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MWPAI December 2019 Events
Join Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) this month for fun events from the Film Series to Gallery Talks and more!
December 11 Wednesday
Phone 315-797-0055 or visit mwpai.org
2 pm and 7:30 pm
Sinnott Family – Bank of Utica Auditorium
December 13 Friday
December 14 Saturday
Art and Yoga
December 17 Tuesday
Marie & The Nutcracker Prince
6 pm to 8:30 pm
Museum of Art, Fountain Elms
December 19 Thursday
Christmas with the March Family
Paulina Caruana, Decorative Arts Assistant
Noon to 12:45 pm
Free and open to the public!
Institute Closed
Art Alive!
For Kids and Families
Robin Spielberg
Spirit of the Holidays Sing-Along
There will be no films screened on December 25 and 27!
Celebrate the Holidays Through Music, Stories, and Films MWPAI
For Kids and Families Spirit of the Holidays Sing-Along
Robin Spielberg brings her Spirit of the Holidays Sing-Along to the For Kids and Families series 1 p.m. Friday, December 27 in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Ars Institute Sinnott Family – Bank of Utica Auditorium. Lyrics to some all-time holiday favorites will be projected on the screen so that the audience can join in and sing. To add to the merriment, a local youth choir will join Robin on stage.
Hailed as one of America's most popular contemporary female pianists/composers, Spielberg has played Carnegie Hall three times and has been a featured guest on CBS Saturday Morning, PBS, and NPR.
She has been winning the hearts of listeners around the world with her compelling melodies and sensitive piano techniques since debuting her first recording of original solos for piano, Heal of the Hand.
A prolific composer, Spielberg has 18 recordings to her credit and appears on more than 40 compilations around the world. Her discography includes albums of original piano solos, arrangements of American standards, original pieces for piano/ensemble, holiday recordings, a CD of American melodies, and a CD of lullabies.
Admission is $8 for MWPAI members and $10 for the general public.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at the MWPAI Performing Arts Ticket Office, 315-797-0055 or 1-800-754-0797, or at the door one hour prior to the performance.
Tickets may also be purchased online at mwpai.org.
Please note, there will be no 11 a.m. performance.
Sponsored by Stewart's Shops
MWPAI Education Programs
FOR MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT
Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Drop-in fee: $10 MWPAI members, $15 general public
Drop-ins please pay at the door
Stretch some of the stress out of the season! Each class offers a 15-minute introduction to art in the gallery followed by one hour of yoga. All levels of ability are welcome. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat. For more information, contact the Museum Education Department at 315-797-0000, ext. 2158.
MWPAI Presents A Special Holiday Film Screening of "It's a Wonderful Life"
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Ars Institute Film Series will screen the beloved holiday classic
It's a Wonderful Life 2 p.m. Sunday, December 22 in the Sinnott Family – Bank of Utica Auditorium.
George Bailey (James Stewart) has so many problems that he is thinking about ending it all. It's not until his guardian angel Clarence shows him what the world would look like if he'd never been born that he realizes that his life is, indeed, wonderful. Usher in the holidays by enjoying this heart-warming holiday film on the big screen with the whole family.
Admission is $6 for MWPAI members and $8 for the general public.
Admission for students with valid identification is $4 at all screenings.


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Our monthly board meetings are open to the public (although these are working meetings).
We hold various networking events (some free or at reduced member fees) throughout the year at various member venues. Attendance of course varies. We post our events on our website and on the Chamber Facebook page.
We coordinate with the other 7 chambers in Rockland County and try to arrange quarterly Chamber Alliance events. These usually get about 100 people in attendance from all over the county.
This is a brief list of benefits (some are highlighted above).
Your business listed in our enhanced Member Directory with a description, photo and/or logo and link to your site. (You can login and create your own entry, or if you wish, we would be happy to assist).
Discounts on most meetings paid in advance.
Advance notice and registration for our Street Fair and reduced member rate ($90 versus $175).
Reduced rates at Rockland Chamber Alliance events.
Scholarships for members accepted into Leadership Rockland in the amount of $250.
An opportunity to spotlight your business at a meeting.
Networking at YOUR location! We want to help you showcase your business. Visit networking at your location which explains the program and how we can bring members to your business.
Opportunities to network with others in and around Nanuet to build your business.
Direct access to people who can provide information on zoning and town and county issues that directly affect your business - we are your voice!
There is strength in numbers! The Nanuet Chamber is a strong voice and a strong advocate for businesses AND residents! We meet with the Town monthly and express your concerns.
The benefit of membership for residents is a chance to have your finger on the pulse of what is going on in Nanuet and we will act as your voice to the politicians who impact your home prices, school system and overall Town decisions - you are also welcome to join any committee as well as the board to get involved and have a say in planning events and activities through the Chamber!
Holiday lights and banners on Main Street which was an effort fostered by the Chamber in conjunction with the Town of Clarkstown and partially paid for by the chamber.
New handmade refuse containers on Main Street, paid for by the Chamber.
The Chamber also provides two $1,000 scholarships to area high school seniors who are Nanuet residents, etc.
We have recently created a 501 (c) 3 charity, Nanuet and Beyond (nanuetandbeyond.org) to focus on "Enriching the educational experience for all." See the website for more details.
SO PLEASE JOIN US AND HELP US MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN NANUET!
Now it's your turn. Please get in touch with YOUR member benefit so we can list you here!


`The hopes of the parents of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family history of cancer and the hopes of a couple caring for aging parents are advanced.' -- Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, after researchers reported they have completed mapping the entire gene pattern of a tiny soil worm.
Convicted killer Joseph Stanley Faulder's reaction to U.S. Supreme Court postponement of Thursday night's scheduled lethal injection of the 61-year-old Canadian just 30 minutes before he was to be strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber.
Rep. George Gekas (R-Pa.), during Thursday's hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
GOP chief investigator Daiv Schippers, in a sarcastic aside during his three-hour closing argument Thursday.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, on Thursday, at the observance of the 50th anniversary of the world's most comprehensive human-rights declaration.
Amoco Chairman H. Laurance Fuller, pointing out that the merger with British Petroleum puts the resulting company behind only Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Corp. in the energy business.
Bill Lucia, executive director of California's Board of Education, on the now-discarded whole-language approach to teaching reading.
Russian Finance Minister Mikhail Zadornov, presenting an austerity budget.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Daniel Barenboim, talking to "60 Minutes" about his marriage to the late Jacqueline Du Pre.


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A doorknob is an essential thing for our homes. Replacing door knobs can also be a very important fact in our daily life to keep up a proper and acceptable condition of living if you want to reside in a practical way.
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The hard woody fruit of trees of the genus Eucalyptus.
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the gumnut babies of author May Gibbs.

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Safeguarding your cloud resources with Azure security services
Julia White Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure
While cloud security continues to be a top concern, we recently shared insights from a survey that show overall concern has dropped significantly since 2015. We're now at a stage where half of organizations contend the cloud is more secure than their on-premises infrastructure. In conversations I have with our customers and partners, I hear increasingly about how using the cloud improves an organizations' security posture. As many organizations push forward on their digital transformation through increased use of cloud services, understanding the current state of cloud security is essential.
Maintaining a strong security posture for your cloud-based innovation is a shared responsibility between you and your cloud provider. With Microsoft Azure, securing cloud resources is a partnership between Microsoft and our customers, so it's essential that you understand the comprehensive set of security controls and capabilities available to you on Azure.
Microsoft Azure is built on a foundation of trust and security. With significant investments in security, compliance, privacy, and transparency, Azure provides a secure foundation to host your infrastructure, applications, and data in the cloud. Microsoft also provides built-in security controls and capabilities to further help you protect your data and applications on Azure. These can be classified broadly into four categories:
Manage and control user identity and access: Comprehensive identity management is the linchpin of any secure system. You must ensure that only authorized users can access your environments, data, and applications. Azure Active Directory serves as a central system for managing access across all your cloud services, including Azure, Office 365, and hundreds of popular SaaS and PaaS cloud services. Its federation capability means that you can use your on-premises identities and credentials to access those services, and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication provides for the most secure sign-on experience.
Increase network and infrastructure security: Azure provides you the security-hardened infrastructure to interconnect Azure VMs as well as make connections to on-premises datacenters. Additionally, you can extend your on-premises network to the cloud using secure site-to-site VPN or a dedicated Azure ExpressRoute connection. You can strengthen network security by configuring Network Security Groups, user-defined routing, IP forwarding, forced tunneling, endpoint ACLs, and Web Application Firewall as appropriate.
Encrypt communications and operation processes: Azure uses industry-standard protocols to encrypt data in transit as it travels between devices and Microsoft datacenters, and when it is stored in Azure Storage. You can also encrypt your virtual machine disks using Azure Disk Encryption. Azure Key Vault enables you to safeguard and control cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services. Azure Information Protection will help you classify, label, and protect your sensitive data.
Defend against threats: Microsoft enables actionable intelligence against increasingly sophisticated attacks using our network of global threat monitoring and insights. This threat intelligence is developed by analyzing a wide variety of signal sources and a massive scale of signals. (For example, customers authenticate with our services over 450 billion times every month, and we scan 200 billion emails for malware and phishing each month.) Our approach to protect the Azure platform includes intrusion detection, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack prevention, penetration testing, behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and machine learning. You can leverage additional services to develop a strong threat prevention, detection, and mitigation strategy.
Azure Active Directory Identity Protection helps you protect and mitigate against the risks from compromised identities. It offers a cloud powered, adaptive machine learning based identity protection system that can detect cyber-attacks, mitigate them in real time, and automatically suggest updates to your Azure AD configuration and conditional access policies. Services like Antimalware for Azure and Azure Security Center use advanced analytics to not only help in detecting threats but also prevent them. Azure Security Center helps you get a central view of the security state of all your Azure resources in real time, including recommendations for improving your security posture. You can use Operations Management Suite to extend the threat prevention, detection and quick response across Azure and other environments (on-premises, AWS). Log Analytics service will give you real-time insights to readily analyze millions of records across all of your workloads regardless of their physical location.
These are just a few examples of the broad set of security controls and services available to you with Azure. Over the past year, we have expanded the portfolio with many new security services and ongoing enhancements.
Microsoft is committed to continued innovation in helping you protect your data, applications, and identities in the cloud. Innovations we have delivered most recently include:
New capabilities and enhancements in Azure Security Center available for preview this month include Just In Time network access to VMs, automatic discovery and recommendations for application whitelisting, and expanded Security Baselines with more than 100 recommended configurations defined by Microsoft and industry partners. Our research team continues to monitor the threat landscape and innovate on detection algorithms. Some new threat detections available to customers include Brute Force detections, outbound DDoS and Botnet detections, as well as new behavioral analytics for Windows and Linux VMs.
Preview of Storage Service Encryption for File Storage. IT organizations can lift and shift their on-premises file shares to the cloud using Azure Files by simply pointing the applications to the Azure file share path. Azure Files now offer enhanced protection with the ability to encrypt data at rest.
Azure SQL Database Threat Detection is already available in preview. Last week the team announced that it will be generally available in April 2017. Azure SQL Database Threat Detection provides an additional layer of security intelligence built into the Azure SQL Database service that uses machine learning to continuously monitor, profile, and detect suspicious database activity to help customers detect and respond to potential threats.
With these tools, organizations are able to securely transition to the cloud while also complying with regulatory requirements. Read how Ricoh USA Inc. discovered that Azure exceeds the level of security it could previously offer its customers.
Azure has a vibrant partner ecosystem, so it's also easy to bring your trusted cloud security vendor with you, enabling you to leverage your existing security solutions. Find partner security solutions in Azure Marketplace.
Microsoft Azure at RSA 2017
For those of you attending RSA Conference this week in San Francisco, we hope to connect with you at the show. You can:
See the keynote by Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer at 8:35AM PST. You can stream it live if you're not at RSA.
Attend our sessions:
A Vision for Shared, Central Intelligence to Ebb a Growing Flood of Alerts: SP03-T09
How to Go from Responding to Hunting with Sysinternals Sysmon: HTA-T09
Critical Hygiene for Preventing Major Breaches: CXO-F02
Advances in Cloud-Scale Machine Learning for Cyber-Defense: EXP-T11
Learnings from the Cloud: What to Watch When Watching for Breach: STR-W11
Visit Booth 3501 in the North Expo Hall and learn how Microsoft solutions work together to improve your organization's security posture. See the complete Microsoft schedule for RSA 2017. Hope to see you in San Francisco!
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12 - September - 2022
Reign of Sweden's Social Democrats looks set to end following Sunday's polls
The Prime Minister and Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson attends the Social Democratic Party election watch at the Waterfront Conference Center in Stockholm, Sweden, September 12, 2022.TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.
As signs point to a new right-wing government being formed after Sunday's general election, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's center-left coalition government looks likely to be voted out of office.
Parliamentary votes in over 6,100 districts have now been counted, which corresponds to 93% of the vote.
The right-wing bloc that includes the Moderates, Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals have 176 seats in the Swedish parliament, or Riksdag.
According to preliminary figures, the ruling Social Democrats together with other centrist left parties have 173 seats out of 349 seats.
The election is too close to call, however, as there are still votes to be counted.
Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson gave a speech to party members, saying he knows "there is a lot of frustration in our country right now, a fear of violence, concern about the economy."
He stressed that he is ready to do everything he can to "create a new, stable and capable government for the whole of Sweden and all citizens."
The far-right Sweden Democrats have become the second largest party in the Riksdag, a spot held by the Moderates.
Andersson underlined that the final election results are still uncertain.
"I can see one thing right now — we Social Democrats have made a good choice.
"Support for us has increased, and it is clear that Swedish social democracy is strong," she said.
An exit poll by TV4 predicted earlier that the left bloc headed by the ruling Social Democrats collected 50.6% while one by SVT showed they will get 49.8% against 49.2% by the right-wing bloc led by the Moderates.
However, exit polls have proven not to always be correct when it comes to the final election results.
US vows to protect South Korea in case of any threat
US President Biden to end COVID-19 emergency measures by May
Earthquake rocks China's northwestern Xinjiang region
Blinken calls for calm amid Israel-Palestine tensions; Netanyahu evokes Iran nuclear weapons


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CalArts Celebrates Chuck Jones' 100th Birthday
Ramin Zahed
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) celebrates the 100th birthday of animation legend Chuck Jones with a special program at the REDCAT theater in Los Angeles. At the event, John Lasseter, Disney and Pixar's Chief Creative Officer, will provide remarks at a special screening of his favorite Chuck Jones cartoons. Both Lasseter and Jones are CalArts grads. Jones attended the Chouinard Arts Institute, which is one of CalArts' two predecessor institutions. Lasseter graduated from the CalArts School of Film Video Character Animation Program in 1979.
Proceeds of the event benefit the Joe Ranft/CalArts Alumni Scholarship Fund.
The event takes place at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 26 at 8 pm. Tickets ($50) are available at www.calarts.edu/chuckjones.
The evening features Lasseter's selection of Jones' classic Warner Bros. cartoons. In a recent New York Times interview, Lasseter discussed Jones' enduring appeal.
"His comic timing is the best it's ever been in cinema. He's a master at that. His work was so funny, and he entertained adults as well as kids. I still watch his cartoons today, and they're just as funny as ever."
Chuck Jones died at the age of 89 in February 2002. In a career spanning over 60 years, he created more than 300 animated films, winning three Oscars as director, and in 1996, an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. During the Golden Age of animation, Jones helped bring to life many of Warner Bros. most beloved characters—Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The list of characters he originated includes Wile E. Coyote, Marvin Martian, Pepe le Pew and Michigan J. Frog. In 1999 Jones established the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, designed to recognize, support, and inspire continued excellence in art and the art of classic character animation.
Related Topics:CalArts, CalArts School of Film Video Character Animation Program, California Institute of the Arts, Chouinard Arts Institute, Chuck Jones, Disney, Joe Ranft, John Lasseter, Oscar, Pixar, REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Warner Bros.
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The Crew Labor Module perpetually tracks all Crew Labor Hours. This is made possible through a direct polling link to the store's time clock. Crew Labor Reports can be generated for any Store(s), and Crew Member(s), for any Range of Date(s). This tool is important in tracking and managing Crew Labor Hours, but now, in the age of the Affordable Health Care Act, is mission critical in enabling the Franchise Operator to respond the new and ever growing reporting requirements!


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Home » University Lecturer Who Delivered 7 Babies at a Go Makes It To The List of Women with Incredible Deliveries
A Nigerian woman who is a Lecturer has given birth to seven babies at a go. She and her husband have since then cried for help to pay the hospital bill of 19 million nairas after losing one of the babies. Most women desire to give birth to offspring and only a few are very fertile to deliver many babies, especially at a go.
On Sunday, January 8, 2023, a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK) identified as Justina Ngozi Uzodike put to bed seven babies comprising two boys and five girls. The new mum became a viral sensation as the news broke out on social media, but there is a problem.
Obijackson Women and Children Hospital, Okija where she had the deliveries slapped her with a bill of N19 million, which she is battling to clear at the moment. Justina who has not earned salaries as a lecturer since 2020 appealed to Nigerians to come to her aid financially.
Meanwhile, her husband Mr. Celestine Uzodike has shared his traumatic post-birth experience. He said his wife was unconscious for three days straight after putting to bed at Obijackson Women and Children Hospital, Okija.
In a chat with The Punch, he said; "For three days, she was very unconscious, but between yesterday and today, she appears stronger, and I hope her condition continues to improve."Ngozi was charged N19million by the hospital, a bill she was asked to pay before she can be discharged with the remaining six babies. Speaking on why he made a cry for help, Mr. Uzodike said;
"The cost of caring for the babies is enormous, and we have exhausted all we have. The babies came out prematurely at the 26th week gestation period and the hospital said they will need to be placed in an intensive care unit and each of them will cost N3m.
One of them has died, leaving six survivors. Their organs are still developing, and they will need to be placed in an intensive care unit to be given adequate care. I have had a series of meetings with the management of the hospital, and they told me that I should be expecting approximately N19m at the rate of N3.2m per child. This is to care for them for two months.
I have spent all I have, and we don't know where to get the money from, which is why we are seeking the intervention of the government and every well-meaning individual."


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Cleveland Fine Arts for May 10-16
Roger Mastroianni
Music director Franz Welser-Most presided over compelling performances of works by Schubert, Webern, and Strauss Thursday night at Severance Hall.
By Greg Burnett, The Plain Dealer
Akron Symphony Chorus. St. Sebastian Church, 476 Mull Ave. 330-535-8131 or akronsymphony.org. Concert: Faure's "Requiem." Marie Bucoy-Catavan, conductor; with Akron Symphony Chamber Choir. 7:30 p.m. next Friday. $20; $10, children 10 and under.
Bay Village Community Band. Bay Village Middle School, 27725 Wolf Road. bvcb.org/. Spring Concert. 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday. Free.
Brass Band of the Western Reserve. Medina Performing Arts Center, 851 Weymouth Road, Medina. bbwesternreserve.org. Concert: "From Sea to Shining Sea." Keith M. Wilinson, director. Works by Glenn Miller, Henry Mancini, Henry Fillmore, John Philip Sousa and others for Armed Forces Day and the upcoming Memorial Weekend. 7 p.m. next Saturday. $12.
Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra. Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Center, 400 E. Washington St. 440-247-8955 or chagrinfallsstudioorchestra.org. Concert: "Chagrin Falls, Thank You." 7:30 p.m. next Saturday. $10; kids under 10 free.
Cleveland Orchestra. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave. 216-231-1111 or clevelandorchestra.com. Concert: "Smetana's Ma Vlast." Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Katia Labeque and Marielle Labeque, pianos. Works by Detlev Glanert, Bruch and Smetana. 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Repeats 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11. $21-$151. Free pre-concert talk one hour before the concert. Concert: "Smetana's Ma Vlast." Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Katia Labeque and Marielle Labeque, pianos. Works by Bruch and Smetana. 11 a.m. next Friday. $21-$112. Free pre-concert talk one hour before the concert. Concert: "Smetana's Ma Vlast." Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Katia Labeque and Marielle Labeque, pianos. Works by Detlev Glanert, Bruch and Smetana. 8 p.m. next Saturday. $41-$165. Free pre-concert talk one hour before the concert. Family Concert: Camille Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals." Vinay Parameswaran, conductor; with special guest pianists Katia Labeque and Marielle Labeque. 3 p.m. next Sunday. $15-$30.
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave. 216-231-1111 or clevelandorchestra.com. Concert: Vinay Parameswaran, conductor; Julia Schilz, violin. Works by Bartok, Bruch and Shostakovich. Free concert prelude featuring members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra performing chamber music pieces at 7 p.m. in Reinberger Chamber Hall. 8 p.m. next Friday. $15-$25.
Fathom Events. Cinemark at Valley View, 6001 Canal Road, Valley View. fathomevents.com. . For complete listings of other Cinemark, Cleveland Cinemas, Regal or other theaters showing this movie, go to fathomevents.com and type in your zip code for the closest theater near you. Prices may vary depending on the theater. Met Opera: Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites." With Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor; with Isabel Leonard and Karita Mattilas. Run time: 3 hours, 30 minutes. Noon next Saturday; 6:30 p.m. next Wednesday. Repeats at Cleveland Cinemas' Chagrin Cinemas with an extra performance at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Singers Companye. First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Shaker. infosingerscompanye.org or singerscompanye.org. Concert: "At the Heart of It." Samuel Gordon, director. Works by Handel, Baldassare Galuppi, Pawel Lukaszewski, Abbie Betinis, Daniel Elder, Steven Sametz and Jake Runestad. 7:30 p.m. next Saturday.
St. Sebastian Parish. 500 Mull Ave., Akron. stsebastian.org. Akron Symphony Chorus Concert. 7:30 p.m. next Friday. $20; $10.
Suburban Symphony Orchestra. Case Westerm Reserve University's Maltz Performing Arts Center, 1855 Ansel Road, Cleveland. 216-771-3630 or suburbansymphony.org. Concert: Domenico Boyagian, director; with guest pianist Shuai Wang. Works by Chopin, Bizet, and Ravel/Mussorsky. 3:30 p.m. next Sunday. Free.
Allen Memorial Art Museum. 87 N. Main St., Oberlin. 440-775-8665 or oberlin.edu/allenart. A strong permanent collection makes the Allen well worth a trip to Lorain County. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Mondays and major holidays. Free. On Loan (in Williard-Newell Gallery): Joachim Wtewael's "The Kitchen Maid" from the Centrael Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Through Sunday, July 21. Exhibit (in Ellen Johnson Gallery): "The Body Is the Map: a'pproaches to Land in tghe Americas After 1960." Through Sunday, June 23. Exhibit (in Stern Gallery West): "Nature and Nostalgia in Early 20th Century Japanese Art." Exhibit (in Ripin Gallery): "Women Bound and Unbound." Through Sunday, May 26.
Cleveland Museum of Art. 11150 East Blvd. 216-421-7340 or clevelandart.org. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday (until 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays). Closed Mondays and major holidays. Free admission to the permanent collection. Admission may apply to touring exhibitions. Exhibit (Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery): "Beyond the Truth: Photography After the Shutter." How artists from 1885 to the present have used post-production technique to manipulate the "truth." Through Sunday, May 26.
Exhibit (Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall): "Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art." Features works from the 10th to the 19th century that exemplify the worship divinities call kami. Through Sunday, June 30. The exhibition will be closed May 21-22 for a rotation of artifacts and reopen Thursday, May 23. $10; $8, senior citizens and students; $5, children ages 6-17. Free for CMA members and children ages 5 and under; $5 for CMA member guests.
Exhibit (James and Hanna Barlet Prints and Drawings Gallery): "A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland." Through Sunday, Sept. 22.
Exhibit (Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery): "Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-50." Features works by African American photographer Parks. Through Sunday, June 9.
Event: Free admission for mothers to "Shinto: Discovery of the Diving in Japanese Art." Plus a special Mother's Day bruch available for purchase in Provenance for $23. Call 216-707-2600. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. next Sunday.
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. 11400 Euclid Ave. 216-421-8671 or mocacleveland.org. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday. Closed Mondays and major holidays. Free admission. Exhibit (Mueller Family Gallery): "Lee Mingwei: You Are Not a Stranger." Sculpture, photography, installation and performance by Taiwanese artist Mingwei. Through Sunday, Aug. 11.
Exhibit: "Sunrise." A legacy exhibition to honor moCo's founders (Marjorie Talalay, Nine Sundell and Agnes Gund) by contemporary artworks that their daughters (Catherine Gund, Margaret Sundell, and Kathy, Nina, and Lauren Talalay) select to represent their mothers.
For Freedoms Town: Love is a Political Act. 1 p.m. next Saturday.
78th Street Studios. 1300 West 78th St., Cleveland. 440-503-5506 or 78streetstudios.com. Event: 78th Street Studios Third Friday Art Walk. Art walk with over 50 studios and galleries. North Coast Artisans' Market features up to 20 local guest artists each month. Meet the Artists: 5-9 p.m. next Friday. Free.
Art Gallery & Frame. 38721 Mentor Ave., Suite 1, Willoughby. 440-946-8001 or artgallerywilloughbyoh.com. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (until 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday); 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Exhibit: "Mix-ology." Dan Driscoll, Gerry Shamray, George Kocar, George Ann Trembour, Kathryn Akucewich and Paul Spina used "found" materials and create bizarre and creative art. Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. next Friday. Through Saturday, June 8.
BAYarts. 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village. 440-871-6543 or bayarts.net. Exhibit: The 11th annual Advanced Ceramic Students Exhibit and Sale — "To Have and to Hold: A Marriage of Form and Function." Opening reception: 7-9 p.m. next Friday. Through Friday, May 31.
Bonfoey Gallery. 1710 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. 216-621-0178 or bonfoey.com. 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Exhibit: Canvas City Portfolio and FRONT International Benefit. FRONT International is a outdoor exhibition of large abstract paintings by Julian Stanczak, Heimo Zobernig, Sarah Morris, Kay Rosen, Michelle Grabner and Odill Donald Odita Reception: 5-7:30 p.m. next Wednesday. Through Saturday, June 1.
Cuyahoga Valley Art Center. 2131 Front St., Cuyahoga Falls. 330-928-8092 or cvartcenter.org. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Exhibit: "The 37th annual Whiskey Painters of America Exhibtion & Art Sale." Artists' reception: 5-8 p.m. next Tuesday. Through Thursday, June 13.
Euclid Art Association. Euclid Public Library, East 222nd St. 216-261-5300. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday. Exhibit: Euclid Art Association Spring Fine Art Show. Opens Saturday. Reception: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15. Through Saturday, May 18 during library hour. Floral watercolor by David Rankin will be raffled off at the end of the show.
Gallery One. 7003 Center St., Mentor. 1-800-621-1141 or galleryone.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday (until 9 p.m. Friday). Exhibit: The 25th Masterworks in Miniature Art Show. Opens Friday. Through Saturday, May 25.
Juma Gallery. 20100 Chagrin Blvd., Shaker Heights. 216-295-1717 or jumagallery.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Event: Zip Bling Trunk Show. Jewelry made from entirely recycled materials (zippers). Meet the Artist: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. next Friday. Through Saturday, May 11.
Lakeland Community College. The Gallery at Lakeland, Performing Arts Center (Building D), 7700 Tower Drive (off Ohio 306), Kirtland. 440-525-7029 or lakelandcc.edu/gallery. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday. Exhibit: "The 10th annual May Show at Lakeland," juried art exhibition. Opens Thursday with awards presentation at 7:30 p.m.;artist reception to follow. Through Friday, July 12.
Opus Gallery. 27629 Chagrin Blvd., Woodmere. 216-595-1376 or opus-gallery.com. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday- Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Exhibit: Paintings by Ukrainian born artist Andrei Protsouk. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. next Saturday. Through Friday, June 21.
Still Point Gallery. 12427 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights. 216-721-4992 or stillpoint-gallery.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (til 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday). Event: "Ear Piercing Party." Party: Noon-5 p.m. next Saturday. $50, includes a choice of three styles from 20 jewelry artists from around the country. Appointment requested.
Walkabout Tremont. Professor and Kenilworth avenues, West 11th and 14th streets, Cleveland. walkabouttremont.com. Neighborhood tours and open house of galleries, stores and resturant in Tremont the second Friday of the month. Event: Second Friday Art Walk. Meet the Artists: 5-9 p.m. next Friday. Free.
SIGNINGS/READINGS
Cuyahoga County Public Library. Parma-Snow branch, 2121 Snow Road, Parma. 216-661-4240 or cuyahogalibrary.org. Meet the Author: Adam Savage, "Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It." 7 p.m. next Friday. $25, include a seat, a pre-signed copy and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Foundation.
Cuyahoga County Public Library. South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch, 1876 S. Green Road, South Euclid. 216-382-4880 or cuyahogalibrary.org. Meet the Author: Eric Klinenberg, "Palaces for the People." 7 p.m. next Tuesday. Free, but registration requested.
Cuyahoga County Public Library. Middleburg Heights branch, 16699 E. Bagley Road, Middleburg Heights. 440-234-3600 or cuyahogalibrary.org. Meet the Author: Mary Kay Andrews, "Sunset Beach." 7 p.m. next Monday. Free, but registration requested.
Cuyahoga County Public Library. Warrensville Heights branch, 4415 Northfield Road, Warrensville Heights. 216-464-5280 or cuyahogalibrary.org. Meet the Author: Young adults and children author Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Learned Owl Book Shop. 204 N. Main St., Hudson. 330-653-2252 or learnedowl.com. Meet the Author: Erike Gifford, "Veil of the hoenix." 1-3 p.m. next Saturday.
POETRY/SPOKEN WORD
Wandering Aesthetics. Jilly's Music Room, 111 N. Main St., Akron. watheatre.com. Full Circle Storytelling, Vol. 4: "Up in Smoke." 7-10 p.m. next Wednesday. Free. Registration is encouraged especially for storytellers) but not required. Go to watheatre.com/fullcircle.
Cleveland Public Theatre. Gordon Square Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave. 216-631-2727 or cptonline.org. Annual Showcase of eight Northeast Ohio's contemporary dance companies performing new works and reviving celebrated performances through Saturday, June 15. For complete details of company bios and show descriptions, go to cptonline.org and click on DanceWorks. $15, Thursday; $25, Friday and Saturday with $5 discounts for senior citizens and students. Showcase of Contemporary Dance: Verb Ballets' "Fresh Inventions." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Repeats 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 18-19.
7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday.
Showcase of Contemporary Dance: Inlet Dance Theatre's "From the heART." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Repeats 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 24-25.
Lorain Palace Theatre. 617 Broadway. 440-245-2323 or lorainpalace.org. Performances: MovementWorks Dance and Pitness's fifth annual Spring Showcase's "Dancing Through the Decades." 2 p.m. next Saturday. $16-$20.
Magnificat High School. Performing Arts Center, 20770 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River. 440-331-7227 or magnificaths.org. Spring Dance Concert: "Gratitude." Jill Haller and Kim Summers, directors. 7 p.m. next Thursday. Repeats 7 p.m. Friday, May 10. $10; $8, senior citizens and students; $5, children.
7 p.m. next Friday. $10; $8, senior citizens and students; $5, children.
MUSIC — RECITALS/COMMUNITY
Cleveland Institute of Music. 11021 East Blvd. 216-795-3211 or cim.edu. Most events free unless indicated. Seating passes will be distributed in lobby 30 minutes before the concert and may be reserved one week in advance. Concert (in Mixon Hall): Preparatory Children's Choir Concert. Jennifer Call, director. 2 p.m. next Saturday. Free.
Concert (in Mixon Hall): Preparatory Piano Department Honors Recital. 3 p.m. next Monday. Free.
Concert (in Mixon Hall): Continuing Education Showcase Recital. Adult students from the Continuing Education division perform with faculty in an end-of-the-year concert. 7 p.m. next Monday. Free.
Concert (in Mixon Hall): Preparatory Showcase Recital. 6 p.m. next Tuesday. Free.
Concert (in Mixon Hall): Pre-college Chamber Music Recital. Carolyn Gadiel Warner, director. 1 p.m. next Sunday. Free.
Cleveland Museum of Art. 11150 East Blvd. 216-421-7340 or clevelandart.org. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday (until 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays). Closed Mondays and major holidays. Free admission to the permanent collection. Admission may apply to touring exhibitions. Concert (Ames Family Atrium): Atrium Creation. World premiere of Cenk Ergun's "Formate," with scored for voices, harpsichords and trombones. 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday. Free.
John Knox Presbyterian Church. 25200 Lorain Road, North Olmsted. Concert: The Third Thursday of the Month Acoustic Bluegrass Jam. 7-8:30 p.m. next Thursday. Free. Details: email weisaac47@gmail.com.
Lakeland Community College. Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing Arts Center in Building D, Interstate 90 and Ohio 306, Kirtland. 440-525-7134 or lakelandcc.edu/arts. Concert: "Celebrating the American Songbook." Lakeland Jazz Impact. Ed Michaels, director. 4 p.m. next Wednesday. $7; $6, senior citizens; $2, students.
Lorain County Community College. Stocker Arts Center's Hoke Theatre, 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria. 440-366-4040 or lorainccc.edu/stocker. Performing Arts series: Rockapella. An American a cappella musical group formed in 1986 in New York City. 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday. $33-$40. Active duty military members amd students with IDs: $10.
Music for Miles Chamber Series. Waterloo Arts, 15605 Waterloo Road, Cleveland. 216-696-9500 or waterlooarts.org. Concert: Mary Beth Ions and the Amethyst Quartet. 4 p.m. next Sunday. Free.
Oberlin College. Finney Chapel, 90 N. Professor St. Central ticket service: 1-800-371-0178 or oberlin.edu. Concert: Oberlin Sinfonietta. Timothy Weiss, conductor. 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Free.
Concert: Oberlin Orchestra. Raphael Jimenez, conductor. 7:30 p.m. next Friday. Free.
Oberlin College. Student Union Building's Wilder Hall, 135 W. Lorain St. 440-775-5190. Concert (in The 'Sco): Noite Brasileira. An evening of samba, rock, bossa nova, choro and more with Oberlin's Brazilian ensmeble Grupho Oberlinho. 10 p.m. next Friday. Free.
Oberlin College. Finney Chapel, 90 N. Professor St. Central ticket service: 1-800-371-0178 or oberlin.edu. Concert: Opera Scenes I & II. 3 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday. Free.
Trinity Lutheran Church. 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland. 216-751-7574 or clevelandbeckerath.org. Music Near the Market series: "Born to Dance." Florence Mustric, organ. Works by Buxtehude and J.S. Bach. 12:15 p.m. next Wednesday. Repeats Wednesday, May 15. Free.
12:15 p.m. next Wednesday. Free.
Music Near the Market series: "Kitchen Sink." Robert Myers, organ. Works by Homilius, Lidon, Steigleder, and other lesser-known composers. 12:15 p.m. next Wednesday. Repeats Wednesday, May 29. Free.
Wolfs Gallery. 13010 Larchmere Blvd., Cleveland. 216-721-6945 or wolfsgallery.com. Concert: Encore Chamber Music's Evening of Art, Music & Wine. 6-8 p.m. next Friday. Reservation: go to encorechambermusic.org/exclusive or call 216-559-4015.
PROFESSIONAL THEATER
Broadway in Akron Series. E.J. Thomas Hall, 198 Hill St. 330-253-2488 or uakron.edu/ej/. John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick's "Something Rotten." 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday-next Wednesday. $35-$77.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Main Stage, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. Karen Zacaras's "Native Gardens." 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday-next Friday, next Wednesday-next Thursday; 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday; 2:30 p.m. next Sunday; 7 p.m. next Tuesday. Through Sunday, May 19. $25-$97.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. New Ground Theatre Festival: Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick's "Egress." 7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. Through Sunday, May 19. $20.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Outcalt Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. New Ground Theatre Festival: Mark Kendall's "The Magic Negro and Other Blackness." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Through Saturday, May 18. $20.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. New Ground Theatre Festival: Eric Coble's "The Hat Box (or, the Inheritance)." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. $20.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Outcalt Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. New Ground Theatre Festival: Mark Kendall's "The Magic Negro and Other Blackness." 7:30 p.m. next Friday; 5:30 p.m. next Saturday. $20.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Main Stage, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. Karen Zacaras's "Native Gardens." 7:30 p.m. next Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday; 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. $25-$97.
Cleveland Play House. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave. 216-241-6000 or clevelandplayhouse.com. New Ground Theatre Festival: Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick's "Egress." 8 p.m. next Friday; 7:30 p.m. next Saturday; 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. $20.
New Ground Theatre Festival: Alexis Scheer's "Christina (An Irreverent Passion)." 1:30 p.m. next Saturday. $20.
Cleveland Skating Club. 2500 Kemper Road, Shaker Heights. 216-791-2800 or clevelandskatingclub.org. Ice Show: Runaway On Ice. 7 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. $5-$45.
Dobama Theatre. 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights. 216-932-3396 or dobama.org. Melissa James Gibson's "This." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, next Thursday and next Thursday; 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday, next Friday-next Saturday; 2:30 p.m. next Sunday; 2 p.m. next Sunday. Through Sunday, May 26. $27-$35. Student tickets are available. Call 216-932-3396.
Ensemble Theatre. 2843 Washington Blvd., Cleveland Heights. 216-321-2930 or ensemble-theatre.org. Mainstage Theatre: On Mainstage Theatre: Quiara Alegria Hudes' "Water by the Spoonful." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. Through Sunday, May 19. $12-$29.
On Mainstage Theatre: Quiara Alegria Hudes' "Water by the Spoonful." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. $12-$29.
Great Lakes Theater. Playhouse Square's Hanna Theatre, 2067 East 14th St., Cleveland. 216-241-6000 or greatlakestheater.org. Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux' "Million Dollar Quartet." 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday; 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Through Sunday, May 26. Saturday matinees begin 1:30 p.m. May 11. One Tuesday matinee: 1:30 p.m. May 14. $15-$89; $13, students.
7:30 p.m. next Friday, next Thursday-next Friday, next Wednesday-next Thursday; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday, next Wednesday and next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday and next Sunday; 1:30 p.m. next Tuesday. Through Sunday, May 26. $15-$89; $13, students.
None Too Fragile Theatre. 1841 Merriman Road, Akron. 330-962-5547 or nonetoofragile.com. Jim Cartwright's "Two." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday and next Thursday. Through Friday, May 31. One Sunday matinee: 2 p.m. May 19. One Monday performance: 8 p.m. Monday, May 20. $25.
"Sea's Night" for Jim Cartwright's "Two." 4 p.m. next Saturday. $25. Special needs patrons, family and caregivers only. All profits benefit the Rett Syndrome Research Trust.
Jim Cartwright's "Two." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday, next Monday and next Thursday. Through Friday, May 31. $25.
Playhouse Square. Connor Palace, 1519 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. 216-241-6000 or playhousesquare.org. Showtimes vary. Go to https://broadway.playhousesquare.org/a-bronx-tale, or call 216-241-6000. Tickets are $35 to $130. Alan Menken's "A Bronx Tale." 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday-next Thursday. Through Sunday, May 12. $35-$130.
7:30 p.m. next Friday; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday; 1 and 6:30 p.m. next Sunday. $35-$130.
Master Dance Clinic with cast members of "A Bronx Tale.." 9:15 a.m. next Saturday.
Playhouse Square. Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre's Outcalt Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. 216-241-6000 or playhousesquare.org. Wildfire. Noon next Saturday; 5 p.m. next Sunday.
Feed. 5 p.m. next Saturday; noon next Sunday.
The Magic Negro and Other Blackness. 7:30 p.m. next Thursday; 5:30 p.m. next Saturday.
Playhouse Square. Helen Theatre, 1407 Euclid. Ave., Cleveland. 216-241-6000 or Playhousesquare.org. The Hat Box. 7:30 p.m. next Thursday.
Playwrights Local. Creative Space at Waterloo Arts, 397 East 156th St., Cleveland. 216-302-8856 or playwrightslocal.org. Powerful Long Ladder Ensemble presents Ernesta Jefferson's "Thiz Girlz Lyfe." 7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. Through Saturday, May 18. $18; $15, senior citizens; $12, students.
7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. $18; $15, senior citizens; $12, students.
Theatre in the Circle. Judson Manor, 1890 East 107th St., Cleveland. 216-282-9424 or theatreinthecircle.com. Clark Gesner and John Gordon's "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday. Through Sunday, May 12. $20; $18, senior citizens; $15, Judson/SFC residents; $12, students.
7:30 p.m. next Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday; 2 p.m. next Sunday. $20; $18, senior citizens; $15, Judson/SFC residents; $12, students.
COMMUNITY THEATER
Aurora Community Theatre. 115 E. Pioneer Trail. 330-562-1818 or auroracommunitytheatre.com. Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart's "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. Through Saturday, May 18. $18; $13, youth 18 and under.
8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. Through Saturday, May 18.
Beachwood Recreation Community Theater. Beachwood Middle School, 2860 Richmond Road. 216-595-3734 or beachwoodohio.com. Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Glenn Slater and Doug Wright's adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid." 7:30 p.m. next Friday; 4 p.m. next Saturday; 2 p.m. next Sunday. Through Sunday, May 20. $9; $8. senior citizens and students.
7:30 p.m. next Friday; 4 p.m. next Saturday; 2 p.m. next Sunday. $9; $8. senior citizens and students.
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre. River Street Playhouse, 56 River St., Chagrin Falls. 440-247-8955 or cvlt.org. Will Eno's "Middletown." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. $13.
Clague Playhouse. 1371 Clague Road, Westlake. 440-331-0403 or clagueplayhouse.org. Arlitia Jones' "Summerland." 8 p.m. next Thursday-next Saturday, next Thursday-next Saturday and next Thursday; 2 p.m. next Sunday and next Sunday. Through Sunday, May 26. $18; $17, senior citizens (ages 60 and over); $10, students with valid ID. Free for students with ID for Thursday performances.
Dark Room. The Church at Cleveland Public Theatre, 6407 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. 216-631-2727 or cptonline.org. Every second Tuesday of the month audience members, writers, actors and other theater artists come together to try out scenes of new plays. Open Mike Readings. Tuesday: sign-up for writers and actors at 7:15 p.m.; open mike session readings begin at 7:30 p.m. Writers can bring up to 10 pages of work to be read; actors will be cast on the spot. Suggested donation: $5. Plus free beer.
East Cleveland Theater. 14108 Euclid Ave. 216-851-8721 or eastclevelandtheater.org. James L.Seay's adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. Through Sunday, May 19. $15; $12, senior citizens and students.
8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. $15; $12, senior citizens and students.
Geauga Lyric Theater Guild. Geauga Theater on the Square, 101 Water St., Chardon. 440-286-2255 or geaugatheater.org. April 19,20,26,27 and May 3, 4, 10,11 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21,28 and May 5,12 at 2 p.m. $18. David Lindsay-Abaire "Shrek, the Musical." 7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 2 p.m. next Sunday. $18; $15, senior citizens and students; $10, children 12 and under.
Independence Community Theatre. Old Town Hall, 6652 Brecksville Road (Ohio 21). 216-447-0443 or independencetheatre.org. Marshall Karp's "Squabbles." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 2 p.m. next Sunday. Through Saturday, May 18. $12.
8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. $12.
Ma'Sue Productions. Akron Civic Theatre, 182 S. Main. St., Akron. masueproductions@gmail.com or facebook.com/masueproductions/. Ma'Sue Productions is an African-American based theater company. The Big Blue Legacy Ball Fundraiser. 6 p.m. next Friday. Event includes Milkweed film projecrt premiere, food, music, a cash bar and silent auction. $25. For tickets, go to eventbrite.com/e/big-blue-legacy-ball-tickets-58317844242.
Olde Towne Hall Theatre. 36119 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville. 440-327-2909 or oldetownehalltheatre.com. Larry Gallagher's "Beehive, the '60s Musical." 7:30 p.m. next Friday; 3 p.m. next Saturday. $15; $12, senior citizens and children under 12.
Theatre 8:15. 4740 Massillon Road, Green. 330-896-0339 or theatre815.com. The Boys Next Door. 8:15 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday, next Friday-next Saturday; 2:15 p.m. next Sunday and next Sunday. $13 adults; $10 students.
Twin Masks Performing Arts Center. 9076 Church St., Suite 2 and 3, Twinsburg. 330-888-3211 or twinmasks.org. Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses." 8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. Through Saturday, May 18. $15; $10, senior citizens and students.
8 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday. $15; $10, senior citizens and students.
Weathervane Playhouse. 1301 Weathervane Lane, Akron. 330-836-2626 or weathervaneplayhouse.com. April 25 and May 2 at 7:30 p.m.
April 26 and May 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Workshop Players. 44820 Middle Ridge Road, Amherst. 440-988-5613 or workshopplayers.com. Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten's "Savannah Sipping Society." 7:30 p.m. next Thursday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. Through Sunday, May 19. $15.
7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday. $15.
CHILDREN'S THEATER
Akron Civic Theatre. 182 S. Main St. 330-253-2488 or akroncivic.com. "Double Dave Live!." 8 p.m. next Thursday. $44.50-$59.89.
Beck Dance. Beck Center for the Arts' Music-Armory Building, 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood. 216-521-2540, ext. 10 or beckcenter.org. Seussical. 7:30 p.m. next Friday-next Saturday, next Friday-next Saturday; 3 p.m. next Sunday and next Sunday; 10 a.m. next Thursday.
Fairmount Temple. 23737 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood. 216-831-0700 or mandeljcc.org/playmakers-youth-theatre/playmakers/. Playmakers Youth Theatre: Catch Me If You Can. 7 p.m. next Thursday; 2 and 7 p.m. next Sunday.
Mandel JCC Playmakers Youth Theatre. Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood. 216-831-0700, ext. 1230 or mandeljcc.org/playmakers. Terrence McNally, Marc Shalman and Scott Wittman's "Catch Me If You Can." next Wednesday. Through Sunday, May 23. $10; $8, Mandel JCC members, senior citizens and students. AUDITIONS
For the region's most comprehensive look at auditions at theaters and other arts organizations, go to cleveland.com/auditions.


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Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Republic of Turkey
Services Recognition and Reclamation of documents Honorary Consulates of the Kyrgyz Republic
Main site / About country / Economic diplomacy
Economic diplomacy
The Economic diplomacy of the Kyrgyz Republic, as part of our country's foreign policy, serves for the development of bilateral trade and economic relations with Türkiye and the promotion of Kyrgyz export products to Türkiye, as well as attracting investment and tourists to our country.
In Kyrgyzstan, there is the most liberal legislative (detailed information please find at the link) and tax base for doing business, which differs from the countries of the Central Asian region, in particular VAT-12%, income tax -10% and profit tax-10%, as well as low business expenses, for example, the cost of electricity is the lowest 0.03 US dollars per 1 kW / h, etc. Business registration takes only 3 days.
Kyrgyzstan is a member of the WTO, which gives it access to the markets of all members of the organization, which now consists of 164 countries, including China. Our country is also a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, which allows duty-free export of its goods to Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia with a total population of 180 million people. Also, Kyrgyzstan within the framework of the GSP + program from the European Union has the opportunity to export 6,200 items of goods duty-free to the EU market.
An agreement on mutual promotion and protection of investments is in force between Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye, which also facilitates the activities of Kyrgyz and Turkish companies.
Priority sectors of the economy of our country are the fields of transport, energy, IT technology, processing, and light industry, tourism, mining, and agriculture.
In this section, we propose to be familiarized with investment opportunities and incentives for investors, as well as projects in English and a list of economic events (exhibitions, forums, fairs, etc.) in Kyrgyzstan for the current year.
List of exhibitions and fairs in Kyrgyzstan in 2022: (Download), as well as the exhibitions in the tourism sphere by link: https://tourism.gov.kg
Presentation "Invest in Kyrgyzstan" download
Investment map of Kyrgyzstan https://invest.gov.kg/investmap/map.xhtml?lang=en
Energy Projects (Download5)
List of products under the GSP + program provided by the EU to Kyrgyzstan: Download..
Project in the field of PPP on the implementation of an information system for the electronic collection of fees from freight transport and buses: Download 6
Brochure about kyrgyz exporting companies: Download
Information about tax preferentials: download


As our post-circus wrap-up suggests, none of us here at MoJo Politics were particularly blown away by Thursday night's GOP presidential debate in Orlando. At various points, candidates trumpeted easily debunked conspiracy theories, declined to recognize the service of a military veteran, and went at each others' throats over the issue of allowing undocumented children to go to college.
Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative policy types and GOP political operatives later last evening and this morning, we know we're not alone. Most won't express publicly just how horrified—or at least how demoralized—they are. After all, they still want to beat Obama—as do we. And they want to get along with the possible nominee and the other candidates and their supporters. They don't want to rock the boat too much. But maybe the GOP presidential boat needs rocking.
Kristol goes on to suggest that Perry's performance was "close to a disqualifying performance." Before Kristol writes another epic poem calling for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to get into the race, though, it's worth noting that 1.) The debate started at 9 p.m., finished at 11 p.m., and was going head to head with Man, Woman, Wild on the Discovery Channel, and 2.) See point 1. Last night's debate was disspiriting for any number of reasons, but very few people watched it except for those of us who had to, and it likely did nothing to diminish Republicans' chances next November.
Has the Worm Turned for Rick Perry?


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Sidelining Injuries: GE Healthcare and the NBA Launch First Challenge for Sports Injury Research
Imagine that water had to be collected from a bucket in a well, and it requires a person to pull on a rope from over the side of the well. Day after day, as they continue to collect water from that well, the rope attached to the bucket will eventually begin to wear and tear from constant pulling and friction on the wall. After some time, the rope will fray or worse, can snap, giving way to a broken rope with no bucket attached.
"The deterioration of the rope is in essence what happens to the joints and tendons of some competitive athletes who develop tendinopathy, particularly affecting the patellar tendon," said Dr. Robert Sallis, Co-Director of Sports Medicine Fellowship at Kaiser Permanente. "These athletes can suffer from either a partial tear of the tendon or sometimes a complete tear, which then requires surgery."
Patellar tendonitis is an inflammation of the patellar (knee cap) tendon, typically caused by overuse. It is sometimes called "jumper's knee" since it most commonly affects athletes who play sports where there is a lot of jumping, such as basketball, track & field, volleyball or soccer. As such, some elite athletes have experienced this type of injury in their careers, affecting their joint health and ability to participate in their sport.
For the National Basketball Association (NBA), they are committed to maintaining the health and wellness of their players to help prevent, diagnose and treat these types of injuries. In July 2015, they launched a research collaboration with GE Healthcare to work with leading clinical researchers and physicians who have demonstrated excellence in orthopedics, sports medicine, radiology, and related disciplines.
During the 2014-2015 NBA regular season, one of the top injuries among players was knee injury at 13.5%, and this is no different for the weekend warriors or fitness enthusiasts who participate in organized sports or fitness training in their spare time. Among adults ages 25-40, the most common injuries in baseball, soccer and softball were fractured or sprained ankles and knees (1). This also can be particularly true for adolescents who participate in organized sports through school or extracurricular activities. It's reported that sports-related injuries make up about 20% of all injury-related emergency department visits among children ages 6 to 19 (2).
Training and competing professionally in a specific sport like baseball or track & field can take a toll on an athlete's body, which is why many doctors and sports medicine experts recommend that athletes participate in a variety of sports in order to avoid overuse of the tendons as with patellar tendinosis.
"Good scientific studies show that when a young athlete only participates in a single sport month after month, that child is at serious risk of sustaining a recurring or overuse injury. These injuries can jeopardize the athlete's ability to play that sport at a high level in the future," explained Dr. Andrew Gottschalk Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine of the Ochsner Health System. "If that young athlete instead plays several sports, this exercise diversification dramatically reduces the risk of injury. It's important to familiarize the musculoskeletal system with other sports to maintain the health of the joints and tendons."
GE and the NBA are looking for recommendations like these and more, including prevention and treatment programs like physical therapy and strength and conditioning routines. In November they launched the first call for research proposals for tendinopathy.
This call for research proposals seeks to address the natural history of tendinopathy in competitive athletes, the anatomic and dynamic factors that can lead to a negative impact on training or game play and the interventions that can be effective for prevention and treatment. Future calls for research proposals may address bone stress injuries, articular cartilage injury, and other important musculoskeletal issues affecting NBA players.
By combining strong data analytics, expertise in healthcare and a commitment to player health and safety, GE Healthcare and the NBA hope to garner research ideas that help prevent, diagnose and treat commons sports injuries of athletes of all levels across the world. For more information about this call for proposals and/or the application process, please visit the website at http://bit.ly/1iY9jO9.
Dr. Sallis and Dr. Gottschalk are both members of the GE/NBA collaboration's Strategic Advisory Board and serve as Co-Chairs of Outreach and Education.
Sidelining Injuries – GE and the NBA collaborate to advance sports injury research
http://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/76816/ib_SportsInjuries.pdf
GE Healthcare and the National Basketball Association Seek Proposals to Accelerate Research on the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Tendinopathy
GE and NBA Call for Proposals
Team Rebound: GE and NBA seek to keep game injuries on the sidelines
National Basketball Association and GE Healthcare Collaborate to Promote Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research to Benefit NBA Player Health


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The co-founder and director, Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, talks about the importance of routine, and how his need to explore helped him overcome failure
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Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, co founder and director of Wakefit. (Illustration by Priya Kuriyan)
LAST PUBLISHED 16.07.2021 | 07:00 AM IST
For Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, a routine is crucial. Be it sticking to a schedule while working from home, getting enough sleep or building some semblance of work-life harmony, it is something that has always helped him cope. It's something he encourages his team to develop too.
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The Bengaluru-based co-founder and director of sleep and home solutions venture Wakefit, founded in 2016, says maintaining his pre-pandemic routine—getting to his desk by 9am, having lunch at a reasonable hour, working till 8-9pm, going for a post-dinner walk and ending the day with a book—has anchored him. "Otherwise, there is no structure to the day," says Ramalingegowda, 40, during a Zoom call from his home. "I have seen this with colleagues and friends."
In just five years, Wakefit has disrupted the mattress industry, bringing a product that was largely offline, online—and building recall value. Started by Ramalingegowda and Ankit Garg, the firm saw revenue jump to ₹410 crore in FY2021, over twice as much as the previous year. In July last year, it ventured into home décor and furniture products like beds, bedside tables, work-from-home furniture and TV units. With work from home the norm, the expansion came at an opportune time. Today this segment generates 20% of their revenue. Mattresses constitute nearly 70% of sales; accessories like bed linen make up the remaining 10%.
Bootstrapped for three years, Wakefit is valued at ₹2,000 crore after its Series B funding last year. It raised ₹185 crore in that funding round. In its Series A funding in 2018, they had pitched to 31 investors; only Sequoia India proved willing to place a bet on their online plans.
Wakefit claims to have a 35-40% of the online mattress market share. It has fresh competition online, with brands like SleepyCat, Wink & Nod and Flo Mattress, but Ramalingegowda says their products are 30-40% cheaper, with mattress prices starting from about ₹6,000.
One of the largest teams, about 300 of its 750 full-time employees, is the consumer delight team. It contacts customers after a sale to check on satisfaction and offer tips on care. "It's really low-cost marketing but through this gesture we remain in the customer's mind," says Ramalingegowda.
Since the pandemic, tier 2 and 3 cities have been accounting for half of Wakefit's revenue. "A lot of people moved back to their home towns and started ordering for themselves and their families from these smaller cities," says Ramalingegowda. This has come with its own challenges: poor logistics networks, handling issues with furniture products, the availability of skilled carpenters to install the products. Most of the latest round of funding, then, has been invested in capacity expansion: factories, warehouses, skilled carpenters and machine operators. Today they have factories in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Delhi and Pune.
In December, the company launched a Wakefit gurukul, offering offline training in six cities to people with some knowledge of woodwork as well as ITI graduates, teaching carpentry and machine operating work, along with soft skills like customer communication. The trainees are paid a stipend. The approximately 400 people trained so far have been absorbed by the company.
Ramalingegowda believes Wakefit has got the timing right. According to a 2018 report by management consulting firm RedSeer, the Indian mattress market, online and offline, is estimated to reach ₹250 crore by 2022. The market size of bed linen and accessories, according to the Indian Sleep Products Federation, is nearly ₹350-500 crore in the organised sector, and a RedSeer report puts the online furniture market at around ₹1 trillion. "We are in these three segments and so the scope for this industry is massive. Our aim is to continue to do a good job, not to lose customers' trust and not mess up anything that will make them doubt Wakefit as a company," he says.
Keeping it low-cost
Ramalingegowda doesn't believe in swanky showrooms for his experiential centres. To him, it's more important to build affordable products that don't compromise on quality. Nor does he believe in expensive campaigns for branding and marketing, preferring to remain low-cost, quirky and humorous. "I don't think we are going to sponsor the IPL (Indian Premier League) or some cricket jersey. It doesn't make sense. We saw companies raise ₹200-300 crore and burn through it in nine months, and then they were back into the peak of fund-raising market in 2014-15."
Interestingly, one policy that gave them sleepless nights initially was their offer of a 100-day mattress trial. Any misuse could have proven costly. "Even if 15-20% of the people returned the products, it would have killed us.... But nothing changed; the number has consistently remained 3%," he says. Inevitably, there have been some bad experiences. Like the family preparing for a wedding that ordered 15 mattresses, returning them 20 days later.
A clever marketing gamble that attracted immense attention was the roll-out of sleep internships in 2019. This year, the second batch was recruited. The interns are paid close to ₹1 lakh. Their job: to sleep for nine hours for 100 nights on a Wakefit mattress along with a sleep tracker. Besides gathering data on sleep patterns, the aim is to engage and create a shift in sleep cycles.
The inspiration came from an unlikely quarter—social media discussion in 2018 that the prime minister slept only for four hours. "We thought why not turn the whole narrative on its head and celebrate people who prioritise their sleep over everything and do not sacrifice it," Ramalingegowda recalls.
Ramalingegowda and Garg have gained from their experience of working for Tapzo, a multi-services app, in 2015. "What we ended up seeing was that revenue and profits are permanent, valuation is temporary. If the revenue and profits are on your books, you can really control the destiny of your company." They only went in for Series A funding two and a half years after launch, but turned profitable within three months of starting out. Over the last three years, the core team has expanded to include a chief financial officer, chief technology officer and head of growth. It has helped them catch a few extra hours of sleep as "you aren't firefighting all the time. I think I have gotten better at it (sleep)," says Ramalingegowda.
Ramalingegowda, who started working in 2002, describes himself as an explorer. Certainly, he has a rich CV. After completing his engineering degree in Mysuru, he started work as a techie in Bengaluru. Two years later, he enrolled at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. "It was amazing as the experience fed into my deeper streak of exploring everything. After slogging really hard for the first two terms, as I wanted to be in the top 5% of the batch, I realised I was not going to make the cut. So I decided on gaining as much knowledge as possible by making use of resources in the library, attending all guest lectures, while maintaining decent grades," he says.
He joined Deloitte Consulting in Hyderabad in 2005 but got a real taste of the consulting life, with visits to the US and Canada, when he joined Cognizant's strategic services in 2006 and Zinnov Management Consulting in 2008. "I became a very big generalist as I got exposure to different functions of the company like operations, finance, organisational structuring, and in varied sectors," he says. In 2011, he quit to become an entrepreneur. "I thought I will be my own boss."
Turning entrepreneur
His first startup, co-founded in 2011, was a web-based dating app, A Billion Reasons. Ten months later, when his co-founders left, he pivoted to a relationship app, TwolyMadlyDeeply, that promoted events to help singles find dates and allow couples to spend quality time together. He shut it down in 2013; he didn't see it scaling up. "Entrepreneurship is one of the few fields where hard work probably doesn't guarantee any success. There are a ton of external factors that are completely out of your control," he says.
His next startup, New Love Times, was creating an online community for women to seek, and offer, advice on aspects ranging from careers to health and wellness. The community grew to a million but, again, he couldn't see it growing further. "Also, I wasn't enjoying it," he says. It closed in 2016 but he had started working for other startups from 2015.
His confidence was shattered. "You have spent four years, closed down two ventures, you don't know what you have learnt, you have no money in the bank, and you are open to any job that is there at that time. You think, are you cut out to be an entrepreneur? If you go back to your job, are you going to retain your confidence, which you had four years back? You don't know anything," he says.
Through 2015, he did four-month stints with online media venture YourStory and LetsVenture, a platform that helps with early stage funding, apart from Tapzo. This was when Garg, who has experience in the foam industry, noticed the considerable variation in costs when he was looking to buy a mattress. To understand the pricing system, he bought a few hundred mattresses and put them up for sale on Amazon. He made a profit of ₹60 lakh.
The concept of Wakefit took root. Garg and he saw potential in the idea— but Ramalingegowda could only join the company full-time after a year. "We could only pay one person's salary," he says. He has become pragmatic, even stoic, now. "There was humility to acknowledge that even this might fail. But I thought, what is the worst that can happen? I have gone down to zero bank balance and lived on almost nothing. I would go back to a job if this fails. So then there was no fear."
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Gigi Hadid celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid with her boyfriend Zayn Malik this week. Zayn's sister Waliyha shared a series of pictures of the festivities on her Instagram with the caption "Eid Mubarak," a Muslim greeting reserved for use during two Muslim holidays.
Gigi's father Mohammed is of Muslim origin, and came to America as a refugee before becoming a naturalized citizen. Zayn's family is also Muslim, and his mother, Trisha Malik, was in attendance alongside the couple and Waliyha.
Eid al-Adha, also known as The Festival of Sacrifice or 'Big Eid,' is the second and more prominent of two Muslim holidays celebrated each year. The first, Eid al-Fitr, marks the end of Ramadan, which took place in May and June.
The couple had been together for two years at the time of their breakup, and by the looks of things they're going strong once again.


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In mathematics, an action of a group G on a topological space X is cocompact if the quotient space X/G is a compact space. If X is locally compact, then an equivalent condition is that there is a compact subset K of X such that the image of K under the action of G covers X. It is sometimes referred to as mpact, a tongue-in-cheek reference to dual notions where prefixing with "co-" twice would "cancel out".

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Tetteh moved to the United States eight years ago from Ghana, West Africa. Upon moving to the states, he immediately fell in love with the entertainment industry and the creative side. After years of being involved in different projects ranging from stage productions to goofy home videos. His passion for production led Tetteh to California Lutheran University where he is currently working toward Bachelors degree in Film and TV Communications Major with a minor in multimedia.
At CLU, Tetteh with a group of students helped create, In the Lu, a late night show that was broadcasted to the student body on a bi-weekly basis. As part of the crew, Tetteh worked as the video editor, hosted the show and helped with camera work. He also enjoyed the fast paced work environment and liked spending long nights in the edit room. As well as his work in Film and Television, Tetteh is involved on campus as a representative of the Associated Student Government programs board. As a representative, he helps produce large-scale events such as homecoming carnivals and food truck events for the student body.
Tetteh is entering his senior year at Cal Lutheran and is excited to be interning at Rekon to further expand his growth in the entertainment industry.


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The highly anticipated second full length release from Marsden Giolas' "Club | Mars" is now available! This album was recorded, produced and written by Marsden Giolas in Chicago, Illinois Read More
Sleepy's Debut Single!
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Sleepy is a Chicago based electronic music duo founded in winter 2015. Their music is informed by U.K. garage and jungle that flirts with ambient or down tempo themes. These tracks ooze with the influences such as J-Dilla, Boards of Canada, Burial and Photek seemingly blending genres into a new direction despite very deep roots. Enjoy!
Michael Page Quartet – Awakening (Single)
Bossa Nova, Chris Hess, CTI, Downtempo, Electro-jazz, Electronica, Eumir Deodato, Michael Page Quartet, MPQ
This is a track that Chris Hess wrote and produced back in early 2005. At the time, Chris began investing some time into ingesting his father's jazz records. Some of the records that really grabbed his attention were the CTI recordings of Freddie Hubbard, Bob James and more importantly Eumir Deodato. A few weeks later Chris set out to make a purely instrumental track that embraced the sound and spirit of those wonderful records. This track that he wrote for his father was the result and it's been made available for free downloads. Enjoy!


In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is making a bold statement. He is calling the church at Corinth to pattern itself after him. Now, Paul is not saying he is the one they should worship but rather as he follows after Christ, he becomes a walking, talking example of what a Christian should look like. While we are ultimately following after Christ, we all need human examples of Christianity to help guide us in the right direction.
The Bible from Genesis to Revelation is filled with godly leaders who lead by example. Whether it was Moses leading God's people out of Egypt or Peter stepping out onto the waves, all were examples to those around them and continue to stand as godly examples today. While no human example is perfect, this doesn't mean we refuse to follow leadership. If a pastor, elder or deacon is following the Lord then look to them as an example and learn from them. There is a great blessing found in following after a man or woman of God, and as you imitate their life you may look back one day to see yourself being imitated.
Heavenly Father, Thank You for the leaders in my life. Father, help me to learn from those around me who are seeking after You. As the disciples followed You, may I seek to also follow your every move, in turn become more like You. Lord, continue to be with those in leadership. Show them ths truth and teach them to share your Word. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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