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2016 Minnesota Fringe Festival Must-Sees
Well friends, it's that time of year again. Time to shirk all responsibilities of adulthood, abandon your friends, family, and pets, and binge on theater for 11 days straight. That's right, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the largest unjuried theater festival in the nation, is upon us. This year's festival includes 168 shows less than an hour in length showcasing the best (and occasionally the worst) that this theater/art/dance/comedy community has to offer. I've steadily been increasing my Fringe consumption every year from a mere ten shows in 2011, my first year of Fringing, to a high of 44 last year. The maximum number of shows that any one person can possibly see, while still obeying the rules of the space-time continuum, is 56. That means seeing a show in every timeslot available. I thought it might be fun to see if I can in fact see 56 shows during the Fringe Festival. Just once, to see if it can be done, and then I'll likely never do it again. And let's face it, I'm not getting any younger, I better do it now while staying up past 11 pm for 11 nights in a row is still (barely) within the realm of possibility. I've run seven marathons, so obviously I like giving myself crazy challenges, just to see if I can do it. And also because it's fun, right? Keep reading for a list of some of the shows I'm hoping to see, and why.
First, a few Fringe tips for newbies. And really, in a way we're all newbies this year, because the Fringe is debuting a new wristband system. Gone are single show tickets, gone are paper tickets at all! This year all you need is a daily wristband ($16 on weekdays, $22 on weekends) which will get you into any show that day. I'm told there will only be two lines this year - one for the box office (buy your wristband just once a day, and also check in if you've made reservations) and one to get into the theater (after you've received a token for the show from a volunteer, which is how attendance will be tracked in lieu of paper tickets). That's it! The reason for the change is to make it easier for more people to see more shows, and to encourage experimenting and binging on all kinds of theater. So get out there and Fringe!
A few more tips for the Fringe newbie:
No buttons required this year! But they are available for $4 as a collectors item, and to get you food and drink discounts during the fest, as well as theater deals throughout the year.
If a show is particularly popular, or you really really want to see it, consider reserving a seat in advance. You can also take your chances and just show up. I typically only make reservations for a handful of shows that look like they might be busy (you can check the show's page to see if it's in danger of selling out).
All shows are general admission, so get there early for best choice of seating.
Shows typically run just under an hour, with a half hour between shows so it's feasible to get from any theater to any other in that time. But it's good to plan to see a bunch in one location to minimize transportation time; the highest concentration of theaters is in the West Bank neighborhood, with 8 theaters within a few blocks (3 in the same building - the Rarig Center on the U of M campus).
Bring snacks, water, reading material, and sunscreen - you will be waiting in line, probably outside. And be aware of what line you're in (box office or theater). Ask one of the friendly volunteers in the Fringe shirts if you need help with anything.
Keep an open mind - some of what you'll see is really weird. But that can be a good thing! And if you see a dud, well, that's part of the Fringe experience.
Each show has five performances, and on the last night of the Fringe (Sunday August 14), the show in each venue that has sold the most tickets receives a sixth show. Keep an eye out for the announcement late Saturday and check out a popular show you might have missed.
The Fringe website has pretty much all the info you'll need, so bookmark it on your smart phone for easy on-the-go reference!
And now on to the good stuff, my annual must-see list. I've got 56 timeslots to fill, and I've read through all of the show descriptions and attended the first Fringe Preview (there's another one on Monday the 25th, and you can watch all of the previews on youtube here), and found some really exciting and promising stuff. Here are just a few of the shows on my must-see list this year (in alphabetical order). Click the show title for more information, location, and schedule.
The Abortion Chronicles/When She Became Me: I'm not sure why or how their are two shows about abortion this year, both based on real-life stories, but in an election year it's an important conversation to have as many times as necessary.
AfterLife: Candy Simmons, who wrote and performed one of my favorite 2013 Fringe shows Expiration Date, returns with another original solo show.
Ball: A Musical Tribute to My Lost Testicle: Max Wojtanowicz, part of the team that brought us the original musicals Fruit Fly and Shelly Bachberg, is back with an even more personal original musical, about his recent experience with cancer. As if I wasn't already sold, the preview I saw on Monday (which included no singing) was equal parts hilarious, awkward, and moving.
The Chair-Builders: I love the quirky and charming musicals created by Catalog Models (see also The Unknown Matters and Into the Unreal City), so I'm expecting this to be more of the same, but also different and new.
COUGAR-OKE the Improvised Soap Opera with Music: soap operas, improv, and karaoke by the people who brought us Disenchanted? Yes, please!
Couple Fight II: Friends and Family: a sequel to last year's hilarious Couple Fight, which was just that - real-life couples reenacting their real-life fights. Which is just funny when you're not in the middle of it. This year's installment extends the fights beyond just couples, and again includes Fringe faves.
The Fever: I'm not sure what to expect from this one, but Patrick O'Brien's performance in Underneath the Lintel was so masterful that I'm in for anything he does.
Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Alphabetical Order: these three out-of-towner classically trained musicians wowed the crowds (myself included) with their fast-paced mix of music, movement, and comedy at last year's Fringe. This year they're back with more! Trust me, it's fun, entertaining, and unlike anything else you'll see this year.
Game of Thrones: The Musical: if the title doesn't get you, I'm not sure what else I can say that will. It's Game of Thrones! The Musical!! With puppets!!! Good or bad, it's sure to be awesome.
Gilligan: A Tropical Musical: I was kind of on the fence about this one, until I saw Monday night's preview. The story of Gilligan rapped like the opening number of Hamilton? Genius!
The Gun Show: I heard a few excerpts from this play by EM Lewis at the Protect Minnesota benefit concert last year, and wrote that it "made me want to see the entire play. EM Lewis is one of those people who is in the middle - she grew up with guns in rural Oregon and still owns a gun, but recognizes that there needs to be some changes in the way we think about, legislate, and handle guns. The play is funny, honest, and thought-provoking." I'm thrilled to have the chance to see the entire play, and sadly the conversation about guns only gets more relevant and necessary with each passing day.
Itch: the preview of this show was basically three minutes of a dozen people walking around the stage itching and scratching until they were writhing on the floor in agony. Weird, but also strangely captivating and made me want to see more.
Lewis/Clark: I can't get enough of the foursome (the Tylers Mills and Michaels, along with their better halves Debra Berger and Emily King) that created last year's lovely and inventive To the Moon, so I'm all in for this show. (For another creation by the Tyler Ms, go see The Gest of Robin Hood at the Illusion this weekend as part of their "Fresh Ink" new works program.)
The Lounge-asaurus Rex Show with Lounge-asaurus Rex! (featuring Lounge-asaurus Rex): Tom Reed is back with his unique music/comedy/improv solo show, hooray! This year's show features his creation Lounge-asaurus Rex, the coolest and loungiest singer around. (See also Disney Dethroned and The Hungry Games.)
Now or Later: New Epic Theater got their start with Tennessee Williams' One Arm at the Fringe Festival just two years ago, and have gone on to become a really impressive company with a clear vision and aesthetic, including the recent epic pairing of The Normal Heart and Coriolanus. I expect this show to be another smart, gripping, intense, clearly designed and executed piece.
Know Your B-Movie Actors: you can't see Transatlantic Love Affair at the Fringe this year, but you can see Derek Lee Miller and some of the other TLA crew in this collection of weird-but-true Hollywood stories.
A Pie. A Duck. And a Shoe: after last year's "super delightful" Parent Observation Day, I'm excited to see what Sparkle Productions has up their sleeve this year, in which they promise "clever comedy, marvelous music, delightful dance, and an astonishing live animal act." I'm in!
Smash Hammer: there is one reason to see this show - Sam Landman. If you saw his bizarre and brilliant performance at this year's Fringe fundraiser Five-Fifths, or the Fringe show he wrote last year, or really any of his performances Fringe or otherwise, you know what I mean.
Snow Country: a comedy about a Minnesota airline by and featuring a bunch of funny women is something I will happily support (and very likely love).
Sometimes There's Wine: speaking of funny women, Shanan Custer and Carolyn Poole won an Ivey Award for their last show, 2 Sugars Room for Cream. And now they've graduated from coffee to wine. If it's half as funny and smart and poignant and real as 2 Sugars, you'll want to be there.
Theatre Forever's The Accident Book: after seeing Theatre Forever's lovely and innovative Nature Crown at the Guthrie last year, I don't want to miss anything they do, whatever it is.
There you have it! What's on your must-see list? Add it in the comments below, because I have another 30 or so timeslots left!
Happy Fringe-ing!
Labels: Candy Simmons, Casting Spells, Catalog Models, Derek Lee Miller, Fringe Festival, Max Wojtanowicz, New Epic Theater, Pat O'Brien, Sparkle Productions, The Gun Show, Theatre Forever, Tom Reed
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Q: JNA call with String behaves differently from one with byte[] I have a JNA Java interface for a C function mpv_set_option_string defined as:
public interface MPV extends StdCallLibrary {
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    long mpv_create();
    int mpv_initialize(long handle);
    int mpv_set_option_string(long handle, String name, String data);
}

When I call this like this:
System.setProperty("jna.encoding", "UTF8");

long handle = MPV.INSTANCE.mpv_create();
int error = MPV.INSTANCE.mpv_initialize(handle);
error = MPV.INSTANCE.mpv_set_option_string(handle, "keep-open", "always");

I get an error back (-5) from the last call, indicating the option (keep-open) is not found.
However, if I change the JNA function signature to:
int mpv_set_option_string(long handle, byte[] name, byte[] data);

...and then call it like this:
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);

...it returns no error (0) and works correctly (or so it seems).
What I don't get is, JNA is supposed to encode String by default as char * with UTF-8 encoding and NUL terminated (exactly what I do manually), yet I get different results.
Anyone able to shed some light on this?

A: Looks like I found the issue, although I'm not 100% sure what is happening.
It seems that using W32APIOptions.DEFAULT_OPTIONS means it will use the UNICODE settings (because w32.ascii property is false).   This looked okay to me, as mpv-1.dll works with UTF-8 strings only, which is Unicode.
However, now I'm guessing that in this case it means it will call a wide-char version of the library function (and if that doesn't exist, still call the original function), and probably means it encodes Strings with two bytes per character.  This is because most Win32 libraries have an ASCII and WIDE version of methods accepting strings, but nothing for UTF-8.
Since mpv-1.dll only accepts UTF-8 (and isn't really Win32), strings should be just encoded as bytes in UTF-8 format (basically, just leave them alone).  To let JNA know this, either donot pass a W32APIOptions map at all, or select the ASCII_OPTIONS manually.

A: You shouldn't be passing W32OPTIONS to a library that isn't a WIN32 API.
By default, JNA maps String to char*, so removing the options should fix the issue for you.
You should also be using an explicit native type for your handle instead of Java long.  Pointer is probably correct in this case.

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My initial thoughts for this challenge were of using contrasting colours in a positive/negative effect. After much deliberation, I refined this idea to use a bright colour in contrast to a mainly black background. I then decided on a simple motif, in the honesty pods, which would be represented in the opposite colour to the background they were on.
I used a densely discharged and overprinted black fabric in contrast to the fairly plain orange/yellow fabric to further emphasise the contrast.
The black honest pods are made from tulle netting, but I found that orange tulle was not sufficiently visible against the black background, so I constructed these from Bondaweb painted with diluted acrylic then covered with a fine orange chiffon.
I continued to use the contrast theme in the quilting, by using straight line machine quilting in the orange sections, as opposed to random hand stitched seeding on the black background. The stalks of the plants were chain stitched by hand, in the opposite colours to their backgrounds.
I hope that by keeping the design simple, the effect of the contrast is the main element of the finished piece.
I love the more subtle contrasts you have achieved in this piece, Joan. It reminds me of vases…or candles…glowing against the textural background.


The Kentucky Equality Federation says it is planning a public protest because two gay men with intellectual and developmental disabilities were kicked out of a recreational center run by the city of Hazard on Friday.
The federation, which advocates for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex, says the two were discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.
The city's attorney, however, said the facility does not discriminate, and "there is a dispute as to the facts of what transpired."
The men, who were not identified, had been swimming at the Hazard Pavilion with a group from Mending Hearts Inc., which provides care to people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
"The Pavilion staff immediately entered the pool area and asked my clients and their staff to leave the Pavilion," Shirlyn Perkins, executive director of Mending Hearts, said in a news release issued Monday by the Kentucky Equality Federation. She said her staff "were informed that 'gay people' weren't allowed to swim there."
Perkins said Mending Hearts staff members argued that their clients were being discriminated against, but the Pavilion staff member "stated that what he was doing was in the Bible and he could do it."
"My clients, whom already feel ridiculed and different, left the city-owned facility crying and embarrassed for trying to participate in 'normal' activities that everyday 'normal' people do," Perkins said.
Ollie Adams, co-owner of Mending Hearts, said a staff member told her that the Pavilion employee told the group to leave after one of the men sat on the other's knee and put his arm around him while sitting outside the pool. "There was no kissing and hugging," Adams said.
Paul Collins, the city's attorney, said that he is still investigating, but based on initial information, "there seems to be a wide disparity between the versions of the events."
"The staff at the Pavilion report to me that they do on some regular basis caution or warn individuals about excessive public displays of affection and that these warnings are given regardless of sexual orientation," Collins said.
City Manager Carlos Combs said that while Pavilion staffers try to stop public displays of affection, the city's policy is that "we don't discriminate against anyone."
Will Taylor, the Equality Federation's assistant regional director for Southern Kentucky, said he is planning a protest of city hall and the Pavilion unless "an official apology" is issued and "immediate corrective action" is taken.
"As a public community service, the Pavilion has a responsibility to provide equal treatment to all members of their facility and to properly educate their staff accordingly," Julia Oiler Spiegel, a representative of the federation, said in the news release.


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Home>Audio and Video>The East Building at Forty: Reflections from Curators Past and Present
The East Building at Forty: Reflections from Curators Past and Present
Panelists include E. A. Carmean Jr., a canon in the Episcopal Church and former curator and head of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art (1974–1984); Jack Cowart, founding executive director, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, and former curator and head of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art (1984–1993); Mark Rosenthal, independent curator, former head of modern and contemporary art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and former curator and head of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art (1993–1997); Marla Prather, former curator of modern and contemporary art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and former curator and head of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art (1996–1999); and Jeffrey Weiss, former senior curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and former curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art (1999–2007).
The National Gallery of Art was conceived and given to the people of the United States by Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937). In 1936 Mellon wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt offering to donate his art collection for a new museum and his own funds to construct a building for its use. With the president's support, Congress accepted Mellon's gift and established the Gallery in March 1937. Andrew Mellon had anticipated that the collections would grow beyond the capacity of the original building, and at his request, Congress had set aside an adjacent plot of land for future use. In 1967 Andrew Mellon's children, Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce, offered funds for a second building, and architect I. M. Pei (b. 1917) was selected to design it. Construction of the East Building began in 1971, and artists such as Henry Moore and Alexander Calder were commissioned to create works for the space. On June 1, 1978, Paul Mellon and President Jimmy Carter dedicated the new museum to the people of the United States. To celebrate the East Building's 40th anniversary on June 1, 2018, the Gallery's current and former head curators of 20th-century art gathered to reflect upon their experiences acquiring art and planning special exhibitions.

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Володи́мир Анато́лійович Бодру́хін — солдат резерву Збройних сил України.

Нагороди
За особисту мужність і героїзм, виявлені у захисті державного суверенітету та територіальної цілісності України, вірність військовій присязі під час російсько-української війни
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Phyllis A. Kravitch
Phyllis Adele Kravitch (August 23, 1920 – June 15, 2017) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia.
Phyllis Adele Kravitch
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
December 31, 1996 – June 15, 2017
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
October 1, 1981 – December 31, 1996
Appointed by
operation of law
Seat established
Frank M. Hull
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
March 23, 1979 – October 1, 1981
Lewis Render Morgan
Seat abolished
(1920-08-23)August 23, 1920
June 15, 2017(2017-06-15) (aged 96)
Armstrong State University (A.A.)
Goucher College (B.A.)
University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.B.)
1 Education and career
2 Federal judicial service
3 Feeder judge
4 Later years and death
Education and careerEdit
Kravitch was born in Savannah, Georgia, one of four daughters of Aaron Kravitch, an attorney, and Ella B. Wiseman.[1][2] She attended Armstrong Junior College in Savannah receiving an Associate of Arts degree in 1939. She later obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Goucher College in 1941.[3] She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1943, her father Aaron's alma mater (Law 1917).[4][1] At the University of Pennsylvania she served on the Law Review Board of Editors. She was in private practice from 1944 to 1976 and then served from 1977 to 1979 as a judge of the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia.[5][6]
Federal judicial serviceEdit
Kravitch was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on January 19, 1979, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated by Judge Lewis Render Morgan. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 21, 1979, and received her commission on March 23, 1979, becoming the third woman to serve as a United States Circuit Judge.[7][8][9] Her service terminated on October 1, 1981, due to reassignment.[6]
Kravitch was reassigned by operation of law on October 1, 1981, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, to a new seat authorized by 94 Stat. 1994.[6] She assumed senior status on December 31, 1996.[10][11] Her service terminated on June 15, 2017, due to her death at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.[12]
Feeder judgeEdit
Four of Kravitch's law clerks went on to clerk at the United States Supreme Court, including Steven L. Chanenson, Beth S. Brinkmann, Joseph L. Hoffmann and Paul H. Schwartz.
Later years and deathEdit
Kravitch assumed senior status on December 31, 1996.[10][11] On June 15, 2017, Kravitch died at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.[12][13]
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^ Poole, Sheila M. (June 14, 2012). "Carter honored for appointing women, African Americans to the federal bench". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
^ Poole, Sheila (March 20, 2017). "Jewish women honor John Lewis, Hillary Clinton in Atlanta". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
^ a b "United States Courts" (PDF).
^ a b Rankin, Bill (December 1, 2011). "Court appears ready to hand legal victory to transgender woman". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
^ a b "Judge Phyllis Kravitch dies, recalled as small in stature with giant reputation". Savannah Now.com, June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
^ "Phyllis Kravitch, Judge Who Opened Doors for Herself, Dies at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
Oral History of Phyllis A. Kravitch, conducted by Anne Emanuel, Laurie Kotz, July-August 2013. Senior Lawyers Division, American Bar Association.
Biography of Judge Kravitch at Federal Judicial Center.
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Q: pool соединений(JDBC) с базой данных mySQL из GlassFish 4.1.2 При ping-е соединения выходит ошибка:
Ping Connection Pool failed for mySQLpool. Class name is wrong or classpath
is not set for : com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource Please check
the server.log for more details.

Драйвер закидывал уже куда только можно. Никак.
Вот настройки соединения:
password        Password

databaseName    library

serverName      localhost

user            root

portNumber      3306

Не пингуется. Я не знаю что еще можно сделать.
Особо не ругайте, я ноль практически, только начинаю.

A: GlassFish не может найти ваш JDBC драйвер.
См. NetBeans in the Classroom: MySQL JDBC Connection Pool & JDBC Resource for GlassFish и Setting the GlassFish JVM Classpath to the Database Drivers


Two elderly Roman Catholic nuns who have spent decades sounding the plea for peace say they are more hopeful than ever that nuclear weapons will be annihilated.
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) — As political tensions mount over North Korea's ballistic missile testing, two elderly Roman Catholic nuns who have spent decades sounding the plea for peace say they are more hopeful than ever that nuclear weapons — not the world — will be annihilated.
"We trust, we believe, we know that we are well on the way to a nuclear-free world and future," said Sister Ardeth Platte, a Dominican nun.
"We're in an extremely dangerous time," Platte said. "A strike could be launched from Colorado within 15 minutes and go 7,000 miles to its target within half an hour. It would be total devastation."
At 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, they'll present to Peterson Air Force Base personnel a copy of the new United Nations' Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
They'll repeat the action at 2:45 p.m. Oct. 10 at Schriever Air Force Base.
"We want the citizens of Colorado to know about this treaty," Gilbert said. "The treaty would make nuclear weapons illegal."
"We're coming as peacemakers and peace advocates, to teach and show our concern," Platte said. "Our politicians could be heroes of these times, if they start working with nations rather than against nations."
In September 2000, Platte, Gilbert and three other Catholic nuns were arrested for civil disobedience at Peterson Air Force Base and jailed. The charges were subsequently dropped. They've also served time in other states for nonviolent acts of civil disobedience.
Prison provided the opportunity to do their best Christian ministry, Gilbert said.
"We feel it is the closest that we can be with the poor of this country because jails and prisons are warehouses for the poor," she said. "You learn people who have nothing are so generous in sharing, you learn what a waste the prison industrial complex is."
The work of Platte and Gilbert has been "very significant," said Bill Sulzman, founder of Colorado Springs-based Citizens for Peace in Space, an activist group that opposes the use of space for war-related activities.
"It's unique in the sense that it's primarily a moral argument against nuclear weapons and the phenomenon of modern-day war," he said. "Not supporting it is one thing, actively opposing it is another."
As part of a non-governmental organization, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the nuns attended a United Nations conference in New York, when on July 7, 122 countries — two-thirds of the 193-member states — adopted the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Treaty. It's the first legally binding multilateral agreement for nuclear disarmament in 20 years.
"I've been working on this issue for 50 years, and this is the greatest hope I've had," Platte said. "We finally have a tool, a treaty that declares criminality to the possession and threat of using nuclear weapons."
Even if the United States, Russia and other countries with nuclear warheads never get on board, "it won't matter because there will be great pressure by other nations," Platte said. "People are much wiser as we come closer and closer to nuclear holocaust."
"This is just the beginning of the implementation — we have gained real momentum," Platte said.
The atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945 were small compared to today's weapons of mass destruction, the sisters said.
If a nuclear war were to happen now, "that is the elimination of the planet," Platte said.
"We believe that the way to solve nations not having nuclear weapons is the total elimination," Platte said. "It's time to get rid of them."


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This week, our flight reaches the end of first series of twenty-first century Who, which means that we spend most of the time talking about Daleks and kissing, while everyone else dies. It's The Parting of the Ways.
Now that the Daleks are here, we should direct you again to the TV Century 21 Dalek comic strips, which were published from 1965 to 1967, and featured more Daleks than the TV series could ever afford. You can find a lot of them here.
Nathan mentions a commentary on Forest of the Dead starring Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat and David Tennant. It's absolutely worth a listen — it was released soon after the announcement that Moffat would be taking over from Russell, and before David Tennant's departure was announced.
James suggests that we work up to the outbreak of the Last Great Time War, by listening to Series 6 of Big Finish's Gallifrey series.
Todd reminisces fondly of a time before the Daleks appeared in groups bigger than four, and recommends watching Death to the Daleks.
Last week, Richard talked about Marina Warner's writing about mythology and fairy tales. This week, he suggests that you pick up a copy of Signs and Wonders, a book of her essays on a wide range of cultural topics.
Todd again
Todd remembers that he promised to pick Billie Piper's 2000 album Day and Night. So he does that.
Nathan fails to come up with an impressively interesting pick, and just decides to plug Jodie into Terror instead.
We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll tell you how worthless we think your life is before storming tearfully out of the café.
Every week on Jodie into Terror we dispense steaming hot takes on the latest episode of Series 11. Last week, we were lucky enough to get the opportunity to chat about Demons of the Punjab; we'll be back this Tuesday with our thoughts on Episode 7. You can find Jodie into Terror at jodieintoterror.com, @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, and on Apple Podcasts.
Over on Bondfinger, we have commentary podcasts on every single James Bond film, including one that Nathan quite liked before everyone successfully talked him out of it.
https://flightthroughentirety.com/podcast-player/1308/fostering-tagging.mp3


Grapes are a beautiful and flavorful addition to a Thanksgiving turkey – whether they are dècor, included in the stuffing or served as a side. Here are three stuffing recipes, a unique cranberry grape relish and tips on decorating the turkey to ensure turkey time is tasty time.
Hazelnuts, bacon and of course, grapes, make this wild rice stuffing an exceptional choice for the Thanksgiving celebration.
Created by Sarah-Jane Bedwell, RD, LDN, this recipe will smell as wonderful as it will taste with fresh sage and butternut squash lending their flavors to this delicious stuffing. Click here for the recipe.
A simpler take on the wild rice stuffing above, this recipe allows the grapes to take center stage with support from onion, celery and apple.
Incredibly simple to make, this relish combines the tartness of cranberries and sweetness of grapes into a delightful relish that perfectly accompanies turkey.
Accent a beautiful turkey with beautiful grapes for friends and family to admire…before it's all gobbled up! After placing the cooked turkey on a large platter, decorate with a variety of fresh herbs and small bunches of grapes. The dècor will be a delicious sweet treat once served.


The Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway is a small RNA-based innate immune system that defends germ cell genomes against transposons. In Drosophila ovaries, the nuclear Piwi protein is required for transcriptional silencing of transposons, though the precise mechanisms by which this occurs are unknown. Here we show that the CG9754 protein is a component of Piwi complexes that functions downstream of Piwi and its binding partner, Asterix, in transcriptional silencing. Enforced tethering of CG9754 to nascent messenger RNA transcripts causes cotranscriptional silencing of the source locus and the deposition of repressive chromatin marks. We have named CG9754 "Panoramix," and we propose that this protein could act as an adaptor, scaffolding interactions between the piRNA pathway and the general silencing machinery that it recruits to enforce transcriptional repression.


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Thanks Stephany. This was the one that I was reminded of when I saw yours with the hummingbirds and trumpet vine flowers.
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Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Susan has been drawing and painting all her life. After high school, she attended the VANCOUVER SCHOOL of ART and EMILY CARR INSTITUTE of ART & DESIGN for fine art & illustration. A few years later, Susan attended KWANTLEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE where she attained her ASSOCIATE DEGREE in GRAPHIC DESIGN. She has been freelancing since 1987, mostly fine art commissions and some book illustration and graphic design. Susan's forte is in illustrations of children, fantasy and nature.


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Special focus is placed on the PSoC® microcontrollers (Programmable System on Chip) as well as the Embedded Memory and USB-ASSP solutions. The PSoC® family of microcontrollers includes four subfamilies with more than 500 individual chip solutions. PSoC®4 and PSoC®5 work on a Cortex®-M0 / M0+ or Cortex®-M3 basis and offer additional high-quality hardware such as capacitive touch function or Bluetooth Low Energy. With the PSoC®4 BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), CYPRESS currently offers the fi rst fully functioning Bluetooth 4.2 "single-chip solution" with bestin-class integration.
FM = Flexible MCU – The 32-bit microcontroller platform with over 700 derivatives is based on the ARM® Cortex™- M0+, Cortex®-M3, Cortex®-M4F processor cores. FM Family is intended for use in the industrial sector.
The license for the new ARM® Cortex®-M7 strengthens the PSoC® and FM families to a great extent.
Be your own semiconductor manufacturer – Design your own chip!
What is the biggest advantage of using the modern PSoC® MCUs? You can now integrate your digital and analogue components directly in the IC rather than having to attach them externally.
You can now realise numerous digital functions which run in real time, leaving the CPU free for other tasks. Implement your own interfaces, counters, oscillators and much more according to your own requirements. Special register elements create data connections in both directions between the CPU and the digital circuit. A powerful library with more than 150 circuit elements is available. You can individually create and easily add additional elements.
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COP26, ESG and business impact: why is it important?
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The past few months have brought into sharp relief an area of business and investment that has been steadily growing in importance.
Organisations of all sizes are experiencing increasing pressure from regulation and shifting consumer expectations to measure and improve on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. The term ESG is broader than just sustainable business practices, or corporate social responsibility, and builds on the convergence of a range societal issues that have led consumers and investors to focus more closely on the actions and practices of the businesses they interact with, and how their impact is measured and reported.
But how can businesses improve their ESG impact and reporting, and why is it important?
What is driving the emergence of ESG reporting?
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) was recently hosted in Glasgow and has acted as the perfect stage for discussions concerning the 'E' in ESG on a global scale. From an environmental perspective, over half of Australia's 80 top-emitting ASX200 companies have announced their respective net-zero or carbon-neutral goals, with some committing to purchasing 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2025. This opportunity for the world's biggest businesses to demonstrate their own progress also puts pressure on smaller businesses to commit to change.
Increasingly consumers and community stakeholders are placing pressure on organisations to behave in a way that mitigates ESG risks. Some countries and economic powerhouses like the UK or the EU are enforcing reporting and disclosure of ESG factors through regulation and mandatory reporting guidelines. Locally, most super funds are pressuring their investees to report and disclose their ESG factors.
As such investors, local and state government and larger businesses are being driven to look more closely at their activities, supply chain processes and related assets through an ESG lens.
This trickles down to impact the Australian middle market through contract obligations with larger clients, tender selection criteria and market dynamics such as asset valuation. Another key driver comes from direct consumer or interest group activities, such as social media movements and community activism. There are risks to clients in not being ESG-aware. But when well-managed and reported these risks can become opportunities.
What are the potential risks if businesses don't act on ESG?
Risks that could be associated with mismanaged ESG considerations and reporting include:
Lost opportunities for contract renewal or gaining new work
Risk of lower company valuations
Constrained lending/funding and higher cost of capital
Higher insurance premiums
Loss of clients
Less measurable but just as real is the blow to a business' reputation that can come with bad press and social media criticism, as well as a reduced opportunity to attract and retain good talent.
Opportunities to look out for
While COP26 putting a spotlight on ESG outcomes can highlight some pain points for a business it also presents opportunities. Particularly for businesses able to transition faster than their competitors, deliver services or goods that support a low-carbon future, or demonstrate a commitment to ESG through transparent governance processes and robust reporting.
Besides differentiating a business from the competition, the first mover advantage can lead to capitalising on a megatrend expected to shape economies and business activity for decades to come.
There are a range of templates that have been established by Pitcher Partners and Baker Tilly to provide a framework for effective ESG reporting. It can be done as standalone ESG reporting or as part of an annual reporting exercise.
Looking to the future, in an exciting development during COP26 we have seen a major step to globally aligned ESG reporting. The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation Trustees announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Companies and stakeholders have historically struggled with the myriad of sustainability standards, frameworks and metrics and the ISSB ideals will provide the foundation for the consistent and global environmental (and hopefully by extension social and governance) reporting standards of the future.
But even as we wait for the associated frameworks and standards to take shape, the return on investment of proactively measuring, reporting on and improving ESG performance will continue to grow.
To learn more about how to identify your ESG risks and measure your ESG performance effectively, contact your Pitcher Partners specialist.


Pipeline protests in support of a native blockade in Northern B.C. drew hundreds of people in B.C., Tuesday.
Crowds estimated at 300 strong spilled into downtown Vancouver streets following police arrests at the protest camp near Houston, B.C., on Monday.


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It was a really nice experience for them. They could experiment how is feel to have a visual disability and take more awareness. Everyone enjoyed the activity.
Two persons with disabilities joined the event. They were Erasmus, so they participated in the activity as everyone else. One girl had a visual disability and the other a physical disability.


More than 450 New Jersey law-enforcement officers from approximately 150 different departments are scheduled to participate in one of two daylong autism recognition and awareness training sessions being sponsored by the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey, marking an expansion of the program from its inaugural session held last year.
The two sessions of "Autism and Law Enforcement: Recognition, Response and Risk Management" will be held Monday, March 17 at Brookdale Community College in the Lincroft section of Middletown and Tuesday, March 18 at Bergen Community College in Paramus, with nationally renowned autism/law enforcement trainer Dennis Debbaudt of Port St. Lucie, Fla. conducting the training. The Union County Prosecutor's Office is coordinating the program, which was introduced in March 2013, when approximately 300 law-enforcement officers from more than 100 departments underwent training at Union County College in Cranford.
The New Jersey Autism Study – a joint project by the New Jersey Medical School, the New Jersey Departments of Education and Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous developmental health centers and school districts in the Garden State – determined in 2008 that approximately 1 in 49 children who were part of a study group in Union County were affected by an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. The National Institute of Mental Health defines such afflictions as developmental brain disorders, with the term "spectrum" referring to a wide range of symptoms, skills, and levels of impairment or disability that those with an ASD can have.
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If you work at a small business, you know how important it is that employees are at the top of their game at all times. Unfortunately, one of the best ways to ensure their skills are in peak form — regular training — is often thought of as an investment of time and money that a small business cannot spare. This is a big mistake!
Try some of these strategies to make sure that your employees are ready for all the challenges that come their way!
You don't need a whole training department right away. A quick way to start developing employee skills is to pick out an experienced team member with good communication skills, and charge them with passing on their knowledge to other workers.
Set up regular employee shadowing and encourage team members to take on new responsibilities. This will reduce the burden on your organization if someone leaves. Several people may be able to pick up the slack, and it will make training new employees easier since there won't be just one or two people who can get a new hire up to speed.
Many industry associations offer resources such as regular conferences and focused training sessions that can quickly help your team build a specific skill. They can also help you find knowledgeable speakers and online training resources for your employees.
All the training in the world is worthless if it doesn't actually improve your business. Make sure you have measurable metrics that will reflect how well the training programs work to increase performance over time. If certain programs don't seem to be worth the time and expense, scrap them and look for fresh options!
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Democracy in America | Inequality
Washington's rich, but the 1% are elsewhere
The Occupy Wall Street movement picked the right spot for its first camp-out
By M.S.
THOSE figures showing the Washington, DC metropolitan area is now the richest region in the country by median household income are striking and significant, and I agree with my colleague that "the reasons Washington has become so rich are surely among the reasons Americans so loathe Washington," that they point towards self-enriching networks of private companies and government employees handing each other jobs and contracts, and that much of that self-enrichment is linked to vast expansions in our staggeringly expensive security state and vast bail-outs directed by the "Washington/Wall Street nexus". That said, I think it's slightly off-target to link Washington's high median household income to a discussion of the burgeoning gap between the top 1% of earners in the country and the bottom 99%. The median income in the Washington area is indeed very high, but not because the richest people in America live in the Washington area; they don't. They're more likely to live in San Jose, the metropolitan area Washington displaced in 2010 as the richest by median income. Indeed, if we look at average rather than median income, San Jose was slightly richer than Washington in 2010. And a significantly higher percentage of San Jose households earned over $200,000—12.8% v 11.8%.
San Jose is a city with a lot of staggeringly rich tech zillionaires and a lot of not-at-all-rich working-class immigrant families. Washington is a city of high-paid federal workers on a relatively graduated pay scale; it has very high median incomes, but its income is strikingly evenly distributed. I haven't been able to find a more recent version, but take a look at this map of income inequality in America based on the 2000 census data (h/t Catherine Mulbrandon's Visualizing Economics site):
The Washington metropolitan area shows up as one of the least unequal regions in America outside the Midwest. This is particularly remarkable because urban areas tend to feature high levels of inequality; look how the red shades into black in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston and so on. Inequality has probably increased in the Washington area since 2000, as it has across the country, but the most recent census data I could find showed Washington still had one of the lowest Gini coefficients of any metropolitan area in America. Because I'm not very good with the Census's FactFinder website, and am even worse with Excel, I'm afraid I'm just going to type out the 2010 household income Gini coefficients I found for a series of metropolitan areas rather than pump out a nice infographic.
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metro Area:0.473
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area:0.459
Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metro Area:0.456
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX Metro Area:0.472
Jacksonville, FL Metro Area:0.460
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV Metro Area:0.440
Lexington-Fayette, KY Metro Area:0.461
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA Metro Area:0.483
Lubbock, TX Metro Area:0.468
Mayagüez, PR Metro Area:0.583
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area:0.500
Midland, TX Metro Area:0.506
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area:0.439
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA Metro Area:0.483
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area:0.501
Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area:0.460
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area:0.471
Pittsburgh, PA Metro Area:0.465
St. Cloud, MN Metro Area:0.402
St. Louis, MO-IL Metro Area:0.454
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA Metro Area:0.458
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area:0.472
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area:0.452
Santa Fe, NM Metro Area:0.501
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area:0.464
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area:0.434
If you go down to the county level, you find that the District of Columbia itself has a very high Gini index, but that's not so much because it has a lot of rich people as because it has a lot of poor people. For the the same reason, the counties with the highest Gini coefficients in the country are in Puerto Rico. But the county with the very highest Gini coefficient in the 50 states is New York County, otherwise known as Manhattan. And we all know why that is. I wish I could have generated a map like the above one that simply shows where the top 1% of households (those making more than $340,000 in 2010) live, but that data is hard to come by; the census data only break things down up to "$200,000 or over". But judging by the income-inequality data, it seems to me that the Occupy Wall Street movement, which to the extent that it has a central issue is basically about protesting inequality and spectacular concentrations of wealth, picked the right spot for its first camp-out.
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MONMOUTH, Ore.– When Post 20's Hunter Johnson stepped to the dish, teammate Jackson Holstead just knotted it up at four-apiece with no outs on the board.
The story leading up to this was a roller-coaster of a ride leading up to Holstead's tying shot and with pinch runner Shaun Dhote at second base, in for Luis Amador, 180 feet away from the win to best describe this game.
Through the first four innings, the Dirtbags jumped on-top of the Dodgers Cody Vestal for three runs on four walks and five hits to lead their cross-bridge rival 3-0 entering the Top of the fifth inning.
"We had a plan and that plan was, 'See fast-ball up and hit'. At first it was hard because it was fast ball down and we were swinging at a few bad pitches," described Johnson in the first couple of innings of the game as they slowly timed up Vestal's arm angels to jump out in front.
Though the magician that is Vestal with his arm-angles had two strikeouts in three-and-two-third innings, Withnell settled in when South Salem's Gavin Fredinburg came in for relief and had shut down the Post 20 offense.
Up until the top fourth inning, Noah Boatwright's single was the lone hit for the Dodgers, but slowly the bats of the Dodgers woke up as Tori Doten's RBI single broke the shutout and eventually by the end of the top of the seventh inning, thanks to Max Long's two-RBI double, Withnell went to that bottom-half lead with the lead.
For the remainder of the game, both sides traded hits and defensive masterful plays that included a Dirtbag double-play in the Top of the sixth inning a Long catching the final out of the sixth behind teammate Nick Orlandini as we went to the bottom of the ninth inning.
It was tense, similar to that of big games that both teams had throughout the season. But Post 20 remembers June 25. They remember losing the Championship game of the Willamette Classic to Withnell as Anthony Zellner singles and is bunted over.
They remember that 10-8 result as they tie the game. That pain came to fruition Sunday afternoon at Western Oregon University this time instead of Willamette when Johnson connected on the first pitch he saw that brought Dhote home from second base for the win and denying the Dodgers of a victory on this day.
"I mean we came off hot at the very beginning and then we kind of let them back in," said Johnson of the hit. "We kind of took some innings off which is bad and then we came out and the guys in front of me got on and done their job and I got up there.
Pain is there for Withnell, they know it's their turn to answer back and Johnson admits that they know that the Dodgers will be seeking revenge Monday in South Salem for the 2pm start of the doubleheader; and Withnell knows they can get it done with what they showed in the second-half of this first game.


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'An exquisite treatment of a much-discussed subject': Waleed Aly reviews On Warne in the Monthly.
'His best book yet': Australian Test cricketer Ed Cowan's speech, launching On Warne.
Gideon Haigh is recognised as one of the world's great cricket writers: he has long covered the game for the Guardian. In On Warne, he takes as his subject a man known more for his off-field antics than his status as a truly gifted world-class sportsman. The portrait he paints is of an ordinary man with extraordinary gifts, elevated by them to the international stage.
This is not a traditional biography, nor is its interest confined to cricket tragics. Divided into five thematic sections, this is presented as a series of interlinked essays. Drawing on interviews conducted with Warne over the course of a decade, and two decades of watching him play, Haigh assesses this greatest of sportsmen as cricketer, character, comrade, newsmaker and national figure – a natural in an increasingly regimented time, a simplifier in a growingly complicated world.
The result is a whole new way of looking at Warne, at sport, and at Australia – a book that seems certain to remain a sporting classic.
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for nearly 30 years, contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, and written 26 books. He holds the record for games played at South Yarra CC, a triumph of availability over ability.
This superbly written biography marshals discipline, wit, evidence and cheek in a fearless examination of Warne and of modern cricket. Haigh puts an elegant spin on his restrained yet rich narrative, thoughtful phrase after airy insight, flipping through his vocabulary and delivering both the insider's view and the offerings of a considered and perceptive observer.
The non-fiction judging panel also wished to commend Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari, by Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation.
Is Gideon Haigh the 'finest cricket writer alive', as dubbed by the Australian? Certainly, when it comes to prolificacy of cricket writing, Haigh has runs on the board. Apart from his widely published, and much lauded, cricket journalism, he is the author of seventeen other books on cricket, including the very entertaining The Vincibles which chronicles one of Haigh's seasons at his beloved South Yarra Cricket Club. But is he the 'finest'? Reading On Warne, you could easily believe so.
One approaches a book about Warne with certain expectations, especially when it comes to the subject of his personal life. Haigh helpfully states in the very first chapter: 'This is an examination of Warne's craft, an analysis of his career, and a survey of his phenomenon, while I'm still able to remember what it was like to live through all of them.' He does this through five incisive chapters: 'The Making of Warne', 'The Art of Warne', 'The Men of Warne' (where he examines Warne's career through his relations with 'four other pivotal personalities of his era'), 'The Trials of Warne' and 'The Sport of Warne'.
Throughout, Haigh maintains a balance between erudite enthusiasm and clear-thinking commentary. While it is obvious that Haigh has great admiration for Warne's skill and quite likes him in person (Haigh quotes Jana Wendt who, after interviewing Warne concluded that it was 'uncommonly easy to like him and a little harder to explain why'), Haigh doesn't shy away from confronting Warne's excesses and follies and analysing them without hysteria. Refreshingly, instead of labelling Warne an 'enigma' or 'just a boy from the suburbs', Haigh manages to portray Warne as a realistic, fallible human being – albeit one with extraordinary skill on the cricket field. Haigh employs his specialist knowledge of cricket to give the reader a comprehensive view of Warne's accomplishments, statistics and all, but also manages to wield that same specialist knowledge lightly enough to make the book an engaging read for those not so familiar with cricket. His intelligent and lively prose elucidates his subject, Warne, through anecdotes as well as cultural observations about Australia and its relationship with sport and sporting heroes. On Warne is cricket writing, or writing, of the highest order, a biography that is so much more than a biography.


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