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World District Ranking
AriMB April 9, 2018, 7:42am #1
I'm a big fan of the district ranking system. I think it does a good job of balancing a team's qualification performance with their playoff performance, and it's a pretty good metric of how well teams do at a given competition. One of my least favorite things about the regional system is the lack of an overall ranking system for the competition; playoff performance isn't always a great metric of how well a team performed.
Well, I was bored in class today so I decided to write a program that calculated the "district ranking" for every team at every competition (that has been played so far this year). The program then takes the average of all the competitions for each team, and ranks the teams based on their average. Here is the world ranking:
Rank		Team #		Average DP
10		1577		67.66666667
44		302		63.66666667
52		33		61.66666667
111		7021		55.5
113		5803		55.25
126		1325		54.33333333
1059		4361		26.75
1061		2635		26.66666667
2797		6943		9.666666667
2980		204		8.666666667
3576		28		NaN
3577		352		NaN
3586		1468		NaN
• Data taken from the TBA API
• The program doesn't take into account awards, which in reality do give district points
• If the team has yet to play an event, they have an average of NaN and are ranked last
• Regionals, Districts, and DCMPs are all weighted equally (i.e. DCMPs don't get their usual x3)
• A "perfect score" is 68 (22 points for quals, 16 points for alliance selection, and 30 points for playoffs)
• In the case of a tie, the team number is the tie breaker (probably not the best method, but I didn't feel like implementing the actual tiebreakers)
• I checked a few teams to make sure the numbers lined up, but there are probably a few bugs in the program that I haven't caught. If you find one, or have comments, questions, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let me know.
MooreteP April 9, 2018, 7:52am #2
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AndrewPetz April 9, 2018, 8:02am #3
Koko_Ed April 9, 2018, 8:47am #4
It would be interesting is FIRST used something like this to determine who gets to go to the championships or not.
jkelleyrtp April 9, 2018, 8:49am #5
Really cool! It would be neat to run this data for the past few years and see how teams improve over time. Is the code available?
MrNick April 9, 2018, 8:55am #6
It does look like you are including points from third district events, which I think can skew things as teams competing in their third district will have other goals besides gaining district points. Since those points don't count towards district rankings, it seem a bit unfair to include them in "world" ranking.
That said, I'll admit to being somewhat biased.
Wayne_Doenges April 9, 2018, 8:57am #7
I found a problem.
You have my team (FRC Team 1501) ranked 90. We have one silver and one gold in district.
You have FRC Team 868 ranked 186. They have won gold twice.
Taylor April 9, 2018, 9:01am #8
Wayne Doenges:
OP said it's an average of all events the entire season. District rankings are based off the first two, in-district.
darajaco April 9, 2018, 9:52am #9
868 Did poorly at Miami and didnt make elims, because of that their average got tanked. 1501 was consistently top 10 and a first pick at each of their events giving them a better average.
Ty_Tremblay April 9, 2018, 11:27am #10
It looks like you included unofficial events in this. You can filter out unofficial events by looking at the "event_type" field https://github.com/the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance/blob/master/consts/event_type.py#L2
bobl April 9, 2018, 12:26pm #11
I think Team 58 average is wrong. We attended 2 NE District events, Received 63 points in the first and 35 in the second. We won an award at both events. So that makes it 58+30=88, Divide that by 2 and I get 44 for the average. The doc shows 39.
Just thought of something, Since you are using TBA, does the calculations include week 0 events?
Darn it Ty! You beat me!
Ian_Curtis April 9, 2018, 12:32pm #12
bobl:
The list doesn't include points due to awards.
"AriMB":
The program doesn't take into account awards, which in reality do give district points
MooreteP April 9, 2018, 12:52pm #13
Ian Curtis:
It probably shouldn't, since Ari is trying to parse the data to reflect Robot performance in matches only.
Thayer_McCollum April 9, 2018, 12:55pm #14
How does the program handle teams with different numbers of Quals matches? If it's giving 2 points for every Quals match then teams that went to events that had more Quals matches per team will have artificially inflated scores. Or are you awarding points as a percentage of Quals won with 22 as 100% of matches?
If you are using style 1 here's an example of why it doesn't work great. The top two is 254 vs. 133. 254 has not lost a qual match this year 133 has lost 4 quals. 2 losses on average per event for 133 vs. 0 losses on average per event for 254. But 133 got 12 quals on average to 254s 9 which means 133 has 10 quals wins on average to 254s 9 quals wins on average.
…Which should mean they shouldn't have the same score either way (133 has one more win per event by version 1 but a lower percentage by version 2) How did you calculate quals matches Ari? Do I just have a terrible understanding of how district points work for quals matches work?
Edit: Ignore me I didn't know how district points got calculated.
Basel_A April 9, 2018, 1:00pm #15
Thayer McCollum:
Not sure what the OP is doing, but the district points formula gives points for quals based on the team's rank and the size of the event, not based on match results.
Ty_Tremblay April 9, 2018, 1:01pm #16
It's based on ranking with the following formula:
With these as the variables:
MooreteP April 9, 2018, 1:06pm #17
"Do the Math" ~ Mark Leon
EricLeifermann April 9, 2018, 1:14pm #18
You can pull district numbers right from TBA… Pulled Waves numbers and got 58 and 60 for an avg of 59, your showing 54 for us. Not sure where your numbers are coming from. I ran numbers for Wiscosin last year and they matched TBA's.
broonswick April 9, 2018, 1:48pm #19
EricLeifermann:
So the OP mentioned that he did not include award points. It looks like you all won an award in each event, which are valued at 5 points(non-Chairman's, non-EI). So that puts your average at 54.
Richard_Wallace April 9, 2018, 2:35pm #20
You might have been thinking of the old formula for district points, before the inverse error function was used. The current system is described in the 2018 Manual on pp. 122-133, section 10.12.3.


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Sunderland plant to produce new and recycled batteries from electric cars to serve as home energy storage units
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Nissan has partnered with US power firm Eaton to produce home energy storage systems. Photograph: Eaton/Nissan
Batteries that have powered electric cars around the UK will get a second life providing energy storage for households, with the launch this week of a British-made home battery to rival the one made by Elon Musk's Tesla.
The cells will be made by the Japanese car-maker Nissan in Sunderland, where its popular Leaf electric car is built, and sold in partnership with the US power firm Eaton. Buyers will be able to choose cheaper, used batteries that are no longer fit for electric car use, or pricier new ones.
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The batteries inside the Tesla Powerwall were previously made in Japan by Panasonic, but since January have been produced at its vast Gigafactory in Nevada. Sonnen, a German storage company, builds its European and Australian home batteries in Wildpoldsried, Germany.
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Solar panels installed on the roofs of residential property in Chatham, UK. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Cyrille Brisson, vice-president of EMEA at Eaton, said: "We're clearly going into this market with a view to becoming the leader of the market, with the weight of Nissan and its factory in Sunderland, and with Eaton's very strong base of installers. We believe we have the knowledge and capacity."
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On Thursday, Eaton will also announce a sponsorship deal with Manchester City football club, which Nissan already sponsors. Fans will be able to buy a special, Man City-branded version of the storage systems.
But the Nissan-Eaton partnership will face stiff competition from Tesla, which makes electric cars, solar panels and batteries. The California-headquartered company has already installed its Powerwall systems across the UK, aided by a high profile launch by the billionaire Musk.
Tesla's Powerwall energy unit installed at a home in Cardiff, UK. Photograph: Gareth Phillips/The Guardian
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Shadow and Light in the Post-COVID Church
Two long-time journalistic and personal friends, former CRTC commissioner Peter Menzies and Convivium's Peter Stockland, weigh the future of faith life in a Canada where churches have been shuttered by government order.
By Peter Stockland and Peter Menzies April 30, 2020
Peter Menzies: Sequestration of Church by State
Each of us, when and if this is over, will retain our own COVID-19 pandemic memories, preserved as still images in the mists of our minds.
Mine will include portraits – black and white, I think – of long, lonely walks through cold, deserted streets on what seemed at the time to be an endless series of Stephen King Boulevards. Another will be a selfie of a young woman in her wedding dress sent as a "what might have been" after announcing the postponement of her nuptials, hashtagged #pandemicbrides. Still another will be the strain in a pastor's voice as communion (unsanctified but in the presence of God, as he put it) was "served" via online video on Good Friday. And who among us can forget the surreal sight of police officers taking numbers and names at a parking lot/no contact service held by the Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario?
Individually and collectively, we have all given up much to help calm the spread of COVID-19 to levels the health care system can tolerate. Each of us will remember the individual liberties we abandoned. Many of us will keep in mind how eager the State has been to scoop them up.
It is now clear, post Aylmer, that the faithful gather only with permission of public officials. Their institutions sit empty while priests, imams and rabbis stream their services uncensored to those with Internet access. Pastors speak to cameras.The people of God bow to screens. Each self-serves and selects the wafer of choice: Ritz cracker or Stoned Wheat thin or, hey, why not Goldfish? Each chooses the liquid in the cup from which they sip – grape or pomegranate, Merlot, Malbec or Pinot noir. We get by as best we can. Only God may know our thoughts, but Google knows our browser history. And the government tracks our cellphones. So now we know they know. Sanctified. Vilified. This is faith in a world without touch or congregation.
Hovering around it all is the current government's ambition to implement new legislation governing our broadcasting and telecommunications systems, promised by Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeault in June based on the recommendations released in January by his appointed panel of experts.
Very broadly, it is expected that these new laws will define online video as broadcasting. This will officially verify the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) claim on the public square that we call the Internet and that is, at the moment, the only public place Canadians are entirely free to gather.
It is widely expected that legislation will give the CRTC broad discretion in how it does this and that it will, for now and if for no other reason than that it has limited resources, focus on large commercial carriers with earnings beyond a certain threshold. But to the extent mosques, synagogues, temples and churches now stream freely, it appears they will do so in the future in full knowledge they are doing so only because the CRTC decides they can. If and when the day comes when the regulator decides it wants to regulate Internet religious services as broadcasting, in the same manner as it has done with television and radio, it appears the government will give it power to do so.
As you ponder where this might lead, consider that the CRTC has always understood religion to be a matter of broad public "concern." While it certainly permitted the unfettered broadcast of church services on Sunday mornings and the multifaith VisionTV cable channel beginning in 1987, the very idea that a "single faith" broadcaster could be approved was anathema to it until the early 1990s. Even then it was granted permission through a split vote and was – at least as legend has it – only considered a trade-off because the Commission believed it would have difficulty justifying concerns about religion while at the same time licensing pay per view porn.
In approving religion (yes, think about the bureaucratic hubris that entails), it said:
"Nevertheless, the Commission is persuaded by the argument that religious values, in particular, play an important role in the lives of many Canadians. Since these values are communicated increasingly through radio and television, the Commission considers that those religious groups who choose to use the Canadian broadcasting system to reach their congregations should not be discouraged.
"The Commission's objective is to meet the legitimate needs and interests of those who wish to receive various kinds of religious programming, without diminishing the integrity and strength of the Canadian broadcasting system. In seeking to achieve this goal, the Commission has taken into consideration the fact that religious broadcasting has the power to provide spiritual comfort. At the same time, the Commission is acutely aware of instances where this power has been abused. While the Commission is of the view that a more flexible approach to the licensing of religious programming services is warranted, it also considers that this flexibility must be accompanied by rigorous guidelines on ethics to assist broadcasters of religious programming and to guard against egregious intolerance and exploitation."
So, since 1992, single faith broadcasters have been licensed, but with obvious trepidation and strict rules lest, apparently, The Edict of Nantes be disrespected. Religious broadcasters have henceforth received special ethical guidance and while it is possible to have a football channel that never mentions baseball, the same cannot be said for a CRTC-approved religious channels. They must by condition of license give people of other faiths or no faith the opportunity to proselytize. This, one assumes, has prevented the third War of Kappel from breaking out.
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To be fair, this "balance" has evolved in some cases to consist of a very small percentage of the broadcast schedule and can be as relatively benign these days as Yes TV's inclusion of Little Mosque on the Prairie within its otherwise profoundly Christian schedule.
But the attitude that inspired these rules is still there, embedded deep within the regulator's culture. And there's nothing to indicate it won't still be there when or if, given the opportunity, the time comes for it to raise its eyebrows in "concern" about online religious services.
Peter Stockland: A Moment of Our Own
In the column above, my long-time friend and journalism colleague Peter Menzies lays out a necessary, if disturbing, vision for the future of public faith in Canada as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. It is a cautionary tale that needs serious heeding. Peter tells it as veteran journalist who hit the heights of the industry before going on to a deep second career as broadcast regulator. But he also informs it with an abiding personal faith of the Scottish Calvinist fount, where what appears as pessimism must really be recognized as a focusing squint at hard, cold reality.
His column, and mine here, emerged from a long long-distance conversation the we had recently where the two of us, as we have done so often over the years our professional lives and out lasting friendship, shaped the bones of what we were thinking about writing without saying a word to each other about either the unfolding process or our full intentions. We then ran off separately and wrote it all down before we took the vapours and swooned from our own sheer genius.
The process is worth mentioning because it actively demonstrates how enduring friendship can smirkily thumb its nose even at State mandated isolation. Far more importantly, it shows how two or more gathered together even by iPhones can observe the same situation and juxtapositionally come to quite different conclusions.
I fully respect Peter's arguments, and the experience from which he makes them, but I arrive at the very different conclusion that the apparent dark night of the soul for public faith could, can, and should be its golden moment. I think the COVID-19 crisis opens the door for those who profess faith in common life to re-introduce themselves to their fellow citizens as full partners in the national enterprise.
We need not sit sipping Lysol lemonade and Clorox cocktails in the left outfield bleachers with Donald Trump, after all, to insist that recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is too important to be left exclusively to politicians and health care technocrats.
On the contrary, our arrival at the prudent "return to normal" phase of the battle against the virus is an opportune moment for the Church to use her bona fides as a reason-based, natural science affirming voice to press for a Gospel-enriched vision of what tomorrow's ordinary must look like.
There can be no question we belong at the table as the discussion unfolds. Christian leaders globally showed courageous, albeit much criticized, sagacity in putting public safety first by closing churches for almost all of Lent. Painful as it was, the Church agreed to elevate the common good even when that meant forgoing the gathering of the people for Mass and worship services even during Easter, the holiest time in our liturgical year.
On that basis alone, the Christian Church's voice in upcoming civil debates cannot be dismissed by even hardcore secularists as intrusion where she does not belong. For any who do raise such objections, we can point to certain emanations from the president of the world's most powerful secular State to illuminate the difference between the rational and the woo-woo.
People who worship White Houses are hardly in a position to cast stones at those whose hearts seek true enduring wisdom in cathedral, basilica, or local church.
There are two intricately related areas where the Church – the clergy but all Christians engaged in civic life – must engage immediately, I think. The first is to challenge the insistence that returning to the pre-pandemic economic status quo is the necessary and sufficient ground for public policy measures in the months and even years ahead. The second is to counter the temptation perpetually whispering in the ears of those who wield power. It's the leaving in place of restrictions on liberty long after they have served their purpose, and which are endured only because the population has forgotten what real freedom means.
We must, of course, "get the economy moving again" as the mantra has it. Credible voices argue effectively that deplorable suffering caused by financial loss, and the ensuing cracking apart of dignity and self-worth, rival the depredations of the disease itself. To prolong that hardship willy-nilly would be wicked cruelty. But crucial wisdom the Church can impart clearly, implacably and charitably comes at the conjunction where economic dignity and the dignity of liberty become one.
Two thousand years of Christian social thought, distilled into formal social teaching in at least the Catholic and Calvinist traditions, forms us to understand that human beings are not free because we are economically productive. We are economically productive because we are free. The secular world has lost that critical distinction in the staggers and jags of its convulsive avarice. The Church now has a powerful opening to remind the recovering world of the truth that because our creativity is of a piece with our createdness, our freedom is inseparable from our being, and from having been given to us not by the State, not by technocrats in lab coats, but by God.
One example of where this might apply is in the tentative steps being taken to issue so-called "immunity passports" so that certain people, meeting certain criteria of demography and medical testing, can return both to work and to social life. The proposal is based on the appallingly named concept of "herd immunity," which might please epidemiologists but should horrify all who care about the humanness of humanity. Concern so far has whether such passports would be effective instrumentally against COVID-19 re-occurring. No one seems to have yet raised the demonstrable moral problem of dividing human beings into categories of pure and impure. A Church with a Saviour who touched lepers would be just the body to do it.
What the Church must counsel the world against is giving such thinking a free pass on the basis of perceived purely pragmatic temporary benefits. We've all experienced, after all, the rapidity with which the politically temporary becomes the technocratically permanent. We know, too, the power of appeals that ultimately make such measures seem natural.
The denial of human liberty is not natural. It is not the nature by which we were created or which we, in turn, create. Our created nature, or creative spirit, constitute gifts given to us by God. It is the Church's field, and the Church's moment, to say so.
Topics: Religious Freedom COVID-19
Peter Menzies
Peter Menzies is past CRTC vice chair of Telecom, a past publisher of the Calgary Herald and is a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist. He also advises tech companies but his views are always his own.
In early May, Cardus hosted launch events in Ottawa for its Religious Freedom Institute. Father Deacon Andrew Bennett, CRFI's director, spoke with Convivium's Peter Stockland about the kickoff and what's to come for the new institute.
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Criterium du Dauphine 2016: 5 riders to watch - Video
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The 2016 Criterium du Dauphine start list is packed with some of the best Grand Tour riders in the current peloton, including two-time defending champion Chris Froome (Team Sky). The Dauphine is currently missing from Alberto Contador's (Tinkoff) palmares but the Spaniard has been in sparkling form so far this season and will start as one the favourites for victory. Froome is sure to face off against his rival for July's Tour de France but there are several other likely protagonists who could ride away with the win, like Andrew Talansky did in 2014, while the duo mark each other.
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In an interview given to the Daily Mirror by David Luiz, the Brazilian has invited Diego Costa to swap Chelsea for Paris Saint Germain at the end of this season.
Luiz said that PSG would welcome the Spaniard with open arms and that he would be happy to have Diego Costa in his side.
After winning the Champions League title with Chelsea in 2012, Luiz joined PSG for a staggering £50 million.
Even at the time he was sold, he wasn't in great favour with Jose so it was a surprise that we got so much for him.
A £50 million price tag is a tough one to justify, yet for all his detractors, Luiz has won back to back league titles with the French side. Albeit in a very one-sided Ligue 1 of late.
PSG are also gradually becoming a force to be reckoned with in Europe (as we know all too well). We'll meet them again in the Champions League Round of 16 this season too.
"If Diego decides he has had enough of England and wants a new challenge, of course he would be welcome here. Off the field he is a good friend, one of the nicest guys you can meet, somebody I would go to dinner with." said Luiz.
While the wishes of Luiz might not be enough to lure Costa to Parc des Princes, the staggering wages that could be offered by the French side might tempt Costa to consider his future in the summer.


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Pete Boccarossa, a Nationwide Insurance agent and expert racer with more than 25 years of Superbike racing experience, offers some sound advice before taking off on two wheels. Participate in a sanctioned track school or day at the track. It will allow you to hone your riding skills without exposing yourself to traffic hazards. Boccarossa's philosophy is that track-proven skills translate into smart everyday riding habits.
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company is dedicated to keeping riders safe. In addition to educating drivers about motorcycle awareness, the insurance company has teamed with Boccarossa, to remind motorcyclists about racing techniques that can provide everyday riders a genuine safety edge.
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· Concentrate on braking performance. Keep in mind that 70 percent of your stopping power is located up front on any bike. Too many riders rely entirely too much on only the front or the rear brake, a practice that can result in losing control or in excessive stopping distances, which can be a real hazard in an emergency situation. It's always best to use a combination of both brakes to maximize control and to stop quicker in a shorter distance.
· Avoid focusing on a particular target ahead. Look ahead, taking in the "big picture" in your riding field. In a racing scenario, a rider who is constantly turning has to be planning the next maneuver at least by mid-corner. Motorcyclists riding in everyday traffic need to focus and think ahead.
· Keep alert when participating in a group ride. If you plan on riding in a group be mindful to avoid mimicking the moves of the rider ahead of you. Following a lead rider who happens to make a mistake can lead to an otherwise preventable accident.
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Finally, don't be tempted to ride "over your head" in terms of riding ability and experience. Taking a refresher-riding course on a regular basis is always an excellent idea.
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Bounce Houses Equal Party Fun But Fail To Keep Kids Safe
Recent research has found that inflatable bounce houses, which are more popular than ever at children's parties, fail to keep kids safe. According to NPR, 30 U.S. children a day are treated in emergency rooms for broken bones, sprains, cuts and concussions from bounce house accidents.
Bounce Houses Often Do Not Keep Kids Safe: Notable Findings
In a study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics, Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and his colleagues found the following startling information on bounce houses and kid's injuries:
The number of children aged 17 and younger who got emergency-room treatment for bounce house injuries has climbed along with the popularity of bounce houses: from fewer than 1,000 injuries in 1995 to nearly 11,000 in 2010. That's a 15-fold increase, and a doubling just since 2008.
Most injuries involve children falling inside or out of the inflated playthings.
Many children get hurt when they collide with other bouncing kids.
Kids often crowd into bounce houses, and jumping up and down can send other children flying into the air.
More than one-third of the injuries were to children aged 5 and younger.
While the study didn't include deaths, some accidents were fatal. Separate data from the product safety commission confirms four bounce house deaths from 2003 to 2007, all involving children striking their heads on a hard surface.
To lead author Dr. Gary Smith, these findings were unexpected: "I was surprised by the number, especially by the rapid increase in the number of injuries." With the rise in popularity of any product that stimulates activity it makes sense that injuries would also increase somewhat, but these numbers should be alarming to any parent with a young child.
However, there are several things that can be done to keep kids safe at parties:
Bounce houses should probably be supervised by trained operators.
Bouncers should be prohibited from doing flips and purposefully colliding with others.
Since it is recommended that children younger than 6 avoid full-size trampolines, barring kids that young from bounce houses also makes sense.
Do not overload bounce houses with too many kids.
Do not allow young children to bounce with much older, heavier kids or adults.
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War & Trade focusses on the Merchant Navy's contribution to the First World War covering all ship types and the human stories involved. We have again secured generous support from the P&O Heritage Collection both in advice and skills as well as artefacts and the exhibition will major on five ships, each of which has a unique story, and will also cover trawlers, coastal shipping, convoys, repatriation and the Tenth Cruiser Squadron which was heavily dependent on merchant ships and merchant seamen.
Running from 15 July to 11 November 2018, the exhibition is open on Sundays and Mondays ONLY, from 1100-1700 (last entry at 1630) and free of charge. All are welcome on board and tours of the ship are available during the Sunday opening hours.


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Stark Theater Pick: 'Persuasion' at San Jose Stage
Persuasion was Jane Austen's last finished novel, of only six total, and she is considered the greatest of English women novelists. There are numerous contemporary movies based upon her novels, and she has become a book club staple.
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Maryssa Wanless as Anne in San Jose Stage Company's World Premiere of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' adapted by Jennifer Le Blanc. (Photo: Dave Lepori)
From page to stage…
World premiere alert. Jane Austen's Persuasion opens at the San Jose Stage (The Stage) this weekend, marking the first time the production has even been adapted (local Bay Area playwright Jennifer Le Blanc) for theater.
Interior of San Jose Stage theater, downtown San Jose.
"Miss Austen directed her pen to give voice to a woman finding strength to be persuaded by her own heart. Her final novel is said to be a 'Present to herself,'" said artistic director Randall King. "The Stage was founded upon the mission of new works and local talent, and now The Stage offers the gift of Persuasion to the Bay area."
Austen's novel was first published posthumously by her family, along with Northanger Abbey, in December 1817. While the characters reflect Austen's own maturity, the book is filled with satire and is perceptive of people and their relationships, especially love.
"Persuasion is one of Austen's lesser-known novels, and the characters are old, more mature and have known heartache," says Jennifer Le Blanc, the author of this world premiere and Bay Area native. She adds that she was drawn to this works because the main character Anne has "developed her own voice." Ms. Le Blanc continues, "I admire Anne greatly; she is selfless, intelligent, practical and a strong woman to have around in a crisis."
This is the twelfth world premiere presented by San Jose Stage Company.
San Jose Stage
Adapted by Jennifer Le Blanc
Previews: Begin April 3
Opens: April 6
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