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The White Snake-Stuns not with Venom but with Beauty
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Chinese Folktale-
The White Snake, React Theatre's superb production of Mary Zimmerman's play of the same name, now playing at 12th Ave Arts, was 95 minutes of sheer aesthetic beauty involving exquisite original music, incredibly creative visual effects, excellent acting and a truly amazing script. It was delightful in its simplicity and simply delightful.
One of the four great Chinese folktales, the tale of The White Snake has evolved over the years from a horror story to a romance. It has been performed as an opera in China, musical theatre in Hong Kong, and a dance piece in Taiwan. Zimmerman's English version premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012. React's production is the first all Asian Cast in the U.S. And what a cast it was!!!
A Bright Room Called Day-During a gloomy epoch called the Rise of the Third Reich
Posted by Marie Bonfils on 31 Oct 2018 / 0 Comment
You would sleep with a Nazi?????????
Well, you sleep with a Trostkyite!
The above quote sums up a lot about the multi-leveled conflicts, presented in A Bright Room Called Day, by Tony Kushner, produced by The Williams Project at The Hillman City Collaboratory on Rainier Ave, in South Seattle near Columbia City. Since Drama in the Hood's mission has always been to review the shows in the neighborhoods, I was delighted to see this show in a place, south of the I-90 bridge, in a space which serves the community as a sort of "multi-purpose" room, at a cost anybody can afford. ( Pay What You Can)
Hostages-Gallows Humor
A play of mine called Hostages, written almost thirty years ago … I'm curious to see how it stands up after all these years…….Yussef El Guindi
Hostages, by Yussef El Guindi, which opened this weekend at 18th and Union is only tangentially about the political situation in the Middle East, the essence of Hostages is the relationship between two individuals, who do not like each other, stuck in an isolated situation for an unbearably long period of time.
It could have been written yesterday to remind us that even though the initial perpetrators of the current Middle East crisis, the two Bush presidents, have been out of office for a long time, presidents Clinton, Obama and the 45th have all been unable to create peace and stop the bombing of innocent civilians.
But, it also could have been written 100 years ago during the Russian civil war, about an aristocrat and a liberal democrat being imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, or 72 years ago when disgraced ex-concentration camp commandant Nazis were imprisoned with generals involved in the Stauffenberg plot to assassinate Hitler, because the play spoke about universal human emotions. I predict that this play will be just as relevant in 500 years as Shakespeare is today.
I and You-Verbal Pas de Deux
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman
I and You, an utterly fascinating two person play, inspired by Walt Whitman's poems in Leaves of Grass, opened at Theater Schmeater this weekend. The author, Lauren Gunderson, is currently the most produced playwright in the U.S., having won numerous awards; judging by this play, the awards seem well deserved. Varsha Raghavan, who played Caroline, is possibly the most accomplished actress currently working in Seattle.
Brainpeople
You want to know what the soul is like
This one's in shreds. José Rivera
Written by Oscar nominated José Rivera, produced by Seattle's Latino Theatre Projects, Brainpeople, an extremely interesting play, opened this weekend at Theatre off Jackson, complete with exceptional production values and a cast to match.
The Moonshine Revival Tent: Revives Story Telling
Modern Storytelling
Two delightful Storytelling shows are running this weekend at 18th and Union, Why the Moon Hides his Face and All Her Earthly Days (and other American Fairy Tales) both by Bret Fetzer's The Moonshine Revival Tent crew, which is a unique fusion of storytelling and a cappella choral singing. Written by the eloquent Bret Fetzer, his fairy tales take place in a world half-Appalachian, half-Dust-Bowl, where magic springs from coal mines and cigarettes, where there is always a morality, wit, superb writing, delightful singing and an excellent performance from Bret and singer Sari Breznau, Mike Gilson, Christine Longé and Jillian Vashro
The Diabolical Elixir-A Live Radio Show of the Gothic Variety
The Diabolical Elixir
Thanks to Garrison Keiller and the downloadable internet, radio shows and radio plays i.e plays written specifically for radio, have had a revival. N.B. Competition with television made radios shows and plays dinosaurs in the U.S. in the '50s and '60s. In Seattle, there is not only Sandbox Productions, which has quarterly productions, but also Madcap Melodrama. On Tuesday, September 23, Madcap performed a live original radio play The Diabolical Elixir, a spoof of 19th Century melodrama, with an outstanding cast and exquisite sound effects
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Posted by Marie Bonfils on 24 Sep 2018 / 0 Comment
Erst kommt das Fressen,
Dann kommt die Moral
(First ya gotta have a full belly,
Then morality follows.) Bertholdt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht's Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, (imperfectly translated as The Good Woman of Szechuan, instead of the Good Person or more literally the Good Human Being ) opened at ACT Lab this weekend. It poses the great moral question of all time: "Is it possible for a morally good person to survive in a society ruled by egotism, corruption, exploitation and greed." The answer Brecht, who died in 1956, would have given would be "not under Capitalism." In 2018, knowing about the corruption of various Capitalist, Communist and Religious regimes, it seems there is no answer.
The Luring Well did not Lure me in
Too much Angst,
K. Brian Neel's solo performance world premier The Luring Well, opened at 18th and Union this weekend. Termed a "Ukele Horror Song Cycle," in which "Two Midwest kids discover a bottomless well in the woods and proceed to throw bad things into it: a feral cat, a menacing bully, a cruel teacher, a true love" had its merits but was just too ängstlich (full of angst) for me.
Skylight-Insightful and Funny
Battle of the sexes: A Nouveau Riche woos a Do-Gooder.
The date, 1995, when David Hare's play Skylight, now playing at ACT theatre, first opened in London is highly significant, being the twilight years of the glorious reign of Thatcherism. In many ways, the play, ostensibly about whether a couple will rekindle their relationship, is actually a metaphor for two different perspectives to the Thatcher years. Right down to the Tesco "carrier bag" the details and especially the wit are very English, but it has universal resonance
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England had a strange World Cup. They lost three matches yet returned as heroes, but also didn't lose any game which really mattered inside 90 minutes. It was certainly a successful tournament from a PR perspective, as the England team reconnected with a fan base which had grown increasingly disconnected. The real question is whether or not they can sustain the love-in for a couple of years until the next European Championships.
Gareth Southgate's first chance to uphold his newly found superstar status comes over the next week, when England take on Spain in UEFA's gleaming new Nations League competition, then play a friendly against Switzerland. He has selected his squad, so at Twelve we thought it'd be interesting to pick the best team based on the players' performance this season.
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module DbAgile
  class Command
    module Robust
      include DbAgile::Core::IO::Robustness

      # Raises an OptionParser::InvalidArgument
      def bad_argument_list!(rest, expected_name = nil)
        if rest.empty?
          raise OptionParser::MissingArgument, "#{expected_name}"
        else
          raise OptionParser::InvalidArgument, "#{rest.join(' ')}"
        end
      end

      # Raises an OptionParser::AmbiguousArgument
      def ambigous_argument_list!
        raise OptionParser::AmbiguousArgument, "Ambiguous options"
      end

      # Parses pending arguments, assert that it contains exactly
      # types.size arguments, and convert them to types.
      def valid_argument_list!(rest, *types)
        if rest.size == types.size
          result = rest.zip(types).collect do |arg, type|
            if String == type
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            else
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            end
          end
          result.size == 1 ? result[0] : result
        elsif rest.size < types.size
          raise OptionParser::MissingArgument
        else
          raise OptionParser::NeedlessArgument, rest
        end
      end

      # Asserts that an argument matches some candidates or
      # raises a OptionParser::InvalidArgument error.
      def is_in!(name, value, candidates)
        value = valid_argument_list!([ value ], candidates.first.class)
        unless candidates.include?(value)
          raise OptionParser::InvalidArgument, "Expected one of #{candidates.inspect} for #{name}"
        end
        value
      end

      # Checks that a file exists and can be read or raises an IO error
      def valid_read_file!(file)
        raise IOError, "Unable to read #{file}" unless File.file?(file) and File.readable?(file)
        file
      end

      #
      # Asserts that a command exists or raises a NoSuchCommandError.
      #
      # @return [DbAgile::Command] the command instance
      #
      def has_command!(name, env)
        cmd = DbAgile::Command.command_for(name, env)
        if cmd.nil?
          DbAgile::Command::CATEGORIES.each{|c|
            cmd = DbAgile::Command.command_for("#{c}:#{name}", env)
            return cmd if cmd
          }
          raise DbAgile::NoSuchCommandError, "No such command #{name.inspect}"
        else
          cmd
        end
      end

      #
      # Raises a DbAgile::AssumptionFailedError with a specific message
      #
      def assumption_error!(msg)
        raise DbAgile::AssumptionFailedError, msg
      end

    end # module Robust
  end # class Command
end # module DbAgile

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Connecticut wins early round in casino court fight with MGM
by Mark Pazniokas June 21, 2017 @ 6:57 pm Updated March 4, 2022 @ 11:17 pm
A rendering of the proposed casino in East Windsor. MMCT
A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled against MGM Resorts International, the owner of a casino under construction in Springfield, in the first round of what is expected to be a protracted legal fight to stop Connecticut from allowing a competing casino in East Windsor.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upholds a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit MGM filed in 2015 after the General Assembly passed a special act formalizing a process for the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations to seek a town willing to host a casino.
The court accepted Connecticut's argument that the special act did not bar MGM or anyone else interested in developing a casino from negotiating with municipalities over a potential site, since the 2015 law did not grant the tribes the right to actually build anything. That required passage of a second law.
MGM, the court concluded, had no standing to sue over the 2015 law. In fact, the court noted, MGM's exclusivity agreement in Massachusetts bars it from developing a casino within 50 miles of Springfield, placing most of Connecticut off limits.
"Because MGM has failed to allege any specific plans to develop a casino in Connecticut, we conclude that any competitive harms imposed by the Act are too speculative to support Article III standing," the court said.
The bigger question now is whether MGM has legal standing to sue since the Connecticut General Assembly took the second and more decisive step on June 7 of passing a bill granting the tribes the right to jointly develop a casino in East Windsor. The bill awaits Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's signature.
East Windsor, a community of about 12,000 people between Hartford and Springfield, already has granted local approval for MMCT, a partnership of the state's two federally recognized tribes, to build a casino just off I-91 on the site of a long-vacant movie multiplex.
In issuing its decision, a three-judge panel of the appellate court chose to ignore the legislative fight waged over what would be Connecticut's first casino off tribal lands since it heard arguments in the appeal on Nov. 28, 2016.
"Our conclusion does not rule out the possibility that MGM's alleged harm may at some future point become sufficiently imminent. That possibility, though, is at this time only hypothetical and we therefore need not address it," the court said.
Uri Clinton, a senior vice president and legal counsel at MGM, minimized the court decision in an emailed statement: "We view today's ruling as nothing more than a matter of timing and remain undeterred in our goal of having the opportunity to compete in Connecticut."
"If Gov. Malloy signs into law the recently passed Senate Bill 957 the 'hypothetical' immediately becomes reality," Clinton said. "Senate Bill 957 violates the Equal Protection Clause and the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution by authorizing two identified tribes — and no one else — to operate Connecticut's first commercial casino. The Attorney General himself has recognized that MGM's likelihood of success 'is not at all insubstantial.'"
In addition to trying to dissuade Connecticut from approving the East Windsor casino, MGM lobbied the legislature to open lower Fairfield County to competition for a casino resort that could draw from the New York City market. Malloy opposed a broader expansion bill as a violation of the state's longstanding exclusivity agreement with the tribes.
The tribes, the owners of Foxwoods Resort and Mohegan Sun in eastern Connecticut, said the East Windsor casino would blunt the loss of market share to Massachusetts, saving jobs and a revenue stream they share with the state. In return for exclusive rights to gaming, the tribes annually pay Connecticut 25 percent of their gross slots revenues — most recently worth about $266 million.
In lobbying against the authorization bill this year, MGM argued that the legislature cannot exclusively deal with the tribes without violating the Equal Protection and Commerce clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Attorney General George Jepsen warned the legislature that MGM could have a claim.
Some equal-protection and Commerce Clause claims are straightforward: A state, for example, cannot bar an out-out-state company for bidding for state business. But the state is expected to argue that its relationship with the tribes and the question of the third casino is complex, if not unique.
Another challenge for MGM will be to convince a court that its rights were violated by the law allowing an East Windsor casino without competition, even though its deal with Massachusetts bars it from doing business in East Windsor or any place else from the state line to the suburbs of New Haven.
Jepsen's office declined comment.
Tagged: casino expansion, Foxwoods Resort, MGM Resorts International, Mohegan Sun
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USA: IIS and PartsAmerica.com Announce $2.3 Million Contract
IIS To Develop Site for Largest E-commerce Destination in the $90 Billion Automotive Parts and Accessory Industry Integrated Information Systems Inc. ("IIS") (Nasdaq: IISX) has been selected by PartsAmerica.com to develop and implement what is expected to be the largest e-commerce destination in the $90 billion automotive parts and accessories industry.
IIS To Develop Site for Largest E-commerce Destination in the $90 Billion Automotive Parts and Accessory Industry
Integrated Information Systems Inc. ("IIS") (Nasdaq: IISX) has been selected by PartsAmerica.com to develop and implement what is expected to be the largest e-commerce destination in the $90 billion automotive parts and accessories industry.
PartsAmerica.com is a consortium comprised of CSK Auto, a Phoenix-based retailer of automotive parts and accessories operating more than 1,100 stores primarily in the western United States; Advance Auto Parts, a Roanoke, Va.-based retailer of automotive parts and accessories operating more than 1,600 stores in 37 states; and Sequoia Capital Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm with a strong record of funding successful Internet companies, including Yahoo! and eToys.
IIS has worked with CSK Auto during the past several years, including the successful development and deployment of its corporate website last year.
According to Larry Buresh, senior vice president and CIO for CSK, the decision to build the PartsAmerica.com website with IIS was a natural one. "We had had a very positive experience with IIS while building CSKAuto.com," said Buresh. "We knew that they could hit the deck running and meet our accelerated timeframe."
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"PartsAmerica.com has an extraordinary opportunity to lead the Web-based retail distribution market for autoparts," said Jim Garvey, president and chief executive officer of IIS. "Our ability to develop the site rapidly was a key factor in PartsAmerica.com's decision to select IIS. We realize that in this quick-paced new economy, speed-to-market is a key determinant to success."
About Advance Auto Parts
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Additional information about the company, employment opportunities and services can be found on the company web site at www.advanceautoparts.com.
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CSK Auto Inc. is the largest retailer of automotive parts and accessories in the western United States, and is among the top five automotive aftermarket retailers in the nation. CSK Auto operates more than 1,100 stores under the trade names of Checker Auto Parts, Schuck's Auto Supply, and Kragen Auto Parts in 18 different states.
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I recently came across our ball in maze apk file. I was very eager to make some improvements but unfortunatelly somebody must have deleted my Unity project. So I asked my self how to extract an android game made with Unity to get most of the Unity projectfiles back. Essepecially the .assets files as they took the most time to create. This is also a commonly asked question on the internet. Though I could not find a helpful answer.
It's actually much easier than you'd expect. 😀 In the following article I'll show you how to do it.
It works with any Android game created with Unity.
Information: You could theoretically extract the 3d meshes and textures from well known titles like Templerun or Dead Trigger. But ripping games is (as far as I know) illegal, unless it's your game or you were given the permission to do so. You only want to do it in cases like mine. Quaintproject assumes no liability!
First you need to download the 3dsMax script from the website above. To activate or install the scripts it's enough to simply drag the mzp file into the viewport of 3ds Max. The script is basically a set of scripts, as it includes a plugin to convert convert .pvr files (special kind of images, read about that later) to .dds files etc. You have to start 3ds Max in order to make it work.
To have some quick access to the import button click on "Customize", switch to "Toolbar" and select "Game file import". Then drag and drop the script to the left toolbar.
Next you have to change .apk file ending to .apk.zip the file will still be readable. Dispite that fact a warning might occur.
In the next step you have to extract the zipped folder. You can do this be right clicking on the selcted file and choosing "Extract all" (see screenshot).
The newly created folder will contain many subfolders, which contain your app's icon, the Android manifest, a bunch of other files which are not human readable and most importantly the .assets files. Sometimes the assets are split into several parts. The script will then automatically merge all the files into one.
Start the importing process clicking on the Unity Importer Button. Choose open folder. Then navigate to the folder Data. Finally hit the open button.
The importer script will search the data folder. It displays all the files it was able to find. I' m mostly interested in the file "Kugellabyrinth" (ball in maze game). Though I choose the option "Import all". Objects like the camera or the sunlight will be imported as an Empty. We will later get rid of unnecessary objects so there's no need to click through every single file. It's a timesaver essepecially when it comes to larger projects. Importing textures worked im my case like a charme. The script will automatically create a folder called "Maps". Some ".dds files" will be stored within this folder. Dds is an image format. Programms like Blender or Gimp can handle it.
For professional mobile games an image format called .pvr is used. This format can store image information at a reasonable quality but with a very small size. This is the reason why this pvr converter is included in the script libary. It works pretty well but I've read that .pvr files couldn't be converted to a different image format for various reasons. If this happens, use texturepacker to load .pvr image and save it to the image format you need. Of course you can keep the image format to rebuild your app. But if your original textures/ spritesheets don't involve .pvr files this will be irrelevant.
But back to 3ds Max. As you can see my original textures are applied. Another positive aspect of this method is, that the UV's of my mesh are still available.
When using the .3ds importer it can be helpful to get rid of relations, unless they are really needed. Just press Ctrl P and either choose Clear Parent or clear Parent but keep Transformation.
Next we want to delete the empties. These are beeing created for example for the sun light, the camera and other objects that basically have no geometry. Search for "Select by type", select "Empty" and hit "X" to delete them. One optional step would be to clear the scale. Just search for "Clear Scale".
All in all I think that the shown method can really be handy, if it comes to restoring lost mesh files including their textures from your Unity games. It's also a proper method to make mesh-ups of your games, though your project files have been lost. Of course no shaders are included, nor the scripts.
Hi there, I recently got my unity work file removed, it was devastating! but I actually got to export my game file as an exe game before the work files were deleted! So, I hope you could assist me on retrieving what was lost from my game, is it possible to retrieve my scripts and prefabs assigned?
Hi there, extracting the assets/ prefabs should work. But I guess you won't be able to retrieve the scripts. Ask me, if yneed help! Cheers Markus PS click the link for the script to seethe process for a PC game.
Argh, those scripts took me a week! But its good to know that I could retrieve the prefabs and assets. this means I get to retrieve the sound and gui graphics too right? I'll try and let you know of the progress.
Sorry I might have missed out on something which link exactly?
i have a obb file from a game that I wanted to rip for game porting. I found the .assets file that are parted like this.
and so on. how to rip these?
the script will try to merge them automatically and delete the splits. Make sure none of the .split# files are open in other programs.
You can also merge them yourself before you run the script, using the Windows Command Prompt.
i have same problem and has been solved. but how split the file that has been ripped into one file?
Somehow my 3dsmax keeps crashing everytime i import the nodes.
Thank you for your comment. Did you try importing only a couple of nodes instead of all at once?
A good day quaintproject, i would like to have a conversation with you, it`s regarding how to copy button scripts in Unity Android Game. I will provide screenshots of what needed to be done. Is it okay with you? Thank you very much for your time. Please as much as possible, reply asap. Thanks again.
I've tried several other programs and only one of them was able to extract files as an FBX.
Can you help me in to extract 2d split shared unity assets from the games like "blown away first try". Waiting for your reply.
We would really like to help you extracting those particular assets. Though, for legal reasons we are not allowed to.
Please feel free to reply if you have any further questions.
Thanks for replying. "blown away first try" is a 2d game. But your tutorial is for 3d and using 3ds max. I need those hero character and some effects sprites to surprise my sister on her birthday with a small game on her. Can you please tell how to extract those sprites. Waiting for your reply.
Please apologise my late reply.
Do you know how to extract data like 3d model and texture from "PACKAGE" file?
Help required. Thanks in advance.
hi, I have a similar problem like Hitokiri, I opened the folder and in the bottom says 29 main files and 0 shared loaded in 0.2 seconds, but the importer is empty, nothing is showing.. what I miss?
Hi Bryan, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately I don't have a valid 3ds Max Installation anymore, but could you please share a screenshot with us?
1 main 0.1 no file loaded .
please give me the script !
can anybody please share the importer script? The link in the article doesn't work.
hi, can you help me?
I have 3ds Max 2018 but dont have the game file import option in the Customize User Interface menu. Any idea if it was moved in the latest version or how I can still use the script? Thanks for your help !
Can I reverse engineer a unity game from apk? meening decompiling the game from the apk then changing the assets and the package name to republish it to play store? if yes how can I do that thank you!
Yes, you can decompile an apk and extract all the assests, but I highly doubt, that you will be able to then compile it to an apk again, without coding. This is unfortunately a one way street.


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Q: Re-arrange data so a single cell is header I am looking to re-arrange my data. Currently it looks like data 1 and I would like for it to look like data2. Essentially, I would like to move 'total' so that it is its own column, and I'd like to move its n along with it. I am using R. Thank you.
data1 <- data.frame (
  question = c("recommend", "recommend", "overall", "overall"),
  response = c("top box score", "total", "top box score", "total"),
  n = c(673, 784, 654, 784))

data2 <- data.frame (
  question = c("recommend", "overall"),
  response = c("top box score", "top box score"),
  n = c(673, 654),
  total = c(784, 784))

A: You can use data.table as follows:
library(data.table)
data2 <- setDT(data1)[response != "total"][data1, total := i.n, on = "question"]

A: One way would be to filter data for "total" rows, get them in wide format and join to the original data without "total" rows.
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

data1 %>%
  filter(response != 'total') %>%
  left_join(data1 %>%
          filter(response == 'total') %>%
          pivot_wider(names_from = response, values_from = n), by = 'question')

#   question      response   n total
#1 recommend top box score 673   784
#2   overall top box score 654   784


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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Failing to address misgendering in the workplace can be a costly lesson
By Chanelle Wong on October 12, 2021 Posted in Canada, North America
A British Columbia case has affirmed that the correct use of gender pronouns is a basic right, and that when it comes to inclusivity in the workplace, it is not enough to talk the talk by having a policy in place – employers must walk the walk by taking prompt action to address concerns.
Failure to take reasonable and appropriate steps to address a worker's misgendering of a transgender employee came with an expensive price tag for the employer in Nelson v. Goodberry Restaurant Group Ltd. dba Buono Osteria and others, 2021 BCHRT 137 ("Nelson").
The complainant, a non-binary, gender fluid, transgender person who uses they/them pronouns, worked at a restaurant run by the respondents. They shared their pronouns with the general manager and spoke with him about how important it was to them to be properly gendered. The general manager was diligent in using the right pronouns and correcting staff who used the wrong pronouns. The bar manager, however, referred to the complainant with she/her pronouns and gendered nicknames like "sweetheart" and "honey", despite being asked to stop by the complainant and others. After the complainant made suggestions to greet patrons with gender-neutral terms, the bar manager became unhelpful and hostile towards the complainant.
Despite the general manager speaking with the bar manager about his behaviour, it continued. Following a heated dispute during which the complainant attempted to address the behaviour with the bar manager, their employment was terminated by the executive chef and general manager. When they asked why, the complainant was told they were coming on "too strong too fast", were being too "militant", and were not a "good fit" with the rest of the team.
The complainant filed a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal against the restaurant as well as the bar manager and others, alleging that they had been discriminated in their employment on the basis of their gender identity or expression. The Tribunal held that the bar manager's deliberate and persistent misgendering of the complainant breached the Code, noting that
Trans employees are entitled to recognition of, and respect for, their gender identity and expression. This begins with using their names and pronouns correctly. This is not an 'accommodation', it is a basic obligation that every person holds towards people in their employment…
Like a name, pronouns are a fundamental part of a person's identity. They are a primary way that people identify each other. Using correct pronouns communicates that we see and respect a person for who they are. Especially for trans, non‐binary, or other non‐cisgender people, using the correct pronouns validates and affirms they are a person equally deserving of respect and dignity.
The Tribunal also found that the employer had engaged in discrimination. Despite demonstrating commitment to an inclusive workspace through their harassment policy and taking some steps to ensure the complainant was properly gendered at work, the employer's response to their concerns fell short of what was reasonable and appropriate. It failed to take further action when the bar manager's behaviour did not change after being instructed to use correct pronouns. In failing to do so, the employer failed to ensure a healthy work environment. The complainant's gender identity was also a factor in their dismissal – the decision was made in connection with their efforts to address discrimination in the workplace, and the employer's reasons were clearly connected to their gender identity.
The Tribunal ordered the respondents to pay the complainant $30,000 in damages, and ordered the employer to implement a pronoun policy and mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training.
Nelson sends a clear message that everyone has a right to be addressed in a respectful manner, that gender identities or expressions communicated by employees must be respected and that any misgendering in the workplace must be addressed swiftly and effectively. Key takeaways are:
A commitment to inclusivity should be backed with proactive steps and prompt responses to any inappropriate behaviour.
Prior to dismissing an employee in the context of a discriminatory work environment, employers should carefully consider the circumstances to ensure there is no connection between the termination and the discrimination.
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"No archeologist would accept sending his potsherds to an expert who returned a statement saying they were from this or that period and then let the potsherds disappear without further documentation and the possibility of a follow-up!"
First published as "Redovisning och kvalitetssäkring av dendrokronologiska resultat", Fornvännen: Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research, 102: 187–190 (2007) [in Swedish], original published article as a .pdf file.
Dendrochronology is, rightly, a frequently-used tool in archeological and building antiquarian work. For a number of years I have worked with dendrochronology on a hobby basis, mainly with a direction towards local history. I have no experience of my own from archeological work, though gradually I have come to wonder more and more about how dendrochronological investigations are accounted for in archeological contexts.
Therefore I want to draw attention to what I think is deficient in current practice of how these results are documented in e.g. archeological reports and, also, how dendrochronological data sometimes can be found to contain relevant historical information beyond what was initially requested (usually dating and provenance (i.e. origin)).
Finally I will also discuss possible changes in the terms of dendrochronological charges and something on how samples should be stored and how data should be saved.
Dendrochronology is—as long as we only deal with dating and provenance determination—a simple technology. The tools and knowledge required are quite limited, when compared to many other things. Precision (carefulness) is the primary virtue, though, as with all workmanship, experience is a great asset.
Sample treatment. When a wood sample has been delivered for analysis, it is first prepared to make an even surface. This can be done with a knife or with an even (fine graded) piece of sandpaper. The surface is often treated with oil and/or a pigment to enhance the contrast of the annual rings.
Measuring. When the surface has been prepared, the width of each annual ring is measured, one by one. This can be done directly on the sample with a special measuring instrument, or with a computer program measuring on a high-resolution scanned image of the sample. This gives a series of numerical values, one for each annual ring.
Dating. The series is compared with a reference curve from the same region and of the same sort of wood. Such a curve is built from a great number of series from previously-measured samples. A computer program then searches for the position (on the curve) giving the best statistical match with the sample—typically using ordinary correlation.
Depending mainly on how high a correlation value we can find and how many annual rings could be measured in the sample, we can decide if we have found a reliable dating or not. Unfortunately it is common that the bark surface is missing for the samples being investigated. This means that we can then only give an interval for when the tree ceased to grow and not the exact year when the tree was cut.
Provenance. If we also want to decide on provenance, the computer is made to compare with many different reference curves, created from trees from different places. Hopefully we then find similarities which points to a certain area.
What more can be told by the sample?
When a piece of wood suitable for dendrochronological analysis is found, dating and perhaps provenance are the primary questions we hope to get answered. We should remember, though, that the sample might give more information than that. This information could be relevant for studies within other disciplines, e.g. forest history and climate change. Sometimes it is of such character that it is of interest for historians and archeologists. Let me give some examples.
What is the organizational background to a building? When a farmer built a house of timber, he usually cut the timber within a limited area of the forest. For the walls, he selected blocks of uniform thickness. Therefore, timbers from such a building usually give a quite uniform impression: blocks of about the same age, often with a high mutual correlation between annual rings. On the other hand if we look at a house that has been collectively built, e.g. a church or a parish hall, it was common (at least in the regions which I know best, Dalarna) that each farm or small village got a piece-work contract to deliver a certain number of blocks to the building site. Therefore, the timber in such buildings is often considerably more different in its character, even when the outer dimensions are the same. This is because the trees have been collected from a larger geographical area. Therefore, if we investigate the timber in, say a medieval tithe barn, we might find out not only the dating; at best, we also get a good hint of how the production of the timber was organized.
When everybody is rebuilding. Another example of "extra information" can be noticed in the measurement series created by another hobby dendrochronologist, Tomas Andreasson, who published series from his croft in the Tyresta area outside Stockholm (International Tree Ring Data Bank: swed304 measurement data; see samples DRS13, DRS16, DRS5). The dating was successful and showed that the timber was cut in 1779–1780. In these measurement series it is clearly visible that at least three out of twelve examined trees had a very strong growth increase during one or more summers of 1720–1722; this indicates that these trees had then been freed from other light-hiding neighboring trees. The time corresponds well to when we could expect a great harvest of wood for rebuilding houses and barns after the Russian ravage of 1719.
Information for other sciences. The physical samples may contain more information than that usually produced for a normal dendrochronological analysis. If the sample is a sawn plate it can sometimes contain information on snow and wind conditions or on earth slip caused by erosion or quakes. To produce that type of data, much more extensive measurements are usually necessary. If the question is related to analysis of climate change, it may be necessary to measure the rings of spring and autumn separately or to measure the density of the rings. If that might be done at a later time, then the sample has to be warehoused.
If dendrochronological results of today are not carefully accounted for, we have good reason to fear that future scientists will look at them with skepticism. Faced with the possibility that a dating can be questioned from e.g. historical reasons or reasons from history of art, we have to make sure that it can be checked afterwards. Otherwise the money spent on the analysis can later stand out as wasted.
From the point of preservation, wood samples can be divided into two groups: dry and wet. The wet samples demand some form of conservation to be preserved. They might be in such a good condition that they can be carefully dried and then handled the same way as dry samples. Or they might be so easily damaged that they will soon fall into pieces, which demands that dendrochronological measurements have to be done in wet condition and quickly. How wet samples in various degrees of breaking down should be taken care of, to preserve as much information as possible, should be investigated and discussed together by dendrochronologists and museum curators.
In those cases when samples are in such a bad condition that it is not possible to preserve them in a meaningful way, it may be reasonable to consider saving high resolution digital images as documentation. The basic principle should nevertheless be that samples produced from an archeological investigation should as far as possible be given a findings number and be saved and kept together with the rest of the material from the finding place. Consequently, it is the museums and like institutions that should have the responsibility for these samples. There we find working routines for handling such material. The museum collections can also be expected to be much more steady than collections saved at partly-commercial laboratories.
To make saved samples as useful as possible, it would be desirable that all measurement series, datings, specifications on where the physical samples are stored, and information on who has done the dating be registered in e.g. a national (or international) database. Then later inspection and further studies—perhaps based on new methods—could be done more easily. As measurement series and other data are registered in the database, it is also possible for a researcher to find those samples that could be relevant for a certain new investigation. And then order only these samples. As it is reasonably a general and scientific interest that reference material is saved and published, it is important that such a database is accessible over the internet!
When a dating has been requested from a commercial laboratory—often from a department at a university—it is common to find that the accounting consists of a year for the outermost ring measured and the number of measured rings, with a statement of likely provenance and a discussion on the interval for the cutting year.
Too often, however, there is no account of correlation values found or reference curves used; neither is the measurement series is included. In that way, the dendrochronological analysis evades a meaningful discussion and an independent evaluation of quality.
From a scientific point of view this is completely anomalous. We have to remember that every dendrochronological dating is actually an interpretation done by a human being. I.e. it should be possible to call that interpretation into question in the same way as for other scientific interpretations and results.
No archeologist would accept sending his potsherds to an expert who returned a statement saying they were from this or that period and then let the potsherds disappear without further documentation and the possibility of a follow-up!
Considering the carefulness and profound discussions that are typical for the treatment of material found by archeologists, this meager handling of dendrochronological material and results is puzzling. Are the laboratories unwilling to hand over data or is this only a result of a missing awareness among archeologists about which data to request from those doing the dating?
Who can check the quality of a dating?
Perhaps there is an out-of-date idea among archeologists that dendrochronology is such an alien thing to archeology that a detailed report would be irrelevant?
That may have been a reasonable attitude when dendrochronological analysis was done by hand, with hand-drawn diagrams compared on a light table and measurements done with a microscope. In that time dendrochronological tabular data was in practice almost useless, because of the immense work required to analyze it. Today the computers do the work. Usually we can check computer-stored tabular data faster than it takes to look up the article in the magazine where the table was found. A standard office computer with an office scanner and inexpensive software is sufficient for a lot of dendrochronological work. The quite sophisticated statistics that are behind the scene is usually nothing to care about in normal work.
As time goes by, more data to compare with is published (e.g. at the International Tree Ring Data Bank, www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treering.html). Though this is perhaps only a rill of data compared to what university institutions have access to.
All in all, a person who wants to learn the dendrochronological craft today can do so without much difficulty, though carefulness and some time are important requirements. The actual crossdating—the matching—is done by the computer instantly when the right reference data is available. Preparing samples—the "woodwork"—and writing reports are consequently found to be the most time-consuming activities.
Perhaps a five-week course in practical dendrochronology would be an appropriate component in university education of archeologists.
Dendrochronological laboratories finance a great deal of their activities with dating jobs. As a consequence, these laboratories are quite unwilling to publish reference curves, which could be used for future paid assignments.
The hunting for income and the need to keep prices high, together with the unwillingness to publish data for independent scrutiny, threatens to undermine scientific credibility. At the same time, the customer is tempted to limit the number of samples for analysis because of the expense. This makes a risk that data of great scientific value are wasted.
With the current way of financing our university laboratories we have possibly run into the somewhat absurd position that public and taxpayer-funded universities obstruct distribution of knowledge because of commercial considerations.
Basic data and reference curves have to be made public. The knowledge built up by universities (and also by freelance entrepreneurs) has to be made available also to archeological and historical research in a more productive way than through just plain dates delivered according to an established price list.
It has to be feasible to discuss and make a quality check of datings and of asserted provenance. This can only be done when measurement data is published with local reference curves available to anybody interested. Because of reasons described above, requests for such a change are hardly to be expected from professional dendrochronologists. Such demands have to originate from the customers who order the dating assignments.
With this in mind, it does not seem reasonable to be satisfied with an analysis result in the form of a year number without any measurement values or even a correlation value (or t-value). Publishing of dendrochronological ring width series does not take much space in a report.
The common formats for series (Tucson and Heidelberg) that are readable by computer programs show ten values per line. This makes a typical sample of some 100 annual rings not require more than 10 lines of text and some extra lines for information about place of origin, dating, and like. With a modest text size, quite many samples can be published on each page.
Even when laboratories are willing to hand over data, copyright reasons may prevent this. Many times the laboratory has borrowed reference curves from other labs and is not allowed to hand them over to others.
Therefore, we have reasons to fear that copyright will prevent publishing of the curves used today. In that case it is even more important that public institutions are careful with saving their samples, to make it possible for others to later measure them once more.
As far as possible, old samples should be sent back to their respective museums. The museums may also introduce a requirement that anybody who borrows such a sample should in return hand over a copy of his/her basic measurements to that museum. In this way the amount of freely available data will increase faster and the lack of reference data will gradually be rightened.


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import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ParseField;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.watcher.transform.Transform;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.watcher.transform.TransformRegistry;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.watcher.watch.Payload;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

public class ChainTransform implements Transform {

    public static final String TYPE = "chain";

    private final List<Transform> transforms;

    public ChainTransform(Transform... transforms) {
        this(Arrays.asList(transforms));
    }

    public ChainTransform(List<Transform> transforms) {
        this.transforms = Collections.unmodifiableList(transforms);
    }

    @Override
    public String type() {
        return TYPE;
    }

    public List<Transform> getTransforms() {
        return transforms;
    }

    @Override
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        ChainTransform that = (ChainTransform) o;

        return transforms.equals(that.transforms);
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    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
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Getinge Clean Management System is a central dosing system that can be linked to washer-disinfectors, ultrasonic cleaners and manual cleaning stations to assure the correct level of detergent in each of your hospital's use locations.
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Police in Buruburu are holding a man in connection to the death of his estranged wife last week inside a hotel located on Jogoo road.
Mr Emmanuel Owuor is being linked to the death his wife Grace Adhiambo in a room at the GNK Hamza Hotel on February 7, 2019.
According to the police, the two were meeting for the first time since their separation.
The suspect was arrested a day after the incident.
Lead investigator in the case Joseph Wanjohi told a Makadara court on Friday that the suspect booked a room for the two but later left, leaving the woman behind.
Love-related murders have been on the rise in the recent past. Two weeks ago businesswoman Ms Mary Wambui was murdered and her body dumped in a dam in Juja.
Police say Ms Wambui was murdered in a suspected love triangle.


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Windows Phone 7 to woo consumers first, then business
Microsoft's new mobile operating system goes for gadget fans, not CIOs, in version one
Written by Natasha Lomas, Contributor on Sept. 27, 2010
Windows Phone 7 (WP7) - the soon-to-be-unleashed, entirely overhauled operating system for smartphones from Microsoft is not aiming for the enterprise - not yet anyway.
Version one of the OS is squarely aimed at consumers, said Microsoft's ISV developer evangelist Paul Foster speaking at a briefing for developers and press.
"The device emphasis is clearly a consumer device," said Foster. "[WP7's predecessor] Windows Mobile was a very successful business app, but the world changed with a focus on the consumer viewpoint. So we have rebooted our mobile phone product by delivering - along with Windows Mobile, because it still exists there under our Windows Embedded team - a consumer-focused Windows Phone 7."
An early version of Windows Phone 7 being demoed at Mobile World Congress
(Photo credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com)
Ultimately WP7 will take up the enterprise baton, leaving Windows Embedded to sit on devices at the ruggedised, bar-code reading end of the mobile value chain, according to Foster: "The task-oriented application, the Fed-Ex, the UPS guy - that's all about mass devices being managed centrally and that is what Windows Mobile does very well."
One big barrier to enterprise use of WP7 is the fact any bespoke business applications companies seek to build would have to be deployed on the public Windows Marketplace for Mobile as there is no provision for private delivery of apps.
"At this moment in time we don't support that," confirmed Foster. "It's top on our list but at this moment in time we don't support it for V1."
But Foster said there's a chance the average office worker could take a fancy to the platform and bring WP7 into the enterprise by the back door. WP7 devices will come with Microsoft Office Mobile, Exchange and SharePoint integration, he noted, and the platform also supports multiple email accounts and calendars. "There's a lot of functionality to facilitate a business person's activities," claimed Foster.
Microsoft has set out a minimum hardware spec for WP7 devices - including having a capacitive touchscreen, GPS, a variety of embedded sensors, and three physical buttons on the front: one for back, one to take the user to the homescreen, and a search button that will be hardwired to Microsoft's Bing search engine, at least initially. "In version one it's all Bing," confirmed Foster, adding that future iterations of the platform may allow users to select a different search engine.
Redmond is also seeking to discourage developers from creating too many free apps for the platform. Registered developers can submit five free apps without incurring any additional charges - beyond their annual Windows Phone developer registration fee (£67 in the UK) - but after the fifth app, each additional free app will cost $20 when submitted to Microsoft.
For paid apps the revenue split will see developers picking up 70 per cent and Microsoft 30 per cent - the same proportion that developers making wares for Apple's iOS, Google's Android platform, RIM's BlackBerry and the Nokia Ovi Store get.
However the experience of developing for WP7 is better than some rival platforms, according to Simon Maddox, a freelance developer who was speaking at the event. "I started Windows Phone 7 development a while ago. You're learning a framework rather than a language. And it's not a complicated framework. A lot of things are done for you," he said.
Maddox, who built the 0870 iPhone app - which lets users find alternate numbers to chargeable 0870 numbers - said porting this app to WP7 took around three hours. "I've got experience with most mobile platforms and [WP7] is much better than something like Symbian or Maemo - which are a complete nightmare," he added.
Asked how many apps Microsoft expects to be on the platform at launch, Microsoft's Foster said the company is aiming for 'quality not quantity' - seeking to cover off "key brands" such as Twitter, rather than going after volume.
"Our intention is to ensure we've got the right style of apps you would typically use - as to opposed to having an enormous, amazing volume," said Foster. "The classic, must-have apps."
Microsoft has made a variety of WP7 development tools and libraries resources available to developers, including tools for Visual Basic developers, along with access to some Microsoft cloud services - including push notifications for WP7 devices, a location resolution service, and even Windows Azure, Microsoft's hosted computing and storage service.
"What we're seeing in the business side... is some Windows Phone applications that are connecting in to Windows Azure," added Foster. "From your device [as a developer] you only have to provide one login and [Windows Azure's] service bus routes the various calls through to those target apps."
WP7 devices will have one of two screen resolutions - either 800 x 480 for large touchscreen devices with the potential for slide-out Qwerty keyboards, or 480 x 320 for 'BlackBerry' style handsets that can incorporate a Qwerty on the front of the device. Microsoft expects the majority of WP7 devices to have the larger screen resolution at launch, with smaller resolution handsets coming later, said Foster.
The Windows Phone Blog has also previously revealed WP7 will not support tethering or allow for removable SD cards, with Microsoft claiming the lack of such features improves the platform's data security credentials.
As for the launch date, Redmond continues to remain tight-lipped - with Microsoft's Foster saying only the first WP7 handset will launch in time for the "holiday season".


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Q: Ошибка подключения к серверу MS SQL с помощью .NET Framework 4.0. Linux + wine + .NET 4.0 + SqlClient Есть wine 4.0 установленный на Linux. В нем приложение на .NET Framework 4.0.
При попытке установить соединение с MS SQL сервером выдает ошибку :
A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - SSL Provider: )

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ConsumePreLoginHandshake(Boolean encrypt, Boolean trustServerCert, Boolean& marsCapable)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect(ServerInfo serverInfo, SqlInternalConnectionTds connHandler, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, Boolean encrypt, Boolean trustServerCert, Boolean integratedSecurity)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, TimeoutTimer timeout, SqlConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, TimeoutTimer timeout)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection owningObject, TimeoutTimer timeout, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnectionOptions options)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open()

Из Windows на этот же сервер соединения проходят без проблем.
Строка подлючения:
workstation id={server};packet size=4096;user id={user};password={pass};data source={server};initial catalog={database}


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Jefferson county men, women take to the streets
Kirk Boxleitner kboxleitner@ptleader.com
Emelia De Souza knows that women from Jefferson County are heading to Washington, D.C., and Seattle on Saturday, Jan. 21 to join women's marches the day after Donald Trump takes office as the 45th …
Sue Edwards puts the finishing touches on her poster at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Jan. 16. Photo by Kirk Boxleitner
Emelia De Souza is organizing a women's march in downtown Port Townsend Saturday, Jan. 21 to coincide with marches in Seattle and Washington, D.C. Leader 2015 file photo
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:00 pm
Emelia De Souza knows that women from Jefferson County are heading to Washington, D.C., and Seattle on Saturday, Jan. 21 to join women's marches the day after Donald Trump takes office as the 45th president of the United States.
Because Port Townsend has been so supportive of her on her journey from being a man to becoming a woman, De Souza said she wanted to host a women's march close to home sweet home Port Townsend.
"We're like a shining beacon here," said De Souza. "I used to hate going into Port Townsend, but now, since I came out and Port Townsend received me with open arms, I'm so fortunate to live here. I want to be able to support our women here."
After a lifetime of masquerading as a man, De Souza told the world in 2015 that she's done with playing dress-up. Many people remember Souza as Henry Souza, an architectural designer who came to Jefferson County in 1994 to build a home and settle down with a wife.
So on Saturday, De Souza plans to don a "pussy hat" and wear purple – the color was chosen at an organizing meeting – and lead a march from downtown Port Townsend. People are asked to gather in Pope Marine Park, across from City Hall, at 9:30 a.m. The procession is to go down Water Street, make a right on Adams Street and then left on Washington Street to Haller Fountain, where people are to be invited to speak out on issues of concern.
De Souza is expecting at least several dozen women to attend the event.
"Some of us can't go to Seattle or travel, for whatever reason," she said.
De Sousa said the rhetoric of the recent election has insulted women, immigrants, religious faiths, LGBTQ, disabled, veterans, and others.
"Let's us be in solidarity and march here in Port Townsend," she said.
HEADING TO SEATTLE, D.C.
Four buses with almost 200 passengers from Jefferson and Clallam counties are headed to the Womxn's March in Seattle on Saturday.
Organizer Debbie Steele said Monday that in addition to 197 people on the buses, there also were a number of carpools, although a number of people have been canceling because of illness.
Steele's husband, Dennis Daneau, said Steele was undaunted by the cancellations and has been filling the empty seats with people who were on a waiting list.
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was bustling with sign makers on the evening of Jan. 16.
Robin Stemen had organized the night of sign making through friends, the church newsletter and Steele.
Cris Wilson, one of the more than 40 sign makers in attendance, explained that the purpose of their activities was "solidarity."
"We want to let people know they aren't alone, even if they might feel like they are," Wilson said. "As you resist, you should be aware that you're not doing so on your own."
Steele underscored this sentiment with hard numbers, reporting that the bus lists had expanded from one bus with 24 riders to four buses with 197 riders.
"It's energizing and hopeful and gladdens my heart," Steele said. "Social justice is important. We don't want any group to have to go backwards."
Indeed, in spite of her own expressed sentiments, Steele later admitted that "it breaks my heart" to have to march again for causes that she'd already marched for in the 1960s.
"We expect our voices to be heard," Steele said.
Two 16-year-olds from Port Townsend High School were among the sign makers Jan. 16.
"Since we live in a small town, we don't see big events like this very often," Hanalei Schauer said. "I felt like it was important to be involved."
"I've wanted to protest ever since Trump was elected," Elizabeth McLane said, laughing.
For more information on the Jan. 21 Womxn's March in Seattle, go to
womxnsmarchseattle.wordpress.com.
Michelle Sandoval said 39 men and women are heading to the march in Washington, D.C., from Jefferson County.
"Everybody is going for different reasons, obviously," Sandoval said. "What we tried to do is prepare people for [the possibility] that cell phones most likely won't work and there's going to be a lot of walking," she said.
She said those going have made plans for how to reach each other and loved ones in an emergency. She said text messages likely will work.
"We're bringing some walkie-talkies just in case, and we have attorneys' numbers back here, just in case," she said. "I don't know what to expect."
(Leader reporter Allison Arthur contributed to this article.)
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