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photo: Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz
The genesis and course of the Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti
Extract from "The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors"
The roots of the Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti can be found in xenophobia which Roma have experienced since the beginning of their presence in Europe, but most importantly in the radical change of the perception of this group, which can be traced back to the beginnings of the modernization of European societies in the 17th-18th centuries and which was associated with the emergence of the ideology of antigypsyism. In accordance with this ideology, Roma and Sinti began to be treated as people who by their very existence subverted the values of modern culture. Their way of life became in the dominant culture a synonym of otherness and backwardness, a "social problem" or "pathology" which needed to be eliminated by means of forced assimilation. In the course of time, however, the Roma culture and way of life started to be perceived as biologically conditioned and Roma/ Sinti as a different, inferior race, the features of which could be changed by assimilation. This was the beginning of the process that led to the genocide committed against Roma and Sinti.
The situation of Roma and Sinti after Hitler's seizure of power in Germany was a result of several overlapping processes: (1) the intensification of the way the already existing discriminatory regulations were implemented, which led to increased control of Roma and Sinti by the authorities; (2) the limitation of both the opportunities to live a traditional Roma life and those for integration with the life of majority; (3) the large scale employment of scientific procedures of registration and classification; (4) the introduction of new legal regulations directed against Roma and Sinti, based on racist ideology and leading to their exclusion from society. The situation of Roma and Sinti in other European countries was similar, particularly in those in which the modernization process was advanced.
In Nazi Germany, elements of racist discourse occurred more and more frequently in the legislation, and was already commonly present in the official statements of Nazi officials. The racist nature of the anti-Roma regulations was clearly present in the sterilization program that had been developed in the 1930s. The program was associated with eugenics—the notion of improving society by means of steering natural selection—and originally targeted the physically or mentally impaired. Soon however, together with the development of the racist ideology, the program of sterilization involved Roma and Sinti. Sterilization was the first step on the way to genocide.
In connection with the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, it was forbidden for Roma and Sinti to be married to "racially pure" Germans, and their basic civil rights were limited. The limitation of the rights of Roma and Sinti was, however, a gradual process, which meant, for example, that in the years 1940-1941 they could still be drafted into the German army.
Because of the racist ideology behind the persecution of Roma and Sinti, it was necessary to create an institution in charge of "racial research" which supported anti-Roma actions and policies. Such an institution was created in 1936, and from 1937 it bore the name of the Research Institute for Racial Hygiene and Population Biology, and was headed by Dr. Robert Ritter.
An important aspect of the Institute's activities was the construction of racist criteria for defining Sinti and Roma and assigning them to the appropriate categories. According to one of the several definitions elaborated by the Institute, it was enough that one of the great-grandparents of a given person was classified as a "Gypsy" for that person to be classified as belonging to the category of "mixed blood Gypsies" with 1/8 of "gypsy blood" and so be subsequently subjected to repression.
The racial criterion as a reference point for the policies towards Roma and Sinti was formulated precisely in the "Decree for combating the Gypsy Plague" of December 8th, 1938. We can read in this document that the right method for solving the "Gypsy question" was to treat it as a racial problem. In the contemporary juridical practice of the Federal Republic of Germany, the date of the Decree is taken as the beginning of the official persecution on racist grounds, which means that Roma and Sinti who were subjected to persecution after that date have the right to be compensated.
The outbreak of the Second World War meant for the German Sinti and Roma the next stage of exclusion from society – deportations. These took place in May 1940: ca. 2,800 Sinti and Roma were deported to occupied Poland where they were placed in the Jewish ghettos or labor camps. Later the deportations were stopped, in part because of negative feedback from the unprepared authorities of the occupied territories. Some deportees managed to escape and return to Germany. Those remaining were killed in the wave of mass killings in 1943.
The second great deportation of Roma and Sinti to the area of occupied Poland took place in November 1941. This was part of the so-called "action of cleansing the eastern districts" administered by Adolf Eichmann. The victims of the action were Austrian Roma and Sinti. Altogether, approximately 5,000 persons were deported from Austria and placed in a separate part of the Jewish ghetto in Łodź (at the time of German occupation renamed Litzmannstadt). Approximately 600 persons died there as a result of a typhoid fever epidemic and inhuman living conditions. The others were transported to the Kulmhof death camp where in the beginning of January 1942 they were gassed in trucks specially adapted for the purpose.
The destination of the third and largest wave of deportations of European Roma and Sinti was KL Auschwitz. Its basis was created by the so-called "Auschwitz order" (Auschwitz-Erlass) issued by Heinrich Himmler on December 16th, 1942. The organizational details of the deportation were agreed upon during a conference that took place on January 15th, 1943 at the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin. This conference is perceived by some scholars and Roma activists as a counterpart of the Wannsee conference which a year earlier had sealed the annihilation of the European Jews. Roma and Sinti were to follow.
KL Auschwitz was the main place of extermination of Roma and Sinti in occupied Poland but they were also murdered in other camps: Kulmhof, Treblinka, Bełżec and Sobibór. Roma prisoners were also sporadically murdered in concentration camps such as Buchenwald or Ravensbrück.
Probably the second largest center of the extermination of Roma was the Jasenovac camp, set up by the Croatian government of Ante Pavelic, allied with Nazi Germany. The killing of Roma in Jasenovac was exceptionally cruel. Shooting was preceded by tortures and rapes, and victims were also murdered with sticks and knives. One cannot estimate precisely the number of Roma victims in Jasenovac: according to the recent findings of Croatian historians there were approximately 16,000 , almost all Roma in the Croatian fascist state were murdered.
The victims of KL Auschwitz were mostly Roma and Sinti from the Reich (including Austria) and from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It is estimated that 70-80 percent of Roma and Sinti from the Third Reich perished, and even more of those inhabiting Bohemia and Moravia. The third group of Roma victims of KL Auschwitz were Polish Roma. In general, during the Second World War between 8 and 13 thousand Polish Roma perished, comprising approximately one-third of the Roma population of the country. These data, however, are very imprecise.
Most of the Polish Roma as well as those from the Soviet Union perished in mass killings perpetrated by the units of German Police, Wehrmacht and SS, particularly by the so-called Einsatzgruppen, sometimes assisted by the local Police.
In the occupied area of the Soviet Union the systematic genocide of Roma was carried out mainly in 1942. In the zone occupied by the Army Group North, the fate of the Latvian Roma was particularly tragic: almost half of this community of ca. 4,000 people was killed. Also Roma who lived in the area of activities of the Army Group Middle suffered great losses. That area was characterized by a large concentration of Roma because it was there, mostly near Smolensk, where Roma collective farms had been established, the showpieces of the early stage of communist policies regarding national issues. The area of Army Group South could be divided into eastern Ukraine where probably the biggest mass shooting of Roma occurred: in August 1942 almost 2,000 Roma from Chernihiv and its vicinity were murdered, and in Crimea where ca. 70 percent of the Roma population perished.
In German-occupied Serbia, Roma from the very beginning of the occupation were arrested and sent to work as slave labor. Like the Jews, Roma were also victims of the so-called reprisal executions in which 100 hostages were murdered for every German soldier killed by partisans. According to some sources, the number of Roma victims in Serbia can be estimated at 20,000. Many Roma, how- ever, managed to escape and join the resistance.
In the areas of the former Yugoslavia under Italian (Montenegro, part of Slovenia) or Bulgarian (Macedonia) occupation Roma generally were not persecuted although they could be sent to internment or labor camps. The situation of Muslim Roma from Bosnia, controlled by the Croatian state, was similar.
In the occupied countries of Western Europe the fate of Roma varied. In France they were interned in special camps while those Sinti and Roma arrested in Belgium could be deported to concentration camps in Germany or to KL Auschwitz where most of the Dutch Roma also perished.
The situation of Roma and Sinti in the countries allied with Nazi Germany (except Croatia) was very differentiated. In Italy they were forced into internment camps. In Romania, approximately 25,000 Roma were deported to the area of Transnistria where most of them died of hunger and disease. The majority of the Romanian Roma community of 200,000 were, however, not affected. Bulgarian Roma, like Bulgarian Jews, avoided extermination but could be sent to various public works. In the Slovak State Roma men were often sent to labor camps in which the conditions of existence were very harsh. In 1944, after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, some of the labor camps were transformed into concentration camps in which many Roma died of disease or were shot. After the fall of the uprising, Roma suspected of participation in it could be shot or deported to the concentration camps in Germany. In Hungary, the organized persecution of Roma started in 1944 when the Hungarian fascists (the Arrow Cross movement) came to power. They sent Roma to labor or concentration camps where many died as a result of the harsh conditions.
The general number of Roma victims is difficult to estimate because of the lack of precise documentation by the perpetrators, and lack of reliable statistics about Roma living in Europe before the Second World War. On the basis of the existing written sources we may speak of ca. 200,000 Roma victims. But the real number must be much higher, probably amounting to 500,000.
Deportation of the Sinti and Roma from the Hohenasperg assembly camp to occupied Poland on 22 May 1940
Photograph of the evacuated 'gypsy camp' at the Łódź ghetto once the inmates had been transported to the Chełmno extermination camp
The last stage of the functioning of the 'Zigeunerlager' in the Birkenau Camp
Recent research by historians of the Auschwitz Museum
The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz
A guidebook for visitors
Extract from "The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors"
"Zigeunerfamilienlager" ("Gypsy family camp")
Arrival in the "Zigeunerfamilienlager"
The life of Prisoners
Dr. Mengele and experiments on prisoners


Talk about being a helicopter parent.
Chris Early, of Knoville, Tenn., recently used a drone to keep an eye on his 8-year-old daughter, Katie, during her walk to school to make sure she was a-okay.
"I could see other people looking up and I'm sure Katie was just like, 'Oh, it's just my dad," he said.
While some pundits may feel Chris is being too overprotective when it comes to his little girl, he says it was all in good fun and "it was a way to keep eye on her make sure she was looking both ways. I let her know that dad is always watching."
What do you think? Is this dad taking things too far or has he found a wise use for this technology? Would you ever use a drone to keep tabs on your children?


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9-0 closing run boosts Hollis Brookline boys lacrosse team into finals
NASHUA – The Hollis Brookline and Plymouth high school boys lacrosse teams each had opportunities to win their Division III semifinal at Stellos Stadium on Saturday.
The No. 2 Bobcats got most of theirs in the first half, but couldn't capitalize and went into halftime tied 4-4 with No. 3 Hollis Brookline.
In the second half, the Cavaliers took advantage of their opportunities, including a three-minute, locked-in penalty to start the fourth quarter, and rolled to a 16-6 win over the previously unbeaten Bobcats.
The win sends HB to the championship game for the second time in three years, where the Cavs will play No. 1 Derryfield, a 16-3 winner over No. 5 ConVal.
"I'm really proud of these boys and I'm really happy we're moving on," HB coach Mike Soucy said. Plymouth "has got some really good players. Their goalie (Dylan McIntosh) was terrific.
"We had some good quality shots on him in the first half and couldn't get anything through him."
HB played a lot of the first half a man down, but goalie Logan Blake made some key saves and the Cavaliers' defense stepped up to play solidly throughout.
"I thought our defense, at about the eight-minute mark of the second quarter, the defense was gassed," Soucy said.
"I didn't think they had much left in the tank because we had played so much defense. They just held solid."
Ryan Papineau led the Cavs with six goals and three assists, while Sam Whitaker added five goals. Peter Bertone and Patrick Dunn each had two goals and Zach Nardone had a goal and two assists.
Blake finished with 10 saves.
The 15-2 Cavs trailed for most of the first half, but Whitaker and Nardone scored 41 seconds apart, the second of which came with 1:04 left in the half, to tie the game.
HB scored again to open the third and was able to push the lead to 7-5 with 4:49 left in the quarter. Plymouth (16-1) got back within one on a goal by Amani Mwingria with 3:20 to go in the frame, but Dunn scored 1:09 later to put the Cavs back up by two.
The Bobcats suffered a bad break when Evan Bolognani was assessed a penalty for having an illegal stick and was locked in for the first three minutes of the fourth quarter. Papineau scored twice and Plymouth's Jared Kuehl took another penalty to put the Bobcats down two.
"Penalties were definitely the name of the game," Plymouth coach Glenn Mausolf said. "It really was the difference. We felt like we had some opportunities that we didn't finish on.
"The difference was that they capitalized on their man-up situations, to their credit. They're able to move the ball quickly and find the two-on-one situation and put it in the back of the net."
HB scored again on the two-man advantage and added one more with Bolognani still off to go ahead 12-6. The Cavs ended up closing the game with a 9-0 run.
"We made a couple of adjustments at halftime as to what we wanted to do offensively to open things up for both of those guys," Soucy said of Papineau and Whitaker, "as well as Zach Nardone and Patrick Dunn. Those are our main guys from an offensive standpoint.
"We opened things up and we got them to come out and play us, and when teams do that, we have an opportunity to go by them, and certainly that happened."

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Although Jane Austen's novels are filled with captains and soldiers and militias, there is little mention of the places that they disappear to in between being called upon for balls. Austen-land takes no notice of the Napoleonic wars, or of Canada, or the dying embers of slave trade, or colonies in the East and West Indies and Australia.
And, by and large, this silence is shared by the rest of England's Victorian novelists. In Dickens, the colonies are just a place where Martin Chuzzlewit can go when Dickens is running low on inspiration or where the Artful Dodger and Mr. Micawber can be dispatched at the end of their respective books.
Trollope is not much better (somewhat surprisingly, considering that his mother once ran a general store in Cleveland that provided the raw material for her staggeringly popular dissection of American life: The Domestic Manners of Americans). He, like Dickens, wrote a few travelogues, but in his novels, there is little mention of the millions of Englishmen (and the hundreds of millions of subject peoples) who are raising the British flag in foreign climes.
Only Thackeray is even willing to allude to the existence of the colonies. A significant portion of the offstage action of Vanity Fair occurs in India, where Josiah Sedley makes his fortune as a tax collector in the princedom of Boggley-Wallah. Sedley's occupation is just the merest nod to an immense colonial reality, but when put against the silence in most other books of the era, it begins to seem rather praiseworthy that Thackeray was even capable of noting that a significant fraction of his countrymen and women were engaged in these pursuits abroad.
Indeed, it seems like British literature didn't begin taking notice of the colonies until the empire was well on its way to crumbling. In the late 19th century, we finally see the works of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kiping; and in the early 20th century we bookend the imperial era with colonial novels from E.M. Forster, George Orwell, and Graham Greene.
And that's all great, but it still doesn't erase two centuries of silence during which British people subjugated the world while their literati worked steadily to focus ever-increasing attention on the domestic lives of its provincial gentry.
The genius of Wide Sargasso Sea is that it forcibly inserts itself into this history. As most of you probably know, this is a novel that's told from the point of view of Bertha Mason, the crazy heiress from the West Indies whose marriage to Mr. Rochester (in Jane Eyre) forms a stumbling block to the burgeoning romance between the two. In Jane Eyre, Mason is basically a MacGuffin: she's a complication (albeit a complication that is the source of some truly horrifying scenes) that Charlotte Bronte introduced in order to keep the plot humming along.
Wide Sargasso Sea mostly takes place in the Carribbean, where the protagonist is the daughter of an old-line white planter who lost all his wealth after Britain ordered the emancipation of his slaves. She grows up in beautiful isolation, surrounded by a black populace that hates her for her parents' crimes and calls her a "white cockroach". But the Englishmen who occasionally come into her ambit also find her to be strange. Despite the color of her skin, they don't in any way think of her as an English person. Two centuries in the West Indies have nativized her. She lives wild in the forests and believes in traditional magic. Some of the most beautiful passages of the book are just about the daily events of her incredibly isolated life on a remote part of a remote island.
But that's where the genius comes in. Because while you're reading this book, you can't help but constantly think, "My god, this book is taking place at basically the same time as Jane Eyre. While Jane is living her stolid live in a tubercular boarding house, this woman is living this strange, tropical life. They're both living these lives at the same time and under the same flag and under the same cultural tradition, but neither can possibly imagine the life of the other."
It's this leap across the boundaries of blank spaces in the page that makes the book so amazing. The author, Jean Rhys, found a way to go back into literature and forcibly insert herself and her culture into this stolid touchstone of British literature. It's kind of like a huge wad of spit delivered right into the eye of the Victorian era.
The novel is also very sad. It's been a long time since I've read a novel that was quite this lonely. The protagonist really has no one who cares for her. She has no future and she has no past. Something about this weariness reminded me a little bit of Faulkner, but at least in Faulkner, all the characters had their history. And they had their social superiority. They might not be worth much, but at least they were worth more than the blacks.
This protagonist has neither of those things. The English people have erased her history. And their numerical superiority means that black people form a constant physical danger to her. Although she cannot survive without their help, she also has no economic or social power with which to compel their obedience.
The novel contains one of the plaintive lines I've ever read:
I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you.
On a sidenote, this book also has a very sad and lonely "Making of…"
The author, Jean Rhys, was born in 1890. She was part of that 1920s generation of emancipated literary women and she published several books during the 20s and 30s. Then she just disappeared. She avoided her friends. She stopped publishing. For 27 years, not a word came out of her. Then, in 1966, she produced this novel. It won awards and became famous and revived her career. But I wonder what happened during that long silence? In search of this question, I hunted down her Paris Review interview, where the interviewer asked her, "What did you do during all those years when you weren't writing" and Rhys said:
"When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never head a long period of being happy. Do you think anyone has. I think you can be peaceful for a long time. When I think about if, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down."
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Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-Based Approach (Methodology in the Social Sciences) (Hardcover)
By Andrew F. Hayes, PhD
Acclaimed for its thorough presentation of mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis, this book has been updated to reflect the latest developments in PROCESS for SPSS, SAS, and, new to this edition, R. Using the principles of ordinary least squares regression, Andrew F. Hayes illustrates each step in an analysis using diverse examples from published studies, and displays SPSS, SAS, and R code for each example. Procedures are outlined for estimating and interpreting direct, indirect, and conditional effects; probing and visualizing interactions; testing hypotheses about the moderation of mechanisms; and reporting different types of analyses. Readers gain an understanding of the link between statistics and causality, as well as what the data are telling them. The companion website (www.afhayes.com) provides data for all the examples, plus the free PROCESS download.
*Rewritten Appendix A, which provides the only documentation of PROCESS, including a discussion of the syntax structure of PROCESS for R compared to SPSS and SAS.
*Expanded discussion of effect scaling and the difference between unstandardized, completely standardized, and partially standardized effects.
*Discussion of the meaning of and how to generate the correlation between mediator residuals in a multiple-mediator model, using a new PROCESS option.
*Discussion of a method for comparing the strength of two specific indirect effects that are different in sign.
*Introduction of a bootstrap-based Johnson–Neyman-like approach for probing moderation of mediation in a conditional process model.
*Discussion of testing for interaction between a causal antecedent variable [ital]X[/ital] and a mediator [ital]M[/ital] in a mediation analysis, and how to test this assumption in a new PROCESS feature.
Andrew F. Hayes, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research and writing on data analysis has been published widely, and he is the author of Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis, Third Edition, and Statistical Methods for Communication Science, as well as coauthor, with Richard B. Darlington, of Regression Analysis and Linear Models. Dr. Hayes teaches data analysis, primarily at the graduate level, and conducts workshops on statistical moderation and mediation analysis throughout the world. His website is www.afhayes.com.
"I know I speak for organizational researchers and graduate students everywhere when I say how much PROCESS, and prior editions of this book, have contributed to making some of the more difficult parts of the research process accessible and fun. I look forward to using the third edition in my own research, and (again) buying a copy for all my graduate students. Adding to the appeal of the third edition are features such as the new code for R users--now available for every example in the book--and techniques to analyze the strength of two specific direct effects that differ in sign. Hayes has made an immense contribution with his continual updates to PROCESS, and shows in his writing and his workshops that he is a gifted teacher."--Julian Barling, PhD, FRSC, Distinguished University Professor and Borden Chair of Leadership, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada
"This book would make an excellent companion text to accompany a course on regression analysis that also addresses mediation and moderation, two topics of enormous practical utility. It can also serve as a useful reference for more experienced researchers and methodologists wanting to learn about mediation, moderation, and advanced applications. Reading this book is like taking an immersive workshop on mediation and moderation analysis, with the author right there to explain everything."--Kristopher J. Preacher, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
"This book is a staple on my bookshelf and a text that I recommend to all my students who are interested in quantitative research. The impressive third edition now includes code and examples for R. Making the incredibly flexible and useful analytic tools of PROCESS available for a free, open-source statistical software program is a huge contribution to the field. This is a most useful book for advanced graduate courses that focus on regression, as well as for faculty."--Michael D. Broda, PhD, School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University
"I have used this text for several years in my graduate-level statistics classes. It makes the teaching of mediation and moderation much easier, and the associated PROCESS code makes conducting these analyses much less tedious. Colleagues have found this book and PROCESS very helpful in their research endeavors, and several of my students have used PROCESS in their theses and dissertations. The third edition has all of the things I liked about the earlier editions, plus some nice new stuff--the inclusion of R code will be helpful to those who do not have access to SAS or SPSS, and I especially enjoyed the more detailed discussion of unstandardized, standardized, and partially standardized coefficients. I recommend this book without reservation."--Karl L. Wuensch, PhD, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University
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Q: How to use columns in a dataframe to create rows in a new dataframe? I have a dataframe and want to create a new dataframe using some columns to create rows.
Here is my dataframe:
import pandas as pd
df=pd.DataFrame(columns=["TeamNumber", "C", "C1", "W", "W1", "W2","D","D1","G", "UTIL", "DATE", "TOP" ])
df=df.append({"TeamNumber": 1, "C": "PAUL", "C1": "BOB", "W": "NIC", "W1":"ED", "W2": "ROB","D": "ERIK","D1": "JOE","G": "RED", "UTIL": "JIM", "DATE": "2017-10-12", "TOP": 0}, ignore_index= True)
df=df.append({"TeamNumber": 2, "C": "PETE", "C1": "BOBBY", "W": "FRED", "W1":"TED", "W2": "ROBY","D": "DERIK","D1": "JULIAN","G": "CARL", "UTIL": "JIMMY", "DATE": "2017-10-15", "TOP": 1}, ignore_index= True)

TeamNumber   C    C1     W  W1   W2    D    D1    G  UTIL   DATE       TOP
0   1       PAUL BOB   NIC  ED  ROB  ERIK  JOE    RED  JIM  2017-10-12  0
1   2       PETE BOBBY FRED TED ROBY DERIK JULIAN CARL JIMMY 2017-10-15 1

I expect the output to be:
   TOP TeamNumber  DATE Name
0   0   1   2017-10-12  PAUL
1   0   1   2017-10-12  BOB
2   0   1   2017-10-12  NIC
3   0   1   2017-10-12  ED
4   0   1   2017-10-12  ROB
5   0   1   2017-10-12  ERIK
6   0   1   2017-10-12  JOE
7   0   1   2017-10-12  RED
8   0   1   2017-10-12  JIM
9   1   2   2017-10-15  PETE
10  1   2   2017-10-15  BOBBY
11  1   2   2017-10-15  FRED
12  1   2   2017-10-15  TED
13  1   2   2017-10-15  ROBY
14  1   2   2017-10-15  DERIK
15  1   2   2017-10-15  JULIAN
16  1   2   2017-10-15  CARL
17  1   2   2017-10-15  JIMMY

A: Check DataFrame.melt() in Pandas
df.melt(id_vars=['TOP','DATE' ,'TeamNumber'])[['TOP','DATE','TeamNumber','value']]

A: df = df.set_index(['TOP','TeamNumber',"DATE"])
df = df.stack().reset_index().drop(['level_3'],axis=1).rename(columns = {0:'Name'})

output df
    TOP TeamNumber  DATE    Name
0   0   1   2017-10-12  PAUL
1   0   1   2017-10-12  BOB
2   0   1   2017-10-12  NIC
3   0   1   2017-10-12  ED
4   0   1   2017-10-12  ROB
5   0   1   2017-10-12  ERIK
6   0   1   2017-10-12  JOE
7   0   1   2017-10-12  RED
8   0   1   2017-10-12  JIM
9   1   2   2017-10-15  PETE
10  1   2   2017-10-15  BOBBY
11  1   2   2017-10-15  FRED
12  1   2   2017-10-15  TED
13  1   2   2017-10-15  ROBY
14  1   2   2017-10-15  DERIK
15  1   2   2017-10-15  JULIAN
16  1   2   2017-10-15  CARL
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Q: Why do we need K-12 American Sign Language (ASL) Content Standards? How will they address the challenges in today's deaf education?
A: Currently, there are no formally documented national ASL Content Standards for L1 learners. By taking this initiative to have the ASL Content Standards developed, the Clerc Center hopes to encourage educators to take an intensive look at the linguistic development of their students to ensure they are developing appropriately and attaining language development benchmarks.
The K-12 ASL Content Standards are necessary to give today's educators realistic benchmarks and grade-level indicators of student development in ASL. This is important because without the Standards, each educator has a different evaluation tool. This does not reflect the norm in education today, which is focused on standards and evidence-based reporting.
Q: For whom are the K-12 ASL Content Standards intended? How can they be used with students with diverse abilities?
A: The purpose of the K-12 ASL Content Standards is to guide ASL instruction so that deaf and hard of hearing children can learn about and study ASL as a first language in the same way hearing children in the United States learn about English as part of their academic studies. The Standards are based on grade-level expectations of children learning ASL as their first language (L1). As with teachers teaching English to students who are English Language Learners, teachers of deaf students are expected to align instructional plans and assessments to gauge student progress towards achieving grade-level ASL competencies.
Q: May people other than ASL teachers use the K-12 ASL Content Standards?
A: Yes, anyone may use the Standards.
Q: Why has it taken so long to complete the K-12 ASL Content Standards?
A: Developing academic content standards for the first time is a complex process--more complex than we had predicted. The process has required two phases. The Clerc Center was committed to investing the time and resources necessary to develop L1 standards, obtain input, and make necessary revisions to reflect the language development process and to support teachers' use of the Standards in ASL instruction. Like the Common Core State Standards, which took 7 years to develop, it takes time to develop quality standards.
Q: What was the K-12 ASL Content Standards development process?
A: The K-12 ASL Content Standards comprises four parts: an introduction and rationale, the Anchor Standards and grade-level standards, a glossary, and a reference section.
The Standards were developed by the Clerc Center in collaboration with a team of researchers from the fields of ASL linguistics and deaf education, educators from several universities and their school partners, and the California School for the Deaf, Fremont. The team of researchers helped develop the research foundation for the Standards during the first phase of this project. Teachers, faculty, staff, and leaders from participating schools, universities, and organizations also made important contributions to the development of knowledge through research and practice.
ASL teachers, specialists, and experts participated as reviewers in feedback groups in ASL Round Table (ASLRT) conferences from 2014 to 2017. Their feedback, summarized and shared with the California School for the Deaf, Fremont, guided the final development of the Standards.
Feedback from reviewers participating in feedback groups also led to the development of glossary terms. The support of the ASLRT members who provided guidance made it possible to develop terms in ASL that reflect ASL instruction and content standards language.
The Clerc Center also implemented an open comment process to collect feedback. Feedback was used to guide the design and development of the Standards as a web-based resource to support the instruction of ASL teachers and specialists who teach ASL as a first language to deaf and hard of hearing students.
Q: Why do the ASL Content Standards only focus on K-12? Why don't they include 0-Pre-K standards?
A: Our focus and commitment has been on K-12 because this effort parallels the development of the Common Core State Standards, which focuses on grades K-12. Other groups have done some work in 0-4 ASL development. Gallaudet University's Science of Learning Center for Visual Language and Visual Learning has developed a Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist, http://vl2.gallaudet.edu/resources/vcsl/.
Q: Will there be resources provided to support implementation of the K-12 ASL Content Standards?
A: The focus of this work was to develop K-12 ASL Content Standards. Meanwhile, many schools and programs serving deaf and hard of hearing students have been collaborating in developing and sharing ASL activities, materials, and resources. It is our hope that there will be an increased interest in this collaborative effort after the Standards are disseminated.
The Clerc Center will be hosting a series of discussion forums with experts in the field to answer questions and moderate discussions about the Standards. Information collected from these sessions, along with a national survey from the Clerc Center to learn more about different uses of the Standards, will help determine next steps.
Q: Do the K-12 ASL Content Standards tell teachers what to teach?
A: Teachers know best about what works in their classroom. This is why the Standards establish what students need to learn but do not dictate how teachers should teach. Instead, schools and teachers decide how best to help students reach the standards.
Q: What is the difference between an ASL curriculum and ASL Content Standards?
A: The K-12 ASL Content Standards, which can be incorporated into the curriculum, will state expected grade-level goals for students. They will also have established benchmarks that will help ASL teachers ensure their students have the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in interacting with individuals in postsecondary programs and in the workforce in the future.
An ASL curriculum is a set of courses and their contents that specifies what topics must be understood and on which levels in order to achieve a particular grade or standard.
Q: What research or evidence is used to develop the expected grade-level ASL L1 skills and competencies for grades K-12?
A: The introduction section of the K-12 ASL Content Standards describes the general language development process, drawing from available research in ASL language acquisition and linguistics, upon which the ASL standards are based. The CCSS ELA are based on the research in language development that has taken place over many years. There are similarities in language development among languages. The Standards also address the most important aspect of ASL as a language; ASL is a visual language with some characteristics that are different from spoken languages. A reference list is included within the Standards document and on the Standards webpage.
Q: The K-12 ASL Content Standards do not include references to heritage languages. Why not?
A: As with the standards for CCSS ELA, the K-12 ASL Content Standards resource is considered to be a "living document." As new thinking and evidence emerges from professional practice and research on deaf and hard of hearing students' ASL development, efforts to expand on and/or adapt the Standards are expected.
Q: Whose work is the K-12 ASL Content Standards?
A: The K-12 ASL Content Standards as a resource is a culmination of years of effort involving many different individuals, including teachers, practitioners, researchers, universities, schools, and organizations throughout the nation (Acknowledgments). This resource would not have been possible without the involvement of everyone who contributed to this work. The Standards is a national resource that is available to everyone.


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Q: Tensor analysis: confusion about notation, and contra/co-variance I'm learning about tensors in the context of special relativity, and I'm a bit confused some notation.
I understand a four-vector is a four dimensional vector, which is written in the form $(ct, x, y, z)$, in the convention I am using. Sometimes, we refer to the contravariant components of the four vector $x^\alpha$. My understanding is sort of off here, though. Sometimes, we write
$x^\alpha = \Lambda_\beta^\alpha x^\beta$.
I don't really understand what this expression means. On the one hand, I think of this as essentially a matrix multiplication equation, where we have that the $\alpha$'th component $x^\alpha$ of a four vector $\textbf{x} = (x^0, x^1, x^2, x^3)$, is given (writing the explicit sum) as $\sum_{\beta = 0}^3\Lambda_\beta^\alpha x^\beta$.
I have also seen it written that $x^\alpha = (ct, x, y, z)$, which confuses me, since I understood $x^\alpha$ to be a component rather than a vector itself. Though, if we understand $x$'s with superscripts to be vectors, then what could $\Lambda_\beta^\alpha x^\beta$ possibly mean? Given that there is an implied summation over $\beta$, it doesn't make sense to me that $x^\beta$ could be a vector, and not just a component.
On the other hand, I've also heard that greek letter superscripts can be thought of as meaning "in this coordinate system", meaning $x^\alpha$ is a four vector -- not just a component -- in a coordinate system labelled $\alpha$, $x^\beta$ is the coordinates of the same vector in a coordinate system labelled $\beta$, and $\Lambda_\alpha^\beta$ actually $\textit{is}$ a matrix, and not just an entry in a matrix.
I have a similar confusion with the Kronecker delta. I always understood that the Kronecker delta is a function $\mathbb{N^2} \to \{0, 1\}$, defined as
$\delta_{ij} = \begin{cases} 1 & i = j \\ 0 & i \neq j \end{cases}$
It seems like with tensors, it's the same thing, apart from we write $\delta_i^j$, for some reason. I understand that superscripts are for contravariant components and subscripts are for covariant components, but I have no idea why this matters for a function which can only be either 0 or 1. Surely, no matter what $i$ and $j$ are, the end result is the same, regardless of how high up the $\delta$ we've chosen to write the indices?
On the same line of some reading, I have read that
$\delta_i^j = \begin{cases} 1 & i = j \\ 0 & i \neq j \end{cases}$ AND that $\delta_i^j$ equals the identity matrix. How can the same symbol mean two things?
I get that the matrix whose (i,j)th entry is $\delta_i^j$ would be the identity matrix, but surely the function $\delta_i^j$ isn't a matrix itself? I just get really confused when the same symbol means a bunch of different things! Also, if $\delta_i^j$ is thought of as a matrix, assuming that its subscript index tells us the column and the superscript index tells us the row, is this not assigning some sort of different contra/co variance between rows and columns?
So in general, I am really confused about all of this notation I've seen. Can anyone help?

A: I think you've pretty much answered the question yourself. Notations like $x^\alpha$ and $\Lambda^\alpha{}_\beta$ can be read either as a notation for a whole tensor or as a notation for one of its components. If you like, you can imagine this as two different notations where the translation between the two notations is trivial.
One thing that seems missing from what you said is the distinction between abstract index notation and concrete index notation. Most relativists today use greek indices for concrete indices, which, as you say, have meaning in a certain coordinate system. But they use latin indices as abstract indices, meaning that the expressions they're writing aren't in any particular coordinate system, and would be valid in any coordinate system.
Also, it's important in general to keep the order of indices straight, so rather than writing things like $a^j_i$, you want to write something like $a^j{}_i$. This distinction is only irrelevant if the tensor is symmetric.


"My father thought I had done something wrong and had been deported because of it. He was angry at me," says a young man who was deported at the age of 17 from Norway to Afghanistan.
The children's rights organisation Save the Children gave him their report, "return to the Unknown" question – as well as 56 other European States returned children and young people.
The study, which was presented on Tuesday, paints a dreary picture of life, which is to lead the respondents in the cities of Kabul and Herat, since they were deported from Europe or voluntarily came back.
let All the children Save the Children interview, were between eight and 18 years old, as you to Europe migrated. Most fled to Norway (17), Sweden (12) and Germany (9).
39 of 57 children and young people felt after their return, not sure. Ten young people were returned to Afghanistan. Only one of them said that European authorities had contacted prior to the deportation of his relatives there. Ten children said that someone had tried after their return, to win for the armed struggle, violence or other forms of Engagement in militant groups. Before the deportation 45 the children went to school, back in Afghanistan, there were only 16. Five of the respondents had no identity cards and documents, what could the school or the job search problem. Many returned either to the disappointed Relatives in their home community, where they did not feel welcome – or in a strange place in which they had no social networks. Eight of the surveyed children and adolescents have never been in Afghanistan, because they were born in Iran or Pakistan. Three-quarters of the Minors stated that they want to out of fear and lack of prospects again to escape.
The children and young people lived since their return to the cities of Kabul and Herat – in the rule for several months, and in some cases for several years. Some returned shortly after her 18th birthday. Birthday back from Europe, most of them were still underage.
For the study, were also entitled to 24 parents or education and 30 representatives of the Afghan and European governments as well as NGOs interviewed.
The life is in Afghanistan, not only for children is often difficult and dangerous, deportations, there are politically controversial. In the past few months, the radical Islamic Taliban to peace and the truce of rejected offers, and their attacks on the government, security forces, district and provincial centers strengthened. In addition, the terrorist militia "Islamic state committed" serious attacks.
No authority to collect Figures on how many deportees or returning children and young people in Afghanistan lived, writes Save the Children. For fear of the Stigma of not made to wear in Europe Failed, also all the families in your story public.
The results were due to the relatively small number of participants are in no way representative. They were, however, to illustrate the Situation of many Afghan children.
"The return of children to Afghanistan must be stopped. The country is one of the most dangerous countries in the world," warned Meike Riebau, legal expert at Save the Children. The rights of children to protection, education and health care are not guaranteed.
It should be for returnees, a Plan for the Reintegration, calls for the organization. A Europe-wide procedure regulated in Return, a better monitoring and coordination with the Afghan authorities. The EU authorities are no longer felt with their arrival in Afghanistan, however, responsible for the children that would have been sent back.
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[Greenville, SC] — Greenville Theatre's Executive Artistic Director Allen McCalla announced the theatre's name modification from GREENVILLE LITTLE THEATRE to GREENVILLE THEATRE on Saturday, January 19. This exciting announcement preceded the unveiling of the theatre's sensational 2019-2020 season. The line-up features 6 MainStage productions, including an impressive four musicals and two comedies. In addition to the MainStage productions, Greenville Theatre will produce two musicals in the cherished Theatre for Young Audiences Series, and will present three tribute shows in the popular Concert Series. A high energy line-up full of blockbusters sure to entertain all season long.
William Gillette, an actor best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, is wounded during an attempt on his life and invites a few friends over for a Christmas Eve celebration at his mansion while he recovers. When a murder occurs that evening, Gillette puts his Sherlock Holmes skills to the test in an attempt to solve the crime before something else goes awry. This witty, fast-paced "whodunit" is full of suspense and laughter in equal measure.
When Monty Navarro, the black sheep of the D'Ysquith family, finds out he is ninth in line to inherit a dukedom, he decides to eliminate the eight heirs standing in his way. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? With ten Tony nominations and four wins, this original comedy is filled with unforgettable music and non-stop laughs.
Five Southern women, whose friendships began on their college swim team, meet every August at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other's lives. As the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another to get through the challenges that life throws at them, including some hilarious and unexpected twists and turns.
Broadway producer Max Bialystock teams up with Leo Bloom, a timid accountant with dreams of becoming a theatre producer, to put on the world's worst musical. The catch is that they plan to run away to Rio with the two million they raise to finance the show when it inevitably closes after one performance. Too bad for Bialystock and Bloom that, against all odds, the show is a total hit!
Steve Kelly and the Cherry Cherry band present the premier Neil Diamond tribute, honoring Diamond's unmistakable and timeless sound. His music remains among the most popular in the world and is sure to entertain crowds of all ages.
Chris Collins and Boulder Canyon tour the country delighting audiences with their talent, warmth, and humor as they pay tribute to one of the most popular recording artists of the 1970s. What better way to spend Valentine's weekend!
Rumours plays to packed houses across the country, capturing the energy of Fleetwood Mac at the height of their career by blending perfect harmonies, precise instrumentation, and a visually engaging stage show.
A heartwarming musical for children ages 3-103. Catherine Bush has created another magical Christmas story - this one about Clement Moore, a hard-working newspaper writer at the New York Chronicle. His wife needs an expensive operation in order to survive, but instead of advancing him money, Clem's boss gives him an impossible assignment: to write the best Santa Claus story ever. What follows is a night of magic that not only changes Clem's life forever, but changes how the whole world celebrates Christmas.
A wonderful musical based on the book by Harry Allard. Miss Nelson can't control her crazy classroom because she's just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! With the big test approaching, the kids realize how much they miss Miss Nelson, and they want her back! They even hire a private-eye to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.
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Teasers For 'Qayamat' Show Glimpses Of Some Powerful Performances
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As 2020 approaches its end, Pakistani drama channels are already busy airing teasers for their grand projects that will be going on air in the new year. It is definitely an impeccable feat of our drama industry which despite being hit by a global pandemic continued to churn out content so that television never ran out of fresh new content for the audience to consume. One such drama to go on air on Geo TV pretty soon is Qayamat.
A 7th Sky Entertainment production, Qayamat is written by Sarwat Nazeer with Ali Faizan directing the project. Starring Ahsan Khan, Amar Khan, Neelam Muneer, and Haroon Shahid in lead roles, the drama's teasers have been released. And judging from the glimpses of the teasers, it looks like the audience are going to be in for a ride filled with powerful performances.
What Is It About
The teasers have shown some snippets of the characters played by Ahsan, Amar, Neelam, and Haroon. Ahsan Khan appears to be playing a character with negative traits as he is a man who is shown to be a selfish man who has no regards for anyone else but himself. He is seen partying in the streets, flirting with women, indulging in smoking and drinking, and to top it all off – being an abusive husband to his wife.
Amar Khan is playing Ahsan's wife in the drama. Neelam and Haroon appear to be involved romantically as there are glimpses of the two sharing private moments during wedding festivities. The twist happens when it is shown that the character played by Neelam gets married to Ahsan's character. How did that happen? We will have to watch the show to know.
Amar Khan Shines Bright
Amar Khan definitely stands out in all the teasers. She has nailed the character of an abused wife who is at the whims of her husband's unpredictable mood swings. Her character appears to be both physically abused as well as mentally tortured. And yet she seems to be clinging on to her husband and her relationship with him.
The teasers haven't shown the reason why she is going through all this torture and there is no way of knowing until the show airs. But if the teasers job is to create anticipation within the audience then the teasers for Qayamat have definitely gotten us excited for what Amar Khan has in store for the audience with her performance. Her previous drama on Geo TV Dil-e- Gumshuda showed her in a negative role and that got Amar much praise and love for the audience. This time she is all set to appear in a completely different avatar and this talented actress has, from the looks of it, completely nailed her character.
More To Look Forward To
Last time Ahsan played a negative role in Udaari, he gave the audience a memorable character in the shape of Imtiaz. It is definitely exciting to watch Ahsan Khan don the skin of a character with negative shades. Neelam Muneer has wowed the audience with her strong character in the drama Bikhray Moti. Her character in Qayamat appears to have similarly strong characteristics. It would be interesting to watch her pairing with Ahsan in a serious drama since their previous outing was a comedy film Chupan Chupai.
With Sana, Shabbir Jan, and Saba Faisal being a part of the supporting cast, it is hard to believe that Qayamat will not have impeccable performances to look forward to. There is no air date for the drama announced.
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Mining in North Korea - Wikipedia
Mining in North Korea is important to the country's economy. North Korea is naturally abundant in metals such as magnesite, zinc, tungsten, and iron; with magnesite resources of 6 billion tonnes (second largest in the world), particularly in the North and South Hamgyong Province and Chagang Province.However, often these cannot be mined due to the acute shortage of electricity in the country ...
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Apr 27, 2020· The Day of the Sun -- the April 15 holiday celebrating Kim Jong Un's late grandfather, Kim Il Sung -- has long been the most important date on North Korea's political calendar. This year, the ...
Mar 30, 2021· According to Open North Korea's report Sweatshop North Korea, 16- or 17-year-old individuals from the low-loyalty class were assigned to 10 years of forced labor in military-style construction youth brigades. One worker reportedly earned a mere 120 won (less than $0.15) per month.
Cabinet of North Korea - Wikipedia
In North Korea's first constitution, adopted in 1948, the executive powers were vested in the Cabinet, chaired by Kim Il-sung himself.. The 1972 constitution saw the establishment of the post of President of North Korea which led the executive branch, and the cabinet was split into two organizations: The Central People's Committee and the State Administration Council.
North Korea is sitting on $6 trillion in mineral resources
Jul 03, 2017· Private mining remains illegal in North Korea and around 14 percent of its economy is made up of mining underground resources, Quartz reported. China handles around 90 percent of North Korea…
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Feb 11, 2020· A steady buildup: In July of 2017, Recorded Future published one of the first reports suggesting that North Korea's government was mining Bitcoin. A year later the company noted that North Korea ...
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Apr 04, 2016· Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 18.50 EST. A British banker who spent two decades living in communist North Korea set up a secret offshore finance company allegedly used by the Pyongyang regime ...
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KARACHI: Lovers of history thoroughly enjoyed the session moderated by Kamran Asdar Ali on 'Karachi of the 1950s and 1960s' at the Adab Festival Pakistan on Saturday.
Journalist Ghazi Salahuddin went down memory lane in his distinct style. He said he was in school in the 1950s. Usually when we look back at our past, we see everything cosy and comfortable. But the Karachi that he remembers was actually a very spacious place. There was a sense of freedom. Life was so different that it's difficult to relate to it now. Things were taking shape. New groups of people were coming from across the border.
Mr Salahuddin said now that he reflects on the Karachi of the '50s, he realises why the city is the 'most' unique city in South Asia. In order to know that, one needs to imagine a Lahore without Punjabis or a Kolkata without Bengalis. So, the Karachi that was developing in those days had tiny networks from North India transplanted to the city. At the time, the nostalgia was of the areas [across the border] from where people had come. There was very little interaction with Sindhis, Baloch or Punjabis here because they were not in a big number in Karachi.
Mr Salahuddin said he did not go to a university. The places that he acquired education from were the British Council and the city cinemas. In the 1960s there were 100 cinema houses in Karachi.
Writer Dr Shershah Syed said in those days cinema halls used to have women-only shows on Fridays. He also narrated a story about the first film that he saw, Armaan, at Jubilee Cinema by bunking school.
Novelist Maniza Naqvi spoke about how she managed to stop the historic Pioneer Bookshop from closing down. She said one day in Washington she read a news item about the shop's condition suggesting it was about to shut down. The picture that accompanied the item reminded her of the areas which featured in her novels. She could not help herself, flew down to Karachi, talked to the person who ran the shop and persuaded him not to close it down.
A post-lunch session on inventions in Urdu poetry –– Shaeri mein nayee ejaad –– moderated by Asif Farrukhi generated a lively discussion.
When asked about the changes that have recently occurred in her poetry, Azra Abbas said as one grows up from, let's say, being a 30-year-old to 40-year-old, changes in one's system and surroundings unfold. When she began writing poems as a young creative person, there were people (men) who criticised her for being vulgar. But there were also people who encouraged her as well, which enabled her to keep writing.
Afzal Ahmed Syed said he wasn't born a poet, but wants to die as one. He considers writing poetry as a serious business. In his younger days he read individuals such as Ghalib, Iqbal and Tagore. Later, when he began writing himself, he realised that he would have to create his own world of poetry.
Mr Syed said coming across prose poems introduced him to a new realm and he thought it was a plausible way to express oneself. Then he understood that he had his own sets of experiences, because he had witnessed two civil wars.
Tanvir Anjum said it was during her university days that she came to know writers such as Ahmed Fawad and subsequently Sarwat Husain and Azra Abbas. She claimed that all her collections of poems have a different feel and flavour. Talking of change, she pointed out that whatever changes she experienced have carried on. And the kind of experiences that she had did not require her to write poems in a certain metre.
On the same subject, Ms Abbas said the change she has felt have been strong (gambhir). What happens is that she senses that and puts it into words, after which the reader gets a hang of that change by reading her poems.
Once all three speakers concluded their initial comments, Mr Farrukhi asked them to recite their poems.


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Every Tuesday, volunteers Marilyn and Maryam will feature their favorite cats in a photo gallery, shedding light on some of the overlooked beauties at Willamette Humane Society.
It was another great adoption week at WHS! There were twenty dogs who found new homes since last Wednesday! Thirteen of them were Blog Dogs and here they are.
Here is a picture staff sent me of Nico and his new family leaving the shelter.
It was a fun play group on Sunday for both dogs and the humans watching them.
Springer (an appropriate name for such a high-jumper) wasn't as interested in playing as he was supervising from a self-designated post.
But the most interesting character I found to watch was Pearla, the tennis-ball-loving shepherd. She spent the first part of the time scouring the yard for any wayward tennis balls. (We don't allow toys in play group as a precaution against canine disagreements.) Finding none, she improvised.
So much for the water bucket.
Meanwhile, Springer and Gunner were discussing their positions.
Magnolia and Rockie just enjoyed hanging out in the pool. Rockie thought no one could see him.
We Dog Walkers do our best to keep all of our shelter dogs secure as we walk them around the WHS property. However, there have been times when a dog has slipped his harness, or been so startled that he has yanked free of the walker and dashed off. When that happens there is an instant rush of everyone available to find and catch the loose dog. Since the WHS property is not fenced, an escape artist can cause a real problem. Such was the case a few months ago with a very shy and nervous dog named Hugo. During his morning walk, he suddenly yanked the leash out of the walker's hands and dashed away. Hugo was missing for three days during which staff and volunteers searched for him. Thankfully, he was seen across Turner Road and successfully recovered, hungry and dirty, but otherwise fine. It was after this event that volunteer Barb Cash began Project Fence, with the hope of raising enough money to fence in the WHS property so that no more dogs would be in danger. Here is the poster she made with a picture of Hugo. We are hoping people will contribute to our fund so that the fence can be built very soon. Volunteers are doing all the labor, we just need money for supplies.
The construction has already started. Here are volunteers hard at work last week.
My name is Springer…and it fits me!
I first met this character when I arrived at his kennel and he greeted me eye-level as he leaped straight up on his side of the door. This youngster can jump straight up from a standing position! I didn't have any trouble remembering his name after that. Springer is a one-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix who arrived from California. He can't wait to explore Oregon with new people. He will need an active family who will give him the time and training he needs to grow into the wonderful adult he wants to be. Classes here at WHS would be ideal for this young boy. Here he is with his new friend, Ian, on Sunday.
And here was Springer today. Still as happy as ever.
However, I found out he is NOT a water dog. Nope, he wasn't getting into the pool, no way, not even for a hot dog bit!
While Springer and I were hanging out in the big yard, Marianne came to visit.
I'm looking for a quiet adult home where I can be the only dog for you to love! Is it yours?
Meet Molly, an eight-year-old Border Collie/Australian Shepherd mix. She will be the perfect companion for the right home. Molly is quiet and gentle. She has had some uncomfortable experiences with children so does not like being around them, and needs to be in an adult-only home. She loves adults and would be a very easy dog to have around, as her favorite place to be is curled up at your feet. However, she does love to go for rides in the car and she is very polite on leash. She took my hot dog bits nicely. Molly also doesn't enjoy being around other dogs; she prefers just being with her people. If you're looking for a loyal, easy companion, Molly may be the perfect fit. Both Caroline and I enjoyed our time with this sweet gal.
Here was Molly today with Joan. Molly is quite a love bug!
Some family is going to be mighty lucky to adopt me! Martha said so!
Oh my goodness, when I met Jasmine, I was so taken with her personality! This girl is a nine-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. She is smart, eager and doesn't seem at all like a senior. She is house-trained and has lived happily with kids, a cat, and a male dog. She doesn't care for other female dogs, however. She has two habits she isn't proud of, but she knows you need to know. She will get into the garbage if it is left available and she is unsupervised. She also will need a high fence. She may be nine, but this girl has been known to go for an adventure, jumping a six-foot fence. Both Jolene and I instantly liked this very polite, happy dog and hope she'll find the perfect home very soon.
Tennis ball? Did someone say tennis ball? Don't worry, I've got it covered!
Yep, that's a tennis ball in Pearla's mouth, no surprise there. Pearla is a seven-year-old German Shepherd mix and will make some family a wonderful new companion—just make sure to have tennis balls handy…or a water bucket! Here she was with Alexis on Sunday. What a sweetheart she is! She walks well on leash, takes treats gently, and is content as long as she has a tennis ball handy.
They say I'm fourteen. But no one believes it!
If you could have seen Magnolia in play group on Sunday, you would beg to differ about her age. This girl is energetic, happy, and well-behaved. She is a Retriever mix. She walks well on leash, is house-trained, loves to play with other dogs, likes to hop in a pool to cool off (see play group photo above), and loves kids. What more could you ask? Don't be put off by her age. This dog will make some lucky family the perfect addition for years to come. Jolene and I both were smitten with her.
I'm back and looking for just the right fit of a home as the only dog.
You'll remember Draco from last week when he was so patient as Emelynn and I gave him a bath. He is a five-year-old Border Collie/Lab mix who is looking for a job. He likes to keep busy, as Border Collies do. He'd love to go to training classes such as agility, so that his mind is active. He has also decided he'd like to be the only dog in the family. I think Draco was feeling a little discouraged on Sunday and I couldn't get him to smile with Ian. However, he didn't mind helping himself to the hot dog treats in Ian's pocket. I hope he'll get another new home quickly.
The people here say I'm a real cutie. Do you think so? How about adopting me, then?
This is the second time little Bosco has been at WHS. He was adopted two years ago, but his family is now moving and are unable to take him with them. This is great luck for some other family who will find a perfect little companion in Bosco, a Lhasa Apso mix. He is house-trained and lap-trained (yep, the boy loves to cuddle!). He would do well in a family with older kids who wouldn't over-handle him. His favorite toy in his former home was a knotted sock, just so you know. He enjoyed his time with Gracie.
I'm quite shy and Oregon is a brand new place for me. I hope I get a home soon.
Gunner is a four-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix who arrived at our shelter from California. The first time I met him last week he was so shy and nervous I couldn't get him to even look at the camera. I felt so sorry for him. But by Sunday he was settling in and was much more relaxed. He enjoyed play group and got along fine with the other dogs. He would do well with older children. He's a good boy who hopes to find a home where the family will be patient and understanding while he adjusts to his new life. Jolene and I really enjoyed our time with this good boy.
Yep, I'm a puppy. Yep, I'll need patience and training. Yep, I'm worth it!
Meet Sugar Cane, a three-month-old Pit Bull Terrier mix who is a fun, energetic, and happy little character. If you are ready for the challenge and joy of puppyhood, this little man could be just the ticket. His adoption package comes with everything you need, including a WHS training class appropriately called "Surviving Puppyhood." Here Sugar Cane was on Sunday.
And this is a new kind of "cone" one wears after being neutered. Sugar Cane did not find it humorous.
I really am a good boy as Martha found out today!
I spent some time today with Parker, a Pit Bull Terrier mix whom I hadn't gotten to know yet. This two-year-old walks very well on leash, and while he is very food-motivated, took my treats gently. He already knows some commands and is highly trainable. He's going to be a great family dog.
I'm still here. My name's Buddy. Do you need one?
I also spent some time with an old friend, Buddy, who is still waiting for his perfect fit of a family. Buddy is a four-year-old American Bull Dog/Boxer mix. Although large, at 73 pounds, Buddy is gentle and walks great on leash. He likes nothing more than just hanging out with his people. Buddy does not do well with other dogs or cats. He must be the only dog in the family. But he's all the dog you'll need. I'm hoping someone will adopt this big love very soon. Here he was hanging out with me this afternoon.
It was not hard for Emelynn to pick her pick this week, since I asked if she wanted to meet Abby, a ten-year-old Weimaraner/Lab mix. Abby is as gentle as they come. She would love her retirement home to have kids in it and wouldn't mind another mellow dog, and…believe it or not, she wouldn't even mind sharing her family with a CAT! This girl has it all! Emelynn fell in love with this sweetheart and we both are hoping that she will be going to her new family very soon!
For all of the Yettie fans (and there are MANY!) here is an update from his new family.
That's it for this week! I won't be posting next week, as I'll be taking the Aimee Sadler week-long workshop provided by WHS. So I'll see you in two weeks!
Don't forget the cats in the back!


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Q: xcodebuild seems to sign code differently than Xcode's 'Export' option I've got the following in our build file:
 xcodebuild \
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Assume that $archivePath, $exportPath and $plistPath are all valid. The produced .app bundle seems to pass when the following is run on the build machine:
spctl --assess --verbose=4 /path/to.app
This returns "accepted"
However, deploying this .app bundle on another mac results in the OS complaining "This app is damaged, move to trash". I've tried tuning / changing build options but that didn't help. spctl reported that the bundle had a sealed resource is missing or invalid.
Finally, simply using the Export Archive option in Xcode ("Developer ID") worked! It was a simply an issue with codesigning (I codesign -vvvv).Both machines returned "accepted" when checked against spctl.
The question is - what is Xcode doing differently? I could try and code sign a second time after xcodebuild finishes producing the bundle but that doesn't sound right. How can I make xcodebuild behave as Xcode?


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It's Oscar Sunday, and here's how to watch or stream live the 94th Academy Awards.
This year the Oscars are returning to the Dolby Theatre in the heart of Hollywood with three hosts, Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes, to emcee the proceedings.
The Associated Press March 27, 2022Updated: March 27, 2022, 1:52 pm
An Oscar statue sparkles in sunlight on the red carpet ahead of Sunday's 94th Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP
The 94th Academy Awards are right around the corner with just enough time to squeeze in watches of some of the 10 best picture nominees before the lights go down in the Dolby Theatre.
After last year's scaled back ceremony at Los Angeles' Union Station, this year the Oscars are returning to the Dolby Theatre in the heart of Hollywood with three hosts, Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes, to emcee the proceedings.
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Those running the show have promised that it will stick to a tight three hours, which is part of the reason they've decided to hand out eight awards, including editing, original score and hair/makeup, before the show and edit them into the live broadcast.
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And if choosing between 10 movies in one day seems a bit of a stretch, you could just stick with the most nominated of the bunch, "The Power of the Dog," which is on Netflix.
Here's what you need to know about how to watch Sunday's Oscars ceremony live:
WHAT TIME ARE THE OSCARS AND WHAT CHANNEL ARE THEY ON?
The Oscars will be broadcast live on ABC starting at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 27. ABC's official red carpet pre-show starts 90 minutes beforehand at 6:30 p.m. ET, but many outlets, like E!, will be in place waiting for the stars to arrive from 3 p.m.
Things don't really start to get busy until after 5 p.m., though.
HOW TO WATCH THE OSCARS IF YOU HAVE CABLE
The most straightforward way to watch the show is to set the channel to your local ABC affiliate.
HOW TO STREAM THE OSCARS LIVE
If you're a cord-cutter or don't have access to an antenna, you can also watch the Oscars online with a Hulu + Live TV subscription, which costs $69.99 per month.
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