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The effect that arises when a stock trades at a certain multiple and, while earnings may be strong, the stock price doesn't move up (or even goes down). The result is that the given multiple (P/E ratio) is reduced even though nothing is fundamentally wrong with the company. Compression of a company's multiple can be interpreted as the valuation being called into question.
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A personal physician who provides long-term comprehensive care in the office and the hospital, managing both common and complex illness of adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Internists are trained in the diagnosis and treatment of of cancer, infections, and diseases affecting the heart, blood, kidneys, joints and digestive, respiratory, and vascular systems. They are also trained in the essentials of primary care internal medicine which incorporates an understanding of disease prevention, wellness, substance abuse, mental health, and effective treatment of common problems of the eyes, ears, skin, nervous system, and reproductive organs.
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July 25, 2010 Lauren Marie Lalama became the bride of Kurt Charles Eisenbraun on June 25 at Fellows Riverside Gardens in Youngstown. The bride is the daughter of Frank and Paulette Lalama of Columbiana. more »»
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July 18, 2010 Jessica Smith and Kevin Miller were united in marriage on April 23 at the Municipal Court House in Lisbon. Judge Carol Robb officiated at the couple's double-ring ceremony at 1 p.m. more »»
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July 18, 2010 Jessica D. Watson and Omar K. Witherspoon III were united in marriage on June 4 at the Columbiana County Municipal Courthouse in Lisbon. more »»
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Posted By Mike Drew On August 13, 2007 @ 4:31 pm In Books,Publishing | 3 Comments
I recently shared lunch with my good friend and business associate, Ray Bard. Ray is the monumentally successful mastermind behind the Bard Press publishing house where I worked from 1999-2002. We established a great dialog during my stint there and try to get together as often as possible to trade war stories about current projects and the state of affairs in the Big Bad Book Industry.
We spent most of this particular lunch discussing the challenges faced by today's publishers. (This Brand Autopsy post [1] should shed some light.) Ray used industry averages to illustrate just how it's become critical for publishers to be extremely selective with the authors they choose to bring on board.
Here's how those averages break down on a per-book basis, for those with the gag tolerance to stomach the facts:
Retail price = $20
Left for publisher = $0
Nice margin, isn't it? I'm not positive, but I think convicts make more in prison.
So how do publishing houses like Bard Press survive? By holding out for authors who have either the money or the over-the-top marketing platform to make a serious run at the bestseller lists.
I can always tell when Ray finds an author with bestselling potential. At the end of those lunches, he's a lot quicker to reach for the tab.
[Author's Note: Read more about selecting the right authors in my article, "A Few Good Books: Just Say 'No!' to Authors without Healthy Marketing Platforms." [2]]
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Sacramento Community Stands United Against Closures Prior to Vote on February 21
SACRAMENTO, CA – The Putting Students First (PSF) Coalition will host a rally and press conference on Wednesday, February 20 to stand united against the proposed closure of 11 elementary schools. Led by Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP), the PSF Coalition is a diverse community of stakeholders including parents, teachers, advocates and students.
SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education joins the Sacramento Council of PTAs, Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) and Sacramento City Unified teachers in opposing the closure of eleven Sacramento City Unified School District elementary schools.
SCUSD may need to close schools, but the process the district is using to arrive at this decision is flawed, said the coalition in a statement released Monday.
February 12, 2013
As we perform our work on behalf of families and communities across the Sacramento City Unified School District boundaries our processes are guided in matters of policy such as school closures by California State PTA's position statements.
Cosmos Garvin's must read article raises many important questions about the districts push to close "under-enrolled" schools. The future of district bond measures is one issue that hasn't been talked about much in the debate over the closures. Just a few months ago the district sold voters on approving two bond measures to upgrade school facilities. The district had detailed assessments made of each site to give the public some knowledge of where the bond money would be spent. Now two months later eleven of those elementary schools are proposed for closure.
Why is the district closing schools in the light of the passage of prop 30 and the Governor's new policy initiative to change the way schools are funded? Sac City is 73% free and reduced lunch students. It could receive an infusion of funds.
For the past ten years, the Sacramento City Unified School District has closed schools piecemeal, even when attempting to put a process like a 7-11 committee in place. Now with its back against the wall financially, the district believes it must close a large number of schools to remain solvent. To address the declining enrollment and over capacity in the district, planning should have begun by considering the best way to serve the needs of all of the current population of students in the district.
The SCUSD school closure list is out and some of the criteria behind the selection of the schools on it has been revealed. Three of the Superintendent's Priority Schools get a pass, despite the fact they are under enrolled. Oak Ridge was on a closure list two years ago because of low enrollment and the poor shape of its facility. Now it will be a receiving school for students from Bret Harte and Fruitridge Elementary Schools.
Much as she did when reporters on her own paper revealed mayoral candidate Kevin Johnson to be a slumlord, Bee editor Ginger Rutland now feels it necessary in the wake of the Frontline episode to rehabilitate Michelle Rhee's image. In spite of allegations of widespread cheating, a campaign of humiliating teachers and administrators and wholesale closings of schools rather than attempting to improve them, Rhee gets a pass because of her "no excuses" philosophy for education achievement for children in poverty.
Touching upon Race to the Top, the Chicago teachers' strike and the privatization of public education, Smiley and West's conversation with Diane Ravitch points out that the struggles in public education--the "civil rights issue of our times"--are not just about race but also about class.http://www.smileyandwest.com/this-weeks-show/the-conversation-diane-ravi...
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I'm writing to you about your education policy. Although my children are no longer in the K-12 system here in Sacramento, I remain involved in our public schools because of their importance to the future of our country. It's clear to me that our public school system is being undermined by the very policies that are supposed to improve it. I believe that the focus of federal policy should be educational equity, not "accountability".
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Kowalski to close 4 delis in Metro Detroit
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Kowalski, the Hamtramck-based maker of sausage and other meat products, has decided to close several of its Metro Detroit delis.
The company is not commenting on reports it will close delis in Warren, Westland, Macomb Township and Hamtramck.
Christine Sanders has been been going to the Kowalski deli in Hamtramck for more than 30 years and said she is disappointed.
"I was just talking to the lady inside, Where am I going to get my holiday kielbasa and fresh kielbasa," Sanders asked.
Kowalski will continue operations at its home plant in Hamtramck and will sell its products in grocery stores.
James Stephens of Detroit said he is accustomed to going to the Kowalski deli and does not prefer the supermarket.
"Who wants to go through all the hustle and bustle of that when you can come here and it's like one on one here. You tell them what you want and they give it to you. You know, it's a big difference," Stephens said,.
Many regular deli customers voiced disappointment that the closings could not be postponed until after the Christmas holidays.
The deli closings will affect about 20 workers. Kowalski has offered those employees other positions within the company.
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I played around with my mouse for quiet some time in Windows Mouse Settings before I found a simple solution in Firefox it self.
In Firefox, go to Options and under the Advanced tab, General tab make sure Use smooth scrolling is ticked and that should fix your issues, I know it did for me.
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Nokia demonstrates: White Space ploy can get more 4G handsets into same spectrum
Nokia has successfully demonstrated a 4G LTE network which can hop aside when someone else wants the frequency, opening up the possibilities for dynamically-shared radio spectrum. Nokia's test network reached three Finnish cities and was able to switch radio frequencies based on availability by regularly checking back with a …
But not actually White Space at all. It's fully managed
TV transmitters can't change frequency.
Proposed TV White Space is unmanaged and the idea is the ordinary public buys devices using the TV band. There is no way to Police it, ensure all TV users are OK or detect gadget users adding too big aerials, more power or disabling database.
With so called TV White Space there is no mechanism for TV receivers to report which channel they are really using due to local topology. Which may not be what the official database predicts. Nor can the TV transmitters change.
This Nokia scheme is fully managed sharing and can work. Not really white space at all. TV White Space is a totally evil concept making broadcast users into unprotected secondary users.
Nokia's "ASA" is a technology for using so called "whire space" efficiently - a mnagement techinque.
The term "white space" refers to ranges of spectrum - so the two are completely different things.
This difference should be obvious to even the non-technical, it is rather like confusing the physical structure of roads in the UK with the "Highway Code" handbook !
Sounds good
This sounds like it would be a great asset, especially for femto-cells and the like. It would free such tiny cells from the control of the big networks. It would be a huge win for consumers.
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Only problem is interactive access to the database, for which a subscription will almost certainly be required. And the organisations best placed to manage such subscriptions will be the big networks...
Niice tech demo with dubious claims
This is a nice tech demo but makes dubious claims. So, this allowed an 18% increase in capacity how exactly? Do they simply mean they added 18% more total spectrum by using 2.3ghz spectrum? Or do they claim they were doing something to make the LTE use more efficient. If so, it seems any technique for improving LTE capacity would work on licensed bands too, also yielding an 18% improvement.
"It would be better if the radios could decide between themselves what band to use, but that presents technical problems which may prove insurmountable. "
It is insurmountable. It's "hidden node problem" writ large -- little short-range transceivers with crappy little antennas cannot pick up weak TV channels, will therefore decide the channel is clear and blast right over the legitimate user of the channel. Microsoft tried -- twice -- to demonstrate this would work fine, they blasted over the channel both times, and both times claimed it was software problems (which made me chuckle -- Microsoft writing buggy software? No kidding) rather than admitting the much more likely explanation that the antenna was not sensitive enough to assess the channel so it didn't work. After the second attempt they seem to have ditched it.
"Network operators, having paid enormous sums of money for exclusive access to slivers of spectrum, shouldn't be expected to embrace such an approach. For all their public demands for more spectrum, every MHz released decreases the value of their assets - particularly given that the FCC and Ofcom are both making use of White Space licence-free."
I don't know about Ofcom, but with every MHz release, the FCC makes a lot of money. Would the government really want to let go of a cash cow? They are like a dealer; get the recipients hooked and maximize your money intake.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...
(As long as NSA keeps quiet long may that continue.)
Doesn't it seem to anyone else that this is a technology with an inbuilt design failure?
I know nobody in their right minds would ever consider creating a denial of service attack; I mean to say, it is against the ethics of freedom of speech right?
Not even the American Government would do that, right?
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. The Grand Junction Lions Club recognizes Western Slope high school students for their athletic and scholastic accomplishments.
Eight student athletes from each area high school were honored at their second annual grand valley student athlete ceremony held at the Two Rivers Convention Center.
Students were selected for the awards by their teachers, coaches, and administrators that know them best.
"It's important to us at the Lions Club that we encourage student athletes to give back to their community as they go on to the next journey of their lives," says Ky Oday of the Grand Junction Lions Club.
Each student-athlete recipient was presented with a plaque at Tuesday's ceremony and selected a non-profit organization to which the Grand Junction Lions Club will donate $250 dollars in their name.
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Senator Lamar Alexander has put his money where his energy policy mouth is and shelled out the $10,000 it costs to have a Prius converted by A123 Systems to a plug-in type hybrid. The senator says he gets 30 miles out of the lithium ion battery before the engine is called upon to do some work. Having only a 5 or 6 mile daily commute, Alexander has burned about half a tank a gas since sometime last July which is just a bit less than his former vehicle, a leased Nissan Maxima, would have burned. Of course, his motivation for the innovative installation was not to save money but to illustrate what is possible.
Having worked with the TVA for many years, Alexander is well aware that the rather large Tennessee Valley region has an unused nighttime electricity capacity that is equal to the output of six or seven nuclear plants. He hopes that a lot of that energy can go to power transportation vehicles in the future and help offset imported oil. Although he believes this goal will take 15 to 20 years to achieve, he calculates that if half of our current fleet of cars and trucks had similar capabilities as his shiny black Prius, we could cut our oil imports by 4 to 5 million barrels a day - just about half. This, of course, would be great but we hope it happens a lot sooner than 2028.
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Design studio Aesthetic Apparatus is arguably the Twin Cities' most lauded poster designer. The MCAD Gallery's latest exhibit takes a look at its impressive first decade—one year after the fact. The retrospective gathers the prodigious output of sole employees Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski, who founded AA 11 years ago as an after-hours project away from their "real" design jobs. "AAXI" highlights every limited-edition poster Aesthetic Apparatus has turned out since it formed, including show posters for the likes of Grizzly Bear and the Hold Steady, and art prints from the well-known Doom Drip series. It even expands beyond 2D works to include half-jokingly venerated studio artifacts: wire and clips from AA's first workspace, rubber stamp designs, an infamously ugly studio couch, and the sheet of legal paper where Ibarra and Byzewski first wrote their business plan ("Low art. High prices!"). The opening reception is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, May 28.
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U.S. home construction fell for a third month in February, but in a hopeful sign, applications for building permits rose to their highest level in four months.
Builders started work on 907,000 homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in February, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That was down a slight 0.2 percent from January, when construction had fallen 11.2 percent. The declines have been blamed in large part on severe winter weather in much of the country.
Applications for permits to build homes, considered a gauge of future activity, rose a solid 7.7 percent in February to 1.02 million units. Many analysts expect housing sales and construction to show further gains this year, helped by a stronger economy.
The weakness in construction came in the apartment sector.
Job fairs planned for Guardian Auto
Two job fairs are scheduled to fill 50 production positions at Guardian Automotive Products Inc. in Ligonier.
The jobs start at $12.50 an hour, but there is an opportunity for incremental increases in the first year to $14.50.
The first fair is from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Ligonier plant, 860 W. U.S. 6. The second fair is from 9 a.m. to noon April 5 at WorkOne Northeast, 524 Fairview Blvd. in Kendallville.
Applicants should bring resumes and dress appropriately. Ideal candidates will have a high school diploma or the equivalent and three years of manufacturing experience.
Guardian Automotive Products manufactures windshields for the automotive industry.
Wal-Mart takes aim at used game market
Wal-Mart plans to start buying used video games from shoppers at stores in a move that goes after the bread-and-butter business of GameStop.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to expand its online trade-in program by allowing customers to trade their used video games at 3,100 Wal-Mart stores in exchange for credit toward the purchase of other items.
The world's largest retailer is taking aim at the $2 billion used video game market. It's a business dominated by GameStop Corp., the world's biggest dedicated seller of video games with the largest and most-established video game trade-in program.
Consumer prices tick up slightly
Cheaper energy kept U.S. consumer prices in check last month despite a big rise in the cost of food, the latest sign that inflation is tame.
The consumer price index rose 0.1 percent in February, matching January's increase, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
In the past 12 months, prices have risen just 1.1 percent, down from 1.6 percent in January and the smallest yearly gain in five months.
Citigroup to pay for short selling
Citigroup has agreed to pay about $1.1 million to settle claims that it violated some short sale rules.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and BATS Exchange 1 Inc. said Tuesday that Citigroup was short selling ahead of participating in five public stock offerings.
The companies said that between May 2009 and September 2010, Citigroup was short selling within five business days of the pricing of five public stock offerings and then bought shares in the offerings.


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Video: The Warriors' D-League mascot is a dancing sea turtle in sunglasses
Look, I don't know what to tell you guys. The Santa Cruz Warriors, who are the D-League affiliate of the Golden State Warriors, have a mascot named Mav'Riks — which is a really weird name for a Warriors team, by the way, though I really hope it's a deep zinger about their 2007 first round upset of the Dallas Mavericks — and it is a sea turtle that wears sunglasses and dances.
And sometimes, the Internet rips a clip of him dancing in silence and it is just magical and not at all unsettling. Have you ever seen a human-sized turtle with such graceful moves that appear to be inspired by complete silence (even though we know there has to be music playing)? I don't think you have, because human-sized sea turtles just aren't that common these days. I personally haven't seen one in ages and I'm always looking. Glad to see they're still around here and there.
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Mavericks is the name of the big wave surfing area up the coast from Santa Cruz.
It's a ninja turtle!!!
do you reckon he's friends with Poochie the dog?
It's actually the old Nawlins Hornets mascot, his career has taken a turn for the worse
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He's doing the dance from napoleon dynamite. all it needs is the music added in (which is probably copyright or something).


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Police say a drive-by shooting on Chicago's South Side late Thursday wounded seven men and one woman ranging in age from 14 to 20 years. Two of the victims were taken to Comer Children's Hospital. Most are in stable condition. Police say the 19-year-old woman wounded was shot in the arm while walking to work.
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In December, Bill Browand, a Fort Wayne Realtor, closed a deal selling nearly 100 Fort Wayne homes.
If you're envisioning mountains of paperwork at the closing table, well, that didn't happen, says Browand, of Coldwell Banker Roth Wehrly Graber. That's because the houses – all rental properties, many with current tenants – were sold as a package to one buyer, an investment firm in California.
It really wasn't so bad, he says of the closing, which area real estate professionals say may foreshadow a trend in Fort Wayne.
Traditionally, single-family rental homes have been owned by local landlords. But there's more interest in such properties from groups or individuals far-flung from the Hoosier State who are buying in bulk.
Lately, hardly a week goes by that area real-estate experts don't get a call from an out-of-state firm looking for a package of rentals, though many deals don't come to fruition.
I have seen recently even one or two out-of-country investors coming here looking to (buy), says Kyle Ness, president of Upstate Indiana Association of Realtors, also known as UPSTAR.
Credit the area's reputation for having affordable properties.
The numbers look just phenomenal on paper, Ness says when asked why Fort Wayne is seen as attractive by investment groups.
You can buy a $20,000 property that will gross $6,000 a year (in rents) and nets out $4,000 after taxes, insurance, vacancy and estimates on maintenance. That's a 20 percent return and that's considered excellent.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors, says the interest in Fort Wayne is a lingering product of the housing bubble.
When housing prices in places such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and Atlanta rose and then dropped, investors quickly moved in to scoop up what they saw as bargains, he says. But, by the middle of last year, as prices strongly rebounded and the supply of lower-priced houses from foreclosures and short sales dropped, those markets became less attractive.
What's been happening in the recent cycle is we've seen some investors turn to some more affordable markets in the Midwest, such as Memphis, Detroit and now Fort Wayne, Yun says. They are seeking rental income, and they believe they are still buying on the cheap because Fort Wayne prices did not rise as much.
Compare it to buying a stock that not only pays regular dividends and also has the potential to rise in value, he says, adding that investors also might be anticipating rising rental income.
Statistics show rents lately have been rising nationally at the fastest pace in six years, Yun says – the result of a dearth of new construction in apartments and single-family houses in recent years combined with increased demand from foreclosed homes' residents needing somewhere to live.
Browand says he's not at liberty to disclose the name of the buyer, the seller or the purchase price, except to say the total sale amounted to millions.
He also would not disclose addresses. He says properties were from various sections of the city, but many were on the southeast side, near downtown or on the near north side. Most were single-family homes but there were a few multifamily units.
The seller, from Fort Wayne, was liquidating part of a large portfolio of rentals he'd tried to sell previously as part of a plan for winding down a business, Browand says.
Many of the properties were sold already leased, and the buyer, who is working with a local company to manage the properties, plans to expand holdings in Fort Wayne, he says.
Public records in the Allen County Recorder of Deeds' and assessor's offices show in December about 100 properties were sold to Inpro Investment Partners LLC.
The seller was a small group of Fort Wayne concerns controlled by members of one family.
Inpro has an address of La Jolla, Calif., and was formed in March 2012, according to California corporate registration records available online. Its registered agent is listed as Jorge Campello Figueiredo. No telephone number could be found for him or Inpro.
Just how more outside investment in rentals will affect Fort Wayne remains to be seen, says Heather Presley-Cowen, the city's deputy director of community development.
In the southeast quadrant, she says, the city has been promoting home ownership and conversion of rentals to owner-owned homes as a course to stabilizing neighborhoods, she says, making the sale of large numbers of properties as rentals counter those efforts.
More out-of-town owners also could mean less investment in upkeep and more vacant properties that could become a problem for neighborhoods, she adds.
That's because in investment packages, profitable properties can be sold along with less profitable ones, and investors may be able to leave some properties unfilled and unattended and still make money.
Indeed, she says, packages may be designed for the purpose of offsetting profits from other more profitable properties elsewhere.
She says the responsiveness of property managers is key.
If you shop in the same grocery store as your landlord, that's a whole different conversation than if you've never met, Presley-Cowen says. Unless there's good property management that's when things can go bad.
Rents also could go up, she says. If the purchased properties are enrolled in the federal Section 8 program, the subsidized rents are government-set.
But new private owners could decide to raise rents to levels more comparable to their home areas, she says.
Browand says that although the properties were not in Section 8, he doesn't anticipate rental increases, at least not initially, because investors want to retain tenants.
Bud Myers, executive director of the Indianapolis Housing Authority, says that city has seen another effect from the sale of several thousand rental homes in packages to out-of-area investors in the last 18 months.
Many were Section 8 properties, which are seen as more desirable by investors because the federal government guarantees rents will be paid, he says.
But the sales led to an upswing in violations of the agency's rules and more challenging fraud investigations, he says.
Companies or individuals in Australia, Israel, California, Kansas City and Hong Kong have been among those involved, he says, but it has been difficult to track ownership.
But Browand says he sees the trend as boding well for the Fort Wayne economy because it brings in outside money, and he believes his buyer will be a responsible landlord.
These guys came through and walked through every property. They spent three days here in town and were constantly calling (addressing issues), he says.
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South School students Aiyana Littlejohn, Megan Littlejohn, Olivia Dygd and Nicole Raza are belles of the ball this month in the drama club's production of Cinderella. (APRIL GUILMET PHOTO)
Next week, the talented young actors, dancers and stage designers will take to the stage for four performances of "Cinderella."
From the carefully choreographed dance numbers to the colorfully painted stage sets depicting the fabled pumpkin coach and the royal court, the show has truly been a labor of love, according to teacher Deanna Poulin, who serves as the drama club's staff adviser.
Rehearsals for the 75-member cast, which consists of fourth- and fifth-graders, began in October, Poulin said, with Tuesday afternoons devoted to play preparations.
Around 20 parents and staff members have assisted in the process.
Ashley Greenwood and Erin Bachelor will share the lead role, with Greenwood portraying the "rich Cinderella" and Bachelor portraying the "poor Cinderella."
"When I'm on the stage, it's like being in a whole different world," said Ashley, who plans to continue with theater when she goes to middle school next year. She hopes to one day star on Broadway.
Poulin said staff at the school got a bit creative with the casting in hopes of giving many children the opportunity to shine onstage.
Public performances of Cinderella will take place at South School April 11 and 12, with both shows starting at 7 p.m.
Two other performances will take place during school hours on April 10 and 11.
Though admission is free, any donations received will be used toward future drama club productions. The children will also be hosting a bake sale during intermission at both evening performances.
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Facebook has revealed that it has some 83 million fake accounts on its site, almost 10 per cent of its user base, in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The 10-Q filing reveals that the firm is aware of a large portion of accounts plaguing the site that shouldn't be there, with 4.8 per cent of users owning "duplicate accounts", which is not allowed under the terms and conditions of the service.
Beyond that, there are around 2.4 per cent of "user-misclassified accounts", where users have created "personal profiles for a business, organisation, or non-human entity such as a pet", which are meant to be hosted under its Pages section.
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Adding these percentages up and applying them to the last reported user base of 901 million means there are around 83 million fake accounts in total on the site.
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On May 23, a letter was delivered to my home letting me know of a "great opportunity."
This letter was from a company called Life Line Screening. They do screening for several diseases and conditions and are scheduled to offer these to the public June 12 in College Place.
There are five types of screening: stroke/carotid artery; heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation); abdominal aortic aneurysm; peripheral arterial disease; and osteoporosis risk.
The letter describes different things that can be prevented if you have these tests done and how you could escape disaster by identifying disease early.
The letter was signed by Peggy Fleming, who was an Olympic champion ice skater in the 1960s. As written it could certainly make people fearful, and in my opinion, unnecessarily so.
The brochure stated that the cost if you had each of these separately would be $275 but if you get them all it will only cost $159.
Does this sound like a good deal? Unfortunately, it is not.
The U.S. government has a department called the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force -- USPSTF -- formed for the sole purpose of determining what type of screening is worthwhile and what is not.
Screens such as colonoscopies, mammograms and pap smears have all been shown to be of significant value under proper circumstances.
There is nothing actually wrong with each of these tests. They are often ordered by health care personnel after a person has been carefully evaluated and it has been determined they are needed.
But the USPSTF recommends that none of these tests be done as proposed by Life Line Screening .
Why is that? There are several problems with screening of this nature.
First, there will be no careful evaluation to see whether you even need to have the screening done.
Also, in the brochure there is a question-and-answer section. The first question is: "Who needs to be screened?" The brochure's answer is: anyone over 50, but if there is a bad family history or you have high risk factors it may be advisable even if you are 40.
There is no mention made that, when it comes to abdominal aortic aneurysms, the government only recommends those tests for men who are between the ages of 65-75 and who have a history of smoking at some time in their life. There is no hint in the brochure that women would not even need to have that screening, especially someone as young as 40.
Neither Medicare nor Medicaid will pay for it. And unless a person was already having symptoms no private insurance company will pay for it.
Of course, some folks will say that it is worth their peace of mind to have it done. But there are other problems.
There is no one in that company who can treat you for any abnormal condition found. So you will have to go to a licensed health care provider and will most likely have to have the test repeated.
Furthermore, often abnormalities are discovered but they may be of such a nature that no one knows for sure whether they are serious.
There could be an increase of anxiety over something that is not that important. And it may call for operative procedures such as biopsies, which in themselves can be life-threatening. For example, people can have abnormal reactions to anesthesia or could be exposed to antibiotic-resistant germs.
In surfing the Internet in regard to this issue I came across information from Dr. Kenneth Lin, a board-certified family practice doctor who practices in the Washington, D.C., area.
He is on the faculty of the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Family Medicine, which is the official journal of the American Academy of Family Practice.
He tells of what he described as a deceptive advertisement that was in his church's bulletin for Life Line Screening services in the church's cafeteria.
He proceeds to tell why it would not be worthwhile. His reasons are basically the same as mine.
Some of the readers of this article may find edifying what Dr. Lin has to say about other controversial issues. Just Google "common sense family doctor."
Dr. Don Casebolt of College Place is a retired physician who is passionate about preventive medicine. He spent four years as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy, the last 21/2 years as a flight surgeon. He also worked on the Navajo Reservation for 22 years.
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