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A pillar we can no longer ignore: diversity . A pillar that Country Email List has painfully shown in recent years that we still use many words from a colonialist slavery past in the Dutch language. In the meantime, the word 'white' has already been deleted by Country Email List many media, including the NOS and RTL Nieuws. Nowadays we write 'white' and 'black' in an inclusive text. 'Blank' has a positive connotation, because it was used as 'colorless', 'pure' and 'pure'. While 'white' is much more neutral. But besides this change, there are more Country Email List examples. In February 2022 , Statistics Netherlands announced that they will no longer use the terms 'western' and 'non-western.
These terms are no longer correct. On the one Country Email List hand, they are no longer geographically correct, because Japan is seen as western and Suriname as non-western. But as is also written by journalist Frederike Geerdink in a blog on One World , you use these terms to describe the Western world as the center of the world. Everyone who is Country Email List not from here is different and does not belong. Leo Lucassen, professor of social Country Email List history, describes it as follows: It is always about a binary opposition between 'good' and 'bad', 'primitive' and 'educated', 'their values' and 'our values', with which you quickly end up in racist and ethnocentric Country Email List quicksand. For the same reason, we no longer use the words 'allochtoon' and 'native.
We simply call a citizen of our country a 'Dutchman'. If it is functional for the text to mention someone's dual nationality, we do this by, for Country Email List example, writing 'Spanish Dutchman'. Pioneering position for communication consultants We are of course not finished with all these examples. A great tip is to consult style guides or handbooks while Country Email List writing a text. For example, Code Diversity & Inclusion (pdf) and Het Tropenmuseum (pdf) have extensive guides that make your text a lot more inclusive. Language is in flux and ultimately language falls and stands at the mercy of the user who determines which words make it to our Country Email List paper. It is good to be aware of the influence that language has on culture and vice versa.
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Parallel universes—a staple of science fiction and comic book story telling. Perhaps not as ubiquitous as time travel stories, but thankfully less prone to repeating and recycling the old temporal-paradox chestnut. The cell-splitting of one universe into an unknown number is a potentially dangerous proposition—attempting to wrangle some modicum of plausibility from any contemporary science fiction narrative is difficult enough when set in one world. But managing to tightrope walk across dozens of worlds, iterating on similar themes, locations, and even characters—without completely getting lost along the way—is a feat in and of itself.
In The Broken Universe, Paul Melko takes the very wise route of using character to sell the science, and not the other way around. John Rayburn, together with friends Grace, Henry, and Casey, whom he is in love with, have a god key in their possession: an iaciorator—a device which allows them to cross back and forth between a so-far undefined number of parallel universes. Using their Pinball Wizards company as a publicly acceptable front, they recruit other Johns, Graces, Henrys, and Caseys from across the different universes to acquire wealth, help others, and stave off annihilation from the psychotic Gesalex and his Alarian associates—"singleton" exiles from another universe in which women are very much subjugated and dictatorship seems the norm. The Alarians look down on "dups"—men and women with doppelgangers spread across the parallel worlds. To be unique, a singular entity with no parallels, is, in the eyes of the Alarians, to be a superior being.
By focusing on John and his relationships to Grace and Henry, his love of Casey, and the painful other-side-of-the-coin relationship he has with John Prime—the John who first introduced him to the iaciorator device—Melko weaves an exciting, sometimes mind-bending tale of corporate deception, social justice, oppression, and in the end, war with an inter-universe Green Lantern-style police force known as the Vig.
The Broken Universe is actually the second book in a series. Having not read the first book, 2009s The Walls of the Universe, I was at an immediate disadvantage. Right off the bat, Melko tosses out specialized terminology and hypothetical concepts (and numbers—lots of numbers for too many universes to name). Instead of ramping up slowly, re-introducing the world and the science behind it in the opening chapters, he assumes readers have read the first book and are already up to speed. This is not a complaint. In fact, I admire the approach. It's a sales gamble, to have a somewhat difficult to penetrate second book in hopes of persuading readers to step back and seek out the first in the series. In many ways, it pays off. I was able to gather enough of an understanding of the first book's events to become entrenched in The Broken Universe's plot and character interactions.
Where it stumbles, however, is that The Broken Universe feels very much like the middle chapter of a trilogy—the first half is spent wrapping up threads and detritus from the first book, while the second half paves the way for the confrontations that I imagine will dominate the third book in the series. This does not negatively impact The Broken Universe too much. The novel is an exciting page-turner that doesn't wrap itself too tightly around any metaphysical lampposts, nor does it gloss over the inherent paradoxes that would inevitably present themselves if such technology were possible. Yes, I would have loved to know more about Visgrath's villainous, torturous ways and to better understand the impact his actions in the first book had on our character's lives, just as I would have preferred a less truncated, MacGuffin-inspired finale. But I'm not terribly frustrated by these details, because the ideas and characters presented are inventive enough to keep me on board, waiting to see what happens next.
I like to imagine Paul Melko's office is wall-to-wall whiteboards of universe names and numbers—that even he struggles to keep the details separating each location intact. That is, perhaps, the greatest threat his story has: becoming so bogged down in its own details that it risks overwhelming new readers. A threat, absolutely, but this is also what makes Melko's story so much fun—that he is willing to go so deep into the construction and layering of these universes that they become characterized within the novel, stepping away from simple numbers and nomenclature that define the individual universes early on.
The Broken Universe is a great deal of fun, and I'm excited to see where Melko goes next. However, I do recommend, if you are interested, picking up the first title before diving into this one. As much as I enjoyed the second chapter in Melko's surprisingly down-to-earth epic, I know there is much that I'm missing.


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Music by David Arnold, John Barry, Quincy Jones, Udo Jürgens, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mark London, Van Morrison and Walter Scharf
For this New Year weekend, I'm delighted to present a two-part conversation with Don Black about his recent bestselling memoir The Sanest Guy in the Room, in whose success (as you'll hear) I was honored to play a very small part. Don talks about all kinds of things - from his stint in the hospital with Covid-19 to his friendship with a young Michael Jackson, whose first solo Number One he wrote. (That's Don and Jacko with Petula Clark and Sophia Loren above.)
Along the way we'll hear not only Don's big hits such as "Born Free" and "Diamonds Are Forever" but some lesser known items too, as recorded by everyone from Lulu, Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey to Kanye West, Van Morrison and The Smiths - via, of course, "the matchless Matt Monro".
To hear Part One of this On the Town special, simply click above. Part Two can be found here.
As to earlier forays through Don's catalogue, as I mention at the top of the show, you can find our fiftieth anniversary celebration of "Born Free" here; our exploration of Don's James Bond songs and his long collaboration with 007 composer John Barry here; and my essay on "To Sir with Love" here.
~On the Town is made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club. For more on the Steyn Club, see here.
There's a whole cavalcade of musical delights over on our Netflix-style music home page, where you'll find easy-to-access live performances by everyone from Herman's Hermits to Liza Minnelli; Mark's interviews with Chuck Berry, Leonard Bernstein and Bananarama (just to riffle through the Bs); and audio documentaries on P G Wodehouse's songs, Simon after Garfunkel, and much more. We'll be adding to the archive in the months ahead, but, even as it is, we hope you'll find the new SteynOnline music home page a welcome respite from the woes of the world.

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Birthdate: 22nd January, 1965
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress. Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. Soon after, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine. She has since appeared in several notable films, including the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Academy Award, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Lane has been married to actor Josh Brolin since 2004. She was previously married to actor Christopher Lambert from 1988 to 1994.
Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress.
Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. Soon after, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine. She has since appeared in several notable films, including the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Academy Award, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Lane has been married to actor Josh Brolin since 2004. She was previously married to actor Christopher Lambert from 1988 to 1994.
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African Christian Health Association Platform Community Health Strategy Consultancy Jobs in Kenya
The African Christian Health Association Platform (ACHAP) is an advocacy and networking platform for Christian Health Associations (CHAs) and Church Health Networks from Sub-Saharan Africa established through a declaration of commitment by the 3rd Africa Christian Health Associations Biennial Conference held in Bagamoyo, Tanzania in January 2007.
ACHAP brings together more than 40 national-level faith-based networks providing services in 32 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa to share resources, establish technical working groups (TWGs), and provide ongoing training and technical assistance (TA) to its members.
In addition, governments see ACHAP members as critical players and in many African countries partner with them to provide health support services, even to government facilities and in health systems strengthening efforts more broadly.
ACHAP is implementing the USAID/Global Health ACHAP Afya project, which will reduce child and maternal morbidity and mortality in focal areas within Kenya and Uganda.
This will be done through implementation of high quality, high-impact community-level interventions in reproductive health (RH); Family Planning (FP); maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH); nutrition; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
The project is initially being implemented in Kilifi County in Kenya and in Arua and Nebbi Districts of Western Nile region in Uganda, with a possibility of expansion to other regions.
The Governments of Kenya and Uganda have put in place several national policies and strategies toward remedying the poor RMNCAH outcomes, particularly among vulnerable populations.
Among these includes a Community Health Strategy, with an approach that empowers communities to participate in improving their own health, and to strengthen the delivery of health services at the community- and household-levels.
To effectively implement the ACHAP Afya project, ACHAP is seeking the services of a competent consultancy firm or individual to review the existing national community health policies, documents, and other related guidelines in Kenya and Uganda to inform the project implementation (guiding the project's overarching technical approach and alignment to national guidelines in each country). .
The overall objective of the consultancy is to review the National Community Health Strategy of each country and develop a toolkit to guide project implementation.
Specifically, to:
Review current community health strategy and guidelines in Kenya/Uganda to identify the key approaches to project implementation in RH/FP/RMNCH/WASH and nutrition that are aligned to national guidelines.
Develop a summarized and simplified version of the strategy and guidelines for ease of reference and orienting the health workers. These may be adapted from similar material developed by other USAID funded or other donor health projects in the countries.
Develop a toolkit/training package for use by the program staff to ensure compliance to guidelines and quality and appropriateness of trainings especially those targeting faith-based leaders.
Identify international best practices and standards in implementation of community interventions for adoption by the project.
Provides learning materials, training, and guidance to project staff
on best practices for community liaison and engagement, with special attention to grass-roots engagement, promoting inclusivity and reaching diverse audiences and client groups.
This may include:
• Master trainer curricula
• CHV/VHT Training Curricular
• Job aid checklist for CHV/VHT
• High Impact practices for community interventions in FP/MNCAH/Nutrition/ WASH
Inception report, including detailed methodology and consultancy work plan.
Develops and finalizes a community engagement tool-kit for ACHAP Afya staff for inclusive community liaison and community engagement.
Working with project staff, provides training to key field-staff on use of the community engagement tool-kit to familiarize them with elements of community engagement.
Final report on evidence-based future community engagement approaches.
• Master's degree in Public Health, HSS, Community Development or related studies.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the field of public health, HSS, community engagement, training or related areas.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Community Health Strategy implementation for the respective country.
• Fluency in the local language and culture in the locations is added advantage.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
Proposals must include the following elements:
• A covering letter introducing the submission.
• A methodological proposal of no more than 5 pages.
• A financial proposal (i.e. budget) in USD. This should be inclusive of all taxes and delivery costs and shall remain valid for (60) days from the closing date.
• Detailed CVs of applicant (s) or firm's capability statement, outlining the relevant skills and experience (not exceeding 3 pages per team member).
• References: Contact details of 3 references
• Current business licenses where applicable.
• Valid VAT and PIN Certificate where applicable
Bidders are encouraged to include any additional information they believe demonstrates added value ACHAP within the scope of this project.
Travel and Subsistence
Where appropriate, any costs for travel and subsistence must be clearly shown in the proposal. However, it is expected that this assignment would be largely virtual.
Costs Incurred by Prospective Consultant
It should be noted that this document relates to a Request for Proposal only and not a firm commitment from ACHAP to enter into a contractual agreement.
In addition, ACHAP will not be held responsible for any costs associated with the production of a response to this Request for Proposal.
Interested qualified consultants/ consulting firms are requested to submit their Expression of interest (technical and financial proposal) to hr@africachap.org by COB 15th January 2021


Abstract: Hydroxyapatite(HA) chromatography 已經廣泛的被利用來分離單股DNA和雙股DNA,此技術是利用單股DNA對HA之吸附親和力較其雙股DNA小的原理來做分離,但是之間的交互作用與分離機制目前並無完整的研究討論。因此本研究主要是利用等溫吸附線與恆溫滴定微卡計(ITC)來探討HA與單股DNA和雙股DNA的吸附機制與熱力學分析。在實驗之部分,我們設計不同的條件,包括不同的環境因子(溫度、鹽濃度和pH)以及DNA組成(GC content、length、GC stacking rich & CG stacking rich)等來探討各種不同的效應對吸附行為的影響。 由實驗結果顯示,在等溫吸附線的分析部分,發現對於雙股DNA而言,對HA的交互作用主要是以靜電作用力為主,因此疏水作用力或結構之改變並不會對其造成太大的影響;而對於單股DNA,因為其鹼基是暴露在外,所以與HA之交互作用會受較多因素之影響,例如靜電作用力、疏水作用力與結構之穩定性等,因此在不同的環境因子或是DNA組成的不同,都會造成單股DNA與HA之親和力改變。而且我們也發現單股DNA有多層吸附(multi-layer adsorption)之現象,尤其是在高鹽的環境中,這也說明了單股DNA在吸附過程中受到多重作用力的影響。 而在熱力學分析的部分,發現在不同的鹽濃度下,雙股DNA及單股DNA皆為吸熱的反應,所以此吸附過程為entropy driven,表示去水合在此貢獻中相當重要。並且發現單股DNA之吸附焓皆大於雙股DNA,表示對於單股DNA,疏水作用力之貢獻較大,然而對於雙股DNA,則是靜電作用力貢獻較大。 藉由等溫吸附線與熱力學分析,我們可以清楚了解不同環境因子對於雙股DNA和單股DNA與HA之鍵結行為和機制的影響,此研究結果可提供生物辨識作用方面的基礎資訊。 Hydroxyapatite(HA) chromatography has been used extensively for the separation of single-strand DNA and double-strand DNA. This technique is based on the fact that ssDNA have less affinity for hydroxylapatite than their dsDNA. But the details of the mechanism of the separation of ssDNA and dsDNA by hydroxyapatite are still not clear. In this study, we discussed the effects of environmental factors (i.e. salt concentration, temperature and pH) and different kinds of ssDNA and dsDNA (i.e. GC content, length, secondary structure effects and GC or CG stacking rich…) on the binding behavior. By equilibrium batch analysis, we measure the adsorption isotherm to evaluate the affinity ssDNA and dsDNA with HA, while isothermal titration microcalorimetric was used to measure the adsorption enthalpy. By the kinetics and thermodynamics analysis, we established an interaction mechanism to explain the ssDNA and dsDNA with HA interaction behavior. By isotherm analysis, we realized that dsDNA mainly use electrostatic force to bind with HA. So in high salt concentration, the phosphate of dsDNA interaction was shielded Na+ and the affinity would be decreased. Because the surface of ssDNA molecule contains hydrophobic bases and negative charge phosphate backbone, so both of the hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions affect the affinity of ssDNA for HA. In addition, stability of structure is also important for ssDNA, so increasing in the structural order of ssDNA would increase the binding affinity of ssDNA with HA. However, for oligo ssDNAs (15mer and 60mer) in this study, the hydrophobic interaction is more revealed and multi- layers adsorption were observed. By thermodynamics analysis, we found that the adsorption enthalpies of ssDNA and dsDNA are all endothermic in this study and the dehydration step in the binding process plays a key role. This investigation offers useful knowledge of ssDNA and dsDNA with HA binding behavior and fundamental thermodynamics information in biorecognition system.


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Drumlish pensioner who put bomb on bus during Queen's State visit to Ireland loses appeal which focused on Irish language rights
Lawyers for Dónal Billings (67), whose trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court was heard in both Irish and English, claimed their client's Irish language rights were "destroyed" during his trial.
Dónal Billings has lost an appeal against his conviction.
A pensioner who put a bomb on a bus bound for Dublin and made hoax bomb threats during Queen Elizabeth's State visit to Ireland, has lost an appeal against his conviction which focused on Irish language rights.
Billings, with an address at St Bridget's Court, Drumlish, Co Longford, was found guilty of possessing an explosive substance at Longford railway station car park on May 16th, 2011.
He was found guilty of making false reports on May 16 and May 18, 2011, that bombs had been placed at Busáras and Sinn Féin's headquarters in Dublin and that two mortars were set for Dublin Castle.
He was also found guilty of making a false report on May 20th that two bombs had been placed in the toilets at Cork airport. Queen Elizabeth was visiting Ireland at the time.
Sentencing him to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment, Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, said Billings was "perfectly entitled to hold a low opinion" of Queen Elizabeth and her visit to Ireland but was "not entitled to express such an opinion by engaging in criminality".
In a judgement made available in both Irish and English yesterday, Tuesday, May 28, President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice George Birmingham said the appeal was based on two issues, namely sufficiency of evidence and Irish language rights.
He said the Court of Appeal had not been persuaded that the evidence against Billings was insufficient to ground a conviction on any count.
Secondly, he said the court had not been persuaded that Mr Billings' Irish language rights were disrespected to the extent that his conviction should be quashed.
Counsel for Billings, Martin Giblin SC, had argued that his client's Irish language rights were "decimated" and "destroyed" during the trial process.
Advancing his arguments in Irish, which were translated into English for the court, Mr Giblin said Billings wanted to be tried by three judges who had an ability in Irish as far back as 2011.
He said the State, including the Special Criminal Court and the DPP, had a duty to show respect to the Constitution and to personal constitutional rights. He said constitutional rights couldn't be denied by questions of procedure.
He said the defence applied for a transcript of proceedings that recorded everything that was said in both Irish and English during the trial. A transcript was provided in the English language only, even though it was within the State's abilities to provide one in Irish also, counsel submitted.
Mr Giblin further submitted that the Explosive Substances Act 1883, under which Mr Billings was convicted, had never been translated into Irish.
Mr Justice Birmingham said the Explosives Substance Act was passed by the Westminster Parliament. The fact it had not been translated into Irish was not the result of "inertia" but a conscious decision had clearly been made not to translate pre-1922 statutes.
He said Billings had no right to any transcript during the trial, be it in English or Irish or any other language. Ordinarily, no transcript is made available during the majority of trials conducted in Ireland.
"Exceptionally", he said, an overnight transcript is prepared during trials in the Central Criminal Court and the Special Criminal Court but there was no "entitlement to be provided with such a transcript", it was made available to the parties as a concession.
He said there was no evidence of any disadvantage having been experienced by Billings and the fact a transcript was made available in the English language only did not render his trial unfair or unsatisfactory.
Mr Justice Birmingham said the arrangements put in place by the Special Criminal Court were reasonable in the circumstances. Everything that happened in English was translated into Irish and everything said in Irish was interpreted into English for everybody's benefit, with two court-appointed interpreters alternating at hourly intervals for that purpose.
He said the DPP may carry out its functions in the official language of its own choice and was "not compelled to adopt the preferred official language of the accused person".
He said it was open to the DPP to run a prosecution in Irish if it wishes and perhaps there were cases where it may be appropriate to do so, for example in a Gaeltacht area.
Mr Justice Birmingham, who sat with Ms Justice Marie Baker and Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy, dismissed the appeal.


Five-hundred and nine children were killed by Israel in 50 days of indiscriminate attacks on Gaza in July and August, 2014. Many thousands more injured, and many and more traumatized, robbed of childhood by death and devastation, by a brutality that can only be described as criminal. The lack of action by governments around the world to prevent such crimes in the future, a blot on all our consciences.
Khaled Juma is a Palestinian author, writer of children's books, and poet who lives in Gaza. His poem, about the children who played under his window, brings home to all of us that we need to put aside debates and politics and enmities and justifications, and remember, these are ordinary people and ordinary children, who just want to live, and play, as we do.
The poem was originally published on August 24 2014, illustrated with some charming photographs of children playing, and also photographs showing the devastating consequences to children of the senseless results of hate.
See the illustrated poem here. Some of the pictures are disturbing. This is something about which we should all be disturbed.
Khaled's books have been published in Arabic, English and Dutch.
You can follow his thoughts and work on Facebook here.
To read more about the truth of the situation in Gaza, start here.
If you want to help you can contribute in a safe, non-political way to the Roger Waters Appeal for the Makaseed Hospital. A free hospital which helps some of the 11,000+ people injured in attacks on Gaza.


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USAID-funded project aims to reduce public health damage from plastic pollution | Environment
A plastic waste dump in Lao Cai province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Institute for Strategy and Policy of Natural Resources and the Environment (ISPONRE) recently coordinated with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) the launch of the Plastic and Health Action Partnership (PHA) with the aim of reducing the impact of plastic waste on public health.
The PHA is part of the advancement of the Local Solution for Plastic Pollution (LSPP) sponsored by USAID and the Center for Supporting Green Development (GreenHub).
In Vietnam, it is estimated that there are 25 million tonnes of household solid waste each year, 10 to 20 percent of which is plastic.
The percentage of plastic waste and single-use nylon bags in urban areas of the country has increased rapidly, accounting for 10-20% of household solid waste.
Solving the problems of plastic pollution requires the joint efforts of many parties, such as government agencies, international organizations, NGOs, research institutes, universities and businesses, said Nguyen Trung Thang, deputy director of ISPONRE, during the launch ceremony.
"The creation of PHA can be seen as an opportunity to recruit the participation of all concerned groups to help reduce the damage of plastic pollution on human health," he added.
Christine Gandomi, YOU SAID acting director of the environment and energy office, said the partnership would mark the start of a new era of collaboration, knowledge exchange and best practices around the challenges of plastic pollution.
PHA would be among the first partnerships to focus on plastic and its impacts on human health, she said.
"This exchange and dialogue will help us meet the urgent development challenges in Vietnam," she added.
PHA mobilized 18 organizations in Vietnam. They are partners of international organizations, governments, NGOs, research institutes and universities.
In the future, PHA will support departments and localities across the country to carry out policy advocacy activities related to plastic and health; build and contribute to a data center; boost communication activities; raise awareness of the relationship between plastic and health; and deploy pilot models to reduce plastic pollution across the country./.
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Steven Universe air times for March 7-13, 2016
Looking back at Steven's Birthday
Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 77: House Guest
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Ken and GC13 discuss House Guest, the episode that had the unfortunate duty of following Ocean Gem (let's face it: not the easiest episode to follow).
Coming after a big episode wasn't House Guest's only problem though: it seems to have a more basic cartoon plot than most episodes of Steven Universe. Plus, apparently, people don't respond well to Pearl wiping oil off of herself.
It's still nice to see some father-sun bonding though, which means that Greg is forgiven for interrupting Pearl's history lesson. When Steven will get his healing spit back, nobody knows, but it sure was impactful while it lasted, wasn't it?
Crystal Qurtz on March 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Hey guys can I just say I love your podcast and I love you all! look at Sophia Haven't you Noticed that she's A Star. The there's Hunter and he's Stronger Than You! But then there's GC13 and he's Strong in the Real Way! We can't forget about Dakota he's bringing peace and love to the planet earth. And last but certainly not least there is ken and he may not always agree but he is still a Comet living his Destiny! Thank you all for being as cool as a cookie cat
Ken on March 8, 2016 at 6:14 am
You da real mvp homie
I speak truth though XD
sad sack on March 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm
what do you plan to do when you run out of retro episodes to talk about?
gc13 on March 7, 2016 at 9:06 pm
Well it won't be long now. Second looks at a lot of episodes, I'm sure, but before we get there we'll probably do some more podcast episodes about things other than Steven Universe episodes.
Orion Taylor on March 7, 2016 at 11:07 pm
I wonder how times the LSS will loop through the series by the time everything ends. My guess is 3.
gc13 on March 8, 2016 at 1:02 am
That would be impressive. At twenty-six episodes a year the show could keep us going for quite a while. Even if they do nothing but bombs, it would take a while to do another loop.
But looping gets old. We might have to actually start thinking of topics. 😛
SUfan on March 8, 2016 at 12:25 am
What do you mean? It's main plot was I guess seen before but the undertone was that Greg wanted to live with his son again after Steven went to live with the Crystal Gems (Presumably when he was 8) he's probably lonely in-between visits.
Plot, not premise. Ken and I elaborate on our feelings in the episode, but the basic idea is that House Guest felt like it could have been an episode of a run-of-the-mill cartoon and that usually doesn't happen on Steven Universe.
SUfan on March 11, 2016 at 1:37 am
It fits in logically, considering how Steven lives away Greg leaving him all alone in a little van by a car wash.
Bugberry on March 8, 2016 at 8:22 am
While this episode isn't one of the stronger ones, I still like the song Dear Old Dad. It starts off a little rough, but by the end, when Steven and Greg are harmonizing, it's really touching.
Now that we know what the Cluster is, my theory still stands that the Geode is a some kind of Gem weapon, possibly an bomb that didn't go off properly. The crater it sits in even looks like the result of a meteor. The weird thing is though, why would there be a warp pad be built near it? Was the warp pad built after the war to monitor the Geode?
As for how the duct tape worked, my theory is that Steven's Healing Spit is actually a placebo effect, meaning that he doesn't actually need to use spit to heal, and just like his shield, it's the emotion behind the action that manifests the power. Perhaps his love for this dad caused his "healing power" to be channeled through the tape?
Jon P on March 12, 2016 at 2:26 pm
So I'm surprised by the mention that one of the boarders confirmed that Steven should've been able to heal the Geode, because I came up with a theory circa C&R that Steven's spit could only heal things that are alive, which is why it couldn't do the Geode or the warp pad. Completely separately, I later discovered that someone else also has this theory: Steven himself! In the book The Guide to the Crystal Gems, Steven says something like "I don't know, maybe it only works on living things." [When I get home I'll try to remember to post the page number and exact quote if no one else already has done so]
On another note, we got a much more subtle and nonspecific example of Pearl's aversion to Greg in "Coach Steven":
Greg: "Hey Pearl, come here to check out some buff studs?"
Pearl: [looks up and down at Greg] "… No."


At Monday's hearing on the our motion to vacate the preliminary injunction against Majed Moughni to shut down his criticism of the proposed settlement of a lawsuit over McDonald's sale of haram meat that had been advertised as halal, Judge Kathleen Macdonald agreed to both prongs of the relief we had sought – dissolving the injunction, and reopening the notice period for class members to intervene in, object to or opt out from the settlement. She did it, not because she agreed that Moughni's First Amendment rights had been violated, but for the reasons offered by McDonald's and endorsed by the other parties. Regrettably, both Judge Macdonald's statements at the hearing, and threats made by the parties inside and outside the courtroom, suggest that the attack on Moughni's free speech rights is not at an end.
Specifically, McDonald's put forward a reason for the injunction that had not been argued when the injunction was first sought — that because Moughni was allegedly trying to recruit clients to represent as objectors, he was subject to judicial discipline for his supposedly misleading statements about class action procedures. Now, said McDonald's, because Moughni has made clear that he is not trying to represent members of the class in their objections, circumstances have changed making the injunction no longer needed. At the same time, McDonald's argued that it was Moughni's supposedly misleading statements about opt-out procedures and the like that required reopening of the class notification period. In agreeing to dissolve the injunction and reopen the notice period, Judge Macdonald's brief oral opinion was very clear about embracing this reasoning, not Moughni's. Agreeing with McDonald's, the judge proclaimed that she had done the right thing in suppressing Moughni's speech in the first place. Still, she said, she would issue an order later that day dissolving the injunction.
If McDonald's only purpose here was to give the judge (and the parties) a painless way to give Moughni the relief to which he is entitled, that would not be so worrisome. Unfortunately, there have been indications that McDonald's line of reasoning was intended to set the stage for later efforts to force Moughni to pay damages for having had the audacity to oppose the settlement. As reported earlier this week in Forbes, McDonald's has described Moughni as a "third-party tortfeasor," which I took to be a threat to sue him for damages (the tort of opposing a settlement?). Meanwhile, during oral argument on Monday, class counsel complained about the cost of the additional notice, which he estimated to be $30,000, and about the possibility that the costs would be deducted from the cy pres donation to the Arab-American Museum, pursuant to the provision of the proposed settlement agreement that subordinates such a donation to his firm's attorney fees and claimed out-of-pocket expenses. This is thirty scholarships for local students, he explained; the charity should not lose this money.
If the cost of objecting to a class action settlement is having to pay five figures worth of "damages" based on fanciful claims that statements about the settlement were "misleading" or "confusing," affected class members are much less likely to speak out. So, we will be monitoring the situation closely, ready to step in if any of the parties move against Moughni for monetary relief.
Equally worrisome was the judge's insistence that if, in the course of urging members of his community to speak out against the proposed settlement, Moughni self-identifies as a lawyer, she will reissue the prior restraint. That insistence reflects a failure to appreciate the legal rule that lawyers do not give up their First Amendment rights when they join the bar. Whether Moughni will take his chances of having to go up on appeal over his rights by acknowledging that he is a lawyer when he speaks out about the settlement, I do not know, but Public Citizen will stand ready to defend him.
There were several fascinating moments during oral argument; the transcript is now available here.
But one moment stood out for me. During my argument, I made the point that even if the Court concluded that Moughni was seeking to represent class members in his capacity as counsel, the Supreme Court has repeatedly distinguished between lawyers who seek to represent clients for a cause, to stand up against perceived injustice, and lawyers who solicit paying clients. By advocating selflessly for a cause in which he believed, Moughni was really acting in the highest traditions of the bar. McDonald's response was to urge the judge not to listen to my "silvertongued" argument; it specifically faulted me for stating last week that the prior restraint was entered without an adequate record of supporting evidence. Said McDonald's, it doesn't matter what was in the record, because anybody who watched what was happening on Fox News would understand why Moughni deserved to be enjoined.
If that is enough basis for a prior restraint in the Circuit Court for Wayne County, Michigan, serious intervention from the appellate courts is going to be needed.
What Could McDonald's Have Been Thinking?
One can think about the settlement of the class action through the payment of charitable donations to neighborhood institutions as representing a smart move by McDonald's to contain the damage caused by the embarrassment of having been caught making serious mistakes with respect to an important market -- Muslims who care about how their meat has been slaughtered. Plainly, the marketing department was on the scene here. So how could McDonald's make the mistake of undoing all the good optics of its charitable donations by attacking a Muslim critic?
My sense is that companies often take the chance of suppressing dissent because, even if marketing gives such sensible advice, the lawyers are allowed to go ahead anyway because they tell their clients that a local judge will go along, and they just assume that the suppressed critic will not find his way to a lawyer who can present the First Amendment law with sufficient force — or, indeed, that the critic will be unable to afford free speech counsel. The best way to make companies like McDonald's think twice about this calculus is to increase the costs of failure. McDonald's should face serious injury to its brand because of what happened here, just as it did in the aftermath of the McLibel litigation fifteen years ago.


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My solutions to Javascript Koans

Here is original README:

> # Javascript Koans - koans to learn Javascript (the good bits) #

> Based on Edgecase's fantastic
> [Ruby koans](http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans), the goal of the
> Javascript koans is to teach you Javascript programming through
> testing.

> When you first run the koans, you'll be presented with a runtime error and a
> stack trace indicating where the error occurred. Your goal is to make the
> error go away. As you fix each error, you should learn something about the
> Javascript language and functional programming in general.

> Your journey towards Javascript enlightenment starts in the koans/AboutExpects.js file. These
> koans will be very simple, so don't overthink them! As you progress through
> more koans, more and more Javascript syntax will be introduced which will allow
> you to solve more complicated problems and use more advanced techniques.

> ### Running the Koans from a Browser

> Simply navigate to the Javascript Koans folder using a file browser, and
> double click on KoansRunnner.html.

> Any browser will do, but for the best results Firefox or Chrome is
> recommended. More stack trace information shows up for javascript on these
> browsers.

> The first error will be in koans/AboutExpects.js. Fix the first test and
> refresh the browser. Rinse and repeat until all tests turn green.

> The test runner used is [Jasmine](http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/) with a
> customized report viewer.

> ### Changelog

> *  v3 - Nov 2010  - Moved out of branch of functional-koans project, into own top level project
> *  v2 - Sept 2010 - Second version based on jasmine (Thanks Greg Malcolm!)
> *  v1 - July 2010 - First version based on jsTestDriver

> ### Inspirations & thanks

> *  Dick Wall (the Java posse) - for bringing the idea of koans to my attention
> *  Edgecase - for the great Ruby Koans
> *  Douglas Crockford - for Javascript; the good bits

> ##### License

> This software is (c) 2010 David Laing & Greg Malcolm, and licensed under the MIT license (see
> LICENCE for details).  Enjoy!

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Черевић је насеље у Србији у општини Беочин у Јужнобачком округу. Административно припада општини Беочин. Село се налази уз Дунав, на ушћу Черевићког потока у Дунав, и подно Фрушке горе на чијим падинама се и налази део села. Село се пружа дуж подунавског пута и уз поток, тако да има полузвездасти облик. Од Новог Сада је удаљено 24 -{km}-.

Овде се налазе Српска православна црква у Черевићу и Завичајни музеј Черевића.

Према попису из 2011. било је 2800 становника.

Историја
Први пут је поменут још 1189. године у Повељи Папе Иноћентија III у којој се Черевић споминје као стара католичка жупа. Као утврђено насеље спомиње се 13. године, а 1372. већ се водило као варош. Доласком Турака у Черевић 1526. године католичко становништво се на позив цркве раселило, док у селу остало православно становништво. До досељавања турског становништва Черевић је био делимично опустео. За време Турака Черевић је био касаба са развијеним занатством и пољопривредом и институцијама које су пратиле живот овог насељеног места, што потврђује и Евлија Челебија.

Већ 1608. године у Черевићу постоји школа, неколико џамија и православна црква. Године 1704. након протеривања Турака поднео је молбу кнез Черевићки, Петар "са свим својим сиромасима".

Књигу Острожинског "Давидови псалми" купили су претплатом 1868. године први људи села, поп Јован Максимовић и општински бележник Јован Живковић. Поп Јован је претходно 1867. године узео Радићеву практичну књигу о газдалуку. Предњаче на културно-националном пољу месни трговци, који не жале новац за српско штиво; књиге и листове.

Године 1838. Нешковић Гаврило трговац из Черевића је уплатио 40 ф. улога и постао члан Матице српске. Нешковић је 1833. набавио пренумерацијом књигу басни. Черевићки трговац Петар Костић је тестаментом 1863. године оставио целокупно своје имање, вредно 20.000 ф. новосадској Српској Великој гимназији.

Из два пописа види се структура по вери, и кретање бројности становника Черевића. Тако је 1815. године пописано 208 католика и 1169 православаца, а 1869. године, пораст постоји код обе групације: 233 католика и 1500 православних душа. Са укупних 1338 становника, дошло се до 1772.

Место је 1885. године било у склопу Ердевичког изборног среза са својих 1408 православних душа.

Пре Другог светског рата у Черевићу је живело доста Немаца, који су се после иселили. Данас Черевић има: музеј, школу, католичку цркву и православну цркву.

Наше време
У Черевићу се налази винарија "Бело Брдо" која је освојила девет медаља на међународном оцењивању вина у Бечу 2013. године.

Насеља поред Черевића
Шакотинац и Бразилија су насеља која се наслањају на Черевић, и његов су саставни део, али званично нису део села. Налазе се уз магистрални пут (Бразилија) и уз поток Шакотинац на источној страни села, према Беочину. Становници су махом радници Беочинске фабрике цемента која се налази на мање од 2 километра од ових насеља.

На западном излазу из села, према Баноштору, дуж регионалног пута уз Дунав, протеже се викенд насеље.

Саобраћај
Черевић се налази на регионалном путу уз Дунав, који повезује Нови Сад, Беочин и Илок у Хрватској. Гранични прелаз је код Нештина.

Из села полази асфалтни пут који води у Национални парк Фрушка гора, и њиме се долази до познатих одмаралишта Тестера и Андревље, и затвореног ископа креча Беочинске фабрике цемента недалеко од Андревља.

Познати Черевићани
 Јован Грчић Миленко (1846—1875), песник и књижевник
 Миленко Шербан (1907—1979), сликар
 Јован Солдатовић (1920—2005), вајар
 Петар Костић, (умро 1863), трговац, просветни добротвор
 Димитрије Лазаров Раша (1926—1948), народни херој Југославије

Демографија

У насељу Черевић живи 2271 пунолетни становник, а просечна старост становништва износи 39,1 година (37,8 код мушкараца и 40,4 код жена). У насељу има 1019 домаћинстава, а просечан број чланова по домаћинству је 2,77. Поред староседелачког становништва шездесетих година овде је досељено преко 150 породица, махом из крајине из околине Прњавора и Бање Луке. Ово насеље је углавном насељено Србима (према попису из 2002. године) (81%). Поред њих има и Хрвата (6%) и Словака (3%). Осталих националности има знатно мање.

Референце

Спољашње везе

 Мапе, аеродроми и временска ситуација локација (-{Fallingrain}-)
 Сателитска мапа (-{Wikimapia}-)
 Гугл сателитска мапа (-{Maplandia}-)
 План насеља на мапи (-{Mapquest}-)
 званичан сајт општине

Насељена места у Беочину
Насељена места у Војводини
Википројект географија/Насеља у Србији

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Star Trek: Operation Enterprise (basierend auf dem Star-Trek-Universum) ist eine Stahlachterbahn des Herstellers Mack Rides im Movie Park Germany. Die Achterbahn ist eines der neueren Fahrgeschäfte und hier das zweithöchste Bauwerk. Sie steht auf der lange Zeit unbenutzten Fläche zwischen Area 51 – Top Secret und The Lost Temple. Dazu wird das alte Filmmuseum als neue Warteschlange genutzt. Europaweit einzigartig ist das Fahrelement Twisted Halfpipe.

Geschichte

Auf dem Bauplatz dieser Achterbahn sollte ursprünglich ein anderer Launched Coaster entstehen. Unter der Leitung von Wouter Dekkers war der "Air Driver", in Kooperation mit dem Hersteller Intamin, als eigentliche neue Attraktion angedacht. Diese Bahn sollte 2012 eröffnen und ein ähnliches Layout bieten. Aufgrund der damaligen Finanzkrise wurde der Antrag auf Wunsch der Unternehmensgruppe zurückgezogen. Diese wurde zu dem Zeitpunkt heruntergestuft und konnte keine Kredite in einem rentablen Rahmen nehmen.

Mitte des Jahres 2015 kamen im Umkreis die ersten Gerüchte einer neuen Großattraktion auf. Diese wurden fast zeitgleich durch eine Regionalzeitung bestätigt. Kurze Zeit später waren auch schon die ersten Ausmaße der neuen Bahn zu erkennen. Bäume wurden gefällt und der Boden wurde mit den ersten Bohrungen versehen. In Folge dieser Arbeiten wurde der dritte Vulkan vom Bermuda Triangle – Alien Encounter abgerissen. Dieser war jedoch nur Thematisierung und kein existenzieller Bestandteil der Attraktion.

Aufgrund von Bedenken in benachbarten Wohngebieten über eine Lärmzunahme gab der Movie Park ein Gutachten zur Ermittlung der Lärmschutzwerte in Auftrag, welches dem Unternehmen einen unbedenklichen Lärmpegel bestätigte. Zusätzlich wurde dem Gemeinderat ein frühes Modell der Achterbahn vorgelegt, damit sich ein Bild von dem Ausmaß der Attraktion gemacht werden konnte. Dieser Entwurf lag recht nah an der letztendlichen Realisierung.

Nachdem die Baugenehmigung erteilt wurde, wurden mehrere Betonplatten gegossen und ein Loch in die Halle von The Lost Temple gerissen. Da die Betonarbeiten bis in die Saison 2016 gingen, war die Attraktion Bermuda Triangle – Alien Encounter noch für ein paar Wochen geschlossen.

Nach einer kurzen Pause wurden die Stützen und Schienen angeliefert. Diese wurden im Eiltempo zusammengebaut, sodass die Achterbahn binnen kürzester Zeit seinen Schienenschluss feiern konnte.

Operation Enterprise steht in einem eigenen Themenbereich Federation Plaza. Dieser greift die Überreste des alten Marienhofs auf und grenzt direkt an den Eingang des Parks.

Seitdem die Bahn geöffnet wurde, gibt es auch eine kurze Beschreibung der offiziellen Geschichte:
Die Crew der Enterprise NCC-1701-D ist auf der Reise zu einem Treffen der Föderation von den Borg angegriffen und auf das feindliche Schiff befördert worden. Mittels Traktorstrahl halten die feindlichen Borg die unbemannte U.S.S. Enterprise gefangen. Schiff und Mannschaft sind deshalb vollkommen handlungsunfähig. Die letzte Hoffnung auf Rettung bist Du!
Als frisch ausgebildeter Starfleet Kadett befindest Du Dich gerade auf einem benachbarten Schiff. Beam Dich von dessen Transporter-Raum auf die verwaiste Enterprise, um Dich in kleinen Shuttles der grössten Herausforderung Deines Lebens zu stellen: Durchbrich in einer atemberaubenden Rettungsmission die Schutzschilde des Borg-Schiffes und zerstöre die Hauptsysteme. Nur so kann die Crew der Enterprise gerettet – und die Holodeck-Mission erfolgreich ausgeführt werden.

Thematisierung
Diese Achterbahn ist die weltweit erste und einzige Achterbahn mit einem Star-Trek-Thema. Es gibt zwar einige wenige Requisiten der klassischen Enterprise-Serie zu bestaunen, doch ist das Setting vor allen an die Serie Star Trek – The Next Generation angelegt. Vor der Fahrt kann man einen Transporterraum betreten, von dem aus man direkt auf die Brücke der USS Enterprise 1701-D "gebeamt" wird. Diese Brücke sieht (bis auf wenige Proportionen) sehr authentisch aus. Hier erfährt der Fahrgast einige Informationen zur "Mission" der Kadetten, bevor es weiter zur eigentlichen Achterbahn geht. Die Entwickler des Fahrgeschäftes haben viele kleine Details verarbeitet. So ist bei kleineren technischen Problemen zu hören, dass die Mission derzeit aus technischen Gründen unterbrochen sei, sich aber ein Technikerteam unter der Leitung von Geordi LaForge der Sache annehmen würde. Und nachdem das Problem behoben ist, wird verkündet, dass das Technikerteam das Problem behoben hätte und damit die Mission fortgesetzt werden könne. Viele kleine Details (wie zum Beispiel unterschiedliche Beschriftungen der Abdeckplatten), sorgen ebenso wie der vom 70-köpfigen Budapester Philharmonieorchester eingespielte Soundtrack, der vor allem bekannte Melodien aus dem Star-Trek-Universum (wie zum Beispiel das Voyager-Theme) enthält, für eine hohe Star-Trek-Authentizität. Die minutiöse Umsetzung der Thematisierung wurde von CBS, dem Inhaber der Star-Trek-Lizenz, streng kontrolliert. Die Lizenz hat der Park sich für 10 Jahre gesichert.

Aufgrund der Auflagen in der Baugenehmigung ist nur ein bodennahes Theming erlaubt, sodass die Thematisierung überwiegend im Wartebereich realisiert wurde, der den Raum des früheren Filmmuseums einnimmt.

Verlauf der Fahrt

Nach Verlassen der Station fährt man in einen überdachten "Transfer Switch". Dieser schiebt einen in Fahrtrichtung Rechts auf die eigentliche Strecke der Bahn. Von dort aus fährt man auf das Launch-Segment und wird das erste Mal in Richtung Top-Hat beschleunigt. Mit dieser Geschwindigkeit kann man ihn jedoch nicht überwinden, weswegen man rückwärts zurück auf das Launch-Segment rollt und ein zweites Mal abgeschossen wird, dieses Mal aber rückwärts und direkt in das europaweit einzigartige Fahrelement, die senkrechte, um 180° verdrehte "Twisted Halfpipe" (auch Twisted Vertical Rollback genannt). Von diesem Element fährt man nun wieder herunter und das dritte und letzte Mal auf das Launch-Segment. Nun wird man auf die Maximalgeschwindigkeit beschleunigt und passiert den Top-Hat. Von dort aus geht es weiter in den 25 Meter hohen Immelmann (bestehend aus einem halben Looping und einem halben Korkenzieher) der direkt an einer kompletten Heartline-Roll anknüpft. Nach der Abfahrt passiert man eine übergeneigte Kurve von 100° und fährt durch die Halle und in die drei Airtime-Hügel. Danach folgt noch eine Helix von 270° und eine Zero-g-Roll. Auf diese folgt dann die Schlussbremse.

Auszeichnungen
2017 bekam Movie Park Germany für Star Trek: Operation Enterprise den Worldofparks-Award als "Beste Neuheit in einem europäischen Freizeitpark".

Weblinks

 Interview mit Movie-Park-Chef
 Presse-Ankündigung der neuen Bahn
 Ankündigung der Unternehmensgruppe
 offizielle Newsseite
 Daten und Bilder auf RCDB.com

Einzelnachweise

Achterbahn (Movie Park Germany)
Launched Coaster
Operation Enterprise
Achterbahn hergestellt von Mack Rides


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Q: Select rows for a specific month in Pandas I have a dataframe with 12 hourly data for over 10 years. All data are stored in date wise. I would like to extract columns containing the data from a specific month (note that month is not in standard 1, 2, 3, format). The rows of the 'date' column which I have looks like this:
01-May-07
02-May-07
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31-Oct-17

How do I select only columns which contain data only for May, Jun etc.
Initially I thought that I can extract using df[df['DATE'].str.contains('May')]. But it did not work as expected resulting in output as input.
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DATE    TIME    MOONPH  SPEED   GUST    CLOUD AMOUNT    DRY WET DEW RH
01-May-07   230 NM7 6   0   4   27.4    25.4    25.4    86
01-May-07   330 NM7 4   0   4   27.4    25.4    25.4    86
01-May-07   430 NM7 3   0   4   27.4    25.4    25.4    86
01-May-07   530 NM7 2   0   4   27.4    25.4    25.4    89
01-May-07   630 NM7 3   0   5   27.4    26  25.4    85
01-May-07   700 NM7 0   0   4   27.8    26  25.4    81
01-May-07   730 NM7 0   0   4   27.8    26  25.4    81
01-May-07   800 NM7 2   0   4   27.8    26  25.4    81
01-May-07   830 NM7 5   0   4   29.2    26  24.6    76
01-May-07   900 NM7 5   0   4   29.2    26  24.6    76
01-May-07   930 NM7 5   0   2   29.8    26  24.6    76
01-May-07   1000    NM7 5   0   4   30.8    26  24.6    76
01-May-07   1030    NM7 5   0   4   30.8    26  24.6    76
01-May-07   1100    NM7 6   0   4   31.4    26  24.6    68
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01-May-17   1630    NM7 8   0   5   32.6    27.4    25.6    68
01-May-17   1930    NM7 8   0   5   32  27.4    25.6    69
01-May-17   430 NM7 0   0   5   27.2    25  24  83
01-May-17   30  NM7 0   0   5   29.6    27.2    26.2    82
01-May-17   530 NM7 0   0   5   26.6    24.4    23.4    83
01-May-17   130 NM7 0   0   5   28  25.6    24.6    82
01-May-17   630 NM7 0   0   5   26.8    24.4    23.3    81
01-May-17   730 NM7 0   0   5   27.2    24.4    23.4    80
01-May-17   330 NM7 0   0   5   27.2    25  24  83
01-May-17   1230    NM7 10  0   5   32.8    28.2    25.2    64
01-May-17   2330    NM7 4   0   4   30  26.4    24.9    75
01-May-17   2230    NM7 5   0   4   30  26.8    25.5    77
01-May-17   2130    NM7 4   0   4   30  26.8    25.5    77
01-May-17   830 NM7 2   0   5   27.2    24.4    23.4    78
01-May-17   930 NM7 3   0   5   31.2    27.2    25.6    72
01-May-17   1830    NM7 8   0   5   32  27.4    25.6    69
01-May-17   1130    NM7 6   0   5   32.8    28.2    25.2    64
01-May-17   2030    NM7 6   0   4   32  26.8    25.4    76
01-May-17   1330    NM7 10  0   5   33  27.6    25.4    64
01-May-17   1430    NM7 10  0   5   33  27.6    25.2    65

A: This is how I would do. I would merge the Date and Time column with a space between them. Then keep the column name as DATE. The column will look something like this
   DATE
01-May-07 230
01-May-07 330
01-May-07 430

......
Then I would covert the column to datetime object.
df['DATE'] = pd.to_datetime(df['DATE'], formate = '%d-%b-%y %H%M')

Then set the DATE column as index
df = df.set_index('DATE')

Then when the dataframe become time series, then in many ways you can extract a portion of your data based on time. For instance if I only want data from January
jan_data = df['2007-Jan']

first week of May
may_1st_week = df['2007-May-01':'2007-May-07']

And so on.

A: I think need convert to_datetime and then compare with month or strftime and %B for month names:
df = pd.DataFrame({'DATE': ['01-May-07', '02-May-07', '31-Oct-17']})
print (df)
        DATE
0  01-May-07
1  02-May-07
2  31-Oct-17

df = df[pd.to_datetime(df['DATE']).dt.month == 5]

df = df[pd.to_datetime(df['DATE']).dt.strftime('%B') == 'May']

print (df)
        DATE
0  01-May-07
1  02-May-07

If need working with datetimes later:
df['DATE'] = pd.to_datetime(df['DATE'])
df = df[df['DATE'].dt.month == 5]
#df = df[df['DATE'].dt.strftime('%B') == 'May']
print (df)
        DATE
0 2007-05-01
1 2007-05-02

EDIT:
If dont need working with datetimes, for me with your data your approach working:
df = df[df['DATE'].str.contains('May')]

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A By-law to Appoint an Acting Medical Officer of Health when the Medical Officer of Health and the Associate Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit are absent or unable to act.
1. Dr. Liana Nolan is hereby appointed as the Acting Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit provided that the Medical Officer of Health and the Associate Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit are absent or unable to act pursuant to section 69 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.H.7, as amended or any successor thereto.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan is absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Acting Medical Officer of Health.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan and Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang are absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of an Acting Medical Officer of Health.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan, Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang and Dr. Ian Arra are absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of an Acting Medical Officer of Health.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan, Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, Dr. Ian Arra and Dr. Miriam Klassen are absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of an Acting Medical Officer of Health.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan, Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, Dr. Ian Arra, Dr. Miriam Klassen and Dr. Elizabeth Richardson are absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of an Acting Medical Officer of Health.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan, Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, Dr. Ian Arra, Dr. Miriam Klassen, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson and Dr. Bart Harvey are absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of an Acting Medical Officer of Health.
b) Dr. Liana Nolan, Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, Dr. Ian Arra, Dr. Miriam Klassen, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, Dr. Bart Harvey and Dr. Julie Emili are absent or unable to perform the duties and exercise the powers of an Acting Medical Officer of Health.
9. Any person appointed as an Acting Medical Officer of Health under this By-law shall, pursuant to section 69 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.H.7, as amended or any successor thereto, perform the duties and shall have the authority to exercise the powers of the Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit.
10. This By-law shall come into force and effect on the date of its final passage.
ENACTED this 6th day of March, 2019.
WITNESS the seal of the Board.


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Which Grammy Performance Are You Tuning in to See This Year?
by Johnni Macke | Fri., Feb. 8, 2019 8:00 AM
The 2019 Grammy Awards are almost here and we are ready to start singing with happiness.
On Sunday, this year's Grammy Awards will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and as you might've guessed there will be a lot of singers in attendance.
Not only is it the biggest night in music for the artists who've been nominated for awards, but it is one of the best concert events of the year thanks to all of the amazing acts that will take the stage throughout the night.
Nominees including, Brandi Carlile, Camila Cabello, Cardi B and Shawn Mendes are just the beginning when it comes to awesome acts performing on Sunday.
Plus, big names like Miley Cyrus, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Post Malone will also be taking the stage.
Fierce females Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves and Katy Perry as well as Little Big Town will be paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who will also be singing, in honor of her being named 2019's MusiCares Person of the Year.
Grammy Awards Nominations 2019: The Complete List
Sounds pretty fantastic wouldn't you agree?
If that's still not enough talent to be impressed by and to look forward to you don't need to worry because we have even more stars to look forward to when the show begins. Seriously, there are more!
Ricky Martin, J Balvin, Young Thug and Arturo Sandaoval are all set to join Cabello when she opens the show and we can't wait to see this performance kick off the night.
Plus, Dan + Shay, Janelle Monáe, H.E.R. and the iconic Diana Ross will belt out their hit songs during the show, so there will be a lot to see.
On Tuesday, E! News confirmed that A Star Is Born actress and legendary singer Lady Gaga will also be taking the stage, but sadly her co-star Bradley Cooper won't be joining her this round.
Additionally, the Recording Academy also announced that Chloe X Halle, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, St. Vincent and Travis Scott will sing loud and possibly steal the show when they rock out.
Oh, and did we forget to mention that Yolanda Adams, Andra Day and Fantasia will sing as a part of a tribute to the one and only Aretha Franklin?!
With so many amazing acts to look forward to, we are wondering which artist is the main act in your mind? Which singer or group are you most excited to watch when the Grammys air this weekend?
Cast your vote now!
2019 Grammys Performers Poll
Which performer at the 2019 Grammy Awards are you most excited to see take the stage?
Dan + Shay
Yolanda Adams, Andra Day & Fantasia
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