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You have super popped this week and you look beeeeeeeeeautiful !!!! Will you do a birth story ?? Or a birth plan post ??!!! I would love a post of hospital/birth center bag and what you will take...etc !!!
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Miller Center: Crawford on the Supremes
CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford visits the Miller Center to discuss the Fall term of the U.S. Supreme Court. Crawford contributes regularly to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, and Face The Nation, as well as CBS Radio News and CBSNews.com. Crawford served as a regular contributor to CBS News from 2005 to 2006.

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High Resolution 4K UHD Digital Display Solutions using DLP® Technology
This series highlights the high-resolution DLP 4K UHD digital display solution for laser tv and digital signage applications. The DLP 4K UHD chipset, featuring the DLP660TE digital micromirror device (DMD), enables bright and large images for projection systems. The series includes:
- DLP 4K UHD training overview
- Chipset overview and target display applications
- System design considerations
- Supply chain options for system implementation
- Getting started resources
Audio Measurements and Results
This training series outlines key measurements for audio products, specifically signal-to-noise ratio, crosstalk and gain, intermodulation distortion, frequency response and phase, THD+N and level. These videos explain the basic principles of each measurement, why it is significant and how to test and calculate correctly.
Wearable displays with TI DLP Pico Technology
There are quite a bit of system considerations to design a wearable display. We designed this training based on the questions that product development managers, product marketing managers, and systems engineers are asking themselves about this attractive application.


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Postmarks originated to mark stamps as used, but over the years they have acquired another value due to their large impact on philatelic collecting, as they reflect important events, values, and achievements of our society, reinforcing the image and presence of the Correos stamp.
There are two types of postmarks:
COMMEMORATIVE POSTMARKS are created for an event, anniversary or important occasion "requested from Correos by an external party", who may be an individual, or an institution or organisation. The franked image or text is a commemorative reference, guaranteed by the logo and symbol of Correos and a correlative annual number. This postmark is approved and authorised by Correos and used for manual franking in both temporary and permanent Correos offices.
POSTAL POSTMARKS respond to a global concept or specific theme "generated and issued by Correos", and may or may not have a dater. The franked image or text reflects the chosen theme, plus the logo and symbol of Correos. These are classified as:
1. Special: those authorised and operated by external parties to Correos, whose authorisation of use corresponds to the Subdirectorate of Philately (E.g. Investigative databases, military, etc.)
2. Operational: Postmarks that are used in post offices. They are currently divided into Operational for Main Offices and Tourist Offices.
3. First day covers. Postmarks that commemorate the First Day of Circulation of the stamps.
4. Postmarks for Presentation. Postmarks that correspond to the day on which the act of presentation for the stamp took place.
On this website, the Special, Operational and Presentation postmarks can be found in the section POSTCARDS.


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The popular open source media player, VLC for Android by the VideoLAN team after several months of waiting. For what it is most known for, it supports almost all types of audio and video files a and brings a decent user interface. Different ports of Android by individual developers had been floating for Android a while, but they all were too buggy to use. This port has been made by the official team and is very stable, at least on supported devices.
Download from Play Store: VLC Beta (NEON version) (Amusingly, the app is not available to residents of USA and Canada. No problem, I've uploaded its APK, which you can find at the end.)
Unlike most of the media players, VLC can play both videos as well as songs. The UI is fully made up of orange & black colors and has some decent audio/video control options. It features support for headphones control, like automatic resuming of songs, etc., and supports subtitles too.
It literally plays almost any video format you throw at it like MKV, FLV, MP4, etc. Volume can be changed by swiping up or down on the screen while a video is playing, something, which we have been seeing in almost every video players. One drawback of VLC is that it sometimes lags while trying to render full HD (1080p) videos smoothly.
Apart from the normal functions, it can also stream videos from a URL. VLC is currently in its initial stage of development and doesn't sport any advanced capabilities such as an equalizer, automatic fetching of album art or lyrics, sleep timer, etc.
Overall, VLC is just a decent media player at this stage. On the desktop, the biggest reasons for VLC being a popular media (especially video) player are — Simple UI, small size and support for nearly any file format. But the case is different on Android and I'm very skeptical whether these features are going to prove advantageous for VLC as they have already been available on several media player. That said, I'm really looking forward to its future builds hoping for some cool new features when it sheds its 'beta' tag.
VLC is currently in beta, contains a few bugs and might lag on some devices. At present, it only supports a small bunch of smartphones that have ARMv7 processors with NEON architecture and won't work on phones with ARMv6 or non-NEON processors. However, the team does plan to support more devices very soon. The VLC team currently recommends the following phones for smooth playback:
- Galaxy Nexus
- HTC One X
- Samsung Galaxy S3
- Motorola Defy
- HTC Desire
- Nexus one
If your phone is not officially supported by the app, you might still want to download its APK and test it on your phone. You can download the VLC APK here.


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Do you know where to go when storms strike?
Experts advice finding low-lying indoor spot without windows
Severe weather can strike on little notice, so it's a good idea to stay aware of where you might go to seek shelter.
People who are out in a shopping area when storm sirens blare should get indoors as soon as possible and find an interior room away from any windows. During the Joplin tornado, a group of people ran into a convenience store's cooler and rode out the storm.
If you're in a loft or apartment when a storm strikes, you should head down the nearest stairs to a small window-free room or stairwell.
People stuck in cars when a tornado approaches won't find a totally safe option, but one thing that may improve the odds of survival is to drive, in right angles, away from the direction of the storm. If that's not an option or traffic is heavy, the driver should get out of the car and get far away from it so the vehicle doesn't flip on him or her.
Avoid taking cover under an overpass or bridge because being in a place like that makes you more susceptible to being hit by debris.
No matter where you are, experts said the best strategy is to have a plan, stay away from windows, find the lowest point and protect your head.


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Communitelligence Executing Social Media Conference in Los Angeles, May 21-22
The 3rd Communitelligence Executing Social Media Conference & Workshops is a must-attend event for anyone in need of good advice on using the new social media tools for business advantage. The conference delivers practical, how-to take-aways from two-dozen experts and practitioners who are boldly executing successful new media programs today.
Executing Social Media will cover topics such as social networking, corporate blogging, viral videos, RSS, virtual communities, widgets and measurement. You'll hear and meet PR, marketing and social media luminaries including Brian Solis, Chris Heuer, Phil Gomes, Chris Brogan, Jeremy Pepper, Nathan Gilliatt, Lena West, Linda Zimmer, Sally Falkow, Jake McKee, Jeanette Gibson, Sylvia Marino, Jay Bryant, Aaron Shapiro, Scott Wilder and John Hingley. Conference moderator is Jacqui Chew.
George Wright, marketing director of Blendtec, will present a Day 1 keynote and demo titled: Using Viral Videos to Build An International Brand – Cost $50. Day 2 keynotes include Morely Winograd and Michael Hais, co-authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics; and Peter Shankman, author of Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work. The conference will also include a New Solutions Showcase featuring select vendors.
Mashable readers: If you register here with the coupon code MashESM08, you will receive $300 off the final registration fee.


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Box Score | Notre Dame at Boston College Box Score
BOSTON (AP) – Pat Connaughton scored 17 points and Eric Atkins had 16, carrying Notre Dame to a 73-69 win over Boston College on Sunday.
Zach Auguste added 10 points for the Fighting Irish (14-12, 5-8 Atlantic Coast Conference) in their first road victory of the season. Notre Dame had lost five of its last seven games and was 0-6 away from home.
Olivier Hanlan had 18 points and Joe Rahon 13 for Boston College (6-19, 2-10). Ryan Anderson had 11 points and 11 rebounds.
The Eagles have lost eight of nine and their only two conference wins this season are against last place Virginia Tech.
The Fighting Irish were clinging to a lead late in the game when Connaughton nailed both ends of a 1-and-1, scored on a drive in the lane and hit a short one-handed flip shot in the lane as they held off BC.
The Eagles had sliced Notre Dame's lead to four points three times before Connaughton's timely scoring.
BC did close it to 71-68 on Patrick Heckmann's driving basket with 9 seconds left, but Garrick Sherman nailed two free throws.
After Connaughton's flip in the lane made it 63-57 with 3 1/2 minutes left, Rahon hit two free throws for the Eagles. But Auguste nailed a short jumper and Knight had a putback, making it 67-59 with 59 seconds left.
Atkins' 3-pointer in the final seconds of overtime lifted Notre Dame past BC, 76-73, in the schools' other meeting in South Bend, Ind. on Feb 1.
The Fighting Irish led by three at intermission and pushed it to 45-38 on Auguste's dunk with just over 17 minutes to play, but BC scored the next seven points with Anderson starting the spurt with a pair of baskets in the lane.
Notre Dame led 38-35 at halftime.
There was a pregame video tribute and moment of silence for longtime BC men's basketball sports information director Dick Kelley, who passed away Thursday night at 48-years old after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). All of the school's sports teams are wearing black patches with white letters "DK" in his memory. Eagles coach Steve Donahue had a patch on his dress shirt.
Notre Dame plays the second of three straight on the road at Miami on Wednesday. The Eagles travel to face top-ranked and unbeaten Syracuse, also on Wednesday.
The Irish had two starters from Massachusetts (Connaughton and Auguste). Both received a nice hand.


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Note that Starfall Online is not available for x32 systems. To be able to play the game you should use only x64 os.
Known bugs:
- Some ships and equipment cards miss description or have "?" signs there. We will add it later.
Launcher and client issues:
My Launcher won't update. I get "Fatal Error""An error occurred while updating" and/or "Error updating game files. Perhaps the file is open in another program or run an instance of the game."
To play during this test you need to do a clean install - fully delete old version and download launcher from the website: http://starfalltactics.ru/starfall/StarfallSetup.exe
Sorry if it caused inconveniences - sadly, an old version of game launcher and game can work incorrectly or be unstable.
If you are an experienced pc user, you can try the following to fix launcher:
- open task manager, close all versions of starfall launcher you see there.
- start launcher once again, wait while it downloads update
- once it finishes download and closes launcher to restart it, quickly delete the second stafall launcher process in task manager.
Note that we still recommend doing a clean install before the test to ensure it all works correctly.
- LAUNCHER DOESN'T START AT ALL "The program won't start because zlibwapi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." but is in the game folder if you check it.
- Close launcher.
- Move zlibwapi.dll to any another folder. (Delete it from game folder, but save somewhere else)
- Run the game - it will show error that this file is missing [that's right]
- Move zlibwapi.dll back to the game folder
- Launch launcher again - now it must be ok.
- The game won't start. Error message: "Plugin 'MfMedia' failed to load because module 'MfMedia' could not be found."
Can happen to older versions of the game. Fully reinstall the game (make sure you delete all game files!) to fix it.
- Error when starting the game: "Launcher found corrupt data" or "Corrupt data
found, Please verify your installation" or "Download data is incomplete. Is there connection error?"
1 - try to restart launcher
2 - try to use repiar button in the launcher (gear button on the top right of the launcher window)
3 - try to unplug and re-plug your ethernet cable, then restart launcher
4 - or delete version.dat and startfall.fastresume file in starfall game folder, restart launcher.
5 - or delete starfall game folder, restart launcher.
6 - or fully delete the game, redownload launcher from the site and do a clean install
Solution: Simply run the game through the shortcut if you experience this error - it can request administrator privileges - and everything should be ok.
- The laucnher won't start downloading the game.
Possible solutions:
v.1 Make sure you completely disable your firewall.
- "System Error: the program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." or "MSVCP140.dll file is missing"
v.1 Install VIsual C++: Launch UE4PrereqSetup_x64.exe from your game folder: Starfall Tactics\starfall_game\Engine\Extras\Redist\en-u
v.2 Install this update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226
v.3 Try to download and install it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/downloa ... x?id=48145 - if you have a "MSVCP140.dll file is missing" error, do it first!
v.4 Update Windows. Here is an update for Windows 7. You can also go to Start - Control Panel - Windows Update Check for updates. Install all available updates. After the updates are installed, restart your computer. After the restart repeat the steps above again until no more updates are available.
v.5 Delete older versions of Visual C++ and then install VIsual С++ 2013 or 2015
Possible solutions and discussion can also be found here can be found here.
- "System Error: the program can't start because XINPUT1_3.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." or "XAPOFX1_5.dll file is missing" or "X3DAudio1_7.dll file is missing" and etc.
v.1 Use DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer to fix it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/179113
v.2 Do a clean reinstall of the newest DirectX version (delete it if you have one, and install newest version).
- Couldn't start :
C:\Program Files x86\Starfall Tactics\Starfall\Binares\Win64\Starfall.exe
CreateProcess() returned 2.
Please, check if Starfall.exe is where it has to be, in Starfall Tactics folder.
If you won't find it there - delete Starfall\version.dat - this will result downloading the game again.
If you will find it there - try to move Starfall Tactics and Program Files folders to another location.
- Error when trying to start the game from launcher: "An error occurred while starting game client."
Make sure you don't use x32 system - Starfall Tactics doesn't support it.
Try to close and open launcher again.
v.1 Try "Repair" button on the top right of launcher window.
v.2 Try to run the game as administrator (right click on game icon - run as administrator)
v.2 Install VIsual C++: Launch UE4PrereqSetup_x64.exe from your game folder: Starfall Tactics\starfall_game\Engine\Extras\Redist\en-u
v.3 If it doesn't help - delete version.dat file which you can find in starfall_game\Starfall\version.dat and then close and open launcher again. (it can result in redownloading game files)
v.4 Delete starfall_game folder (it can result in redownloading game files)
- Fatal Error
Can't create/open file 'launcher.log'
for Win 10 x64
1. Right click an affected folder.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click the "Advanced" button.
5. Click "Change" next to Owner.
6. Type your username, click the "Check Names" button, then click OK.
7. Check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" under the owner's name.
8. Click OK again. If you get a message saying "Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control?", click "Yes" and you're done.
9. Click the "Edit" button.
10. Click on your username from the list.
11. Check "Full control" underneath it.
12. Click OK.
13. Click OK again.
Repeat with all of the problematic folders.
username - commonly Administrator, but if you have another one with Admin rights, type those.


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Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been proposed to be able to modulate different cognitive functions. However, recent meta‐analyses conclude that its efficacy is still in question. Recently, an increase in subjects' propensity to mind‐wander has been reported as a consequence of anodal stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Axelrod et al., Proceedings of the National ...


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New Details Surface About Common Assessments
Innovative use of computers is part of groups' vision
With one set of academic standards now serving as the educational guideposts in nearly every state, questions are hovering about what the tests for those standards will look like. But gradually, details are emerging that show plans that could fundamentally change the U.S. testing landscape.
Documents issued by the two groups of states that are designing the tests show that they seek to harness the power of computers in new ways and assess skills that multiple-choice tests cannot. Those plans are very fluid, however, since several years of design, dialogue, revision, piloting, and reworking lie ahead before the assessments are ready in 2014-15. But early documents offer glimpses of the groups' thinking.
"This stuff is a very big deal, and it's a huge departure from the kinds of tests most kids currently take," said Chuck Pack, a national-board-certified math teacher at Tahlequah High School, in Tahlequah, Okla., a small town outside Tulsa.
"As classroom teachers, we're sitting here waiting to know what our kids are going to be expected to do. We have the standards—what they're supposed to know—but now how are they supposed to be able to demonstrate that? Documents like this help us get our heads around that," said Mr. Pack, who serves on an advisory board that is guiding CTB/McGraw-Hill as it designs "next generation" assessments.
The information is trickling out in solicitations issued in the past two months by the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, for vendors to work on the tests. Those two consortia of states are using $360 million in federal Race to the Top money to create new assessments for the Common Core State Standards, which all but four states have adopted.
"Every major publisher that has been a state assessment contractor in the past, and many others with an educational reform orientation, are paying attention" to those solicitations, said Alan J. Theimann, the legislative counsel for the Association of Test Publishers.
A Dec. 30 solicitation by PARCC, seeking vendors to write test items, describes the consortium's vision of its testing system in more detail than did previous documents. It expects to award that contract in April to "multiple" vendors to design half the test items, and renew the contract to some of those vendors to craft the rest.
The solicitation covers the development of the two pieces of the test that will yield students' summative scores in mathematics and English/language arts and be used for accountability purposes: a computer-based end-of-year test and a performance-based assessment given toward the end of the year. The scope of work also includes developing midyear formative assessments that are part of PARCC's system but are optional for states.
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A preliminary blueprint of PARCC's English/language arts exam shows that the performance-based assessment, spread over two days, would involve a "research simulation" that asks students to read a suite of texts, including an "anchor" text such as a speech by a prominent historical figure. They would have to answer questions that require them to cite evidence from the text for their answers and write an essay. Another aspect of the performance-based test would require students to "engage" with literature (grades 3-5) or conduct literary analysis (grades 6-11) using a combination of shorter and longer texts.
The end-of-year exam would employ six literary and informational texts and ask students to respond to machine-scorable questions, including ones that demand comparison and synthesis of the readings.
The end-of-year test in English/language arts would yield at least half of a student's points in that topic. One-third to one-half would come from the performance-based test, according to the preliminary blueprint.
PARCC's math test will include three types of questions: "innovative," machine-scorable, computer-based items; items that call for written arguments or justifications; critiques of mathematical reasoning, or proof that students "attended to precision" in math; and items involving real-world scenarios. The performance-based assessment in math will count for 40 percent to 50 percent of a student's points in that subject, and the end-of-course exam will yield 50 percent to 60 percent of the points.
The math exams will focus on solving problems in the "major content areas" at each grade level, as well as demonstrating conceptual understanding, fluency and mathematical reasoning, and applying knowledge to real-world problems.
At the high school level, PARCC will develop two series of end-of-course math tests: a traditional one—Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2—and one that integrates those topics. Those parallel pathways reflect choices educators can make about how to design math courses from the common standards.
The solicitation document answers a question that had been circulating among some educators of young children. PARCC said that its tests will be given by computer to students in grades 6-11, but those in grades 3-5 will answer questions with pencil and paper because of concerns about younger children's keyboarding skills.
Teacher Participation
Documents issued recently by the SMARTER Balanced consortium offer a less-descriptive preview of its tests, largely because work on an earlier solicitation, to design item specifications, isn't yet complete, and informs other parts of the test design. That request for proposals, issued in July, and its content specifications, released in August, represent the most detailed version of the consortium's ideas. ("Consortia Flesh Out Concepts for Common Assessments," Aug. 24, 2011.)
In a request for proposals issued last month, SMARTER Balanced seeks development of 10,000 selected-response or constructed-response items and 420 performance tasks in math and English/language arts to facilitate pilot-testing in the 2012-13 school year. Most will be scored by machine, the document says.
Part of the work will be conducting research to find out which types of items are best suited to automated scoring and which must be scored by hand.
The request for proposals also asks the prospective vendor to hire and train teachers from SMARTER Balanced states to write items and tasks and review items for content alignment, accessibility, and bias. PARCC documents say that teachers will help shape the tests by serving on local committees reviewing test items. They will also be involved in developing model instructional units, diagnostic assessments, professional-development modules, and other PARCC resources.
In September, SMARTER Balanced issued a solicitation for development of guidelines for accessibility and accommodations for English learners and students with disabilities. PARCC plans such a solicitation this year, as well as requests for work on other parts of its testing system, such as its early-year diagnostic assessments and tests of speaking and listening skills.
PARCC has contracted with the Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin to build prototype assessment tasks in math, and with the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Learning to generate such items in literacy. Those items are slated for release this summer.
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Developed by Frontier under the direction of David 'Elite' Braben, Dog's Life is a totally unique 3D action adventure featuring loveable pup Jake, and a whole host of other four-legged friends ready and waiting to go walkies...
Set in the rural midwest US countryside, Dog's Life sees its hero embark on an epic journey that spans the US, taking in everything from ski resorts to vibrant cities along the way. Playing as the nimble-pawed protagonist Jake, a plucky pup with a nose for adventure, you'll sniff out a sinister dog-napping plot involving the canine-hating Miss Peaches and Jake's pedigree chum, Daisy. This is the world's first game where you can truly be a dog - Dog's Life allows you to take on the role of a lifelike hound, rather than prancing round as a bipedal canine caricature. So you can play fetch, sniff out food, chase chickens, and explore your world - doggy-style.
Starting out on Jake's homely farm, you'll get a crash-course on how to perform doggy actions as you go walkies around the gloriously free-roaming environment, and learn a few new tricks too. Jake will quickly get his teeth into 'talking' to passing people, eating, and answering the call of nature by peeing and pooing everywhere, and doing pretty much anything you'd expect a mutt to do. You can choose to play Jake as a helpful, Lassie type of pup by assisting humans and carrying out tasks for treats, or go 'off the leash' and please yourself.
As well as being able to act just like a real dog, Jake also has the unique 'Smellovision' mode, which allows the perceptive pooch to 'see' smells on his travels, which are highlighted in different colours on the screen. Collect enough of these pungent pick-ups and you'll unlock sub-games that see you challenge neighbourhood pets to a variety of missions that'll determine your place in the town's barking order. Dog trials include rat-catching, sheep herding, racing and territory marking, and victories over competing canines ensures Jake's status remains higher than his rivals. This means that you can then order the mutts to carry out your dirty work, by fetching items, squeezing into crevices that Jake's too big to fit through, and generally utilising each hounds' unique doggy talents.
Set in a huge, vibrant world, with total freedom of action, Dog's Life is wonderfully charming slice of 3D adventure which introduces a totally unique feature to the proceedings. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a dog, be sure to get your paws on this eagerly anticipated doggy treat. Arf!
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Upcoming events at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Buddhist Psychology Film Series
October 2010 – May 2011, Saturday Evenings, 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Arlington, Massachusetts
Co-sponsored with The Arlington Center.
Next Playing:
December 3, 2011
Another Year
Director: Mike Leigh
Runtime: 129 minutes
CE Discussant: Janet Surrey, PhD
How is it that some of us arrive at happiness and purpose, while others can't help but stumble over them and straggle past? For Tom and Gerri, Another Year's contented middle-aged couple, no special formula is required apart from love and work, which Freud called the cornerstone of being human. As they prepare to welcome their likeminded son and his new fiancee into the fold – an almost effortless transmission of Tom / Gerri's simplicity and devotion – other more afflicted friends and relations converge upon them, flailing about or foundering on inner impediments. Absent of any particular wisdom, the older couple will be unwaveringly clear with their suffering circle, offering an opportunity for insight that may – or may not – be taken up. As with Mike Leigh's other films (including last year&rs quo;s series hit Happy-Go-Lucky), the magic of Another Year is that it feels entirely natural and lived in. Director, actors, and viewers become so deeply attuned to emotional nuance that the least gesture can elicit almost unbearable hilarity, discomfort, or rue. Another Year's deceptive simplicity gently invites us as well to locate and reflect upon its predicaments as they might touch our own lives.
Buddhist Psychology Lecture Series: Conversations at the Edge
September 2011- May 2012, Monday Evenings, 7:45 – 9:45 PM, Arlington, Massachusetts
Co-sponsored with The Arlington Center.
2 CE's are offered each evening to psychologists, social workers, nurses, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed mental health counselors.
Next Featuring:
November 21, 2011
Self-Compassion: The Heart of Mindfulness
Presenter: Christopher Germer, PhD
Self-compassion is the emotional attitude of mindfulness in psychotherapy, and it's especially necessary when the sense of "self" is engulfed in intense and disturbing emotions. Fortunately, self-compassion can be learned by anyone, even those who didn't receive enough affection in childhood or feel uneasy being kind to themselves when they suffer, fail, or feel inadequate. Recent research has shown that self-compassion enhances emotional well-being, reduces depression and anxiety, and can even help you stick to your diet and exercise routine.
Relational Mindfulness: Applications to Clinical Practice
December 2nd, 2011. Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
A Daylong workshop with Janet Surrey, Ph.D. and Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS
This workshop will be an introduction to mindfulness meditation practiced in
relationship, with particular applications to clinical practice. The group will learn and
practice the Guidelines for Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation practice taught
by Gregory Kramer. PhD: Pause, Relax, Open, Trust Emergence, Listen Deeply and
Speak the Truth. We will explore the direct application to cultivating compassionate
presence in the therapy relationship. Participants will learn: 1) to practice mindfulness in
relationship, 2) to utilize the tools of authentic and empathic responsiveness in therapy,
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Friday, April 14, 2017
Mersey Road's Black Friday 20th Year
Players from across the region came together for what many consider to be the unofficial start to the paintball season. Field owner Jim Langlois is amazed the game has carried on for 20 years.
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Where Did All the Speedballers Go?
By: Kevin Curry
What happened to the game we love? In 2007 there were ten speedball fields in Atlantic Canada. Today there are only four. Of those four with only three fields are being used regularly. With regards to one genre of our sport, speedball, how did over a fifty percent of our available fields happen?
The answer is simple: player decline.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Paintball Is Dying, It's Your Fault!
The Future of Paintball?
When I started playing paintball the choice of markers was vast for players. You could use a Splatmaster or a PPG. No foolin' there were two choices. Both of these markers took a 10 ball tube of paint, that if you were lucky, you could get on sale for two for $5.00. To put that amount in perspective, $2.50 per tube in 1980's is equivalent to $1000 per box in 2017 dollars.
I know what you are thinking, "Oh great! Another old guys telling us how good we have it." Well yes, and no. We as players have never had so many options when it comes to the game we love. I mention 'back in the day' because I have seen paintball come from nothing to become a massive global industry and recognized sport.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Phases of Life for a Paintballer
I remember when I first started going to the paintball field. The range of people and styles of dress made no sense. There were guys in white t-shirts playing next to guys with trees sticking out of their hats, next to guys in bright matching gear.
I can see how a newcomer to the sport can be confused, overwhelmed and intimidated by everything that goes on in the staging area during typical day at the field. With the start of a new paintball season I thought I would try to make some sense of the organized chaos.
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The Threepenny Opera Off Broadway (1954-1961)
The Warm-Up
Leonard Bernstein
The first Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis University in June 1952 was Leonard Bernsteins brainchild. It featured performances and symposia on classical music (Aaron Copland), jazz (Miles Davis, Max Roach), dance (Merce Cunningham), poetry (William Carlos Williams), and theater. Bernsteins close friendship with Marc Blitzstein gave him an obvious incentive to feature a concert performance of Blitzsteins new English version of The Threepenny Opera on June 14, 1952. Lotte Lenya (Jenny) and Jo Sullivan (Polly) played the roles they would take when the show opened off-Broadway in 1954, while Bernstein himself conducted.
Report on the concert:
This work has never really been a success when attempts have been made to transplant it to this country. . . . The Blitzstein text is a glorious success, and should win a wide American audence for The Threepenny Opera if anything can. . . . He has managed to give the plot and characters a spontaneous, vernacular quality . . . The song lyrics border on the miraculous. . . . Those who know the German original better than I do marvelled at the constant felicity of the parallels between it and Blitzsteins version.
―Cecil Smith, Musical America, July 1952
On August 18, 1952, Leonard Bernstein wrote to Lenya:
You thank me! I should be out there spreading roses at your feet for all you did for us at the Brandeis Festival. And it is you who have done the great service to Kurts music by being the archangel of a performance that could not have existed but for you. Genug. Youre a genius.
In the Beginning . . .
From left: Lenya, Merrill, Sullivan, Rae, Lishner
The Threepenny Opera opened at the Theater de Lys on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, March 10, 1954 and played for 96 performances. Another show had already been booked into the theater, forcing the run to end. The opening night cast included Bea Arthur (Lucy), John Astin (Readymoney Matt), Lotte Lenya (Jenny), Leon Lishner (Mr. Peachum), Scott Merrill (Mack), Gerald Price (Streetsinger), Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Peachum), and Jo Sullivan (Polly). Pretty good for an unheralded show in an unknown theater on a grubby Greenwich Village street.
The Artistic Team
Wedding scene
Lotte Lenya:
Marc Blitzstein has come closest to capturing the power of Brechts book and lyrics. He has kept the slang and the sting. . . . Every time Broadway has approached me about Kurts opera, they have wanted to change it. They wanted an all-Negro cast or a different locale, or some other gimmick. I have always turned them down, and so did Kurt.
―quoted in Emory Lewis, Musicals Off Beat, Cue, April 3, 1954
Marc Blitzstein:
I regard my role as that of a relayer, a middleman; I have simply made negotiable to our American audiences an opera I have adored since my Berlin student days. All translationsall, I sayare bound to be failures; one must be content to settle for that which fails least.
―Prize Dreigroschen, Saturday Review, October 25, 1958
Carmen Capalbo, director:
I guess I'm the only director who ever had to do a singing audition to get a directing job . . . So I went over to the piano, Blitzstein sat down, he turned over the first page . . . and there is "Mack the Knife." And he said, "Let's see if we can find a key for you." And I just looked quickly over the lyrics, and we found a key, and I sang "Mack the Knife" over his shoulder, cold. And then we did a couple of others, and then I think we did the "Army Song." At the end of that, Lenya said, "Where did you learn to sing like that?" I said, "From you." She said to Marc, "That's the man to do Threepenny Opera."
First page of 1954 program
Scott Merrill, Macheath, 1954-57:
Lenya said, Youre not having fun with the part. Its a fun part! When I went back the second time, I created this wonderful sassy walk, and when I first did it it felt right, and I realized I couldnt have been more wrong about Mack! Hes a big camp! Anyhow, I went back and did the show that night, and I think everybody in the cast came to me and said, What happened?! Carmen saw me maybe about a week later and said, I dont know who youve been talking to buddy, but you sure got it right now!
The Critics
Marc Blitzsteins translation of the Brecht text is, to my mind, the finest thing of its kind in existence. He has got the spirit of the play and and rendered it powerfully, colloquially, compactly. And his English versions of the songs are so apt prosodically, fit their music so perfectly, that one can scarcely believe them to be translations at all.
―Virgil Thomson, Two Shows, New York Herald Tribune, March 21, 1954
The combination of Kurt Weills music wedded to Marc Blitzsteins unadorned but penetrating translation of Brechts original text, makes it an irresistible stage piece. . . . Lotte Lenyas Jenny, the most consistently brilliant portrayal of the evening, makes Threepenny Opera a must for any adventurous theatergoer.
―Harriett Johnson, Dont Miss Threepenny Opera, New York Post, May 17, 1954
The Blitzstein adaptation strikes us as being pretentious and forced. Instead of rapier wit, it offers humor with a bludgeon. . . . Blitzstein has left the Weill score intact. It offers tinkly tunes, cleverly orchestrated for an ensemble of eight pieces. In our opinion, Weill was a fine arranger, though often less than original as a composer.
―Robert Coleman, Threepenny Opera Falls Flat on Its Face, Daily Mirror, March 21, 1954
Everything seems labored and awkward instead of sprightly and bright. The miracle is that the inherent superiority of the material survives all hazards.
―Harold Clurman, Theater, The Nation, March 27, 1954
The Cast Recording
Far left: Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase, center: Lotte Lenya, Marc Blitzstein, Marga Richter, right: Ed Cole
Most of the opening-night cast of Threepenny sang on the recording made by MGM in April 1954, the first ever off-Broadway cast recording. The principal exception was Martin Wolfson instead of Leon Lishner as Mr. Peachum. (Wolfson was already in the cast by the time the recording was made.) The recording was an instant hit and went on to sell well over half a million copies. Its still available as a CD reissue from Decca Broadway.
Original MGM record jacket
Some songs were shortened due to time constraints, and squeamish executives forced Blitzstein to revise lyrics at the recording session, because some songs were deemed too explicit. Mostly this meant simply changing a word here and there: chippy became cutie (Solomon Song) and Get off your ass became Get on your feet (Call from the Grave). But in a few cases entire stanzas had to be dropped, as in Mack the Knife, or rewritten. Here is an example from Tango Ballad:
original (heard in the theater)
A sailor would appear; I got out of bed,
Went out and had a beer, he crawled in instead.
And when he paid his bill, back in bed Id climb,
And say: Good-night my friend, thank you, any time.
revised (heard on the recording)
The milkman rang the bell; I got out of bed,
I opened up her purse, gave him what he said.
Id have a glass of milk, back in bed Id climb.
You understand she was out working all this time.
The Longest Run
A year and four months after Threepenny closed in 1954, pressure from the press and public caused the Theater de Lys (which had since been taken over by Lucille Lortel) to bring back Threepenny, which reopened September 20, 1955, with largely the same cast. The show did not close until December 17, 1961at the time a record-setting run for a musical in New York. Over 750,000 spectators saw it, and over 700 actors took part. Among them: Edward Asner, Jerry Orbach, Estelle Parsons, Jerry Stiller, Katherine Sergava. Lenya left the cast for good in the spring of 1956, but that had no effect on the productions momentum.
The Artistic Team
Scott Merrill (Macheath) and Bea Arthur (Lucy Brown)
Bertolt Brecht to Marc Blitzstein (undated letter):
Ich halte Ihre Bearbeitung der Dreigroschenoper für grossartig und schätze Sie sehr. (I consider your adaptation of Threepenny magnificent and think highly of you.)
Stanley Chase, producer:
Messrs. Capalbo and Chase, at twenty-eight one of the youngest producing teams around, had several offers to bring Threepenny uptown to Broadway, but its the kind of production that needs a small theater off the beaten track, Mr. Chase said.
―quoted in Judith Crist, Threepenny Opera Reopening Tuesday, New York Herald Tribune, September 18, 1955
Gerald Price, who played Mack several times:
You see, there are so many mean and vicious lines that in order to get any entertainment value one plays Mack with a certain tongue in cheek air. When you play it that way the show has lightness. If you bear down on the heavy words and play them for their full meaning then the play becomes ugly.
―quoted in Don Ross, An Off-Broadway Record, New York Herald Tribune, July 3, 1960
Scott Merrill as Macheath
The critics
The production is superb. It vividly expresses the casual, squalid hugger-mugger of the fable.
―Brooks Atkinson, Songs and Cynicism, New York Times, March 11, 1956
There are two shows, really, at the Theater de Lys. One has a cast of twenty ebullient and engaging actors and actresses, at least two of whom (Jane Connell, Tige Andrews) operate on a higher, considerably sharper level than the norm. The other show has a cast of one, and her name is Lotte Lenya.
―Jerry Tallmer, Catching up with the Season, Village Voice, October 26, 1955
The various Pollys have used up 14 dressing gowns and 28 pairs of shoes. Jenny has gone through 20 costumes and Mack the Knife has worn out 20 canes, 35 derbies and 22 pairs of shoes. . . . Producer Capalbo said he dreaded to see an uptown producer turn up at the de Lys because such a visit invariably meant another raid on his cast.
―Charles McHarry, The Threepenny Opera that Made $2.5 Million, Sunday News, July 31, 1960
Jo Sullivan as Polly
- Rehearsals for Threepenny began February 8, 1954, and never really ended because of constant cast changes. As a Variety headline put it, Threepenny Proves Neat Showcase, but Never Gets out of Rehearsal (September 19, 1956).
- Blitzstein considered the title Shoestring Opera for Threepenny, while director Carmen Capalbo thought it should have been called The Two-Bit Opera.
- Although Pirate Jenny was originally written for Polly in the wedding scene, in this production it was moved to act 2 and given to Jenny (played by Lenya). Blitzstein created new lyrics for the Bilbao Song from the Weill/Brecht/Hauptmann show Happy End, and that became Pollys wedding number: The Bide-a-Wee in Soho.
- In 1955, the producers of the 1933 Broadway staging threatened to file suit to stop the off-Broadway production, claiming that they owned the U.S. rights. Lenya and Blitzstein settled, and the suit never went forward.
- Despite playing off-Broadway, Threepenny took two Tony Awards in 1956: one for Lotte Lenya as Featured Actress and a special award for the show as a whole. Scott Merrill was nominated for Supporting Actor in a Musical, but lost out to Russ Brown of Damn Yankees.
- Two actors, William Duell and Marion Selee, were in the cast for nearly the entire run, but both departed during the summer of 1961, a few months before the show closed. Duell played Filch and the Mounted Messenger. Selee played Molly, one of the whores, and frequently covered the role of Mrs. Peachum. She was forced out of the cast by illness and died in September. Duell went on to appear in several productions of Threepenny, the last in June 2003 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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By now, fans of the "American Horror Story" franchise know to brace themselves for something weird and outrageous right out the gate. And the latest incarnation of the crazed scarefest doesn't disappoint.
Only minutes into the series, we find ourselves staring at Kathy Bates while she smears blood all over her face, using it as an anti-wrinkle ointment. And then, moments later, we meet a young witch with a lethal vagina.
Welcome to "American Horror Story: Coven" (10 p.m. Wednesday, FX). Let the supernatural shenanigans begin.
The witch in question is Zoe (Taissa Farmiga). Unfortunately, she doesn't realize she possesses special powers until she hooks up with a guy after school for some carnal gymnastics and winds up rocking his world a little too hard. That earns Zoe a one-way ticket to New Orleans, where she's enrolled in a finishing school for witches run by the sweet-natured Cordelia (Sarah Paulson).
At the school, Zoe meets her three fellow students — Madison (Emma Roberts), a snobby former movie star with telekinetic powers; Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe), who calls herself a "human voodoo doll"; and Nan (Jamie Brewer), who is clairvoyant. The student body used to be much more robust, but witches, we're told, are a dying breed and there are forces out there determined to destroy the lineage.
Enter Fiona (Jessica Lange), a Prada-wearing, all-powerful "Supreme" witch. The brutal murder of a young spell-caster from Salem has prompted Fiona to return to New Orleans from Los Angeles, where she has led a glamorous life, and reunite with Cordelia, her estranged daughter.
The two women immediately spar. Fiona is convinced that Cordelia is going about her witchy lessons all wrong. Rather than be passive and hide out in the shadows, she believes the girls need to go on the offense.
"When witches don't fight, we burn," she insists, predicting a coming "storm."
Like the second entry in executive producer Ryan Murphy's anthology series, "Coven" swivels between the present and the past. That's where Bates comes in. She plays Madame Delphine, a real-life New Orleans society woman from the 1800s who was known for torturing her slaves. This ugly practice puts her in direct conflict with Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett), a mysterious voodoo queen.
The first hour of "Coven" is actually more grotesque than terrifying, with scenes of caged and mutilated slaves, a burning witch and a gang rape that may have some viewers lunging for their remotes. Regarding the latter, what is it with Murphy's fixation with rape scenes? Every "AHS" series has now featured at least one. Isn't it time to move on?
At least he and his collaborators, as usual, do their best to soften the blows with healthy doses of camp and humor. One character, speaking of the finishing school, makes a reference to Hogwarts. And when Cordelia gets testy with Fiona, Lange's character replies: "Don't make me drop a house on you."
Lange, by the way, continues to be a real live wire in her third "AHS" role. She glides about with great assurance as she tosses off her fearlessly blunt barbs and owns every scene she's in. When it comes to projecting on-screen charisma, she clearly has magical powers.
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A small molecule may help reduce damage in aging-related heart attacks
(Medical Xpress)—A small molecule developed at Yale University to limit damage done by ischemia – restricted blood flow – during heart attacks or surgery has been shown to reduce by 40 percent the amount of heart muscle damaged by myocardial infarction in animal studies by University at Buffalo pharmacologists.
Published last month in Circulation and online in June, the translational medicine research conducted by the UB-Yale team signals a new approach to limiting ischemic injury and possibly reducing the severity of heart attacks in the elderly.
The team has been collaborating since 2007, when Ji Li, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was on the faculty in Yale's Department of Medicine.
Together with Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, of Yale, who led the current study, the UB-Yale team had previously published in Nature that the regulatory protein, MIF, (migration inhibitory factor) activated AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) to initiate a key cardioprotective pathway in the heart. The Nature study, performed in the laboratory of Yale professor of cardiology Lawrence H. Young, demonstrated that this signaling cascade was under genetic control and could be pharmacologically targeted for ameliorating the severity of ischemic heart disease.
In 2010, the UB-Yale team also published work that MIF action decreases in aging, hypothesizing that aging is associated with a decline in the ability of the heart to activate the MIF-AMPK signaling cascade in response to ischemia.
"That work showed us why myocardial infarction is so common in the elderly, after age 70," Li explains. "Myocardial infarction occurs most commonly in this population."
The UB and Yale researchers continued their work when Yale chemists led by William L. Jorgenson, identified a small molecule, MIF20, that was shown by the Bucala group to increase MIF action through its receptor. Yale has filed patent applications on small molecule MIF modulators to facilitate their pharmacologic development.
"We can't easily increase the level of protein in the elderly, but we can use this molecule to enhance AMPK activation," Li says. He explains that the small molecule, MIF20, acts to increase the binding between MIF and its cardiac receptor to optimally activate the cardioprotective pathway.
Li's group performed the key animal studies to demonstrate the utility of the small molecules discovered by the Yale researchers.
"Our data clearly show that in mice treated with MIF20, there was a 40 percent reduction in dead myocardium when compared to mice that hadn't been treated," he says.
The research shows that the small-molecular MIF agonists may offer a novel approach in selected clinical settings to compensate for age-related or genetic deficiencies in the way that the AMPK responds to ischemic injury, the researchers conclude.
"These pharmacological interventions that restore MIF-AMPK signaling in the aged heart may be a useful means to reduce cardiac damage caused by ischemic injury in older individuals," says Li.
The next step will be to replicate the findings in larger mammals.
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2,4-D is coming back. What many might consider a "dinosaur" may be the best solution for growers fighting weed resistance today, says Dean Riechers, University of Illinois associate professor of weed physiology. "Farmers can't imagine going back to 2,4-D or other auxin herbicides," Riechers says. "But herbicide resistance is bad enough that companies are willing to bring it back. That illustrates how severe this problem is."
In a recently published article in Weed Science, Riechers and his team of research colleagues suggest that tank-mixing auxinic herbicides with glyphosate may be the best short-term option available to farmers interested in broad-spectrum, postemergence weed control.
"Resistance has become a big problem," Riechers says. "In 1997, researchers predicted that glyphosate resistance would not be a big issue in Round-Up Ready crops. For the most part, they were right. But they underestimated a few weed species and resistance mechanisms."
Since the 1950s, 29 auxin-resistant weed species have been discovered worldwide. In comparison, 21 glyphosate-resistant weed species have been discovered since 1996 when Round-Up Ready soybeans were commercialized. And interestingly enough, two of the most problematic weeds in Round-Up Ready soybean and cotton – common waterhemp and Palmer amaranth – are not yet on the list of auxin-resistant weeds, Riechers says.
Ideally, chemical companies would come up with a new herbicide to fight these resistant weeds. But new herbicide development is expensive and time-consuming. Riechers says he does not know of any new compounds on the horizon.
"If we don't find completely novel and new herbicides, our next best bet is to mix glyphosate and another herbicide with relatively minor resistance problems," Riechers says. "Auxin resistance is not considered a huge problem in the U.S., particularly in corn, soybean and cotton. It has only occurred in isolated incidences."
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