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Q: Using subprocess in python with multiple values and same argument This is my command
subprocess.call(["wine","MP4Box.exe","-add",outputdir+"tmp.m4a","-itags",'name=a',"-itags", "artist=b","-itags", "album_artist=c","-itags", "album=d","-itags", "created=2034","-itags", "genre=e","-new", "tmp23.m4a"])

In the output file i can get only genre, subprocess sends only the last "-itags" value.Anyway to make this work?
thanks

A: outputdir = "output"

subprocess.call([
    "wine", "MP4Box.exe", "-add", outputdir + "/tmp.m4a",
    "-itags", "name={name}:artist={artist}:album_artist={album_artist}:album={album}:created={created}:genre={genre}".format(
        name="a",
        artist="b",
        album_artist="c",
        album="d",
        created=2034,
        genre="e"
    ),
    "-new", "tmp23.m4a"
])

From the docs.
Note that the tags cannot contain the : character as this will break the command.

A: According to their documentation the parameter should be passed like this

-itags tag1[:tag2]

So you may try to do it like so
subprocess.call(["wine","MP4Box.exe","-add",outputdir+"tmp.m4a","-itags","name=a:artist=b" ...

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Scottish confectioner Aldomak acquires meringue brand
Purchase of The Handmade Meringue Co. brand dovetails with private-label manufacturer's first Middle East order.
Bernie Pacyniak
KEYWORDS acquisitions / The Handmade Meringue Co. / United Kingdom
Aldomak, a Scottish private-label producer of fudge, macaroons and oat bars, has acquired The Handmade Meringue Co. brand for an undisclosed sum.
The company already manufactures meringue for The Handmade Meringue Co. and will now improve its margins through ownership of the brand. The meringue business, which is based in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire, already has a listing in all seven Waitrose shops in Scotland.
Managing Director Dario Riccomini, who has overseen the Aldomak family business since 2001, said "This is an opportunity to extend our product range, which was too good to miss.
"We are also currently in talks with a number of prospective new customers on the supply of our existing range and by acquiring The Handmade Meringue Co. brand, we can now add this attractive offering. The brand also benefits from supplying Waitrose's seven Scottish branches."
In addition, he said that the company "…just secured our first overseas order from a retail chain in Abu Dhabi; it's a small order which will be shipped before Christmas, but we are hopeful this will lead to stronger export links to this market in the future."
Aldomak co-manufactures products for several major brands as well as supermarkets, including Aldi's Specially Selected range.
Earlier this year, the company was awarded Grade A British Retail Consortium (BRC) status. The BRC Standard is a globally recognized mark of quality and safety. It is the first Food Safety Standard to be benchmarked by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), the consortium set up in 2000 to set an international "Gold Standard."
Aldomak has been in existence since 1932 and in the Riccomini family's hands since the 1970s.
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An Interview with the Paranoid Style's Elizabeth Nelson
ELIZABETH NELSON IS frontwoman for the DC based garage-punk band the Paranoid Style and belongs on any short list of the most gifted contemporary songwriters. While essentially grafting Warren Zevon's dark aura and indelible hooks onto Sleater-Kinney's punk and political heft, she has produced a laudatory share of the best music of her era, most recently on 2016's funny and desperate full-length LP Rolling Disclosure. Angry, literary and sonically profane in equal measure, Nelson's work often feels like the explosive socialist rage of David Mamet's early plays set to song. Tunes like the joyously-crazed "National Sunday Law" or the judiciously wry rave-up "The Thrill Is Back" are spiky life-rafts on the rocky sea of Trump's America.
In the run-up to the 10/27 release of the band's remarkable new EP Underworld U.S.A. I had a chance to sit down and interview Nelson regarding her background, inspirations, and eventual endgame.
OWEN KING: How has it come to this? How did our country get here?
ELIZABETH NELSON: Well, there obviously is no one simple answer. You know what they say: practice, practice, practice.
OK: Can you talk a little bit about "Hawk vs. Prez," and especially about the upbeat shape of the tune? It's a song that I find cheering, in spite of the fact that it includes lines like, Ain't it just grand when you stop growing old?/ And then the noise just ends and you're restored to the ground. The voice of the song seems to be a step away from leaping, in the best possible mood, off the edge of a deathly precipice. In that way it reminds of Harry Nilsson's great "Don't Forget Me." And when we're old and full of cancer/ It doesn't matter now, come on get happy!
EN: In many ways it's a song I intended as a celebration of things that are beautiful in the world or at least to me, things that are restorative. In the case of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, who the song is named after, they were these two saxophonists who were friends and rivals and just made the most beautiful music I can imagine in the middle part of the 20th century. And it's sort of their story and sort of the band's story all set against the backdrop of how our culture becomes commodified and degraded and packaged and sold. But you can't diminish things that are authentically beautiful. Certain things transcend the pursuit of wealth and vanity. When Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, he said, "My father's house is not a market." Some things aren't for sale, you know? As for Nilsson, that moment in "Don't Forget Me" is so powerful. It gives me chills just thinking about it. And it's kind of true, right? The promise of our lives and our struggles is peace at the end, don't you think? At least that's what I like to think.
OK: "I Believe U Believe U Can Fly" really captures the moment: it seems like our country is on the verge of collapsing beneath the weight of bullshit conviction – i.e. there are people who earnestly believe that millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and so on. Did any particular thing inspire the song?
EN: Our country has a weird fetish for upbeat maxims that mean literally nothing. I first noticed this growing up in the 80's where there was this bizarre, very artificial Reagan-era positivism that felt incredibly stage managed, and seemed to be barely masking a profound cultural despair. And that sense has only deepened and become almost omnipresent in our political culture. Trump is really kind of the apotheosis of this – having run an historically successful campaign that literally consisted of nothing other than vague slogans. It's comical really. But by and large I don't think the Clinton campaign did much better. It's often remarked that at no point was she ever able to articulate in a specific way why she should be president, other than that it was "her turn" and she wasn't Trump. And certainly I voted for her and would do again without a moment's hesitation. She was self-evidently the better choice. But I still don't know what "I'm With Her" is supposed to mean. I wasn't with her when she was taking those speaking fees from Wall Street. I wasn't with her when she was abandoning the industrial base to try and pull in the investor class. I wasn't on board with a lot of that stuff. Anyway, long way around to saying the song was just wanting to have some fun with the longstanding tradition of delusional songs masquerading as inspirational anthems.
But it was also about complacency. When I was writing the Rolling Disclosure record, my feeling as a person of the left was that we were becoming inured to the rising tide of nationalism and corporatism. It wasn't that I had any special insight, lots of people were saying this, but to me it wasn't being heard. Sleater-Kinney is my favorite band, and they made an album in 2015 called No Cities To Love. I wrote a review of that album in The Stranger – it's a great album – and I talked about how they were trying to wake us up. Because this threat was looming. And everyone ridiculed Trump – everyone thought he was so asinine – but that's the way it always is with these guys. They seem ridiculous until they don't. Elvis Costello has a song about this called "Night Rally". He says, You think they're so dumb/ you think they're so funny/ wait until they got you running/ to the night rally. Some people thought Rolling Disclosure was too cynical, but I didn't mean it to be cynical. I meant it to be alarming. I keep hearing about how we need all these punk rock albums now that Trump is in power. Talk about closing the barn gate after the cows are out! I mean, sure, we still need protest music. But where were these people before? Coachella?
OK: There's a lot fat, swaggering sound on this album. This album really feels like it's buying a round for the whole bar. Will you walk us through how you got from rough demos to these big burly things?
EN: Well, a song usually starts on acoustic guitar and piano and I'll record it in Garage Band and maybe embroider a few parts that I think are cool. But basically I present the band with the full skeleton of the music and then allow them to embroider during the tracking. I'm fortunate to be working with guys like Peter Holsapple from the dB's and Bruce Bennett from the A-Bones and William Matheny from the Strange Constellations. These are heavy hitters, so I'm excited to let them go off the island and see what they come up with. It's one of the true pleasures. It's not the most common now, but we always record in a dedicated studio, with live playing and even some live singing on the albums. I tend to write ten verses for a song that only needs three, so I wait sometimes to decide which three on the fly. I really value spontaneity in recording. So much current stuff by other bands is done at home on Logic or whatever and overdubbed endless times and edited to a sort of flawlessness. That's good too, but we aren't that kind of band. As Ray Davies said: "I like the mistakes too."
OK: What's your approach to reimagining/reproducing the songs live? I think of "The Ambassador's Morning Lift" from Rolling Disclosure, for example, and the wonderful call and response parts (You: My old friend had a saying. Chorus: What was that?) and I wonder how easy it is to make something like that happen without a huge band. On a related note, have you been cooking up any special treats for the road show? Jams? Covers?
EN: I always think that people coming to see a punk band like the Paranoid Style should expect an energetic, off hand version of the songs we play on the record. The way I grew up – if I went to see Pavement or, like, he Toasters or whomever – I didn't consider that it would sound just like the album. I assumed the live shows should be pure Wild West. I spent my teens in the punk club ABC No Rio, where nobody ever seemed to know what they were doing. Having said that, with the Paranoid Style I'm lucky to be surrounded by some killer musicians and we don't play bad shows. By which I mean: jams and covers.
OK: Everything is loaded with political meaning at this moment. It's a dangerous time for a tenderhearted rock and roll record to venture out into the world. Is there anything you hope people don't read into these songs?
EN: It's okay for folks to read in whatever they want. We're a political band and that won't change. Sometimes I heard some people say around the last record "I like the sound okay, but I don't like it when she theorizes about politics." I remember one guy said that specifically. I won't be calling him to apologize or anything. What I would say about the new release is that the idea of Underworld U.S.A. has two connotations. One is the corporate criminal cabal of monsters and mobsters like Trump and the Wall Street hucksters and the pharaohs building up the temples on the backs of the people. And then the second meaning is a positive connotation: the underground of artists and freedom fighters and working people and lowdowns on the social hierarchy that ultimately invest our world with so much meaning. Some songs are about the former and some are about the latter. That's what Underworld U.S.A. is about.
OK: You come from a background in classical piano. How did you end up leading a rock and roll band?
EN: To be honest I never thought of that as a big lift. John Cale was a classically trained pianist who co-founded what is arguably the best rock group that ever was. I definitely studied classical but it's not as if that was the extent of my exposure to music. On my off hours I was a full on, Two Tone and Moon Records-obsessed ska girl. I loved They Might Be Giants and X-Ray Spex. I always felt comfortable writing in the rock idiom. The bigger problem for me was getting my songs heard. I was around a lot of music scenes when I was younger: Louisville, San Francisco, Bloomington, Brooklyn. I knew a lot of pretty prominent songwriters and musicians who always wanted to play me their songs. But none of those guys ever asked to hear one of my songs. I finally realized no one was going to ask. I just had to start my own band and not worry about being asked.
OK: You've worked as a music critic, correct?
EN: I sure have. I've worked in that capacity for NPR, Washington Post, Stereogum, The Stranger, Aquarium Drunkard and many others.
OK: Let's test your music crit skills, see if you still have the stuff. I sense that there's been a renewed evaluation of Noel Gallagher's merits as a songwriter, and the general view is trending upward. Where do you stand?
EN: I think he's a good craftsman. The highs are very high. I like that one "Don't Look Back In Anger." That's great. And the early Oasis records are great fun. I reviewed one of his solo records for the Washington Post, I think. It was pretty good. He's sort of a hedgehog rather then a fox, but that's okay. Lots of good songwriters are like that.
OK: I don't want to take you too far afield, but what's the difference between a hedgehog and fox in your eyes? These are both adorable animals. I mean, sometimes foxes are rabid, so there's that. Who's a songwriter that you would consider a fox?
EN: Basically, hedgehogs excel at doing one thing, while foxes can do a lot of things – even things like contracting mange or getting rabies – and this has been an imperfect theoretical distinction that has been around since time immemorial, so I hope no animal rights folks are offended here. As far as songwriters go, well, Bowie's a fox. Bolan's a hedgehog. Damon Albarn is the ultimate fox. And I'm not even trying to make this a Blur vs. Oasis thing; He's just so creatively restless and experimental compared to so many of his contemporaries, including the Brothers Gallagher. Plus he's foxy to me – is he foxy to you?
OK: Yes, Damon Albarn is foxy to me, but I'll ask the questions here, damn it. What's your favorite NRBQ song? You can only pick one.
EN: That's a trick question and you know it is because there are so many great ones. I guess if I had to choose I'd go with "It Comes To Me Naturally," just because it gets at something really important. To me this is a great opening couplet: All around town my name is mud/ But I can't help it cause it's in my blood. You know, Big Al can't help it! He can't!! You can only do what you can do. That's a very poignant sentiment to me.
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Owen King is author of the novel Double Feature and co-editor (with John McNally) of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. His writing has appeared in publications such as Fairy Tale Review, One Story, and Prairie Schooner. He is married to the novelist Kelly Braffet.
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Legionnaires' d isease was first identified following a large outbreak of pneumonia among people who attended an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia in 1976. A previously unrecognised bacterium was isolated from lung tissue samples, and subsequently named Legionella pneumophila. It is normally contracted by inhaling Legionella bacteria deeply into the lungs, either from tiny droplets of water (aerosols), or in droplet nuclei (the particles left after the water has evaporated) that are contaminated with legionella.
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Critics are speaking out against a proposal put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump that could allow for new uses of asbestos, which is heavily restricted because of its links to cancer and other diseases.
In June, the EPA under Scott Pruitt's leadership proposed a Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) "for certain uses of asbestos (including asbestos-containing goods)." The rule would require importers and manufacturers to get approval from the EPA before resuming or starting asbestos manufacturing, importing or processing, according to a June 1 news release from the agency.
While the EPA framed the proposal in a positive light, calling it "the first such action on asbestos ever proposed" and part of an "important, unprecedented action on asbestos," critics said it fails to recognize the dangers of the fibrous mineral, which has been associated with lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis.
In a June statement, the group accused the EPA of "doing the bidding of the chemical industry by giving it the green light to continue business as usual, and by signaling that even the most dangerous chemicals are unlikely to be restricted or banned."
The EPA, however, says press reports on the matter are incorrect, and the EPA's proposal would keep companies from manufacturing, importing or processing for new uses of asbestos without EPA approval.
"The press reports on this issue are inaccurate," EPA spokesman James Hewitt said in a statement. "Without the proposed Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) EPA would not have a regulatory basis to restrict manufacturing and processing for the new asbestos uses covered by the rule. The EPA action would prohibit companies from manufacturing, importing, or processing for these new uses of asbestos unless they receive approval from EPA."
Linda Reinstein, president and co-founder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, said that while an estimated 15,000 Americans die each year due to asbestos-related diseases that are preventable, "raw asbestos imports and use continue."
"It is incredulous to know that the EPA has ignored the science, the history, and the carnage that asbestos has caused throughout the nation each year," Reinstein said in a June statement. "From the World Health Organization to the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, there is global consensus that there is no safe level of asbestos exposure or controlled use of asbestos."
Chelsea Clinton echoed that safety concern in a tweet Tuesday. "No amount of asbestos is safe," she said. "Yet, the Trump administration is #MAGA or making asbestos great again."
The proposed rule for asbestos use is available for public comment until August 10.


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Saving Syria: Is international law the answer?
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Author: Zena Tahhan
Posted: March 16 2017
One year ago, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations diplomat tasked with finding a peaceful solution to the war in Syria, described the subject of political transition as "the mother of all issues" in negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Achieving political transition in the country has long beenCONSIDERED the most challenging part of ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war that started in 2011 as a peaceful uprising demanding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, aIt quickly turned into a civil war between government forces and armed opposition groups made up ofARMY defectors and ordinary civilians, after Assad's government responded to the protests with force.
UN efforts have been hampered by the two sides' lack of willingness to compromise on their position with regards to political transition. The Syrian government has systematically refused to entertain anyPROSPECT of a transition that entails the removal of Assad, while, for the opposition, this step remains the only option for peace.
Three weeks ago, de Mistura brought Syria's warring sides to the negotiating table in the Swiss city, Geneva, for the third time over the course of the war, to discuss ways of ending the ongoing cycle of bloodshed that has killed close to half a million people.
De Mistura promised another round of negotiations later this month to implement United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2254, which serves as a framework for a political transition in Syria.
But as Syria marks six years of war, the likelihood of achieving a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the war, rather than a military one, is becoming increasingly difficult.
Russia's military intervention in late September 2015 drastically changed the balance of power on the ground, placing Assad's forces firmly in control, with the help of Iran-backed fighters and the Lebanese Hezbollah armed group.
Last December, the armed opposition, trained and supplied by the United States, Turkey, and several Gulf states, was dealt its worst defeat of the war when it lost its stronghold of eastern Aleppo to government forces and Russian air bombardment.
"The SyrianPEOPLE did not lose militarily to the government. The Syrian people lost militarily to the second strongest army in the world – the Russian army," Zaki Lababidi, vice president of the Washington, DC-based Syrian-American Council, told Al Jazeera in Geneva, during the last round of talks.
"Russia came in; they used their air force, they used their navy, ballistic missiles, and they put ground troops. This is how Aleppo was destroyed," said Lababidi, who was present in Geneva to advise the opposition delegation.
Fighting both the Syrian government, on one front, and hardline armed groups including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL, also known as ISIS) and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS) on the other, the opposition has steadily lost significant territory and leverage in Syria, whichANALYSTS say minimises the chance for a peaceful solution.
"The regime refused to discuss thePROSPECT of a meaningful political transition even when it appeared to be losing ground militarily, so there is no prospect of it choosing to do so now that it has momentum. Nor will the opposition concede its demand for such a transition – including Assad's departure – despite their weakening military hand," Noah Bonsey, Syria analyst for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group think-tank, told Al Jazeera.
Though aware of their shortcomings on the battlefield, the Syrian opposition, which consists of both political and military branches, believes that international law lies in their favour. "For us, attending negotiations was never about the balance of power on the ground, but rather international agreements," Fares Bayoush, a Syrian armed opposition commander, told Al Jazeera.
In 2012, diplomats from the US, UK, Russia, China and France, among others, formulated the Geneva Communique under UN auspices, a plan for peace in Syria to include political transition. The document has since formed the basis for the corresponding resolutions passed by the UNSC, namely resolutions 2118, adopted in 2013, and 2254, adopted in 2015, both of which reiterate the need for political transition.
Resolution 2118, though focused mainly on the use of chemical weapons during the war, is particularly significant as it refers to Chapter VII of the UN charter, the foundational treaty of the UN, which all member states are bound to.
According to 2118, in the event of "non-compliance" with the resolution, the UNSC member states, which include five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, as well as 10 non-permanent members, can "impose measures" on the warring sides in accordance with Chapter VII.
"There are mechanisms in UNSC resolution 2118 which cannot be activated unless the regime rejects this resolution [2118]. The regime always claims that it is looking for a political solution – it does not reject the resolutions," Mohamed Sabra, chief negotiator for the Syrian opposition during the last round of Geneva talks, told Al Jazeera.
"Our participation in Geneva is to discussREAL mechanisms, either to implement the resolutions, or to demand that the UN and the [UN]SC activate the mechanisms in the UN charter, which allow for forcing the regime to abide by its obligations under international law," said Sabra.
If proven to be in breach of resolution 2118, the Assad government could face an official international arms embargo, targeted sanctions, or other coercive measures under Chapter VII. This could isolate the Assad government within the international community, and possibly compel it toCONSIDER meaningful negotiations with the opposition.
For such measures to be introduced, the UNSC would need to pass another resolution on Syria declaring that resolution 2118 had been breached and authorising the use of force, but a Russian veto would block that from happening, as it has in the past.
Moscow has vetoed resolutions condemning Syrian government actions in the UNSCSEVEN times in the past five years, most recently during a vote on a draft resolution threatening sanctions against parties using chemical weapons in Syria.
Though both Assad's forces and the Syrian armed opposition groups have been complicit in committing war crimes, as was revealed in a recent UN investigation, neither are being pressured to stop.
"The evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes is overwhelming. The problem is that at the moment Syria is an accountability-free zone. All sides, but especially the government, continue to kill, bomb and even deploy chemical weapons against civilians with total impunity," Simon Adams, executive director of the New York-basedGLOBAL Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, told Al Jazeera.
"UNSC imposed sanctions would not only be legal, the fact that they haven't been imposed already is a disgrace. Russia's veto has created a cloak of impunity for Assad," said Adams, whose organisation works closely with the UNSC.
"That's why the failure of the UNSC to uphold its responsibility to protect is so devastating. Russia's vetoes mean that morePEOPLE will die, more cities will be destroyed, more refugees will flee, and the civil war will continue," he continued.
"The government's claim that it is committed to international law and achieving a political solution is necessary for the silence of the international community," Mohammad Alahmad, a professor at Georgetown University's Center for Arab Studies in Washington DC, told Al Jazeera.But the Syrian government claims it must battle "terrorism" before discussing any diplomatic solution. It has succeeded in adding "counter-terrorism" on the agenda for the planned talks later this month, which, someANALYSTS describe as a distraction ploy to continue its military offensive against the armed opposition.
"The Assad regime seeks the re-legitimisation of its rule through 'negotiations', while conducting military action in parallel," added Alahmad.
Besides the threat of Russian vetoes and the international community's paralysis on the war in Syria, analysts say the absence of a consensus on what a political transition would look like is a major staller in the process.
The issue of political transition in UN resolutions and the Geneva Communique is "left purposefully vague", Noha Aboueldahab, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, told Al Jazeera."The regime's obstruction is the same thing as rejecting transition, but the important point to keep in mind is the absence of consensus about what political transition is. I do not believe that Resolution 2118 can be triggered if the regime rejects the opposition's view of transition," Steven Heydemann, chair of Middle East studies at Smith College in the US state of Massachusetts, told Al Jazeera.
The Geneva Communique, stipulates that a transitional governing body "could include members of the present government and the opposition and other groups and shall be formed on the basis of mutual consent". The fact that the document "does not make any specific mention as to who exactly in the current government should stay on" means that the "question of Assad's hold onto power remains a key sticking point," said Aboueldahab.
Moving forward, the opposition "can demonstrate that it has international law on its side – that its position is legally correct and that Assad may be violating international law," said Milena Sterio, professor of international law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in the US state of Ohio.
"At some point, leaders become too 'rogue' and too isolated that it hurts them in the international community. The hope is to corner Assad, to isolate him politically and to get him to realise that if he wants any hope of participation in international relations and in the international community on behalf of Syria, he must negotiate with the opposition in good faith," Sterio told Al Jazeera.
But despite the presence of a ceasefire in place since December 30, Syrian government advances on opposition-held territory have not halted, leaving the opposition to believe that Assad favours a military solution to the war.
With wavering Turkish and US support for the armed opposition, some predict there will be a "Somalisation" of Syria, as UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi predicted several years ago.
"Saudi and Gulf support will ensure that an insurgency continues. This means that pockets of Syria will remain in the hands of the opposition while others will remain in the hands of the Syrian government," James Gelvin, a professor of the Middle East at the University of California, LosANGELES (UCLA) said.
"As in Somalia, there will be a government that has a permanent representative to the UN, that will issue passports, and that will print postage stamps. But, as in Somalia, that government will not have full control over the territory within its borders," Gelvin told Al Jazeera.
Source : http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/years-syria-accountability-free-zone-170312082121458.html
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After seeing this on Vishy's blog, I immediately decided to take part in it; I hardly have anything to do this November and it is about time I caught up on some German Literature.
I haven't found the time to make a complete list of the things I would like to read. In fact, that's good, because every time I make a reading list, I end up reading something entirely else. But there are certain German books, which I always wanted to read - these include Patrick Süskind's Perfume, Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein, Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, and Kafka's the Trial. Along with that, some Bertolt Brecht, some Günter Grass, Ingrid Noll and something (anything) by Goethe.
Of course, I couldn't even dream of finishing half this stuff. But you can call it my tentative list. Let's just see how much I actually read. I'm definitely looking forward to November!
Glad to have you on board, Priya.
I know exactly what you mean about changing your mind having made a reading list. I'm still deciding what I'm going to be reading.
Thanks a lot for joining and the post Priya. I'm llooking forward to November and to your final choices. I will read Ingrid Noll.


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Photini Vrikki, Sarita Malik, and Aditi Jaganathan
Creative anti-racisms
Screen and digital labour as resistance
in Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
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How have ideas of race and belonging helped shape creative work? Chapter 3 explores how different generations of Black and Asian activists in the UK have mobilised screen media, from film to digital, as a response to the institutional practices and cultural norms that generate disparate racialised outcomes. The discussion provides an opportunity to focus on the motivations of creative activists who use the film form and podcasting to agitate for anti-racism. The chapter provides an overview of the Black British context of creative production and exclusion. It foregrounds the testimonies of archivists, curators, podcasters and filmmakers to explore the anti-racist interruptions that are made possible by different media technologies and platforms; the particular interventions that are envisaged by cultural producers; and the effects that such representations actually create.
Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
Editors: Sarita Malik, Churnjeet Mahn, Michael Pierse, and Ben Rogaly
creativity; resistance; hostile environment; arts; migration; racism; social exclusion
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A history of struggle for now
On radical transformation
Chapter 1: Radical openness in a hostile world
Chapter 2: 'Lived theory'
Chapter 3: Creative anti-racisms
Chapter 4: Workers
Chapter 5: Creatively connecting civil rights
Chapter 6: Re-curating a literary utopia
Antisemitism and the left
On the return of the Jewish question
Authors: Robert Fine and Philip Spencer
Universalism has acted as a stimulus for Jewish emancipation, that is, for civil, political and social inclusion. It has also been a source of anti-Jewish prejudice up to and beyond the classic antisemitism of the modern period. While the experience of Jews is by no means unique in this respect, one of the peculiarities of the 'anti-Judaic' tradition has been to represent Jews in some important regard as the 'other' of the universal: as the personification either of a particularism opposed to the universal, or of a false universalism concealing Jewish self-interest. The former contrasts the particularism of the Jews to the universality of bourgeois civil society. The latter contrasts the bad universalism of the 'rootless cosmopolitan Jew' to the good universalism of whatever universal is advanced: nation, race or class. This book explores debates over Jewish emancipation within the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, contrasting the work of two leading protagonists of Jewish emancipation: Christian von Dohm and Moses Mendelssohn. It discusses the emancipatory power of Karl Marx's critique of Bruno Bauer's opposition to Jewish emancipation and endorsement of The Jewish Question. Marxist debates over the growth of anti-Semitism; Hannah Arendt's critique of three types of Jewish responsiveness--assimilationism, Zionism and cosmopolitanism-- to anti-Semitism; and the endeavours of a leading postwar critical theorist, Jurgen Habermas are also discussed. Finally, the book focuses its critique on left antizionists who threaten to reinstate the Jewish question when they identify Israel and Zionism as the enemies of universalism.
Debating civilisations
Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age
Author: Jeremy C.A. Smith
Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. This book focuses on the scholarship produced in this field since the 1970s. It begins with anthropological axioms posited by Ibn Khaldun, Simon Bolivar and George Pachymeres. Three conceptual images of civilisations are prominent in the field. First, civilisations are conceived as socio-cultural units, entities or blocs in an 'integrationist' image. They emerge out of long-term uneven historical processes. Finally, in a 'relational' image civilisations are believed to gain definition and institute developmental patterns through inter-societal and inter-cultural encounters. The book traces the history of semantic developments of the notions of 'civilisation' and 'civilisations' coextensive with the expansion of Europe's empires and consubstantial with colonialism. Early modernities are more important in the long formation of capitalism. Outlining the conceptual framework of inter-civilisational engagement, the book analytically plots the ties instituted by human imaginaries across four dimensions of inter-civilisational engagement. It also interrogates the relationship between oceans, seas and civilisations. Oceanian civilisation exhibits patterns of deep engagement and connection. Though damaged, Pacific cultures have invoked their own counter-imaginary in closer proximity to past islander experiences. Collective memory provides resources for coping with critical issues. The book also explores Latin American and Japanese experiences that shed light on the engagement of civilisations, applying the model of inter-civilisational engagement to modern perspectives in culture and the arts, politics, theology and political economy.
Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
Editors: Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann
Given the significant similarities and differences between the welfare states of Northern Europe and their reactions to the perceived 'refugee crisis' of 2015, the book focuses primarily on the three main cases of Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Placed in a wider Northern European context – and illustrated by those chapters that also discuss refugee experiences in Norway and the UK – the Danish, Swedish and German cases are the largest case studies of this edited volume. Thus, the book contributes to debates on the governance of non-citizens and the meaning of displacement, mobility and seeking asylum by providing interdisciplinary analyses of a largely overlooked region of the world, with two specific aims. First, we scrutinize the construction of the 2015 crisis as a response to the large influx of refugees, paying particular attention to the disciplinary discourses and bureaucratic structures that are associated with it. Second, we investigate refugees' encounters with these bureaucratic structures and consider how these encounters shape hopes for building a new life after displacement. This allows us to show that the mobility of specific segments of the world's population continues to be seen as a threat and a risk that has to be governed and controlled. Focusing on the Northern European context, our volume interrogates emerging policies and discourses as well as the lived experiences of bureaucratization from the perspective of individuals who find themselves the very objects of bureaucracies.


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By DANA RUBINSTEIN
The Thomas Heatherwick sculpture that will grace the public plaza at Hudson Yards will cost $200 million and "will become to New York what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris," said Hudson Yards developer Stephen Ross on Monday.
Its design has been shrouded in secrecy, and will "hopefully," remain so at least until September, Ross said.
That's when the developer expects to unveil the design of a sculpture poised to ocupy a plaza "bigger than Trafalgar Square."
"It will be very iconic," said Ross, the chairman of Related Companies. "And they're very bold statements, I know that."
Citing a source who saw the Heatherwick design, in 2015 a New York Times critic said that Heatherwick "envisioned a 'vessel' that could occupy a large part of the plaza, shot through with dozens of stairways. Shaped like a chalice, it would rise higher than the adjacent, cavernous Culture Shed, the 100-foot-high international arts center also planned for Hudson Yards."
Construction is expected to be complete in 2018.
Heatherwick is also designing Pier55, the Barry Diller-funded island off Hudson River Park.
In 2013, Ross put the Heatherwick price tag at up to $75 million.
He made today's cost estimate at a breakfast hosted by Crain's New York.
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Q: Outlier Detection on skewed Distributions Under a classical definition of an outlier as a data point outide the 1.5* IQR from the upper or lower quartile, there is an assumption of a non-skewed distribution. For skewed distributions (Exponential, Poisson, Geometric, etc) is the best way to detect an outlier by analyzing a transform of the original function?
For example, distributions loosely governed by an exponential distribution, could be transformed with a log function - at which point is it acceptable to look for outliers based on the same IQR definition?

A: First, I'd question the definition, classical or otherwise.  An "outlier" is a surprising point. Using any particular rule (even for symmetric distributions) is a flawed idea, especially nowadays when there are so many huge data sets. In a data set of (say) one million observations (not all that big, in some fields), there will be many many cases beyond the 1.5 IQR limit you cite, even if the distribution is perfectly normal.
Second, I'd suggest looking for outliers on the original data. It will nearly always be more intuitive. For instance, with income data, it is quite common to take logs. But even here I'd look for outliers on the original scale (dollars or euros or whatever) because we have a better feel for such numbers. (If you do take logs, I'd suggest log base 10, at least for outlier detection, because it is at least a little intuitive).
Third, when looking for outliers, beware of masking.
Finally, I am currently researching the "forward search" algorithm proposed by Atkinson and Riani for various sorts of data and problems. This looks very promising.

A:
Under a classical definition of an outlier as a data point outide the 1.5* IQR from the upper or lower quartile,

This is the rule for identifying points outside the ends of the whiskers in a boxplot. Tukey himself would no doubt object to calling them outliers on this basis (he didn't necessarily regard points outside those limits as outliers). These would rather be points which - if your data was expected to be from a distribution somewhat similar to a normal distribution - one might subject to further investigation (such as checking you didn't transpose two digits, for example) -- at most these could be potential outliers. As Nick Cox points out in comments under this answer, a tail of many such points would be taken more as a indicator that a re-expression might be suitable than an indication of the need to regard the points as outliers.

there is an assumption of a non-skewed distribution.

I assumed by 'non-skewed' you mean symmetric. Then the assumption is more than just that. A heavy-tailed but symmetric distribution might have many points outside the bounds on that rule.

For skewed distributions (Exponential, Poisson, Geometric, etc) is the best way to detect an outlier by analyzing a transform of the original function?

That depends on what constitutes an outlier for your purposes. There's no single definition that's suitable for each purpose - indeed, generally you're probably better off doing other things that (say) picking outliers and omitting them.
For the exponential or geometric, you might do a similar calculation to that for a boxplot, but which would identify a similar fraction in the right tail only (you won't have low-end points identified in an exponential or geometric)$^{\dagger}$ ... or you might do something else.
$\dagger$ In large samples from a normal distribution, the boxplot marks about 0.35% of points at each end, or about 0.7% in total. For an exponential you might mark some multiple of the median, for example. If you wanted to tag roughly 0.7% of points in total for an actual exponential, that would suggest marking points beyond about 7.1 times the median.
Marking points above 7.1 times the median for n=1000 will typically hit between 0.4% to 1.1% of values:
ae <- rexp(1000)
table( ae > 7.1*median(ae) )

FALSE  TRUE
  993     7

For example, distributions loosely governed by an exponential distribution, could be transformed with a log function - at which point is it acceptable to look for outliers based on the same IQR definition?

That totally depends on what you mean by "acceptable". Note, however that -
i) the resulting distribution isn't actually symmetric, but distinctly left-skew.

As a result, you'll usually only mark points in the left end (i.e. close to zero, where you expect exponential values to be anyway) rather than in the right (where the "outliers" might be), unless they're really extreme.
ii) suitability of such  a rule is going to be heavily dependent on what you're doing.
If you're concerned about the odd strange value affecting your inference, in general, you're probably better off using robust procedures than formally identifying outliers.
If you really do want to use a normal-based rule for transformed exponential or Poisson data, I'd at least suggest applying it to the square root$^{\ddagger}$ for a Poisson (as long as the mean isn't too small, it should be roughly normalish) and to cube root or even fourth root for the exponential (and perhaps, by extension, the geometric).
$\ddagger$ or perhaps $\sqrt{X+\frac{3}{8}}$, as in the Anscombe transform

For an exponential, in large samples the cube-root approach will tend to mark points only in the upper tail (at roughly the same rate it marks them in the upper tail for a normal) and the fourth-root approach marks points in both tails (slightly more in the lower tail, in total at something near 40% of the rate it does so for a normal). Of the possibilities, the cube root makes more sense to me than the other two, but I wouldn't necessarily advise using this as some hard and fast rule.

A: I will answer your questions in the opposite order in which you asked them, so that the exposition proceeds from the specific to the general.
First, let us consider a situation where you can assume that except for a minority of outliers, the bulk of your data can be well described by
a known distribution (in your case the exponential).
If $x$ has pdf:
$$p_X(x)=\sigma^{-1}\mbox{exp}\left(\frac{-(x-\theta)}{\sigma}\right),\;x>0;\sigma>0$$
then $x$ is said to follow an exponential distribution (the special case where we set $\theta=0$ is called the one-parameter or standard exponential distribution).
The usual MLE estimator of the parameters are [0,p 506]:
$$\hat{\theta}=\min_i x_i$$
and
$$\hat{\sigma}=\mbox{ave}_ix_i-\min_i x_i$$
Here is an example in R:
n<-100
theta<-1
sigma<-2
set.seed(123) #for reproducibility
x<-rexp(n,rate=1/sigma)+theta
mean(x)-min(x)

the MLE of $\sigma$ is $\approx2.08$.
Unfortunately, the MLE estimates are very sensitive to the presence of outliers. For example, if I corrupt the sample by replacing 20% of the $x_i$'s by $-x_i$:
m<-floor(0.2*n)
y<-x
y[1:m]<--y[1:m]
mean(y)-min(y)

the MLE  of $\sigma$ based on the corrupted sample is now
$\approx11.12$(!).
As a second example, if I corrupt the sample by replacing 20% of the $x_i$'s by $100x_i$ (say if the decimal place was accidentally misplaced):
m<-floor(0.2*n)
z<-x
z[1:m]<-100*z[1:m]
mean(z)-min(z)

the MLE  of $\sigma$ based on this second corrupted sample is now
$\approx54$(!).
An alternative to the raw MLE is to (a) find the outliers using a robust  outlier identification rule, (b) set them aside as spurious data and (c) compute the MLE  on the non spurious part of the sample.
The most well known of these robust outlier identification rule is the med/mad rule proposed by Hampel[3] who attributed it to Gauss (I illustrated this rule here). In the med/mad rule, the rejection threshold are based on the assumption that the genuine observations in your sample are well approximated by a normal distribution.
Of course,  if you have extra information (such as knowing that the distribution of the genuine observations is well approximated by a poisson distribution as in this example)
 there is nothing to prevent you from transforming your data and using the  baseline outlier rejection rule (the med/mad) but this strikes me as a bit  awkward to transform the data to preserve what is after all an ad-hoc rule.
It seems much more logical to me to preserve the data but adapt the rejection
rules. Then, you would still use the 3 step procedure I described in the first link above, but with rejection threshold adapted to the distribution you suspect the good part of the data has. Below, I give the rejection rule in situations where the genuine observations are well fitted by an exponential distribution. In this case, you can construct good rejection thresholds using  the following rule:
1) estimate $\theta$ using [1]:
$$\hat{\theta}'=\mbox{med}_ix_i-3.476\mbox{Qn}(x)\ln2$$
The Qn is a robust estimate of scatter that is not geared towards symmetric data. It is widely implemented, for example in the R package robustbase. For exponential distributed data, the Qn is multiplied by consistency factor of $\approx3.476$, see [1] for more details.
2) reject as spurious all observations outside of [2,p 188]
$$[\hat{\theta}',9(1+2/n)\mbox{med}_ix_i+\hat{\theta}']$$
(the factor 9 in the rule above is obtained as the 7.1 in Glen_b's answer above, but using a higher cut-off. The factor (1+2/n) is small sample correction factor that was derived by simulations in [2]. For large enough sample sizes, it is essentially equal to 1).
3) use the MLE  on the non spurious data to estimate $\sigma$:
$$\hat{\sigma}'=\mbox{ave}_{i\in H}x_i-\mbox{min}_{i\in H}x_i$$
where $H=\{i:\hat{\theta}'\leq x_i \leq 9(1+2/n)\mbox{med}_ix_i+\hat{\theta}'\}$.
using this rule on the previous examples, you would get:
library(robustbase)
theta<-median(x)-Qn(x,constant=3.476)*log(2)
clean<-which(x>=theta & x<=9*(1+2/n)*median(x)+theta)
mean(x[clean])-min(x[clean])

the robust estimate of $\sigma$ is now
$\approx2.05$ (very close to the MLE value when the data is clean).
On the second example:
theta<-median(y)-Qn(y,constant=3.476)*log(2)
clean<-which(y>=theta & y<=9*(1+2/n)*median(y)+theta)
mean(y[clean])-min(y[clean])

The robust estimate of $\sigma$  is now
$\approx2.2$ (very close to the value we would have gotten without the outliers).
On the third example:
theta<-median(z)-Qn(z,constant=3.476)*log(2)
clean<-which(z>=theta & z<=9*(1+2/n)*median(z)+theta)
mean(z[clean])-min(z[clean])

The robust estimate of $\sigma$  is now
$\approx2.2$ (very close to the value we would have gotten without the outliers).
A side benefit of this approach is that it yields a subset of indexes of
 suspect observations which should be set aside from the rest of the data, perhaps to be studied as object of interest in their own right (the members
 of $\{i:i\notin H\}$).
Now, for the general case where you do not have a good candidate distribution
to fit the bulk of your observations beyond knowing that a symmetric distribution won't do, you can use the adjusted boxplot[4]. This is a generalization of the boxplot that takes into account a (non parametric and outlier robust) measure of skewness of your data (so that when the bulk of the data is symmetric is collapses down to the usual boxplot). You can also check this answer for an illustration.

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*[0]  Johnson N. L.,  Kotz S.,  Balakrishnan N. (1994). Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.

*[1] Rousseeuw P. J. and  Croux C. (1993).
Alternatives to the Median Absolute Deviation.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 88, No. 424, pp. 1273--1283.

*[2] J. K. Patel, C. H. Kapadia, and D. B. Owen, Dekker  (1976).
Handbook of statistical distributions.

*[3] Hampel (1974). The Influence Curve and Its Role in Robust Estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association
Vol. 69, No. 346 (Jun., 1974), pp. 383-393.

*[4] Vandervieren, E., Hubert, M. (2004) "An adjusted boxplot for skewed distributions". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
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