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Looking into the Future of Cannabinoid Profiling: A Q&A With Tania Sasaki
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Published: Sep 22, 2021 Last Updated: Sep 23, 2021
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With over 10 years of experience in clinical toxicology labs behind her, Tania Sasaki joined Confidence Analytics, a Washington-based cannabis lab, in 2018. Since then, she has helped test thousands of cannabis products for both contaminants and the lab's extensive list of cannabinoids. And thanks to the growing popularity of novel cannabinoids like delta-3 and delta-8 THC, this list is still growing.
Given the testing challenge these trailblazing compounds present, Sasaki will give a presentation on how to identify and analyze novel cannabinoids in Analytical Cannabis' Science of Cannabis Testing 2021 Online Symposium, which will take place on September 16.
Ahead of that presentation, Sasaki spoke with Analytical Cannabis about the future of cannabinoid profiling and the cannabis testing sector as a whole.
Leo Bear-McGuinness (LBM): Since you joined Confidence Analytics, how have things changed in the cannabis testing sector?
Tania Sasaki (TS): It hasn't changed a lot from our standpoint. In Washington, for example, heavy metals and pesticides are not required, but they are in almost every other state. And so the regulations [in Washington] are moving toward that. So that's a big thing. You know, there was the vitamin E acetate [issue], that little bubble that came up. So we did some quick emergency validations to test for those compounds. The biggest thing is probably the number of cannabinoids that are coming out. We've always had a pretty comprehensive panel. Since I've been with the company, we've been testing for fourteen. We're now getting ready to add about six or eight more to our cannabinoid panel, some like CBN, CBG have been seen more recently in the news. And right now there's D3 [delta-3 THC], D10 [delta-10 THC], D8 [delta-8 THC]. But a lot of those have been in our panel. We've been doing D8 for the past few years. There's a big controversy right now about the legality of D8 and its scheduling, and is it going to be regulated? Across the nation, that's a big topic of discussion.
LBM: So would you say that the increasing list of pesticides to test for has really been driven by the market? By the popularity of these things?
TS: Yes. As other cannabinoids have gained popularity, we have seen more products – specifically isolates and distillates – that contain a high concentration of these typically more minor cannabinoids. For example, we are seeing CBN and THCV isolates/distillates, among others.
LBM: And speaking of how the state of Washington doesn't mandate pesticide testing, when will that change?
TS: It is changing. So actually heavy metals and pesticides were supposed to be required at the start of 2021, I believe, but then the 2020 pandemic hit and everything got pushed back. So myself and the CEO of our company and some other people, we've been involved in the Cannabis Science Task Force for Washington State and they're revamping their laboratory regulations and their oversight completely and even transferring it to the Department of Ecology for all laboratory accreditation. And so, this past couple of years, I've been involved with a lot of the groups on the different methods on setting the standards. What are the criteria for validation? What are the criteria for an analytical batch? So there is going to be a big revamp for Washington state as far as laboratory accreditation and regulations coming probably around 2024.
LBM: That's great to hear.
TS: Yeah, and I believe pesticides and heavy metals will be required before then. It keeps getting pushed out. They keep saying, you know, this date, and then six months prior to that date it gets pushed out. It's all about rulemaking and the legislative process to write that requirement into rule.
LBM: As I understand it, Confidence Analytics is in the process of opening another lab in California. So that must be an education in the requirements of that state, right?
TS: Yeah, I think their bureau is probably one of the strictest, the BCC, the Bureau of Cannabis Control. So we've been working on that for probably about the past year and a half from a scientific standpoint. And working through the regulatory landscape. I believe we're really close to opening. So that's exciting.
LBM: Fantastic. Has that process of adapting to the Californian system and its list of regulations informed how you operate in Washington at all?
TS: I think it has because we've taken the best practices that we've learned there and incorporated them into our Washington lab, both because they're best practice, but also to just have continuity between the two labs.
LBM: It's good to hear that there's that element of synergy going on. So, looking to the future, where do you see cannabis testing going in the next few years? How do you see it changing?
TS: Well, I think definitely the cannabinoid list in general is going to grow. In most states, you're only required to test for anywhere between about four and maybe six cannabinoids. The consumer and the producer tend to like to see a bigger list. But it is still an emerging industry. I guess it's been legal now in some states for the better part of a decade, but a lot of that research into cannabinoids, their potential therapeutic effects, and things of that nature are really in their infancy. There are hundreds of cannabinoids. And so it seems like every week there's a new one in the news.
I think the other thing that we find out is, because this is all chromatography and separations, it's like the more you dig, the more we're like, 'Oh, maybe I had a co-eluter there at some point.' And now we're starting to separate those out even more. And that's one thing, I think it was a D10, we knew we had this shoulder on one of our cannabinoid peaks that was present in whatever frequency, 5 percent, of the samples. Once we got a D10 standard, we found out it was one of the D10 isomers. So I think a lot of that's coming out as those cannabinoids are identified and given names, and we're going to see where they are and the presence and I think it's really just going to improve our methods as well because, 'Oh, well maybe we do need to do something to change the analytical process to separate that out and be able to identify it cleanly and quantify it.'
LBM: Is it fair to see we haven't seen the end of this trend of novel delta cannabinoids?
TS: Oh, absolutely. I mean, I don't think it's that D3, D10, and some of these other ones [like] CBD-HQ, which is a hydroquinone – it's been on the market as a synthetic cannabinoid and now it's becoming of interest in this cannabis market. So once we start looking for it, we can see its presence and prevalence in the different types of products.
Tania Sasaki, PhD, chief science officer at Confidence Analytics, was speaking to Leo Bear-McGuinness. Questions and responses have been edited for clarity.
This article originally appeared in Analytical Cannabis' Advances in Cannabis Testing eBook in September 2021.
This article was amended on September 23, 2021, to include some updated responses from Tania Sasaki.
Leo joined Analytical Cannabis in 2019. From research to regulations and analysis to agriculture, his writing covers all the need-to-know news for the cannabis industry. He holds a Bachelor's in Biology from Newcastle University and a Master's in Science Communication from the University of Edinburgh.
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Zhu Guisheng (1896 – March 2002), was the last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC).

In 1989 he received the French Legion of Honor.

First World War
Guisheng was from the Shandong province of China when in 1916 he signed a five-year contract to join the Chinese Labour Corps, through the Huimin Company. He possibly left Qingdao in August 1916, to join the Chinese Labour Corps in France. After the war, he remained in France.

Second World War
He worked with the French in the Second World War.

Personal and family
He married a French woman and they had two children. He worked as an electrician and had also operated cranes. In 1989, he was one of only two surviving CLC members who were awarded the French Legion of Honor.

Death
Guisheng died at the age of 106, in La Rochelle in March 2002. Until then he had been the last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps.

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The spending bill to fund the government for the next fiscal year is expected to pass by Friday.
Congress is set to pass a $1.4 trillion spending package this week, which President Trump has said he'll sign. The legislation includes policy changes and funding increases that public health advocates are celebrating, as well as the permanent repeal of three key taxes that were designed to pay for Obamacare — a win for industry groups.
Notably absent from the spending package: legislation to address surprise billing or prescription drug prices. The House passed a prescription drug price bill last week, but a bill that can get through the Senate may be a long way off. Surprise billing proposals had support from both parties in both chambers of Congress as well as in the White House. Still, such legislation have proven difficult to nail down. Lawmakers involved say it is a priority for next year.
Our health reporting team took a look at what isin the package and picked out notable highlights, including some surprising policy reverses for Congress.
Repeal of health taxes designed to pay for ACA
When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, he said: "It is paid for. It is fiscally responsible." But many of the taxes designed to cover the cost of expanding health coverage to 20 million people have been derailed. Now, the so-called "Cadillac tax" on generous employer health plans is getting permanently nixed, as are taxes on health insurance companies and medical-device makers.
Insurance industry groups applaud the move. But the repeal of these taxes alarmed many health policy and budget watchers. It will contribute $373 billion to the deficit, according to an estimate from Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation.
"So we're cutting the funding out from under Obamacare, but still doing all the spending," says Marc Goldwein, of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "This whole bill is about reversing the few hard choices that we made to pay for Obamacare."
"Everybody seems to want lower deficit in the abstract, but when it comes time to actually cut spending or raise taxes, there doesn't seem to be the political will in either party at the moment," he adds. — Selena Simmons-Duffin, health policy reporter
Raising the age to buy tobacco products to 21
The measure raises the federal age limit from 18 to 21 and would apply to both cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
At least 16 states and Washington, D.C., have raised the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21, according to the American Lung Association. The organization, which has long campaigned to raise the federal age limit, said the move "will significantly reduce youth tobacco use and save thousands of lives."
The national conversation around tobacco age limits gained new momentum thanks to the surging numbers of teenagers who are vaping. The Trump administration had signaled that it planned to introduce an age limit. Some major tobacco companies have backed the idea, such as Altria, which owns Philip Morris USA and partially owns JUUL.
Advocates against vaping are also pushing for a federal ban on flavors for e-cigarettes, to make them less appealing to kids. Earlier this year, Trump had pledged to impose a flavor ban but has appeared to walk that idea back since then. It's not clear whether further sweeping regulations of the industry are still in store. — Merrit Kennedy, news desk reporter
A foundation for President Trump's plan to end HIV
In his state of the union address in February, President Trump announced a plan to end the HIV epidemic in America by 2030. This year, not a whole lot has happened toward this goal because there hasn't been funding from Congress — until now. The president's budget had called for $291 million, and Congress will overshoot that slightly.
This past fall, the Department of Health and Human Services gave grants to 32 state and local health departments where there are HIV "hotspots" so that they could develop or update programs to reach the goal of ending the epidemic. With this federal funding coming through, the hope is that those places will be able to hit the ground running.
"This is just the foundation — it's the first year of funding," says Carl Schmid of the AIDS Institute and the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. "It's an excellent start, but to achieve the goal of ending the epidemic, we'll need a lot more money to scale it up for next year and the years to come." — Selena Simmons-Duffin, health policy reporter
Paving the way to develop more generic drugs
A bill intended to promote generic drug competition is also expected to get a ride in the budget. The Creating and Restoring Equal Access To Equivalent Samples Act — called the the CREATES Act, for short — aims to make sure branded manufacturers sell samples of their products to companies that want to use them to develop generic versions.
Brand-name companies have, at times, refused to sell samples to would-be generic competitors, citing a Food and Drug Administration program designed to keep potentially harmful drugs from being misused. The FDA says some brands have exploited this program to stall development of generics, maintain their monopolies and keep prices and profits high. With the passage of the CREATES Act, generic companies can sue if they think they've been wrongfully denied samples.
"It's not a panacea, but it's definitely an important step forward in providing relief for Americans struggling with high prescription drug costs," says Harvard Medical School instructor Ameet Sarpatwari. The bill has been introduced five times but never managed to pass despite bipartisan sponsorship. The Congressional Budget Office expects CREATES to save taxpayers $3.7 billion over 10 years. — Sydney Lupkin, pharmaceuticals correspondent
First funding for gun violence research since 1996
The budget provides $25 million for research on preventing deaths and injuries from guns, split equally between the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is a very meaningful, small step in the right direction," says Christian Heyne, vice president of policy at Brady, an organization focused on ending gun violence. He notes that these are the nation's two preeminent public health agencies. The CDC has shied away from gun violence research since 1996, when legislation known as the Dickey Amendment first prohibited the agency from using federal funds to advocate or promote gun control. In 2018, language added to instructions accompanying a spending bill made it clear that the CDC was allowed to conduct research on the causes of gun violence. At that time, Congress provided no funding.
Now, lawmakers have not only allocated money, "they're actually naming that this money needs to be spent to research gun violence," says Heyne. — Nell Greenfieldboyce, correspondent
Shoring up suicide prevention efforts
The budget provides SAMHSA with $19 million for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline — this includes an increase of $7 million over last year. The additional funding is a "significant improvement," notes Lauren McGrath, the vice president of public policy at Centerstone, a behavioral health care provider working in several states.
Calls to the Lifeline are answered by a patchwork of about 165 local call centers that receive only about $1,500 to 2,000 per year of federal money. Most of the federal funds support the Lifeline's national infrastructure. The additional funding "will provide much needed resources to improve consumer access to the National Suicide Lifeline," McGrath wrote in an email. The funds will likely be used to identify areas where there are gaps in coverage and to find ways to fill in those gaps, she adds.
Still, she notes that the service is far from fully funded and centers struggle to keep pace with the rise in call volumes. As call volumes have increased, so have wait times and dropped calls. "We have a lot more work to do here," she adds.
The spending package also includes an increase of $7 million for the Zero Suicide Program, which provides a tools, training and outreach to help health care systems adopt effective suicide prevention approaches.
This budget doesn't address funding needs for transitioning to the new 988 number that's in the works. That might come in the next fiscal year, notes McGrath. — Rhitu Chatterjee, health correspondent
Medicaid in the territories, community health clinics, and other "extenders"
The U.S. territories had been facing a dramatic funding cliff this fall. The ACA gave the territories 10 years of additional money for Medicaid, but that ran out in September — causing a potential $1 billion shortfall in 2020. Guam and the Virgin Islands warned they would need to start cutting their Medicaid rolls, and Puerto Rico would have had to cut benefits to account for the funding cliff.
Now, they won't have to — the spending package restores funding to the territories' Medicaid for two years. In fact, as Politico first reported, the White House agreed to four years of funding, but Trump objected, a source familiar with the negotiations confirmed to NPR.
Also attached to the budget are several other health "extenders," including funding for community health centers and safety net hospitals. However, those only get funding until May, notes Edwin Park, a research professor and the Georgetown Center for Children and Families.
Park thinks the new May deadline might be designed to help push forward legislation on other health priorities like prescription drug prices or surprise billing.
"I hope that Congress will come back in the spring of 2020 and will provide a longer-term extension, as opposed to again kicking the can down the road and placing these provisions in limbo," Park says. — Selena Simmons-Duffin, health policy reporter


Part of our mission at Good Earth Plant Company is to share what we have learned and educate our clients and friends. But we also like to have fun, so why not combine the two?
Welcome to our first Good Earth Plant Company Trivia Contest, first in what we hope will be a long running series. We will give you ten questions on a specific theme. The rules are simple. Email your ten answers to Katelyn@goodearthplants.com The person who gets the most questions right by 12 midnight on Saturday, November 15 gets a swell prize: your choice of a beautiful potted orchid, or a $20 Starbucks gift card. See, we're serious about this educational fun thing. In the event of a tie, the first person to submit their answers according to the time stamp on your email wins.
Since Thanksgiving is around the corner, our theme is Native Plants of Thanksgiving. Many of the plant-based dishes we eat at Thanksgiving are native to North America, but several are not. You might be surprised which ones.
Why is this important to know? Incorporating more local, seasonal and sustainable native produce into your meal is eco-friendly. The closer fruits, vegetables and grains are produced to you, the less fossil fuel is used to transport them, and the less the plants need to be grown for a long shelf life or artificially preserved. So why not start by checking your native foods IQ? Knowing which plants are native and seasonal means gets you thinking about making earth-friendly food choices.
Which of these popular Thanksgiving vegetables is native to North America, and which ones are not?
From the following list, tell us which plants are Native, or Non-Native. Do your best on your own without help from Google, that's no fun.
Marshmallows – OK, not a plant but this was too fun to leave out. Is this an American invention or foreign invention?
We will publish the winner's name next week, along with our top tips for a sustainable, earth friendly Thanksgiving. Don't miss it!


The Maryland Energy Administration's Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Program (AFIP) is intended to aid in the development of public access, alternative fuel refilling/charging infrastructure in the state of Maryland. As such, MEA anticipates issuing one or more grants to applicants for installation of alternative fuel refilling/charging stations in Maryland. Here we are pleased to focus on expansions on the Eastern Shore of the state.
With the funds awarded from the fiscal year 16 AFIP, Sharp Energy now has the ability to deploy more vehicles that can run on propane autogas fuel, which reduces emissions while also yielding economic benefits for their fleet in Talbot and Queen Anne Counties. Collectively, the 2 fueling stations have the potential to displace over 55,000 gallons of petroleum per year.
One propane autogas fueling station is located at 9387 Ocean Gateway, Easton, MD. This fueling station not only provides fuel to Sharp Energy, but also to Eastern Shore Coffee, Bay Runner Shuttle, and Talbot County Public Works. Sharp reports that there are currently11 vehicles fueling from this location on a monthly basis.
Sharp Energy also received funding for a second fueling station that is located at Western Auto, 1406 Main St, Stevensville, MD. In addition to providing fuel to Sharp Energy, Eastern Shore Coffee, Bay Runner and three buses from the Queen Anne's County School District also fuel at the station.


Engesser, Sabrina; Ridley, Amanda R; Manser, Andri; Manser, Marta B; Townsend, Simon W (2018). Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment. Behavioral Ecology, 29(5):1021-1030.
Language is inherently combinatorial, and parallels of this combinatorial capacity are found in nonhuman systems, with animals combining sounds and calls into larger meaningful structures. However, further analogue examples are central in unveiling the diversity, distribution, and evolutionary drivers of combinatoriality. Here, we provide evidence for internal "meaning-refining" acoustic variation within a larger stereotyped signal in pied babblers (Turdoides bicolor). Using acoustic analyses, we demonstrate that males produce 2 long, raucous, "cry-like" structures, both starting with a wind-up segment grading into repetitions of A/single-note or AB/double-note motifs. Behavioral observations indicated that, consistent with similarities in their larger stereotyped structure, both variants function overall in recruiting group members during locomotion, but the internal A or AB substructure specifies the "precise" form of recruitment, from approaching the caller's announced location to following it over longer distances. Playing back cries from a stationary loudspeaker further supported that the 2 variants elicit different responses, with more individuals approaching the loudspeaker in response to single-note compared with double-note cries. Additionally, despite similarities in overall distance travelled, group movement was only directional for single-note, but undefined for double-note cries. We suggest that the overall structure of the 2 cry variants conveys the same general meaning, with embedded variation refining this meaning. These results further illustrate the variability of generative mechanisms outside of human language and lend support to the hypothesis that combinatorial structuring may have emerged in species with limited or fixed vocal repertoires in order to enhance communicative output.


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Readers Regiment
Community Preparedness Training (CPT)
PsyOp/Mind War
Spirit Soul Psyche
Love's Thought System
Allied Camps
Articles & Information
An Empire Strikes Home Part Three
Elias Alias
MindWar
Elias Alias March 24, 2017
Psychological Warfare and Operations Other Than War
Packaging The Policy
In Part One and Part Two we looked at the phenomenon of rampant use of S.W.A.T. teams across the nation as they are being deployed in routine police work. We looked closely into the SWAT killing of Jose Guerena in Pima County, Arizona, at Tucson on May 05, 2011. We then looked at the beginnings of the military-police state infrastructure as announced during the 1990s. We looked at topics such as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and we intimated the role each plays in establishing the infrastructure for a military-police state interfaced at the Federal, State, County, and Local levels, so as to include every arena of police work on all levels of government in what Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen in 1999 called "an unequivocal and unambiguous chain of responsibility, authority and accountability."
That of course is Govlish for "chain of command".
National Emergency Chain of Command_2001
But in the first two parts of this series we did not really look closely at NORTHCOM, so let's squeeze in one little bit about that military bastion…
http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/083007.html
…and ask, what is going on at Ft. Stewart, Georgia?
http://www.stewart.army.mil/homepage/default.asp
…why, it is of course the training of tens of thousands of combat troops who will operate under NORTHCOM for OOTW (Operations Other Than War) on U.S. soil, as noted in Part Two. They will be stationed on U.S. soil and tasked with doing things which may surprise the American people. (And remember, NORTHCOM is directly linked now to DHS and the entire Top Secret America mechanism, with interfaced databases to implement infallibly Secretary Cohen's predicted "unequivocal and unambiguous chain of responsibility, authority and accountability".
That is what I am writing about, and why we are noticing the Department of Justice (DoJ) has since the 1990s been working with the Department of Defense in both Research and Development and also through info sharing as well as cross-training. Thusly has derived the militarization of police and Sheriff departments. Keeping Cohen's chain of command in mind, let's read it at the Army Times:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantry's 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping 'people at home' may become a permanent part of the active Army.
The 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys… Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks… But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
-End passages from Army Times –
Secretary of Defense Cohen said it in 1999, "support of civil authorities", and nobody screamed bloody murder, because it was published in the back pages of the Washington Post and never repeated again, to my knowledge. But I knew even then that a police state would of course use its military in "support of civil authorities", and you can see that plain as day yourself when you pause to think about it.
So we see that NORTHCOM has a commission to do what Secretary of Defense Cohen predicted in 1999, which is to merge State, County, and Local law enforcement into a chain of command which can answer calls from DHS as well as the Pentagon or the White House.
Our objective in looking at such subjects has to do with that perception which declares that the SWAT killing at his home at Tucson, Arizona, of a young Marine veteran of two tours in Iraq is the logical extension of a policy which emanates from the vortex of Federal power in the hands of a neo-con establishment which actively intends to fuse the military with our local peace officers for the unspoken, but obvious and self-evident, clamp-down on political dissent in America.
Particularly, it has to do with the transition in this country from "protect and serve" to "law enforcement".
That inner-cultural shift within the peace officer community may be said to have been caused by psychological operations promoted by Department leadership-level influences which come backed by the full force and power of the U.S. Federal government. (For what that's worth any more, eh?)
To 'protect and serve' is of the people; to 'enforce law' is of the government.
Could that have anything to do with why many Departments and agencies of Federal government resent Oath Keepers reminding our troops and soldiers that the Oath is sworn to the Constitution and is not sworn to the government? We'll look at that in Part Four, where we'll focus on the SPLC and DHS.
The need for the people to regulate their government's style of administering itself upon the citizenry is self-apparent and obvious when this transition is viewed with an awakened sense of awareness. Clans and tribes derived from Nature's brute indifference to life's frailty and rather recently created civilization. The group was a primitive answer to the need for security, dating back to the caves. Social and cultural mores trace back to distant beginnings before recorded history. Our language and our science evolved throughout a span between now and the primitive terror of bygone times. And throughout that history arcs an electric lightning branch which animates the refinements afforded by experience and the remembrance of gained knowledge. It is like a Newtonian mirror of the synapsial firing of neurons in the brain's electric wave-length fields.
Does the Great Terror of the saber-toothed tiger, seen with dread while circling the camp's fire as it waned down to embers in interminable night, yet translate today its primordial presence into subconscious archetypal constructs of fright?
Is the instinct for survival yet among mankind? Are there yet hungers and appetites stirring below the surface of society, within the world's cultures?
Are there subtle, subconscious promptings from bygone forgotten pasts? Is the mind of mankind malleable? Are three tenses really enough? What is a thought? What is "the mind"? Why do we so seldom think about thinking, how it's done, what it is, what a thought is when compared to a feeling or an emotion or a memory? How is the mind different from the body? What's the difference between meta and matter? Can there really be a war for one's mind? In the world of psychological operations (psy-ops) isn't it all about the mind?
In Part Three we are looking at just a bit of the science and the infrastructure for a bona fide "in-your-face" corporate-backed military-industrial-police state. We see that the infrastructure is already in place. We see that if the Federal government decides that an "emergency" (such as an economic collapse) should come our way, the Federal government will move quickly into this infrastructure and enact what General Tommy Franks has publicly said would be "a military form of government". There is another name for that. Some call it "Martial Law".
Let us begin Part Three by looking at something the military is up to, keeping in mind that now the U.S. military has a dedicated Command with a tactical area of responsibility designated as the North American continent including every square inch of U.S. soil.
Unconventional Warfare
"UW" stands for Unconventional Warfare. UW is the tricky side of warfare. UW is also a major tool which policy-makers and statecraft shapers enjoy using, for UW includes the power of the press and the magic of the media.
Ever hear of Psychological Operations (psych-ops or psy-ops)?
Black Operations?
Irregular Warfare?
All of those and other such are respective parts of OOTW (Operations Other Than War), and it has become a very huge industry, a money-making trough within the military-industrial complex.
What, though, is Unconventional Warfare all about? The best answer is in the Army's definitive document on UW. I'd suggest going over to the Federated American Scientists' website and downloading your own copy of this remarkable U.S. Army document while you can. Store it on discs and share copies, but be advised that it is a large file, 248 pages in pdf. This is the U.S. Army's manual on Unconventional Warfare –
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-05-130.pdf
I found an article about this document written by a somewhat unabashed author whom I have not met. In a brusk tone he brings forward from the Army's document on Unconventional Warfare some condensed points, and I offer a taste here as a hint as to the content of the document.
Unconventional Warfare uses as operatives certain types of people. Those types of people are worked by the psy-op warrior in the same way an FBI or CIA "asset" is worked by an FBI or CIA "handler" to accomplish certain things pertinent to a psychological operation. When an underworld criminal type of the sorts listed as potential surrogates is handled by a handler who is playing tricks on the surrogate's mind, we may say that the psy-warrior doing the handling is performing routine tasks relative to his duties and responsibilities in whichever psychological operation currently deployed. Getting a mentally-controlled surrogate to pull off some stupid crime which can be played in the mainstream media to arouse predictable emotional and mental activity in the collective mind of a nation is a handy trick designed to assist in the implementation of governmental "policy". It's psy-ops routine fare, as revealed in the Northwoods Document of 1962 under McNamara.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=92662
Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba By David Ruppe
N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
They were looking for pretexts which would induce the American people to support a war against Castro, in 1962. Read the document itself, just a few pages, at George Washington University's website –
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
That is one example, but let's keep our focus as narrow as possible so as to move right along. The key words here are "surrogates" and "UW". Handlers use surrogates as assets. The Army's UW document shows how and why. Let us notice briefly:
Irregulars, or irregular forces, are individuals or groups of individuals who are not members of a regular armed force, police, or other internal security force. They are usually nonstate-sponsored and unconstrained by sovereign nation legalities and boundaries. These forces may include, but are not limited to, specific paramilitary forces, contractors, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistance or insurgent organizations, expatriates, transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members, black marketers, and other social or political "undesirables." (Unconventional Warfare, p. 1-3)
Please note that UW openly admits using terrorists as "surrogates". Let that one sink in for a moment.
Psy-ops warriors, Unconventional Warfare 'handlers', are expected to manipulate terrorists as surrogates for carrying out psychological operations missions.
There is something else named in the Army's UW document – "Irregular Warfare" (IW). The two – UW and IW – are not to be confused or seen as varied names for the same kind of mischief. Irregular Warfare is its own distinct psychological warfare system. From the document:
[Irregular Warfare – IW] also relies on the understanding of such social dynamics as tribal politics, social networks, religious influences, and cultural mores. Although IW is a violent struggle, not all participating irregulars or irregular forces are necessarily armed. People, more so than weaponry, platforms, and advanced technology, will be the key to success in IW. Successful IW relies on building relationships and partnerships at the local level. It takes patient, persistent, and culturally savvy people within the joint force to execute IW. (from U.S. Army manual on Unconventional Warfare, p. 1-5) [emphasis EA]
-end passages from Army's manual on Unconventional Warfare
Please note with me this gem – Did it say "tribal politics, social networks, religious influences, and cultural mores"? Wow.
Now we're getting into some spooky stuff, yes? Our government is flat out saying that it's working on mental stuff, mental warfare as a facet of Operations Other Than War (OOTW) and UW. By the time government psy-ops is focusing on our politics, social networks, religions, and culture, we can pretty much safely say that the human mind is the target. Your mind. My mind. Everyone's mind. The individual mind and the group mind. And our government is funding its massive psychological operations with tax-payer dollars or black budget dollars.
But of course the government is not aiming its psy-weaponry and mind-power at you or me. No, the power is only focused on America's enemies – not us. Government tells us that frequently, as they told us when introducing the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001. Like, Echelon would not snoop citizens' emails while tracking enemies abroad, right? Right.
Yet DARPA and the National Institute of Justice have already told us that assets can be used in common between law enforcement and the military, including, (considering NORTHCOM's existence now), domestically assigned OOTW.
Does anyone wish to dispute that defense industry products are first field-tested in military combat zones before widespread acceptance into military Commands and units? And once the military has field-tested new technology, is it not then accessible to NORTHCOM for beefing up NORTHCOM's arsenal of handy tools? And after any science is mastered and applied as given logistics and the demand has been saturated, is said science not called "military surplus"? And does that end of the applied science, the product-in-the-field scientific marvels of DARPA science, not make its way through Federal grants to State enforcement offices and Sheriff Departments? And does it not come with an expected reciprocal interface when asked by Federal or military superiors for the implementation of certain Federally-originating "policies"?
DARPA_50Years
Through DARPA's relationship with DOJ, of course the latest hi-tech gear invented for the military ends up in Federal programs which furnish same to State and Local law enforcement. (See Part Two)
In the UW document we also learn that psychological operations warriors do many other interesting things. Psy-ops specialists are military soldiers specializing in psychological operations, so they are interfaced at times with Intelligence community black operations on the clandestine battleground. That is one of the reasons why the Army's manual on UW stresses the absolute need to work through surrogates. (i.e., drug smugglers, money launderers, terrorists)
A surrogate, as we gather, is to have a "handler". The handler causes the surrogate to be motivated to do certain things which will lead to media and press releases which will influence the perception of the public mind. The handler would be a book-trained sort of black ops specialist of the type who would work in the FBI or CIA. Or – one who would work as an Unconventional Warfare operative, either on active duty within the military or as private sector specialty companies like Blackwater-Xe. But let us certainly note that government's psychological operations are admittedly focusing on "such social dynamics as tribal politics, social networks, religious influences, and cultural mores." Let us never forget that.
Our UW warriors ("psy-warriors") do many other things as well. These soldiers or agents co-mingle with the media and press, for instance. They create tv and radio programming and make up press releases and other beneficial activities such as running columns in newspapers. They may publish pamphlets and fliers, letters to editors, etc. They may call into talk-radio shows, even sometimes run radio stations. They will back factions. Call it "national security" or "advertising" or "propaganda" or call it "UW" – it's one and the same. And it is interlinked. By design. Look –
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks/print
As we see, they are intent upon data-mining the Internet's global voice, and they are even now developing software which will allow one psy-op warrior sitting at one work station to manage and operate up to forty different "personas" to be used on various social networks and forums. Their efforts are designed to favor a desired perception within the public mind, or in, as Edward Bernays dubbed it, "the group mind". Many agencies and departments inside the Federal behemoth are deeply concerned about just how you and I see things.
Like, it's getting to be quite personal, and the more 'personal' it becomes, the less gullible and manipulated the individual citizen becomes. Fifty-thousand to seventy-thousand SWAT raids in America each year make it very personal to as many Americans and neighborhoods. Strike that chord in the sleeping mass mind, the group mind, and the strike shall resonate across the land through grassroots consciousness such as we saw in the Tea Party movement of 2009, which is a high string on the harp of Heaven in the name of freedom. That grassroots energy brought to Washington D.C. the largest protest crowd in American history, and while its message was not acknowledged by the power elite on the Hill, they immediately enjoyed directing our psy-ops agencies to beef up psychological operations in the domestic arena.
"But they can't do that", I am told often enough.
Well, maybe they can do that.
Recall Secretary of Defense William Cohen's "Grave New World" speech of 1999 [see part two] and compare it in conjunction with reading the NIJ/DARPA report on merging domestic law enforcement with the U.S. military and establishing interface and cooperation under a policy called "Operations Other Than War" (OOTW).
The thrust of Unconventional Warfare abroad is translated into the domestic arena by simply lifting a template from one sheet or database to another. The psy-ops used in Syria or Egypt become the learned template of what the United Nations might do in the wake of a collapse of the American economy or society.
The template has been established already, and we find it first in the Department of Defense/Pentagon/JCS. Since the 1990s the U.S. military's assets are accessible to domestic law enforcement through the good graces of the U.S. Department of Justice. Military Intelligence and independent Intelligence agencies such as CIA or NSA or NRO have an interest in what's bubbling up in so many State legislatures lately, and so does the Department of Homeland Security and its interface with DARPA and the Department of Justice. Through all of that together we see a now-militarized interface with State and Local law enforcement through DHS' Fusion Centers.
So, yes, they can do that, and are, as we speak, doing it on a massive scale.
What the Fusion Centers are distributing is psychological warfare Intelligence as concocted by private sector think-tanks friendly to certain discretionary sensitivities in respect to the source of the funding. Allow me to back that statement please, as on its face the statement would appear to be extremely blunt. Does the Mechanism have an Anatomy?
In Part Four we'll answer that question, and go deeper into Psy-Ops and how UW and OOTW are applied in the domestic arena through a cooperative media and press. Then we will look at the DARPA/DHS/SPLC interface.
https://thementalmilitia.net/2017/03/24/empire-strikes-home-part-one/
https://thementalmilitia.net/2017/03/24/empire-strikes-home-part-two/
https://thementalmilitia.net/2017/03/24/empire-strikes-home-part-three/
https://thementalmilitia.net/2017/03/24/empire-strikes-home-part-four/
https://thementalmilitia.net/2017/03/24/empire-strikes-home-part-five/
1 – Propaganda by Edward Bernays; copyright 1928 by Edward Bernays; (Edward Bernays: 1891-1995); Copyright renewed 2005 by Anne Bernays; published by Ig Publishing, 178 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205; igpublishing@earthlink.net ; www.igpub.com ; ISBN: 0-9703125-9-8
See also: Pentagon Investigates Psy-Ops Allegations
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What do the things in your home do when you're asleep? They play, of course! In this compendium of poems by Laura Purdie Salas, everything from stuffed animals to clothing to writing utensils comes to life under the Toys, food, and other everyday household objects have wild adventures at night, while the humans in the house sleep, in this imaginative collection of 26 poems.
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Most of the time when I read any poetry books by Laura Purdie Salas, I want to return the fun with my own poem, showing how much I love the book(s). Yes, I do!
Who hasn't imagined things in their homes moving around in adventures while they sleep? Perhaps it's mostly children, but hasn't everyone, after waking, found at least one object in a different place from where they "thought" it was placed? In this book of varied kinds of poems, animal stuffies anxiously wait for "you to sleep, so we can Most of the time when I read any poetry books by Laura Purdie Salas, I want to return the fun with my own poem, showing how much I love the book(s). Yes, I do!
Who hasn't imagined things in their homes moving around in adventures while they sleep? Perhaps it's mostly children, but hasn't everyone, after waking, found at least one object in a different place from where they "thought" it was placed? In this book of varied kinds of poems, animal stuffies anxiously wait for "you to sleep, so we can play!" Angela Matteson's full-page illustrations add to the whimsey of Laura's imagined play, with bright colors, fun actions and varied emotions. For example, you'll see happy pencils gliding on their own paper airplanes and one sad marker leaning against a jar. Poor thing, amongst all the play, it cries, "I skip on paper/scratch and skid./I'm useless since/you lost my lid."
There are few things left that aren't having their nighttime fun as readers travel through the rooms. They'll grin when they hear from an empty pocket calling for things to hold, see the fun of a kleenex parachute taking a paperclip on a ride or toothpaste art in the bathroom sink, then laugh aloud at the sad toilet left "behind". And they will be surprised to see an aching basketball who sleeps in ice from all that dribbling. My favorite is a poem for two voices, the lament of flip-flops and winter boots who never get to experience the "other" season. Each poem will be terrific as a read aloud, but especially that one.
I've offered only a few examples. There is more that will make you laugh and more that will inspire writers to imagine their own "creature playing at night". Sunshine finds some tired souls ready to rest as humans begin their waking.
Although observations of everything about our world through poetry is welcome any month of the year, the annual celebration of National Poetry Month in April is when poets, those who enjoy poetry and those who have yet to discover poetry can come together. The use of various poetic styles is showcased. The interplay of word choices and cadence penned using those various techniques gives the appearance of pure magic.
One poet whose work I've enjoyed for years is Laura Purdie Salas. This spring readers are fortunate to have three new books written by Laura Purdie Salas released.
On March 12, 2019 In The Middle Of The Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House (Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights) written by Laura Purdie Salas with illustrations by Angela Matteson was published. It follows the antics of all the occupants of a household once a child falls sound asleep. It makes you wonder and laugh at what might be happening when you are dreaming in your own home.
Have you ever wondered what all of the stuff in your house does when you're fast asleep? This fun collection takes readers on a middle-of-the-night adventure around an ordinary house, spying on ordinary objects engaged in not so ordinary adventures. A fruit rollup turns into a racetrack for toy cars. Leftover spaghetti becomes a pair of shoelaces. After a day of being bounced and dribbled, an aching basketball soaks in a sink full of ice.
This is a great bedtime read for home, and a wonderful rea Have you ever wondered what all of the stuff in your house does when you're fast asleep? This fun collection takes readers on a middle-of-the-night adventure around an ordinary house, spying on ordinary objects engaged in not so ordinary adventures. A fruit rollup turns into a racetrack for toy cars. Leftover spaghetti becomes a pair of shoelaces. After a day of being bounced and dribbled, an aching basketball soaks in a sink full of ice.
Another great collection of peoms from this writer!
Cheerful, fun and lively. Poems from common objects that that play when the people go to bed.
I love the use of words. "Lion flips. / Monkey snips. / Dolphin drums. / Dragon strums." These poems are so much fun to read aloud as each word takes shape first on my tongue and then in our minds. This delightful collection of poems captured my imagination as they describe the adventures of everyday inanimate objects found at night.
Laura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 130 books for kids and teens, including WATER CAN BE... (Millbrook, 2014), A LEAF CAN BE... (Millbrook, 2012), and BOOKSPEAK! POEMS ABOUT BOOKS (Clarion, 2011). She loves to introduce kids to poetry and help them find poems they can relate to, no matter what their age, mood, and personality.
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Q: QAbstractTableModel & QTableView with more than one StyledItemDelegateForColumn crashes my app I have QTableView with QAbstractTableModel and multiple QStyledItemDelegates.
I set these delegates by setStyledItemForColumn.
In this case, my app crashes.
Crash happens when I push 1 key, or try to expand the gui to right.
But if I use one of them, my app goes well.
I think this is a kind of Qt bug.
Do you know somewhat?
from PySide2 import QtWidgets
from PySide2 import QtCore
from PySide2 import QtGui
from PySide2 import QtSql
import os
import PySide2
import sys
dirname = os.path.dirname(PySide2.__file__)
plugin_path = os.path.join(dirname, 'plugins', 'platforms')
os.environ['QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH'] = plugin_path
alphabet = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O"]
class IconDelegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def initStyleOption(self, option, index):
        super(IconDelegate, self).initStyleOption(option, index)
        if option.features & QtWidgets.QStyleOptionViewItem.HasDecoration:
            s = option.decorationSize
            s.setWidth(option.rect.width())
            option.decorationSize = s
class Delegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(Delegate, self).__init__(parent=None)
    def initStyleOption(self, option, index):

#        super(IconDelegate, self).initStyleOption(option, index)
        if index.column() == 6:
            if option.features & QtWidgets.QStyleOptionViewItem.HasDecoration:
                s = option.decorationSize
                s.setWidth(option.rect.width())
                option.decorationSize = s
    def createEditor(self, parent, option, index):
        editor = QtWidgets.QComboBox(parent)

        return editor
    def setEditorData(self, editor, index):
        model = index.model()
        items = model.items
        text = items[index.row()][index.column()]
        editor.setCurrentText(text)
    def setModelData(self, editor, model, index):

        items = model.items
#
class TableView(QtWidgets.QTableView):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(TableView, self).__init__(parent=None)
        delegate = Delegate()
        self.setItemDelegate(delegate)
        #Here is the crash point
#        self.setItemDelegateForColumn(6, delegate)
#        self.setItemDelegateForColumn(11, IconDelegate())
        self.tableModel = TableModel(2, 15)
        self.setModel(self.tableModel)
    def keyPressEvent(self, event):
        if event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_1:
            self.tableModel.insertRows(0)

class TableItem(object):
    def __init__(self,  parent=None):
        self.root = False

        self.word = ""
        self.alignment = QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter

        self.rule = ""
        self.foregroundcolor = QtGui.QColor(QtCore.Qt.black)
        self.backgroundcolor = QtGui.QColor(QtCore.Qt.white)
        self.font = QtGui.QFont("Meiryo", 14)
class TableModel(QtCore.QAbstractTableModel):

    def __init__(self, row = 0, column = 0, parent = None):
        super(TableModel, self).__init__(parent = None)
        self.items = [[TableItem() for c in range(column)] for r in range(row)]
        self.root = QtCore.QModelIndex()
    def rowCount(self, parent=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        return len(self.items)
    def columnCount(self, parent=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        return 15
    def data(self, index, role = QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole):
        if not index.isValid():
            return None
        row = index.row()
        column = index.column()
        if role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole:
            item = self.items[row][column]
            return item
    def headerData(self, section, orientation, role = QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole):
        if orientation == QtCore.Qt.Orientation.Horizontal:
            if role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole:
                return alphabet[section]
        return super(TableModel, self).headerData(section, orientation, role)
    def flags(self, index):
        return QtCore.Qt.ItemFlag.ItemIsEditable|QtCore.Qt.ItemFlag.ItemIsEnabled|QtCore.Qt.ItemFlag.ItemIsSelectable
    def setData(self, index, value, role=QtCore.Qt.EditRole):
        if role == QtCore.Qt.EditRole:
            row, column = index.row(), index.column()

            self.items[row][column]  = value
            self.dataChanged.emit(index, index)
            return True
        elif role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole:
            row, column = index.row(), index.column()
            self.items[row][column]  = value
            self.dataChanged.emit(index, index)
            return True
        elif role == QtCore.Qt.FontRole:
            string = value.toString()
            s = string.split(",")
            font = s[0]

            self.dataChanged.emit(index, index)
            return True
    def insertRows(self, position, rows=1, index=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        self.beginInsertRows(QtCore.QModelIndex(), position, position+rows-1)
        for row in range(rows):
            self.items.insert(position+row, [TableItem() for c in range(self.columnCount())])
        self.endInsertRows()
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("dataChanged(QModelIndex, QModelIndex)"), index, index)
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("layoutChanged()"))
        return True
    def removeRows(self, position, rows=1, index=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        self.beginRemoveRows(QtCore.QModelIndex(), position, position+rows-1)
        for row in range(rows):
            self.items = self.items[:position] + \
                        self.items[position + rows:]
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("dataChanged(QModelIndex, QModelIndex)"), index, index)
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("layoutChanged()"))
        return True

def main():
    if QtWidgets.QApplication.instance() is not None:
        app = QtWidgets.QApplication.instance()
    else:
        app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
    mainwindow = TableView()
    mainwindow.show()
    sys.exit(QtWidgets.QApplication.exec_())
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

A: Explanation
It is not a Qt bug but it is a bug of your own code.
First of all it is recommended that you run your code from the CMD / console so that you get error information, if you do you will see that the error message is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 38, in setEditorData
    editor.setCurrentText(text)
TypeError: 'PySide2.QtWidgets.QComboBox.setCurrentText' called with wrong argument types:
  PySide2.QtWidgets.QComboBox.setCurrentText(TableItem)
Supported signatures:
  PySide2.QtWidgets.QComboBox.setCurrentText(str)

The error clearly indicates that the setCurrentText method expects a string but is receiving a TableItem. Why do you receive a TableItem? Well with your code items[index.row()][index.column()]   returns a TableItem, assuming you want to get the text "word" then you must use:
def setEditorData(self, editor, index):
    model = index.model()
    items = model.items
    item = items[index.row()][index.column()]
    text = item.word
    editor.setCurrentText(text)
In both cases (setItemDelegate or setItemD) it causes the error.
But the error still persists when the window is resized since it is caused by the other delegate. Since you are partially overriding a delegate then the other party continues to use the generic information, for example expect index.data(Qt.DisplayRole) to return a string but in your case return a TableItem:
def data(self, index, role = QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole):
    if not index.isValid():
        return None
    row = index.row()
    column = index.column()
    if role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole:
        item = self.items[row][column]
        return item
In conclusion, the OP have not correctly used the default roles, causing delegates who use this information to obtain the incorrect data.
Solution
Considering all of the above, I have corrected many errors that I have not mentioned previously because many are trivial or are out of topic, obtaining the following code:
from PySide2 import QtWidgets
from PySide2 import QtCore
from PySide2 import QtGui
from PySide2 import QtSql
import os
import PySide2
import sys

dirname = os.path.dirname(PySide2.__file__)
plugin_path = os.path.join(dirname, "plugins", "platforms")
os.environ["QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH"] = plugin_path

alphabet = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O"]

class IconDelegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def initStyleOption(self, option, index):
        super(IconDelegate, self).initStyleOption(option, index)
        if option.features & QtWidgets.QStyleOptionViewItem.HasDecoration:
            s = option.decorationSize
            s.setWidth(option.rect.width())
            option.decorationSize = s

class Delegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def initStyleOption(self, option, index):
        if option.features & QtWidgets.QStyleOptionViewItem.HasDecoration:
            s = option.decorationSize
            s.setWidth(option.rect.width())
            option.decorationSize = s

    def createEditor(self, parent, option, index):
        editor = QtWidgets.QComboBox(parent)
        return editor

#
class TableView(QtWidgets.QTableView):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(TableView, self).__init__(parent=None)
        delegate = Delegate(self)
        # self.setItemDelegate(delegate)
        # Here is the crash point
        self.setItemDelegateForColumn(6, delegate)
        icon_delegate = IconDelegate(self)
        self.setItemDelegateForColumn(11, icon_delegate)
        self.tableModel = TableModel(2, 15)
        self.setModel(self.tableModel)

    def keyPressEvent(self, event):
        if event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_1:
            self.tableModel.insertRows(0)

class TableItem(object):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        self.root = False

        self.word = ""
        self.alignment = QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter

        self.rule = ""
        self.foregroundcolor = QtGui.QColor(QtCore.Qt.black)
        self.backgroundcolor = QtGui.QColor(QtCore.Qt.white)
        self.font = QtGui.QFont("Meiryo", 14)

class TableModel(QtCore.QAbstractTableModel):
    def __init__(self, row=0, column=0, parent=None):
        super(TableModel, self).__init__(parent=None)
        self.items = [[TableItem() for c in range(column)] for r in range(row)]

    def rowCount(self, parent=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        return len(self.items)

    def columnCount(self, parent=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        if self.items:
            return len(self.items[0])
        return 0

    def data(self, index, role=QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole):
        if not index.isValid():
            return None
        row = index.row()
        column = index.column()
        if 0 <= row < self.rowCount() and 0 <= column < self.columnCount():
            item = self.items[row][column]
        if role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole:
            text = item.word
            return text
        elif role == QtCore.Qt.EditRole:
            return item

    def headerData(self, section, orientation, role=QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole):
        if orientation == QtCore.Qt.Orientation.Horizontal:
            if role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole and section < len(alphabet):
                return alphabet[section]
        return super(TableModel, self).headerData(section, orientation, role)

    def flags(self, index):
        return (
            QtCore.Qt.ItemFlag.ItemIsEditable
            | QtCore.Qt.ItemFlag.ItemIsEnabled
            | QtCore.Qt.ItemFlag.ItemIsSelectable
        )

    def setData(self, index, value, role=QtCore.Qt.EditRole):
        if role == QtCore.Qt.EditRole:
            row, column = index.row(), index.column()
            self.items[row][column].word = value
            self.dataChanged.emit(index, index)
            return True
        elif role == QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole:
            row, column = index.row(), index.column()
            self.items[row][column].word = value
            self.dataChanged.emit(index, index)
            return True
        return False

    def insertRows(self, position, rows=1, index=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        self.beginInsertRows(QtCore.QModelIndex(), position, position + rows - 1)
        for row in range(rows):
            self.items.insert(
                position + row, [TableItem() for c in range(self.columnCount())]
            )
        self.endInsertRows()
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("dataChanged(QModelIndex, QModelIndex)"), index, index)
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("layoutChanged()"))
        return True

    def removeRows(self, position, rows=1, index=QtCore.QModelIndex()):
        self.beginRemoveRows(QtCore.QModelIndex(), position, position + rows - 1)
        for row in range(rows):
            self.items = self.items[:position] + self.items[position + rows :]
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("dataChanged(QModelIndex, QModelIndex)"), index, index)
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("layoutChanged()"))
        return True

def main():
    if QtWidgets.QApplication.instance() is not None:
        app = QtWidgets.QApplication.instance()
    else:
        app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
    mainwindow = TableView()
    mainwindow.show()
    sys.exit(QtWidgets.QApplication.exec_())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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Sasol, Haldor Topsøe expand G2LTM licensing collaboration to grow sustainable synthetic fuels and chemicals globally
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Haldor Topsøe and Sasol have expanded collaboration to jointly license and develop their technologies for sustainable liquid fuels and chemicals production through Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology.
Sasol and Topsøe currently offer integrated end-to-end solutions to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. Topsøe's SynCOR™ and Sasol's Low Temperature Fischer-TropschTM technologies have been licensed into Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) ventures, most recently Uzbekistan GTL, which is in the final stages of construction.
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This gives potential customers access to an integrated solution across the entire value chain, from renewable feed sources to liquid fuels. As single-point licensor, Sasol and Topsøe will offer customers all the necessary technology licenses for complete sustainable fuels solutions. This also includes basic engineering, catalyst, hardware and specialised technical support to ensure a bankable and successful project.
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