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BSA finds Ross Campbell interview breaches standards
By: Broadcasting Standards Authority
Published: Tue 30 Jul 2019 10:30 AM
BSA finds 'The Long Lunch' interview with Ross Campbell breaches broadcasting standards
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has found an interview between Wendyl Nissen and Horowhenua District Councillor Ross Campbell was unbalanced, misleading and unfair.
The programme featured an interview with Cr Campbell, who talked about his decision to wear a body camera to Council meetings after what was described as incidents of bullying towards him. During the broadcast Cr Campbell described one of the alleged incidents of bullying and his subsequent complaint to the Police, which led to Cr Campbell wearing the body camera. The Authority found the broadcast was likely to mislead audiences by giving the impression that HDC had a systemic culture of bullying.
"Statements by [programme host] Ms Nissen… combined with the absence of any acknowledgement that the HDC has a contrasting view of the events, gave the impression that a culture of bullying existed within HDC. However, this had not been investigated or verified by MediaWorks, HDC's perspective had not been sought and no alternative views were presented," the Authority said.
The Authority also found the interview required the acknowledgement or broadcast of other perspectives in relation to the alleged culture of bullying at the HDC and the incidents Cr Campbell described to Ms Nissen.
"This broadcast had the potential to give listeners the impression that the HDC had a culture of bullying that had been allowed to flourish, therefore balancing comment was required to allow listeners to arrive at an informed and reasoned opinion," the Authority said.
Finally the Authority acknowledged that MediaWorks accepted that comment should have been sought from the HDC prior to the broadcast and that the failure to do so resulted in an unfair broadcast. However, the Authority ultimately found the action taken by MediaWorks in an attempt to remedy the unfairness caused was insufficient.
In its decision, the Authority emphasised the role of the media in scrutinising and holding public institutions to account. However, the Authority also acknowledged the significant risk of harm due to the potential for unfair, unbalanced or inaccurate criticism that can mislead the public and unduly damage the reputation of, and public trust in, those criticised.
The Authority ordered that a broadcast statement be aired by MediaWorks on Magic Talk to remedy the potential harm caused.


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East of Wisps
The Cassini spacecraft examines the anti-Saturnian side of Dione and shows the cratered surface east of the moon's distinctive wispy terrain.
The wispy terrain, which consists of bright cliffs on the moon's trailing hemisphere, can just barely be seen on the limb of the moon on the left of the image. North on Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across) is up. See Profiling Dione's Wisps for a better view of the wisps. See Color Variation Across Rhea and Dione for more southern view of Dione presented in dramatic false colors.
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 2, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 174,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 11 degrees. Image scale is 2 miles (3 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini spacecraft continues to observe brightness variations along the orbital direction within Saturn's B ring. This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 53 degrees above...
Unknown Origin
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Straightening Out the Kinks
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Limb View of Ceres
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Science from the Sky: NASA Renews Search for Antarctic Meteorites
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Eye of Tethys
In the boundary between light and shadow on Enceladus, run the Anbar Fossae -- a series of narrow, shallow depressions. Like other features on this geologically active moon, the fossae are named a...
The Arabian Connection
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The Cassini Divisions Edge
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Bright and Dark at West Rim of Marcia Crater
Rhea enters the Cassini spacecraft's field of view and glides lazily across the scene as the spacecraft observes Saturn's restless atmosphere. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. This vi...
Icy Interloper
Saturn's moon Epimetheus casts a shadow across colorful rings in this image taken before the planet's August 2009 equinox. Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) is visible as a small dot...
Moon, Shadow and Rings
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared July 13, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05415 Cassini captured intriguing cloud structures on Saturn as it near...
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared
The rings cannot hide the ragged, icy crescent of Rhea, here imaged in color by the Cassini spacecraft. The second-largest moon of Saturn shines brightly through gaps in the rings. Rhea (1,528 kil...
Coy Rhea
Daphnis cruises through the Keeler Gap, raising edge waves in the ring material as it passes.
Disturbances by Daphnis
Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the ...
A serene orb of ice is set against the gentle pastel clouds of giant Saturn. Rhea transits the face of the gas giant, whose darkened rings and their planet-hugging shadows appear near upper right. ...
Orb of Ice
Prometheus and Pandora are almost hidden in Saturn's rings in this image.
Moons In Hiding
This picture captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a crater that lies just north of Occator Crater, home of the brightest spots on Ceres. The northern rim of Occator, not visible here, is overpr...
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the sunlit face of Saturn's rings, whose shadows continue to slide southward on the planet toward their temporary disappearance during equinox in August 2009. T...
Eyes on the Rings
This Cassini image of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows a region containing bizarre, wrinkled terrain. Enceladus is covered with bright water ice. The part of its surface visible here appears to be la...
Wrinkles of Youth?
Saturn's Rings, Cold and Colder September 2, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06425 The varying temperatures of Sat...
Saturn's Rings, Cold and Colder
A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Washington.
2013 Supermoon Over the Washington Monument
Jets of water ice particles spew from Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 13, 2010. A crescent of the moon appears dimly illuminated in front of the ...
Before Saturn's Limb
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Titan's Land-o-Lakes

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import fs from 'fs';
import path from 'path';
import * as helpers from '../testutil/helpers.js';
import TestRepo from '../testutil/TestRepo.js';
import * as git from '../src/git.js';
import tag from '../src/tag.js';
import update from '../src/update.js';

describe(`tag tests`, function() {
	this.timeout(30 * 60 * 1000); // 30 minutes

	helpers.test('tag basic', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'none' );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
	});

	helpers.test('tag one dependency', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'one' );

		await update( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
	});

	helpers.test('tag two dependencies', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'two' );

		await update( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );
	});

	helpers.test('do not tag dependencies when ignore-dependencies flag is used', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'two' );

		await update( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { 'cwd': result.project.checkoutDir, 'interactive': false, 'ignore-dependencies': true } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );
	});

	helpers.test('Correctly recycle all tags and doesn\'t create new ones when attempting to tag a second time', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'two' );

		await update( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.2.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.2.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.2.0' );
	});

	helpers.test( 'Correctly recycle a tag on a single dependency and create new ones for any other projects that have been modified', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'two' );

		await update( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		// commit change to dep2, then make sure new tag is created for main project and dep2, but not dep1
		fs.writeFileSync( path.join( result.project.checkoutDir, 'flavio_modules', 'dep2', 'file2.txt' ), 'changes changes changes' );
		await git.addAndCommit( path.join( result.project.checkoutDir, 'flavio_modules', 'dep2' ), 'file2.txt', 'commit message' );
		await git.push( path.join( result.project.checkoutDir, 'flavio_modules', 'dep2' ) );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.2.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2', '0.2.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.2.0' );
	});

	helpers.test( 'Modify a dependency-of-a-dependency and make sure new tags are created for the main project as well as the 2 dependencies', async (tempDir) => {
		const result = await TestRepo.create( tempDir, 'simpleNest' );

		await update( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagNotExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep1', '0.1.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2', '0.1.0' );

		// commit change to dep2-1, then make sure new tag is created for main project, dep2, and dep2-1
		fs.writeFileSync( path.join( result.project.checkoutDir, 'flavio_modules', 'dep2-1', 'file2.txt' ), 'changes changes changes' );
		await git.addAndCommit( path.join( result.project.checkoutDir, 'flavio_modules', 'dep2-1' ), 'file2.txt', 'commit message' );
		await git.push( path.join( result.project.checkoutDir, 'flavio_modules', 'dep2-1' ) );

		await tag( { cwd: result.project.checkoutDir, interactive: false } );

		await result.assertTagExists( 'main', '0.2.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2', '0.2.0' );
		await result.assertTagExists( 'dep2-1', '0.2.0' );
	});

	helpers.test.skip( 'tag when dependency is pointing at a commit', async (tempDir) => {

	});

	helpers.test.skip( 'tag when dependency has previous tags which are not semantic version names', async (tempDir) => {

	});

	helpers.test.skip( 'tag when dependency has previous tags which do not have a flavio.json', async (tempDir) => {

	});
});

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Ireland is facing a data tsunami
by John Kennedy
20 Jun 200854 Views
CURRENTLY the amount of data worldwide is doubling every 11 months – by 2010 it will double every 11 hours.
Ireland stands in the direct path of this tidal wave of data, warns a senior executive with business intelligence (BI) giant SAS.
Dr John Brocklebank, director of analytic solutions at privately held software giant SAS Institute, believes Irish firms are ill-equipped to deal with this rapid growth in the world's data.
He says the challenge for Irish companies is to capture and exploit the 1-2pc of data that is relevant to their decision-making processes and strategic objectives.
"We know that, on average, managers spend two hours a day looking for data and that more than half of this is useless to their decision-making process," Brocklebank explains.
"Most frightening is that 42pc of managers say they accidentally use the wrong information to make a decision at least once a week. So never mind trying to deal with the data in its entirety; it needs to be made meaningful and accurate to support business decisions.
"From a global perspective, only companies that manage and exploit their data to its fullest will be able to use it as intelligence to make meaningful decisions. Irish companies are now facing a stark choice – either build competitive advantage around sophisticated analytics tools or get ready to drown in a tidal wave of data."
Brocklebank says analytics used to mean backward-looking reporting but now it's all about looking forward with predictive analysis. He gives the example of oil giant BP which uses SAS predictive analysis tools to perform predictive maintenance on oil rigs to ensure sufficient supply of parts. As a result, it saves up to €10m a year in costs.
Michael Kearney, managing director of SAS Ireland, explains that a retail chain in South Africa is using predictive analysis to predict robberies and take action to reduce costs.
In terms of cutting through vast amounts of hereditary data and ensuring fast analytics, Brocklebank says creating a representative structure of the data and then creating the tools to present that data is vital.
"We have customers with 10 years of transactional histories and that can be more than 10 terabytes of data – there's no way you can process the data of 70 million customers.
"What we've done is transformed that data into a representative structure that's got all the relevance of what they've done over a period of time – 6 months, 12 months, recent information that's useful.
"If you think of all the unstructured data on the web, for example, with data mining methodologies what you're going to do is roll all of that contextual data into one record."
Brocklebank says analytic technology is now a key driver of corporate performance for some of the world's leading companies, including Amazon, Capital One, UPS and Tesco.
"It can be no coincidence that Tesco, one of the first companies to really embrace this predictive analytics technology, has grown from being the second-largest retailer in the UK to the fourth-largest retailer in the world – all in a period of time when its clubcard became its No 1 selling tool.
"Some nine million individual Tesco coupons tailored to each individual customer's spending patterns and predicting potential purchasing trends are issued by Tesco every quarter," Brocklebank says.
"Across the entire spectrum of the Irish economy, from retail to banking, manufacturing to entertainment and healthcare to education, organisations can deploy predictive analytics to position themselves more effectively to compete in today's fast-paced global economy, which demands greater agility and smarter, quicker decision-making," he concludes.
Related: data, data science
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USS Kingfisher (AM-25)
For other ships of the same name, see USS Kingfisher.
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Name: USS Kingfisher
Builder: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound, Washington
Launched: 30 March 1918
Commissioned: 27 May 1918, as Minesweeper No.25
Decommissioned: 6 February 1946
Reclassified: AM-25, 17 July 1920
AT-135, 1 June 1942
AT(O)-135, 15 May 1944
Honours and
awards: 1 battle star (World War II)
Fate: Transferred to the Maritime Commission and sold, 3 June 1947
Class and type: Lapwing-class minesweeper
Displacement: 950 long tons (965 t)
Length: 187 ft 10 in (57.25 m)
Beam: 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m)
Draft: 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
Propulsion: Triple expansion reciprocating steam engine
2 × Babcock and Wilcox boilers
1 shaft
Armament: • 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns
• 3 × .50 cal. machine guns
USS Kingfisher (AM-25/AT-135/ATO-135) was an Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
Kingfisher was launched 30 March 1918 by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound, Washington; sponsored by Miss Nancy Griswold; and commissioned 27 May 1918, Lt. (j.g.) C. L. Greene in command.
1 Post-World War I mine clearance
2 Pacific Ocean operations
3 World War II Pacific operations
4 Return to stateside
5 End-of-war decommissioning
Post-World War I mine clearance
Departing Bremerton, Washington, 17 June, Kingfisher steamed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she arrived on 8 August for duty as a minesweeper off Cape May, New Jersey. On 5 April 1919 she departed Boston, Massachusetts, for the North Sea, arriving at Inverness, Scotland on 20 April. Assigned to the North Sea Detachment at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, she swept up mines of the Northern Barrage until 1 October when she sailed for the United States. Steaming via France, Portugal, and the Azores, she reached New York on 19 November.
Pacific Ocean operations
Assigned to the Train Force, Pacific Fleet, Kingfisher departed Hampton Roads, Virginia, 9 August 1920 for the West Coast. Arriving San Diego, California, 3 October, she began duty as a fleet tug and minesweeper. Over the next 19 years fleet maneuvers and supply, towing, and minesweeping operations sent her to the East Coast, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Panama Canal Zone, and Hawaii. During the summers of 1933, 1934, and 1935 she supplied naval ships and bases in Alaskan waters for the Aleutian Islands Survey Expedition.
Departing San Diego, California, 4 October 1939, she sailed to Pearl Harbor for duty with the Base Force, Hawaiian Detachment. Arriving 19 October, she towed target rafts and conducted gunnery and minesweeping exercises until sailing for Samoa on 26 October 1941. Kingfisher reached Tutuila on 5 November and was on station duty on 7 December when hearing of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
With Lt. Comdr. C. B. Schiano in command. Kingfisher began defense patrol and mine laying operations off Samoa.
World War II Pacific operations
On 19 February 1942 she departed Tutuila for similar duty in the Fijis and arrived Viti Levu on 23 February. Returning to Samoa on 12 April, she was reclassified AT-135 on 1 June; she then sailed to Wallis Island on 28 July for a month of plane guard and rescue duty. With a lighter in tow she departed Suva, Fiji, 12 September for Noumea, New Caledonia. Arriving 18 September, she served under the command of the Port Director until she departed for Hawaii on 8 October.
Arriving Pearl Harbor on 30 October, Kingfisher served as a tug and torpedo recovery ship until 23 September when she sailed for the Ellice Islands. She reached Funafuti on 5 October and undertook towing duty between the Ellice and Phoenix Islands. On 8 December she sailed for the Gilbert Islands, arriving Tarawa Atoll on 13 December. Though subjected to intermittent enemy bombing attacks, Kingfisher towed anti-submarine nets and laid telephone cables in Betio Harbor before departing 27 December for Funafuti.
From 30 December to 15 April she continued towing, station ship, and harbor operations in the Ellice, Gilbert, and Marshall Islands; then she departed Kwajalein 16 April for Pearl Harbor, arriving 29 April. Reclassified ATO-135 on 15 May, Kingfisher departed 19 September for further towing operations in the South Pacific. Towing runs sent her to Palmyra, Ellice, Solomon, Admiralty, and Marshall Islands before she returned to Pearl Harbor on 14 November.
Return to stateside
On 18 November she sailed for the U.S. West Coast, arriving San Diego, California, 29 November. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 29 January 1945 and resumed tug and target towing services. On 21 April she assisted in salvage operations of grounded merchantman SS Sarensen. While towing a gunnery target on 4 May, she rescued the pilot of an Army P-47 that had splashed while on a training flight.
End-of-war decommissioning
Kingfisher sailed for San Francisco, California, 30 October, arriving 9 November. Remaining in the San Francisco Bay area, she decommissioned 6 February 1946 and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Transferred to the Maritime Commission 3 June 1947, she was sold the same day to M. E. Baker at Suisun Bay, California.
Kingfisher received one battle star for World War II service.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Photo gallery of USS Kingfisher (AM-25/AT-135/AT(O)-135) at NavSource Naval History
uboat.net - USS Kingfisher (AM-25)
Lapwing-class minesweeper
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Le Petit Cireur (Boot Polish) est un film indien réalisé par Prakash Arora, sorti en 1954.

Synopsis
Quand leur mère meure, Belu et Bhola sont confiés à leur méchante tante Kamla, une prostituée. Celle-ci les force à mendier dans la rue.

Fiche technique
 Titre : Le Petit Cireur
 Titre original : Boot Polish
 Réalisation : Prakash Arora
 Scénario : Bhanu Pratap et Bhanu Pratap
 Musique : Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal et Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi
 Photographie : Taru Dutt
 Montage : G.G. Mayekar
 Production : Raj Kapoor
 Société de production : R.K. Films
 Société de distribution : J.H. Hoffberg Company (États-Unis)
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 Genre : Comédie dramatique
 Durée : 149 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Kumari Naaz : Belu
 Rattan Kumar : Bhola
 David Abraham : John
 Chand Burke : Kamla Devi

Distinctions
Le film a été présenté en sélection officielle en compétition au Festival de Cannes 1955.

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Liens externes

Film indien sorti en 1954
Comédie dramatique indienne

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Q: Is there a way to locate a data frame between a set of date ranges? I have seen many ways to locate a data frame for one date range,
i.e.
mask = (df["TimeStamp"] > date_range[0]) & (df["TimeStamp"] < date_range[1])
df = df.loc[mask]

but I can't find out how to do this if I had multiple date ranges
i.e.
date_ranges = [date_range_1, date_range_2, date_range_3, ... , date_range_n]

I would need something like
mask = ()

for date_range in date_ranges:
    sub_mask = (df["TimeStamp"] > date_range[0]) & (df["TimeStamp"] < date_range[1])
    mask.append(sub_mask)

df = df.loc[mask]

but of course this doesn't work for a variety of reasons (you need an or statement between the ands, and you cant append these masks in this way)
could anybody give me a nudge in the right direction?

A: you could change your code using :
mask = 0
for date_range in date_ranges:
    sub_mask = (df["TimeStamp"] > date_range[0]) & (df["TimeStamp"] < date_range[1])
    mask = (mask | sub_mask)
df = df.loc[mask]

A: As mask = (1 | mask) will always return 1 on last bit
mask = 0

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While I was intrigued by the idea of Employee of the Year, a new work by 600 Highwaymen (600HWM), in which five girls under the age of 11 tell the tale of a woman's life from age 3 until around 80, I was also a little bit 'Eh…' I was unconvinced that children could possess the maturity or understanding of older human behavior (particularly its darker aspects) to play this convincingly.
Employee of the Year was commissioned by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) for its annual Crossing the Line festival, which presents interdisciplinary works and performances with the goal of engaging the public with the artist in a significant, critical and thoughtful way, and while I had my reservations about the premise, this piece doesn't disappoint.
I'm drawn to companies that have an unconventional edge to their methods, and 600HWM's husband and wife team – Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone – fits this bill. They readily admit to placing casting calls in a variety of mediums and willingly auditioning anyone who turns up, from the professional actor to those with zero experience. The result creates a fascinating chemistry on stage which, perhaps because of the instinct and innocence of the inexperienced performers, allows theater to get back to its rawest roots: a dynamic exchange between performer and audience.
What is remarkable about this piece is not so much the material itself but the ability of these young girls to tell this story with such proficiency that it transcends both their age and gender. As they relate the dark and unsettling experiences of loss, disappointment and constant emptiness in this tragicomic life, you are transported visually and emotionally, helped, in great part, by the performers' constant physical expressiveness. There is also a power to their vocal delivery and together they create a unified character's voice using their own voices but with similar intonations and inflections. What's more, the girls were clearly enjoying themselves, reacting to the audience's laughter with their own; Silverstone clearly he trusts his cast, and with good reason.
During our conversation, he also said that when he and Browde started the process, they did so with performers in their twenties. "We felt we had to go younger so we went to teenagers but that didn't feel right. So we tried it with pre-teen girls, partly because they are on the brink of adult life, and when we did, we knew it was right." The idea of having young girls on the edge of adolescence, with adult life not far beyond that, relating the life journey of a tragic heroine was a smart move. The reality is that we are hit with so many events in our teenage and adult years – particularly the toughest and the most precious – for which we are completely inexperienced and where we often have nothing more than our inner child's instinct with which to guide us. It made me realize, in fact, my expectations of child actors may have been wrong this whole time. After all, when you want to relate stories of new situations where innocence and lack of experience are at play and you want them to be transportive, who better to relate that to us, than children?


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NIFA Statement, March 22, 2012 – By George J. Marlin
Statement by
George J. Marlin
Nassau Interim Finance Authority
At NIFA's December 8, 2011 meeting, I agreed to support the County's multi-year plan to achieve a GAAP balanced budget contingent on the County cutting $150 million in spending from its 2012 operating budget. In my statement that day I said:
And let me remind the County that approval of a plan is not approval of all the parts. NIFA will base the approval of each part of the plan that comes before us in the coming months on whether the County carried out its responsibilities.
To date, the County has achieved, at best, only 60 percent of those cuts. And the County is two months past its budget imposed deadline.
Today I voted for 60 percent of the County's Capital spending request. If the County does not quickly meet $150 million in cuts, I expect to vote No on future requests.
Some other comments:
I am concerned that the Memos of Understanding with the police and detective unions announced this week may wipe out some, most or all of the police precinct closings projected savings. I await back-up documentation from the County.
As promised at our last meeting, I sent a letter to the New York State Comptroller's office outlining my concerns regarding Nassau County's contracting procedures and its interaction with regulations and state and local laws. In that letter I said:
The County, in 2011, may have violated regulations, procedures and laws related to contracts over $25 thousand on numerous occasions. There appears to be a pattern of vendors being hired to perform non-emergency services without prior legislative or NIFA approval. Time and again the County has submitted contracts to NIFA where work had been already completed or substantially underway. There have also been complaints from charities that provide essential social services for the poor and disabled that the County has delayed, in many cases for months, forwarding their federally- and state-funded contracts to NIFA for approval.
In my judgment, the County's actions make a mockery of the statutory responsibility delegated to NIFA to approve or disapprove contracts and effectively nullifies the clear legislative intent of the NIFA law, one enacted pursuant to a unanimous vote of the County Legislature in a home rule message, a vote that included that of then County Legislator Mangano.
I am pleased to report that I received a reply from the State Comptroller's Examiner-in-Charge of the audit, Mr. Ira McCracken. He has assured me that he will investigate the issues I raised.
3. The County has a habit of announcing deals before it has a deal.
The County announced it had a coliseum deal with Wang before it had a deal and subsequently were taken to the cleaners. Fortunately the voters had the good sense to reject the plan.
Then there was the Mitchell Field borrowing. The County announced it had a deal before it had a deal and the County was taken to the cleaners. I voted against that borrowing.
Then the County announced it had a bus privatization deal before it had one—and the County was once again taken to the cleaners. I reluctantly voted for that contract in late December because County residents needed bus service on January 1, 2012. However, I predicted the bus contract would prove to be a disaster for commuters—and sadly that is coming to pass.
This week the County announced the makings of a new borrowing scheme—without a deal in hand. If it becomes a reality it will be the biggest one-shot revenue fiscal abuse in the County's history. It will replace Governor Mario Cuomo's sale of Attica Prison to the Urban Development Corporation as the poster child of one-shots. (Just in case the County has forgotten, let me remind the County that any net revenue after Nassau sewer bonds are defeased would, under GAPP, have to be amortized over the life of the lease contract.)
As always, the devil will be in the details. But I find it hard to believe that the County will negotiate a deal with a for-profit corporation that will not result in significant increases in sewer charges (a/k/a Toilet Flushing Tax) for Nassau's over-taxed residents.
It appears to me that the sole motivation for leasing the Sewer Systems is to get one-shot revenue that at the end of the day will not fix the County's structural operating deficit. Whether or not it is good public policy does not appear to be part of the equation.
Personally, I agree with Governor Andrew Cuomo's position, that government "has used a variety of financial gimmicks and one-shot revenues that hide the fact that spending is growing at an unsustainable rate."
"One shots" do not eliminate structural deficits and excessive reliance on them is frowned upon by rating agencies and financial analysts.
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Small group of Syrian refugees in Lebanon head home
The rare case of returns comes as Lebanese officials increasingly encourage refugees to return to areas where violence has decreased. More than 1 million Syrians live in Lebanon. UN officials and others, however, say it is still not safe for refugees to return to Syria.
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Syrian refugee Ali Abdullah arrives in Qalamoun, Syria, with his wife and two sons on June 28, 2018. The family returns to Syria after four years living in Lebanon as refugees. Millions more Syrian refugees remain displaced around the world.
By Tom Perry Thomson Reuters Foundation
ARSAL, Lebanon
Nearly 400 refugees began leaving the Lebanese border town of Arsal to cross into Syria on Thursday, a rare case of returns which Lebanon's government wants to encourage.
The convoy made up a very small fraction of the one million registered Syrian war refugees across Lebanon – about a quarter of its population – and of the 50,000 which local officials estimate live in Arsal.
People gathered in minivans and tractors in the morning, loading them with mattresses, water tanks, and furniture. Lebanese security personnel recorded the names of Syrians as they passed through a checkpoint on the way out of Arsal.
The refugees were headed for Qalamoun across the border, a region cleared of insurgents by Syrian army offensives in which Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement played a leading role.
Those leaving said they had submitted their names to Lebanese authorities, who in turn sent the names to Syria for approval from the state.
Syrian state TV said hundreds of people arrived past a border crossing in the Damascus countryside.
Many said they were happy to be returning to Syria, and while some said their houses were fit to live in, others had heard their homes were destroyed.
"We have been planning to go back for a long time; we are glad things have calmed down," said Ali Abdullah, leaving with his wife and two young sons. One of the boys was born in Lebanon and had never been to Syria.
"I want to take him back because that is your country, your [home is] not a tent," Mr. Abdullah told his son. He spoke from the same truck he said he drove across the border in four years ago.
Abdullah told Reuters he had heard from relatives in Syria that his house there was fine.
But Murshid Darwish said she had decided to stay in her tent in Arsal instead of leaving for Syria with her cousin.
"The house needs work, there are no windows, no doors.... We cannot live there," she said. "I cannot carry rocks.... Once my room is fixed, I will go back."
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was not involved in organizing the returns, and its team in Syria had so far not been able to access the villages where people were headed.
'First phase'
About 140 people received polio vaccines, and the Lebanese Red Cross diagnosed 43 people who received medication for acute cases, it said.
Major General Abbas Ibrahim, head of Lebanon's General Security agency, has said Beirut is working with the Syrian state for the return of thousands of refugees who want to go home.
Mr. Ibrahim told Reuters Thursday's return marked the "first phase out of thousands.... We have not received any guarantee that they will not serve in the Syrian army. We have nothing to do with this."
As Syrian troops and allied forces retake more territory, Lebanese officials have stepped up calls for refugees to go back to parts of Syria where violence has died down.
UN officials and foreign donor states have said it is not yet safe for refugees to go back to Syria, where a political deal to end the multi-sided war remains elusive.
The seven-year conflict has driven 11 million Syrians from their homes. More than 1 million have fled to Lebanon, UNHCR says. The Lebanese government puts the number at 1.5 million, a quarter of the population.
They are scattered across Lebanon, often in makeshift camps and severe poverty, facing the risk of arrest because of restrictions on legal residence and work.
Lebanese Foreign minister Gebran Bassil visited Arsal this month to press for more returns. He froze residency visa applications for UNHCR staff, accusing the agency of preventing Syrian refugees from going back.
UNHCR denies this, saying it supports return when it is safe, and major international donors have voiced dismay at what they called "false accusations."
"We are working in various ways for the gradual removal of the obstacles that refugees see to their return, including through advocating with the concerned authorities inside Syria," UNHCR spokeswoman Lisa Abou Khaled told Reuters by email on Thursday.
"We fully respect individual decisions to return when a refugee decides that the time is ripe for him or her."
This story was reported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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What do you think is meant by the term "white privilege?"
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Invisible · 22-25, M
Senseless guilt
theoneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, M
in todays terms.. just being white..
DeletedAccount00 · F
It's a fake term that doesn't exist people just say it to blame their own failures on some racist bs
Nimbus · M
More cream in your coffee at Starbucks?
i think it means.. they dont spit in it :)
danondorf · 22-25, M
Some racist bullshit. Nobody can name me a privilege that is inherent to being white that you doesn't have the same dynamic with another group.
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KaliKali · 31-35, F
I just like the word "nitwit," it's fun to say, like "doofus."
Soooo, what do you think white privilege is, what's an example of it, and do you think whites should acknowledge it (if so, why)?
I'm not articulate to give an answer that I would feel satisfied with, but to first order white privilege is a set of societal norms which provide disadvantages that negatively affect ethnic minorities at a much higher rate than they affect white people. An example of it is the quality of public education. On average white people have access to schools which are better funded than other ethnic groups do. As a result members of ethnic minority groups tend to be at a disadvantage. Yes, I believe white people should acknowledge white privilege. I believe this because unless it becomes something that is acknowledged and accepted as unjust then it will continue to occur.
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TragicPersona · F
Something more complex than most people could possibly begin to understand
CaptainCanadia · 36-40, M
Warning, wall of text.
Imagine, if you will, a small house, built someplace cool-ish but not cold, perhaps somewhere in Ohio, and inhabited by a dog and a lizard. The dog is a big dog, something shaggy and nordic, like a Husky or Lapphund – a sled dog, built for the snow. The lizard is small, a little gecko best adapted to living in a muggy rainforest somewhere. Neither have ever lived anywhere else, nor met any other creature; for the purposes of this exercise, this small house is the entirety of their universe.
The dog, much as you might expect, turns on the air conditioning. Really cranks it up, all the time – this dog was bred for hunting moose on the tundra, even the winter here in Ohio is a little warm for his taste. If he can get the house to fifty (that's ten C, for all you weirdo metric users out there), he's almost happy.
The gecko can't do much to control the temperature – she's got tiny little fingers, she can't really work the thermostat or turn the dials on the A/C. Sometimes, when there's an incandescent light nearby, she can curl up near it and pick up some heat that way, but for the most part, most of the time, she just has to live with what the dog chooses. This is, of course, much too cold for her – she's a gecko. Not only does she have no fur, she's cold-blooded! The temperature makes her sluggish and sick, and it permeates her entire universe. Maybe here and there she can find small spaces of warmth, but if she ever wants to actually do anything, to eat or watch TV or talk to the dog, she has to move through the cold house.
Now, remember, she's never known anything else. This is just how the world is – cold and painful and unhealthy for her, even dangerous, and she copes as she knows how. But maybe some small part of her thinks, "hey, it shouldn't be like this," some tiny growing seed of rebellion that says who she is right next to a lamp is who she should be all the time. And she and the dog are partners, in a sense, right? They live in this house together, they affect each other, all they've got is each other. So one day, she sees the dog messing with the A/C again, and she says, "hey. Dog. Listen, it makes me really cold when you do that."
The dog kind of looks at her, and shrugs, and keeps turning the dial.
This is not because the dog is a jerk.
This is because the dog has no fucking clue what the lizard even just said.
Consider: he's a nordic dog in a temperate climate. The word "cold" is completely meaningless to him. He's never been cold in his entire life. He lives in an environment that is perfectly suited to him, completely aligned with his comfort level, a world he grew up with the tools to survive and control, built right in to the way he was born.
So the lizard tries to explain it to him. She says, "well, hey, how would you like it if I turned the temperature down on you?"
The dog goes, "uh… sounds good to me."
What she really means, of course, is "how would you like it if I made you cold." But she can't make him cold. She doesn't have the tools, or the power, their shared world is not built in a way that allows it – she simply is not physically capable of doing the same harm to him that he's doing to her. She could make him feel pain, probably, I'm sure she could stab him with a toothpick or put something nasty in his food or something, but this specific form of pain, he will never, ever understand – it's not something that can be inflicted on him, given the nature of the world they live in and the way it's slanted in his favor in this instance. So he doesn't get what she's saying to him, and keeps hurting her.
Most privilege is like this.
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[quote]For a white person who has done nothing wrong, this isn't really that scary. For a black person, it's terrifying. [/quote]
You just made a whole lot of assumptions. First you assumed that white people aren't afraid of cops (presumably because of their skin color). A lot of people, regardless of race, are afraid of cops. Nobody wants to get in trouble. Then, you assumed that the black person would be afraid of the cop. What a judgement! Let me guess, you imagined that the cop was white in your scenario, didn't you? Not all black people are scared of cops, and it's awful to think that way because it implies that they should be. No one should be afraid of cops.
If I've gained anything from your comments here, it's that you see the world in terms of supposed victims and negligent abusers based on superficial things like race. I'm not going to call you racist, but that way of thinking is what perpetuates the more subtle race issues (i.e. stereotyping) that are actually a problem today.
@Invisible: Okay, pointing out that race exists is not racist. There are exceptions to every rule, but we are all raised by the same society, and that society defines and codifies race. There are mountains of empirical evidence about how people of different races are treated by people in authority. When I talk about these examples, I am talking about on average or in general. So not one incident, but thousands of them. And in this case, it doesn't matter what race the cop is.
Black people are more likely to be stopped, arrested, convicted, and will receive longer convictions than white people who have committed identical crimes. Because of this, police are threatening, even on routine traffic stops.
There's a famous talk that black parents give their sons about the police that white peopel just don't have to deal with. That's how privilege works. We didn't do anything wrong personally... it's just the society we're in.
The talk: http://gawker.com/what-black-parents-tell-their-sons-about-the-police-1624412625
Edit: Also I appreciate how you seriously want to consider and debate this stuff. We may not agree, but I respect you for that.
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@Invisible: I think that what typhoidjerry is trying to say is that for some (not all) minorities, events that people on the other side of the spectrum may find distressful can be downright terrifying.
I say this because as a white man, I have never feared for my own well being in the presence of police sirens. My partner, a LEGAL immigrant, has, and will probably always do so. And she has a right to her fear, given that the police have questioned the legitimacy of her citizenship times before, and that because of this, she has adapted her life and now has a copy of her citizenship papers in both of our cars, because "it's easier that way"
...This alongside many other things I see her go through, and I still don't understand her struggle, only what it's like to watch someone I care about have to succumb to the expectations of those who wield all of the power in this world, but none of the responsibility.
SkiMasksDurag · 22-25, F
Usually its a term used by people who think they are being screwed over by some "system" because they aren't white.
And it's so funny because out of all the societies that systematically fuck you over if you're a minority, white countries are pretty fucking great places.
puck61 · 56-60, M
It's something that some white people say when they suffer from white guilt. I guess black people use the term disparagingly, but basically it's a product of the grievance generation.
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Author Michael Dorris on American Indians in Literature
The novelist is best known for his books for adults--A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, The Crown of Columbus, which he wrote with his wife, writer Louise Erdrich, and The Broken Cord, about his adopted son's struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome. His latest book, Morning Girl, is for children. It's about the Taino, the 15th century Native Americans Columbus first encountered
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Author Michael Dorris. His work is wide-ranging in topic and emotional impact. In his earlier book "The Broken Cord" he wrote of his struggle to understand the severe health and behavior problems of an adopted son, Abel, who had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Abel, a Native American, died in an accident after a difficult life. Dorris himself is part Modoc Indian. He founded the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College where he now teaches Anthropology.
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CHUWI's latest 2-in-1 tablet - UBook Pro has launched the preheat campaign for crowd-funding.
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According to the information that have already been released: UBook Pro has a 9 mm slim body, designed with simplicity and elegance, weighs at only 780g(≈1.72lbs), makes it can be easily carried in a backpack. Besides, UBook Pro also support a magnet docking keyboard like its predecessor.
Visually, UBook Pro has a more light-weighted yet sturdy u-shaped kickstand, which is way more agile and convenient compared with Surface Pro's whole metal plate kickstand. Moreover, u-shaped kickstand also saved a lot of space for a bigger battery and a better cooling system, which should make a big difference in both battery life and performance.
Even more subtle, the speakers are hidden on both sides of the device, making them sound better in both volume and sound quality than normal tablets' speakers.
Meanwhile, The u-shaped kickstand supports stepless adjustment, with the maximum opening Angle of 145°, it can be transformed into laptop, workstation or tablet, which means that almost all scenes in life. No matter it is daily office, business trip, outdoor or leisure, UBook Pro can be used with efficiently and conveniently.
12.3-inch FHD IPS screen, 3:2 display ratio brings bigger view and more comfort.
The UBook Pro is equipped with a full laminated 12.3-inch FHD IPS screen, brings vivid and vibrant image, Whether it's working with pictures or watching video, it should satisfy the most critical eyes.
It is worth noting that the UBook Pro's screen ratio is 3:2, which is also the screen ratio vigorously promoted by the Windows system. It is the golden ratio for producing activities like text composition, web browsing, coding, etc. The touch panel also supports 2048 pressure sensitive stylus, which is very convenient and practical for recording inspiration and marking during daily work.
Powerful 8th Gen Core™ m3-8100Y
Apart from its beautiful and elegant appearance, The UBook Pro also has uncompromising performance. Upgraded from the previous Intel Core M3-6y30 to the latest Intel Core M3-8100Y processor, Overall performance improved by more than 50%, The processor is built with Intel's most advanced 14nm+ manufacturing process, dual-core, four threads, the highest frequency reaches up to 3.4 GHz, easily deal with daily office work, and even some moderate Adobe works.
With Intel UHD Graphics 615, 4K video can be easily hard decoded. It also provides a good experience in video editing and even heavy games.
Full featured ports to meet all kind of needs
As we can see from the released product pictures,
UBook Pro is equipped with so many I/O ports: 2* USB-A, 1* USB-C (is said to be full-featured and support PD fast charging), 1*Micro HDMI, 1*3.5 mm headphone jack, and also a DC power supply jack, Docking contactor in the bottom, and a TF card reader.
So many interface, basic can meet the demand of daily all of the peripherals extension, both external display, high speed data transmission and connection of portable Docking keyboard, is no problem at all.
It's absolutely generous to have so many I/O ports available in 2019, especially when compared with giants and Apple and Microsoft. An inclusive product strategy like this, is worth learning for the rest of the industry.
UBook Pro is now available for pre-sale on the CHUWI's official website.
The expected price is around $500. Compared with competitors with similar experience, like Surface Pro 6 and iPad Pro, the price is absolutely competitive.
At the same time, according to CHUWI official, subscribers can get 25% OFF email-only discount, Which is undoubtedly a very competitive price in all aspects.
toni November 17, 2020
vorrei lo sconto
vincent December 23, 2019
I am interested to buy ibook pro…pls let me know when


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Possible Duplicate:
$\sqrt a$ is either an integer or an irrational number.

$\sqrt{2}$ is irrational number, but $\sqrt{9} = 3$ is an integer.
Are there such integers whose square root is a (non-integer)rational number?

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this implies $x = \frac{\sqrt{m}}{\sqrt{n}}$
which means that for an integer to have a rational root it's root must be the ratio of two integer roots. For this ratio to not be an integer m and n must be distinct which implies that x is not an integer quantity.


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At one of the library sales I frequent in my quest for classics by women authors, I came upon Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This confused me; wasn't this the story always known as A Little Princess?
It turns out that Sara Crewe is an earlier version of what became the classic. It was serialized in St. Nicholas magazine in 1887, then collected into a novella, published in 1888 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
In 1905, the expanded story was published for all time as we best know it, titled A Little Princess. And since then, the story has been performed on stage, filmed in several versions, and is consistently named one of the top novels for children of all time. Here are a few illustrations from the 1888 edition; artist unknown.
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… the Indian gentleman turned and looked at her curiously.
He drew her small dark head down upon his knee and stroked her hair.