 4) is a C major triad, and that expression evaulates to a Music value that can itself be passed to Modify, :+:, or :=: to weave it into a larger piece of music.
The result is an extraordinarily concise definition that still manages to encompass all possible pieces of music. Using these data structures, we can describe any song we can imagine.
But as powerful as this data type is, I wouldn't call it a domain-specific language. The static type system makes it inflexible: how would you combine a Note 1/8 ((C 4) 8), representing a note with pitch and loudness, with a Note 1/8 (E 4), representing a note with just a pitch? Sure, you could write a function to convert from one to the other, but at that point you've lost elegance and flexibility.
Here's where Clojure comes in.
The Hiccup vectors are actually a DSL that can describe arbitrary HTML markup. Anything that can be expressed in HTML can be expressed using Hiccup. It straddles the line between data and code – the vector is flexible and expressive enough to represent any web page, but can be manipulated using standard Clojure library functions.
At first glance, this looks the same as the Haskell data types from HSoM. Both representations represent notes with pitch and duration; both use the :modify, := and :+ operators to compose music; both support recursive composition of any depth.
Furthermore, because Clojure is dynamically typed and supports duck typing via map keywords, we can write functions that operate on all notes and music values, even those with unexpected metadata.
Like the Hiccup vectors, our music vectors blur the boundary between a DSL and a data structure. The vectors are expressive enough to represent any musical concept, but can still be passed around and operated on by normal Clojure functions. As an added advantage, the vectors look similar enough to the HSoM data structures that I can easily follow along with the textbook using Clojure and Overtone.
So I have a way to represent music in Clojure now. What's next? Haskell School of Music ships with a library called Euterpea that knows how to turn the Music data structure into actual sound. So the next step for me is probably porting something like that to Clojure. I'm hoping to offload most of that work to Overtone. After that, I'll explore algorithmic composition using the techniques outlined in HSoM. Stay tuned!


those TR fools all dead.
I'll most likely turn up!
I have been playing more PS2 recently though so il jump in with you guys next time i see someone on ts.
I think we need more people to jump on TS if they're *interested* in playing. I think more people would play if they knew someone was interested. Just sit yourself down in the TS channel if you're free. Goes for all games, really.
I'll try to do that too, although lately I'll also need to start drinking coffee at about 7pm.


Shaolin Kung Fu is one of the most complete and effective forms of self-defense practiced in the world today with a known lineage of over 1,500 years. Is is one of the most famous of Kung Fu styles and has directly or indirectly inspired many other martial systems. This powerful art has a wide variety of fighting techniques that includes punching, kicking, throwing, sweeping, pushing and grappling (joint locks and pressure points). It was developed in the Shaolin temple, which was built in Northern China in 495 A.D and has a "live and let live" attitude, which can be clearly seen in its very powerful and fluid movements.
The temple was constructed originally for the worship and preaching of Buddhism. Though it is not clear exactly when the martial arts first appeared there, it is a fact that the temple and its monks became associated with the martial arts as time went on. For over a thousand years Shaolin Kung Fu grew through the temples into the most complete martial arts system in China and the rest of the world.
The fighting skills possessed by the Shaolin monk were always considered a means of self-defense, only to be used as a last resort. The monks of Shaolin and their system were viewed as agents of virtue and justice. Everywhere a Shaolin monk went, his martial ability was always used to help and protect people.
Looking for martial arts/ self defense classes for my 12 year old son.
1. Do your classes also teach grappling/ wrestling in the event they are forced to the ground?
2. Which nights/ classes are most appropriate for a novice 12 year old?
3. Will he get much in the way of upper body training? He's a soccer player – big legs and skinny arms lol.
We highly recommend coming to watch a class… no pressure to join. You can see for yourself if the training is what you want.
There is grappling, but mostly standing. Our classes are mixed ages. Later classes are typically populated by older and more experienced students. Lastly, our school's training works the whole body and push ups are fairly common in class.


Over 2,000 years ago, a miracle is about to take place in Bethlehem. Meanwhile in heaven, angels in training anxiously await their divine appointments to take part in Christ's birth. This Christmas, join in the adventures of the God Squad as you relive the story of His coming from a heavenly perspective.
Special Delivery is created by Celeste Clydesdale and arranged by David T. Clydesdale. This musical for kids shares the excitement of Jesus' arrival and finally the hope of His return. Each song draws children closer to His heart — giving them the confidence to declare His love.
The lyrics and drama will give everyone the truth to carry with them and music to share the story of this great love come to earth. Join Gabriel, Melody, and the rest of the God Squad as they anxiously await Christ's birth and celebrate His miraculous arrival.
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Donna Simpson, World's Heaviest Mom At 600 Pounds, Closes Pay-Per-View Eating Site
Donna Simpson has taken another step towards changing her life and, perhaps, changing her image.
The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports that the Guinness World Record holder for "world's heaviest mom" has decided to shut down her pay-per-view eating site where, for years, internet users have been shelling out $19 a month to watch Simpson eat.
"I realized that I was their fantasy," Simpson told the Plain Dealer. "Here I was getting bigger and bigger, and they had their thin wives, with 2½ kids and a picket fence."
As The Huffington Post reported in August, part of Simpson's lust for eating was fueled by a previous romantic relationship. Once that ended, Simpson decided she wanted to lose weight so she could better take care of her two children.
"It's fine to gain weight when you have a partner who will help feed you and take care of everything around you," she told HuffPost Weird News in an exclusive interview. "But that's between two adult people who make the choice. I realized that I couldn't expect my kids to do that for me."
Now Simpson, who at one point weighed as much as 600 pounds, has dropped to 515 pounds, according to one of her blog posts.
She previously told HuffPost that she would like to get down to 370 pounds.
"I still would like to have some help doing this, maybe a dietician or a personal trainer," Simpson wrote on her blog. "I'll still keep at it and hope for the best."


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Q: Change column values based on factors of other columns For example, if I have a data frame like this:
df <- data.frame(profit=c(10,10,10), year=c(2010,2011,2012))

profit     year
10         2010
10         2011
10         2012

I want to change the value of profit according to the year. For year 2010, I multiple the profit by 3, for year 2011, multiple the profit by 4, for year 2012, multiple by 5, which should result like this:
profit     year
30         2010
40         2011
50         2012

How should I approach this? I tried:
inflationtransform <- function(k,v) {
    switch(k,
        2010,v<-v*3,
        2011,v<-v*4,
        2012,v<-v*5,
    )
}

df$profit <- sapply(df$year,df$profit,inflationtransform)

But it doesn't work. Can someone tell me what to do?

A: For this particular example, since your factors and years are both ordered and incremented by 1, you could just subtract 2007 from the year column and multiply it by profit.
transform(df, profit = profit * (year - 2007))
#   profit year
# 1     30 2010
# 2     40 2011
# 3     50 2012

Otherwise, you could use a lookup vector.  This will cover all cases.
lookup <- c("2010" = 3, "2011" = 4, "2012" = 5)
transform(df, profit = profit * lookup[as.character(year)])
#   profit year
# 1     30 2010
# 2     40 2011
# 3     50 2012

I wouldn't use switch() unless you really need to. It's not vectorized, and that's where R is most efficient.  However, since you ask for it in the comments, here's one way.  I find it easier to use a for() loop with switch().
for(i in seq_len(nrow(df))) {
    df$profit[i] <- with(df, switch(as.character(year[i]),
        "2010" = 3 * profit[i],
        "2011" = 4 * profit[i],
        "2012" = 5 * profit[i]
    ))
}


We were inspired by our favorite Youtube channel Truth Stream Media to start our own podcast that, we hope, is both entertaining and controversial. Scott is a computer engineer from the heart of Dublin and, I, Zelda am a Texas native. In this first episode we talk about some of the topics that are likely to pop up the rest of this season. If you're easily offended, you might want to close your ear holes, because we like to smoke and we're not ashamed to defend our life choices.