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Prepares English-as-a second language students to communicate in familiar job, life-skill, or social situations. Students read short texts using simple context clues and decoding skills and write short paragraphs that are edited for basic grammar and spelling. This is intermediate ESL. Students must show progress in three quarters of instruction. Course is credit/no-credit. Prerequisite: Placement by assessment
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- Apply active listening strategies to understand and respond to explanations, conversations, instructions, and narratives made up of sentence-length utterances and some connected discourse on familiar topics related to personal background and needs, social conventions, and everyday tasks.
- Use several strategies, including formulas for asking for repetition and clarification, and strategies for indicating understanding, for giving feedback, for gathering missing information and/or repairing problems in comprehension, such as rephrasing, substituting a different word, or drawing a picture.
- Apply linguistic, socio-cultural and other background knowledge and strategies (such as expressing an opinion or collecting relevant information) to understand the intent of the speaker and what is required to respond appropriately and to meet the listening purpose.
- Speak so others can understand by recalling and using a somewhat limited vocabulary including words related to common, everyday topics, personal experience, know and use basic grammar and sentence structure (heard in the immediate environment); know and use basic awareness of appropriate register (level of formality) in familiar, predictable communication tasks.
- Use simple strategies (such as reacting to questions or combining and recombining short known words or phrases) to select and relay information.
- Apply simple strategies (such as making and responding to requests for feedback, repetition, and rephrasing) to monitor and enhance the effectives of the communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
- Read with understanding by decoding and recognizing everyday words in short, simple texts by breaking words into parts, tapping out/sounding out syllables, applying pronunciation rules, using picture aids, and recalling oral vocabulary and sight words.
- Demonstrate familiarity with simple, everyday content knowledge and vocabulary.
- Locate discrete items of information in texts.
- Monitor and enhance comprehension using various strategies, such as rereading, restating, copying and rephrasing text; making a list of new words, or using a simplified dictionary.
- Recall prior knowledge to assist in selecting texts and in understanding the information they contain.
- Convey ideas in writing by following a highly structured plan to organize ideas around a single familiar topic and produce a short but legible and comprehensible draft.
- Determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing.
- Appropriately use everyday, familiar vocabulary (such as words with personal significance and commonly-used adjectives, pronouns and prepositions) and simple sentence structures to produce several sentences on a topic.
- Make simple edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation.
- Reflect on, plan for, and monitor own goals.
- Use or learn to work with most basic computer software, such as using a word processor to produce his or her own texts related to his or her family, community/citizen and/or worker roles.


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Apple: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Ryan is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
A SWOT analysis is a look at a company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is a tremendous way to gain a detailed and thorough perspective on a company and its future. Fresh off their fourth quarter earnings report, which was a beat and miss in different respects, I would like to pinpoint on the most valuable company in the world, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).
- Apple is valued at $567.28 billion on the market, and they didn't get to where they are by snoozing, they got their by being an industry trailblazer and consistently innovating.
- The company possesses one of most globally recognized brands, right up there with Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
- Brand loyalty is incredible, people will line up in the freezing cold overnight just to be one of the first to get their hands on the new iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
- The company is irrationally undervalued, with a price to earnings ratio of 13.68, significantly lower than slower growing companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
- The company's year over year growth is still fast-paced, in the double-digit area for the past couple of years, and the company has just recently paid out its first dividend, which annualized at current prices yields around 1.75%.
- Some analysts say that without legendary founder Steve Jobs at the helm innovation may slow, as Tim Cook is a good CEO but just not the same.
- Apple operates and sells items in one of the most competitive sectors in the world, and will always have competition that will offer something very similar for a bit less.
- Competition from deep-wallet companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may sometimes lead to the compression of margins, as in the past quarter gross margins came in at 40.0%, below the consensus of 40.8%.
- Recent problems from their main supplier and producer, Foxconn, has caused investors to get weak in the knees as shipment dates have been pushed back and customers who pre-ordered devices have been faced with several week waiting periods.
- While this can be used as an advantage if an investor is smart, the recent price movement in the stock has been volatile, rising $100 and then falling $100 in less than 3 months.
- While the past two quarters have not been the best for the company on a financial note, the first quarter of 2013 should be incredible, as the company should benefit immensely from the holiday season.
- Over the past weeks the company has unveiled a flurry of new items, including the all-important iPhone 5, the iPad mini, a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, a new Mac, and a new iPod Touch, proving that the company is still innovating for the future.
- The iPad mini puts Apple's foot in the small tablet market, a space that for a time was eating the iPad's lunch.
- Early in 2013 Apple is expected to unveil the Apple version of the television, possibly the iTV, which should nearly complete the Apple ecosystem as in one common platform customers can have a phone, computer, laptop, tablet, and television.
- In nearly all respects, Apple is relatively unsaturated in the markets it operates in, 17% in the smartphone market, 5.2% of the worldwide computer market, and the one exception, 85.7% of the tablet market, meaning the company still has significant room left to run.
- When you are one top, everyone wants to knock you off of your pedestal, and this is true for Apple.
- Recently some analysts and tech junkies have claimed that Apple is behind the curve as they copy the larger screen size of some of the Android smartphones or shrink the screen size of their tablet.
- You would think they can only slightly tweak the iPhone or Mac so many times before it simply becomes unreasonable to purchase the expensive devices every couple of years, but obviously this has not proven to be a problem yet.
- The biggest threat to Apple's success would have to be the stiff competition it faces, Android, Microsoft, Research in Motion, Nokia, Amazon; the list is endless.
Major publically-traded competitors of Apple include Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Google mainly competes with Apple in the software space as their Android platform is extremely popular, however Google does not create the hardware of the Android devices they sell, so they do not have the pricing power Apple possesses. Microsoft also competes with Apple in the software space, as their Windows platform rivals Apple's iOS software in the computer and laptop arenas.
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PARIS, France - Nathalie Dechy, who made it as high as No.11 in the world in singles and No.8 in the world in doubles during her career, announced she is retiring from professional tennis Tuesday, adding she is expecting her first child and will be focusing on her family life moving forward.
Dechy's singles achievements on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour included one title (2003 Gold Coast) and another four finals (2000 Oklahoma City, 2000 Estoril, 2004 New Haven, 2008 Cincinnati). Her best Grand Slam result was the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she fell to Lindsay Davenport in a tight three-setter. She also had 12 wins over Top 10 players (including one in 2006 over then-world No.1 Amélie Mauresmo).
Dechy was also a force to be reckoned with in doubles, winning seven titles (including back-to-back US Opens in 2006 and 2007, with Vera Zvonareva and Dinara Safina, respectively). She won a third Grand Slam title in mixed doubles, at the 2007 French Open (with Andy Ram).
Dechy, who turned 30 earlier this year, had one quarterfinal finish in singles this year, in front of her home crowd at Paris [Indoors]; she had two Top 20 wins to go with that, over Patty Schnyder and Dominika Cibulkova. She had three doubles titles with Mara Santangelo, at Auckland, Monterrey and Strasbourg.
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Cedar Lakes is a year-round destination for craft and music lovers from across the country. The conference center is beginning to attract more local interest to the week-long and weekend workshops, according to Gloria Gregorich, craft coordinator.
"People in other states know about it," said Gregorich, who has directed the program for 18 years. "We like to see the locals take advantage of it. They are finding more about the program now."
Those who do not want to stay overnight can save on tuition by commuting.
April's schedule is comprised of craft sessions on quilting, watercolors, stained glass, basketry, bread making, blacksmithing, woodcarving and steel knife making. Musicians can make and learn to play the dulcimer or participate in "The Story of the Celts" featuring nationally known entertainers.
Mick Moloney, who performs internationally, will be joined by Joey Abarta, a bagpipe player from Boston, and Billy McComiskey, an accordion player from Baltimore. The workshop is scheduled April 6-11.
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Step Brothers (2008)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 181
Fresh: 100 | Rotten: 81
The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well-matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 20
The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well-matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team with that film's director, Adam McKay, to tell the tale of two pampered best friends whose single parents fall in love and decide to marry. McKay and Ferrell share screenwriting credits, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller produce. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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On its own terms, Step Brothers is hilarious. But it's a shame that the filmmakers didn't have more faith in the audience. Why resort to gross-out tactics when your premise is strong enough to allow for a more sophisticated approach?
Despite some obvious flaws, 'Step Brothers' remains a hugely enjoyable, well-constructed slice of lowbrow Saturday night entertainment, leaving Ferrell's position as the reigning king of US comedy secure for a while longer.
Don't watch it on an airplane, don't check it out on cable, don't walk past the bargain basement bin where it's been sold.
There's a good subject for satire here, the extended adolescence of American kids. But satire presupposes maturity, or at least some perspective.
Step Brothers is unashamedly dumb, unoriginal and downright offensively childish. But aren't these the very same reasons why people like these movies?
You know you're in trouble when the cleverest parts of your movie are the ironic T-shirts, worn unironically ... (but) a bonus is deserved by the person who dug up the Pablo Cruise shirt.
Step Brothers is a rowdy, rambunctious, fitful, against-the-wall comedy. Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and director writer Adam McKay heave comedy, like spaghetti, against the wall. About half sticks; the other half makes a real mess.
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It's one joke, already predictable, and it gets old fast.
Only occasionally funny and about three times as long as the material justifies, it's boring and just a little bit embarrassing to sit through.
When Step Brothers is funny, it's hilarious. But when it isn't funny, the second hand of your watch sounds peculiarly loud.
There is also a general sloppiness to the screenplay, which introduces elements that have no real pay-off.
No one can play a 40-year-old obliviously immature man-child like Will Ferrell.
Ferrell has the world's greatest job. Studios pay this guy enormous sums of money to stay in constant touch with his inner idiot, while mere mortals struggle day-in and day-out to keep our secret buffoon in check.
It's clear that much of what is on the screen is there because writers Ferrell and McKay found it funny, not because it serves the plot.
Like toothpaste from a tube, every last laugh is squeezed from this absurd premise, where both men pushing forty act like they're 14. Surprisingly, it's enough to make it work.
Thanks to their ability to convincingly portray adults who have never emotionally advanced beyond their pre-adolescent years, Ferrell and Reilly perfectly inhabit these obnoxious yet hilarious characters.
Despite valiant efforts from a seasoned cast, it fails to deliver the expected laughs.
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Ricky Bobby: He acted like a spoiled teenage girl.
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Face it, if there were no movies with an adult liking a child, Will Ferrell wouldn't have a career. I mean seriously, Will Ferrell? He's not funny, he's annoying. You want funny, go watch a video of Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Chris Farley, Jeff Dunham, 80's Adam Sandler or Taylor Lautner (I'm telling you, his acting is hilariously bad.) Ferrell doesn't even hold a candle to those guys. But if you really want to jump on the Step Brothers bandwagon, watch the film and be your own judge of the movie.
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Matt Rothschild Dicker (Class of 2004), author of the highly celebrated memoir Dumbfounded, listens to Janis Hirsch (Class of 1972), executive Producer of Will & Grace and writer for numerous television shows including Murphy Brown, Frasier and The Nanny.
One of the most prominent fields of study at Rollins College is the arts, including music, dance, art, art history and theater. On the afternoon of the College's 125th Anniversary celebration, community members gathered in Tiedtke Hall to hear a discussion about current media and the arts, and also where a degree in the arts can take students in today's society. The panel included three distinguished Rollins alumni, television producer Janis Hirsch (Class of 1972), author Matt Rothschild Dicker (Class of 2004), and playwright Beth Lincks (Class of 1975)—who writes under the nom de plume Arlene Hutton, all of whom have had successful careers in the arts. The panelists discussed their careers and shared tips for current students to achieve success in the industry. "My advice is to say 'yes' to everything and don't underestimate the power of networking. A major part of this industry is knowing the right people at the right time," Hirsch said.
Some of the issues brought up during the panel were dealing with professional frustrations, the value of maintaining commercial appeal while keeping the integrity of individual art forms and personal expression, the role of artists within a larger community, and ways to "make it" in the business. All three panelists agreed that a major part of keeping the arts alive in years to come is by using the arts to give context to real-life scenarios. Everybody wants to be entertained – the arts are a valuable tool for making social and political commentary as well as serving as a source of relief from the stresses of daily life.
"In today's society, there is a powerful need for the arts in order for us to emotionally process the tenor of our own age," said Professor of Theater Jennifer Cavenaugh, who mediated the discussion. Overall, the panel was effective in communicating just how crucial the arts are to our culture today, and it emphasized the importance of supporting the industry in the future.
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Patient Characteristics
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Physician Characteristics
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International Comparisons
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Digital Mammography
Mammography and Computer-Aided Detection (CAD)
Patient Characteristics
Several characteristics of women being screened that are associated with the accuracy of mammography include age, breast density, whether it is the first or subsequent exam, and time since last mammogram. Younger women have lower sensitivity and higher false-positive rates on screening mammography than do older women (refer to the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium performance measures by age for more information).
For women of all ages, high breast density is associated with 10% to 29% lower sensitivity.[1] High breast density is an inherent trait, which can be familial [2,3] but also may be affected by age, endogenous [4] and exogenous [5,6] hormones,[7] selective estrogen receptor modulators such as tamoxifen,[8] and diet.[9] Hormone therapy is associated with increased breast density and is associated not only with lower sensitivity but also with an increased rate of interval cancers.[10]
The Million Women Study in the United Kingdom revealed three patient characteristics that were associated with decreased sensitivity and specificity of screening mammograms in women aged 50 to 64 years: use of postmenopausal hormone therapy, prior breast surgery, and body mass index below 25.[11] In addition, a longer interval since the last mammogram increases sensitivity, recall rate, and cancer detection rate and decreases specificity.[12]
Strategies have been proposed to improve mammographic sensitivity by altering diet, timing mammograms with menstrual cycles, interrupting hormone therapy before the examination, or using digital mammography machines.[13] Obese women have more than a 20% increased risk of having false-positive mammography results compared with underweight and normal weight women, although sensitivity is unchanged.[14]Tumor Characteristics
Some cancers are more easily detected by mammography than other cancers are. In particular, mucinous, lobular, and rapidly growing cancers can be missed because their appearance on x-rays is similar to that of normal breast tissue.[15] Medullary carcinomas may be similarly missed.[16] Some cancers, particularly those associated with BRCA1/2 mutations, masquerade as benign tumors.[17,18]Physician Characteristics
Radiologist performance is critical to assessing mammographic interpretive performance, yet there is substantial, well-documented variability among radiologists. Factors that influence radiologists' performance include their level of experience and the volume of mammograms they interpret.[19] There is often a trade-off between sensitivity and specificity, such that higher sensitivity may be associated with lower specificity. Radiologists in academic settings have a higher positive predictive value (PPV) of their recommendations to undergo biopsy than do community radiologists.[20] Fellowship training in breast imaging may lead to improved cancer detection, but it is associated with higher false-positive rates.[13]Facility Characteristics
After controlling for patient and radiologist characteristics, screening mammography interpretive performance (specificity, PPV, area under the curve [AUC]) varies by facility and is associated with facility-level characteristics. Higher interpretive accuracy of screening mammography was seen at facilities that offered screening examinations alone, included a breast imaging specialist on staff, did single as opposed to double readings, and reviewed interpretive audits two or more times each year.[21]
False-positive rates vary significantly between facilities performing diagnostic mammography and are higher at facilities where concern about malpractice is high.[22] False-positive rates are also higher at facilities serving vulnerable women (women of racial or ethnic minorities and women with lower educational attainment, limited household income, or rural residence) than at facilities serving nonvulnerable women, perhaps because of poorer compliance with recommendations for follow-up examinations.[23] Analyses that do not adjust for important patient characteristics may falsely conclude that there is more facility variation in overall accuracy than actually exists.[22]International Comparisons
International comparisons of screening mammography have found higher specificity in countries with more highly centralized screening systems and national quality assurance programs.[24,25] For example, one study reported that the recall rate is twice as high in the United States as it is in the United Kingdom, yet there is no difference in the rate of cancers detected. Such comparisons may be confounded by social, cultural, and economic factors.[25]Prevalent Versus Subsequent Examination and the Interval Between Exams
The likelihood of diagnosing cancer is highest with the prevalent (first) screening examination, ranging from 9 to 26 cancers per 1,000 screens, depending on the woman's age. The likelihood decreases for follow-up examinations, ranging from 1 to 3 cancers per 1,000 screens.[26] The optimal interval between screening mammograms is unknown. In particular, the breast cancer mortality-focused, randomized, controlled trials used single screening intervals with little variability across the trials. A prospective United Kingdom trial randomly assigned women aged 50 to 62 years to receive mammograms annually or at the standard 3-year interval. Although the grade and node status were similar in both groups, more cancers of slightly smaller size were detected in the annual screening group, with a lead time of approximately 7 months in comparison with triennial screening.[27]
A large observational study found a slightly increased risk of late-stage disease at diagnosis for women in their 40s who were adhering to a 2-year versus a 1-year schedule (28% vs. 21%; odds ratio (OR), 1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01–1.81), but no difference was seen for women in their 50s or 60s.[28,29]
A Finnish study of 14,765 women aged 40 to 49 years assigned women born in even-numbered years to annual screens and women born in odd-numbered years to triennial screens. The study was small in terms of number of deaths, with low power to discriminate breast cancer mortality between the two groups. There were 18 deaths from breast cancer in 100,738 life-years in the triennial screening group and 18 deaths from breast cancer in 88,780 life-years in the annual screening group (hazard ratio, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.59–1.27).[30]Digital Mammography
Digital mammography is more expensive than screen-film mammography (SFM) but is more amenable to data storage and sharing. Performance of both technologies has been compared directly in several trials yielding similar results.
A large cohort of women (n = 42,760) who underwent both digital and film mammography was evaluated at 33 U.S. centers in the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). No differences in breast cancer detection were observed (AUC of 0.78 +/- 0.02 for digital and AUC of 0.74 +/- 0.02 for film; P = .18). Digital mammography was better at cancer detection in women younger than 50 years (AUC of 0.84 +/- 0.03 for digital; AUC of 0.69 +/- 0.05 for film; P = .002).[13] A second DMIST report found that film mammography had a higher AUC in women aged 65 years and older (AUC 0.88 for film; AUC 0.70 for digital; P = .025); however, this finding was not statistically significant when the multiple comparisons were considered.[31] In a large U.S. cohort study,[32] sensitivity for women younger than 50 years was 75.7% (95% CI, 71.7–79.3) for film mammography and 82.4% (95% CI, 76.3–87.5) for digital mammography; specificity was 89.7% (95% CI, 89.6–89.8) for film mammography and 88.0% (95% CI, 88.2–87.8) for digital mammography. A comparison of the findings from 1.5 million digital mammography screens and 4.5 million SFM screens that occurred in the Netherlands from 2004 to 2010 indicated higher recall and detection rates for the digital mammography screens. Among radiologists who read both digital and SFM exams (n = 1.5 million), the recall rates were 2.0% for digital mammography (95% CI, 2.0–2.1) versus 1.6% for SFM (95% CI, 1.6–1.6); the detection rates were 5.9 per 1,000 (95% CI, 5.7–6.0) for digital mammography and 5.1 per 1,000 (95% CI, 5.0–5.2) for SFM. The PPV was statistically significantly lower in the digital mammography group (PPV, 31.2%; 95% CI, 30.6–31.7) than in the screen-film group (PPV, 34.4%; 95% CI, 33.8%–35.0%). For women aged 49 to 54 years, recall rates were 2.7% (digital) versus 2.0% (film); detection rates were 5.1% (digital) versus 4.0% (film); and PPV was 21.4% (digital) versus 22.1% (film). For women aged 55 to 74 years, recall rates were 1.7% (digital) versus 1.4% (film); detection rates were 6.2% (digital) versus 5.6% (film); and PPV was 35.7% (digital) versus 40.1% (film). Findings for SFM exams (n = 4.5 million) read by radiologists who read only SFM exams were similar to the findings for SFM exams read by radiologists who read both types of mammography exams.[33]
A meta-analysis [34] of 10 studies, including the DMIST [13,31] and the aforementioned U.S. cohort study,[32] compared digital mammography with film mammography in 82,573 women who underwent both types of the exam. In a random-effects model, there was no statistically significant difference in cancer detection between the two types of mammography (AUC of 0.92 for film and AUC of 0.91 for digital). For women younger than 50 years, all studies found that sensitivity was higher for digital mammography but that specificity was either the same or higher for film mammography. The meta-analysis found no other differences based on age.
Computed radiography (CR) utilizes a cassette-based removable detector and external reading device to generate a digital image. A large concurrent cohort study compared 254,758 full-field digital mammography (FFDM) screens with 487,334 SFM screens and 74,190 CR screens.[35] Again, the cancer detection rate was not different between FFDM (4.9 per 1,000) and SFM (4.8 per 1,000), although the recall rate was higher for FFDM. Importantly, cancer detection was lower for CR at 3.4 per 1,000, adjusted OR 0.79 (95% CI, 0.68–0.93). Two prior studies of noncontemporaneous cohorts showed no difference between CR and SFM or higher cancer detection rate from CR.[36,37]Mammography and Computer-Aided Detection (CAD)
CAD systems are designed to help radiologists read mammograms by highlighting suspicious regions such as clustered microcalcifications and masses.[38] Generally, CAD systems increase sensitivity and decrease specificity [39] and increase detection of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).[40] Several CAD systems are in use. One large population-based study comparing recall rates and breast cancer detection rates before and after the introduction of CAD systems found no change in either rate.[38,41] Another large study noted an increase in recall rate and increased DCIS detection but no improvement in invasive cancer detection rate.[40,42]References
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text: Amarillo, Texas - It's not only tires being illegal dumped in some Amarillo alleyways like we first told you about last week.We're told it's becoming a growing issue. Not only dumping tires, but also furniture and other large items, in particular, behind thrift shops.Barbara Pipes says every day there is something new piled up around the dumpster in back of her home. Pipes is responsible to maintain the area behind her fence. The City of Amarillo has an ordinance stating it is unlawful for owners or occupants to permit the accumulation of rubbish, trash, or solid waste on their property.Pipes said she has contacted the city before about this issue, but it hasn't been resolved. "He came out, knocked on my door, we discussed it. He told me it would be cleaned up, but he says there is basically with the increase of thrift shops in town, it's all over town, it's widespread," Pipes said. The ally behind her home is shared with a thrift shop. Employees of that shop say the mess isn't because of them. It's a vagrant issue.We reached out to the City of Amarillo today to find out more, but they have yet to respond.


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Philadelphia, PAUSA 19104
January 6, 2010
All are great.
Phila center city
want to meet new friends.
How do I reach Jules? Judy
How many mile is the hike? Will there be some carpooling? Judy
We invite you to join the Pennsylvania Barefoot Hikers. We combine the enjoyment of the outdoors with barefoot freedom. Please check out our photos and view our discussion boards. Here is our URL link: (http://www.meetup.com/barefootadventu...) We hope that you decide to join us. Besides hiking and running. We are thinking of kayaking, camping, horseback riding and even summer BBQs. We hope to have you as our newest member!!
Thanks Genevieve! I plan to get out there soon, work has had me pretty busy but I hope to start off on one of the easier hikes soon. The PA Grand Canyon one sounds really cool though and wish I didn't have to miss it. Really hope it gets repeated.
- Cris
Hi would you want to carpool. I have a landrover and could hold 4 people. let me know sincerely, andy
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About the Book:
A chance for love... A chance for fame...
New York City in 1907 is a kingdom of endless possibilities for anyone who dares to dream. The Gilded Age has ended, and immigrants fill the bustling streets. The glamour of Broadway lures those who desire the limelight—but only a few are fortunate enough to thrive in the lights of a city that casts long, dark, and merciless shadows…
Pepper MacClair and her mother arrived penniless in New York thirteen years ago, and their fortune has not changed. A dancer of fluid grace and motion, Pepper is still only one chorus girl among dozens, struggling for an opportunity to prove herself worthy of something bigger.
For now, Pepper dances at The Chance, a rundown venue long past its prime. It is not only Pepper's workplace, where she has pushed her physical endurance to its limit, but also her home. And as the larger world changes around her and she is pulled into the intrigues of New York's elite, it is her last hope, not only to fulfill her dream, but to fulfill her heart.
About the Author:
DeAnna Cameron writes romantic historical fiction featuring feisty heroines destined for passion and fame. Before turning to fiction, DeAnna worked as a journalist, writing and editing for several Southern California newspapers and magazines. She's a member of the Historical Novel Society, Romance Writers of America and the Literary Guild of Orange County. She lives in Orange County, Calif. with her family, and is at work on her next novel.
My Opinion:
I did not have the honor of reading Ms. Cameron's first book, The Belly Dancer, but I am going to add it to my ever so long wish list. It is a prequel of sorts (from what I can glean) to Dancing at the Chance as the main character made a large impact on the heroine here, Pepper MacClair (don't you just love that name?)
Pepper lives at The Chance theatre and it is all she knows. She is young, very young and as with all young women she thinks she knows everything. She is a very well drawn character to the point that at times I wanted to take her over my knee and spank her. She is at that blind stage of life where she will not listen to anyone, she knows what is RIGHT and she believes that love will conquer all. As one reads one knows she is in for it. And that pre-knowledge is, I feel, an integral part of the book.
The Chance is a dying theatre. Vaudeville is reaching its zenith as moving pictures are starting to come on the scene. The great Flo Ziegfeld has arrived on the scene and the smaller theatres are not standing a chance (no pun intended) against his large productions. Pepper thinks she has all the answers but she doesn't realize how hard it is for the stage manager to get acts into a run down theatre. He treats her like dirt; criticizing her every performance. This was one thing I could not understand - I never did find the root of his focus on Pepper and his constant griping at her. Perhaps the answer is in The Belly Dancer?
Pepper is in love with the owner's son and longs for marriage but he only offers far less. Since she has little self esteem she accepts his offer of being his mistress. She thinks he is the answer to her prayers; she thinks he will save The Chance. She refuses to see what is in front of her eyes.
In spite of her immaturity I liked Pepper and I was rooting for her and The Chance. I enjoyed my time in this theatre and with all of the very interesting characters therein. Pepper has a lot of friends, it just took her some time to realize it. The ending was a big surprise and leaves me hoping for another book detailing Pepper's future. Ms. Cameron has a magical way with the backstage world and as with most people in love with the theatre I thoroughly enjoyed my time with all of the players of The Chance.
You can read an excerpt HERE
You can pre-order Dancing at the Chance on Amazon.com (It releases on 4/3/12)
You can purchase The Belly Dancer at Amazon.com
You can find DeAnna Cameron on Facebook
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You can visit DeAnna Cameron's Website
You can enter to win during DeAnna Cameron's Publication Giveaway
Disclosure: I received an e-copy of Dancing at the Chance from the author gratis. Any opinions expressed are my honest opinions and were not impacted by my receipt of the free e-book. I received no monetary compensation for this post.


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His many years of senior management experience before founding his consultancy include: Executive Director of Sustainable San Mateo County, Assistant Director of EHC LifeBuilders, Silicon Valley Director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, and Director of Online Community Development for HandsNet. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Future Families.
In addition to his private practice, Ken is currently an affiliate member of the Fund Builders Alliance consulting group. He is also Community Engagement Manager, Bay Area, for Benevolent.net, and serves on the Board of Habitat for Humanity Santa Cruz County.
He has a Master of Public Policy and Administration from CSU Sacramento and a BA in Politics from UC Santa Cruz.
My mission as a professional is to increase the impact of nonprofit organizations and the effectiveness of their staffs. The organizations that I choose to work for are innovative in approach and progressive in spirit.
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Funeral services for Marvin R. Hall were held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel in Minden. Officiating was his brother, Perry Hall. Interment followed at Point Chapel Cemetery in Doyline. The family received friends from 5 until 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 27, 2014, at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden.
Marvin was born Oct. 5, 1942, in Klamath Falls, Ore., and entered into rest May 23, 2014, in Minden. Marvin was a retired truck driver with Woods Tank and Boiler Company, a member of the American Quarterhorse Association and a member of the American Legion.Subscribe to Read!


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Volunteer Your Time and Talent
Market Street Railway depends on the generosity of volunteers to make things happen, and the more help we have, the more we are able to do. The F-Market & wharves line is a testament to what we can accomplish with your help.
E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call us at (415) 956-0472 to become a volunteer.
Market Street Railway offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities, some requiring little or no skill (just energy and time!), some requiring basic knowledge, and some requiring advanced skills. We will provide training in some areas.
Below are some of the volunteer opportunities we're looking for help with.
Streetcar Stewards
Market Street Railway car stewards function as guardians of the historic streetcars. They keep them looking great in service by cleaning them up at terminals, removing trash, washing windshields and smudged windows, even bringing operators water or soda. It's a much appreciated gesture, and you'll make friends among riders and operators alike.
Streetcar Docents
Market Street Railway volunteers serve as docents stationed at key stops to answer questions from the public and distribute information about the streetcars and our San Francisco Railway Museum. It's an enjoyable social activity.
Web Site & Newsletter Contributors
Our website blog and our quarterly newsletter, Inside Track, are the primary ways we communicate with members and prospective members. We welcome original contributions, such as photographs (old and new), articles on contemporary issues, articles of an historical nature, interviews, reminiscences, oral histories, et cetera.
We need to grow our membership and win grants from foundations to support and extend the efforts of our organization and our volunteers. Those who are willing to approach merchants along the F-line route, or initiate outreach to community and other groups, or who have experience in writing grant proposals are especially welcome.
School Outreach
Volunteers are needed to help put together a program that reaches out to children who will be the recipients of the legacy we are working so hard to preserve.
Vehicle enhancement and interpretation
Now that we've pretty much done what we as volunteers can do to restore streetcars, we are more focused on enhancement and interpretation of Muni's historic streetcar and cable car fleet. This includes occasional deep cleaning ("detailing") of individual streetcars to remove embedded grime and freshen the interiors. We generally do this at our David L. Pharr Historic Streetcar Facility at Duboce & Market. We also prepare interpretive material to display on historic streetcars and cable cars: the history of that particular vehicle, what its livery represents, stories of historic transit in San Francisco, maps, and more. We can always use volunteers to help us prepare these displays and to keep them looking great in the cars. Besides volunteering, we'd appreciate your consideration of a donation to our vehicle enhancement fund.
Office and field support
We are planning more extensive outreach to the community, requiring people who can print letters and stuff envelopes, run mailing lists, maintain our FileMakerPro database, and so on.
Board of Directors
The Market Street Railway Board of Directors are volunteers as well. If you are able to commit a significant amount of volunteer time to leading one of Market Street Railway's main activity committees (at least twenty hours per month), consider becoming a candidate for the Board. Elections are held annually at our January Board Meeting. Write a brief statement of your interest and background and mail or email firstname.lastname@example.com it to us.


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Joey's earliest memories were mostly "a confusion of hilly fields and dark, damp stables." But one thing he clearly remembered was the horse sale. "The terror of it stayed with me all of my life," he said.
No wonder. Joey was the one being sold.
That's how the popular 1982 book "War Horse" by children's author Michael Morpurgo begins. Told in Joey's voice, the story moves quickly from Devonshire in southwestern England, where the horse is lovingly raised on a farm by a boy named Albert, to the hideous battlefields of France in World War I after Joey is sold to the British army for use in the cavalry.
What happens to the horse and to Albert, who fibs his way into uniform to search for Joey, makes quite an adventure. With its strong and disturbing images, its lessons about friendship, bravery and loyalty, this saga was probably destined to be adapted for another medium. But the stage? Given the focus on a horse, surely a TV or movie prospect was more likely.
"War Horse" did eventually make it to the screen in a 2011 Stephen Spielberg film. But that was a few years after the book had been transformed, thanks to inspired use of puppetry, into one of the most successful stage works of our time.
The theatrical version of "War Horse," which will be hitched to the Hippodrome this week, packs an extraordinary visual punch. That helps to explain why the show has been running in London's West End since 2009 and also made an impact on Broadway, where it earned five Tony Awards, including Best Play, in 2011.
"War Horse" has been touring North America for a year and a half now. Another tour is taking place in the U.K. and Ireland. There have been productions in Berlin and Australia as well.
"No one here predicted it would be a hit," says Chris Harper, producer at Britain's National Theatre. "There was a lot of doubt about it. We started out figuring we'd get maybe 50 performances. But this has been our most successful show in our 50 years. Our new theater was paid for by the profits of 'War Horse' on Broadway."
This good fortune began when staffers at the company were looking around for a prospect to fill the slot of an annual family show. The mother of the National Theatre's then-associate director Tom Morris suggested that they read a children's book that had been published and largely forgotten 25 years earlier, a book called "War Horse."
"So we did," Harper says. "Then we called up Michael Morpurgo and said, 'Hello, can we adapt your book?' He said OK, but he wanted to know how we were going to do it. We told him, 'With puppets.' "
That gave the author pause.
"Absurd, I thought," Morpurgo told the Telegraph, "but it's the National Theatre, for goodness sake. Maybe they know what they're doing."
They did.
The theater engaged the innovative Handspring Puppet Company, based in Cape Town, South Africa, to design life-size puppets for Joey and the other important equine character, Topthorn, a stallion who shares with Joey a troubled fate that includes capture by the Germans.
More layers were added to "War Horse" as the play, adapted by Nick Stafford, took shape; richly atmospheric music by John Tams and Adrian Sutton became a particularly crucial element. During the development process, which lasted more than two years, the creative team questioned everything.
"How can you have a hit where the lead character can't speak? You can do that in a book, obviously, but we didn't want it to look funny onstage," Harper says. "Would puppets hold an audience's attention?"
In the end, worries were swept aside. "War Horse" galloped into the spotlight, winning over the public and, largely, the press.
The production, directed by Morris and Marianne Elliott and designed by Rae Smith (they all received Tonys for their work, as did lighting and sound designers), manages to tell an epic story in a personal way that can pull in adults and young people alike.
As any boy-and-his-horse tale would do, this one deals with growing up, learning responsibility and the like. But the issue of war and its toll on humans and animals, not to mention values, gives the play a much deeper resonance. It's a story of life and, unflinchingly, of death.
Above all, like the original source material, this remains a horse-centric experience, and that's what seems to grab people more than anything.


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Republican Assemblywoman Beth Gaines is accused of shortchanging constituents by moonlighting in a 60-second radio ad released Tuesday by Andy Pugno, her GOP election opponent. Pugno said about $25,000 was spent to air the ad on radio stations in the 6th Assembly District of Placer, El Dorado and Sacramento counties. Below is the ad and analysis by Jim Sanders of The Bee Capitol Bureau:
Woman: Taxpayers give incumbent politician Beth Gaines $95,000 a year to be a full-time legislator, but we only get part-time work in return. Beth Gaines admitted under oath that she spends over a third of her time moonlighting at another job.
Man: Beth Gaines takes her full-time paycheck but only gives us part-time work?
Woman: Yeah.
Man: That's cheating.
Woman: Beth Gaines went to court to hide her full-time job from voters, and she won't list that job on the ballot. If she's ashamed of her $95,000 job, why is she running for re-election?
Man: So we give Beth Gaines $95,000 to be a full-time legislator, but she hides that from voters and moonlights a third of the time?
Woman: Yep.
Man: That's dishonest.
Woman: The Los Angeles Times said Beth Gaines wants to avoid admitting that she's a member of the Legislature. The Sacramento Bee called it the "sleaziest trick."
Man: Say no to political sleazy tricks. Say no to Beth Gaines.
It is true that Gaines is paid $95,000 as a lawmaker and that she has sworn in court documents that she works 10 to 15 hours weekly in her family's insurance business, Gaines Insurance Agency, created in February. She owns 50 percent of the firm.
It also is true that Gaines listed "small business owner," not legislator, as her ballot designation for the June primary.
Pugno is within legitimate political discourse to opine that moonlighting is "cheating" voters who pay Gaines' salary and that not listing herself on the ballot as a legislator is "dishonest" and "hiding" information from voters.
But many lawmakers earn outside income from other jobs, and an increasing number are opting to list those positions on the ballot rather than their status as an incumbent lawmaker.
The Legislature does not require lawmakers to work a specified number of hours and the job is not 9-to-5 because duties often require attendance at night or weekend events.
Pugno's ad is correct that the Los Angeles Times characterized Gaines as trying to avoid admitting that she's a member of the Legislature.
However, the claim that The Bee wrote "sleaziest trick" to criticize Gaines is off the mark. Columnist Marcos Breton used the words to rip the common practice every election of lawmakers calling themselves business owners, not incumbents. Gaines was not mentioned.


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The victims of the New Year's Eve Skyway party shooting said Tuesday that Benjamin Barnes was not well-known at the party, that he showed up with a mutual friend and appeared to be having a good time until an argument erupted over a gun.
Ruth Hamilton's two sons were among four of the people shot at the party in Skyway. Speaking from Harborview Medical Center, where they are hospitalized, Hamilton said her youngest son Trinity was in stable condition while his brother Loyden was still in critical condition.
"He was shot in each arm and one went in his chest and stomach," Ruth Hamilton said of Loyden.
"He said he (Barnes) seemed like a nice guy; they were talking about how they both came from Riverside, Calif., what a coincidence they were both from the same area."
But about three hours after that, an argument broke out.
"It seems there was some type of argument over a weapon; somebody had let somebody look at their gun (and) the person wouldn't give it back and an argument started," King County Sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West said.
Witnesses said that's when Barnes opened fire and then, as they learned later, he headed to Mount Rainier National Park.
Hamilton said her son tried to stop him. "He did fire back and in self-defense after he got hit, and if he would have got the guy, she (the park ranger) wouldn't be dead right now."
Detective said that there were about nine people at the party. Some were armed and had a "show and tell" with their weapons. At least two people fired multiple rounds into the air at midnight.
Just before 3 a.m., one man asked another to see a gun. When asked to give it back, the man refused. A fight ensued during which at least two people pulled guns and began firing. One of the shooters was Barnes, witnesses said.
After the shooting, Barnes and two other people left the house. Detectives quickly identified Barnes and worked with members of his family to convince him to turn himself in and tell his side of the story to police.
It is not yet known who shot first but detectives will examine forensic evidence as the investigation continues. Because of their injuries, detectives have been unable to speak with all of the shooting victims.
All four victims remain in the hospital. Two are in stable condition and two have critical injuries.
Ruth Hamilton said it could be three to six months before her older son is fully recovered