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To transfer to the College, follow these steps.
Step 1 Complete an Application
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Contact the Registrar's office at your current or past institution and have official transcripts sent to the College's Office of Enrollment Services for review. You may request your transcripts electronically through National Student Clearinghouse. If you have earned credit outside the US, have your transcripts evaluated course by course by a NACES-approved credential evaluator.
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Step 3 Assess Your Skills
If you have completed college credits in English Language and Mathematics, you may have met the College's college readiness requirements. If not, there are many ways you can determine your college readiness and identify courses that are right for you. You may submit score reports (PSAT, SAT, PSSA, AP, etc.), or you can take the College's placement tests. The College offers you many ways to prepare for the placement tests and highly encourages you to do so. To find out more about course placement, please see Testing and Placement.
Step 4 Apply for Financial Aid
If you are transferring directly from another institution, you may have to take additional steps to allow the College to process your financial aid. To see the list of procedures for transfer students who have received aid at another college, view our Transfer web page.
Step 5 Meet with Your Advisor
All transfer students must meet with their assigned academic advisor from our Student Success Center to build their education plan and confirm their program of study and contact information. To schedule an appointment, call the Student Success Center at your chosen campus.
215-641-6577 Central Campus in Blue Bell
610-718-1906 West Campus in Pottstown
Step 6 Pay Your Tuition
Tuition and fees can be paid through WebAdvisor, by credit card over the phone, or in person at the Bursar's office (hours are 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Friday) using Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, money order, cash, or check. To speak with a cashier, call the Business Office at your chosen campus.
215-641-6540 Central Campus in Blue Bell
610-718-1944 West Campus in Pottstown
The College also offers a deferred payment plan which allows you pay a portion of your balance each month. You may enroll in-person at either campus, by mail, or fax by submitting the completed form, $35 non-refundable set-up fee and the initial payment. Visit the Deferred Payment Plan page for more details.
Step 7 Plan for Your Future Courses
You must submit your future semester course selection through your educational planner to your advisor for approval. Contact your assigned academic advisor for more help, if necessary.


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GRANDVILLE, MI -- The newly-opened Grandville Target is quickly getting some retail neighbors in a yet-to-be completed shopping center being constructed down the road from RiverTown Crossings Mall.
ULTA Beauty will launch its weekend grand opening at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19. The retail chain is offering a host of freebies including gift certificates, makeovers and
consultations in cosmetics, skin care and hairstyling to bring people through the doors.
The first 100 shoppers daily from Friday through Sunday will receive gift certificates ranging from $5 to $100 or a free salon service. The first 1,000 visitors to sign up for the retailer's loyalty club will receive a gift bag.
RELATED: Ulta Beauty finds healthy market in West Michigan
The 10,000-square foot store, at 3160 44th St., will carry more than 20,000 products including brands Dermalogica, Murad, Bare Escentuals, Smashbox, Pureology and Redken and along with the beauty retailer's own ULTA brand.
The store also includes a large, full-service salon. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday,and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. ULTA Beauty operates nearly 500 stores across 45 states.
Clothing retailer Maurice's will open a 5,000-square-foot store on Nov. 10 adjacent to ULTA Beauty.
Other retailers will soon join them, says Scott Weirda, a principal and managing partner of CWD Real Estate Investment with partners Sam Cummings and Dan DeVos.
"We have five more that we have signed that we can't announce," said Weirda, adding he expects there will be at least 10 to 15 additional tenants.
Weirda anticipates the 375,000-square-foot shopping center is expected to be built out by the end of 2014. With anchor stores Target and Cabela's seeing most of that space, Weirda says he is looking for tenants for about 145,000 square feet that includes outbuildings to be constructed along the development's perimeter.
"It's going extremely well," said Weirda. "Better than projected. We have the right anchors, and Target is a fantastic neighbor."
Target is drawing smaller beauty and fashion retailers, while Cabela's is expected to attract restaurants.
"It's really mixed use," said Weirda. "And combining the right type of retailers is the task we have. I like to look for businesses that can play off each other."
While CWD has received attention for bringing the first Cabela's to the West MIchigan, it is the new Target store that has most appeal to other retailers.
"Target is perhaps the best anchor in the shopping center world right now," said Weirda. "They bring a good customer in. A lot of fashion tenants like to be near Target."
The new Target is also drawing attention because it was one of only a handful the Minneapolis retailer is building.
"It's literally the only new construction for Target going on in the state of Michigan," Weirda said. "And there's not many in the country."
Under construction, the Cabela's store is slated to open in the spring.
"They haven't officially said their date but best we can tell it's April 1, plus or minus a few week," said Weirda. "It looks fantastic."
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We have every right to be interested in the salaries of those in the charitocracy
Published 20/02/2014 | 02:30
A deer frozen in the headlights of a fast-approaching truck sums up Rehab's behaviour under scrutiny. It has misjudged woefully the level of public interest in salaries among the charitocracy in general – and at Rehab in particular, where a stingy attitude to transparency is proving unsatisfactory.
The bungling of its board is impacting not just on the charity but on the reputation of the sector. Charities have been slow to repair collateral damage – perhaps Rehab isn't the only deer caught in headlights.
Even now, what's known about Angela Kerins's pay is limited. Finally, we learnt this week that she earns €240,000 a year, plus a 6pc pension top-up. This is an increase of €6,000 on the Rehab chief executive's last known salary in 2011.
However, the board has omitted to share details of her salary in 2012 and 2013, which is surely a little odd. Furthermore, senior executives' pay won't be disclosed until the 2015 accounts, meaning they will be unavailable before 2016.
To recap, Rehab expects to continue receiving €82m a year of public money without letting people in on the secret of how exactly it is spent. Now that's a board walled up inside an ivory tower.
It is not Ms Kerins's job to justify her pay. The board ought to explain the principles on which her package was agreed, and make its case to the public. Efforts so far have been unpersuasive. 'Inadequate' is the word that springs to mind. Speaking of which, 'inadequate' is exactly how one of Rehab's outlets in the UK was evaluated independently.
Rehab's British services are co-ordinated by TBG Learning, a youth and adult training provider. An inspection report into its Birmingham facility was made last November by Ofsted, the office for standards in education. TBG Learning received a grade four – the lowest possible grade, classified as 'inadequate'. Both management and teachers were criticised.
If the Rehab board wants the public to accept that its chief executive's pay should outpace the charity sector norm because of her performance, there is a fly in the ointment in Birmingham. In its statement, it advances a questionable argument about paying "significantly below the market median" – dubious because the charity and commercial spheres can't and shouldn't be compared. There is, after all, a vocational element to working for a charity.
Rehab tells us that Ms Kerins voluntarily waived all bonus entitlements for the past four years. A decision entirely to her credit. But I am mystified why any senior executive in a charity – even a charity with a commercial arm – should receive performance-related bonuses. It seems inappropriate.
Confusion could be avoided if commercial organisations with charitable status had their work split into two separate divisions, and perhaps this is the way forward.
Any charity that imagines the public to be indifferent to salaries and administration costs is deluding itself. And that lack of engagement with reality betrayed by some in the charitocracy world concerns me.
Just as surprising as the scale of some of those salaries and top-ups is the utter lack of preparation on the part of charities to justify them. The fallback defence is that chief executives do complex jobs, salaries need to be benchmarked to the private sector, and the leader's salary is a tiny percentage of the total budget. Such arguments do not convince a jaundiced public.
Naturally, charities need to be run in a business-like fashion, and everybody is entitled to a just wage for their work. If negligible salaries are paid, the risk is that only people of private means will become involved. However, there are balances to be struck in the pursuit of value for money.
Charitable designation gives organisations valuable tax exemptions. Where they also receive public funding, the need for public accountability increases – charities can't expect immunity from scrutiny. They have a responsibility to uphold the highest standards and adhere to best practice.
Information must be supplied to the public in return for charitable status. Data which should be shared annually includes what percentage of every euro raised or donated is spent on charitable activities, and how much is gobbled up by overheads. Also of interest are salary ratios from the highest to the lowest-paid employee: one ought not to be many multiples of the other.
The same debate is contining in Britain, where last year the chairman of its Charity Commission, William Shawcross, warned that boardroom excess was bringing charities "into disrepute". He said: "In these difficult times, when many charities are experiencing shortfalls, trustees should consider whether very high salaries are really appropriate, and fair to both the donors and the taxpayers who fund charities."
Talented chief executives don't grow on trees. When appointing one, charities take into account factors including public profile; an ability to work at the highest levels of government with both civil servants and politicians; and the capacity to relate to supporters.
Equally, rewards exist beyond current remuneration packages. Acting as a charity CEO can prove to be a stepping stone – for women, in particular. According to Women on Boards UK, the charity sphere is a useful training sector, equipping women to move into executive roles on the FTSE and in private and public companies.
The public likes to regard charities as huggable organisations staffed by good eggs. In fact, they are multi-million-euro businesses and their chief executives handle a demanding role.
Getting executive pay right is important for them, but it is even more important if public confidence is to be restored. People want reassurance that money is being spent wisely – to that end, full transparency is in everybody's best interests.
When legitimate questions are asked, silence followed by redacted information is in nobody's interests.
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Sounds of the Season
The King's Singers
Houston Friends of Chamber Music presents the
choral group performing holiday arrange-ments Dec. 7 in Rice University's Stude Concert Hall, entrance 18 off Rice Boulevard. Tickets: $20-$85; 713-348-5400 or www.houstonfriendsofchambermusic.org.
Singing Christmas tree
With choir, orchestra and drama, Dec. 8-12 at First Baptist Church, Pasadena, 7500 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena. Tickets: $6; 281-991-1232 or www.fbp.org
La Belle Èpoque: Et un Joyeux Noël
Houston Grand Opera Studio singers present holiday music Dec. 10-11 at Rienzi Center for European and Decorative Arts, 1406 Kirby. Tickets: $30 including tour, parking and reception; 713-639-7800 or www.mfah.org/rienzi.
Handel's Messiah
Mercury Baroque presents three concerts: Sing-A-Long Messiah Dec. 10 offers seating by voice type; tickets: $25. Family Messiah at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 11 is for children; tickets: $10 and $25. The original Dublin version at 8 p.m. Dec. 11; Tickets: $20-$55. Performances at Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas; 713-533-0080 or www.mercurybaroque.org.
Starry, Starry Night
Cantare Houston performs Christmas music Dec. 11-13 and 18-20 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet. Tickets: $15-$30; 713-724-9648 or cantarehouston.org.
Christmas at the Villa
Houston Chamber Choir performs Dec. 11 at the Villa de Matel Chapel, 6510 Lawndale Ave. Quartus Chamber Players and Treble Choir of Houston also perform. Tickets: $30-$35; 713-224-5566 or houstonchamberchoir.org.
Holiday show
Houston Choral Showcase performs holiday classics, 3 p.m. Dec. 12, Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 8300 Katy Freeway. Tickets: $15 adults, $7 ages 5-12 at door; $11 and $6 online; 281-346-0161 or www.houstonchoralshowcase.org.
And Heaven and Nature Sing
Lone Star Symphonic Band performs holiday music Dec. 12 at Seven Lakes High School, 9251 S. Fry in Katy. Tickets: $5.50 or $10 at the door; www.lonestarsymphonicband.com.
A Piper's Noel
Houston Early Music presents Renaissance Christmas music performed by Ciaramela Dec. 13 at Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave. Tickets: $10-$35; 713-432-1744 or www.houstonearlymusic.org.
Yuletide Concert
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra brass quintet performs Christmas music
Dec. 13 at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, 1 Westcott. Tickets: $45, including reception; 713-639-7758 or rocohouston.org.
Handel's Messiah in Candlelight
Matthew Halls conducts Houston Symphony and Houston Symphony Chorus Dec. 17-19 in Jones Hall. Tickets: $25-$100; 713-224-7575 or www.houstonsymphony.org.
Holiday music
Local school choirs perform 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 20-24 in JPMorgan Chase Building lobby, 713 Main. FREE; 713-216-4623.
Musical Resolutions
Ars Lyrica New Year's Eve concert of Bach, Telemann and Handel Dec. 31 in the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby. Champagne reception follows. Tickets: $21.25-$51.25; 713-315-2525 or arslyricahouston.org.
Amahl and the Night Visitors
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra presents the opera of the Epiphany story Jan. 6 at The Church of St. John the Divine, 2450 River Oaks Blvd. Tickets: $10-$20, free for 5 and younger; 713-665-2700 or rocohouston.org.
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Worship events
Christmas presentation Dec. 9-12 by Houston's First Baptist Church, 7401 Katy Freeway. Tickets: $8-$18; 713-681-8000 or thefirstchristmas.org.
Christmas Concert
Family concert 4 p.m. Dec. 12 at Westbury United Methodist Church, 5200 Willowbend. Free; 713-723-0175 or www.westburyumc.org.
The First Light
Houston Lutheran Chorale concerts Dec. 4 at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 1515 Hillendahl, and Dec. 5 at Trinity Lutheran Church-Downtown, 800 Houston. free: Make reservations at 713-869-8486 or www.hlc-tx.org.
Christmas at Second
Three holiday shows at Second Baptist Church campuses: The Really Really Big Christmas Show, Kids Crazy Christmas Show and The Great Songs of Christmas. Free; christmasatsecond.org.
Israel Houghton
A Christmas concert and a night of worship with the Grammy winner, 6 p.m. Dec. 19, Triumph Church, 10555 W. Airport, Stafford. Free: www.triumphsugarland.com.
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Walk Thru Bethlehem
John Wesley United Methodist Church, 5830 Bermuda Dunes. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and 6-8 p.m. Sunday-Monday; Free: www.jwumc.org.
Walk Through Bethlehem
Clear Lake United Methodist Church, 16335 El Camino Real. 6-8:30 p.m. Dec. 11-13. Cost: $1 per person; www.clearlakemethodist.org.
Journey to Bethlehem
New Hope Lutheran Church, 1424 FM 1092 (Murphy Road), Missouri City. 6-8 p.m. Dec. 18. Free: www.newhopelc.org.
Live Nativity
St. Timothy's Anglican Church, 6819 Louetta, Spring. 5-8 p.m. Dec. 12. Free: www.sttimothysanglican.
An Evening in Old Bethlehem
St. Philip's United Methodist Church, 5501 Beechnut. 6-8:30 p.m. Dec. 19. Free: www.spumc.com.


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Today the Texas Longhorns will officially welcome in 15 new members to the football family but none of the incoming recruits have as much critical acclaim as Harker Heights offensive lineman Darius James. The Longhorns' lone 247Composite five-star recruit in the class, James is the No. 5 prospect on the Fabulous 55, a consensus top-40 prospect in America and the nation's top rated interior line prospect according to 247Sports.
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Hi everyone.
I heard there are buoys set up at Sandy Point at all times. Is this true? If so, what is the length between the buoys? I'd like to make sure I get in at least a 2.5 mile swim.
Yeah, the buoys are always there; they're little guys, but they're there, set parallel to shore. Use caution in not going too far outside because there are usually lots of jet skis zooming around - also be sure to not venture into the fishing area (I learned that the hard way).
Tuan worked out the distance at one point - perhaps he'll chime in - but your best bet is to plan on swimming for time, not distance. Ballpark how long it will take you to swim 2.5 miles in the pool and then swim for that amount of time.
I agree with the Suzuki. You should swim by time and not by perceived distance. It's too difficult to get a good measurement out there. I once asked the lifeguard what the distance was and he said about 500 yards from one end of the buoys to the other. The current and wind will occasionally blow the buoys either closer together or further away. I've seen lifeguards out there trying to readjust the placement of the buoys because they were blown one direction or the other.
For PeasantMan last year, I measured the course via google maps just to give me an idea of what I was dealing with. From the end of the beach near the rocks to the fishing area that the Suzuki referenced, is about 700 meters. However, that's google maps and I'm pretty sure it's not that accurate at the meters level.
Wait a second! I know we are not asking Tuan on his swimming expertise. Especially, if it has to do with time or distance. When it comes to him swimming we need to refer to hours, not minutes.
Btw, those aren't really buoys. They are just markers for boating, but I don't pay attention to them as I just swim out how far I want.


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on July 13, 2013 - 12:01 AM
It's thrilling to sit in a theater and watch something new unravel before you, something fresh, that its creators have no certainty of yet but are thrilled to share to new eyes and ears.
And it's also fulfilling to sit in a theater and watch a classic, performed so well that it validates your nostalgia for it. The warm hug from an old friend.
Director Randy Kramer had the distinction of leading both kinds of debuts this week, one night apart. His Wednesday night world premiere at MusicalFare of "Talk To Me Now," a jukebox musical that contemplates the progress of feminism over the last 150-plus years, was followed by Thursday's opening night at Artpark of "The Sound of Music," the classic that offers a woman content with domesticity.
That these shows opened within 24 hours of each other is a feat for Kramer. There are challenges in mounting both productions: proving you can shepherd a new idea to fruition, and proving you can honor an old idea's success.
He does an admirable job with both, and on Artpark's idyllic summerstock stage, shows that it's a harder task to carry out than one might think.
The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical has always worked, from my seat, because of its delicacy. It cradles the burdensome combination of harmonic purity and epic genocide – nuns and Nazis. But the Family Von Trapp is as modern as any, with its afternoon romances and recreational competitiveness. Sixteen-year-old Liesl sneaks out the bedroom window to steal kisses, and Kurt talks back like he's running the ship. These kids are our kids.
Taking from that page, there are contemporary notes throughout this production, some of which work better than others. Tessa Mossey's Liesl is ambitiously hormonal, as 16-year-olds are, toward Rolf, a suitor one year her senior. Their midnight frolics are as fresh as any, but when she gives governess Maria pushback about her whereabouts, the attitude comes out – it's practically missing a snap to the face. Mossey's 'tude comes and goes, but it feels out of place alongside her siblings' more classical approach.
Friedrich (Joe Greenan) is wonderfully curious, and youngest Gretl (Faith Wahl) is as darling as ever. This is a wonderful assembly of talent, child or not. Their characters are fully relational to each other and give us all the cheer and warmth we return to them for.
Their parental units are less harmonious together. Emilie Renier, as Maria, plays a very different governess and postulant than to what we've become accustomed. Both Julie Andrews, at age 30, and Mary Martin, at age 46, played the iconic role at ages older than Maria would have been. Renier, an Elon University musical theater student, owns the reality of Maria's youthful exuberance much more convincingly, but she forgets some key pillars of maturity.
Her relationship with Paul Todaro's Captain Von Trapp isn't fun to watch. There's no competition between these two leaders. Where she can whip up a miracle choir with a guitar and catchy mnemonic device, she can't wrangle or tease her boss/suitor/eventual husband into anything more than a smile. She may be young and naïve to romance – she did leave a convent for this gig, after all – but surely she should be able to hold her own. It's her precocious, adventurous confidence that gave Mother Abess (Maggie Zindle) the red flag. It's time to fly the flag.
Todaro doesn't help. His Lothario reading of the firm Navy man weakens him, not exactly with regards to masculinity but with regards to his role: The captain is a hard-shelled man begging to be cracked open. Maria emboldens his own children to gift that through song, at which point he should melt. Todaro's Baldwinesque aloofness, his rhetorical self-awareness, makes him no more clueless about his children than a dad glued to the TV on the couch. Both Renier and Todaro could use a talking-to from Mother Abess: duty through conviction.
Their takes on these roles can be satisfying in subtle ways, though. Maria's a fish out of water, as well; she needs to discover herself the same way she empowers her children to. But she should know more answers than they do, and not seem overrun by these precocious kids.
Inconsistencies distract elsewhere, too. Austrian accents needn't be mimicked on an American stage, but consistency would help. Some adults sound British, while others sound vaguely European. One S.S. guard is decidedly, thickly German, while another is casually, passably Cheektowagan. These are the details that make recapturing a classic in a bottle worth the effort.
Overall, these are mere variables in a well-conceived, exquisitely sung and – with huge kudos to Jason Bravo's big, beautiful, actually, technically, real orchestra – lushly arranged musical, brought back to life once again.


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IRVING — There will be plenty of chances for the Dallas Cowboys to recover in the NFC East.
Forget about how bad that last game was and their losing record.
The Cowboys (3-4) are reaching the midpoint of their schedule at home against Seattle. They are in a three-way scrum for second place in the NFC East with Washington and Philadelphia, the team that just beat them 34-7.
Dallas has a game left with each and plays the division-leading New York Giants (5-2) twice in the final month of the regular season.
"If we do what we have to do, everything will take care of itself," safety Abram Elam said Wednesday. "We're only as good as our next game. If we don't handle our business this Sunday against Seattle, it puts us even further in the hole. All we can do is control what we have in front of us."
That begins Sunday against the Seahawks (2-5), the first of five games Dallas has before facing the Giants for the first time at home Dec. 11.
In that five-game span, Dallas plays AFC East co-leader Buffalo (5-2) and four teams with a combined record of 6-22.
The Cowboys play the Bills at home before going to Washington, which lost 18-16 in Dallas back in September. Their Thanksgiving Day game at home is against Miami (0-7) before a trip to Arizona (1-6).
"We don't look ahead too much. We certainly feel like we just have to control our own business," Dallas head coach Jason Garrett said. "Again, we live in the day of practicing well on Wednesday, and then hopefully coming back and practicing well on Thursday. Certainly our entire focus is doing our best to get ourselves ready to play Seattle."
Second-year linebacker Sean Lee, the Cowboys' leading tackler with 73, didn't practice Wednesday because of a left wrist injured Sunday night.
Garrett said Lee is day to day and refused to rule the linebacker out of Sunday's game.
"We had some evaluations Monday that we feel really good about, and it got us to the point to say we do not have to do surgery Monday afternoon. We're going to evaluate him day to day, week by week, and just see how that thing responds," Garrett said. "Knowing Sean Lee, he's probably a fairly quick healer. ... Trust me, he's chomping at the bit."
The Cowboys haven't been able to get any kind of consistency going this season.
Since blowing a lead in the fourth quarter to lose the season opener at the New York Jets, they have won consecutive games, lost consecutive games, then followed a 34-7 victory over St. Louis with the 34-7 loss at Philadelphia.
But the season is far from a lost cause because of the mess that is the NFC East.
"Right now everybody's mindset is to make it to the playoffs," defensive end Marcus Spears said. "We're still in position to do everything that we wanted to at the beginning of the season, and we just have to do something about it. We can't talk about it, we have to do something about it."
Every week, Garrett reinforces to his players to forget what happened in the last game, win or lose. So is that harder to do after a 34-7 victory like two weeks ago, or the 34-7 loss they just had?
"We'll see," defensive end Kenyon Coleman said with a hearty laugh.
"At times, I forget what our record is," Elam said. "It's easy for us, because we're on game plan thinking about Seattle, so we've just got to focus on that. ... That (loss) was last week, definitely. The St. Louis game is even further behind."
The Cowboys have to wait until Christmas Eve for a rematch against Philadelphia, at Cowboys Stadium. They finish the season New Year's Day at the Giants.
"Honestly, I think the worst thing you can do is look ahead because you can't do anything about that," Coleman said. "If you don't handle your business week by week then it don't matter what happens in the future."
■ Orlando Scandrick will likely start Sunday in place of cornerback Mike Jenkins, expected to miss three games or more because of a right hamstring problem.
■ Pro Bowl punter Mat McBriar said he continues to deal with a nerve problem in his left foot that he plants when punting, an injury that kept him from finishing the Philadelphia game. It has
been bothering him for a couple of weeks — "the St. Louis game, I was lucky to get through that," McBriar said — though he is trying to get through practice and ready for Seattle. "We thought we'd be fine getting through the (Philadelphia) game and obviously it didn't work out," McBriar said Wednesday. "It's pain. I know it hasn't improved at all."
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Here are some stories about the Affordable Care Act, best known as Obamacare, that you may have missed from the past week from AL.com and around the Web.
Although Monday is the deadline for obtaining health insurance without risking a penalty, President Barrack Obama's administration announced a change that will allow virtually anyone to enroll later in the year.
Anyone who has started an application by Monday but was not able to finish can ask for an extension by mid-April. But the administration has said it will not check to make sure people requesting the extension actually started an application; it will be on an honor system. Read the full report here.
Regardless of the final number on Monday's deadline, it is undisputed that millions of Americans still will be without insurance on Tuesday. And the reasons run the gamut, from not being eligible for Medicaid or a subsidy to not being able to afford even a subsidized premium to not wanting insurance at all. Read the full story here.
It is not just the uninsured who concern health policy experts. It's also the under-insured. According to a report by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, about 580,000 Alabamians with insurance spend a large percentage of their income on out-of-pocket medical expenses. Combined with the 600,000 people who lack health insurance, about a third of the state's residents have major insurance problems. Read the story here.
Any extra sign-ups that the administration gets past the Monday deadline will pad a figure that supporters already are celebrating – six million new enrollees, which matches a revised estimate set by the Congressional Budget Office. On the downside, Obamacare is as unpopular as ever, according to a survey reported last week. Read the story here.
A Kaiser Family Foundation study suggests that the vast majority of people signing up on the health care exchanges have been eligible for subsidies. The foundation placed the aggregate total as of February at $10 billion, or a bit less than $3,000 per person. Read the story here.
The Associated Press sees flaws the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has challenges to Obama's signature domestic policy achievement from becoming the kind of historic legacy the Medicare and Medicaid were for Lyndon Johnson. Read the story here.
As to why the law remains unpopular, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wonders if it is because Democrats have been too tepid in defending it and the media have ignored the Obamacare winners in their coverage. Read his take here.
Speaking of that 6 million figure, the total number of enrollees the first year is not the best way to measure how successful the law it, according to the president of the Kaiser Family Foundation. To see what he thinks is the best measuring stick, read this story.
The folks waiting until the last minute to sign up for insurance have a variety of reasons for their procrastination. For more, read this story.
The folks only getting around to searching the health care exchange this week and Monday will find that the premiums quoted will vary from state to state and even from county to county within Alabama. Here's why.
For some nuts-and-bolts advice about how to go about searching for the best health insurance plan, read this story.
Alabama Public Radio last week reported on one of the great unintended consequences of Obamacare – the folks falling to the "Medicaid gap." These are people meant to be covered by Medicaid but whose states refused to expand their programs and who make too little money to qualify for a subsidy. I spoke about the issue on APR.
The debate across the nation over whether to accept the federal deal to expand Medicaid has been intense. History reminds us that many states did not jump onto the original Medicaid program right away, either. Here is how that debate is similar and here is how it is different.
The Medicaid debate figured prominently in an online discussion AL.com hosted with a pair of University of Alabama at Birmingham professors who authored a study indicating that an expansion would be a financial boon to the state's economy. Read our recap here.
The Associated Press highlighted another potential problem with the law. Many people are getting sticker shock when they discover how much they will have to pay for prescription drugs even with an Obamacare-endorsed health plan. Read the story here.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Oregon, Maryland and Massachusetts all are mulling lawsuits against contractors responsible for the design of health care exchange websites that have been even more flawed that the federal HealthCare.gov. Read the story here.
Obamacare has been a political football since before its inception. Last week was no exception. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, used a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives to read a letter from a Decatur physician accusing Obama of waging a "war on doctors." It got the attention of nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Read that story here.
Rep. Martha Roby-R-Montgomery, called health law "fundamentally flawed" and recalled testimony two years ago from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius insisting that the March 31, 2014, enrollment deadline was firm. Read the story here.
And 6th Congressional District candidate Will Brooke gained national attention for a web ad showing himself shooting up a copy of the Affordable Act. Read the story here.
How well do you know the details of Obamacare? Take our quiz here.
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Count von Faber-Castell
On the pencil's history and myths, and his desire to make the perfect one
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ADVISED them in his paper. Henry David Thoreau made them in his father's Concord factory. Most Americans don't even know that much about the pencil—a tool so ubiquitous it often goes unnoticed except by students. Turns out, like every important artifact, it has its own history, complete with inventors, thieves and battlers. No one knows who slapped the first piece of rock between two bits of wood, but pencil makers began working in Stein, Germany, nearly four centuries ago. Kaspar Faber set up shop in 1761 and in the mid-19th century, Lothar von Faber created the hexagonally shaped tool we use today. That Mongol yellow pencil you see everywhere? It was designed by Lothar's brother Eberhard, to show off the fact that their family's graphite came from the Orient, a step up from the English lead stuffed in European pencils. We spoke with the dapper Count Anton Wolfgang, eighth in the family to run the business.
What's the best pencil? The Perfect Pencil is my favorite. It's a beautifully designed object, handmade of cedar with a platinum-plated cap that protects the point and holds a hidden pencil sharpener. Underneath the end piece is an eraser.
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Colored vs. Black: We sell about 2 billion pencils a year—80% are colored, 20% black lead. In the late 1980s, they did a study and found that environmentalism was the number one concern in Germany. We started making wooden colored pencils and created a water-based varnish, which is better for the environment.
Lead—really? When the first big deposit of graphite in England was found, they thought it was lead. Then in the 1780s, a Swedish scientist discovered it was really graphite, but we still call them lead pencils.
The perfect point: It starts with good graphite that doesn't crumble. Then you have to match the size of the pencil to the right-size hole. A cheap sharpener can eat an expensive pencil. Our Grip Trio Sharpener, which sells for about $6, has three holes so whatever size you're using, you have the right one.
On the ubiquity of the 2B: Lothar invented the grading system. B means black and H means hard. In countries where they give computer tests, the 2B is used because it makes a darker mark—safer and easier for the computer to read.
What's up with triangular pencils? In the late '90s, the head of manufacturing was worried about slow growth in Stein. So was I and I knew that people liked a grip zone. A smart industrial engineer started making dots with our new water-based varnish, which created the rubbery grip. We put it on the triangular-shape pencil and they felt really good to hold. They've been extremely successful, and helped keep our machines running.
Will the pencil go the way of the quill pen? May I ask you a question? Have you ever seen a paperless office? People may not be writing things out on legal pads but they like to print out email and make notations. Then pencils and pens disappear and you go grab another. People think they're allowed to steal pencils. I don't know if they are allowed but they do it.
Famous Faber-Castell users: General Grant, Otto von Bismarck, Vincent van Gogh, Karl Lagerfeld.
Tell us one great thing about pencils: When you are young, you put a pencil in a drawer. Then when you get to be very, very old, 100, and you want to give something of yours to your great, great grandchild, you pull that pencil out and it still writes. Can a pen do that?
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From March 17 to June 26, 2005, the Art- and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn and the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen will show the exhibition:
Crown and Veil: The Art of Female Monasticism
The exhibition is dedicated to all forms of female religiosity from the early Middle Ages until the Reformation. The focus is on works that were made by and for nuns and canonesses. Special attention will be paid to the role of women in medieval art, be it as artists, patrons or, collectively, as an audience.
The exhibition will present the artistic production by and for medieval nuns and canonesses both in relation to its diverse functions (piety, liturgy, instruction, ceremony) as well as in terms of its content (iconographic traditions, knowledge, theology, norms, genres) and formal dimensions.
Approximately 600 prestigious loans from an international array of lenders, including churches and surviving monastic communities, will be on exhibit for a period of three months, among them numerous textiles and a great many ensembles that were scattered with the dissolution of monasteries and that will be reunited for the first time in the exhibition. The chronological span of the exhibition extends from the sixth to the sixteenth century. The section in Essen will exhibit objects from all over Europe from the early and High Middle Ages (6th through 12th centuries); the section in Bonn concentrates on the later Middle Ages (13th through early 16th century) within the borders of the Holy Roman Empire.
The colloquium mirrors the thematic, chronological and topographical emphases of the exhibition. Its aim is both to reflect and further encourage the intensive research of recent years on female monasticism of the medieval period in the context of an international and interdisciplinary gathering. The focus will be on groups of themes (see below), which have been selected both to further research and with the content of the exhibition in mind.
Contributions to the colloquium should concentrate on subjects that (in the broadest sense) bring together and interrelate historical, art-historical and literary-historical perspectives. Purely historical, art-historical or philological contributions will not be considered.
The colloquium is currently scheduled to take place from May 18-22, 2005 in Bonn and Essen.
We are seeking papers on the following topics and themes:
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4. The Cloister and Lay Culture
Also sought are contributions on individual objects or groups of objects that will be shown in the exhibition (for further information, please contact: Dr. Jan Gerchow: email@example.com and Dr. des. Petra Marx: email@example.com). The outline of the exhibition, which can be found on the web, can also serve as a list of potential themes and topics.
Papers should be short, no more that ca. 20 minutes in length, and will be discussed collectively in workshops. Papers can be delivered in German, English or French. A minimum of a completed M.A. degree is a precondition for presenting a paper.
It will also be possible to use posters and placards to present work in progress.
If you wish to participate, please submit the following (by email) no later than March 1, 2004:
For topics prior to 1200, send your materials to:
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D-37073 Göttingen
For topics from 1200 to 1530, send your materials to:
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Harvard University
Dept. of History of Art & Architecture
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Further information on the exhibition can be found on the web at the following addresses:
http://www.ruhrlandmuseum.de/frauenkloester or the website below.
The curators of and collaborators on the exhibition will review all proposals by June 2004 in order to determine which are consistent with the goals of the colloquium. The entire enterprise requires financing, which we are in the process of seeking.
Lothar Altringer (Bonn)
Jan Gerchow (Essen)
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard)
Carola Jaeggi (Erlangen)
Susan Marti (Essen)
Petra Marx (Bonn)
Hedwig Roeckelein (Göttingen)
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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight 'Are Like Sisters'
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Though each was young and vulnerable, all three of Ariel Castro's alleged kidnap victims came armed with strengths that would help them endure the years of horror ahead.
Gina DeJesus, 14, had the buoyancy and affection of a well-loved child who knew that home and family were worth fighting for. Strong-willed Amanda Berry, 16, was, to her family, "the glue that kept everyone calm," says childhood friend Lisha Jacome, who lived briefly in the Berry home.
A frequent babysitter for her sister's two daughters, Berry had child-care skills when she bore Castro's child in 2007. For that birth Castro designated his oldest captive, Michelle Knight, as midwife – and threatened to kill her if the baby died. The mother of a 2-year-old son when she was kidnapped at age 21, Knight not only had experienced childbirth, she had helped perform a delivery of the family dog's puppies as a kid.
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The police are still searching for a fourth girl who went missing six years ago from the same area in Ohio where three missing women were discovered on Monday.
Ashley Summers was 14 when she vanished near her Cleveland home in 2007. She was last spotted about three miles away from the run-down residence owned by former school bus driver Ariel Castro, who is charged with kidnapping and raping Amanda Berry, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, about 23, who had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s, police said.
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The city of Charleston's Friday Night Lights youth activities resumes this month.
Activities include basketball, flag football, soccer, tennis, double dutch, jump castles, art, swimming and music. Activities are from 7 to 8:30 p.m., and a movie starts at 8:30 p.m.
The events June 13 and Aug. 8 at Harmon Park, June 20 and Aug. 1 at Forest Park Playground, June 27 at Johns Island Park, July 11 and Aug. 15 at Thomas Johnson Playground, July 18 and Aug. 22 at Martin Park and Aug. 29 at Governor's Park on Daniel Island.
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By Sara E. Martin, Army Flier Staff WriterSeptember 13, 2012
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (September 13, 2012) -- With more than 300 women and 40 vendors turning out for Girls Night Out Sept. 7, attendees and organizers alike deemed the event a success, including one who claimed, "from big to small, they had it all!"
"This is a great opportunity for women. I always have my kids so I never get to go anywhere for adults. I welcome the chance to come and see all the businesses. My drive was worth it, I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. The fashion show was amazing," said Heather Moody, an attendee who drove for more than an hour to get to the event.
The event, which showcases local businesses, most geared toward women, is held twice a year and gives military spouses and local women a taste of what the Wiregrass has to offer in terms of shopping, food and spas.
The women that made Girls Night Out a success by window shopping then raising the dance floor as the night carried on, had a lot to say about the event.
"I was trying to buy tickets last year after the event ended to make sure I could get one. I enjoy coming every time they have it. My favorite part about the night is the dancing and that no men are allowed," said Darlene Reynolds, adding that the lingerie booth was nice because "some women don't know where they can get feminine [underclothes]."
Athena Watson and Deb Delk who drove from Wicksburg said they had a great time as well.
"The music is fantastic. I love to dance and this gives me a change to let loose a little. This is our first time, but we will definitely come back. We both won door prizes, so that makes the night extra fun for us," said Watson.
"I think it's really important for women to get time away from their Families and spouses without feeling guilty about it. They need to take off their shoes and have a great time. My favorite vendor was the massage booth," said Delk.
The night offered dozens of prizes, dancing, karaoke, a fashion show and two spas gave complimentary massages.
Jillian Kalocsay, said that she had "heard about [Girls Night Out] before and wanted to experience it for myself. Everybody here is so pumped up and excited, it's a good time for the girls. I am shocked at all the women who have come. I'm having so much fun."
Organizers of the event were happy that women were coming for a number of reasons.
"Getting together without the guys is always a recipe for success. It is just a great way for them to shed the stress of the week and get the weekend kicked off right. They can do some window shopping, have some [refreshments], do a little dancing in a secure atmosphere," said Jodi Roark, promotions coordinator at The Landing, adding that she wants the event to grow so that The Landing can use both rooms. "It's important for the event to continue and to get even more vendors, because we want to give something back to the military spouses."
The program will change next spring, permitting vendors to sell their wares as well allow women to continue to window shop.
"Next spring we will offer window shopping as well as have opportunities to purchase items. [Women] will be able to buy makeup, jewelry, bags, candles and accessories. We have a lot of returning people because they know how fun the night can be, but we have a lot of new faces as new Families [come] to Fort Rucker," said Leigh Ann Dukes, Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation sponsorship and advertising sales manager.
Different demographics of women and spouses could be seen browsing the stalls, and Brian Jackson, DFMWR program manager, said it was the perfect environment to mix and mingle for women.
"[The night] builds morale, broadens horizons about local businesses that cater to women and provides stress relief. We like to show Soldiers whose wives, a lot of which are stay at home moms, are here but they may be elsewhere that [the wives] are having a quality life, that Fort Rucker is taking care of them through DFMWR with events like this," he said.
The business venture side of Girls Night Out was also viewed as a success.
"It is a great opportunity for businesses to gain new customers and display a product that isn't mainstream yet. I can show new items and products and get a chance to communicate with our customers and potential customers," said Stacy Holub-Thames, adding that no other event is quite like Girls Night Out.
"For DFMWR to recognize the needs of not only Army spouses but women in the area is great to see," she said.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD — The Public Safety Commission Wednesday reached a consensus to throw the red-hot issue of retired Police Chief Thomas E. Burke's vacation pay back to the mayor.
Mayor Gregory C. Neffinger has asked the commission to advise him on whether to pay Burke for the 11½ weeks of unused vacation Burke said he had left when he retired in March at the rate of nine days pay per week.
However, an angry Burke said following the board's approximately one-hour discussion that he filed a complaint over the nonpayment for vacation time with the Fair Labor and Business Practices Division of the state Attorney General's Office two weeks ago.
"I don't know how, in fairness, we can resolve that issue," William J. Fennell, chairman of the commission, said of the situation. "I have a lot of trouble with us being asked to resolve that issue."
Fennell said Neffinger had committed the city to owing Burke compensation for 15 weeks of unused vacation time at the end of the calendar year and another five weeks could be added to that as of Jan. 1 as more time owed. At a minimum, the city could owe Burke pay for 100 days, Fennell reasoned. Beyond that is the issue of whether a week is five days, seven days according to court ruling known as the Holyoke Rule, or nine days, as Burke has said has been the practice for supervisors in his department.
In January, Neffinger had sent out a letter to employees telling them to take their unpaid vacation days by the end of March or lose it. Burke has said he never got the letter and could not have taken the time anyway because no one had been designated to take his place until about the time he stepped down at the end of March.
Commissioner Dennis L. LeFebvre reported to the commission that after his own investigation he did not find anything in police contracts going back to the 1970s allowing sergeants, captains and chiefs to be compensated nine days for each week of vacation as Burke has stated has been the case.
Although some police captains had said the practice of paying nine days went back as long as 40 years ago, LeFebvre said there was a consensus that it started 10 to 12 years ago.
"It appears to me this practice started sometime in the last 10 to 12 years, started by the Police Department without any authorization by an authority," LeFebvre said.
Fennell said that a 2009 document shows that former Mayor Edward J. Gibson was aware that a week of vacation for police supervisors was nine days.
LeFebvre said it appears the Police Department gave itself the nine days for a week and then "covered it up."
Burke has stated that the nine-day policy has been in effect at least since he started working for the Police Department 42 years ago.
"I'm really upset over this," Burke said following the commission's deliberations on his vacation pay. "The way the Police Department has been portrayed that we were doing something illegal and we were trying to hide it for years. That's a crock. Just the insinuation is just ridiculous."
Commissioner Charles Sullivan suggested the mayor, the chief and their attorneys meet to reach a compromise in the matter.
While Burke retired in March, the exact date he should have retired is also subject to debate. He worked to the end of the month, but some say he should have retired March 12, the day he turned 67 and was subject to mandatory retirement requirements.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD — The Public Safety Commission Wednesday reached a consensus to throw the red-hot issue of retired Police Chief Thomas E. Burke's vacation pay back to the mayor.


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Elitha and Vince Worley of Amarillo announce the birth of their daughter, Maddlyn Audry Worley. She was born Oct. 8, 2002.
She weighed 8 pounds, 1334 ounces and was 21 inches long. Grandparents are Billy and Francis Worley and Manuel and Betty Gonzalez, all of Amarillo. Great-grandparents are Audrey Worley and Maddlin Roys, both of Amarillo.
Her dedication was Nov. 10, 2002, at Church Alive.
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Running over the woman you want to meet with your tour bus is one way to meet, as "Girl on a Bicycle" proves.
But maybe not the best way, not even in a rather dippy romantic comedy. "Girl on a Bicycle" proves that, too, while also proving to be more dippy than romantic or funny.
Writer and director Jeremy Leven's film is meant to be a trifle, a status which it achieves, but it's nothing more than that. Vincenzo Amato stars as Paolo, a sweet Italian tour-bus driver living and working in Paris, whose tours include a lot of France-bashing in favor of his homeland.
He wants to marry his girlfriend, Greta (Nora Tschirner), a German flight attendant, and she is agreeable to his proposal. But one day Cécile (Louise Monot), a beautiful French woman, pulls up at a traffic light on her bicycle beside Paolo's bus, and he is instantly smitten.
So he confides all this to Derek (Paddy Considine), his earthy Irish friend and co-worker.
It's like a United Nations of romantic comedy. And about as funny as that sounds.
OK, that's too harsh. Greta in particular is an intriguing character, but we lose track of her for a while after Derek urges Paolo to talk to Cécile, figuring that the actual woman can never live up to Paolo's fantasy of her.
Bad idea.
Then Paolo runs over Cécile with his bus. Feeling both guilty and attracted to her, Paolo takes care of Cécile while she recuperates. He also takes care of her children, who think he is their long-absent father.
It all must come to a head eventually, of course, as Greta becomes increasingly suspicious of Paolo's daily absences and Derek's poor excuses to cover for him. It's all meant to be cute and cuddly and sweet and a little sexy, but it's mostly silly and predictable.
Leven has worked mostly as a screenwriter ("The Notebook," "The Legend of Bagger Vance"); this is his first time directing since 1994's "Don Juan DeMarco." But here his story is simply by the numbers, an attractive package filled with empty calories. That probably makes it perfect for Valentine's Day. The rest of the year, alas, it's just not enough.
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FOSTORIA - The country of Siam in the 1860s is the setting for the musical, "The King and I," being staged this weekend at Fostoria High School. Based on a true story, the show includes many favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, including "I Whistle a Happy Tune," "Hello, Young Lovers," "I Have Dreamed," "We Kiss in a Shadow," "Shall We Dance" and "Getting to Know You."
In the lead roles are Makenzie Nelson as the English school teacher, Anna, and Hunter Kauffman as the King of Siam. Both are well-cast.
As the leader of his nation, the king sees the value of education for his multiple wives and 67 children. At the same time, the male-dominated culture does not give women positions of power.
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(From left) the King of Siam, Lady Tuptim and Anna are shown in a scene from "The King and I." They are played, respectively, by Hunter Kauffman, Samantha Rusk and Makensie Nelson.
The outspoken and intelligent Anna surprises him. On her part, Anna can see the king's arrogance is softened by obvious love for his offspring and concern for his country.
Alaina Conlin is cast as Lady Thiang, the head wife, whose son, Prince Chulalongkorn, is to be king one day. Tim Murray plays the prince with a balance of pride and compassion. Portraying the other wives are Raimi Bernal, Aubrey Faeth, Hannah Hopple, Chelsea Kindle, Morgan Liseke, Misty Lovejoy, Presley Medina, Raissa Napier, Brianna Nowicki, Hannah Russell, Amani Seaburn, Madi Tate and Sabra Tate.
A conflict arises early on when a young woman, Tuptim (Samantha Rusk), arrives at the palace. The king of Burma has sent the girl as a gift to the king of Siam. Anna openly opposes the treatment of a person as property, emphasizing progressive countries are moving from such inhumane traditions.
Unaccustomed to challenges from anyone, especially a woman, the king is outraged. A king is supposed to be a leader who knows everything, but Anna's accusations have stirred doubt in the sensitive monarch. He also worries about the British empire and other Western countries taking over smaller nations such as his and voices his confusion in "A Puzzlement."
Prince Chulalongkorn and Anna's son, Louis (Michael Daniels), strike up a friendship in spite of their differing backgrounds. The two young men sing their own version of "A Puzzlement." Tuptim and her lover, Lun Tha (Blake Bush), deliver their songs of yearning with smooth, mature voices. In minor roles are Brandon Gonzales, Zackery Blanton, James Daniels, Anthony Lear, Joana Rusk, Devon Warnement, Kaleb Martin and Olivia Lear.
Elementary and junior high students portray the royal children and students of Anna. They include Ava Cardwell, Traivon Cousin, Julia Esquivel, Erica Kauffman, Carmen Lewis, Aaron Miller, Eli McDivitt, Hope Nowicki, Addelyn Sprang, Lilly Vogel and Mya Weimerskirch.
A highlight of the show is the ballet of "Small House of Uncle Thomas," organized by Lady Tuptim, who is reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Anna's classroom. The drama is a blatant statement against slavery, including her own unwilling subservience.
The ballet foreshadows tragic events that are to follow, but it also expresses hope for the future. The king understands change cannot come without hardships and challenges for his people.
Directing "The King and I" are Elizabeth Bellavia, assisted by Laurie Martishius. Directing the pit band is Nikkole Kleba.
Seats are $7. Tickets can be reserved by calling (419) 436-4113. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the school.


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Mrs. Robinson's Grill is opening in the former Romie's BBQ location on South Green Street.
Romie's moved to the old La Meson D'or/Boondocks/Rib Cage building.
The restaurant opens April 1, according to its Facebook page. It'll serve plate lunches and frozen casseroles, in addition to catering.
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On October 7th a Report Card On Ten Years Of The U.S. War In Afghanistan was issued in Kansas City. It evaluates the performance and progress in the longest war in U.S. history and the impact the war has had on the Afghan people, U.S. troops and the U.S. economy.
The report card grades were delivered to the Kansas City office of Senator Roy Blunt at 911 Main Street, Suite 2224, Kansas City, MO.
Grades were given in areas of: Civics and Social Skills (examining our nations demonstration and fostering of honest and responsible democratic processes and the use of resources); Health (evaluating the wellbeing and care of U.S. troops), History (determining the degree to which the U.S. has learned from Afghan history and our years there) and Math (calculating the outcomes obtained from the application of limited resources).
Readers are encouraged to express their demand for an end to the war, the return home of all U.S. troops and contractors, reinvesting war dollars in job creation and healing the damage we have done in Afghanistan.