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✓ Optimizations and bug fixes to improve overall game performance.
✓ New and improved icon.
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App Description
The puppet show in Joyville was once a wondrous attraction until the great fire. Now, rusted gears and dark mysteries lay within strange machinations and disheveled puppets. A young boy, Simon, is the most recent in a long line of missing people. In PuppetShow: Mystery of Joyville, you are tasked with solving nefarious puzzles, finding hidden clues, and uncovering the dark secrets of a town that is anything but joyful.
☆☆☆☆☆ Features ☆☆☆☆☆
✓ Investigate strange disappearances in this spooky and beautiful immersive world.
✓ Collect clues by searching for hidden objects and by solving mind bending puzzles.
✓ Cleverly find and use 18 inventory items to unlock new areas as your adventure unfolds.
✓ 13 Chapters, 18 mini-games, and multiple interactive scenes
✓ Get help! Optional tutorial and hints with auto recharge.
✓ Log into Game Center to track and compare your game score!
☆☆☆ Discover more from Big Fish Games! ☆☆☆
We're big believers that everyone is a gamer at heart and that games are a great source of joy and relaxation. Founded in 2002, Big Fish Games is a developer, publisher and distributor of casual games. We offer a virtually endless selection of interactive games that you can enjoy anytime, anywhere — on your PC, Mac, mobile phone, or tablet. Renowned for offering A New Game Every Day!® on www.bigfishgames.com, Big Fish Games distributes more than two million games per day worldwide.
We have many other great iPhone games including:
➠ Secret Mission: The Forgotten Island
➠ Haunted Manor: Lord of Mirrors
➠ Amazon: Hidden Expedition
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➠ Big City Adventure: New York City
➠ Nick Chase: A Detective Story
➠ Azada
➠ Buckingham Palace: Hidden Mysteries
➠ Hidden in Time: Mirror Mirror
➠ Atlantis Sky Patrol
➠ Cooking Quest
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Desktone, Inc. the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), today announced that the Desktone Platform has been certified on VCETM VblockTM Systems as "VCE Vblock Ready." Vblock systems integrate leading Cisco networking and server, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support. This certification provides service provider partners with the assurance that the Desktone Platform will interoperate with Vblock systems.
The certification was conducted by VCE and enables mutual channel partners and customers to accelerate adoption of Vblock systems by leveraging the Desktone Platform to rapidly provision and deploy scalable, secure virtual desktops as a cloud service.
The Desktone Platform is a simple, affordable alternative to traditional virtual desktop infrastructure technologies, using the cloud to deliver cost-effective, full-featured Windows desktops to any end user device. The platform enhances Vblock environments by providing industry-leading multi-tenancy while simultaneously remaining in compliance with Microsoft licensing terms. By offering a platform for delivering desktops as a cloud service, Desktone gives service providers a single, easy-to-use platform for delivering a variety of desktops, from shared to fully featured, all depending on the exact need of the end user.
"Desktone reduces the cost and complexity of desktop virtualization by leveraging the cloud to deliver virtual desktops that are simple to deploy, scalable and secure," said Peter McKay, CEO, Desktone. "Being certified as 'VCE Vblock Ready' brings additional value-added services to our service provider partners with an integrated, high-performance infrastructure in an OpEx model."
About Desktone
Desktone provides infrastructure enabling Desktops as a Service (DaaS) – a full-featured desktop experience delivered from the cloud to any device, including a workstation, tablet or smartphone. Desktone's DaaS platform provides all of the benefits of virtualized desktops without any of the hassles. Desktone enables IT service providers to rapidly provision desktops to users connected on any device, anywhere, without the upfront costs and complexity of traditional desktop virtualization – transforming desktops from a CAPEX to OPEX item. Founded in 2007, Desktone is funded by Highland Capital and Softbank and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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Little island that could: Japan's newest island is growing
Japan's new island was seen in a NASA satellite image, defying expectations that it would fast erode and disappear back into the water.
A NASA satellite snapped a photograph of a tiny new island that rose out of the Pacific Ocean a few weeks ago after a volcanic eruption.
A camera aboard the space agency's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image as it passed over the still-steaming black cone on Dec. 8.
Japanese officials have named the new island Niijima. It is located about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of Tokyo in the Bonin Islands, an archipelago that includes the island of Iwo Jima and sits on the western edge of the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a hotbed of seismic and volcanic activity.
The baby island was born on Nov. 20, 2013, when ash and tephra (solid fragments ejected by a volcano) shot into the sky from an underwater volcano, as stunning pictures from the blast show. Niijima's larger neighbor, an island named Nishino-shima, marks the top of a massive submarine volcano, Japanese Coast Guard officials said.
The photo from EO-1 shows that churned-up marine sediments and volcanic materials have discolored the waters around the new island, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
It was feared that pounding waves would sweep away the islands loose sediments and rocks, causing Niijima to sink back into the ocean. But the fledgling island is apparently getting bigger. Niijima had grown three times its initial size by early December, rising up to 82 feet (25 meters) above sea level and expanding to an area of 13.8 acres (56,000 square meters), according to the Earth Observatory.
Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+. Follow OurAmazingPlanet @OAPlanet, Facebook and Google+. Original article on LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.
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Vancouver, BC - Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (the "Company") (TSX.V: NEE) is pleased to provide a corporate update on exploration and project development plans for the Moss Gold-Silver Project located in Mojave County, Arizona, USA with highlights as follows:
- NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource 956,800 AuEq (oz) measured and indicated, 266,340 AuEq (oz) inferred (see resource estimate summary below)
- Low strip ratio in initial mining areas possible
- Amenable to low cost, heap leach, open pit mining
- Major stockwork vein system outcropping at surface for 5,000 feet
- Metallurgical test-work underway
- Additional resource definition drill program currently underway to increase resources adjacent to proposed pits and for data use in mine design and planning - targeting an additional 250,000 AuEq (oz)
- 3 Phase model approach now in place for mine development, to minimize initial Capex and to ensure technical and economic objectives are met for subsequent Phases prior to proceeding
- Application for Aquifer Protection Permit for 90,000 tonne Pilot Phase I quarry/leach pad will be submitted to Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) by month end
- Phase II production target, 5,000 tpd
- Phase III production target 10,000 tpd
- Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) underway and expected early in new year
Location and Property Description:
The Moss Gold Property is located in the northern part of the Oatman Mining District, Mojave County, Arizona, USA. The Moss deposit is a mineralized quartz-calcite vein and stockwork up to 45 feet wide; it strikes approximately N70°W and dips 65-75° SW; the outcropping surface trace has a strike length of 5000 feet. The Moss property hosts low sulphidation epithermal vein-type gold mineralization.
The Moss property has easy access to supplies, accommodations, workforce, infrastructure and power. The nearest town is Oatman, Arizona (6.2 miles); the nearest cities are Bullhead City, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada. Las Vegas, the nearest major city, is located only 80 miles northwest of the Moss Property and is a short 2 hour drive.
Exploration Program Update:
Exploration will focus on two elements:
- Mine exploration program
- Surrounding property exploration program
The mine exploration program is the Company's current exploration priority. A comprehensive resource definition drilling program is currently underway in the starter open pit mine area with a focus on two central hills with significant vein outcropping at surface. Drill results will be utilized in testing the extensions of the known mineralization, in mine modeling, to streamline the initial mine design of the starter pit and to add additional resources to the planned Phase 2 Mine Plan. Drilling to expand the resource is expected to continue into 2014 also targeting increasing the resources available for the Phase 3 Mine Plan. The internal target is to add 250,000 ounces of gold equivalent adjacent to the currently planned pit areas thereby extending the mine life by three years or enabling expansion of the current design capacity from 10,000 tpd to 13,300 tpd.
The surrounding property exploration program is expected to see a drilling program commence in early 2014 and will be ongoing throughout the first few years of mine operation. This will be a property wide program looking to add a million ounces to the Company's resource statement. The target for the Moss property as a whole will be 2 million ounces of gold equivalent.
Moss Project Current Resource:
On September 10, 2012, an updated NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimation was announced for the Moss Property with results as follows:
Scott E. Wilson Consulting Inc. Summarized Updated Resource Estimate: Table 1 Reported at 0.3 gpt Au Cutoff
|Resource Category
|AuEq* (oz)
|Au (oz)
|Ag (oz)
* Gold equivalency is based on a silver:gold ratio of 50:1 and assumes 100% recovery of all metals.;* Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no certainty that all or any part of the Mineral Resources estimated will be converted into Mineral Reserves estimate.;* Mineral resource tonnage and contained metal have been rounded to reflect the accuracy of the estimate, and numbers may not add due to rounding.;* Resources were based on 28,871 m of drilling in 330 exploration drill holes and 590 meters of channel sampling from surface and underground trenches and cross-cuts. There were a total of 5,872 drill composite samples and 269 rock channel samples used in the estimation of gold and silver. SEWC used Inverse Power Distance (ID3) as the preferred estimation technique for the Moss Project.
3 Phase Mine Development Plan:
The 3 Phase mine development plan is designed to sequentially progress the project from conceptual design and laboratory test work to pilot plant testing in the field and, if this is successful, to secure financing and permitting approval for building a 5000 tonnes per day mine initially and, if this is successful, then move to 10,000 tonnes per day ultimately. The mine, should it proceed to production, will be a classic heap leach operation.
The business plan has been specifically designed to take advantage of the natural attributes of the Moss deposit while minimizing the capital required to get into production and minimizing the lead time in doing so, thereby reducing project development risk and capital risk.
Phase I is a pilot plant operation with operations expected to commence in Q2 2013. Phase II operations are expected to commence in Q1 2014 at a rate of 5,000 tpd. Phase III operations are expected to commence in Q4 2017 at a rate of 10,000 tpd. These numbers are being used as the basis of the Preliminary Economic Assessment now underway and are subject to review.
The proposed development schedule is below:
The Company's objective is to support the local communities and business wherever possible for both employment and mine supplies and services. Preliminary estimates of direct and indirect employment for each mining Phase are listed below and utilize a multiplier effect of 3:1.
|Development Phase:
|Direct Employment
|Indirect Employment
|Total Employment
|Phase I
|Phase II
|Phase III
Engineering and Design:
The immediate goal of the Company's engineering studies is the completion of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). The PEA will incorporate mine, processing and heap leach designs, and will include estimates of capital and operating costs and pre-tax cash flows for Phases I and II. A scoping level analysis will be subsequently prepared for Phase III.
The Preliminary Economic Assessment is expected to be completed early in the new year.
The project team will be led by Project Manager Mr. Joe Bardswich. The following consultants have been engaged to carry out the Preliminary Economic Assessment and initial mine design work:
|Mine Exploration
|Northern Vertex Mining Corp.
|Resource Calculation
|Scott E. Wilson Consulting Inc., Colorado
|Project Engineering
|CDM Smith Engineering, Arizona
|Mine Design
|CDM Smith Engineering, Arizona
|Mine Infrastructure
|CDM Smith Engineering, Arizona
|Mineral Processing
|CDM Smith Engineering, Arizona
|Tailing Management
|CDM Smith Engineering, Arizona
|Mine Electrical Engineering
|M3 Engineering, Arizona
|M3 Engineering, Arizona
|M3 Engineering, Arizona
|McClelland Laboratories, Inc., Nevada
|Community Relations
|Northern Vertex Mining Corp.
|Government Liason
|Northern Vertex Mining Corp.
Current and future financing for the Moss Project is anticipated in a three part plan.
- A non-brokered private placement financing for $7.5 million, plus a potential overallotment option, was announced on November 13, 2012 and is expected to close on or about November 26, 2012.
- An anticipated brokered private placement will likely be announced in Q1 2013 primarily to supplement funding for Phase I of the Business Plan and to fund detailed design studies for Phase II.
- In Q4 2013, a third financing is anticipated and will be for construction of Phase II -- if approved -- and will focus on a combination of debt and equity with debt financing of up to 50% of the capital required.
Qualified Persons:
The mineral resource is reported in accordance with Canadian Securities Administration (CSA) NI43-101 and has been classified in accordance with standards as defined by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) CIM Definition Standards for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves.
The foregoing geological disclosure has also been reviewed and verified by Northern Vertex's Chief Geologist, Dr. Bob Thompson PhD, PEng (a qualified person for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects).
For full QC/QA procedures please visit: www.northernvertex.com/s/QCQA.asp. For complete drill results and estimates please visit: www.northernvertex.com/s/drillresults.asp
Northern Vertex has the right to earn a 70% interest in the Moss Gold-Silver Property located in Mohave County, Arizona from Patriot Gold Corp. Subsequent to the Northern Vertex earn-in, financing of the project will be on a proportional basis. The Company paid $500,000 upfront with a work plan commitment of $8 million to earn the 70%. A Bankable Feasibility Study is a condition of the earn-in and will be included in the $8 million requirement. The Company has spent $4.5 million to date and will complete this condition with the expenditures anticipated prior to and during Phase I.
About Northern Vertex:
Northern Vertex Mining Corp. is a Canadian based exploration and mining company focused on the development of precious metals deposits in Canada and the United States. The Company comprises an experienced management team with a strong background in all aspects of acquisition, exploration, development and financing of precious metal mining projects. It's flagship Moss Gold-Silver Project located in Arizona, USA contains 956,800 oz of Au-Eq in the measured and indicated categories and is rapidly progressing the project to a production decision.
J.R.H. (Dick) Whittington, President & CEO
For further information, please visit www.northernvertex.com
or contact Investor Relations at: 604-601-3656 or 1-855-633-8798
Cautionary Note to US Investors: This news release may contain information about adjacent properties on which we have no right to explore or mine. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our properties. This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such Statements.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) for Young Adults added to our library collection…
Goddess Of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney
Gyakushu! vol. 1, written and illustrated by Dan Hipp
Saint Louis Armstrong Beach by Brenda Woods
Historical fiction about how Hurricane Katrina effects an 11 year old boy, dealing with the struggles of evacuation and the strength of a people determined to survive in their city. The review from Kirkus Reviews sums it up nicely: "A small gem that sparkles with hope, resilience and the Crescent City's unique, jazz-infused spirit."
Hooked by Catherine Greenman
The River by Gary Paulsen
Girl Parts by John M. Cusick
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Re-Gifters by Mike Carey and illustrated by Sonny Liew and Marc Hempel
Angry Management by Chris Crutcher
What They Found: Love On 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
An Abundance Of Katherines by John Green
Another novel from author and vlogger, John Green, and his second book. As I've said before, Green is extremely popular with our young adult (and adult) readers, and it's not hard to understand why when you read one of his books. They're sweet, but they're quirky and unique, and they're smart, and the characters are memorable, especially the characters in this book, which is about a boy with an affinity for girls with the name Katherine, and his friend who accompanies him on a road trip. Check out reviews for the novel done by The Young Folks and The New York Times.
My Boyfriend Is A Monster, vol. 1: I Love Him To Pieces by Evonne Tsang and illustrated by Janina Görrissen
Great tagline: "Can love survive the zombie apocalypse?" This is a fun graphic novel. It's boy meets girl, and of course they come from two different worlds: she's a jock, and he's a nerd. And then the zombie outbreak happens. It's got horror, romance, and the art by Janina Görrissen is just wonderful. Here's a review from The Ninja Librarian.
Web Design For Teens by Maneesh Sethi
The Brave Escape Of Edith Wharton by Connie Nordheilm Wooldridge
A fine biography of Edith Wharton, author of books like Ethan Frome and The House Of Mirth, who was born into a priveleged, wealthy New York City family during the Gilded Age, and her escape into a more creative life. Connie Nordheilm Wooldridge's book is very interesting in that it focuses much more on the life of Wharton, rather than her works, which makes it very insightful for anyone who's read her books or is looking to discover them. Check out The New York Times' review.
Cool Tech: Gadgets, Games, Robots, And The Digital World by Clive Gifford, with consulting by Mike Goldsmith
How Cool Is This? An Up-Close Inside Look At How Things Work
Tattoos And Secret Societies by Jason Porterfield
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media by Brooke Gladstone and illustrated by Josh Neufeld
Brooke Gladstone is a journalist and media analyst, and an expert on trends in the media, and she hosts NPR's On The Media. She has called this book, a graphic novel illustrated by cartoonist Josh Neufeld to be a "a treatise on the relationship between us and the news media," and the story utilizes an illustrated version of Gladstone herself taking the reader through the history of the American press. It is a very interesting book. You can find reviews at Slate and NPR, and an interview with Gladstone at Newsarama. Check out the trailer below:
Wild At Heart: The Story Of Joy Adamson, Author Of Born Free by Anne E. Neimark
Come Back To Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story by Said Hyder Akbar
The Big Idea Science Book: The Incredible Concepts That Show How Science Works In The World
Georgia O'Keeffe: The "Widenss And Wonder" Of Her World by Beverly Gherman
Wheels Of Change: How Women Rode The Bicycle To Freedom (With A Few Flat Tires Along The Way) by Sue Macy
Very interesting. Features a brief memoir section of author Sue Macy's childhood reminiscences of bicycle riding and then moves into a very informative history of the bicycle and how women were able to use it as innovative technology to cycle out of repressive conditions in the past and closer to independence. There's also a nice foreword by Leah Missback Day, the founder of World Bicycle Relief. Check out reviews from Booklist and Read Kiddo Read.
Pre-Algebra And Algebra Smarts! by Lucille Caron and Philip M. St. Jacques
Celebrating A Quinceanera: A Latina's 15th Birthday Celebration by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith and with photographs by Lawrence Migdale
Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles: Challenges The Way You Think & See by Detective Shadow
Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History Of American Musical Instrument Makers by Susan VanHecke
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Have you ever had your email program tell you that you've exceeded send or receive limit? Essentially, the file you want to send or receive is just too big for the server to handle and it shuts you out or refuses to handle your message. This review of the online file sharing service YouSendIt is for you, then.
YouSendIt lets you send and share files quickly and securely. They even have a way for you to sign documents. Of course, like most web services today you can also use your smartphone or iPad or, even a prehistoric desktop version with a regular application you download. It works with Yahoo! Mail, but I didn't see it for Google's Gmail.
In their free "Lite" version, you get 2 gigabytes of storage and can send files up to 50 megabytes in size. Or you can upgrade to the pro plan for $49.99/year (or $9.99/month) which lets you store 5 gigabytes of storage and send files up to 2 gigabytes. The service also allows you to drop files into a shared environment where you can grant permissions to co-workers or employees.
What I Liked
- Probably one of the most powerful features is the ability to sign digital documents. For example, if you receive a contract via email as a Microsoft Word file attachment, you can sign it without printing it out. Once you upload that document to a cloud folder at your YouSendIt account, you can access it from anywhere. To access the digital signing capability, you can use a touch-enabled device like an iPad or Android-powered device or even your regular mouse.
When you open the document within YouSendIt via an iPad, the application opens up a signature block where you use your finger or stylus to sign your name. The signature becomes like an image that you can drag and drop anywhere in the document, in this case, right into the area where a signature is required. If you have occasionally struggled with finding a fax machine so that you can return a signed copy of a document, this one feature alone is worth the subscription fee.
- Mobile apps make it super easy to use when traveling.
- You don't need to sign up to try it out. Right on the home page, you can input an email address, subject line, and attach a file. Click send and it asks you to enter a password of your choosing and instantly sets up a free account.
- The service is elegantly simple and there isn't much not to like, but I'd like to see the "Send a File" box be just a little bigger or more colorful. My eye jumped straight to the free trial option and I would have tested it with the widget first, before signing up for a free trial on a paid pro level account for which you need to enter credit card data.
- I'd also like the "Send a File" widget to explain the "Verify Recipient Identity" check box (visible in the screenshot at the start of this post) without having to hover over it. Small point, but if you click this option your recipient has to sign up in order to get the email. If you don't check that box, they can access the file without sign up. It is a great validation process, though, if you want only that intended recipient to be open the email and file.
Learn more about YouSendIt.


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Eddie Codel and Irina Slutsky played a big role in my life: they got me on Twitter. How did that happen? Well, for one, they were my employees back when we worked together at PodTech.
Eddie and Irina were the ones who first showed me Dodgeball, too (which was started by Dennis Crowley, who later started Foursquare, another important service in my life too).
I remember being proud that they got an interview with Twitter's original team back then. I had no clue that would become a historical video.
You really should watch how they talk about Twitter. Remember, back when this video was shot there was fewer than 15,000 people on the service and there was ONLY 122,000 updates TOTAL on the service. They get millions per day now. Heck, I alone have done 50,000 tweets now.
By the way, back at Podtech (and, actually, at every job I've had) we had HUGE arguments about video length. Back then everyone thought that videos should be two minutes long to get best viewership. I said "hogwash."
I'm glad I held my ground and protected long videos like this. Otherwise we wouldn't have had such a historic video to look back on.
So, Eddie and Irina, got anything else we should check out?


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AUDITIONS CIRCLE THEATRE PLAYERS calling for submissions of one-act plays with an around the world theme, as part of the expanded season in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Sand Lake Center for the Arts. Production dates for the one-act play festival are Oct 17, 18, 19 and 20. Each typed entry must be unpublished, not professionally produced, and run from 10-30 minutes, with a front page containing name, address, phone number(s) and email address. Don't include personal identification on other pages. Plays may be set locally or in an exotic location, in modern times or in ancient times. Setting should be made clear in the exposition or the dialogue of the play. Fewer than five characters are recommended, and minimal set pieces and costumes are essential. Eligible to submit if a resident of one of the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Washington, or the area of Bennington, North Adams and Pittsfield. While royalties will not be paid, there is no entry fee, and prizes will be awarded to selected works. Four hard copies of each play should be submitted by May 15 to the SLCA-CTP One Act Play Festival, PO Box 179, Averill Park 12018 (no email submissions). All playwrights will be notified of decisions by July 15. CLUBS THE ALE HOUSE, 680 River St., Troy. 272-9740. Hickory Hawkins with Big Frank & the Bargain Bingers, Saturday, April 20. ATHO'S RESTAURANT, 1814 Western Ave., Albany. 608-6400. Jeanne O'Connor and Peg Delaney, 7-10 p.m. Friday, April 19. BAILEY'S CAFE, 37 Phila St., Saratoga Springs. 583-6060. Rob Pulsifer, Friday, April 19; High Peaks Featuring North South Dakota, 6 p.m.-1 a.m., Saturday, April 20; Mike LaPoint, Friday, April 26; Ubuntu, Saturday, April 27; Full Circle, Friday, May 3; Lazy River Groove, Saturday, May 4; Cabin 311, Friday, May 10; Half Step, Saturday, May 11; Rob Pulsifer, Friday, May 17; Ubuntu, Saturday, May 18; The Black Outs, Friday, May 24; Headwall, Saturday, May 25; The Ideal Situation, Friday, May 31. All shows, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., except where noted. BAT SHEA'S PUB, 95 Ferry St., Troy. 326-9085. Open Mic, 7 p.m. Wednesdays; Open Jam with J Big Frank, 7 p.m. every other Thursday. BAYOU CAFE, 79 North Pearl St., Albany. 426-8550. M.R. Poulopoulos, 6 p.m. May 2. BROWN'S, 417 River St., Troy. 273-2337. DJ Jared Kingsley, 9 p.m. Friday, April 19; Acoustic Rye, 9 p.m. Saturday, April 20; Karaoke with Rocky, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25; SoulSky, 9 p.m. Friday, April 26; Torn Shorts, 9 p.m. Saturday, April 27. CAFE NOLA, 617 Union St., Schenectady. 357-8628. Dyer Switch Band, 7-8:30 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of the month. CAFFE LENA, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs. 583-0022. Open Mic, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18; Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez, 8 p.m. Friday, April 19; Dakota Dave Hull, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20; Tracy Grammer, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21; Inside Out, Poems and Music from Prison, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23; Skeletons in the Piano, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24; Open Mic, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25; Al Parrish and Dave Gunning, 8 p.m. Friday, April 26; Jeannine Laverty, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27; Brian Peters, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28. CAPRICCIO'S RESTAURANT, 25 Henry St., Saratoga Springs. 587-9463. Music from the Heart of the Blackwood, 8-10 p.m. Wednesdays. CIRCUS CAFE, 392 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 583-1106. Open Mic 10 p.m. Thursdays Karaoke 10 p.m. every first, third and fifth Saturday of the month Nouveau Jazz Beat 10 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday of the month Trivia 8 p.m. Sundays CONKLING CAFE, 8 Methodist Hill Road, Rensselaerville. 797-9455. Open Mic, 7 p.m. third Thursday of the month. DAISY BAKER'S, 33 Second St., Troy. 266-9200. Solid Smoke, 10 p.m. Saturday, April 20. $10. DANCELAND, 638 Columbia St., Latham. 785-3888. The Oldies Show, 9 p.m.-midnight Saturday, April 20. $2 cover. DINOSAUR BARBECUE, 377 River St., Troy. Rhett Tyler, Friday, April 19; Blue Hand Luke, Saturday, April 20; Open Jam with Sly Fox and the Hustlers, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 24; The Stone Revival Band, Friday, April 26; The Chris Busone Band, Saturday, April 27. All performances at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted. DRUTHER'S, 381 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 306-5275. Big Easy Revue, Thursday, April 18; Graham Tichy, Friday, April 19; Brooklyn Circle, Saturday, April 20; Steve Candlen, Tuesday, April 23; Markellis Haskell Maul, Thursday, April 25; The Chronicles, Friday, April 26; Brian Patneaude, Saturday, April 27; The Chronicles, Tuesday, April 30. All shows start 7 p.m. THE FACTORY, 20 Prospect St., Ballston Spa. 885-0500. Trivia, 9 p.m. Tuesdays; Bike Night, 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays; DJ Dread, 4 to 9 p.m. Fridays. No cover. FAIRWAYS OF HALFMOON, 17 Johnsonville Road, Mechanicville. 664-1578. Dick Spass, 7-10 p.m. Friday, April 19; The Refrigerators, 9 p.m.-midnight Saturday, April 20. GAFFNEY'S, 16 Caroline St., Saratoga Springs. 587-7359. Jeff Brisbin, Thursday, April 18; Happy Hour with Rick Bolton and Jeff Walton, 5-8 p.m. and Ubunto, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, April 19; Acoustic Circus, Saturday, April 20; Open Mic with Rick Bolton; Rich Ortiz, Thursday, April 25; Beach Party Express, Friday, April 26; Rick Bolton, Sherri Nolan and Arlin Greene, Saturday, April 27; Open Mic with Rick Bolton, Tuesday, April 30. THE ICE HOUSE, 70 Putnam St., Saratoga Springs. 581-7846. Reggae Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight. Live Music, 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. THE INN AT SARATOGA, 231 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 583-1890. Mark Thornquist and Mike Dier of Redneck Soul, Friday, April 19; Sonny & Perley, Saturday, April 20. Performances 7-10 p.m. IRISH TIMES, 14 Phila St., Saratoga Springs. 583-0003. Gravity, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27. KLAMSTEAM TAVERN, 32 Clamsteam Road, Clifton Park. 357-3818. Slow Burn, 7:30-11:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. KOKOPELLIS, Congress and Fourth streets, Troy. 326-3024. Kokopelli's Karaoke with DJ Joe G, Sundays; Joe Barna's World View Ensemble and jazz jam session, 7-10 p.m. Mondays. Free. THE LION'S DEN PUB, The Red Lion Inn, 30 Main St., Stockbridge. 413-298-5545. Sandy and Sandy, Thursday, April 18; Tu Tu Much, Friday, April 19; B.O.B., Saturday, April 20; Marjorie Thompson, Sunday, April 21; Jeannie Laurin & John Sauer, Monday, April 22; Tom Corrigan, Tuesday, April 23; DJ DK, Wednesday, April 24; David Grover, Thursday, April 25; Micah Stone & Co., Friday, April 26; Lisa Brigantino, Saturday, April 27; Tom Savoy, Sunday, April 28; Dave Reed, Monday, April 29; Dana Welts, Tuesday, April 30. Entertainment, 9 p.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday; 8-11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. MAESTRO'S, 353 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 580-0312. Solo pianist, 7-10 p.m. Mondays; live acoustic music with Jeff Brisbin, 7-10 p.m. Tuesdays; live acoustic music with Jeff Walton, 7-10 p.m. Wednesdays; live jazz with The John Nazarenko Duo, 7-10 p.m. Thursdays; solo pianist, 7-10 p.m. Fridays; solo pianist, 7-10 p.m. Saturdays; live jazz with The John Nazarenko Duo, 6-9 p.m. Sundays. THE MILL ROCK, 233 West Milton Road, Ballston Spa. Steve Smith, Acoustic Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; Good Times Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Fridays; Saturday Night Juke Box. 9 MAPLE AVENUE, 9 Maple Ave., Saratoga Springs. New Regime, Friday, April 19; Terry Gordon Quartet, Saturday, April 20; Marcus Benoit Band, Friday, April 26; Jon LeRoy Trio, Saturday, April 27. All performances 9 p.m.-1 a.m. NIVERVILLE PUB, 105 Parker Hall Road, Niverville. 784-2449. Unfinished Business, 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. ONE CAROLINE ST., 1 Caroline St., Saratoga Springs. 587-2026. Chris Carey and Tim Wechgelear, 7-10 p.m. Mondays; Artie Mozeik, 7-10 p.m. Tuesdays; The Masters of Nostalgia, 9 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays; Larry Clyman Duo, 8-11 p.m. Thursdays; John Nazarenko Duo, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 29. No cover. THE PADDOCK LOUNGE, 6 Caroline St., Saratoga Springs. 330-2426. Justin Joyner, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. THE PARTING GLASS, 40-42 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs. 583-1916. Big Medicine, 9 p.m. Friday, April 19; Hair of the Dog, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20; The Shames, 9 p.m. Friday, April 26; Forthlin Road, 9 p.m. Saturday, April 27. PAULY'S HOTEL, 337 Central Ave., Albany. 426-0828. Titanics, Friday, April 19; Oven Phresh, Saturday, April 20; Buck's Open Mic with Johnny Rabb, 8 p.m. Monday, April 22; Brian LaPoint & The Joints, Friday, April 26; The Garafolo Brothers, Saturday, April 27. Performances start at 9 p.m. RUSTIC BARN PUB, 150 Speigletown Road, Troy. 235-5858. Open Mic, 8 p.m. Thursday, April 18; Dr. Jah and the Love Prophets, 9 p.m. Friday, April 19; Bobby B Karaoke, 9 p.m. Saturday, April 20; Open Mic, 8 p.m. Thursday, April 25; Matt and Smokin' Herb, 8 p.m. Friday, April 26; Bobby B Karaoke, 9 p.m. Saturday, April 27. SANDY'S CLAM BAR, 42 South St., Glens Falls. 792-4345. Gravity, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20. SHELL INN BAR AND RESTAURANT, 4520 Route 85, Berne. Open Mic, 7-10 p.m. Mondays. 281-9439. THE STOCKADE INN, 1 North Church St., Schenectady. 346-3400. Pete Van Keuren, Thursday, April 18; Cliff Brucker, Wednesday, April 24; Doc Angerosa, Thursday, April 25. TONY'S TERRACE, 720 Central Ave., Albany. 915-1433. Singer/pianist Trent Edwards, Monday and Saturday; singer/pianist Cherrie Lin Alderdice, Thursday and Sunday; trivia with Theo Zegers, Tuesday; karaoke with Carmie Hope, Wednesday and Friday; Chardonnay and the Ladies of the Terrace after Trivia on Tuesdays. All performances at 8 p.m. THE VAN DYCK, 237 Union St., Schenectady. 348-7999. Van Dyck All-Star Sax Summit featuring Leo Russo, Lee Russo, Keith Pray and Brian Patneaude, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. $12 advance/$15 day of. THE VENUE, 30 Caroline St., Saratoga Springs. Mondays: Latin night with DJ Loco Lopez; Thursdays: '80s Night; Fridays and Saturdays: NiteDance Club with DJ Crew and DJ Biz. THE WINE BAR, 417 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 584-8777. Neil Brown plays piano, 7-10 p.m. Saturdays. CONCERTS BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, Auditorium, 88 Lake Hill Road, Ballston. 423- 2624. The Melody Makers, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 26. CAFFE LENA, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs. Tracy Grammer, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21. $16/$18. CAPITAL DISTRICT IRISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, 375 Ontario St., Albany. Traditional Irish music sessions, 2:30 p.m. beginners; 3:30 p.m. regular session, Sunday, April 21. Free. COLONIE ELKS, 11 Elks Lane, Latham. Celebrate Jazz with various artists, 2-6 p.m. Sunday, April 21. THE EGG, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
; 475-1845. Project Percolator with Jim Weider and Garth Hudson, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18. $29.50. Lyle Lovett, 8 p.m. Friday, July 5. $58/$68. THE EIGHTH STEP, Proctor's Theatre, 432 State St., Schenectady. 346-6204. Vishten, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20. $26 at the door/$24 advance. EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH, 275 State St., Albany. Michael Clement and the Emmanuel Singers present "Scenes from Childhood: a concert in cabaret style" to benefit the Boys' & Girls' Club of Albany at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20. Admission is free; donations appreciated. Capital Concert Opera presents "Rigoletto," opera by G. Verdi, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28. Free will donation. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1 Gilligan Road, East Greenbush. The Hendrick Hudson Male Chorus, 7:30 p.m. May 10. The Hendrick's Eleven will perform and guest artists for this show will be the First United Methodist Church Sanctuary Choir, the Church of the Holy Spirit Choir and members of the Greenbush Reformed Church Chancel Choir. GENET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Route 4, East Greenbush. Capital Community Voices presents "Musical Gems — 30 Years with CCV," at 7:30 p.m. May 4. General admission, $10; seniors and students, $8. GLENS FALLS CIVIC CENTER, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Glens Falls. 432-2849. Gary Allan, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 18. $35/$45. THE KATHLEEN McMANUS PICOTTE RECITAL HALL, Massry Center for the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, 1002 Madison Ave., Albany. 337-4871. Stefon Harris & Ninety Miles, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18. $30 reserved seating. Jazz Ensemble Concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19; Chamber Choir Concert, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20; Clarinet Choir and Saxophone Ensembles Concert, 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21; Women's Chorale Concert, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21. All Saint Rose ensemble concerts are free and open to the public. KIGGINS HALL, Emma Willard School, 285 Pawling Ave., Troy. 273-4843. The Friends of Chamber Music presents the Horszowski Trio with Tenor Matthew Anderson, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20. General admission, $25; students, $15. THE LINDA, 339 Central Ave., Albany. 465-5233 ext. 4. Elvis Spring Dance with Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20. $20. The Howlin' Brothers, 8 p.m. Friday, May 3. $15. THE LYDIA C. TOBLER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Voorheesville High School, 432 New Salem Road, Voorheesville. Standard Clams…Jazz With a Twist, 7 p.m. May 30. Tickets, $10 at the door. MECHANICVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, Auditorium, 25 Kniskern Ave., Mechanicville. The Dorothy Welch Choral Society 36th annual concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 4. Adults, $7; seniors and students, $6. NEW LEBANON LIBRARY, 550 Route 20, New Lebanon. Cellist Paul de Jong, 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Free. OLD SONGS INC., 37 South Main St., Voorheesville. 765-2815. Comas, traditional Irish quartet, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27. $20. OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL, 63 Mountainview Ave., Albany. 459-2273. Sonny & Perley, Love in Any Language, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 29. PALACE THEATER, 19 Clinton Ave., Albany. 800-745-3000. Scotty McCreery, 7:30 p.m. April 18. $62.50, $52.50, $42.50. The Albany Symphony presents Kevin Cole Plays Gershwin: A Carnegie Sneak Preview, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show, "Salute to the Palace," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Tickets: $20, $39.50 & $49.50. The Tenors, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4. $59, $49, $39. An Evening with Joe Bonamassa, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11. $92, $82 & $72. Alice Cooper Raise the Dead, 8 p.m. Friday, July 19. $59.75; $49.75; $34.75; $24.75. PROCTOR'S THEATRE, 432 State St., Schenectady. 382-3884 ext. 152. Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m. Friday, April 19; John Weisner & Leonard Carlson, noon Tuesday, April 23. Free. ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 35 Hill St., Greenwich. 692-7458. Battenkill Chorale performs at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28. $15. ST. PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1583 Carney Road, Castleton. The Hendrick Hudson Male Chorus, 7:30 p.m. May 11. The Hendrick's Eleven will perform and guest artists for this show will be the Maple Hill High School Swing Choir. THE SAND LAKE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 2880 Route 43, Averill Park. 674-2007. Songs of the Civil War Era, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20. $20. THE SARATOGA MUSIC HALL, 474 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 683-0913. Diamond Dance Series with The Jump Daddies, 7:30-11 p.m. Friday, April 19. $15. "The Spirit of Johnny Cash" with Harold Ford, 7 p.m. Friday, April 26. Doors open at 6 p.m. $20. SHAKER HERITAGE SOCIETY, 25 Meeting House Road, Colonie. 456-7890. Mike + Ruthy, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27; Broken String Band, 7:30 p.m. May 25; Friends Union Band, 7:30 p.m. June 22. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20; 18 and younger, free. TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL, 30 Second St., Troy. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24; Jake Shimabukuro, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27. $28; $24; $15. Albany Pro Musica: Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11. $35; $25. THE UPSTATE CONCERT HALL, 1208 Route 146, Clifton Park. The Machine, Live Pink Floyd Show, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20. $20 advance/$22 day of. ZANKEL ART CENTER, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Skidmore Community Chorus and Vocal Chamber Ensemble: Love and Destiny, 8 p.m. Friday, April 19. Adults, $8; seniors and Skidmore community, $5; students and children, free. Shelly Smith Martinson, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 20. Free. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, 8 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Adults, $8; seniors and Skidmore community, $5; students and children, free. Skidmore Concert Band, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 24. Free. DANCING COLONIE LODGE OF ELKS, Watervliet Shaker Road, Latham. 694-4448. Single Squares modern western square dancing, 7:30-10 p.m. Wednesdays, April 24, May 1, 15 and 29. $6. DAISY BAKER'S, 33 Second St., Troy. 266-9200. Lindy Hop Swing Dance, 8-11:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Admission $8, includes lesson and $5 drink voucher. THE EGG, Empire State Plaza, Albany. 473-1845. Piloblus Dance Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21. $28. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 45 Washington St., Saratoga Springs. 899-0105. DanceFlurry Saratoga Contradance, 8-11 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Adults, $10; students and seniors, $7; children under 15, $5. HILTON GARDEN INN, 30 Clifton Country Road, Clifton Park. 348-2062. Parents Without Partners Mix & Mingle Dance, 8 p.m.-midnight May 4. Tickets are $27 and include appetizers, dessert, coffee station, dancing and more. Reservations must be made in advance. MINE DANCE CLUB, 388 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Latin Thursdays, 7 p.m. Thursdays. Free. NEWTONVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 568 Loudon Road, Newtonville. 674-3029. Latham Circle Squares will offer western square dance classes 7 p.m. Tuesdays. POLISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 225 Washington Ave. Ext., Albany. Capital District Chapter of USA Dance ballroom dancing, 7-10 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Members, $10; non-members, $13; students, $5; 18 and younger, free. Polka Dance, 6-10 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Music by The Boys from Baltimore. Admission is $15. RISTORANTE PARADISO, 198 Central Ave., Albany. 462-5812. Weekly Thursday Night Swing Dance at Paradiso: East Coast Swing or Blues Lesson + Swing Dance, hosted by Albany Swing Dancing, 8 p.m. lesson; 9 p.m.-midnight dancing Thursdays. $7. SUNSHINE BALLROOM, 418 Geyser Road, Ballston Spa. 226-0200. Open dancing, 8-10 p.m. Friday, April 5. Admission is $5 for 8 and older. SUNSPOT CAFE, 212 Quail St., Albany. Weekly Thursday Night Swing Dance, East Coast Swing or Blues Lesson + Swing Dance, hosted by Albany Swing Dancing, 8 p.m. lesson; 9-11:30 p.m. dancing, Thursdays. $7; $6 student/military. EXHIBITS ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & ART, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. 463-4478. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Adults, $10; seniors and students, $8; children 6-12, $6; children under 6, free. As part of the arts walk that showcases the thriving and lively art scene in downtown Albany, the Albany Institute is open for extended hours, from 5 PM until 8 PM, on the first Friday of every month. During these three hours admission is free. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Airport Gallery, Third Floor, Albany. 242-2241. Some Assembly Required, through Sept. 8. Gallery hours are 7 a.m.-11 p.m. daily. BENNINGTON MUSEUM, 75 Main St., Bennington, Vt. 802-447-1571. Largest collection of Grandma Moses paintings in the world as well as the largest collection of 19th century Bennington pottery. In the other 7 galleries, the museum presents a 1924 Wasp Touring Car, one of only 20 produced, military artifacts, one of the earliest 'stars and stripes' in existence, fine and decorative arts and more. Open every day through October. Adults, $10; seniors and students over 18, $9. Admission is never charged for younger students. bjsartworks GALLERY, 71 Lawrence St., Suite 105, Glens Falls. 793-9350. "Ask, Seek, Knock," photographs by Chris Demeter, through May 15; fourth annual Lake George High School Ceramic Show, through April. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. BRUNSWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Garfield School, 605 Brunswick Road, Troy. 279-4024. The society has local exhibits and on-site extensive genealogy library available. Hours are 1-3 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays. THE CLEMENT ART GALLERY, 201 Broadway, Troy. 272-6811. Beautifully Strange, through Wednesday, April 24. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. COLLAR WORKS, 444 River St., Third Floor, Troy.
. Louisiana Sampler, featuring works by Kyle Bravo, Rachel Avena Brown, Brooke Pickett and Jonathan Traviesa, through April 26. COURTHOUSE GALLERY, 1 Amherst St., Lake George. 668-2616. Melanie Kozol, May 4 through June 7. Hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon-4 p.m. Saturday. ESPRESSOHUIS, 31 Ferry St., Schuylerville. 507-6315. Hudson Crossing Park's recycled art show celebrating Earth Day with extraordinary recycled art through May 31. Hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. THE FENEEX GALLERY, 30 Beekman St., Saratoga Springs. 415-509-3420. Art Beyond the Gallery, a fresh perspective on what it means to be a contemporary artists within the Saratoga Springs community, 2-5 p.m. Sunday, April 21. FULTON STREET GALLERY, 408 Fulton St., Troy and THE PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT, 404 River St., Troy. The 35th Photo Regional of the Capital District, through June 15. The salon-style exhibit will be on display in both galleries for at least one week. THE HARRISON GALLERY, 39 Spring St., Williamstown, Mass. Paintings by Hale Johnson and bronze sculptures by Don Wilkes, through Tuesday, April 30. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. THE LAFFER GALLERY, 96 Broad St., Schuylerville. 695-3181. Plain Air, works by local landscape artist, Harry Orlyk, through May 12. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. MADISON THEATER, 1036 Madison Ave., Albany.
. Paintings by Greta Hansing and Noreen Powell, through Thursday, April 25. MIMOSA GALLERY, 489 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Still Lifes: Everyday Paintings solo show with Robin Rosenthal, through Sunday, April 28. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DANCE, 99 South Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 584-2225. Homage to Dance, Sculptures and Drawings By Andrew DeVries, through Nov. 24; Dancers Among Us; A Riotous Work: A Centennial Celebration of the Rite of Spring. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. THE NEW YORK STATE MILITARY MUSEUM, 61 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs. 581-5100. Toys and Tanks: The Model Army Exhibit; D.C. Falls: Uniforms of the New York National Guard; Battleground for Freedom: New York During the Revolutionary War; Fiery Trial & Sacrifice — New York and the First World War; World War II — United for Victory; The Capitol Collection; Martial Art. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM, Madison Avenue, Albany. 474-5877. An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War, through Sept. 22. Gordon Parks: 100 Moments, through May 19. Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist, explores the life and work of a noted Woodstock, New York painter of realist and fantastical landscapes, provocative political allegories, and insightful portraits, through May 12. I Shall Think of You Often: The Civil War Story of Doctor and Mary Tarbell, through Sept. 22. The museum is open 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is free. NISKAYUNA TOWN HALL, 1 Niskayuna Circle. 381-4201. Niskayuna Brush and Palette Art Group 46th Anniversary Art Show, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 1 through May 28. NORTH COUNTRY ARTS CENTER, Second Floor Gallery, City Hall, 42 Ridge St., Glens Falls. Paintings and sculpture by Mike Willig through the end of April. The gallery is open weekends. Admission is free. PRUYN HOUSE, 207 Old Niskayuna Road, Newtonville. The Colonie Art League and the Friends of Pruyn House are co-sponsoring an art exhibit, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday, through April 29. Admission is free. THE RENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 57 Second St., Troy. 272-7232. Troy is My Home Town, The Life and Times of Maureen Stapleton, through July 27. Hours are noon-5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. SCHICK ART GALLERY, Saisselin Art Building, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 580-5049. The Mythic Figure with William Tucker, Pamela Avril and Ed Smith, through May 19. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday; noon-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. SORELLE GALLERY, Stuyvesant Plaza, 1475 Western Ave., Albany. 482-2000. Duet: Artists in Harmony, new works by Lori Eubanks and Ragellah Rourke, through April 18. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. THE TANG, Skidmore College, 819 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 580-8080. Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, through July 28; We the People, through April 7; Elevator Music 23, Yoko Ono: Listen, through May 19; Opener 24, Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny, through May 19; Paul Shambroom: Meetings, through April 14. Crowded, selection of works from Tang Collection, through April 14. Hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon-9 p.m. Thursday. THE TEACHING GALLERY, Hudson Valley Community College, 80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy.
. The Real Issue is Freedom, Friday, April 19 through May 4. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 1-7 p.m. Wednesday; noon-4 p.m. Saturday. VIEWPOINT GALLERY, Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, 1270 Belmont Ave., Schenectady. 386-3520. Solo exhibition featuring the work of artist Andrea Feldman, "Free Fall," through Sunday, June 23. Hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1-8 p.m. weekends and holidays. Admission is free. VISUAL ARTS GALLERY, SUNY Adirondack, 640 Bay Road, Queensbury. 832-7738. SUNY Adirondack Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Thursday, April 18 through May 9. THE WESLEY GALLERY, Wesley Community, 131 Lawrence St., Saratoga Springs. The work of Pat Dowling-Bull, oil paintings, during April. The gallery is open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily. WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Main Street, Williamstown, Mass. 413-597-2429. Painting Between The Lines, through June 9. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. POTPOURRI ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & ART, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. Second annual Hudson Valley Hops 4-7 p.m. Saturday, April 20. Tickets are $25, and the first 100 people to RSVP and prepay will receive a commemorative Hudson Valley Hops tasting glass. Guests must be 21 and over, IDs will be checked at the door. Limited parking will be available. ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION, 265 River St., Troy. 273-0038. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall presents a lecture series with local authors, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for one lecture. John Blower, Wednesday, May 1. BUSH MEMORIAL HALL, Russell Sage College, Troy. Expo 1920s, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Premium Reserved Seating, $35; General Open Seating, $25; Students with ID, $10; All Sage Students, free; $5 discounts for RCHS members and Sage Alumnae/Alumni. Reservations can be made by calling 272-7232 ext. 12. CAMPUS CENTER BALLROOM, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany. Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of 15 novels, will speak about "The Sandcastle Girls," 8 p.m. Thursday, April 25. Free. THE CAPITOL. Albany. 473-7582. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in partnership with the Office of General Services announce the continuance of the popular Capitol Civil War Tour, "1862: Red, White, and Battered – A Civil War Tour at the New York State Capitol," through June 2013. The free hour-long tour will continue to be offered on the first Thursday of the month beginning at 5:30 p.m. To reserve a tour, interested parties can register by calling 473-7582. CHANNING HALL, 405 Washington Ave., Albany. The Solidarity Committee of the Capital Region will show "Earth Days" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Free. CLARK AUDITORIUM, New York State Museum, Cultural Education Center, Madison Avenue, Albany. Russell Shorto, bestselling historian of the Dutch colonial experience in America, will give a preview of his new book (to be published in October), "Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City," at 7 p.m. May 3. Free. THE COMEDY WORKS, 500 Northern Blvd., Albany. 275-6897. Paul Bond with Joe Bubliewicz, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20. $15 advance/$20 day of. Mop and Bucket Improve Show, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30. $15 advance/$20 day of. THE EGG, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
. A Conversation with Charles Fuller, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18. Tracy Morgan, "Excuse My French," 8 p.m. Friday, June 28 in the Hart Theatre. $35.50. GRACE CHURCH, 34 Third St., Waterford. 237-7370. "An Easter Play: Who Is He?" musical for all ages, 7 p.m. Friday, April 19. Puppets, under the direction of Rick Hacker of Cobleskill, organist and music director, will perform the comedy written by Karen Coffrin of Brunswick. An ice cream social will follow after the entertainment. A free will offering will be collected. HUXLEY THEATER, New York State Museum, Madison Avenue, Albany. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the New York State Museum announce a special lecture at 1 p.m. April 20 by Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss, Senior Textile Conservator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian. Thomassen-Krauss will be speaking about the preservation of the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the National Anthem during the War of 1812, now on exhibit at the National Museum of American History. Free. OPEN DOOR BOOKSTORE AND GIFT GALLERY, 128 Jay St., Schenectady. Eric L. Ball will sign "Sustained Eating, Consumed by Eating Right," 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27. PAGE HALL, 135 Western Ave., Albany. "Once Were Warriors," will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26. Free. THE PALACE THEATER, 19 Clinton Ave., Albany. Aziz Ansari, Buried Alive Tour, 8 p.m. May 14. $27, 32. Kevin James, 7 p.m. June 2. $78, $58, $38, $28. The Price is Right Live, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 31. $32.75 and up. Bill Maher, 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10. $39.50/$69.50. PROCTOR'S GE THEATRE, 432 State St., Schenectady. Wacky Chad-Stunt Comedy Show, 8 p.m. Friday, April 19. Adults, $15; children 10 and younger, $10. Kids' Close Up Comedy Stunt & magic, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 20. $10. QUEENSBURY HOTEL, 88 Ridge St., Glens Falls. Glens Falls Brewfest, 4-8 p.m. May 4. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Tickets include beer tastings, a souvenir tasting glass and complementary food from area restaurants. Designated driver tickets are available at the door for $10 and will be offered complementary food tastings, water and soda. Tickets are available in person at Cooper's Cave Ale Company, 2 Sagamore St., 792-0007 and Davidson Brothers Brewery & Restaurant, 184 Glen St., 743-9026. ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 10 North Main Ave., Albany. 595-9324. Upper Hudson Peace Action will present Roy Bourgeois at its annual awards dinner speaking on "Ending U.S. Supported Oppression in Latin America," 5:30 p.m. May 11. Bourgeois is a former Maryknoll priest, founder of the human rights group, School of the Americas Watch, and a proponent of the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church. Peacemaker awards will be given to Terri Roben and Pete Looker. Bring a potluck dish to share. Suggested donation: $25. RSVP. ST. TIMOTHY'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 470 Winter St. Ext., North Greenbush, 283-1372. "Lincoln" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Admission, popcorn and soda will be free. For information, call 283-1372. SARATOGA FILM FORUM, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 584-3456. "Django Unchained," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18 and Friday, April 19; 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21. General admission is $7; $5 for Film Forum members and students. Town & Gown Movie Night, "A Hard Day's Night" (with special presentation), 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20. General admission is $7; $5 for Film Forum members and students. SISTER THEA BOWMAN CENTER FOR WOMEN, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville. Lunafest, 7 p.m. May 1. Tickets are $20 and are available at the door. All proceeds will go to both I Am I Can, a non-profit organization that provides mentoring for high school age girls, and the Breast Cancer Fund. TROY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 100 Second St., Troy. Dennis Mahoney will discuss his new novel, "Fellow Mortals" at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 23. Free. THE UNIVESITY AT ALBANY, Assembly Hall, Campus Center, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany. Manil Suri reads from her work, 8 p.m. Friday, April 19. Free. WASHINGTON PARK LAKE HOUSE, Albany. 444-2142. Bicycle Expo 2013, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 5. Bicycle shops and clubs, vendors, community organizations. In-park escorted ride. Free. WATERFORD-HALFMOON SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 125 Middletown Road, Waterford. "Lincoln" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Free. WOODLAND HILLS MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 100 Montessori Place, North Greenbush. 429-6380. Rocky's Music Studio will hold a guitar clinic with Scott Sharrard at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Admission is $10. THEATER ALBANY CIVIC THEATER, 235 Second Ave., Albany. 462-1297. "The Oldest Profession," Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 19. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. General admission, $15; students with valid ID, $10. CURTAIN CALL THEATRE, 210 Old Loudon Road, Latham. 877-7529. "Our Son's Wedding," through Saturday, May 11. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. $23. FORT SALEM THEATER, 11 Broadway, Salem 854-9200. Echoing Back: The Songs of Johnny Mercer, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20. $25. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, 603 State St., Schenectady. 355-8157. "We Are Our Brothers Keepers — Voices of the Union College Relationship and the Abolitionist Spirit 1820-1885," 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Free will offering accepted. GALWAY CENTRAL SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, Route 147, Galway. 882-9854. "Monty Python's Spamalot," 7 p.m. May 3 and May 4; 2 p.m. May 5. Adults, $9; students and seniors, $7. HOME MADE THEATER, Spa Little Theater, Saratoga State Park, Saratoga Springs. "Seasons Change," 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Free. HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL, 215 Harry Howard Blvd., Hudson. 329-6293. The Two of us Productions in collaboration with R.A.R.E. present "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You," and "The Actor's Nightmare," 8 p.m. Friday, April 19 and Saturday April 20; 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Adults, $18; students and seniors, $14. JANET KINGHORN BERNHARD THEATER, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 580-5439. Skidmore College Department of Theater presents "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," April 18 through 21. Performances are at 8 p.m.; 2 p.m. Sunday. General admission, $12; students and seniors, $8. KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL, 320 Seventh Ave., Troy. Lansingburgh High School and Knickerbacker Middle School Drama presents "Grease," 7 p.m. Friday April 19 and Saturday, April 20. Adults, $10; students and seniors 60 and older, $5; children under 5, free. SAINT ROSE CAMPUS THEATRE, 996A Madison Ave., Albany. Saint Rose Drama Program presents "Radio Heaven," 7 p.m. Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20; 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21. General admission, $10; Saint Rose ID, $5. Seating is limited; no reservations. SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS, 12 South Church St., Schenectady. 382-2081. "Sunday in the Park with George," May 3 through May 12. Performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. $18. STEAMER NO. 10 THEATRE, 500 Western Ave., Albany. 438-5503. "Pippi Longstocking," 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21, 27 and 28; 7 p.m. April 19 and April 26. General admission, $15. VALATIE COMMUNITY THEATER, 3031 Main St., Valatie. 329-6293. The Two of us Productions in collaboration with R.A.R.E. present "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You," and "The Actor's Nightmare," 8 p.m. Friday, April 26 and Saturday April 27; 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28. Adults, $18; students and seniors, $14.


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Here's the bad news: One of your teeth has tooth decay. But here's even worse news: The decay has entered the pulp and root canals in the heart of the tooth. You're well on your way to losing that tooth.
But cheer up—root canal therapy might save your decayed tooth. We use root canal therapy to remove the infection from within a tooth and then fill the resulting empty spaces to prevent further infection. This routine procedure has saved millions of teeth.
But alas, along the way root canals somehow became a cultural symbol for unpleasantness. In reality, there's nothing further from the truth—the procedure itself is painless, and may even stop any pain caused by tooth decay.
So, let's take the mystery out of root canal therapy—the more you know, the less wary you'll feel. Here's what to expect if you undergo this tooth-saving procedure.
Preparation. We start by numbing the tooth and surrounding gums with local anesthesia. While we're waiting for the anesthesia to take full effect, we isolate the tooth with a dental dam to prevent cross-contamination to other teeth.
Access. Next, we drill a small opening into the tooth to access the pulp and root canals. If it's one of the large back teeth, we drill the hole in the tooth's biting surface; in a narrower front tooth, we make the access opening in the rear surface.
Removal. We remove tissue from the pulp and root canals using special instruments. Afterward, we thoroughly disinfect the pulp and canal interiors with an antibacterial solution to ensure we've stopped the infection.
Filling. After re-shaping the root canals, we fill them and the pulp chamber with gutta percha, a rubber-like material ideal for this type of dental situation. We then fill and seal the access hole. In a few weeks, you'll return to have a permanent crown installed to further protect the tooth.
You may have some minor discomfort that's usually manageable with mild pain relievers, and should dissipate over a few days. The good news, though, is that we've more than likely saved a tooth that might have otherwise been lost.
If you would like more information on treating a decayed tooth, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "A Step-By-Step Guide to Root Canal Treatment."


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This recipe has important nutrients for mom and baby, including:
Calcium helps build strong bones and teeth, and plays an important role in the healthy functioning of the circulatory, muscular, and nervous systems. Pregnant and lactating women should get 1,000 mg of calcium a day. Healthy sources of calcium include low-fat dairy products, calcium-fortified orange juice and cereals, and spinach.


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While we look around at all of the people rushing to spend this holiday with loved ones, those families who are in transition – going through divorces or separations right now, or living with the decisions to do or not to do either of those things – might feel a little less grateful for their particular lot in life this week. No need! Divorce is an important time to count your blessings.
Here are 10 reasons to be grateful if you are divorced or separated this Thanksgiving:
- You never have to eat your mother-in-law's greasy mashed potatoes again.
- If this is the year you do not have the kids, you have a day to yourself to finally watch the entire series of Breaking Bad in your bathrobe.
- If this is the year you do have the kids, you can start making unconventional choices for the menu – rainbow marshmallows on the sweet potatoes, anyone?
- No one insinuating you look fat by asking, "Is that what you are going to wear?"
- No more worrying that your spouse is going to get drunk and embarrass you in front of your parents.
- No more worrying that if you get drunk and say what is on your mind you'll hear about how it affected your in-laws.
- Whether it is true in India or not, in America we do not light our daughters-in-law on fire when they ask for a divorce.
- Whether it is true in Iran or not, in America being divorced does not automatically mean you are also homeless, bankrupt, and un-marriageable.
- Even if you just moved into the smallest apartment in town, you have a roof over your head; and you get to choose who does and does not walk in the front door.
- If the whole idea of being divorced during Thanksgiving just turns your stomach – maybe you'll lose a few pounds and be in "market-ready" condition at all the coming holiday parties! It is never too early to shop for a New Years' outfit.
If you are not yet divorced or separated, but know in your heart-of-hearts that you need to get out of this relationship, use this holiday season as your internal farewell tour. Catalogue what you do not like, be it the menu, the guests, the smells, the pressure to buy expensive gifts, the complete disregard for the expensive gifts you bought, or anything else, and remind yourself – I will never have to do *this* again.
If you are healthy and safe and making choices for your own life, then you are more fortunate than 90% of the people who live on this planet today. Take a moment to stop and count your blessings. . . Then, please pass the greasy mashed potatoes.
What We Love: I have never actually tried rainbow marshmallows; but I do love the idea of them.


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A year ago today I set off on two-week loop through the Midwest for a major leg of my book tour for Grow. It was a chance to revisit places I'd visited several times and loved, like Minneapolis, Detroit, Kansas City and Chicago, and return to other places that I had not been to since I drove across the country three times in two years between 2001 and 2002, such as Madison, Wisconsin and Indianapolis. It was also my first time in places like Tulsa and Omaha.
The trip was an amazing opportunity to see a part of the United States, which honestly, can get a bit of a underrated wrap by people who don't live there, and to understand better how the landscape and culture unfolds. Driving gave me a much more direct feeling of distance and geography of what is sometimes deridingly called "fly over country."
I recapped my learnings from my book tour here and shared pictures of my time in the Midwest here. Now that it's been exactly a year since I shoved off to hawk Grow in cities I barely knew to a mixture of old friends, new friends and friendly strangers, I started to think about how different my life is since that time. While last year was one of learning and growth that was sometimes painful, today I've been thinking about what it has meant for me to have this funny little book full of passion, ideas and bullet points about growing the work and life you want out in the world.
When the book first came out I had this naïve idea that now that I was a "published author" my life would change. While my life has changed a lot, my book did not bring upon those changes. I made changes slowly and gradually, as I implemented the very strategies and lessons I outlined in Grow to strategically define and accomplish a personal, creative vision.
As I traveled the country talking to passionate, creative entrepreneurs I saw clearly that I was no longer passionately engaged in my fulltime job of arts administration and fundraising. While that had been evident to me for awhile, traveling the country and talking to those who were taking the leap to follow their passion made it clear I could not come home and keep doing what I had been doing.
Talking to all kinds of different people and taking in new cities and parts of the United States also reminded me about the importance of following my own curiosity. For several years I had been curious about innovative technologies and how they were intersecting with creative entrepreneurship in New York. As I traveled and got to indulge my curiosity about new places I realized I could do the same at home. This lead me to take a "deep dive" into the New York tech scene (if one can call it that) and explore startup companies where creativity, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation came together.
Long story short: I quit my full time arts administration job, went freelance, took a class learning back end web development, got an internship at a startup, went to what felt like 100s of meetups, went on many, many interviews, wrote many cover letters and finally, ended up at the right place: Shapeways, a 3D printing marketplace and community, as the Community Outreach Coordinator.
But this post is not about how publishing a book led me on a meandering path to my next job and a new career. Ironically, since Grow has come out I've written far less, though I did manage to put out a personal zine, and I feel like I have to actively re-engage creativity in my life and start working on the next writing project seriously which is most likely… a novel (gasp!).
This post is about expectations for projects. When Grow came out part of me thought, "That's it! I've arrived, I'm a real author now!" When the impact of the actual book's publication, and continued existence, felt far removed from my actual life I started to feel like the book had had no impact and, in darker moments that I was a "failure" (and not in the chic way failure is thrown around these days). I worried that all the writing, editing, revising, designing, crowd funding, touring, and hustle didn't matter. A year later I can see it did, but in a way that was subtler than I initially envisioned. Grow wasn't about becoming an author, but building a life that I wanted and one that feels right for me and who I am now. And that's the essence of the project. I wrote it into existence and hustled to make my life catch up to my words. A year later, I'm happy that it has.


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US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights 5/6
A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons
MKULTRA was, however, neither the first nor the last project funded by government or industry to experiment on people in the name of some greater good. A quick review of the history of secret experimentation and medical atrocities reveals a pattern of deadly behavior The Tuskegee Experiments in 1932 cruelly condemned scores of black men to death from syphilis.66
The Pellagra Incident, in which millions died over two decades, in spite of the fact that the US Public Health Service knew at the time that these deaths were caused by little more than a niacin deficiency.67
In 1940 scientists exposed four-hundred prisoners in Chicago with malaria (a US experiment Nazis cited at the Nuremberg trials to defend their own experimentation).68
During WWII, Seventh Day Adventist conscientious objectors were enlisted into Operation Whitecoat by the US Army and the Adventist Church. They were told that they were being tested for defensive research purposes while the government was in fact testing offensive chemical and biological weapons.69
After WWII, matters became far worse for those who were caught up in the web of illegal scientific testing. In 1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the US Atomic Energy Commission issued a secret document stating that the agency would begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects. At the same time atomic tests in which the residents of Utah and Nevada were purposely exposed to radioactive fallout. There were also a series of operations during the 1940s and 1950s in which US cities were attacked secretly by the military through the spread of biological agents in order to track their propagation through a real population.70
65 Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, August 3, 1977, US Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence, and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources.
66 Jean Heller (Associated Press), "Syphilis Victims in the US Study Went Untreated for 40 Years" New York Times, July 26, 1972: and VN Gamble, "Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care." American Journal of Public Health 7(1997):1773-1778.
67 Jon M. Harkness, "Prisoners and Pellagra", Public Health Reports, Sep/Oct96, Vol. 111 Issue 5, p 463.
68 "They Were Cheap and Available: Prisoners as Research Subjects in Twentieth Century America." British Medical Journal 315:1437.
69 Krista Thompson Smith, "Adventists and Biological Warfare", Spectrum Magazine, Vol 25, no. 3, March 1996 and David R. Franz, DVM, PhD, Cheryl D. Parrott, Ernest T. Takafuji, MD, MPH, "The US Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs" in Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Part 1; The Textbook of Military Medicine, Office of Surgeon General, Borden Institute 1997; p. 425-436.
70 Atomic Energy Commission Secret Memo by Kirkpatrick, E. E. Col. A January 8, 1947, This was a draft memo from Colonel Kirkpatrick, Acting Manager, Field Operations of AEC, to the AEC Berkeley Area Engineer, puts the AEC stamp on termination of human testing, while simultaneously revealing it was going on under the Manhattan Project-at the request of Oppenhiemer:
"Until the Atomic Energy Commission is able to consider sponsoring this type of experimentation, authorization cannot be given for the use of radioactive materials in human subjects under this contract."
A more current report from the National Security Archives that clearly lays out the timeline and the assault by researchers on "subjects" can be found at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet12/brief12/tab_f/br12f1d.txt —-" Personal Statement from Elizabeth Zitrin, Attorney at Law Public Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Radiation Experiments". For information on biological warfare experiments a good starting place is : Biological Warfare: A Historical Perspective, by LTC George W. Christopher, USAF, MC; LTC Theodore J. Cieslak, MC, USA, MAJ Julie A. Pavlin, MC, USA, and LTC (P) Edward M. Eitzen Jr., MC, USA.—Operational Medicine Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, as posted at http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/cbw/bw.htm
– Source: Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton, December 2006, Sonoma State University, Project Censored, Media Freedom Foundation, ProjectCensored Website, (READ MORE)
#US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights, #electromagneticweapons, #HumanRights, #OSEH, #MindControl, #DEW


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The Sigma Kit includes a waistcoat and overalls with integrated hand protection to keep the operator protected and dry. Protection Level 20/30: for use at pressures up to 30,000 psi (2000 bar) in applications using a single straight jet or 43,500 psi (3000 bar) in applications using a rotating nozzle. Size: 3XL
TST Benefits: Fast and easy gear-up to maximize productivity – no fighting with numerous tangled buckles and straps Resists water and dirt – more durable than alternative suit fabric, keeps operators dry and light Manufactured with lightweight and flexible Dyneema® – the world's strongest fiber1 – for maximum protection without compromising comfort and mobility Variety of suit options – perfect for every need and budgetSigma Kit includes waistcoat and overalls with integrated hand protection. OverallsProvides protection against water jets on the front of the legs and around the hands and forearms.Neoprene collar seals well against the neck while maintaining freedom of movement.Zips on the outside of the legs are protected by a sealing velcro flap.An Overall is always in place, no matter if the operator is climbing on ladders or working in narrow spaces.Optional regulated ventilation port keeps the operator cool.WaistcoatThe waistcoat provides effective full front protection as well as around the neck and shoulders.Higher cut in the front to make bending forward easier.Note: Kits do not include foot protection. Technical DescriptionOuter material: Laminated Polyamide. Inner material: Polyester mesh. Protective material: Special fabric containing Dyneema® fiber. Seams: Taped. Washing instructions: TST Special Grease Remover. CE-marking: Approved according to the directive 89/686/EEC and BGR 191. Test ResultsThe different levels of protection have been determined by testing according to the table below. Different values (pressure, water flow, nozzle, distance, speed) can give significantly different results.Test results below apply to all products with the 10/28 Protection Level Test Pressure bar (psi) Flow l/min (gpm) Nozzles # - Dia mm (in) RPM Distance mm (in.) Linear Speed m/s (in/sec) Result Straight Jet1000 (15,000)19.8 (5.2)1 - 1.0 (.039)N/A75 (3)0.5 (20)No PenetrationRotating Nozzle2800 (40,000)18.8 (5.0)2 - 0.6 (.024)300075 (3)0.5 (20)No Penetration Note 1: Claim refers to strength-to-weight ratio of Dyneema.


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List of Faculty Publications
Below is a list of Faculty publications imported from PubMed or manually added. By default, publications are sorted by year with titles displayed in ascending alphabetical order.
Shortcuts: Wühr, Martin | Wingreen, Ned | Wieschaus, Eric | Troyanskaya, Olga | Tilghman, Shirley | Storey, John | Singh, Mona | Shvartsman, Stanislav | Shaevitz, Joshua | Rabinowitz, Joshua | Murphy, Coleen | Levine, Michael {Levine, Michael S.} | Gregor, Thomas | Botstein, David | Bialek, William | Ayroles, Julien | Andolfatto, Peter | Akey, Joshua
"Escherichia coli translation strategies differ across carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus limitation conditions.", Nat Microbiol, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 939-947, 2018.,
"Mitochondrial translation requires folate-dependent tRNA methylation.", Nature, vol. 554, no. 7690, pp. 128-132, 2018.,
"The effect of antibiotics on protein diffusion in the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane.", PLoS One, vol. 12, no. 10, p. e0185810, 2017.,
"Human SHMT inhibitors reveal defective glycine import as a targetable metabolic vulnerability of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 114, no. 43, pp. 11404-11409, 2017.,
"A Periplasmic Polymer Curves Vibrio cholerae and Promotes Pathogenesis.", Cell, vol. 168, no. 1-2, pp. 172-185.e15, 2017.,
"MreB Orientation Correlates with Cell Diameter in Escherichia coli.", Biophys J, vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 1035-43, 2016.,
"RodZ links MreB to cell wall synthesis to mediate MreB rotation and robust morphogenesis.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 112, no. 40, pp. 12510-5, 2015.,
"Enzyme clustering accelerates processing of intermediates through metabolic channeling.", Nat Biotechnol, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1011-8, 2014.,
"Large-scale filament formation inhibits the activity of CTP synthetase.", Elife, vol. 3, p. e03638, 2014.,
"Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 111, no. 11, pp. E1025-34, 2014.,
"Image analysis in fluorescence microscopy: bacterial dynamics as a case study.", Bioessays, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 427-36, 2012.,
"The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 108, no. 38, pp. 15822-7, 2011.,
"Filament depolymerization can explain chromosome pulling during bacterial mitosis.", PLoS Comput Biol, vol. 7, no. 9, p. e1002145, 2011.,
"The structure and function of bacterial actin homologs.", Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, vol. 2, no. 9, p. a000364, 2010.,
"Cell shape and cell-wall organization in Gram-negative bacteria.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 105, no. 49, pp. 19282-7, 2008.,
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I sometimes feel lost in the world, without bearings. David Wagoner counseled that when we feel lost to stop and listen to the world, as if it were the forest and a powerful stranger able to speak to us.
When I stop and pray, I ask someone for help, but, if I rush on, without listening, the prayer cannot be answered. I pose a question that I cannot answer. Prayer is not just speaking. My heart opens and receives what is returned to me.
Is it in the form of words? Or, is it the gentle breath that is hardly perceptible? When I am mindful and listen to listen, I intuitively sense differences. Mindfulness becomes an attentive and sensitive way of life, as opposed to just happening.
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.


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10 things to know about the NCAA baseball super regionals
We're down to 16 teams in the NCAA baseball tournament, and it'll be down to the final eight after this weekend. Here are 10 of the topics for this weekend's best-of-three super regionals, which will determine the field for the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., starting June 15.
1. WELCOME BACK, COACH: South Carolina's Chad Holbrook will return to his old stomping grounds for his first super regional as a head coach. The Gamecocks are playing at top-seeded North Carolina, where Holbrook was an outfielder from 1990-93 and an assistant from 1994-2008. Holbrook's two sons were born in Chapel Hill, his sister is married to the Tar Heels' director of baseball operations and he counts UNC basketball coach Roy Williams as one of his best friends.
2. GLENN BACK IN GOOD STANDING: LSU starting pitcher Cody Glenn's teammates voted him back onto the team after he missed a start in regionals because of an undisclosed violation of team rules. The No. 4-seeded Tigers turned to senior left-hander Brent Bonvillain for the regional final against Louisiana-Lafayette, and he allowed three hits and no earned runs in a career-best 5 1/3 innings. Aaron Nola will start the opener against Oklahoma on Friday. Coach Paul Mainieri said Glenn, Ryan Eades and Bonvillain are options for Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.
3. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: Seventh-seeded Florida State is appearing in the super regionals for the sixth year in a row, the longest streak in the nation, and 13th time in 15 years. The Seminoles have won 19 straight regional games since 2008 and will be playing in their 291st NCAA tournament game on Saturday against Indiana. The Hoosiers, on the other hand, are in their first super regional and will be playing in their ninth tournament game.
4. SAM GOES BAM: The bat of Sam Travis is a big reason Indiana is the first Big Ten team since 2007 to reach a super regional. The sophomore first baseman goes into the series at Florida State with a .538 batting average in seven postseason games. He's hit three homers and four doubles, driven in 11 runs and hasn't struck out in 26 at-bats. He has a 1.038 slugging percentage and .618 on-base percentage.
5. FAMILIAR FOES: The UCLA and Cal State Fullerton campuses are 45 miles apart, and their baseball teams are meeting in the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in seven years. Fullerton beat the Bruins in a 2007 super regional and defeated them again in regionals the next year. The Bruins prevailed in a 2010 super regional. The teams met twice in the regular season this year, with the fifth-seeded Titans winning both meetings. Second-year Titans coach Rick Vanderhook was an assistant under UCLA coach John Savage from 2009-11.
6. RUNS, NOT STYLE POINTS: Kansas State, which plays at No. 3 seed Oregon State, is looking like a team of destiny considering how two of its biggest wins of the season came. The Wildcats clinched their first Big 12 regular-season championship on a bases-loaded passed ball in the bottom of the ninth inning against Oklahoma last month. After falling behind 3-0 in the regional final against Arkansas, they scored the tying run on a wild pitch during an intentional walk and the game-winner on another wild pitch. K-State has never reached the College World Series.
7. LEADOFF MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE: North Carolina State leadoff man Trea Turner goes into the Wolfpack's super regional against Rice having reached base in 107 of his 114 career games. When he gets on base, the Wolfpack is 82-25. When he doesn't reach base or doesn't play, they are 8-9.
8. NOT JUST A TWO-MAN SHOW: Tyler Beede and Kevin Ziomek are Vanderbilt's 1-2 pitching punch, but don't forget sophomore lefty Philip Pfeifer. He might be coach Tim Corbin's go-to guy if the super regional against Louisville goes to a third game. After giving up a career-high nine hits against LSU in the SEC tournament championship game, Pfeifer bounced back to throw five shutout innings in a surprise start in the regional final against Georgia Tech.
9. LATE-GAME DOMINATION: If you're going to beat No. 6 seed Virginia, you might want to jump on the Cavaliers early. Virginia enters its home super regional against Mississippi State having given up no runs after the sixth inning in six straight games. The Cavaliers have outscored opponents 168-54 in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings this season.
10. BASEBALL-SOFTBALL DOUBLE: Oklahoma is bidding to make it to both the men's and women's College World Series in the same season — a feat accomplished 13 times since 2000. The most recent schools to do it were California and Florida in 2011. Oklahoma's softball team won the national championship this week in Oklahoma City, sweeping two games from Tennessee in the WCWS finals.


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North Idaho's Yellowdog Creek Nursed Back to Health by Local, State and Federal Partnership
Release Date: 02/28/2012
Contact Information: USDA/USFS Jason Kirchner, Forest Public Affairs Officer, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Office: (208) 765-7211 Cell: (208) 661-8080, firstname.lastname@example.com; Kajsa Eagle Stromberg, Watershed Coordinator, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, General: (208) 769-1422 Direct: (208) 666-4633, email@example.com; Mark MacIntyre, Senior Public Affairs Officer, U.S. EPA, Desk: (206) 553-7302 or Cell: 369-7999, email@example.com
(Coeur d'Alene, ID – February 28, 2012) Northern Idaho's Yellowdog Creek, impaired for decades by eroding forest road sediment, is coming back to life thanks to the work of local partnership between the U.S. Forest Service, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (Idaho DEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
According to Mary Farnsworth, Idaho Panhandle National Forests Supervisor, several USFS-led watershed restoration projects have stabilized erosion prone areas, helped bring back stream-cooling vegetation and allowed native cutthroat trout to thrive once again. The watershed restoration efforts also helped to support the local economy by employing local companies to implement stream improvement and road removal projects.
"Our work in Yellowdog Creek is just one of many great examples where restoration is making a difference on our lands and for the local communities that rely on them," said Farnsworth. "In the coming months and years our communities can expect to see more projects that emphasize restoring the health of our treasured National Forests while also creating social and economic benefits for our communities."
Yellowdog Creek is part of the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River system, draining the Coeur d'Alene Mountains of northern Idaho. Most of the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene (North Fork) and its tributaries lie within the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, managed by the USFS. Intensive timber harvest and road building occurred through much of the area from 1890 until the early 2000s. Over the years, runoff and floodwaters continued to erode and wash out roads, particularly those near or adjacent to streams. The sediment negatively affected the region's important fisheries by degrading habitat and suffocating insects and fish eggs.
Stream assessments beginning in the early 1990's told a somber story of an unhealthy stream, choked with sediment and declining populations of insects and fish. To address the stream's poor health, Idaho DEQ developed a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) or "pollution budget" for Yellowdog Creek and nearby streams. The TMDL helped guide restoration by creating tangible targets for sediment reduction.
The USFS conducted a multi-pronged restoration campaign between 2000 and 2006, dramatically reducing sediment in the stream. A 2009 survey identified diverse aquatic insect communities, and a burgeoning fish population featuring sculpin, westslope cutthroat trout and longnose dace—all native species that are typically associated with cold, clear and healthy waters. The profound improvement has even allowed Idaho DEQ to propose removal of Yellowdog Creek from the state's list of sediment impaired waters this year!
Those familiar with the project are crediting sound stream science, a problem-solving attitude and a commitment by all partners to "pull on the rope in the same direction" as the keys to success in Yellowdog Creek. The Idaho DEQ Nonpoint Source Management Program, together with the USFS crafted and launched an ambitious plan that featured numerous restoration projects in the Yellowdog Creek and the adjacent Downey Creek watersheds. For funding, the partners leveraged nearly $1 million in funding from timber sale receipts to fuel watershed restoration in Yellowdog and Downey creeks along the North Fork.
The funding allowed the USFS to implement restoration work throughout the watershed that included:
*Rerouting roads to maintain public access while reducing road density in the watershed by 60 percent.
*Reducing sediment pollution by stabilizing eroding stream banks and re-planting road surfaces and riparian areas.
*Removing two miles of road directly adjacent to the stream in the lower watershed and removing 111 stream crossings
*Restoring stream banks and replenishing riparian areas by anchoring more than 750 logs in the stream channel and installing boulders to create 100 pool-forming structures.
(The logs and boulder structures helped to stabilize the stream by providing a gentler grade and offering cover for all stages of fish and insect life.)
Kajsa Stromberg, Idaho DEQ Watershed Coordinator applauds the USFS efforts.
"The recovery in Yellowdog Creek demonstrates how a good, coordinated watershed restoration project can bring a degraded mountain stream back to life. Thanks to the hard work of a lot of folks, especially the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River Watershed Advisory Group, Yellowdog Creek is living proof that recovery is possible."
Numerous partners participated with USFS in planning and implementation, including the Army Corps of Engineers, Idaho DEQ, Idaho Department of Water Resources, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, North Idaho Fly Casters and the Kootenai Environmental Alliance. USEPA provided funds to monitor stream health and measure the water quality benefits of road improvement projects.
Encouraged by the revival of Yellowdog Creek the USFS and its partners vow to "work their restoration magic" and revitalize many more streams along the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River.
EPA Senior Natural Resource Advisor, Don Martin summed it up:
"The US Forest Service and Idaho DEQ deserve a lot of credit for their vision, leadership and years of hard work," said Martin. "By restoring Yellowdog Creek, an important tributary, they are helping the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene run clean, cold and healthy."
For additional information about the success in Yellowdog Creek, visit http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/nps/success319/id_yellowdog.cfm.
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Old Nursing School Photograph Portrays A Different Time In The Profession
I love old nursing photographs. Some of them are works of art. This photo from 1933 is an excellent example. The ladies posing in this photo are graduates of the Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Oakland, California. This striking photo chronicles the history of the nursing profession. These women were the original Angels of Mercy of the 20th Century.
It was a time of innocents, but even then, you had to be tough to make it as a nurse. It was a dismal time for nurses, and the beginning of the nursing shortage. According to a letter written by the ANA, through its Executive Committee and sent to hospital directors around the country back in 1933, nurses faced many challenges. There was an over abundance of nurses in the early 1930s. That meant that Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Nurse Ratched's Place*