The Cain Park Theatre Collection

The first municipally-run, outdoor civic theatre in the country, Cain Park was the brainchild of Cleveland Heights Mayor Frank C. Cain and Heights High School drama teacher Dr. Dina Rees Doc Evans. Rising from the ashes of the Great Depression, Cain Park was built using finances and labor made possible by New Deal agencies, namely the County Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). From the beginning, Doc Evans\u27 plans for the Park were ambitious, yet she accomplished nearly everything she set her mind on. Throughout the 1940\u27s, Cain Park Theatre staged at least one production for each week of its ten-week seasons. These productions included works by Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Sardou, Pirandello, Gilbert and Sullivan, and countless others. There were dramas, musicals, period pieces, and comedies. No matter the genre, the seats at Cain Park\u27s amphitheater were always full, during both good times and bad. The trials of a country at war and competition from the Golden Age of Hollywood did little to slow down the open-air theatre in the woods between Taylor and Lee roads. In fact, Cain Park Theatre, led by its co-founder and manager Doc Evans, did all it could to keep morale up during World War II. In March of 1942, Army Red! , an original production written by Cain Park alumnus and serviceman John Price, showed the citizens of Cleveland Heights what it would be like if an actual air raid were to take place in their community. Cain Park Theatre was awarded a Citation of Merit by the Office of Civilian Defense for this effort. Later that same year, in August, a Victory Sing was held in which the community gathered at the Park to sing patriotic songs, led by the Cain Park Choral Society and the Cleveland Heights Symphony Orchestra. The following year, the Office of War Information (OWI) contacted Doc Evans about staging an Industrial Show , a pageant to celebrate the contributions of Americans on the home front working in manufacturing plants to support the war effort. A grand spectacle titled Flight For Freedom was planned, in cooperation with the Jack & Heintz Co. of Cleveland, but it never came to fruition, mainly due to the U.S. Government\u27s decision to eliminate the OWI. Some of the ways that Cain Park Theatre helped Americans get through World War II were more subtle, such as the Sunday Evening Community Hours that featured a guest speaker each week who would give a talk on topical issues and, often, moral and philosophical concerns of the day. However, perhaps the most telling page of the story of Cain Park\u27s contribution to the war effort is one found towards the end of a theater program from the week of July 23, 1944. It lists the names of over eighty young men and women, all of whom had either played on the stage or worked behind it, who were currently serving overseas. Underneath it was an In Memoriam dedicated to three young men who would not be returning home. Some very big names graced the stage of Cain Park\u27s amphitheater during its Halcyon Years . Among them were local news legends (Dorothy Fuldheim), nationally recognized actors (Hal Holbrook), and internationally famous muses to Nobel-winning Italian playwrights (Marta Abba). Numerous theater directors, set designers, choreographers, and actors came from far and wide to take part in summer productions staged at Cain Park Theatre, making it an important and influential destination within the Little Theatre movement. Despite all this success, Cain Park never strayed from its roots as a municipally-owned venue operating with Mayor Cain\u27s goal of providing dramatic entertainment for the community at an affordable price. It is safe to say that not only did Cain Park fulfill this mission, it also achieved Doc Evans\u27 vision of becoming not just a theatre, but a school of the theatre, where those with acting talent and ambition could find an outlet. In return for this gift, the many alumni of Cain Park over the years gratefully served not just their community, but their country as well.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cmpex/1114/thumbnail.jp

Implementation of Student Performance Management Guidance to Improve Quality Study at Colleges

Student attendance activities can take place well and smoothly With a very active student to attend each attendance Student guidance in completing the research. With it, it takes Attentive attention to the student's attendance. Known systems that have an important role for student guidance are the Attendance assessment system and the higher education service system that is absolutely necessary for lecturers Supervisor for monitoring research at higher education. One of the media information is a very important Viewboard in the The Pen System (attendance Assessment) on the Viewboard Pen used for Assessment of attendance of students to get complete data and accuracy. However, existing Viewboard Pens do not currently have a Viewboard Performance that can be a benchmark in comparing Student attendance. There are 3 (three) issues that cause Alternative problems include the absence of information to display Reanytime Student attendance for a certain period of time. Furthermore, the absence of Performance graphs that can measure the performance of student attendance, And the absence of search filters for a certain period of time. Therefore, Designed a Viewboard using the Bootstrap template and also Using the SWOT method. Using 4 (four) methods System analysis using user requirement, design method Using Prototype, HIPO, Flowchart and UML (Unified Modelling Language). The Viewboard Pen is designed using Yii Framework and hopefully helpful in solving problems Attendance at the previous system and motivating students Guidance to be more active

Black Rocks in the Borderlands: Obsidian Procurement in Southwestern New Mexico and Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, A.D. 1000 to 1450

Over the past 50 years, geochemical characterization studies of obsidian artifacts from archaeological sites around the world have become an important way to examine long- and short-distance social interactions and procurement practices through time and across space. This is certainly the case for the North American Southwest and Mexican Northwest as there are approximately 40 to 50 known geochemically distinct obsidian sources on the landscape. As a result, precise identification of which sources people used is invaluable information to archaeologists interested in studying regional and temporal patterns of obsidian procurement. In this dissertation, I establish the first regional context for obsidian procurement in southwestern New Mexico and northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico from A.D. 1000 to 1450. I accomplish this by discussing the results of an energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis of over 1,000 obsidian artifacts from 26 archaeological sites. I supplement previous studies of obsidian procurement in southwestern New Mexico, by incorporating data from new sites and adding to the database of sourced obsidian artifacts. I also present the first well documented EDXRF study of obsidian procurement in the Casas Grandes region of northwestern Chihuahua during the Medio period. The goal of this dissertation study is to examine variability in obsidian procurement through time and across space. Did people only use one or two types of obsidian, or was procurement more diverse which suggests that people extended their social networks to obtain different types of obsidian? The sourcing results demonstrate there are clear regional dissimilarities between the Mimbres Valley, the Deming basin and range, the Uvas Valley, the Animas Valley, and the Casas Grandes Valley from A.D. 1000 to 1450. My research shows there are diverse strategies of obsidian procurement. People from some regions never changed their procurement tradition. On the other hand, some obsidian traditions fluctuated through time and people in the same geographic region used multiple sources of obsidian. By discussing the homogeneity and heterogeneity in obsidian procurement in the five culturally and environmentally diverse regions over a long period of time, I expose diverse social histories regarding obsidian procurement traditions at the temporal, regional, and site levels. By doing so, I have moved toward a more dynamic understanding of the mutually constitutive relationships that linked groups of people who shared a tradition of obsidian procurement in southwestern New Mexico and northwestern Chihuahua

All of This Will End

All of This Will End is a short story collection that pays tribute to the suburban gothic subgenre popularized by Shirley Jackson in the 1950’s. Also drawing influence from contemporary writers such as Kelly Link, Kate Folk, and Blake Butler, among others, the collection aims to deconstruct conceptions of normality – both in and outside of the American suburb – by planting subtle signs of strangeness across its ten stories. Although most of the work wouldn’t fall into traditional genre conventions, the collection borrows from both horror and science fiction, blurring the line between traditional realism and genre work. Much of the writing contained could be categorized as literary horror, another subgenre Shirley Jackson helped popularize, and one recent writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Agustina Bazterrica have revitalized in contemporary fiction. These ten stories aim to interrupt domestic realism by integrating unusual twists to their narratives. A family is visited by a tax collector searching for a bizarre tariff. After a slight shift in his rigid daily routine, a man discovers he is a minor character in someone else’s simulation. A man and his grandfather wait out the end of days in a living situation that may not be exactly as it seems. The stories in this collection are linked by a variety of qualities – abnormal metaphors, gaslit characters, characters experiencing feelings they’ve never felt. But the most ubiquitous element is a feeling that can be expressed in only three words: something isn’t right

Book review: Twenty-Five Years on the Cutting Edge of Obsidian Studies: Selected Readings from the IAOS Bulletin

Edited by Carolyn D. Dillian (Coastal Carolina University), Twenty-Five Years on the Cutting Edge of Obsidian Studies: Selected Readings from the IAOS Bulletin consists of 19 previously published articles from the International Association for Obsidian Studies (IAOS) Bulletin. Dillian selected these articles because they provide a range of methodological and theoretical approaches concerning archaeological obsidian studies from around the world like Eretria, California, and the Near East, for example.

State Legislative Update

The purpose of this Bill is to provide notice to owners of residential real property owners that mediation with the mortgagee is an option at the onset of foreclosure proceedings. The Bill changes the mechanism by which borrowers are notified of foreclosures; instead of receiving a writ and summons, borrowers receive a notice of mediation, a foreclosure mediation certificate, and a blank appearance form. Borrowers still receive the writ, summons, and complaint, however. The lender must appear at the mediation with the authority to approve a proposed settlement in order to receive a remedy, and no attorney\u27s fees will be awarded until a ninety-day window for mediation has elapsed. In order to participate in mediation, the property owner must return all forms to the court within the prescribed deadlines. Enactment of the Bill would triple the amount of mediations in Connecticut in a given year

Endogenous cross-talk of fungal metabolites

Non-ribosomal peptide (NRP) synthesis in fungi requires a ready supply of proteogenic and non-proteogenic amino acids which are subsequently incorporated into the nascent NRP via a thiotemplate mechanism catalyzed by NRP synthetases. Substrate amino acids can be modified prior to or during incorporation into the NRP, or following incorporation into an early stage amino acid-containing biosynthetic intermediate. These post-incorporation modifications involve a range of additional enzymatic activities including but not exclusively, monooxygenases, methyltransferases, epimerases, oxidoreductases, and glutathione S-transferases which are essential to effect biosynthesis of the final NRP. Likewise, polyketide biosynthesis is directly by polyketide synthase megaenzymes and cluster-encoded ancillary decorating enzymes. Additionally, a suite of additional primary metabolites, for example: coenzyme A (CoA), acetyl CoA, S-adenosylmethionine, glutathione (GSH), NADPH, malonyl CoA, and molecular oxygen, amongst others are required for NRP and polyketide synthesis (PKS). Clearly these processes must involve exquisite orchestration to facilitate the simultaneous biosynthesis of different types of NRPs, polyketides, and related metabolites requiring identical or similar biosynthetic precursors or co-factors. Moreover, the near identical structures of many natural products within a given family (e.g., ergot alkaloids), along with localization to similar regions within fungi (e.g., conidia) suggests that cross-talk may exist, in terms of biosynthesis and functionality. Finally, we speculate if certain biosynthetic steps involved in NRP and PKS play a role in cellular protection or environmental adaptation, and wonder if these enzymatic reactions are of equivalent importance to the actual biosynthesis of the final metabolite

A multicentric, prospective study on oral and maxillofacial trauma in the female population around the world

Epidemiology; Female; Maxillofacial fracturesEpidemiología; Mujer; Fracturas maxilofacialesEpidemiologia; Dona; Fractures maxil·lofacialsBackground/Aims Approximately 20% of patients with maxillofacial trauma are women, but few articles have analysed this. The aim of this multicentric, prospective, epidemiological study was to analyse the characteristics of maxillofacial fractures in the female population managed in 14 maxillofacial surgery departments on five continents over a 1-year period. Methods The following data were collected: age (0–18, 19–64, or ≥65 years), cause and mechanism of the maxillofacial fracture, alcohol and/or drug abuse at the time of trauma, fracture site, Facial Injury Severity Scale score, associated injury, day of trauma, timing and type of treatment, and length of hospitalization. Results Between 30 September 2019 and 4 October 2020, 562 of 2387 patients hospitalized with maxillofacial trauma were females (24%; M: F ratio, 3.2:1) aged between 1 and 96 years (median age, 37 years). Most fractures occurred in patients aged 20–39 years. The main causes were falls (43% [median age, 60.5 years]), which were more common in Australian, European and American units (p < .001). They were followed by road traffic accidents (35% [median age, 29.5 years]). Assaults (15% [median age, 31.5 years]) were statistically associated with alcohol and/or drug abuse (p < .001). Of all patients, 39% underwent open reduction and internal fixation, 36% did not receive surgical treatment, and 25% underwent closed reduction. Conclusion Falls were the main cause of maxillofacial injury in the female population in countries with ageing populations, while road traffic accidents were the main cause in African and some Asian centres, especially in patients ≤65 years. Assaults remain a significant cause of trauma, primarily in patients aged 19–64 years, and they are related to alcohol use

Chern-simon type photon mass from fermion electric dipole moments at finite temperature in 3+1 dimensions

We study the low energy effective field theory of fermions with electric and magnetic dipole moments at finite temperature. We find that at one loop there is an interaction term of the Chern-Simon form ${\cal L_I}=m_\mu\>A_\nu {\tilde F}^{\mu\nu}$. The four vector $m_\mu \simeq d_i \mu_i m_i^2 ~{\partial_\mu}\>(ln T)$ is interpreted as a Chern- Simon type mass of photons, which is determined by the electric (magnetic) dipole moments $d_i$ ($\mu_i$) of the fermions in the vacuum polarisation loop diagram. The physical consequence of such a photon mass is that, photons of opposite circular polarisations, propagating through a hot medium, have different group velocities. We estimate that the time lag between the arrival times of the left and right circularly polarised light signals from pulsars. If the light propagates through a hot plasma (where the temperature in some regions is $T \sim 100 MeV$) then the time lag between the two circularly polarised signals of frequency $\omega$ will be $\Delta t(\omega) \simeq 10^{-6} /\omega$. It may be possible to observe this effect in pulsar signals which propagate through nebula at high temperatures.Comment: plain TeX, 9 page