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An infant died last week as a result of a hit and run.
This was confirmed by the Police Media officer, Maotaoali'i Kaioneta Kitiona.
While he did not reveal where the incident happened, he said the deceased boy was two years old and he died where the incident happened.
Maotaoali'i said a man has been arrested and is remanded under police custody facing three charges.
The 44-year-old faces a charge of negligent driving causing death, being an unlicensed driver and driving an unlicensed vehicle.
Maotaoali'i said the Police are continuing their investigation and there is a possibility the driver will face more charges.


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Rockiah Band Rocks out Jewishly
Interview with Yehuda David of Rockiah, a rock band from Beit Shemesh that combines power pop rock with Tehillim and other Jewish lyrics. Yehuda talks about how he ended up getting into Judaism, making aliyah, why you can still rock at age 40 and the time he got a tomato thrown at him at a rock show in Tel Aviv.
Plus, great new tracks from Ehud Banai, David D'or and Patric Sabag, Amir Benayoun, and Astrix.
Click here to listen and to download mp3

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Q: Wix C# Custom Action Logging Not Working I am trying to log from my C# Custom Action using session.Log( "Hello World!" ); This does not show up in my log file when executing my msi as follows:
msiexec /i myMsi.msi /lvx myLog.log
My custom action works fine, my only problem is I do not get my logging info. The log shows my CA is getting called, just not the info from my session.Log() call.
I am using Wix 3.5, .Net 4, VS 2010, and 64-bit Windows 7. I am calling my action as follows.
<Control Id="TestConnection" Type="PushButton" X="21" Y="177" Width="100" Height="17" Text="Test Connection">
  <Publish Event="DoAction" Value="TestConnection">1</Publish>
</Control>

A: Per the docs on DoAction ControlEvent, MsiProcessMessage (the API behind session.Log) cannot be used from a ControlEvent. This prevents your message from showing up in the log. If you need to log some information from a ControlEvent (especially for debugging), your best bet is a hack like changing a property's value to contain your desired log information.

A: I got around this by using the unmanaged OutputDebugString:
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern void OutputDebugString(string message);

public bool IsDebugLogging { get; set; }

public void Log(string message)
{
    // Uncomment if you have access to the Session object passed into your custom action.
    // Session.Log(message);
    if (IsDebugLogging)
    {
        OutputDebugString(message);
    }
}

In my custom action, I set IsDebugLogging = true to enable OutputDebugString logging. This output can be viewed using Sysinternal's DebugView.

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Heavy Metal Avoidance Tip #6 - Peanuts!
Do You Love Peanuts! Well it may be time to think again?
Peanuts are well known to contain the heavy metal cadmium and in past decades have contained unsafe levels. More recently government and industry have been working together to monitor and manage cadmium in the Australian peanut crop.
Forget peanuts for a second and let's look at cadmium, it's probably one of the most concerning heavy metals around. Cadmium is a well-known carcinogen connected to Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer. Most people we have tested had some level of cadmium in their body, which is troubling because of the effects it has on human health. Cadmium is well known to lead to kidney damage and potentiate the effects of diabetes, it can also lead to osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease.
In our opinion there is no safe level of cadmium, albeit the peanut farmers and government working hard to keep levels down. The problem is that peanuts love to draw up cadmium of the soil, and depending on how old the farm is, the farming methods employed, and the country of origin can all have a baring on the Cadmium levels in the final product.
Eating organic Australian grown peanuts is probably your safest bet, and only buying products that use single origin Australian nuts too (eg peanut butter, processed foods, food bars, mixed nuts). Peanuts can be a problem for individuals with higher of cadmium in their system or hormonal disturbances.
We also suggest having a heavy metal test done with Scott, just head over to the link above to find our how. We also suggest consuming specific foods which are high in Zinc and including MCP Detox Fibre and Superbiotic Grasses Fermented Food.
I was recently traveling through Bali in Indonesia and was fascinated with the rice paddies. I know a total touristy thing to do right?
After I got up close and personal with the rice paddies I started to pay closer attention to the water it was growing in. This started me on a journey of finding out more. So if you love rice and want to put your fingers in your ears this is the point you should tune out.
I noticed rubbish in the water and green slimy moss growing just below the surface too. Thus, began my research into rice and its relationship to water. Rice famers need a lot of water to grow rice, roughly 1400 litres per kg of rice. WOAH, that's a lot… they also tend to recycle water also. So, my question was how safe is rice?
After reading a whole bunch of scientific papers on heavy metals in rice I am really concerned that this staple food can be quite toxic depending on how it's grown and where it's grown. Much of the concern came from some imported rice. Without naming names there are some countries that where just not safe. There was also some research that even suggested that some Australian Brown Rice is high in lead, because of the husk on the brown hadn't been polished off.
Of the imported rice tested it was shown to be high in arsenic, cadmium and lead, these levels were well above the Australian standard. What most people don't know is that our food chain is the greatest source of daily heavy metal exposure outside of industry and smoking.
After testing hundreds of people, I have seen heavy metal toxicity from people from all over the world and in all age groups too. From young toddlers right up to the elderly. It raises concerns as to the how wide spread heavy metal toxicity really is.
For my family we are only buying organic foods and avoiding everything else. This is especially true for foods like rice!
As a Naturopath / Nutritionist our family also adds in some specific super foods to help reduce our toxic burden. (We'll cover this in the next on our blog). If you can't wait you can always book a free 15min consultation wit me!


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REDSTER WINNING TEAM:
MARCEL HIRSCHER CONTINUES WITH ATOMIC UNTIL 2018!
ALPINE MAR 30, 2016
The five time World Cup overall champion will continue his success story with the Redster race equipment from Atomic!
Extended cooperation. Once the stress and hype after winning his historic fifth consecutive World Cup globe have eased, Marcel Hirscher has taken an important decision for his future in sports: Today's best skier in the world continues to trust the equipment from Atomic out of Altenmarkt. The corresponding partner agreement will last until the end of the Olympic season in 2018.
Ski-World Championships 2017 in St. Moritz, Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 – Ski-Superstar Marcel Hirscher has achieved so much in the last few years, yet still has the hunger for more in the two winters ahead. Today Marcel has taken an important decision for his future: The five time World Cup overall champion will continue his success story with the Redster race equipment from Atomic! Besides his Redster ski setup Hirscher is also known to trust in the boots, helmet and goggles from Altenmarkt.
"We have all achieved quite a lot together and we know at the same time how we can still improve. #WEARESKIING – the motto remains the same and I'm more than happy about this!"
The Redster race unit ends the season in style with four crystal globes: two for Marcel Hirscher, one for Peter Fill and one for Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. Eighteen victories, 43 podiums, and quite a few broken records definitely inspire confidence for the upcoming World Championship season in 2016/17.
The extension of the winning partnership will remain in force until the end of the 2018 season, which will be right after the end of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. "Never change a winning team, is an old formula for success", says Wolfgang Mayrhofer, General Manager at Atomic. "Ski racing is a team sport when it comes to optimum material. Naturally we are all delighted that Marcel will continue to be part of our Atomic-team in the forthcoming seasons with a major event in each of them."
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Q: How to *NOT* turn taskbar button into task when clicked? Here you can see I have Edge pinned to my taskbar, and it's open, so now it's wide; clicking on it again will switch to the Edge window.

I want those taskbar buttons to stay as buttons, not be replaced by the window. Is there a setting for that, or 3rd party tool?

A: Create a shortcut with the target: cmd /c MicrosoftEdge.exe and pin it to your Taskbar.
Not sure how to assign the official icon yet. Will investigate

A: There is a Taskbar Setting called Combine Taskbar Buttons which you can set to Always, hide labels. In this case, it will stay as an icon but the background will change when there is at least one instance running to let you know. The button will no longer expand and show the title of the window.


Plus Size Kitten: WIN A FREE NANDO'S PERI PLATTER THIS WEEK!
question: what do u think will win the pole dance?
Peri Platter for 4pax worth RM62 for a winner a week!
Contest Details: Will run on a weekly basis every Monday for 4 weeks (starting 18/6 until 13/7). Contest will end every Friday and a winner will be selected. After 4 weeks, winner list will be sent to Nandos Malaysia who will deliver the vouchers to the winners after 20th July, 2012.
How To Win A Peri Platter This Week!
after watching the pole dancing dance off, who do u think should win?
- you can enter as many times as you want but only 1 winner will be selected per week based on the most creative answers.
- prize will be delivered to you by Nandos Malaysia after 20th July, 2012.
2. After watching the pole dancing dance off, I think Harry Kok should win in this dancing show. Because he showed more confident, well-prepared, attracting and enjoying in the dancing show; but Macho Kai seems always secretly looking and look down at Harry Kok.
2. Harry Kok can spind from bottom to top of the pole, thus Harry Kok FTW!!
2- kok kok kok kuuuuu (chicky sound)HARRY KOK will win! oh well, its nando's! his surname already proven that he will be the winner! Hot peri peri in him will boost his energy even more! another plus point in him!
2. Harry Kok will win!
Harry Kok will win because he can pole dance from bottom to top! It's amazing & totally unbelievable!
Harry has the highest winning chance as I mentioned previously because his mission contains CAP to achieve the goal which are Confident, Aggressive & Positive! These are the keys of every successful mission. From the video, I can see he has almost there.


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Bidgely Raises $16 Million for Energy Disaggregation
The California startup has tapped three large utilities to help it scale in the U.S. and Europe.
Katherine Tweed November 03, 2015
Bidgely closed a $16.6 million Series B round on Tuesday to expand its HomeBeat energy management platform.
Constellation Technology Ventures, which is part of Exelon Corporation, led the round. European utility investors E.ON and RWE also joined in the round with existing investor Khosla Ventures.
Bidgely is best known for its disaggregation software offering customers appliance-level energy consumption data, which it collects by analyzing the unique energy-use patterns of individual devices.
Disaggregating data is just one offering in a range of services, said Bidgely CEO Abhay Gupta. The company also provides actionable information based on that data, depending on what a particular utility is trying to achieve. Bidgely only needs smart meter data to perform the disaggregation, but it has also built an energy monitor as part of its HomeBeat offering that allows for more granular data collection.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup has about 20 large utility clients, some of which are in pilots, including ComEd, TXU and London Hydro.
The $16.6 million will be used to scale the company's European presence. Smart meter rollouts have been slower in Europe than in the U.S., but they are coming. As part of the investment, both E.ON and RWE are piloting Bidgely's technology. The startup hopes that having an early foot in the door will allow it to scale contracts as more meters are deployed.
Late last year, E.ON announced it was spinning off its customer-facing and renewables businesses and selling off its fossil-fuel assets. As that new customer-centric company emerges next year, it will surely be looking to have some differentiated offerings. RWE has also been looking toward Silicon Valley for technology solutions as it restructures its business.
In the U.S., Bidgely is already helping one energy retailer hold on to customers with value-add services. In Texas, TXU is using Bidgely's cloud-based platform to offer better mobile and online energy management tools to its 1.5 million residential customers.
For years, TXU had a homegrown energy dashboard, but last year it chose Bidgely for the contract. Bidgely provides basic services such as bill alerts, as well as push notifications when certain appliances are consuming more energy than usual.
For now, the bulk of Bidgely's business is with regulated utilities in North America. Exelon, which owns Constellation and ComEd, said it sees the potential to expand Bidgely as part of its competitive and regulated utility businesses.
"Investment in us is a validation they want more consumer-centric programs," Gupta said of the funding by Constellation.
ComEd has been piloting Bidgely's HomeBeat offerings, which comes with a monitor that acts as a gateway between the smart meter and the internet. Gupta said ComEd is moving beyond the initial pilot phase, but did not offer more detail about how much the program might scale.
The monitor allows Bidgely to disaggregate data in real time. Utility smart-meter data is often logged every hour, or at best, every 15 minutes. With the energy monitor, Bidgely can collect data every few seconds.
By gathering more granular and real-time data, Bidgely says it could also offer safety services such as notifying a customer if an electric oven has been left on for longer than usual.
Some of Exelon's largest utilities are investing heavily in novel consumer offerings. Baltimore Gas & Electric, for instance, has the largest behavioral demand response offering in the U.S. BGE uses Opower to tap more than 1 million customers for its Smart Energy Rewards program.
While Opower and Bidgely compete head-to-head for some contracts, there are other situations where their offerings could be complementary, said Gupta.


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Vadym Synyavsky (born 2 December 1987 in Zaporizhzhia Oblast) is a former male Ukrainian judoka. He is a bronze medalist of the 2015 European Games in the team event and a bronze medalist of both the 2012 and 2017 European Championships in the team events as well. In the individual competition at the 2015 European Games, Synyavsky lost in the round of 32 to Nikoloz Sherazadishvili from Spain.

Synyavsky competed at three World Championships. In 2011 in Paris, he defeated Mark Anthony from Australia and Chingiz Mamedov from Kyrgyzstan, but lost to Kirill Denisov from Russia in the round of 16. In 2014 in Chelyabinsk, he lost to Mashu Baker from Japan in the round of 64. In 2015 in Astana, he defeated Thomas Briceño from Chile, but lost to the eventual World champion Gwak Dong-han from South Korea in the round of 32. He was also 7th at the 2009 European Championships.

Synyavsky had several successes in several Grand Prix competitions. He was third at the 2009 Judo Grand Prix Hamburg, 2011 Judo Grand Prix Düsseldorf and 2014 Judo Grand Prix Tbilisi.

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1987 births
Living people
Ukrainian male judoka
Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Judoka at the 2015 European Games
European Games medalists in judo
European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine

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Bail Bonds FAQ
Bail Bonds in Raleigh, NC
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In its essence, a bail bond is a sort of guarantee or a written promise that you will attend the court hearing at the specified date. It is at this bail hearing that the judge sets the bail amount. In such a difficult moment, you first need to calm yourself, think straight, and go for the most effective solution: Contact a bail bondsman who can help a lot in getting you out of jail.
As is usually the case, lots of offenders have to remain behind bars until their next court hearing just because they do not have enough cash stashed away somewhere, ready at their disposal.
Depending on the charge, the amount of bail can be steep. Not many defendants are able to post the bond. There's a reason why the correctional system is overburdened. But there's a legal way to earn your temporary freedom even when your case is ongoing. Head on over to our website and get in touch with bail bond agents in Raleigh who you can trust to bail your loved one out. What Exactly is a Bail Bond?
A bail bond is a form of surety which a bonding company can provide so the offender behind bars can be released while waiting to be called in again for the court hearing.
A bail bond comes in two types, the criminal bail bond and a civil bail bond.
A judge imposes a criminal bail bond not as a punishment for your alleged crime but only to secure your agreement to show up in court for your hearing. For instance, the judge will look at your criminal record, the severity of the crime you are accused of, whether you are a flight risk and if you can afford the bail.
Civil bail bonds, meanwhile, are for use in civil cases. They serve to guarantee payment of debts, interest, and other costs that may be charged against the defendant.
Why Should I Care About the Bail Bond?
Using a bail bondsman is one of the most cost-effective ways of getting out of jail. Unfortunately, not many people can afford it, which is why the bail bondsman is crucial to anyone who wants to await their trial while still having a sense of normalcy in their lives. It therefore makes it smart to look for a bondsman in your city if you need to bail a loved one out without having to spend a lot of money for his or her release. Your most immediate concern is to get yourself out of jail, and a trusted bondsman can make that happen.
The amount of bail will vary. The process is simple, easy, and foolproof, and it begins with a call to the bail agent during which time you give the desired information concerning the person up for bail, and the company takes care of the bail for you. The next thing you know, you are back in the care of your family. This is assuming, of course, that your case is bailable.
While you do not necessarily need to look angelic before a judge, you certainly will want to look responsible at the very least. Moreover, the judge hearing your case will tend to have a more positive impression of you, rather than if you were to arrive in court wearing a jail attire, looking like you're already guilty of the crime you're accused of even before the judge could make a ruling. You can thank your bail bondsman for this.
Also, the bondsman can help you maneuver around the complex judicial proceedings.
How Does the Bail Bonds Process Work?
You need to get in touch with a bail bondsman right away. Whether you choose to go online to do this or not totally depends on us. Given the strict adherence to professionalism, a bail bondsman will gladly walk you through the bail process and iron out any reservations that you might have. Upon your approval of the deal, the bondsman will take care of handling all the formalities to secure your release.
Once the bail agent answered all of your questions to your satisfaction, the bail agent will handle all of the formalities necessary to get you or your loved one released from jail.
Always make sure to provide the bail bondsman with accurate information of the defendant's name, date of birth, and the place or the city where the arrest happened. The bond will continue to be in force until the court hands down its ruling, or if the defendant is arrested for another offense or dies.
As you can see, it does not take a lot to get your loved one out of jail when you have a reliable bondsman behind you through this. The bail agent has the authority to bring the defendant back in.
What Information Should I Have When Contacting a Bail Bondsman?
Before you get in touch with a bonding company, make sure to provide the following information accurately:
The full name of the defendant
The prison that holds that defendant
The booking number
The charges
Any other relevant information you can think of
What Does a Bondsman Accept as Collateral?
In most cases, the bail bondsman will require collateral in the transaction. But of course bail bond companies will not shell out money on your behalf without a guarantee that they will be paid back.
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Personal credit
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(An offer you can't refuse) -- R.K. The Godfather: It's About Family and More By Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence – 29 December 2015
Why is The Godfather so popular among conservative men?
A Mafia film with some famously violent scenes and dealing with the problems of a family of criminals? A story that ends with the underworld boss fully in control after dispatching his enemies with extreme prejudice?
True, the earnest opening lines are: "I love America. America has made my fortune." An awesome beginning, but that's not the reason.
Much of the reason lies with the backstory we heard about how Francis Ford Coppola came to produce and direct the film and co-author its script with Mario Puzo, who wrote the book.
In 1970, Coppola had already co-scripted Patton, another great film beloved by conservatives. While still not rich, he was a hot young film-maker. He worked in San Francisco and was looking for digs in wealthy Marin County, across the Golden Gate from The City. Marin was the center as much as anywhere in the world of hip culture of the '70s.
He was part of a crowd that liked to crash many weekends from Friday to Monday at some group member's home and party as folks could only in Groovy Marin. Dope, food, booze, coupling, hot tubs, music, whatever.
One weekend, a young woman in the group who was known to give good party, sat curled up in a corner of a back bedroom all by herself throughout the entire event reading Puzo's book. Coppola had seen other young women seemingly transfixed by this best-selling book at the time. He asked her what charm a gangster novel could possibly hold for someone of her sophistication.
And she gave him the answer that captured perhaps its most important character and a key theme around which he organized the film. She said simply: "It's about family." So, he took up a book he otherwise would not have read. He saw she was spot on. And there were other really great aspects of the story.
Paramount Pictures was looking for someone to make the movie. Despite his Sicilian-American bona fides and a good resume for a film-maker in his early thirties, including some feature-film directing and much writing, he hadn't yet directed or produced a major picture. At first, he had reservations about taking it on, too.
Paramount already had two name-brand directors in its sights, but they passed and he was hired. His hippie appearance didn't help with some of The Suits, however, and the relationship was rocky throughout. But he prevailed on casting, setting, mood and other artistic choices, and he emphasized the theme of family.
The essence of the story is family, as the aging Don Vito Corleone seeks to groom his oldest son Sonny as his successor in empire and to shield his youngest one, college boy and war veteran Michael, from all the family business so he can go legitimate and become perhaps senator or governor.
But Sonny is an arrogant, imprudent hothead who ultimately thereby gets himself gunned down. Second son Fredo is stupid and feckless, allowing the old man to be shot. In their time of need, Michael steps forward to take control in key situations requiring diligence, care and judgment. Protecting the old man who is recuperating in a hospital bed, Michael whispers, "I'm with you now, Pop," and the Don knows he can be trusted to lead the family prudently.
Among the most touching scenes are those of a recovering Pop assiduously mentoring Michael to become the new Godfather and Michael just as eagerly learning. All that is essential when the climax comes, and it allows Michael to prevail.
There's lots more about family, involving both Michael's brothers and the women in his life. And Pop's insistence that: "Any man who does not spend time with his wife and children cannot call himself a real man." It's all catnip for conservative men.
Further, as reflected in the end of Part II, this is thoroughly a morality tale. Michael has again prevailed over many enemies and is wealthy, but feels like he has a mouthful of ashes. The words of his former crime partner explain Michael's paradox: "This is the business we have chosen."
It's worth watching again this New Year's weekend. Happy 2016!
Ron Knecht is Nevada's elected Controller. Geoffrey Lawrence is Assistant Controller.
Ron Knecht
Economist &
Nevada Controller
www.RonKnecht.com


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News Analysis: Condoms get a fashion makeover
The Government's much-trumpeted adult sexual-health campaign is to proceed on a fraction of its original budget. Sarah Robertson asks PROs if the revised strategy can still reach the young target audience effectively.
by Sarah Robertson / November 22, 2006
The Government is desperately trying to curb Britain's soaring rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and last week launched its most significant health campaign since the famous 'Aids: don't die of ignorance' offensive in the late-1980s.
The Department of Health will not confirm how much of the £50m originally earmarked for marketing the drive (over three years) will be available. But the first year's budget is a relatively meagre £4m.
The campaign, being promoted by Harrison Cowley (PRWeek, 17 Nov), has therefore been blighted by concerns over its funding.
The fresh promotional effort, badged 'Condom Essential Wear', aims to persuade youngsters that condom use
is normal.
It targets 18 to 24-year-olds and aims to influence long-term sexual behaviour.
Government strategists have identified three stages of the target market's relationship with condom use: 'accept, carry and use'.
TV, press and PR will promote the 'accept' phase of the campaign, encouraging people to believe that condoms should always be used.
Online, radio, 'partnership marketing' and 'stakeholder marketing' will focus on the 'carry' theme, targeting young people as they plan a night out.
The 'use' stage will see partnership activity and ambient material in bars, clubs and holiday resorts delivering timely reminders as people get closer to the point of having risky sex.
Below we ask four PR professionals for their views on the campaign.
THE DOH AGENCY'S VIEW
Rebecca GUDGEON, executive director, Harrison Cowley: 'The strategy positions condoms as a must-have item to an audience heavily influenced by fashion brands. This campaign is edgier than before and encompasses TV ads.
'The most significant difference between this and the one we have handled over the past four years is that it targets 18 to 24-year-olds rather than 18 to 34-year-olds. There is a vast difference between a 24-year-old who tends to socialise a lot, and someone in their 30s who is more likely to have children.
'The campaign will target publications such as Nuts, which will be more useful than placing generalist messages in magazines such as Men's Health. The tone of lads' mags will allow us to be more creative this time around. DoH research shows barriers to condom use include the belief held by young people that STIs will not happen to them, that they are not a big risk, and that you can tell who has got an STI by looking at them. This campaign dispels these myths in a way that resonates with our target audiences.'
THE PR PROFESSIONALS' VIEWS
Rebecca FINDLAY, comms manager, Family Planning Association: 'The White Paper said this campaign would have £50m funding - but only £4m has emerged. This is a shame, not only because there is less funding but because the media are not talking about sexual health but about money.
'One of the reasons why there is such an increase in STIs is because there has not been a sustained public awareness campaign on sexual health.
'The fact is that people get embarrassed about condoms, they think they represent promiscuity or that they make their willies look strange. This campaign tackles that head on, positioning condom use as normal.
'The campaign includes the creation of a website for health professionals that allows them to share best practice, which is a positive tool to introduce. The innovative thing is that this campaign puts its messages into places such as bars, clubs and holiday resorts via ambient media. It will not be effective on its own, however, it needs to be backed up by good services.'
Lindsay FRANKEL, deputy editor, Company magazine: 'Targeting 18 to 24-year-olds will always be difficult for a government: it is hard not to be seen as patronising.
'If it is Patricia Hewitt asking a young audience to use condoms it is not really communicating with young people on their level.
'But fair play to the Government for using a fashion theme with this campaign, which is enterprising, although it does feel a bit like they are trying to be, rather than actually being, young and trendy.
'This campaign is a bit like watching grown-ups at a disco. But it is a difficult message for a government to communicate to young people. Unlike us, they cannot really acknowledge that unprotected sex happens because they could be seen as advocating it. But magazines can go a step further to advise getting tested after making a mistake -which we all know happens.
'Attitudes are slowly changing. Going to the "clap clinic" is no longer just for naughty girls and boys. We have been campaigning for young people to take chlamydia tests for three years.'
Yusef AZAD, director of strategy and campaigns, National Aids Trust: 'How effective this campaign will be depends on how long it can sustain media interest. It is scheduled to run for three years, but will the DoH attract coverage right throughout this period?
'The department also needs to make sure it spends as much of the allocated money as possible. The campaign has good messages and the DoH needs to remember the basics because the more the messages are communicated the more impact they will have.
'The Government also needs to look at what Primary Care Trusts are spending on health promotion: the campaign needs to happen on many different levels, including national and local.
'PCTs need to be running sexual education programmes in schools and youth clubs, and investing in campaigns and condoms.
'Money allocated for sexual-health services has been used to plug financial deficits at a local level, so we need to look at how we can ensure money committed to public health is used properly.'


Tape Drift Records has recently re-released Location Ensemble's self-titled live recording as a digital download on Bandcamp. The recording is from a concert at the Saratoga Arts Center in 2012. Tracks include Eric Hardiman's hocketing, krautrock burner Diversion #3, My Six Chords Every Rock Guitarist Should Know and Thomas Lail's Sonic Youth-inspired Untitled (All the Times She Loves Me).
Friday February 3, I'll join Bandcamp's #NoBanNoWall initiative. Bandcamp will donate 100% of their profits to the ACLU. I'll donate 200% of mine. Over 200 other artists and labels will also participate.
One is a refreshing pale ale from Back Forty Beer Co. with a modest alcohol content and an American hop profile: a touch of pine. The other is a wintry meditation on mortality from Post & Beam with an intoxicating Pythagorean minor third: slightly lower than equal tempered. Both are Alabama natives wistfully recalling a vanishing rural past.
This fall when I plow the fields under I'll be thinking only of you.
This month's score from Post & Beam is Fencepost. This is the last song I wrote for the record and has become the sleeper hit of the release.
The cFCFAb tuning is one I came to after trying a more standard minor (fCFAbC) or sawmill (cFCFG) tuning. I use a Pythagorean temperament based on F which doesn't change the tuning of the C's and F's very much, but makes the Ab significantly flatter than an equal-tempered Ab.
While recording, I kept missing the foot pedals and accidentally stepping on a mic stand instead. I decided to embrace the resulting bass drum thumps and include them in the piece.
Yet another song with bird imagery (YASWBI).
I'm a little late posting this on my own blog, but here it is!
I chose to use Bandcamp for this release because they now support pay-what-you-wish pricing (including FREE!) along with sales of physical media. So far, I've been surprised by how many people are buying the physical CD over just the download. I've also been surprised by how few people are choosing to pay $0.00 for the album. (Go on…it's OK!) Most people are sending some of their hard-earned $freedom$ my way in exchange for my music, and I appreciate it. Everything I earn supports the creation and sharing of more music. Bandcamp and PayPal get their share, and the rest goes toward that next imagined sound.
One 4 One is now available for download at Bandcamp!
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of One 4 One, the live recording of a set I performed at the Arts Center in Troy NY as part of the Impulse/Response series. The album had previously been available via Amie Street (RIP).
One 4 One includes 5 pieces for extended soprano saxophone and computer, and one piece for sipsi and computer. All of the pieces involve some degree of interactivity–the computer responds to the live instrument, and the performer responds to the computer's output–made possible by custom software written with Cycling 74's Max. The name of the album is a pun on the date, of course, and it also refers to mapping inputs to outputs.


A multi-panel modern wall art designed and created by contemporary artist Nicholas Yust, 'Igneous' is a heat-tinted sculpture. Various hues of orange were created by subjecting the metal under a torch, putting it under extreme temperatures. Four distinct panels with colored vertical strips feature different styles of working the metal – circular patterns, a combination of overlapping curved and straight lines, intersecting horizontal and vertical lines, and flowing curve lines. The lines were created by grinding overlapping patterns and lines which create texture and movement. Each panel has a unique characteristic, an entirely different feel to it – from more disorganized to very controlled, from chaotic to tranquil.
This particular piece of urban metallic artwork features the best of different worlds and will create a new dimension in any modern space.


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Q: Google Chrome - where to get all the regedit policy flags? In some Banks, Government Google Chrome is hammered with there local policy as a result often when we go on-site our stable applications does not work anymore.
Because of there is no well documentation available about this local regedit changes, people waste months fixing a tiny issues in Banks, Government zone.
Can anyone please list the whole mystery of regedit values which makes Google Chrome modifications such as i have seen someone puts webcam disabled, microphone disabled, touch screen disabled, etc etc (there is a huge settings but no-body documented them, can we have them all dumped here?).

A: I'm not quite sure what you're asking for but to answer your title here's a list of all the policys
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
Chromium shares the same policys as Google Chrome but beware that some policys might not yet be implemented
EDIT: Made a RAW copy on request. Chrome policy list

A: If you enter "chrome://flags" (without quotes) inside chrome's URL bar, this will show you a load of Flags that may be helpful, not entirely sure if it will hold exactly what you're looking for, but you never know.


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In a minority? Don't panic
Mike Starkey looks at two views of church life post-Christendom
A Vast Minority: Church and mission in a plural culture
Stuart Murray
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TO SAY that Stuart Murray is fascinated by the demise of Christendom would be an understatement. The Church's shift from cultural domination to the margins of our society forms the backdrop to all Murray's recent writings, including his earlier books Post-Christendom and Church After Christendom. This new work complements those volumes, but stands alone.
Murray's introduction draws intriguing comparisons between the late Roman Empire in the year 315, and the UK in 2015 — some 1700 years later. In both, the Christian population could plausibly be estimated at about ten per cent. In Rome, of course, it had grown to that figure, whereas in the UK it had declined to it. In both, the Church could be said to form a "vast minority" within its culture. Murray's concern is to explore what minority status for the Church means now, in terms of self-identity, morale, expectations, strategy for mission, and a range of other issues.
Some commentators, both inside and outside the Church, see post-Christendom as a sign of decline and growing irrelevance. For Murray, writing in the Anabaptist tradition, it is a cause for hope: it restores the Church to the marginal, prophetic place it should always have occupied. Murray's potent analogy for the Church's new identity is the young David, casting off unwieldy and alien armour in order to engage Goliath. For David, "being light on his feet and and accurate in his aim was much more important than being well protected, resplendent and heavily armed."
Murray draws on the history of other minority faith communities in Europe, such as the Jews and Anabaptists, to illustrate hopeful ways of living, witnessing, and dealing with persecution at the hands of an unsympathetic majority culture. His other main biblical analogy, alongside David and Goliath, is the Exile — particularly Jeremiah's advice to the exiles to make peace with their new minority status and to work for the welfare of the society around them.
This leads to some provocative conclusions, such as his uneasiness with contemporary prayers for revival. These may, he says, be a panic strategy: a way of evading the hard challenge of learning to live in post-Christendom.
Murray writes clearly and compellingly. His analysis of our current condition is readable and razor-sharp, and his rejection of nostalgia and defeatism is inspiring. His own strategies for the future in later chapters feel necessarily more tentative, and have a distinctively Anabaptist feel to them — such as challenging consumer capitalism and militarism, peace-building, and encouraging restorative justice.
The culture of post-Christendom also forms the backdrop to the writings of Darrell Guder, an emeritus professor at Princeton Seminary and a leading light in the Gospel and Our Culture Network of North America. Guder covers similar ground to Murray's, but at a more technical and scholarly level. Many of the same Christian thinkers are name-checked in both books, particularly Karl Barth, David Bosch, and Lesslie Newbigin. Similar themes recur: the challenge of Christian witness in a changing culture, contextualising the gospel, a Missio Dei understanding of evangelism, the value of incarnational theology, and theologies from the margins.
Guder's book is a collection of his essays over the past decade, and so necessarily feels rather piecemeal. His thinking is stimulating and wide-ranging, but has something of the feel of contributions to an in-house debate for academic missional theologians. As a sustained and accessible polemic, Murray would be the better introduction for the non-specialist.
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Crestron today announced its Crestron Pyng Luxury Home Automation platform now includes support for third-party A/V devices. Crestron has once again partnered with LG Electronics to extend IP control of their world-class Enterprise displays into the Luxury Residential market for LGs 2017 and 2018-series consumer OLED, SUPER UHD and UHD TVs. LG's TVs are the first displays to be included in this release. Support for Pyng video is scheduled to release in the summer.


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Q: Chaining unary operators with megaparsec I have written a parser using megaparsec for a very simple language consisting of integer literals and two unary operators "a" and "b":
data ValueExpr = OpA ValueExpr
               | OpB ValueExpr
               | Integer Integer

valueExpr :: Parser ValueExpr
valueExpr = makeExprParser valueTerm valueOperatorTable

valueTerm :: Parser ValueExpr
valueTerm = parenthesised valueExpr
          <|> Integer <$> integerLiteral

integerLiteral :: Parser Integer
integerLiteral = -- omitted

valueOperatorTable :: [[Operator Parser ValueExpr]]
valueOperatorTable = [[unaryOp "a" AOp,
                       unaryOp "b" BOp]]

parenthesised :: Parser a -> Parser a
parenthesised = between (char '(') (char ')')

unaryOp :: Text -> (a -> a) -> Operator Parser a
unaryOp name f = Prefix (f <$ symbol name)

binaryOp :: Text -> (a -> a -> a) -> Operator Parser a
binaryOp name f = InfixL (f <$ symbol name)

However, it seems that this doesn't allow me to "chain" unary operators, i.e. when trying to parse "ab1", I'm met with "unexpected 'b'". Why is that?

A: This is briefly mentioned in the documentation for makeExprParser:

Unary operators of the same precedence can only occur once (i.e., --2 is not allowed if - is prefix negate).  If you need to parse several prefix or postfix operators in a row, ... you can use this approach:
manyUnaryOp = foldr1 (.) <$> some singleUnaryOp

This is not done by default because in some cases allowing repeating prefix or postfix operators is not desirable.

In your specific example, something like the following ought to work:
valueOperatorTable :: [[Operator Parser ValueExpr]]
valueOperatorTable = [[Prefix unaryOps]]

unaryOps :: Parser (ValueExpr -> ValueExpr)
unaryOps = foldr1 (.) <$> some (OpA <$ symbol "a" <|> OpB <$ symbol "b")


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New Joker Photo From The Batwoman Set Is Very Revealing
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By Mike Bedard/Feb. 24, 2022 7:14 pm EST
A new version of the Clown Prince of Crime has dominated over on The CW. "Batwoman" established early on that the Joker died some time ago, but it appears as though his legacy lives on. Marquis Jet (Nick Creegan), who also happens to be the half-brother of Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie), has assumed the mantle of Joker and has brought the character's signature brand of chaos and mayhem back to Gotham. And only Ryan, a.k.a. Batwoman, can stand in his way to stop more innocent lives from being lost.
With only one episode left in Season 3, things are about to hit a fever pitch to the point where even Batman himself would have trouble finding a way out of this mess. The previous episode, titled "We're All Mad Here," offered a glimpse into how precisely Gotham winded up in this situation with some much-needed backstory on Marquis. And now, a behind-the-scenes photo provides even more for fans to chew on as they await the Season 3 finale.
Take a look at Joker with young Marquis
Kendrick Jackson/Instagram
One of the most terrifying moments found in Season 3, Episode 12 of "Batwoman" involves a flashback sequence showing Joker hijacking a bus filled with children. One of those kids just so happens to be a young version of Marquis, played by Kendrick Jackson, and we see how he ended up the way he did. Joker confronts the young boy, and their conversation ends with the supervillain using one of his patented hand buzzers to shock Marquis' head. This warped his mind and allowed him to transform into the villain we know from "Batwoman."
Things are much more amicable behind the scenes as Jackson shared a photo of him posing with the actor who played Joker in the flashback sequence on Instagram. Appropriately enough, Jackson's sporting a Batman hoodie. Plenty of people chimed in the comments to support Jackson with words of praise like "Whoa, very cool" and "This looks JUST LIKE Conrad Veidt! WOW."
Hopefully, it's not the last time we've seen either actor on the series. They both more than made an impact during their time on the show, and no doubt fans would love to see more of young Marquis and the original Joker.


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Asghar Massombagi
Everywhere all the time
A couple of weeks ago I was lounging in a theater, eagerly awaiting the start of the movie when I found myself a captive audience to one of those pre-movie slide shows with the trivia and silly quotes from movies stars and celebrities running in a loop ad nauseam (who said "Well, this is the LAST TIME… "? Dramatic fade out, fade in: Superstar comedian Jim Kerry in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim will be appearing next in The Loony Guy).
I was still shaking my head at this bit of silliness when the next slide flashed by: 36000 liters of soft drink is dispensed annually from pop machines in this theater alone. I wondered why the theater management or the folks at the Ministry of Silly Quotes deemed it necessary to inform me of this particular statistic. Was this a clever ploy aimed at enticing me to run to the concession stand and get my customary vat of pop to go along with my basketful of popcorn? Or perhaps, concerned that I might be bored, they felt obligated to provide me with some mean to fill the "dead time" before the entertainment began.
In a moment of supreme lucidity, it occurred to me that these days there is hardly any public space where I am not constantly bombarded by information. I was riding the elevator the other day and there it was: a small closed-circuit LCD screen flashing the usual mix of international headlines, baseball scores and celebrities de jour factoids. The buses and subways have long been colonized by Gap and Nike and television more than ever is little more than an extended infomercial. Is it chunks of entertainment between the commercials or the other way around? That distinction though, is passé in the current zeitgeist, too 1950s, positively pre-Pop, too pre postmodern.
The commercials, sitcoms, cop shows and rock videos borrow from each other and ape one another to such a hall-of-mirror dizziness that it's increasingly difficult to know what is what and which is which (try it sometime, just turn on the TV and make a guess what you're watching. It makes a nice party game).
European soccer stadiums have for some time now fashioned LED (Light Emitting Diodes) banners along the field where painted signs used to be, cleverly increasingly their advertising revenue manifold. The viewers obviously have adjusted to the constant flicker of the banners twitching, switching, flashing product placements on an average of one per three seconds.
An intense war is going on, indeed, out in the public space for my eyeballs and ear drums and now with the advances in digital technology and miniaturization of communication media there is very little one can do to escape it. It's not enough to just turn off that TV as they used to say anymore, it won't be long before 3-D holograms occupy plain air. The Japanese, a nation of gadget freaks, have already started the ball rolling on hologram technology.
Back to the movie theater. I kept mulling over the "36000 liters of pop dispensed in this movie theater alone", or the banal quotes from celebrities and superstars (megastars, supernovas, übercomets). Alas celebrity quotes are not what they used to be. "Frankly my dear", said Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, "I don't give a damn." "Fasten your seatbelts …", uttered Bette Davis famously in All About Eve, "it's going to be a bumpy night!" Blame this on the increasingly pedestrian quality of movie dialogue in American cinema.
Jim Kerry and Angelina Jolie can't compete with the immortals of the past. They don't have the writers. Words and images used to have weight and tragic dimension, these days though, well, they are more often than not flat, lack depth; they swim down the same data stream as gossip, news, cooking recipes, weight loss testimonials,… all part of the same glut of facts and tidbits.
To experience the contemporary information whirlwind is like sitting in the first row of an old fashioned movie theater, the ones with 30-foot by 70-foot screens: you are so overwhelmed that you can hardly make out the image from the shimmering silver grains. Nostalgic? No, just disappointed. Well, maybe a little.
Going to the movies is not what it used to be. I remember when I became old enough to venture out of the old neighbourhood on my own and go to the Baharestan district in central Tehran. Baharestan was an exotic area, with its herbal stores and Armenian-operated coffee shops and fabulous bakeries that served far-out goodies like meat and jelly Piroshky doughnuts (souvenirs of contact with the Caucuses).
Not far from Baharestan, Lalehzar was the old theater district in Tehran (I'm writing strictly from memory but I think the geography is accurate). By the time it became my stumping ground, live theater was long gone from Lalehzar, and the mostly derelict buildings were converted to second and third run movie houses (double and triple bills, even after the revolution, for ridiculously low ticket prices).
You bought the ticket from some toothless old man behind the glass and entered the lobby. The walls were lined with movie stills and the sound seeped from the show room into the cool semi-dark hallways (no matter how crumbling the structures, these theaters somehow managed to have impeccable air-conditioning, definitely a bonus in the murderously hot summer afternoons in Tehran). And more than anything, the theaters, like a medieval church in Paris, were hushed. The semi-literate owners and operators of Lalehzar seemed to have a reverence for the movies akin to a mosque.
So you entered the screening room and found yourself a seat in a corner (once in a while when an adult sat too close you got up and discreetly changed seats. Pedophiles and pederasts seemed to lurk at every corner in the Tehran of my childhood), sank in the seat and waited for the crackle of the projector to signal the commencement of the show.
I don't know about other people but back in those days one of the most exciting things about going to the movies for me was the minutes before the curtain actually opened (yes, there was still the odd theater with curtain). Sitting in the cool dark theater I was filled with anticipation. Watching a movie wasn't just about the movie; the experience itself was dramatic and stimulated the imagination.
Although movie watching is a collective experience, one enjoyed in the company of others, when the lights are dimmed, you are alone within yourself (that is if you're not itching to make your move on your date, but that's another story). As if in Plato's Cave, the white screen in front of you (and the emphasis here is on white as in blank) becomes a shadow play for your desires and fantasies.
To paraphrase film editor Walter Murch one looks into a movie as opposed to looking at it, which is the experience of watching television. The movie screen "possesses" deep focus and invites participation, whereas television screen is flat. That sense of being within oneself in an unoccupied space to reflect, dream and contemplate is essential to a healthy psychic and intellectual life.
Renaissance scholar, Montaigne, once wrote "We must maintain a place for ourselves alone, a free zone where we can cultivate our liberty and our peace of mind and our solitude… In solitude, be a world unto yourself." I wonder what he would have thought of the hyperreal, information-crazed contemporary society where every inch of public and private space is cluttered with streams of data that are, unless one has the tools to sift through and mine it, depressingly uniform – the proverbial 500 channel universe broadcasting the same game shows, sitcoms and reality shows.
Of course too much information is better than no information but information glut has its own hazards. Too much information can become obscene and pornographic; it could overwhelm its subject by its sheer weight. When information assumes the dimension of spectacle, it can render its subject impotent. Turn away, tune out, turn off the TV, close the curtains, turn off the computer (like the one I'm writing on at this moment) you say, but unless one is willing to run to the wilderness, you can't get away from information.
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The Religious Order: Sampradaya
Hinduism, like other religions, has many religious groupings. The Sanskrit word for this is sampradaya, which comes from the verbal root "da" meaning to "give." A sampradaya therefore is something that is "given" or passed down from generation to generation. Hence, the idea of a religious tradition. In Christianity the equivalent of sampradaya is denomination.
In general terms Hinduism breaks down into four broad religious groupings or sampradayas determined mainly by which Deity is the major object of worship. There are Shaivas who focus on Shiva, Vaishnavas who focus Vishnu, Shaaktas who focus on a female form of Divinity, and an almost endless number of folk traditions. The expression "folk traditions" is a catchall phrase to mean the huge number of local traditions that pervade every part of Hinduism and which commonly intermix with the Shaiva, Vaishnava and Shaakta traditions. Each of these major groupings can be called a sampradaya, but even more so, within each of these major groupings there are many sub-groupings that can also be called sampradayas. Amongst the Shaivas, for example, there are Kashmiri Shaivas, the Shaiva Siddhanta, and the Vira Shaivas, and so on. Amongst the Vaishnavas there are Shri Vaishnavas, Madhva Vaishnavas, and Caitanya Vaishnava, and many others. In this way, we can speak of each major grouping as a sampradaya as well as each sub-grouping as a sampradaya. If we compared this to Christianity, it would be somewhat similar to saying, Christianity is divided into three major groupings, the Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions and within each of these major groupings are many sub-groups. Amongst Protestants, for example, there are Baptists, Methodists, Anglicans, Quakers, and so on. All of these major groupings and sub-groupings are the "sampradayas" of Christianity, which they call denominations.
Ramanuja, founder of the Sri Sampradaya
Within Hinduism the sampradaya is similar to the tree model of religion. Elsewhere we spoke of different models of religion, namely the tree and the river models. We described Hinduism as a river, distinct from most other religions that follow a tree model of religion. The sampradaya is akin to the tree model of religion. Most of the sampradayas of Hinduism start from a source, a major philosopher or guru. Ramanuja is the founder of the Shri sampradaya of Vaishnavas, Madhva is the founder of Madhva Vaishnavas, and so forth. Similarly Shankara is the founder of a major sampradaya of Hinduism called Advaita Vedanta. In this way we can say the within the river of Hinduism there are many religions. This is the sampradaya.
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Q: Optimising Pandas multi-index lookup I Use Pandas 0.12.0. Say multi_df is a Pandas dataframe with multiple index. And I have a (long) list of tuples (multiple indexes), named look_up_list. I want to perform an operation if a tuple in look_up_list is in multi_df.
Below is my code. Is there a faster way to achieve this? In reality len(multi_df)and len(look_up_list) are quite large so I need to optimise this line: [multi_df.ix[idx]**2 for idx in look_up_list if idx in multi_df.index].
In particular, line_profiler tells me that the contidional check: if idx in multi_df.index takes a long time.
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'id' : range(1,9),
                    'code' : ['one', 'one', 'two', 'three',
                                'two', 'three', 'one', 'two'],
                    'colour': ['black', 'white','white','white',
                            'black', 'black', 'white', 'white'],
                    'texture': ['soft', 'soft', 'hard','soft','hard',
                                        'hard','hard','hard'],
                    'shape': ['round', 'triangular', 'triangular','triangular','square',
                                        'triangular','round','triangular']
                    },  columns= ['id','code','colour', 'texture', 'shape'])
multi_df = df.set_index(['code','colour','texture','shape']).sort_index()['id']

# define the list of indices that I want to look up for in multi_df
look_up_list = [('two', 'white', 'hard', 'triangular'),('five', 'black', 'hard', 'square'),('four', 'black', 'hard', 'round') ]
# run a list comprehension
[multi_df.ix[idx]**2 for idx in look_up_list if idx in multi_df.index]

P.S: The actual operation in the list comprehension is not multi_df.ix[idx]**2, but something like: a_slow_function(multi_df.ix[idx]).

A: Perhaps use multi_df.loc[look_up_list].dropna().
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(
    {'id': range(1, 9),
     'code': ['one', 'one', 'two', 'three',
              'two', 'three', 'one', 'two'],
     'colour': ['black', 'white', 'white', 'white',
                'black', 'black', 'white', 'white'],
     'texture': ['soft', 'soft', 'hard', 'soft', 'hard',
                 'hard', 'hard', 'hard'],
     'shape': ['round', 'triangular', 'triangular', 'triangular', 'square',
               'triangular', 'round', 'triangular']
     }, columns=['id', 'code', 'colour', 'texture', 'shape'])
multi_df = df.set_index(
    ['code', 'colour', 'texture', 'shape']).sort_index()['id']

# define the list of indices that I want to look up for in multi_df
look_up_list = [('two', 'white', 'hard', 'triangular'), (
    'five', 'black', 'hard', 'square'), ('four', 'black', 'hard', 'round')]

subdf = multi_df.loc[look_up_list].dropna()
print(subdf ** 2)

yields
(two, white, hard, triangular)     9
(two, white, hard, triangular)    64
Name: id, dtype: float64

Note:

*

*multi_df as defined above is a Series, not a DataFrame. I don't
think that affects the solution though.

*The code you posted above raises IndexingError: Too many indexers
so I'm guessing (a little bit) at the intention of the code.


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Dundalli (1820–1855)
by Libby Connors
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, (MUP), 2005
Dundalli (c.1820-1855), Aboriginal leader, was born in the mountains (Blackall Range), north-west of Moreton Bay (Queensland). He probably came from the Dalambara clan of the Dalla language group. His name meant wonga pigeon. In August 1841 he was part of a delegation of Dalla who met German missionaries J. P. Niqué and A. T. W. Hartenstein on their journey north from Brisbane. From the mid-1840s he lived on Bribie Island, whose traditional owners, the Djindubari people, had adopted him.
Accused of involvement in the spearing of a shepherd on the Archer brothers' Durundur station in 1843, Dundalli eluded capture. In 1845 a German missionary testified that he heard Dundalli issuing instructions to Aborigines engaged in robbing and then burning his hut. A mass attack on Andrew Gregor's station on the Pine River in October 1846, which resulted in the death of Gregor and his pregnant female servant, cemented Dundalli's growing reputation and triggered a series of reprisals and counter-reprisals. Evidence, often confused and based on rumour, allegedly linked Dundalli to the Gregor crime, an attack on three sawyers in September 1847 in which William Boller lost his life, the killing of a fisherman, Charles Gray, in 1849, the theft from the hut of a settler named Cash in 1852 and an attack on a shepherd named Halloran. Circumstantial evidence pointed to him, however, as an indigenous leader who was determined to repay violence with violence and to defend the honour and dignity of his people.
In a wave of frontier police actions, three of Dundalli's companions, including his brother Oumulli, were captured and killed, others were arrested or questioned and the death penalty was imposed and later remitted on another supporter Mickaloe. A legend grew up around Dundalli as he evaded capture over a fourteen-year period and the Whites sought to connect him with almost every act of violence committed on the northern side of the Brisbane River. The indigenous community was divided between those who supported and attempted to protect him and the traditional enemies of the Djindubari, who feared him and were prepared to inform the police of his whereabouts. One reason for his mystique was his size. His trial judge later wrote that Dundalli 'was the largest man I ever looked upon', well over six feet (183 cm) tall.
From May 1853 in Moreton Bay he worked for twelve months in the boat of William Wilson, a European and his name exchange 'brother'. Captured at Fortitude Valley in May next year, Dundalli was tried before (Sir) Roger Therry at the Brisbane Circuit Court in November. In his Reminiscences (London, 1863), Therry described how the prisoner brazenly attempted to bribe him, for sixpence, and on another occasion offered to row the judge to Sydney if he would release him. Dundalli was sentenced to death for the murders of Andrew Gregor and William Boller. The gallows were erected on the Queen Street footpath in front of Brisbane Gaol.
A crowd gathered to witness the execution on 5 January 1855 and the town constabulary and a detachment of native police surrounded the gallows to prevent any attempt at escape or rescue. As Dundalli mounted the scaffold he called out to a large number of indigenous people, who were gathered in the brushes that lined the Wickham Terrace hill, overlooking the scene, to avenge his death. They let out a loud cry when his body dropped. Alexander Green, the executioner sent from Sydney, bungled the hanging. Dundalli's feet fell upon his coffin, forcing Green to bend and drag on the hanged man's long legs until he died. This was the last official public execution in Queensland.
Dundalli was married, so it is likely that he had children. A sketch by Silvester Diggles, reproduced for the Illustrated Sydney News, shows Dundalli dressed in the open, smock shirt of a workingman of the 1850s, with wavy, black hair and neatly trimmed beard cut in the European style.
C. Campbell Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisb, 1904)
L. Connors, 'The Theatre of Justice', in R. Fisher (ed), Brisbane: The Aboriginal Presence 1824-1860 (Brisb, 1992)
Moreton Bay Courier, 27 May 1854, p 2, 25 Nov 1854, p 2, 6 Jan 1855, p 2, 13 Jan 1855, p 2
Illustrated Sydney News, 16 Dec 1854
Brisbane Courier, 18 Jan 1919
R v Dundalli, 9/6386 (State Records New South Wales).
Andrew Gregor and his servant Mary Shannon are killed in an attack by Aborigines, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 24 October 1846, p 2
report on the attack on three sawyers during which William Boller was killed; Dundalli was identified as one of the attackers, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 18 September 1847, pp 2-3
Dundalli is captured by police, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 27 May 1854, p 2, column 2
the charges against Dundalli, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 3 June 1854, p 2
Dundalli is found guilty of the wilful murders of William Boller in 1847 and Andrew Gregor in 1846, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 25 November 1854, p 2, column 2
is ordered to be executed on 5 January 1855, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 19 December 1854, p 1
is executed, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 6 January 1855, p 2
his last words, Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), 13 January 1855, p 2
Barlow, Billy (colleague)
Therry, Roger (judge)
Green, Alexander (executioner)
Libby Connors, 'Dundalli (1820–1855)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dundalli-12895/text23299, published first in hardcopy 2005, accessed online 17 January 2021.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, (MUP), 2005
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