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While there's a lot more going on in Pittsburgh arts-and-entertainmentwise than there was when I became CP's A&E editor, in 2003, the uptick is especially noticeable in summer.
Used to be things quieted down after the arts fest and stayed sleepy until mid-September. Not anymore. If the shows and exhibits aren't quite as wall-to-wall as in traditional peak months like April and October, July and August are still pretty busy. And for all the economy's continued woes, and general fretting about empty seats at theaters, there are even people still out there starting new theater companies.
Organic Theater Company, for instance, was launched just this month by Jaime Slavinsky. The 2000 Point Park grad and familiar face on local stages stars in Dead Man's Cell Phone, a thought-provoking 2007 comedy by Sarah Ruhl.
Ruhl is an up-an-coming name in the national theater community, with a Pulitzer-finalist distinction (for her play The Clean House) and a MacArthur genius grant. It's a big deal for a start-up like OTC to present the Pittsburgh premiere of Ruhl's latest work. The play world-premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. and went on to Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theatre and then to Off-Broadway; in Pittsburgh, OTC mounts the show on the tiny back-room stage at ModernFormations Gallery.
Dead Man's is a dark comedy about a timid woman named Jean (played by Slavinsky) who answers a fellow café customer's insistently ringing phone … and then is shocked to learn that the man has kicked. Only half-willingly, it seems, she gets sucked into his life, and drawn into deepening encounters with Gordon's mistress, mother, wife and younger brother.
When Jean learns what Gordon did for a living (something only she, it seems, didn't know), things only get weirder and more dangerous.
The play is a sly commentary on the ways cell phones' ubiquity has warped our lives, to be sure. ("When everyone is on their cell phone, it's like no one's there," Jean observes. "The more we're there, the more we disappear.")
But ultimately the play is about loneliness, the lengths people will go to avoid it … and how going to said lengths can wind up making them only lonelier. (And yes, it remains a comedy.) The set design expertly reinforces this theme with pre-show projections that evoke the paintings of Edward Hopper, like "Nighthawks at the Diner," which explore that particular American species of loneliness in public places.
The cast, which also includes Adam Kukic, Deb Wein, Michael E. Moats, Ja'Sonta Roberts-Deen and Jennifer Chervenick, is fine, likewise the direction, by Ricardo Vila-Roger.
OTC, whose mission statement incorporates eco-friendliness, will even take $2 off your ticket if you bring in an old cell phone to be recycled (and tickets are only $12 to start with -- a third of what you'd pay at many local theaters).
Dead Man's Cell Phone continues with performances at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow, and concludes with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sun., July 31. www.organictheaterpgh.org
The year is 1975, and everything is about start going very poorly for Edward Borman. His government office in the U.S. Steel Tower is closing for the evening, but instead of heading home to a beer and a ball game, Borman finds himself wrapped up in a dangerous plot involving invaders from Mercury, a mysterious "league" of good guys and, potentially, the end of the world.
The Mercury Men is a new web-based serial presented by Syfy.com, written and directed by Chris Preksta, the Pittsburgh resident and Point Park grad behind the web series and 2005 feature film Captain Blasto. And from what I've seen of it, it rings all the right sci-fi geek bells. I was hooked at the first sight of Borman's face; Mark Tierno, who plays the office cog, has wrinkles and shadows straight out of the Twilight Zone, an impression further strengthened by the show's high-contrast black-and-white imagery.
Although I'm not quite sure why these men from Mercury are so intent on destroying the Earth -- with a "Gravity Engine," no less -- it's a suspension of disbelief comfortable to all fans of science fiction. And once you first set your eyes on the aliens, it hardly matters. They're giant, glowing creatures, made from "light so dense it has become solid," according to the series website. All of the featureless invaders are played by Preksta, who at 6'7" is uniquely capable of playing the loping creatures.
The series was filmed entirely without the use of the "green screen" filmmakers use to enable digital effects. Rather, to depict the Mercury Men, Preksta donned a completely black outfit in front of a shock-white background, then took a negative image. Combined with the hissing, TV-on-mute noise that the Men emit, they are the first really original bad guys I've seen in years.
Naturally, Borman doesn't have a snowball's chance of beating these guys alone, and help comes -- for no apparent reason -- in the form of Jack Yaeger, a bold and handsome man in an old aviator's uniform. Yeager knows these Mercury invaders, somehow, and packs a gun that shoots light, apparently the only thing that can hurt the enemy. At a singular moment, Borman -- staring incredulously at the man's weapon -- asks Yaeger whether he's a pilot, and actor Curt Wootton deadpans, "I'm an engineer."
The take-away from all this is that the Syfy network has taken a chance on a brand-new serial that completely deserves it. There are shoot-outs, glowing monsters, intrepid and not so intrepid heroes, and a talking brain in a jar. It is very much worth a click. The first of 10 seven-minutes episodes premieres today at www.syfy.com/mercurymen
The Heinz Endowments is encouraging Pittsburgh artists to take advantange of its newish fellowship program to help locals get residencies at this famed international artists' community in New Hampshire.
The fellowship program funds two slots set aside for artists from Allegheny County or any of nine surrounding counties. Fellowships cover all residency costs for two artists of any discipline to work for up to two months at MacDowell, located on 450 acres in Peterborough, N.H.
"We believe that we need to do much more to recognize and support the region's artists," Janet Sarbaugh, the Endowments' arts-and-culture senior program director, in a statement.
MacDowell, meanwhile, is leveraging the Endowments' contribution to "raise awareness of residency opportunities," says MacDowell development officer John Martin, by phone from the Colony's offices in New York City.
The catch: You're eligible for a fellowship only if you've already been accepted at MacDowell.
That's a challenge, given that MacDowell hosts just 250 artists a year, and that over the years artist residents have included such big names as Aaron Copland, Glenn Ligon, Suzan-Lori Parks and a former University of Pittsburgh grad student named Michael Chabon.
Still, i the Heinz Endowment fellowship's first year, 2010-11, Pittsburgh MacDowellites included visual artist and Carnegie Mellon assistant art professor Kim Beck as well as poet Joy KMT, who'll be at MacDowell come September.
MacDowell provides residents with accommodations, meals and private studio space, along with the opportunity to share ideas with other artists visiting from all over the world.
Applications are encouraged in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary art, music composition, theater, visual art and literature.
The rolling deadlines are Sept. 15, Jan. 15 and April 15 of each year. "[T]he sole criterion for acceptance," says a MacDowell press release, "is talent."
For more information, see www.macdowellcolony.org/apply.
Genuine Butoh dance is rare as hen's teeth in Pittsburgh. And we don't get many sunrise shows, either. But both those things happened, together, this past Saturday in the Mattress Factory's garden: an riveting improvised movement-and-music performance by internationally known Japanese performer Taketeru Kudo and acclaimed Connecticut-based experimental musician Michael Pestel.
The 6 a.m. performance for a suprisingly alert crowd of about 20 (not counting Mattress Factory staff) was part of a two-week series of community workshops and shows here involving Kudo, Pestel and other artists; sponsors included the museum, the Children's Museum and the National Aviary. (Full disclosure: My spouse, Renee Rosensteel, was hired by the Children's Museum to document the project.)
The series' final performance is "Stray Birds Sunset Full Moon," at 8 p.m. Friday, at the Mattress Factory. The show is free; call 412-231-3169 or see www.mattressfactory.org.
Butoh is of recent enough vintage (post-World War II) that Kudo once trained with Akiko Motofuji, the widow of one of Butoh's founders. Its expressionistic movement language (though not codified) is largely one of suffering and anguish: spasms, writhing, contortions, deliberate one moment, spasmodic the next.
It's a striking art form, and Kudo a stunning performer. He appears to be in his 30s, wiry and wraith-thin, with a shock of black hair. "Stray Birds Sunrise Performance" began with him appearing atop the Mattress Factory's rough stone wall, some 8 feet off the ground. His skin was smeared with a layer of white make-up, his hair likewise whitened, and he wore a tattered gown the color of the inner bark of a tree. A bit of red thread depending from his left ear suggested a slash of blood.
As Kudo traversed the top of the stone wall in a lizard-like crawl, Pestel, hidden from view, played sparse, bird-song-like passages on his flute. Kudo made his way to ground level, moving in his improvised dance around the rough-hewn Mattress space and among the audience members dispersed around it. His gestures also often suggested those of some animal -- often a dying animal -- while somehow remaining recognizably human. Once or twice he stripped down, not quite naked, and then dressed again, all in stride.
While Kudo developed his silent pantomime of creaturely suffering -- steam rising from his body in the cool, overcast morning -- Pestel, still often unseen, ran through a remarkable series of sounds, from melodic stabs to hoglike snorts and snuffles. At one point, however, Pestel was plainly visible … with a bird call stuffed in his mouth and each nostril, apparently playing all of them at once.
Occasionally, real birds added to the music, though at no point in the hour-long performance was anything loud enough to wake the museum's neighbors.
Kudo too sometimes vanished from our view. At one point he simply fled to the museum's parking lot. After a minute, someone decided to follow him. We found him in the near distance, flitting back and forth across the street that runs uphill perpendicular from Jacksonia Street, the North Side's wooded hills shrouded in mist behind him. When he slowly strode back through the museum's gates into the parking lot, it was an amazing bit of found staging: a moment of profound silence and perfect visual symmetry.
Here's a link to short video interview with Kudo that incorporates footage from the sunrise show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfktw0HdgHw
This Alan Ayckbourn play has been noted largely for its novel staging: It was written to be performed simultaneously with Garden, an interlocking Ayckbourn play featuring most of the same characters. The action of both plays takes place on the grounds and inside the walls of a British country estate on a single day. So when an actor runs offstage in House, she's likely headed to join the action in progress in Garden, staged in a tandem theater.
In the performance I saw last week, PICT pulled this off without a hitch, using the upstairs Charity Randall Theater for House and the downstairs Henry Heymann for Garden. But when you're watching this 1999 play, knowing the sleight-of-hand involved can be part of the fun for only so long. After that it risks becoming just a gimmick.
But what I think will stick with me most about House is its curious tone.
Both House and Garden are billed as comedies, and House at least has its farcical elements. (I've yet to see Garden.) But much of time it doesn't really feel like a comedy, and certainly not a light one.
Perhaps the best example is the character of Giles, the neighbor of main characters Teddy Platt (an upper-class twit) and his estranged-in-situ wife, Trish. Before we even meet Giles, we learn that Teddy has cuckolded him. And on Giles' appearance on the stage, we discover that Giles himself is completely oblivious to this infidelity by his wife, which even his teen-age son (and the Platt's teen-age daughter) know of.
In a standard farce, Giles' obliviousness would be played strictly for laughs, likely in part by making him roughly as unlikable as most of the other characters. But Ayckbourn doesn't do that. Instead, Giles (played by the wonderful David Bryan Jackson), is probably the nicest, kindest character on stage (with the possible exception of his own son). You feel for him instantly, even moreso because of his cluelessness.
To top it off, this production gives Giles a stutter. That risks going over the top, but Jackson makes it work.
Shortly -- after his wife's infidelity and her accomplice have been revealed to him -- Giles becomes a bit more typically comic character. But it's hard to miss the real sadness in House. That's not to mention the casual verbal brutality of other scenes, such as when the play's most sophisticated character, a novelist named Gavin Ryng-Mayne, stomps one of its more naïve characters like an overeager bug.
Ayckbourn, for all he's stuffed into the "comedy" bin, is not so easy to categorize -- a fact the playwright perhaps alludes to when Ryng-Mayne corrects another character who labels his novels "thrillers": "I regard them simply as novels," he says coolly. "It's an appalling habit these days, isn't it, wanting to put everything into neat pigeon-holes."
House & Garden has six more performances through the Sun., July 17 matinee. www.picttheatre.org
It's a big week for Pittsburgh performers out of town.
This past Sunday afternoon, the Zany Umbrella Circus performed its new one, Mirette's Circus, at New York City's outdoor SummerStage series, on the Central Park Main Stage, no less. (The charming show had just world-premiered here last week, at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater.)
And this Friday, the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble takes its own turn at SummerStage. The troupe, led by Greer Reed-Jones, was chosen to perform the New York premiere of "Regality," by emerging choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie.
But first, Squonk Opera faces the biggest — and perhaps the toughest — audience of all: America. Not to mention Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandell and Piers Morgan, the judges on this popular variety-show contest program.
You can catch Squonk on AGT at 9 p.m. tonight on NBC.
The now-venerable but still wonderfully wacky Squonkers comprise a critically acclaimed, globally touring enterprise, but tonight they'll face some new challenges. Probably the most daunting is what co-founder and keyboardist Jackie Dempsey describes as "doing a 90-second scene [when] we're used to doing 90-minute shows."
Another challenge might be one of category. Some people might call Squonk an art-rock band. It is, but it's also a theatrical outfit, one whose shows like Astro-Rama and Mayhem and Majesty typically incorporate homemade props and machines, some of them quite large, not to mention video projections. (Note that Dempsey describes the group's AGT show as a "scene" and not, say, a "number.")
One also wonders how the six-member troupe's typically surreal sensibility will play on a contest show more used to rock ballads, magic acts and acrobatic dance groups.
Still, left-field types have appeared on AGT before, and some have done well. (My colleague Al Hoff recalls a successful act consisting of some "guys in inflatable suits, jumping up and down.") And someone at AGT must like Squonk: Dempsey reports to fans via email that the troupe auditioned for the show "many, many months ago," and made enough of an impression to get into this season's Top 48.
In her email, Dempsey says the group's scene tonight combines elements of Astro-Rama and Mayhem. Stay tuned.
Gruber's work was internationally exhibited, but around here she was perhaps best known not just for her longevity, but for her ability to successfully shift between, and evolve her practice through, different media. The Pittsburgh native and Carnegie Institute of Technology grad (class of 1940) started out as an abstract painter (her mentors included the great teacher Samuel Rosenberg), then moved into metal sculpture, plastic sculpture, photography and video.
Her best-known work was probably the 20-foot-tall metal tower called "Steelcityscape," which in the late '70s and early '80s was displayed under the City-County building's portico, Downtown, and is set to be installed in Mellon Park this fall
Meanwhile, Gruber was past 60 when she took up photography — the medium in which she had her last big Pittsburgh show, 2009's The Analytical Eye, at Silver Eye Center.
Gruber, who lived in Churchill, was active into 2010, too, and after news of her death broke I caught up with one of her final collaborators: Deanna Mance, who teamed with Gruber on the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's 2010 show exchange.
Working with an artist more than six decades her junior was Gruber's idea, says Mance, who's now 29. The older artist had met the younger while giving her an award the year prior, and phoned to suggest they collaborate in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh exhibit Exchange, displayed at the Downtown's 937 Liberty Gallery.
"I was totally thrilled," says Mance. "Totally lucky, miracle experience for me to have."
While Gruber was by then growing frail, "She wanted to keep going, which was inspiring," says Mance. The younger artist ended up creating new work to complement or modify existing pieces by Gruber. In a review of the show, I described the result this way:
"Gruber's 'Steel Temple Ruins,' an austere, tinted black-and-white photo of the disenfranchised mill smokestacks at Homestead's Waterfront shopping district, hangs alongside Mance's colorful, candy-striped abstract drawing of the same scene. The two also team on 'Mixologists,' a cheerfully macabre take on a child's toy incorporating dismembered baby dolls, featuring Gruber's Plexiglass sculpture and Mance's line work."
Gruber "was always thinking of new and innovative ways" to work, says Mance. "Mixologists" was especially interesting: Gruber supplied Mance with a plastic sculpture she'd made in the 1980s and told her to modify it. "She let me take it apart and add some drawing pieces inside." To help, Gruber also sent Mance a list of words "that would inspire me." (The "Mixologists" photo at right is courtesy of Gruber's assistant, Dan Mohan.)
Even at 91, Gruber "was very witty and a great storyteller, actually," Mance adds.
The Silver Eye show, whose photos dates from 1982-2001, likewise exhibited Gruber's passion for experimentation, incorporating sepia-toning, archival inkjet printing, hand-tinting and digital manipulation.
Half of the images in that show were made with infrared film or digital infrared to create images "in which sunlight on fields shines like snow, and cloudy skies glimmer pink," I wrote in my review for CP. "The effect can offer an impressionistic oak-lined Louisiana path ('Down the Lonely Road') or the blue, white and gray moonscape of 'Salt Cities of Mono Lake.'"
The show also included Gruber's iconic "Dream City": "A dirt lot provides the extended foreground for a solemn 1997 view of the old Lawrence Paint Building, near Station Square, while in the distance Downtown's skyscrapers shine behind their Point, like a magical island in the fog."
As Mance sums up, "We've lost an incredible artist in Pittsburgh."
While the state budget that Gov. Tom Corbett signed yesterday signals tough times for schools, among other important constituencies, the arts escaped relatively unscathed.
The new budget allocated $9.14 million to the Pennsylvania on the Arts, almost all of that dedicated to funding grants for arts groups and individual artists.
While that represents a 1 percent cut from last year's PCA allocation -- already down 40 percent after three years of tight budgets -- it's a far cry from the nearly 75 percent cut in the budget proposed last month by the majority-Republican state House.
In a June 30 press release, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council went so far as to call the final budget "arts-friendly." GPAC had spent the couple of weeks since that House budget was announced encouraging citizens to write their elected officals to restore the funding.
GPAC feels the cries were heard. Meanwhile, it couldn't have hurt that the arts have a big advocate in the governor's mansion: less the governor himself than First Lady Susan Corbett, whose husband had appointed her PCA board chair.
Gov. Corbett's own budget proposal, in fact, had included $9.2 million for the PCA.
The Corbetts hail from Shaler. Among other arts connections, Susan Corbett is former head of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, which stages the Drue Heinz Lecture Series. She's served on the PCA board since 2002, when she was a Mark Schweiker appointee (and she was re-appointed by Ed Rendell.)
After the Republican-majority House cut PCA funding, Susan Corbett actually joined Democratic legislators in publicly calling for its restoration. And arts advocates like GPAC chief Mitch Swain, for instance, typically mention her when discussing prospects for state arts funding.
Frankly, it also couldn't have hurt that restoring PCA funding wasn't that hard to do fiscally: That $9.14 million represents about .03 percent of the $27.15 billion budget, or 3 cents for every hundred budget dollars.
As to the importance of PCA funding, in the fiscal year just ended, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer, the PCA "made 1,322 grants to 596 arts organizations and supported 726 arts projects statewide." A great many Pittsburgh arts groups get at least some PCA funding.
GPAC is encouraging everyone to call their state legislators and thank them for funding the PCA at the current level. Find your legislator here.


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Stress Work Make You Sick
October 26, 2011 by staff
Stress Work Make You Sick, Flu season is also known in the workplace, sick season. We address those frustrating months of the year when colds, viruses and other meetings of a variety of insects delay the timing of the project and head to keep people home.
That is, if they feel they can take that risk in an economy in recession, especially if they have paid sick leave. A survey this year found that nearly three quarters of people have gone to work when ill, a number that is almost certainly due to people who fear for the safety of their jobs. At the same time, almost two thirds of employers who responded to a survey by human resources consultancy Watson Torres say they have been working more hours in the last three years. And as the company announced last week, 31 percent of companies say their employees are using less of their free time.
It would be no surprise, then, working long hours puts you at greater risk of disease. However, this very well, can not be the main aspect of the work that makes you sick, according to a recent study & work stress, an academic journal published by the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology said that PsyBlog Tuesday. That dubious distinction is reserved, however, for the organization limitations, or may not have the time or resources available to do their job.
The study, called "meta-analysis" of the 79 studies explored the relationship reported in each of them between the physical and stress-inducing factors at work. While not trying to study the "causality" or tensions that undoubtedly caused the symptoms, he was seen in which stressors, organizational constraints, interpersonal conflict, role conflict, role ambiguity, the load working hours and lack of control-is most associated with several physical symptoms, gastrointestinal problems headaches to sleep disorders that can cause illness.
After the limitations of the organization, stress is correlated with physical ailments was "role conflict" or being told by a supervisor to do one thing and another to do something else. It was followed by interpersonal conflicts (shoots with co-workers), workload (obviously, is expected to do more), and role ambiguity (not knowing what is expected of you), in that order. Only after these five stressors in long hours into the game, ranking sixth on the list, followed finally by the feeling of a lack of control.
As a result, while the long hours may be able to do harm-particularly through the creation of eye strain, back problems and problems with sleep, is unlikely to be the most important factor in diseases. In contrast, the less the long hours spent at work and more emphasis on, such as tight deadlines, fighting with peers or confusion about the job at hand, you might have to work late in the first place.
This, like most studies of the species, it is not surprising. But for leaders, is a reminder to keep your people well and healthy and productive at work, you should worry less about asking them to work late on a project or to fill some occasional overtime when times get tough . They care more about whether they have the resources they need to have healthy relationships with their teams, and it is clear in their jobs, so what are their responsibilities and that those responsible for them.
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ACO Final Rule: 10 Healthcare Leaders Sound Off
2. Chris Van Gorder, CEO of Scripps Health:
"Probably our biggest concern is the patient assignment process. The initial [proposed] regulations required primary care physicians to be exclusive to an ACO. Now, based upon many complaints, CMS appears to have eased that regulation significantly. It appears now that physicians can participate in multiple ACOs by using different Tax Identification Numbers (billing under their own or the different ACO TINS).
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"I think this will just confuse the issue of patient attribution to the ACOs. I can understand the desire on the part of physicians to work with multiple organizations, but if the goal is to establish an integrated, patient-friendly, high-quality, medical management system, I can't see that happening effectively if the patient and physician is moving in and out of that system.
"And, it will be very difficult to manage the economics of such a system. Fortunately, I don't think many physicians will want to practice that way and so my hope is that this concern does not become a significant issue down the road."
3. Dan Mendelson, CEO of Avalere Health, a healthcare advisory firm based in Washington, D.C.:
"The new rule is an easier pill to swallow, but still difficult for most systems to fully digest. ACOs will get to keep more of the upside profits from effective cost control – including savings from reduced re-hospitalizations – and there are fewer quality metrics and many of the industry's legal concerns appear to have been addressed. But fundamentally, most health systems continue to struggle with the fact that their present operations are oriented toward billing per service, and not taking on risk and responsibility for quality."


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Hello! This is how I play jungle Shyvanna. Hope u enjoy!
P.S. this is my 1st Mobafire guide :)
Pros / Cons
Pros- Tanky, High Damage, Great for counterjunling, Good farmer, High mobility, DRAGON RAWR
Cons- Weak ganker, No cc.
Marks- I always choose flat attack damage marks on Shyvanna because her Burnout scales off attack damage. However, burnout also deals magic damage so armor pen. wont help with the ability.
Seals- I take flat armor seals for clearing and if I get in any early games duels (which I will because I will be counter jungling a lot) these are going to help.
Glyphs- I take MR per level just because magic resist doesn't raise as much per level as armor does. These can be switched out for flat MR, it's just a matter of preference.
Offense- I put 21 points here for the extra damage. Make sure to pick up both armor pen. mastery's. I also get the magic pen. mastery because burnout, flame breath, and dragon decent all deal magic damage. Also helps for the sunfire cape. The rest for the mastery's are self explanitory.
Defense- Don't put points in utility because you don't use mana. The rest of the 9 points should be put in defense. Be sure to take the armor and the health bonus.
Utility- Because Shyvanna is a manaless champion, I don't put any points here. However if you really like movespeed or want runic affinity, you can put points here.
I start with a vamp scepter for jungling but you can go boots and potions or cloth armor and potions.(preference)
I get Wriggles lantern for clearing, Frozen mallet for hp and slow, berserker's greaves for damage(if you want to be more tanky go merk treads), sunfire because it works well with Burnout and for the extra armor and hp, Maw of Malmortius for magic resist and attack, and atmas for my large health reserves and extra armor.
Also get elixirs for those extra long games.
Skill Sequence
Twin bite- I max this 2nd for the extra damage and shorter cooldown.
Burnout- This is your bread and butter ability for clearing, chasing, running and damage. Always max this 1st.
Flame breath- Put in a point at level 4 for the armor reduction but max it last.
Dragon Decent- The Sup3r c00l dr4g0n 4tt4ck! Gives you armor and MR and deals more damage, take whenever possible.
Summoner Spells
Your jungling always take smite, and exhaust for ganks without it your. ganks will suck. you can switch exhaust out for flash if preferable but always take smite.
Thank u for reading my guide! This is my first guide which is why it isnt flashy, im still not sure quite to how to makes these yet. Give me your feedback and good luck with beefstick Shyvanna


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VideoHive Sunset And Human Silhouettes 7289780
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Couple \ Seascape \ Settle \ Running \ Walking \ Sitting \ Romantic \ Reflections
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Wide angle seascape and seaside video clips.
A couple sitting on the settle.A man running and other couple walking along the coast.
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The U.N. World Food Program achieved 94 percent of its operational plan [2]in Lebanon for May, while planning more assistance for Syrian refugees in the country in June.
The May assistance of the WFP reached over 744,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon [3]through 715,210 vouchers and 29,278 food parcels. The June plan aims to reach 813,589 refugees with 770,333 food vouchers and 43,256 parcels.
The current number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, both registered and awaiting registration in the UNHCR, is 1,093,069.
In addition, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated 390 million tons of dates to the WFP in Lebanon, expected to arrive in late June, at the same time as the holy month of Ramadan is due to begin.
The dates will be distributed among newly arrived Syrian refugees as part of the food parcel assistance, as well as among the Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements and collective shelters.
Dates will also be distributed to vulnerable Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians participating in meals served in communal kitchens during Ramadan.
The WFP has also been analyzing spending patterns of its beneficiaries over time, using data collected from shop interviews and household visits.
Research shows that most households use the entire value of the vouchers at once to buy dry goods and staple items, and use other sources of cash to buy additional items throughout the month as necessary.
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jun-16/260306-wfp-aims-for-more-assistance-for-refugees-in-june.ashx#axzz34gPSLKNM
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/lebanon-syrian-refugees-566221
[4] http://www.dailystar.com.lb/


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St. Tammany Parish parents packing School Board meetings to complain about Common Core and associated topics have become as much a part of the parish's political landscape as leaders with an R after their names.
Thursday night was no different. The parish School Board was discussing a measure — already approved by the board last week as a committee as a whole — to remove Common Core-aligned Eureka Math curriculum materials from classrooms by the end of this school year. And just like at the last meeting, the room was packed.
But Thursday night, the script was flipped, to an extent. The expected handful of regular anti-Common Core speakers decried Eureka Math as age-inappropriate, confusing and full of errors and typos. But they were matched, if not outnumbered, by a steady procession of teachers who begged the board to allow Eureka Math to remain for at least the rest of this year, if not beyond.
An overwhelming majority of the teachers — many of whom were at the meeting because they had attended an earlier reception for teachers and principals of the year — praised the Eureka Math curriculum, and many said their students were grasping math at a more conceptual level than ever before.
"This curriculum is teaching students to think for themselves," said Christen Timmins, a teacher at Fontainebleau High School. "It teaches them the why, rather than a rote mathematical process."
Timmins acknowledged there have been some difficulties, but she said the curriculum needed to be broken in, "like a new pair of jeans."
Donna Jones, who teaches at Bonne Ecole Elementary School in Slidell, said students have struggled at math no matter how it has been taught.
"I had students struggle in math well before we incorporated the new math," she said. "Math is just hard."
The Eureka Math materials don't employ different concepts from those used in the past, but they do teach more strategies and tools, Jones said. "The new curriculum can help all students," she said.
Jochen Kranz, a native of Austria who teaches eighth-grade math at Slidell Junior High School, said the school system should keep Eureka Math beyond the school year.
"We have to make our students more competitive," Kranz said before relating a story about his fourth-grade son figuring out the perimeter of a dirt race track based on skills he learned in his math class.
Kranz's words provided a brief moment of levity in a lengthy meeting that grew tense at times.
Some anti-Common Core activists were not impressed with what the teachers had to say.
"Eureka Math is not meeting the needs of our children," said Sara Wood, a frequent critic of Common Core, the controversial set of state standards with which Eureka Math is closely aligned. She accused school administrators of "packing" the room with teachers and principals to speak in favor of Eureka Math.
Wood also said she was happy that Eureka Math would be removed by the end of the year but that she felt school administrators should have worked to remove it sooner.
One thing about Thursday's meeting resembled earlier Common Core dust-ups — its length. Last week's meeting ran past midnight, mostly due to the debate over Eureka Math. Thursday's lasted almost four hours, a span that saw tempers begin to flare both in the audience and on the dais.
When it was over, the School Board did exactly what the board, acting as a committee, recommended last week. It voted to phase out Eureka Math by the end of the school year and to adopt new textbooks to guide the parish's math curriculum.
The board also voted to set up small discussion groups of teachers and other educators to study Common Core and the curriculum, and report back to the board.
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In today's rapid-paced, digital world, global business demands that professionals stay connected and think strategically about their networks. Driven by this market need, the Center for Women and Business will host their 8th annual "Gearing Up" conference for professional women in the first decade of their careers looking to advance. Held on Friday, June 7, 2013 from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the LaCava Conference Center on the Bentley University campus, this year's conference will explore how to get ahead in an increasingly connected age and will address the importance of establishing and maintaining a strong network for personal and professional success. This intensive one-day conference with interactive workshops will prepare attendees to:
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Diane Hessan, president and CEO of Communispace will deliver a keynote address. Following her address, attendees will then participate in two interactive, skill-building workshops. Workshops include:
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- Strategic Networking: Developing Critical Relationships
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The day will also feature a luncheon panel of highly accomplished, senior executive business women, each accompanied by a middle level executive from the same company. The pairs will share their various experiences along their own professional journeys. Lunch will be followed by an afternoon session on building a personal advisory board and relationship management strategy.
Registration is live on April 15. For more information or to register for this event, please visit the Center for Women and Business website or contact Elisa Vincent at email@example.com, 781.891.2306.
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Diagnosis of hepatitis is made by biochemical assessment of liver function (laboratory evaluation of: urine bilirubin and urobilinogen, total and direct serum bilirubin, ALT (SGPT) and/or AST (SGOT), alkaline phosphatase, prothrombin time, total protein, albumin, IgG, IgA, IgM, complete blood count).
The specific routine diagnosis of acute hepatitis A is made by finding anti-HAV IgM in the serum of patients. A second option is the detection of virus and/or antigen in the faeces.
Virus and antibody can be detected by commercially available radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. These commercially available assays for anti-HAV IgM and total anti-HAV (IgM and IgG) for assessment of immunity to HAV are not influenced by the passive administration of immunoglobulin (IG), because the prophylactic doses are below detection level.
At the onset of disease, the presence of IgG anti-HAV is always accompanied by the presence of IgM anti-HAV. As IgG anti-HAV persists lifelong after acute infection, detection of IgG anti-HAV alone indicates past infection.
Virus may still be present in the absence of detectable HAV antigen, as demonstrated by the use of more sensitive methods.
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I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. (Luke 16:9)


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NIAP has had a busy summer. While taking in record number of products into evaluation and issuing new PPs they recently released a collection of interesting documents. On September 11, NIAP announced publication of mapping between Protection Profiles (PPs) and NIST SP 800-53 Revision 4 controls. Specifically mappings have been released for:
This is important especially for agencies and C&A personnel where SA-4(7) (requirement to procure products evaluated against NIAP PPs) is applicable. Using these controls the C&A personnel can reduce the amount of work required to verify compliance with the applicable controls. For example IA-6 requires that authentication feedback is obscured. There is an equivalent SFR in network device cPP namely FIA_UAU.7. So if a product is known to be CC evaluated and running in it's evaluated configuration, IA-6 can be deemed to have been met for that particular product. Below is a snapshot of this mapping:
There are couple of important points to note before leveraging these mappings:
1. Common Criteria evaluation is for individual products where as SP 800-53 compliance is for systems. This has to be considered while utilizing the mappings. Just because the product meets the 800-53 control does not mean the system is compliant
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The Market and Public Organisation research theme combines expertise in economics, geography and law to examine the intersection between public and private sectors of the economy and to understand how best to organise and deliver public services. Research is carried out in the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO).
Market and Public Organisation is an area which concerns governments all around the world. CMPO has strong international links and produces leading international research that aims to contribute to public debate and inform policy-making.
Research within CMPO focuses on the analysis of public service organisations in terms of incentives, markets and information. Research areas include: responses to incentives and market-like institutions; individual differences in public service motivation; the role of performance indicators and outcome targets in the behaviour of organisations; and the spatial dimension to public service outcomes.


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Because it is essential for us to earn money in order to provide for our needs, there are now more and more people who are aiming at opening up their own business. We understand that this is not something that we can compare to a walk in the part. So many things to think about and more to consider. One of the most important things that you need is to secure the money that you are going to use for it. If you currently are not in possession of the money that you need, you don't have to stress over it because there are lots of things that are available for you. One of them is private loan.
Private loans are made by Hard money loans investors who are seeking for ways on how to get more returns than a normal investment. For instance, for a certain investment you may have a return at the rate of four to six per cent in the duration of six to twelve months, but if you are going to get a private loan, it might go up to fifteen per cent.
But one of the most important things that you have to understand in this is that it is so risky. Mutual funds and certificates of deposit entail the stability that you can't find in a start-up business. You have to understand that private loans are not solely for large-scale companies because even small businesses and even online shops would be able to get it.
There are other ways on how to get this kind of loans. For example, there are a lot of contractors who would seek out the help of investors so that they could get the financial help they need so that they can renovate or construct buildings for profit. If you are wondering about the rate of the interest that the lender will get, it is determined according to the amount for which the property was sold or rented. This means that the investor will have a way to get the initial amount plus the interest and possibly more if the investment is good enough.
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The Iola Register, Friday, Mar. 29, 1895
Died: Mar. 23, 1895
Jacob Hiles, born Oct. 26, 1833 in the State of Ohio, married at the age of 21 to Miss Mary Jane Smith. To them were born seven children, five live to mourn the death of their father. He enlisted in Co. A, 90 R. Ohio. Served three years in defense of his country. Came to Kansas in 1879, departed this life in Iola Kansas March 23, 1895. Having accepted Christ as his Savior he died in the triumph of faith. The funeral took place from the First Baptist church, conducted by the writer and he was buried in the honors of the G. A. R. of the McCook Post. Thus one by one the old Soldiers are mustering to the roll call above. May the peace of God rest upon his family and friends.


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Who: Bhanu Rekha Ganesan aka Rekha.
What: Prized Saree Collection.
When: Ever since she debuted in Anjana Safar aka Do Shikaari.
Where: Everywhere.
How: With elegance.
Why: Well, why not?
Rekha needs no introduction, she is the resident queen of Bollywood still reigning strong. She is one of those iconic actors India is lucky to have and she's equally beautiful and delicate while being brave and fierce. She has won three Filmfare Awards, two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress. She has also won the National Film Award for Best Actress and was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2010.
This seems to be sounding like a biographical account of her career and we don't want to get into that. Today we'll be talking about Rekha's love for the nine yard wonder. We think this is important because she's always see in the most decadent silk sarees and we can't help but drool. If we were to take a sneak peek into her closet what would we find? More sarees? We think so!
Rekha loves layering herself in silk and we cannot blame her. Every woman loves some good silk and that's the way it should be. She's always turning up in one gorgeous saree after the other and gives the paparazzi much to talk about.
Her choice is mostly Kanjeevaram silk as it is very popular especially in South India. This rich silk makes for grand sarees and Rekha won't have them any other way. She's known for her Kanjeevaram sarees and goegeous zari borders and motifs.
Rekha loves colour coordinating her saree look. She has always enjoyed the attention she gets when she walks onto a stage or on the green carpet. She exudes goddess-like beauty and glamour in her regal attire and we're sure there's more from where that came from.
Her hair, make-up and accessories are always on point. Rekha never appears shabby or bedraggled when she poses for cameras. Intricate traditional jewellery, red lips and accentuated eyes are her signature look. At 60, she sure still looks like a sex siren!
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A voice like butter. John sings from the heart and has you falling in love with him. His voice is in the style of Chet Baker and Mel Torme' there has not been a voice like his in decades. JOHN WAS THE WINNER OF THE MAC AWARD 'MANHATTAN ASSOCIATION OF CABARETS AND CLUBS 2007 JAZZ SINGER OF THE YEAR AND THE 2008 MAC AWARD FOR 'JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR'


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The latest update of Photoshop CC includes several updates, including headlining tools like Face-Aware Liquify and Content-Aware Crop. [Read more…]
The latest update of Photoshop CC includes several updates, including headlining tools like Face-Aware Liquify and Content-Aware Crop. [Read more…]
Adobe has released Lightroom 6.6 and Lightroom CC 2015.6, along with Adobe Camera Raw 9.6. The updates provide raw file support for the following cameras: [Read more…]
In this new tutorial from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to use content-aware scale tool in Photoshop to create an ad. He also works in some tips with the warp tool to get his composition just right. Check out the video above.
Photoshop's content-aware tools have been pretty magical in a lot of ways since they were first introduced over six years ago. In the next Photoshop CC release just around the corner, we will have the ability to use content-aware cropping, which will save some space on the corners of our images as we level out the horizon of images. [Read more…]
In this latest video from Plhearn, Aaron Nace walks through a very useful process of how to fix an aged photo in Photoshop. He covers removing dust and scratches, fixing unnatural gradients and discoloration, as well as fixing a color cast. Check out the video above.
In this new video from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to create light rays through clouds inside Photoshop.
He does this buy using the radial blur filter as a smart filter, along with some simple strokes from the brush tool. Pretty cool results. Check it out above.
In this video from Aaron Nace of Phlearn, he walks us through how to make hair color pop in Photoshop.
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Following Germany's announcement to drop EU rules to accepted more refugees, Sweden announced it will grant permanent residency to all Syrian Refugees and Syrian Asylum seekers.
The decision comes in the light of the non resolution of the conflict in Syria and means that approximately 8,000 Syrians who have temporary residency in Sweden will now be able to stay in the country permanently. With permanent residency rights come the right to bring one's family to Sweden.
In 2012 and 2013, a total of 14,700 Syrian asylum seekers came to Sweden. Together with Germany, Sweden is the EU country which has accepted the highest number of asylum seekers from the war-torn country.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Expecting Their First Child
Parenthood won't just be the name of a show that Dax Shepard stars on anymore, it will be his reality. The funny 37-year-old actor and his fiancée, 32-year-old actress Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) are expecting their first child together this spring. The couple's rep confirmed the happy news to People.
A friend of Bell and Shepard's told the mag, "They're so excited — they're both ecstatic. They can't wait to become parents. Kristen had a little bit of morning sickness early on but she just started shooting the second season of House of Lies and is feeling great now."
Bell and Shepard, who starred together in this summer's Hit and Run, have been dating since 2007. The universally liked Bell — who shared with The Advocate earlier this year that she and Shepard are "hesitant" to get married when so many gay couples in the country are still denied the very same right — also told Larry King during an interview this year that they are "not really worried about" the possibility of having a child out of wedlock.
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Plan content approval and scheduling
Updated: February 26, 2009
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
This Office product will reach end of support on October 10, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see , Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.
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In addition to planning how much control you want users to have over altering the appearance of your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site, you also need to plan how much governance you want content contributors to have over your site content. Governance refers to the rules and processes that you want to establish for your site. For example, you may want users to impose restrictions and functionality when authors create content. You have the option of giving users no control, simple moderation, or the ability to start a workflow after they submit content. You can also plan restrictions on where and what type of content an author can place in certain areas of your site.
At this time you also need to understand how the scheduling process works. Users can set a publish and unpublish date by setting the appropriate schedule.
There are two steps in planning governance. The first step is to determine how and if you want content to go through an approval process. The second step is to determine what content can appear in specific areas of your site.
Content moderation and workflow approval is the method by which site members with Approver permissions control the publication of content. In Office SharePoint Server 2007, governance can fall within three moderation and workflow approval categories:
None If you choose to implement no moderation or workflow, after an author submits content for publishing it goes live immediately. If a document library is configured to support major and minor versions of content and no content moderation is used, users who have Read permissions will be able to see minor versions of the content.
Simple moderation You configure this if you want content manually approved by a member of the Approver group after an author submits it for publishing. Simple moderation is the default in the Corporate Intranet Presence Template in Office SharePoint Server 2007. In the Intranet Presence Template, document libraries and image libraries are also configured to use simple moderation.
Approval workflow You configure this if you want a workflow to run the approval process. Using a workflow makes the approval process more automated and takes advantage of the built-in workflow features, such as automatically sending e-mail to approvers, adding approval tasks to approvers' task lists, and letting authors track the status of the approval process. The pages list in the Internet Presence Template includes a default approval workflow. Users can also develop their own custom approval workflow. See the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Software Development Kit (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71218&clcid=0x409) for more information about creating custom workflows.
Governance also dictates where you want content to appear on your site by introducing restrictions over where certain types of content can appear. You specify this by configuring the site settings for the site templates or page layouts you want authors to use. For example, you may want authors to use a publishing site template, but restrict them from using a Team Site template. Likewise, you can also force users to use the page layout where a graphic always appears on the left side of the page as opposed to the right side.
Users have the ability to schedule when they want content to appear, but they can only do this if they create content that uses major or minor versioning. For more information about versioning, see the article Plan versioning, content approval, and check-outs.
The scheduled start times and dates are initiated by a timer service that has a one-minute lag time. It runs on a 24-hour clock, and it continually checks for pages and items in the document library or image library that is ready for publishing.
The content deployment feature is designed for sites that use a multi-farm topology. For more information about multi-farm topologies see Design logical architecture and Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007. A multi-farm topology consists of separate authoring, publishing, and possibly staging farms. If you are implementing a multi-farm topology, you need to apply all the governance considerations outlined in this article for each farm in your environment.
This topic is included in the following downloadable book for easier reading and printing:
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Monday, August 31, 2015
A Music Post: In Which Ally is too Lazy to Write a Bookish Post Like She's Supposed to.
After struggling to read that strenuous title, why don't you sit back, relax, and listen to this...
Phil Collins - Strangers Like Me
Thank you, Phil Collins. Thank you.
Josh Groban - Brave
*melts at Josh Groban's voice*
Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son
Before you comment, no I've never seen Supernatural. But I LOVE Kansas.
Glad - Awesome God
When I need cheering up, I go to Glad. :D
Sara Bareilles - Cassiopeia
You know you want to hit the replay button.
Regina Spektor - The Call
This song gives me FEELINGS.
Big Bad Daddy Voodoo - Jumpin' Jack
Thank goodness for the swing revival.
That is all. I was in a melodic mood. And I have been suuuppper busy with school. College is so time consuming :P. Anyway, I've never done YouTube videos like this, so I hope it all loads okay.
So what are you listening to?
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Oh my gosh, all these songs are so cool. XD One of them, I couldn't listen to because of copyright laws, but djaklfdsa. I think my favourite would be that Josh Groban one, possibly because he was the only artist I was familiar with (although, I've only heard a few of his songs) of this wonderful collection, and for some reason, I seem to hear a song better if I know the artist. Does that make sense? BUT OH MY LAND THEY WERE ALL GREAT. I was grinning at your captions beneath each. XD :D Ahhh, thank you so much for this post! Music posts are always great. *thumbs up*ReplyDelete
What have I been listening to . . . well, I'm always listening to Beckah Shae. But, other than her, I am always listening to a variety of stuff (I love exploring Christian music; I want to one day know every Christian band/artist there is. :P XD ). Recently, a bit of tobyMac (his. new. album. hello.) and a bit of NF (ahhh his song with Britt Nicole is so haunting [in a good way] and kadfjksa it gets stuck in my head XD ). Have you heard of any of those artists?Replies
Yessss Josh Groban! Ahh, sorry you couldn't listen to Phil Collins. That's a tragedy, BUT I'LL FIX IT!! :DDelete
I do know of those artists, and they're all awesome! Personally, I only listen to Acapella Christian music(I LOVE Glad and The Acapella Company) but still. Thank you for your awesome comment!
How did you know it was that one?! :O XD IT WAS! AND YOU HAVE FIXED IT. AND I JUST LISTENED TO IT. AND AHH. That is so catchy. :'D Thanks SO much for fixing that for me; I enjoyed listening to that. :DDelete
Argh, isn't acapella amazing?! That is AWESOME. And you're welcome - thank you for replying! :D
*starts to fangirl about Supernatural, realizes you've never watched it, stuffs fist in mouth until calm again*ReplyDelete
All of these songs are really awesome. I especially like that last one, so fun, and dance-y! Of course there's also The Call, Josh Groban, Awesome God... yeah, all these songs are great, hehe! :D Thanks for sharing 'em!
Glad you like 'em! Yeah, I haven't seen Supernatural. It's so funny, because I was singing Carry On to myself one day(had no idea it was connected with the show) and all of a sudden this girl starts flipping out and stuttering. I had no idea what was going on, and then she started ranting about Supernatural. Lol!Delete
Oh my! I fell in love with Regina Spektor a few years ago, I remember really liking The Call and Samson! <3 Then I went into crazy mode and I totally forgot about The Call, though. LOL :D Thanks for bringing back good memories, Ally! :)ReplyDelete
Anyway, I'm currently hitting the replay button for I Was Made For Loving You by Tori Kelly. And Small Bump by Ed Sheeran! And Head Over Feet by Alanis Morisette! Haha.. :D
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Haha, you're welcome! Regina Spektor has such a unique voice. :)Delete
These are such great songs! I will say that I love Josh Groban. Love him, love him, love him, and that is why I loved getting to see a song of his I hadn't heard before. Lovely choices!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh yes, he has a beautiful voice. I also really like his song False Alarms.Delete


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Moorman has not developed any formal plans for the project.
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Moorman also owns about 7 acres of land adjacent to the Navy school on Oglethorpe Avenue.
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Commissioner Carl Jordan said he is enthusiastic about Moorman's mixed-use concept, but foresees several problems, including traffic on Prince Avenue and water and sewer infrastructure.
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I wasn't born a woman. I sort of stretched myself into one, slowly and with great concentration. I read Sassy magazine and watched how my mother curled her hair and put on black eyeliner at red lights. I cried when I first got underarm hair. It felt so scary and uncontrollable to me. What did this mean, this inevitable coming of age? Who was I becoming? Would I like her?
Becoming a mother was a different kind of experience. Everything was flawless and automatic, like an ancient dance pre-recorded somewhere within me. When I gave birth, the angels pressed play and this sacred moving began. With a look or a sound, fierce and tender knew just when to step. Grace filled the spaces of the unfamiliar. I'd never known so much without knowing anything.
Now that a few years have passed, the instinct of being a mother is just as strong, though it has grown into new forms. My son is nine and my daughter is almost seven. Some days, they are brilliant balls of light, capering around our home to their own playful rhythms. Other times, they cling to my softness and stare into me with wide, searching eyes. I see their hunger to make sense of this world, and especially, to know their place in it. It's in these cosmic windows that I pause. Time stands still and I simply behold the wisdom that pours from the other side.
Like that time a few years ago when I was at a hair salon with both children and discovered a gorgeous collection of sketches in a book by Alberto Vargas (the famous pin-up artist.)
For several moments, I was lost in the women's bold curves and their bright, piercing eyes. Later, as I went to pay, I spotted my son leaning into the same glossy book and lifting the cover open with great care, only halfway, as if a great secret would spill out of it. His eyes grew big and his face froze in wonder.
As we walked out of the shop, he moved shyly along the edge of the sidewalk. I was mesmerized by the newness I felt in him, as if something bigger than he could fit within his six year old world had arrived and started rearranging things. He was held in a place of wanting to share but wasn't sure if it was safe. As much as I loved stretching out the juicy innocence of the moment as long as possible, I decided to invite myself in.
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He did.
"When you look at the beauty of the light and the clouds, it makes you feel warm and happy. That's just like a woman. We were created for beauty, with our bodies and our hearts. We make people feel love when we know that we're beautiful like this sunset."
He looked into me with his old soul eyes. This was one of those moments when the angels pressed play.
"I so love you, little man."
Neither of us ended up speaking much for the rest of the night, at least not with words. We discovered a new language of love, inspired by an artist's black pen and a cascading night sky.
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Week in Review: GM SUVs, Big Benzes, and Honda Hits the Track
We understand that time is valuable, and for your benefit, we've composed a list to highlight the most important news each day of the past week. Kicking things off was an NHTSA announcement that traffic fatalities are gearing up to break a devastating record. Thankfully the next few days brought happier news with the spy photos and videos of some GM SUVs and the reveal of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. If that wasn't enough to pick up your spirits from Monday's news, the joined forces of McLaren and Honda should no doubt do the trick.
Read the snapshot of the week's top stories below.
Monday, May 13
In 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration celebrated the lowest vehicle fatality statistics since 1949, but the celebration won't be continuing. Fatalities for 2012 have risen more than 7 percent, which translates to 2,000 more deaths. This number doesn't include the entire year, and the NHTSA is trying to figure out why there has been such a jump in deaths. Since distracted and drunk driving have influence a number of accidents every year, the NHTSA noted that 21 percent of fatalities occurred when a driver was over the legal limit. It will be interesting to see how these trends add up to the final numbers of the report.
Tuesday, May 14
We caught the 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and GMC Yukon XL shedding their layers of camouflage in front of our cameras. This time, though, we managed to capture a video. Like the current models of the above vehicles, they look to have unique headlight designs, setting them apart from each other as well as the trucks in their respective brands. Both the Chevy and the GMC look to have LED taillights, where they'd be standard on the GMC and an optioned feature on the Chevy. We expect that these vehicles will have base EcoTec3 4.3-liter V-6 engines, producing 285 horsepower, with optional 5.3-liter V-8 engines delivering 355 horsepower.
Wednesday, May 15
In case you missed it, the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has finally been revealed. It exemplifies driving characteristics, advanced technology, and luxury that lift the brand's identity. Mercedes turned its press release into a 104-page story, making it hard for us to pick out important features aside from the word "comfortable." The S550 will be the first car to boast full LED lamps, not containing a single incandescent bulb. Being a luxury car, it wouldn't feel right if there wasn't some absurd feature, and Mercedes didn't fail us. It has introduced a massage feature based off the hot stone principle. Let's just hope the driver can stay focused on their drive and not fall asleep to what is no doubt a relaxing optional feature.
Thursday, May 16
Formula 1 fans everywhere have no doubt heard of Honda's return to the sport. The automaker has partnered with McLaren to build its engines. Formerly, Honda engineers would work with the F1 team for a few years before going back to headquarters, although it's too early to know if this will be happening again. Specifically, Honda will be responsible for the development, building, and supplying of McLaren's F1 engines and kinetic energy recovery system, or KERS. This is good news for the racing community as a whole and everyone involved in the partnership. McLaren will be better, and the competition will be stronger, and who knows, maybe some race technology will trickle down into Honda's lineup.
Friday, May 17
There are those who have stated that the 2009 automotive bailout by the U.S. Treasury Department was the wrong move. GM disagrees, and in case increased sales and profitability wasn't enough proof, its stocks have surpassed the $33 initial public offering as the company plans to introduce its redesigned full-size pickups. No longer will GM be called "Government Motors." As of April 1, the government owned less than 17 percent of the company and plans to have all of its remaining shares sold within in the next year. The car industry is picking itself up and GM is no exception. Thanks to the great sales of all its brands, we can expect to see the company in charge of itself once again fairly soon.
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