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Theresia Walser has a significant role in revitalizing a humane and personal theater in Germany, without abandoning the tradition of confronting social and political questions onstage. She has mastered a unique theatrical language, and she is a radical humanist who can make people empathize with the clever smile of a thief, a fraud, or a murderer, through her resonant use of theatrical language, creating a theater of relevance, where the lives of people supersede the lives of nations.

In this study, we asked participants to "describe their sexual orientation" in an open-ended measure of self-generated sexual orientation. The question was included as part of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 18,261) 2013/2014 wave, a national probability survey conducted shortly after the first legal same-sex marriages in New Zealand. We present a two-level classification scheme to address questions about the prevalence of, and demographic differences between, sexual orientations. At the most detailed level of the coding scheme, 49 unique categories were generated by participant responses. Of those who responded with the following, significantly more were women: bisexual (2.1 % of women, compared to 1.5 % of men), bicurious (0.7 % of women, 0.4 % of men), and asexual (0.4 % of women and less than 0.1 % of men). However, significantly fewer women than men reported being lesbian or gay (1.8 % of women, compared to 3.5 % of men). Those openly identifying as bicurious, bisexual, or lesbian/gay were significantly younger than those with a heterosexual orientation. This study shows diversity in the terms used in self-generated sexual orientations, and provides up-to-date gender, age, and prevalence estimates for the New Zealand population. Finally, results reveal that a substantial minority of participants may not have understood the question about sexual orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of archives to reclaim the performance of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude." The play chronicles the life of Nina Leeds who experienced a nervous breakdown after she lost her fiancé in World War I. It is considered unconventional in several ways for a commercial production since it expressed a belief in science over religion.

The period of transition between late pregnancy and early lactation presents an important metabolic challenge to the high-yielding dairy cows. They need, especially for the high milk yield, more nutrients and energy supply than other animals. The aim of this study was to attempt at providing a complete picture of dynamics of selected biochemical blood parameters in dairy cows from late pregnancy to dry period, giving new and useful information about the guidelines for the management strategies during different physiological phases. The study was carried out on five clinically healthy dairy cows, breed Holstein Friesian, in good nutritional condition. All the experimental subjects were selected on the basis of their pregnancy and lactation status, so blood samples were collected two days before the expected parturition (Late gestation), during the post partum, in early lactation, during the 2nd 5th and 15th weeks after parturition, at the end of lactation and at the dry period. On each serum sample urea, creatinine, total proteins, albumin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, NEFA, β-hydroxybutyrate, total and indirect bilirubins, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium were determined. On all data, normally distributed (P<0.05, Koimogorov-Smirnov's Test), one-way Repeated Measure Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to evaluate the influence of the reproduction status on the considered parameters. A significant effect of the physiological phase was observed on urea, creatinine, total proteins, total cholesterol, triglycerides, NEFA, β-hydroxybutyrate, calcium and phosphorus. Our data confirm that the lactation period is the more sensible, by a metabolic point of view, for the high production dairy cow, so the information, provided in this paper, advance the continuous investigation in animal welfare and can be a useful tool in managing and preventing the deficiencies typical of high production ruminants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]