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Daily Trojan Editorial Board
Dennerley leaving legacy at USC
By MICHAEL KATZ
October 5, 2011 in Sports, Water Polo
As the three-time defending NCAA champions, the No. 4 USC men's water polo team has plenty of reasons to remain optimistic. Despite losing their first two games of the season last weekend, the Trojans, with a bevy of youth and experience, are still in prime position to make a run at a fourth consecutive title.
Dyanmic · Senior goalie Joel Dennerley broke USC's all-time record for career saves against UCLA earlier this year. He has also notched a Conference Player of the Year award and three NCAA titles in his career so far at USC. - Kevin Nguyen | Daily Trojan
Perhaps no one, though, has been more pivotal to the Trojans' most recent run of success than senior goalie Joel Dennerley, last year's Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Year, who recently became USC's all-time career saves leader.
"It's something special for sure," Dennerley said of breaking the record. "It's a great honor."
Forecasting a bright future for Dennerley, a native of Chester Hill, Australia, has been easy — at least to some degree.
Arriving on campus as a wide-eyed freshman in the summer of 2008, Dennerley has served as the Trojans' starting goalie throughout his entire tenure with the program. And every season the three-time All-American has been in between the pipes for USC, the team has captured an NCAA title.
In spite of the multitude of hardware, the 6-foot-4 Dennerley insists his college experience expands beyond the pool.
"It's been great," Dennerley said. "I'm unbelievably lucky to get this sort of opportunity — coming to a great school and a great water polo program as well. It's been unforgettable."
Dennerley, perhaps most notably this season, set the USC career-record for saves, which was 674, during the finals of the NorCal tournament against rival UCLA on Sept. 18 — a game in which the Trojans won 10-8. Notching his 675th save, Dennerley immortalized himself among greats who have played for the Trojans, something that isn't lost on the native Australian.
"USC has such a great tradition of water polo," Dennerley said. "Many great players have come through here, and to be among those goalies that have played here in the past and have basically set up the tradition that we have here at USC is a privilege as well."
Though he has made his mark playing for USC, Dennerley also played on Australia's national team before coming to the United States to play on the collegiate circuit.
"I still play for Australia, but I was playing for the junior national team and we had the Junior World Championships in Long Beach … so from there [USC coach Jovan Vacic] scouted me and recruited me from there," Dennerley said. "Then, basically a year later, I was back over."
Though he is certainly pleased to be a record holder, he is not losing sight of this season and the team as a whole. He has made sure the Trojans keep their eyes on the ultimate prize: another title.
"[We feel] good, you know. We sort of set up goals for ourselves and take each week as a new week," Dennerley said after a recent 14-4 home victory over Princeton. "We try not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but I think we're on track."
At this point in his career, Dennerley does not have a lot left to prove. But for now, he remains content with simply being a good teammate, helping to lead the Trojans to what would be an unprecedented fourth-straight national championship.
"It's funny," Dennerley said. "The last season [at USC], you never thought it would come. But here it is, and I think the main thing is still trying to teach the younger players as much as I can, pass on as much information as I can to the new players."
Having fun, however, doesn't mean that he and the rest of the team are content with only three titles in three years.
"I think the guys are very hungry," Dennerley said. "They wanna get back to that national championship. It's a good vibe amongst the team for sure."
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import sys
from collections import OrderedDict
import subprocess as sp
from textwrap import dedent
import random as rnd
import string
import os
import os.path
import tempfile as tmpf
import atexit
import time
import signal

#import pdb

# Set this to true to enable debugging
debug = False

doc = """
Usage: merge.py [options] \\
                -a TAB_A [by[=byNew] [colA[=colAnew]]...]\\
                -b TAB_B [by         [colB[=colBnew]]...] \\

Merge two text tables TAB_A and TAB_B. This is a wrapper around the
UNIX commands `awk`, `sort` and `join`.

TAB_A and TAB_B are merged using the first column specified after the
file name as a key. See examples below.

By default, a natural join is performed, that is: only rows corresponding
to values in TAB_A and TAB_B are inserted in the output. If you want to make
sure that all rows of TAB_A and/or TAB_B are included in the output,
use the --all, --all-a or --all-b switch.

Options:

    --prefix-a PREFIX  A string which shall be prepended to the column
                       names of TAB_A
    --prefix-b PREFIX  Like prefix-a, but for TAB_B

    --all-a            Do left outer join, i.e. output all fields
                       from TAB_A
    --all-b            Do right outer join, i.e. output all fields
                       from TAB_B
    --all              Do full outer join, i.e. --all-a and --all-b
    --empty VAL        Replace missing fields with val if doing outer
                       join. Default: NA
    --a-sorted         Table A is sorted already; do not sort again
    --b-sorted         Table B is sorted already; do not sort again

    --all-a-cols       Output all columns of table A
    --all-b-cols       Output all columns of table B

"""

def main(argv):
    args = parseArguments(argv[1:])
    # with open(args["a"],"rt") as a_fd:
    #     a_fdno = a_fd.fileno()
    #     header_a = a_fd.readline().rstrip().split("\t")
    # with open(args["b"],"rt") as b_fd:
    #     b_fdno = b_fd.fileno()
    #     header_b = b_fd.readline().rstrip().split("\t")
    if args["a"] == "-":
        llfd_a = sys.stdin.fileno()
    else:
        llfd_a = os.open(args["a"],os.O_RDONLY)

    if args["b"] == "-":
        llfd_b = sys.stdin.fileno()
    else:
        llfd_b = os.open(args["b"],os.O_RDONLY)

    if llfd_a == sys.stdin.fileno() and llfd_b == sys.stdin.fileno():
        raise ValueError("-a and -b cannot both read from standard in!")

    # Use unbuffered IO to wrap file descriptors
    a_fh = os.fdopen(llfd_a, 'rb', 0)
    b_fh = os.fdopen(llfd_b, 'rb', 0)

    def_enc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
    header_a = a_fh.readline().decode(def_enc)
    header_b = b_fh.readline().decode(def_enc)
    header_a = header_a.rstrip().split("\t")
    header_b = header_b.rstrip().split("\t")

    # acols, bcols: list of 2-tuples. First value of tuple specifies
    # column name in input, second value of tupls specifies column
    # name in output (first != second => column is renamed)
    acols = args["acols"]
    bcols = args["bcols"]

    # Check if correct column names specified
    missing_a = [x[0] for x in acols if x[0] not in header_a]
    missing_b = [x[0] for x in bcols if x[0] not in header_b]

    if missing_a or missing_b:
        raise ValueError('non-existant column names '+','
                .join(missing_a + missing_b) + ' specified!'+
                '\n valid A: {}, B: {}'.format(header_a,header_b))

   # pdb.set_trace()

    # If no columns are specified: add first columns as key (by) colums
    # The columns are appended as 2-tuples: the column name of the input
    # and the desired column name of the output
    if len(acols) == 0 : acols.append((header_a[0],header_a[0]))
    if len(bcols) == 0 : bcols.append((header_b[0],header_b[0]))

    # Add all input columns which are not specified with equal old and new
    # column name if --all-a-cols or --all-b-cols, respectively, is set
    explicit_old_colnames_a = [ oldcn for oldcn,newcn in acols]
    explicit_old_colnames_b = [ oldcn for oldcn,newcn in bcols]
    if args["all_a_cols"] : acols.extend(
        [(col,col) for col in header_a if col not in explicit_old_colnames_a])
    if args["all_b_cols"] : bcols.extend(
        [(col,col) for col in header_b if col not in explicit_old_colnames_b])

    # Column indices of columns selected for output
    a_cols_i = [header_a.index(x[0]) for x in acols]
    b_cols_i = [header_b.index(x[0]) for x in bcols]

    a_by = acols[0] # Key column name of table 1 (2-tuple)
    b_by = bcols[0] # Key column name of table 2 (2-tuple)

    a_by_i = a_cols_i[0] # Key column index of table 1 (0-based)
    b_by_i = b_cols_i[0] # Key column index of table 2 (0-based)

    # Add pre-/suffixes to all column names from table 1,
    # except key (a_by) column.
    a_cols_print = [cn_new for cn_old,cn_new in acols if cn_old != a_by[0]]
    a_cols_print = [args["prefix_a"] + cn + args["suffix_a"]
                       for cn in a_cols_print]
    # Add key column, but without pre-/suffix
    a_cols_print = [a_by[1]] + a_cols_print

    # Add pre-/suffixes to cols from table 2, except key column (omitted)
    b_cols_print = [cn_new for cn_old,cn_new in bcols[1:]]
    b_cols_print = [args["prefix_b"] + cn + args["suffix_b"]
                       for cn in b_cols_print]
    # Add outer join arguments
    joinargs = []
    joinargs.extend(["-1",str(a_by_i+1)])
    joinargs.extend(["-2",str(b_by_i+1)])
    if "a" in args["all"] : joinargs.extend(["-a","1"])
    if "b" in args["all"] : joinargs.extend(["-a","2"])
    #if args["all"] : # Any join
    # Old versions of join want this, can't take '-o auto'
    fieldspec=",".join(["1.{}".format(i+1) for i in a_cols_i]+
                       ["2.{}".format(i+1) for i in b_cols_i[1:]])
    joinargs.extend(["-e", args["empty"]])
    joinargs.extend(["-o", fieldspec])

    # #namedpipe_a = os.path.join(tmpf.gettempdir(),rnd_string(40))
    # namedpipe_a = os.path.join(rnd_string(40))
    # atexit.register(os.unlink, namedpipe_a)
    # #namedpipe_b = os.path.join(tmpf.gettempdir(),rnd_string(40))
    # namedpipe_b = os.path.join(rnd_string(40))
    # atexit.register(os.unlink, namedpipe_b)
    #
    # os.mkfifo(namedpipe_a)
    # os.mkfifo(namedpipe_b)

    # sp.Popen("{awk} <&{fd} | sort > {fifo}".format(
    #     awk=awk_select_cols(a_cols_i),
    #     #tab=args['a'],
    #     fd = llfd_a,
    #     fifo=namedpipe_a),
    #     shell=True, close_fds=False)
    # sp.Popen("{awk} <&{fd} | sort > {fifo}".format(
    #     awk=awk_select_cols(b_cols_i),
    #     #tab=args['b'],
    #     fd = llfd_b,
    #     fifo=namedpipe_b),
    #     shell=True, close_fds=False)

    # cmd = ("join {args} -t '\t' {fifo1} {fifo2}".format(
    #         args = " ".join(joinargs),
    #         fifo1=namedpipe_a, fifo2=namedpipe_b))

    os.set_inheritable(llfd_a,True)
    os.set_inheritable(llfd_b,True)

    sort_cmd_a = "| LC_ALL=C sort -k{by} -t$'\\t'".format(by=a_by_i+1) \
            if not args["a_sorted"] else ""
    sort_cmd_b = "| LC_ALL=C sort -k{by} -t$'\\t'".format(by=b_by_i+1) \
            if not args["b_sorted"] else ""

    cmd_taba = "{awk} <&{fd} {sort}".format(
            awk = "cat",
            #awk  = awk_select_cols(a_cols_i),
            fd   = llfd_a,
            sort = sort_cmd_a )
            #sort = "")

    cmd_tabb = "{awk} <&{fd} {sort}".format(
            awk = "cat",
            #awk  = awk_select_cols(b_cols_i),
            fd   = llfd_b,
            sort = sort_cmd_b )
            #sort = "")

    cmd = ("join {args} -t$'\\t' <({input_a}) <({input_b})").format(
            input_a = cmd_taba,
            input_b = cmd_tabb,
            args = " ".join(joinargs))

    print("\t".join(a_cols_print+b_cols_print))
    sys.stdout.flush()

    # Handle SIGPIPE properly, e.g. when piped to head
    signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)

    # Execute join
    sp.check_call(cmd, close_fds=False,shell=True, executable="/bin/bash")

    sys.stdout.flush()
    sys.stderr.flush()

    return 0

def rnd_string(length):
    chars = string.ascii_lowercase+string.ascii_uppercase+string.digits
    o = rnd.sample(chars, length)
    return "".join(o)

def awk_select_cols(cols_list):
    col_s = ",".join(["$"+str(i+1) for i in cols_list])
    return r'''awk 'BEGIN{OFS="\t";FS="\t"}(NR!=1){print '''+col_s+"} ' "

def parseArguments(argv):
    # Is str a parameter name? (e.g. -a, --bcols)
    def is_parname(str): return str != "-" and str.startswith("-")

    # Get number of parameter before next param name
    def n_args(argv, acc=0):
        try:
            if is_parname(argv[0]): return acc
            else:                   return n_args(argv[1:],acc+1)
        except IndexError:          return acc

    def parse_ab(argv,name):
        n = n_args(argv)
        xcols = []
        if n == 0:
            raise ValueError("-{} needs at least 1 argument!".format(name))
        x = argv.pop(0)
        if n > 1 : xcols = parse_colspec(argv)

        return (x,xcols)

    def parse_colspec(argv):
        n = n_args(argv)
        o = []
        for i in range(1,n+1):
            s = argv.pop(0)
            spl = tuple(s.split("="))
            if len(spl) not in [1,2]:
                raise ValueError("column spec must be col or "+
                                 "col=newname; is: {}".format(s))
            o.append(spl if len(spl) == 2 else (spl[0],spl[0]))
        return o

    def getSingleArg(argv,name):
        n = n_args(argv)
        if n_args(argv) != 1:
            raise ValueError("--{} needs 1 parameter!".format(name))
        return argv.pop(0)

    argv = list(argv) # Do not modify input argv, but modify a copy

    a = None
    b = None
    acols = []
    bcols = []
    prefix_a = ""
    prefix_b =""
    suffix_a = ""
    suffix_b = ""
    empty = "NA"
    a_sorted = False
    b_sorted = False
    all_a_cols = False
    all_b_cols = False
    all=set()

    while argv:
        arg = argv.pop(0)
        if  arg == "--help":
            print(doc)
            sys.exit(0)
        elif  arg == "-a":
            a,acols = parse_ab(argv,"a")
        elif arg == "-b":
            b,bcols = parse_ab(argv,"b")

        elif arg == "--suffix-a":
            suffix_a = getSingleArg(argv,"suffix-a")
        elif arg == "--suffix-b":
            suffix_b = getSingleArg(argv,"suffix-b")
        elif arg == "--prefix-a":
            prefix_a = getSingleArg(argv,"prefix-a")
        elif arg == "--prefix-b":

            prefix_b = getSingleArg(argv,"prefix-b")
        elif arg == "--empty": empty = getSingleArg(argv,"empty")

        elif arg == "--all-a": all.update("a")
        elif arg == "--all-b": all.update("b")
        elif arg == "--all":   all.update(["a","b"])
        elif arg == "--a-sorted": a_sorted = True
        elif arg == "--b-sorted": b_sorted = True
        elif arg == "--all-a-cols": all_a_cols = True
        elif arg == "--all-b-cols": all_b_cols = True

        else: raise ValueError("Unknown argument {}".format(arg))

    if not a or not b:
        raise ValueError("-a and -b must be supplied!")

    return {"a":a,                   "b":b,
            "acols":acols,           "bcols":bcols,
            "suffix_a":suffix_a,     "suffix_b":suffix_b,
            "prefix_a":prefix_a,     "prefix_b":prefix_b,
            "all":all,               "empty":empty,
            "a_sorted":a_sorted,     "b_sorted":b_sorted,
            "all_a_cols":all_a_cols, "all_b_cols":all_b_cols}

if __name__=="__main__":
    if "--debug" in sys.argv:
        debug = True
        sys.argv.remove("--debug")
    try:
        sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
    except Exception as e:
        if debug : raise
        print("Error: ",end="",file=sys.stderr)
        print(e,file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)

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Central Works concludes season with a NNPN Rolling World Premiere, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH (Download PDF)
The Central Works 2016 Season closes with Into the Beautiful North, a new play by Karen Zacarías playing Oct 15 – Nov 13 in the historic Berkeley City Club. This production marks CW's first partnership with the National New Play Network for this Rolling World Premiere. Into the Beautiful North is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea and inspired by the classic Hollywood western The Magnificent Seven.
With Into the Beautiful North, Central Works celebrates its continuing commitment to new work that draws from history, literature and events in our contemporary world that affect life as we live it. Karen Zacarías is one of the most produced Latina playwrights in the country. This National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere is produced in partnership with Milagro Theatre Portland (OR), San Diego Repertory Theatre (CA), and 16th Street Theater (IL). It represents Central Works' 53rd world premiere production.
In Into the Beautiful North young Nayeli leaves her home in a sleepy little seaside town in Sinaloa, Mexico, with her two best friends. They are determined to go North, on a bold quest, across the border, to bring back seven "Magnificent Mexican Men" to defend their town from drug dealers and corrupt policemen. The epic journey takes the small band of intrepid adventurers from Mexico, north to San Diego, and finally, of all places, to Kankakee, Illinois. The cast for Into the Beautiful North features Carlos Barrera, Caleb Cabrera, Samantha Cubias, Leticia Duarte, Rudy Guerrero*, Ben Ortega, Richard Talavera and Kitty Torres (*member AEA).
Karen Zacarías (playwright) is one of the most produced Latina playwrights in the nation in addition to being one of the inaugural Resident Playwrights at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She was recently named in American Theater magazine as one of the top 20 most produced playwrights in the 2016-17 season. Zacarías is a core founder of the LATINO THEATRE COMMONS as well as the founder of Young Playwrights' Theater, an award-winning theater company teaching playwriting in local public schools in Washington, DC. Ms. Zacarías' plays have been produced across the country at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Goodman, Denver Center, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Aurora Theatre, and many more. Her awards include: New Voices Award, 2010 Steinberg Citation-Best New Play, Paul Aneillo Award, National Francesca Primus Prize, New Voices Award, National Latino Play Award, Finalist Susan Blackburn, Helen Hayes for Outstanding New Play.
Luis Alberto Urrea (novelist) has been hailed by NPR as a "literary badass" and a "master storyteller with a rock and roll heart." He is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. Urrea is a critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 16 books, a finalist for 2005 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, the 2015 PEN-Faulkner Award, and winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the Lannan Literary Award, among many awards and accolades. In 2000 he was voted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, "I am more interested in bridges, not borders." He currently lives with his family in Naperville, IL, where he is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Gary Graves (director) has been a resident playwright and company co-director at Central Works since 1998. He has been a part of developing 53 world premiere productions with the company, many of which he has either written and/or directed. Some of the other productions he has directed for the company include Hearts of Palm, Enemies: Foreign and Domestic, Machiavelli's The Prince, Reduction in Force, Lola Montez, Enemy Combatant, The Mysterious Mr. Looney, Misanthrope, Mata Hari, and Pyrate Story. He directed the company's first collaboratively developed script, Roux, at the City Club in 1997. Since 2002, he has taught playwriting year-round at the Berkeley Rep School of Theater. Currently, he leads the Central Works Writers Workshop, an ongoing commissioning program that develops new works and offers a variety of playwriting classes.
Cast: (*AEA)
Carlos Barrera, originally from Colombia, he has performed in numerous shows around the Bay, and some of his favorite plays include: Marat/Sade with the Thrillpeddlers, SexRev with Theatre Rhinoceros, Homofile with EyeZen Productions, and Life is a Dream at Cal Shakes.
Caleb Cabrera returns to Central Works for a second time this season. Past credits include; Totem and Taboo (Central Works), My Mañana Comes (Marin Theatre Company), Water by the Spoonful (Dirty Hands), A Maze (Theatre Battery), and Year of the Rooster (Impact Theatre). He is also part of the ensemble in Shotgun Player's 25th anniversary season, returning to their repertory schedule of Grand Concourse and Hamlet after Sinaloa has been saved. He received a B.A. from SFSU in Theatre Arts.
Samanta Yunuen Cubias is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she consistently performed in main stage productions for the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. After graduating in 2012, she continued performing with local up-and-coming theatre companies, including Overcast Theatre Company (The Proposal by Antov Chekhov, The Garden Party by Vaclav Havel) and Faultline Theater (Dead Dog's Bone by Veronica Tjioe). Samanta currently works on staff at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Leticia Duarte is elated to be a part of Central Works' production of Into the Beautiful North. Some of her favorite Bay Area productions include Real Women Have Curves, Measure for Measure, Tartuffe, March, The Secretaries, Happy End, Dog Lady/Evening Star, and The Kentucky Cycle. She has appeared in numerous commercial spots, industrials, and has provided voice-over talent on multiple projects. The highlight of Leticia's career, thus far, was performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014. Leticia attended UCLA for her BA and the UCSC for her Masters, Shakespeare and Company's Winter Conservatory, and ACT's Summer Training Congress.
Rudy Guerrero* has performed with 42nd St. Moon, Alcazar Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theater, Foothill Music Theater (winner of the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for his Principal Performance as the "Leading Player" in Pippin), Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Magic Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theatre Company, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Playwrights Foundation, SF Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Willows Theater Company, and Word for Word. Television credits include the principal role in the Emmy Award Winning Tele-Play, Secrets. Rudy has a BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory and a MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater.
Ben Ortega was last seen as Cheche in Ross Valley Players' production of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics. Some of his favorite roles include Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Felix Ungar in The Odd Couple, George Hay in Moon Over Buffalo, Picasso in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Yvan in Art, Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men, Verdecchia/Wideload in the one-man show Fronteras Americanas, Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman, Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam, and George in Same Time, Next Year. Ben studied acting at UCLA and privately with Lisa Chess.
Richard Talavera has produced plays including, The Trail of Los Siete, Chac, Macairo Meets La Muete, Poeta Pan(co authored), Popol Vuh, and more recently, Before The Dream a celebration of Richard Wright and the black expats in Europe. His original idea plays include Rampage, The Last Taboo, Land, and in the open air, Truly Needed Travlin' Show. Richard enjoyed company membership in Teatro Latino and Teatro de La Esperanza, touring for many years as an actor in the US, with some shows in Mexico and even Chile. This summer to finish his play, The Entertaining Journey, in the Central Work's Playwright Workshop. He is the owner of The Mexican Bus.
Kitty Torres is a resident of San Francisco and has been performing in the theatre community as an actress, musician and within productions as a costume designer. This story lies close to her heart and she is so grateful to share this story through her role as Vampi.
National New Play Network (NNPN) is the country's alliance of non-profit professional theaters dedicated to the development, production, and continued life of new plays. Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has supported more than 200 productions nationwide through its innovative National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere program, which provides playwright and production support for new works at its Member theaters. NNPN also strives to pioneer, implement, and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. Its most recent project, the New Play Exchange (www.newplayexchange.org) is changing the way playwrights share their work and others discover it. NNPN's 30 Core and more than 75 Associate Members – along with the more than 250 affiliated artists who are its alumni, the thousands of artists and artisans employed annually by its member theaters, and the hundreds of thousands of audience members who see its supported works each year – are creating the new American theater.
For over 25 years Central Works has filled a special niche for theater artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, producing more new plays by local playwrights than any other company in the region. "The New Play Theater" utilizes three basic strategies: some are products of the Central Works Method, some are developed in the Central Works Writers Workshop, and some come to the company fully developed.
Central Works Method plays bring together writer, actors and director at the very outset of the playwriting process. In a supportive workshop environment, group research and collective brainstorming contribute to the entire development of the script. The Central Works Writers Workshop is an ongoing commissioning program established in 2012. Twice a year, in 12-week sessions, 8 local playwrights are selected to develop projects through informal readings and carefully directed discussions. For more information, visit our website: www.centralworks.org

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New U.S. deportation policy raises questions about what was
New U.S. deportation policy raises questions about what was and what might be
Deported Utahn frustrated with timing of policy that may have kept him in U.S.
By Dennis Romboy
Published: Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 12:50 a.m. MDT
SALT LAKE CITY — From his new home in Chile, Claudio Correa thinks about what might have been.
What if the Obama administration had allowed illegal immigrants facing deportation a chance to stay in the country 10 months earlier? Would his case be among the 300,000 the government intends to review as part of the new policy?
Would he and his wife, Deborah, still be making stained glass windows for LDS temples and other buildings from a studio in Lehi? Would their teenage son and daughter be heading back to American Fork High School next week?
Tony Yapias talks with some families as they react during a press conference at Centro Civico Mexicano, to the decision by Obama to halt certain deportations, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011.
But he also thinks about what could be for those, like him, who aren't criminals, who hold jobs, pay taxes and contribute to society but face deportation.
"I feel happy because I have friends and I know many people living there that could take advantage of this," Correa said. "But at the same time (this) is sad for me because we lost everything."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Correa last October on an outstanding deportation order, though he had not received so much as a traffic ticket during 10 years in the United States. His family returned to their native Argentina last November before settling in Concepcion, Chile.
Correa's thoughts come on the heels of the Obama administration announcing Thursday it will give many illegal immigrants an opportunity to stay in the country and apply for a work permit. At the same time, immigration authorities will focus on removing convicted criminals and those who pose a national security or public safety threat.
The policy change drew sharp criticism from some Utah politicians and anti-illegal immigration groups, while being received with cautious optimism in the Latino community.
Rep. Curt Oda, R-Clearfield, called it a "slap in the face" to people trying to enter the United States legally. It's hypocritical, he said, to say people in the country illegally haven't committed any other crimes.
Ron Mortensen, co-founder of the Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration, said people who have been arrested and allowed to stay only because they don't have an existing criminal record amounts, in most cases, to amnesty from document, Social Security and identity fraud.
"It appears that the Obama administration has sacrificed millions of Americans who are the victims of illegal alien identity theft for purely political purposes," he said. "This is politics at its worst."
Latino community leaders held a news conference Friday to discuss how the policy changes might affect undocumented immigrants in Utah. They said they hope it will end the unnecessary separation of families whose members may be legal and illegal.
Attorney and community activist Mark Alvarez said if a person is not currently in federal immigration court proceedings, the policy has no impact on them.
The government intends to review about 300,000 illegal immigrants slated for deportation on a case-by-case basis. That amounts to less than 3 percent of the nation's undocumented population.
The Salt Lake City immigration court established in 2005 had issued more than 8,200 deportation orders through last year.
"The law has not changed," said Archie Archuleta, chairman of the Utah Coalition of La Raza. "All they have done is said certain people are not to be threatened."
Because of that, Latino community leaders cautioned undocumented workers to beware of unscrupulous attorneys who might use the policy to take people's money with an empty promise of residency or citizenship.
Alvarez said it's not clear how Homeland Security will apply Obama's policy change. But a June memo from ICE director John Morton might provide some indication, he said.
Morton gave ICE field offices guidance on using "prosecutorial discretion" when enforcing immigration law. He advised agents to consider length of time in the United States, manner of arrival such as coming as a young child, educational pursuits and military service.
Homeland Security estimates that 61 percent of the roughly 11.8 million of the nation's illegal immigrants have been here longer than 10 years. Only 9 percent have entered the country in the past five years.
The Correa family would be among those longtime immigrants. So would two other men, both local LDS Church leaders, who made headlines when they were deported to Guatemala and El Salvador earlier this year, along with possibly many others.
The Correas came to the United States legally in 2000 with the understanding that Correa's employer would help pave the way for residency. That didn't happen. Later petitions for asylum due to religious persecution in their native Argentina were denied. Misguided advice from attorneys kept them in country thinking immigration officials would reopen their case someday.
Correa said he finds U.S. immigration law confusing. He doesn't know if it will ever be possible for him and his family to come back. And the policy change just perplexes him more.
He said he doesn't understand how he was a criminal last year, but wouldn't be one this year.
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China has taken aim at American pork with two harsh rounds of tariffs in the trade war — U.S. pig products are now hit with a 62 percent tax upon import into China. As the trade dispute drags on, and an infectious disease withers China's domestic supply of hogs, the country is establishing new pig trading relationships with no Americans involved.
DURHAM, NC — In this state, home to 9 million hogs as of January 2018 — and just over 10 million people — one could safely say that we know pork, and know it well. But one large aspect of the pig-farming business here may be on the verge of becoming obsolete knowledge: pork export to China.
In the ever-escalating U.S.-China trade war, exports of pork from North Carolina have dropped dramatically, causing economic pain particularly for the rural, eastern part of the state. A slew of major American agricultural products have been targeted twice this year by China in retaliation for a series of tariffs on a range of Chinese goods. In the pre-trade-war era, China had placed a 12 percent tariff on U.S. pork imports into the country, which already had producers complaining. Then in early April, a 25 percent tax was levied, and following further escalation, an additional 25 percent in July.
China's tariffs on American pork, along with similar taxes on other agricultural products, have caused such severe pain in specific parts of the American economy that the Trump administration has used a Great Depression-era program to approve up to $12 billion in emergency support to farmers. The first round of payments, including $588 million allocated for the federal government to purchase excess pork, was announced in late August. More subsidies for farmers could be decided by December, officials said.
It isn't difficult to imagine that pork faces a similar predicament — and, in fact, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that pork producers in places like Spain, Germany, and Chile are all gearing up to establish long-term export relationships with China. Despite the potentially prolonged diminishing of exports to China, President Trump and his administration have signaled again and again that they are intent on "going the whole hog" regarding the bilateral trade relationship with China, increasingly appearing to drive the two countries toward economic decoupling.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce detailed in a June 26 report how U.S. products will be affected by the global response and retaliation to the U.S. tariffs, and in North Carolina, pork ranks among the top exports impacted. Over $100 million worth of both frozen swine meat and offal is exported from North Carolina to China annually. However, individuals in various positions up and down the supply chain are feeling pressured by the tariff war, from exporters to producers.
While China trails Canada and Mexico as the third-largest value market for U.S. pork, constituting over $1 billion nationwide, the Chinese market represents a unique source of value-added income for products like swine offal (internal organs that are termed "variety meats"), which have much lower demand in North America. China is the main consumption market for offal worldwide, so without alternative markets, exporters have no choice but to ride the ebb and flow of Chinese import demand. At the moment, the tide is receding, quickly.
Pork imports into China fluctuate largely depending on the price differences between imported pork and domestic pork. However, "no matter how cheap American pork is, the price gap can be almost eliminated by the additional tariff. This is the reason many Chinese clients have suspended importing USA's pork currently," says Angela Zhang, head of the Business Intelligence Division at IQC Insights, a Shanghai-based consultancy that focuses on the pork industry in China.
State export data from the U.S. Census Bureau website shows some pork exports from North Carolina to China plummeting to nearly zero after a sharp uptick in late winter/early spring 2018.
Numbers were already down on exports from North Carolina compared with those in previous years. However, after the onset of trade disputes with China, the volume of some pork export products from North Carolina to China appear to have either plummeted dramatically or stopped entirely.
In recent years, North Carolina has been particularly interested in selling pork to China. Two publications on the website of North Carolina's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Doing Business in the U.S. and North Carolina's Distinctive Advantages, have been translated into Mandarin. Given the lack of any other language translations, this reflects the concerted effort the state has put into courting investment and business from China.
According to a statement released by North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler in June, 46,000 full-time jobs are supported by the pork industry alone. Prolonged escalation of tariffs poses a grave threat to the health of the local pork industry, which made up one-fifth of all farm cash receipts in 2016, according to the Annual Statistical Bulletin released by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, headquartered in neighboring Virginia, was acquired by Chinese meat-processing company WH Group in 2013. The Chinese buyers hoped to meet a voracious appetite for pork among Chinese consumers with pork sourced in large part from places like rural North Carolina.
Now that dream is facing challenges on multiple fronts. Besides the trade war, Smithfield faces an amalgam of environmental and legal pressures after losing a series of nuisance lawsuits filed by more than 500 neighbors of industrial-scale farms under contract. To date, juries have awarded locals in eastern North Carolina more than $500 million in punitive and compensatory damages (reduced to roughly $100 million under a state law that caps payment for nuisance suits).
The Chinese buyers of Smithfield foods in Virginia hoped to meet a voracious appetite for pork among Chinese consumers with pork sourced in large part from places like rural North Carolina. Now that dream is facing challenges on multiple fronts.
Help for at least part of Smithfield's business could come from the most unexpected of sources: the Trump administration. The Washington Post reported on October 23 that the company technically qualifies for part of the federal government's farm bailout, despite being foreign-owned. But Sullivan remains pessimistic about the future for his pork being shipped to China: On October 26, he went on the record to state that that line of business was no longer viable due to tariffs.
While Americans are being shut out of the Chinese pork market, China's domestic situation continues to evolve. African swine fever (ASF) was discovered for the first time in East Asia in Heilongjiang Province. Since the initial outbreak on August 3, the virus has spread to over a dozen provinces and municipalities. According to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, the "virulence and ease of transmission," as well as China's "wide geographic distribution," could "significantly impact China's swine population and availability of domestically produced pork." Even as Chinese meat processors fear their stocks may run low due to the disease, they are not turning to the U.S. to alleviate the pressure, but rather to Europe.
The presence of the virus in Henan Province, China's number two swine-breeding region behind Sichuan Province, could have a significant effect on production for the rest of 2018 and 2019. There is no known cure for ASF, and carriers exhibit up to a 100 percent mortality rate, leaving mass culling of swine as the only dependable method to stymie the spread of the disease.
According to Dr. Shimshony, early eradication odds are "affected by the unfortunate fact that the virus had been circulating on Chinese territory at least two months before being recognized, likely on small holdings in the northeast," where it was reportedly originally identified in early August. After an outbreak in 1978–79 in southern Brazil, where 224 cases were reported, Brazil did not regain ASF-free status until five years later in 1984.
All told, China's now-monstrous demand for pork may leave no option but to turn to much higher volumes of imported pork. Yet as long as the trade war continues, those importing relationships will be established without Americans involved.
Jason MacRonald is a production associate at SupChina who helps edit podcasts for the Sinica Network. He is based in Durham, North Carolina and a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.


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Spotlight: Freshman class celebrates diversity
Each year, Notre Dame welcomes its best and brightest freshman class to date. This year is certainly no exception, and, in many ways, incoming students have a great deal in common ? all are strong in academics, have admirable SAT and ACT scores, and bring a host of other skills and talents to campus.
But the students who are entering the University this fall also are quite different, both from each other and from their predecessors. In fact, they make up the most diverse freshman class in Notre Dame history.
With a minority student population of 21 percent, the class of 2007 is the latest evidence of the University better reflecting the faces of society. An increasing number of African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American students are applying, gaining admission, and making the decision to attend each year, changing the face of the typical Notre Dame student.
When University leaders reflect on Notre Dame through the decades, many think back to a time when diversity was scarce- and even non-existent.
"Notre Dame was much more monochromatic in the past, at least in appearance," said Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., the University's president. "All of the students were male, most of them were Caucasian. Now the student body is about half male and half female, and we have a growing percentage of those from different underrepresented groups. We're working to make Notre Dame more clearly resemble the demographics of the country and of the world."
With that goal in mind, the University is continually strengthening its commitment to attracting multicultural students. By utilizing national student search programs, visiting selected high school campuses, and bringing some 150 admitted students to Notre Dame each spring, the Office of Admissions works toward a diverse student body from the very beginning of the application and admission process.
"Our approach to this always has been to increase the interest level, the number of inquiries and applications," said Robert Mundy, director of admissions operations. "If we do that, that increase will just carry on through to the admitted and enrolling numbers, and that's exactly what happened this year."
More than 2,000 minority students filed applications for 2003, the highest number in the past decade and a 39-percent increase from 2002. Of those who applied, some 860 gained admission, roughly 200 more minority students than were accepted the previous year.
"I'm really pleased about the dramatic increase in the members of underrepresented groups here at Notre Dame," Father Malloy said. "We've been working hard to get the application numbers up, and also to make sure those who are admitted decide to come."
When they do make that decision, the Notre Dame community welcomes students from all walks of life with open arms. More than 500 students from ethnically underrepresented groups attended an opening reception sponsored by the First Year of Studies program before classes began. Now, they're embarking on their own version of the Notre Dame experience, each playing a special part in the ever-evolving student body.
Regardless of their varied backgrounds or coming experiences, from this point on, they're all Irish.
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Впервые в своей истории Сборная завершает отбор на Чемпионат мира по футболу среди женщин на третьем месте (ранее ниже 2-ого не было) в группе с отставанием от 1-ого места на одиннадцать очков.

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BBC World News has been shut down in Russia, the broadcaster said.
Russian authorities have restricted access to foreign and independent media, including major BBC websites, in recent days as the invasion of Ukraine continues.
On Friday, her parliament passed legislation making spreading "fake" or "false" news about the Kremlin's war in Ukraine a criminal offense with up to 15 years in prison, prompting the BBC to temporarily suspend the work of all of its news hire journalists and support staff in Russia.
BBC World News presenter Victoria Derbyshire was the first to announce the broadcaster's suspension.
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at 10 am Lori Osborne, curator of the exhibit, will present exhibit highlights via Facebook Live and unveil the National Votes for Women Trail historic marker for Evanston suffragist Catharine Waugh McCulloch
exhibit viewing from 12 – 4 p.m. at the Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood Street. Reservations are required due to space limitations. More details to follow.
Telling the story of Evanston women and their strategic and critical work for women's suffrage, the exhibit features archival resources, artifacts and costumes from the EHC collection.
"Determined to Rise": Chicago's African American Women in the Fight for the Vote
A Conversation with Tikia K. Hamilton, Wanda Hendricks, and Kenvi Phillips
Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 3 to 4 pm. This program will be held virtually on Zoom. Register for free in advance here. Event details here.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Black women played an active role in the struggle for universal suffrage. Chicago was a vibrant scene of political meetings, conventions, and organized societies where African American women outlined strategies to gain the right to vote. Yet despite their efforts, they were often marginalized from these struggles on the basis of their race.
In a conversation moderated by the Newberry's Liesl Olson and co-sponsored by the National Women's History Museum, scholars Tikia K. Hamilton, Wanda Hendricks, and Kenvi Phillips will explore the role of African American women in the fight for suffrage.
This event is cosponsored by the National Women's History Museum.
On the Way to Suffrage: Chicago Women and Politics, 1865 to 1920
How did Chicago women win suffrage for themselves and other women? Who were these politicians and activists, and what did they accomplish on the long path toward suffrage from the years after the Civil War until passage of the Nineteenth Amendment? The answers–from securing local elections that were open to women as early as 1880, to working behind the scenes as loyal party operatives to shape the Republican party ticket–might surprise us. Long before the Nineteenth Amendment women in Chicago–Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells, Ella Stewart, and Catharine Waugh McCulloch–spoke, wrote, canvassed, rallied, lobbied, negotiated, and voted their way to full suffrage in 1920.
Speaker is Rachel Bohlmann librarian at the University of Notre Dame. She previously served as Director of Public Programs at the Newberry Library.
Wednesday, September 16th, 7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Details at https://www.glessnerhouse.org/programs/2020/9/16/online-on-the-way-to-suffrage-chicago-women-and-politics-1865-to-1920
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers Book Launch with Martha S. Jones
Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the Frances Willard House Museum in conversation with Martha S. Jones author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic/2020) and Leslie Harris (moderator), professor, Department of History, Northwestern University.
Thursday, September 17 – 6-8 pm – FREE
About the Book: In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women — Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more— who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
A partnership between Frances Willard House Museum, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Northwestern University in commemoration of the 2020 Suffrage Centennial.
Tickets here.
100th Anniversary VIRTUAL Celebration – LWVIL
The League of Women Voters of Illinois (LWVIL) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of defending democracy and empowering voters with a 100th Anniversary VIRTUAL Celebration on September 24, 2020. The theme for the event is "Power The Vote."
LWVIL has a long and rich history that was forged from the determination and dedication of astounding women. The event webpage will be updated with details and registration information as they develop.
On Monday, August 17th from 4-6 pm, join WTTW for a virtual community screening and conversation of The Vote. After the screening, Sylvia Ewing, Director of Strategic Communications, Marketing, and Outreach at Elevate Energy will moderate a live conversation featuring Lori Osborne, director of the Evanston Women's History Project and Frances Willard House Museum in Evanston; Alice Palmer, former Illinois State Senator; and Rebecca Sive, political analyst and women's leadership strategist and historian. The panel will discuss Illinois' role in the Women's Suffrage Movement, how race impacted Women's Suffrage and voting today.
If you missed the community screening and panel discussion – you can see the discussion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NKi68X4GLo&list=PLwKqSr8WT3tDJLxJmGWY9EdYLZQNbpI9z&index=3&t=0s
The Vote will re-air on WTTW beginning Tuesday September 8 at 8pm and will run there for three weeks. You can also find it online via PBS Passport and Amazon Prime.
On Friday, February 14, 2020, the League of Women Voters of Illinois (LWVIL) celebrated a century as a grassroots nonpartisan civic organization. The centennial anniversary took place at the Congress Plaza Hotel in the Gold Room, the very room in which the League of Women Voters of the U.S. was founded in 1920. The event included remarks from community influencers and local and state legislators, a presentation of a state and city proclamations marking the significance of this date, and a celebratory birthday cake.
To see photos and video from the event visit go here.
The 2020 anniversary year started on January 1st with women's suffrage a highlight of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. Hundreds of marchers dressed as suffragists and a suffrage anniversary float was covered with yellow roses (which were a symbol of the suffrage movement). One of the marchers representing Illinois was the descendent of an Illinois suffragist – Catharine Waugh McCulloch. Another was a descendent of Ida B. Wells. You can find more about both McCulloch and Wells in the Biography section of this website. For more information about the parade, go here.
On Monday, June 10, 2019 Illinois League members and supporters gathered at Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago for the commemoration of June 10th, 2019 as Women's Right to Vote Day. Several dignitaries from all levels of government were there and the day included a short speech from LWVIL Executive Director Audra Wilson about the importance of the League in securing voting rights for ALL citizens. This special celebration was to recognize that on June 10th, 1919, Illinois became the FIRST to ratify the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote.


The paper reviews some ways that the social and psychic have been understood in psychoanalysis and argues that a model for understanding the relation between the psychic and the social must account both for the ways that we internalize oppressive norms as well as the ways we resist them. The author proposes that we build our identities in relation to other identities circulating in our culture and that cultural hierarchies of sexism, racism, classism push us to split off part of what it means to be human, thereby creating painful individual and relational repetition compulsions. These "normative unconscious processes" replicate the unjust social norms that cause psychic pain in the first place. The paper concludes with thoughts about contemporary US culture, in which the government has abdicated responsibility toward its most vulnerable citizens and has thus rendered vulnerability and dependence shameful states.


During the Winter quarter, Visual Communications Students in the Design Installation class in San Francisco had the opportunity to design and install window and shadow box displays on campus featuring product from five key Williams-Sonoma brands including Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBTeen, and one of their newer acquisitions, Mark & Graham.
Williams-Sonoma is headquartered in San Francisco.
Students who worked on the Williams-Sonoma kitchen window display above include Caitlin Taylor, Jayme Isaacs, Alexandra Hankins, Daniella Acosta, and Sahara Ray-Bach.


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Home Articles From The 74: 5 Ways of Engaging Parents in Their Kids' Education
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The following article was originally posted on The 74 on October 23, 2018.
In the 1990s, parents in a Central East Austin, Texas, school didn't know that their children, who came home with As and Bs on their report cards, were actually scoring in the bottom quartile on state tests. But when an organization meant to connect families and schools started sharing student performance data, these families, who were primarily from low-income households, led the effort to turn their school around in student performance, teacher turnover, and attendance.
There's a pervasive, but false, myth that families from low-income households are less engaged in their children's education than wealthier, white families, said Heather Weiss, director of the Global Family Research Project and author of a new report on family engagement for the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This erroneous belief can lead schools not to try to engage families, which is a lost opportunity, as research shows family engagement can increase student achievement and boost graduation rates — especially for children in low-income households.
Family engagement efforts in schools vary widely across the country, Weiss said, ranging from mobile communication to home visits by teachers. The report focuses on five research-backed areas: attendance, data sharing, academic and social development, digital media, and transitions between grades.
"It's very clear that family engagement is a shared responsibility," Weiss said. "Families have a responsibility to engage, and us — meaning the institutions, community organizations, and others — have the responsibility to create the conditions that enable them to engage...


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Indique Virgin Hair opens Tema outlet
American-based hair extension company 'Indique Virgin Hair' has opened its third outlet in Tema TDC. The company which has two boutiques in Ghana and sixteen in the United States hopes to give Ghanaian women of all ages with high-quality non-artificial hair extensions. The latest addition to the already two outlets...
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The CEO of Caveman Watches and Timepiece Ghana, Anthony Dzamefe over the weekend, picked up the award for Technology & Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the FORTY under 40 award ceremony. In his speech, he challenged the new generation of African entrepreneurs to aim higher and stand...
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Global Media Alliance (GMA), a leading marketing communications company in Ghana, has won the International Public Relations Association's (IPRA) Golden World Award. African Legends Night, an event organized by Global Media Alliance was awarded in the category in Events Management; for the planning and delivery of a successful event...
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Q: SQL - Select first rows with unique values in two columns from another select I have the following query to select the rows that are intresting from a SQL view:
SELECT *
from INT115_Payroll_Integration_Employment
WHERE (Employment_ExecutionId = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1'
OR EmploymentDetail_ExecutionID = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1'
OR EmploymentTerm_ExecutionID = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1'
OR EmploymentComp_ExecutionID = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1')
AND Worker_Type = '1'
ORDER BY PERSONNELNUMBER ASC, SYNCSTARTDATETIME DESC, Employment_EndDate DESC, Employment_StartDate DESC

Now I want to get the first rows of each instance of unique PERSONNELNUMBER + EmploymentDetail_RecId from the above result.
I have accomplished to do this on all rows in the view after some inspiration from similar questions on here, but not on the rows from the first select.
SELECT *
FROM   (
         SELECT *
                , rn = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY e.EmploymentDetail_RecId ORDER BY e.PERSONNELNUMBER ASC, EmploymentDetail_RecId ASC, e.SYNCSTARTDATETIME DESC, e.Employment_EndDate DESC, e.Employment_StartDate DESC)
         FROM   INT115_Payroll_Integration_Employment e
       ) e
WHERE
rn = 1
ORDER BY PERSONNELNUMBER ASC,  EmploymentDetail_RecId ASC, SYNCSTARTDATETIME DESC, Employment_EndDate DESC, Employment_StartDate DESC

How do I combine the two queries into one so that it only returns the two rows I want?
UPDATE
It was as simple as adding the WHERE clause of the first query in the sub-query of the second query as LukStorms suggested. Thanks.
SELECT *
FROM   (
         SELECT *
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         FROM   INT115_Payroll_Integration_Employment e
         WHERE (Employment_ExecutionId = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1'
         OR EmploymentDetail_ExecutionID = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1'
         OR EmploymentTerm_ExecutionID = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1'
         OR EmploymentComp_ExecutionID = 'Worker information-2019-03-06T02:49:49-4526155B07EC4FFD9A01DB540C9259C1')
         AND Worker_Type = '1'
       ) e
WHERE
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, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today. Written in 1825 by Tsuruya Nanboku IV as a kabuki play, the original title was . It is now generally shortened, and loosely translates as Ghost Story of Yotsuya.

History
First staged in July 1825, Yotsuya Kaidan appeared at the Nakamuraza Theater in Edo (the former name of present-day Tokyo) as a double-feature with the immensely popular Kanadehon Chushingura.  Normally, with a Kabuki double-feature, the first play is staged in its entirety, followed by the second play.  However, in the case of Yotsuya Kaidan it was decided to interweave the two dramas, with a full staging on two days: the first day started with Kanadehon Chushingura from Act I to Act VI, followed by Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan from Act I to Act III. The following day started with the Onbo canal scene, followed by Kanadehon Chushingura from Act VII to Act XI, then came Act IV and Act V of Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan to conclude the program.

The play was incredibly successful, and forced the producers to schedule extra out-of-season performances to meet demand. The story tapped into people's fears by bringing the ghosts of Japan out of the temples and aristocrats' mansions and into the home of common people, the exact type of people who were the audience of his theater.

Story
As the most-adapted Japanese ghost story, the details of Yotsuya Kaidan have been altered over time, often bearing little resemblance to the original kabuki play, and sometimes removing the ghostly element altogether. However, the base story usually remains the same and recognizable.

(Note: the following summary is of the original 1825 Nakamuraza production. As such, it does not detail the numerous subplots and characters added to the story over the intervening years.)

Act 1
Tamiya Iemon, a rōnin, is having a heated exchange with his father-in-law, Yotsuya Samon, concerning Samon's daughter Oiwa. After it is suggested by Samon that Iemon and his daughter should separate, the ronin becomes enraged and murders Samon. The next scene focuses on the character Naosuke who is sexually and obsessed with Oiwa's sister, the prostitute Osode, despite her being already married to another man, Satô Yomoshichi. As this scene begins, Naosuke is at the local brothel making romantic advances toward Osode when Yomoshichi and the brothel's owner, Takuetsu, enter. Unable to pay a fee demanded by Takuetsu, he is mocked by both Yomoshichi and Osode and forcibly removed. Shortly afterwards he kills his former master, whom he mistakes for Yomoshichi, at the precise time of the slaying of Samon. It is at this point that Iemon and Naosuke unite and conspire to mislead Oiwa and Osode into believing that they will exact revenge on the people responsible for their father's death. In return Osode agrees to marry Naosuke

Act 2
Oume, the granddaughter of Itô Kihei, has fallen in love with Iemon. However, believing herself to be less attractive than Oiwa, she doesn't think Iemon will ever want to become her husband. Sympathizing with Oume's plight, the Itôs scheme to have Oiwa disfigured by sending her a topical poison disguised as a facial cream. Oiwa, unbeknownst to her at the time, is instantly scarred by the cream when she applies it. Upon seeing his wife's ghastly new countenance, Iemon decides he can no longer remain with her. He asks Takuetsu to rape Oiwa so that he will have an honorable basis for divorce. Takuetsu cannot bring himself to do this so, instead, he simply shows Oiwa her reflection in a mirror. Realizing that she has been deceived, Oiwa becomes hysterical and, picking up a sword, runs towards the door. Takuetsu moves to grab her but Oiwa, attempting to evade him, accidentally punctures her own throat with the sword's tip. As she lies bleeding to death before a stunned Takuetsu, she curses Iemon's name. Not long after, Iemon becomes engaged to Oume.  Act 2 closes with Iemon being tricked by Oiwa's ghost into slaying both Oume and her grandfather on the night of the wedding.

Act 3
The remaining members of the Itô household are annihilated. Iemon kicks Oyumi, the mother of Oume, into the Onbô Canal and Omaki, the servant of Oyumi, drowns by accident. Naosuke arrives in disguise as Gonbei, an eel vendor, and blackmails Iemon into handing over a valuable document. Iemon contemplates his prospects while fishing at the Onbô canal. On the embankment above the canal Iemon, Yomoshichi, who is not dead (Naosuke killed another man mistakenly in his place), and Naosuke appear to fumble as they struggle for possession of a note which passes from hand to hand in the darkness.

Act 4
At the opening Naosuke is pressuring Osode to consummate their marriage, to which she seems oddly averse. Yomoshichi appears and accuses Osode of adultery. Osode resigns herself to death in atonement and convinces Naosuke and Yomoshichi that they should kill her. She leaves a farewell note from which Naosuke learns that Osode was his younger sister. For the shame of this, as well as for the killing of his former master, he commits suicide.

Act 5
Iemon, still haunted by the ghost of Oiwa, flees to an isolated mountain retreat. There he rapidly descends into madness as his dreams and reality begin to merge and Oiwa's haunting intensifies. The act closes with Yomoshichi slaying Iemon out of both vengeance and compassion.

Historical basis

Nanboku incorporated two sensational and real-life murders into Yotsuya Kaidan, combining fact and fiction in a manner that resonated with audiences. The first involved two servants who had murdered their respective masters. They were caught and executed on the same day. The second murder was from a samurai who discovered his concubine was having an affair with a servant. The samurai had the faithless concubine and servant nailed to a wooden board and thrown into the Kanda River.

Popularity
Yotsuya Kaidan'''s popularity is often accounted for by the way it fit the mood of its time, as well as its use of universal themes. The Bunsei era was a time of social unrest, and the repressed position of women in society was severe. The 100 exchange of power for powerlessness was something audiences could relate to. Oiwa went from a delicate victim to a powerful avenger, while Iemon transforms from tormentor to tormented.

Also, Oiwa is much more direct in her vengeance than Okiku, another popular kabuki ghost, and she is much more brutal. This added level of violence thrilled audiences, who were seeking more and more violent forms of entertainment.

In addition, the performance of Yotsuya Kaidan was filled with fantastic special effects, with her ruined face projecting magnificently from an onstage lantern, and her hair falling out in impossible amounts.Yotsuya Kaidan paired the conventions of kizewamono "raw life play", which looked at the lives of non-nobles, and kaidanmono "ghost play".

Ghost of Oiwa

Oiwa is an onryō, a ghost who seeks vengeance. Her strong passion for revenge allows her to bridge the gap back to Earth. She shares most of the common traits of this style of Japanese ghost, including the white dress representing the burial kimono she would have worn, the long, ragged hair and white/indigo face that marks a ghost in kabuki theater.

There are specific traits to Oiwa that set her apart physically from other onryou. Most famous is her left eye, which droops down her face due to poison given her by Iemon. This feature is exaggerated in kabuki performances to give Oiwa a distinct appearance. She is often shown as partially bald, another effect of the poison. In a spectacular scene in the kabuki play, the living Oiwa sits before a mirror and combs her hair, which comes falling out due to the poison.  This scene is a subversion of erotically-charged hair combing scenes in kabuki love plays. The hair piles up to tremendous heights, achieved by a stage hand who sits under the stage and pushes more and more hair up through the floor while Oiwa is combing.

Oiwa is supposedly buried at a temple, Myogyo-ji, in Sugamo, a neighborhood of Tokyo.  The date of her death is listed as February 22, 1636. Several productions of Yotsuya Kaidan, including television and movie adaptations, have reported mysterious accidents, injuries and even deaths. Prior to staging an adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan it is now a tradition for the principal actors and the director to make a pilgrimage to Oiwa's grave and ask her permission and blessing for their production. This is considered especially important of the actor assuming the role of Oiwa.

Sadako Yamamura from the film Ring is a clear homage to Oiwa. Her final appearance is a direct adaptation of Oiwa, including the cascading hair and drooping, malformed eye.
Also in Ju-on when Hitomi is watching the television, the television presenter is morphed into a woman with one small eye and one large eye- possibly a reference to Oiwa.

Yotsuya Kaidan and ukiyo-e
Being a popular Kabuki play, Yotsuya Kaidan soon became a popular subject for ukiyo-e artists as well.  In 1826, the same year the play opened at Sumiza Theater in Osaka, Shunkosai Hokushu produced The Ghost of Oiwa.  She is recognizable by her drooping eyes and partial baldness.

An unusual image featuring a still-living Oiwa was depicted as one of the New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

Katsushika Hokusai created perhaps the most iconic image of Oiwa, in his series One Hundred Ghost Stories, in which he drew the face of her angry spirit merged with a temple lantern. Shunkosai Hokuei made a visual quotation of Hokusai's design in the illustration above, including Iemon as he turns to meet the apparition, drawing his sword.  The lantern scene is a favorite, also being carved into netsuke. This image of Oiwa appears to give Akari Ichijou a cup of tea in her victory pose in the arcade game The Last Blade.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi illustrated the scene at Hebiyama, showing a still-lantern-headed Oiwa coming for Iemon, surrounded by snakes and smoke.

Film adaptations

The first film adaptation was made in 1912, and it was filmed some 18 times between 1913 and 1937. A notable adaptation was Shimpan Yotsuya Kaidan by Itō Daisuke, one of the foremost Japanese directors of his time.

A 1949 adaptation, The New Version of the Ghost of Yotsuya (Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan), by Kinoshita Keisuke removed the ghostly elements and presented Oiwa as an apparition of her husband's guilty psyche. It was also known as The Phantom of Yotsuya.

The Shintoho studio produced Nobuo Nakagawa's 1959 Ghost of Yotsuya (Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan), which is often considered by critics to be the finest screen adaptation of the story. Toho produced a version of Ghost of Yotsuya in 1965 directed by Shirō Toyoda and starring Tatsuya Nakadai that was released as Illusion of Blood abroad. In 1994, Kinji Fukasaku returned to the Kabuki roots and combined the stories of Chūshingura and Yotsuya Kaidan into the single Crest of Betrayal.

There have also been adaptations on television. Story 1 of the Japanese television drama Kaidan Hyaku Shosetsu was a version of Yotsuya Kaidan, and episodes 1–4 of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, a 2006 anime television series, were also a retelling of the story.

By tradition, production crews adapting the story for film or stage visit Oiwa's gravesite in Myogyoji Temple in Sugamo, Toshima-ku, Tokyo to pay their respects, as an urban legend states that injuries and fatalities will befall the cast if they do not.

Some critics have identified loose connections between the story of Oiwa and the plot of the Ju-On films.

See also
Botan Dōrō
Banchō Sarayashiki
Kaidan
Onryō
Obake
Yūrei
Japanese mythology
Japanese horrorAyakashi: Samurai Horror Tales: an anime which animates the story.
Vengeful ghost

Notes

References

Addiss, Steven, Japanese Ghosts and Demons, USA, George Braziller, Inc., 1986,
Araki, James T., Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, USA, Columbia University Press, 1998
Iwasaka, Michiko, Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends, USA, Utah State University Press 1994,
Ross, Catrien, Supernatural and Mysterious Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Tuttle Publishing, 1996,
Scherer, Elisabeth, Haunting Gaps: Gender, Modernity, Film and the Ghosts of Yotsuya Kaidan, in: Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 12.1, Winter 2014, Special Issue on "Recognizing Ghosts", pp. 73–88.

External links

田中貢太郎「南北の東海道四谷怪談」& 田中貢太郎「四谷怪談」 online texts of Yotsuya Kaidan'' by Tanaka Kotaro at Aozora Bunko.
Oiwa Inari Tamiya Jinja, a shrine connected to one of Japan's most famous ghost stories "Yotsuya Kaidan"

Japanese ghosts
Japanese folklore

Kabuki plays
1825 plays
Japanese horror films
Female legendary creatures


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We shipped this book out to a customer today. I dig the whole cover, but especially the human-sized praying mantis illustrations in the side boxes. Seems like just having a human-sized mantis would even more useful than learning kung fu.


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K. Dot told Billboard that "what happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting — it starts from within."
His comments have been extremely divisive, with many of his fellow rappers — including Banks and Cudi — taking him to task for talking down to the Black community. Lupe, however, agrees with Lamar's sentiments, and stood up for him against criticism from Banks and Cudi.
"Dear black artists, dont talk down on the black community like you are Gods gift to n****s everywhere," wrote Cudi, to which Lupe responded, "Shut up...FOH @KidCudi." He went on to say, "How about you stop shitting on the people who really cared about your well being when this biz was ripping you apart. Fake a** @KidCudi," seemingly bringing the support he offered Cudi during the rapper's dark days of drug use into the argument.
The back-and-forth continued from there, ending with Cudi blocking Lupe from his feed.
Azealia Banks, who expressed her own disappointment in Lamar's comments, also clapped back to Lupe in a string of her signature shady tweets. "Poor Lupe Fiasco. You're only known as Kanye's ex-man'snem ... you're confused," she wrote. "@LupeFiasco you still haven't made a decent song since i was 17. @LupeFiasco you don't even book shows. shhhhhhh. @LupeFiasco Jay-z doesn't know you silly. lol"
Lupe played defense against each of her insults with TwitPics refuting her claims, including a shot of him hanging backstage with Jay Z. He seemed to think his pictures were worth a thousand of Banks' insults, declaring he "destroyed" her in their 140-character debate. He then extended an olive branch, congratulating Banks for having her music featured in an NYC museum exhibit. "I would die to have my music in a museum exhibit celebrating the heights of black artistic achievement along side Basquiat's. She did that," he wrote, before pointing out that she didn't even know she was featured in the exhibit until he told her.
Must be a slow weekend in the world of hip hop.
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